Multiplat No Man's Sky

[Geelong_Sicko]

Well, it's finally happened. Craft your own ship is here. Unfortunately as of yet you can't create hybrids between the different classes and the only ship classes that you can crush for components are fighters, haulers and explorers. No shuttles or solar sail ships or sentinel craft, though this may change.

To build a fighter for example you can crush different fighters for their cockpit/fuselage, the wing section and the engine compartment. You gotta buy the reactor (C,B,A or S) separately from the ship component vendor.

All components take up inventory space. They aren't stored in the ship configuration thingy.

All us long-termers with squillions in our accounts are gonna find component farming a breeze but any n00bz out there are gonna find the grind a grind.

 

[Beerfish]

Wow the space station layout has changed a lot.

Love the new menu filters and expand/contract buttons too. Not sure if they were part of the update but first I've seen them.

 

[Geelong_Sicko]

Wow the space station layout has changed a lot.

Love the new menu filters and expand/contract buttons too. Not sure if they were part of the update but first I've seen them.

Yeah I like it a lot. Outlaw and abandoned stations haven't changed yet but who knows?

 

[carn tigez]

Yeah I like it a lot. Outlaw and abandoned stations haven't changed yet but who knows?

Last time I played the ships were all more or less the same, with different skins. There might have been a couple of different types but other than that, wasn't any point really building up a ship from memory which kind of killed the immersion. Has this changed at all?

 

[Geelong_Sicko]

Last time I played the ships were all more or less the same, with different skins. There might have been a couple of different types but other than that, wasn't any point really building up a ship from memory which kind of killed the immersion. Has this changed at all?

Yeah it has. I mean with the shipbuilding it's still

1. find cockpit/fuselage you like
2. find wing configuration you like (left wing AND right wing in the case of the bug-like explorer)\
3. find engine configuration you like (again, the explorer's different in that cockpit and engine are in the same body and it's the wings you can mix and match on)

but there are a LOT of configurations. You can also choose the colour scheme although annoyingly there's no black!!

Only fighter/hauler/explorer for now but you'd imagine the other ships will be along shortly. And hopefully the chance to hybridise across different makes of ship or swap out old parts for new on existing ships.

I custom-built a new hauler with an awesome tail section I wish my original had. I like it so far.

 

[Father Jack]

I'd like to remake my desperately ugly tube shuttle monstrosity I had in the early years of this game, when you'd wander for miles looking for crashed ships. It would be guaranteed to turn heads at the Nexus!

 

[Quivorir]

Emoji dropped. A new update must be close.

 

[Geelong_Sicko]

Emoji dropped. A new update must be close.

Probably worked out how to add shuttles to the shipyard scrapper. I would have thought 'tube ships' would have been the easiest!

 

[Beerfish]

Anchor would indicate something aquatic wouldn't it?

 

[Geelong_Sicko]

Anchor would indicate something aquatic wouldn't it?

Or ship-related?

 

[Quivorir]

Turns out it's just an expedition.

Expedition Thirteen: Adrift - No Man's Sky

Hello Everyone! A lot has changed in the years since No Man’s Sky released. There’s so much we love about the game now, but there was something unique at release in how alone you felt in the universe. Going further back I have great memories of early unreleased versions of No Man’s Sky where...

www.nomanssky.com

 

[Beerfish]

Still sounds cool. Not sure I'll get time to play it though.

 

[Quivorir]

 

[Beerfish]

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I did finish Adrift actually. Was pretty easy as far as they go. Cool prize ship. Might even start using it over the goldenrod which has been my main starship for years.

 

[Quivorir]

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I did finish Adrift actually. Was pretty easy as far as they go. Cool prize ship. Might even start using it over the goldenrod which has been my main starship for years.

Sorry. Its how the devs announce something is coming.

The latest tweets indicate its coming very soon.

 

[carn tigez]

Sorry. Its how the devs announce something is coming.

The latest tweets indicate its coming very soon.

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How does this game play now for someone who enjoyed it 4 years ago, in VR, but found it a bit directionless. Is there a bit more to do? More differentiation between the ships? Or is it still largely an empty, but pretty, sandbox?

 

[Beerfish]

Has it happened yet?

 

[Quivorir]

Has it happened yet?

Yep.

Worlds Part I Update - No Man's Sky

Worlds Part I: Introducing Update 5.0 Update 5.0, WORLDS, transforms the universe into a richer, wilder, more varied and immersive place. Featuring huge leaps in water and cloud visuals, increased planetary diversity, new gameplay features, and more. Our journey continues. Buy now on More...

www.nomanssky.com

 

[Beerfish]

Wow. That's an impressive sounding update. Can't wait to check it out.

 

[carn tigez]

Sweet baby jesus that's incredible. What a dev team. Could so easily charge good coin for each update as DLC and don't. Definitely not enough recognition for how they go about it.

 

[pantskyle]

That's worth a redownload.

 

[Sixpence]

Sweet baby jesus that's incredible. What a dev team. Could so easily charge good coin for each update as DLC and don't. Definitely not enough recognition for how they go about it.

I'm curious as to where their revenue comes from? It's been 8 years of continuous free content. It's crazy.

For a company that copped such a huge backlash from their launch, they've totally and utterly redeemed themselves 10 times over.

If only BigAnt took note of how they've gone about it.

 

[dav3]

Looks pretty damn impressive now


Looks like their upcoming game Light No Fire could be good, they have well and truly learnt a few lessons from the NMS release

 

[carn tigez]

I'm curious as to where their revenue comes from? It's been 8 years of continuous free content. It's crazy.

For a company that copped such a huge backlash from their launch, they've totally and utterly redeemed themselves 10 times over.

If only BigAnt took note of how they've gone about it.

Guess they just aren't greedy. Already got 10m sales at say $30 average price (could be higher), that's $300m in revenue. Maybe in it for the long haul? If they made people pay I guess their brand image would be a lot worse and might struggle to sell a sequel in the future.

But it is very generous either way.

 

[dav3]

Guess they just aren't greedy. Already got 10m sales at say $30 average price (could be higher), that's $300m in revenue. Maybe in it for the long haul? If they made people pay I guess their brand image would be a lot worse and might struggle to sell a sequel in the future.

But it is very generous either way.

It's free on Game Pass too so I'm sure they have a reasonable licensing agreement with Microsoft that'll keep some money rolling in