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I just picked up NMS on Autumn Sale. Give me your best spoiler-free noob advice!

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[โ€“] Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It's not a particularly challenging game unless you choose to make it so. But by default it's mostly just hanging out and exploring. You don't need to min/max, you don't even need advice. You will learn everything you need to know, and anything you learn late, won't have been a big deal to not know for a while.

Putting stuff in your tech slots gain small bonuses if things of the same type are touching. And purple slots gain bigger bonuses. There are best possible ways to arrange all that stuff, but you'll be fine if you put stuff in the worst possible order too. It's all gravy. Play around with it, see if you can make bigger numbers by placing things in different places, but no need to obsess with it. Unless you crank the game up to maximum difficulty, you will be strong enough with no bonuses.

Making money and nanites ends up being incredibly easy, and really the only barriers are knowledge. You actually probably are better off not knowing the easiest ways, the game is more fun when you don't have infinite money and resources yet. Slowly learn them over time on your own.

If you think you might get to a point where the game will feel "too" easy, make sure to start the game with custom difficulty and with the ability to alter difficulty choices later. So at any moment you can decide to change something to be less boring. Or the other way, if something is too tedious or hard, you can always turn that specific aspect to a different setting too.

Edit: If it's an option for you, the game plays and runs great in VR now too. A few bugs here and there still, but very playable.

[โ€“] Klanky@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

Thank you! VR is not an option for me, but maybe someday. I don't intend to min/max, I'm just looking for little tips/pointers that people wish they knew when they started. Appreciate your thoughts.