No Man's Sky

Sean Murray has said he expects the team to continue working on NMS for the next year.

http://www.videogamer.com/features/game_guide/no_mans_sky_story_guide_complete_guide_to_the_secret_third_path_ending.html

kudos

$60 is steep for an indie tech demo, but I love exploration games, love procedural generation, and want to encourage this sort of endeavor.

"want to encourage this sort of endeavor" kinda says it all

pc release seems to be a mess, doesn't run well at all for me compared to other recent games

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1DJPm6eEow

ended up refunding it after spending an hour failing to get it to run with an acceptable framerate. may try again at some point if i upgrade my pc or they optimize it way more, but seems like ps4 is the way to play this for now if you dont have a high end video card

Ugh, good to know.

Ive started it on the PS4, but was dumped into an insanely toxic planet my exosuit could only last 5 minutes in, with basically no zinc to be found. I gave up and deleted my save and retried, its muuuch easier now. Havent got far yet tho. I like it, its kind of zen, I can see why others might not.

So to those like Allan who said resources were scarce and you had to stay near the ship? Thats just a bad planet generated. Chuck it, start again.

First evening in NMS was good, no hiccups/crashes on a modest PC (i7, GTX 760). 4 hours, 28 milestones, 2 systems, 7 planets, 12 add'l slots (22 ship, 17 exosuit, 10 tool), and 2 M units. Most units from farming a lifeless planet with towers of gold and caves of plutonium, so lavishly wasted plutonium for short hops between glittering outcrops.

I seem to have lost the plot with the Atlas path. I fear I may have to backtrack to the first system to scan down the next step.

Have you tried backtracking? I'm not sure whether it's impossible or just near-impossible but I've not managed to do it yet, previous visited systems just seem to vanish from the map for me.

WHat is this Atlas path thing about? I agreed to it with no idea what it does.

There are three game paths: To Da Center (feat Nada & Polo), an Atlas path, and a 3rd no one's seen yet...

It is possible to backtrack. I decided to name my systems "Sanpaku 001", "Sanpaku 002", etc. and I was able to go back to 001 to root around.

Escape Velocity, nerds

We've all moved on to Endless Sky: https://endless-sky.github.io

PC version does nada on my laptop - starting screen, 5 secs of song then crash to desktop. I'm not too fussed, we didnt pay for it, I'll just have to play the PS4 version when I can steal a moment from my house full of gamehogs.

Has anyone found any use to feeding the animals? Some things Ive read suggest they'll poop valuables?

We're having fun renaming all the planets stupd things like Evandando and Gordangano, and the animals Fatbum.

And yelling "come back, ziiiinc!" a lot.

WIRED speaks with 65daysofstatic's Paul Wolinski on how the math-rock band crafted arguably the largest game soundtrack ever

Ya the music side of this Ive known about for years, been following the band on it since the game was a twinkle in the eye a few years back.

ok i took the bait, now spending actual $$$ to upgrade my pc to play this

I'd wait... there seems to be hella issues with crashing on PC :(

I've now run NMS on PC for 24 hours without a crash (specs upthread).

* Sad 65daysofstatic can't afford PS4s (or PCs?) to see their work in context. Maybe Hello Games can pass one on (they're doing very well for a team of 11 devs/artists). I became interested in them due to the inclusion of a track in the 2014 NMS trailer, and the OST is an EOY contender for me.
* Atlas path can be reentered at space anomalies
* At half-buried ore skyscrapers, be wary of falling to the bottom as you mine. There are gaps down there in the collision detection and you can fall out of the map, to drown in virtual water that underlies all maps (even bone-dry ones). I teleported irreplaceable items like Atlas stones out to my ship before dying, as I'll never return to that grave.
* The ships with spherical cockpits have the best view, particularly for landing.
* Selling loot on-world will save a lot of hassle fighting off pirates that scan you. Only ship cargo appears to matter for their risk/reward calculations, so exosuit spaces are useful.
* Also, exosuits can have up to 48 inventory slots. Very useful to keep a periodic table there for upgrades.

I visited a moon that was fucking beautiful and breathtaking last night that also seemd to have some procgen glitches... in addition to the incredibly gorgeous tubes that looked like weird volcanos had erupted in a near-zero gravity environment millions of years ago, there were also giant smoothed cubes of land where the elevation calculations were all fucked.

also i took an old twitter account of mine and repurposed it as my endless no mna's sky screenshot factory, intend to use that to great effect soon

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Inclusion of geometric anomalies in the surface was a patch 1.03 thing. Personally I think they overdid it on the frequency of landscape cubes and levitating tubes (which I've seen on about 20% of worlds).

ah, i've only seen the one, but i spent a huge amount of time in one system because it had six planets and my gf helped me name all of the planets and animals we found together and i became attached to it ;_;

also it had aluminum and copper :D

so if i don't start playing this soon is the universe going to fill up with ppl's joke names for planets and animals and it'll be like a fresh coat of snow after a thousand children have stomped through it?

there are a quintillion planets or something, sooooo probably not?

But people are seeing a lot more overlap than you'd expect?

yeah that's what i'm hearing which makes me concerned :/

I'll probably buy this next week when I get home. It's possible to have multiple accounts, right? My wife is really interested in playing so it would be nice of we could have our own separate games going.

also, how easy is it to avoid fighting and violence? She is interested in exploring and naming, not at all in fighting space pirates and sentinels.

I've yet to see evidence why I'd even bother with this game tbh.

also, how easy is it to avoid fighting and violence?

I also avoid violence and have had very few issues. Some planets have scary fauna, but you can avoid them. I've only been attacked by pirates a couple of times (3?) and fled twice. Sentinels only atack if you brazenly destroy the planet as quickly and relentlessly as possible.

Also I'm p sure if you use two accounts on the PS4, you'll have two games going. Dunno how PS Plus plays into the "online" component, though.

Good to hear, thanks!

Jumped into my first black hole last night and it crashed the PS4. Tbf that's probably what would happen in real life too but still. It was 2am so I didn't bother rebooting to see whether it'd work on the second try.

That's kind of awesome, although I bet it was annoying at the time

Tbf that's probably what would happen in real life too

haha

COME BACK ZIIIIIINC

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BmigUSDIcAATsFT.jpg:large

I feel I'm going to have many, many 80 and 90% completions in my quest to become a NMS naturalist.

Bit the bullet and bought this against my better judgement. Surprised that reviews don't mention how cheap this game feels. It's all very early 90's. Also is there a way to orient yourself in underground caverns? Spent an hour last night trying to find my way out.

Multi-tool grenades are quite effective for digging out of cave labyrinths. Use the scanner to locate where surface resources come closest to the cave system, and dig towards them.

NMS is certainly not for everyone. If you could spend hours looking at the artwork of 70s/80s sci-fi paperbacks, its for you.

Graphics dont seem cheap to me? Theyre quite painterly, but it seems purposeful.

I feel like current AAA gaming has spoiled people.

I like this "review" of the game and agree 100%. I've been enjoying this more than any other game in a long, long time.

http://dubiousquality.blogspot.com/2016/08/no-mans-sky.html

I'm coming around, I want this now.

PC users, are there still issues with this game ?

https://m.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/comments/4y046e/wheres_the_nms_we_were_sold_on_heres_a_big_list/

list of features suggested by devs now found to be absent in the final cut

https://twitter.com/Britbongreturns/status/765190830894317568

omg

That's hilarious. Is it real?