It would make sense, because it is overlay over PG (FD uses similar system to "insert" things in their PG universe). Would be nice if you can give us confirm or deny
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I've been on/off watching the progression of NMS. I was getting very excited!
Yet I somehow completely missed that fact it's some sort of Mine Craft in space survival game.
Now I'm not sure I even want it. Lol
I hate mine craft. Lol
Especially not for £34.99.
Go Team Frontier!
Yet I somehow completely missed that fact it's some sort of Mine Craft in space survival game.
Now I'm not sure I even want it. Lol
I hate mine craft. Lol
Especially not for £34.99.
Go Team Frontier!
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And? What relevance does that have?
NMS is a very good game, as far as I can see. However its NOT the be all end all space game, ED is not that type of game and CS are clearly not that type of game.
I'm still in the grey zone if I'm going to buy it or not. The problem is that I only have so much available time to play, and I already have to split my time between several games I do like to play.
I'm still in the grey zone if I'm going to buy it or not. The problem is that I only have so much available time to play, and I already have to split my time between several games I do like to play.
Not so much geared towards a younger audience per se, just a more "fun" play style. Same reason some people like a full on hardcore driving sim (like I do) and some prefer Mario Kart (which I don't) and some like both. I do like both Elite and (from what I've seen) NMS, Elite has potential to be Mega for explorers, it's just currently quite crap as it stands in terms of being "fun".
NMS has never stated anything about "sim", "realistic" or "realism". Early doors I saw a vid with Sean stating the elements and periodic table are made up, so their design ethos from that perspective was abundantly clear.....NMS was NOT going for realism and anyone wanting that will need to look elsewhere (Elite).
TBH I was holding off on buying it full price and waiting for a sale (last full price game I bought was Fallout 4) but couldn't resist ordering it the other day, it's right up my street.
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Simple: I happily spent € 10 on Minecraft Alpha and $15 on two copies of Don't Starve, while they were basically nonexistent in the media and promised nothing. Was both worth it.
I won't drop € 60 on a "fun little game" like NMS.
How does "one" thing make his credibility be in the dirt? This is the "blown out of proportion" thing surely?? Does anyone actually know for a fact if this is how it is and not a glitch?
Maybe we don't agree!
I don't want exploring "harder", I want more "interesting things" to find and discover. Although I do agree travelling great distances was too easy, FD should have had auto repairing EVERYTHING from the get go and getting the resources to repair things in the game from the get go.I also don't like sitting on millions of credits that could go up in smoke.....for me personally that's a COLOSSALLY bad gameplay decision by FD (I fully realise many will disagree)!!
hmm interesting to hear how this is all explained, at worst a PR disaster regarding those who wanted that sort of thing, but I do believe the vast majority of NMS players will be like me and go "meh". Then again I don't succumb to hype and can easily have realistic thoughts on what a game can and can't deliver....I also know to not believe Marketing one jot!! 99% of the products I buy do not do what the advertising says 100%!!
SC hype died long ago in a galaxy far far away. I am backer, i don't regret it but so much stuff i've seen and that tech demo i tried just left me with i get what i get and i'll see how it goes. I'm not excited even a tiny bit by SC and sometimes i just wonder if i'll even play it. I do have stuff in ED and hoarded few credits so i might as well just stick here and in NMS. One man only has so much time.
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To be fair, on steam it's listed as single player only, so i don't know about that MP thing. I was hoping to play it with friends but i already knew that that would be crappy way of playing since there is no matchmaking and spawning near players.
Changes are saved locally, SO WHAT? Let me have some sort of server for my galaxy so i can host server with my friends so we can destroy planets together in our universe there. Since it's just local no other players will see how we do there and it wont interrupt their gameplay. So it's like clan thing where you join some group and can enjoy benefits and persistent universe of this group, hosted by players so devs don't have to worry about moderating and hosting costs. Win-win!
Think of this as if you could conquer and build on planets in ED but it would require you to join group like Mobius or some private group, all buildings bases would be hosted by players and simulated by host. So you can have server running on server. But problem is if you could get free credits or stuff like that, so it would have to have some sort of limits. It's definitely thing for longer though and needs to be better designed than this 5 minute post but basic idea is that you can have your sandbox with friends at no cost to devs hosting all that stuff.
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Popped back on the forum to post my opinion.
I've had it since saturday on my PS4 (simplygames sent it out early.. thanks guys!)
and I am currently 36 hours in (estimated), I have to say this is possible one of the most "marmite" games I've ever played. you'll either love it and play for 100's or hours or you''ll be bored to death in 10 mins and hate it. There seems to be no middle ground.
Personally I am absolutely loving it!! I've not even left my starting system yet (3 planets, 2 with life, one is a dead wasteland) I'm having an absolute ball playing this, exploring the planets and I've spent over 14hrs on this current planet alone, trying to catalog all the major creatures as you get a huge bonus if you do it. although tbh I could play for hours just flying over the planet and finding cool stuff. bases to walk in and get info, sealed bases to blow the door on, monoliths, strange buildings, and loads of cool stuff. also learning the aliens language is really great fun.
Now the bad..
The flight mechanics and space combat is really really poor and ultra arcadey, but I guess we knew that? You cannot fly into the ground, sun or mountains.. the ship autocorrects and avoids hitting anything. also on one planet there was this huge chasm!! I'm talking death star trench stuff, and omg I wanted to fly down it but the ships terrain avoidance wouldn't let me fly that low. also.. auto landing only. as for space battles, its just point and shoot with autoaim.. no skill needed and no learning involved.
I'd give exploration/discovery a 9.5/10 and Flight mechanics/space combat 3/10
But overall it is an amazing game, but I can see a LOT of people being bored in 10 mins flat.. myself, I can see me putting many 100's of hours into it. is it worth full price? without a doubt.. as long as you aren't expecting a "sim" game. yes. it certainly is.
and I just found an epic crashed ship on the planet, I'm currently repairing it bit by bit so I can use it.. see you around, bye!
I've had it since saturday on my PS4 (simplygames sent it out early.. thanks guys!)
and I am currently 36 hours in (estimated), I have to say this is possible one of the most "marmite" games I've ever played. you'll either love it and play for 100's or hours or you''ll be bored to death in 10 mins and hate it. There seems to be no middle ground.
Personally I am absolutely loving it!! I've not even left my starting system yet (3 planets, 2 with life, one is a dead wasteland) I'm having an absolute ball playing this, exploring the planets and I've spent over 14hrs on this current planet alone, trying to catalog all the major creatures as you get a huge bonus if you do it. although tbh I could play for hours just flying over the planet and finding cool stuff. bases to walk in and get info, sealed bases to blow the door on, monoliths, strange buildings, and loads of cool stuff. also learning the aliens language is really great fun.
Now the bad..
The flight mechanics and space combat is really really poor and ultra arcadey, but I guess we knew that? You cannot fly into the ground, sun or mountains.. the ship autocorrects and avoids hitting anything. also on one planet there was this huge chasm!! I'm talking death star trench stuff, and omg I wanted to fly down it but the ships terrain avoidance wouldn't let me fly that low.
also.. auto landing only. as for space battles, its just point and shoot with autoaim.. no skill needed and no learning involved. I'd give exploration/discovery a 9.5/10 and Flight mechanics/space combat 3/10
But overall it is an amazing game, but I can see a LOT of people being bored in 10 mins flat.. myself, I can see me putting many 100's of hours into it. is it worth full price? without a doubt.. as long as you aren't expecting a "sim" game. yes. it certainly is.
and I just found an epic crashed ship on the planet, I'm currently repairing it bit by bit so I can use it.. see you around, bye!
Popped back on the forum to post my opinion.
I've had it since saturday on my PS4 (simplygames sent it out early.. thanks guys!)
and I am currently 36 hours in (estimated), I have to say this is possible one of the most "marmite" games I've ever played. you'll either love it and play for 100's or hours or you''ll be bored to death in 10 mins and hate it. There seems to be no middle ground.
Personally I am absolutely loving it!! I've not even left my starting system yet (3 planets, 2 with life, one is a dead wasteland) I'm having an absolute ball playing this, exploring the planets and I've spent over 14hrs on this current planet alone, trying to catalog all the major creatures as you get a huge bonus if you do it. although tbh I could play for hours just flying over the planet and finding cool stuff. bases to walk in and get info, sealed bases to blow the door on, monoliths, strange buildings, and loads of cool stuff. also learning the aliens language is really great fun.
Now the bad..
The flight mechanics and space combat is really really poor and ultra arcadey, but I guess we knew that? You cannot fly into the ground, sun or mountains.. the ship autocorrects and avoids hitting anything. also on one planet there was this huge chasm!! I'm talking death star trench stuff, and omg I wanted to fly down it but the ships terrain avoidance wouldn't let me fly that low.
I'd give exploration/discovery a 9.5/10 and Flight mechanics/space combat 3/10
But overall it is an amazing game, but I can see a LOT of people being bored in 10 mins flat.. myself, I can see me putting many 100's of hours into it. is it worth full price? without a doubt.. as long as you aren't expecting a "sim" game. yes. it certainly is.
and I just found an epic crashed ship on the planet, I'm currently repairing it bit by bit so I can use it.. see you around, bye!
Yup I'm 100% sure this is the game for me! Thanks for the write up Steve50, sounds awesome!
For the record, I think the developers of NMS are well in the clear because they did state that NMS was a singleplayer affair. That's what I got from their communications, and that's what they delivered.
The only thing I do blame them for is that they, after the initial shock from the early actual gameplay footage hit, claimed that this was not at all the game they would be releasing, that this footage didn't show the game in its full glory. That I called out as probably not the case, and I was right. Now, they did announce lots of cool sounding new features in an upcoming patch, and that's great news. But they did stoke the fire a little bit by claiming that there was some magical switch that would suddenly enrich the experience to the level that the fans imagined, and that said switch would be flipped at the official launch.
There is no "awesome-on" switch to be flipped. NMS launched very much like when Elite Dangerous first came out one December night, and people (even including myself) went: "This is it?"
The biggest culprits are the cultist fans however. You people who overinflated what the developer said and made it more than what was announced. That it would eat Elite's (or whatever other game's) lunch and then some. You who made this into some kind of jesus-game, the procedural second coming. You who lashed out with rage at anyone who doubted that this was "actually an MMO", or other crap that was posted on Reddit as fact without any basis in reality or actual developer information. Where are you folks now? Weeping in your bed.
All the disappointment now experienced by those zealots - they deserve every bit of it. THAT isn't the developers fault, because for the most part, they announced exactly what they delivered.
Maybe learn something from it, for there is another project out there with overinflated expectations. Though I'll concede the point that this other developer *does* promise everything including the space kitchen sink. Literally.
The only thing I do blame them for is that they, after the initial shock from the early actual gameplay footage hit, claimed that this was not at all the game they would be releasing, that this footage didn't show the game in its full glory. That I called out as probably not the case, and I was right. Now, they did announce lots of cool sounding new features in an upcoming patch, and that's great news. But they did stoke the fire a little bit by claiming that there was some magical switch that would suddenly enrich the experience to the level that the fans imagined, and that said switch would be flipped at the official launch.
There is no "awesome-on" switch to be flipped. NMS launched very much like when Elite Dangerous first came out one December night, and people (even including myself) went: "This is it?"
The biggest culprits are the cultist fans however. You people who overinflated what the developer said and made it more than what was announced. That it would eat Elite's (or whatever other game's) lunch and then some. You who made this into some kind of jesus-game, the procedural second coming. You who lashed out with rage at anyone who doubted that this was "actually an MMO", or other crap that was posted on Reddit as fact without any basis in reality or actual developer information. Where are you folks now? Weeping in your bed.
All the disappointment now experienced by those zealots - they deserve every bit of it. THAT isn't the developers fault, because for the most part, they announced exactly what they delivered.
Maybe learn something from it, for there is another project out there with overinflated expectations. Though I'll concede the point that this other developer *does* promise everything including the space kitchen sink. Literally.
Have you seen the vid though? What Sean says and what has been happening for real do not tally! Personally I don't care but if it's not a glich and by design then it's a bit of an "oopsy" moment!
Elite vs. NMS
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Managing customer expectations is something that every company needs to be good at. It's a skill. It's the difference between a good marketing dept. and a bad one.
It's this fine line between lying just enough that most people (who know that all marketing is full of lies and false promises to a degree) are not upset when they get the final product, but not lying so much that people other than gullible fanboys get mad when the final product is not Jesus Christ riding on a warp nacell or whatever.
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Managing customer expectations is something that every company needs to be good at. It's a skill. It's the difference between a good marketing dept. and a bad one.
It's this fine line between lying just enough that most people (who know that all marketing is full of lies and false promises to a degree) are not upset when they get the final product, but not lying so much that people other than gullible fanboys get mad when the final product is not Jesus Christ riding on a warp nacell or whatever.
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Maybe we don't agree!
I also don't like sitting on millions of credits that could go up in smoke.....for me personally that's a COLOSSALLY bad gameplay decision by FD (I fully realise many will disagree)!!
Ha, I want both: more interesting stuff (that is plausible to some extent) and much, much more danger. The isolation, and the ability to lose everything from that trip is what gives me the feeling of being on an extended deep-space exploration journey. NMS seems more like taking small 'field-trips', if that makes sense. Ofcourse, danger is somewhat relative, its quite a bit more fun IMHO in my latest explo ship: https://coriolis.io/outfit/eagle/0p0tzF5l3d5s8f2---002tv62i2f.AwRj4lVI.Aw1-EA==
Due to mods it can jump almost 30LY, its a blast to fly, can land even on the tiniest peaks of mountains, goes almost 600m/s and if a pebble even looks at it the ship explodes.
No AFMU, no shields, so landing must be done very carefully. To each his own I guess, have fun with NMS!Mu77ley
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OK, so no relevance other than your own weird personal value judgements. Thanks.
AKA 'an opinion'. And that on a discussion board for sci-fi games, how peculiar!
Popped back on the forum to post my opinion.
I've had it since saturday on my PS4 (simplygames sent it out early.. thanks guys!)
and I am currently 36 hours in (estimated), I have to say this is possible one of the most "marmite" games I've ever played. you'll either love it and play for 100's or hours or you''ll be bored to death in 10 mins and hate it. There seems to be no middle ground.
Personally I am absolutely loving it!! I've not even left my starting system yet (3 planets, 2 with life, one is a dead wasteland) I'm having an absolute ball playing this, exploring the planets and I've spent over 14hrs on this current planet alone, trying to catalog all the major creatures as you get a huge bonus if you do it. although tbh I could play for hours just flying over the planet and finding cool stuff. bases to walk in and get info, sealed bases to blow the door on, monoliths, strange buildings, and loads of cool stuff. also learning the aliens language is really great fun.
Now the bad..
The flight mechanics and space combat is really really poor and ultra arcadey, but I guess we knew that? You cannot fly into the ground, sun or mountains.. the ship autocorrects and avoids hitting anything. also on one planet there was this huge chasm!! I'm talking death star trench stuff, and omg I wanted to fly down it but the ships terrain avoidance wouldn't let me fly that low.
I'd give exploration/discovery a 9.5/10 and Flight mechanics/space combat 3/10
But overall it is an amazing game, but I can see a LOT of people being bored in 10 mins flat.. myself, I can see me putting many 100's of hours into it. is it worth full price? without a doubt.. as long as you aren't expecting a "sim" game. yes. it certainly is.
and I just found an epic crashed ship on the planet, I'm currently repairing it bit by bit so I can use it.. see you around, bye!
I can live without doing the combat, the lack of canyon flying I'm assuming will get fixed because I'm sure the internet will go mental over that. Do you have to do combat though or can you avoid it and just stick with exploring?