What's your favorite trick in NMS?
What's your favorite trick in NMS?
I'm curious what little neat things you guys have found or adopted while playing.
Could be for base building, finding ships or multitools, or whatever.
What's your favorite?
Edit: I recently found out you can shut down Sentinels on a dissonant world, but the dissonant resonators stay up, so you can run around whacking all of them without retaliation. Lots of frolicking from group to group picking up loot from dead Sentinels and unarmed dissonant resonators.
It also completes all the Autophage "kill 8 sentinels" quests in one go if you've stacked up on those.
Melee + jetpack. If timed right flings you forward. Very useful.
14I kind of hate how this janky combo is basically necessary to navigate the terrain at any decent speed. And sprinting is almost worthless because the tiniest bump disables it. Movement in the game is kind of garbage IMO.
2I am min maxing my jetpack to make this travel more viable than sprinting, it can launch you up steep mountains super fast.
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Using a controller + Steam Input for base building.
Steam's controller configuration allows you to set multi-button macros for controllers, which means you can use glitch building techniques easily, with a single press of a controller button, instead of having to time a key press + mouse click perfectly.
4Use Steam Input to set the left stick outer ring command to "run". It's so much better than clicking the damn stick inward every time.
As I noted in another comment though, sprinting is almost worthless in most places because the tiniest bump in terrain disables it. I don't know any workaround for that.
3- find a pirate station with a high value smuggling mission
- keep accepting and canceling mission, filling inventory with the smuggling good
- warp home to a base with a place to sell
makes tens of millions in like half an hour with almost no setup. Just need a base with a warp and a trading post. Haven't played in a bit so maybe patched out but it wasn't in the major update prior to this one.
3Isn't it simpler to just pick a single faction to decimate your standing, head to an associated pirate system, and farm freighters and cargo pods for pirate goods? I've easily earned over 100-150M an hour that way, plus other random loot (e.g. salvage modules, frigate fuel, etc).
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The melee into jetpack lunge to get a big speed boost that the double tap jump upgrade can't give
1Farm Dissonance Resonators on planets in Pirate systems so you don't have to fight sentinel ships every time you destroy one.
It takes awhile to find a dissonance planet in a pirate system just by warping over and over but it's worth it.
Just fly around very slowly and blast any you see to farm inverted mirrors and echo locators.
Use echo locators to farm sentinel ships (18 to 32 mil each?) or just click them every time you go to a new system to see if there are any ships/multitools to check out.
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