No Man's Sky - Switch release due on 7th October

How does this game generate any revenue for the developer? Are there micro transactions? I can't imagine they're still selling copies.

They are still selling it, as soon as they release a significant update (17 so far) the game goes on sale. This game is selling by word of mouth and good will simply because they continue to add more and more content for free.

Fair enough. Good business policy for the end user.

Dual wrote:How does this game generate any revenue for the developer? Are there micro transactions? I can't imagine they're still selling copies.

It's currently 6th in the top selling games on Steam.

Knoyleo wrote:
Dual wrote:How does this game generate any revenue for the developer? Are there micro transactions? I can't imagine they're still selling copies.

It's currently 6th in the top selling games on Steam.

What a flop

Every update tempts me to go back, but this one even more than the others. I loved the Galactic Hub concept, where players just decided on a system to build together, but it always felt like the game was working against you, with it being quite hit or miss whether you could even see other people's bases. The vast majority of my 400 hours was spent working on a series of farms in the hub to make a super easy and smooth way for people to make Quantum Processers. Loads of time spent unlocking blueprints, then gathering resources and planning it all out. Then I got that glitch where the terraformed land filled back in and made most of them party inaccessible and useless. I turned the game off after seeing that and just never went back.

New Community expedition is up. I enjoyed the last 2. We have a good 6 weeks to finish.

This expedition is a bit of a tough one at the start. Trying to get copper is a pain. 1 hour in and I still haven't left the planet which is clearly what they wanted.

twitter.com/NoMansSky/status/1450809032512446470

This came out of nowhere. Fighting the titan worm may be fun.

The amount of of updates and additions for this game has been incredible. I've recently discovered that the base-building element has been vastly enhanced and some of the creations that I've seen in photos have been terrific. As a fan of this aspect in F76, I'm now really tempted to get back into NMS.

No Man's Sky is offering another chance to unlock Mass Effect's Normandy SR1 - All four Expedition events returning, from tomorrow.

There's good news for No Man's Sky players still miffed at missing their chance to add Mass Effect's Normandy SR1 to their mighty frigate armada earlier this year; Hello Games is bringing back all four of the exploratory space sim's Expedition events starting tomorrow, 24th November, meaning players will have another opportunity to earn all their associated rewards.

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All four Expeditions will be cycled back into No Man's Sky in chronological order, with players having two weeks to complete each one before before it makes way for the next. Expedition 1 (Pioneers) will be available from tomorrow, 24th November, until 7th December, and the Normandy is up for grabs again as part of Expedition 2, returning from 8th-21st December. Expedition 3 (Cartographers) is back between 22nd December and 4th January, and Expedition 4 (Emergence) makes a big, noisy entrance from 5th-19th January.

"This marks the end of 2021," writes Hello Games, "which has been another busy year for our small team, as we celebrated No Man's Sky's 5th anniversary with four major updates! This now takes us to 17 large releases, as well as countless smaller updates, community requests, and hotfixes...We are very proud to have been on this adventure with you, and humbled that we are able to continue taking No Man's Sky to new and exciting places...Already work has started on some exciting plans for 2022 and there are no signs of us slowing."

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021 ... s-normandy

Looks great running on Switch, native as well! Think I may pick this up in a sale as I’ve always been interested in playing it.

nomanssky.com wrote:Hello,

We’re very excited to let people know that No Man’s Sky is coming to the Nintendo Switch this summer.

I can’t tell you how incredible it feels to play No Man’s Sky on this tiny portable device. It feels both completely natural and also totally improbable at the same time.

For the last couple of years, a couple of members of our small team have been secretly working on the Nintendo Switch version of No Man’s Sky. It has been a real moonshot. No Man’s Sky is built around procedural generation, which means the console generates everything you see. This makes it so much harder to bring our game to something like the Switch. There have been so many times where we’ve gone home one day convinced it was impossible, only to have someone stride in the next day with a unique technical solution. Honestly I think this team never seems happier than when they are trying to do near-impossible things.

From UI to controllers to gameplay, we’re taking the time to make this feel completely at home on the device, both on the big screen, but importantly as a portable version of No Man’s Sky. Every time I pick the Switch up and seamlessly jump from planet to planet, from star system to star system, I have to pinch myself that I am playing on the Nintendo Switch, and that I can take it with me wherever I go. There’s so much more we have yet to reveal about the Switch version, and there’ll be more announcements to come as we get closer to release.

Many of our community have Switches as their secondary gaming device and we are pleased to be able to offer them an alternative way to play, either at home docked, or on the move. For the tens of millions of gamers for whom the Nintendo Switch is their only console, we can finally introduce them into our universe and into the welcoming arms of our large and growing community.

The Nintendo Switch release is just one of many exciting developments we have in store for the community in 2022 and we can’t wait to show you what we’ve been working on in the VERY near future. For now though, we hope you are as excited as we all are to welcome No Man’s Sky to its first Nintendo platform.

Our journey continues.

Sean

I'm so looking forward to seeing such a game running on the Switch :-).

twitter.com/NoMansSky/status/1493948283970068487

Every time one of these great new updates has arrived in the past couple of years I've thought "man, I need to get back into this". And then I haven't. It feels like time to sort that issue out.

Looks like another update has come out however no vid or patch notes yet. Seems that the update went live before they could release the other stuff. All the hints seem to point to a Pirate update.