No Man's Sky NEXT is the Game's 'Largest Update So Far', Coming This Summer

At least we may be at the point where people stop moaning about this game.

I really can’t believe they are still updating this game. It’s been out for a couple years and it feel flat on its face on release. I can’t imagine it brings in any significant amount of sales. It must be Sean Murray’s labor of love to keep this dying thing on life support. I still own the game, although I tried to sell it back to a second hand store and they offered me like 50 cents or something ridiculous so I just kept it.

VR.

@Quintumply I know!

I've always just found it so odd, the way people are. I got it at launch. It was exactly as I expected and I enjoyed it for a bit...

I think the issue was never really the game itself, but the hype and promotion which really amounted to lies about what the game would be.

I do think it is admirable that Hello Games are supporting the title so well post launch and making up largely for their promises. I do wonder how much longer than can keep it going - I imagine this has to be the last major update. I'd buy it for VR support but I doubt it as it includes Xbox One in its list of content updates. They must need to start working on a new title - they are a small team and will need to get investment in the company.

@Rudy_Manchego Literally the only 'lie' was that players could meet. It was always described as being a very limited experience as they didn't actually expect anyone to interact over such a vast procedural environment.

The form of the game, the meat of it, even at launch was exactly as described. I never once felt like any of the hype or promotion had been misleading. It really hadn't.
It looked great, sounded great, and was a relatively simple experience.

@KratosMD Seriously though...

Oh yeah, this is a thing.

VR would be the only thing that could tempt me to play this again.

@KALofKRYPTON Politely disagree. There were a number of launch features that were talked about and weren't there. 1) Pre-release clips showed beasts and creatures that aren't in the game of that scale. 2) Multiplayer or the ability to meet players was said to be launch functionality, 3) Significance of factions and ability to interact with factions 4) Huge space battles shown and discussed pre-release, 5) Ability to fly between star systems. 6) Ability to pilot into planets etc.

There is quite a lot of lists online from disgruntled players, this is a sample. I'm not saying the game itself ended up being poor or that people shoul'dnt have enjoyed it but from a pre-launch perspective, the game was hyped with many many features that it just didn't contain. A lot of these did come from Sean Murray as well. Regardless of the quality of the original game, what was hyped and delivered did have significant differences.

A little too late imho...

Did they ever improve on the space combat? Wouldnt mind going back to this once all the updates are finished. I never hated it, just got bored after like 30 hours of the same 😂

I love the game and it's one I will always dip back in from time to time. I find it so relaxing and can spend hours in the game not actually doing all that much.

For me, I want good VR support. Not just some tacked on thing.

Cross play across all platforms.

To be able to easily teleport to my friends location hang out, then transfer back to my planet again.

A way to visit all the best home bases.

Have some multiplayer features like co-op or competitive.

I want to be able to transfer my vehicles to any planet without fuss.

Better reward for getting to the centre of the galaxy (not done it but hear it's nothing special)

Improved wildlife AI and movement.

An straightforward, less random way to get the level 3 keycard

More buildings and improved graphics.

@get2sammyb that's what i was thinking. I wasnt aware it had launched on xbox yet? And that announcement would surely mean that whatever this update brings, it won't include VR functionality

@get2sammyb yeah it wasn't on Xbox.

Wonder if Sony had a two year exclusivity deal or something as I remember Sony marketing this like it was a first party game.

@get2sammyb I've just looked it up as I thought it was a playstation exclusive, it's apparently being released for xbox this summer along with the new patch

I'm reminded of a quote form an RPS preview (that I did look up again) "You can’t build because that encourages you to set down roots, there’s no multiplayer (encountering another player would be more akin to Journey, perhaps, and is expected to be an incredibly rare event) because multiplayer encourages people to cluster and stay."

@Rudy_Manchego @KratosMD
I expected the game to be what it was. Never was it sold to me (or anyone else) as Elite - I followed the game relatively closely and never saw or read anything that didn't tally up with what I experienced with it.
Murray certainly didn't help the game as previously noted with the multiplayer comments, but I honestly think people wound themselves up. They expected things that weren't promised.

What was promised was continuing development. Which has clearly happened.

I get anger at something genuinely, maliciously, being miss-sold - I get anger at buying a game that doesn't work. But opinion of 'what should' have been in No Man's Sky vs what was promised to have launched in No Man's Sky is wildly different.
People see what they want to see sometimes, get angry and trigger at the slightest whiff of so-called 'injustice' - such is No Man's Sky.

I think now if you bought it then it would be a far better experience especially after this update. I believe Sony should have taken some of the blame as well by maybe stepping in and saying to Shawn errrm let's stop with the features and maybe tone it down a little. Yes Shawn did hype the game up so much but it's been 2 years now they have been at it and updated and added things to it I think they deserve a break.

Obligatory "will the update make it fun?" comment.

I enjoyed it for what it was at launch and I'll come back to it for this update. Besides, I still need the jump range trophy for the plat.

I wish the landable barren planets in Elite Dangerous looked half as good as they do in NMS.

I know what it is ... Battle Royale mode.

Downloaded NMS on day one and its been on my hard drive ever since, loved it at launch and still do now, great game.

Great Bowie quote.

My copy is still wrapped on my shelf. I'll look forward to playing it when the final product is out.

While I already sold my copy, it's really great to see hello games keep updating it.

Huge dinos! That space worm of the trailers! More animal variety! That's all I care

The man with the fuzzy facial hair is certainly committed to this game. Which is good.

Now that it's coming to Xbox, watch how it'll suddenly become 'the greatest thing ever' and it'll be 'another Sony exclusive coming to Xbox! OMGZZ!!' (channelling my best Crapgamer impression)

OMG, people still carw about this game? I had forgotten its existence until I read this article.

I still have it installed on my PS4 but I haven't sat down to play it for a while, I have been holding out for VR Support, if that's in the next update I will definitely fire it back up again .

@get2sammyb this is the first we're hearing about it on Xbox.

@KALofKRYPTON Sorry, wasn't my intent to anger. I'm not a purchaser on day one, so don't have a personal stake and I think the title looked interesting. It is good that you weren't misled on the game and the internet sure does like to whip up hysteria.

I think the issue is not the game - it is the marketing and hype build up, and some of the tactics the game industry as a whole uses to sell products. Things like fake trailers, bullshots, features that don't exist aren't just a No Man's Sky problem. Lots of developers and publishers have done something similar. I think that No Man's Sky was overhyped, probably by Sony, and it drove expectations to unfair proportions. If you are interested in lists of things that were mentioned in pre-release marketing (such as interviews, on-stage, Q&A's etc) but weren't released at launch, this is a famous thread put together which was used in a lot of the news coverage https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/4y1h9i/wheres_the_no_mans_sky_we_were_sold_on_a_big_list/ Individually, all the points are fairly minor but there is enough to suggest that the launch wasn't representative of all promised features. As noted, early build or test footage was also used up to and including after the release in trailers, inc the PS Store and Steam.

Now a lot of conscientious people, like yourself, read reviews, made an informed decision and liked the game for what it was. However, the games industry relies on hype and release date purchases and I can completely see why early adopters who had been following the hype having a good point to say that elements that may have attracted them to the game weren't there. It isn't Elite, but things like space combat were largely demonstrated in a form that wasn't in the game. Those people have a point and it is telling that Hello Games went into media silence but also spent a year + adding in a lot of the elements that had been promised.

Like BF2, it isn't the only game to have done things like this but it just reached that tipping point at launch. I think it is a shame as the game seems ok and a lot of people do like it. It's just been mis-sold.

I suppose they plan on making all their money on the native 4k version remastered when PS5 and X2 launch. The beta testing should be over and the game should be complete by then. 😆

Cool gone back to this recently and had a blast with it again, good seeing it still being worked on

@JoeBlogs The way things are going with Microsoft wanting to have their games 'on every platform', you may get your wish sooner than you think

@adf86 oh yeah, I forgot about that. Good shout, that one.

Fair play to Hello Games for sticking with it though, most developers would of moved on by now especially after all the criticism.

@Bad-MuthaAdebisi Impressive that they have stuck to it, so I give them credit. Although now I didn’t realize that they are releasing it on Xbox, so it’s not all wasted development costs as I’m sure they expect to make some revenue on the game from there. But I can’t imagine the game bring in much profit from any new PS4 sales. And yes, thankfully no loot boxes (yet?)

NMS is pretty pants lets not kid ourselves. The best thing about the game was @quintumply captains log.

This is interesting. I despise Gearbox for lying through its teeth to customers. Many claim Hello Games are just as bad and there was plenty of evidence to back that up. But with all this free content they keep releasing, it's clearly a very different situation now. Actions speak much louder than words, and they've done a lot of good stuff since their mistake.

This is good. I bought the game on a digital sale and just couldn't get to grips with it. That was a year ago. So if things are changing for the better, it gives me a reason to go back and give it a 2nd chance.

I put these updates more down to Hello Games wanting to salvage some reputation after the disastrous launch than anything else. At some point they will want to release a new game, but without some goodwill it would probably fail on day one.

Even with all these patches the game looks no better than the multitude of similar early access titles you can pick up for about £10 on PC, so, even if you ignore how the game was promoted leading up to launch, I can see why people would be upset at paying £45 for it.

Lack of multiplayer was the number one reason I never bought this game and at this point never will. Even if they add it in, my hype for it died long ago. The primary reason I wanted it was for that, because honestly the game seemed it would be boring otherwise.

Couple that with how they released the game and then went completely silent and purposed to not explain themselves, I won't be giving it a chance in its current iteration. Some people enjoyed it and that's fine, but being lied to really puts me off.