Every bump procedural!

With a bit of digging, you can see about 25min of gameplay of a guy on his starter planet. I'm staying strong for the moment, because I want the surprise of it, but I hear it's pretty badass.

10 days now until release, and I'm super-hyped, to the point I don't even feel like playing any games I own right now.

 

Starbound is a nice substitute, and only 15 bucks. It captures a lot of the exploration feels that I think No Man's Sky will.

 

Yeah, I'm on full blackout. Can't wait! So close!

 

The hype for this game is unreal. I really, really hope when I get it that it lives up to the hype, but I can't stop that niggling sense of doubt. But if it does, this game could be pretty revolutionary in my opinion.

 

Oh jesus.

No game can live up to this ridiculous hype. Go read up on it, the gameplay loop isn't a secret.

 

If you couldn't help yourself and peeked at some of the first impressions like me, Sean Murray released the day 1 patch notes for NMS.

Warning. There are very light spoilers!

Spoiler

Shocked to learn you can feed animals for different benefits, such as becoming your pets, mining for you and even protecting you.

It didn't make it in this patch, but in the next one they're adding the ability to build 'huge freighters' and even bases(!) planetside - potentially the best reason for finding beautiful planets!

Added 'brake shifting' (180 turn maybe?) and critical hits in space combat, as well as bounty missions and increased pirate frequency / difficulty depending on your cargo.

And possibly one of the most surprising additions, the ability to scan systems scanned by other players to 'increase collision'... Whaaaaaa?!

 

Hugplx

You playing it on PS$ or PC?

 

Picking up from Gamestop tomorrow but I probably won't get to dive in fully until Wednesday. I'm super excited about the prospect of letting a video game control my life, however.

 

ps4. I have an insane rig, but I'm getting PSVR, not the PC variants. Futureproofing

 

ahhhh so excited! i've been trying to stay away from all the hype, really hoping it ends up as good as it looks!

 

less than 45 min guys. ^.^

 

Man, I just played from midnight (release) until 4am (on quest to create multiple warp cells)...

I got work in 3 hours...

Fuck

 

Took an embarrassing amount of time to realise triangle is how to switch between weapon modes...

Anyone try grenades? I've only used to bolt caster, but it's a bit 'meh'. Grenades sound way more fun, but how are their damage?

... I need something to properly fuck off little spiders while farming...

 

So apparently there's no multiplayer at all, as in two people were at the same location on a planet at the same time and had no indication of the other being there.

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/comments/4wxydf/im_about_to_meet_another_player_seriously/

 

So, a heads up for the Atlas path. It's not spoilery, but I'll tag for those super sensitive.

Spoiler

Try main line it, and try to keep 10 Atlas Stones on you. It may be difficult given inventory in this game, but the option I couldn't choose at the 'end' of that path sounds incredible and I'm sad I couldn't see it.

My ship, which I'm super proud of. I've encountered more with more slots which I could have bought, but I've only seen this model once - can't say the same for others.



Also, the first creature I bothered naming, I present to you, from NMS' Menagerie of Wonder: Unnecessary Legs!

 

So, two things:

1 - Why is the release time so weird on PC? It comes out at 1800 BST, which appears to be afternoon in the US. And without a pre-release download, that seems really odd.

2 - Apparently, you shouldn't cash in your pre-order bonus ship early game.

Spoiler

If you don't cash it in, you get the recipe for crafting a hyperdrive (or whatever) during a 'tutorial' quest. If you do cash in the pre-order, then you don't need the recipe, so the game doesn't give it to you. There is a fix for this, but it involves buying another ship. Which you might not want to do straight away.

 

Both ships are trash anyway, don't become attached.

 

Just bought and downloaded No Mans Sky for PC, and I'm already experiencing a problem. The game shows up in my steam library, I click the play button and a box appears saying that the game is launching. After that, there's nothing. On my profile it shows that I'm in game for about 20 seconds, then it changes and says I'm not in game.

Not really sure what's happening so I'll update all my drivers and restart my PC. Hopefully that fixes the problem.

 

Update from Murray

This game is incredible. Best moments so far were the first warp, the planet with sentinels that come after you non-stop and the penis-shaped monster that followed me around on my first planet.

It has flaws, but the obscene amount of enjoyment you get makes you totally ignore them. I whole-heartedly rec this game to anyone with a PC or PS4.

 

How does this compare to Elite in the space trucking sense?