I think some planets should have exclusively 'one' of something too. A crashed freighter, some huge treasure, a vault or something.
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I think some planets should have exclusively 'one' of something too. A crashed freighter, some huge treasure, a vault or something.
The earth is very unique in reality.
Unfortunately that's really all the game seems to be right now.
Kingsora
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I do not own the game yet, I am still thinking to buy it or not. I am kind of afraid that all the planets will feel the same after played 5 hours.
Is is possible to see cities (or at least villages) with Aliens on a planet? Or is it only fauna and 'animals'?
Is is possible to see cities (or at least villages) with Aliens on a planet? Or is it only fauna and 'animals'?
Dredd97
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they did show some techniques on generating cities, maybe it can be a thing in the future, but why would they do that to themselves? the shitstorm over mp would be repeated if someone couldn't go into every building in a city (even though the procedural generating just makes block look city like)..
It won't be long before certain gaf posters are burning effigies of Sean Murray as it is...
The first planet I warped to is this amazing giant planet with verdant meadows, abundant resources and wildlife, and hundreds of monoliths, plaques, observatories and other points of interest. I haven't left it in two days; even located the antimatter recipe there even though the game kept pestering me to fly to a nearby moon for it.
More_Badass
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Do you think the PC audience will receive this more positively? Due to more familiarity with the genre through games like Elite, Evochron Legacy, more freeform/zen-paced space games like Rymdresa and Mirrormoon, etc.
We don't know that; we only know that it's relatively unique among the tiny number of planets we've looked at.
imagine being lost in a cave in NMS,
Imagine not being able to find your ship
and your suit's life support is crashing..
Sounds like this guy's day: http://www.theverge.com/2016/8/11/12429140/no-mans-sky-travel-journal-day-three-ps4-pc
ISee
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That would be great.
Loving the game, but questions for those further than me:
1) Does the path ofthe atlas ever end? I think I've hit up like 7 of the checkpoints already
2) After I finish with that, do I then head to center of the universe?
Thanks(also, 40 inventory space hype)
Spoilers obviously.
From what I've seen, you got to the center of the galaxy, then get warped to another galaxy, all your gear breaks and needs to be repaired (you keep your stuff, just need to repair) and you do it all over again.
Ye i mean completely barren, and even some gaseous planets like Jupiter or Saturn that would be impossible to land on
Ye exactly i can see why they chose not to do cities, also having AI walking around with transport systems and perhaps dialogue it would take much longer to develop
BigTnaples
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It is likely not unique at all. Current esimates put the number of possible Earth like planets in our Milky Way alone at 40 Billion. And our Galaxy is but one among billions in our universe. Which is quite possibly one of infinite universes.
So yeah, Earth is likely less unique than my iPhone.
I think both familiarity with the genres and those game alike and things like FOV sliders and options alike will help people enjoy it more. And there is also the chance of mod support which would undoubtedly increase the overall enjoyment, I think.
Huggers
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Another amazing thing just happened to me. I'm in my second galaxy and have had only one encounter with the new race that lives there. Ive been wondering for a while how to uprgrade my multi tool/weapon and in one of the building I finally am able to acquire one, brilliant, well happy with it. It has 3 more slots and looks more badass. Superb. I then go and talk to the life form in the building. I'm told he looks at me aggressively but bows and is polite because tradition dictates it. He then tells me to hand over my brand new shiny multi tool/weapon, I'm given the choice whether to or not. I only just got it!! After some thought I decided what the hell and reluctantly hand it over to him. He takes one look at it and gives me a different MUCH better one, more slots, more gadgets, all that stuff. Amazing game!!!
I think it will be received more poorly due to there being so many examples of better games both for space exploration and survival on the PC.
I don't think it will do badly necessarily but the experiences in both genres are so much richer on the PC that I don't see how this game could compare favorably without the ability to mod it to hell and back to force it into being a richer experience.
rockman zx
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I played a lot for 3 days without a single problem and today I'm having a lot of crashes, not sure why
Dredd97
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I think a good portion of the hate NMS is getting is because it was / is a console exclusive.. some of the criticism it's getting is justified too..but reading the mp thread I get the impression people hate it because it's fun to do so...
Not really sure, depends on how well the version will run? One thing thats possible on PC will be modding. So if you don't like certain aspects of the games you might be able to change them. Like if you only want to explore you most likely will find a cheat for unlimited money / resources or whatever rather fast after release. Walk speed too slow? Someone might find a hack for that ...
More_Badass
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In terms of space exploration, Elite Dangerous is gorgeous, has an awesome scale and scope, and is my first space sim so it's special to me, but its worlds are like this. And Evochron and Space Engineers are the other ones
That's the current state of procedural planets in games with this scale and/or seamless landings
Astroneer is the only one I've seen that really compares in terms of vibrant style and variety, but that's not out till Fall
help me out fellow GAFfers: i just startet NMS yesterday and played for like 2-3 hours or so. still on the same planet. found a lot of outposts, places to loot, to save my progress etc. while exploring i get to like a mini-outpost with a slightly different antenna on site (a bulkier one, and a little higher than the ones you save at). but no prompts to do anything at this mini-outpost. my life-support and hazard-support was pretty low and i was in a hurry to get on. at this mini-outpost, suddenly, out of nowhere, my first-person-view zoomed out into bird-like-perspectiv over the planet, like top-down view, few miles above ground, and i could see waypoints that i could hover over with the cursor. i have no idea how i triggered that. i was such in a hurry to get back to my ship, due to low on everything, that i had to press circle to get out of this view. i could not for the life of me get back to that view. tried every button on the controller. does anyone know, how to get into this view on a planet??? it seemed rather helpful to see where you are from top-down on a planet. - and im sorry if its something simple, but i just couldnt figure out what i did. and its bugging me crazy. THANKS A LOT in advance for your help, and sorry for the bad english guys! - love that game! to infinity and beyond! 
While it's a rich platform we also need to consider that this could become minecraft in space. With proper mod support and possibility of online play down the line or even modded in (if it's possible) it could be amazing. I do think, as long as it's running fine with no issues, will be better received.
Some of the PC feedback will probably be meta bombing due to the surrounding 'controversial' topics.
That's some great stuff. You should try to get this to the OP. If anyone else find any other useful tips, it could be gathered and added to your post which will hopefully be in the OP.
I don't have any to add, I got the PS4 limited edition. Only played for like an hour before I shipped it to my friend. I only wanted the loot, waiting for my PC copy to be unlocked tomorrow.
I found new blueprints with the same message and I couldn't craft them when I tried. I then realized that I already had that update on my multi-tool. After dismantling it I was able to recraft it in a spot that connected with the other upgrades. That would basically mean that upgrades are one-per-item for each upgrade level. Could it be that whatever you are currently using (ship or tool) already has the upgrade installed?
That's what happens when you press square on the big antennae, I don't remember what it leads to. Usually a monolith I thinkhelp me out fellow GAFfers: i just startet NMS yesterday and played for like 2-3 hours or so. still on the same planet. found a lot of outposts, places to loot, to save my progress etc. while exploring i get to like a mini-outpost with a slightly different antenna on site (a bulkier one, and a little higher than the ones you save at). but no prompts to do anything at this mini-outpost. my life-support and hazard-support was pretty low and i was in a hurry to get on. at this mini-outpost, suddenly, out of nowhere, my first-person-view zoomed out into bird-like-perspectiv over the planet, like top-down view, few miles above ground, and i could see waypoints that i could hover over with the cursor. i have no idea how i triggered that. i was such in a hurry to get back to my ship, due to low on everything, that i had to press circle to get out of this view. i could not for the life of me get back to that view. tried every button on the controller. does anyone know, how to get into this view on a planet??? it seemed rather helpful to see where you are from top-down on a planet. - and im sorry if its something simple, but i just couldnt figure out what i did. and its bugging me crazy. THANKS A LOT in advance for your help, and sorry for the bad english guys! - love that game! to infinity and beyond!
The appeal of Elite is not so much the procedural generated nature of it, especially not of the planet surface which didn't exist when the game launched.
The procedural generated content's role is to provide an interesting enough backdrop to the main draw of the game which is space flight/fight/trade.
In NMS it's the main draw of the game, so while it's certainly better than Elite, it is asked to carry much more of the game.
Now imagine Elite's with NMS planets....
Wind's Howling
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My adventure just got a lot more thrilling since last evening. I somehow got stuck on a planet because my ship needed fuel for its launch thrusters but there was absolutely nothing on the surface.
I must have walked a fair 15 minutes until I finally encountered a cave. My excitement went through the roof because I know warm, underground places have the basic resources for fuel. Guess again.
Everything was in that cave. Eridium, gold etc. but no fuel. I couldn't believe my eyes and just decided to go deeper inside the cave, which turned out me getting lost in the end for about 20 minutes but I did manage to find LOADS of fuel the deeper I went.
As beautiful the planet was, it sprawled islands with huge pockets of water and underground caves, the sense of danger of getting lost in caves and not being able to fill my health because the resources were very rare did made me leave the planet.
It's amazing that after 10 hours I finally encountered a planet that was hostile for me without having species and also not being toxic, hot, cold or having a high radiation level but still has me fighting for my life.
I am truly loving this game despite its flaws.
I must have walked a fair 15 minutes until I finally encountered a cave. My excitement went through the roof because I know warm, underground places have the basic resources for fuel. Guess again.
Everything was in that cave. Eridium, gold etc. but no fuel. I couldn't believe my eyes and just decided to go deeper inside the cave, which turned out me getting lost in the end for about 20 minutes but I did manage to find LOADS of fuel the deeper I went.
As beautiful the planet was, it sprawled islands with huge pockets of water and underground caves, the sense of danger of getting lost in caves and not being able to fill my health because the resources were very rare did made me leave the planet.
It's amazing that after 10 hours I finally encountered a planet that was hostile for me without having species and also not being toxic, hot, cold or having a high radiation level but still has me fighting for my life.
I am truly loving this game despite its flaws.
BigTnaples
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They've been working on improving the Exploration, which is what I care about in Elite.
One of the main reasons I love the idea of NMS. I just love the idea of exploring Space.
but can you do it only once? i tried after getting out of this view, to get back in with square, but no prompt appeared.. (thanks for ur help!
SlickShoes
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I'd rather have NMS but with some of Elite's flight mechanics, the multiplayer and economy!
But yeah, some kind of combination of both games would suit me perfectly, just don't think anyone is making that game and Elite is still years away from having stuff that isn't just dead planets.
TheSpoiler
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If people like it on consoles, they will like it on PC. No one "side" is going to appreciate this game better.
Looks like they've posted about some of the issues people are running into and some workarounds here: http://www.no-mans-sky.com/2016/08/issues/
I found this interesting, I know some of you have posted about it:
I found this interesting, I know some of you have posted about it:
Still stuck, no more space adventures for me, guess I'm a cave person now
More_Badass
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Then what are the other better options for space exploration? Starbound?
Whose estimates based on which calculations? Sorry for going OT but this sub-topic interests me greatly since I've spoken to a number scientists and read many scholary articles which all point to the contrary.
BigTnaples
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Yeah, it seems like Hello really wants to blow it out so I'd love to see it becoming a thing over time ala Counterstrike GO. I think the advent of base building and proper multiplayer support (if they even can do that) would be huge for the game.
I don't believe it has a chance in hell of making that happen though unless they can do proper and official multiplayer support. Something like the Just Cause 2 multiplayer hack ends up being fairly niche so they really need to do it themselves if possible.
The suit upgrades are better bang for the buck, even later on. Buying my first ship upgrade was around 1,000,000 for a 7 slot upgrade to what I started with. That's not bad, but the ship's I'm looking at now are around 4 million for 27 slot I believe. So now since my old ship doesn't "trade in", im looking at spending 4 million for 5 extra storage slots. Even my backpack upgrades still haven't exceeded 400,000 each yet, so continuing to expand it by 5 slots costs only half of what a ship will cost.
ISee
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NMS Steam Player Base said:
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of course there is also the GOG.com version, but I doubt it's different there. And this makes me a bit worried about the state of the PC version...
Yeah it only happens once, it should have given you a marker to follow? Usually nearbybut can you do it only once? i tried after getting out of this view, to get back in with square, but no prompt appeared.. (thanks for ur help!
Vindicator
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Guess it was a good idea to ignore the preorder dlc and start from scratch.
TheSpoiler
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Wish I had done this but the starting ship looked like ass.
Yes. unfortunately the game will pester you about redeeming that stupid ship.
BigTnaples
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Estimates from findings of NASA's Kepler program. I'm at work so I can't find the exact studies but if you google the story plenty of news organizations reported the estimates starting from 2013 onward to present.
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