msbarrows: Some of the more scenic random screenshots I’ve taken during my travels in No Man&r
msbarrows: Some of the more scenic random screenshots I’ve taken during my travels in No Man’s Sky. Some I’ve taken on my own behalf, some I took because I was hired for a go-take-photos-in-this-location mission… I like those missions. Some want you to go to a very specific planet for them, some are just “any volcanic planet” or “any super weird planet”. Any time I see one offered I grab them, because it means sometimes I’ll take a random photo just because, and get a mission payout for it. Also it’s as good a way as any to find new solar systems to visit, for the specific location required ones. I once completed three missions with one photo (the volcanic one shown above; I had a specific request for there, plus an any landscape, plus an any scorched planet).I love the creativity of some of these places; my jaw legit dropped when I tripped over the soap bubble one. It’s so pretty! A still image just doesn’t do it justice. And that desert one; just this tiny little patch of beauty on a small saddle waaaaaaaay high up between towering peaks, with very sheer dropoffs just offscreen of that picture (the entire planet seemed to be made of jagged pointy mountains with just little flatter bits here and here). And probably no one will ever sit foot on that tiny procedurally-generated patch again; it wasn’t any sort of landmark, just a random flattish spot I chose for my first on-planet landing, so I could check for any points of interest to go take a look at.Also, cool thing I learned yesterday; the crash sites with the driveable spaceships you can claim and turn in for scrap? The spaceships respawn after a day or three, which I learned when I went to remove one of my last few drydock bases (from before I learned that you didn’t need to build a base to salvage them), and found a fresh ship there. Why yes, I am now kicking myself for having deleted my other drydocks. It’s now become one of my #1 ways to decide where to place a base on a new planet I feel like being able to easily return to; if I’m not placing one solely for the scenery, or because of proximity to a really good resource, I might as well tootle around checking out distress signals until I find a salvageable ship, and then build there. Granted it’s giving me way more exposure to the abandoned bases line of discoverable locations than I’m entirely happy with; they’re seriously creepy, and on some planets I’ll go through a half dozen of them and a (landscape decor) crashed freighter or two before finally finding an actual salvageable ship. -- source link