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No Man's Sky dev reflects on the new Very Positive rating on Steam and promises that this is only the beginning: 'We aren't even close to being finished yet'

www.pcgamer.com No Man's Sky dev reflects on the new Very Positive rating on Steam and promises that this is only the beginning: 'We aren't even close to being finished yet'

Eight years is apparently not long enough.

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No Man's Sky dev reflects on the new Very Positive rating on Steam and promises that this is only the beginning: 'We aren’t even close to being finished yet'

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I mean, it would have been nice if the game had been finished when it came out.....
But hey, they've fixed nearly every problem I had with the game on launch. Which is infinitely more than most of the companies who release shitty broken games.
- Did they fix that bit where they forgot to put an actual game in there yet?
  
  Yep! Unfortunately your parents forgot to put an actual brain in you, and it doesn't seem like they'll be getting around to it

I should give this game a try.
- Don't expect in-depth gameplay, but in its current state there is a lot of random stuff to do.
  Past the initial discovery, this is very much a sandbox "make your own fun" kind of game. If you can you'll enjoy making things, going places, and finding occasional interesting procedural oddities.
  Some people need more substance in their games and just find it boring when they start recognizing the patterns, and I can get that.
  
  This was exactly my experience, really enjoyed a lot of elements and spent a good 100 hours in game fooling around. Finally it was the patterns that drove me off, like the sentinel experience really turns me off in particular.
  One other thing that doesn't get mentioned enough is its horrendous UI/UX, just a lot of little annoying interface and inventory management decisions.

they should improve the flight model and add hotas and hosas support.
then race course parts and the ability to build them in space. If both could be used together that would make for some really wild courses.
and the ability to have a drone or hired npc pilot your extra ships to haul stuff or pick you up if you get gunned down in space, and pilot ejection module to go with that.
maybe also a less clunky way to open the rng upgrade module in bulk and choose the top 3
- I think there are exocraft (not spaceship) racing parts in the base elements. Never used them though. The only exocrafts I use are nautilon and minotaur (and that one more as AI than vehicle).

I kinda think they might be on the Minecraft problem chain of... decorating a bit too much without adding much to the core experience.
Yeah, they're adding stuff, but as someone who's played recently, the gameplay loop is still the same it's always been.

The launch of this games is a tragedy. Such a neat indie game that almost died due to hype and lies.

Didn't they say this last year that they finished? Am I imagining that or did they backtrack?
- They've always been quite clear that this is a passion project and that they're nowhere near done with it. However, that doesn't stop a chunk of the community from being absolutely convinced that the next update is the last, pointing to all kinds of obscure wording from old interviews or data mined files that are clearly incomplete as proof of this. It's a really weird thing and I don't get it at all. I remember last year a lot of people were spreading rumors that the summer update would be the last, based on kind of weird numerology. It's baffling.

But you should have...

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