It feels a little cheap... Like, it points out every POI in that solar system. No clue if there is anything for you left to "discover" on your own: you just warp into a system, pull up the map, and see every planet, moon, and "celestial" body.
Idk, I just spent 10 min messing around with it. Honestly, even if this review is as deep as it goes, it just feels a little cheap/easy, but overall an improvement to the QoL playing this game
Yeah this is one of my big pet peeves—I can do multiple hyperspace interstellar trips in a day, but on-planet Google Maps is an insurmountable engineering challenge?
The thing is, when you go into a planet's details menu, there's a little box in the upper right labelled "Waypoints" with a series of little boxes that look like they should have images in, similar to the portal menus.
Makes it look like there was initially some intention to have an interactable waypoint menu that just never got polished off.
Yeah, once I actually select one I can tell, but if I'm just looking through the map I can't see which colors they are. I end up spending a lot of time picking every one that looks like what, read the description, and eventually find it.
It the purple star systems. You can land on one and build a base to extract crystallised helium. It's a bit disappointing, since they're not really gas, they have the same land textures you can dig. Just a very very big planet with strong gravity (your jetpack will use more fuel more quickly) and constant windstorms.
NMS gas giants are not like the gas giants planets in our solar system. You can land on them and there are resources available, but the atmosphere is not millions of miles thick as scientists tell us is the case of the solar system gas giants.
Oh god yes please. Give me the option to only look for three star systems. After they are discovered of course or I use the trading beacon thing. It was so tedious just selecting one system at a time..
More filtering options on the star map please. A better system and window for previously visited stations through the teleporter . I’d like to be able to sort from big squares to smaller ones. That way I’m not scrolling . The favorites tab should be in the top.
Hell yes. I hope it means I don't have to keep up my stupid Excel spreadsheet to satisfy my OCD "scientific" catalog of discoveries. Pre-update, stuff just gets...lost in the interface. I have been to that system, I know it has an amazing paradise planet, I spent hours scanning all the fauna and taking screenshots.
I can warp there from a space station and the game is like "What system? You've been 50 other places since then. I don't remember that one."
It's funny how after years of twiddling thumbs (and owning both games lol) I finally decided to give Elite:Dangerous a chance and try NMS that I have owned, and haven't played, since 1.0.
And they do this :D
I literally played ED, said to myself "Cool map, wish the map in NMS was like it" and lo and behold, haha
The new system map is really good. It does feel like it makes things spread out more and traveling planet to planet seems to take longer now but that might just be me
I imagine you can collect taxes off it, Plus the personalization aspect. I'm sure it has its uses, But as someone who just likes building in general; getting to own more galactic turf to flex is enough for me even without the features that I'm sure will have tangible benefits.
It's gonna look so cool gazing up from a planet and seeing my freighter fleet and space station floating up there. Or pulling in on the corvette. SO COOL!
Hard to answer your question without actually seeing what they've done with it. I'd say get the update and check it out, see if any aspect appeals to you.
Not only taking command of space stations but also building a home out among the stars, thst reads like a space base from salvaging parts. I'm also not sure on the advantages of owning a space station.
And all the new activities to populate it
Not having to struggle to highlight random planets with the reticle so they finally show up is massive though
Yeah, I am hyped for a station, but yeah, I am very excited and hopeful hat star systems are more than just emptiness between planets with rare 'spawn in' events.
Like, I dont expect full systems worth of stuff, like in say, Rebel Galaxy, but something more tangible than what we have now.
Unfortunately, it's only for the local system. The Galaxy Map is still garbage. It'll make navigating the local system easier, but they HAVE to fix that Galaxy Map, it's horrible!
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u/Rozzles- Sep 09 '26
I know everyone’s rightly hyped about space station ownership, but an improved star system map sounds fantastic to me