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Test Subject
Original Poster
#1 Old 14th Nov 2014 at 6:26 PM
Who knows about the game No Man's Sky ???
No Man's Sky is a Science-Fiction Game Set In An Infinite Procedurally Generated Universe that is much like Minecraft and Kerbal Space Program mixed into one pot.

The game is coming out for PC next year and the PlayStation 3 version is already out !!!

Check out the site here !!! http://www.no-mans-sky.com/about/

This game inspires me a lot and if it inspires you, I'd be happy to see your posts.

Thanks
LumbartDisco631
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Lab Assistant
#2 Old 15th Nov 2014 at 11:55 AM
I have heard about that game, but I know nothing more than what you have said here.
I don't have any consoles, I'm 100% pc gamer, and therefore anything that goes on console market is unknown to me. Nevertheless I'm keeping an eye on the game. TBH for me it will be that or Elite: Dangerous. Star Citizen somenow doesn't interest me that much.

BTW: Do you know what is happening with X: Rebirth? I haven't picked the game on lauch and I heard that it had a lot of problems then. Egosoft works on patches, but still... is it worth to get it over Albion Prelude?

"A man may fight for many things: his country, his principles, his friends, the glistening tear on a cheek of a golden child... But personally I would mud-wrestle my own mother for a ton of cash, an amusing clock and a sack of French porn."
- Blackadder the Third
Test Subject
Original Poster
#3 Old 15th Nov 2014 at 5:09 PM
I'm 100% PC gamer too, I had a Play Station 2 about 3 years ago, but I sold it, too much hassle to set everything up, because I had a small room.

I heard about No Man's Sky while I was surfing the internet and watching videos On YouTube
I want to play Eve Online and Planet Calypso too, but the download size is ridiculous, because I have a very slow internet connection

Actually,, I've never heard of X: Rebirth, sorry, but i will look into it.

Thanks
LumbartDisco631
Scholar
#4 Old 25th Nov 2014 at 11:34 PM
There's a lot of hype about it in Kotaku, and it looks beautiful.
Test Subject
Original Poster
#5 Old 26th Nov 2014 at 8:11 AM
Quote: Originally posted by juansfalcin
There's a lot of hype about it in Kotaku, and it looks beautiful.

I wonder what the System Requirements will be for a PC like mine, with graphics that good, your gonna need a lot of RAM and a good screencard, and a CPU that doesn't die, when you enter the game
Top Secret Researcher
#6 Old 15th Aug 2016 at 12:18 AM
So... there was a lot of of problems with PC launch of this game... and it hit me as well.

I solved the first crahsing at the launch by instaling Intel sde. It's an emulator with command line that forces SSE4.1 processor commands, wich No Man's sky obviously lacks.

Now, I needed a fix for second crashing, which a lot of users of older AMD GPUs (specifically 5000 and 6000 series) had. I tried for two days, and there was just no fix. The issue was that those cards do not fully support OpenGL 4.5 wich NMS requires as well. Luckily I managed to find a fix today, by installing some program and a script that one person made, wich enables OpenGL support for NMS. And...

It finaly works!

Thing is, I have AMD Radeon HD 6450 (1GB), and 4GB of RAM, which is far beyond minimal requirements, and I can still play the game on lower resolution (1280x720) and on low details, but it does not matter to me as the game looks gorgeous, even on the lowest details. Still, it stutters sometimes, but that's the aftermath of having to play it on the emulator.

I fixed my ship and earned around 130.000 units by discovering and naming plants and animals in less than an hour. So, yeah, game runs prety good for a computer that is an old wreck, and unsupported.
Field Researcher
#7 Old 15th Aug 2016 at 8:12 AM
I would get this game on PC since I don't have a PS4 but I need a better GPU (which I am still waiting for almost 2 weeks later...) and the game on steam

I am MOHAAPlayer on Discord
Top Secret Researcher
#8 Old 15th Aug 2016 at 12:20 PM
Which GPU do you have?

AMD Radeon HD 6450 (1GB) Is far below minimum requirements, and not to mention that game runs on 4GB of RAM, even though the minimum is 8GB. Add to that that I run this game via emulator, and it still runs OK (20FPS), and there you go.

People are saying that it's not optimized, even for the newest and best GPUs, but those people don't know that this game needs less of a video memory and more of a processor strenght, cause it generates it's worlds relying only on the processor.

I have fairly powerful processor, and even though my graphic card and memory do not meet minimum requirements, I can still play the game because of that. And I don't even mind low settings, as the game looks good even on those.

Here's the planet I started on:

Theorist
#9 Old 15th Aug 2016 at 5:50 PM
I'm running the game on my computer with the G3258 processor and an R7 200 graphics card - not exactly blowing anyone away with its newness over here - on um, medium settings probably? No dips on framerate, for sure. It runs at least as well as Sims 4 on that machine. Anytime I have a hitch in anything it's from moving from indoors to outdoors, which is pretty standard.
Field Researcher
#10 Old 17th Aug 2016 at 7:55 AM
Quote: Originally posted by mixa97sr
Which GPU do you have?
i5 2500, 8GB Ram, AMD R7 240 but going to be a R9 380 soon!

I am MOHAAPlayer on Discord
Top Secret Researcher
#11 Old 17th Aug 2016 at 12:58 PM
Yeah... I deffinitelly need new GPU. The game still stutters and the walking part of the game is not making it easy on me... the game is repetitive, and the procedural generation is deffinitely not impressive.

The cloud layers on every planet are all strikingly similar (I have proof) and the flora is almost the same for the same type of planet. Species have parts slapped over them wich does not make them interesting, just... random. The only impressive thing are the color palettes of the game and the story that is actually quite good and interesting.

Also... frustrating inventory, that you spend half of your game time in, feels more like puzzle/management game. They should and can definitely improve that.

I still like the game for what it is, though.
Theorist
#12 Old 18th Aug 2016 at 5:19 PM
Heard about it and all these huge expectations, then saw this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZ6NPbqQQrQ
From that it seems like Subnautica, but visiting planets instead of biomes. Might be good with cracked podcast.
Lab Assistant
#13 Old 20th Aug 2016 at 6:17 AM
I've been playing since the PC release. So have my two best friends.
I'm running this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...2-103-_-Product. The R9 380 with 2 TB of memory. Not the highest end computer by any means. I've had multiple crashes to desktop with the game. Always when the game is changing rapidly from one view to the next. Like, fighting in space. Or entering a planet's atmosphere. I haven't had any of those since the second night, but I suspect that has to do with the fact that I've had no dogfights in space since then. I'm patching my game tonight.

Frankly, the game was released with glitches. Not just frame drops and desktop crashes. Upgrade to a new ship and you get constant reminders in space to recharge a hardware component that cannot be recharged. Surprisingly, that is the thing that detracts from my enjoyment the most. Desktop crashing? eh. (I'm strange. Sue me.) But, I absolutely love playing this game. Inventory-managing, the mining grind, finding the same six or seven outpost types, learning the alien languages.... I love it. Whatever gets fixed, or is added in (or back, depending on what youtuber you're watching) will be icing on the cake for me and my friends.

Yeah. We're a strange lot. I know.

AKA. Anora Acadian
Theorist
#14 Old 20th Aug 2016 at 6:32 AM
Quote: Originally posted by kerri191
Yeah. We're a strange lot. I know.


I like the game too, but I could have done with more procedural spaceship parts, an entirely different inventory system, a little more story or a little more "fake science mode", and an option to change the color filters. On my 2 core, older mid-range video card though? Absolutely no problems other than a bit of stutter and some weirdness that people on absolutely blazing systems in Twitch streams seem to be sharing too.

OH, and we were all chatting about it elsewhere: They really lost an opportunity when they didn't give you the ability to upgrade your ships to fit out "rovers" so you could eventually just blaze across the planets on wheels. It would been a lot "more" for not a lot of effort I think, unless I'm missing something about the fact that literally hundreds of games out there do "crappy car physics" alright.
Lab Assistant
#15 Old 20th Aug 2016 at 6:45 AM
Actually, I don't miss the crappy rover physics in a space game. Probably too many hours playing Mass Effect. I could do with better aim assist in space since I was doing a crap-ton of mining in space the first two nights. I got the hang of flying the ship fairly easily, but the controls still a bit to floaty even for me.

I probably don't miss the riding around because I spend most of my time going from signal beam to signal beam paying out Bypass Chips by the dozens for locations. Then I just fly to them. So, there's something - I wish I could actually see where I intend to land. Having the ship automatically sling the sights up to horizon-level once you get too close to the planet is a pain. I've gotten fairly good at landing pretty close to where I would like, but this seems to be something that was originally in the game, and then taken out.

On the whole, though, I've been having a good time. My goal has been to learn all four languages and catalogue all species on all the planets in a system I visit.

AKA. Anora Acadian
Top Secret Researcher
#16 Old 20th Aug 2016 at 11:11 AM
But come on... no procedural clouds, no planet rotation (everything is fixed), no variety in planet biomes, terrain and plants, no rivers, volcanoes, sand, icecaps. Cratures are just randomly spawned things with parts slapped on them. This is no procedural generation at it fulest. It's extremely simple. Everything this game does is extremely simple... except the lore and the colors which I already said.

Caves are the things I was looking forward the most, but they are all the same on every single planet. And oceans are no different (though they do look even more gorgeous than the land).

Oh, and one more things. Glitches are kinda interesting sometimes... apparently, ocean creatures are not supposed to be on land. But I had that happen to me. And it was crazy!

A creature that, in water, looks like a shrimp with orange body and green tentacles on both sides of it , when on land, they stand on their mouth, form a group of five all next to each other and start to move fast and flop in random direction. They look like a bunch of floppy long carrots that are sticking out of the gorund and are moving. When I saw them, I though that it was a creature that had such kind of behaviour, but when I went into the ocean, I realised it was a glitch. I want more of this now!
Scholar
#17 Old 29th Aug 2016 at 11:04 AM Last edited by pirate_wolf_12 : 29th Aug 2016 at 10:47 PM.
Fun to think a year or so ago I saw some preview for it, thought it seemed neat and wanted to remind myself to keep an eye out for it in the future, if it was ever finished. Nek minit gamers are going to war for false advertisement and developers' lies.

And to be honest, good. I mean, for the most part I think the gaming culture can be incredibly obnoxious, but I get why players would be pissed off. People always complain about gamers being entitled, but the other face of that coin are the overly-forgiving defenders, who act as if the developers released a free game as a gift and that they're not a business trying to make a profit. All other media would be torn to shreds if they were as incomplete or broken or buggy, when did video games get that pass?

I'm writing a TV series, yeah. It's a cross between True Detective and Pretty Little Liars.
Top Secret Researcher
#18 Old 29th Aug 2016 at 7:58 PM
I mean, using prerendered footage to sell the boring indie game with loads of optimization problems for 60$ even after it's been clear you lied about the most of the games' features?!

Hmm... Who in the hell does that I wonder?
 
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