Say what you want about NMS but this game is god damned gorgeous.

I really came back around the second time playing this, after fiddling around with the graphic settings the first day.

Also, upgrading your suit to have more item slots and using the jetpack melee boost really made the game more relaxing

Its hard to capture on picture, but these three planets lined up in a nice way. The planet i was on was super moody and had no lifeforms, but super chill and good looking.

My starting planet was awesome!

I can't be the only one wondering around the worlds having David Attenborough narrating the discoveries I made? I thought about it so much I made a video that dubbed him over my discoveries.

The atmosphere effects are sooo goooood.... Here's a selection from the last two days of exploring.

It was pretty funny to watch these big fellas float around with those tiny wings.

Here is my little adventure on a planet full of plants that hop around. This video is just a general look around a planet with me looking at stuff and mining some materials. Ending with me landing on a trading platform.

I also made this next video that shows off a few different moments that were either buggy or I thought were cool. It begins with a monolith choice so if you don't want to see it then skip ahead to 1:12. After that I found some ships with some odd flight patterns and a badly placed space station. It ends with a big space battle that doesn't quite go my way.

I have a couple of screenshots to share. First is this flying pig headed thing that walks on its rear legs. Second is... well, it's just straight up a T-Rex. Maybe the head is a bit smaller but it's a T-Rex, come on. The third is just a fluke of terrain generation. I thought it looked like godzilla's head. Lots of sharp teeth too.

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I struggled for a long time deciding if I should keep her or not but with only one more slot then my current ship I chose not to.

My new ship. A common design on the planets I'm on, no weird parts sticking off, but still nice. The 'dice role' on the configuration of slots worked out well too - (horizontally) one row of five, three rows of four, and one row of three, and one slot by itself. So, I have a few lanes for cross connecting components. (Ran across a similar ship junked with one more slot, but the slot set up was 'borked' and not worth it.)

....so much more room for activities!

@mrcaptain: That looks really cool. Very 2001 Space Odyssey.

Liking how the patch fixes some stuff so the technical aspects (aliasing) are starting to match up to the artistic intent. Hopefully we get some more progress (pushing out the level of detail transition, using something other than dithered swaps) and then Ansel to really take some great pictures.

I've got a few nice ones I took during my brief stint

Upgraded to a 1440 monitor, so some of these are 1080 and some are 1440.

@devil240z said:

I almost made this thread a few hours ago. Anyway I've been taking screens like crazy. I'll post some later on.

I can't wait to post pics. My ship is rad it has a little r2d2 guy poking out of the top.

I just switch to a ship that looks like yours. I had a sport-ish cargo ship that has 21 slots, but then little fast one like you I found. It has one more slot too (22), so I spent 40 minutes deconstructing my old ship and reconstructing the new one. I would not have done that for just one slot usually but the slot set up was very good, and the performance is FAR better.

One thing I did notice is any new ship you buy you really have to deconstruct some modules to arrange thing to take better advantage of 'same with same'. Even a ship with great weapons, shields, and cannons will likely have them arraigned poorly. So the reality is you do have to work on a new ship a lot, and some upgrades you spent a lot of time making on an old ship you have to RE-make all over again.

God, I wish I could paint my ship. Currently, it is white w/ light blue, but I want yellow and black with crazy "Chris Foss" stripes.

I landed on an extremely dark and devoid planet called a "Forsaken Planet" (named in the bottom-left panel where you see weather and flora/fauna etc). It was the only planet in the system, and the skybox in the system was almost totally black (with stars, but no typically colourful stardust etc).

Has anyone else seen one of these planet types? It looks like it was carpet-bombed, with strange broken rocks (which were not scannable so weren't flora, they were part of the landscape)..

There was a steady dust storm blanketing the planet as well, and I didn't find a single populated settlement. Second photo is dark-side when the star was below the horizon. You couldn't see a thing..

Needless to say, it was creepy as hell and I GTFO pretty quick..

@sbarre: Wow, I didn't even know those existed. I hope I find one soon, gotta bask in that desiccated husk of a world.

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Here's my dump!

My starting planet makes me happy I bought the game:

A slow night at the "space disco", but I did see two different aliens at once.

I never noticed that you can see the space stations and even some of the bigger capital ships in orbit above planets.

The main planet in my next system looks like a fascinating hell.

Spikey and weird moving plantlife. Iron melted on pieces of rock. Floating rocks and balls of copper. It's 64C and stormy on the surface and slowly burning you away unless you seek higher ground. Yet, animals still find a way to live here.

I named it Bombus Prime.

Battle Cat complete with saddle, thus proving if switch things up randomly enough you can end up with an ideas as silly as He-man.

Kringer became the mighty BattleCat and I became He-Man, the most powerful man in the Universe! Only three others share this secret . . . Our friends the Sorceress, Man-at-Arms, and Orko. Together we defend Castle Greyskull from the evil forces of Skeletor!

@shaggydude said:

Sweet lookin' ship! I'm still looking for my ultimate ship. I bought my last oen for $10+ million. I want to save $20 million for my next ship.

So the main thing I'm getting from this thread is that they spent months finding the planets for the trailers.....

Or maybe just handmade them?

Likely, just an early alpha build of the game that has more animals and plant life shoved close together. A solar-system in a bottle - if you will- that they could make work at that level in isolation, but proved too hard to make in reality using a PS4.

I saw this beauty last night. It is like my current ship in the design of the hull, but this one has wide gull-wings with downward facing fans. It has 38 slots and is $42 million give or take a few million. It might take me a few days to save up that much, but I am on a good planet for making cash. It is as good a time as any to save that amount, and in teh mean tiem I'm intereed in what Hello Games 'might' add now that they are done with the major patches.

I was sort of hoping for two things:
1) Ship upgrades showing as physical items on the ships in some way...Like if you have a lot of heavy cannon upgrades the weapons look a bit bigger or show up in teh design.
2) That ability to pick and choose the elements that attach to the "base" hull shapes. So If I wanted a certain base hull with wings and different nose cone I could make that myself.

Both long shot/pipe dream requests...but possible theoretically.

Well the landscapes were much more interesting too though. Those in the actual game actually look like they were generated by algorithms. The ones in the trailers didn't.

This is my latest ship! I'm still not at the max slots, but I'm going to hang on to this one for awhile!

Some cool stuff in this thread. I noticed there were almost no images in the actual No Man's Sky screenshot gallery on GB so I uploaded a bunch of my screens if anyone's interested. There's a lot of them but I think there are some pretty good ones, interesting creatures and some sweet landscapes.

I quite like this panorama, assembled with Autostitch from a few overlapping screens:

Landed on a nice looking planet with grasslands and plenty of lakes. With pink sunsets and green nights.

Too bad the lakes are filled with flesh eating fish (?) and some -20 C rainstorms now and then.

This addition of photomode with the NEXT update has been great.

Really like this one I took of my new ship, I was sheltering in it during an acid rainstorm.

Can you spot the Traveller in the last two images? The scale in this game is impressive.

This photo mode has been the best thing for me the last couple of days.

@alistercat said:

DEATH STRANDING???

Anyone else find themselves on a planet covered in these giant spinning objects? I haven't tried shooting them but according to the scans they are suppose to plants.

@merxworx01: I just came across one of those after trying out a new hyperdrive upgrade I had crafted. Was really worried about landing at first, since those things don't look very welcoming, but, yeah, they appear to be plants or mineral deposits for me too.

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@fisk0: I've been encountering a lot of exotic planets since getting all of the hyperdrive colours

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