DaGaffer
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Sixty Euros. Dicks.
No Man's Sky - procedurally generated Sci-Fi exploration
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Sixty Euros. Dicks.
To add emphasis to the "dicks" comment, I just bought a replacement bit of glass for a washing machine from England that came to £27.64 inc. delivery, which Google reckons is just shy of € 32. Google also reckons that £40 is € ~46... £40 > € 60 is bloody criminal. It's not like they have added costs because they have to ship the digital copy further or something.
Moriath
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Played about 90 mins need a break now. But i repaired my ship and made a few discoveries. Not worked out how to scan animals yet.
Theres def a frame rate issue. And it sometimes just doesnt want to start up from the steam page. But i guess the devs will work that out.
Its getting a bit of abuse for those two issues tho.
Theres def a frame rate issue. And it sometimes just doesnt want to start up from the steam page. But i guess the devs will work that out.
Its getting a bit of abuse for those two issues tho.
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Moriath
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The game worked for me and wasnt unplayable. I am away for a week now. Im sure there will be a patch during that time. Some people have found ways round the fps problems as well it seems
ECA
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It's adaptive rate display shit, basically stops screen tearing when you drop under your monitors refresh rate, amds version is called freesync.
There's now an experimental branch of the game which supposedly fixes some of the issues. How a game with this much hype got through QA in such a state is anybody's guess.
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It's shit from the start, you get a 12 slot on person inventory, and if you go out of a small range of your ship you can't transfer stuff, that means you have to pickup only what your current questbob tells you to get, you can't just pickup stuff you know will likely be next while you're there - cuz that'd be too sensible and fuck you.
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Not sure, maybe later with better scanners. Yeah, bigger ships = more space. You also come across outposts that allow you to purchase extra suit inventory too. Look out for asteroid fields, can get some valuable loot from them but beware of pirates. Combat is pretty good really but you will take a pounding early on.
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I have played it a good few hours and on the whole its pretty good. Personally I have not run into any graphical problems, a nice steady 60fps. The pop in can be annoying occasionally, generally it is OK but the odd high density mineral pillar seems to render in front of your eyes when flying at high speed. In nearly 30 hours play it has crashed at random twice and both times within minutes so maybe there was something about that it didn’t like. Playing in borderless window mode sorted out the Alt+Tab problem, in full screen it refuses to allow you to tab back.
It’s not jaw dropping up close by any means, some of the textures are very console but the ambience is really good and as a whole it works. The sound effects are excellent.
Controls can seem a little odd when flying but I have found mouse and keyboard are fine, it’s fairly simple when compared to Elite. One really annoying aspect is you cannot hover and landing on the exact spot you want can be a little of a gamble sometimes. I was unfortunate to manage to land in a sink hole that had a tunnel system at the bottom, my ship then got wedged when attempting to take off meaning it crashed, it then respawned me outside with a knackered engine which I had to repair. You cannot move your head (Possibly a bug because I understand you can on console?) while flying which is really annoying at times. It would also be nice to leave notes about planets, if you find one with a decent amount of any particular resource.
Space combat is basic but fun, you tend to get attacked the higher the value goods you are carrying so if you can do then sell them on the planet (you will need to find a trade post) You can jump to warp if you are quick and lucky when you see an enemy scan.
While the inventory is an issue early on its not the case throughout, you can upgrade your ship to something larger (there are loads) and you can also upgrade your suit inventory. Weapon attachment slots also increase later on as you find new weapons/mining tools. Plus, most things can be upgraded one way or another.
I am not sure it will have super long term play value but then I have only been messing about within a small group of solar systems but so far its good. I have no intention of power gaming though it, those that need instant gratification need to look elsewhere.
Tldr. It’s by no means best game ever but I reckon I will get at least 100 hours out of it, if not a couple of 100, which is all I ask for £40. A nice chilled out game that you can sit back and mess about with.
It’s not jaw dropping up close by any means, some of the textures are very console but the ambience is really good and as a whole it works. The sound effects are excellent.
Controls can seem a little odd when flying but I have found mouse and keyboard are fine, it’s fairly simple when compared to Elite. One really annoying aspect is you cannot hover and landing on the exact spot you want can be a little of a gamble sometimes. I was unfortunate to manage to land in a sink hole that had a tunnel system at the bottom, my ship then got wedged when attempting to take off meaning it crashed, it then respawned me outside with a knackered engine which I had to repair. You cannot move your head (Possibly a bug because I understand you can on console?) while flying which is really annoying at times. It would also be nice to leave notes about planets, if you find one with a decent amount of any particular resource.
Space combat is basic but fun, you tend to get attacked the higher the value goods you are carrying so if you can do then sell them on the planet (you will need to find a trade post) You can jump to warp if you are quick and lucky when you see an enemy scan.
While the inventory is an issue early on its not the case throughout, you can upgrade your ship to something larger (there are loads) and you can also upgrade your suit inventory. Weapon attachment slots also increase later on as you find new weapons/mining tools. Plus, most things can be upgraded one way or another.
I am not sure it will have super long term play value but then I have only been messing about within a small group of solar systems but so far its good. I have no intention of power gaming though it, those that need instant gratification need to look elsewhere.
Tldr. It’s by no means best game ever but I reckon I will get at least 100 hours out of it, if not a couple of 100, which is all I ask for £40. A nice chilled out game that you can sit back and mess about with.
