Preorder bonus on No Mans Sky leaves some players stranded

Evilmatt on Wed, 2016-08-10 22:05

This is a funny little consequence where someone didn't think the implications of the preorder bonus through

So for preordering you get a slightly better starting ship that come preequiped with a hyperdrive

normal players have to find the plans and then make it and make fuel etc and people with the preorder can skip this step and blast off deep into space

Presumably the starting area is seeded with the plans for the hyperdrive so you are garanteeded to find it there where it might not exist given this is a procedurally generated universe

Problem comes when they sell that ship to upgrade to a new one. None of them come with a hyperdrive and the old hyperdrive doesn't swap over. For normal players they could then just make a new hyperdrive but given the preorder people never found the plans they are now stranded and need to hope there is the plans for one near by.

Kind of amusing fault in the logic there :D

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Although apparently the ps4 version comes with Bill Bailey
https://twitter.com/PlayStationUK/status/763307452506923008

Submitted by Evilmatt on Fri, 2016-08-12 02:10

I watched a fair bit of footage from this (quiet day in the office, so I had the Eurogamer feed on), and gotta say. It sort of looks...dull? An awful lot of shooting inanimate rocks and running towards icons.

I accept its an incredibly clever tech demo, but the game seems somewhat lacking.

Submitted by babychaos on Fri, 2016-08-12 07:36

I could see myself being absorbed by the grind, mining just one more rock to get just one more upgrade, and jump to one more planet ... to get blown up by one more pirate.

There are only a few hours until the pre-order vanishes and I am very close to grabbing a copy to give it a go; although the price is a worry when weighed up against the content ... and I do wonder how much of the new content they are working no is going to end up being equally overpriced DLC.

Although I might just go and play Elite Dangerous for a few hours and save myself the money and potential disappointment.

Submitted by Bigger Rob on Fri, 2016-08-12 10:16

I had this link sent to me today ... interesting aliens in No Mans Sky NSFW

Submitted by Bigger Rob on Fri, 2016-08-12 15:38

Wow. Some awesome links going on in here :)

Submitted by byrn on Fri, 2016-08-12 16:56

Yeah how much game there is in this has always been a concern for me too. It looks like it might fit into that minecraft sort of grove although it lacks the ability for you to change the world around you although some of the rumors suggest small elements of that may come later (ability to build bases or space stations has been hinted at by the hello games people).

Nomansky has been a bit of an oddity a small indie studio game that's been treated like a triple aaa studio game with a metric fuck ton of hype what ever the game is it's never going to live up to the expectations. It reminds me of Spore and how that was hyped like crazy they said it would simulate real evolution at multiple scales and turned out to be a disappointing set of mini games where you glue limbs on to weird animals kill other animals whose limbs then all fall off so you can glue more and better limbs on to your current creature. And spore was from a pretty big studio with access to huge amounts of resources and a fair well known and respected games designer.

Hello games have gone in the work smart area where they procedurally generate everything because they don't have the money time or resources to make the stuff for a convincing game universe. It's like one of those low budget films where they can only afford the one room and have to get clever to make their story work within those constraints (like the first Cube and the first Saw movies). What they made is always going to be a function of those initial constraints. People have expected this vast universe to explore and play in and for the most part that seems to have been delivered with a pretty good level of polish but it's all generated by an algorithm it's not going to have much in the way of hand crafted story moments and it could get cold empty repetitive and dull quite quickly.

I'm going to give it a go see if there is some meat there hopefully it's not going to be a crushing disappointment and waste of money

Submitted by Evilmatt on Fri, 2016-08-12 22:05

I'm keen to know people's thoughts. I've blown this month's pocket money on drone bits but next month is looking clear.

Submitted by brainwipe on Fri, 2016-08-12 23:02