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No Man's Sky: RAW E3 FOOTAGE with no commentary (Dat Sound)
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This footage is so disappointing because it suggest that the E3 2014 trailer appears to have been target footage with the actual procedural generation not generating anything nearly as interesting as what was shown then. Most everything on the planets looks like fairly basic noise distribution now.
Here's the video from a year ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLtmEjqzg7M
Here's the video from a year ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLtmEjqzg7M
Not the only one.
Guessing Nov/Dec this year to time with a Sony marketing push maybe?
Think that might be due to the procedural generation no? I would imagine it would be reduced but I wouldn't blame them if it was a little unavoidable given the scale and land mass generation.
They probably would have said "Holiday 2015" if that was the case, I'd be very happy to be proven wrong.
Fushichou187
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Not every planet is going to be as vibrant as the one shown off in that slice we got a year ago-- hell maybe not even 1 in 100 you visit-- but you also aren't going to sell the skeptics with a procedurally generated wasteland. Nothing that I've seen in recent footage or impressions from people that have had hands-on time with NMS leads me to think that Hello Games isn't going to completely deliver on what they are billing the game as.
justgames7604
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Yea but what do you besides explore billions of unique planets with unrecorded wildlife, fly fucking space ships, have space battles with many different factions and completeing missions, upgrade your ship all the while making your way to the center of the universe?
Nothing to do. Really.
Triggerhappytel
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Haunted
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That's pretty incredible.
Haunted
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Sean clarified that they "condensed" the usual algorithms for the trailer footage, to make sure that there's no lulls and something interesting going on every second of the trailer.
That's not to say that hyperactive and varied places like that won't exist (in fact, the nature of the random distribution of features in the universe will make sure that it will exist, somewhere), but don't expect every planet to be as bustling and populated as the one in the trailer.
Think of the planet in that trailer as a "best-of" menagerie of elements appearing in the game.
Katana_Strikes
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Don't like those animal noises. They really spoilt the video.
Haunted
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The Gametrailers crew have honestly elevated themselves in my esteem with their E3 coverage.
Huber, Moore, Bosman. It's exciting to watch them get excited. :lol Makes them kind of the perfect counterpoint to the GB crew's approach.
justgames7604
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Triggerhappytel
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SuperInuit
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RoadHazard
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Lol, have fun never leaving that one place! Seriously, that's gonna take ages. And I don't think each planet will be terrible varied (one side of it will probably look pretty much like the other side), the fun will be in discovering new and different planets.
lazer_bean
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if you're wearing a VR headset, whether you play in a lit room or a dark room won't change a thing
Ingueferroque
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Are you joking?
Do we know if planets will have day/night cycles and varying weather conditions?
Gozer the Gozerian
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Yup that's pretty much how I feel right now. The ambition behind the game is pretty fantastic, but I'm remaining mindful of the fact that it is a pretty tiny team behind all of this.
KCroxtonJr
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Yes to both. The planets actually rotate in real time
edit: not sure if planets can have multiple weathers, but there definitely is a weather system.
It's been said time and again that everything becomes weirder and less earth-like as you go further towards the center, and they're deliberately not spoiling the weirder stuff so as to preserve surprise.
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Deleted member 10571
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I still think the space/planet fade seems weirdly quick and makes the planets look super small. I'm still waiting for a space sim that actually conveys the sheer size of a freaking planet, and how unbelievably huge it is when you get close, but I'm probably fine with NMS not being that game
Everything else though? Utterly fantastic. Can't wait to find, name and explore new planets. And find ones already visited.
Everything else though? Utterly fantastic. Can't wait to find, name and explore new planets. And find ones already visited.
I'm not sure how "bold" this is at this point.......
KCroxtonJr
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I hope they fix the foliage not aligning to the terrain properly, so much floating foliage everywhere lol.
Also I never paid attention to it before, but is it just me or does the player seem REALLY short? I wonder if there is a good reason behind that or something...
Also I never paid attention to it before, but is it just me or does the player seem REALLY short? I wonder if there is a good reason behind that or something...
Looks (and sounds) cool. One thing I would perhaps think was even better was if they'd taken a realistic route in terms of space and made it so that there are no outside noises. I know letting you hear the sound of you firing or hitting something has its advantages, but I think it would create a quite surreal sense of isolation just being able to hear quiet beeps and noises from within the spaceship. Then, as you are entering a planet's atmosphere, the sounds from the outside begin to crank up.
Maybe it's like Shattered Horizon where the noise of your gun is generated by your suit? So here your ship is generating the sound of your weapons and thrusters?
Black Mantis
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Yeah, it's pretty glaring. I'd love to see some PC footage soon, as that's what I'd buy if the console versions struggle with it and that version doesn't.
Loved the GT vid. Can see both sides of the fence, but I'm firmly in the "don't tell me what to do, I'll figure out my own path" camp!
valkillmore
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But what if I told you . . . there are multiple galaxies? :O
Same. I'm hopeful they do pull off their ambition, but NMS will be a total wait and see sort of game for me. I'll buy it at full price as soon as it's on PC if they manage to achieve anything close to the hype level.
hobblygobbly
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Education about space science is very bad globally, it's barely taught in schools. Just recently I spoke to someone who didn't know that our Sun was a star. This was the not first occurence, I've come across a few people that didn't know this. I do work related to astronomy and computer science (image processing, etc) and was speaking to university students where this cropped up. The issue of understanding what a galaxy is is another problem. They're very abstract basic concepts that everyone should know.
Haunted
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get outta here!
No but seriously, now I'm actually not sure if there's one galaxy in No Man's Sky, or several. If the goal is to get to the centre of the universe, or the centre of the galaxy (you start in?).
If there were multiple galaxies in No Man's Sky, not everyone would have the same goal, OR you wouldn't be able to explore the whole universe that's in the game OR the complaint in the post I first replied to is moot, so I've been hearing some conflicting information.
guitarhero
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I think it's been said that not all planets have those. I would guess only planets with life on them would have sentinels.
ichtyander
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They've said that there are multiple galaxies, but were kinda cagey about what it means. I'm almost certain that we'll all be playing in the same galaxy, trying to get to it's center, but after that it's anyone's guess. The original Elite had several galaxies once you get the means of jumping between them. It would be nice though if the players that get to the center are given the choice of influencing the current galaxy with a much more god game like impact (become the dungeon master(s)) or get your own private galaxy that other endgame players can access once they've reached the center of the original galaxy. I doubt that'll happen since it requires more serious infrastructure and ingame modding (as in letting you move sliders to change the galactic environment and then store that seed on their servers) but it might be a nice idea.
One thing I just remembered that I haven't seen them mention recently is that you can do something to a planet once you've explored or exploited it sufficiently, a "choice" as they've said. It might just be connected to the beacon, but it sounded to me like you might be able to influence the state of the planet more dramatically, like permanently removing all Sentinels or killing the planet's ecosystem, that sort of thing.
It's probably floaty becuase of the jetpack the player suit has and uses.
All the effects are supposed to look like old Sci-Fi book covers as that is the 'world' this game has created it's universe around. It's why the ships look very old fashioned compared to new sleek designs.
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