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In response to "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" by oblique

Is NMS a multiplayer game? Meaning, will you run into others playing as you explore?

Posted by TWuG Aug 10 '16, 08:35

Can you fight/trade/cooperate with others?

If you "die" and restart, do the planets and species you found in the previous instance persist?

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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

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