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[umiman]

I should also point out that unlike starbound or any other survival game, it's probably unlikely we'll be able to mod this game outside of ui mods or minor things like that.

It's always online on their own servers after all.

The latest news is that they're withholding review copies to certain publications.

[Teneb]

The latest news is that they're withholding review copies to certain publications.

This is rarely a good thing. The only recent example of a good game that did this that I can think of was the new Doom.

[umiman]

I was reading through the in depth stuff the leaker wrote out about the game. It's... Pretty much to be expected?

If you guys can't be bothered to look it up, here's a tldr:
1. Space combat sucks balls.
2. Lots of strange and game breaking bugs.
3. Crashes on ps4 are frequent.
4. Sound design is great.
5. The planets all feel different from one another.
6. Every single planet has life, there's no empty planets.
7. Upgrades are stupid.

[ThtblovesDF]

Game is highly overhyped, we all know it. It'll be starbound in 3d, not much better then that really.

[kilakan]

I thought early on they said the exact opposite about every planet having life.  Wasn't an early press-release thing that it'll be generated like the real universe where 95% of planets won't have life but will likely still be cool geologically?

[Shadowlord]

6. Every single planet has life, there's no empty planets.

That can't be right... It makes no sense.

[Aklyon]

The latest news is that they're withholding review copies to certain publications.

This is rarely a good thing. The only recent example of a good game that did this that I can think of was the new Doom.

Shadow of Mordor was also pretty alright despite dubious review copy strategy.

[puke]

If you guys can't be bothered to look it up, here's a tldr:

Awesome, thanks!

I started reading some of his stuff on redit, but it turned into a warren of closed threads, flame wars, and general reditness.

So, thanks!  That "tl;dr:" is exactly what I came for. 

Matches expectations, generally.

[LoSboccacc]

6. Every single planet has life, there's no empty planets.

That can't be right... It makes no sense.

yeah if every planet is special... noone is. discovery is just moot then.

[forsaken1111]

6. Every single planet has life, there's no empty planets.

That can't be right... It makes no sense.

yeah if every planet is special... noone is. discovery is just moot then.

but there are so many of them how could you say that

[umiman]

If you guys can't be bothered to look it up, here's a tldr:

Awesome, thanks!

I started reading some of his stuff on redit, but it turned into a warren of closed threads, flame wars, and general reditness.

So, thanks!  That "tl;dr:" is exactly what I came for. 

Matches expectations, generally.

Happy to serve. I know a lot of people have trouble finding the info too.

Anyway, he specifically brought up the planets with life thing because he also found it odd as even barren-type planets had regular animals running around. He said there wasn't a single place he went to that didn't have life and thought the devs did a 180 from what they said initially.

Earlier on he mentioned that all the animals all looked the same and were standard sized with no large monsters. However he updated his post after he "finished" the game to say he found some super verdant worlds in this one solar system that was crazy with insane lifeforms.

Another thing he mentioned was how amazing it was the game rendered deep oceans and it felt extremely scary.

[IronTomato]

6. Every single planet has life, there's no empty planets.

That can't be right... It makes no sense.

yeah if every planet is special... noone is. discovery is just moot then.

That really doesn't make sense. Having too much uniqueness doesnt take away from the uniqueness. Having 90% of the planets being blank and lifeless, on the other hand, sounds like it'd do a pretty good job taking away that uniqueness.

I really don't understand why this forum in particular is having such a negative reaction to this game. Maybe it's because It seems like people are just taking everything they see about the game and using it as an opportunity to shit on it and make comments about how it's Starbound or whatever. For one thing, I've never played Starbound and I've obviously never played NMS, but it seems pretty obvious that they're fairly different games, and second there are a shitload of people who seem to enjoy Starbound, so assuming they do manage to become completely identical I don't see how it would be such an awful thing as people seem to be implying.

Also, I feel like people probably wouldn't be nearly as bothered by the things that they are if the game hadn't been hyped up as much as it had been. Like the community's overly hype-y response to the game makes the game worse fornot having lived up to it. Like they knew from the beginning it wasnn't going to be the second coming of Christ but still shit on it for not being the second coming of Christ.

I hate hype now.

[frightlever]

Has anyone cancelled their pre-order after checking out the leaks?

I'm curious because there seems to be a lot of negativity, but after watching some (up until a point where I didn't want to see anymore) I'm tending towards a pre-order, though it'll be on PC, in the UK, so I should have a couple of days after the PS4 release to make up my mind and still get the pre-order bonus if I decide to jump in.

[IronTomato]

Has anyone cancelled their pre-order after checking out the leaks?

I'm curious because there seems to be a lot of negativity, but after watching some (up until a point where I didn't want to see anymore) I'm tending towards a pre-order, though it'll be on PC, in the UK, so I should have a couple of days after the PS4 release to make up my mind and still get the pre-order bonus if I decide to jump in.

I only really pre-ordered it since I knew I was probably going to try it out regardless of what reviews said, so I may as well have been able to play it ASAP. On the other hand, I shortly found out that not all preorders on Steam allowed you to preload the game, so in the end it was pointless, since my house doesn't have internet and reviews would have been up by the time I got to play anyway.

* IronTomato kicks himself in the face

I'm thinking about cancelling the preorder just in case the reviews somehow reveal something to me which would dissuade me from playing the game, but at the same time I can just refund it afterwards if that happens.

Either way, that doesn't really have anything to do with the leaks, so no

[forsaken1111]

I haven't watched the leaks, but I do plan to watch some reviews/streams after release before I decide whether to order the game.