I read last night that it was coming out this week, but with little details other than the vehicle. I'm looking forward to having a vehicle, finally. I'm still on my way to the center and have some more crafting to do. I enjoyed the last update very much, so I'm looking forward to checking this one out.

I'm excited for the exocraft. I've spent way too much time walking along the surface of planets I visit. I've been wanting a vehicle. If it works underwater, that's even better! I hate swimming, movement is much too slow. I'm looking forward to getting an exocraft.

@Travis, what kind of new hardware did you get (that you mentioned in your post here)? Also, I recommend sending crash reports to Hello Games, I think they've done well with that. I sent them at least one, I'm sure.

Maybe Hello Games will give us a submersible for those big lakes and oceans we sometimes run into. Even a little handheld device, like the one in Subnautica, would be a vast improvement to swimming.

Sorry I missed it, thanks for pointing me to it. Nice GPU, I'm kind of jealous, although my 980Ti Classified has satisfied me greatly in the last year. I'm glad you've upgraded (now you can check out Ark)!

Subnautica is almost entirely underwater and in the beginning you can craft something you hold with both hands and it moves you forward. Something like that would be excellent for NMS. Although something bigger, like a one person sub, would be great for those planets covered almost completely in water.

Wow, really?! I think it's close to Titan power, but probably not quite there. I thought your's would be better than a Titan. That's just an uneducated assumption. I don't know how the 1060 compares to anything. Now I'm seeing that a 1080Ti is out or coming. You said you ordered your new PC, is that correct? If so, what brand is it?

No interest in Ark?! I have no idea what I'd have been doing since our last Terraria server if it wasn't for Ark. I suggest single player mode for many reasons, including mods. You get to tame, raise, and use dinosaurs and other kinds of awesome creatures! You can build your own base/house/nearly anything. I think it's amazing!

Holy crap. Well that just tells you I know next to nothing about most GPUs. I should have looked that up before making my incorrect statement, but thanks for correcting me and showing me a benchmark comparison. I could have done all that myself, but I've been gaming.

The game seems to look different, but I've been away from it for a while. What's what my first thought was, but then I looked at the before and after images for this update. I think it does look like the "after" image, yet still kind of dark. I wonder if it could just be the lighting of my locations. I spawned on my freighter, flew to the outpost, and warped to my base. Maybe if I spend more time my eyes will adjust or it'll get brighter by sun/day light. I did check to see if it was optimized by Geforce Experience and there was one setting that it wanted to change. It think it was one of the AA settings.

Daylight looks better, I guess I just need to put up more lighting inside my base. Still, even the outposts are darker than usual. I may have to take some screenshots to compare.

The game is stable for me, but still seems too dark. I'll upload my screenshots soon. One other thing that "bugs" me is that it seems the base building quest is still active, even though I already have a base with every station that I can think of (I'm currently working on the exocraft station pieces). I've created another corridor, room, and terminal (after deleting the previous one). Once I place a new construction terminal, an NPC instantly spawns at it. I can go to a station and hire someone, but then the mission goes back to repeating the first step.

The quest isn't in my log when I'm not on my home planet. I've tried deleting and rebuilding, but it gets stuck repeating. I don't know if maybe it would clear if I moved to another home planet. I watched a YouTube video about a similar bug with a quest and the solution was to move the NPC to the freighter while on a different planet, then activate quest.

I forgot about the "quick menu." I thought my exocraft upgrade quest was bugged. I was supposed to find a depot, but the log said I had to build the cannon, but it repeated after I did that, even after I did it again. Then I realized the "quick menu" (x I think) and switched to the exocraft signal booster (q and e) and use (f). Now, I need to find another one because I need more for the next upgrade.

I'm glad you noticed the dark darkness, too. I never use the torch, I guess I should try it more. The lights I put in each NPC room don't help. I thought adding windows and glass ceilings could help at least with day time lighting.

Check out my screenshots. http://steamcommunity.com/id/gregopeck/screenshots/

Reported bug, then found solution. I had to change the AA from Ultra to TAA+FXAA. http://steamcommunity.com/app/275850/discussions/0/135511294067811214/

Looks better!! http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/169288467318159581/0ED92BE8ABB912B840AC7B0780972F5ECEE2C841/

New patch. Now we can build geobays (for exocraft) on any planet!
http://www.pcgamer.com/no-mans-sky-patch-lets-you-summon-your-new-vehicles-on-any-planet-you-want/

I was thinking of a ship big enough to carry an exocraft, so that you could take them with you to other planets. I didn't pay much attention to the fact that you couldn't originally take them off your home planet. Although when I found out about the exocraft, I thought I'd be done with walking all over a planet. So, I initially imagined them not being limited to home planets. So, yeah I'm glad that they made this feature available. The game gets dull after walking around on a planet for quite some time looking for flora, fauna, and waypoints. So, the exocraft was definitely something the game needed, especially for use on other planets. Now, I did see that one of them actually traverses the surface of water, but as we said we could use something for underwater as well.

I really do like the exocraft. Right now I just have the Roamer with signal booster and cannon. The cannon seems to auto aim, or so it seemed when I tried it after installing it. The exocraft is kind of loud, not abnormally, but kind of drowns out the background music (which I have at 100). It's not bad though. I'm currently working on getting the speed boost, which is what I really want right now.

I do not like that when you press ESC, it goes straight to the menu that allows you to quit the game. I'd rather it open on the page I closed. Most often I use the ESC key to upload my discoveries. This is in the patch notes.

I don't know yet how to own multiple ships, but I know how to find out. I ran into some discussion of that in the Steam forums while looking to see if anyone else was experiencing "the darkening of NMS" as I was. I only looked into my issue so I didn't read into what I don't know. I also don't know if you can transfer inventory between ships or the exocraft. My guess for ships is that you have to put things in your own inventory or the freighters, because I assume you can only access one ship's inventory at a time. I'm not sure how to transfer inventory to or from the exocraft. It would be cool to have a nice all-in-one place where you could manage the inventories of your freighter(s), ships, and exocraft. Some way to select which inventory to transfer to would be nice. How many freighters and exocraft can you own at once?

This one (from the website's listed patch notes) also confuses me: "Prevent all docking points in stations, freighters and outposts being taken by AI ships." I thought this meant that AI ships wouldn't land at outposts, but I see them doing this at the landing pad I have at my base. So, I think I'm missing something here that's causing my confusion.

Oh the speed boost is terrible! I was hoping for a lot more!

That makes sense, although they're still landing on my one platform. I expected my ship to be there when I spawn, but it's on the ground. I can land it on my dock with a bypass chip, so long as an NPC isn't docked there.

I'm surprised I made it to the transmission tower in time (for the mining laser bp quest). I had almost half a minute to spare. Luckily my home planet is rather bare, but it still has canyons/valleys, and caves, which cost me some time along the way. Sometimes the terrain can be difficult to traverse. I saw where people had trouble with this quest because they lived on watery planets. I also saw someone say they just took their ship and flew there, which sounds brilliant to me.

Although the Roamer's speed boost is short lived and disappointing, it can be very helpful and fun. There were times when I've gotten stuck on terrain and was able to do the boost and get myself out. I also liked using it to run up the sides of terrain, such as out of an valley. The boost gives you some air time and it can be fun. Gravity is truly the Roamer's speed boost.

Yeah my ship is grounded and not even near the landing pad. I'll try moving it around and see if it changes.

I'm thinking about sending in a bug report about the Log, like the repetition and incompletion of quest objectives despite actually having completed them (even multiple times for testing). I hope that's something they look into.I can ignore it, which is all I can seem to do about it for now, but it's still kind of annoying. The Log also tells me what my NPCs want and for the Constructor and Armorer it says to see them, but then they tell me they can't teach me anything further. So, yeah I think the Log needs some work.

The game specifically says X is to "transfer elements from your exosuit to your starship," which seems to work if you that way if you hold X. However, pressing X shows you materials in all inventories and you can select what you want and place them easily enough.

I'm happier with the Roamer now that I have the mining laser. Now I'm working on building a Nomad Geobay. "I feel the need for speed!"

Oh and even at one less than "Ultra" AA setting, the game definitely looks different and better. I like it!

And now I feel the need for exocraft grenades so I can modify the terrain as I'm driving, instead of getting stuck and having to use a grenade to get my exocraft out.

Instead of letting us build geobays on other planets, I wish they would have given us a way to carry or teleport exocraft. It'd be even cooler to be able to build a geobay in a freighter, enter your exocraft, and fall onto the planet. That would be fun! But, by the time I'm even close to gathering enough materials to build a geobay, I've already obtained what I need to warp. So, there's really not much need to build a geobay on another planet unless there's something there I really need. It's still a bit too much work for a simple vehicle to get around whatever planet you're on.

Ugh, I feel like all those people who've complained about NMS since launch. I guess it's because I'm running into issues that are kind of annoying. Even after completing a step in a quest, the game will tell you to do it. The NPCs are usually good about knowing whether or not you did what was needed. However, after getting the third speed boost upgrade for my exocraft, the NPC told me to go to an observation place and shut down the terminal. I did, but when I went back to him he sent me to do the same thing again at the same place, which I did yet again. I tried a 3rd time and he wants me to still do it, so it seems like an endless quest loop.

The Colossus is big, kind of too big, or at least I think that the camera should be a little better. I can't hardly see the ground I'm driving on because the Colossus takes up too much space on the lower part of the screen.

I also thought I'd try to warp as far as I could, but progressing through the galaxy map can be difficult. Lines are hard to see, the selection piece doesn't always stay firmly where you put it.

I realized it could be repeated for money. I don't think I read the monologue, I think I just tried to get it done and didn't pay attention to that. Thanks for pointing that out for me.

New patch fixed the darkness caused but Ultra AA, among other things. http://store.steampowered.com/news/?appids=275850

I haven't seen it, so I might try to rent it via Amazon Video. I already have a few other movies on my list to rent such as "Arrival" and "Doctor Strange."

Also, I saw a trailer today for Star Wars VIII and the movie is coming out in December.

Wow, I had no idea.

In my defense, I found the trailer on Facebook, a friend posted it in a private group. Although, I could have checked YouTube or other links to verify it.

I won't be licking my disc, LOL. While playing, Vinny was watching videos about the Switch and the new Zelda game. He kept telling me things he's learned about it, keeping spoilers away. What I heard in those videos confirms what Jon said about extremely positive reviews. This one person said it's probably the best Zelda game EVER and incorporates the other games more than any other.

I'm looking forward to playing it, but I'm pre-occupied. I'll get to it eventually, maybe this summer.

It's the actual plastic casing, not the label, that tastes bitter. And it does taste nasty!

Challenge accepted...

So gross! I don't know, I can't really tell the difference. If I start with one side, the other just compounds the bitterness. Maybe the paper texture of the label side transfers the taste more rapidly? Jon, you need to put one in Finn's mouth and see what he thinks...

I found two videos I thought I'd share from GameSpot: "9 Things I Wish I Knew Before I Started Zelda: Breath of the Wild" (https://youtu.be/SaxP1MLBbPE) and "9 More Things I Wish I Knew Before I Started Zelda: Breath of the Wild" (https://youtu.be/v5p0ELwY5Sk).

GameSpot's "Even More Things I Wish I Knew Before I Started Zelda: Breath of the Wild" https://youtu.be/7p6DMevgbyw