Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
My copy has been delivered... to work. I'm off sick and on leave tomorrow and Friday. Guess I have until Monday to decide if I'm keeping it or returning it, then.
Mine arrived today!
Lonewolves wrote:
TheVision wrote:
I saw this headline earlier. Was the game ever made out to be a multi player experience or was it always intended as a single player game?
It's always been a bit unclear, but explains it in the article and comments.
Ah cool. I admit, I haven't read the articles, only the headlines. I'll take a look later on.
Jim Fucking Sterling Son gave it a 5/10.
Can't really take issue with anything he says but for some reason despite all that I'm still enjoying it. 
It's a peanut butter game innit. What's there is tasty, but it's spread so thin, but you know if it was any thicker it'd glue your teeth together.
I can't load Jim Sterling's web page. Apparently he is getting DDOSed over his No Man's Sky review!
lasermink wrote:
I can't load Jim Sterling's web page. Apparently he is getting DDOSed over his No Man's Sky review!
Gamers are awful
Lonewolves wrote:
lasermink wrote:
I can't load Jim Sterling's web page. Apparently he is getting DDOSed over his No Man's Sky review!
Gamers are awful
Yeah, they go slashing at you with an axe for little to no provocation.
The bastards.
Mr Dave wrote:
Lonewolves wrote:
lasermink wrote:
I can't load Jim Sterling's web page. Apparently he is getting DDOSed over his No Man's Sky review!
Gamers are awful
Yeah, they go slashing at you with an axe for little to no provocation.
The bastards.
WHY DID YOU CHANGE YOUR HAT
Lonewolves wrote:
Mr Dave wrote:
Lonewolves wrote:
lasermink wrote:
I can't load Jim Sterling's web page. Apparently he is getting DDOSed over his No Man's Sky review!
Gamers are awful
Yeah, they go slashing at you with an axe for little to no provocation.
The bastards.
WHY DID YOU CHANGE YOUR HAT
I can't see why I'd rather have a hard hat with axe murderers running around.
I've played this for a couple of hours now.
The good: it certainly feels big. Planets and moons are huge. The scenery is pretty and it is quite exciting seeing animals. Discovering stuff feels good. Flying up from the ground and into space is good. There's a large trading thing going on. Big sense of potential. Different environments good.
The bad: graphics break up every now and again which messes with immersion. It feels very empty so far but it is early days. Few NPCs so far that I have interacted with. Again, it could be i am on the edge of the galaxy. Sometimes it isn't clear how to do something such as how you can make things to do stuff. Occasionally, game feels unpolished ( menus for example). Still don't undtstand why sentinels attack me. You can remove the bottom layer of a big rock and it will hang there.
You have to keep your ship fuelled and ykur suit charged with resources. These are cheap and available but you have to mine or trade for them. It seems a bind but isn't. I wanted to play more last night which is a good sign and I think it wil get better and better as i work things out and as the journey continues.
Overall i think it has been worth it.
The good: it certainly feels big. Planets and moons are huge. The scenery is pretty and it is quite exciting seeing animals. Discovering stuff feels good. Flying up from the ground and into space is good. There's a large trading thing going on. Big sense of potential. Different environments good.
The bad: graphics break up every now and again which messes with immersion. It feels very empty so far but it is early days. Few NPCs so far that I have interacted with. Again, it could be i am on the edge of the galaxy. Sometimes it isn't clear how to do something such as how you can make things to do stuff. Occasionally, game feels unpolished ( menus for example). Still don't undtstand why sentinels attack me. You can remove the bottom layer of a big rock and it will hang there.
You have to keep your ship fuelled and ykur suit charged with resources. These are cheap and available but you have to mine or trade for them. It seems a bind but isn't. I wanted to play more last night which is a good sign and I think it wil get better and better as i work things out and as the journey continues.
Overall i think it has been worth it.
I think I've missed some red orb at the start and as a result I can't make Atlas passes. Not sure there's any way round this other than starting again. 
Actually it looks like I might be ok. Phew.
I'll tell you one thing that's becoming an irritation. What the planets look like from space seems to have very little to do with what they're actually like. Number of times I've seen what looks like a beautiful Earth-like sort of place only to land and it's a radioactive, greeny brown, sludgey, mushroom-filled shithole.
markg wrote:
Number of times I've seen what looks like a beautiful Earth-like sort of place only to land and it's a radioactive greeny brown sludgey, mushroom-filled shithole.
So it's a Slough simulator?
Slough would be amazing. I'm still looking for the planets like the ones in all the screenshots. Some different alien NPCs other than the bollock-faced ones I seem to be stuck with would be cool too. And a way to get one of those funky, colonial viper-looking ships without spunking every last credit I've earned over the last dozen hours of play.
That's another thing it could do with, some way to get an external view of your ship when you're up in space. It does frequently look lovely out there and it would be nice to gawp at it all without the cockpit in the way. Still having fun, though. But I'll be a bit surprised if I'm not done after another dozen hours. Probably to return once they patch some more stuff in.
That's another thing it could do with, some way to get an external view of your ship when you're up in space. It does frequently look lovely out there and it would be nice to gawp at it all without the cockpit in the way. Still having fun, though. But I'll be a bit surprised if I'm not done after another dozen hours. Probably to return once they patch some more stuff in.
I keep thinking about it now. My man is currently on a barren planet with no fuel to take off. Looks like he will have to find some or buy it. Either way, it is a long walk....
How do i make Atlas key?
How do i make Atlas key?
I think you'll get to that, basically all those doors you can't get through and canister things you can't open, just forget about them for now.
The doors in the spacestations have exosuit upgrades in them. Well worth getting a v1 atlas stone just for that.
Also, I am loving this game.
Also, I am loving this game.
How do i get an atlas stone? Just got bits for antimatter. I want to play more now. It's good and i am beginning to like the lonliness.
I just warped to a few galaxies then the atlas anomaly came up and then followed it. Then found the stone.
Warped into some new system yesterday and was immediately presented with a message that said "Battle Detected", there were some freighters knocking around and other ships apparently shooting at them but no way for me to know who was who and why they were doing what to who else so I just watched for a bit and then fucked off and left them to it. It looked pretty, though.
Apparently, they are jyst guidelines as I got killed by a Space Pirate yesterday...
The "push down to go down" in flight annoys me a bit. And I haven't uploaded my discoveries by pressing L2 or something. I save some creatures which were like a monpedal beach ball that bounced about and some cock and balls things, too.
The "push down to go down" in flight annoys me a bit. And I haven't uploaded my discoveries by pressing L2 or something. I save some creatures which were like a monpedal beach ball that bounced about and some cock and balls things, too.
markg wrote:
Warped into some new system yesterday and was immediately presented with a message that said "Battle Detected", there were some freighters knocking around and other ships apparently shooting at them but no way for me to know who was who and why they were doing what to who else so I just watched for a bit and then fucked off and left them to it. It looked pretty, though.
Cool! I want a bigger ship. With more guns
You can reverse the pitch control direction in the options if that's what you mean. It was the first thing I did.
markg wrote:
You can reverse the pitch control direction in the options if that's what you mean. It was the first thing I did.
Super, thank you.
nickachu wrote:
I just warped to a few galaxies then the atlas anomaly came up and then followed it. Then found the stone.
Ta.
I was (and still am) pretty interested in this, but it's not getting great reviews on Steam.
Although, some people seem to like it.
Seems they severely understated the requirements for the game, according to the reviews.
Although, some people seem to like it.
Seems they severely understated the requirements for the game, according to the reviews.
PC version sounds quite broken.
Wow, this is turning into a train wreck.
This is why you never preorder, folks.
Just ordered this last night. It'll be great!
I had good fun last night. I had a scrap with some baddies then found a planet with loads of minerals to mine and a galactic exchange close by. I did a few full loads of minerals and got intercepted by Space pirates! I have about half million in the bank but will head off to the next system asap as there are few animals here to look at. Onwards and upwards. It did crash twice last night but no biggie
MrChris wrote:
Just ordered this last night. It'll be great!
Good move!
I like this a lot, and have no idea why. It's beautiful, and there's always something just over the hill to explore. I have a new spaceship that looks like a locust.
I'm getting some seriously shit draw distance issues on the PS4 when flying in atmosphere - stuff that's only a few hundred metres away will sort of go staticky black fuzzy then sort of pop in with the texture. It's constant and really ruining it for me.
There is definitely a lot of in-atmosphere pop-in. Then again I'm typically only doing short hops on planet to get to the next place I've marked because I'm too lazy to walk.
I'm really not sure if I'll bother with this.
I'm waiting for them to fix the glorious PC master race version. And for it to be more cheapers
Mr Dave wrote:
I'm waiting for them to fix the glorious PC master race version. And for it to be more cheapers
Fascist
Lonewolves wrote:
Mr Dave wrote:
I'm waiting for them to fix the glorious PC master race version. And for it to be more cheapers
Fascist
Beastophile
Mr Dave wrote:
I'm waiting for them to fix the glorious PC master race version. And for it to be more cheapers
I was thinking this, but I worry that while they may be able to patch it up to run reasonably for now, down the line some Windows update will probably break it completely, a bit like Rockstar's games, for such is the level of PC programming skill on display here.
So I'll probably just wait for the market to be flooded with second hand PS4 copies.
Zardoz wrote:
I'm really not sure if I'll bother with this.
Title.
Zardoz wrote:
I'm really not sure if I'll bother with this.
My advice would be to leave it a year or two and play No Man's Sky 2. It'll be amazing. Maybe this one will be after a year of patches etc. Still having fun, though. Last night I found a crashed ship that only had one more slot than mine but looks way cooler so I spent about two hours doing all the stuff I needed to change over and get it back to where I was. Just going to start ploughing on down the path now though and see what's there.
Crashed ships always have one more slot than yours, I think.
Cool, I had been really regretting not fixing up the one I found early on.
Cras wrote:
one more slot than yours
T... no, enough.
This is some masterful level trolling. So many people dangling on the hook in the comments.
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After another 50 minute patch download, i was able to play again. I have discovered the receipe for suspension fluid! And met a new flavour of alien! Who gave me a new multitool! Pretty good few hours last night.