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Posted August 18, 2016
Reach out and touch space.



UPDATE: The first No Man's Sky update is now out!
It's a much-awaited bundle of fixes, as well as compatibility and performance improvements and you can grab it now via GOG Galaxy auto-updates, or with the newest offline installers.



<span class="bold">No Man's Sky</span> a massive science-fiction game set in an infinite procedurally generated galaxy, is available now, DRM-free on GOG.com. Note that the game takes place in one persistent PC universe, shared across GOG and Steam.

In an intergalactic society, only the few set off towards the stars — explorers, those unafraid, those with nothing to lose. They set off never to come back as far as any of us are concerned. And thus, we still look up at an infinite sky, now within our reach, yet still untouched — a no man's land, a No Man's Sky.

No Man's Sky promises discovery of an infinite, uncharted universe. Its billions of stars, planets, unknown living creatures, breathtaking sights and lonely wastelands — all seamlessly connected — gradually getting catalogued by explorers drawn to the distant mysteries of the horizon, eager to leave a permanent mark in their wake.

The frontier is merciless and dangerous. Exposed to a universe of extremities in your fragile suit and ship, you'll need resources and upgrades to get far — as well as the means to stand your ground in a fight. Whether you journey to the center of it all or seek out the farthest reaches of existence, the trip will not be simple or dull. You'll catalogue things unseen, discover alien artifacts and reveal the greatest mysteries of the universe. If you survive.



Calibrate your suits for extreme insomnia, reach out and touch the <span class="bold">No Man's Sky</span>, DRM-free on GOG.com!
Posted August 12, 2016
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djar: NMS.exe - screen flashes - nothing happens. :-(
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sbrookman: Running AMD Phenom II X6 1090T, Win 10 x64, Radeon R9 280X. I get the splash screen saying Hello Games, then crash to desktop. Fun times!
AMD Phenom II X4 965, Win 7 x64, Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Exactly the same Problem.
Posted August 12, 2016
This game is a bit poop.
Posted August 12, 2016
Works perfectly on my system

i7-5930
GForce - 980 Ti
32 Gig ram
Windows 10 64-bit with ann. update

Played for about 2 hours and loving it.
Post edited August 12, 2016 by Kal5370
Posted August 12, 2016
From SakSak's review, I quote:

"Travel to a planet - mine resources - craft items or sell resources for cash - purchase a new ship. Maybe if you're interested try to follow the learn an alien language one word at a time. Repeat until boredom and switch to a better game."

That's Parkan II for ya. But the latter costs 10 usd ;D
Posted August 12, 2016
I should also include my specs (same problem - crash after Hello Games logo (I can hear a music for a split of a second)) AMD Phenom II 955, Radeon R9 280 3GB, 16GB RAM. It indeed mostly affects AMD hardware. Windows 7. Everything up to date.
Post edited August 12, 2016 by JoeJesus
Posted August 12, 2016
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B0SC0: Just a note folks,

Please ensure that your drivers are up to date, and that VC2013 C++ and VC2010 Service Pack 1 redistributables are installed. These are included with the installers, but it doesn't hurt to double check.

We're keeping an eye on this and will aim to get any patch or fixes out ASAP.

Also, the patch deployed on Steam is specifically a Steam related issue and does not affect our version.
Please tell me this game is using Galaxy's patch system though, meaning the dev can push updates without going through GOG?
Posted August 12, 2016
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kdgog: Can you turn off all the online features (other people renaming planets and species etc?) I don't want to buy the game if that guff can't be disabled. The GOG specs didn't say it needed to be online (and that would be a form of DRM in some ways), but other places implied it was always online whether you want that or not. Thanks!
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B0SC0: You can play offline, it just means you won't be able to sync with the database universe between players
Great, many thanks!
Posted August 12, 2016
Launch game, see publisher logos, flying through stars for about 20 seconds and then white screen *error* crash to desktop.

Well that's poop.
Posted August 12, 2016
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Nesoo: Jim Sterling called it mediocre (please note that Jim actually uses the entire 1-10 scale, not 7-10 like most other reviewers), and got DDOSed for his trouble. I was fairly excited for it (though that price... ouch!), but some of the things he talked about in the review just turned me right off, so I probably won't be getting it.
What he wrote was my EXACT fear about NMS all along.

Regardess what any review says. NMS has to be good for only 1 person. Who ever is playing :) I really look forward to playing it.
Post edited August 12, 2016 by styggron
Posted August 12, 2016
Anyone been able to play long enough yet to say if it has potential?

This looked great, but this is a launch to shame Arkham Knight.

I hope it's patched, and I'm glad it's on GOG, but I'm also very happy that I was up ridiculously late last night and there was plenty of time for people to meet the horrible port before I was tempted to buy it early.
Posted August 12, 2016
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B0SC0: You can play offline, it just means you won't be able to sync with the database universe between players
Sorry if this obvious, but you mean playing offline as in switching a setting in some in-game menu, or offline as in not having internet access?
Posted August 12, 2016
The game does not start for me as for many other users all across the boards. Splash screen with the company logo and crash to desktop.

My specs:
AMD Phenom2 X4 955
AMD Radeon Fury Nano (Radeon software 16.8.2 Hotfix released yesterday, with No Man's Sky support added)
8 GB RAM
480 GB SSD (120 GB system SSD)
Windows 10Pro 64bit

From all I read so far it seems to me the the game has a problem if SSE4.1 instruction sets are not supported by your CPU. The Phenom2 for example only supports instruction sets up to SSE4A, but there may also be other older CPU's having this issue.

So for the moment there seems nothing that I could do, but wait for a patch with support for below SSE4.1. GOG could have told this requirement on the game page at least because I would not have bought the game at release in this case.

They could also mention that your graphic card has to support OpenGL 4.5 or above, as it seems to give problems as well. Not a problem for me though as the Nano supports OpenGL V6.14.10.13447 according to the driver info.

Well I will wait a few days for a patch or some explanation/work around from the devs until I will have to ask for the refund because the minimum specification were not clearly shown on the game card in the shop.
Post edited August 12, 2016 by Quasebarth
Posted August 12, 2016
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avaery: Launch game, see publisher logos, flying through stars for about 20 seconds and then white screen *error* crash to desktop.

Well that's poop.
Same here, this is......very disappointing. I still have not installed the DLC yet because of the reported hyperdrive bug. Does this effect the GOG version? Right now I've little to lose by trying it.
Posted August 12, 2016
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park_84: I wouldn't think of this as an AAA game...
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barleyguy: Agreed. This is an indie game. The development team is about 15 people AFAIK.

I did buy this, even though I almost never buy $60 games. Won't be home from work for about 6 hours though.

I also bought a video card this week, partly for this game. Though I needed one anyway, to do Witcher 3 justice among other things.
It sure is priced like one... well, for me it gets only on the wishlist for now.
Posted August 12, 2016
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Smannesman: Wow several crappy reviews already.
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apehater: but i have to give the devs a +1 for not making it online only
Totally. When I first heard of this I thought "there is another game I will never get to play as it will be online only and riddled with DRM" so happy it is here and I can be FULLY offline so anything I find is MINE. :)
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