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[Flying Dice]

NMS does seem to be fine on stability... if you're not running a potato rig, or one of those specific setups that had to be patched for. The only performance-related issue I had with it was the horrible goddamn aliasing, like the AA wasn't even fucking working.

[Kot]

I mentioned Shores of Hazeron a few pages ago. Nice to see that other people remember it too, though.
My only problem with Hazeron is that it's now P2P while it was F2P for long time and I am a poorf- I don't have money to spend on monthly payments. It really saddens me because I used to return to Hazeron every few months or so and I had really good time in it. I hazily remember the really old times that aren't even on wiki anymore. I remember how Galaxy was before Syndicate became a thing... eh...
And Hazeron could be pretty cool with it's shitty graphics too. Take note that this is all from internet, I once had a folder where I stored all the amazing screenshoots I took, but I think I lost it. Also, another note, that EVERYTHING in the Hazeron was either randomly generated (planets, animals, plants, so on) or made by players. That's right, every city was built by someone, every ship was someone's design (even the random pirates were created using the global design database), every trading ship rolling through the space had a purpose, all factions were player made (mentioned Syndicate just appeared one day and claimed literally half of the Galaxy - I was in the "Resistance" for a while though I barely saw any combat (one time I had a warp-speed chase with Staines but eh, you can't really shoot there) and we got fucked in the end. Now, as I recall, Syndicate is the rulling opressive regime for past few Galaxies... mostly because they're the only ones around willing to pay the subscription all the time.
This is how NMS should have been. The Galaxy was huge (and now it's multiple GALAXIES HOLY SHIT), but it wasn't especially hard to stumble upon some civilizations ruins and seeing another player randomly was a huge event but it was possible within one playthrough, and obviously once you get proper FTL ships, the Galaxy got much smaller (it still took like a week (IIRC, not more than a month, not less than a week) or more REAL TIME to get from one side to other at maximum, 32 TIMES SPEED OF LIGHT).

[LoSboccacc]

32 TIMES SPEED OF LIGHT

ah but NMS warps at the speed of LOADING

[lastverb]

ah but NMS warps at the speed of LOADING

"It is not a LOADING screen" S.(L.)M.

[miljan]

Hahaha, No Man's Sky Angry Review is funny as shit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTTPlqK8AnY

And holy fuck, how many open lies that where recorded.

[LoSboccacc]

the things that doesn't stick up to it is that he keeps using 'promised' while it's more of a 'mislead' - apologist will pick it apart for it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choice-supportive_bias for 60$ of an indie is quite strong.

[Micro102]

I wouldn't even call it mislead, there were just outright lies.

[Kot]

... they lied to us?

SHARPEN THE TORCHES, LIGHT THE PITCHFORKS!

[Aklyon]

Well, I see nothing has changed even if you skip a week of pages here.

[Skynet]

I wouldn't even call it mislead, there were just outright lies.

Rather than having people on the Internet get into a boring flame war ("It's a lie!", "No it's not!"), I want the courts involved in the process...to decide what are and are not material statements, and exactly how much damage did Sean's quotes cause to the plaintiffs (if it actually caused damage). The problem seems to be that lawsuits are expensive and can take a lot of effort for very little benefit. And there's no guarantee that the plaintiffs would have a "slam-dunk case" here.

[puke]

I've read some spoilers about the atlas path and related center-of-galaxy ending, but i've also read some suggestions that this represents a "bad" or "neutral" ending, strongly implying that there are OTHER endings?

Are there multiple story branches?  different ways to reach the core, or different bits of exposition that the game gives you before slamming the reset button?

Or is the atlas path the only path?

[lastverb]

The Three Paths – there are now new, unique “paths” you can follow throughout the game. You must start the game on a fresh save, with the patch, as early choices have significant impact on what you see later in the game, and the overall experience.

Quote from S.(L.)M. post on first (pre-release) patch from official site.

It doesn't matter, if you are Lie Theory supporter or opponent. Both sides got their answer from that quote. Those answers are opposite to each other, so You can only pick one but be careful, as only one is true.

[LoSboccacc]

I'd like to pontificate a bit on the gorillion different planet claim.

but first a random bit of information: 2^64 is on the same order of 26^14

What I'm looking at here are two spoonful of alphabet soup worth of combinations. And every spoonful is indeed different, but also the same at a fundamental level. There isn't much interesting random generation at work here, only a finite number of parts scaled and glued together randomly. Looking at creatures around you'll find some oddball here and there, but also a truckload of repetitions, even the weird one like the jumping pineapples are discovered by the dozens. Parts may be numerous, but the number of skeletons they're placed upon is exceedingly small.

So while claiming two spoonful of alphabet soup are gorillion different combinations, the difference between one and the next serving is only apparent in minutiae. And alphabet soup has even more variations, because isn't counting palette swaps.

[Man of Paper]

Well, I see nothing has changed even if you skip a week of pages here.

I tried discussing the game but they quickly went back to using two threads to discuss the general displeasure of NMS.

[LoSboccacc]

well, we are discussing the game, it's just that what's left is so shallow can be summed up into 'cool planet imagery' but hey if the majority is talking about this, why should everyone be silenced?