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No Man's Sky Orbital Update brings full ship customisation and a complete space station overhaul (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I agree, they did the right thing and much more. But the game still doesn't feel very fun. It's missing a reason to do things beyond just exploration and seeing new randomly generated animals and colors.

I was hoping for it to have some Elite qualities where you would travel with rare cargo to make money, but it doesn't even have any rare cargo or any demand for unique minerals on planets...

It's not fun, which is the main problem. The devs have built a universe to explore but hasn't accounted for that humans don't think different shapes and colors are very interesting when it's the same otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The popularity speaks to the contrary; a lot of people want to exist in a universe they get to see neat things. There are quest lines to help push players forward if they want, they just aren’t required and are easy to ignore. I don’t think resource scarcity is meant to be a major aspect of the game but I can see why someone might want it to be.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah maybe you are right. It's just not the game I want it to be, but they do have players and it's going well for them, so.. :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It was genuinely fun when i started and had to hunt for materials and actually had the threat of death, i hid in a cave to recover heat protection and had to do that a few times before i entered space and then the game all but ended