No Man's Sky - Waypoint | Switch version out now

[TehStu]

No Man's Sky

 

Related threads:

• General photo thread
• PC owners (for technical discussion, etc.)
• Ships photo thread

 

 

 

Latest Version: Waypoint

 

 

Trailer Link

 

What's New?

https://www.nomanssky.com/waypoint-update/

 

 

Resources for New and Returning Players

Note - this may be massively out of date with the QoL improvements with Waypoint 4.0.

 

How do I...?

• Rocket jump: Tap melee and jetpack in quick succession and you'll perform a boosted rocket jump that moves you a fair amount forward. Bear in mind that this causes life support to drop quicker than usual (as does any use of jetpack), for a split second, which is critical if you're playing Permadeath or Survival mode.
• Toggle first person/3rd person view: press down on the d-pad and scroll left or right until you come to the camera options. Note: there are separate toggles for flight and while on foot. If you toggled 3rd person while walking, you'll have to do it again while flying if you want 3rd person for both.
• Get a freighter: given this is kinda part of normal progression, I'll put it in a spoiler. It's not really a spoiler, per se
   
  Spoiler

  I warped to a system and got a distress call from a freighter. I accepted that. Killed some bad guys and the captain gave me the keys (note for returning players - this is like an earlier mission, except previously the captain offered you the freighter for 7m credits)

   

• Get nanites: Call up your scanner while on foot and scan flora and fauna. Go to the Discoveries tab in Options (PS4 pad) and upload the discovery to get nanites. Nanites no longer take up inventory space, and it's much easier to get them. 

 

 

General FAQs

Spoiler

Is this update free?

Yup, they all are. There are no micro transactions, either.

 

What is No Man's Sky about?

For everyone who wanted to experience first hand Chris Foss' incredible science fiction artwork, this is the game for you. You start the game without much knowledge of where you are or what you're doing, and need to repair your ship. From there, you are guided through exploration of beautifully coloured vistas, plant life, and animals. As you take flight and leave your home world, you'll encounter alien life, space battles, frigid, toxic, and barren charred husks of worlds. At first you'll be walking, enjoying an almost meditative chilled stroll, or possibly a frenzied dash from cover to cover as to avoid environmental death. Maybe you'll heed to the call to the galactic core. Maybe you'll follow the strands of strange messages received. Perhaps you'll just sit tight and build a home, knee-deep in lush blue grass. Do all of these things, and take your time.

 

But it's all a load of hyped crap, right?

I'll let Sean Murray field part of this one. Arguably, the game as described during the E3 reveal and subsequent interviews is present and accounted for in the Path Finder update, and definitely as of Atlas Rising. I'm not going to engage with all the absurd vitriol sent Hello Games' way over what the game was perceived to be, versus what we got. In actual fact, we have much more now. There is now base building, land vehicles, freighters, and many other things not 'promised' up front. With NEXT, we'll also get full multiplayer and can, hopefully, put to bed chastising this small team of developers.

 

No BS, what do you actually do?

It's a walking simulator. You'll collect resources, find and repair abandoned spacehips, build bases, discover new worlds and new life (scanner for which gives you rewards). You'll trade some of the stuff you find and craft. In your bases, you'll be able to grow various plants for selling or crafting. You can gain favour with the various races, which will allow access to better tech. At first, you won't understand what they're saying, but you'll eventually learn communication from exploring. There are structured missions, which will feel like they blend into the tutorial as you first play. Mostly, you'll be exploring the sandbox. Just don't go in expecting a sprawling RPG. There is on-foot and space combat, though if you can elect to avoid either. The economy is pretty rudimentary, at best it feels like dumping the looted crap at times. Prices and availability do tend to vary, mind. As of Atlas Rising, you can leave messages at someone else's base (if you find one... there are 48 Quintilian planets in the Euclid galaxy), but that all changes with NEXT and fully implemented PvE or PvP multiplayer.

 

Should I play this or Elite Dangerous?

Buy both, on multiple platforms. Seriously, support the hell out of space simulators, there really aren't enough of them. EVE Online is now free to play, too. They're all broadly similar in that they offer space flight, some have ground mechanics, all have trading. Discounting EVE, as it's quite different, the main difference between Elite and NMS is that all mechanics are geared towards realism, whereas NMS attempts to be much more accessible. If you need an analogy, I'd probably hazard an arcade racer versus a sim. However, while you can now pilot vehicles in Elite (Horizons DLC), there isn't (yet) the ability to simply walk and enjoy yourself, and environments tends to the barren rather than the incredibly stylistic vistas of NMS.

 

Do you need PS+/Live to play?

It has previously worked perfectly well without it. It's yet to be determined if the new multiplayer stuff will require PS+ (or Live Gold), but you could reasonably assume it will. No need for either if you're playing offline, however.

 

Eurogamer guide for new players (seems pretty comprehensive)

 

[Mortis]

Kinda made me think of how I'd expect a next gen mercenary to look - fingers crossed the 4 guys making it can finish it before they run out of money or I grow old and die though.

[elmo]

http://youtu.be/CVoH4mDMoGI

[Epcotman]

This is what I hoped Destiny was going to be like. Looks brilliant.

[revlob]

This looks strangely beautiful.

[Wiper]

Definitely the highlight of VGX (not, to be fair, that that's necessarily great praise), it is pretty exciting looking.

[Smitty]

Wonderful. Attention got.

[murray]

Looks gorgeous.

[gospvg]

Very Elite like, love it and can't believe a team of FOUR?!! are making this.

[Uzi]

Platforms:

EDIT- Apparently that's not a dev- just inter gaf chat so take with a pinch of salt. Assumed PC/Next gen for now

[SMD]

I'm in.

[Dark Soldier]

A modern day Elite

I'm in. I'm so fucking in.

[simms]

Not seen trailers yet but hopefully this game should be begging for occulus rift support for the "definitive" version.

[Clipper]

gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme

I didnt actuall back Elite IV as don't trust Braben not to mess it up somehow (See Frontier and sequel)

Seems I didn't need Elite because these guys seem to have it covered.

Given the success of Minecraft I did wonder how long it woul dbe til we saw more realistic procedural exploration games, not necessarily crafting etc but just exploration.

4 man team though who have only done Joe Danger before? hmmm I wonder how long it will take! presumably they have been working on this since Joe Danger 2 release which was just over a year ago

[Sabreman]

They almost did it. They almost made the game I want, but there's always bloody combat

Don't get me wrong, I'm very excited and I'll certainly play it, but where's my new-generation Noctis...

[mlewis]

Looks wonderful. The enthusiasm of the guy talking about realising the books he read as a child of Asimov, Arthur Clarke etc was so infectious.

Can't wait.

[Mogster]

This looks like the sort of game I'd naively imagine as a child. It looks incredible, and the dev on the show was clearly really enthusiastic about it. For me at least it's the most exciting game announcement I've seen in a long time.

[jon_cybernet]

The Joe Danger thing is a bit misleading though - prior to Hello Games the guys also worked on Black and Geometry Wars: Galaxies.

[Broker]

I'm in, even if it means buying a PS4.

[Mr Cochese]

Twenty years on, someone finally continues what Elite 2 started.

[JPR]

Looks fantastic, can't wait.

[The Bag]

The Joe Danger thing is a bit misleading though - prior to Hello Games the guys also worked on Black and Geometry Wars: Galaxies.

And Burnout 3 and many other things, they were all veteran devs, holding senior positions before starting Hello Games.

This looks absolutely amazing, it's what next gen is in my head far more so than any of the big titles so far.

[Wiper]

They almost did it. They almost made the game I want, but there's always bloody combat

Don't get me wrong, I'm very excited and I'll certainly play it, but where's my new-generation Noctis...

Aye, was a little disappointed when the other ships appeared and it was apparent there'd be more to the game than just exploring and discovering new planets, but I'm still very excited by this.

[Uzi]

The Joe Danger thing is a bit misleading though - prior to Hello Games the guys also worked on Black and Geometry Wars: Galaxies.

I don't doubt the pedigree of the developers- just that it seems like an insanely ambitious game for a team of four who last made a beefed up excitebike. I hope they pull it off.

[Ersatz Nihilist]

This was absolutely the most impressive thing at VGX. With the art style they're pushing they've got my money just so I can have a bit of a fly around and explore. If they can manage to crowbar an actual game in there as well... wow.

[Talk Show Host]

They almost did it. They almost made the game I want, but there's always bloody combat

Don't get me wrong, I'm very excited and I'll certainly play it, but where's my new-generation Noctis...

I agree. But do you have to do combat? We know very little for the game yet.

These transitions between land and space are what next gen should be about.

[DocG]

Ooooh. Setting phasers to "hopeful optimism".

[Robo_1]

So can someone fill me in on the concept of procedural generation? Does it mean that they don't need to build these worlds individually and that they can just be automatically created with software algorithms? Does that mean each gamer will have a slightly different Universe to explore.

The concept seems obscenely ambitious for a team of four people to pull off. When I first saw the footage, I instantly thought it was going to be a sort of Endless Ocean interpretation of Destiny, and I guess it could still be that. Certainly one to keep an eye on.

[DocG]

So can someone fill me in on the concept of procedural generation? Does it mean that they don't need to build these worlds individually and that they can just be automatically created with software algorithms?

Yes. The technique isn't new, it was used in Elite, it's how the trees are done in Skyrim, it's how Spelunky works, Minecraft, etc etc. The tricky bit in worlds of this fidelity is making it look and feel natural.

Does that mean each gamer will have a slightly different Universe to explore.

It can work either way. It's basically a really big pseudorandom number generator; if all players have the same seed, they see the same universe. If they have different seeds they get different universes.

[Mr Ben]

This was blatantly game of the show. Be grabbing this whenever its available. Just hope it does actually get finished with only 4 guys making this, the scope is insane.