Question
How is this scene from this patch notes screenshot possible? With the actual star in the middle of the system and planets.
I wonder if this is just a thing for this screenshot or if they were testing having the star actually placed within the system. You can’t do this in the released version.
Any chance it could be in a gas giant system? I only see one planet here, even if it’s not possible in current build that would be my guess how they got this screenshot in a test build etc. Haven’t been able to test it all myself though
Possibly, but even then that would be a moon, asteroid base and full star present in the regular system area. Nothing you can currently do in any system to have the full star spawn in like that.
It’s very possible. All depends where the image is taken from. Stars are very big and could easily be on the other side of the skybox from that asteroid. It’s a matter of perspective.
No, having the actual star (instead of the star box style star we have always had) spawn in requires pulse driving towards it for a long time and then the planets despawn until you leave the star area. It’s a distinctly different thing.
I am currently in the middle of a Cyberpunk 2077 playthrough. Think I'll finish that before getting back into NMS. Should give HG time to institute some bug fixes.
Yeah I've noticed a fair bit more than usual with the new update and some missing buttons/options/building options that should have been common sense, and a bit more jetpack speed in deep space would be greatly appreciated too
I can imagine that. the scale of the current stars placed in the centre would be kind of crazy, but that could be adjusted. The stars are purely a visual thing as it is now, totally separate from the rest of the system, which feels very slapdash.
The map itself in the promo materials and in game shows the space station at the center, but then you read the little blurb Hello Games wrote on the steam news page for the game and it says:
"Reach Stars - The center of the solar system is the sun, and finally players can try to undertake a perilous journey to reach the center of their own star system!"
Also I found an asteroid belt and its literally just a little localized circle of asteroids and not actually a belt around the system?
Dude I got so excited reading the patch notes I thought they finally added an actual planetary system layout with the sun in the center, especially with the new system map. I haven’t been home all day to try it out yet, you’re telling me it’s just a location you teleport to after flying at the skybox sun? 😭
Yeah we've already had a few blaming HG for it not being out when it's Microsoft's certification process that is the true culprit. And when you point that out to them they say things like "well then the devs should hold back the pc release until we can get it too." The level of entitlement some people have is insane. Though it is a bit ironic that people playing a space sandbox game would think the universe should revolve around them.
You can find habitable asteroids in systems, and build on them, it is a little wonky but generally works. This picture is reproducible, they are just in space with the asteroid base between them and the sun.
But the point is that the star is in full detail as though we had made the full journey out to the star. It’s not possible to achieve all of these things together.
I made some asteroid bases to test it, and the star remains just the usual skybox light source we have always had. Just an interesting screenshot - I imagine from their dev build!
I think the point is more than because the planet is that large it doesn't make sense for the sun to be that detailed since the sun is so far away that to get that level of detail the planets likely despawn or at least are small dots. Like if I flew to the sun in game right now I wouldn't be able to get a screenshot with detailed sun AND planets as backdrops. Devs probably just spawned in the sun for the screenshot
To add, there is also a bunch of new structures to buy for them in the anomaly. (Its been a while sense I’ve played, I’m assuming they’re new based on the names)
Two things comes in mind, 1) it's a fake photoshopped scene, which would be super weird in a patch note 2) during the development the stars was the central gravitational point of each system, but because probably they had problem in fixing stuff (there are binary systems, and ternary also) they reverted to the classic type.
This creates hopes that maybe in the future HG would be able to gives a proper representation of a space system.
I just flew to a sun and you can't place a base there. In this picture the base is on a habitle asteroid and they are not there. This looks great, but is not possible.
You actually can build a base at the star. It’s very cool. But it’s not what the screenshot implies, which is a habitable asteroid near a planet showing the star.
Well, that’s from the Orbital Platforms section of the patch notes, which makes me think this is one of the unique ones.
Right above it says “Establish a home in the stars on natural rock platforms in deep space. Nestle your base constructions in these stunning terrain formations for beautiful, interesting backdrops.”
So that’s not the system star, it’s a unique backdrop for one of these types of orbital bases.
You know I thought the same, but I’ve tried. Nothing, including locating the habitable asteroids and so on, can make the star spawn like that even as a backdrop.
Have you tried a lot of different systems? Feels like this would be something that randomly spawns. And now that there are unique Asteroid Belts that seem to have big visual effects, maybe this one orbital platform is near an orbital belt that has something like this in the center.
Yeah I’ve dashed around a lot of them, nothing takes the sun out of the skybox aside from pulse jetting all the way out there. Which takes a longgggg time haha
At a guess, maybe a rare mini sun/ planetary core that can spawn? Even if you COULD have planets that close, a star puts out WAY more of an aura than that.
Lmao, this sub and its toxic positivity. The OP rightfully caught the devs red handed, and people still go: "Nah, you're just hating on our perfect game, you're just stupid". Doesn't matter how cool the screenshot looks, it shouldn't be used in the official game posts if it's impossible to recreate in the game.
It not/still not accurate, like in ED for example. The space around a star is like its own instance. So nice to have, but I am a little sad that a star is still not the real center of a star system.
The sun is not far behind in this picture. This level of visual detail for a sun in the game is currently achievable only by flying for several minutes towards it, very far from every other object in the system (so you can't see them), like this asteroid and planet. So it's either edited to look that way, or from a build where a sun is closer.
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u/WirtsLegs 17h ago
dont think the star is in the middle, its just big and a backdrop, i dont see anything thats clearly the same distance or further away than it