What do *you* do in the game ?

[Emaulligu]

Hi everyone,

I've recently had NMS spiking my interest and as such have been trying to make myself an idea of the game. I know there's probably a ton of videos covering the topic but I'm much more interested in hearing people speak for themselves instead, that would also help me get a more global vision of what the game offers.
So what do you do in this game ? What's your favorite part of the gameplay that keeps you playing ?

[JunkyardCat]

Pretty much everything that game alowes me to do, I do it at some point. Variety and diversity is really good. Following various quest lines, exploring star systems, building own economy to be more or less independant in game terms which enables me to free roam with no worries of income... Hunting for Exotic ships.. etc. Theres really a lot that game offers.

[Heliosa]

J'ai plus de 4 400 heures de jeu dans NMS et j'y trouve toujours un intérêt. Le jeu propose (en gros) de l'exploration, de la construction de bases, du commerce, de l'industrie, un peu du combat.

Personnellement, c'est l'exploration qui m'attire le plus. J'ai plusieurs sauvegardes dans différents niveaux de difficultés : normal, survie, mort définitive.

J'aime découvrir de nouveaux systèmes, de nouvelles planètes, de nouveaux animaux. Je recherche également certains types de vaisseaux spatiaux, de cargos qui me plaisent particulièrement.

Au bout d'un moment, c'est assez répétitif et malgré tout je continue à jouer pratiquement tous les jours. Je fais des missions : Nexus dans l'anomalie (on peut les faire à plusieurs), stations spatiales et j'apprécie les "expéditions" qui sont proposées de temps en temps par HG (9 jusqu'à présent) et qui changent de "l'ordinaire".

J'aime les graphismes, la musique, le côté' "science-fiction" de ce jeu. J'aime No Man Sky : c'est un jeu qui correspond parfaitement à mes attentes.

[dukes111]

I only play when there is a new expedition cause I like missions with lots of real people playing a long side. Other than that its boring now.

[Jaggid Edje]

Even when I'm not actively playing the game regularly, I fire it up multiple times a day, every day, just to take care of settlement decisions. It's not exactly a 'fun' game loop, but it never ends, so I just can't stop doing it. I need help.

When I am actively playing, my preference for activities is to do whatever expedition is current, and then to stay in that save up until the point where all of the story missions are complete, and then to keep going until the freighter is fully upgraded, so I run a LOT of derelict freighters for freighter tech modules and salvaged frigate modules.

I also like discovering systems and exploring the planets in those system, trying to scan every fauna on every planet, and salvaging crashed ships while I'm doing that. But the 'upgrade' loop is what mostly keeps me going, because the exploration aspect usually wears thin once I have no more upgrade needs (i.e. all tech upgraded and slots upgraded on suit, multi-tools, starship and freighter). Because of this I have a lot of saves at the 100-200 hour of play mark, and only a single save with more than that.

[Emaulligu]

Originally posted by Heliosa:

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Merci pour ta réponse, j'achète très peu de jeux en général, et souvent dans l'intention de leur mettre un maximum d'heures de jeu, ça fait partie de mes facteurs déterminants.

Après je vais quand même passer sur quelques vidéos vite fait pour l'UI et les graphismes, mais je préfère de loin lire des avis, déjà c'est plus rapide, et puis c'est plus intéressant.

De toute façon je pense que j'attendrai les prochaines soldes, même si je sais qu'il était en solde la semaine dernière.

[Guyver8]

Lol...i'd say 'whatever the hell i want to' but in truth i love the early to mid gameplay (survival/pd), i enjoy modding the game for QoL, visuals, additional difficulty and mods to alter the game to closer my vision of wot the game can be.
(i luv trying to understand the gameplay mechanics)

i'm an explorer at heart so sometimes it finding 'that' creature, sometimes it's a beautiful hostile planet, sometimes it's visiting a player base i've seen on the NMSCE website, sometimes it's finding a ship, sometimes it's using or making a mod to change an aspect of the game...having said all that, i also luv the 'grind' of upgrading all my stuff Lol

PS. to my surprise...combat in all it's forms since the desolation update has become much more interesting/fun for me (still not a PvP fan but who knows wot the future holds)

[Emaulligu]

In all fairness I'm having a bit of a hard time pinpointing what the games does not do because it looks like people keep mentioning completely different features in every post.

[Jaggid Edje]

It does not make my coffee and eggs in the morning, so when I wake up and go straight to playing the game that's a real problem.

[mycatisaklingon]

I really like discovering and naming as many planets and solar systems as I can! I also like building and decorating my base, and fighting pirates/sentinels when I'm feeling mean XD

[Nanaki]

Originally posted by Emaulligu:

In all fairness I'm having a bit of a hard time pinpointing what the games does not do because it looks like people keep mentioning completely different features in every post.

Probably because you ask what people do in the game and got individual responses which will be different. It is hard to put this into a genre, so much you can do in the game.

Survival, exploration and building are three aspects of the game but it has so much more and stuff keeps getting added.

I do recommend buying it and seeing for yourself. Get a refund after 2 hours if you like but you will barely scratch the surface.

Edit: Oh, to answer the question: at the moment I am jumping from system to system to get my inventory and tech slots up. My base is on my freighter and I explore a fair bit then when I find a 'paradise' planet I tend to make an outpost and stay a while to explore the planet.

[Guyver8]

Originally posted by Emaulligu:

In all fairness I'm having a bit of a hard time pinpointing what the games does not do because it looks like people keep mentioning completely different features in every post.

it's a great big sandbox...so while there is a main quest/mission that has a strict form (beginning, middle and end goal) we have the freedom to step away from that to go do anything else that strikes our fancy whether that's exploration, ship/MT hunting...or flying ships in cave warrens Lol

[Consoomer]

All my saves are "themed" - some characters are builders (industrialists or scientists), some are pirates (smugglers and cutthroats). I like leaning heavily into different mechanics to create specialist builds that focus on narrow gameplay styles and go really deep into them. That makes it seem like I'm playing a different game every time.

I take every save to the same region of Calypso, around one of the "first-glyph" systems, about 6k from center. One of my cross-save goals is finding the most extreme hellhole planets.

[Emaulligu]

Originally posted by Nanaki:

Probably because you ask what people do in the game and got individual responses which will be different. It is hard to put this into a genre, so much you can do in the game.

Survival, exploration and building are three aspects of the game but it has so much more and stuff keeps getting added.

I do recommend buying it and seeing for yourself. Get a refund after 2 hours if you like but you will barely scratch the surface.

Edit: Oh, to answer the question: at the moment I am jumping from system to system to get my inventory and tech slots up. My base is on my freighter and I explore a fair bit then when I find a 'paradise' planet I tend to make an outpost and stay a while to explore the planet.

That's part of the thought experiment in my opinion, it helps getting a broader overview of all the "endgame" that exist, or at least that people make for themselves, since the game seems very open-ended.
I can't imagine the total length of video I would have to ingurgitate to come close that that result.

I know that if I choose to purchase it, it's a one-way ticket because the 2 hour refund windows is too short to see enough of what the game has to offer.
Between us if I'm here making forums threads I probably made my mind already...
Last game for which I did that was Factorio, and that was 250 hours of playtime ago.
Ok ok, 250 doesn't sound that impressive I know.

[Guyver8]

Originally posted by Emaulligu:

I know that if I choose to purchase it, it's a one-way ticket because the 2 hour refund windows is too short to see enough of what the game has to offer.
Between us if I'm here making forums threads I probably made my mind already...
Last game for which I did that was Factorio, and that was 250 hours of playtime ago.

didn't realise at first that you hadn't bought the game yet...bear this in mind, no priced DLCs (all updates free) and no micro-transactions...buy it on sale...you won't regret it

[Emaulligu]

I'm waiting for the next sale, yep.
I know one just ended but I've checked SteamDB and there seem to be about one each month roughly.