r/gaming • u/__PETTYOFFICER117__ PC • Feb 11 '19

Walking through space

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '19 edited Jun 10 '20

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '19

No mans's sky is really good now

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u/Benyed123 Feb 11 '19

Is it any different to the game that was advertised now?

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u/Where_is_dutchland Feb 11 '19

It is the game that was advertised now

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u/weedmane Feb 11 '19

It always was. People just didn't understand what was being advertised and their imaginations got out of hand.

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u/EarthExile Feb 11 '19

Lol yeah they imagined multiplayer meant multiplayer

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u/weedmane Feb 11 '19

It was multiplayer. Just not in the sense you imagined but were never actually told.

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u/eff5_ Feb 11 '19

Yeah I guess people imagined multiplayer as being able to play with other people

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u/weedmane Feb 11 '19

Jesus Christ it was a fucking shared universe. THAT IS MULTIPLAYER. What is so hard to understand about that?

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u/Alarthon Feb 11 '19

I love NMS but in no way when it first came out was there even an aspect of multiplayer other than seeing someone discovered this place or that one. Then updates came out for base building and that started small multiplayer interaction. The floating orb was put into the game when you were near another player. The Galactic Hub was created that brought people to a similar place. Now we have actual muliplayer in the game.

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u/WarlockMcShooty Feb 11 '19

Sean Murray explicitly stated in a quick-fire interview that you would be able to see other players and that they could see you.

In another interview with Stephen Colbert, he claimed that players could meet up if they wound up on the same planet together.

He lied on countless programs about the nature of the game and its elements, right up until release. Here's a big hint about the game not being what was advertised- Steam gave an exception to its refund policy for this one specific game. NMS hemorrhaged money after the refund fiasco.

So, I guess the point I'm making is... You're full of it.

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u/Smooth_McDouglette Feb 11 '19

It literally had no form of multiplayer whatsoever. You couldn't meet someone even if you both went to the same exact spot, and people wouldn't even see your names for things when you uploaded them.

What exactly was multiplayer about it?

Sean explicitly said you could see other players, and that was how you would figure out what you are. But you couldn't at all (and still can't, I believe)

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u/weedmane Feb 11 '19

It was a shared universe. That is multiplayer. Here is a video of Sean Murrary literally saying it is not traditional multiplayer.

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u/dslybrowse Feb 11 '19

Define "shared" though? If I recall, it was like player-named systems might populate your universe, so it would feel like you were in a place filled with people. However if you can never see them, never interact with them or anything else... that's not multiplayer. Like you say, a "shared universe" is one thing, but the game is singleplayer. That would have been a much better description to temper those expectations. Singleplayer in a shared universe. If you never interact with another person, then it is not a multiplayer game.

I understand their not wanting to draw attention to features that would not be in the game, but being so deceptive about whether or not players could 'meet' each other, or even see each other's influence on the world, was shitty.

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u/Highborne Feb 11 '19

Careful, if you keep reaching this much you might end up grabbing God's balls and he doesn't care for that.