Play Online?

[admwht]

I love this game anf have been enjoying my little adventures' but how do I play online with other people?

[Krash Megiddo]

Turn on multiplayer. Visit the anomaly

[admwht]

I'm on multiplayer but how do I visit the anomaly?

[[Soa]The_Last_UtopianTTV]

progress through the story line until you unlock the anomaly. goto space hit "x" and summon the space station called "the anomaly"
not the atlas path.... the other one

[admwht]

Thank you guys, I will continue my game

[admwht]

the online play seems very limited to the anomaly, once I leave there's no one but me

[Supreme Leader]

Originally posted by admwht:

the online play seems very limited to the anomaly, once I leave there's no one but me

Because the universe in NMS is so huge, chances are you will almost never run into anyone. It can happen. But rarely. Normally people meet in the anomaly, group up and do missions together in a party. Once you leave the anomaly, you will be with your friends or party and you'll see them.

[DukeFavre]

Originally posted by admwht:

the online play seems very limited to the anomaly, once I leave there's no one but me

progress into the story of the anomaly.

you will unlock daily, weekly stuff to unlock. season pass stuff. it's nice

there's ALWAYS people in the anomaly don't be nuts. ALWAYS.

[Krash Megiddo]

If you play the expedition, you'll find many players in the rendezvous systems.

[ᴼDAE]

If you turn on multiplayer and visit the anomaly then prepare yourself for the likelihood of constant crashes when entering the anomaly....

[indigo]

Originally posted by admwht:

the online play seems very limited to the anomaly, once I leave there's no one but me

Grouping helps here - members of your group can tell where you've gone, see you on radar, and can travel with you relatively easily.

Be sure to engage with those in your group so they're aware you're an actual, live, living being as well. It happens far too often, especially in the Anomaly, that you'll get "group" requests that are not actually requests, but a side effect of you being between someone else and something they want to interact with - so lingering in front of terminals or NPC's may get you "grouped" by accident. Most who spend any time on the Anomaly are aware of this, and have developed reflexes to decline these non-invites. Others might accept them, only to get the message off their screens, and will continue on about their business as if you weren't actually there.

By and large, the NMS community is pretty good, though it spans borders quite frequently, so winding up grouped with someone who has no idea what your native language even is can, and does, happen.

[Ryvaken Tadrya]

Originally posted by admwht:

the online play seems very limited to the anomaly, once I leave there's no one but me

No Man's Sky's main selling point is how egregiously, pointlessly, stupidly large it is. There are sixteen to the sixteenth power systems in this game. If every human being on the planet was playing the game, there would be two billion star systems per person.

With NMS's low player base, the chances of running into another person at random...happened to me exactly once in Normal mode.

Needless to say, there is no value to being this big; it's actually a detriment to overall quality. It's a gimmick used to generate interest and hype, which famously worked far too well.

If you have friends that play the game, it's easy to play together. Vaguely pointless, but easy. If you're just looking for strangers to play with, you are not playing the right game for that kind of interaction.

[GhostUrsa]

Besides the Anomaly, you can also load into Multiplayer from the main menu to get quickly into a friends game. Or even a stranger. Plus with multiplayer turned on in the options menu you can end up seeing other players just flying around sometimes. Near impossible at the start f a new run, but becomes more possible the closer to the center of the galaxy you get.

[Krash Megiddo]

Originally posted by Ryvaken Tadrya:

No Man's Sky's main selling point is how egregiously, pointlessly, stupidly large it is. There are sixteen to the sixteenth power systems in this game. If every human being on the planet was playing the game, there would be two billion star systems per person.

Interesting that on the same day we have players at both ends of the spectrum pertaining to the size of NMS's playing field:
"NMS is crowded. I keep finding discovered systems"
and
"How do I find other players? I'm so alone out here in the middle of nowhere"

And I love this phrase:
"how egregiously, pointlessly, stupidly large it is"

We could analyze just how true that is, especially compared to our own Milky Way, which is *only* 100,000 light years across. The Earth sits 28,000 ly from the core. A game based on the Milky Way as a 1:1 model (eg Elite Dangerous) would still be:
"egregiously, pointlessly, stupidly large"

I often think to myself, just how big would a space game galaxy have to be in order to always have new systems waiting to be discovered? What's the record for the most systems discovered by a single player in NMS? 10,000 or 50,000 star systems?

[admwht]

Thank you guys, I do really enjoy the game and you guys just made it more exciting. Thank you 🙂