5 Secret No Man's Sky Features Revealed | Trade Routes, Frigates, Freighters, Day/Night Cycles

Melee boost and frigates I already knew^^

As for the lines between planets that signify a trade route, I don’t think they’re obsolete, I use them to find a path to a planet or moon when I can’t find them lol

I love everything about this video. Always cool to learn some new things about his amazing game. By the way this Kanaju sounds so much like Tobey Maguire in Spider-Man.

i think i learned about #5 from the in-game tips about spaceflight or trading, so it may not really be a secret feature

Theorizing about the Gek, Vy’keen and Korvax cultures would be cool! I don’t see enough speculation or theory-crafting about them.

By just using a melee strike in cold weather where you move super slow you can move faster

I've based on a planet that has around 6 seconds of night. Always found it to be strange

How do you do a melee strike on Xbox controller? I want to be able to use the sprint jet pack move but I don’t know how.

How cool would it be if the random frigates warping in to a system you're in were actually owned and on missions from other players.

Don't know if said.. but a lot of these planets will change based on where you are as well .. I had a planet where the north pole stayed daytime all the time.. but when I went down to the equator, night time as per normal cycle

I play on the ps4 and got of lock ups. I found that getting rid of bases you dont use. It seemed to become alot less frequent. But stll happens especially when your at the end of a mission. So frustrating.

Love the home made sun dial im gonna build one with the current time and see how or if it holds up to actual earth time. Very cool!

I thought I had the frigate game down, but the little nugget about being able to visit them on route because they exist in real time is incredible. Totally going to do it, going to send out some underpowered expeditions next time just to see how it goes.

Also the bit about the NPC's on the bridge is incredible, I hope we can still do that, but I wonder what the way freighter bases work now

My homebase planet has 3 suns 3 different colors so its never dark

Being a new player, this whole game seems like one big secret to me.
Love your nms vids by the way and the way you talk as well, you have a relaxing voice.

The best places to find nightless worlds are systems with multiple stars. Because they have several light sources, planets will have more surface area that are constantly exposed to light. This is perfect for using solar panels without batteries, you're too lazy to look for EM hotspots :)

Picking up the white orbs on the atlas station will teach you Atlas words much easier to fill the encyclopedia

Wow now I need to find a nightless world!!!

I figured out how to add all S class pilots to your squadron. If you travel to a wealthy system and recruit the first person, they will be S. But you must travel to another system to get another S rank. I tried recruiting the second guy a few times, and they always turned out to be trash. But traveling worked every time, you can use teleporter as well. I now have all S class gek in sentinel ships. Lol

Haha wow never saw them trade routes honestly gonna have to see if i can find even one in a system xD

Not sure if this is a new kind of storm in a recent update, or that I just happened upon it now after 1,000 hours, but gravity storms are a thing. It's the closest you can get to unlimited jetpacking across a planet - literally jumping between mountains.

I land near the equator so, if I build a base, I can deploy solar generators that charge my base batteries frequently. Most times, I do not find a power source.

I have tried to land on the poles of planets sometimes but it never does anything :(

I found a planet in eternal twilight, the sun never rose too far over the horizon so it was pretty much always night time

I still use the trade routes. It's just easier imo

New player here. Loving these videos! Learning a fucking ton

Been playing over 700 hours.... Had seen people doing the melee boost, but never knew how. Thanks for pointing it out.
However, it seems that the power jump can also be used to attain the same speeds. My jetpack is on the spacebar, and I just do a quick double tap which kicks off the jump and jetpack.
Just tested it and they both seem to go the same speed.

idk about other players, but for me this is useless coz this "secrets" is not secrets at all. Secret cant be secret if its very obvious

I once found a bubbling moon that when you entered the atmosphere the camera changed to black and white

Melee boost tip: Do the normal melee boost, but stay low to the surface, and while maintaining momentum skim the surface while doing another melee boost. This will cause you to skip across the surface much faster than the typical melee boost.

It works fantastically on low grav planets.

Boring video old stuff sounds like you have a virus in your voice

can you quick pre- check a 24h day planet with photo mode and look at the suns(s)? id really like to discover one of these.. great vid btw <3

i cant build inside the cic/bridge. only in the first section doorway a little. Whats the trick here? :) txxx

I just got jumped in a trade route yesterday and I learnt the importance of my fleet
I know it’s 60k to go thru but I’m stingy lol

I remember when I first started playing and discovered the melee boost. I was just messing around with physics and went “Huh I wonder if” and it worked.
Later i remember playing after a few months with two random players and after about ten minutes I hear “How are you going that fast everywhere what are you doing?” And showed them how to do the boost. Lol was a huge mind blown moment for them and was hilarious for me to hear over the mic.

That planet with eternal sunset is due to the rotation of the planet around the sun. It’s in a perfectly flat spin.

I accidentally mele boosted once, but I could never replicate it after that day for some reason

You should change your channel’s name to “wasting 10-20 minutes with useless content ”

Not sure if it is one you left out but you almost showed it in the video. If you land on one of your frigates when it doesn't need to be repaired the captain gives you a reward. What it is depends on the type. Industrial gives you minerals, trade units, exploration a point of interest, and combat gives you a salute. Never have seen it documented and was surprised when it happened. I was going to take a picture on a frigate when it happened the first time. Now I visit all the time.

I miss when the melee boost was broken by an expedition and it was unlimited

Before you could scan for trade hubs I used to use the trade route lines to find out where they were. It definitely wasn't easy trying to figure out the exact pinpoint spot where the route started as it faded out when you got closer to planets but it was the only way...shit was rough back in the day 🤣

I just recently started playing (now that No Man's Sky is on the Switch), but I did notice the day/night thing and was mad impressed. The two examples that come to mind are: the first planet I built a base on, at least the area where I built the base, is twilight/night most of the time, so I ended up building an extra solar panel. Also, I once went to a moon that I hated because it was one of those planets that had freezing conditions at night, but it was almost always dark there because the planet it circled was waaay too big. The poor horizon/sky was practically all planet

I believe you can find the "poles" of every planet out there and experience the forever day (or night), if you land in the right spot. I saw a guide to finding the poles of a planet, followed it, and there it was. Have a few bases at pole points that are forever-twilight.

So I went to Hinumer and...turns out there is now nighttime on the planet...I was so ready to build an outpost here too...beautiful world though!

been playing this for 2 yrs on and off. Some how I never knew about the melee jump lol. Definitely could've helped in the earlier stages.

I learned a lot from this, thank you from a somewhat new player!

Um I think you need one more glyph symbol otherwise no one is going to be visiting your constant day cycle planet

the 4 planey i ever found was this horrible dead rock which looked blue and black from the sky with lost of islands but when i got there it was completely red like the entire time and all the ground was rock , no grass just rock and basic fauna horrible early impression of the game , i havent been able to find nice planeys like the one you shown in the beginning the video which is very upsetting