http://www.pcgamer.com/no-mans-sky-10-burning-questions-answered/
Most of them are retarded so heres a summary:
>Singleplayer or Multiplayer?
Effectively single player given the size of the game area, but players have a bubble around them that serves as a personal lobby through which other players could intersect and see one another. More fleshed out MP could arrive at some point, but there are no promises
>What will I do?
The core gameplay loop appears to be explore, scavenge, trade, upgrade
>How do player actions affect the game?
Player's names of planets and animals will be stored on the game server for all others to encounter. Most physical deformations are not uploaded to the server, but are instead saved locally for the player. Significant changes could possibly be uploaded to the server
>What sorts of missions are there?
Basically none.
>What story is there?
There is no real story, but there is lore
>Will there be DLC?
No, but there may be updates based on how people play.
>>344855554
>Gone Gold
When will they stop trying to force this shitty fucking phrase?
>Procedural exploration
Could they not hire a level designer?
>>344855818
the phrase is fucking old dude
>>344855818
It's a phase that's been used in the industry for a while to refer to the game being final. Not like they came up with it.
>>344855554
There seems to be no actual reason to play this. I'm confused. What does one do? Be better off watching uncharted
>>344855554
>entire universe but only take up 6 GB
If you don't understand the implications of this sentence then you are guaranteed to be disappointed.Actually you're going to be disappointed anyway
>>344855554
sounds good senpaitachi
I'm not optimistic either but PCgamer is a trash tier site.
64 metacritic incoming.
>>344855818
Do you know what a CD/DVD is, underage faggot?
>>344856208
jokes on you buddy, i never get excited about anything so i can't be disappointed
>>344856208
>/v/ talking about game programming
>>344856275
cmon man, its pcGAMER, for gamers! exclusively for PC too!
>>344856362
cee...dee?
>>344856208
Entire universe is generated procedurally, so it does not need to be stored, you just need the seed and the mathematical functions to generate it. Same way Minecraft is only a few megabytes, if they had to store a single entire map, it would take several petabytes.
Same thing for every procedural games, you just need the building blocks, you don't store every single possible outcome.
>>344856025
They needed it as minimalist as possible
>>344856208
Random numbers can be data, and you can generate random values hence "free" data. Back to high school.
>>344855818
That phrase has been around since before you were born, son. How about you learn to like it instead of crying about it?
>>344855818
What? Literally the only other place I've heard that phrase was Tron 2.0, a 13 year old game.
Programs go from alpha to beta to gold.
>>344856524
You mean they needed as little work to be done with the best promises afforded by shit effort? Its easy to drop a faggot on planet ecksdee-2 but its harder to make that planet have meaning outside of the variables it was given.
>>344855554
so, can i name all the planets i discover after my waifus?
>>344856747
>waifus
>s
no
>>344855554
>Significant changes could possibly be uploaded to the server
so nothing will be changed at all what so ever no matter if you blow up the whole planet or not nothing will change for the other players, kk got it
>>344856208
>6gb
So people will start running into repeating biomes and animals right away. Is it even enough variation for one interesting planet?
>>344856383
are you me
>>344856362
hahaha go back to sleep gramps
>>344856747
Does it matter
>>344855554
I hope they never add multiplayer like all the normies are begging for.
>>344856783
This
Procedurally generated models and assets are too shitty to bother with, so only 6gb of assets is really low for any large scalish game. Like Serious Sam HD tier.
>>344855554
>Will there be DLC?
>No, but there may be updates based on how people play.
Its an early access undercover.
>>344856563
>random
Not really if all the assets are finite.
>>344856485
>procedural
This is the disappointing part. It'll look good, but you might as well start a Minecraft seed and walk in one direction. It's essentially the same thing, except you can build things in Minecraft.
>>344856362
>2016
>Still using CD/DVD/BR
>>344856775
too much misogyny for you?
>>344855554
>Player's names of planets and animals will be stored on the game server for all others to encounter.
What could possibly go wrong?
Spore used 5GB. And that was with lower resolution textures and lower quality music.
Procedural generation can only create so many interesting things if you limits its building blocks. Why the fuck did Sony hype this up to be some AAA galaxy simulator?
I dont see anything wrong with this.
People had retarded expectations that they jumped to and they wont hold up. I cant really fault the devs for that.
May buy on PC if discounted to fuck around in.
>>344856943
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K6t77a9Rw0
Done ages ago
>344856943
>You have found a wild NIGGERCOCK, on planet SHIT TITS, discovered by HITLER DID NOTHING WRONG
>>344856208
>/v/ is so filled with newfags and redit no one remember Space Engine is only 100mb
>>344857023
I'm pretty sure SE is why a lot of us think the existence of NMS is redundant.
>>344856690
What did you expect?
>>344856962
Because it has a neat gimmick: It's bigger than any other game ever.
They don't dwell on actual gameplay or the difference between planets - just look at how big the in-game universe is! No, it's bigger than that, it's fucking huuge!
This will turn out to be a neat tech-demo, nothing more. How the hell would this game still be fun after 4-5 hours?
>>344855554
>could arrive
>could possible
>may be updates
this is early access
>>344857023
Space Engine is pretty realistic though, there's zero natural life in it.
>>344856992
i had no idea he still existed and made things, thanks
So can I play this offline? I don't have home internet.
Inb4
>phone poster
>>344856962
>Why the fuck did Sony hype this up to be some AAA galaxy simulator?
Generate sales?
These are all answers that people who have been paying attention the game's development already knew.
Still really looking forward to this game mostly because I have no delusions about it will and/or will not be. I just want to explore and take neat screenshots.
>>344856938
Knowing about something has nothing to do with using it.
There are already plenty of people who don't know what a VHS or a Floppy is. Soon people wouldn't know what a CD/DVD/BR is either
>>344856962
>>344857163
Basically so Sony can have their own Elite:Dangerous since only Xbone is getting that.
lel
It's gonna be fun seeing this get 10/10 MASTERPIECE from IGN while normal gamers will get bored after 2 hours and hate it
>>344856208
Six gigabytes of procedural generation code could create the most complex and detailed world ever built, with completely custom, unique histories for every lump of sand on every planet.
It's not going to be like that, but I hope you realize how retarded it is to talk about 6GB like it's a small number when we don't know the composition of that filesize. If it's 4GB of actual code, it could be incredible. If it's 10MB of actual code, it's probably shit.
>>344857269*also available on Windows 10
>>344857163
Is it really bigger than any other game though?
What about Minecraft? Technically it's just as infinite, right?
>>344856992
>I know want to play No Man's Sky if only to find the legendary Horatio's Weepy Dick Cheese Fish
Why the hell was that the thing that actually sparked some desire to not simply ignore this game.
>What sorts of missions are there?
Basically none.
>What story is there?
There is no real story, but there is lore
Kek, fucking garbage.
>>344856992
This game will be great
>>344857361
>There is no real story, but there is lore
How is this even possible?
>>344857417
You just have to be really vague about everything.
So there's literally nothing to do in that "game"?
>>344856563
Procedurally generated content is basically never interesting for more than five seconds.
>>344857443
I.E. Souls
>>344857320
>Procedural generation code
kek
Not even Dwarf Fortress could make use of all that, OH BY THE WAY YEAH, DWARF FORTRESS EXISTS.
Thing that Dwarf Fortress doesn't have is 3D models and textures. It just has font syntaxing which just about any operating system has including BIOS.
Also going to go ahead and assume most of that data is just copy-pasted with minor edits to create a large library of parts for the code to just slap together, because as said procedurally generating models usually always looks terrible and non-functional e.g. vertices stretched miles wide or a massive waste of memory/memory leakage.
>>344857417
Easy.
You find some lost gadgets or monoliths or whatever and can slowly learn about a past civilization.
I'm pretty sure part of the game is about learning alien words.
But you aren't playing a character and no plot is happening while you're playing. You're exploring stuff and learning (lore), but you have no goal and nothing's going on (no story).
>>344857361
>the game doesn't place me on a rail and hold my hand the entire time, fucking garbage
>>344857417
Easily? They're different things, you know. "Story" means a sequence of events that leads to some conclusion. "Lore" is background data that may or may not have anything to do with the story.
>>344855554
>other players could intersect and see one another
>see one another
So it really is single player but you can see other people's toons online like the Wii U menu has other people's miis walking around.
>explore, scavenge, trade, upgrade
Who are you gonna trade with when it's a single player game?
>physical deformations are not uploaded to the server, but are instead saved locally for the player.
That means if you go around fucking up a planet it doesn't make the planet fucked up for other people, so the only thing that's actually shared are the names only.
This new information/clarification has only made me even less enthusiastic about the game. Then again I shouldn't have expected more than this when the devs have always just pussyfooted around a lot of these key questions about the game and have only talked about what you can do in vague descriptions.
>there WILL be threads made by disappointed redditors on day 1
Don't say we didn't warn you
>pic related will never happen
DROPED
>>344857209
What does it even matter if people dont know what a floppy is if they never have to use it? I bet there are lots of storage formats that you know nothing about.
>>344857551
>the game doesn't even present a complete ruleset to legally be defined as a game
>>344857417
Easy.
Drop some random notes scattered everywhere and let people make up the rest.
>>344857551
A game that has no goal is automatically shit no matter what.
>>344856928
you're retarded.
>>344857462
No story or missions doesn't mean that there's nothing to do. Also, there is a lot of lore and the game's main "goal" is to reach the center of the universe.
My god, current gen gamers are the fucking worst.
>>344857573
Implying they are not already here making a buffer of shit falseflag threads to avoid a huge drop.
>>344857502
But even vaguer than Souls, because there's at least a threadbare plot connecting things in those games.
So you just say to the player "Go to the center."
Then have them find all these bits and baubbles and say "Maybe this stuff is related to what you find at the center!"
Then have it not matter at all.
>>344855818
>>344856079
>>344856079
>>344856362
>>344856629
>>344856687
except all of you neglect the actual reason for the term in the first place.
http://www.cd-info.com/archiving/gold-discs/index.html
it refers to the use of a gold disc for the purposes of making a master disc for further production and distribution. generally the gold disc is more robust and lasts longer, and was originally the favored original medium for the master copy of any optical disc media.
"going gold" doesnt just mean its done. it means it has been approved for production, and used to (maybe still does) literally mean a gold layered disc has been created as a master for the subsequent release.
>>344856934
those updates would be free, idiot
>>344857320
games don't have gigabytes of code
the file size of games is mostly textures/sound effects
>>344857551
Lol just face it, it's garbage
It's gonna be free on psn in a couple months
>>344857573
Sure.
But there will also be a vocal minority who'll aggressively defend the game, saying that people who don't like it just don't get it or haven't got imagination.
>>344857462
It's basically a walking simulator in space
What's the point of doing a mechanic really well when that mechanic isn't enough to carry an entire game? I feel like that's the problem with pretty much every open world exploration survival game or whatever. There's never enough content to justify their existence. They're always lacking in combat, or exploration, or crafting. Always a weak area.
>>344857609
>>344857563
>>344857531
>made everything half way
>that will make people think is 2 deep 4u because everyone will have to fill the empty space
Its the game features, not the lore then.
Basically the only interesting part of this game is betting on how long it takes for every planet in the galaxy to be named ASSBONER or something like that.
>>344855554
Wow fuck, those are some hard-hitting questions.
>>344857320
it's pretty reasonable to assume that most of it are resources
>>344857623
The goal is to reach the center of the universe. Literally the first words you see on your screen when you load into the game is some variant of "make your way to the center of the universe" (from a Japanese screenshot of the game).
>>344857589
Because the only way he wouldn't know about the term going gold is if he'd started playing games 3-4 years ago at best.
So either he's extremely retarded or 12.
>>344857738
According to the dev a big part of it is audio.
>>344857663
How about you paint my dick gold so it lasts longer in your asshole?
Might as well make an interactive google earth game so I can explore the earth
Oh wait they did. It's calledpokemon go
>>344857637
So it's a space exploring sim, in which you do nothing.
>no story
>there is lore
my pen has no story, but the lore is that it's there.
>Current gen
>Implying
The game overal sounds like shit and something that would bore anyone out of their mind in an hour or 2.
>basically none
>>344857720
I don't think you know what the words you use mean. Lore is just shit like "Umbrella Corporation was founded by Joe Umbrella in 1896". Any game can have lore if it wants, no matter what the game is like.
>>344857693
Free or not, the game will not be complete at release.
Confirmed for another broken game at "release"
And faggots call early access not a game.
Real early access games have its updates for free too.
>>344857163
they have explicitly said that it isnt a tech demo and that their primary focus is on gameplay
>>344857780
Oh god yeah, procedurally generating audio is guaranteed to produce nothing but ear rape or really annoying as fuck sounds that will just tank reviews of the game. So that's all going to be a large audio library as well.
Just about the only thing you can get away with letting the code manipulate audio files is speed for variation and pitch/volume for 3D spatial audio.
>>344857180
>2016
>he still didnt find planets and moons with life on them in space engine
I just wanna know what they put at the center of the universe
>>344856783
That's what I'm expecting. The first few planets will be new and unique and then you'll quickly start seeing that it's just the same common environment/monster but with a pallet swap.
>>344857889
The music is made by 65daysofstatics, I heard it's also procedurally generated from them so every planet have a fitting music theme. Plus the animal's sounds are determined by their size and anatomies, so that's neat.
>>344857589
>What does it even matter if people dont know what a floppy is if they never have to use it?
What does it matter if people don't know what Europe is if they never visit it?
Knowledge is inherently good, you fucking ignoramus, and lack of it is inherently bad.
>I bet there are lots of storage formats that you know nothing about.
No there's not. Unless we're talking about some secret NSA-only thing. It's not difficult at all to be aware of the history of computing to the degree that you know every storage medium that has been used.
>>344857947
A big banner saying "thank you for your support"
will i be able to pirate this day 1?
>>344857570
>So it really is single player but you can see other people's toons online like the Wii U menu has other people's miis walking around.
for all intensive purposes yes
>>344857781
Sure, i'd only need a drop anyway.
>>344858017
No anonwill be even days before release
>>344857947
Disappointment.
It's the same thing Peter Molyneux put in the middle of that cube in Curiosity.
>>344857979
Procedurally generated rhythm doesn't produce ear rape but is about as interesting as procedurally generated from bits and pieces characters and terrain: Not really that much.
Betting effectively all of the in-game soundtrack will be forgettable as fuck with the same notes and instrumentation just used randomly.
>>344857573
what a rare voice of doubt
oh except you're in an ocean of people saying the exact same fucking thing
>>344857947
teleporter back to the edge
>falling for procedural generated gimmick. Again
How can people refuse to learn from previous mistakes?
![b9d[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/hXmFxIa.png "b9d[1].png")
>>344857947
This.
>>344855554
>There is no real story
>Like Luke Skywalker entering that gross tree during the boring part of The Empire Strikes Back
>One of the most crucial and reflective parts of Luke's Jedi training where he attacks the apparition of Darth Vader on sight, believing that he is an ultimately evil being, only to find that it was actually his own self image
>No real story
>Boring
Now I remember why I only use archive links to browse shitty sites like that these days.
>>344857947
Non-ironically hoping it's the big computer you see as the logo and it grants you the ability to see other players discoveries and set courses to particular star systems.
Or you know, a photo of Molyneux naked.
>>344857947
How can something infinite have a center?
>>344857852
And Lionhead also said the same about Black and White and that gameplay sucked too. That was just to show off their impressive engine and cool AI.
I hope I'm wrong and the game turns out to be great. I just haven't seen anything that points in that direction. If the game didn't have the massive scale nobody would give it any attention.
People complaining about this game are not the target audience. I'm ready to get full on autist over retarded exploration, literally walking around an entire planet.
"Hurr durr, all planets will be basically different shades of the same"
Nigga I know that, but I will literally spend hours just flying in space, going from surface to space and back down to surface ON THE SAME PLANET!
This game will not be a success to a huge audience, but it will be a huge success to a small, slightly autistic audience.
>>344857947
A giant hand sticking its middle finger up forever
Or perhaps a giant gaping anus
>>344858089
barely anyone is saying this game is going to be good
if you mean game developers, consider games take years to make and this was started several years ago
>>344857829
why wont it be complete?
>>344858120
It would probably more like an episode of Rick and Morty but not scripted and no jokes in it, just randomly drawn aliens.
But they'll try to spin that off as deep because there's a duplicate of you that follows you around that appears from it's stomach or something.
And the DEEP part is space cops won't try to kill you if you kill it.
>>344855554
>sorta
>Effectively
>Essentially
>probably
The ones that use these baby language words don't sound like assured answers, only guesses.
>>344857190
It's on GOG so yeah
>>344858187
>People complaining about this game are not the target audience
>>344858206
Youtube and twitch shitters and their drones will still shill it like crazy though.
Not to mention all the "journalists" giving it high scores because muh artistic game.
>>344857825
>So it's a space exploring sim, in which you do nothing.
There's actually a lot that you can do in this game. The issue for you is that you need to have an imagination to do them, which is not tenable for autists like yourself.
>>344858089
But iv never "fallen" for procedural generation. You people are just too stupid to figure out what it can and cant do.
>>344858149
>universe
>infinite
lmao
>>344858187
>no no it's okay you see its that I like eating shit
wew
>>344857947
>A black hole that takes you back the the edge
>A database that lets you see what planets havnt been explored yet, so you can go discover them
>Something game changing
>Something absolutely rubbish
>>344857190
If you don't have home internet, how will you download the game???
>>344857947
Grox headquarters.
/v/ on games in general:
>no more retarded fetch quests!
>stop telling me what to do and just let me play!
>story is the least important part!
>brown color palettes are complete shit!
/v/ on NMS:
>WTF WHERE ARE THE FETCH QUESTS?
>WHY ISNT THERE ANY DIRECTION?
>HAHAHAHAHAHA THERE ISNT EVEN A STORY
>LOOK AT THESE GAY ASS COLORS OMG
>>344857947
Unlocks the ability to group with friends/other people.
Nah, in reality you'll probably enter a wormhole and get transported to a new galaxy where you start all over.
>>344857693
Where does it say that? Pic related, Killing Floor 2 made sure to tell people that the firebug and demolitions perks were free
>>344858367
Not him but name your top 5 games so we can see what shit you prefer
>>344857947
An ancient evil, older than the universe, that may or may not wake up.
Have they ever actually shown off what you can do in the game? Other than just walking around or flying, of course.
Because honestly, from what we've been told, it just sounds like a nice looking version of minecraft.
>>344858431
The way /v/ is reacting to this game is hilarious. I've never seen such pure, distilled autism on this fuckawful board.
>>344856275
>my first message board was PCGF
>I was kind of a big deal
>everyone liked me
>its all gone now
>>344858417
Ps4 disc
Inb4
> console player
>>344858364
Maybe it ends in a really huge wall?
>>344858431
>/v/
>not filled with idiots and hypocrisy
>>344857947
A synagogue.
>>344855818
Eventually? It's been used in video games and software for over 25 years.
>>344858364
Only observable universe so far is finite.
It's constantly expanding and at some point it will reach infinite volume. So yeah, you cant put a center on that because it's constantly moving.
>>344858431
>the "/v/ is one person" argument
>>344858225
>unfinnished game with 100 issues is released
>called a full released game (patches dosent count)
>unfinnished game with 100 isues adressed to be fixed is released
>its called early acess and its NOT a full released game because of the patches
Every signle game since gen 6
>>344858485
Without the crafting. Or the mining.
>>344858431
Your strawman is dumb but I agree.
The people that would enjoy this game are in the threads these people shitty everywhere would enjoy.
>>344858187
>but it will be a huge success to a small, slightly autistic audience
and it will still be objectively shit :^)
>>344857889
Do you even Autechre and Brian Eno?
>>344855554
garbage game people will get bored of after an hour
This must be the biggest meme game ever made. Nothing is well executed and everything sucks, but hey, "PLENTY OF PLANETS!!".
They all look and feel the same so what's the point? Three good planets are better than 10000 mediocre ones.
>>344856025
I'd be willing to bet that writing an algorithm that can design interesting levels is more expensive and time-consuming than hiring a level designer to do them.Don't know whether the planets in NMS can be called ''interesting'' though
>>344855554
>it's a game without gameplay episode
>>344857663
But it IS approved for production. And reproduction is just copying the data now.
It's virtually still the same use of the term.
>>344858449
>>344855554
Everyday with this shitty thread, talking about "features" that aren't actually in the game. All this information is old and you're a filthy shill for this >""game""
>>344855554
>Is there a story?
>There is no real story. Like Luke Skywalker entering that gross tree during the boring part of The Empire Strikes Back,
How fucking dense does a guy have to be to-
>written by some bald numale who buys DayZ clones
>>344858431
No. It' shit because it's boring. And it would've been boring even with fetch quests and "story".
Why? Because procedural generation in open world games gimmick is never ever a good thing
>>344858562
>you can't apply matematics and numbers into something because its moving
>>344858562
The "space" is expanding, not the "content". The content is finite.
>>344858605
>Or the mining.
There is mining. You collect the resources for trade and upgrades to your ship and gear.
>>344858529
Imagine the Universe being like a 3D surface of a ball that constantly expands. So when you reach the edge you end up on the other side. Like on Earth, when you keep moving towards one direction you eventually end up at the same spot (in 3D).
>>344858431
>/v/ is one nigger
>if you don't like on extreme you should be happy with the other extreme
lmaoing @ u irl atm
>>344858074
>>344857979
>>344857889
>>344857780
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgRJbFQGyIE
>>344857663
Of all the archaic terms to decide on getting your knickers in a bunch over, though.
>>344855554
>What sorts of missions are there?
>Basically none.
How can they sell this off as a proper full price game when it is essentially a sandbox game?
>>344858665
I feel the game would be much better if they focused on just one solar system of a handful of planets.
Maybe have a somewhat vague story of starting at one end of the system and needing to get to the other, allowing you to explore the planets in between.
That way, they could have focused on individual planets, making them all unique and interesting in their own ways, while also possibly adding in actual shit for you to do on said planets.
>>344858684
I still don't see anything in there that says something along the lines of "these updates will be free"
>>344858562
So when it's constantly expanding it needs a center to expand from. Checkmate infinite fags.
>>344858712
You can but by the time you've made the calculation, it's already outdated. And no, you can't put a center on something infinite.
>>344858741
Man, that'd be so disappointing. I hope God didn't troll us like that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NtHidGyJOo
>>344858832
Where do you think sadism comes from?
>>344857336
>>344857409
You guys realise that everything will have meme names right?
>see new animal
>it's already called pewdiepieforpresident
>there is another nearby simply called minecraft
>catch a bird
>someone called it cuckachu
>such is life on Planet RainbowDash
>>344858721
Or so we believe
>>344858364
The universe in No Man's Sky is mathematically infinite. But it's bound to have a zero-point to draw coordinates from, so I guess that's a center.
>>344857334
If you reach a certain point in Minecraft, the game begins to shit itself and generation becomes really weird. But actually getting to that point requires hundreds of hours of walking in-game, so it might as well be infinite.
>>344857269
But Elite Dangerous is a completely different gameNot to mention graphically demanding, how the hell is the xbone gonna run that above minimum settings?
>>344858785
Would the game periodically telling you to kill X amount of Y creatures or to collect X amount of Y resources justify the full price to you?
Literally who gives a fuck about missions. Go play WoW if you want a shitty MMO.
>>344858816
So, by that way of seing things, all the physics, chemistry, and all the existing science is wrong? because the universe and its particles are in constant movement?
>inb4 isolated system
KEK, i never thought i will see that shit here.
>>344858721
There really isn't much proof for or against that idea.
>>344857284
No, normal gamers will like it and v will continue to dislike it and act like they were right about how shit it is.
What's to stop huge scale meet ups?
>>344858903
Energy and matter is finite in the universe. There is no way that matter and energy can be created out of nothing and turned into nothing.
>>344858721
Well good thing we were talking about space then.
>>344858785
I'm sure someone can mod in some pic related for you
>>344858862
>11 minutes of talking
>0 minutes of actual showing
How did it get to this?
>>344859003
being a dead game in a week.
>>344857947
Stephen Hawking in his final form.
>>344855818
It's an industrial term that has been around for decades.
It just means it's out of beta testing and they have a version fit for printing.
>>344859010
Someone will mod a loli planet mod way before.
>>344859003
No, that's EVE Online a game which has actual gameplay and enough players to be called a huge.
>>344859175
>Eve
>huge
My sides
>>344859029
>>0 minutes of actual showing
Are you retarded?
>>344859029
Indie devs. You're kickstarting a concept, not purchasing a game.
>>344859209
are you acting retarded on purpose again?
>>344858529
It will end in a hugepaywall.
>>344858969
You still can't calculate exact positions of electrons, only probability where to find them.
Also what is relativity. Systems on earth all affected by gravity in the same way. Same rules apply to earth because they it's in relation to the entire universe.
What do you relate the entire universe to though? The system itself is constantly changing.
>>344858790
If they aren't even considered DLC in the first place, how could they cost money?
>pay $2.99 to fix the bug that causes some ships to occatianlly glitch out on atmophere entry
I've yet to see anyone that greedy.
>>344859252
>18k average
>ITS HUGE GUYS NO REALLY
PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFTH
Surely you'll be able to just mod/debug a way to instantly get to the centre of the universe on pc?
>Nu Male Sky is basically Space Engine for console peons
>>344858149
By finding and aiming for coordinates 0,0.
I want some DEEP oceans and some HUGE mountains.
Ideally a Subnautica-like planet with only the tiniest islands scattered in the ocean, simply for landing your ship.
>>344857417
indieshit "lore" just means having some busted ruins or old artifact lying around to make the retards go 'oooooohhhhhhh who put dis here?????' rather than something that's actually deep and mysterious like Super Mario
>>344855554
>What sorts of missions are there?
>Basically none.
What the fuck is the point? Boy, I sure can't wait for Spore- I mean, No Man's Sky!
>>344858596
Did you even read the post you autist?
>physical deformations
>no story
Space minecraft?
>>344859276
>>344859425
>actually deep and mysterious like Super Mario
You missed your stop, the Go threads are that way >>>/vp/
>>344857781
>>344858784
yeah i got flustered cause the kids table were pretending to be grown ups but were doing it wrong.
if some nintenyearold is gonna shit up the thread early on because they know nothing i felt the compulsion to shut them up.
>>344855554
>[there's a bunch of planets we'll never explore because it] will be a bit tough considering our real universe will mostly likely end about 5 billion years from now.
Fucking wut?
>>344859310
Sure let's pretend something isn't big because some others are bigger.
>>344858790
they're talking about patching in features through updates, not quartering off content to sell as DLC.
god gave you a brain, but you have to be the one to use it
>>344857581
>The top one
You fucking wish that's actually possible. I wouldn't be surprised if hopping into the ship and jetting off is prescripted and on rails rather than giving you any actual control over it and its facilities. You'll probably have less interactivity with it than you do with Samus's ship in Metroid Prime 3.
>>344859425
They know their userbase.
>>344859465
Like it or not, the widespread astronomical theory is that there's no center of the universe.
>mfw there were retards who actually were excited for this game and expected it to be anything other than a spore 2 that will fail in much the same manner
>mfw a couple of months back when /v/ fell for the hype of this shitty game while I remained very skeptic, basically ignoring the game's existence knowing that it would be a massive disappointment upon release
>fast forward to now
>people are only just starting to realize that maybe it will indeed be shit
you people are fucking slow
>>344859735
And it will keep going because its not a universe, but a multiverse.
But we are like flat earth "academics" tellking copernicus to go fuck himself.
>>344857417
Dark Souls
>>344859684
That is factually incorrect.
>>344859310
compared to what other games?
>>344859841
>le multiverse meme
Go back to your grave, William James.
>>344859814
Only console toddlers are exited for this because of the lack of games like this in their systems.
Nothing new under the sun.
>>344857947
I bet there is no center at all, as in it's just mentioned as a reason for in-game actions but you can't actually fly to the center. It would be like some old 80's arcade games where the game doesn't actually have an ending or endgoal programmed into it you just keep progressing to the next stage until you get bored with it or you die.
>>344859735
>defined space
>no center
okay.
>>344859956
Eh, the dominating contemporary use of multiverse is just that there were more "big bangs" and that what we live in is likely to have remnants from more than one of them.
>>344859970
>lack of games like this
Bad minecraft clones?
>>344859956
Yea, i fucking knew it, this hypocrisy will never stop amusing me.
>>344859686
>>344859916
>EVES HUGE GUYS
>18k, absolutely minuscule for an MMO and falling year after year
>W-WELL ITS BIG COS I SAY SO
OHOHOHOHOHOH
>>344858434
>in reality you'll probably enter a wormhole and get transported to a new galaxy where you start all over.
This is probably what's going to happen. If you reread the article here http://archive.is/SQSeA#selection-557.112-557.181 it says "or at least until the universe ends", implying that the game will go through server-wide resets.
>>344855554
Will sony regionlock this on steam just like they regionlocked everyone gone to rapture?
>>344855554
>The core gameplay loop appears to be explore, scavenge, trade, upgrade
So literally fucking nothing.
>>344860047
In case of No Man's Sky, sure, but in case of the observable universe, the space is far from defined.
>>344856208
they also said most of that was audio
>>344857956
>The first few planets will be new and unique and then you'll quickly start seeing that it's just the same common environment/monster but with a palette swap
So basicallyStarbound 3D?
>>344859814
It's like the internet is full of people who actually did not life through the innitial minecraft hype. Mind you minecraft is a fine game but also limited in what it can do in relation to what people expected they can do in it.
>tfw Earth is probably the Truman show on a star system scale.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK-IuIbfb-A
>he talked about the unconvincing nature of NPCs in games in general:
>instead, aliens will trade with you, and give you new technology, rather than send you on repetitive errands to—as Murray put it—fetch "space chickens."
So, instead of bothering to work toward more interesting NPCs and AI, they're just leaving them even more barren and lifeless than traditional fetch-quest dispensers?
>>344860067
More like indie scams in general.
>>344859687
It doesn't say anything about patching the game, that would imply that the game needs to be patched in the first place
They've confirmed space combat and upgrading/customising your own space ship, that's enough for me by itself honestly.
>>344855818
This is a industry standard thing that exists from a long long long time (80's)
What I really hate is devs saying that a demo of a game with all assets, no dummies or placeholders, no consoles not a single glitch or bug can be called pre-alpha. I have more than 10 years experience into software dev and pre alpha isn't even a software yet, it is just annotations, drawings and schematics of a software/game.
>>344860103
Absolutely miniscule compared to how many currently running titles?
Because the "huge" in general would just imply that it's bigger than the vast majority. Which it is.
>>344860353
>confirmed
Have they shown any of that off yet?
>>344860402
poorly, but they did.
>>344855554
>>344860353
>Effectively single player given the size of the game area, but players have a bubble around them that serves as a personal lobby through which other players could intersect and see one another. More fleshed out MP could arrive at some point, but there are no promises
Have they shown MP space combat?
>>344858605
>>344858729
You can mine but only designated objects can actually be mined so things like the ground will be unaffected, and if you mine then robots will come out of nowhere and punish you for dare trying to interact with the world you're on.
It's also been confirmed that you don't actually upgrade the ship itself but only its components, meaning that if you don't like how the ship looks or appears and want a diffrerent model ship then you're not getting it.
