I just had that one. I opened the game in borderless window mode and it was a little bordered window while one of my browser windows became full-screen borderless. This isn't just a regular bug, this is advanced fucking up. HOw do you even do that.
You can though.
You want to tell me how?
I actually found an interesting terrain feature that I haven't seen before. Big basins with overhanging rims, like bubbles dug into the surface. I'm sure i'll see more of the same thing soon though. In other areas it feels like the game is actively working to defeat my attempts to get something out of it. As I was heading down on the southern pole of the planet (planets don't seem to have ice caps, or even biomes for that matter. This part of the planet might sort of look different but not significantly) I saw these noxious green lines tracing across it like lightning bolts, which I thought might be some kind of rifts or something, but as I got closer I saw that, no, it's nothing interesting. It's just texture popping for the generic mottled planet color scheme.
For the short periods I can turn off my brain and take in the experience it can be pretty neat. I had the classic KSP moment a bit ago, landing on a planet thinking I"m a few feet from my destination and finding I'm actually miles away.
But there's so many weird design decisions that I guess were there to add more content but just end up making everything flatter and more homogeneous.
Every planet seems to be very actively patrolled by ships and drones, the ships fly by every couple minutes at least. I never feel alone out here. I thought it sounded cool to be do the Spaceman Spiff thing, a lone wayfarer out in the depths of space, finding things nobody's found before, but everywhere I go there's cops everywhere and a fucking McDonald's. I'm sure if I could fly through the galaxy at lightspeed and see everything on every planet I"d find a roughly homogeneous distribution of features and resources on every planet, like the Gek just flung their garbage all over everything.
Nowhere I go feels remote or undiscovered. There's constantly signs of active, current habitation.
Starbound gets this part right, at least. You do find other habitation pretty often, and all the planets are pretty lively, but not like this. When I find stuff in Starbound it stands out. A campsite with the camper long gone. Collapsed houses and rows of gravestones. A mine with a single dude camped out front. Or big thriving cities full of people.
You get what I mean with that? The things in Starbound, probably because they're semi-scripted, stick out in my mind more than this. In this it's just "oh, there's another space trailer about the same distance as the last one I found. Oh, it's got a save point and an upgrade in it.
Also, and this is a nitpick, as a flight sim player the way you land in this game triggers me really bad. I would gladly waste another ten seconds on the landing animation if it meant you didn't slam your shit into the ground like you're mad at it.
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Topic: No Man's Sky - 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 planets to explore (Read 149307 times)