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No Man's Sky went gold
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More_Badass
Member
We can sprint. Sean confirmed in one interview. I believe it's tied to suit modules
XxRampage07xX
Member
I have a question: When you trade in this game, are you trading items with real people or just CPU?
ichtyander
Member
Here are two PSDs with the book cover art, I'll post them in the box cover art thread as well.
"NMS_book_cover_6.psd" requires additional steps for the final look but it's easier to work with (basically add Gaussian Blur with a 1.2 value, either by merging the text layers or making Smart Objects out of the groups and then adding Smart Filters or whatever, and then merging the entire image and making a copy and applying the Color Halftone filter, Max Radius 4px and shifting the layer Blending Mode to Soft Light and its opacity to 30%).
"NMS_book_cover_8.PSD" has all of the layers converted into Smart Objects with applied Smart Filters, but it's maybe a bit more annoying to work with since it's all Smart Objects within Smart Objects.
http://www.mediafire.com/download/iq570je2znmiq5r/NMS_book_cover_6.rar
http://www.mediafire.com/download/a842cso87ugkd41/NMS_book_cover_8.rar
BreezyLimbo
Banned
I wonder what the specs will be for running this on the computer
Since everything is procedurally generated, it would mainly rely on the CPU and how fast your harddrive is?
Since everything is procedurally generated, it would mainly rely on the CPU and how fast your harddrive is?
Karspankey
Banned
He also sprints in the 20 min IGN First video when he's breaking into a factory!
OmegaDL50
Member
I think the staff at Hello Games had the forethought to not make impossible to obtain achievements.
Just putting things into perspective how massive this game is.
18,446,744,073,709,551,616 is the number of planets in the game. Why is this number so special one may ask? This is the unsigned value of a 64-bit integer which is the highest number a 64-bit computer system can calculate before it gets into overflow issues and whatnot.
To extrapolate on this further. Lets just say for sake of the game your starting ship as hyperdrive and appropriate fuel that going from one planet to another takes exactly 10 minutes.
There is 60 seconds in a minute, however there is 86400 seconds in a day dividing that by 60 to get 1440 minutes a day. And if each planet was 10 minutes apart by hyperdrive travel that would mean you could visit 144 planets in a full day if you played the game without sleep in a full 24 hour period with stopping and any sort of rest. This alone is already an unlikely scenario.
Let's break this down even more.
18,446,744,073,709,551,615 planets based on a 64-bit unsigned integer divided by 86400 seconds a day = 213,503,980,000,000 days
213,503,980,000,000 days / 365.25 = 584,542,046,091 years (the .25 accounts for every 4th year to provide the results for the leap year fudging things up a bit)
584,542,046,091 years is considerably older than the current estimated age of the Universe (13.8 Billion years) by around 42 times.
And 42 is the ultimate answer to the life, the universe, and everything!
Just putting things into perspective how massive this game is.
18,446,744,073,709,551,616 is the number of planets in the game. Why is this number so special one may ask? This is the unsigned value of a 64-bit integer which is the highest number a 64-bit computer system can calculate before it gets into overflow issues and whatnot.
To extrapolate on this further. Lets just say for sake of the game your starting ship as hyperdrive and appropriate fuel that going from one planet to another takes exactly 10 minutes.
There is 60 seconds in a minute, however there is 86400 seconds in a day dividing that by 60 to get 1440 minutes a day. And if each planet was 10 minutes apart by hyperdrive travel that would mean you could visit 144 planets in a full day if you played the game without sleep in a full 24 hour period with stopping and any sort of rest. This alone is already an unlikely scenario.
Let's break this down even more.
18,446,744,073,709,551,615 planets based on a 64-bit unsigned integer divided by 86400 seconds a day = 213,503,980,000,000 days
213,503,980,000,000 days / 365.25 = 584,542,046,091 years (the .25 accounts for every 4th year to provide the results for the leap year fudging things up a bit)
584,542,046,091 years is considerably older than the current estimated age of the Universe (13.8 Billion years) by around 42 times.
And 42 is the ultimate answer to the life, the universe, and everything!
ichtyander
Member
Yeah. I merged the entire, slightly blurred image and applied the Color Halftone filter, Max Radius 4px (it's the lowest possible) and then change the layer's Blending Mode to Soft Light and 30% opacity.
More_Badass
Member
Specs seem pretty low
MINIMUM:
OS: Windows 7
Processor: Intel Core i3
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: nVidia GTX 480
Storage: 10 GB available space
Yeah that's more or less what I approximated with the main difference being me using a box blur rather than gaussier though it doesn't really matter.
XxRampage07xX
Member
So "trading" is not that different from visiting items stores in most RPG games then?
Karspankey
Banned
To commemorate the game going gold, I decided to make a gold box art ;D
First time trying to make a cover. I kind of want to actually make it to be honest
First time trying to make a cover. I kind of want to actually make it to be honest
Nameless
Member
Welp, here's a quick and dirty book cover attempt, looked through some old sci-fi book covers and basically most of them have these thick, large fonts for the title, so I decided to use a font that's a bit more reminiscent of the time, instead of the original thin NMS logo font.
EDIT:
BTW, not my intention to hijack the thread or anything, was simply inspired by something More_Badass said so I wanted to try what an NMS book cover might look like, that's all.
You can almost smell the old dusty sweetness. Amazing job!
valkillmore
Member
Goteki 45 represent!
That's it, I'm buying the physical copy so I can print all the amazing custom cover arts that are surely to flow. Shit, we already have some damn fine examples in this thread.
valkillmore
Member
edit - double post
somme
Member
So he did!
That was the video I just watched and I missed it. Was pretty quick though.
But glad it's tied to suit upgrades/modules. Makes life more interesting!
GribbleGrunger
Dreams in Digital
Something to note is that in the latest IGN first, when you enter the building and save your game, where you save it seems a little big for it's needs. It's a human sized tube with the front missing. I'd put money on that also being a fast travel system for the planet, and you'll be able to hop between all the buildings you've entered and activated the save points.
Could someone capture that to show what I mean, please?
Could someone capture that to show what I mean, please?
eyeball_kid
Member
I've seen this video before, but watching again I noticed something on the star info pane on the galaxy map. One of the lines says "Atlas Connection Disrupted – Status Unknown".
I doubt this is related to being online or offline because "status unknown" wouldn't make sense. So I'm guessing that either some star systems don't have a connection to the Atlas, or players can destroy that connection somehow. Either way that sounds like a somewhat risky star system to visit, as you'd lose all your discoveries there if you die.
Sean took out summoning your ship because "people were being too lazy", so I really doubt he'd allow a planetary fast travel system. I wouldn't put too much stock into specific architectural details of buildings as they're procedurally generated.
Danlord
Member
I agree with your idea. The game has those portals that means you can travel to another planet likely in a distant solar system to where you were originally at;
So I wouldn't put it past it to have a fast-travel system like that also.
That's amazing dude!
manfestival
Member
I didn't think it was possible for this game to go gold... so happy
Confused Cheeseburger
Member
What are the animal behaviors like in the game? How the different from each other?
somme
Member
Cool, I hope there's enough variety in the environments to really bring out that sense of scale.
Have they mentioned how this will work with your ship?
Like if you went through a portal and then did some exploring, but ended up dying on the new planet, would your respawn there with your ship, or back before the portal?
Depends on your rig I guess. But even then a PS4 version's graphics will always* stay the same, a PC game's graphics will always get better.
*except when developers pump out a game too early and needs to fix it.
GribbleGrunger
Dreams in Digital
Danlord
Member
That that I'm aware of. I would guess that you would respawn on the last planet you properly synchronised with, whether it's at one of those structures or an Atlas maybe.
GribbleGrunger
Dreams in Digital
When you die on a planet you respawn at your last save so I'd assume it works exactly the same here. I'm wondering if those portals don't send you across the universe but to a different time on the planet. In one video we see a desert planet and when he goes through the portal we see a lush planet. The odd thing is that the flying creature we see in both is EXACTLY the same, which is where I'm getting this idea from.
Insane Metal
Member
I love the UI in this game and the premise sounds very interesting, but I have this feeling deep down that this game will be PS4's flop this year. Hope I'm wrong though.
More_Badass
Member
The reason I mention it is that I'm pretty sure in one of the demo videos Sean did a while back, he flew in to space and died, and then respawned on a space station, and not the planet where he had just saved.
The evolution of Sean
I like 2 and 3.
I also pre-ordered this weekend for PC. I hope it's great.
GribbleGrunger
Dreams in Digital
Yes, that's correct. If you die in space you respawn on a space station and if you die on a planet you respawn on the planet or a save point on that planet.
Depends on what you consider a flop.
It's all maths, man.
Since the planets/wildlife/etc are procedurally created, the actual game size is rather small.
Net_Wrecker
Member
The evolution of Sean
Ok so there are 3 Sean Murrays that look kinda different, wow so impressive much procedural
What do you even do with them though?
jack_package_200
Banned
I'm feeling the hype.
Are there any long form (20-40min) gameplay videos anywhere?
Are there any long form (20-40min) gameplay videos anywhere?
eyeball_kid
Member
The portals aren't a fast travel system that's built merely for player convenience though. They're a gameplay mechanic like the Mario warp pipe – they lead to planets nearer to the center, but that means they will be vastly more dangerous because you haven't upped your equipment to survive at that level. So it becomes a risk/reward system.
I can understand the desire to play with friends in NMS, at least in theory. It might actually be a shit experience unless the game was completely rebalanced. I can understand wanting to tool around with friends though. But to just say "nope I'm out" seems weird. Do your friends just not play single-player games at all?
GribbleGrunger
Dreams in Digital
Karspankey
Banned
Wow! That look absolutely amazing. Great job!
jack_package_200
Banned
You are a saint