No Man's Sky

[PZ]

  

I'll probably get a PS5 one of these days when they become available and of course, the price is no more than what Sony deemed the retail cost.

[Dweller_Benthos]

I haven't kept track of the console pricing, are they under the same shortages as PC components, especially video cards? Try to get lucky and buy it at retail or pay twice as much to a scalper.

[PZ]

Still mostly outrageous being 2-3 times retail. I'm not willing to pay a cent more than retail, but those places that are not scalping are almost immediately sold out.

I guess it will be a while before I get one.

[Dweller_Benthos]

Yep sounds about like trying to get a graphics card these days. Now the companies that make graphics cards are just increasing the base price to match the scalped price because they can.

[PZ]

Yeah, the same with all things. Other than the brisket I made the other day I've not had beef in nearly a year because it is so expensive. Chuck roast now is as much as tenderloin was two years ago. 

[Dweller_Benthos]

Oh so that's why the take out place I got my beef stroganoff at last night was charging extra for it. We do w0#k for a lot of meat packing companies and they are all super busy, even frantic, trying to fill orders.

[PZ]

As it is right now I'm not purchasing beef other than that less than $4/lb until things recover.

[Dweller_Benthos]

You may be waiting a while, lol!

[PZ]

I'm afraid you are correct 

[LowPolyOWG]

Yep sounds about like trying to get a graphics card these days. Now the companies that make graphics cards are just increasing the base price to match the scalped price because they can.

Nvidia have temporarily halted their RTX 3000 production atm just because of that

[Dweller_Benthos]

... or they didn't have a bitcoin miner lined up to sell them to in bulk instead of retail to a bunch of gamers who would actually enjoy them.

[Dweller_Benthos]

Latest update: Sentinels



https://www.nomanssky.com/sentinel-update/

Sentinels are now more varied and I guess you can get a sentinel "pet" to help you in combat. I didn't have a chance to try any of it out yet as I'm waiting for the decompiler to update so I can get my mods working again. Probably this weekend I'll try it at some point. Sounds like fun though.

[PZ]

I like the concept of a sentinel "pet" helping out as they look to be quite competent at helping. I may be imagining things, but the graphics seem to be more detailed and vivid.

[Dweller_Benthos]

They usually "boost" the graphics a bit for the videos, or more accurately, pick places and planets that have exactly the look they are going for to showcase the video in. These places can actually exist in the game, but generally tend to be more uncommon.

[PZ]

I was just curious because their former marketing videos did not seem so vivid.