No Man’s Sky is both a cautionary tale and a redemption tale all in one, and Hello Games is not giving up on its title any time soon!
I wish they’d make proc-genned interiors for certain planetary buildings, or at least create slightly different architectures. Every abandoned research station, every small outpost, every trade outpost, everything everywhere in the galaxy is exactly the same. Even the ruins you can excavate once in a while are always the same sandrock, tilted walkways with some chests
youngalfred@lemm.ee 3 days ago
I would love for some more variety on the one planet. I feel like once you’ve landed and explored a 100m radius you’ve basically seen everything the planet has to offer.
How cool would it be to land in a desert, then takeoff and fly across jungles, heading to the poles for snow etc.
They said, the updates they’ve made have been amazing. You can land on water and fish from your spaceship now!
ladicius@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Yep, that’s my biggest gripe, too. “As vast as an ocean, at drop as a puddle”, is the notion I heard about it. Applies to all procedurally produced worlds I’ve seen. Doing more different would be a great effort for the devs, probably too expensive.
I’d suggest having community designed worlds (with enough regulations and filtering to avoid the unoccasional swastika and the likes).
shani66@ani.social 2 days ago
Idk, old Minecraft generation was excellent. All they really needed to do was make it literally deeper/taller and make the biomes wider. The extreme and weird landscapes were rewarding to explore on their own back then. Imo developers just need to be comfortable letting interesting landscapes from instead of boring, uniform ones like NMS does. The novelty would eventually wear off, sure, but it’d last a lot longer.
And community worlds is an excellent idea. Having custom planets, or hell even just things players have made in their games, show up would add a lot to any game like this.
essteeyou@lemmy.world 3 days ago
This is part of what’s going to make Light No Fire so cool. I’m sure that some of the tech now being added to NMS is being added as a way of testing or proving hypotheses for LNF. I hope we do see more of the LNF mechanics (like multiple biomes on one planet) be backported, like I suspect the improved water, and fishing mechanism may have been.
QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I’m hoping a lot of the work they’re putting into Light No Fire will be brought back into No Man’s Sky, and that this will be a part of that.