No Man's Sky PC Performance Review

[WYP]

Let's have a look at No Man's Sky's PC version. Is it the space adventure that we have all been waiting for?



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[Dicehunter]

I've played around 20 hours on the game so far and to be honest it's fun for a while but as there's no real goal other than maxing out your inventory and finding a ship with a big inventory, It starts to feel quite empty.

 

[GODuk]

So far, I have only experience one drop in FPS but a game restart solved this. No further issues since.

I really do not like the space combat, it is horrible and pointless, you will die a lot. 3 vs me = death!

 

[chrismjurd]

am about 30hours in, just at the 3rd system so far, really enjoying just pondering about, dont have any issues running the game itself, but i can do little else at the same time, running 1080 with med/high settings im hitting like 95-100% util on my i7 2600, so i just limited affinity to 6 cores and still hitting like 45-50fps, but can actually watch a stream at the same time. while not the ideal situation, is ok for now, till some stuff gets worked on. 3 systems down eleventy maj-bilillion to go

 

[WYP]

Please note that I am aware of the newly released experimental Beta patch for No Man's Sky.

Sadly I will not be able to test this new patch today as I am in my hometown today and will be attending a funeral of a close family friend. I will test this new beta patch as soon as I am able.

 

[VonBlade]

It's Elite without the fun. It's the grind of Minecraft/MMOs without the goal. The fact the performance is shocking only adds to my belief that this really isn't for me. I'm happy meandering about, but some kind of goal, even a nebulous (ha) one would be nice.

 

[Dicehunter]

It's Elite without the fun. It's the grind of Minecraft/MMOs without the goal. The fact the performance is shocking only adds to my belief that this really isn't for me. I'm happy meandering about, but some kind of goal, even a nebulous (ha) one would be nice.

Gotta agree there, ED I find very relaxing and I love the sound when going faster than light, It's kinda creepy but exciting, The sound reminds me a lot of the engineers from Prometheus.

 

[AverageNinja]

I pre-ordered No Man's Sky the day I got back from vacation last Tuesday and watched some gameplay, and honestly I quite enjoy it. It's everything I expected (a massive exploration game, no more, no less).

I kinda like just blasting some Slipknot and endlessly grinding emeril and analysing wildlife. It's really relaxing after a long day at work and/or before bed.

But then again, I thoroughly enjoy playing Destiny. So it's probably just me. And the horrible PC port and Sean's lies about multiplayer can't be excused.

 

[SeekaX]

I pre-ordered No Man's Sky the day I got back from vacation last Tuesday and watched some gameplay, and honestly I quite enjoy it. It's everything I expected (a massive exploration game, no more, no less).

I kinda like just blasting some Slipknot and endlessly grinding emeril and analysing wildlife. It's really relaxing after a long day at work and/or before bed.

But then again, I thoroughly enjoy playing Destiny. So it's probably just me. And the horrible PC port and Sean's lies about multiplayer can't be excused.

I haven't watched an awful lot of interviews, all i heard from him regarding multiplayer was that it would be possible to see one another. So personally i disregarded it as a pointless gimmick anyways. They probably thought the same when they realized how much work it would mean, i don't know how many players can be in one system at once in ED but NMS has way more players, all rushing to the center of the galaxy, their arrival would definitely not be an easy task to handle.
I can see why people got annoyed over this though, not a smart move to drop hints for a feature they hadn't looked into yet.

 

[AverageNinja]

I haven't watched an awful lot of interviews, all i heard from him regarding multiplayer was that it would be possible to see one another. So personally i disregarded it as a pointless gimmick anyways. They probably thought the same when they realized how much work it would mean, i don't know how many players can be in one system at once in ED but NMS has way more players, all rushing to the center of the galaxy, their arrival would definitely not be an easy task to handle.
I can see why people got annoyed over this though, not a smart move to drop hints for a feature they hadn't looked into yet.

I personally don't really care for multiplayer as well, but I can fully understand why the masses are annoyed about it not being in the final game. I just think Sean shouldn't have said it would be a feature in the first place. I believe he also stated you'd be able to explore the universe with your friends in a few interviews.

Then again, the European boxes of the game's special edition had stickers on them covering the 'online play' logo, so they probably scrapped the multiplayer features of the game at the last minute. Maybe it wasn't stable enough (yet). Or, like you said, they just gave up on it. I would too, to be honest. Still, not the best marketing tactic.

 

[shambles1980]

The foul stench of paid for dlc to get the features promised is looming.

When the dev promises free content for the game "basically content that should have been in the game but wasn't added in time"
then they say
"it may have been optimistic to say that dlc would be free"

its not hard to see where the next dev move is going..
I personally think that the next few months are going to be quite interesting to see just how much money they will be able to pry from the fan base before they give them the actual full release game they already paid for.
and it will be quite interesting to see how many of the players will stick around for an extra dose of gouging.

releasing an early access game as a full release then selling the rest of the parts which are needed for it to actually be a full game as dlc is not what i consider honorable.

 

[SeekaX]

I personally don't really care for multiplayer as well, but I can fully understand why the masses are annoyed about it not being in the final game. I just think Sean shouldn't have said it would be a feature in the first place. I believe he also stated you'd be able to explore the universe with your friends in a few interviews.

Then again, the European boxes of the game's special edition had stickers on them covering the 'online play' logo, so they probably scrapped the multiplayer features of the game at the last minute. Maybe it wasn't stable enough (yet). Or, like you said, they just gave up on it. I would too, to be honest. Still, not the best marketing tactic.

That was a missprint apparently.