No Man's Sky

That I can understand and apologies if I misread you on that.

I do wonder if it's due to it being a primarily PS 4 launch game that has influenced this. I can imagine that, had this been a PC release, then we would have seen a different price point.

By comparison to equivalent games, then yes people may be querying the "why". But taken against the broader context of gaming and what's being launched it seems a reasonable price point.

I just hope we could do things like build a whole battle fleet and have real space battles, not just dogfights.

I guess in theory there's no reason why enough players couldn't get together for a huge fight.

Yeah, but I mean like with cruisers and battleships and whatnot.

Don't get your hopes up. At most you'll just have a freighter or heavy corvette under your control, and the chances of running into players was counted as so low that Sony and Hello Games decided to allow players to connect online without having a subscription to Playstation Plus.

Best you could hope for would be the AI fleets fighting against each other.

It's a shame they ruined a good game idea by forcing you to interact with other players. Would've made a great single player game. Exploring new worlds loses its magic when you might get a message some idiot with a stupid online handle discovered the world you traveled to before you.

edited 2nd Aug '16 8:06:55 PM by Ghilz

Since when have they forced you to interact with other players? For all intents and purposes, it still is a single-player game where your chances of finding a single other person or planet they've discovered is astronomically small.

So they say.

Yet the fact they are including features like the immersion breaking "Announcing who discovered a planet first" thing seems to indicate they fully expect you to come across players.

Plus that's without counting people figuring out game patterns over time.

From what I've read, aside from the creatures being named, planets being identified, and major milestones being credited to certain players, they won't have a significant impact on your game. In fact they can't even touch your resources, and vice versa. If you were to visit a planet that's been frequented by over a hundred players, it'll still be like nobody else touched it except you the first time you visit, unless another player is currently within the same server "instance" as you are.

When you land on a new planet, it'll say the name of the person who discovered it, which in 99% of cases will be yourself. As far as I can tell, it doesn't announce it to anyone else, it just shows it on your screen. Since everyone's trying to head towards the center of the galaxy, I expect planets discovered by other players to be more common as you go along. Still probably very rare until you get right near the center, but if for some reason you are finding other players' planets and it's bothering you, you could always play offline.

Exactly. When it happens it's more likely to give you an "Oh my goodness, I may not be alone out here!" moment.

Who knows, maybe one of the updates could be for a mothership? Being able to land on one of those cap ships and use that as your barge could be fun for a future update.

I get the impression this isn't Firefly, more 2001 in terms of tone however.

But the fact there are factions and alliance bonus etc means I am also getting a bit of a Drox Operative vibe from it too.

Someone wrote a name generator for No Man's Sky that's fun to play around with: https://bodorkos-adam.github.io/namey-mcskyface/

I'm not sure what the naming list is supposed to be for. I'm guessing it's for planets?

Yeah, planets. Also, every once in a while the generator will give you a joke name.

I'm guessing Dogelordpants is one such joke name.

Erphy is one I kinda like that's thrown up :P

I might use this for non-No Man's Sky things.

I have a long list of deific figures, from life and fiction, to run through before Im struck with the need for new planet names.

There's already a fanfic out there about No Man's Sky!

But the bad news? It's... well, a gay pron fanfic. No, really. And apparently it's been around for awhile too.

Read it, and weep for humanity...

I think it's pretty funny, and doubt it was done with any seriousness whatsoever. Better to laugh with humanity than to weep for them!

Did the game get delayed? Steam is now saying it's out on the 12th. It seems odd to push it back at the last minute.

The PC version was. The console version is still on schedule for release, though.

The day one patch is changing a few things from what people have been playing with the early console release

Sorry did i say a few i meant a fuckton

I'd forgotten this was even out. I'll keep an ear out for reviews while I play Rebel Galaxy, since it was free this month on PSN :P

The devs weren't kidding when they said the pre-release version was outdated, were they?

So.... base building AND the ability to build larger ships / freighters.

Ok this game clearly has aspirations to just ruin everyone's productivity - Minecraft elements coupled with a ridiculous huge universe and space ships?

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!

All aboard the hype train; destination unknown.