No Man's Sky

ajthemackem

ajthemackem

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Huge update 1.3 out. (Well, 1.32 now with bug fixes).

Really has turned into a cracking game, well worth a shufti for anyone interested in giving it another look. 60% off on Steam and I think £15 on PSN.
 


http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1418366

And 1.3 Patch Notes. (There are mor in the 1.1 and 1.2 updates if you haven't seen those as well. Ground vehicles and wotnot).

PATCH NOTES

GENERATION

  • Increased variety in weather, planet and structure names
  • More base building parts have unique names
  • Prevented trees spawning on sheer cliffs
  • Improved object placement on slopes
  • Improved grass placement and density
  • Changed the default starting ship model
  • Regenerated galaxy to remove differences between survival, normal and creative game modes
  • Improved building distribution
  • Increased distribution of heridium deposits
  • Improved generation of beaches along shorelines
  • Repositioned player bases to accommodate generation changes

    EXPLORATION
  • Improved balance of hazards between planets
  • Improved settings for hazard damage and strength
  • Reduce cave hazard recharge times
  • Added Shielding Shard to the starting player inventory
  • Limited the depth at which buildings can spawn underwater

    GAMEPLAY
  • More tech available in tech shops
  • Balanced tech shop standing requirements
  • Standing lights have a proper name when you interact with them
  • Increased robustness of systems for locating buildings
  • Increased number and types of objects which can be scanned
  • Increased information available about scanned foliage and creatures
  • Improved planet resource lists
  • Craftable products now sorted by most recent use
  • Improved differentiation of weapons
  • Fixed pinning product recipes and technology guides
  • Continued story unlocked through abandoned buildings
  • Added interactions and dialogue options for many structures and characters
  • Overhauled secondary character interactions

    TRADE AND FARMING
  • Alloys, farm products and new gas products now form separate branches of a larger craft tree
  • Added new valuable higher tier craft products
  • Added new harvester to harvest atmospheric gases
  • Added new trade specific products
  • Added new farmable “Star Bramble” plant
  • Added larger 4 plant hydroponic tray
  • Increased contrast between picked and unpicked resource plants to more easily tell them apart
  • Balanced priced of alloys, farm products and gases
  • Improved distributions of resources on planets
  • Improved scan ranges for resources on planets
  • Added scan markers on more smaller plutonium crystals to aid resource gathering

    FREIGHTERS
  • Balanced freighter prices
  • Fixed collision on freighter bridge
  • Added freighter classes
  • Added ability to warp in your freighter
  • Fixed floating turrets on capital freighters

    SPACE
  • Improved space heavy air
  • Added requirement to scan planets in order to reveal their names
  • Improved planet name display as you enter orbit
  • Fix for massive carve radius when mining asteroids

    GALACTIC MAP
  • Updated galactic map UI
  • Improved galactic map controls
  • Improved star names gathered in galaxy map flythrough
  • Improved distribution of different coloured stars
  • Added interstellar scan events

    STARSHIPS
  • Added ability to summon your ship from the quick menu
  • Refined ship reticules
  • Added new holographic cockpit HUD elements: mini map, pulse drive warning and target ship
  • Added new ship technology
  • Balanced space combat
  • Balanced ship weapons and technology
  • Updated ship weapon projectile effects
  • Updated ship hit direction markers
  • Improved flare graphics on ships
  • Improved loot containers dropped by AI ships
  • Improved effects on damaged AI ships
  • Balanced crashed ships broken slots and repair costs
  • Added a more convenient swap inventory button for moving items between new/crashed ships and storage units
  • Updated design of Atlas pass icons
  • Added ability to look around the cockpit when landed
  • Allowed player to remain in ship cockpit after landing
  • Improved spawning and distribution of AI ships
  • Improved ship altimeter
  • Added in-ship communicator
  • Added button prompt for ship zoom
  • Fixed a bug where your ship could become invisible by visiting the galactic map
  • Improved Pirate systems including the ability to negotiate or call in support
  • Added low flight mode
  • Improved landing code

    UI
  • Divided options menu into several pages
  • Revised Journey page
  • New Gek, Korvax and Vy’keen medals
  • New medals for the merchant, mercenary and explorer guilds
  • Revised log page
  • Fixed animation on markers as they are removed
  • Improved binocular UI
  • Updated journey milestone icons
  • Overhauled discovery log
  • Added cardinal directions to compass
  • Added distance markers to compass
  • Fix for “redeem content” showing twice on Steam menu
  • New trade and product icons
  • Revised combat ship markers
  • Improved ship tracking arrows when flying away from targets
  • Overhauled conversation interface

    GRAPHICS
  • Improved HBAO filtering around edges
  • Improved TAA handling of grass blade edges
  • Introduced depth of field effect during interactions
  • Added LOD meshes and imposters to various props
  • Fixed texturing on the buildable door
  • Reduced HBAO shimmer
  • Reduced shadow acne
  • Fixed artifacts with imposter shadows
  • Improved double-sided normals for foliage
  • Improved terrain texturing and texture blending
  • Improved grass colour blending and integration with terrain
  • Improved grass and leaf materials
  • Improved colour palettes across several biomes
  • Improved planet night skies
  • Fixed z-fighting on small glowing plants
  • Various graphics optimisations and fixes
  • Visual improvements to Atlas stations
  • Replaced all terrain textures with higher detail and quality variants
  • Added new higher detail foliage variants to several biomes
  • Upgraded textures on several cave props

    AUDIO
  • Four new sets of soundscapes by 65 Days of Static
  • Reworked space combat audio
  • Reworked space explosions
  • Added new ship weapon sounds
  • Added weird biome soundscape
  • Added new music and sound effects for story mode
  • Lots of new UI sounds
  • Minor mix changes and optimisations

    LANGUAGE
  • Various minor language fixes and improvements
 
Aye, but is there much more to actually do that actually does something? Building bases and shit is all well and good, but what does it achieve?

I was going to give this another blast the other week but I think I might have lost my save in a computer crash and not going through all that bollocks again.
 
I was reading about this update the other day but wanted to hear what actual players thought of it, think it might be time for me to actually buy the game now.
 
Some Random Guy said:
That was my thought, when there is effectively infinity planets why bother building bases.
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You can set farms away and build storage containers. There's also a base teleporter so you can teleport to and from other systems straight back. Good to make money.

There's also "base missions" which give you blueprints to buiild things.
 
Might dip back into this. Haven't played since before the foundation update.
Anyone who's played it since reckon I'd be better off starting again from scratch or just picking up where I left ofoff
 
Mine got delivered from CEX the day before launch and I took it back two weeks later for a full refund. Easily the most pointless game ever made.
 
I've never really looked into it, was aware of a lot of hype and massive disappointment. What actually is it? Just an exploration sim or?
 
Bought it on day of release. Thought it was fun and didn't deserve all the online anger (because I wasn't latched on to every interview/conference Sean Murray made in the buildup to release), even though the game felt a little empty/meaningless.
Got bored of it a month or 2 in, then started playing again after they included bases and the ground vehicles. Enjoyed that a lot but bored again 2-3 weeks after that.
Played again once since 1.3 launched. Maybe I need to give it more time, but this latest update hasn't given me any new reason to play again. I really liked the 'get some gek nip and I'll give you a new gun for your car' stuff the base dudes would give you in 1.2... is there more of that in 1.3, or is it just 'do this job for some cash' missions?
 
Mackem Dave said:
Might dip back into this. Haven't played since before the foundation update.
Anyone who's played it since reckon I'd be better off starting again from scratch or just picking up where I left ofoff
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Played it yesterday, started a new. After about an hour i fell into a giant invisible hole and got stuck drowning in radioactive soup.
 

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