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Been pondering getting this game, but I have to ask. How is the control scheme for a pc player? Is it complex like say Elite Dangerous?

n0t_u wrote:Sounds like an interesting game, though can you build your own ship as well?

Nope.

Trondheim wrote:Been pondering getting this game, but I have to ask. How is the control scheme for a pc player? Is it complex like say Elite Dangerous?

You use W for going forward, LMB for shooting with your gun and E for everything else (you don't really need to use spacebar).

Ah many thanks! Il perhaps grab it tonigth

 illuknisaa wrote:

n0t_u wrote:Sounds like an interesting game, though can you build your own ship as well?

Nope.

But you can mod it however you like with the mod blueprints you learn. It's not very deep though I will admit. I've found that I have to dismantle more on ships or the multi tool anyways and start from scratch because the mods are just randomly inserted and not optimized. I've noticed that when you put 2 or more mods of the same type together they shared a color so I've done that ever since. I dunno if it currently does anything but it does seem to make my multi tool more effective and my ship deadlier. Though that could just be me wishing it was

 KingCracker wrote:

 illuknisaa wrote:

n0t_u wrote:Sounds like an interesting game, though can you build your own ship as well?

Nope.

But you can mod it however you like with the mod blueprints you learn. It's not very deep though I will admit. I've found that I have to dismantle more on ships or the multi tool anyways and start from scratch because the mods are just randomly inserted and not optimized. I've noticed that when you put 2 or more mods of the same type together they shared a color so I've done that ever since. I dunno if it currently does anything but it does seem to make my multi tool more effective and my ship deadlier. Though that could just be me wishing it was

Mods that affect the same thing (boltcaster mods, phase beam mods, etc.) do have some sort of improved effect when adjacent to each other. I don't know if anyone has been able to confirm just how much of an improvement it is.

Well if you're following the Atlas sorry line I can tell you don't sell the Atlas stones. I just got to the end of it and to progress I need 10! Stones. Ahhhh what the hell. Not sure what to do now since when you do see them for sale they are a couple million units a pop. REEEEEEEALLY annoyed right now

 illuknisaa wrote:

You use W for going forward, LMB for shooting with your gun and E for everything else (you don't really need to use spacebar).

Spacebar is your jet pack though!

Oh man I am enjoying this. I love that the first word of the warrior aliens I learned was interloper- and they use it in every conversation with me. I get the impression I'm in the middle of some sort of intergalactic cold war, and Atlas and Pado are crazy stalkers looking for humans, or whatever I am.

The feeling of discovery is really, really addicting.

That was also the first word I learned. Wonder if that is standard?

Must be because that was the first VyKeen word for me

Nope. My first word was "cold".

Last I checked I had close to 600 words learned

 streamdragon wrote:

 illuknisaa wrote:

You use W for going forward, LMB for shooting with your gun and E for everything else (you don't really need to use spacebar).

Spacebar is your jet pack though!

You don't really need jetpack though.

There are zero places where you need go and are in high places. You can walk up pretty steep hills and if you can't you can just walk around. Fall damage is also a non issue because even 1% shield will absorb all of the damage and heights that break your shield from 100% just don't exist. Only time when you need jetpack is if you fall down in a pit with no way to walk up (only spawn in super barren planets and are easily avoidable) or you jump in to a lake and decide to swim for a really long time (also easily avoidable).

Jetpack is only really used for easier travelling on foot but considering that you already seen everything as soon as you step out of you ship travelling on foot is a bit pointless. I think you can skip fueling life support too.

 illuknisaa wrote:

 streamdragon wrote:

 illuknisaa wrote:

You use W for going forward, LMB for shooting with your gun and E for everything else (you don't really need to use spacebar).

Spacebar is your jet pack though!

You don't really need jetpack though.

There are zero places where you need go and are in high places. You can walk up pretty steep hills and if you can't you can just walk around. Fall damage is also a non issue because even 1% shield will absorb all of the damage and heights that break your shield from 100% just don't exist. Only time when you need jetpack is if you fall down in a pit with no way to walk up (only spawn in super barren planets and are easily avoidable) or you jump in to a lake and decide to swim for a really long time (also easily avoidable).

Jetpack is only really used for easier travelling on foot but considering that you already seen everything as soon as you step out of you ship travelling on foot is a bit pointless. I think you can skip fueling life support too.

I managed to land in a tree, Really needed the jetpack then........

I'm guessing you guys don't know about the punch boost then? If you time it right, melee attack immediately followed by the jet pack you'll fly really fast. I use my jetpack almost always I can cover ground very quickly because of it

 KingCracker wrote:
I'm guessing you guys don't know about the punch boost then? If you time it right, melee attack immediately followed by the jet pack you'll fly really fast. I use my jetpack almost always I can cover ground very quickly because of it

yeah, this.

It's also really useful for exploring underwater - need to get down to something way down in the deep? jetpack out of the water to maximum height, drop back down into water, and momentum/gravity gives you a massive speedboost to get down to the bottom quicker, plus your o2 will have refilled while you were boosting out, so you should have a full tank to explore with

And here's Yahtzee's review: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/116922-No-Mans-Sky-Review

 BrookM wrote:
And here's Yahtzee's review: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/116922-No-Mans-Sky-Review

I had actually just watched that review just before coming to Dakka. I can certainly understand his points. There is definitely a very strong element of "make your own fun" in this game. While there is the story to explore by finding monoliths, ruins, and other things that tell you more and more about the various races, there isn't a whole lot of depth to the game. I still enjoy it, but I feel that No Man's Sky is, right now, mainly a foundation for a game. A very solid foundation, though, and one that can have quite a lot of good stuff built on to it.

 Nicky J wrote:

 KingCracker wrote:
I'm guessing you guys don't know about the punch boost then? If you time it right, melee attack immediately followed by the jet pack you'll fly really fast. I use my jetpack almost always I can cover ground very quickly because of it

yeah, this.

It's also really useful for exploring underwater - need to get down to something way down in the deep? jetpack out of the water to maximum height, drop back down into water, and momentum/gravity gives you a massive speedboost to get down to the bottom quicker, plus your o2 will have refilled while you were boosting out, so you should have a full tank to explore with

Yup, I do that as well, works a treat.


As for reviews and such, if they are just trashing the game I ignore it completely. I certainly am not one of those crazy blind fan Bois that swear it's the bees knees. It definitely has flaws and I'm rightly pissed at how they took so much out of the game that it's almost a different game. But that's an argument for another time, I still don't regret my purchase and other than getting REEEEEEEALLY annoyed at needing 10 Atlas stones to finish the Atlas quest line. Basically i can't finish that now but I'm digging the hell out of this game and hoping that someday (hopefully soon) I'll get that game I saw them show off all those times

I can understand if it didn't deliver to its hype. I didn't follow it's development. I came to explore a universe, and they delivered. Most of the missing features sound a lot like that big vapor ware Wing Commander game coming out soon. That's what I'd go to for mass space combat and intense multiplayer. I'm not sure how multiple people would do anything but starve you for resources in No Man's Sky.

There a website that has gathered all of the promises that hello games made about this game in interviews and such and listed the ones that didn't make it in the final product, and it's a mighty pile of "this is what you can do in our game!!" That you actually can't do. I've followed the development of this game for a long time because the original ideas grabbed me so hard. So yeah I'm let down but as I said I'm still enjoying it and hoping for some of those promises to show up. As long as they don't want me to pay for those add-ons because I did spend $60 on what should have been a $30 game, so in my book we are all owed a few DLCs

Well most games do not live up to their original premise. Look at MechWarrior Online, since it is the only example I was a part of from before the beginning.They had grand plans that even now 4 years later have not been implemented. Originally there was going to be a class system for different specialties of pilots(recon, leader, etc) the maps were going to be huge, very true to the fluff, community warfare etc. No classes, maps are still too small overall, fluff went out the window a while ago, and community warfare is a very limited systemthat doesn't feel like it should be and it was only implemented in what year 3?

I am confident these guys will get their act together and add to the game. waiting until they do to buy though or else wait for a steam sale.

Jim Sterling did a follow-up video regarding the missed/failed promises/lies, and he made a very good point. The reason why there is so much ire over the things that didn't make it into the released game, is because the game isn't a very good game. For example, nobody cares about all the stuff that was shown, but didn't end up in, Bioshock Infinite, because BI ended up being good. People care about the things shown, but that didn't end up in Aliens Colonial Marines, because the game was bad. No Man's Sky, unfortunately, kinda sits smack in the middle.

Well this is rather alarming: https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/comments/4zlqpw/went_back_to_my_starting_planet_and_every/

Wow that sucks.

So far im enjoying the game.

was confused as to all hell what i was doing but figuring things out is fun.

the bones for an amazing game is there but there is just no substance yet.

and that including the make your own fun substance as well.

the game so far is horrifically same-E though there is variation, there really isnt any variation.

but besides all of that, if they can fix the fething GUI, make it easier to talk to aliens and various stacking and auto sorting abilities, it would be significantly happy.

also the hold to initiate system god its all such a waste of time.

i actually find my self holding things down on my mouse when im out of games

also make more items stackable jesus.

I'd love it if I could craft things more than one at a time! Gah! I'll show up to do a trade and find the alien is willing to pay me a ton for a simple craft item and then I proceed to craft. Every. Single. Item. At. A. Time!

Yesterday, I accidentally got engaged to a tentacle faced warrior being.



Then I failed a test of a monolith, and went about seeking further ones in the hopes of redeeming myself in the eyes of the Vy'Keen. I followed an Atlas instruction as well- and it seems like an unapologetic plot railroad. YOU NEED GUIDANCE. DO THIS NOW.

I may find this thing just so my new paramour and I can punch it in the face.

lol I also accepted marrying a VyKeen madam. Hope she's attractive

I'm sure you'll both be happy!

Seems odd with the prior discoveries being erased in chronological order.
Any thoughts that the company is afraid they are running out of room storing the information?
I assume from what I read all this info is stored on the server so that is the only logical reason for it.
I guess they expect us not to backtrack much since that flies in the face of the purpose of the game?