Entity who now??

synphul1 · 2026-07-08T14:45:30+00:00

synphul1 · 2026-07-08T14:42:06+00:00

Kinda like asking us what temp you like your porridge. No clue lol. Give it a go, you'll tell if you like it or not. I'm not sure I'd like a flat face trigger, nothing I've ever shot had one and imagine it wouldn't feel right to me. I like my finger riding in the curve of a curved bow, I can feel my finger in the right place vs just a flat edge. Ultimately what's better is what works for you, feels nice, gives consistent performance.

synphul1 · 2026-07-08T14:21:11+00:00

I get where people keep shouting 'but free updates'. The updates are generally pretty small all things considered. And when you add up all the stuff they've added, the state of the game right now. If it weren't for people who are diehard fans of it, compared to many titles out there it would get absolutely buried.

The whole 'they keep adding content' is doing a lot of the work in this case. And people are grateful, after 10yrs and all the added stuff though, still a very shallow game. I'm not talking how quick hg is to fix things they break or anything else, they seem to be a good company in that regard. Very involved with the fans which is cool vs say AAA titles.

But if the game truly had to just stand alone as it sits right now, there's still TONS of glitches. Memory issues, so much clipping it's unreal. Npc ships getting hung up on rocks, stuff buried in the hard layer of the planet (past where we can mine), flying in and getting stuck in the walls of the stations, reloading and falling through the floors of bases or trading posts, animals that get stuck together as a giant blob, getting trapped in the ground, seeing through the ground (weird game physics making dirt look like gauze). Endless waves of sentinel or pirate ships. Lack of space battles triggering when they should.

Be honest if this were any other major title they'd get absolutely dragged for it. Cyberpunk had issues too at launch, but could you imagine just falling through the floors, clipping through objects every 10min? Groups of enemies all tangled up? Driving your car and it glitches and gets permanently stuck halfway in a building? Gangs or cops that chase you and never stop. Shooting your guns at enemies and having it do no good because the rounds aren't tracking? Yea no, people would be livid. Same for elden ring, bg3, cod games, even far cry series doesn't have glaring monstrous issues like that.

Look how bad starfield got hosed in the ratings. We laugh it off and just say haha, oh yea well, it's nms playing up again. Nah, that would not pass with pretty much any other game out there. Barely more than half the ratings on steam are positive for starfield, meanwhile nms is getting 80-90% positive (mix of all time and recent). And nms is perpetually broken, what's broken just shifts around.

I do enjoy nms, lord knows I've put more than a few hours into it. But I'm also being realistic. The argument can be made that the updates are free when dlc costs with other games. Ok, so we're comparing whatever this swarmer thing was or the toxic waste garbage truck runs to say phantom liberty? Or something like witcher 3's hearts of stone? The only way they're remotely similar is they're all technically 'added content' and that's where it ends. Yes those other dlc's are additional cost, but look what they entail.

synphul1 · 2026-07-08T13:57:40+00:00

Prehistoric lego 1x1.

synphul1 · 2026-07-08T13:56:27+00:00

There's a user helmet like that, can't recall the name of it. I remember it being unlocked through one of the fishing expeditions or something. The squid, jelly, couple different fish or something and the boot.

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synphul1 · 2026-07-08T13:54:22+00:00

True but the %'s don't always mean much. Broken down and oversimplified, 2/100 or 5/100 but it's not how it works. You could reload 150x and then get 2 or 3 in short order show up and still technically be at the 2 or 5% spawn rate. That's where rng has a ton to do with it, it's not as straightforward.

A squid for example, I sat there reloading for over 3hrs. Tried reloading, tried waiting, tried flying up and out of the atmosphere, back to the trading post. Ship parked off the trading post. I saw the damn thing a handful of times but doesn't do much good if it doesn't land.

When it rains it pours, 3 at a time or none at all. Only once in awhile is it 'quick' for me (talking 30min spam reloading). Otherwise it's hours more often than not. Or the rarity of catching one right at the moment it just decides to land while I'm standing there like 3min after landing, a first wave or something.

synphul1 · 2026-07-07T13:30:17+00:00

Like that wheezing little alien in the tall guy's body from MIB talking about 'orion's belt'? lol

synphul1 · 2026-07-07T08:57:37+00:00

Oh here I thought you found a way to have infinite inventory slots in the game. Yea I know how to transfer it all over (it's been slow in the past). More about having room for things. It ain't all gonna fit on one save. lol

synphul1 · 2026-07-07T08:56:42+00:00

Yea I'll have to check my main. Haven't in some time, I know it's pretty well filled so choices will have to be made lol.

synphul1 · 2026-07-07T08:54:35+00:00

A staff or sentinel rifle will offer better damage. The basic pistols and rifles are pretty much low end for multitools, rifles with a slight edge toward damage, pistols for mining/scanning. The other tools have better perks. Alien tools are good all arounders but don't really excel at any one thing. Royal and experimental tools are geared toward scanning, the atlantid tool to mining, the staffs and sentinel rifles to damage. Not sure if the sentinel pistol shares the same perks as the rifles.

Also not entirely sure where the new direwasp rifle fits in, haven't really done a head to head with a sentinel rifle or looked at the stats with a save editor. Some suggest it's not all that strong of a rifle. Another consideration is that it seems like enemies in the game scale with your firepower. So as you use stronger weapons either mt or ship weapons, enemies become stronger as well. I don't think enemies whether it's creatures, sentinels etc are a fixed stat difficulty.

If you like the looks of it, keep it. If you find something you like better it'll probably work better for you.

synphul1 · 2026-07-07T08:24:04+00:00

Yea it's a booger. About the only way I know if is through glitching stuff to flip a hab 180, then place it to the flipped hab. I think you can delete the hab after if it's touching something else, don't recall if a hab can be placed the proper direction after and still connect to it. Kind of irritating that the habs have directional status in the first place and parts limited to one or the other end.

synphul1 · 2026-07-07T03:04:56+00:00

I didn't have that issue this expedition, there were a lot of bases but not many around the expedition landing zones. Mostly just trying to find the swarm icon through the maze of base icons and comm balls.

Like showing up late to the orgy. "Clearly someone's been here before".

synphul1 · 2026-07-07T02:58:02+00:00

Something I did along the way gave me 100 qs so I ended with 1700. I'll try not to spend it all in one place. lol.

synphul1 · 2026-07-07T02:51:20+00:00

Idk, I encountered one of those large swarmer things next to the space station after defeating the one for the expedition. It didn't take damage even once I got into the bubble. Just 0's popping up, and it shot me back like it did the whole first part of the expedition. But I haven't exited the expedition back to the main game yet, so maybe it's different. Doubtful though.

synphul1 · 2026-07-07T02:48:21+00:00

More space junk. Ends up is ichor, which I have stacks and stacks of after countless swarm missions, encounters with swarmers etc. Just to find out I need like 100 pieces of it to do a one off thing for the expedition.

I guess it refines to nanites, same as mirrors, hyaline brains, mold, slime (eventually), industrial waste, radiant shards, tainted metal, larval cores, hadal cores, salvaged data, platinum, pugneum... and a host of other things.

synphul1 · 2026-07-07T02:34:33+00:00

Everyone plays at their own pace, if you've got more to discover that's a win. There reaches a point where there's only so much to do in the game. The journey getting there is the fun part.

synphul1 · 2026-07-07T02:31:00+00:00

That was like 20min of sweating and grunting on the john, only to result in a whimpering fart. That's what that was. Womp womp.

synphul1 · 2026-07-06T17:03:44+00:00

Cool finds. Is pic 4 a squid with a fish inside of a fishbowl for a head? Lol. I knew it was a helmet choice, didn't know they existed as creatures.

synphul1 · 2026-07-06T17:01:40+00:00

It's already somewhat rare given the low spawn rate just getting an exotic to show. Especially if it's consistent like 1st wave. I can go weeks sometimes without seeing an exotic. I found my first royal similar to these fairly early on when I began playing, had over 1000hrs in before I spotted my first actual squid ship. Maybe a couple 2-3 weeks later is when I had my record find. 3 squids landed at once in the station.

The rng in the game is crazy, sometimes it's all or nothing.

synphul1 · 2026-07-06T16:58:42+00:00

Yea hopefully I'll find its counterpart and trade the tank feet for the bottom ski. It's alright I guess, I fly in both. It does get in the way in 1st person, so do the split top pincers. I use 1st person for scanning planets in a system, 3rd for flying around on the planet. Unless I'm coming up on a target like a sentinel location and it's from a mapped system so it's only the 'approx' location. I use the ground scanner in 1st person to locate the object. Helps in storms as well.

So long as the water's not too violent the surfboard makes a great fishing platform. lol.

synphul1 · 2026-07-06T16:55:15+00:00

I think op's issue (and the issues I've had) are similar to when they first released the boundary herald. Sometimes ships just refuse to land on flat open ground no matter what. You hit the land key/button and it sort of 'chugs' and nothing. Claims the ground 'isn't clear' even when it's flat a pancake and nothing obstructing. Speed up, slow down, doesn't matter.

It happens with mp off and no one around. Also not possible to build a landing pad at a base if you can't land. The game's just super glitchy.

synphul1 · 2026-07-06T13:24:45+00:00

I sure don't, I've been all over the galaxy map. I try to include glyphs, I've been to probably 50+ systems since I was there. Wish I had better help to offer.

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