No Man's Sky

[somme]

Some people are finding the space fighting quite difficult. Personally I just treated it like a fight in Battlestar Galactica, brake quickly and spin round and you can follow the ships.

[RedShell]

Advertising Standards launches investigation into No Man's Sky

 

Crazy stuff.

 

Gotta love this GIF though:

[Daft]

I haven't played this since week of launch.

[bob]

I have.

 

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[Daft]

I'm sorry for your loss.

[somme]

I'm sorry for your loss.

 

Not a very, er, mature sentiment.

[Ronnie]

That gif is amazing

[bob]

Landed on an extreme blizzard planet, and this cheeky fucker started to attack me.

 

 

https://gfycat.com/DisgustingSelfassuredAfricanpiedkingfisher

Edited September 29, 2016 by 130131301364

[EEVILMURRAY]

You got attacked by a 404 error?!

[bob]

It was horrifying i tell thee.

[somme]

General Gameplay

Fixed technology becoming instantly fully charged when repaired

Fixed ship appearing on incorrect pad in space station after loading

Added interactable objects that required certain tech to collect

Added shootable objects that require certain tech to mine

Rebalanced resource availability and technology charge requirements

Fixed initial game flow - where travelling to space too quickly after visiting the monolith could prevent the first atlas station notification appearing

Prevented player being prompted to scan for buildings before leaving the system after visiting the monolith

Prevented laser and melee attacks while in space from attempting to edit terrain

Improved calculation of resources received when mining terrain

Renamed Signal Scanners to Signal Boosters

Signal booster objects updated to search for playable bases, suit upgrade pods, and mineable resources

Removed signal booster from being distributed on terrain, as player can now build them

Improved accuracy of environment detection, fixing cases where it rained inside caves

Fixed galactic waypoints not loading correctly across saves

Removed atlas pass v1 requirement from doors in stations

Suit upgrade pods are no longer spawned in stations

Suit upgrade pods can now only be used once

Fixed collision in anomaly that was causing issues when exiting larger ships

Increased the number of different NPC character models generated per system

Fixed the game always remaining in day time for players who began their save prior to patch 1.03

Fixed a potential crash in foliage instance renderer

 

Localisation

Fixed stats page in asian languages

Fixed multiple issues with asian language formatting

Multiple improvements and fixes to localisation text in all languages

 

UI

Added new icons for specific types of primary resources

Fixed health bars not appearing on some targets

Added hazard and life support drain indicators

Fixed mission messages not appearing in a timely fashion

Beacons now notify the player that they will save the game

Fixed crash when creature IK animations were updated under certain conditions on the discovery screen

Improved navigation in discovery UI

Massive speed improvements to browsing huge discovery lists

Increased size of discovery storage

Added option to load "Earliest" previous save in Options menu

Fixed weapon naming

Added icon to remind players of the reload button when weapon is empty

Multiple fixes for viewing discoveries

 

PS4

Added photo mode

Large optimisations to the engine to accommodate base building

 

PC

Added support for up to 8 mouse buttons

Fixed better order position history for mouse smoothing

Fixed bug where setting gamma to zero gave a fully bright rather than fully dark image

Fixed hard-limiting on save sizes, with appropriate warning about free space on boot

Player is now notified when shaders are being loaded

Fixed occasional crash on exit

Fixed performance of trail renderer for some AMD cards

Large optimisations to the engine to accommodate base building

 

Generation

Added biome specific plants

Adopted new method of distributing resource plants on terrain, for more lifelike clumps of plants

Improved distribution of plant life across all terrain types

Introduced visual differentiation of red, green and blue star systems

Introduced new mineable terrain resources found only in red, green and blue star systems

Reduced average building frequency

Introduced planets with elevated building density

Introduced planets with no buildings or sentient life

Increased the proportion of lush and tropical planets

Decreased the proportion of lifeless planets

Fixed bug where multiple ships could appear, overlapping, at the player's start scene

Prevented certain building types being incorrectly placed underwater

Prevented multiple buildings occasionally being placed in overlapping positions

Prevented buildings occasionally being placed intersecting with the terrain

Improved and altered per-planet terrain resource generation, improving gameplay and visuals

 

Creatures

Fixed elevation cache mismatches, causing errors in creature knowledge and pathing

Fixed slow memory leak in creature role allocation

Improved creature animation speeds

Fixed issues where some creatures turns had the incorrect frame count

Fixed occasional crash when interacting with creatures

Atmospherics

Increased proportion of vibrant blue skies

Corrected cloud levels for clear skies

Improved average cloud level settings

Fixed cloud rendering while flying in your ship

Improved atmosphere depth when transitioning to space

Increased fidelity of atmosphere rendering on nearest planet

Improved atmospheric fog as you fly to a planet

Improved fog method for planets seen on the horizon

 

Terrain

Improved terrain generation algorithms

Improved and extended blend areas between different terrain noise types

Terrains now generate more open spaces

Smaller features now appear at nearer lods to improve visuals in the distance

Fixed objects being placed on incorrect terrain material types

Improved resolution of distant planet terrain

Decreased differences between planet as seen from space and actual planet terrain

Fixed seams on planets when seen from space

Improvements to terrain material selection and terrain material blending

Terrain generation priority and cost calculation improvements

Fixed terrain generation angle calculations, which would previously prevent nearest region being generated first

We now generate caves on lower terrain lods to decrease visual differences in lower detail terrain

Introduced more varied and vibrant colouring to terrain for each biome

Decreased frequency of brown terrain colour selections

Changed texture scales to improve transition between terrain lods

Improved terrain colour combinations to add variety and better match terrain contouring

Improved terrain texture blending method to better retain vibrant colours

Improved settings for hue, saturation and value noise variation on terrain

Fixed a number of issues causing holes to be seen in the planet terrain

Fixed occasional crash when mining terrain

 

Visuals

Fixed colour of muzzle flashes on player weapons

Added muzzle flashes to ship weapons

Added cockpit lighting for damage and weapon firing

Added debris to freighter explosion effect

Improved freighter cargo explosions

Improved photon cannon hit and space explosion effects

Improved turret explosion effect

Improved grass colour selection

Improved grass colouring method to match underlying terrain colour

Improved grass placement to match gradient of terrain, and rocky terrain slope patches

Improved lighting on grass

Improved alpha cutoffs and blending for grass in the distance

Improved colouring method for on-planet buildings

Fixed "pop" in lighting when flying between planets

Fixed incorrect lighting seen in shadow areas

Improved lighting method when rendering tree leaves

Fixed procedural texturing on objects with multiple overlapping textures

Fixed size of certain texture atlas normal maps

Fixed texture scaling on asteroids

Zinc plant is now more obvious when it has been gathered

Fixed occasional rendering errors due to precision on cockpit during warp

Fixed pulse lines not appearing when pulse driving out from planet atmosphere

Fixed shadowing artefacts on imposters

 

Space

Improved asteroids to allow much denser fields

Improved explosion effects

Fixed scale of moons on the space map

Added freighter groups to the space map

Changed distribution of resources in asteroids

AI ships will now clear asteroids in their path

Planets are now scannable from space to see their resources

 

Space Combat

Fixed bounty targets warping out too soon

Improved HUD indicators in space combat

Added damaged ship effect on AI starships

Added formation flying

Improved locking on passive starships

Improved AI combat flight patterns

Added new ship weapon technology

Holding brake whilst turning now activates drift for fast turns

Improved AI ship freighter attacking

Improved freighter targeting code when under attack by enemy ships

 

Freighters

Fixed pulse drive to prevent travel through freighters

Improved docking code

Added hangar to the lead freighter

Added docking in freighters

Added icon to accessible freighter hangars

Added colouring to cargo drops to identify what is in them

You can now only pick up cargo drops that will fit in your inventory

Added auxiliary freight ships to freighter groups

Added alert lights and alarm audio for when freighters are in combat

Improved turret lights and explosions

Improved muzzle flashes on freighter turrets

Added indicator of cargo contents

Freighter Commanders now give rewards for rescuing them from pirate attack

Fixed collision on freighter cargo containers

 

Audio

Updated the lush ambience to make the wind sounds less noisy

Ambient background fauna now checks for the presence of creatures

Added rain on foliage

Added rain on ship

Added freighter specific footsteps

When on a dead planet, no music will play

Round table prop now plays an appropriate sound

Added more music to the loading sequence and game start

Added audio to new base building props

Created sounds for new base building props

Added audio to freighter doors and internal freighter ambiences

Added freighter explosions

Added freighter alarm

Added ambient radio comms when approaching a freighter

Fixed missing sounds when in a space station due to the mix settings

Multi-tool upgrades now affect audio

Lots of minor mix changes

Changed some compression settings for PS4 audio to make the sub-channel audio play more reliably

 

[drahkon]

Survival mode which makes base building a necessity? Could be a game changer. And since I didn't get the Platinum before trading my copy in I'll be happy to give it another go. Ebay, here I come

 

Looking forward to what 2017 has in store for No Man's Sky. There's a lot of potential and the Foundation Update seems like a small step in the right direction.

 

I'm still very annoyed with Hello Games' silence in the last two months, but I'm willing to give them another chance on that matter. They need to be in contact with the community.

Edited November 27, 2016 by drahkon

[Fierce_LiNk]

I'm part of the "I like/love the game" camp and I really can't wait to see what happens in the future. I do think the game will only improve and become an even better experience in the future. This update looks great!

 

I commend HelloGames for getting their heads down and working on this, despite all of the criticism that they received. I do hope that they have been listening, as painful as it must have been. It's not nice receiving the level of criticism that they have endured, a lot of which borders on abuse. I hope that they turn it around and that the game becomes more of a critical success for them and their fans.

[bob]

I fully enjoyed playing the game, bu i'm not sure there's enough to get me to go back to it. Maybe i'll get curious about the base building aspect to it, but i feel i did everything there was to do.

[Tales]

This looks fantastic. Can't wait.

[Ashley]

I'm still very annoyed with Hello Games' silence in the last two months, but I'm willing to give them another chance on that matter. They need to be in contact with the community.

 

In fairness part of the criticism when the game came out was they talked too much about stuff that was later cut so I think they've just become hesitant to talk about things until they're far more certain. Which should be obvious on the outside but hey ho, live and learn

[somme]

Can't wait to jump back in once the patch has downloaded. Damn the combination of my slow Internet and PSN!

[gaggle64]

Man, this was the the update I was waiting for. I've got way too many games to play right now but this has definitely bumped it up the list.

[Tales]

Survival mode is hard! I can't make it off the planet, let alone get to my ship. It spawns far away and the cold kills me long before I get there and I can't find enough recources to survive that long. Deleted the save twice in hope to get a more hospitable planet but no luck so far.

 

Currently hiding a cave, waiting for the hazard suit to recover. Been lucky and found a couple of plants with Thanium, hopefully it will enough to survive the remaining two minutes to the ship.

Edited November 27, 2016 by Tales

[somme]

Survival mode is hard! I can't make it off the planet, let alone get to my ship. It spawns far away and the cold kills me long before I get there and I can't find enough recources to survive that long. Deleted the save twice in hope to get a more hospitable planet but no luck so far.

 

Currently hiding a cave, waiting for the hazard suit to recover. Been lucky and found a couple of plants with Thanium, hopefully it will enough to survive the remaining two minutes to the ship.

 

You got the terrain-grenade upgrade? Bomb your way to the ship underground!

 

Glad to see survival is actually hard too.

[Tales]

No, because it's a fresh start. You have nothing on you beside a broken scanner and analyzer.

 

I made it to ship, but lost most of the stuff I had picked up after picking a fight with sentinels and losing. You can't recover your stuff in survival it seems. So now I'm protected from radiation, but my life support is less than 25% and I can't find anything to use to recover in the vicinity.

[somme]

No, because it's a fresh start. You have nothing on you beside a broken scanner and analyzer.

 

I made it to ship, but lost most of the stuff I had picked up after picking a fight with sentinels and losing. You can't recover your stuff in survival it seems. So now I'm protected from radiation, but my life support is less than 25% and I can't find anything to use to recover in the vicinity.

 

Sounds tough! Might just continue my game on normal and build base and buy a freighter. Got quite a few million credits saved up!

[Tales]

Managed to repair the thrusters by collecting iron, transfer it to my ship, die then rince and repeat. But I need heridium to fix the pulse engine and the closest is appearently 12 minutes away. I can't even make it a minute before I die. Everytime I respawn, life support is already down. No clue as how I can overcome this.

[somme]

Managed to repair the thrusters by collecting iron, transfer it to my ship, die then rince and repeat. But I need heridium to fix the pulse engine and the closest is appearently 12 minutes away. I can't even make it a minute before I die...No clue as how I can overcome this.

 

Start afresh and hope for a nicer planet?

[Fierce_LiNk]

Hmm. I think I'm going to wait to clear my current lot of games before I dive back in. I've got Rise of the Tomb Raider, Bioshock 2/Infinite, Tearaway, Gravity Rush and quite a few others to start, as well as current games that I'm already playing AND the PSN stuff to work through. I'm tempted to maybe start over and do survival mode when that happens. Hopefully the next update will be out by then, too.

 

I'm curious to see what happens next. They mentioned base building and freighters around launch time, but anything after this is new. There's loads of potential, tbh. Imagine if you could start up colonies and could recruit aliens to come and live there, for example.