Game runs perfectly for me. I had to bump the default max fps to 60 (defaults to 30??). I have an HD7950, and everything is on high except for shadows. Runs very smooth, four hours of game play, and no crashes.
Only for a certain amount of time.Doesn't Steam allow refunds? If i don't like this when I fire it up later tonight, back she goes.
Sounds like what I was thinking it was going to be like. The visuals on ps4 put me off a whole lot and I definitely don't want to pay full price on PC either.I was going to type up some long response, but honestly I don't think that's needed here because it's exactly what most reviews have said.
Here's the breakdown based on my first 4 hours:
So I know it's going to sound crazy, but for me the game it reminds me most of right now is Just Cause 2. Is it the same genre? Nope. Does it have cool explosions? Not really. So what in the hell do I mean by that?
- It's almost exactly what I thought it would be. I have no idea what people were expecting, but I don't blame the developer for some of the disappointment as I'm getting almost everything I thought I would based on all the videos I saw.
- Visuals are a let-down (on the ps4 at least). Texture pop-in is quite distracting when flying, and animations aren't great. I hope the draw distance is better on the PC.
- The FPS mechanics are clunky, but that might just be me not playing many FPS on the PS4. Again, probably better on PC and there's not much in the way of shooting (yet)
- The first few hours are basically a loose tutorial that introduces you to the game mechanics without actually feeling like a tutorial. It was really well done and something that fits really well with this type of game.
- I can see that after getting through the mechanics, and playing for a while, that things may get repetitive... so many out there are going to be bored after a few ours, but some of us will still get a lot of gameplay out of it.
Pretty much every single bad thing you can say about NMS was also true about JC2. JC2 had next to no campaign, it was incredibly shallow. You visited copy/pasted bases that were pretty easily dealt with. There were bases you could destroy everything in, which could be fun but also was very repetitive. Despite all of this "shallowness" I dumped more hours in JC2 just messing around than any other game during the 360 generation. The map was huge, and even though everything I did was very repetitive I was never really bored. I get the same sense out of NMS, if to a lesser degree. I can understand people finding it boring, and I myself will get bored of it some day, but right now I think most people that don't like just don't like a game that throws a handful of mechanics at you and gives you the freedom to do what you want.
The ONLY thing that's really holding me back from recommending it fully is not having a f'ing map. It's so easy to get lost in caves and there's no good way to find your way out. A diablo style mini-map that fills in as you visit things (you know, like an actual explorer would do) would have been perfect. I'm so mad that such a simple omission might potentially ruin the experience for a lot of people, but it really needs to be highlighted. You WILL be pissed off that there's no map, and it's a damn shame.
Anyway, wait till it's cheaper but I wouldn't discount it completely.
I'm gonna try and watch it when I'm home. Are you gonna link it here?
Game runs perfectly for me. I had to bump the default max fps to 60 (defaults to 30??). I have an HD7950, and everything is on high except for shadows. Runs very smooth, four hours of game play, and no crashes.
You WILL be pissed off that there's no map, and it's a damn shame.
hate the limited storage
The visuals on ps4 put me off a whole lot and I definitely don't want to pay full price on PC either.
So I know it's going to sound crazy, but for me the game it reminds me most of right now is Just Cause 2. Is it the same genre? Nope. Does it have cool explosions? Not really. So what in the hell do I mean by that?
Pretty much every single bad thing you can say about NMS was also true about JC2. JC2 had next to no campaign, it was incredibly shallow. You visited copy/pasted bases that were pretty easily dealt with. There were bases you could destroy everything in, which could be fun but also was very repetitive. Despite all of this "shallowness" I dumped more hours in JC2 just messing around than any other game during the 360 generation. The map was huge, and even though everything I did was very repetitive I was never really bored. I get the same sense out of NMS, if to a lesser degree. I can understand people finding it boring, and I myself will get bored of it some day, but right now I think most people that don't like just don't like a game that throws a handful of mechanics at you and gives you the freedom to do what you want.
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Went to a barren moon. Found it was covered in hundreds of monoliths. Found the caves had unlimited objects that I could sell to the outpost next door for 35k each. I'm rich! Bringing in ~750k every 15 minutes. I am naming this moon cheathappend.
Pics or it didn't happen =P
I like it. It installed quickly. It runs rock solid at 60fps at 1080p on a gtx970 with all settings at max.
I'm confused about some things. I assume you use the scanner to search for resources but what are the top resources I should have always since space is limited.
The jetpack seems to be useless. Boost runs out way too quickly. I hate how you have to keep replenishing your radiation protection.
How do you navigate to the next planet? And how do you apply the warp drive? (Sorry going from memory. I'm about to start it up again though).
Does the game save where you left off when quit?
Also what do you do with the animals you discover? Lol they keep running away.
I have tried a DS4 and it works fine, but the controls were inverted for me at the time and I didnt feel like opening up the options to fix it so I stuck with mouse/KB.Has anyone tried playing on PC with a ps4 control or Xbox for that matter? I'm just wondering about the flying part since it would be odd with a keyboard and mouse.