If you are adding new animals, don't make them "Exotic"

[EatThatPie]

Please learn a lesson and if you are adding new content, such as new animals...DONT MAKE THEM EXOTIC!!! You did this with starships and planets, and it didnt really fix the fact that roughly 75% of the planets have the same stuff. I have 250 hours on this game and litterally these are the only animals in NMS: Butterfly, Bird, Bat, Fish, Shark, Jellyfish, Cow, Tiger, Crab, Upright t-rex, Rodent, Flying eel, Sauropods, Yeti and hopping mushrooms. And they all look almost exactly the same for their genres, just with different head types and random things prortuding from their backs.

Not to mention the sounds they make. (shudders). Almost every animal in this game has either: a pathetic squeaking noise,(anything that has legs) a grunting noise(hopping mushrooms), or a clicking noise(crabs). The sounds are lame and it makes some big threatening creatures sound extremely pathetic. What if the upright t-rex (it looks dumb that way, BTW) gave a fearsome roar if threatened? What if animals growled if they were threatened or territorial? What if they "screeched for help" like the raptors in Jurassic Park?

Behavior also needs a bit of a fix. The coolest thing to see is a predator killing another animal, but it doesnt really eat it does it? That's just one problem. It would be neat to see massive herds of one animal, at least 10 or 15 grazing in one area and not just 3 animals running around every square mile. If birds could land and fly off when the player gets close that would be awesome. There are also "dragons" or much larger bird variants that only do one thing: Spawn in, fly in one direction, despawn. They dont even change direction. What if those landed or could even dive down and attack you if you threaten them?

If you are going to add new animal types, DO NOT MAKE THEM "RARE" or "EXOTIC". Your game is repetetive enough on its own, and when you finally gave us planets that were actually interesting and unique(like in your trailers and posters) you made them almost impossible to find (exotic planets), and when you added new starships that were actually cool you did the same exact thing. Please don't do this with animals.

UPDATE:
Waking Titan ARG has revealed a new "roar" sound effect for No Mans Sky. It is very likely now that they are adding not only new animal sounds, but possibly new animals as well.

[[R-K] WARLORD]

Originally posted by EatThatPie:

Please learn a lesson and if you are adding new content, such as new animals...DONT MAKE THEM RARE!!! You did this with starships, and it didnt really fix the problem. Litterally these are the only animals in NMS: Bird, Bat, Fish, Shark, jellyfish, Cow, tiger, crab, flying eel, and hopping mushrooms. And they all look almost exactly the same for their genres. If you are going to add animals, DO NOT MAKE THEM HARD TO FIND. Your game is repetetive on its own, so please fix a problem instead of adding more content that forces players to give this game hundreds of hours of playtime to do a simple task.

TFW you have <20 hours played lmfao.

[BaneBlackGuard]

Originally posted by EatThatPie:

Please learn a lesson and if you are adding new content, such as new animals...DONT MAKE THEM RARE!!! You did this with starships, and it didnt really fix the problem. Litterally these are the only animals in NMS: Bird, Bat, Fish, Shark, jellyfish, Cow, tiger, crab, flying eel, and hopping mushrooms. And they all look almost exactly the same for their genres. If you are going to add animals, DO NOT MAKE THEM HARD TO FIND. Your game is repetetive on its own, so please fix a problem instead of adding more content that forces players to give this game hundreds of hours of playtime to do a simple task.

there's also a bunch of different insects, from tiny to humongous. bunch of different dinosaur types. little rodents. some that are more like bears.

i think there's a huge variety, but sure more is better. what kind of stuff would you like to see that you don't see?

[EatThatPie]

Originally posted by BaneBlackGuard:

there's also a bunch of different insects, from tiny to humongous. bunch of different dinosaur types. little rodents. some that are more like bears.

i think there's a huge variety, but sure more is better. what kind of stuff would you like to see that you don't see?

They are too repetetive, and you don't ever see anything that looks truly unique and alien. I want animals like the septopods from Arrival, giant flying jellyfish, or just think of the types of creatures that are in Star wars. What about giant mollusks, birds that have the ability to land, snakes, gigantic whales in deep ocean planets, a t-rex variant thats not standing upright, and maybe so not every animal makes the same dumb screeching sound.

[EatThatPie]

Originally posted by Finnerty:

No one is forcing you to find that last animal. Try a planet that has only 5 or 6 total. That will make it happen faster. The game doesnt have an end, you dont ever "beat the game". So whats your hurry?

Im not talking about trying finding every animal on a planet (I have "encyclopedia" in 'Planet Zoology Scanned' , its just boring and not exciting to find the same dumb cow or crab on every planet, but with a different eyestalk type or leg type.

[EatThatPie]

Originally posted by R-K WARLORD:

TFW you have <20 hours played lmfao.

I dont have 20 hours played, i have 248 hours. It says so in my library.

[darkflemish]

If you know how, there aren't hard to find
240 scanned planets for all animals

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1410071374

[EatThatPie]

Originally posted by darkflemish:

If you know how, there aren't hard to find
240 scanned planets for all animals

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1410071374

THIS IS NOT WHAT I MEAN. (sorry for caps) I dont have a problem FINDING animals, its just they all look the same. I want new animal genres. Not just fish, birds, and cows.

[Wylie28]

That is what makes them interesting...

[Wylie28]

You either have a lot of something boring, or little of something interesting. You cant have both that isnt how your brain works.

[p0pt@rt]

For starters, OP had title correct yesterday.. in the proc models, there are nodes labeled "_RARE" and they seem to have a less frequent occurence.. just like the Squid Ship is the rare exotic and the Royal ships are the more common of the exotics..

What OP is saying is that too many planets they visit have the same animals.. and while they are not identical, I'm sure they do share similarities because looking at the proc files, I see a very limited number of possible combinations.. roughly 12~20 different part combinations per proc animal (if you're lucky).. However, it gets move varying when the texture materials get applied..

You might come across an animal with the same build and appearance, but eye color will be different, the fur might be a different color, the horns, spines, quills or added parts to the body will be different materials, etc.. Same shape, same parts, different texture.. Is a ship with a different paint job still the same ship, or is it a different ship? It's certainly a different seed..

In short, you may have seen the rare animals and not even know it.. Finding fauna is one of my wife's favorite things to do.. However, I get bored of it very quickly because not only can the hunt get tedious, but it likely results in seeing something similar to what I've already seen before..

Truth be told, the variety for fauna is just as limited to the variety of ships and flora.. and these are the factors that resulted in stagnant and boring game play.. leaving me to follow comments on forums more than I mod, and mod more than I play..

[Wylie28]

that isnt what OP means

[p0pt@rt]

Originally posted by Wylie28:

that isnt what OP means

Says the guy that misinterpreted OP in the first place.. how about we let OP be the judge of whether or not that's what they meant, hrmm?

[Tim]

The OP is right. There's not a lot of variety in the types of birds, animals or fish found. I've found the same crab like creatures on at least a couple of dozen planets. Birds are almost always the same. There's not a whole lot of variety with fish or land animals either. I love the game and have well over 1200 hours in it but I'd have to say that the variety of creatures is a major weakness of the game.

Think about it. We travel millions of miles to different planets and galaxies. We shouldn't be finding the same type of life on planets that far away from each other. It would be like going to Mars and finding deer or catfish. The OP has a valid point. There needs to be more variety in creatures. Maybe that's new content or just a formula needing tweaked. Right now it's kind of boring to be seeing what amounts to the same creatures over and over again.

[p0pt@rt]

Originally posted by Etack:

Think about it. We travel millions of miles to different planets and galaxies. We shouldn't be finding the same type of life on planets that far away from each other. It would be like going to Mars and finding deer or catfish. The OP has a valid point. There needs to be more variety in creatures. Maybe that's new content or just a formula needing tweaked. Right now it's kind of boring to be seeing what amounts to the same creatures over and over again.

When I think about how DNA and chromosomes work, I actually understand why we have similar fauna out there.. and I would expect to see some deviation of a Deer or a Fish if I were to find another planet harboring a zootopia of life.. especially if the big bang theory is the start of the universe.. same/similar DNA/chromosomes blasted outward all over the cosmos with only a variation of a few chromosomes between them.. This idea is even supported by the Greyish Human like aliens depicted by people claiming to have had encounters.. TMK, there's no reports of seeing a shellfish alien, or Omicronians, like in Futurama.. Who knows, maybe they're out there.. or maybe we're really not as alone in this universe as we previously thought..

Nonetheless, I would like to see more variety like in Futurama.. regardless of the realism factor behind it..

[Tim]

Originally posted by kremit_defrog:

Originally posted by Etack:

Think about it. We travel millions of miles to different planets and galaxies. We shouldn't be finding the same type of life on planets that far away from each other. It would be like going to Mars and finding deer or catfish. The OP has a valid point. There needs to be more variety in creatures. Maybe that's new content or just a formula needing tweaked. Right now it's kind of boring to be seeing what amounts to the same creatures over and over again.

When I think about how DNA and chromosomes work, I actually understand why we have similar fauna out there.. and I would expect to see some deviation of a Deer or a Fish if I were to find another planet harboring a zootopia of life.. especially if the big bang theory is the start of the universe.. same/similar DNA/chromosomes blasted outward all over the cosmos with only a variation of a few chromosomes between them.. This idea is even supported by the Greyish Human like aliens depicted by people claiming to have had encounters.. TMK, there's no reports of seeing a shellfish alien, or Omicronians, like in Futurama.. Who knows, maybe they're out there.. or maybe we're really not as alone in this universe as we previously thought..

Nonetheless, I would like to see more variety like in Futurama.. regardless of the realism factor behind it..

You assume that DNA and chromosomes work that way throughout all of space. My point is these planets and galaxies are millions of miles away from each other. The likelihood of finding the exact same type of animals or even a variation shouldn't be that common.

It's like with NASA searching for life on other worlds. They look for life the way we know it to exist. It's entirely possible that there is life on other planets that don't conform to our laws of nature. In NMS there's just not enough variety of creatures within the NMS universe. Similar crab-like creatures on planets millions of miles away makes the game boring. We need more variation of everything. More planet types. More and different kinds of flora and fauna. I'm not really interested in seeing deer, bears or dinosaurs but I don't want to see crabs on every other planet either.