No Man's Sky - Procedural space game

Skeeter · 25 Jul 2016 at 22:39

KILL ALL THE DEVS!

docsonic · 26 Jul 2016 at 07:35

I didn't realise it was meant to out on the 9th - every time I had a look on steam recently it stated the 12th as the release date..

Skeeter · 26 Jul 2016 at 07:54

Obvious delay in PC release by Sony is obvious....

CaptainRAVE · 26 Jul 2016 at 08:44

Boycey0211 said:
rumours are its delayed again, by 3 days.

http://www.pcgamer.com/no-mans-sky-...source=facebook&utm_campaign=buffer_pcgamerfb

Rubbish reporting is rubbish. It has always been the 12th on PC.

Boycey0211 · 26 Jul 2016 at 11:22

TBH I haven't been following the release day anyway, so fair point on the rubbish reporting.

1nfamous · 26 Jul 2016 at 12:54

Happily paid full price and know for a fact I'm not going to regret it. wat do.

sharpygsxr · 26 Jul 2016 at 18:30

some images starting to be leaked from some recent Japanese event which had a playable version of the game.

Nothing major just a few pics (one of an NPC race) and a gif but if you wanna stay completely away from any pre release content then ill add spoiler tags

http://imgur.com/gallery/kecKX

CaptainRAVE · 26 Jul 2016 at 19:06

Good find, thanks

Waiting for the final survive trailer!

Skeeter · 26 Jul 2016 at 19:51

sharpygsxr said:
some images starting to be leaked from some recent Japanese event which had a playable version of the game.

Nothing major just a few pics (one of an NPC race) and a gif but if you wanna stay completely away from any pre release content then ill add spoiler tags

http://imgur.com/gallery/kecKX

With the procedural generation of animals and NPCs as well as planets it's highly unlikely you will ever see any of those in your own game anyway

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I do hope the game starts from scratch, and I don't keep rocking up to planets 'Discovered by Hello Games'

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CaptainRAVE · 26 Jul 2016 at 20:24

Skeeter said:
With the procedural generation of animals and NPCs as well as planets it's highly unlikely you will ever see any of those in your own game anyway .

I do hope the game starts from scratch, and I don't keep rocking up to planets 'Discovered by Hello Games' .

I doubt we will come across that many planets discovered by anyone...although I do wonder. If you are unfortunate and end up in the same start position as another player there might not be that much to discover?

I look forward to the stats down the line.

silvagti · 26 Jul 2016 at 23:12

It's out in a couple of weeks time yet there are still very few details out there about the actual gameplay mechanics so I'm struggling to decide whether this is a game I should be excited about or not! I'm hoping for something like Elite: Dangerous but with more to do however I don't know if it'll deliver on that....... So many bold claims made by Sony but so little out there to actually go on...

The lack of details about the game makes me worry it could be rubbish but surely Sony wouldn't have hyped it to the max and signed up to an exclusive PS4 deal if it was a total dud?

I'm really not sure what to expect!

Skeeter · 26 Jul 2016 at 23:21

There's quite a lot of info about the game mechanics.

olivier renault · 26 Jul 2016 at 23:45

Skeeter said:
Depends entirely on how many people play, but for sake of simple maths lets assume 1 million people play the game.

There are 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 planets. That means that if everyone kept visiting unique planets nobody else visited at a constant rate then everyone would be able to visit 18,446,744,073,709 planets before they were guaranteed to bump into someone else.

That depends of course if all the players are scattered throughout the entire universe. IIRC (or hinted), the universe is split into galaxies. Not sure if everyone starts in the same galaxy, but at least then, you should have the chance to meet another player before you start collecting your pension.

Skeeter · 27 Jul 2016 at 00:05

Everyone starts at the edge of the Universe, randomly placed.

wnb · 27 Jul 2016 at 00:47

I'm going to wait and see not that I have much of a choice as I will be on holiday in Cyprus till the 14th of August.

Muska · 27 Jul 2016 at 11:34

I quite like that there are not a ton of details about the game, it means we as players can discover/discuss/share things we find out. With steam refund now I'm not concerned about our being no good, I'd just get a refund. Can't imagine I'll have to though.

CaptainRAVE · 27 Jul 2016 at 16:25

mid_gen said:
Last pillars video

drfisher · 27 Jul 2016 at 17:37

Am looking forward to this, though I'm a little dubious about the colour palette used for (many of?, some of?) the planets. Think I might need to wear shades whilst playing!

mid_gen · 27 Jul 2016 at 17:47

drfisher said:
Am looking forward to this, though I'm a little dubious about the colour palette used for (many of?, some of?) the planets. Think I might need to wear shades whilst playing!

I believe it's all semi-accurately modelled based on the star type.sequence phase and atmospheric composition of the planet.

Looks pretty either way, had enough of the gritty realism fad of the last decade or so in gaming.

Reppyboyo · 29 Jul 2016 at 21:55

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4mf13s_first-planet-exploration_videogam

Apparently this guy bought an early copy for $2000.