No Man's Sky
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xzi
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I'm annoyed at all the posts on reddit that are like "THIS GAME IS FUCKING GARBAGE, ABSOLUTELY NO PLANETS OR ANIMALS LIKE THEY SHOWED IN THE TRAILER" meanwhile there is like 10+ albums on the front page of planets that look even better than the ones from the trailers lol
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I'm pretty happy with the diversity of planets. I do wish there were some no atmosphere moons and gravity differences but it really isn't bad at all. I think everything I've been on has had some sort of atmosphere and some stuff growing there even if very little.
spronk
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I'm 5-6 trophies away from the platinum, not sure exactly if the ones left are super hard or if even getting to the center of the galaxy is necessary or not; traveled through 2 black holes already but still seem far away from it. If you like just wandering around and exploring shit its fun for a bit, I am glad I bought it on console since I can trade it in when done and rebuy on PC in a year or two when its fleshed out and not feel too bad about blowing $60 but instead a cheaper $10-15 rental basically.
The number of things promised before release and ended up being cut or removed is pretty insanely massive though
Where's the NMS we were sold on? Here's a big list of things that are missing from the game, complete with source links for everything and quotes. Also, an unpleasant revelation concerning how the game is being advertised. (LONG post) • /r/NoMansSkyTheGame
Still, I spent about 2 hours today just wandering around a solar system building up my ship and it was really cool just hopping down to a planet, mining some mats I needed, flying to an outpost to try and trade for others, going out into space and shooting down some pirates (who tend to drop the green mats I need), going to the space station to trade for some more mats from wandering ships, and then finally upgrading my warp drive. Its a cool ... simulator? of what life might be like in an alternate reality. Still, play too long and you get super annoying by all the mechanics, by the infinite sentinal robots, by the simplistic AI and mechanisms, etc.
It also means we are still decades if not centuries away from any sort of real simulation system
The number of things promised before release and ended up being cut or removed is pretty insanely massive though
Where's the NMS we were sold on? Here's a big list of things that are missing from the game, complete with source links for everything and quotes. Also, an unpleasant revelation concerning how the game is being advertised. (LONG post) • /r/NoMansSkyTheGame
Still, I spent about 2 hours today just wandering around a solar system building up my ship and it was really cool just hopping down to a planet, mining some mats I needed, flying to an outpost to try and trade for others, going out into space and shooting down some pirates (who tend to drop the green mats I need), going to the space station to trade for some more mats from wandering ships, and then finally upgrading my warp drive. Its a cool ... simulator? of what life might be like in an alternate reality. Still, play too long and you get super annoying by all the mechanics, by the infinite sentinal robots, by the simplistic AI and mechanisms, etc.
It also means we are still decades if not centuries away from any sort of real simulation system
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Lenas
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I've been on a number of low atmosphere planets that drain your life support pretty fast. Agree that different gravities would add a lot to the game tho.
Amzin
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Yea I was just reading that post. It's kind of crazy. At the end he pointed out something that cheeses me off too: The videos they were showing a month ago were using footage from a version of the game probably years old that had features cut from the release version. The video from a MONTH AGO. That is shitty as fuck.
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Rafterman
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Here's a mod that removes the blur filter that makes the game look like such a mess:
I also recommend Fast Actions, which removes the hold the button console hold over and Internal Resolution Multiplier, which is basically DSR done through the game rather than the driver.
http://nomansskymods.com/mods/fast-actions/
http://nomansskymods.com/mods/internal-resolution-multipliers-pak/
The game finally looks like a PC game with this stuff.
I also recommend Fast Actions, which removes the hold the button console hold over and Internal Resolution Multiplier, which is basically DSR done through the game rather than the driver.
http://nomansskymods.com/mods/fast-actions/
http://nomansskymods.com/mods/internal-resolution-multipliers-pak/
The game finally looks like a PC game with this stuff.
Jalynfane
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One thing that I thought a bit back, when on a gameplay demo Sean Murray was playing on some show, was how close together planets were on the screen in space. The host asked a fast question about it and was told "We have the planets close together for alpha purposes to make sure it works" or something along that line. The thought I had was that it seemed like something that would be hard to change and not make an entire new build, just to have the planets be further, which would have the side effect also of requiring hours of travel time at max speed to get to.
I feel this would have been an ok purchase for 20-30$ but $60 is steep, especially with all the missing stuff we thought was in.
Sean Murray is an obfuscator, like many of his ilk. Will be slow to follow anything else he is attached to.
I feel this would have been an ok purchase for 20-30$ but $60 is steep, especially with all the missing stuff we thought was in.
Sean Murray is an obfuscator, like many of his ilk. Will be slow to follow anything else he is attached to.
Lenas
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Or just spend a couple of hours exploiting the market and max your space out easily.
GhenghisKhan
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Namon
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That reddit post has been deleted... I saw it this morning on NeoGaf, and tried to read it but it was already gone. I'm not so passionate that I am angry about it, but on the same sense, I do feel this game was grossly oversold in some ways and it'd be nice to see a clean recap of all of the missing features. I personally think they will be added in over time as updates (hopefully not paid for DLC) and all they were focusing on was getting the core system of generation down. But in today's world of micro transactions gone wild, it is so hard to tell.
Someone copied and pasted the original post (it was deleted by the actual poster). Again, to me it's just kind of interesting, I'm not all that emotionally invested into the game at this point, I just felt it was fascinating to see how it fell short for so many people out there.
Someone copied and pasted the original post (it was deleted by the actual poster). Again, to me it's just kind of interesting, I'm not all that emotionally invested into the game at this point, I just felt it was fascinating to see how it fell short for so many people out there.
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hodj
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I read the first part of that post, and watched the first set of videos linked supposedly "proving" that they promised planetary physics and shit.
They didn't. And the way they hash together that "promise" is by taking points stated by that head developer out of context and out of their order of position. For instance, the first video to support that claim went to like 2:30 seconds in a video, the second went to like the 19 minute mark in the video, the third jumped back up to like 4 minutes into the video.
Seems like strong evidence to me these people were inventing what they wanted to hear in what he said.
All he said was that the planets would simulate day and night as if they were rotating around a Sun in orbit.
The word physics never once left his mouth.
I stopped reading it there.
I'm kinda glad it was deleted because I don't feel it was accurate, and I feel it paints a false portrait of what was promised.
The thing that Sean Murray did dance around, and mislead on, was multiplayer/co-op. But there is some serious mythology construction going on in regards to other supposed claims he made.
Also the video from earlier in this thread that was like "JURASSIC PARK" and then breaks into harmonica music, that shit is more accurate in regards to displaying the difference between expectations based on what we saw and what we actually got as the "end" product, than that Reddit post.
In my opinion.
They didn't. And the way they hash together that "promise" is by taking points stated by that head developer out of context and out of their order of position. For instance, the first video to support that claim went to like 2:30 seconds in a video, the second went to like the 19 minute mark in the video, the third jumped back up to like 4 minutes into the video.
Seems like strong evidence to me these people were inventing what they wanted to hear in what he said.
All he said was that the planets would simulate day and night as if they were rotating around a Sun in orbit.
The word physics never once left his mouth.
I stopped reading it there.
I'm kinda glad it was deleted because I don't feel it was accurate, and I feel it paints a false portrait of what was promised.
The thing that Sean Murray did dance around, and mislead on, was multiplayer/co-op. But there is some serious mythology construction going on in regards to other supposed claims he made.
Also the video from earlier in this thread that was like "JURASSIC PARK" and then breaks into harmonica music, that shit is more accurate in regards to displaying the difference between expectations based on what we saw and what we actually got as the "end" product, than that Reddit post.
In my opinion.