Well, it's taken them over 4 years but they finally did it. 

WE GOT GIANT SPACE SANDWORMS LADS!!!

Anyone still playing this? Never played it but the Desolation update that adds abandoned space freighters to explore sounds up my alley.

Didn't they fix the HDR quite quickly?

Re: updates, they re-released the boxed game as No Man's Sky Beyond on PS4 around the same time they did the Xbox port - so part of the reason for the free updates was to generate revenue by resetting the Metacritic scores for the new versions of the game and get sales that way.

Dinostar77 wrote:

Anyone still playing this? Never played it but the Desolation update that adds abandoned space freighters to explore sounds up my alley.

I was a tad disappointed to find that the Space Hulks were very much end game content and couldn't be readily accessed by new players on account of the fact that it costs 1M space credits to reveal their coordinates 

Great game though; people like to draw parallels between this and whether Cyberpunk, after a legion of updates, could also be similarly redeemed.  Point is though, NMS wasn't fundamentally broken upon release, it just lacked all the promised content. Which they subsequently patched in, over a series of years, with lots of canny themed updates, making it into the very decent  game it is today. Doubt we be saying the same about Cyberpunk on PS4 in a few years time.

The Space Hulks are a nice change and are worth doing but having done one, I'd say it's a noveltg rather than a new Dead Space.
1m credits actually isn't that bad - I made a beeline for the hyperdrive upgrades and built an activated Indium mine on a nice hostile planet. It was a few hours of grind to unlock everything but it basically means unlimited credits.

I think I'd play this a bit more if the VR mode didn't make me feel sick.

And this is getting an update.

https://www.nomanssky.com/expeditions-update/?cli_action=1617200604.738

Seems to require a fresh start and even though I'm only a few days in, I'm not sure that's something I'd want to be doing. There's a fair bit of progress that I'd miss, I think.

isanbard wrote:

Matt_82 wrote:

And this is getting an update. https://www.nomanssky.com/expeditions-update/?cli_action=1617200604.738 Seems to require a fresh start and even though I'm only a few days in, I'm not sure that's something I'd want to be doing. There's a fair bit of progress that I'd miss, I think.

I'm about a millionty hours into the 17th start on PS5 after cracking along on PS4 and PC beforehand and that list of changes means I'll be going for yet another new start. That's one hell of a barrage of upgrades and QoL and... everything changes in that ol' list there Matt. You can speed run through a lot of the early stuff once you've had that idea of what's going on.

Aye tbh the more I think, the more I realise that I've done fuck all Haha!

Uuugh I really wanna play this again. But my save file is caught in the nethers somewhere between ps4/ps5. Not sure I have the grit to start anew.

Yeah they did good.

I've been enjoying this.  Not entirely sure that it has legs with me as clearly there is a lot to do but each thing is often a shallow experience.  Eg finding crashed freighters is just a digging exercise.  Still, despite that being kicked to the dashboard quite regularly, I'm enjoying it.

Had a pretty great moment on a seemingly wonderful planet.  It was so great that I was considering dumping my original base and moving there.  There was no toxic conditions and no storms.  The animals were cool and the whole place just looked awesome.  I probably spent an hour or so there, checking out various markers etc.  I was down at a beach, wondering if I should set up shop there, so I could also expand into the water in the future.

Until I got the predator marker flash up but couldn't see anything.  I could see some movement in the distance but no animal.  Then I realised that it was underground and the movement was just rocks getting kicked up.  And it wasn't in the distance.  I couldn't scan it or shoot it because it was underground.  And it wasn't an 'it'.  It was a 'they'.  And they were swarming me.  Now up until this point, the game had been pretty easy.  I was yet to lose some much as a health point and at most, I'd lost a tiny part of my shield.  So I was more curious than scared of these bouncing rocks.  Within seconds my shield is gone and I'm losing health.  My weapons are useless because there's nothing to shoot at.  I run away until I'm tired.  I fly away until I run out of juice.  Then run again.  They're everywhere by this point.  I could barley see what was going on because of the flying rocks and the screen going red.  I make it to my ship with seconds to spare.  They try to get in but are harmless now.  Fucking hell.  Like an actual horror film.  The whole planet was tainted. They could be anywhere.

Not all the planets are quite as exciting.  But every now and then to find something that really makes the game soar.

Yeah it gets to a point where you've seen enough of the permutations in scenery/terrain that nothing much really surprises any more. It's interesting how a game with so much stuff can feel so incredibly empty. It's a neat approach to creating a game world but ultimately the busywork feels pretty pointless for me.

Matt_82 wrote:

But every now and then to find something that really makes the game soar.

I urge you to give ED a try. Boring and beauty go hand in hand with ED, and the further out you travel the more beauty you will find, but when you do it can be spectacular. The sense of being alone in ED is its best and worst feature but with only 0.04% of the worlds discovered (I thought it was 5% for some reason) the sense that you're going where nobody has seen before is much stronger than in NMS, and the scale far grander.

Worlds feel genuinely ancient, and landing on an unexplored one is about as close to genuine space travel as you'll get. It's hard to put a finger on how it manages to convey this so well but the sound design probably has a lot to do with it. And the visuals of course.



But if you just want to be a tourist and visit the sights others have discovered then that's great too.

Yes.

superflyninja wrote:

@SpaceGazelle I agree about ED. It just feels like proper space, not that Id know but its pretty incredible. Its the scale and distance that can be just awe inspiring.

If you have a beefy PC it can be stunning in VR but it needs real grunt to be able to play it at a sharp resolution with SS dialled up. When you're out in an SRV on a planet surface it's very easy to forget it's not real, to the point I once got the buggy stuck in a hole and spent an embarrassing few seconds genuinely concerned how I would get back to the ship.

SpaceGazelle wrote:

I urge you to give ED a try.

I want to try ED but I really don't know if I can be bothered with other gamers.  In NMS, I can set it so that if I meet another player, we can't shoot/damage each other and I can continue on my merry way.  That's not how ED works, best as I can tell.  

Gamers are trash.  I'm at a stage in life where if something is irritating me, I completely cut it out.  I don't want to be dodging assholes who exist to grief other players.  I just don't have time for that shit, anymore.