They've ruined sense of realism

[frvind74]

What are these floating islands?? Pandora type?? As far as I'm concerned it's ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥! There are no possibilities for this in the Universe. With the latest update they are moving NMS away from a sense of realism and towards stupid fiction: this will turn a lot of people away.

[anthony_4n7]

well, I will remind you that floating stones, platos or something like that was already in the game and people already used them for base building or whatever... so if it isnt realistic now, then it wasnt realistic before too by your logic

[Hamsandwich]

I remember the first time I learned a new alien language by touching a rock, and was glad that they put that realistic element of life into No Mans Sky

[gNg]

Realism in NMS? You're kidding, aren't you...??? 🤪

[RorschachBC007]

Originally posted by frvind74:

What are these floating islands?? Pandora type?? As far as I'm concerned it's ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥! There are no possibilities for this in the Universe. With the latest update they are moving NMS away from a sense of realism and towards stupid fiction: this will turn a lot of people away.

What realism did it have before this update.

[DogeIsSandvich]

Something like large floating islands makes a lot of sense for NMS though, and they don't subtract from the game's art direction or aesthetic sense, considering the game already has and had a lot of anomalous entities and reality-warping ideas since its conception. I don't wanna get too deep into spoilers, but the story of this game eventually reveals thatanything is possible within the universe of NMS.

[Mr. Bufferlow]

Realism... OP does not really know this game.

[EvilPolygons]

NMS has always had floating islands. It's a callback to old sci-fi art from the 70's, which heavily inspired HG when making the game.

Plotwise, NMS isn't even supposed to be realistic anyway, because the entire universe is just a simulation running inside the mind of ATLAS. Everything you experience is just the fever dream of a dying machine.

[Ghostrider]

No Man's Sky has never been about "realism", if it was then pretty much most of what is in the game would not be there. If you want "realism" there are plenty of other space games for that such as Starfield or Elite Dangerous.

[wunili]

Originally posted by frvind74:

What are these floating islands?? Pandora type?? As far as I'm concerned it's ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥! There are no possibilities for this in the Universe. With the latest update they are moving NMS away from a sense of realism and towards stupid fiction: this will turn a lot of people away.

Moving away from realism?? LOL !! You have got to be kidding. NMS has never been 'realistic', but full of weird and wonderful animals, plants and planets. Hardly things that you could call realistic. So I really cannot see your point.

[yungfishstick]

This is the worst bait I've ever seen in my life. Get a hobby for the love of God

[⭐️Good⭐️Game⭐]

floating islands can exist. Any island that is not chained or connected to the planet could be gravity pull by another planet but not light enough to fly off planet's orbit.

[PhilipWiseman]

its a SF not arma

[dampf.l]

Originally posted by frvind74:

... this will turn a lot of people away.

I agree. Now we are two, I guess? Who wants to join us? Please, anybody?

Just kidding, of course I like floating islands. They are as realistic as everything else in the game.

[CosmicDan]

Lol what sense of realism, we're chasing the Engine of God / Nexus of Reality and all kinds of fantastical concepts in this game since day one. One could argue that its not even SciFi at all, the same way Star Wars isn't scifi but "High Fantasy set in space" - none of the technology is ever explained, its just all magic stuff wrapped in a futuristic presentation....

...not saying that's bad or anything its cool, but rather the idea that people ever considered this game as "realistic" or "accurate scifi" is just funny - it's not supposed to be lol. If you want realism go try Star Citizen or Elite: Dangerous.

[flick]

Originally posted by ⭐️Good⭐️Game⭐:

floating islands can exist. Any island that is not chained or connected to the planet could be gravity pull by another planet but not light enough to fly off planet's orbit.

How come people and animals and the supreme Gek don't get sucked off the planets then if this gravity business is what's taking the little islands away?