No Man’s Sky: Space Mechanic

As I continue my journey through space I needed to fix the rest of my ship up since it would be pretty hard to be flying around with a half broken ship. I was able to repair pretty much everything except a coolant system and the warp drive. I guess both can wait until another time.

I did find another ship, but it was worse than what I currently have and I really like having as much storage space as possible. I am quickly learning the Vy'Keen language too! Still not fluent enough though to do their word puzzles.

No Mans Sky: Burglary and New Ship!

After looking through suggestions on how to break into a building without getting murdered by the Sentinels, it turns out the best way to do so is to just brute force your way in and ignore the mob of angry sentinels shooting at you. This plan actually worked very well and they were called off after I got into the building. So I got my plan for the antimatter so I can now make my own.

I decided to go off and do some more exploring. In the process, I got news of another crashed ship! I quickly flew over to see what it was. It was a much better ship than what I had (though be it had less storage). I managed to get it flying but there really isn't much I can do till I find more supplies. It was kind of painful to leave my little ship behind that had served me well, but it was really time for me to move on to a better craft. RIP Rustbucket.

No Man's Sky: New Solar System Old Problems

Even after finding that ship again I started up my game to find out that the ship was no longer in existence. I was extremely peeved by this due it took me 30 minutes of game sickness to find the thing. I tried several reloads to get it to show up with no avail, I guess someone else came by and took the thing.

So, I decided it was time to leave this planet behind and complete the Warp Drive thing it has been trying to get me to do all along. After acquiring the fuel needed and blasting off to the next neighbouring solar system I found myself on a new world and with new aliens. With that a new challenge of figuring out how to craft more antimatter so I can continue exploring more solar systems and maybe eventually replace my faithful rust bucket of a ship.

No Man’s Sky: Repair Fail

It turns out I am indeed an idiot when it comes to fixing things. I was unable to figure out how to fix the space ship I found due to it wasn’t obvious to me that I had to hit the “Accept” button at the bottom of the screen to actually change ships.

Instead I decided to go out and work on getting a Hyper Drive to you know do more space stuff. Turns out there are now even more creatures out to kill me on this planet. In addition to the headcrabs, I now have praying mantises, and what look like mountain goats now after my head…yay…

However, I may put my journey back into space on the back burner now that I know how to fix and repair ships now. Guess I got to now find that ship again…without a map. Something tells me this may take awhile.

No Man’s Sky: Onward to Explore Everything!

I decided that I wanted to try and get myself a new ship. However, every ship I came a crossed cost way too much and I quickly scrapped that idea after nearly getting killed by headcrabs. Well I was running around trying to find a cheaper ship, I was making a lot of headway with this Alien race called the Korvax and they actually started liking me. I was picking up quite a few words from their language and I decided why not try to help them out some.

The first thing I did was I decided to try and find some Platinum for this one guy, but I ended up finding a weird device which showed a Monolith on the map. Figured, hey this can’t be that bad! Let’s check it out! Turns out it was a good thing and I got more favor with their race and learned more words.

I found the Platinum I needed, but I ran into another problem. I couldn’t find my way back to the base I was at in order to give the guy the stuff. I did end up finding a few more waypoints and another one of these weird devices that this time showed my a location of a crashed ship. I once again set out, this time figuring I would be helping some Korvax guy fix his ship and get some more props from their race.

Well to my surprise the poor pilot was dead and left his pretty broken down ship behind. Which to my delight, I can fix. Looks like I found my new ride.

No Man’s Sky: Aliens!

After last failure of crashing my space ship so badly it killed both the game and my recording software, I decided to switch recording formats in order to try and make sure the recording is preserved when something like that occurs. This time, I didn’t have to worry about it since I was finally able to land on my first new planet without everything crashing (including my ship). What was even better was the planet wasn’t a complete death trap. Sure the local headcrab like things were not too happy for me landing on top of them, but I could actually run around without fear of dying.

I ended up spending most of the time just flying from point A to point B due to I was trying to pay attention to what the game was leading me to. In this case, it was leading me to my first sentient Alien lifeforms which I could interact with. I was actually pretty happy about this since my inventory space was running pretty low and I needed to sell stuff. I even was able to buy a nicer multi-tool from them.

No Man's Sky: Getting off this Ice cube

So after some reading about the game, I figured it would be best to leave my starting planet behind and try to find a better planet to explore. However, in order to do so, I needed to collect the material in order to repair my ship. This turned out to be easier said than done. I nearly froze to death on a few occasions, then got murdered by Sentinels again for accidently trying to break into their what I think was a base trying to seek shelter from freezing to death, and then had to run away from a giant “gentle” bird T-Rex thing due to I accidently shot it.

Eventually, I did get the material I was looking for and was able to fix my ship and take off the planet. I decided to go for the first plant I could see and attempted to land. Then my game crashed and then OBS crashed taking the original recording with it. Sadly the video is of poor quality due to its an export from Twitch, but it is all I have of the adventure of trying to get off my home planet.

No Man’s Sky: I have no Idea what I am doing

I decided to change things up a bit and try a new game that has been hitting the news quite a bit. No Man’s Sky, a survival style game with a Sci-Fi theme. I decided to avoid looking up any information on the game to avoid spoilers and to not cheat at learning curve of the game. I heard the learning curve on this game is a bit hard since there really isn’t a tutorial and you really just dive right into the game. I am also really bad with survival games in general so any help I could find may not help prevent me from dying over and over again.

Now that I have played it I can say it is not too bad, but I also didn’t know what I was doing for most of the time I was playing. I am still left wondering why I had robots that I initially thought were peaceful start attacking me and sending everything but a death ray to come kill me (which they did). Overall I’m more annoyed with my starting world due to I am constantly having to run back to my ship to prevent myself from freezing to death. Hopefully, as I progress this will become less of an issue and I really really hope there is a way to get more inventory space.