"No Man's Sky" is procedural sci-fi exploration, and *purdy*. - by Shadowcat
faetal on 25/8/2016 at 10:21
I'd love to see procedural generation applied to just many biomes of one planet. Also I'd love for some kind of hyper-accelerated evolution to occur during the generation to drive the prevailing lifeform diversity.
zombe on 25/8/2016 at 11:41
Speaking of mods, the current "mandatory" mod list:
* LowFlight by Hytek (flight restrictions removed and issues enhanced - ffs. just don't be an absolute idiot and you will be fine [make backups of your saves if you do not trust yourself])
(
http://nomansskymods.com/mods/lowflight-by-hytek-packed/)
* ShutUp by Jackalopalen (can choose which of the 134 annoying messages you want to hear - ffs. barely any ... only 122th is somewhat useful audibly [life support offline])
(
http://nomansskymods.com/mods/shutup-disable-certain-annoying-audio-warnings/)
* Actions by Shadwar (hold time set to zero - ffs. click is enough)
(
http://nomansskymods.com/mods/fast-actions/)
Missing so far:
* Skip "milestone" blackout.
* Skip excessively slow NPC animations.
Not listing the mods that "fix" graphical issues (shit filters etc) - as thous are more subjective. Some like, some do not.
zombe on 25/8/2016 at 12:21
Quote Posted by PigLick
wow I have steered clear of the hype of this, but man it looks really underwhelming. Draw distance is really quite crap.
It is a neat, albeit a bit short in what it has to offer in gameplay, 10-15$ game ... hyped/overpriced to hell.
In regards to draw distance: it is very good - you are comparing apples and oranges. None of the technics used in other games can be used in this kind of game. You should compare it with more relevant games like Minecraft (*). The draw distance is very good.
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I personally do not like any voxel lod'ing technics i have ever seen on a relevant scale (everything unavoidably changes shape based on distance causing multiple excessive popping fronts to move with you) - but the only alternatives i have seen in production ... are still in production (hell) and while visually MUCH better they are technically VERY limiting. None of which can do what NMS does.
*) Minecraft has no lod'ing and consequently extremely limited draw distance - 16^3 voxel based chunks either exist on GPU or not.
scumble on 31/8/2016 at 11:43
I would actually like to play this game now, but it's more apparent it's just been shoved into the wrong category. It's a game that shares more with subnautica or minecraft, which you'd have expected to be early access or open beta. We're more forgiving and the devs react to our comments and add the bits we think are missing. It's not assassin's creed or tomb raider. So I'll be waiting for a drop to £20 or lower. Shame as there are likely a lot of people in the same position.
faetal on 1/9/2016 at 11:24
I'd say that's a fair assessment. I'm still plugging away at it. It's so much better when you actually spend time exploring the planets and analysing the random creations in enough detail to think up meaningful names. Just fly around collecting locations and upgrades though and it starts to feel very samey / shallow.
scumble on 2/9/2016 at 10:07
I actually love that cool ghosts video posted earlier because it's exactly the intelligent perspective I've been after on games in general. They haven't traded quality for popularity.
So Sony please drop the price and probably make more money from the people on the fence...
EvaUnit02 on 6/9/2016 at 19:05
Quote Posted by Thirith
I expect that not everyone will be a fan of
Cool Ghosts' style, but if you enjoy their stuff or at least don't mind it, you might like their recent video on "
No Man's Land: The Best Game Ever":
[video=youtube;ioaB__ZKLlM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioaB__ZKLlM[/video]
They seem to have comments disabled on their videos. What fucking cowards.
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nicked on 6/9/2016 at 19:58
Makes sense to me. I've yet to see a YouTube comment worth reading.
Jason Moyer on 6/9/2016 at 22:22
Cowards are most of the people who comment on YT videos (or on FB/Twitter posts by people they don't personally know).
