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No Man's Sky Spoiler Thread

I admire the effort, I really do. But damn those emblems look like amateur hour.

Get some of graphic-design-GAF to help you out.
 
Easy_D said:
Yeah, there need to be some LV-426 style planets in the game, just a barren stormy rock, maybe you stumble upon some mysterious ruin or a crashed ship.
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A journalist back in the May press sessions said he found a planet just like that. It was one massive storm, always black with low visibility. Had to drill underground to avoid freezing.
 
neojubei said:
one thing that we really dont know about and its this thing.

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We saw that ages ago. It is a portal for very big jumps across the galaxy. The penalty for using is is that you have to leave your current ship behind.
 
Ostinatto said:
If you do that you will have to build one from scratch? or can you buy one too?
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There are trading stations on the planet surface, with ships landing on them all the time. User can purchase ships there.

I don't know if we can BUILD ships, or somehow hijack ships while on the ground.
 
Roscoe182 said:
No Sean said the wording had been changed on the site for some reason.
which caused all of this confusion.

But your objective is to get to the center of your galaxy.
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Interesting. That's much less of a profound goal. Hopefully each galaxy is it's own twist on what is in the center!
 
stump sock said:
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Nearly choked on my drink. Amazing.

Also I'll just say that, while I've tried to avoid any spoilery-spoilers (even though I wouldn't care if I come across anything bad), everything I've seen so far has completely reassured me that this game is everything I expected it to be. There seems to be a little bit more depth to the gameplay than I thought though. Really looking forward to it.

Also I suspect many minor issues that may appear in these leaks, could be fixed in a day one patch.
 
stan_marsh said:
Thanks :)

Does this guy even have the Day 1 patch Sean said they are working on after finishing RC1 (Gold copy)?

I doubt it's even done yet, the Day 1 patch...might fix a lot of things.
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No he doesn't have it yet. And i think it's a pretty important one.
 
What's with people (like Gribble) defending this game like it's their messiah? Did the hype train consume some people? I haven't been following this game much recently, but it seems to have this bizzare feeling around it.
 
Saren is Bad said:
What's with people (like Gribble) defending this game like it's their messiah? Did the hype train consume some people? I haven't been following this game much recently, but it seems to have this bizzare feeling around it.
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The game seems fine to me. The people seem real crazy though.
 
Saren is Bad said:
What's with people (like Gribble) defending this game like it's their messiah? Did the hype train consume some people? I haven't been following this game much recently, but it seems to have this bizzare feeling around it.
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Who's defending it? I'm just offering possible reasons that ONE man's views might be different after watching hours of gameplay with a ton of variety. If it has a problem it needs fixing but as far as the gameplay goes it's actually better than I imagined.
 
Saren is Bad said:
What's with people (like Gribble) defending this game like it's their messiah? Did the hype train consume some people? I haven't been following this game much recently, but it seems to have this bizzare feeling around it.
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Yeah, the game looks cool and I'm probably going to get it day one (unless the PC port is crap) but some people are pushing it, treating Sean's words as gospel... As if his job wasn't to sell the game...
 
That exploit sounds really dissapointing in that it completely destroys the economy of the game though. Hopefully it's something that the day 1 patch fixes.. Can't imagine that it's intentional since the struggle to get better equipment is supposed to be a sizible part of the game.
 
Octavianus said:
That exploit sounds really dissapointing in that in completely destroys the economy of the game though. Hopefully it's something that the day 1 patch fixes.. Can't imagine that it's intentional since the struggle to get better equipment is supposed to be a sizible part of the game.
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I'm hoping so too.
 
JCH! said:
Yeah, the game looks cool and I'm probably going to get it day one (unless the PC port is crap) but some people are pushing it, treating Sean's words as gospel... As if his job wasn't to sell the game...
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Believing what a developer says about their game is now "treating their words as gospel"? Maybe it's just that we don't cynically think every developer is trying to lie to us to sell their game. If Sean was just in this for the money, he would have stayed with EA instead of mortgaging his house to keep his company afloat to finish his dream game. He wants his game to sell of course, but I don't think he's trying to lie to us to do it.
 
I wouldn't call it a game breaking bug until he gets to the center. If another galaxy exists, the prices for things may increase by a huge amount and put him back at square one.
 
BigDug13 said:
Believing what a developer says about their game is now "treating their words as gospel"? Maybe it's just that we don't cynically think every developer is trying to lie to us to sell their game. If Sean was just in this for the money, he would have stayed with EA instead of mortgaging his house to keep his company afloat to finish his dream game. He wants his game to sell of course, but I don't think he's trying to lie to us to do it.
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yeah man for sure, dude seems super honest and in love with what he does.
Not like other devs who sell you a game then the rest of the game in DLC, or devs that just flat out lie.
 
Well, he just reached the center:

This will be as spoiler-free as it can be, and anything I discuss here is so minimal of a spoiler that it should be disregarded.

So, I've reached the center. For now, I'll just keep it a secret. I realize it is "the secret" of the game and I'm sure other people will spill the beans for clickbait sooner than later, so fear not fellow spoiler hounds - someone out there will feed your appetite I'm sure.
I just want to dispel some misconceptions right now and clear the air on a few things before I (finally) sleep.

The Atlas Stone thing is not an "exploit." I was careful to word this so as to not spoil some stuff surrounding it, but please stop insinuating as if I found some game breaking cheat/exploit and abused it. This is NOTHING of the sort. The location of the Stones/Fuel is VERY specific, it's a VERY important location / theme in the game, none of this is by chance and they clearly meant to make it special. I said I PERSONALLY disagree with the design choice, but it's there for now and it is what it is.

The free Fuel doesn't bother me nearly as much as the units gained by the Stones. The pacing was going okay until I ran in to these and then it just skewed everything for me. Here, I'll give you hard numbers - I was selling stacks of rare resources for 20-30K. Uncommon ones maybe 5-10k. Atlas Stones sell for 275K...

Yes, there was life on every planet. Every single one. But, keep in mind, the life itself VARIED dramatically - when I found life on the "Fauna: None" planets, it was seriously stupid shit like prairie dogs. I wasn't encountering giant rhinos or anything. I THINK, although I could be wrong, but I THINK Sean's "90% of planets are bone dry" comment was in reference to planets LOADED with life. Or they just changed their mind last second - who knows.

Contrary to what a lot of people think, I have done A LOT of what the game has to offer. I actually intentionally took time out of my warp jumping over the course of going to the middle to explore planets to break up the monotony of it. This does not mean I have done all of the major events, however - I am still yet to swim to the bottom of a big ocean. I am still yet to destroy a space station. I definitely still have stuff to do.

Another gripe I have right now with the claims on the game before release is this whole "it gets weirder the closer to the middle you get." If you're like me, you expected some seriously obvious inclinations that this was happening as you progressed, and for me... I haven't seen much in the way of difference as I went. The ONLY ONLY ONLY big difference, and honestly the only reason I pushed it so hard, was the weapon crates you saw in the Trade video with the guns for trade improve in quality as you go further in. So, for me, my basic logic was... the sooner I get to the area at the middle, the sooner I have the best multi tool, so why wait?

Here's a HUGE gripe for me at the moment. I'm going to list some bugs at the bottom and I'm not sure if this is a bug or not, but holy shit has this been annoying. I've "upgraded" my suit to unlock all available inventory slots possible. I've found and bought what I "think" is a multi tool with the maximum amount of slots available in the game. However, ships HAVE NOT IMPROVED AT ALL throughout the entire course of the game. This is not a joke. I am at the point now where my PERSONAL SUIT has something like 3-4x the total inventory / module slots as my fuckin ship. That seems wrong to me.

There are bugs. Quite a few in fact. In some moments I really start to feel as if this game would have benefited from a beta test. PRAY for a Day 1 patch, not only to nerf the sale cost of Atlas Stones but also to address some of this shit too:

Currently, Beam Upgrades for your multi tool seem broken and ass backwards. Upgrades that are supposed to slow down the heat up of your beam, actually speed it up. Upgrades that are supposed to speed up the mining speed of the beam, actually slow it down. Essentially, your STARTING beam is as powerful as it can be, and if you upgrade it with +1 +2 +3 beam upgrade modules it becomes UNUSABLE. This would, in theory, mean that the fully upgraded beam is actually the beam you're supposed to START with, which would mean my early exploration would have gone a LOT slower.

Sea creatures spawn in shallow water completely vertical stuck in the ground. This isn't like a one time bug thing either, 80% of the large sea creatures have spawned this way, which is a super bummer for me because sea creatures are my favorite and I can't even appropriately scan them or even naked eye view them when this happens.

I've had the game full on crash to PS4 menu something like 20 times now. Usually when I'm warp jumping. No joke. Save your game a lot kids, you'll be pissed if you don't.
Again, not finding ship upgrades has been super frustrating. Is it a bug? Is the game not spawning better ship module inventories like it's supposed to? Are we actually just supposed to have ships with 1/4th the total inventory of our suit? What gives HG, c'mon.

This entire post isn't even actually a review or anything, this is just addressing a lot of major points people keep bringing up. Once I complete other things like engaging in big scale battles, I'll make a final review.
Oh, and I didn't even pop a trophy for hitting the center. C'mon man...
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BigDug13 said:
Believing what a developer says about their game is now "treating their words as gospel"? Maybe it's just that we don't cynically think every developer is trying to lie to us to sell their game. If Sean was just in this for the money, he would have stayed with EA instead of mortgaging his house to keep his company afloat to finish his dream game. He wants his game to sell of course, but I don't think he's trying to lie to us to do it.
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Sorry, but regardless of whether there is an intent to deceive or not developers are too close to the game to be an unbiased source. I very much doubt they're lying but words have meanings that sometimes are up for interpretation. Misunderstandings happen.
 
Well, let's see what that day 1 patch does. I hope some people don't take this guys word as 100% truth btw. Ofc, he's entitled to his own opinion, but he may be missing a few things or whatever. Anyways, I think he's done a mostly great job of giving info. I wouldn't have divulged the picture of Atlas, but other than that, pretty low on spoilers.
 
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