No Man's Sky - Procedural space game

wordy said:
It depends what are you looking for in the game? Personally I was looking forward to this so much, but I've come away disappointed.

For me the killer is the flight mechanics are terrible, no joystick support (never had a console so no experience using controllers) so having to fly with kb & mouse and stopped from flying to low.
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Looking for a chillout game for the times I'm too tired for BF. I'm not much good at flying in most games, but I'm guessing that you don't need to be an ace pilot to enjoy this.
 
KraniX said:
Lot of people moaning about not being able to alt+tab in and out, this is true but if you open task manager and bring to front it resumes the game no problem.
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CaptainRAVE said:
or just double click the desktop shortcut if you have one (useful tip posted by someone else in here!).
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Or another solution is to put the game into borderless window mode and no more problems with tabbing out
 
HazardO said:
Looking for a chillout game for the times I'm too tired for BF. I'm not much good at flying in most games, but I'm guessing that you don't need to be an ace pilot to enjoy this.
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You'll probably really enjoy it then :)

I'm not very good at flying, but it'd be nice to have the option to use a flight stick & throttle & be able to fly at low level, there is a glass wall that you hit when you fly too low so you can't fly amongst the terrain.
 
KraniX said:
If you get it on PS4 it's guaranteed to run although a number of PS4 players have had crashed to the home screen.

I wanted to wait for the PC release as though would be a better experience but not convinced at the moment, chilling on the sofa with a big TV from a distance would likely show less of the graphical imperfections. Can look very nice in certain situations but has been designed with console as the priority and this shows in many situations, the awkward inventory for example. Tempted to pick it up second hand on PS4, am sure there will be a lot of copies floating around.

You can unlock the 30FPS cap, I'm getting 60-70 outside according to FRAPS when walking around but doesn't feel that high, not getting terrible stuttering but it does happen, in space stations it drops to about 30. I'm on a fairly old CPU (i2500k) and a 390 but getting better performance than many people with higher specs, not had a single crash yet.

Lot of people moaning about not being able to alt+tab in and out, this is true but if you open task manager and bring to front it resumes the game no problem.

Make sure you check the minimum specs, update your graphics card drivers and have the latest VC++ redist.

I'm enjoying the game but £40 is too expensive, unless you're desperate to try it out I'd wait for a price cut in the near future. It feels like an early access game that's 6 months from launch.
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Since the FPS is unlocked i'll probably pick it up on PC down the road. Hopefully by then the 'issues' will have been ironed out and it'll be cheaper. Tnx for the info.
 
Upping the game to 4k after running it at 1080p caused a decent increase in quality. It seems like every non uhd res is just 720p upscaled. When going up to 4k the game takes ages to boot as if it's re-processing the graphics then looks much sharper.

Just wish there was more interaction in the game, the conversations with the aliens are just a single multi-choice question/answer. The animals as well just seem to be 2 types? one passive and one aggressive and both are just randomised body parts.
 
I like the way on Steam it shows "User reviews: Mixed"

Kind of tempted to buy it as on principle I kind of like to encourage smaller studios and so on to do stuff outside the box and not just hashing out commercially safe games but pretty sure I will get very bored or frustrated with it. They really really should have launched it as a £19.99 game.
 
Rroff said:
I like the way on Steam it shows "User reviews: Mixed"

Kind of tempted to buy it as on principle I kind of like to encourage smaller studios and so on to do stuff outside the box and not just hashing out commercially safe games but pretty sure I will get very bored or frustrated with it. They really really should have launched it as a £19.99 game.
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I think this is what is frustrating people the most - Some people are enjoying it, but the amount of things to do is limited (Which is somewhat ironic for a game with 18+ Quintillion planets :p) - Too limited for a £40 game. They've priced it at AAA game levels, whereas I think many people see it as your standard Indie game.

I certainly won't be paying that much for it - I've watched a few reviews and "Lets Plays" of it over the weekend, and it looks like it could get very boring, very quickly.
 
Bought this on Steam on Sunday to get a good day playing it. Kept crashing to desktop after the No Man's Sky intro. Turns out my old graphics card is too old, needs to OpenGL 4.5 :(

Looking at replacements now, first time I've had to upgrade due to a missing feature. Normally it's because the game is so damn slow or low res it's rubbish to play.
 
I don't have a PS4 and my mate keeps banning on about but I'm not sure if my laptop will run it so hoping one of you guys can tell me.

Wont be wanting to run it on high specs for obvious reasons but will it even run on low ?

HP Pavilion g6-1220sa 15.6 inch Notebook (AMD Quad-core A8-3500M Processor, 6GB RAM, 1TB HDD, AMD Radeon HD 6620G Graphics,

It is on Win10 now.
 
I bought it on Friday and then played it when a bit drunk and unfortunately went over the 2 hour limit and couldn't refund it. I've played 9 hours now but just really bored of it already.

Interesting concept but it's just way too expensive for what it is.
 
DanF said:
I bought it on Friday and then played it when a bit drunk and unfortunately went over the 2 hour limit and couldn't refund it. I've played 9 hours now but just really bored of it already.

Interesting concept but it's just way too expensive for what it is.
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I understand why it would be boring for some, it all depends on what you want out of games.

I personally love the fact that there's no "path to follow" and it lets you go about the mission as you please. I am just trying to learn the languages of the alien races right now. After that I don't know yet.
 
insane200 said:
I don't have a PS4 and my mate keeps banning on about but I'm not sure if my laptop will run it so hoping one of you guys can tell me.

Wont be wanting to run it on high specs for obvious reasons but will it even run on low ?

HP Pavilion g6-1220sa 15.6 inch Notebook (AMD Quad-core A8-3500M Processor, 6GB RAM, 1TB HDD, AMD Radeon HD 6620G Graphics,

It is on Win10 now.
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I'm not overly familiar with the Terascale 2 based graphics but looks like they only support Open GL 4.4 not 4.5 - TPU has it listed as OpenGL: 4.3.
 
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