legacyzero
Banned
Holy SHIT now it's getting good
https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyT...hy_the_cassettes_and_waking_titan_are_linked/
https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyT...hy_the_cassettes_and_waking_titan_are_linked/
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No Man's Sky Has Some Kind of Cryptic ARG Happening Right Now
- Thread starter legacyzero
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GET2DAACHOPPAAAA
Member
So what is going on?
ElectricKaibutsu
Member
This is a cool ARG. I like that when the audio from the tapes are layered there's a voice. That's a really cool idea. I just kind of wish this wasn't for NMS. It's preventing me from getting into it. I'm too afraid it will end in disappointment.
Aeroglyphics
Member
Rodney McKay
Member
Same here.
The last update sounded pretty cool with the ground vehicles and other improvements, but I'm hoping for something even bigger!
I heard the original "story" was pretty mediocre at the end, so I hope this might be some kind of additional main story mission, like discovering these "Waking Titans" or stopping them from destroying whole planets or something cool like that.
How cool would it be to have Unicron style evil living planets you could land on! (doubt they'd go that far, but would still be super rad!)
legacyzero
Banned
This is a fuck ton of effort for a new potential unveiling. Kinda hyped to see what they have to show if they're doing all this
Never watched that show but I can already tell this is perfection.
Theres a remote, but possible, er, possibility that this Waking Atlas stuff is another ARG that is merely using NMS as a way to draw more attention. I personally think the tapes with "portal" written on it is everything HG intended.
Fushichou187
Member
Yup, always glad to see a game-- especially one with as much potential as NMS-- supported post-launch that isn't just bug fixes.
I mean, he's working? The best way to tamp down critics who aren't just looking to shit on something regardless is to continue to support and improve the experience for current and future users. Once NMS reaches its final form, whenever that may be, I wouldn't be surprised if then we see some sort of interview with him in a retrospective of the game; likely by someone like Danny O'Dwyer.
eyeball_kid
Member
I don't know, it seems a bit much to be coincidental. The Walking Titan people would have had to create that content really fast after learning about the NMS tapes with embedded spectrograph info, aside from the references to 16 and 65 and other NMS-esque things in the WT stuff.
Why would an ARG that's designed to promote something else tie themselves so heavily to NMS? Doesn't make sense to me, I think they have to be connected. It's possible Sony is paying for all of this, in the lead-up to a major NMS update.
I have been struggling not going back to play it. Put about 50 hours into it originally. Have not tried out the last update yet, but with the possibility of another major update coming I am being patient for that to drop first.
eyeball_kid
Member
Interesting that the site name on the echo-64.com site is "Echo gives a voice to the past".
Part of the Korvax story text told through monoliths:
Part of the Korvax story text told through monoliths:
Could be a quick 2 minute portion of the presentation, Sean rolls out, everyone remembers why they really came to love NMS before release, announces the update, place goes nuts.
eyeball_kid
Member
Here's a summary of events with the Waking Titan ARG so far by a moderator of the original site etarc.org: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NBrQKRWqug
Is it just me or does she seem like an actor? It's possible she's a "NPC" in the Waking Titan ARG. Especially she seems to be ground zero for knowledge of Waking Titan's existence. I imagine the whole etarc site was set up by whomever is running the ARG.
Is it just me or does she seem like an actor? It's possible she's a "NPC" in the Waking Titan ARG. Especially she seems to be ground zero for knowledge of Waking Titan's existence. I imagine the whole etarc site was set up by whomever is running the ARG.
PintSizedSlasher
Member
Didn't they hire some extra staff a while back, including a writer? Would be cool if we'd get a real meaty story line.
eyeball_kid
Member
An associated site to the Waking Titan ARG echo-64.com opened today. The puzzle got figured out and apparently the next radio station broadcast will be June 17. So whatever this is, it won't be resolved at E3.
However, the connections to NMS at this point seem too much to be coincidental. There are references to procedural generation and Markov chains on the echo-64 site, both technologies used in No Man's Sky. Also, there is a linked text "84.190.188" at the bottom of the site. It links to a Run Lola Run song called Believe. The interesting part is that 84,190,188 is a RGB value, and that value is the approximate color of the sky in the NMS poster. (reddit user GreggaGeg discovered this) This is just too random to be a coincidence.
However, the connections to NMS at this point seem too much to be coincidental. There are references to procedural generation and Markov chains on the echo-64 site, both technologies used in No Man's Sky. Also, there is a linked text "84.190.188" at the bottom of the site. It links to a Run Lola Run song called Believe. The interesting part is that 84,190,188 is a RGB value, and that value is the approximate color of the sky in the NMS poster. (reddit user GreggaGeg discovered this) This is just too random to be a coincidence.
You mean too perfect to be a coincidence? By definition nothing could be too random to be a coincidence. Coincidences are random. That's why they're coincidences.
Aenima
Member
I still have one in my bedroom. I even have some albuns in cassettes, they gathering dust but they still work. I also have a big colection of VHS movies, but my VHS player dont work anymore
ultrazilla
Gold Member
Gonna go ahead and call this now. This will lead up to a stealth patch for "stability" when it in fact.............leads you to a base/planet full of other players-yes-multiplayer is coming!
I think it's a good guess anyways
Icyflamez96
Member
Could be a quick 2 minute portion of the presentation, Sean rolls out, everyone remembers why they really came to love NMS before release, announces the update, place goes nuts.
this made me laugh
eyeball_kid
Member
As I said, the solved puzzle today said that the next radio transmission is supposed to air on June 17, so it seems like this is not going to culminate in some Sony keynote surprise. But I wouldn't be surprised if Sony is funding this ARG as a lead-in to a big content update; the amount of work and content that's gone into this ARG can't be cheap to produce.
You can probably expect 40% off during the summer sale
AusRoachman
Member
Really hope it improves the gun combat and just goes is some ground stuff to fight other then sentinels .
If the last remaining pillar they have yet to expand on .
If the last remaining pillar they have yet to expand on .
Zombie James
Banned
http://www.echo-64.com
https://www.nomanssky.com/2016/08/update-1-03/
May be something, may be nothing.
https://www.nomanssky.com/2016/08/update-1-03/
May be something, may be nothing.
Fatalmephisto
Member
You know the more I stare at these sites but manly Echo-64.com. I'm beginning to think that all the new features that are going to be coming in the next update, are across these sites. From Portals, to the new cloud aspect that Sean talked about it.
This ARG sounds really cool. I've gotta check out that reddit megathread and catch up on all that's happened since I first heard about it.
I don't think they've really addressed the "Trade" pillar either. We've had an "Explore" update with the tweaks to the proc gen making the planets look better and we've had "Survive" addressed as well with the changes to resource availability and consumption rate, along with the additions of survival and permadeath modes. I don't think "Fight" has really been addressed, as you said (unless you count the few ship and multitool blueprints they added, but to me those seem like they're just laying the groundwork for a more fleshed out "Fight" update).
I don't think they've really addressed the "Trade" pillar either. We've had an "Explore" update with the tweaks to the proc gen making the planets look better and we've had "Survive" addressed as well with the changes to resource availability and consumption rate, along with the additions of survival and permadeath modes. I don't think "Fight" has really been addressed, as you said (unless you count the few ship and multitool blueprints they added, but to me those seem like they're just laying the groundwork for a more fleshed out "Fight" update).
Memnoch
Member
I'm a spurned owner and I'm glad it's getting support. Hopefully soon I can finally play this.
I think they passed it off to another company.
Muffin1611
Banned
I'd wait for the update tbh, and I say that as someone who already enjoyed the hell out of the game before even the Day One Patch came out.
Updates have been pretty substantial.
eyeball_kid
Member
edit: false lead
I have barely touched the base-building update. Will probably wait a bit for whatever is coming and start a new game; didnt play it that much when I got it at launch.
20-25 is the sweet spot for this game imo so yeah the first 2 updates already improved alot and if another one or two come to tweak/add more it will be fantastic.
You can say what you want but they do try and fix/update the game to get closer to the original promise. And for 20 it's in the indie game price zone anyway.
eyeball_kid
Member
A lot of minor discoveries and connections between NMS and the Waking Titan ARG, but nothing major. The next radio broadcast in Waking Titan is the 17th, so I suppose we'll know more then.