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[Freeman76]

Yeah it could also be this.

It just sounds right when I think about The Three Paths.
I don't know, the hype is driving me nuts.

I think it is that, I picked the Atlas and it sends me to different Monolith sites to learn more words from the lingo. Not sure what happens if you pick another patch

 

[TheKingOfPain]

Spoiler

They add a save previous save file setting, and they mapped scan to L3. Now no function is mapped to the O button... pretty peculiar.

 

[jett]

See, this is why I am going to backtrack occasionally.

Once you get your suit upgraded, you can go back and take your time exploring this stuff.

This is why I can't look at NMS as an "always moving forward" type of game. There is too much stuff that needs to be revisited.

What?

It's a procedural game with trillions of planets. You'll have plenty of stuff to explore in front of you after getting an upgrade.

 

[TheKingOfPain]

I think it is that, I picked the Atlas and it sends me to different Monolith sites to learn more words from the lingo. Not sure what happens if you pick another patch

Oh, nice. Thanks.

Spoiler

 

[The Elite]

First planet I've been to that's dead, even the description calls it bleak.

Well, something is growing on it.

 

[mokeyjoe]

Spoiler

They add a save previous save file setting, and they mapped scan to L3. Now no function is mapped to the O button... pretty peculiar.

There's a chance they've freed it up for a future feature. Base building maybe.

 

[mokeyjoe]

First planet I've been to that's dead, even the description calls it bleak.

Were there mushrooms? Even the barren moon i saw on a stream had mushrooms.

 

[neoism]

preorder and installed

Kreygasm cant believe its only 4.6gbs

 

[neoism]

Spoiler

They add a save previous save file setting, and they mapped scan to L3. Now no function is mapped to the O button... pretty peculiar.

meh at those options lol
ima just map l3 to O i dont like using my L3 at all i wore it out with destiny

 

[ironcreed]

Night time on a planet changes the environment dramatically. The use of color is amazing.

 

[Cth]

First planet I've been to that's dead, even the description calls it bleak.

Is that marker pointing to a portal?

I know at one point people were wondering what happens when you go through one.

Did anyone ever do so?

 

[A_Dang]

Quick question from the patch notes:

What does this actually mean:

Planet rotation – play testing has made it obvious people are struggling to adjust to this during play so it’s effects have been reduced further…

I thought planets had real-time rotation based off of its axis, distance from its sun, etc.
But I've seen people comment on that not actually reflecting in the game, and having abbreviated day/night cycles (pre-patch), any word on this now (post-patch)?

 

[legacyzero]

Psssst-- Game is 30 FPS

 

[SocksAndShoes]

Psssst-- Game is 30 FPS

This is the only thing that's disappointed me so far, especially after all the chatter about 60FPS from early streamers. Oh well, it would have been nice but a steady 30 FPS is fine.

 

[floatingcoffins]

Is there anything good inside the ruins?

 

[Kaffeemann]

First planet I've been to that's dead, even the description calls it bleak.

You should post that in the screenshot thread: http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=1259850&page=100000

 

[SomTervo]

Quick question from the patch notes:

What does this actually mean:


I thought planets had real-time rotation based off of its axis, distance from its sun, etc.
But I've seen people comment on that not actually reflecting in the game, and having abbreviated day/night cycles (pre-patch), any word on this now (post-patch)?

Basically planets do rotate and this was confusing playtesters because they would leave atmo from the same spot they landed, but would encounter the system from a different angle.

What we've discovered with early copies is a different thing: that time of day is decoupled from planetary rotation. So the planet's sunny/dark side visible from space is ignored by the gameplay on-foot, where day /night just happen at 7am and 7pm on a different time scale.

 

[A_Dang]

Basically planets do rotate and this was confusing playtesters because they would leave atmo from the same spot they landed, but would encounter the system from a different angle.

What we've discovered with early copies is a different thing: that time of day is decoupled from planetary rotation. So the planet's sunny/dark side visible from space is ignored by the gameplay on-foot, where day /night just happen at 7am and 7pm on a different time scale.

Thanks for the answer! Does the time scale on foot relate to factors such as planet size, rotation on axis, etc. or is it the same set 1 min = 1 hour (or similar) scale for each planet?

 

[Betty]

Were there mushrooms? Even the barren moon i saw on a stream had mushrooms.

There were some shards of plutonium but that's about it.

Also, found a planet with gigantic nuggets of gold, littered everywhere.

Before mining

After mining

 

[Mahonay]

There were some shards of plutonium but that's about it.

Also, found a planet with gigantic nuggets of gold, littered everywhere.

Before mining


After mining

That poor planet.

 

[Kinitari]

Any links to the upcoming Hello Games stream?

edit: found it after spending like 10 seconds searching, with my lazy ass:

https://blog.eu.playstation.com/201...-play-no-mans-sky-live-tonight-at-7-30pm-bst/
https://www.twitch.tv/hellogamesofficial

2:30pm EST

 

[Rsinart]

Wonder post patch but before the game launches if we can scan creatures and just wait to upload them till tomorrow once they reset everything, if we will get credit. Was thinking about deleting my save and starting fresh tonight.

 

[mokeyjoe]

Basically planets do rotate and this was confusing playtesters because they would leave atmo from the same spot they landed, but would encounter the system from a different angle.

What we've discovered with early copies is a different thing: that time of day is decoupled from planetary rotation. So the planet's sunny/dark side visible from space is ignored by the gameplay on-foot, where day /night just happen at 7am and 7pm on a different time scale.

One thing's for sure, day/night is much slower now. Which I prefer. You can always fly to the other side.

 

[everyday math]

There were some shards of plutonium but that's about it.

Also, found a planet with gigantic nuggets of gold, littered everywhere.

Before mining


After mining

 

[ichtyander]

There were some shards of plutonium but that's about it.

Also, found a planet with gigantic nuggets of gold, littered everywhere.

Before mining


After mining

Hahah, incredible.

Does the hole stay permanent? Have you tried leaving the area (going to the other side of the planet), or leaving the planet, star system and then going back? If you ever have the time, I'd love to try out that experiment.

 

[Mahonay]

Hahah, incredible.

Does the hole stay permanent? Have you tried leaving the area (going to the other side of the planet), or leaving the planet, star system and then going back? If you ever have the time, I'd love to try out that experiment.

I'm curious about this too.

 

[Fushichou187]

Does the hole stay permanent? Have you tried leaving the area (going to the other side of the planet), or leaving the planet, star system and then going back? If you ever have the time, I'd love to try out that experiment.

Well we'll be able to experiment ourselves tomorrow But yeah, I'm also really curious what the thresholds are for permanency for the changes you make. I expect resources and creatures to, in general, respawn unless you do something massive like kill off everything or mine all of a resource, etc... but digging out huge holes from mining, or a large cave network, etc.. I'd like to see remain.

 

[The Elite]

There were some shards of plutonium but that's about it.

Also, found a planet with gigantic nuggets of gold, littered everywhere.

Before mining


After mining

Humans.

 

[CarbonFire]

I'm curious about this too.

From everything Sean/HG have said about the game through development, digging and mining resources should be saved for you. So if you come back, that hole should still be there.

Also, where are the stream links? I need to live vicariously through other NMS players until Friday ;_;

 

[Mahonay]

From everything Sean/HG have said about the game through development, digging and mining resources should be saved for you. So if you come back, that hole should still be there.

Also, where are the stream links? I need to live vicariously through other NMS players until Friday ;_;

This guy just started a new save
https://www.twitch.tv/nomansskythrowaway

 

[Betty]

Hahah, incredible.

Does the hole stay permanent? Have you tried leaving the area (going to the other side of the planet), or leaving the planet, star system and then going back? If you ever have the time, I'd love to try out that experiment.

It seems things are permanent, every cave I've dug, alien I ineracted with etc remains even after visiting other planets so that gold in that location won't be there.

 

[CarbonFire]

This guy just started a new save
https://www.twitch.tv/nomansskythrowaway

Aces, thanks. Sounds like he's playing with the new patch too, awesome!

 

[ichtyander]

It seems things are permanent, every cave I've dug, alien I ineracted with etc remains even after visiting other planets so that gold in that location won't be there.

Sounds fantastic, thanks! Can't wait to try out the limits of the game myself once the PC version releases.

 

[5taquitos]

pop-in while flying seems a lot better post-patch.

 

[BigDug13]

I'd rather have 30fps and a future fix for FOV than 60fps with super-low FOV with no future option to change it because the 60fps game has already pushed PS4 to the bleeding edge.

FPS seems to be a CPU bottleneck while FOV seems like it could be fixed as a graphical upgrade.

 

[Brawndo Addict]

So what's the speculation on the three paths thing? Are the impacts going to be obvious based on your 'choices' or is just a thing where we won't know until people get super far into it and compare results? If I had to guess I would predict it's whether you want the game to have more combat, exploration, or trading, and then the inner core changes to reflect that. Very curious to see what it ends up being.

 

[Michael Armbrust]

One thing's for sure, day/night is much slower now. Which I prefer. You can always fly to the other side.

The patch also seems to have fixed the stars not moving at night. Makes it feel much more real in the streams.

 

[Fushichou187]

I'd rather have 30fps and a future fix for FOV than 60fps with super-low FOV with no future option to change it because the 60fps game has already pushed PS4 to the bleeding edge.

FPS seems to be a CPU bottleneck while FOV seems like it could be fixed as a graphical upgrade.

Wonder what improvements Neo-mode NMS would will bring...

 

[More_Badass]

There were some shards of plutonium but that's about it.

Also, found a planet with gigantic nuggets of gold, littered everywhere.

Before mining


After mining

You know what to do

 

[Kinitari]

Hello Games Live Stream just about to start:

http://twitch.tv/hellogamesofficial

 

[Netherscourge]

It's weird how Sean plays his game in a really, uh... boring way.

The other streamers are really digging into it, crafting, upgrading, etc...

Sean just floats around not really doing much of anything.

 

[Fushichou187]

It's weird how Sean plays his game in a really, uh... boring way.

The other streamers are really digging into it, crafting, upgrading, etc...

Sean just floats around not really doing much of anything.

Perhaps, but Sean is talking about gameplay mechanics and mentioning things that could be coming in the future, commentary regarding the making of NMS, etc.. which I think is fascinating.

 

[CarbonFire]

Wonder what improvements Neo-mode NMS would will bring...

Considering the game is HEAVILY cpu bound, and the cpu is supposedly not that upgraded over the current PS4, maybe not that much of an improvement? Better visuals/textures/effects/anti-aliasing I suppose, but no guarantee they'd be able to up the framerate.

 

[Fushichou187]

Considering the game is HEAVILY cpu bound, and the cpu is supposedly not that upgraded over the current PS4, maybe not that much of an improvement? Better visuals/textures/effects/anti-aliasing I suppose, but no guarantee they'd be able to up the framerate.

Yeah, I don't necessarily think the framerate would go up, but I'd definitely be interested in better AA, effects, etc..

 

[5taquitos]

Yeah, I don't necessarily think the framerate would go up, but I'd definitely be interested in better AA, effects, etc..

Well Sean already confirmed that a new AA solution is coming in the future, along with a graphical upgrade due to improved rendering. I doubt they'll be Neo-exclusive features.

 

[MrCompletely]

I feel like I've heard more about what's coming in the future for this game than what's in the game at launch.

 

[Fushichou187]

I feel like I've heard more about what's coming in the future for this game than what's in the game at launch.

Maybe watch some streams playing with the 1.03 patch? That should clear up questions of what's in the game at launch.

 

[Betty]

You know what to do

Ha, I wish, this whole system is mineral rich.

As valuable as gold is (220 units) Emeril is even more valuable (275 units) and there's another planet with whole bunches of it.

 

[RepairmanJack]

They didn't think they'd have to moderate the naming?

Edit: Interesting to hear from him while he's playing, but it really doesn't show the game well. I've been more interested in the game watching just about every other stream.

 

[MrPressStart]

So you go to a planet with tons of gold. Is the gold worth a lot for trade? In other words if you mine gold can you get rich????