vyshka
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I work from home, muahahahahaha!
So I hear you guys like looking at pictures?
My first system is pretty boring. Moving on soon.
Has anything changed w/r/t playing with a controller? I have a big learning curve with them, and struggled a bit when I gave NMS a shot using my Steam Controller (default NMS layout).
Asking because I’d like to play this on my couch, where the controller is more convenient than the lap keyboard/mouse setup.
“All alone in the night…”
I beg to differ. ;)
Just bought and downloading. Damn you enablers, my backlog weeps.
It plays really well with a standard controller. Steam controller always feel worse to me, possibly because it’s emulating mouse/keys?
Played for an hour or so. Making stuff involves a lot of busywork and time sinks. And what the fuck, do you seriously expect me to build a wooden base? Out of wood? With splinters and sawdust and shit? Come on, now.
So logged in and loaded my existing character.
First impression : Holy shit, the game is now gorgeous!! They were not kidding about the visual enhancement. It’s not just the ships, the aliens, the flora & fauna, it’s also the fact that they redesigned the layouts of space stations, planetary bases, etc so that they look so much more like living, breathing, working environments instead of just metal rooms/corridors with stuff tacked onto the walls. The space station marketplace is amazing!
Second impression : I am overwhelmed by the changes. My ship is a disaster. Half my improvements are gone, replaced by placeholders that will give me materials when I remove them. The other half are changed or broken, and the broken ones require materials I don’t have on hand to fix. My multi-tool is even worse. Other than the base scanner, boltcaster, mining ray and visor, every other slot that was filled with upgrades is now filled with placeholder material icons. UGH. A quick peek at the market terminal shows a ton of items I’m unfamiliar with, and of course none of the stuff I need to fix my busted gear.
Looks like even with my existing character I’ll be starting over.
On the plus side, I conversed with a few aliens and it seems ships are a heck of a lot more affordable! I saw an A-class Hauler with 32 slots that would have cost 28mil units before and it was like 16mil now. Can’t switch ships though until I figure everything out.
Yeah, they’ve added or changed tons of resources, added a refinement option and loads of interesting exosuit add-ons that seems to be randomly generated in a class-like system. It’s not just a whole new look to everything, they’ve really piled on changes all around.
Thankfully creative mode is still there to just dick around if you want to skip most of the fiddling with crafting systems and stuff, but I think it’s something a lot of people really wanted.
Apparently still no news about updating the GOG version anytime soon, or at all. :-(
Yeah, I don’t understand why GOG is not communicating anything at all about the NEXT update. Nothing on the store page, nothing in their NMS forum, nothing anywhere. Very poor job of customer relations on this, imo.
LMN8R
2661
Is it really GoG’s responsibility to communicate that? Aren’t they just a storefront which distributes whatever the developer gives them, and if the developer doesn’t give them anything, they have no idea when they’ll get it?
I can understand GoG not wanting to say anything if what they ultimately say is basically throwing Hello Games under the bus.
360 gamepad work all right for this?
Well thank goodness. It would have really put me off buying newer 3rd party games on GOG otherwise.
I’m reading that the GOG version still has no multiplayer features.
It works. The interface is still clunky, but that’s not the controller’s fault.
How does the gameplay here compare to Subnautica with respect to exploration? I’m getting a strong Subnautica vibe and it’s bringing me close to pulling the trigger.
Edit: also, does this require me to be online for single player?
Grifman
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Ok, this was pretty cool. A plant was rolled up in a coil and as I walked by it attacked - and poisoned and killed me! Gotta watch the wildlife more - I see that some are noted as aggressive and dangerous now.
It’s reinforced wood! And overall there is a lot more direction so far on what to do and how to do it, I just built my spiffy wood hut.
Before today I would have said that Subnautica had a big edge in presentation and a more detailed story with more depth and personality. Now I think NMS has easily nudged into a quality of visuals that competes on presentation and provides a lot more variety, but due to the nature of it the story is not going to be quite the same. But the chill explore vibe is definitely in the same neighborhood.
There’s a network options menu to disable network play, but I haven’t tried it with Steam in offline mode… I assume it works since it never required connection before.
