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100 Unofficial Mods Released for 'No Man's Sky' (vice.com)
Eleven days after its release, No Man's Sky already has over 100 unofficial mods by fans intent on improving the game. "We don't have time to wait for official dev tools to fix what can be fixed by us," one modder told Motherboard. "We definitely want the official tools ASAP but honestly, the players need a game that actually launches and plays at decent FPS first." An anonymous Slashdot reader quotes the article:
In an email to one customer, Hello Games revealed that it will be releasing patches this week and next which will "help to improve the experience further for players" but it is unlikely that the promised official modding tools will be released in the near future...
Among the [unofficial] mods available for anyone to download are ones to...replace the system font with one from Star Trek, disable annoying audio warnings, and replace a "Units Received" alert with "the Rick 'Wubba Lubba Dub Dub' sound bite from Rick and Morty"... The Instagram Filter Remover mod is among the most popular on the No Man's Sky Mods website promising to remove "the stupid Instagram filter from the game"...making everything sharper and clearer.
That last mod has been downloaded 17,655 times so far, and by Friday the site had almost 800,000 views and 60,000 downloads. There's two other mods that add Dr. Who sound clips into the game, and the article notes fans are clamoring for more, "including one request to replace all the voice lines in the game with William Shatner quotes."
Among the [unofficial] mods available for anyone to download are ones to...replace the system font with one from Star Trek, disable annoying audio warnings, and replace a "Units Received" alert with "the Rick 'Wubba Lubba Dub Dub' sound bite from Rick and Morty"... The Instagram Filter Remover mod is among the most popular on the No Man's Sky Mods website promising to remove "the stupid Instagram filter from the game"...making everything sharper and clearer.
That last mod has been downloaded 17,655 times so far, and by Friday the site had almost 800,000 views and 60,000 downloads. There's two other mods that add Dr. Who sound clips into the game, and the article notes fans are clamoring for more, "including one request to replace all the voice lines in the game with William Shatner quotes."
Nobody is being coerced to play; it's consumerism, not slavery. Just because you don't share the passion for this form of entertainment doesn't mean you have any right to denigrate those who enjoy it. Hop down off that high horse of yours - I think your butt is a little too chapped.
Well the mods in question are all things like "replace all the voice lines with William Shatner quotes." You can't blame the game maker for not including that with the game as shipped.
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So you have more freedom than us but know exactly what to do with it .... post replies on Slashdot? Noted.
"We don't have time to wait for official dev tools to fix what can be fixed by us," one modder told Motherboard.
Get a grip, buddy. It's a video game, not life-saving emergency surgery.
God forbid you aren't able to change the color of your spaceship or change the alert sound to "the Rick 'Wubba Lubba Dub Dub' sound" until next week- I mean, this shit is of critical importance!!
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
I am not being coerced to play. I highly doubt I will every purchase/play this game (no time, interested in other things more; not Better-Than-Thou). There are likely millions (billions even) like me on this. You have every right to play--or not play this game. If you want to play, go right ahead and enjoy guilt free. As of right now the Government is not forcing you to buy it. So why the high-horse? It's Just A Game!
Hop down off that high horse of yours - I think your butt is a little too chapped.
that chapping wasn't caused by the horse ;)
Most of these mods are just color changes and effect removals. Modding is awesome, but get off your high horse about 'fixing' the game.
You... don't.. understand! It's not... his... ship... it's mine!!
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What you say isn't false, but I don't think you're comprehending the whole truth here.
The entertainment industry sells people "totems" for their ideals. The industry is nothing but hype. It gives people substitute experiences to placate them for their inability to express their desires and instincts. It promises to allow them to fulfill these desires and instincts, and it lies every single time, because of course a game or a movie is not a life experience. But people try to cram these products into their experience as though they were, though they are totally ignorant of what they are doing.
Basically, people are lazy pieces of shit with no self awareness and justify this state with delusional idea that there is an easy alternatives to success that is just as good, namely entertainment (because all that matters in life is HAPPINESS)
This.
How does this story/summary go from, "... but honestly, the players need a game that actually launches and plays at decent FPS first", to the top mod being one that apparently applies a simple "sharpen" filter, and it's the fanciest one listed. The rest listed just replace font and sound assets. None of those listed do jack shit for FPS.
Maybe there are some better examples in the article. Can one of the noobs go look and let us know?
Basically, people are lazy pieces of shit with no self awareness and justify this state with delusional idea that there is an easy alternatives to success that is just as good
How are you measuring "success" and "good[ness]"?
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Bwahahaha! What a fucking pompous attitude. You're the one saying it's a subset. It's incumbent on *you* to explain why and your little redundant screed about behavior and irrationality doesn't cut it because you didn't bother describing the behaviors or why they're irrational. You simply block quoted something vague from PolySci and then dropped into ad hominem with both feet.
Dude, you need more friends/pussy/family/drugs, cause you're clearly you're suffering from some sadness issues.
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Maybe there are some better examples in the article. Can one of the noobs go look and let us know?
There aren't. There is something interesting in the article, though:
I don't know what this means, but I sure hope he does, because it sounds fascinating. If the mods you had loaded could actually somehow segregate you from other players... that could be really fascinating.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
> The industry is nothing but hype.
Bullshit. Not every developer is interested in form over function. While there certainly is drama such as This is Phil Fish, there are enough counter-examples:
* Braid
* Limbo
* Minecraft
* Path of Exile
* Terraria
* Trine
I don't remember seeing marketing for these games and yet they are some of the best around.
Great games focus on great gameplay. Shitty games focus more on marketing then development, which is ~95% of games and the games industry.
The game has a filter that dulls the colors so it looks like it's on old film, the so-called "instagram filter". There's also filters that adds CRT scanlines, chromatic aberration, and vignetting to really sell the "you're playing this on a faded CRT" feel. The mod doesn't add a sharpness filter, it removes the dull filter. Combined with the mod that removes the CRT filters you can potentially greatly increase the FPS. Or not change them at all. It really depends on whatever mysterious bullshit causes it to run shitty on your particular PC.
ASCII stupid question, get a stupid ANSI
The procedural generation system in the game is amazing. Everything else is half-assed or worse. What the game needs is more and deeper procedural generation. All the pretty planets in every galaxy found so far have nothing but copies of the same seven stupid structures scattered at the same density. That really undercuts any wonder from all the landscapes and lifeforms. An expansion needs to give us a path to a galaxy where the planets have procedurally generated towns, farms, roads, rivers and NPCs. Hello Games definitely has some talented developers, and they should turn their attention to procedural ways to actually give us good stuff to interact with, rather than just stuff to look at and "mine".
I don't know what this means
The procedural generation if of the form s=f(x,y,z), i.e. for every coordinate you get a specific output from the procedural function, which is then used to generate specific content (terrain, resources, plants).
Some additional content is added randomly (e.g. the output determines the kind of creatures, but they spawn randomly around that location).
Now what that quote means is that if you succeed in modifying the constants used in f(x,y,z), you change the output, and therefore everything changes.
Location of planets and stars would change, their topology would change, creatures/plant/mineral distribution, etc.
In one interview Sean demonstrated this in real time, making a flat planet, or a planet of sines, etc.
So if you'd do this, you'd be able to upload discoveries that the other players wouldn't see if they reached those same coordinates.
You would see for example a lush tropical planet, and they would see an ice moon or no planet at all.
Your location could even be unreachable by other players, as the stars could shift as well.
Axewolf is not a slave to the game of sexual dominance, he does not subscribe to the need to find attractive women to spend time with.
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