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No Man's Sky Spoiler Thread

mokeyjoe said:
I like the fact that you get money for renaming things. Kind of provides a point to it beyond customisation.
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I actually didn't know about this. All the more reason for me to go wild with naming.

Does the PS4 support USB keyboards? I might plug in for maximum efficiency.
 
I'm all in on this game now. I've seen enough, and read enough, that it'll be good enough for me. That's if the crashes are fixed, by the way.

But, ah, I feel like people almost have to watch some of this stuff from a general perspective and not listen to forum talk. Too much information being thrown around, too much hyperbole or downplaying elements. It's a little difficult to suss out what this game has to offer beyond what Sean said.

Hopefully my FX4300 can withstand the CPU load, because I really don't wanna get this for the PS4. It's real difficult to stream because my mic is one of those Blue Snowballs, and my Elgato has a huge constant delay after a few minutes.
 
That everyone starts in the same galaxy thing, maybe it's only because it's iterative? Like X number of people will spawn on Euclid I think it was called, and when X amount of people will have spawned there, people will start somewhere else? I don't know how being online/offline could affect this though. Being random would have a stronger case then this though because of that.. hmm...


Dredd97 said:
so how long do people plan on staying on their starter planet...

the explorer in me wants to spend plenty of time there, because I know it will all be of some interest....
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Don't think there's any inherent good answer to this. Stay on your starter planet, find more stuff or go on another planet, find more (but different) stuff.

You can't explore everything, so explore whatever you feel like and move on when you're tired of that particular thing.
 
Karspankey said:
I don't even think you have to re-name anything to get credits! Just have to upload your discoveries. I'll be trying to name everything I find though!
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When one of the streamers renamed something he'd previously discovered it popped up with '40 units' I'm pretty sure.
 
Seriously, I can't stop falling in love with scenes like this.

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taken from the SaberJudo stream.

I'll just keep a Captain's Log with all sorts of pictures from my voyages.
 
Vincent Grayson said:
From what I can tell "no/little atmosphere" is what causes the O2 meter to show (like when underwater, and as opposed to the heat/cold meters). I know I saw it on at least one planet or moon in a stream.
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Could be. Still lets say that planet has breathable atmosphere, no toxins in air or other hazards for suite to filter, has plant life and surface temp of +20C then what reason there is for suits lifesupport systems to drain? System has literally zero reasons to be on as environment is 100% livable.
 
Can you land on a planet, start walking away from your ship and theoretically "lose" the ship? As in not be able to find it?

Or walk away for two hours and it require you to walk back two hours to find your ship?
 
GET2DAACHOPPAAAA said:
Can you land on a planet, start walking away from your ship and theoretically "lose" the ship? As in not be able to find it?

Or walk away for two hours and it require you to walk back two hours to find your ship?
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The latter :D Sean actually wanted players to be able to lose their ships, but the rest of the team got him to change his mind.
 
Tovarisc said:
Could be. Still lets say that planet has breathable atmosphere, no toxins in air or other hazards for suite to filter, has plant life and surface temp of +20C then what reason there is for suits lifesupport systems to drain? System has literally zero reasons to be on as environment is 100% livable.
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Viruses and bacteria. Not that it's in the game, but that's why I wouldn't want to take my suit off on an alien planet.
 
lcap said:
Seriously, I can't stop falling in love with scenes like this.


taken from the SaberJudo stream.

I'll just keep a Captain's Log with all sorts of pictures from my voyages.
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Oh my god...

If this was all the game is, ny purchase is already justified
 
Tovarisc said:
Could be. Still lets say that planet has breathable atmosphere, no toxins in air or other hazards for suite to filter, has plant life and surface temp of +20C then what reason there is for suits lifesupport systems to drain? System has literally zero reasons to be on as environment is 100% livable.
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But you're thinking about what is "livable" for a human, and we aren't playing humans.
 
Dredd97 said:
so how long do people plan on staying on their starter planet...

the explorer in me wants to spend plenty of time there, because I know it will all be of some interest....
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If my starter planet is really cool I'll probably spend an hour or two on it collecting what I need and taking screenshots in different lighting and such. Otherwise I'll move on asap and look for an interesting planet to do that.
 
Karspankey said:
The latter :D Sean actually wanted players to be able to lose their ships, but the rest of the team got him to change his mind.
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Lmao just had hilarious mental image.

Imagine if they added a hardcore mode or something. Where ping/scan didn't show you your ship etc and the was no hud. Imagine starting a new game, running off to find resources for your first ship - and then imagine never finding it again. Ever. You lose it within two hours and spend 50+ hours in game time scouring your starting planet - the ship off in some gully you'll never find - literally living and dying the entire game on one planet sized planet.
 
SomTervo said:
Lmao just had hilarious mental image.

Imagine if they added a hardcore mode or something. Where ping/scan didn't show you your ship etc and the was no hud. Imagine starting a new game, running off to find resources for your first ship - and then imagine never finding it again. Ever. You lose it within two hours and spend 50+ hours in game time scouring your starting planet - the ship off in some gully you'll never find - literally living and dying the entire game on one planet sized planet.
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I immediately started thinking about the same thing! I wonder if we can turn off the HUD? If we can't, I imagine PC will have a mod for exactly what you described!
 
I've watched maybe 45 minutes of streams combined, but this seems like a major step forward for procedurally generated content. Worlds 'feel' different and unique meaningful ways, they're not just a series of derivative palette swaps, which, honestly, was my only real point of concern. More hyped than ever.
 
I am curious what kind of additions they will make to the game world... I would personally enjoy the ability to make a planet my home and build on it.
 
Se_7_eN said:
I am curious what kind of additions they will make to the game world... I would personally enjoy the ability to make a planet my home and build on it.
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That seems entirely antithetical to the core premise of the game though. I get that some people want that, but I don't think it's likely to go that direction.
 
Nameless said:
I've watched maybe 45 minutes of streams combined, but this seems like a major step forward for procedurally generated content. Worlds 'feel' different and unique meaningful ways, they're not just a series of derivative palette swaps, which, honestly, was my only real point of concern. More hyped than ever.
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Agreed. It's actually funny watching the masses in other threads harp on about how it'll be dull etc while we've been privileged enough to see just how dynamic and deep the game is.
 
Vincent Grayson said:
That seems entirely antithetical to the core premise of the game though. I get that some people want that, but I don't think it's likely to go that direction.
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Perhaps now, but nothing prevents them having a super late end game upgrade that gives you the ability to have your favourite planet be your homebase etc.

Also, anyone else just lurking until someone posts another streamlink? :P
 
Why doesn't Dailymotion vids work on my laptop? I can hear them and even see the picture when I slide through them but nothing shows in the main window. Anyone got a clue what it could be?
 
SomTervo said:
Lmao just had hilarious mental image.

Imagine if they added a hardcore mode or something. Where ping/scan didn't show you your ship etc and the was no hud. Imagine starting a new game, running off to find resources for your first ship - and then imagine never finding it again. Ever. You lose it within two hours and spend 50+ hours in game time scouring your starting planet - the ship off in some gully you'll never find - literally living and dying the entire game on one planet sized planet.
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That's not "hardcore mode" so much as "broken space suit" mode. You know that a lone interstellar explorer wearing a spacesuit is going to have a locator in his/her suit that will ping back to the ship; it's the only thing you have to truly protect you at any point, so knowing where it is at all times would be priority number one. And the HUD isn't like in COD where it's a weird overlay over what is ostensibly unimpeded vision; it's text projected on to the visor we know your character is wearing. Getting rid of that would truly ruin immersion as it takes away from the feeling that the only thing protecting you from death is a thin piece of glass (or plastic, or whatever the visor is made out of). Admittedly, some HUD elements could be sacrificed (I don't need it telling me "press space to jump), but getting rid of all of it just seems, for lack of a better word, "unrealistic."
 
Atomic Playboy said:
That's not "hardcore mode" so much as "broken space suit" mode. You know that a lone interstellar explorer wearing a spacesuit is going to have a locator in his/her suit that will ping back to the ship; it's the only thing you have to truly protect you at any point, so knowing where it is at all times would be priority number one. And the HUD isn't like in COD where it's a weird overlay over what is ostensibly unimpeded vision; it's text projected on to the visor we know your character is wearing. Getting rid of that would truly ruin immersion as it takes away from the feeling that the only thing protecting you from death is a thin piece of glass (or plastic, or whatever the visor is made out of). Admittedly, some HUD elements could be sacrificed (I don't need it telling me "press space to jump), but getting rid of all of it just seems, for lack of a better word, "unrealistic."
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Still, I hope on pc we can turn it off, when I feel like to.
 
Nameless said:
I've watched maybe 45 minutes of streams combined, but this seems like a major step forward for procedurally generated content. Worlds 'feel' different and unique meaningful ways, they're not just a series of derivative palette swaps, which, honestly, was my only real point of concern. More hyped than ever.
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any examples? that was my biggest concern too, and from the streams I've watched they haven't seemed all that different... what kind of stuff was there? feel free to spoiler tag
 
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