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I have to stop watching people livestreaming NMS. Not only is it unproductive but I find myself yelling at the screen when they skip obvious points

Posted by oblique (aka kkuphal) Aug 10 '16, 07:57

of interest. The last guy I watched was just picking "the bottom choice" on every puzzle not realizing it was a freaking puzzle

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Is NMS a multiplayer game? Meaning, will you run into others playing as you explore? - TWuG Aug 10, 08:35 13
- Cool. Thanks, all. This *might* get me to get a gaming system. -- nm - TWuG Aug 10, 08:49 1
  - just a few hours in, but it's completely living up to my expectations -- nm - decline Aug 10, 08:50
- btw, it is unclear with no official word from Hello Games if that is a PS4 limitation, a launch limitation, or just network server limitations - oblique Aug 10, 08:38
- with 18 gazillion planets, the devs say it's very unlikely you'll meet another player. There are tons of npc though - decline Aug 10, 08:38 1
  - two guys already found each other -- (link) - oblique Aug 10, 08:38
- As of right, now, with only the PS4, no. Two players found each other on streams yesterday but could not see each other despite being in the same - oblique Aug 10, 08:37 7
  - huh, to the player thing. -- nm - decline Aug 10, 08:39 6
    - see my link above. it's already happened -- nm - oblique Aug 10, 08:40 5
      - Murray kind of hinted that it was network related, but in all honestly, I have and always will treat NMS as a single player game, because it is. - Shaun Aug 10, 08:45 4
        
        Agreed. It is a non-issue for me though interesting. I didn't expect that even with the number of players involved you'd have Day 1 people running - oblique Aug 10, 08:46 3
        
        tbh, a coworker had read somewhere that they had messaged each other about where to meet on Player A's planet as Player B had discovered the planet. -- (edited) - Shaun Aug 10, 08:48 1
        
        Right, and I imagine Player B had "discovered" it using the find-nearest-discovered-sytem button in the map. -- nm - Ender Aug 10, 09:02
        
        Ultimately I suspect it's a "we would have liked to do it, but it would have delayed the game by 6 months" type thing. -- nm - Ender Aug 10, 08:47
Jessica Chobot wasn't using the sensor ping at all last night. Inside my head was just "PING DAMN YOU! PING!!!! NO WONDER YOU CAN'T FIND YOUR SHIP!!!" -- nm - Ender Aug 10, 08:12 1
- Give me a ping, Chobot. One ping only. -- nm - Inigo Aug 10, 08:15
It was nice when a puzzle was "give them credits, or give them carbon" and I got it right because I understood alien for "credits unacceptable". -- nm - Ender Aug 10, 08:10 1
- The number puzzles are a bit simplistic - I hope they are able to up the complexity a bit with those -- nm - decline Aug 10, 08:11
One of the greatest things about this game is that walkthrus aren't possible. - Shaun Aug 10, 08:09 24
- The complaints I'm seeing are mostly around how shallow the game is (ie: stuff is basically the same on every planet, just recolored) - oblique Aug 10, 08:12 23
  - there are similarities (the bases are all very similar), but the worlds are vastly different. Any complainors are just nitpicking ninnies -- nm - decline Aug 10, 08:14 21
    - I came VERY close to drowning in a cave last night. I've had two deaths so far, space pirates and a gaggle of sentinels on a high security world. -- nm - Ender Aug 10, 08:17 8
      - That's actually the kind of thing that really interests me. Finding X that means I have to go get Y and Z to be able to work through it -- nm - oblique Aug 10, 08:28 5
        
        You can straight up buy resources too, via aliens and/or trading portals. -- nm* - Shaun Aug 10, 08:32 4
        
        yeah. While I accept that trading is a part of it, I'm actually finding myself more interested in personal resource gathering - oblique Aug 10, 08:40 2
        
        I think if you wanted to play like that, you could, but I also think you'd be robbing yourself of the full experience. -- nm - Shaun Aug 10, 08:47 1
        
        it would also take a lot longer imo -- nm - decline Aug 10, 08:56
        
        you can, but still need to find one selling what you need -- nm - decline Aug 10, 08:35
      - I jumped into the ocean on a planet and the water was so toxic it killed my shield in less than a minute. Space pirates got me twice -- nm - decline Aug 10, 08:21 1
        
        I had one really toxic pool of water, but I had to dive to get to a monolith. -- nm - Ender Aug 10, 08:22
    - landscape, perhaps, but at least what I was reading was along the lines of "same animal, different color" or "same animal but horns instead of nubs" - oblique Aug 10, 08:17 11
      - *shrug* 18 gazillion stars, each with multiple planets. It'd be impossible to make unique flora/fauna on each one. - decline Aug 10, 08:20 6
        
        Yeah, I'm not sure if it will bother me either. The only other thing I noticed from watching a few people was just the "where do I get X" for certain - oblique Aug 10, 08:24 5
        
        that's my only complaint so far, that and your dude walks *slooooooooow*. -- nm - mafic Aug 10, 08:51 1
        
        He can sprint and apparently you can, while sprinting, hit melee and then use the rocket pack to propel forward quickly. -- nm - Shaun Aug 10, 08:54
        
        that can be frustrating, but is part of the learning curve. People need to learn the symbols from the scans and also realize not every element is on - decline Aug 10, 08:27 2
        
        the last part is the part that's probably hardest. It would actually be nice if there was (or maybe there is) a kind of planetary scan - oblique Aug 10, 08:29 1
        
        yup (more) -- (edited) - decline Aug 10, 08:30
      - Toxic rain was green on one planet and then purple on another. LAME!! -- nm - Shaun Aug 10, 08:18 3
        
        Gold was a green crystal on one of mine. -- nm - Ender Aug 10, 08:24 2
        
        yup, and on a different planet it'll be huge golden domes (gold is a real good trade commodity) -- nm* - decline Aug 10, 08:28
        
        Haven't see gold yet. I do like that there was only one species of hostile wildlife on my planet though and it was a crablike creature. - Shaun Aug 10, 08:27
  - As I've only seen one planet so far, I cannot comment :) -- nm - Shaun Aug 10, 08:13
I'm such a grandpa, the only game I've enjoyed watching live streamed is Mario Maker. -- nm - Qale Aug 10, 07:59
NMS terror -- (link) - decline Aug 10, 07:58 1
- that's awesome -- nm - oblique Aug 10, 08:01

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I have to stop watching people livestreaming NMS. Not only is it unproductive but I find myself yelling at the screen when they skip obvious points

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