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WOLFHORS3

Sep 15, 2023 @ 11:06pm

Staff?

So it's been a while since I played other than to do expeditions. So I see something about a staff. So I ask what's an nms staff. And I get told bout peice of metal harmonic stuff yada yada.
Well I have a sentinel interceptor and an echo locator. I found (another) harmonic camp and realize I've done this already. I saw something about a terminal to make the staff and use only the original pieces, etc. I think I remember doing all this. So where would I have made the staff? it's just a fancy multitool, right?
But I don't see it when I go to switch Mtools. I also remember I can make myself a robot body. So where did I get the parts to the staff? I kinda remember attacking a sentinel tower with a console and having to choose or build or something. I'm not sure if I finished it, I think I did. anyway to tell if I did or where the staff went?

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smurfy

Sep 15, 2023 @ 11:21pm

You may not have completed assembly, or scrapped the initial quest staff (mine was a cruddy C class so it got salvaged and replaced). Given we only have 6 multi-tool "slots" and there are probably double that number of tool varieties, you don't actually NEED a staff, it's basically just a rifle replacement.

You can "buy" new staff pieces and Autophage (Robot) appearance visualisations from Autophage Synthesis Terminals on any planet using "Void Motes" as currency (can also be done at Harmonic Camp terminals on Dissonant planets).
There are 19 pieces I have discovered - 3 quest pieces and 16 visually different bits that can be mix-n-matched to make your own staff (also done at a Synthesis Terminal or Harmonic Terminal).
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3036343190

Void Motes are earned by doing jobs for the Autophage and small amounts can be looted from wheelbarrows at Harmonic Camps.

WOLFHORS3

Sep 15, 2023 @ 11:26pm

ok thanks, That sounds a little familiar, where exactly are these autophage synthesis terminals? Are they actually at the trade station or what?

Guyver8

Sep 15, 2023 @ 11:34pm

The autophage (robots) & the new content associated with them is mid-late game content, the requirements for triggering the introductory autophage quest is linked below
https://steamcommunity.com/app/275850/discussions/0/3815166629935478565/

smurfy

Sep 16, 2023 @ 12:36am

Originally posted by WOLFHORS3:
ok thanks, That sounds a little familiar, where exactly are these autophage synthesis terminals? Are they actually at the trade station or what?

They look like this:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3036365411

And can be located at distance using the functionality of the Polyphonic Core Multi-tool tech, or, if you stumble across waypoint POIs with a steamy look to the ground like this:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3036365100
then scanning with the Scan Harmoniser or Polyphonic Core installed will unmask the camp and terminal.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3036365140

WOLFHORS3

Sep 16, 2023 @ 3:07pm

Yeah, I've got 1600+ hours in this game so I'm pretty sure I'm at end game content but I don't think I ever got a thing to find the autophages. I guess maybe I just didn't ever see the quest to find them or it didn't trigger. I think I just got the jetpack, now, when I went back to another Harmonic camp. So I'll fool around a bit and see if the quest pops up. Someone said I need to be in the sentinel ship, so I'll try that too.

Voodoojedizin has No Man's Sky

Sep 16, 2023 @ 3:12pm

Originally posted by WOLFHORS3:
Yeah, I've got 1600+ hours in this game so I'm pretty sure I'm at end game content but I don't think I ever got a thing to find the autophages. I guess maybe I just didn't ever see the quest to find them or it didn't trigger. I think I just got the jetpack, now, when I went back to another Harmonic camp. So I'll fool around a bit and see if the quest pops up. Someone said I need to be in the sentinel ship, so I'll try that too.

It doesn't matter how long you played the game, you still need to do all the main quest and the settlers quest for the new content to start.

WOLFHORS3

Sep 16, 2023 @ 3:51pm

Sorry, I should have been clearer. I did all that stuff. Had a couple of settlements, went thru all the release the guy or not into the simulation, finished with Atlas to go to the next galaxy, all of it. I thought I had pretty much kept up with everything as it was added. But apparently I might have missed something recently because while I was jumping around to trigger the mission, I came across a freighter battle that had a huge pirate freighter attacking not just a few ships.
I had no idea what was going on. I see now I was supposed to be destroying torpedoes, by bye poor civilian fleet LOL.
I thought I did all the pirate stuff, got my solar ship etc etc. But the only big ship I ever fought was the sentinel freighter. I killed a bunch of those but that pirate freighter was cool.
I wish there was a log of completed missions we could go back and at least see what we've done. I don't see that unless I missed it somewhere.