As we're all aware by now, when a game goes gold that doesn't mean that development has finished. At the very least bug fixes, tweaks, and patches are the order of the day for most releases. This week sees the release of No Man's Sky, the ambitious new sci-fi game from Hello Games. And with it comes a substantial day one update that changes a lot of what's already in the game. Which means for those that somehow got to play the game early, they'll need to restart on a new save to take advantage of it.
In a new post over the official site, Hello Games founder Sean Murray goes over the thinking behind the update. And in a nod to the notes written by id Software's John Carmack for Quake, he also goes through all the changes. Which, if you plan on picking the game up, can be seen as a littler spoiler-y.
This is the first major update of many planned for No Man's Sky. |
pooping valuable resources 1 - Find creature 2 - feed it coffee beans 3 - wait for it to s*** and collect said s*** 4 - ??? 5 - Profit from hipsters drinking my expensive as f*** coffee. I ordered my copy from GOG. Can't install it yet :( |
Its only out on console today, not out on PC till I think the 12th or 13th of August
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Has it broken release date for console? Tomorrow it's officially launched afaik.
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Ah I dunno, I just saw that some places were getting first impressions and proper post-patch gameplay up so I figured it was, but that might have just been sites that got an early copy.
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If anyone is going to venture out to get it, be wary of public holiday in Brisbane.
Have confirmed that EB Games Toowong is open from 10-4 tomorrow. |
I feel like this Day 1 patch is a real slap in the face to that Reddit dude who got an illegal leak copy and gave it a s***** review.
I mean they've fixed and improved everything he complained about, as well as adding loads of other stuff, plus needs a new save game to be used! Excited to play this, sounds like it's got some kind of story-esque campaign to play through which is nice. |
Bit sad the PC version is delayed for 3 days. I assume it's because of playstation 3 day exclusivity and concerns about dreaded piracy. Poor form on the publishers/Sony.
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I watched Jacksepticeye playing it. Looks like the most boring piece of grindfest you can imagine. Go here, collect this, build this, upgrade that, mine this, avoid the drones that... I'd rather tear my nuts off, sit in a vat of vinegar and drink the fluid out of my own eyeballs than play NMS.
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Yeah, if it was cheap in a sale, like $20 or so, I'd probably buy it cos all the procedural generation stuff looks neat and it'd be fun for a bit to explore, but I don't think it'd hold my interest much past a few hours once the novelty wore off.
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I watched Jacksepticeye playing it. Looks like the most boring piece of grindfest you can imagine. Go here, collect this, build this, upgrade that, mine this, avoid the drones that... I'd rather tear my nuts off, sit in a vat of vinegar and drink the fluid out of my own eyeballs than play NMS. Yep me too mate, bit of a Jacksepticeye fan as well. But I had seen JackFrags also play the beginning of NMS earlier for 45 minutes, and it simply bored the living Christ out of me. I actually dislike the art style, whereas some rave about it. I found the grind to be mind numbingly boring that I would drink your vinegar piss for entertainment. I also observed that it is a very empty universe with the exception of the odd NPC ship flying by or a goofy alien speaking gibberish to you as you learn ONE word every hour or so! FFS how long will it take to communicate with these bastards? The whole game just did nothing for me, even the creatures looked s***. Maybe I am spoilt by loving FPS games too much and games like BF1 really do interest me cause I can kill people and blow s*** up! :) |
This reminds me a bit of the hype regarding Fallout 4, so much hype and when it came out it was... another Fallout game yet people were expecting it to be so much more?
This game seems pretty much what it was advertised to be, and people who arent normally into these games bought into the hype (a lot of it self created) and are surprised when the game is exactly what it was designed to be and not whatever they imagined it and built it up in their mind to be. |
Felt like there was a fair bit of hype. Ill keep my GOG order and see how it goes. I need something else to play.
Robbaz has a go at NMS |
That video is hilarious.
Apparently all players are in the same shared universe, so I guess it's multiplayer and co-op! How does that work architecturally?
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Do you actually see the other player though and interact with them, or just see the things they've discovered and named?
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