No Man’s Sky

Originally played this game for the first time on a PlayStation 4 on release and it was…a different game then. Came back a few years later, but the glyph hunting for teleporting beyond my lil starship’s range was a bigger task then the time available back then. It was a shame, since tons of pics from players at the time showed such cool bases, worlds, and instructions on how to warp to explore them firsthand.

Flash forward about 8 years from that original release, and its…a completely different game! Multiplayer is quick and easy, from both the perspective of joining friends or participating in community events. So much has changed that we’re pretty much beginning for the first time again, only barely familiar with small fragments of what we encounter.

But isn’t that every traveler’s destiny?

Cool Moments & Neat Discoveries

For the moment, here’s been some of our highlights from replaying No Man’s Sky!

(Forgive the UI in some shots, it took 80+ hours before learning there was a camera view. ~~Think of it as a more immersive experience!~~)

These next few are less of a full build and more of a mood (plus teleporter):

Base Building

We wanted this so bad at launch and now we can actually build bases! Chaos ensues, Traveler-Friend!

ZaZa’s Nip-Nip Grow-Opy

On a planet besieged by endless bubbles with no regard for physics, wall boundaries, or even emotional boundaries for that matter, there was only one way to build a base that came to our mind that didn’t feel overshadowed by the ceaseless onslaught of ascending translucent spheres.

And that was to make it an ambiguously T-rated smoke lounge. It’s also been a goal since playing No Man’s Sky to have a base dedicated to cultivating NipNip, so it was like killing one super massive Shai-Hulud in one joint.

But...h-how...do you...even hurt...it?

We digress! Here’s the base:

Ark of Stories

This is an example of discovering a cool place and then trying to find a way to come back with a less full inventory. In navigating menus we discovered a base computer could be placed, and well, the rest is the story of how we got stranded in a terminal unable to leave, with no understanding of the language spoken by those around us but by performing strange acts of kindness with those we meet we are able to, uh, get a neat signature?

Skyglass Farms

At some point in the fledgling time of playing No Man’s Sky, we built a lucrative, and now-no-longer-illicit-activity-associated farming base! Over countless updates passed since then, and upon returning we discovered the planet had changed dramatically. Oceans filled with bloody crimson water beneath its crystal clear surface. Otherwise lovely lavender hills and valleys ruined by now ever present hostile sentinel presence. But most critically a section of the planet eroded away somehow, leaving the base suspended in the air.

This made the base an absolute hazard in every way, from landing on it to navigating safely around the exterior to run wires. So to ripen the risk of losing life and limb we now grow fungal molds, radioactive weeds, fleshy cacti, and are proud plant-parents to a species which seemingly just produces literal shit.

Welcome to Skyglass Farms!