No Man's Sky - Procedural space game

After about 30 hours in I've hit my limit with the game as it currently stands. I've enjoyed what I've done, but as it's been said before you will always run out of things to do.

£40 for 30 hours was a fair price / time.

I'll no doubt come back in a few weeks / months to continue the journey.
 
I'm finding the lore pretty interesting. It's neat finding out about the war between the Gek first spawn or whatever they are and the lesser classes and sentinels. Just learning how the Korvex and sentinels are linked and their past.
 
Met my 3rd alien race on 3rd warp. Had a couple of battles with pirates (died once - You can go back to where you died and collect your stuff).
Not got to the more interesting stars yet but even on the more barren planets, I'm seeing small herds. Got 6 different types (non aggressive) in 1 place. Fed a couple too and they don't run off.

So far, so good. 12 hours in and now on 21 slot suit, 10 slot tool and 20 slot ship.
Maybe radiant quests from traders to collect a certain amount of material could be added for a decent reward (free extra slot somewhere) or to explore ruins (fetch quests!!!) which would expand the game a bit more and give you something to do on each planet.

I have no interest in the multi player stuff, hope its never added. I like the calm wandering around and although its a pain grinding for resources, someone coming along and killing me for my stuff would ruin it completely.
 
Had chance to try this out. First wandered about a bit found some items then nearby was a galactic store cube thingy. Clicked on it and was given two options (Buy or Sell). Clicking on either did nothing. Couldnt exit or do anything so end tasked game. Tried again and found this creature running along so chased it with my mine laser which didnt seem to damage it then got stuck on a tree. Could rotate 360 degree but not move. Couldnt get into menu or anything. Had to end task again.

Best £40 I ever saved.
 
trentlad said:
That's subjective too, you can jump into a fire fight between freighters and pirate ships in the current game. I've experienced this after my first warp. Now it may not have been to such a grand scale but I had the decision to choose who to join and I chose to take down the pirate ships and earned higher esteem from the cargo faction.

Hasn't anyone else experienced that in the game? I mean I haven't even picked up an Atlas Pass yet but my friend got his two warps in so it's possible this could appear later in the game.

So in his statement "you can choose between two warring factions" is actually correct. Now you can extrapolate from that an expanded interaction between factions but he didn't say that.
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That is not subjective, the video showed two factions at WAR, he used the term war and both sides had huge ships in a large battle and then it showed the player chasing a couple tiny ships. In the game there is a few big ships and a few tiny pirate ships will attempt to raid them(the same way they will scan and try and take your cargo). This isn't war, this isn't the rebels vs the alliance with capital ships and fighters, this is a few fighters up against multiple lets say destroyers and somehow they need your help defending against 4 ships.

There is nothing subjective about it, you can't choose to join the pirates on the raid, there is no continuing war between large factions, it's just a few pirates and you can choose to protect the big ships or not, no choosing sides.
 
varkanoid said:
Had chance to try this out. First wandered about a bit found some items then nearby was a galactic store cube thingy. Clicked on it and was given two options (Buy or Sell). Clicking on either did nothing. Couldnt exit or do anything so end tasked game. Tried again and found this creature running along so chased it with my mine laser which didnt seem to damage it then got stuck on a tree. Could rotate 360 degree but not move. Couldnt get into menu or anything. Had to end task again.

Best £40 I ever saved.
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A lot of the key activations, etc. are kind of obscure/backwards (possibly due to being designed by people more used to mobile environment) i.e. default action for going back/out of menus is to right click the mouse and for many things (even where it makes no sense at all) you have to hold down the mouse until the thing spins around to activate*. Escape should get you the main menu from which the quit option is buried in the options tab :S

They really should have got someone with real experience of PC gaming (i.e. me) to give it a once over before release - some fairly simple tweaks would have made for a far better first impression and made for a 10x better game.


* So basically to make those buy/sell options work you have to not only click on them but hold the mouse down til the wheel icon thingy comes up and then continue to hold it down until the animation goes right around and then they activate - how no one realised that was completely stupid and non-intuitive on PC I have no idea. (To be fair I worked it out fairly quickly but I nearly got a refund in the first few minutes just due to stupid things like that which could have been completely avoided).
 
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Joe's review if perfectly on point. They hyped it and lied. The game lacks any real content. Go and play ED.

When will people learn NOT to listen to the hype? Don't pre-order.

Sigh.

Search Youtube for this video if interested
New disappointment discovered : No Man's Sky

I think it has swearies
 
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drunkenmaster said:
There is nothing subjective about it, you can't choose to join the pirates on the raid, there is no continuing war between large factions, it's just a few pirates and you can choose to protect the big ships or not, no choosing sides.
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Urm, you either take out the attacking ships and gain rep with the system faction, or you take the opportunity to raid the freighters and steal their stuff. I've come across a few of these ranging from a one freighter and a couple of pirates, to a fleet of 4-5 larger ships fighting off 20-odd attackers.

I *chose* to side with the system faction and fought off the attackers in a space battle pretty much the same as the ones in the videos. I gained standing with the faction, and loads of loot from the destroyed ships. Working as intended as far as I can tell.
 
I just watched both videos and they are both Yankee drama queens.
In the angry joe video you could tell he hadn't played very long. And the other video was just drama queens ranting.
But there again that's how they make money.

Yes you can take on a big ship and take the cargo or you can destroy the space fighters and win respect.
 
deuse said:
Yes you can take on a big ship and take the cargo or you can destroy the space fighters and win respect.
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Yes we all know that, what i haven't seen is 20 odd attackers taking on 4 large ships and the ability to join a side and fight.

Would be quite comical since the ship controls are catastrophically bad.
 
Firestar_3x said:
Yes we all know that, what i haven't seen is 20 odd attackers taking on 4 large ships and the ability to join a side and fight.

Would be quite comical since the ship controls are catastrophically bad.
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Had a bit of ship to ship combat just now - which would have been quite good except for the fact that for about 40% of the battle my input in terms of direction was little more than vague suggestion and the ship seemed to be heading off on a course of its own.
 
Firestar_3x said:
Yes we all know that, what i haven't seen is 20 odd attackers taking on 4 large ships and the ability to join a side and fight.

Would be quite comical since the ship controls are catastrophically bad.
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I've taken out 10 space fighter ships in one small battle. The Gek thanked me and my rating with them went up.
"join a side and fight" as said help the Gek and follow their path or rob them of their cargo and follow your own path.

I find it a relaxing game....the perfect chill out one.
 
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Firestar_3x said:
Agree with Joe on this one.

Seems like Sean simply didn't want to say no in interviews and disappoint people.
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Yep, Angry Joe was spot on with this game.

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