Here she is, the last ship I'll ever need: http://i.imgur.com/wLIMmrX.jpg

Until I find another one that looks cooler ;)

I just love the science-type ships, and this one's asymmetry won me over. I was scouting for a badass x-wing looking ship but found this one instead.

On PC you can hide the HUD in the options, too.

Or download a mod to do it with a shortcut key

That first creature is awesome! And I love your ship. I might even give up mine for it! :D

Adam-- I've done the same thing with floating islands, and ended up just finding a beacon where I could call my ship. It was on another sucky planet though so it was not a fun time.

I ran into my first planet with weather patterns. I didn't even know there were such things in the game. It is so cool to discover these things!

Someone just stole my ship. Like, no joke, I'm walking back to my ship to leave and I see it take off.

http://i.imgur.com/GXTyQVG.jpg

I get to where it was supposed to be in about 25 seconds and snapped another pic. They've gotten off-world with it.

http://i.imgur.com/D2EreDI.jpg

I was able to call it back with an override chip but what the hell?

Also you shouldn't trust Dale: http://i.imgur.com/10CAotl.jpg

Also, we haven't mentioned portals: http://i.imgur.com/qX1wLNG.jpg

These were shown and discussed in trailers. This is the second one I've found. There's no marker for them (that marker in the screenshot is on a planet behind the portal) and they're apparently useless at the moment. People have dissected the game files and found dialogue relating to portals, but as of now nobody knows how to activate them, or even if you CAN activate them.

It's another SEAN MURRAY LIED TO US trigger, but I imagine they just couldn't get them working before launch.

@Adam, I'm not sure if it's *actually* being stolen or if it's a bug where the game treats your ship like an NPC ship. Either way, it was hilarious.

Travis: Can you be stuck on a planet if your ship is stolen?

Jon: no, you can't be stuck. All it takes is 10x of a couple elements to craft an override ship that you can use at many of the planet's locations to call your ship.

I actually bought this ship. I had a ton of money and little to spend it on, and I spotted this one and fell in love. It was like 300 million or something to that effect but at a certain point money is useless. I lucked into a gravitino ball planet followed by a vortex cube planet fairly early on, so I didn't have to worry about money.

*override chip, not ship.

Oh! And this isn't the first time I've had ship weirdness. I died in a space battle and respawned at that system's station. But my ship wasn't with me. The marker for that ship was behind me and days away. I had to reload my previous save, which was also at that station, and when I got out I checked the direction where the map marker was, and there was nothing back there. So it seemed my ship spawned in a different star system than I did.

Here is my current ship: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=750596983

Thanks scrypt! I found it crashed on a planet.

Yeah I dig that particular color. I haven't found a ship in that color that didn't look like a flying air conditioner unit.

One planet I was on had some very bizarre world generation that led to the environment breaking into buildings.

I had to use a grenade to get in: http://i.imgur.com/gUmvjy5.jpg
Here's some of the interior:
http://i.imgur.com/D8lbN9v.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/HD1yQkF.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/hXRl9Sz.jpg
Then this building is barely hanging on: http://i.imgur.com/XuSAfzL.jpg
Again, interior shots:
http://i.imgur.com/KIjhq2g.jpg - The entrance
http://i.imgur.com/5KYIHZ2.jpg

Another planet had some really unique creatures:
Flying tadpoles:
http://i.imgur.com/jaAqT5g.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/dB2MFa3.jpg
And this bug chicken thing: http://i.imgur.com/HCKsjsY.jpg

And more ship weirdness! http://i.imgur.com/qWtqJJp.jpg
As I jetpacked up to get in, another ship landed below me.

Yeah I wanna see that tall ship too! I've never seen anything that looks like it would be a hazard before :D

@Greg-- 4 bars is the light armored one, the explorer class. Fighters have six, trade ships have eight.

Fighters are faster, trade ships are slower, explorer ships are medium speed and have the lowest HP. So it seems in terms of best all around, fighters are the best class.

But I still love my little lopsided grasshopper looking thing.

scrypt-- do you have the option on PS4 to turn off the HUD? I try to remember to do that for screenshots, but obviously I forget more often than not.

The HUD doesn't entirely disappear, only the stuff at the bottom with your life support and protection. Though it seems kinda odd that they do since life support is always dropping and you'd want to keep tabs on it.

The option in the menus disables everything, including point of interest icons and even the "press E" notifications that come up on things. If H does the same thing, I've been making this way harder on myself! :D

Escape -> Graphics -> Show HUD

@scrypt it looks like a PC only option for some weird reason :/

> This other species always seems to look exactly like one I've already discovered.

It's male and female. Some species don't have male and female that you can scan, some do. But when they do, only one counts toward your fauna completion.

In fact if you notice, when you scan those it'll say in the bottom right "scanned creature belongs to already scanned species" or something like that.

There's another patch up on the experimental branch. No patch notes, of course, because who wants to read those? But it appears bird scanning has been fixed, confirmed by a bunch of people.

Confirmed! I've scanned a few things and the scanner seems to be more consistent across the board, but it's more noticeable on birds.

I found a planet that was almost entirely water, and that's not a fun trip. There should be some sort of underwater propulsion. http://i.imgur.com/VWSFQri.jpg

But it did have a ton of underwater buildings, which I hadn't seen before and haven't since. http://i.imgur.com/FNh66Ia.jpg

These were odd animals. They were attached to the ground but would swing around like wacky waving inflatable arm flailing tube men. http://i.imgur.com/blbIuz2.jpg

These guys, in case you didn't get the Family Guy reference. https://www.amazon.com/Inflatable-Wacky-Waving-Tube-Man/dp/B008NCQ5O2/?tag=lege1-20

This happened, and I had no clue what the text said, but luckily the correct answer for Vy'Keen is almost always "report them to the authorities" http://i.imgur.com/pI3vHFz.jpg

This was the last animal I needed for 100% on this planet, and I found him in the wrongest place: http://i.imgur.com/UWgQrTE.jpg

I almost swapped ships when I came across this beauty, but I couldn't quite part with mine. http://i.imgur.com/QbIY5xe.jpg

This is my most recent planet, and the one that really makes me wish there were a way to wormhole to specific places. I never want to leave this place, but I must: http://i.imgur.com/M6ee7oN.jpg

More from that planet:
http://i.imgur.com/ukC6fls.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/P6PrxNK.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/V9iwcmZ.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/VuIuPOK.jpg

Side-note: I don't know why these screenshots are so jaggy. It doesn't look like this in-game.

(actually, my in-game anti-aliasing is off, and I'm forcing it in the nvidia control panel because the in-game AA is broken. Maybe Steam is somehow getting a screenshot before the nvidia AA kicks in? I dunno)

> my AA in the game is maxed.

Yeah I turned it off because while it works a little better than it did at launch, it still doesn't work very well. I'm having nvidia do it for me which makes the game look amazing but apparently not the screenshots, and I have no idea how that works!

Remind me to do this tomorrow Greg, and I definitely will!

Adam, I've never had one of those kinds of ships but some of them look badass.

Also your second screenshot there is someone else's RAGE screenshot, and I suspect it's because the last two numbers got cut off, since it otherwise looks like it's in sequence.

Another winter planet, and these things are floating around. They just stay stationary. They aren't animals, plants, or geology apparently, because they're entirely un-scannable. http://i.imgur.com/tyjoAe8.jpg

Greg, you asked for settings--

Here's in game, everything maxed except for AA: http://i.imgur.com/nWXaRn1.jpg
Here's the nvidia control panel overriding AA: http://i.imgur.com/riy5fna.png

OK so apparently those floating things are radnox deposits. Mine the hell out of those if you find them. It's not gravitino, sac venom, or vortex cubes but it's very valuable!

Khajit has wares if you have coin.

15 of 15, and there are only 14 in the list. I wonder if that 15th somehow took it one too far. Either way, damn, that sucks!

I dig the ship. There's something about those grasshopper ships that I love.

I like the first one there. I've never been a fan of the class of ship in the second screenshot though.

Yeah, there's no reason to be picky until you find that 48 slot ship.

It's pretty easy to consistently find upgrades by using the transmission towers.

I really wish there was a way to keep a fleet of ships. Maybe that will come with updates. But I had to get rid of my ship due to a known bug related to my journey to the center.

I grabbed a crashed trade ship that I hated but it was my best option if I wanted to keep progressing on my path and not wait around for another perfect ship. I knew I'd find something amazing later, but that ship has been with me for so long, I'd grown attached to it. It's silly, but I really loved it.

It didn't take long before I found something amazing, though. Here she is in all her glory:
Left side: http://i.imgur.com/mHxNLVz.jpg
Right side: http://i.imgur.com/G159RIn.jpg
Yep, you saw that right. I have an astromech droid! :D http://i.imgur.com/cTRb7hh.jpg

I have a feeling I'll be sticking with this one for a while. I think it's a better looking ship than my old one, but it doesn't have the sentimental value yet.

Other random recent discoveries:
I call this a floating brainsquidturtlecricket: http://i.imgur.com/WGj19WJ.jpg
This gek looks like a cat. I feel like "Khajit has wares if you have coin" is even more appropriate here: http://i.imgur.com/sm5T8y8.jpg

I made it to the center! I won't spoil anything but here's the system I named right on the edge before the center: http://i.imgur.com/CbE9tlT.jpg
As for what comes after, you'll have to find that yourself :)

Once two of us have finished we should start another forum thread to talk about story stuff. "Finished" may be the wrong word because I don't think I'll ever be done with it. This is a game like Terraria where I want to keep playing forever, and it will be even more when they add more content.

Travis, how many hours did you put in before you made it to the center?

I am taking my time getting there.

Once I got all the inventory slots, all the blueprints, basically everything I could, I just made a mad dash toward the center, stopping to repair my ship when necessary. All told I have 62 hours in the game but you could probably get to the center in 30 or so.

I just found a planet full of vortex cubes. Needless to say, I am not popular with sentinels on this planet.

Oh yeah, vortex cubes will make them hate you but make you money! They don't come after you as much in the caves.

A couple of recent shots from my travels:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=758831469
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=756979789

I love that first shot, Will. It's like those planets lined up for that shot.

I have been to the biggest planet in that pic. I love that I can go to the planets that I see in the sky. So cool.

Yeah the worst that happens is the Steam videos get switched out.

"Misleading" is a loaded word, but there are some differences between the videos and the released game, as discussed in other threads here. But I think it's ludicrous to go after Hello Games for this when there are so many worse offenders like Ubisoft that I kept mentioning in the other thread.

If they're making recommendations and waiting for a response, I would imagine they'd technically have to be investigating, though perhaps not a "formal" investigation. In order for them to have recommendations to Valve and HG they would have already had to investigate, else there's nothing to recommend.

Surely they don't pass on any complaints to the companies and wait for the response before doing any of their own research. You'd end up with messages from them to Valve with things like "Person McPeople has requested that you change the advertising for DOOM because he/she was under the impression that there would be giant unicorns in the game and there aren't enough notices in the store page that there won't be unicorns."

Sure, that's hyperbole but hyperbole to make it easier to see the problem. Like 80% of the complaints they get are probably baseless, and they'd have to investigate a little bit before even presenting recommendations.

To put it more simply, that Gamespot article says they have rejected claims-- in order to do that, they have to investigate.

It may be a matter of the different ways "investigate" can be used.

Looking at the ASA FAQ, it looks like a justified complaint will launch an investigation. But again, there may be some ambiguity to that word.

OK! Solved! I think! This was bothering me (obviously :D) that the wording didn't all seem to fit.

1. The ASA receives a complaint, and determines if it's legitimate.
2. If legitimate, they launch an investigation and determine how the advertisers can resolve it.
3. At this point they try to resolve it informally, sending (in this case) Hello Games and Steam recommendations for how they can resolve the problem. This seems to be where we are right now. The initial investigation has found ways they can fix the advertising problems.
4. If this doesn't work out, a full formal investigation is done and judged by the ASA council. This takes lots of time so they try to avoid it.

So the word investigation *was* the problem here, since it applies in two different spots. The ASA can launch an investigation immediately, but they usually don't get sent up to the ASA Council.

The ASA has rejected claims because they found they weren't violating anything. And reading about how they do things, they reject things all the time before they go to the Council for an "official investigation" but there's plenty of investigating done before that.

But yeah, the last comment above-- on the ASA site, they refer to the immediate steps after a complaint has been filed as an investigation, and then they refer to the formal process later on as an investigation. Also, that website is hell to navigate. Information is spread around everywhere.

If they are sending Hello Games and Valve a raft of questions about the advertising, I'd *personally* classify that as them investigating the complaint. "An inquiry placed forward to" them sounds like investigating, personally. First steps and all.

Again, it's the ambiguity of the word "investigate." You're not wrong, the articles aren't wrong, it's just an ambiguous word.

Eh, I don't see it that way. It's mostly common parlance.

Though I do think it's hilarious that we are discussing whether game media is misleading people about the ASA activities, when what they're doing is determining whether others were misled.

ITS MISLEADS ALL THE WAY DOWN!

I think scrypt is right here in that by using certain words you do hype up the meaning which drives clicks. At this point games media wins clicks and ad revenue by continuing to keep this story amped up.

Investigation does, to me anyway, imply some criminal thing being looked into. Simply saying something like "The ASA has Opened Dialog With ..." isn't as sensational and doesn't drive as much attention.

I have personally been involved with incident investigations at my previous job that usually come down to "Verizon line was down." But it was still called an investigation.

Staying in tech, if I call about a known outage when I have internet issues, they'll say the techs are investigating.

Whenever anyone wants to say they're checking out something in a way that sounds like they care about what they're doing they will say investigating. It's a more official sounding way to say you don't know but you're finding out.

You're seeking knowledge on something, you're investigating it.

Oh, and probably "information" in response to your question.

Yeah, good point. Maybe I still think of Batman when I think investigation. But not the new Batman, the old one where he was a Detective.

Not that makes what I said make more sense. Because it doesn't.

Heh, I guess that's a discovery :D

Here is a Hello Games post on the update.

http://www.no-mans-sky.com/foundation-update/

Looks like it's getting more Terraria-esque features, which makes a lot of sense for the game.

Heh, Jon you missed my post ;)

Hahahaha. Yeah, your post is better.

Elite Dangerous is much more combat oriented. It's been the game that many people compare NMS to when criticizing it, but they have very different goals.