No Man's Sky Orbital Update brings full ship customisation and a complete space station overhaul

It's definitely cool, they could have pulled the rug and run away with the money.

we just have to do some work on the overhyping a game and preorder part, but its looking like i might pick up this game

That is pretty reductive. Like, it's a sim. You could describe just about any sim the same way. "You just do this thing to do that thing". How is this any different from any other game?

I'm not saying it's the best space game, but I had fun when I played it and it definitely didn't just feel like I was mining materials just to mine more materials.

I think a lot of people are just very, very pleased with how well it's being supported compared to its initial launch and how this game company has become an outlier in the industry. They conflate their love for the company's business practices with the game's mechanics. So while the game may be great, many subconsciously give it a boost because of its legacy.

Every planet doesn’t have every material you need for crafting everything. But a single solar system likely has most of it. There are key elements on every planet that are meant to make sure a player never gets stranded. I guess one could argue for that to be a game mode though if it isn’t already where you very well could end up on a planet and have no way to survive.

A lot of people like the gameplay loop from day one but the initial lies about how multiplayer worked was a driving force behind the unhappiness. Once that was fixed it was a shallow experience but a lot of people would have been content with it. Instead Hello Games keeps supporting it and putting out new content updates. There are still a lot of features and improvements people would like for the game and those very well may see the light of day with the passion Hello Games has shown for improving it. That’s why so many people think favorably of them. There are a ton of other bigger studios that would never show this level of dedication and community support.

What, like Minecraft, still possibly the most popular game on Earth? I mean, all you do in Minecraft is mine the a couple of minerals that are the same on every seed, and use them to make better tools to mine minerals faster, and grow the same crops so you don't starve, and do it over and over again.

Theres no suddenly about it. They took the well deserved heat after launch very much to heart and spend the next 8 odd years crafting it into the best space game out there imo. Best VR game too.

Its version 4.61 and, essentially, at least its own sequal. Its nothing like the launch day game.

wait till you play the game of life bruh.

no respawns though.

It's the same shit game it was when it was released. It gained sprinkles though.

Whoa, false scarcity, virtual goods tied to an online service, and nosebleed prices? What's not to like?

Semi interestingly to me, I literally created my reddit account to sell my ships nearly a decade ago. Do not regret that...

Fwiw, you can get deep discounts CCU chaining ships. Ships can also be unofficially "sold" and "bought" after the fact. It's done through gifting. For example, you can get the Hammerhead at the impound for less then half the price. The impound is also one of the higher priced sites to. There are also unofficial ships sales on reddit to that have even lower prices.

Edit-Looks like a time limited sale, nevertheless, SC-trades on reddit has some Hammerheads for around 500.

It is real purty in VR.

I mean, I generally agree with your assessment, but elite dangerous? I love Elite, but it is not a good game. Best thing to come from Elite Dangerous is the community.

Armada for the Sega Dreamcast is also better than NMS.

I felt this same way until I jumped into the Omega expedition. It was an excellent crash course for all the game offers and I now feel way more comfortable jumping into the base game and doing whatever I feel up to.

I tried the game two or three times sitting down with the "I want to play a space sim" mindset and could never get past the tutorial. Then the next time, it had clicked that it's a survival crafter that just happens to have a space theme. When I sat down with that mindset and perspective on what I was in for, I suddenly throughly enjoyed the game.

The game just does a really bad job of showing you what it is trailers and other media. Sure, all the things it shows off are there, but they're not the core of the game.

Similar to Glide said above, wanted a space sim and realize it’s more of a survival game. On the opposite end I played a little Elite Dangerous which was WAY TOO INVOLVED space sim!

I think the fans & press deserve equal blame for the initial hype. At some point I saw a supercut of things Sean Murray said, then the resulting headlines and Reddit posts.

In an interview, the journalist asks: "Will you be able to play with your friends in a shared universe?" The answer: "Well...we hope that eventually there will be at least some multiplayer functionality, though maybe not on day one...like maybe you could explore one another's planets or share pictures or something."

Headline: "NO MANS SKY WILL LAUNCH WITH MULTIPLAYER!"

Reddit comments: "I'm already forming a guild, we're going to play as bounty hunters chasing down other players who are pirates in glorious multiplayer space battles!!"

There were tons of examples of that. Journalists would poke and prod for a soundbite, take it out of context and exaggerate it, and the community would just go batshit with their expectations.

I came to a realization a few years ago that I am too boring to play sandbox games. I need a tightly crafted narrative, I cannot be left to my own devices. After a long time of trying to get into every sandbox game that looked cool, it was such a relief to finally realize that about myself.

Yea Elite Dangeous is kind of the same, you have to make your own objectives or you're just running missions to make money to buy ships to be more efficient at those runs and eventually even bigger ships to make more money.

Isn't that most games, though?

Yeah once I had a fleet and some bases mining resources for a ton of money , and a ship I liked, I kind of lost interest.

It's a good game but it doesn't go on forever.

Unrelated but this is why I stopped play BotW after the first boss temple thingy.

I would say I do to an extent, but elite dangerous solo is pretty egregious i just feel really confined even though you can get out of your ship now. If there were a few more things to do it would check all of the boxes such as things you could do in NMS like build bases, etc. And plus the ship customization is strictly internals and you don't have the ability to change the overall look of your ship besides skins.

So you're saying it's the perfect game to get for playing while AFKing redwoods in old school runescape

Yea, I would have to agree wholeheartedly that the ship flying is awesome in Elite. The ambiance is great, such as the creaking of the ship when in hyper drive. I guess the games are two different kind of space Sims. If what you're telling me is accurate about NMS then Elite is probably better for me in the long run, I just wish I had a friend who would actually play it with me and make space a little less lonely - I guess I would have the same problem in either title come to think of it.

Though, flying a ship in VR is pretty dope.

...Interloper

All breadth and no depth, still the same. Some 12 different planet types, a number of neat looking anomaly planets that exist only for sightseeing (one of my favorites was a planet where everything is covered in a metallic hexagonal mesh). As I said in another comment in this thread, the game is very repetitive with some activities being needlessly padded out to make you waste as much time as possible (learning alien words, going into derelict freighters to get upgrades)

It's not recent update but basically your ships gear slots - weapons, shields, landing gear, etc - and cargo slots were 1.

This way you could do interesting builds.

Ship which has all slots filled with ships equipment and your big ship is for cargo, etc.

Right now you have dedicated cargo slots and dedicated equipment slots. Ofc they are smaller than when they were combined...

It's basically space Minecraft. Not all people like that kind of game.

Yeah, I'm glad they put the work in and I've gotten a lot of hours, but...certain things about the game seem broken by design. I just don't feel like buying a more expensive ship is letting me do things that I couldn't do without it. So personally I'm looking forward to their next game, and seeing what they do with all the lessons they've learned here. But I'm probably done with NMS.

Try reading while you do that....

Inch, singular I would argue. I don't think there's any gameplay mechanic here that can't be mastered in 2 minutes (artificial grind notwithstanding).