No Man’s Sky soars again as new update prompts biggest discount yet
No Man’s Sky soars again as new update prompts biggest discount yet
The iconic redemption story gets a new chapter as the No Man’s Sky Worlds update and a big Steam sale saving see its player count climb.
I'm tempted to buy it just because.
26I played it for the very first time a few months ago and honestly became obsessed with it for a few weeks. If the game looks like something you would be into then it's absolutely worth $25.
6That was my experience too. A few weeks of "This is cool" then it became boring and repetitive; all the planets and star systems are basically the same
Maybe I missed something?
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It's like $25 right now. I just bought it at work. I'll put it on the Steam Deck when I get home.
6Don't buy it just because.
5but buy it, as a little treat
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I have 600 hours in it so far and I only stopped playing because I built my freighter large enough that pieces started disappearing off it randomly
4Buy it because it's a fun game. It really is. I've got 300 hours in and will probably start a new play-through with this update.
I was a skeptic too, and say what you will, but Hello Games has pushed a huge amount of content out for the game without ever having yet charged for an update or DLC. No other company I know would have done that.
3Larian probably.
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Right?? I got 15 games from the SSS and have only been playing the shit out of space station 14 which is totally free. I bought chivalry 2 yesterday because I saw a YouTube short and went on to find that their model and monetization is really principled. I played the tutorial and went back to SS14. It's good even. I'm just obsessed elsewhere and am happy to give the devs that money.
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I just wish they'd finally give VR roomscale support. As it is it's extremely clunky and mods can only do so much to fix it.
20I tried to play it on VR about 3 years ago and got stuck in the tutorial looking for an engine part on another part of the starting planet, I think the map was glitched. Did they fix that?
3I only ever played it in VR and didn't have this issue, so maybe?
I did fall through the floor on my freighter and lose all my shit once, that wasn't nice.
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I've heard that it went from being embarrassingly bad to actually really good. Is there a good video that can elaborate on that for me?
14I’m partial to this one
7They've added so much since launch. Entirely new systems from base and ship building to full questlines. The new update improved the world generation and hoo boy is it pretty. I will say the amount of pollen on some the planets is melting my GPU.
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I'm having a blast just traveling around looking at stuff in VR in this game. After about 25 hours I still have no idea what the actual gameplay is supposed to be.
7It's focused on exploration with combat, base building, and trading being important secondary factors. It's not everyone's cup of tea for sure, but it is the best game available at what it does. The immense expanse of the universe(s) is front and center in the experience.
Checking it out in VR is on my gaming bucket list, as it's already amazing on just a regular screen.
5I'd personally put quotes in combat. Haven't checked this latest update yet, but combat has always been a complete letdown, especially on foot. Your character starts putting down your weapon if you spend 1 second without firing. Once the animation starts, it will add considerable lag between your click/button press and it actually firing, which can make you miss shots very often during fights. Beating those orange drones never feel like any sort of challenge, just an annoying chore, especially when the repair ones start healing your target from very far away
Space combat is fine, but nothing to write home about. It's all about dogfights among small craft, which is much better than doing anything on foot. Freighters and corvettes exist solely as stationary space rocks with maybe some cargo you can blow up to steal.
I wouldn't say trading is even a secondary factor, much less important in any manner. It's just a crutch for players that don't accidentally stumble on an easy way to get boatloads of credits. Getting nanites can be a much bigger chore (I've set up a macro to turn in food in the Anomaly for nanites, since I was playing on permadeath, so mold->nanites wasn't feasible), quicksilver is even worse. A good chunk of my playtime was setting up active indium mining farms and uploading them in the hopes someone else could use the money, back before the price was nerfed down hard.
it is the best game available at what it does
Only at the "infinite* planets, infinite* universe" thing and seamless space to planet transition. It's not the best at ground combat, space combat, base building, ship building/customization, trading, crafting, storytelling, being a space pirate, space exploration, ground exploration... Of course, no other game offers all of these things in a single package, at least not that I'm aware of, but I can name some games that do some of those things better than NMS
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Honestly I thought that was it. Just exploring shit. If it isn't then I guess I've been play it wrong
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Every time I've opened No Man's Sky, I always get excited to explore in the game. Sadly, always after playing a couple hours, I get bored because the gameplay loop isn't as fun as the wonder you get when you first open the game.
Everyone says that it's got quests now, it's got bases now, planets are more diverse but the depth of these are extremely shallow. So, for me, the game still has not been redeemed from when I bought the game on release.
7Is it just me, or do games always go on massive sales immediately after I purchase it?
3Five or six years ago I used to be able to get 30 fps on low graphics with one or two mods to reduce the load on the GPU. Now I can't even break 15 FPS without lowering the resolution to unusable levels. What gives? Same setup and everything.
-1You had an out of date pc five years ago and you want to know why the same pc runs bad today?
It's time for an upgrayedd my friend.
3Agreed! It actually runs perfectly on a Steam Deck on high between 60-90fps
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My brother in science... This can't be a serious comment, can it?
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I've always thought this game looked like shit.
Doesn't it only go up to 4 players or something? What a weird limit for such a large game. I guess the devs just weren't skilled enough to raise it any higher.
-23And you were not skilled enough to update your misinformation
It's always the most unskilled kids the ones who are the most critical about games lol, what the fuck?
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Did I criticize the thing you like? Pardon me for not keeping up with updates for shitty games before criticizing them.
You're also wrong: "The game can currently be played by multiple people together online in parties of 2 to 4 players."
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Cool, buddy.
6"Doesn't it only go up to 4 players or something?"
That was the max number of players who could play together for something like 3 update cycles, and that was years ago. Everyone was still technically in the same shared universe, you just couldn't actually co-op with more than that... but, again, that's outdated. Not sure what the limit is now, if there even is one - it's a more seamless and behind-the-scenes load-balancing deal now.
5The gameplay loop is tremendously boring, too. I have no idea how they did that, since it's basically the same as Minecraft.
-10How is it the same as Minecraft? Just because it has building and gathering materials? Come on.
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In case you want to know why games are released in the state they are. It's because of games like "No Man's Sky"
-28Games were over hyped, released buggy, and lacking a ton of features long before no mans sky, nms was just one of the most over hyped - it's also by far the biggest redemption since it now has significantly more content than was ever promised at launch, and all of it has come free instead of in a ton of dlc's or with monetization
41Yes, but No Man's Sky seemed like a real turning point. At first it was still considered embarrassing. Now it's the status quo.
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Oh boy, there's missing the bus and then there's this ☝️
If you were to rank everyone to blame for the state of games at release these days, there are so many people that come before Sean Murray. First and foremost, is YOU. Not necessarily you or even only you, but the consumer. I haven't preordered a game since standing in line at GameStop for Halo fucking 2. It was immediately obvious how stupid that was back then, and it makes nearly no sense these days. Some people want to support a dev and that's great, but others just slap their money down on a preorder for a digital release from some soon to be defunct EA studio. You created a precedent for games to be sold before they are even made.
Which brings me to number two, the studio conglomerates like EA, predatory confidence games like console exclusivity, and general anti-consumer practices. Hell, capitalism itself incentivises every studio to make their own store, lock every asset behind a paywall, and make the game progression as needlessly grindy and time-consuming as possible.
You think Sean Murray masterminded the debacle himself? Watch his videos from during that time. He is incredibly awkward because he is a dev. He's not a salesman or a marketing director. What dev do you know that doesn't dream about what their game could be? And sure, the debacle is ultimately Sean's responsibility, but he has gone above and beyond to make up for it. To blame him for "games these days" that fail to do that in any meaningful way is just so transparently ignorant.
0This is the dumbest comment so far. Acting like a bunch of failed repetitive Assassins Creeds, FIFAs, Call of Duties, buggy Bethesda games, and hundreds lots of other less-known unfinished games, specially MMOs, didn't exist before NMS. You have to be a kid to say that.
The only reason NMS was rushed was because the idea was so new and so goddamn impressive, a ton of stupid dumb little kids like you pressured them to release it unfinished, you pressured them with features that were technologically impossible or too difficult to implement just like that, and so much more.
Gamers are the biggest whinny annoying little babies I have ever seen in my life. I swear to God you deserve all those unfinished buggy boring shits, you deserve the slop that only cares about your money, not good games, because you're too ignorant and stupid to appreciate them.
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