#gektastic

Feeling memetastic

My last post on No Man’s Sky was about 1.04. I said it was amazing! It was. It fixed a lot of issues.

However, it still was not the game that I and a lot of other people were really hoping for. I did play through a lot of Atlas Rises, but by the time I was getting through it, the ARG was going stronk for what would end up being NEXT, so I put it down in anticipation. Usually when a new patch like that, HelloGames sorta breaks older saves. They hadn’t done a reset in a while, but just to make sure, I didn’t want to start anything I could potentially completely lose with no way back with NEXT.

NEXT finally dropped on Tuesday and holy crap, I haven’t been THIS excited to play a game since FFXIV ARR dropped. Every chance I get I am playing No Man’s Sky. I have two games going - one on PC and one on PS4. They just really turned the game around.

While I was fine with the content they gave us originally and up to NEXT, really, I was - I wanted something else from the game. I wanted to be able to talk to other people who play the game and tell them about my adventures, share stories. A real community. I wanted to be able to do a lot of the things HelloGames originally promised. Words that came from the creator’s mouth - dogfighting, classes of ships handling different, missions, factions, the true day/night thing. And in some of these, they were already there but in bits and pieces. Some weren’t in there at all. Everything just feels so much BETTER.

The terrain and other texture pop-in is so smooth now. They could do a little more work on it but it’s a lot better now than it was (oh, that spikey thing looks interesting OH GOD IT’S A MOUNTAIN!!!).

Then, there’s the MULTIPLAYER. Sean was almost careful in explaining that it wasn’t an MMO. It’s definitely not. But myself and a few friends can join each others’ games and play with them, fight them, trade with them, and gesture wildly at them. I believe there’s a chat feature, too (text).

I love being able to zoom over to another planet and see the BF, h elp him out of a jam, and then fly back to my home system to continue working on my base.

The module update is pretty cool, there’s a real point to spending those nanites now. They have their own little economy.. you can grind for them, spend them on all S rank stuff but then find another multitool and do it all over again.

THE CHARACTER CUSTOMIZATION needs so much more I feel...my Korvax got significantly less customization options than any of the other races unfortunately.. but I’ve come to really fall in love with GEK!

caption: my Gek being just GEKTASTIC!!! next to her ship.

Other game systems and thoughts:

- the refining system is just a touch too clunky for my taste. Especially on PS4, without the cursor snap it turns it into a chore. on PC it’s a little easier for me because of the mouse.

- no auto lock on spaceship fighting is actually cool because it does like a little tiny lock on for you, but it also teaches you to aim in front of the ship you’re fighting hehe >:3

- I’ve taken to upgrading my ship bit by bit while I try to make some real cash farming ruins and scanning stuff for that 50-100k a pop (thank you S module!)

- Repairing ...literally everything.. is kind of frustrating but it gives a little more realism to the game. “I just went through a portal and back and my ship basically crashed. Of course something broke on it, duh” - me, last night