Virtual Reality 'No Man's Sky' Coming This Summer (gamespot.com) 34
"No Man's Sky is getting another large-scale update, and this one is different," writes GameSpot.
An anonymous reader quotes their report: A "No Man's Sky VR" update is scheduled for this summer, which will add free support for PlayStation VR and Steam VR. Hello Games boasts that this is the entire game brought into VR rather than a separate mode. According to the announcement, this is the second major pillar to the Beyond expansion that Hello Games previously announced. The first pillar is a major overhaul to its online play, and a third pillar is yet to be announced...
Last year, No Man's Sky issued a large-scale update called Next, which overhauled many of the game's systems. It was such a major update that we named it one of the best expansions of 2018. Hello has subsequently been issuing regular updates, like the underwater Abyss expansion and tons of new biomes in the Visions expansion.
Watch the "official VR reveal trailer" on YouTube.
An anonymous reader quotes their report: A "No Man's Sky VR" update is scheduled for this summer, which will add free support for PlayStation VR and Steam VR. Hello Games boasts that this is the entire game brought into VR rather than a separate mode. According to the announcement, this is the second major pillar to the Beyond expansion that Hello Games previously announced. The first pillar is a major overhaul to its online play, and a third pillar is yet to be announced...
Last year, No Man's Sky issued a large-scale update called Next, which overhauled many of the game's systems. It was such a major update that we named it one of the best expansions of 2018. Hello has subsequently been issuing regular updates, like the underwater Abyss expansion and tons of new biomes in the Visions expansion.
Watch the "official VR reveal trailer" on YouTube.
Have they finished their first feature list yet? (Score:4, Interesting)
Have they finished catching up with the big promises for the initial release? That would interest me more than following some VR Fad before Factions, Space-battles and feasible multiplayer and such are actually up and running.
It seems like maybe... (Score:5, Interesting)
Have they finished catching up with the big promises for the initial release?
I don't have the game myself but it seems like the answer is mostly yes [engadget.com], from everything I read about that update...
I will probably go in with the VR update and see how I like it.
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We're talking about No Man's Sky. Not No Man's Brain.
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Hardly. It's tolerable now, but not at all the game that was promised over and over again.
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Telling someone three years before you release a game that you are going to put the ability to land on asteroids and make windows on starships transparent is not a "promise". People blasted Sean Murray for doing exactly what he said which was
"And when we ship the game not everything will be possible. But this is a game we will be making for quite a while, even after it comes out."
https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMan... [reddit.com]
"As for what it isn't? According to Murray, it might not be the game all the various trailers r
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At the moment 4 people can play online together. They promised to deliver what they originally promised regarding proper multiplayer in the next update, but I wouldn't hold my breath...
Re: Have they finished their first feature list ye (Score:1)
Whoever is still playing this game is a fucking cuck. They got robbed at launch, owners change plans, release a patch and everyone sucks their dick for it?
You assholes are why we can't have nice things.
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Um ... I'm confused. (Score:1)
Virtual Reality 'No Man's Sky' Coming This Summer
I thought this game was already a "virtual reality". So will it now be a virtual virtual-reality -- where we can pretend we're pretending? 'Cause I'm kinda doing that right now without actually having the game -- and it's cheaper and *way* less time consuming.
Re: Um ... I'm confused. (Score:1)
I gought it on sale at GOG so I am not expecting some DRM-laden Steam extension to work on my PC.
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So this is your chance (Score:2)
To experience a shit boring crappy disappointment of a game IN VIRTUAL REALITY! Let the disappointment surround you and absorb you as you realise you've wasted money on broken promises while you grind away while acknowledging that VR is exactly as bad as everyone said it is, exclusively due to this game.
STILL has no planetary mapping or exploring tools (Score:3)
What the fuck is the point of adding new biomes to planets when "exploring" planets is a digital version of pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey? No map. No fog of discovery. No usable compass. No location markers that can be named and placed in generous numbers. No actual functional "waypoints" in the sense that the rest of the world uses the word.
Nope, you're just left to wander blindly. If you find a bunch of noteworthy locations on a planet, good luck trying to locate them ever again except by repeating the blindfolded dumb luck that got you there in the first place.
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You should look into building a "Beacon", as part of the base building quest.
This gives you the ability to create permanent markers that you can return to. Though you're limited to a maximum of five per planet.
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I know about beacons. They are not an adequate band-aid. You can only have five and they cannot be descriptively named.
I have more than 700 hours invested in the game. I am well qualified to critique its shortcomings. The "true lie" of the developers about this game is the advertisement that it allows "exploration" of planets, which it does not and never has. The PROCESS of exploration has always involved cartographic tools for precisely the motive I described: being able to repeatably return to signif
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True. You can only have five beacons (per planet), and they cannot be labelled. Though they do allow you to return to significant locations, repeatedly. At least, for five signifiant locations on every planet.
I can't remember cartographic tools being advertised for No Man's Sky. I'm glad that, as a child, I was not aware that cartography was an essential process of exploration. Would have been a major blow to my dreams of exploring my neighbourhood.
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