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'No Man's Sky' Releases Huge New 'Foundation' Update (thenextweb.com)
"No Man's Sky changed a great deal this morning, getting new modes and a ton of gameplay tweaks thanks to update 1.1, the largest one yet," reports Kotaku. Calling it "the first of many free updates," the game's developers introduced a new Minecraft-style Creative Mode which "allows players to explore the universe without limits, and build a huge base," plus a tougher Survival Mode, "creating a much more challenging endurance experience." The Next Web calls it "features that really should have been in the game from Day One."
Now, when you stumble upon a desolate outpost, you can build your own base on it, which can be upgraded with new housing, hydroponics, research, and storage buildings. If all goes well, you'll start to attract alien settlers who bring their own skills to your new society. As your stockpiles of resources begin to swell, you'll want to schlep them across the galaxy to other bases and trade terminals. Which is where freighters come in... Oh, and did I mention you can now stack items five times per inventory slot, meaning you can carry more stuff? Handy.
"The discussion around No Man's Sky since release has been intense and dramatic," Hello Games announced Friday, describing update 1.1 as "putting in place a foundation for things to come... the first small step in a longer journey." Hello Games founder Sean Murray tweeted "We're getting better as quickly as we can for the players who invested in us," adding "Thank you for sticking with us." At 2 a.m. this morning, he tweeted "If you could have lived our lives over the last months, you'd know how meaningful this is," adding "Here's the update..."
The news here is that a minuscule percentage of the original supposed functionality is a "new" feature.
It sounded too good to be true. Guess what?
I kickstarted the game from the Space Quest guys and well, you know. Not even thinking about backing another game until that one actually exists.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
And why would anyone believe, or even care, what Hello Games says now considering how far from their hype the original release was? What next - "Go to millions of systems to collect Pokemons?"
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
1000 more black holes with the associated grind for each black hole to get the stuff to repair what broke in the last black hole in order to get to the center, when something might happen.
Nope.
Now they're offering that I can sit still and build stuff thus making less progress towards the galactic center.
Nope.
I should use this sig to advertise my book ISBN-13 : 978-1501515132.
I for one embrace our truthfully hyperbolic overlords.
It seems that the devs are adding back previously cut features and code to NMS. A lot of what was hyped about the game had to exist in one form or another at some point. I've never played the game, and avoided purchasing it based on all the negative feedback. If Hello Games had been more upfront with the missing features at launch, and then had some sort of roll out schedule, things might have been better. The deal with Sony may not have been a great idea.
i don't even play games, but after all the negativity and hate they received... they actually dug in and made an update nobody expected to have came. i for one am glad to see them try to fix their mistakes. other game makers could learn from this because many games ship and the company takes the $ and runs, never even trying to make their customers happy. after all the hate they received, they deserve a little respect for attempting to make it right.
Skills like drug dealing and rape?
No thanks. I'm going to build a dome over mine, and make the bug-eyed monsters pay for it.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Okay so normally we joke about a low number of users when talking about Windows phones, or BeOS users. But really Steam lists 400 active users last week.
The game launched with some 220k active users which within a month was reduced to less than 10k. The game is dead. The it is truly amazing that Hello Games haven't abandoned it completely. They are literally now adding features to a game that pretty much no one plays and that has gone down as one of the (if not *the*) biggest disappointment in video game history since the release of Duke Nukem Forever, and the latter had no where near the hype surrounding it.
What went refunded stays refunded.
Sorry Hello Games, I'm not falling for it again.
...gis sdrawkcab (usually not responding to ACs; don't bother posting as AC)
So not only do ACs get ignored based entirely on being ACs, now we also ignore good points made from registered accounts based on ... the name of the account?
Welcome to kindergarten.
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Given how the game was at $60, I decided to pass. But I see now on Amazon the game is just $20 (!) for the PS4, thinking with the update it may be worthwhile...
I head the PC player counts were pretty low, but it seems like more PS4 gamers might have stuck with it.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Hari Seldon not included.
It's not your comments, it's your handle.
Er, what ?
I can only assume that you're not familiar with established use of the term as a somewhat (intentionally) infantile and facetious reference to an alcoholic drink and nothing more?
See Wiktionary, Oxford Reference, etc.
(Perhaps you were imagining something less pleasant? Or maybe people *do* get it, but they're just opposed to alcohol consumption in general...?!)
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- Base building
- Teleporters work
- Farming / Biodome / Specimen collection
- Making camp
- Setting up harvesters
- Leave messages for other players on terminals
- Purchase/manage/customize/enter freighters
- Grow crops on board, recruit crew
- New resources & tech
- More NPC variation
- Better cockpit indicators and panels in ships, more scanning options
- New anti aliasing options on PS4
- Added free exploration and survival game modes
- Tons of audio/visual/gameplay tweaks
So it adds a lot of what was missing, and some additional stuff.
Missing:
- Sand worms
- Varied planetary physics
- In-atmosphere battles
- Rivers
- Ringed planets
- Hacking locked doors
- Radio chatter
- Seeing other players
- Asteroid landings
The missing list is getting smaller.
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All the pre-launch publicity can be viewed as a massive exercise in building hype without actually committing to much at all. The language used irks me a lot as well, as it's bordering schizophrenia, but that's probably the point of it; they don't want to commit to anything, but make people think that's what they're getting. A case in point was the commonly asked question of whether you will see some other player... The answer was always that the universe is so large that statistically speaking it would be almost zero, but never gave the answer of 'no' because that wasn't implemented in the game.
Unfortunately no man's sky is a game which had a reasonably good concept, but it was then taken to a completely absurd level of marketing and spin. I just wonder how much of these problems are due to the forced hand of publishers who want their ROI, and how much was just incompetence from Hello Games?
The size of the download has nothing to do with it. If you want to talk about "universes", the rules that define ours could be fit on a 3 1/2" floppy disk hundreds of times over.
The problem is that what they did was just poorly done.
People said I was dumb, but I proved them.
It's not your comments, it's your handle.
Er, what ? I can only assume that you're not familiar with established use of the term as a somewhat (intentionally) infantile and facetious reference to an alcoholic drink and nothing more?
He's not a fan of the work of Kenny Everett, and he doesn't like cowboys or running jokes.
even if they're done on the best POSSible taste!
If you want to talk about "universes", the rules that define ours could be fit on a 3 1/2" floppy disk hundreds of times over.
Double density or high density?
If you want to talk about "universes", the rules that define ours could be fit on a 3 1/2" floppy disk hundreds of times over.
Double density or high density?
Flippy. Cut the tab on the other side and turn it over for twice the capacity.
I should use this sig to advertise my book ISBN-13 : 978-1501515132.
All the pre-launch publicity can be viewed as a massive exercise in building hype without actually committing to much at all. The language used irks me a lot as well, as it's bordering schizophrenia, but that's probably the point of it; they don't want to commit to anything, but make people think that's what they're getting. A case in point was the commonly asked question of whether you will see some other player... The answer was always that the universe is so large that statistically speaking it would be almost zero, but never gave the answer of 'no' because that wasn't implemented in the game.
Unfortunately no man's sky is a game which had a reasonably good concept, but it was then taken to a completely absurd level of marketing and spin. I just wonder how much of these problems are due to the forced hand of publishers who want their ROI, and how much was just incompetence from Hello Games?
Almost zero is not zero. It therefore implies that it is possible, even if its completely unlikely. However, without multiplayer support, the probability was exactly zero. So therefore they did lie and I have heard, from a coworker who bought the game, that there are several state attorney generals who are investigating the release of the game. I've also heard that the company basically vanished into thin air over night, so I am actually quite surprised to see there was an update.
I wouldn't compare it to DNF. DNF is it's own thing. In the case of DNF it was in various states of vapourware for more than a decade. I don't think people were "disappointed" when it release as that would suggest the users were *surprised*, which I don't think anyone was that it was a steaming POS. Also DNF was a sequel.
The biggest disappointment for an initial release I would say was Masters of Orion 3, as expectations were so high, and the delivered product so missed the mark. However again, it was a sequel.
Probably the best comparison was Mass Effect 3, and it's stupid ending, however apart from the ending it was a much enjoyed game by most I think, so again not a perfect example either.
It would more fit the DNF model if they failed to release it "until it was done" for 10 years and then came out with a finished product, but one that was dated and not all that great.
So not only do ACs get ignored based entirely on being ACs, now we also ignore good points made from registered accounts based on ... the name of the account?
Welcome to kindergarten.
I'm totally with you brother! People are so judgmental.
Though I'm familiar with Kenny Everett (I used to watch his TV show when I was a kid!), I'm not familiar with whatever character he had that used "drinkypoo" as a catchphrase.
I'd assume it didn't originate there, though.
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Considering the game sold many copies, and spurned a lot of good will, I would say it was a good concept in the context of what was advertised. Yes, certainly the actual product was a dud, but the trailers, the hype, people liked what they saw.