Posted on: August 16, 2016
MarkSkarr
Games: 390 Reviews: 4
Not a game for everyone.
(I have this on Steam) This is not a game for everyone, but it is a gem for some of us. This is a game about resource and inventory management. Basically, you're on a quest for rare recipes and the resources to make them. Getting to the center of the galaxy just gives you a direction to travel . . .. Unfortunately, the game is light on content. I will echo a sentiment I've seen on-line that this feels more like a very polished beta (think Subnautica) where it's very pretty, and what little it does have is very, very polished, but, you're waiting for updates to give you new things to do. While on-foot combat is acceptable, the in-space combat is atrocious. Having extremely muddy controls is bad enough, but having to stop flying/fighting in the middle of a dogfight to craft components to repair my shield, then repair my shield, makes it very, very annoying. Sure, I could just drop materials directly into my shield, but, it just makes for an unpleasant situation. Avoid space fights. I must be one of the few people who haven't had anything but a good experience from No Man's Sky. I've got a 4770k @ 3.5 ghz (I'm unambitious), and a GTX 970 with 12gb of RAM. I get a consistent 60 fps @ 1080p (my eyes aren't good enough to see at a higher resolution than that, so I've saved money by not buying a 4k monitor). I've had ONE crash to desktop, and one other issue (three times) where the game slowed down. Not I had a frame-rate drop, but the game just went from running smoothly to running smoothly VERY SLOWLY. It took me 5 minutes to traverse a distance in space that listed it should take 45 seconds. Getting out of the game and back in fixed it. I haven't seen any of the issues that other people have with the game.
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