Lys Skygge
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According to rumors, developers have only recently received NEO units. So I doubt the footage we're seeing is from NEO.
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IGN First: No Man's Sky 21 Minute Gameplay Demo
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Fess
Member
Recently...
Wasn't this video recorded recently?
Doubt is something we'll have lots of as PS4 owners going forward. How can we possibly know if previews are showing the PS4 version unless officially stated so?
Lys Skygge
Member
The video likely came from a build from several weeks or maybe even months ago. Developers wouldn't have had a NEO at that time. (if rumors that devs are just getting them are true.)
Fess
Member
That's the thing. "if rumors that devs are just getting them are true."
We can't possibly know what hardware they're using in any recent previews, not even in exclusives. Nothing is certain anymore.This is awful. Unless you're jumping in day 1 on Neo... then it's awesome.
Shin-Ra
Junior Member
You don't think anybody's fooled by your chicken little routine, do you?
Vincent Grayson
Member
You know you could, god forbid, wait until a game is released and then make your purchasing decisions based not on previews recorded on an unknown system, but actual reviews of the different SKUs?
Handy Fake
Member
Someone has to start doing a Travelogue series about this on Youtube when it's released. Alan Whicker style.
First time they shown rain right?
Fushichou187
Member
Maybe? I thought I remembered an early trailer with a brief clip in a green forest like location with rain as well, but I could easily be mistaken.
generic_username
I switched to an alt account to ditch my embarrassing tag so I could be an embarrassing Naughty Dog fanboy in peace. Ask me anything!
You are right.
AgentOtaku
Member
Do we know how profile/save file sizes are gonna work?
I mean, does it keep just growing and growing?
I mean, does it keep just growing and growing?
Fess
Member
My purchase decision was made long ago, but look at the talk about this being the PC version, I'm just questioning if the sudden jump in the framerate might have something to do with PS4 Neo instead of just blindly assuming it's the PC version.
MaKTaiL
Member
No. The very first trailer called "Infinite Worlds" showed rain and a lot of different tipe of planets and creatures that never showed up again in a video. The desert planet with the giant worm creature for instance.
eyeball_kid
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OmegaDL50
Member
One thing I've noticed in this vid I don't think has brought up before as a discussion.
Balari V is furthest away from the Sun thus the coldest planet in it's system. While a planet like Yzheleuz being close to the Sun has extreme heat.
If there is actual pattern to this rather than outright randomization this might interesting for the sake of planet hoppers, if this does indeed hold out to be true, might be a way for some to identify and travel to specific planets that may support life that exist in some supposed habitable goldilocks zone for specific planets that are placed in a proper distance from their parent stars.
I mean super hot planet near the sun makes sense, much like a planet furthest away from it's sun being the coldest.
So maybe they fit in a mathematical formula for the generation that basically says (closer to Sun = hotter, further away = colder)
Of course this may not actually apply in the final game, but still it would be odd to be on an Ice planet that is more or less next to it's parent star.
But even in real life in our actual universe the selection of life supporting planets that exist in a habitable zone is extremely rare. So I imagine nothing changes and life bearing planets would be equally rare in No Man's Sky.
VARIA
Member
I'm pretty sure this was confirmed (?) along with planet rotation causing night/day cycles when facing the sun.
It's not random, it's procedural. So yeah, there's a mathematical formula that dictates everything in the game.
OmegaDL50
Member
I've been following news for this game since it's initial announcement back in 2013, as long as I've been aware the rotation of planet axis resulting in day night cycles is something I already knew about, however as far as I know, every showing / demonstration of the game has explained that everything was procedurally generated by mathematical formulas.
I'm just saying this is the first time at least from that video I've seen there is a semi-confirmation that planets have a variable climate in terms of temperature based on how close or far away they are from their suns, which would mean it's potentially new information we can add to possibly confirmed facts for the game.
Unless of course it was just setup this way in the demo, and the final game generates random climates for the seed regardless of a planet's orientation relative from the parent star.
In the most basic of terms, there is nothing random in the output of the game. The only randomization possible would be in the input of the seed. But changing the seed doesn't alter the procedures, just the distribution.
OmegaDL50
Member
You are focusing too much on single word and ignoring the point I'm trying to make.
We've always known that that this game used procedural generation for planets, creatures, objects, etc.
However it was never occured or confirmed that this generation also factors a planet's temperature is determined by how close or far away it is from the Sun. This was never brought up before.
It has always been about the procedural generation but not the specific details for this particular thing. I mean if a planets distance from the sun is a factor in how hot or cold it is, then this makes it easier to identify what sort of planet you may possibly land on while traveling in your ship.
Thor Molecules
Member
But it has been touched on before. Sean has even said that the best way to determine if a planet has life on it is it's distance from the sun.
MaKTaiL
Member
This has been confirmed by the devs since they announced it. How a planet looks, the color of the sky, if there is life or not. It is all dictated by the distance from the Sun.
It's been brought up before, specifically in regards to distance from the sun being a major factor in a host of things.
Edit: too late.
eyeball_kid
Member
Yup. In one of the magazine interviews Sean even said that the type of skin a creature has is determined by distance from sun he said those close to suns will have more scaly skin I think. It looks like from the planets video that the intensity of light is also a factor of the distance from a planet's star.
Also, the type of star in the system will determine the kind of elements found in that system.
R_thanatos
Member
I'm pretty certain this has been confirmed long ago.
Is it the video or is there some jerky animation?
Handy Fake
Member
Not sure if this has been posted, or whether it's the right place for it, but happened upon this on Youtube. Similar to videos posted, someone had gone through all of the planets shown so far over the various builds.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YMSM9pGbITY
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YMSM9pGbITY
Icyflamez96
Member
There's some jerk
Chezzymann
Member
I feel like there needs to be more planets that don't have life or water. Would make the ones that do seem more special
Pretty great variety for a single solar system.
It's gonna be like 90% of the planets that have no large or complex life.
Thor Molecules
Member
90% of planets won't have life and of the 10% that do, 90% of those won't have "interesting" life
More_Badass
Member
Inhospitable for you doesn't mean lifeless. Species can evolve to survive such harsh conditions. Even on earth, there are species thriving on the sunless seafloor, under antarctic ice, inside and around Chernobyl
Beautiful
Vincent Grayson
Member
This fucking game. Less than 2 months now!
Man. This got me pretty hyped.
Danlord
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Sodding_Gamer
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Best video I've seen. Can't freaking wait. So close now.
Chaostar
Member
Of course, I know. But I'm referring to this one extremely hot planet. I can't imagine any lifeform being able to adapt to these circumstances. But ok, I'm asking for too much realism here. It's a game after all.
Doesn't a silicon based lifeform allow for some really freaky shit?
Netherscourge
Banned
Well, there's floating island planets based on the last couple seconds of this latest art video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JT0LMobgWk
At 5:47 mark.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JT0LMobgWk
At 5:47 mark.
Lets see how many land disruptors it takes for it to not float anymore.
Yeah, those have been in a few other trailers.