Well, I've got 53.6 hours in now, so most of this I know. Plus, I was so prepared after backseat driving a bunch of streamers who played before me, that I was over-prepared. :)Skeptic_Duh wrote:Scented - some tips for NMS
Been playing for about 30 hours - so take them as you will.
1. Stay on your starting planet as long as you can, find upgrades for your multi-tool, your suit, and ship.
1a. Concentrate on your multi-tool for mining first, then suit, then ship.
2a. If you go to an outpost or something larger, they sometimes offer for sale a larger slot multi-tool - but talk to the alien first, sometimes they give you one if you answer questions correctly (learn their lingo - it helps out) - you can always back out of convo's to come back, once you pick something - that is it for that alien. I saved 175K credits by talking first.
2. Look for drop pods - they upgrade your suit storage. This is key - need storage to get credits - first one is free, after that - the price increase 10K per slot. :P
3. Recipes can be found everywhere - seek them out. They become very helpful as you progress.
4. Follow the Atlas... :geek:
5. Beware pirates, but if you die, go back to your grave to get your loot - but any progress not saved is lost (so save often).
6. Some fauna comes out only at night, and some only during the day. Sometimes at certain times (sun setting - etc...) - makes it fun to find them. Some flying fauna is too high to scan - shoot them down and scan the corpse. :dance:
7. Dont worry about upgrading your ship till you learn new tech to put in them - you cant transfer between them.
8. If you trade in your multitool or ship - deconstruct the tech - so you can keep the materials. Speaking of materials - always keep Plutonium, Carbon, Titanium with you - you will need it (charge your multitool with carbon - ship with plutonium, Titanium for shields)
9. When placing tech in your tool/ship/suit - put similar ones next to each other for bonuses. You can tell when you do, they will all be highlighted in a certain color. Sometimes - you will have to destroy tech to place them in a better location.
10. Don't rush - explore - the center of the galaxy will still be there.
So far, I have a 24 slot multi-tool, a 31 slot ship (with better shields/controls) and a 30 slot suit. With 2 mil credits in the bank. (spent about 15 mil so far (suit upgrades/ship purchase)
Suit has underwater breathing/toxin protections/heat/cold/extra stamina/health/jumpjet.
Multi-tool has max cooling/mining/weapons - max scan.
Ship is in the process of being battle ready.
Can understand the Vy'keen enough to be an ally to them - and lucked out being on a temperate planet for the start.
I fully explored my starting planet - and was awarded 250K for doing it.
Have fun and if you have any other questions - ask!
1. I'm not in any rush at all. I stayed on my first planet for quite a long time. The only one I didn't stay long on so far, was one with sentinels described as "frenzied". I simply stepped out of my ship and began visor analyzing stuff, and suddenly red angry sentinels were after me and calling for back up! I dindu nuffin! Really! I didn't even mine or kill or break into any secure places! Anyways, I got out of there quick. :)
2. I LOOOOVE those things! I get a new exosuit upgrade every chance I get.
3. I've got so many recipes for stuff, they are coming out my alien ass! Especially for my multitool. Every Tom, Dick, and Harry shelter I come across has a dispenser for new ones.
4. Absolutely. How could I not?
5. So far, I've only died once, and it was on a planet. I had a very recent restore, so I just went back to that. My strategy for avoiding space pirates is working out very well. I have no interest in fighting - just exploring, making some upgrade/ship money, and finding out the unfolding story. My strategy is this: I just put all my valuables in my exosuit whenever I'm in space. My ship has nothing there for pirates to scan. I also sell all things on the same planets I mine them on. I don't give a shit about market prices, just here's a bunch of stuff Mr Alien, and I'll take whatever wad of units you want to give me). While on the planets, I fill up my ship and take stuff to the planetside galactic market terminals, but in space only my exosuit contains anything valuable. Also, I'm not going for any of those options to rescue ships or to break into secure facilities. I almost did the latter once, but attracted sentinel attention before I could get in and ran away like the law abiding chicken that I am. Still have to be ready to fight though, and I have had to kill the odd deranged animal or two. There might be something special waiting at the secured places though - I forget from the streams I saw, so the next really lax or passive sentinel planet I find, I'll take out my boltcaster and do some damage to those steel doors.
6. If you're into collecting the bonuses for finding all "records" animals, one streamer had a good sounding idea. I don't know if it worked or not, but in case one of his missing discoveries was a scavenger, he killed a couple animals and then waited nearby to see if anything came out to eat them.
7. I'm taking my time with ship upgrades. So far, I'm only on my second one. It's one of those lopsided weirdo ones, which I suspect will gradually upgrade to being more explorer oriented. Sean Murray said that the small symmetrical ones are fighters, and I figure the bulky squared ones are traders, so that leaves the lopsided ones to be explorers. Maybe the extra parts will someday unlock to become cloaking devices or something. It looks strange but I like it. I really need to take some pictures for the next time I visit back home to Earth.
8/9. When I'm in space, I stock up on Thamium9 for my pulse engine (enough for a bit into the future), and for on the planets, I like to keep a lot of plutonium on hand to jump around all over the place with my launch thruster. Also, for walking around, zinc or titanium for hazards - even a nice planet can have sudden storms. I can usually find enough plutonium and carbon for life support when needed, but I like to arrive at a planet with a bit of those in stock too, for just in case. I'm currently on a planet with titanium crystals here and there, so I'm stocking up. I'm also gradually building up my various hazard protections, including lining things up so the outlines light up.
10. I am sooooo not rushing! It's a bit hard when I hear of people on their second galaxy, but I'm taking my time.
