No Man’s Sky ENDURANCE is BROKEN and FLAWED

Hello and welcome back to a new video

about No Man's Sky. So as you can see,

this is one of my new favorite games right

now, and I've made quite a lot of progress

since my last video about it. You see I've

got a nice home here with lovely window

walls, and I've got a lot of generators

and machinery to do stuff for me, and I've

got a new starship, very expensive one,

cost me about 30 million credits. Got some

vehicles too. But anyway, this, this isn't

a video about my swanky new bachelor's

pad, But more in the way that this game

has a fundamental flaw that I've realized.

So in order to build all this amazing

stuff and upgrade all of your multi-tools

like I have, and your starships, get all

these nice equipments and boosted stuff,

you need a lot of minerals. And to get a

lot of minerals, you need to do a lot of

mining, exploration, and fighting to get

items and to be able to get credits to buy

stuff. And that was quite fun in the

beginning because I really wanted to get

all this nice stuff and upgrade my gear,

and I really wanted to get minerals and

get a lot of money and find out new

interesting ways to be more efficient at

mining and getting equipment and stuff

like that. But the problem is I found a

really easy way to be able to get loads of

money, and it's really easy, it doesn't

really take much time, and it's kind of

broken the game for me. So you can see

I've got 11 million credits. I had way

more because I recently bought this new

ship which cost me about over 30 million

credits, and then I bought one new

inventory slots, which cost about 22

million credits. It's insane that just one

inventory slot costs 22 million credits,

but that's just what it's like. So here's

how I found out how to make loads of easy

credits and how I've broken the game for

me and ruined the enjoyment of the game.

So what you want to do is just go to any

kind of space station, and in any kind of

space area, there's going to be freighters

and convoys of ships. A fleet convoy will

just randomly appear sometimes, or just be

there anyway. And there's all these

freighter cargo ships, and all you have to

do is just attack them. And it's really

easy to attack them. They don't really put

up any much— any kind of resistance. And

it's just really dumb. You think that

being able to attack this freighter convoy

would be very dangerous because they've

got these massive capital ships defending

them. But no, the capital ships barely put

up any kind of fight. Watch, I'll go and

find one. I think— what, what's this?

There's actually a freighter right outside

of the space station, and you just shoot

them like that. I've got this shotgun

weapon for my spaceship and it's really

powerful. It just one-shots the

freighters. So when you start attacking

freighters like that, they'll send

interceptors after you. Okay, here you go.

There's actually a fleet convoy right

outside the space station, which It's

extremely convenient. So you see all these

ships, they're just floating around like

that. All you have to do is attack these

freighter things and you'll be able to

loot insane amounts of resources and

minerals. You'll see that you just go

around one by one, one-shotting them, and

the only resistance they put up is they

send after you one Sentinel. Look,

there's one Sentinel shooting me in the

backside, which I'm ignoring. And the

reason why I'm ignoring it is because if

you destroy the first Sentinel, another

wave of Sentinels come, and then there'll

be 2 Sentinels after you. If you destroy

those 2, then they'll send 3, and the more

you destroy them, the more get sent after

you, to the point where you can't really

ignore them anymore because they're doing

so much damage. So it's easy to ignore

one, and you see my shields are pretty

strong because I've got a lot of upgrades

for the shields, and it doesn't really

take a lot of sodium. So when my shields

do get low, I press down and I just

recharge my shield using the sodium and I

ignore them. And I just go from freighter

to freighter destroying all of these cargo

things. Bromide salt is the

one I like to get most because it's worth

huge amounts of credits. You just take the

bromide salt to a different space station

and I can get like a million or half a

million, sometimes 1.5 million credits

just for selling the bromide salt. And the

only, the only con, the only downside of

destroying all of these frigate container

things is that you see I'm losing standing

with Korvax. You'll lose reputation

points, standing points, with the faction

of the freights and frigates that you're

shooting at. But it really doesn't matter

because the only thing you lose by losing

standing with a faction is you can't

access some of the missions that, that

you'll get if you have high standing. But

it doesn't really matter because the

rewards you get from the missions that you

would do are so insignificant. You'll get

like 100,000 credits for this, for doing

one of these faction missions. But I get

millions and millions of credits from

stealing their stuff and sending it back

to them, which is also another stupid

thing, is if I steal the frigate freight

cargo stuff from Korvax faction, I can

send it back to the Korvax faction And

they just buy the stuff I sold— I stole

from them without any questions asked.

It's so silly. You would think that if the

standing with a faction got so low, they

would start being hostile towards you,

and when you enter their space stations,

they'll just attack you on the spot with

their security forces. But no, nothing

happens. Watch. My Korvax standing is so

low right now because all I do is farm

these frigate things until my inventory is

full. Let me check my inventory. It's

pretty full right now because it's just

full of all of these system upgrades,

which is taking up a lot of space in my

cargo bays. So I just destroy these,

and I don't even bother sending out my own

capital ship to do expeditions anymore

because it costs so much freighter fuel

when I could just sell the freighter fuel

for hundreds of thousands of credits,

which is way more than the pathetic 40,000

credits I get from completing an

expedition with my, with my capital ship

freighter. So it's kind of a waste of time

doing that anymore. Basically,

once you've found out how to mine and farm

these cargo pods, you don't have to do

anything else in the game because anything

else you can do in the game to make money

is such a small amount of money compared

to what I'm doing now. It just makes doing

anything else in the game kind of

meaningless. So look at this big ship

here. This, this one's got a lot of pods.

Look at all this, just one by one I

destroy them. Oh look, my inventory is

full now. So I think I'm gonna head back

to the space station and sell everything.

Where's the space station? And you'll see

that even if my Korvax standing is

probably negative 1 billion by now,

nothing really happens. There's no,

there's no problem with having a minus or

really low standing with a faction.

Because you can still go to the space

station, you can still use the terminals

and stuff. The only thing you can't use is

probably the Envoy trade— trading thing,

because you need to have good standing.

I'll show you now. So we go into the

Korvax space station. I hate it when it

takes such a long time to fly in, then it

rotates around. Come on.

Excuse me, I'm still coughing.

So we go to the Korvax trading thing and

nothing happens. Look, I just blew up

their entire freighter frigate convoy and

they don't even care. Look, I can go to

the mission agent thing and because my

Korvax standing so low, I can't even take

the level 2 Merchant Guild mission. I can

take the level 1s, so I don't think it

actually drops below level 1 ever. It just

stays at level 1. Even if you destroy all

the frigate stuff. And then I can just

sell them back the stuff that I, that I

stole from them. Look, I just stole,

um, all of this. Look, platinum. I just

stole like a million credits worth of

platinum from them. Now I'm sending it

back to them. It's so stupid. Look, I can

sell back all the cobalts I sold. I sell

back all the gold I stole from them, all

of the metals. The power fluids,

the grease, ion capacitor, bromide salt,

which I can get a better price at a

different space station, but I'm too lazy

to go there. So I can sell all of the fuel

as well and the metal cogs. And that is

how you make insane amounts of money.

I've made 5 million credits just from

doing that, and I didn't really do it very

efficiently because selling back the stuff

you stole in the same system that you

stole it from, it's not going to get you a

lot of profits because they mined that

stuff from this system. So they don't

really have a demand for it. You need to

go to a different space station where they

have demand. Then you'll get like a +20%

bonus to the value of the stuff you can

sell. So there's this envoy thing,

if I can access it. For some reason— oh,

there it is. I can't access this one

because they hate me now. You need to

raise your standing with them, which you

can't do if you keep attacking them.

You've got to focus on one faction to

steal from and then one faction to get

your faction standing up with, and then

you can kind of do both— steal from one

faction and then sell to the other faction

and do their missions and then do the

envoy stuff with them. So the reason why I

feel like the game's boring for me now is

because it's not hard to get units

credits. Or whatever the money is called,

because all I have to do is do some

farming on the cargo freight convoy fleet

things. And that's basically all you have

to do to get insane amounts of resources

and credits. And then you can use all your

credits to buy the upgrades and buy

minerals and materials from the trading

stations and the galaxy trading hubs.

So you don't really have to do anything

anymore apart from farm these convoy

fleets, and it gets really boring just

flying around. There's no challenge at

all. They just fly around, just shoot them

all, and the turrets on these big ships

barely do anything. Look, you would think

these big, tough-looking, imposing ships

would be dangerous, especially to a tiny

little ship like me, but they have no

teeth. They have no really dangerous

defenses that they have. They have like a

couple turrets maybe, but it's so easy to

fly around these turrets. Look at these

huge ships, they look really cool, but

yeah, there's just no feeling of danger.

They've got one turret. What is it even

shooting at? Look, it's not— it's

not even aiming at me, barely. I'm just

stealing all its stuff. What is it aiming

at? I thought it was supposed to be aiming

at me because I'm attacking it.

Well, to be fair, I do have on my

starship, I do have 5 shield upgrades. I

don't know how, how many upgrades. 30%,

41%, 48%.

I have 57% boosted

shield capabilities, and all you need is a

load of sodium, which I'm nearly running

out of. And then you can just keep

recharging your shield as many times as

you want to. Look at this, I'm just

getting blasted by it and it's not doing

anything. And then I can just one-shot

it with my shotgun cannon thing.

See?

And then I just let that one Sentinel

follow me around so it doesn't spawn more

of them, and then I can just basically

pillage as much bromide salt as I want to.

Try not to crash into it would be good.

Yeah, so I don't know if this is a good

thing or not. I mean, it's nice that I can

just easily steal stuff and get huge

amounts of minerals and things I need,

but it kind of removes any kind of

challenge. That the game may have had in

the first place. It also kind of removes

any reason to go down to planets. So

you've got all of these cool-looking

planets you can go down to explore, and

the main incentive to explore them in the

first place— okay, this ship has a lot of

turrets, be a bit careful around this one—

the only incentive to go down to the

planets in the first place was because

they had different resources on each one

that you'd need to mine. Like, some would

have copper or phosphorus or gold or

uranium, and And before, when I was too

poor to be able to just buy everything, I

had to go down to the planets and set up

mining stuff and autonomous mining systems

and pipelines. And it was kind of fun

doing that, setting up little farms to

farm stuff. But now I just don't need to

because all of the minerals are already in

these pods farmed for me.

So why would I just waste my time going

down to planets? Looking for mineral

deposits and then farming and mining stuff

when you can just steal it so easily like

that. Well, I guess if you want to

roleplay, you don't want to be a thief,

you don't want to be a pirate that just

steals other people's stuff, and you want

to go down and set up farms and mining

stuff, just go around mining it yourself,

then I guess you could do that as well.

So let's see how much money I can make.

Just go around blowing every single one

up.

It's not really exciting. It was a bit

exciting the first time I did this because

I thought, oh wow, I can actually steal

their stuff really easily. And it was a

bit exciting, but after you've done this

100 times, which I have done probably 100

times by now because I wanted to get this

Nice new ship. I needed a lot of credits

to be able to buy it.

1, 2, just take all these out one by

one.

Not really a great way to shoot these cuz

getting too close to it now.

And also another weird thing I realized is

you can actually go inside of these ships,

in some of them, and even though I've been

blasting the hell out of them, you can

just dock inside of the ship and walk

around inside and the captain doesn't even

care or anything. I don't think I can get

inside this ship. Let me see. Oh yeah,

there is a docking bay here.

Can I go inside? Yeah, I can go inside of

it. Oh my god, that's so dumb. I've just

been shooting at it and blowing its cargo

pods up. Look, his crew doesn't even care.

I just entered your ship, you don't even

care. I can talk to them as well.

Don't they realize that I'm the one that's

been blowing its defenses and cargo up?

Look, you can go into the bridge, talk to

the captain of the ship, even though I've

just been blowing it up. Look, the

captain's here, no one seems to care.

Commander Okabeel. I think

you could actually— yeah, you could even

buy the freighter that you were just

blowing up. 100 million.

Jesus Christ, that's an expensive

freighter. Well, it looks pretty cool

though. Look at that, it looks like

something out of Warhammer, those

Warhammer space games. What's it called?

Gothic Space— Space Fleet Gothic.

I can't remember what it's called. That

looks pretty nice.

Don't really know why it's so expensive

though. It's got 32 slots for inventory.

Mine has 19, so it

doesn't have that much more space in

the cargo, and it costs 100 million. What

kind of technology does it have? It's just

got a hyperdrive.

Not really worth it. It will take quite a

lot of freighter farming to be able to buy

that. What else can you do

on it? Look, they're saluting me. They're

saluting me even after I've just robbed

them. Can I sell them back the

cargo that I just stole from them? Oh,

look, we can go outside. Ooh,

very pretty. Very pretty

to be able to walk around outside.

No, I can't access anything because I

don't own it. So yeah, kind of a stupid

thing you can do in this game— steal from

freighters and then just enter their ship,

walk around like nothing happened. Very

weird. I think it would be better if they

had security crews on board, and if you

started attacking them from the outside

and you enter the inside, then the

security forces inside of the ship will

start attacking you too. And then maybe

you could kill them and then take over the

ship by force. That'd be pretty cool.

Then you would actually be a pirate.

Look, they're shooting me back again now

after I've exited it. So lame.

Not a very good design for

the game. Bit of a flawed design mechanic.

There, but I don't know if they're gonna

fix that or change that, or if that was

how they intended it to be.

So now it doesn't really feel like there's

much challenge to the game, and when

there's no challenge in a game, it starts

to feel a bit boring. And I do feel a bit

bored with the game now, to be honest.

Yeah, I hope they improve this a little

bit because it's— as it is right now,

it's a little bit silly.