Ctrl Alt WoW NMS Episode 861 - Living the Project Hail Mary Lifestyle

Ctrl Alt WoW NMS Episode 861 - Living the Project Hail Mary Lifestyle

AprilPvd and Grand Nagus discuss Final Fantasy XIV, No Man’s Sky and Virtual Reality. Send an email to ctrlaltwow@gmail.com telling us how you play Virtual Reality and video games as an altoholic or dealing with it in your family life.

Discord: https://discord.gg/5dtHtHCu

AprilPvd in VR:

No Man’s Sky

Wednesday

Did some working on corvettes with Grand Nagus 

Worked on Sebastian and AprilPvd

Thursday
Spent most of the day with April Pvd doing waste runs, and building mini bases at plants. Also working on the road. Sometimes I ended up going the wrong way, but it was still fun. I just love being on the planet.

Friday

Ended up building some more roads with April Pvd, and working on the bases. Visited three heaps and the waste had respawned.

Saturday

I spent way too much time running my Colossus with trash on April Pvd, but it’s so relaxing. I finally gave up building roads because I would sometimes not connect them because the ground was smooth enough, but then I would forget where the next point was and you can only put five saved beacons on a planet. I made one big bridge that I’m gonna have to go back and find and remove find them no matter cause I was having fun.

Monday

Found another planet that is frozen and so much more easier to navigate. Has three heaps close to one plant. April Pvd managed to get all the perks and so now I am working on the other three.

 

Tuesday

So I was out with April Pvd and I found a power source and April Pvd doesn’t need any more waste and she doesn’t need to make another base on this plant so I brought in Aprillian and she made a base in April Pvd all right so I’ll shoot what happened oh, for some reason I started running. I didn’t even know I could auto run and I am how the heck do I get way over here? That was so crazy! I had a April Pvd at her base and I was bringing in a and she was able to to the base that April Pvd had built for her on the electromagnetic source and then teleport to the base April Pvd had built at the plant. But when she got there and I went back onto April Pvd was in the she was a few hundred units away and apparently have auto run which I didn’t know I could do in VR. But like Grand Nagus says I probably need to check the binding settings. I did two trips from heaps with a it was a lot, which makes it all the more sci-fi like.

Wednesday 

Made a base for Sebastian next to Aprillian 

Thursday 

Worked on housing for E and Sebastian.

Friday 

I know how silly it seems but working on the housing was fun. I did encounter a slight problem that when I went back to a brilliant house pieces were missing so I spent some time going back in logging in with April Pvd, and then going back in to all the houses to make sure everything was stable because of course Apple Pvd has all the blueprints.

Saturday 

AprilPvd

Friend Code: JM8X-2ZDR-056JP

Sebastian

My No Man's Sky Friend Code: 9Q7N-EKD6-GY2MJ

Aprillian

My No Man's Sky Friend Code: Z836-0QK2-XMHWO

Epril

My No Man's Sky Friend Code: QT08-Z4E2-VVCXM

I thought maybe one of the problems with things disappearing or not being able to see the other houses from the sky was because we weren’t all friends were. We’re all linked by the Steam account but not in games so I decided to get all the Friend codes and share them with all the characters.

Sunday

I know it’s crazy, but I had to go back to blueberry Hill to get rid of all the streets I made because I wanna make Pvd to my main base in City and I’ve been working on that and I realize that there is a limit to how many pieces you can create or have placed in a world in No Man’s Sky so I am on blueberry Hill deleting the massive amount of roads that I put in. I wish there was a quicker way, but I can’t see any. I have to manually delete each one and a few times I kept falling and some of them were so high up of the only way I could get to them was to create a base and build a ramp of stairs up to the road. I also deleted all of the bases I built and just left one house that was built at a power station. There are some places where there’s natural power and you can just put down an electromagnetic thing that will automatically get power. I love when I find one of those. I did go back to the anomaly and use some salvage data to get some more blueprints for different parts to build April Pvd‘s house. I brought Sebastian in to join me because I would be at a plant that I was going to delete the base and he was able to get some more waste to complete the challenge. He actually got the new wheels.

Put out a episode on YouTube

Monday 

When I’m not in game, I spend a lot of time thinking about the game. I want to work on the neighborhood and I’m wondering how close I can build to each other.

Finally kind of figured out the whole solar panel battery thing. Once you realize that you need to have a battery for every solar panel and then have all the batteries connected it makes it so much easier. And the video I’ll even tells you the maximum amount of power you have available and what your are currently using. On a brilliant I was able to find one of those electromagnetic power sources. But the other three had to be battery powered. I also used one of those attachments to hide the “cords”.

Tuesday 
Logged in as Aprillian and visited other bases only to find them not powered. But once Epril joined, everything showed up. I owe retroactive apology to my thoughts on others bases power system failure..

Found an underground cave under Aprillian’s base so I put a short term teleporter between second floor and cave!

 

AprilPvd

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https://www.youtube.com/aprilpvd

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Grand Nagus:

Saw this on a video: If you want an extra powerful mining laser, get a sentinel multitool, the special mining laser thing on it is ok, but if you install a normal mining laser in addition to the sentinel one, you get a super laser.

Numbers wise, with only one laser I start at 40 dps and it builds up and overheats eventually. With the double laser setup, I start at 375dps and the laser doesn’t overheat for minutes.

Got my Autophage settlement up and running.

Finished the quest to be able to go to the purple star systems.

Watched a video about potentially optimal tech layout of the exosuit.

No Man's Sky | Tips & Tricks | Endgame Character Exosuit Technology Layout! | Worlds 5.2

Found my first Endless Seas planet (requires completion of Autophage questline, since you need access to purple star systems). Then you look for them and just go to the different ones, i was lucky to get a hit on the first try of looking for an Endless Seas planet.

I finished the Minitaur quest chain, and now I'm summoning it whenever I fight Sentinels.

I finished the Nautilon quest too.

Still going strong in finding all the fauna on planets.

Ctrl Alt WoW NMS Episode 860 - It’s A Dirty Job, But Someone’s Got To Do It

Ctrl Alt WoW NMS Episode 860 - It’s A Dirty Job, But Someone’s Got To Do It


AprilPvd and Grand Nagus discuss Final Fantasy XIV, No Man’s Sky and Virtual Reality. Send an email to ctrlaltwow@gmail.com telling us how you play Virtual Reality and video games as an altoholic or dealing with it in your family life.

Discord: https://discord.gg/5dtHtHCu
AprilPvd in VR:
No Man’s Sky

Wednesday

Finish the expedition on E, Sebastian and Aprillian and it was fun. I even did some more on the flatscreen. There is an advantage to being able to see the payload.





Thursday

Took April Pvd back to the planet from the expedition but realize it is a bland planet so I went to some of the planets that she had bases on it. Realized that all planets do not have the waste on it, but I found one that was nice and purple and pretty and started collecting stuff. I found this on a Facebook page and it tells you what you can do to get the blueprints for various things. I want the Furnace Chassis Module.

*NAME%, CLeanup Agent

Recycle some industrial waste

Things Processed: 1

REWARD = Flatbed Chassis Module

Big Rig SNAME%

Recycle a large amount of industrial waste

Things Processed: 100

REWARD - Widescreen Cabin

%NAME%,

the Colossus

Recycle a vast amount of industrial waste

Things Processed: 200

REWARD = Furnace Chassis Module, "Toot Toot!" Enote

Rusty %NAME%

Manually process scrap metal

Scrap Processed: 75

REWARD = Off-Road Wheels

Loadmaster %NAME%

Manually process explosive waste

Explosive Waste Processed: 50

REWARD = Tracked Treads

Fuel Handler XNAMEN

Manually process radioactive waste

Radioactive Waste Processed: 50

REWARD = Superelastic Wheels

Hazmat Specialist %NAME%

Manually process toxic waste

Toxic Waste Processed: 50

REWARD = Caterpillar Track

Plowman %NAME%

Acquire resources with an Excavation Blade

Minerals/Flora Smashed: 50a

REWARD = Weathered Finish




I got a new head strap



I switched out head straps because a part of me was suspecting that the pads that was holding the headset was pressing into my scalp and causing two bald spots. If it works and the headset on the left doesn’t cause the bald spots Or rather I don’t have the bald spots using the new one I will be both happy and sad wearing my VR headset was part of the problem. The only problem with the new head strap is that the battery pack only lasts two hours and there’s no way to get an another one short of buying another strap which would just be silly although I am considering it. But if I use one of five backup batteries from the other heads with a long cable it works OK. It’s not that important with No Man’s Sky because I’m normally standing in the same spot. Other games like Zenith and Medieval Dynasty and legendary tales where I had to move around a lot it was more confiding to be“leashed”. They added advantage of being leashed to a portable battery system, as opposed to being plugged into something does make a difference.

I got on Aprillian and she went to the anomaly to buy some the Geo Bay and some more tech for the Colossus. It’s kind of confusing because some of the text says excel craft and they’re not really for the Colossus. You have to really pay attention. Some of the tech she brought back from the expedition I mean it’s not a lot of nanites but it just seems silly to re-buy tech that I already owned. Aprillian tried one of her planet and it didn’t have waste on it. She wanted to do something else and she needed the resonators which she doesn’t have the plans for so she went to April Pvd, who was on her planet that has wast. While there she teleported to one of the processing plants that April Pvd had put a base near. Now Aprillian hadn’t done any waste in her main save so she didn’t even have the flatbed. There was some complications at first of all when she went to the first processing plant there was no waste around. So she went looking for some regular waste, brought it back to the plant, threw it in. Then she tried to summon her colossus and she pulled out the Geo bay and it said she didn’t own a colossus. So she went back to her game and was confused for a second and thought maybe she had to go back to the anomaly and buy something but then I remembered she had pulled out her Colossus to install the tech that she brought back from the expedition. So I’m wondering if that means that you can’t pull out your Colossus and somebody else’s game. I’ll have to experiment with that once she got back to her, then went back to that planet because she had put a base there. She was able to pull out her Colossus. She also purchased some S class EXO craft engine boosters, but it turned out that the ones that she had gotten from the expedition were better.


Friday

Tried a few planets to see which one I could easily get from waste heap to process the plant. Still can’t scan to identify on my in vr on my colussus took



Saturday

Saw a silly post about building roads“ between Plants and waste heaps. Decided to try it it takes a lot of work, but it’s doable. Of course it depends on how far apart they are. It is interesting because you can build way away from your base as long as it’s connected to something else.

I ended up building bridges/roads on April Pvd’s planet, and on Aprillian’s. It is time consuming, but it’s very rewarding when it works. The biggest problem I may encounter is the response factor. I was reading on Facebook that someone was disappointed because their waist hand respond. So that would be interesting to see.

Sunday

Ended up getting up early because I to see if my waste had respawn. I am really enjoying this part of the game. My biggest motivation as I login right now is to see if I can get to 200 so I can get the grinding mechanism.

I built another set of bridges on April Pvd’s planet, blueberry Hill, and then I brought In Aprillian to run it. It turns out everything responds for the next person. I love this bridge building stuff.




All right, I made a big mistake with E I feel so stupid. First of all if you haven’t had a Colossus before you do have to go to the anomaly with some salvage data and buy the blueprint. I brought her into a April Pvd‘s planet so that she could use the bridge as well and she didn’t have the blueprint for the Colossus. So she had to go back to the anomaly and then when she got back because I had put bases at the plants, she had to move further out to place her Geo bay, but then she didn’t have the paraffinin but I knew I had reminded everybody to take it with them from the expedition, but when she had come back from the expedition, her spaceship was full or filled up her inventory filled up and so she pulled out another ship and that’s where her parrafinin was. So when she got that. Then to get her first piece of trash to throw in the thing so she could get the flatbed but she didn’t have her coil on her multitool so she went to buy the blueprint and then she went to her afraid to get a gravity Eno ball and then she had to go to April Pvd to get some magnetic resonators. She went to all that work and all she needed to do is go to the anomaly and make a copy of her multitool. but then she got stuck because she couldn’t get past creating her flatbed. She installed the flatbed on the colossal, but the logbook would not go past that point. It kept saying she needed to do that even though she had done it.

Jumped on Sebastian for just a moment and he was at the anomaly, went over to the console and looked at the multitool, and there was the gravity coil in the multitool that he had left behind. This makes me so frustrated.



It wasn’t showing up that the chassis flatbed had been installed for Sebastian so I logged off of the VR and logged into the flat screen game and went to the plant and shoved some stuff in the grinder and then it showed up.





Monday

spent most of the day with E getting her the things she needed to be able to do the waste quest line. Jumped on April Pvd for a second to put up some railings on one of them ramps/roads she made. It might be more efficient just to go from Plant to Plant first. The first time you get to a plant there’s a bunch of waste there for you to chuck in to the grinder.


Tuesday

Flew around with a brilliant to find other planets with waste. It seems like it also has to be a plan with salvageable waste. The planet, that April Pvd built several bridges on she named a blueberry Hill and it’s one of the few planets have come upon that had salvageable waste and didn’t have sentinels I took Sebastian to the system where Apple Pvd was, but a different planet popped up as part of the quest line objectives. So that’s nice that she has an alternative. This planet has aggressive sentinels, but it looks a little bit flatter.

Back on Blueberry Hill with Seb on other side of planet, setting up bases at every heap and plant he can find.
Other

Zenith






AprilPvd

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Grand Nagus:


Finally found the Autophage quest!

I love the story of the Autophage. Can’t get away from it!

I am hunting for an Autophage staff I like. Here is the video i watched to figure out how to do it:

No Man's Sky Tips & Tricks: Autophage Multitools | Finding Your Staff Style! | Echoes 4.45 | 2023

Lately I’ve been falling through the entrance of buildings I enter and landing platforms connecting walkways.

Got to 5 planets where I catalogued all the fauna and got the bonus nanites.


Started watching NMS Twitch channels. One of them i like is Lumin_Eris_Blackstar


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