Thread 719887221

>visit planet
>hold mouse over a rock, collect rock
>get enough rock to upgrade pistol
>now you can collect a better rock
>get enough better rock to upgrade your storage
>now you can hold more rock
>upgrade your pistol to get better rock
>leave planet, visit new planet, repeat

That's literally every survival crafting game ever made, anon. Why are you singling out NMS?

>>719887528
why are you defending this crap?

>>719887528
Most survival games actually have challenges you need to overcome or die. In NMS there's no point in doing anything

I tried playing it but I got some gay ass nerd error saying something about AMD CPU (I have a shintel) so I just removed it and moved on. This was in 2023 btw - haven't touched it since. Also sage.

>>719887221 (OP)
That's not what nms is about at all
It has like two? Tiers of upgrades and that's it

>>719887221 (OP)
I see the game hasn't changed since I left my 2018 Steam review then.

I came back for a bit but I'm quickly finding out that I have nothing really that interesting to do. I have maxed out most things, like S class or better upgrades, ships, freighter, etc. All that's left for me is to upgrade my settlement to max and wait for my 10 million debt to tick down. Or grind missions and visit space stations to get storage upgrade modules.

The discovery aspect of this game is really really shallow unfortunately.

It's a brilliant plan honestly. Slap basic shit on top of it, make shills make threads about how it's so much better, then rinse and repeat.

>>719887221 (OP)
Kino.

>>719888532
>1080
>4k
Holy retard

>>719887608
>I see loli
>I pursue loli
>I go to prison
why do you defend that crap?

>>719888551
Do the expedition
I just finished it.
Corvettes are cool

>>719888904
>3440x1440
>4k

filtered :^)

>>719887221 (OP)
I commend Hello Games for actually supporting their game and still adding shit to it, but holy fuck they need to work on player animations and end game.
Half the time I play this game I put it down again because the player character's movement is so unresponsive and clunky.
Entire new rig for player models, new running animations and allow perma-sprint by default.

Secondly, end game.
There's a lot to do, but it's all pretty meaningless. You can get almost anything you want in the game through mining rocks with your lazer, it doesn't really add any incentive to do anything else.
Proper procedural dungeons on planets, community "raids" for parties of 5 people. Have the enemies drop exclusive items or upgrades, give them a small chance to drop cool shit like blueprints for a unique S rank ship or whatever.

Add melee weapons, or at least more responsive gun play.

>>719888978
>Do the expedition
Reading the summary of what this is, I'm not sure if this interests me that much.
>Corvettes are cool
Right I suppose I still can build my corvette. I have been grinding some parts at salvageable scrap planets for the eventuality that I would actually customize it properly.

>>719887221 (OP)
Didn't they introduce combat at some point?
How is it?

>>719889271
>Reading the summary of what this is, I'm not sure if this interests me that much.
Its basically just a long side mission where you get some time limited cosmetics at the end
Took me like 5ish hours
Haven't played since like 2023 so I had to relearn a bunch

>>719887221 (OP)
I literally cannot play the game for more than 5 minutes without wanting to kill myself but for some reason I'm really enjoying the voyage. I think it's because there's actual tangible progression at a decent pace, and the ship as a base solves my biggest issue with the game which was that construction inherently discourages exploration.
Going back to the same shitty planet over and over to build a Minecraft house was cancer as fuck, but now I just make a comfy ship and bring the base with me. incredible that they couldn't figure this out until now. an exploration game that discouraged exploring for almost 10 fucking years.

>>719889339
Its ok
Like 7/10
Your gun can be multiple and you can switch between it. Shotgun. Laser. Rifle etc
Alt fire switches too. Shields, stun grenades i forget the others.
The mech suit has some cool weapons too

OP has learned about skinner boxes. Well done, OP!

>>719889458
You know you could already do that with the freighters right?

>>719889339
Meh. Shallow, like everything else in the game desu.

>>719889524
What's not being said here is that everything but the shotgun sucks shit from a butt.

>>719889704
I've been using the pulse spitter. Is the shotgun better?

>>719889704
I like the burst rifle
And the other laser

>entire thread of people who haven't played the game shitting on it
>faggot OPs post 100% untrue, noone questioned it at all

A game that has everything you can do in NMS, modded Rimworld, modded The Sims and modded Skyrim would be best game ever

>>719889625
the freighters were floating in space, so they were functionally the same as teleporting back to a base. no sense of place. also a waste of time to have to summon it and land in it. similar to going to a station to warp to a planetary base.

but now you just fly your house everywhere and do your upgrading on the fly. it just feels better all around.

>>719889795
>>719888236

>>719889795
>claims he read the entire thread
>several posts of people talking about mechanics of the game
>ignores them to whine because people aren't mindlessly praising it
retard

If you're still shooting rocks after 2 hours of gameplay then you're an actual moron and I don't want you playing the game anyway.

>>719889860
Eh I liked summoning my big fuck off ship
The corvettes have like no room in them btw
You'll want to put your farm on the freighter at least

>>719889150
They are going to have to learn shit like this to make Light No Fire and they seemingly don't give a shit about ever implementing even so much as on-foot pirates.

>>719889993
My Corvette has room
I have entire rooms that are still empty because I don't know what to put in them yet. It's definitely similar to the freighter system but I much prefer corvettes. I am jealous of people who will play the game for the first time with these ships

>>719889974
yup that's pretty true late game. Instead you just have so much money you buy them from trading posts and space stations. Still a grind though cause it requires jumping from system to system.

>>719890152
>My Corvette has room
You don't farm?

>>719889146
based and filtrationpilled

>>719889795
People are just trolling at this point, anyone who has played the game past the tutorial knows that shooting rocks is like 2% of the actual gameplay, hell you can basically ignore it and just buy stuff instead.
There is no reason to feed these retards.

>>719890219
I'm just starting to so I only have a single hab dedicated to living walls

>>719890301
Its actually sad how little /v/ plays games
You can be discussing a game with someone and they have only knowledge from meme or shorts
If you are lucky they watched a playthrough...

>>719889150
The fact they have updated this game a thousand times yet we're still stuck with the terrible gunplay and flight model saddens me to no end, I liked the game when they released it, I like it now, I don't think any of the updates have fixed the actual issues I had with the game when it released. It desperately needs some sort of reactive damage model to ships and something that resembles """realistic""" flight physics, everyone acts like the game is "fixed" but until they remedy both those things it's as bad as it was when it released

>>719889458
>an exploration game that discouraged exploring for almost 10 fucking years.
this is the fundamental problem with nms, it's an exploration game but the exploration sucks because there's not enough content. you see all the basic biomes and buildings within a couple hours and after that it's just palette swaps and one-off anomaly planets. it's only a shooting-at-rocks simulator because the planets aren't interesting enough to be more than rock dispensers; you land, collect what you need, and gtfo because there's no point in seeing what's over that hill (the exact same trees and terrain you're seeing now) or what's inside that building (a motionless npc who needs 50 copper and gives you 30 nanites)
it'd be a much better game if the majority of updates were adding new biomes, creatures, plants, buildings, etc, instead of irrelevant gimmick features like cooking or whatever the fuck
basebuilding is the reason the game is like this btw, they can't actually update planets since basebuilders sperg out if their homes change at all
corvettes are great though

>>719890429
>Jannies cultivate a culture on /v/ thats nothing but ragebait, retards, shitposting, and faggots
>Shut down threads on games unless its the current FOTM or gacha slop the troon jannies play
>Game had more than one thread? NUHHH GO TO /vg/ UR A GENRUL
>Meanwhile Dall-E up for over a year now

WhY NoOnE TaLk AbOuT GaEMS?!?!?!?!

>>719890919
>they can't actually update planets since basebuilders sperg out if their homes change at all
Minecraft house faggots literally destroyed any chance of the game improving and I will NEVER forgive those retarded niggers for demanding it as a feature.

>>719890487
yeah nms's flight model is genuinely godawful and the lack of maneuverability with corvettes only makes this more apparent, even in a fast ship doing a pirate freighter fight with m+kb is a fucking miserable experience
not to mention the little things, like why the fuck can't you hover in place over a planet? these hyperadvanced ftl ships don't have neutral gear?
>>719891406
tbf the devs could've picked a couple of the irrelevant 256 galaxies and just updated those planets, with an option for new players to start in the new galaxies. that's basically what they did with the purple stars except they locked them behind a bunch of shitty fetch quests for some reason. i think gimmick features are what they want to do because making good procgen content is more effort for them

I hate expeditions, the early game blows.

>Hello games' next game is a medieval fantasy RPG
>They have no idea how to do combat
>Staff weapon is just a rifle that clips through your character's arm instead of a melee weapon
>Last time I got invested in the game a procgen update came out and destroyed my empire
>Latest update is broken and your corvette spins out of control if you put too much furniture in it, which has no in-game representation of the limit

Not playing this shit until the FINAL update.
It's still painfully unfinished because they have no idea what they are doing and keep interjecting random bullshit nobody asked for that breaks the game for weeks.
Then they do it again once the game is stable. It has to stop.

>>719891948
Purple stars bug me. If all newly generated planets just had the new planet generation the update would be perfect. No one's old base would get nuked.

>>719891948
The main story is the biggest pile of shit ever, the dumbest most mind-numbingly boring grind imaginable, and incredibly repetitive.
The fact that you have to play through all of it and ANOTHER series of annoying fetch quests that have you do the same things over and over again YET AGAIN just to unlock the new "fun" planets sucks ass.

I did a glitched nexus mission that was rewarding freighter runs and I didn't see that the quest kept repeating itself until after I had turned the quest in and gotten a new Nexus mission. Fucking kill me. Abandoned freighter missions are cool. I only recently just started playing but I'm really liking it. The way the economy completely changes after you find the anomaly is pretty funny. At first I was like "fuck I have to play 78k for this one component" and then post-anomaly im like "fuck I only have to pay 600k for 4 of this one component"

>>719895962
Abandoned freighters are the closest things to dungeons in the game but once you been inside a couple you've been inside them all
and I guess there's an economy when you start but ever since I found my first gravitino ball I've had unlimited money. Might as well not even have money as a mechanic that's how little it matters

I don't know why I like this game. It's a buggy mess, super repititive, game there is a lot of planets but each one is more or less the same. I see the same cargos, buildings, alien species every time, and they have similiar things to say. The generated animals and plants are the varied but so similiar that you don't notice it.
It's a first time I play on relase and not a week later so IDK if it's common, but this update is buggy AF. I never encountered so many crashes and never had to use emergency saves because I get stuck in a building. It is very relaxing though.
Just gathering stuff, building another base... I want to try some other survival base building games one day.

>>719887221 (OP)

No Man's Sky is a great example that outrage and praise cycles of games are not based on informed opinions but by influencer based social pressure convincing people that the thing they were told to hate is now good despite nothing changing.

I saw people play it when the game launched. I had no opinion of the game and didnt care about the game.
apparently peopled hated it and years later people said it was fixed.
I saw it on gamepass and downloaded it, and it was basically the same experience i remembered watching but with more layers of distraction.
had a moment of wondering why people's opinions changed when the game was fundamentally the same.

then cyberpunk released and I saw the exact same phenomena again. Game launches, im having fun on pc with no issues, loud angry influencer mob on the internet, i play the game for years and see the updates come out one by one changing nothing. An anime drops and suddenly the game is "fixed and saved"... when it was good the whole time and the game people now praise is fundamentally the same.

tl;dr: people are dumb, never let their opinions stop your fun.

>>719890919
Listening too much to the community can be a problem, and since nms is on an eternal guilty trip...

>>719887221 (OP)
It's always amusing when a new update gets heavily shilled on /v/ as "SAVING" the game despite every update having still not changed the core gameplay cycle. I stopped bothering with NMS because it really is just extremely boring.

Do I naturally unlock a starter freighter/Corvette or...how does that work

>>719895962
>>719896189
I wish they made freighter runs a little deeper/better/varied. It is technically all I want - kinda scary (at first), dangerous actual survival scenario with unlockable buildable stuff you can't get any other way. But just as you say. they are waaay too fimiliar. Also flying enemies cliping through stuff is annoying af, so is the blocked camera because you are cold all the time.

>>719887686
Game is pretty forgiving on normal so the survival aspect is not there. You can always turn up the difficulty or add permadeath.

If that isn't enough there's even mods to increase damage taken and such

>>719896904
they don't explain shit in this game and just assume everyone will look up a guide I guess

either do the Expedition or literally look up a guide. It involves scanning planets for salvageable components and then building it at any space station.

>>719896904
>starter freighter
You occasionally see one under attack. Save it and its captain will let you take it over if you wanted

>>719897059
Thanks. I kept seeing old posts saying "oh don't worry you'll get a free frigate eventually" and then no one actually explains how to do it. I also don't really get how expeditions work. I have to start a new save and those rewards transfer to my main somehow?

I tried NMS many times because I like the idea. But it's so incredibly shallow that I dont know how anyone plays for more than 2-3 hours. The most recent time I tried playing, I quit when a dust storm hit and when I went inside my base and looked out the window, the storm was gone. Apparently storms disappear when you're indoors, which is fucking retarded.

>>719897124
Nice. Is it a busted freighter where I have to expend a bunch of resources fixing it up or does the captain just give me the keys

>>719897059
I don't blame them, really. I started blind 2 years ago and it was cool to just get seemingly random communication in the space or seemingly randomaly encounter freighter being attacked. Too bad they kinda spoil things in the trailers though, but at this point IDK if I'd even bother doing the same shit over and over hoping something happens.

>>719897191
the frigate you do get for free eventually you just have to keep jumping until you see one under attack

the scanning for components and building at a station is for the new corvette ships

And yes, you start a new save with expedited progression and proper objectives that teach you whatever is new for the update, and then you can transfer all the stuff you got back to your main save at the end

>>719890919
my base got put underwater during an update, logged in and my landing pad was literally 50m into the water with my house being even deeper because it was below in a cave
i didn't even think about the people who spent even longer on their base, while i did spend a lot of time i mostly just liked collecting anomaly furniture and posters

>>719897367
Sick. Thanks for the help anon

>>719897367
>frigate
It's those ships you send on expeditions and return with loot. You see one in a fleet warping in. Pay them and they'll join you.

>>719896651
It went from unplayable to okay.
No games let you explore space and land on planets SEAMLESSLY without some kind of Online or Multiplayer aspect getting too popular and ruining it so this falls into a good niche that many people want to be done better with more talent.

It's a 7 out of 10 people praise like it's a 10 out of 10 simply because of how completely desolate the game was at launch.
There seems to be this collective hope that if everyone says it's amazing it will eventually become that.

Hello Games is not capable of delivering a solid experience because they are not capable of focusing development properly. EVERYTHING is half-finished.
EVERY FEATURE is clearly never going to be a complete experience. Hello Games just can't finish the game. They're just chasing bugs and spitballing.

Playing No Man's Sky is like being a battered wife. You know when Sean gets home he's going to break a bunch of shit and fuck you up but at least he'll let you customize your ship. Oh wait that's broken for the next few months until it's fixed. Like every update.

>>719897623
Yeah I meant to say freighter but whatever I'm sure he'll figure it out

>>719897216
I saw an autist with 15k hours on the steam forums once

>>719896904
There's a teleporter pad at starports that take you to the Corvette garage where you can get started with acquiring parts cheap there then go hunting for better parts.

>>719897281
It's completely functional (except no fuel) and your first one is free, but like ships it can have different tiers (C-S) and different amount of default cargo space

>>719887686
>WHY IS THIS SPACE EXPLORATION NOT FOCUSED ON HARDCORE GRITTY SURVIVAL?
>MY LEGS AREN'T BROKEN ENOUGH

Please never play No Man's Sky again. Please tell people it's bad and that you don't like it but always make sure you explain your personal taste as well.
Thank you.

>>719897784
There's also one in your freighter hangar as you park the corvette near it.
My only issue is literally falling through said corvette and into space

>>719887221 (OP)
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why do retards keep posting the same shit again and again, and why do you retards reply instead of ignoring?

>>719897932
I've only fallen through the floor into space while trying to to get out of the pilot seat while in super cruise or whatever this game calls it. At least they have a "teleport me back into my ship you broken fucking game" button for when it happens but watching my ship rocket into the distance while I sat alone in space was pretty funny the first time

>>719887221 (OP)
>>719888532
Should have invested in anime instead of meme-updates dessu

>>719888532
>waaah why doesn't my ancient hardware run ultrawide perfectly!!!!
I hate poorfaggots

>>719897932
So goddamn tired of this game's updates.
Everybody loves sucking their cock but these uodates are always fucking broken and almost exclusively demonstrate to new players that Hello Games is extremely incompetent and willfully ignorant.

>>719898332
the game came out in 2016 and runs on the fucking Switch you knuckle scraping trog

>>719897931
Bigger question: why isn't this SPACE EXPLORATION more focused on SPACE EXPLORATION?
Once you've seen roamed around one planet for a bit, you've basically seen everything planets have to offer (same points of interests, just different rocks, trees, and animals that barely even react to you to scan). Once you've seen one space station, you've seen them all. Once you've seen one derelict, you've seen them all.

>>719887221 (OP)
Why is the menu UI such dogshit? They've had a decade and it's still one of the worst around.

>>719898539
>Once you've seen one space station, you've seen them all.
this one is even weirder to me because in early versions of the game, the space stations did have slight variations. But then the retarded cocksucking community came and said they wanted everything in the exact same place every single time but with bisexual lighting so now we have even less variety in this procedural generation game.

probably the same cocksuckers who wanted to make a fucking cube on a shitty empty planet and then complain if it ever shifts an inch.

>>719897707
i enjoyed my time with it. i didnt engage with multiplayer, i barely even started the story. I found some ships, collected more ships, jumped to different systems upgrading my suit. set my own mission to find abstract art planets and those creepy abandoned outposts until the story looped. eventually got one of those Galleons with a fleet of ships and was about to start messing with base building but other games came out.
overall my gameplay loop was what the OP said, get thing, get new material, get better thing, repeat.

i think gaming needs some new terms
HypeCreep - peoples dreams and imagination seeping into their expectations of what a product will be.
HopeCreep - irrational belief that time cures all wounds

I had no expectations, i had a good time.

Honestly I just play Starfield instead. It's NMS but done better in every single way with better exploration, combat, story and writing. Survival craft isnt that fun for me and I can applaud the devs for updating and adding new content systems but they never touched the base gameplay which isnt very fun.

>>719899007
Get out of canada you brown faggot, no one wants you there.

>>719898332
>>719888904
The review is from 2018, Nvidia launched the 20 series in September of that year, he was using one of the best GPUs on the market when he wrote the review, and on top of that, the game released on 2016

>>719898961
>those creepy abandoned outposts
Those "creepy abandoned outposts" are basically the perfect example of why NMS fucking sucks so much
>woah check out this abandoned building what wondrous forgotten treasures could lay inside!?
>fucking nothing but a couple boxes with junk items and a terminal you can interact with for a negligible amount of nanites
>there's a few whispering eggs you can try to grab but they cause infinitely spawning alien dickheads that can nearly one shot you and aren't really worth the trouble
>this one single building makes up about 90% of distress beacon coordinates you find

>>719900217
eggs are easy to get but still not worth it unless you really really need some early nanites
get on roof of building
shoot mining laser at egg
run to nest on opposite side of building of the egg you just shot
shoot/loot them
get back on roof
the idiots spawn and have to walk all the way around
repeat as needed

>>719900217
>expedition requires you to go inside an abandoned building
>some faggot keeps shooting whispering eggs and spawn over 9000 horrors
reminder to turn off multiplayer when doing one

>>719899279
when i played it at 1440p in 2020 with a computer i built in early 2017 with a gtx1080, the bigger problem was cpu load since there were so many random entities in the environment. At that time Ryzen cpus were shit. when the 1080ti released in 2017 the best gaming cpus were 4 core intel cpus i7 7700k (i had an i5 7600k). it would have been a stuttering mess if they didnt know to reduce the range that things load in. Kingdomcome Deliverance had the same problem in 2018. at some point people need to realize they cant have it all and simply turn down a few settings.

>>719900217
You have so much mobility with the jetpack it's your fault for getting hit. I don't even know how much damage these things do because it's so easy to back away from them.
You're right that these outposts are good example of NMS problems, you forgot to mention that every single one of those buildings is identical (and they're already barely modified models of another infinitely repeated building) and that the eggs are mostly set dressing as they will never hatch without you shooting them - don't know who to blame for this exactly but they're the same people who made it so every planet in the universe contains every single mineral you need to survive, even the atmosphereless barren moons will inexplicably have one of the 3 hostile plants and oxygen plants scattered around so that you're never in danger of having to interact with the survival mechanics

>>719899279
>one of the best cards
>not SLI'd titans
when will poorfags stop coping?

>>719900217
i sought them out for their little story
the resources didnt mean anything to me.
I didnt play long enough to find out, but it didnt seem like the story went anywhere or connect to anything greater. Or enhance your appreciation of other features in the game.

>>719896651
>tl;dr: people are dumb, never let their opinions stop your fun.
This is objectively CORRECT.
Look at SH2 remake, a ton of retarded haters, while the game is overall excellent minus some shitty character faces/designs. Same shit with Hollow Knight, probably one of THE most overrated fucking games of all time (along with BotW), it's just a decent 7.5 or 8 if you reaaaally wanna be generous

>>719901510
>enhance your appreciation of other features
this is another major problem with the design. They have all these disparate little systems that don't interact with each other. Why do the quests for the staff and robot guys if it's just a reskinned multi tool that's worse than the ones you already have?
why go fishing and cooking if all the meal effects are just worse versions of the cheap full recharge batteries?
why manage an outpost if the benefits are worse than just grabbing some glowing balls off the ground in 5 minutes?

they keep adding things that straight up do not affect the gameplay as a whole, and after 10 years that's actually kinda impressive. like walking through a minefield of interesting ideas and managing to miss them all

>>719901209
>that the eggs are mostly set dressing as they will never hatch without you shooting them
See, that's part of the issue. It feels like everything is baby proofed. If anything seems like it poses a significant threat, you have to go out of your way to get fucked up by it. Just look at derelicts for another example. They try to make it sound like your environmentals dropping faster is a big deal on them but ultimately you've usually got hundreds if not thousands of units of sodium in your inventory, plus there's heaters all over the derelicts, PLUS there's tons and tons of capsules full of sodium all over derelicts.

>>719887528
Good survival games like Grounded or Don't Starve or Abiotic Factor or Subnautica have actual things to do.

>subnautica
>good

>>719902421
Yes. It's a shitty sandbox game though.

>subnautica
>good

>>719887221 (OP)
>>visit planet
>>hold mouse over a rock, collect rock
>>get enough rock to upgrade pistol
>>now you can collect a better rock
That only happens once though, why do you pretend that it's some infinite cycle or that that's what you do in the game

HOW are you people still fucking seething about this game 20 years later. still making threads and telling lies just to get angry about each other's bullshit? it's madness. You need to move on.

>>719901850
Yeah that was my point, every feature in the game that seems dangerous either isn't or is easily circumvented even if you decide to engage with it, because more than likely it is also optional

about 40% of the posts ITT are straight up false, and another 30% are intentionally misleading.

>>719902689
weird how people were actually talking about video game design and mechanics for once and then you showed up the post quality took a nosedive.

>>719902780
>talking about videogame design and mechanics
SHOT RORK
LUTE RORK
BANG RORK ON SHEP
SHEP GO ZOOMBO ZOOM ZOOM
DIS BAYUD CUZ I NOT STARF
NMS BUT UNDAWADA IS WAY BEDUR BECUZ NO SCAMN ROCK, SCAMN HUL PEAS.

>>719887221 (OP)
basedmans sky

>>719888910
someone should do something about that last part

>>719887528
Abiotic factor and v rising both prove it doesn't have to be this way

The game is good regardless of what others say.

>>719898390
And the switch version isn't the same as the PC or PS5 version. They've updated the graphics and their engine to the point you can't run it.

>>719903635
Oh boy think of all the rocks and trees to scan and the one repeating building to explore on that planet.

>>719903451
>>719903592
>>719903635
what the fuck am I looking at is this running on an N-Gage?

The best time I had on this game was a while after the first universe when they reworked how you unlock building blueprints, I didn't interact with the initial system at all, and did not complete the whole "tutorial" so when the rework came out I had no access to parts that were integral to progress the building tree, I made all my units by just selling rare shit I found, until one guy showed up in my system, I asked him in chat if he could help me, he landed on my freighter and built me a large refiner and that was the only way I could access it as I lacked the blueprint

I still have that refiner and only play that character, except now I have more avenues to trade and smuggle shit. I still haven't ever built anything meaningful

>>719903635
I like how every time the NMS shills drop their screenshots of planets they just go completely silent when you ask them what all there is to do on them aside from shooting rocks with lasers and scanning plants plants and rocks.

your average /v/ user

>>719907107
>Still dumping screenshots
>Still not answering the question
What all did you do on those planets aside from shoot rocks, scan a few plants, rocks, and animals, and take a couple screenshots?

>>719887221 (OP)
As with every procedure generated game the luster wears off once you notice the pattern of generation.

Anon...

>>719907302
NTA, but here's a list of some stuff
>build a base
>build a farm
>build a resource collection setup
>drive a car/mech/submarine/hovercraft/mobile mining rig/motorcycle and race them
>explore a ruin for artifacts you can sell for lots
Granted it's the same one every time, but I'm willing to bet that part will be revamped at some point
>above, but underwater
>find and power up a stargate for easy travel
>visit trade outposts to sell valuable items for more money than in space
>repair broken ships
>find hidden robots that let you build a staff
>complete quests for the stories
>fight robots for tons of nanites and break their towers for better multi tools and to turn them off for a while
>own a town and profit off it
And probably some more I can't remember. Also hunting bones and scrap.

>>719909394
don't forget comfy fishing

>>719909394
so the explore is awesome,
the exploit is meh
the exterminate is even more meh
and the expansion is nonexistent

if they make combat interesting and balanced
and let us paint the galaxy our color, this game could be aswesome

>>719889795
>um, actually, you can just buy rocks instead of mining them!
then what do you do after your shopping trip?

>>719910256
X4 is more your speed. This game isn't that and won't be.

>>719910489
Build shit. Upgrade other shit.

>>719910671
x4 combat is quite meh I think

The ride mechanic is such a disappointing gimmick it would be better not existing at all

>>719910489
>uhm le actually heckerino you can le like
fuck off disingenuous lying faggot
go upgrade your "pistol" with "rocks"

>>719909394
>build a base
Your freighter does everything a planetside base does and it's mobile
>build a farm
You can do that on your freighter
>build a resource collection setup
You can just use your fleet to get resources
>drive a car/mech/submarine/hovercraft/mobile mining rig/motorcycle and race them
Exocraft suck for everything except mining rocks faster than your multitool. If you want to get around on a planet you're better off just jumping in your ship and flying to where you need to go
>find and power up a stargate for easy travel
You can just build a gateway in your ship. There's no point in going through the trouble of building and powering a gate on a planet because you're never going back there.

>>719911205
The stargate is referencing the portal with the rune system, you tourist retard.

>>719887221 (OP)
Good game for grug

>>719911205
>>build a farm
>You can do that on your freighter
Oh really? They let you farm animals for animal specific resources in space? No you fucking idiot.

>>719887221 (OP)
Yes

>>719907302
nms is a screenshot game, and that's fine. it's for people who enjoy wandering around procgen planets just because they can

I wish there was something half way between NMS and Star Citizen

>>719915942
There is, Elite Dangerous

>>719887221 (OP)
it's the same logic behind Roguelike games?
>explore dungeon
>click enemies till dead
>collect loot
>upgrade so you can click enemies faster to collect loot faster
>go next dungeon and repeat till infinity
Or soulslike games?
>explore area
>die till you kill enemies
>loot
>upgrade stuff.
>go to next area
>repeat

>>719918825
Enemies is the keyword here

>>719919272
oh sorry, that completely changes the game from complete shit to genius
To be honest, I was not defending nms, it's shit, but so are souls games and roguelike and many others, like gatcha and mobas etc

look at my big ship bros

I put a staircase out the very top so i can walk in and out when the doors glitch out

so can all ships of all types reach the same amount of slots? or even get upgraded to higher tiers like s rank or do you still have to find tiers still?

i havent kept up with the game so i dont recall if thats some random info i found over the years or just in my head

>>719919749
the big observation deck is comfy. after the expedition I'll add some decorations and probably break the game

I'm willing to bet that everything getting added to No Man's Sky is getting implemented in some way into their next game Light No Fire.

Everything they're doing right now is just the practice run, like what Toby Fox did with Deltarune.

>>719920249
Wow. You're willing to bet on something they've literally said?
Bold.

>>719920249
no shit dude, they literally said the corvettes are using the Light No Fire boat tech
all these recent updates are backported engine upgrades from that game. thats also why they added fishing, it was already done for the other game just retexture it

>>719919979
>>719919749
Cool ship anon, good job!

>>719887221 (OP)
NO MAN'S RANCH?
IT ROCKS

>>719919905
You can upgrade a ships class at the starship outfitter on space stations, although if I remember it's pretty expensive to do so.
Otherwise you can build starships from the ground up now (not the new corvettes, the regular spaceships)

>>719920446
thanks man it ended up taking the majority of my playtime because I just kept redesigning it from scratch. pretty fun system, less modules total than I hoped but still has room for some creativity

>>719920791
build now? geez i know they had the option years ago to paint ships but the paint kept glitching and defaulting to original or completely random

I'm curious how the archeology and fishing will tie into LNF progression because that shit sure doesn't matter at all in NMS
have they said if LNF will still be doing the proc gen animals? maybe enemies this time also?

>>719921282
>build now?
Yeah.
Just go to a station and talk to the starship tech merchant, you can buy a Reactor to power a new ship.
You'll still need to collect parts for one though by disassembling other starships for parts (cockpit, wings etc).
Once you have all the parts you can build it at the starship fabricator on a space station.

>>719887221 (OP)
Still better than the gacha slop /v/ casuals worship.

>>719921026
I've still yet to wrap my head around some of the things people have made with it

>>719924349
The thing they really fucked up on is not having 3d swimming models for the fish you catch and not having aquariums.
actually it's fucked up they don't have aquariums for the regular scannable water animals already
actually I hate this game fuck why am I playing it still

>>719924349
does the game have displays for stuff like that to put into or is it just an image and meant to be sold

>>719887221 (OP)
the game needs a redesign of the opening to force you into starting building your capital ship and your settlement and all the good shit, i know its a meme but
>it gets good after 10 hours
is actually true for this game if you can manage it

>>719924575
the entire Atlas storyline needs to be removed from the game or turned into the last thing you do and not the first. All the enjoyment in the game is discovering and setting up these dumb little systems and then moving on because they are pointless for actual progression.

For me it's
>Find new shipwreck
>have to build new parts for half of it instead of just ripping shit out of my old ship wasting time and searching for resources that aren't even that plentiful on this world

Exploration shouldn't be punishment.

>>719887221 (OP)
every thread I see after every update is
>did they actually add anything?
>now you can do this
>does this interact with the core game in any meaningful way?
>shut up chud

>>719924741
yeah, and finding cool shit shouldn't be a setback. I hate that I have turned down cool stuff because I just can't be bothered to fix it up and my current gear gets all the jobs done already. That's a fundamental glaring problem with progression and difficulty. Why even bother getting the S rank multi tool of my A rank already has every upgrade and +100,000% scan profits?

Repeating my idea from a few days ago that NMS needs to implement fully featured planet colonization with politicsl, economic, and warfare simulation and empire building. NMS as it is is a wide as fuck but shallow pool, but therein lies it's secret weapon: the perfect foundation for an actual game. If they built on NMS to this scale it would unironically become an industry shaking goliath of a game.

>>719887528
just don't play these games lmao

>>719925263
They should make a sequel and go full star wars, randomize the sentient races as they do with fauna, build a cohesive gameplay integrating systems etc. at this point they basically have an engine that plays like a demo

>>719926258
are you playing on a psx

>>719924838
Because you can just repackage the upgrades into the new multitool and get both?

>>719911205
Submarine has actual value now with waterworlds, because you're not getting your ship 3km underwater.

>>719887221 (OP)
For NMS to truly be great, HG needs to make a new universe that's actually designed around all the shit they've added to the game. The game's engine is capable of so much more than it's being used for. Corvettes are such a great addition, I just wish there was a real game around all the stuff you can do now.

>>719928563
is there anything down there that can't be found 300m deep? Genuine question

>>719929360
Lithium, sea glass, and some weird creatures.

>>719929472
Can you build a sad diving base that deep? I might have to check that out. I came back for walkable ships and haven't played in a while
Actually do they have a pool exit for water based yet and can you fish from it that's the actual important question

>>719929619
Yes to all 3. I have a sea base about 1.4km deep because I just wanted to put an aquarium and a fireplace at the bottom of the ocean, but there is a pool floor exist for the underwater rooms and I use mine for fishing while I'm down there lmao.

>>719929684
That sounds pretty cool I'll have to check it out. Probably just cheat a creative mode base somewhere. Do they only spawn on purple stars? I wonder if they'll add a floating landing pad for corvettes or something. A docking beacon in the air above the water like freighters have maybe and you can warp down.

>>719929842
Waterworlds only spawn around purple stars, yeah. If you set it up right you can use the water landing gear on your ship, build a base computer on top of it, and glitch a floating base out from there
But also you're 100% going to want to grab the pressure shield and aeration membrane upgrades from the anomaly to survive down there. The pressure from extreme depths rapes your life support and hazard protection without them, and it's still fast drain with them.

>>719887221 (OP)
Game should’ve had an in depth combat system with loot and bosses

>>719928831
That's the main problem since day 1. The way the game handles the core goal you have to achieve is rubbish.
You could make a good game about just fucking around and exploring and learning and building, etc.
You could make a good game about trying to reach your goal while trying to see if you can scrape up enough resources and dealing with enemies, maybe having limited time or have a fleet following you or having to optimize your stuff.
But the game has always been this weird mishmash of goals and gameplay. You have to reach the center of the galaxy, but you can build these bases and explore planets and learn language... why? Why would I need to build shit if I'm gonna leave it again? I'm being told to leave shit behind and keep traveling onward but the game also gives me all the time in the world to do so, while giving me a lot to build on each planet.
If you want to do the whole base-building thing then don't do it in a game where the goal is to keep leaving planets for new ones. Does the game want me to stay and build shit or move on?

>>719929954
its actually fucking crazy that you cant share teleporter codes with people to show off bases and stuff passively. Like imagine if people could have codes to post and share locations without needing to be online and invite a friend directly. instead of the current nightmare system of finding a portal and entering someone's glyphs and following directions like a pilgrim

>>719887221 (OP)
Grav was better, shame they abandoned it

>>719930434
I was about to say you kind of can but realized you meant like teleport directly into the base and not to a portal on the planet and just hope the base loaded in for you. Yeah that would be a much better system honestly. Like I get the appeal to doing it the roundabout way through portal glyphs and tracking the base down, but it sucks so bad if you're trying to find one specific base instead of just a general planet.

>>719930421
I agree entirely, but I also want to say its weird that a game all about discovering uncharted planets and naming/uploading creature and planet names has 3 omnipresent factions of sentient aliens. I know I didn't "find" this planet because there's a fucking frog guy right here selling shit. it really diminishes the exploration experience and feels tonally at odds with itself

>>719887221 (OP)
I remember trying to play this on xbox gamepass and the controls were so god fucking awful that i couldn't get past the tutorial. I bet it's pretty fun with a mouse and keyboard, though.

>>719887221 (OP)
Don't forget
>TECHNOLOGY RECHARGED
>TECHNOLOGY RECHARGED
>TECHNOLOGY RECHARGED

>>719924349
Does it's turns into anime girl i can have sex with?

>>719932961
you stumbled into the wrong thread

>>719887221 (OP)
The new corvette building system is cool though. I think people who play this just like to RP while they cruise around space and do sci fi things.

I want to love the game
I love space ships and space stations, and flying into a planet feels fucking amazing.
Its just the crafting is miserable and the tutorial burns me out every time

>>719933886
Stop restarting every time you play, retard

>>719887221 (OP)
>get enough rock to upgrade pistol
>get enough better rock to upgrade your storage

That's not even how the upgrades in the game work

>>719924690
It should just be removed. It's fucking terrible. It will always be terrible. Nothing they can do will salvage it. Just fuck the retarded storyline but still give people a way to restart the galaxy if they reach the center. Nobody gives a shit.

Every update I check in on this game again, and every update I actually just get slightly more angry about something and its missed potential.
It's like The Sims 4 but without a price tag on every patch.
It does nothing totally right. Every aspect feels like an afterthought even when they devote a whole huge update to it.

>>719935117
every single redditor and twitter nigger sucking it off and saying they're meeting their promises whenever one of these shitty updates comes out is probably part of it

>>719935117
It's one of the most engrossing games out there honestly, finally being able to walk inside your ship while it's moving is absolutely stellar. Landing on and taking off a planet never gets old.

>>719903325
V rising is a joke of a game for mobile addicted children.

>>719887221 (OP)
If anyone (understandably) thinks this game is boring, I recommend to trying instead Starfield.
It's like an upgrade version of NMS, more things to do, better combat and story. It does all the things NMS does but better like shop building and explore the planets.
And it has a full campaign with interesting characters.

>>719887221 (OP)
yea i love this game
relaxing af
now i can build my own ship
700hrs and still going

>>719890165
Honest question. If not mining for rocks, what do you spend your time doing in this game? When I watch streamers playing it, it looks interesting but seems a bit aimless.

>>719902348
I think it only matters if these games have an 'ending' to them. Subnautica and Don't Starve (but not DST) do. Dunno about Grounded, though.

If it doesn't have a proper ending, it's just a loop of getting stone, make thing with stone that allow you to get better stone in another area.

>>719897124
>Save it and its captain will let you take it over if you wanted
Can I enslave the captain?

>>719938802
its a sandbox
aside the quests there are in game you can make your own goal
mine was to find a star system where i liked every planet and punt a permanent base there
i renamed all the stuff there so is like my own corner in the multiple galaxies

>>719888978
>Corvettes are cool
Corvettes are a buggier Starfield ship builder

>>719939180
How do you generate resources if you're not lasering rocks?

>>719897191
>>719897367
You don't have to start a new save, you can freely swap between Expedition and non-Expedition on a single save at the Anomaly

>>719940868
i buy and sell at different space station and ports
the only time i lasered rocks was in the first planet
then i get whatever underground stuff, relics, bones, anything and sell, and buy what i need

>>719902348
All those games have less shit to do than NMS.

>>719887221 (OP)
Terreria is better than this slop

>>719902348
dont starve is more of a wiki game than a survival game

>>719887686
>what is base building
>what is ship building
>what is freight building
>what is upgrading your shit
>what are expeditions
>what are quests
>what is the story mode
>what is just fucking around with friends
Admit you either never played the game or you just have zero imagination to do stuff for yourself

If I completely remake my Corvette is my shit still stored in the ship's cargo containers

>>719938482
Based.

>>719899007
>>719938482
Based based based.

Why can't they add cities on planets already? Having a few hundred people tops in each star system is criminal. All they'd have to do is copy the settlements and make them larger with a few new bigger buildings.

It's the type of game you fire up once in a blue moon because you get an itch for zipping around random planets and after a few hours of that you're done until next time.

The way the game is designed conveys a lackadaisical approach to exploration.
You stumble onto some alien outpost/hub, there are ships coming and going. There's noone specific for you to engage with, just some npcs hanging around with barely anything to say, you can trade a bit, maybe get a new ship or something and zip away.
The entire approach of stumbling around onto things that don't matter is deliberate so it feels more like an incidental sandbox.
I personally wish it had a stronger core of stuff to do specifically and more engagement with the setting but it is what it is.
It's kinda meant to be romped around in for a bit and that's it.