For a second forget about the dev's promises, trailers, game's state at release and everything in-between and give it to me straight
How would you rate it in it's current state on a scale from 1 to 10?
For a second forget about the dev's promises, trailers...
Zachary Wood
Jayden Jackson
9
i like it a lot
James Robinson
This is now a fish thread
Evan Sanders
6, too much usless busy work
Brody Green
do you think it hurts the fish to do that?
wonder how it feels haha
Liam Scott
8/10 pretty comfy but kinda janky. If you like space travel then you’ll like it
Austin Roberts
mining simulator/10
if you think mining rocks is the greatest thing ever then you'll love it. Otherwise stay the fuck away
Bentley Fisher
Without VR: 4/10
In VR: 7/10
The problem with no man's sky is there's way too much busywork and not a lot of clear goals outside of following transmissions in the MSQ. On top of that you don't ever feel incentivized to establish a base anywhere because of the frankly absurd resource costs just to keep a small base running. Also, you learn new languages way too slowly. You should learn at least like, 5 words at a time, not one at the rate you find new aliens and knowledge stones.
Landon Walker
When you have like 500 million credits you're pretty much one with the game
Unless you want to buy 6 S class haulers with max inventory space or something
Benjamin Garcia
6. Graphical downgrades to keep all the new updates running on a base PS4. The exploration just isn't interesting and instead of improving that, they just added a ton of mutually exclusive gameplay modules to keep you distracted:
>vehicles need vehicle-only materials and research
>underwater stuff needs underwater-only materials and research
>same with living ship stuff
Freighters were the only new addition that interacted well with the base game but it looks like the new update fucked that up too.
Andrew Gomez
>In VR: 7/10
Doesn't that require like a 1080 for bearable framerate?
Jackson Hernandez
Subjectively? 8/10
Non-subjectively? 6/10
Alexander Myers
I have a 1080ti, and yes. It's still perfectly playable on my PC.
Camden Jackson
7
It's fun in it's own right but when you get past the boring slog of an early game and start getting good ships and other stuff it becomes really boring and repetitive
Colton Nelson
It’s playable on a 2060 too.
But that’s on the rift 1. Which is awful and makes you not want to play VR so you’ll also want a newer headset like the index.
Jaxon Edwards
Who cares about "new" content when the game at its core is still as boring as day 1
Dylan Clark
8/10
Its the best space exploration game we have available right now, but it still lacks some stuff to be a 10/10.
Considering the devs still release content, it might get even better.
Personally I just need them to add actual customization to spaceships, and actually fill the planets with colonies of non-hostile aliens, maybe with their own quests and stuff.
Piloting the freighter manually would also be great.
Fuck it, I basically want a open world Mass Effect game. Thats all I need, and NMS is the closest I ever got!
Henry Murphy
>when you get past the boring
>it becomes really boring
>7
Matthew Williams
Why would we forget about it? He learned his lesson. One of the greatest comebacks in gaming. The failure should be showed more on what NOT to do.
Connor Ross
7/10 in vr
Wyatt Turner
6/10. Maybe 7 if you really like mindless grind.
Juan Ortiz
That's because I missed the hype this game had entirely, thus I don't really care what the game was "supposed" to be, also
>For a second
Aiden Ross
How is the combat in this thing?
Zachary Turner
here, I play on Index. I would indeed recommend a reasonably strong PC before you get this for VR play. In my PC is a i7-8700k and a 1080ti and I have to turn the graphics settings down a bit just for the supersampling aspect to get rid of bog standard unreal engine 4 jank. But I've got it running at a stable framerate with the settings I have it at and it plays fine. Truthfully however, were Elite Dangerous capable of being controlled solely through motion controls without a complicated third party setup, I would drop No Man's Sky pretty quickly for that game since they're kind of similar in concept even if ED is way darker feeling in tone.
Mason Clark
3/10
There is fundamentally nothing to do. Everything is randomly generated, flat, featureless terrain.
You collect resources to get upgrade-stickers that make it easier to collect resources.
The story is garbage and mostly radiant quests with some text. Missions are just radiant quests as well.
Ships offer no upgrade besides one of 4-5 different interiors (you can't look around in). Ship upgrades are worthless, since you insta-warp from planet to planet and system to system anyway.
Base-building is lackluster and pointless. Bases give you, at most, more resources.
Isaiah Hall
>1080TI
>i7-8700k
>Index
Man you really are in for a treat when MSF2020 adds VR support, I'm jelly
Josiah Jenkins
AI is terrible and basic. It runs around obstacles and shoots at you. Guns are boring and pointless with no variety.
It's like a very basic, tacked-on feature for a survial game with zero depth, which was only included because you gotta have rooty tooty point 'n shooty in a sci-fi game.
Josiah Gonzalez
I don't have the good internet speeds to stream the "petabytes of data" for MSF2020 unfortunately. A good PC won't fix that. I also hear that MSF2020 is gonna be only compatible with HP Reverb G2 on launch which is fucking *dumb* because at least you can use revive to bypass oculus's dumb exclusivity bullshit, what can people use to bypass microshit's requirement?
Frankly I'm not that interested in it anyway until we get Combat Flight Simulator 2020 because I grew up with Combat Flight Simulator 3 when I was a kid.
Jacob Nguyen
4/10
even with the derelict update there just is precious little to do
I guess I can say I got 100 hours of gameplay out of it? idk if it was worth the 20 bucks though
there is very little MEAT to the game. sure you can get an S rank fighter... but for what? anything you can do with an S rank fighter you can do with the starter ship. Once I got the S rank freighter too it was a death knell for the game for me. Its probably a bit more entertaining if you are into building bases, some people can build wonderful things. I didn't bother because I wanted to see the meat of the game and there was fuck all. Derelicts were a huge step forward... but the patch introduced so many bugs and not only that, the content was so incredibly easy its not funny. and they gated it in a stupid way with ever increasing costs of entry instead of something you can find naturally. good thing I could fully upgrade my freighter's storage with one of the storage upgrade items from a derelict due to a bug, because I wouldn't have bothered paying one billion units just to do the same in the long run AND have it take 100 more hours.
Bentley James
I can only speak from NEXT back but from that point I'd rate it a 3 or 4/10 still and while there were improvements from launch it's still just as bad as at launch.
>Sprint melee jetpack glitch is still the fastest form of transportation making effectively all vehicles a waste of material and nanites.
>Vehicles in general are a pain in the ass and require you to lug around a spawner to use them, then you have to power the vehicle itself.
>Constantly have to be carrying around fuel for your various shields, oxygen, ferrite, and procuring carbon and iron all the time but carbon is easy and iron is a bit more uncommon but not that bad.
>The entire tropical sea biome is worthless and fills half the planet with an entirely pointless area that offers you nothing you haven't seen on another planet and more or less just more ways to get carbon.
>Submarine is 100% pointless as you will never venture farther than your O2 shield and O2 can take you anyway because there's nothing to explore in the sea.
>Freighters take way too much material for it to be worth using for trade routes and it's a bit annoying having to fly out of a planet to access its storage.
>Your base feels like an afterthought and everything requires tons of crafted material to make.
>They never fixed how long it takes to reach the center of the universe and even if you have all the warp cells needed it's almost 5 hours of nonstop warping.
>Mining laser is still better than the actual weapons.
>Credits are a complete pain in the ass to obtain even if you have a farm producing loads of materials and S freighters cost hundreds of millions.
>Actual mining was nerfed into the ground and feels far slower than at launch.
>Terrain Manipulator only further made mining worse and require more resources because ferrite is a massive pain in the ass to get in decent quantities and the thing chews through it like nothing else.
>Alien speech is still barely one or two words a sentence after over a hundred hours of gameplay.
Charles Richardson
8, it could be a 9.5 if there was more clear progression, though the new spooky derelict update might bump it up to an 8.75 if it's substantial enough.