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Mike has been playing some survival games lately, enjoying the heck out of Subnautica and the subject of No Manās Sky and its rough start came up. Well, it seems someone was listening, since Hello Games asked us to take a look at the game, as its 4.0 Waypoint update has now arrived, bringing a slew of improvements to the game as well as a release on Nintendo Switch.
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Mike's been trying out some survival games lately and the subject of No Man's Sky came up – I guess someone out there must have been listening because Hello Games asked us to come take a look at the game after avoiding it for so long following its turbulent launch. No Man's Sky's new update: version 4.0 Waypoint has just released so it was only right we give the game a fair shot and see if it's worth taking flight in 2022.
DISCLAIMER: Our stream where we played this, as well as this video are sponsored by Hello Games. Of course, no element of our first impressions or our critique of the game are covered under said sponsorship, but be advised we were paid for it, nonetheless.
i do not play PC games that much, so i missed the fuss about the desaster release back in 2016. But i do play a lot in VR since 2019, so i tried NMS a couple of months ago and now i am 700 hours into the game and totally sucked in. The VR experience is simply from another world compared to flatscreen. You can really feel the scale of everything and it's much more intense. The only downside is, that you really need a strong PC to run this game properly. My current middle class PCs with a RTX 2070Super can only run the game with almost the lowest settings in a decent resolution. Nevertheless it's still a great experience.
People who dont need their han held and like free form sandbox games like minecraft will love this
I have seen alot of streamers/youtubers try out subnautica and NMS because those are survival game, but I don't see them try out the long dark š
you may have just sold this game to me
I started this video with a bit of trepidation. I know Mike does not like inventory management(there's a metric fuck ton of that in NMS) and I really wanted him to find a way to see past it, as I did.
I don't like it myself but somehow…I keep coming back to this game. The exploration, the dogfights in space, the survival elements. Combined, they outweigh my dislike of the extensive inventory management. I haven't played the new update, yet. Been busy. But I can't wait to see what Hello Games has done to further improve on their ever-evolving game.
And I'm glad Mike enjoyed it.
I've occasionally enjoyed it on pc a few times, but then I had kids (2 and 4) and pc gaming is hard these days. so the SWITCH VERSION IS AWESOME.
When he said the inventory is better I instantly checked to see if it was sponsored video.
It is. š
Every time I play NMS it always reminds me of a certain well known paragraph Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before.
It's the best and ideal for 1st ever players fr
"An cough entire cough galaxy cough to explore."
I don't have the time to play this game but I bought it anyway recently. Hello Games are legendary. How have they not fallen for predatory monitisation yet?
If you have VR give NMS in VR a try. Controls are a little clunky but the sense of scale is amazing.
You can have pets now, too. š
Played it from release until 1 day later when I realized every planet was basically the same, and there was nothing to do except getting new ships over and over to increase inventory space.
Had it for 3 years untouched in my library started last December and never stopped until now. Its easy one my favorit games of all times.
Great to see you take a look, I was super impressed! You didn't mention the discovery system that lets you scan and discover new species and minerals, and then you can name them. You can name planets too, so it gives the world a lived in feeling when you find things that have been previously discovered. That was the rabbit hole I went down when I played, trying to discover all the species on a planet.
Ty for reviewing this awesome game and welcome to the community š
They also added VR support and it's honestly not bad. Movement wonky as VR games tend to be, but it's really cool nonetheless and also flying your starfighter in VR is awesome
Where is my damn subnautica review? Come on man!
The fact they have yet to release any paid dlc after all these years, what other game do you know has this much dlc added to the game for free and not just a random T-shirt or one damn car(cp2077) but big and at times gameplay changing dlc.
If you are liking the survival games then try Grounded, especially if you can convince the lady to play it with you! My wife and I have been having an absolute blast in that game.
The games on sale on steam, totally gonna purchase it now! It looks super interesting.
A caveat, NMS on SWITCH does NOT (currently) have any multiplayer.
Also, when playing NMS, if you do not meet up with friends or go to the Anomaly, the chances of you RANDOMLY meeting another player are as close to nil as you can imagine.
NMS Is definitely a great game, chill and addictive.
This game is a different level in VR
Getting paid for there view…..ok.
You can tell this is a sponsored video tbh.
Iāve stopped playing last month. It never felt more than a game in beta tbh. All these āfreeā updates should be expected and thatās not me expecting everything free in life, itās just a game that doesnāt have any purpose currently. So many different classes of ships, yet they pretty much all do the same thing and the stats feel pointless. I was frustrated at this fact and thought people were having me on, turns out they were right, stats on anything ship/multitool donāt really matter. Whatās the best weapon? Who cares, you can kill mobs with your mining laserā¦.. which is comical imho! The game is very much like learning the languages that you talked about. Once you e seen the same comms pylon, same outpost, same infested deserted outpost over and over again it gets really old. They have a great platform for a game, they just need to do something with it to make it feel immersive imho. The worst thing in the game is the portal system. Thereās no real navigation outside of panning around your ship and clicking on a random system. You canāt plot courses, yet it professes to be a exploring type game, yet it bypasses exploring by exploiting the portalā¦ā¦ I want this to be a great game and it can be but currently it feels like itās just out of the alpha stage and is in early beta territor. I can do a lot more to improve. Will it?ā¦.. or will it just be a case of half worked through ideas?ā¦. Who knows?
I liked No Man's Sky more when it was just… quiet.
No Mans Sky is almost the perfect game to pick up for an hour or two to chill out. Almost. I love it, but have a very "on again, off again" relationship with it (usually around the updates/whenever an expedition drops).
Its the most feature complete game of its type… But like all other games of its type it still has issues with those features lacking depth.
Once you've explored about 50 planets or so you basically start seeing behind the curtains a bit for planet generation… For the scope of the game its got a pretty small install size and it shows with how often assets get repeated. That takes the wind out of the sails of exploration; at some point exploration becomes less about seeing new things and more just trying to find what you might consider to be your "perfect planet" (has the combination of assets and color pallette you like the most).
Combat isnt difficult, and money quickly becomes a non issue once you actually start actively grinding out units. Nanites are harder to come by and more important, but can also be farmed with a bit of know how. That just leaves quicksilver for unlocking cosmetics which is a limited resource to be sure… But the missions to get them become repetitive fast.
Its still a wonderful game and I definitely think its worth the purchase – the story does have a couple of moments that I thought landed well – but yeah. I would not recommend no-life-ing it. Play for a couple hours at a time and just enjoy it!
If you like SciFi and havenāt tried Cyberpunk 2077 since1.6, you should! Truly fantastic now. Some great mods out there only make it better.