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Here at the patch notes..also read the last few lines.

Update 1.03
When we went gold five or six week ago, we posted on twitter, and literally every reply was like “hope you are going on a nice holiday!”. Some of us have, but I didn’t want to, not yet. I pictured myself somewhere staring out the window thinking about this game I’ve been working on for five years.
We’re under a pretty intense spotlight right now, and hopefully it’s easy to imagine how hard it would be to switch off from that, or how deeply we care about people’s first impression of the game.
In fact most of us were back here the day after we went gold, working on this update. We’re already proud of what we put on a disk, but if we had time, why not continue to update it?

Hello Games will continually update No Man’s Sky this way. This is the first of many.

It will be available on Monday for press for review once it exits submission, and on launch for public on PC and PS4. We expect future updates like these to continue to be free.

For 99.9% of people, all you have to do is install the update before you begin to play.
If you had an early copy somehow, your save game will technically work post update, but you will miss out on new content and experiences if you don’t delete your save before updating (should be obvious why from notes below). We highly recommend deleting your save if you have played before updating your game (we won’t do this in future, but it’s a day zero update).

Servers will be wiped on Sunday and again Monday in the lead up to launch.

Beware these notes contain some spoilers. Here are some things our little team has been up to over the last four or five weeks:
The Three Paths – there are now new, unique “paths” you can follow throughout the game. You must start the game on a fresh save, with the patch, as early choices have significant impact on what you see later in the game, and the overall experience.
The Universe – we changed the rules of the universe generation algorithm. Planets have moved. Environments have changed biomes. Galaxies have altered shape. All to create greater variety earlier. Galaxies are now up to 10x larger.
Diversity – Creatures are now more diverse in terms of ecology and densities on planets.
Planets – we’ve added dead moons, low atmosphere and extreme hazardous planets. Extreme hazards include blizzards and dust storms.
Atmosphere – space, night time and day skies are now 4x more varied due to new atmospheric system, which refracts light more accurately to allow for more intense sunsets.
Planet rotation – play testing has made it obvious people are struggling to adjust to this during play so it’s effects have been reduced further…
Terrain generation – caves up to 128m tall are now possible. Geometric anomalies have been added. Underwater erosion now leads to more interesting sea beds.
Ship diversity – a wider variety of ships appear per star system, and are available to purchase. Cargo and installed technology now vary more, and ships have more unique attributes.
Inventory – ship inventories now store 5 times more resources per slot. Suit inventories now store 2.5 times more per slot. This encourages exploration and gives freedom from the beginning. We’re probably going to increase this even further in the next update, for people in the latter game phases, and will allow greater trading potential.
Trading – trading is deeper. Star systems and planets each have their own wants and needs, based off a galactic economy. Observing these is the key to successful trading. We still working on adjusting this based on how everyone plays, but all trading values have been rebalanced across the galaxy, giving a greater depth. A bunch of trade exploits were uncovered and have been removed
Feeding – creatures now have their own diet, based on planet and climate. Feeding them correctly will yield different results per species, such as mining for you, protecting the player, becoming pets, alerting you to rare loot or pooping valuable resources.
Survival – recharging hazard protection requires rare resources, making shielding shards useful again. Storms can be deadly. Hazard protection and suit upgrades have been added. Liquids are often more dangerous
Graphical effects – Lighting and texture resolution have been improved. Shadow quality has doubled. Temporal AA didn’t make it in time, but it’s so close
Balancing – several hundred upgrades have had stat changes (mainly exo-suit and ship, but also weapon), new upgrades have been added.
Combat – Auto Aim and weapon aim has been completely rewritten to feel more gentle in general, but stickier when you need it. Sentinels now alert each other, if they haven’t been dealt with quickly. Quad and Walker AI is now much more challenging, even I struggle with them without a powered up weapon.
Space Combat – advanced techniques have been introduced, like brake drifting and critical hits. Bounty missions and larger battles now occur. Pirate frequency has been increased, as well as difficulty depending on your cargo.
Exploits – infinite warp cell exploit and rare goods trading exploit among other removed. People using these cheats were ruining the game for themselves, but people are weird and can’t stop themselves ¯\_(シ)_/¯
Stability – foundations for buildings on super large planets. Resolved several low repro crashes, in particular when player warped further than 256 light years in one session (was only possible due to warp cell exploit above).
Space Stations – interiors are now more varied, bars, trade rooms and hydroponic labs have been added
Networking – Ability to scan star systems other players have discovered on the Galactic Map, increasing the chance of collision. Star systems discovered by other players appear during Galactic Map flight
Ship scanning – scanning for points of interest from your ship is now possible. Buildings generate earlier and show up in ship scans
Flying over terrain – pop-in and shadow artefacts have been reduced. Generation speed has been increased two fold (planets with large bodies of water will be targeted in next update)
Writing – The Atlas path has been rewritten by James Swallow (writer on Deus Ex) and me. I think it speaks to the over-arching theme of player freedom more clearly now. Early mission text has been rewritten to allow for multiple endings.

I grew up reading Carmack’s .plan files for Quake, so it’s fun to be writing one of my own :)

Next up we’re adding the ability to build bases and own giant space freighters. Temporal AA and my new cloud rendering tech should be coming soon too. It will really change the game again, and enhance it visually.

This universe we’ve built is a pretty large canvas, we’ve got a lot of ideas. This is the type of game we want to be.

Love,
Sean
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http://www.no-mans-sky.com/2016/08/update-1-03/
 
7DollarHagane said:
Idk, it seems to me that no man's sky is missing at least as much or more from an average first person game or space flight game than sf5 was missing from an average fighting game.

Does the game literally drop you on a planet with a ship and no direction or objective whatsoever at the start?
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Like Minecraft, Like Dark Souls.... not everyone needs a marker about what to do and where to go, hence why those games are big too.

And there's still the objective of reaching the center (same as Souls getting to the end or Minecraft reaching that dragon arena or whatever the fuck that was).
 
theWB27 said:
There have been streams galore all day for some days now.
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Where? I only really go to twitch.

I do like some of the ideas people are posting about upgrades and things. My worry is that it's not like a elder scrolls or fallout game where there are tougher enemies designed for your upgraded equipment.

If youre just becoming more powerful how does the game balance and provide a challenge? Or does it just let you destroy everything that threatens you without risk eventually?
 
7DollarHagane said:
I wasn't able to see any of the leaked gameplay. Is it available anywhere? YouTube takes it down, along with most sites.
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If you have a PS4: Turn it on, go to Live from Playstation. Look for No Man's Sky and theres quite a few archived broadcasts, clips and screenshots people have shared. :)

Some of the screenshots there are stunning.
 
Ferr986 said:
Like Minecraft, Like Dark Souls.... not everyone needs a marker about what to do and where to go, hence why those games are big too.

And there's still the objective of reaching the center (same as Souls getting to the end or Minecraft reaching that dragon arena or whatever the fuck that was).
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Souls has combat mechanics though that are best in class and multiplayer. Minecraft has very deep and complex building tools and multiplayer to socialize with friends, along with tons of mods.

Their direction less nature is balanced by some other hook.
 
7DollarHagane said:
Souls has combat mechanics though that are best in class and multiplayer. Minecraft has very deep and complex building tools and multiplayer to socialize with friends, along with tons of mods.

Their direction less nature is balanced by some other hook.
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Well, I was talking about the throw yourself into the game without direction but yes, I agree, but this one is more heavy on exploration, I don't see it missing something (mind you, I'm a huge DS nerd).
 
7DollarHagane said:
Souls has combat mechanics though that are best in class and multiplayer. Minecraft has very deep and complex building tools and multiplayer to socialize with friends, along with tons of mods.

Their direction less nature is balanced by some other hook.
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And No Man's Sky has by far the most advanced environment generator that runs in real time, meaning it has something for people that just want to explore. No prior game has been able to come close to scratching that particular itch, Elite 2 and even Elite Frontier are missing huge chunks of the variety that NMS has.
 
7DollarHagane said:
Idk, it seems to me that no man's sky is missing at least as much or more from an average first person game or space flight game than sf5 was missing from an average fighting game.

Does the game literally drop you on a planet with a ship and no direction or objective whatsoever at the start?
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Isn't NMS an exploration game?

That would be like SF5 launching with 200 fighters and a 1000 stages.
 
7DollarHagane said:
Idk, it seems to me that no man's sky is missing at least as much or more from an average first person game or space flight game than sf5 was missing from an average fighting game.

Does the game literally drop you on a planet with a ship and no direction or objective whatsoever at the start?
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What the hell am i reading? is this even serious?
Let it go.
 
Found a ps4 stream.

They say the pop in is better with the patch but I really hope the pc version let's you set that clipping plane.

It's really bad in this version this person is playing.
 
DieH@rd said:
Thanks for this. Game looks great [and it will look even better soon]. :)
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No problem.

I was live streaming for almost 3 hours last night. The stream was eventually copyrighted by Sony. The actual footage is still on my channel though if anyone wants to watch.
 
still on the fence with buying the game. just a quick question. do i get the preorder boni until a few minutes before the release (on the store) or does it end earlier? German release is on the 10th, so i will follow your guys impressions. I am on a week long seminar for my job, so have to wait until friday to play nevertheless
 
Tovarisc said:
Patch isn't even live yet, or?
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No, this is pre patch stream. I know it was bad in the on disc version from what others have said.

It reminds me of halo 5 how small ground shrubs and detail would appear and disappear in view frequently. But they did say it was improved in the day one patch.
 
7DollarHagane said:
No, this is pre patch stream. I know it was bad in the on disc version from what others have said.

It reminds me of halo 5 how small ground shrubs and detail would appear and disappear in view frequently. But they did say it was improved in the day one patch.
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I wouldnt expect to disappear completely. The way the engine works, the game generates the world around you and generates more detail as you get closer. That pop in is the world being created, much like Minecraft

Sean gives a behind-the-scenes look at the engine and generation here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-kifCYToAU
 
7DollarHagane said:
Idk, it seems to me that no man's sky is missing at least as much or more from an average first person game or space flight game than sf5 was missing from an average fighting game.

Does the game literally drop you on a planet with a ship and no direction or objective whatsoever at the start?
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No, it doesn't.

Are we done now?
 
Watching Sunshine again in preparation for this game. Man, I had forgotten how amazing the musical score is in this movie.
Specially the part where Captain Kanata dies while repairing the sun shield.
 
7DollarHagane said:
Maybe if 150 of those 200 were pallette swaps or mokujin type characters. And 985 stages at different times of day and seasons, lol.

Kinda like Scribblenauts.
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I'm still trying to understand why you continue to compare NMS to Scribblenauts or Spore for that matter. Just based on several posts you made in this single thread alone. Especially when NMS is absolutely nothing like those two games.

I am trying to be fair here and make sure you're honestly trying to understand what this game really is about instead of making snap judgements and deciding what you perceive the game to be based on some false premise.
 
OmegaDL50 said:
I'm still trying to understand why you continue to compare NMS to Scribblenauts or Spore for that matter. Just based on several posts you made in this single thread alone. Especially when NMS is absolutely nothing like those two games.

I am trying to be fair here and make sure you're honestly trying to understand what this game really is about instead of making snap judgements and deciding what you perceive the game to be based some false premise.
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they're a known troll don't worry about it. very recognizable avatar :)
 
jaaz said:
Watching Sunshine again in preparation for this game. Man, I had forgotten how amazing the musical score is in this movie.
Specially the part where Captain Kanata dies while repairing the sun shield.
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I don't remember which song plays in that scene (it's been a while since I saw the movie), but is it this one? Really enjoyed the movie, even if it didn't manage to maintain all the quality throuhought it's entirety. This song stuck with me for a good while.
 
E92 M3 said:
FPS is completely irrelevant to me. In fact, I noticed that GAF exaggerates tech stuff like crazy.
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Well it's an enthusiast forum. There are some on here that can't stand No Man's Sky or are still confused about what it is, and probably think our intense interest in it is baffling.

I just want to report that my brand-new DS4 that I needed arrived today, after ordering yesterday. No more crippled gameplay due to fucked triggers & analogue sticks! :D
 
valkillmore said:
Well it's an enthusiast forum. There are some on here that can't stand No Man's Sky or are still confused about what it is, and probably think our intense interest in it is baffling.

I just want to report that my brand-new DS4 that I needed arrived today, after ordering yesterday. No more crippled gameplay due to fucked triggers & analogue sticks! :D
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I am enthusiast, but you won't see me complaining if the game is good. Only thing I hate are game breaking bugs that corrupt saves.
 
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