i know someone who bought into this intending to get an immediate refund solely to be “part of the conversation” on reddit or whatever
a fascinating conversation i’m sure
How diverse is the universe, really?
Like, the actual one.
How disappointed would you be in reality’s procedural terraforming if you had access to magical warp drive?
Well, if we extrapolate from our solar system alone, which contains planet Earth, I’d say pretty goddamn diverse, actually.
Or, potentially diverse at least.
I mean, this game is not going for realism, exactly. It’s the “I fucking love Science” to Elite: Dangerous’ “Science”
I haven’t gotten sick of this game yet, still loving it. It’s really pleasing and I’m appreciating the subtle differences between worlds, like the interplay of atmospheric light and color with the vegetation and ground. It’s a screensaver generator.
Best mod is the one that makes F5 into a hotkey to turn off the HUD. I’m obsessed with planets in the sky as well. Just look at these gorgeous screenshots.
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I can’t fathom what those dipshits at Hello Games were thinking. Algorithm-generated world with banal and boring shit of interactivity/reactivity with the world.
but what do you REALLY think
If there’s one word that I would use to describe people who can write computer programs that create beautiful outer space universes it’s definitely “dipshits.”
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corporate indie drugs
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Maybe what this game really needed was the 1980 Flash Gordon soundtrack
I love how angry this game makes people. It’s kinda amazing.
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i just don’t get it, i really don’t. i’ve been absolutely baffled by how angry people are getting over this chill space game about finding angry platypus friends
i feel like i have to become some sort of stalwart defender of the game. i now know how politics became so polarized
Because they lied! they said the planets would have physics (no, they didn’t. Physics in voxel terrain are likely prohibitively hard to compute) and that you’d be able to see other players! (technically, they said this, but it felt like they were almost between a rock and a hard place when asked this question. I wouldn’t know how to handle that either)
I dont get where the planet physics thing comes from. The planets do rotate on an axis which produces a day night cycle. Thats literally all the devs said, but these reddit folks extrapolated that to “fully simulated galaxy” somehow and I don’t get where that jump in logic happened
Yeah, that’s the thing. I end up coming off as like some stalwart defender of this thing, and honestly, I just like it for being a nice chill game with lots of pretty shit in it. It’s no GOTY for me or anything, but I’m pretty happy with it.
I don’t think they rotate, though? I don’t know for sure but that’s apparently one of the things that aren’t in the game. I’m no No Man’s Lie specialist, I’m not really into that whole debate. What’s certain is that they mentioned a lot of features that never made it into the game, like waring factions, the number of ships, that they feel different, when in fact they’re all just different in item slots, etc. There are videos on this that explain it better than me
shoulda been the subtitle tbh
They may not rotate but it FEELS like they do? The sun goes up and down and when I take off I’m facing a different direction. Maybe they don’t rotate from space? They rotate when you’re on the ground.
I don’t know how anyone can find this game chill though. If the life support system and stuff like that took twice as long to deplete, maybe. If it wouldn’t warn you that systems are low at 75 per cent, maybe