Current Events > No Man's Sky getting massive update - Frontiers

(+) Yeah! (+)

https://youtu.be/BCFF3zJPEec

Announced on their anniversary

It's absolutely insane how far this game has come


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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLs4MGTTXRU

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Part of me still really wants to jump into this game but I dont want to be hooked on it for 6 months

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lmao @ forgiving No Man's Sky for the initial launch.

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eston posted...

Part of me still really wants to jump into this game but I dont want to be hooked on it for 6 months

Yeah, I want to get back into it, but... Same. Don't wanna get hooked.

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Is the actual moment-to-moment gameplay fun?

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CableZL posted...

Yeah, I want to get back into it, but... Same. Don't wanna get hooked.

Every time I go back to it, I basically lose 2-3 months to it. There's just so much shit to do it's unreal.

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Yeah, I already got hooked onto FF14. It sounds awesome now, but I don't want to commit to another massive timesink game.

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no matter what they change or add, it'll never be enough

is this even free or are they asking money for it?

I'm happy for others to like it. I wish I could get another game like this. That I would like.

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Kaiganeer posted...

no matter what they change or add, it'll never be enough

is this even free or are they asking money for it?

Every update is free

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Kaiganeer posted...

it'll never be enough

?

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5 years of free updates never liked the game but thats cool

Turning the Space Anomaly into a TARDIS-like online Nexus was one of the best changes they made.

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DeadBankerDream posted...

lmao @ forgiving No Man's Sky for the initial launch.

lmao@holding a grudge against a video game for 5 years

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EffectAndCause posted...

Is the actual moment-to-moment gameplay fun?

No. Not at all

For some reason i thought the last update was going to be the final one. May check it out again

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so whats really changed? All I really remember at launch was walking everywhere by myself, mining for shit for fuel, then flying to the next planet. I dont remember being able to do much else

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Axiom posted...

No. Not at all

Figured as much. Looked like the most elaborate, grand scale busy work in gaming history.

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Axiom posted...

No. Not at all

Disagree, whole heartedly.

I've not even played the last few updates, but the 200 hours i put in when I did play was incredibly fun.

Space battles, planet exploration, resource collection, base building etc. Great fun.

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I initially purchased the game as something to fuck with between moments of frustration with Dark Souls 3.

I am a Gen X gamer and despise the handholding of modern games. Swore I'd never play anything other than FROM games.

But I bit.

They are doing things that are amazing, transformative and gamer friendly. If you are still mad at the launch, you must also still be mad at the loss of knowledge regarding Santa Claus and the Easter bunny. They paid restitution for those who applied and delivered handsomely for those who stayed with the product. One game has become 4-7 IMO.

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DeadBankerDream posted...

lmao @ forgiving No Man's Sky for the initial launch.

I never bought it but goddamn it's been 5 years, let it go lol

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DravenRainrix posted...

Disagree, whole heartedly.

I've not even played the last few updates, but the 200 hours i put in when I did play was incredibly fun.

Space battles, planet exploration, resource collection, base building etc. Great fun.

Yeah, they are pushing the envelope on a lot.

Look, the casual, anime and handholding crowd won't get it. But if you want adventure limited only by your mind and your willingness to risk death, NMS is the shit.

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If I had a PS4, I would so get this game now.
I just wish the gameplay was third-person, and not first-person.

DeadBankerDream posted...

lmao @ forgiving No Man's Sky for the initial launch.

What, are they supposed to just abandon it in the shitty state that it was in at launch?

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ONLY in VR this is worth playing

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Solar_Crimson posted...

If I had a PS4, I would so get this game now.
I just wish the gameplay was third-person, and not first-person.

NVM: I thought the game was in first-person, but maybe I got it mixed up with something else, or it was changed in an update?

What, are they supposed to just abandon it in the shitty state that it was in at launch?

I only play third person. You can switch between the two though.

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Solar_Crimson posted...

If I had a PS4, I would so get this game now.

Don't know if it matters, but I'm pretty sure it's on GamePass as part of the sub.
A massive game that could easily suck up 100s of hours.

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Joeydollaz posted...

ONLY in VR this is worth playing

In a game about pushing limits and exploration, here comes the guy insisting it ONLY be played one way.

You have some real shit takes dude.

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Few questions:

Is it available in VR?
Is there any combat?
Any pvp?
Crossplay?

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eston posted...

lmao@holding a grudge against a video game for 5 years

This lol. People like that sound like they would still be fucking salty about their ex's for years after the split

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Father_ posted...

Is it available in VR?

you can play on VR either ps4/ps5.

i got to the center of the galaxy.
if manage to survive where they place you on the first planet you'll get through the rest of the game no problem.

1st planet i died. 2nd planet i managed to find a cave with plenty of survival elements and stocked up on em before i had to find the parts to my ship.

if they add any trophy's to the ps4/ps5 version i'll come back to it.
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DravenRainrix posted...

Don't know if it matters, but I'm pretty sure it's on GamePass as part of the sub.
A massive game that could easily suck up 100s of hours.

It most definitely is on Game Pass

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I need to give this game another shot. I bought it a few months ago and it seemed fun but I got really bad motion sickness flying in space for the first time and didnt play again after that night >_>

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I own the game i had to uninstall it cuz every week they had a huge update and i never played it

DravenRainrix posted...

Disagree, whole heartedly.

I've not even played the last few updates, but the 200 hours i put in when I did play was incredibly fun.

Space battles, planet exploration, resource collection, base building etc. Great fun.

You can even create your own little "castle" on a world, with its own climate and beasts and rarely leave the planet.

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brestugo posted...

You can even create your own little "castle" on a world, with its own climate and beasts and rarely leave the planet.

And, when I played at least, you could build portals that warps to another portal on another planet and go planet hopping.
Nothing stopping you having a base on a poison planet and a garden on a lush planet and a base under water on a water planet. So on and so on.

Damnit i wanna play it now.

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I cant get into it. I lack the desire to build things and the space combat is unsatisfying. All of my bases are straight up just holes in the ground with all of my shit strewn about

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DravenRainrix posted...

And, when I played at least, you could build portals that warps to another portal on another planet and go planet hopping.
Nothing stopping you having a base on a poison planet and a garden on a lush planet and a base under water on a water planet. So on and so on.

Damnit i wanna play it now.

Do it.

People still upset about the launch are like a guy in his 40's burned by a girl in Junior HS, yet still refusing to date.


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eston posted...

Part of me still really wants to jump into this game but I dont want to be hooked on it for 6 months

don't worry the early grind is so insanely awful you won't make it remotely close to that being a problem.

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Early grind isn't even that bad nowadays lul. You can get to later game stuff pretty early and don't even really have to do the main storyline, which is honestly more or less tutorial. The Anomaly basically made it so that you can get the later elements without having to go through the story, which skips like 90% of the doldrum

Basically usually if you were bothered by something earlier in the game, by this point, it's probably been fixed with some additional content.

Man, making an activated cadmium farm and using infinite money to buy out this insane looking mothership was one of the most satisfying thing ever. Had to traverse quite a few galaxies to reroll for the one I liked the best.

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DeadBankerDream posted...

lmao @ forgiving No Man's Sky for the initial launch.

imagine giving a fuck 5 years later

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I still want that $60 back

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legendarylemur posted...

Basically usually if you were bothered by something earlier in the game, by this point, it's probably been fixed with some additional content.

except for the part where it hasn't, it constantly adds more to the grind, more materials, more blueprints, more arbitrary repairs. These statements are always made from people that live exclusively in the end game where you are able to automate the mundane out of the game.

So you either play sandbox and go oh neat and quit after a few days because it's sandbox. Play normal and go, well this is horribly boring and quit after a few days. Or you convinced yourself it's a better game then it was and keep reusing your save to skip the worst part of a shallow game that things tedium is depth.

There's a reason why all these updates only bring people for a few days after the patch then the numbers return back down to the same core that keeps playing the game telling everyone no guys it's really good now, guys, come plz, guys plz, guys really plz trust me guys guys guys guys no rly this time!

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I Like Toast posted...

Lol nice assumptions, but I first started to play the game like 6 months ago and really enjoyed the overall experience. I mean not a whole lot of end game stuff is locked behind anything. I dunno when you played the game, but sure before you get a spaceship, the range of stuff you can do is a bit limited, but that's just how video games work lol. After you get a spaceship, literally like what can't you actually do? You can activate nearly every quest as long as you know how to, and the Nexus makes it so you can automate for infinite money like pretty much within your first 3-4 hours of playing.

Just get your head out of the ass and accept that the current product is actually genuinely good. Is it for everybody? Probably not. But that statement for anything is pretty pointless and obvious, yet you don't seem to realize it. Maybe you just don't like this type of game in general

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Toast and DeadBanker being pretentious about things? Color me surprised!

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DeadBankerDream posted...

lmao @ forgiving No Man's Sky for the initial launch.

When you go way above and beyond to correct yourself, that does deserve praise.

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It's not corrected though
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People at the first space station still wont talk to me. Fuck this game.

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tripleh213 posted...

It's not corrected though

bullshit. stop kidding yourself