# No Man's Sky - First star to the right, and straight on till morning **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** video-games-e-games\ **Created:** [July 12, 2016, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mans-sky-first-star-to-the-right-and-straight-on-till-morning/759701 "2016-07-12T01:16:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 44
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2018, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mans-sky-first-star-to-the-right-and-straight-on-till-morning/759701/861 "2018-09-02T19:03:52Z")
One thing that I have trouble with in photo mode is capturing sense of scale. [Here’s a mountain](https://image.ibb.co/c9q5Ee/20180902144657_1.jpg) I found today. That’s me at the bottom right. So I of course climbed it. [Here’s a view from the top.](https://image.ibb.co/czRj7z/20180902145138_1.jpg) It’s so high that everything just dissolves into clouds, though it’s actually quite pleasant up there. Cresting the peak to find a contained little glade was really cool. Really impressive terrain features like this seem to be rare. Whatever algorithm NMS uses apparently skews towards flattening things out. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2018, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mans-sky-first-star-to-the-right-and-straight-on-till-morning/759701/862 "2018-09-07T02:36:48Z")
Considering the issues No Man’s Sky had, and the non-existence of anything other than issues that Star Citizen has had, I was amused today to see an email soliciting crowdfunding for Starflight 3. This is quite an environment hyping to be another space game that, if I recall correctly, has been in development since the last millennium :dubious: Oh well I’ll listen to the pitch, the original was damn good Not sure if it belongs in thread, but I figured this audience would be more likely to be interested, whereas a new thread might look like I was promoting crowdfinding something I don’t know, or care, shit about. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2018, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mans-sky-first-star-to-the-right-and-straight-on-till-morning/759701/863 "2018-09-07T16:01:34Z")
> [@wolfman](#): > > Considering the issues No Man’s Sky had, and the non-existence of anything other than issues that Star Citizen has had, I was amused today to see an email soliciting crowdfunding for Starflight 3. This is quite an environment hyping to be another space game that, if I recall correctly, has been in development since the last millennium :dubious: > > Oh well I’ll listen to the pitch, the original was damn good > > Not sure if it belongs in thread, but I figured this audience would be more likely to be interested, whereas a new thread might look like I was promoting crowdfinding something I don’t know, or care, shit about. Reported for spam. (No not really, I’m just kidding!!! :D) ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2018, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mans-sky-first-star-to-the-right-and-straight-on-till-morning/759701/864 "2018-09-07T16:42:23Z")
I had to stop playing- I hit a gamebreaking bug. My armorer wanted me to kill eight sentinels, and they were right outside my base. Well, I stepped out, started shooting them… and as soon as they couldn’t see me (because I either stepped behind my base or behind a rock… or, heck, just killed off a wave), the counter would reset to zero. But they’d still be pissed off at me, and keep sending tougher and tougher sentinels. So now I’ve got a walker parked right outside my base. Apparently this is a bug that’s been around for at least a year, and nobody’s found a real solution for it. ---
**Author:** ![Unpronounceable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9de0a6/32.png) [@Unpronounceable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unpronounceable)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2018, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mans-sky-first-star-to-the-right-and-straight-on-till-morning/759701/865 "2018-09-07T17:42:06Z")
See above - _any_ planetary sentinels will do, so long as the timer doesn’t reset - so go to a manufacturing facility and fight the ones there. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2018, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mans-sky-first-star-to-the-right-and-straight-on-till-morning/759701/866 "2018-09-07T20:05:47Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > Back on the Blissful moon with the orange grass for more paraffinum and spent a bit of time just wandering around. Noticed that a wide black stripe that I had been seeing near some buildings is much longer than I first realized and would make a great natural race track, just need to fill in a bunch of holes and remove some trees.Probably. I’ve been taking 'em out in my ship but I guess that doesn’t give you credit for killing 'em. Turns out that there’s more than one of these natural racetracks. Drove a complete circuit on one, didn’t time it but had to refuel the Nomad three times. Pity. The start/finish for that track would have been right in the middle of a crashed freighter. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2018, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mans-sky-first-star-to-the-right-and-straight-on-till-morning/759701/867 "2018-09-07T21:48:58Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > Got enough cadmium there to install an Emeril Drive. Now I’m on the weirdest planet I’ve seen yet. > > Brown ground, orange sky, azure lakes, and very many tall inverted conical buttes, with smaller inverted conical buttes attached to the tops, standing every which way. [Man, this place looks even more alien now!](https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/948460320901264564/9724636A1989183FC4504125940DAFBBC3D48A2D/) ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2018, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mans-sky-first-star-to-the-right-and-straight-on-till-morning/759701/868 "2018-09-07T23:15:03Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > [Man, this place looks even more alien now!](https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/948460320901264564/9724636A1989183FC4504125940DAFBBC3D48A2D/) That place looks evil. Bloody sky and monochrome ground. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2018, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mans-sky-first-star-to-the-right-and-straight-on-till-morning/759701/869 "2018-09-08T00:38:11Z")
Weather is eerily calm here. 16°C daytime, 11.3° night, 0.3 rad, 3.1 tox. No sign of the radioactive fog from when I first landed a month ago, or any other storms. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2018, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mans-sky-first-star-to-the-right-and-straight-on-till-morning/759701/870 "2018-09-08T00:59:55Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > Weather is eerily calm here. 16°C daytime, 11.3° night, 0.3 rad, 3.1 tox. No sign of the radioactive fog from when I first landed a month ago, or any other storms. I found an ocean planet, the only land is Tony islands. Pretty boring, very few resources. But the weather is listed as “refreshing breeze”. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2018, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mans-sky-first-star-to-the-right-and-straight-on-till-morning/759701/871 "2018-09-08T02:53:28Z")
Hey, quads no longer have red dots! ---
**Author:** ![TimeWinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bcef8e/32.png) [@TimeWinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TimeWinder)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2018, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mans-sky-first-star-to-the-right-and-straight-on-till-morning/759701/872 "2018-09-08T05:50:07Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > Hey, quads no longer have red dots! Fixed in the last update, unfortunately along with my favorite bug: your crew no longer change race to match the system you’re in! ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2018, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mans-sky-first-star-to-the-right-and-straight-on-till-morning/759701/873 "2018-09-12T13:57:25Z")
Does anyone know if it’s possible to kill a sentinel mothership? I assume this is how you get the mods for your capital ship, but all I can ever do is take out all the guns then it just sits there. I don’t see any attack point or anything so no idea what I’m supposed to do next. ---
**Author:** ![buckgully](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb9ed0/32.png) [@buckgully](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buckgully)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2018, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mans-sky-first-star-to-the-right-and-straight-on-till-morning/759701/874 "2018-09-12T22:35:10Z")
Sentinels have motherships? Eeesh. I only just figured out how to kill the walkers without getting the crap kicked out of me. All I need to do is scan 1 more animal and I’ll be 10/10 in all the milestones. I think the game knows this. It’s been days of just looking for that last animal on 1 planet and it may be driving me insane. I should probably try a different planet. I think milestone 7 or 8 I got within thirty seconds of landing, where all 6 of the animals on that planet were right there when I landed. But, like a gambler thinking their slot machine is ‘due’, I just can’t shake the feeling that it’ll be there the next time I bring up my scanner. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2018, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mans-sky-first-star-to-the-right-and-straight-on-till-morning/759701/875 "2018-09-13T01:07:55Z")
> [@buckgully](#): > > Sentinels have motherships? Eeesh. I only just figured out how to kill the walkers without getting the crap kicked out of me. > > All I need to do is scan 1 more animal and I’ll be 10/10 in all the milestones. I think the game knows this. It’s been days of just looking for that last animal on 1 planet and it may be driving me insane. > > I should probably try a different planet. I think milestone 7 or 8 I got within thirty seconds of landing, where all 6 of the animals on that planet were right there when I landed. But, like a gambler thinking their slot machine is ‘due’, I just can’t shake the feeling that it’ll be there the next time I bring up my scanner. Yeah, the space battles work much like the planet side ones, with 5 tiers of attack. In space, the final tier is fighters, heavy fighters and a mothership that is just like your capital ship. You should definitely leave the planet…you’ll find creatures all over. You can even get quests at the guild station on any of the local space stations (or on your capital ship) that will give you various things for scanning animals or whatever. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2018, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mans-sky-first-star-to-the-right-and-straight-on-till-morning/759701/876 "2018-09-13T06:14:13Z")
> [@XT](#): > > You can even get quests at the guild station on any of the local space stations (or on your capital ship) that will give you various things for scanning animals or whatever. And they stack! ---
**Author:** ![buckgully](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb9ed0/32.png) [@buckgully](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buckgully)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2018, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mans-sky-first-star-to-the-right-and-straight-on-till-morning/759701/877 "2018-09-13T06:19:15Z")
> [@XT](#): > > Yeah, the space battles work much like the planet side ones, with 5 tiers of attack. In space, the final tier is fighters, heavy fighters and a mothership that is just like your capital ship. > > You should definitely leave the planet…you’ll find creatures all over. You can even get quests at the guild station on any of the local space stations (or on your capital ship) that will give you various things for scanning animals or whatever. I did, and found all 6 animals on another planet in about five minutes. I’m going to pretend that the animal that I didn’t scan was a white whale in the deepest part of the planet’s ocean, the only one of his kind. Later I happened to be standing on a trade platform when a decent Exotic S-type landed next to me. After upgrading shields and guns I went into space and picked a fight with some sentinel ships. No real problem with the fighters, and I got the mothership to show up, but it disappeared two seconds later. My wanted level dropped from five to one for no apparent reason as well. Kind of seemed like a bug. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2018, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mans-sky-first-star-to-the-right-and-straight-on-till-morning/759701/878 "2018-09-13T13:36:26Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > And they stack! They do, though sometimes it bugs a quest. I recently got a guild quest for killing 9 monstrosities (one of my favorite quest types since it’s almost always for nanites) and one to kill 10 from the capital ship. Only one of the quests would trigger though on arrival, and then I couldn’t do the other one no matter what I did. I reloaded and did them one at a time (along with another general quest to just kill 30 creatures of any type…monstrosities work fine for that one) and everything worked perfectly. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2018, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mans-sky-first-star-to-the-right-and-straight-on-till-morning/759701/879 "2018-09-13T13:42:20Z")
> [@buckgully](#): > > I did, and found all 6 animals on another planet in about five minutes. > > I’m going to pretend that the animal that I didn’t scan was a white whale in the deepest part of the planet’s ocean, the only one of his kind. > > Later I happened to be standing on a trade platform when a decent Exotic S-type landed next to me. After upgrading shields and guns I went into space and picked a fight with some sentinel ships. > > No real problem with the fighters, and I got the mothership to show up, but it disappeared two seconds later. My wanted level dropped from five to one for no apparent reason as well. Kind of seemed like a bug. Definitely sounds like it was bugged for some reason. Usually the mother ship just sits there. If you come into range it opens up on you, so you want to stay just out of range and kill the fighter escorts first. Then you can target each of the gun turrets. Then…well, no idea. I haven’t figured out what to do next. Flying away makes it disappear and you get another round of fighters and escorts. I figured that, like the walker, there has to be a way to finish it off, and I’m speculating that this is how you get upgrades for your capital ship. At least I haven’t been able to get any so far, and I’ve found most everything else (killing the fighters and escorts and taking their barrels gives you upgrades for the frigates which are pretty handy, even though I have the recipes to make the stuff anyway). I’m nearly to the point where I’m going to start hunting better S-class multitools and S-class ships (I have 4 S-class ships and my mothership is a very cool looking A-class…but my multi-tool is still a B-class). I think I have one more in the Atlas chain, and one more glyph and I’ve got a link to the coordinate translation calculator plus there are a ton of YouTubers who have posted coordinates to good places to find ships, capital ships and multi-tools. I’ve also got money finally…been building status chambers and the fusion thingy that gets you a cool $15 million a pop. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2018, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mans-sky-first-star-to-the-right-and-straight-on-till-morning/759701/880 "2018-09-13T13:49:25Z")
Yay, I finally found an S-class alien Multitool. It wasn’t a great one, only 16 slot, but that stats are pretty good, even if not in the range of some of the ones I’ve seen on the webs. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mans-sky-first-star-to-the-right-and-straight-on-till-morning/759701.md?page=43) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mans-sky-first-star-to-the-right-and-straight-on-till-morning/759701.md?page=45)