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No Man's Sky Spoiler Thread

Not Spaceghost said:
From what I've read I assume it's a mix of the following:

Game is buggy and crashes during warp jumps frequently, mining laser and a few other things get worse as you upgrade them instead of improving (laser heats up faster instead of cooling down faster with each upgrade)
Ship has no upgrades or specific ship variants, your suit ends up having 4x the inventory space of your ship
Game encourages you to get to the center as fast as possible due to it being the best way to upgrade your multitool (sounds more like play style from his post than an actual design decision)
Every planet seems to have life (this seems like a preference complaint)
Only takes about 10 hours to get to the center if you do nothing else. (he said it took him about 40 hours to get there because he had at least 30 hours of additional stuff to do)
The fuel price is too high and requires a lot of trickery to get around, where he was selling a stack of rare ore for 1/6th the price of 1 fuel.

But there is no telling if half of these are issues because there is no day 1 patch or anything you know?
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guy completed the game without dying once
all planet have life, and not too much diversity
all the buildings and space station are exactly the same
 
I'm kind of shocked it only took that amount of time to hit the center. Still curious about what's there, new game + kinda thing maybe?

Also, the most important thing here is that he liked it

I actually like the game more knowing I can "beat it" in 30 hours, as opposed to the first 30 hours just spent mining bullshit
 
SilverManson said:
Going into the NMS Subreddit after being out all afternoon.
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More like

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GodofWine said:
They probably just tweak the maths, and new combos happen
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Which is what happens in the real universe anyway. Just matter distributed by chance in different ways. xD

I mean, having them all in a big bulge or in a straight line doesn't make any difference whatsover. Every planet you visit is just "tweaked math" over other planets.
 
Kimaka said:
Gonna be lots of hurt feelings.
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I don't really care what numbers get slapped beside it by the random Joe at his desk somewhere. I just want to explore space and some neat worlds, man. From what we have seen and know, I think it will fulfill those expectations just fine.
 
idonteven said:
for paying this much money that guy sure did not give a fuck and rushed like crazy
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People always seem to forget people can and will rush through any new game released. And then the trolls come out and dogpile on the game. Same cycle, different thread.

Gets old really fast. You would think those people would have something better to do.

And this is one guys gameplay out of millions that will evidently play the game soon. And here some are judging the game based on info from a random source.
 
Seiniyta said:
I like how people are referring to him rushing....in 35 hours! Seems pretty good value already to me.
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You can stay on a planet forever if you want. Let's not pretend he didn't rush to the center. He wanted to be the first there before anyone else.
 
I hope this guy who's got the game is just the world's biggest troll. Imagine being Sean or anyone at HG right now getting bombarded by thousands of people who haven't even played the game: "OMG PLEASE FIX BEFORE LAUNCH!" How annoying. What if they have an economy patch planned for day 1? It's not like they were planning for some wanker to pay 2k to play their game before launch day and start "exposing" their scam.

On one hand, I understand everyone's skepticism (Spore, yada yada) but on the other hand, I mean, can we not give the devs the smallest amount of credit/trust? They've been working on this game for YEARS, do you really think that they haven't time tested the whole center of the galaxy thing? Besides, even if it was supposed to only take you a dozen or so hours to get there, there is still so much to see and do, and I think that's what they've been trying to stress all along anyway as the "point' of their game.

Regardless, I'm taking this reddit guy's impressions with a grain of salt. Now that he's not posting any videos, he could just be spewing shit to start controversy. All of the click-bait game journalists are eating that shit up and he knows it. Just today I've already seen two articles on my Google Now thing referencing this guy's reddit comment history. *barf*

What do I care though, I'll be away from my PC until the 15th, so I'll get to watch the flames from afar before I dive in anyway.
 
Well I only blame myself for my high expectations, I will get the game later at sales but the wait continue for AAA space game maybe now Sony can make their own now that the saw the demand for this type of games I.e. Space exploration/trade/fight/base building
 
Pop said:
You can stay on a planet forever if you want. Let's not pretend he didn't rush to the center. He wanted to be the first there before anyone else.
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Of course, but I'm also pointing out that if that's the time to rush, it already seems like a pretty good length for most games for the price. Personally I think I'll just be planet hopping. I think with him rushing like that he missed a lot of really cool planets along the way.
 
Pop said:
You can stay on a planet forever if you want. Let's not pretend he didn't rush to the center. He wanted to be the first there before anyone else.
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I doubt the idea is ever to stay on a planet forever, or for very long at all for that matter. You can technically stay in one location in any game if you want, but it's not really ideal.

I wouldn't call 35 hours rushing. Especially if by his estimates you could reach the centre in 10 hours if you wanted to.
 
Hupsel said:
I never got the hype surrounding NMS. The idea behind the game is indeed amazing, but it woulnd´t work without a lot of weapons, planets with a shit ton of things to do, base building, tons of spaceships and so on. The budget would need to be huge. From the leaked videos we have seen it looks like the game only has the collection part - you collect minerals, upgrade some stuff, done. I mean, I also dont understand how a developer with no amazing track record at all - that worked on Joe Danger (which is a cool game) - can get this amount of hype.
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Star Citizen
 
Pop said:
You can stay on a planet forever if you want. Let's not pretend he didn't rush to the center. He wanted to be the first there before anyone else.
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But he beat it 5 hours faster then the lowest estimated time from HG. So he rushed because he advanced? By your logic he should be on his starter planet still.

It's so funny how people keep wanting this game to be something it isn't.
 
It's got a good chance of being a game that goes on drastic sale quickly if it's poorly received,even if it's a good game: see: sf5, Battleborn, evolve.

I'm really interested to read people's impressions and reviews. Not so interested in buying it day one until those are good.
 
theWB27 said:
But he beat it 5 hours faster then the lowest estimated time from HG. So he rushed because he advanced? By your logic he should be on his starter planet still.

It's so funny how people keep wanting this game to be something it isn't.
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He did mention that he didn't land on planets that much and had a weirdly large amount of units, to be fair!
 
bigDave said:
like every game
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No, there a plenty of games with borderline universal praise, or disdain. But some games are polarising, which is fine. Not everyone is going to like a game like this. And that is totally ok. It'll be one of those times where metacritic averages out a "love it or hate it" scenario as "It's average" though, which always irks me.
 
Someone on reddit described it perfectly: "A game that's a mile wide and a inch deep", which is what I expected; a game that tries to do a lot, but ends up a master of none.
 
Not Spaceghost said:
From what I've read I assume it's a mix of the following:

Game is buggy and crashes during warp jumps frequently, mining laser and a few other things get worse as you upgrade them instead of improving (laser heats up faster instead of cooling down faster with each upgrade)
Ship has no upgrades or specific ship variants, your suit ends up having 4x the inventory space of your ship
Game encourages you to get to the center as fast as possible due to it being the best way to upgrade your multitool (sounds more like play style from his post than an actual design decision)
Every planet seems to have life (this seems like a preference complaint)
Only takes about 10 hours to get to the center if you do nothing else. (he said it took him about 40 hours to get there because he had at least 30 hours of additional stuff to do)
The fuel price is too high and requires a lot of trickery to get around, where he was selling a stack of rare ore for 1/6th the price of 1 fuel.

But there is no telling if half of these are issues because there is no day 1 patch or anything you know? Besides the leaker even said he fucking loved the game sooo you know? Take it all with the biggest grain of salt possible.
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Beaulieu said:
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guy completed the game without dying once
all planet have life, and not too much diversity
all the buildings and space station are exactly the same
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Obviously don't take this as me trying to justify the state of the game, I myself am reserving judgment for the final release and day 1 patch, but almost all of these problems can and most probably will be solved with mods on the PC version.

I've said it before but I'll say it again, if you have a PC capable of running this game it would be your best bet for being able to tailor the game to how you where expecting it to be. I'm not trying to throw any flack at the devs (yet lol) but this is just how the mod community works. You can sometimes get a whole lot of customizability and hello games has said they want to get mod support set up just right for No Man's Sky. Waiting to see just how good the support is might be a wise decision as well if you are on the fence.
 
I think making any assumptions about mod support and the actual capability of mods in this game is a bad idea until and unless there is actual confirmed support for them. As I recall, Sean Murray has said he'd like to do that, but we have no idea what the actual extent of possible modding will be yet.
 
labx said:
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.
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That'd be a shame. For me, bone dry means absolutely zero life.

It's what makes finding something alive all the more mystical.
 
Vincent Grayson said:
I think making any assumptions about mod support and the actual capability of mods in this game is a bad idea until and unless there is actual confirmed support for them. As I recall, Sean Murray has said he'd like to do that, but we have no idea what the actual extent of possible modding will be yet.
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I agree with you, that's why I said what I did at the end there. I just found a video that I think says all we know so far from the developers about mods. http://nomansskymods.com/ Beautiful site as well. I thought that most people just used Nexus though. I'm still fairly new to the PC space.

EDIT: Here is a part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GZgwNRTinc
 
GribbleGrunger said:
He also said he investigated planets.

"40-50" planets in 35 hours ...'
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Yeah, so much to see in randomly generated planet n#823784984230824. After 4 or 5 planets, even 10, I would do the same thing.

Don't act like you don't know how randomly generated stuff works...

He's making a point on how he didn't rush and he played "average". You can stay 1000 hours on a planet if you like but that's clearly not how it's meant to be (if this guy is legit).
 
Uiki said:
He said he landed on 40-50 planets.

"Rushed" to the center..
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In a world where there are billions and billions of planets, yes, it is rushed.

Don't get me wrong: 40 hours of gameplay is an incredible amount of time anyway. People worried about the game's "worth" should be at ease in this era of 79 $ shooters.

But still, he's been on a roll. Less than an hour spent on every planet, without considering travel time.

Nothing is going to please the overhyped and the haters alike.
 
GribbleGrunger said:
He also said he investigated planets.

"40-50" planets in 35 hours ...'
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I doubt every planet is worth giving equal time to. It's also possible this guy just did not find the resource gathering gameplay loop particularly enthralling.

metareferential said:
In a world where there are billions and billions of planets, yes, it is rushed.

Don't get me wrong: 40 hours of gameplay is an incredible amount of time anyway. People worried about the game's "worth" should be at ease in this era of 79 $ shooters.

But still, he's been on a roll. Less than an hour spent on every planet, without considering travel time.

Nothing is going to please the overhyped and the haters alike.
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I just don't understand why somebody is being demonised for engaging in a mechanic of the game (that is, reaching the centre). With all that has been made about making that journey, why is it suddenly an illegitimate way of playing the game?
 
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