I am lucky enough to have been one of the chosen few that have not suffered from the severe performance issues of the initial launch. I run a pretty old i5 rig with a GTX960; with a bit of tweaking (disabling the GSYNC) I was able to get this game to perform at 50-60fps on an ultra-wide monitor at 2560x1080. As far as the game itself goes, it is very evident that it is not a completed game. A lot of features have been omitted or toned down, and a lot of promised content has not materialised. There also remains, to put it kindly, a lot of curious UI decisions that were ported over that feel very out of place in a PC environment. In it's current state, it gets repetitive very quickly. Once you have maxed out the upgrades on your ship and suit, it feels as though there's not really much left to do. The combat also leaves a lot of room for improvement. So why four stars? Like many others, I have day-dreamed of traversing distant galaxies and frolicking with the strange life forms I find. NMS has come the closest so far in putting me there. Although Hello Games has fallen short of a lot of their promises, I still believe they have still accomplished a huge milestone in game development with No man's sky. It shows potential that I hope is exploited by the development team.
