Now that the dust has settled is this worth 15 bucks after 3 years of updates?

Quite suspicious. Why aren't they saying anything? They've been pretty open for the previous expansions.

I'd guess they're waiting to start a marketing push or something. Or maybe they just learned their lesson about getting people hyped up, lol. But yeah I'm a bit surprised they haven't released any info. Meh just 10 days. Looking forward to getting comfy in VR myself but even if you don't have VR and haven't played the game, it's not too bad if you enjoy harvesting type games. There is a lot of that.

You know they're liars, right?

>Or maybe they just learned their lesson about getting people hyped up
That was before the game even launched. Their previous updates were pretty open and well-recieved. Very sus this one is quiet especially considering they have a bad rep in general.
To be fair, they didn't lie about the upcoming update if they barely talked about it.

I think the next update IS VR and multiplayer, nothing else

If you like that kind of game yes, if you don't then it's not wroth $1.

It's a sandbox grinder.

Nah they've mentioned several times there are "three" major updates coming. See here: nomanssky.com/2019/03/no-mans-sky-beyond-vr/
"As well as Online and Virtual Reality, No Man’s Sky Beyond contains a third major feature set that we’ll be talking more about when we can."
"third major feature set" could be anything really. DESU I feel like they will have many smaller updates that don't fit into the major categories regardless.

But yeah maybe. Could just be the third feature is something that doesn't affect core gameplay much like food or something dumb

>we’ll be talking more about when we can.
When? Until the update released? Murray made a pretty big comeback but this is fucking retarded.

It's free anyway, so I can't be too mad.

>Your fav game still gets content updates after several years, meanwhile others still cope with a 1.0 game.

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So it's Starbound 3D?

>all that shit about vehicles being slow
Don't fucking do this to me man, I JUST unlocked my Exocraft after like 15 hours of gameplay. I was so looking forward to using it.

There's only one type that's faster and it's the really small one with abysmal cargo space. The tank is, well, a tank, and its use is the mining laser but you're better off just doing that on foot rather than powering yet another thing. The regular speed one is okay but again, why spend the materials to craft the portal, upgrade the thing using Nanites, and then power the thing when you can do it all on foot anyway? Don't even bother with the submarine, it's pointless and you can just resupply your water shield with oxygen to never run out anyway and oxygen is so abundant it's a moot point. Even then stuff underwater is useless, the best you'll get are the green pearls or the eyeballs which aren't worth the effort at all.

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Just keep the vehicle summoners in your backpack or even ship cargo? As far as I know, you now only need 1 for all 4 vehicles, except the sub.

If this update consolidates them that's better, but with NEXT I still needed to make four separate ones. I can't remember if you could take them with you or not, you're probably right that you could but there's still really no point to use them when you have 48 personal cargo slots and 48 inventory slots, not to mention your actual ship.

>15 bucks
Where? Steam has it at full price

A word of caution: If you're on pc with amd graphics then it's really unoptimized. I have a rx 570 (more than good enough to run most things at 60fps at 1080p) and get huge frame drops down with highs of around 50 at 1080p.

The gameplay is ok tho

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uh GMG has it for 23 euros

it's not even worth your time

absolutely, it was worth $30 after last summer's update, if you enjoy procedural gen grindfests in a comfy retro sci fi setting

they've gotten very close to all the promises they broke during development

It possibly will be with VR.

this is true to a certain extend you will find new stuff even after 50 hours but it gets progressively less one thing that fixes that is mod support there are biom mods out there that increas variation and even add assets and it really fucking works.

fuck it ill get it and wait for vr update.

Imma be busy until next week anyway

after the rough begining the game becomes a zen/relaxe game kinda like diablo3 or destiny that you just can play after a long day of work and isnt to demanding.

Will the update add planets with more than one biome, and actually interesting topography?

I'll give them a nod of respect for trying to fix their game(and not trying to sell the fixes) instead of tucking and running after making their second million.
I loaded it up recently and got bored after an hour and uninstalled. I got it on release like a moron and found the first hour to be phenomenal, but after that it became a slog. The difference now is that when I load it up it starts as a slog rather than becoming one.
For me, the magic is gone and its impossible for them to get it back.

>you will find new stuff even after 50 hours
Which are only those one-fauna planets like in . Sure, animals will be randomized everywhere else but flora is almost always the same with very minor variations at best (If I have to see one more squid tree on a corrosive planet I'd scream), the only things with any major changes at all will be animals, and even then anything in the sky is either going to be a bird or a long worm thing that floats around.

I'm sure mods can fix some things, but the base game as it is is horrible even after all the patches. If you play more than like eight hours you will have seen every type of planet, you will have experienced the gameplay loop, and that will determine if you can stomach the game or not. Even launching to your second planet determines if you can stomach it or not because as soon as you land on planet 2 and realize "Oh, so this is the game then" it will make or break it for you.

CDKeys.com has it on sale. Shop's a little shady but paying with PayPal my key arrived within seconds.

>15 bucks
Do I have to pay them, or do they pay me?
Either way, nope.

true one of the only updates left the game needs after vr is a bit more variation and maybe that is the third part of the updated who knows would be fucking awesome. a year ago or so there was a mod that even managed to make "cities" but it stopped working on newer patches so there is lots of stuff they can still do and easily so i might add.

I'm so ready for Beyond. Thanks again to Based Sean

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>you will have experienced the gameplay loop

Thats the love hate big one for most people you either take it as timewaster/relaxe game like a lot of other "after work" games or you need something a bit more challenging etc then no man sky might not be the thing to play even on survival.

Update to the experimental branch it adds vulkan support and AMD GPUs get a huge boost. If you don't want to wait the next update coming soon adds it by default.

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>NMS
>Ever
AHAHAHAHAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHAAAAAHAAAAAAAAAAAHAAAAAAAHHHAAAAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAA

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I've played both, OG on the default difficulty to see if it was as bad as everyone was saying it was and NEXT on Survival to give it another shot after everyone kept saying NMS made a huge comeback. Survival just made it so the first planet took about two hours to get off of without dying in the first two minutes which I could easily stomach, I was already ready for such a thing anyway. The rest of the game was mainly just keeping shields up which was also easy, my problem laid with how the game was still grinding like crazy and essentially doing chores while having everything (Like the Mining Laser) feeling slower than at launch even with the best upgrades. Ship upkeep was the worst, there's so many more materials you need to carry around to fix stuff now, not to mention all the new stuff you have to keep for each shield assuming you don't want each one to eat hundreds of your resources compared to 15-20. The Terrain Manipulator is also the single worst addition to the game.

To me this game is only worth it for screenshots. If you like taking screenshots it offers tons of opportunities and the photo mode was the right way to go, but from a gameplay perspective it's abysmal.

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Boring game. No world variety. No megafauna. No truly alien feeling locations like lakes of silicon life form soup or marianas trench tier oceans or plains of sapient moss.
2/10 only good for making pretty screen shots

>No megafauna
Gonna have to stop you right there bro

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>Hard at first, easy later.
Just like exercise.

Will do! Thanks user

>finding a good planet with your bro and building a base in the perfect spot
This game just needs more shit to do. Quests, towns, more races to choose from, NPCs, weapons, and enemies.

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Does it have giant sand snakes yet?

It's fairly mediocre, which granted is a big step up from utter garbage it was on release, but the game's biggest flaw is its design: procedural generation can not create something compelling. They may have fixed the interaction mechanics and added content, but you're still only destined to see billions of copypasted elements over and over again.

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I actually never thought of it that way for some reason but yeah that's a pretty good way to describe it

>OPEN WORLD
>CRAFTING
>SURVIVAL
>99% OF THE GAMEPLAY IS GATHERING MATERIALS OR WALKING/FLYING/SWIMMING TO A PLACE THAT HAS MORE MATERIALS YOU CAN GATHER
>NO ACTUAL STORY OR GOALS TO ACHIEVE
It's worth any amount of money. It's the perfectest game for our generation.

I think they said that VR mode isn't just cockpit vie, but rather everything becomes interactive in VR. Switches, handles, buttons, even the steering wheels. That alone makes it huge.

If the MMO part is decent, this could be that huge space MMO sanbox that we've always wanted. Maybe it could become like EVE but with actual gameplay?

How much combat can you do in this game? If you can wreck other people's stuff then I'll be happy enough.

Man I still remember when it was first unveiled at E3 and the idiots on Yea Forums all fell hook line and sink for the meme and actually believed you could do ANYTHING.

I tried to tell them it was a scam but they wouldn't listen.

I'm excited for the VR but as someone who has no trouble stomaching stick movement in VR I'm disappointed they've only mentioned teleportation locomotion.

>How much combat can you do in this game? If you can wreck other people's stuff then I'll be happy enough.

As of the Visions update, there's no real PVP, but that's likely just a limitation of the current 4-player party co-op system. I hope this changes with Beyond though.

>no story or goals
jesus christ you havent even play nms since 2016?

you sir are a liar and an ignoramus

My favorite was the one autist who kept claiming that the game definitely has actual direct multiplayer and the fact that there had been precisely zero footage of it wasn't a red flag, at all. I guess 3 years later they finally did end up adding it.

% OF THE GAMEPLAY IS GATHERING MATERIALS OR WALKING/FLYING/SWIMMING TO A PLACE THAT HAS MORE MATERIALS YOU CAN GATHER
I mean, I'm all for shitting on NMS, but you're quite literally criticizing the game for being part of a genre. Might as well call out Counter-Strike for being a fucking shooter.

How is Subnautica compared to this? Kinda got bored with the exploring and grinding, I need a story to keep me motivated.

Everyone's complaining about core gameplay loop.
Is that creative mode any fun for unwinding?
I need something other than ED for my space fix.

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no you don't

It's amazing how everyone thinks NMS online is going to be an MMO when the devs say it won't be
>No Man’s Sky Online includes a radical new social and multiplayer experience which empowers players everywhere in the universe to meet and play together...we don’t consider No Man’s Sky to be an MMO

Yes. It's been worth it for some time now. Another major free update comes in 12 days.

They are adding 'ambient mode' which is your disembodied head exploring the galaxy at warp 7.

They still haven't changed the core gameplay which is fundamentally unfun.

hey anons, for somebody who has the game and has used photo mode a bit, what features does photo mode actually add

can you render out screenshots at hoigher resolutions themn your display?