No Man's Sky

[TheDeej]

No Man's Sky

Picked this up yesterday and spend about 6 hours playing it today and have been enjoying it. But I like exploring and finding stuff (and getting lost in caves). It's definitely a niche game though. One thing that has annoyed me is that the question mark icon for unidentified things doesn't change after you reach it so I'll leave then keep coming back to the same one multiple times thinking it's a new one.

That is the thing. I loved the game for like 60 hours. I don't think it is a bad game. I just lost any desire to play it after that because I felt like I had seen it all by then. I am not one of those weirdos who wants there money back, I got my moneys worth at a dollar per hour of entertainment. However, I still can say it wasn't the game I wanted or expected exactly. The main reason I lost interest is the lack of diversity in the proc-gen. I hope future updates add some fun and replayability but I am not holding my breath


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[Hooe]

Re: No Man's Sky

http://www.no-mans-sky.com/foundation-update/

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FEATURES

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Explorers can now decide to play with different rule sets, across three game modes:

• Normal mode is the original chilled exploration experience
• Creative mode allows players to explore the universe without limits, and build a huge base
• Survival mode really changes the game, creating a much more challenging endurance experience

Death quotes: prepare to see these a lot in survival mode.

Claim your home planet by finding an uninhabited base and creating your own, fully bespoke outpost.

Construct your homestead for shelter, using modular structures and decorations, replicated from resources gathered while exploring

Recruit alien lifeforms to help research new technology. Farming, engineer, weapons and science specialists are hirable from Space Stations

Use Terminus Teleporters in Space Stations to teleport to and from your base at will
Expand your base with storage containers to stockpile precious resources and rare products

Find an even more beautiful location and you can simply dismantle your previous homestead to refund all of the spent resources

Cultivate biome dependent crops outdoors, or inside your base or Freighter using Hydroponic Labs

Plants grow over time and offer a steady supply of resources to be harvested

Hire a farming specialist to research and grow ten new plant types, and discover new resource elements

Players can now build essential equipment in the field on-planet

Place save points anywhere in the world, crucial for Survival mode

Automated Harvesters gather resources from mineral deposits in your absence

Waypoints can be placed and colour-coded to allow explorers to return to discoveries

Communications Terminals allow explorers to leave sub-space messages for others to find

Discover nearby mineral deposits, uninhabited bases or suit upgrades with the use of a Signal Scanner

Purchase huge interstellar Freighters at great expense, and then summon them from anywhere in the galaxy

Resources can be teleported to your Freighter while on-planet, ideal for stockpiling goods for trading

Customise the inside of your Freighter within the Base Building section

Create extended cargo holds to expand your vessel’s capacity, and grow crops of rare resources on board

Transport your Freighter and its cargo to different, more economically favourable systems to maximise your earnings

Use the new recruitment system to crew your Freighter with Engineer, Farmer, Weapons and Science specialists to help research new technologies

Discover new biome and star specific resource types as you explore the universe

Craft the new Advanced Mining Laser and Hazmat gauntlets through base building and use them to gather rare resources

Research and discover dozens of new products, building components and technologies

The user interface has been improved to accommodate the stress of Survival Mode where a small inconvenience can be the difference between life and death.

The intelligent Quick Access Menu streamlines Inventory access.

Products can be stacked up to five times per inventory slot, resulting in increased starship, base container and freighter storage capacity

New arrow indicators have been added to emphasise shield and life support changes more clearly, to aid decision making

Scanned Primary resource elements have been given specific symbols to allow for easier differentiation

View your current objective at any time quickly by pressing left on the D-Pad, or H on your keyboard

The UI has been visually improved by removing colour tint and other artifacts

Early warning indicators have been added to starship cockpits to notify explorers of inbound Pirate activity

Red cockpit warnings indicate more clearly when Pulse Drive is unavailable

Motion blur has been added to accentuate the feeling of speed, particularly when in-flight. This can be switched on or off via the Options menu

Temporal Anti Aliasing (TAA) removes jagged edges effectively and has been added as an option to improve visuals clarity

Texture streaming can be enabled, allowing minimum spec PCs to run the game more smoothly (accessible from settings xml)

Terrain generation and colourisation algorithms have been revised to produce more aesthetically interesting planets

PATCH NOTES

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General Gameplay

• Fixed technology becoming instantly fully charged when repaired
• Fixed ship appearing on incorrect pad in space station after loading
• Added interactable objects that required certain tech to collect
• Added shootable objects that require certain tech to mine
• Rebalanced resource availability and technology charge requirements
• Fixed initial game flow - where travelling to space too quickly after visiting the monolith could prevent the first atlas station notification appearing
• Prevented player being prompted to scan for buildings before leaving the system after visiting the monolith
• Prevented laser and melee attacks while in space from attempting to edit terrain
• Improved calculation of resources received when mining terrain
• Renamed Signal Scanners to Signal Boosters
• Signal booster objects updated to search for playable bases, suit upgrade pods, and mineable resources
• Removed signal booster from being distributed on terrain, as player can now build them
• Improved accuracy of environment detection, fixing cases where it rained inside caves
• Fixed galactic waypoints not loading correctly across saves
• Removed atlas pass v1 requirement from doors in stations
• Suit upgrade pods are no longer spawned in stations
• Suit upgrade pods can now only be used once
• Fixed collision in anomaly that was causing issues when exiting larger ships
• Increased the number of different NPC character models generated per system
• Fixed the game always remaining in day time for players who began their save prior to patch 1.03
• Fixed a potential crash in foliage instance renderer

Localisation

• Fixed stats page in asian languages
• Fixed multiple issues with asian language formatting
• Multiple improvements and fixes to localisation text in all languages

UI

• Added new icons for specific types of primary resources
• Fixed health bars not appearing on some targets
• Added hazard and life support drain indicators
• Fixed mission messages not appearing in a timely fashion
• Beacons now notify the player that they will save the game
• Fixed crash when creature IK animations were updated under certain conditions on the discovery screen
• Improved navigation in discovery UI
• Massive speed improvements to browsing huge discovery lists
• Increased size of discovery storage
• Added option to load "Earliest" previous save in Options menu
• Fixed weapon naming
• Added icon to remind players of the reload button when weapon is empty
• Multiple fixes for viewing discoveries

PS4

• Added photo mode
• Large optimisations to the engine to accommodate base building

PC

• Added support for up to 8 mouse buttons
• Fixed better order position history for mouse smoothing
• Fixed bug where setting gamma to zero gave a fully bright rather than fully dark image
• Fixed hard-limiting on save sizes, with appropriate warning about free space on boot
• Player is now notified when shaders are being loaded
• Fixed occasional crash on exit
• Fixed performance of trail renderer for some AMD cards
• Large optimisations to the engine to accommodate base building

Generation

• Added biome specific plants
• Adopted new method of distributing resource plants on terrain, for more lifelike clumps of plants
• Improved distribution of plant life across all terrain types
• Introduced visual differentiation of red, green and blue star systems
• Introduced new mineable terrain resources found only in red, green and blue star systems
• Reduced average building frequency
• Introduced planets with elevated building density
• Introduced planets with no buildings or sentient life
• Increased the proportion of lush and tropical planets
• Decreased the proportion of lifeless planets
• Fixed bug where multiple ships could appear, overlapping, at the player's start scene
• Prevented certain building types being incorrectly placed underwater
• Prevented multiple buildings occasionally being placed in overlapping positions
• Prevented buildings occasionally being placed intersecting with the terrain
• Improved and altered per-planet terrain resource generation, improving gameplay and visuals

Creatures

• Fixed elevation cache mismatches, causing errors in creature knowledge and pathing
• Fixed slow memory leak in creature role allocation
• Improved creature animation speeds
• Fixed issues where some creatures turns had the incorrect frame count
• Fixed occasional crash when interacting with creatures

Atmospherics

• Increased proportion of vibrant blue skies
• Corrected cloud levels for clear skies
• Improved average cloud level settings
• Fixed cloud rendering while flying in your ship
• Improved atmosphere depth when transitioning to space
• Increased fidelity of atmosphere rendering on nearest planet
• Improved atmospheric fog as you fly to a planet
• Improved fog method for planets seen on the horizon

Terrain

• Improved terrain generation algorithms
• Improved and extended blend areas between different terrain noise types
• Terrains now generate more open spaces
• Smaller features now appear at nearer lods to improve visuals in the distance
• Fixed objects being placed on incorrect terrain material types
• Improved resolution of distant planet terrain
• Decreased differences between planet as seen from space and actual planet terrain
• Fixed seams on planets when seen from space
• Improvements to terrain material selection and terrain material blending
• Terrain generation priority and cost calculation improvements
• Fixed terrain generation angle calculations, which would previously prevent nearest region being generated first
• We now generate caves on lower terrain lods to decrease visual differences in lower detail terrain
• Introduced more varied and vibrant colouring to terrain for each biome
• Decreased frequency of brown terrain colour selections
• Changed texture scales to improve transition between terrain lods
• Improved terrain colour combinations to add variety and better match terrain contouring
• Improved terrain texture blending method to better retain vibrant colours
• Improved settings for hue, saturation and value noise variation on terrain
• Fixed a number of issues causing holes to be seen in the planet terrain
• Fixed occasional crash when mining terrain

Visuals

• Fixed colour of muzzle flashes on player weapons
• Added muzzle flashes to ship weapons
• Added cockpit lighting for damage and weapon firing
• Added debris to freighter explosion effect
• Improved freighter cargo explosions
• Improved photon cannon hit and space explosion effects
• Improved turret explosion effect
• Improved grass colour selection
• Improved grass colouring method to match underlying terrain colour
• Improved grass placement to match gradient of terrain, and rocky terrain slope patches
• Improved lighting on grass
• Improved alpha cutoffs and blending for grass in the distance
• Improved colouring method for on-planet buildings
• Fixed "pop" in lighting when flying between planets
• Fixed incorrect lighting seen in shadow areas
• Improved lighting method when rendering tree leaves
• Fixed procedural texturing on objects with multiple overlapping textures
• Fixed size of certain texture atlas normal maps
• Fixed texture scaling on asteroids
• Zinc plant is now more obvious when it has been gathered
• Fixed occasional rendering errors due to precision on cockpit during warp
• Fixed pulse lines not appearing when pulse driving out from planet atmosphere
• Fixed shadowing artefacts on imposters

Space

• Improved asteroids to allow much denser fields
• Improved explosion effects
• Fixed scale of moons on the space map
• Added freighter groups to the space map
• Changed distribution of resources in asteroids
• AI ships will now clear asteroids in their path
• Planets are now scannable from space to see their resources

Space Combat

• Fixed bounty targets warping out too soon
• Improved HUD indicators in space combat
• Added damaged ship effect on AI starships
• Added formation flying
• Improved locking on passive starships
• Improved AI combat flight patterns
• Added new ship weapon technology
• Holding brake whilst turning now activates drift for fast turns
• Improved AI ship freighter attacking
• Improved freighter targeting code when under attack by enemy ships

Freighters

• Fixed pulse drive to prevent travel through freighters
• Improved docking code
• Added hangar to the lead freighter
• Added docking in freighters
• Added icon to accessible freighter hangars
• Added colouring to cargo drops to identify what is in them
• You can now only pick up cargo drops that will fit in your inventory
• Added auxiliary freight ships to freighter groups
• Added alert lights and alarm audio for when freighters are in combat
• Improved turret lights and explosions
• Improved muzzle flashes on freighter turrets
• Added indicator of cargo contents
• Freighter Commanders now give rewards for rescuing them from pirate attack
• Fixed collision on freighter cargo containers

Audio

• Updated the lush ambience to make the wind sounds less noisy
• Ambient background fauna now checks for the presence of creatures
• Added rain on foliage
• Added rain on ship
• Added freighter specific footsteps
• When on a dead planet, no music will play
• Round table prop now plays an appropriate sound
• Added more music to the loading sequence and game start
• Added audio to new base building props
• Created sounds for new base building props
• Added audio to freighter doors and internal freighter ambiences
• Added freighter explosions
• Added freighter alarm
• Added ambient radio comms when approaching a freighter
• Fixed missing sounds when in a space station due to the mix settings
• Multi-tool upgrades now affect audio
• Lots of minor mix changes
• Changed some compression settings for PS4 audio to make the sub-channel audio play more reliably

[Armor and Sword]

Re: No Man's Sky

Using the Minecraft model.

This is an extensive update. I will load the game up again as I want to see if this is truly a game changer.

Glad to see they did not abandon the game.

[Tomba]

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thats like the biggest patch since SPACE

[kwebbvols4423]

Re: No Man's Sky

I think it's too late for most people but glad they are still updating.


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[Bard]

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Perfect patch, this game just got even better!

[brent3419]

Re: No Man's Sky

I think its time I get back on this looks really sweet

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[mestevo]

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Looks nice, a couple more updates like that and I'll be back.

[bad_philanthropy]

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Can you actually fly the freighter or just call it to your location?

[Blzer]

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Improved atmosphere depth when transitioning to space

I noticed this in the video. Looks much better. It can keep improving of course, but this is a good step up.

I'm going to wait for the game to be very updated so I can start playing with all of its new features, but I'm glad they have broken the silence and proved many naysayers wrong that they just took the money and ran.

[BurghFan]

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Yeah, that's one hell of an update. 2.712 GB on PS4.

[PVarck31]

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Wow! I give them a lot of credit for this. They could have easily abandoned the game. I really think this will bring players back and bring in new players.

I know this ended up being a monumental let down at launch, but other games have recovered from bad launches. If they keep updating I think a lot of people will keep playing. There doesn't have to be an expiration date on a game. We've seen other games being supported for years.

[bcruise]

Re: No Man's Sky

Are there any details on what's different in survival mode?

[RazorbackJeremy]

Re: No Man's Sky

From what I read in game, its apparently a tougher version of original....less resources and stuff like that with harder enemies. Guess for those Hardcore players that want a challenge.

I just picked this back up and started playing it, really enjoying it again for some reason. Hopefully the base building can keep my attention for a while

[Hooe]

Re: No Man's Sky

Are there any details on what's different in survival mode?

Well, I've already died more times in Survival than I did in the month-plus in August I played on "Normal", so it's definitely harder. lol