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A polite discourse amongst friends on the importance of MP-elements in No Man's Sky
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BizzyBum
Member
I was just on a dead planet with no life whatsoever.
Heavy_D206
Member
I'm pretty sure most, if not all of the Moons are just barren rocky wastelands.
Glass Shark
Banned
I found another player's discovery on PC within about two hours of playtime. If it was that easy for me when there are only 200k people playing, I can't believe they really thought it would take a long time for collision to occur... seems fishy.
BleedOrange
Banned
This is the most damning thing about it. They have destroyed their studio brand in 1 week.
"Internet poster was right all along when they said they didn't like Thing! News at 11."
What an absolutely bizarre thing to brag about.
runnin_blue
Banned
I think that could work for both sides of the argument.
Honestly, it's in pretty bad shape. If I don't hear something soon I'm officially labelling Murray a liar.
Okay!
dragonbane
Member
One of my friends managed to extract the game files already on PC. No file or folder references to MP at all. There is seemingly only one player model inside the characters folder as well plainly called "player" (at least for the body). There is quite a bit of fascinating random stuff in there though, like a Half Life 2 logo (wut), old prototyping stuff they did on PS3/360 and Orbis (PS4 codename) and assets for the E3 2015 demo. It also has a nice array of animal body parts in there confirming that real life animals such as cows, cats and buffalos were used to generate the procedural alien ones.
Will update more on this with pics if I can.
Will update more on this with pics if I can.
Inviusx
Member
Thats really cool, would love pics.
Would also like confirmation on if the worm/snake was removed from the game as well so it can be added to the list.
runnin_blue
Banned
That is what's at the centre of the "universe".
VlaudTheImpaler
tl;dr
Alright, 2 questions,
1: Which one of ya'll mofos put that together? Bravo.
2: What game was that he was playing? I flipping love Garfield and it seems like that would be perfect for my son.
Corronchilejano
Member
That Trump reference out of nowhere ironizes the shit out of that rant.
Caayn
Member
He's so wrong. Hello Games never showed trailers or commercials with multiplayer! So it's totally fine.
Looks like Garfield Kart.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/362930/
Maybe I've stolen that from the video posted above or maybe I didn't.
hydragonwarrior
Member
Wait, can't you simply communicate by renaming planets, or it's a one time thing only?
PRIMITIVE COMMUNICATION DOES EXIST.
PRIMITIVE COMMUNICATION DOES EXIST.
I like the game, but this is spot on. I will never trust anything Hello Games says again.
VlaudTheImpaler
tl;dr
Thank you!
Also, that channel taught me what strip Fifa is... I...
I'm going to bed now.
thecouncil
Banned
My 6 year old son stumbled into the living room, sleep in his eyes, holding his teddy bear, wearing his spaceship pajamas.
"Daddy? I had a bad dream."
I pause No Man's Sky and kneel down in front of him.
"What happened?"
"A bad man kept me from seeing my friends."
"Im sorry, champ. It's going to be ok. Do you know the man? Did he have a name? Was he barefoot or anything?"
"I didn't know him. He stayed in the shadows. All I could see was his shit-eating grin through his beard."
I shiver. Is Sean Freddy-Kruegering my son instead of answering tweets?
"Ok, well,... did he lie to you? Steal money from you? Avoid answering questions about whether or not you could see your friends again?"
"Huh? No... What?"
"I'm sorry, buddy. Let's just say I know what you're going through."
I take my son back to his bed and tell him the nightmare is over for at least one of us.
"Daddy? I had a bad dream."
I pause No Man's Sky and kneel down in front of him.
"What happened?"
"A bad man kept me from seeing my friends."
"Im sorry, champ. It's going to be ok. Do you know the man? Did he have a name? Was he barefoot or anything?"
"I didn't know him. He stayed in the shadows. All I could see was his shit-eating grin through his beard."
I shiver. Is Sean Freddy-Kruegering my son instead of answering tweets?
"Ok, well,... did he lie to you? Steal money from you? Avoid answering questions about whether or not you could see your friends again?"
"Huh? No... What?"
"I'm sorry, buddy. Let's just say I know what you're going through."
I take my son back to his bed and tell him the nightmare is over for at least one of us.
runnin_blue
Banned
You should have your own blog.
IAmAnAgnostic
Member
How far will this evolve before Sean addresses the controversy?
For example the No1 (and negative) steam review mentions the missing multiplayer.
My condolences to your child - there's not much worse than a drama queen for a dad
thecouncil
Banned
...Well, I do have one about The Sims 3. That game is perfect for storytelling. Haha.
anothertech
Member
Dat title change doe
VlaudTheImpaler
tl;dr
Huh? what controversy? The PC/PS4 launch has gone swimmingly, I mean look at how the community is pulling together to fix *cough* I mean help each other play. Have you seen the steam peak player numbers and the PSN active users? There are so many of them our accou- *cough* servers are overloaded! Exac- *cough* More than we could have predicted. It's kinda blowing my mind right now...
I am conflicted on whether or not that pic is too much of a low blow so before I go to bed I am going to spoiler it. It really is all I can picture atm though. Also, I truly hate feeling like I'm being mean to someone but man, from my experience working with my local community it is sometimes necessary in situations like this when you are trying to be acknowledged because you are being ignored. Especially considering the ethics of the situation. I swear to the Lord Almighty I will stop these shenanigans as soon as they give a clear and concise response to this issue and will try my hardest to guide others to do so as well.
IAmAnAgnostic
Member
Huh? what controversy? The PC/PS4 launch has gone swimmingly, I mean look at how the community is pulling together to fix *cough* I mean help each other play. Have you seen the steam peak player numbers and the PSN active users? There are so many of them our accou- *cough* servers are overloaded! Exac- *cough* More than we could have predicted. It's kinda blowing my mind right now...
Fucking hell that picture.
orthodoxy1095
Banned
Killing me mate
That is the absolute fucking worst argument there is..
There are just as good human beings working at every single developer, including big AAA studios. There's nothing special abput hello games in this regard.
No one deserves a blanket shielding from backlash over promises not met and with no explanation for why they was not met.
If HG needed shielding they could've stopped the public pr hype campaign, turn down the techno babble speak, go the early access route and disclose everything happening during development - including stuff they wasn't able to deliver.
If I have to read that it's a fucking team of 5-15 people again,I swear i'm gonna fucking blow up.
SIXTY
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DOLLARS
For a game that looks and runs like an early access game and has the same god damn content repeated over and over and over.
If you go into the No Man's Sky photo thread you can literally see people posting the same kind of planet with the same plants and the sameish animals but in different colors (sometimes not even) and the same style over and over and over.
Everyone basically sees the same planets in a different order.
SIXTY
FUCKING
NO MAN'S
DOLLARS
SIXTY
FUCKING
DOLLARS
For a game that looks and runs like an early access game and has the same god damn content repeated over and over and over.
If you go into the No Man's Sky photo thread you can literally see people posting the same kind of planet with the same plants and the sameish animals but in different colors (sometimes not even) and the same style over and over and over.
Everyone basically sees the same planets in a different order.
SIXTY
FUCKING
NO MAN'S
DOLLARS
orthodoxy1095
Banned
I agree.
It seems like every page or every 5 posts the issue gets confused.
The issue isn't that NMS is a bad game.
The issue isn't that the developers dreamed too big and couldn't deliver on every aspect of their vision.
The issue isn't that Sean seems like a nice guy who's passionate about making games.
The issue isn't that NMS was never billed as a multiplayer game.
The issue isn't people trying to make a mountain out of a molehill.
The issue is simply that Sean, on multiple occasions suggested, said, and replied to questions to the effect that people could play together and meet each other and want to experience stuff together in the game. Since launch, it seems like this is not possible despite Sean saying, multiple times, that it is. And Sean has yet to clarify.
Personally, I would appreciate developers not lie to consumers. And if multiplayer or meeting other players is possible, all Sean has to do is say, "yes it's possible, keep playing and find out how." But even that hasn't happened.
The issue isn't that NMS is a bad game.
The issue isn't that the developers dreamed too big and couldn't deliver on every aspect of their vision.
The issue isn't that Sean seems like a nice guy who's passionate about making games.
The issue isn't that NMS was never billed as a multiplayer game.
The issue isn't people trying to make a mountain out of a molehill.
The issue is simply that Sean, on multiple occasions suggested, said, and replied to questions to the effect that people could play together and meet each other and want to experience stuff together in the game. Since launch, it seems like this is not possible despite Sean saying, multiple times, that it is. And Sean has yet to clarify.
Personally, I would appreciate developers not lie to consumers. And if multiplayer or meeting other players is possible, all Sean has to do is say, "yes it's possible, keep playing and find out how." But even that hasn't happened.
Supermanisdead
Member
so... does multiplayer exist or not. where are the answers, pc stans
runnin_blue
Banned
So what's with the barefoot thing? Tinea problem?
It doesn't.
The thing that broke the camel's back for me is the game ending. That's when I started thinking we should compile all the overpromises/outlandish tales the creators has stated for future reference.
AcademicSaucer
Member
It depends on whats your definition of multiplayer
IAmAnAgnostic
Member
This has been proven now by datamining or no?
GankzyMcfly
Member
From what i remember a gaffer bought the game on steam and pretty much arrived at the same conclusions as the ps4 version. No player movement data is transmitted from what i can remember. Ill find the exact quote and update this post just give me 5 min.
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smashballTaz
Member
So if all the above was the same, but there was basic, functional multiplayer, would it be OK? Becasue as far as I can see, all the issues above come from it being precedurally generated. It was always gonna be the case that after a few hours, it's likely you'd run into similar planets you'd seen before, just maybe a different colour pallete.
I'm still extremely interested in the game myself, but I'll wait for a sale though on PC (and hopefully they've improved the performance by then). In the meantime I'm gonna keep enjoying the hell out of the amazing Elite Dangerous.
BizzyBum
Member
No Man's Sky is a multi-verse. Players need to figure out how to traverse the different universes by ripping through spacetime itself. Once that's done, you need to find the same exact universe (out of quntillions) your friend is in and then land on the same planet (out of quntillions) at the same place at the same time.
It won't happen for decades, if ever fam.
It won't happen for decades, if ever fam.
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