"Worlds" not working on Mac thread

[habitante133]

This update is not going down well for many users. I still see everything exactly the same as before. None of the visual improvements. The sea is just as ugly as ever. This has been my favorite game by far in the last few years, but I put it down a while ago, and these improvements encouraged me to get back into it.
I don't know if it's something that only happens to Mac users. I've seen several articles talking about these problems.
I've uninstalled the game to reinstall it, let's see... and then I'll fiddle with the graphics options. Anyone else have this happen to them? Any wise rabbits?

Edit: I've reinstalled the game, and changed everything to Ultra in the graphics, but, although it looks great, and on the MacBookPro M1, which is already a few years old, it runs well, THERE IS NOTHING of what was promised at Worlds. No seas or atmospheres... Since this was what made me want to play again, I won't do it for now... until they fix it. No seas, no party.

[maestro]

Maybe Mac didn't get the update yet?

I don't understand why people use Apple products to begin with. Apple is a very anti-consumer company with pretty much zero respect for the customers.

Why you would willingly do business with a company that sees you as a moneybag and nothing more is beyond me. They design your products to be as fragile and expensive as possible, and then stymie all efforts by third parties to repair these easily breakable products, to try and force you to buy new ones, and the few authorized repair centers will not only charge you an arm and a leg to fix it, but will also erase your data even when not necessary.

It's clear Apple hates you, and you still support them, and I simply cannot understand why. You should be thankful that NMS is even ported to MacOS in the first place, 99% of games aren't, and there's good reason for that.

Just do yourself a favor and get a proper PC.

[Millsnerd]

Originally posted by maestro:

Maybe Mac didn't get the update yet?

I don't understand why people use Apple products to begin with. Apple is a very anti-consumer company with pretty much zero respect for the customers.

Why you would willingly do business with a company that sees you as a moneybag and nothing more is beyond me. They design your products to be as fragile and expensive as possible, and then stymie all efforts by third parties to repair these easily breakable products, to try and force you to buy new ones, and the few authorized repair centers will not only charge you an arm and a leg to fix it, but will also erase your data even when not necessary.

It's clear Apple hates you, and you still support them, and I simply cannot understand why. You should be thankful that NMS is even ported to MacOS in the first place, 99% of games aren't, and there's good reason for that.

Just do yourself a favor and get a proper PC.

Challenge: Post a game-related question as a Mac user without triggering an anti-Apple screed from someone with nothing better to do than antagonize the OP who's merely trying to play the game they both enjoy (IMPOSSIBLE DIFFICULTY).

[Millsnerd]

Originally posted by habitante133:

This update is not going down well for many users. I still see everything exactly the same as before. None of the visual improvements. The sea is just as ugly as ever. This has been my favorite game by far in the last few years, but I put it down a while ago, and these improvements encouraged me to get back into it.
I don't know if it's something that only happens to Mac users. I've seen several articles talking about these problems.
I've uninstalled the game to reinstall it, let's see... and then I'll fiddle with the graphics options. Anyone else have this happen to them? Any wise rabbits?

Edit: I've reinstalled the game, and changed everything to Ultra in the graphics, but, although it looks great, and on the MacBookPro M1, which is already a few years old, it runs well, THERE IS NOTHING of what was promised at Worlds. No seas or atmospheres... Since this was what made me want to play again, I won't do it for now... until they fix it. No seas, no party.

Same experience here on an M2 Pro mini. I suppose updates are in the pipeline, but the lack of any sort of communication from Hello Games is disappointing, especially given the gamebreaking graphical bugs some others are experiencing.

[maestro]

Originally posted by Millsnerd:

Challenge: Post a game-related question as a Mac user without triggering an anti-Apple screed from someone with nothing better to do than antagonize the OP who's merely trying to play the game they both enjoy (IMPOSSIBLE DIFFICULTY).

I am anti-Apple, that much is true.

There's a good and valid reason why I am so, is because Apple is leading the current "innovations" in the tech world where more and more companies are looking at what Apple is doing and they go "WE SHOULD DO THAT TOO" and now we have some other companies like Lenovo and Samsung copying Apple's anti-consumerism, such as soldiering batteries to motherboards, and serializing parts to prevent third party repair.

This affects me, because I don't want ALL of the tech landscape to look like this, and so yes, I am extremely anti-Apple. I hate Apple. I hate everything they are doing to the tech world.

And it really disappoints me to see Apple fanboys supporting them, because they are supporting all the bad junk that comes with Apple products.

It's not that I am antagonizing YOU, the consumer, in fact I'm trying to help you see why supporting Apple is a bad thing, hoping to convince you to stop supporting them.

The more people we turn away from Apple, the better it is for you, for me, and for everybody else in the tech world.

And at least you'd have more playable games.

Same experience here on an M2 Pro mini. I suppose updates are in the pipeline, but the lack of any sort of communication from Hello Games is disappointing, especially given the gamebreaking graphical bugs some others are experiencing.

Apple gamers represent a very tiny slice of the playerbase. Their efforts are focused on the vast majority, who are PC players. Apple uses a completely different operating system and architecture (or at least used to, these days I hear they are just Linux with a fancy distro running on x86-64 compatible hardware), so it takes extra time and effort to do the update for them, and they are such a tiny slice of the whole playerbase.

It's not practical for them to focus on you guys until they have completed the bugfixes of the update for us.

Once all the bugs are worked out, then they can work on porting the update and its bugfixes over to other ports.

[MS. Green Label]

this is why i built a PC, PC's are great

[maestro]

Originally posted by MS. Green Label:

this is why i built a PC, PC's are great

Quite a few former Apple users tend to say similar things, which is why I try to encourage everybody to move away from Apple.

They are usually resistant at first, but once they try it, they discover that it's actually better over here.

You can repair your own stuff, all the games are updated for you first, you can build your own computers from scratch, know exactly what's in the computer, there's tons of Youtube videos for support for anything you could possibly need support with, tutorials, and everything.

Mac used to be about customer support, but nowadays that "customer support" involves them ripping you off, charging you an arm and a leg and wiping your data, and preventing anybody else from fixing your stuff.

And of course, making it so that just looking at it wrong can break your hardware.

[Drakonious]

Works great on my PC, better than ever, thanks Sean.

[WulfGard]

sounds like a you problem, if you enjoy the game i would recommend upgrading to something that you can actually play it on because Hello games did deliver the update is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ magnificent

[maestro]

Originally posted by WulfGard:

sounds like a you problem, if you enjoy the game i would recommend upgrading to something that you can actually play it on because Hello games did deliver the update is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ magnificent

It reminds me of the people complaining about Windows 7 no longer running the game.

Like they seriously want HG to hold back development of the game for the rest of us because they are using a 15 year old PC? lol.

Meanwhile, the Apple guys expect HG to hold onto an update for months so that they can simultaneously release a PC and Apple update when the Apple gamers are probably like 1-5% of the total playerbase, lol. 95%+ of us should wait for the other 5% because they want to hang out in a special treehouse?

[Teamster]

Originally posted by maestro:

Maybe Mac didn't get the update yet?

I don't understand why people use Apple products to begin with. Apple is a very anti-consumer company with pretty much zero respect for the customers.

Why you would willingly do business with a company that sees you as a moneybag and nothing more is beyond me. They design your products to be as fragile and expensive as possible, and then stymie all efforts by third parties to repair these easily breakable products, to try and force you to buy new ones, and the few authorized repair centers will not only charge you an arm and a leg to fix it, but will also erase your data even when not necessary.

It's clear Apple hates you, and you still support them, and I simply cannot understand why. You should be thankful that NMS is even ported to MacOS in the first place, 99% of games aren't, and there's good reason for that.

Just do yourself a favor and get a proper PC.

But... The same is true about Microsoft.. They do not care and will never care. Same can be said about a lot of hardware manufacturers and OEM's. If they could, they would take away your right to repair in a heartbeat. And there's no question that they are trying to slowly erode those rights at the moment. I don't really see that as an argument against buying Apple products in any way that isn't also true for a PC system.

There's a handful of companies in the PC space that are actually trying to do good (and EVGA is out of the NVIDIA GPU market now, precisely because NVIDIA are treating their partners poorly), but unless you've bought your rig and/or hardware components from one of them.. Well, then you're in the same ♥♥♥♥♥♥ situation an Apple costumer is in.

[habitante133]

As Millsnerd has said:

Exactly. I don't want to start a pointless war with haters. I just want to let Hello Games know that for Mac users there seems to be no "Worlds" at the moment, and that's if they fix it, it would make me want to play the game again.

[Heliosa]

Originally posted by habitante133:

This update is not going down well for many users. I still see everything exactly the same as before. None of the visual improvements. The sea is just as ugly as ever. This has been my favorite game by far in the last few years, but I put it down a while ago, and these improvements encouraged me to get back into it.
I don't know if it's something that only happens to Mac users. I've seen several articles talking about these problems.
I've uninstalled the game to reinstall it, let's see... and then I'll fiddle with the graphics options. Anyone else have this happen to them? Any wise rabbits?

Edit: I've reinstalled the game, and changed everything to Ultra in the graphics, but, although it looks great, and on the MacBookPro M1, which is already a few years old, it runs well, THERE IS NOTHING of what was promised at Worlds. No seas or atmospheres... Since this was what made me want to play again, I won't do it for now... until they fix it. No seas, no party.

I'm sorry you can't enjoy it yet because it's awesome. And then being able to land on the water to scan the aquatic fauna is super nice! I hope you receive the update soon.
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[maestro]

Originally posted by Teamster:

But... The same is true about Microsoft.. They do not care and will never care.

Yeah, but you can always fixit yourself. Whether the problem is software or hardware.

Can't really do that with an Apple.

Same can be said about a lot of hardware manufacturers and OEM's. If they could, they would take away your right to repair in a heartbeat. And there's no question that they are trying to slowly erode those rights at the moment. I don't really see that as an argument against buying Apple products in any way that isn't also true for a PC system.

With a PC, you buy lots of separate parts and build yourself a PC if you're smart about it. It's very easy to do, nearly any novice can do it. There are MANY tutorials on Youtube on how to do this.

If any one single part in your PC goes, you can replace just that part, yourself, for very minimal work and minimal cost, way cheaper than sending your Apple off to the repair place. And you won't lose your data unless the storage drive went.

There's a handful of companies in the PC space that are actually trying to do good (and EVGA is out of the NVIDIA GPU market now, precisely because NVIDIA are treating their partners poorly), but unless you've bought your rig and/or hardware components from one of them.. Well, then you're in the same ♥♥♥♥♥♥ situation an Apple costumer is in.

No, because I can fix my own PC if it goes down (my previous PC lasted 5 years and had absolutely zero hardware failures). If the GPU card goes, I can buy another GPU card and stick in it for probably cheaper than it takes you to ship your Mac off. I have other older GPU cards that I can stick in this thing to get it running temporarily, OR, my Ryzen 5 5600G can handle GPU duties in a pinch if the card goes.

At least I won't be without my computer for several weeks, and even then when you get your Apple back, all of your data is gone, regardless if that was even necessary or not.

The last time I had a PC with a hardware failure, the PSU was starting to die, and I immediately ordered another from Newegg. I unplugged the ODD and one of the HDDs (this was how long ago that was, I had HDDs at the time) and it provided just enough power to the system to let it run, thankfully it was just my secondary PC that I used to play WoW with a family member with.

New PSU came in about 5 days, I opened the PC up, took the old PSU out, put the new PSU in, and I was back up in less than an hour, everything connected and running great.

You can't do that with a mac.

[Martin]

Originally posted by habitante133:

This update is not going down well for many users. I still see everything exactly the same as before. None of the visual improvements. The sea is just as ugly as ever. This has been my favorite game by far in the last few years, but I put it down a while ago, and these improvements encouraged me to get back into it.
I don't know if it's something that only happens to Mac users. I've seen several articles talking about these problems.
I've uninstalled the game to reinstall it, let's see... and then I'll fiddle with the graphics options. Anyone else have this happen to them? Any wise rabbits?

Edit: I've reinstalled the game, and changed everything to Ultra in the graphics, but, although it looks great, and on the MacBookPro M1, which is already a few years old, it runs well, THERE IS NOTHING of what was promised at Worlds. No seas or atmospheres... Since this was what made me want to play again, I won't do it for now... until they fix it. No seas, no party.

Did you get a patch? Sounds like a Mac issue, maybe Apple aren't taking a small enough bite.

[alexa]

Originally posted by habitante133:

This update is not going down well for many users. I still see everything exactly the same as before. None of the visual improvements. The sea is just as ugly as ever. This has been my favorite game by far in the last few years, but I put it down a while ago, and these improvements encouraged me to get back into it.
I don't know if it's something that only happens to Mac users. I've seen several articles talking about these problems.
I've uninstalled the game to reinstall it, let's see... and then I'll fiddle with the graphics options. Anyone else have this happen to them? Any wise rabbits?

Edit: I've reinstalled the game, and changed everything to Ultra in the graphics, but, although it looks great, and on the MacBookPro M1, which is already a few years old, it runs well, THERE IS NOTHING of what was promised at Worlds. No seas or atmospheres... Since this was what made me want to play again, I won't do it for now... until they fix it. No seas, no party.

no you are not alone, im on windows and it looks all the same lol. also it runs way worse and gpu usage constantly drops