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No Man's Sky Spoiler Thread

Oh shit it's black hole time on BT's stream!

EDIT: Black holes warp you straight into a game crash, CONFIRMED!

EDIT 2: Black hole entry take-two was a success. Will spoiler tag what happens at black holes as I know there are at least some people in here who don't want to know specifics like that:
Black Holes jump you massive distances across the galaxy. BT just got warped a staggering 280,000+ light years!
 
I know I shouldn't be surprised at this point, but their handling of "black holes" is extremely disappointing. I don't get why schlocky sci-fi creators don't just use wormholes if they want to have wormholes in their stories/games/whatevers. All they achieve by mixing those concepts is making their audience dumber.
 
Flipyap said:
I know I shouldn't be surprised at this point, but their handling of "black holes" is extremely disappointing. I don't get why schlocky sci-fi creators don't just use wormholes if they want to have wormholes in their stories/games/whatevers. All they achieve by mixing those concepts is making their audience dumber.
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Agreed. I'd prefer realism with the space physics where possible. Excluding warp speeds, because that would suck.

Though, isn't time effectively supposed to stop for anything that reaches the event horizon of a black hole (relative to itself only, obviously)? Could be awkward.
 
catilio said:
Big lurker here. One question,

Does anyone know what are those translucent squares that appear when the player uses the scanner? like this pic:


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(Sorry for the huge screen tho)
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Energon Cubes. No Man's Sky is a secret Transformers game!
 
King_Moc said:
Agreed. I'd prefer realism with the space physics where possible. Excluding warp speeds, because that would suck.

Though, isn't time effectively supposed to stop for anything that reaches the event horizon of a black hole (relative to itself only, obviously)? Could be awkward.
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Even ignoring the realism aspect (I do find realistic space physics to be more fun), the part that makes absolutely no sense to me about the design decision to merge two concepts into one is that they willingly chose to limit their palette of theoretically spectacular space phenomena and gained absolutely nothing by doing so.
They'd probably defend it by saying that a proper black hole would have "no gameplay use," but neither do stars and the game is full of them.
 
Crossing Eden said:
Believability is a very important factor in gaming.
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Ehhhh, yes and no. Immersion is very important, believability can help with that, but we throw that shit out the window with the right execution. Like... Nothing about zombies is believable, but a good zombie game can be baller, and no one asks what the zombie doctor is doing to heal his patients, because who cares.

That's not to say realism doesn't matter, but realism is just a means to an end.
 
Crossing Eden said:
Believability is a very important factor in gaming.
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What's there, that is hard to believe? It still is a pretty coherent (from what I've seen in streams) fantasy-universe (or alternative-reality universe).

Life in a -70C environment? Could be ammonia-based life, which could be a substitute for water in a similar biochemistry.

I know though that seeing what are clearly pine-trees in such an environment breaks the suspension of disbelief a little xD

EDIT: Divky is still streaming.
 
Your boy BigTiggles just got hit with a Terms of Use Violation. I dunno if that's happened to him before but his channel got yanked.
 
Flipyap said:
I know I shouldn't be surprised at this point, but their handling of "black holes" is extremely disappointing. I don't get why schlocky sci-fi creators don't just use wormholes if they want to have wormholes in their stories/games/whatevers. All they achieve by mixing those concepts is making their audience dumber.
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The game does have wormholes tho. Aka portals.
 
Are blackholes a one way trip or can I use them to go back and forth between systems?

Judging by the comment above it seems blackholes are one way while wormholes are let you travel back and forth. Is that accurate?
 
metareferential said:
What's there, that is hard to believe? It still is a pretty coherent (from what I've seen in streams) fantasy-universe (or alternative-reality universe).

Life in a -70C environment? Could be ammonia-based life, which could be a substitute for water in a similar biochemistry.

I know though that seeing what are clearly pine-trees in such an environment breaks the suspension of disbelief a little xD

EDIT: Divky is still streaming.
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I guess who know maybe those pine trees in this galaxy can survive in -70. We're applying an earth bias to this game. I think you'll find that when you scan species in these harsh non earth goldilocks zones, the species there will use different food to survive, so this is in the game. They have matched up plausible food and survivability traits to the random environments you can get. I guess it's hard to forget what we consider to be the absolute truth about our entire existence (at this point in human discovery)
 
Pit said:
I guess who know maybe those pine trees in this galaxy can survive in -70. We're applying an earth bias to this game. I think you'll find that when you scan species in these harsh non earth goldilocks zones, the species there will use different food to survive, so this is in the game. They have matched up plausible food and survivability traits to the random environments you can get. I guess it's hard to forget what we consider to be the absolute truth about our entire existence (at this point in human discovery)
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I have no problems accepting Hello Games' vision for their universe.

Even if those look like pine-trees, they aren't.

And after all, they didn't want to create a realistic universe simulation (even using different biologies), they wanted a more fantasy-oriented one (since they were inspired by 70s sci-fi books and most notably Star Wars, as they have stated multiple times).

Either way, I don't think it's a coincidence that we've seen life in harsh but not extreme environments (the -70c example).

Who knows what else we'll find.

Reading and talking about this while listening to Interstellar's OST. xD

Parmadillo Marshmallow said:
UI is a straight Destiny ripoff?

Also is this really going to be mostly "rock farming simulator 2016"? I was hoping for a much different experience...
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This the first footage you see? There's plenty of variety in the game. But it's "just" that: exploring the universe.
 
Parmadillo Marshmallow said:
UI is a straight Destiny ripoff?

Also is this really going to be mostly "rock farming simulator 2016"? I was hoping for a much different experience...
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Why not? Destiny has one of the best UI's I have ever seen in console game, that is crazy good to use with pad.

And no, not "rock farming simulator 2016". Just goal this moment as he needs materials so he can repair that ship.
 
Parmadillo Marshmallow said:
I guess I was hoping for more combat experiences and fewer farming experiences. Haven't really seen much footage since E3 so wasn't sure what to expect.
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It does very much seem to be a resource gathering game with little crafting and no building. I want to play it, but know I will be bored to death after a few hours. Will probably wait for a decent price drop.
 
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