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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 13, 2016
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elgonzo: I don't care and i don't criticize how other people (including AlienMind) spend their money and their time (although, it is always tempting to leave a snarky remark :).
Oh I'm not saying AlienMind and a bunch of other people are right or anything along those lines - what I had in mind is that when a person drops that kind of cash on a product, that person'll naturally be biased towards being positive about the game purely in order to not feel / drive away buyer's remorse. In other words, it's quite pointless to argue with them as they must be right since they paid so much, surely.

It's also why user reviews suck a few days/weeks upon release of a title - you'll get massively positive reviews of people who can't see fault with the product and massively negative reviews from people who are disappointed or experience technical difficulties. It's only with time that people sober up and actually start seeing a product for what it is.

I mean, for crying out loud you get people who defend abysmal performance on some machines by saying "It works for me" as if that solved anything.
Post edited August 13, 2016 by Fenixp
Posted August 13, 2016
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gloombandit: I've not purchased, but there is this further post by B0SC0, of the GOG.com Team:

nepundo: 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?

B0SC0: In this context, playing without the Galaxy client logged in, or playing without an internet connection.


Which would indicate you'd need to disconnect yer internets.

Apologies, couldn't find any other references.
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nepundo: Hmmm... From that answer, I'd say you can play "offline" while having internet access from the Galaxy client if you download the game and then you log out. Actually, I didn't know you could do that, but I tried (with other games) after reading B0SC0's reply and you can. When you log out you can't access your library, but you can start the games you already have installed.

However I guess some people just want to download the installer manually, install the game and run it without any Galaxy client, and in that case I also infer from B0SC0's reply that you have to disconnect your internet.

I think that's really shoddy. Also, using your GOG username in-game if you run it via Galaxy...? What if you don't want that? What happens if the first time you start the game it's outside Galaxy? In that case you get to choose your name? And then what happens if you switch between "offline" and Galaxy?

I don't think it's that difficult to provide an offline mode in the game options, and much less to let you choose a nickname. That they don't get to make something so trivial a seamless experience speaks volumes to me about the quality of the whole thing.
Configure your firewall when NMS tries to access internet. Block all it's attempts or simply turn off your network when playing it. This is what I do. I fear this is all we can do, they have not put in any other option.

Certainly seems rushed :(
Post edited August 13, 2016 by styggron
Posted August 13, 2016
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Fenixp: It's also why user reviews suck a few days/weeks upon release of a title - you'll get massively positive reviews of people who can't see fault with the product and massively negative reviews from people who are disappointed or experience technical difficulties. It's only with time that people sober up and actually start seeing a product for what it is.
Yupp. Mix aggressive marketing strategies with asocial media, and you have a perfect recipe that turns some adults into infants. It's like Benjamin Button. In the past, i thought it would be a good thing to reverse the aging process. But confronted with the real-life effects of age reversal (if only psychological), i don't like that idea anymore.

(Sorry, i could not resist giving in to the temptation of writing a snarky remark. Oh the joy ;-)

On a more serious note. Fortunately not all adults turn into infants and not all kids are dumb, some of them are just a bit overenthusiastic. So i'll keep arguing against hyperbole from time to time. (in truth i do this only for my own entertainment and satisfaction, not for the betterment of humankind. Am i pretentious, or what? ;-)
Post edited August 13, 2016 by elgonzo
Posted August 13, 2016
I feel lucky, that I trusted the previews in my game mags and didn't bought this experience. Long time ago I lost interest in every games with procedural generated content. But than...its funny to see so many fall for the next hype ;-)
Posted August 13, 2016
Thanks, but I'm happy in my own little corner playing Mega Man X on my 3DS. Unlike this, MMX worked right out of the box.
Posted August 13, 2016
Well, at least the title "No Man's Sky" is accurate...

Because half of the people who bought the thing can't play it. XD
Posted August 13, 2016
Is there any game in the Gog catalog that similar to NMS and don't requires a power plant PC ?
Posted August 13, 2016
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AlienMind: Revolutionary != the first one who did it.
Nitpickers.
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elgonzo: Nobody with some sense would consider that revolution(ary) equals first occurrence. And nobody with some sense would consider a feature in a present-day product being revolutionary if it was already a major feature of widely released commercial products decades ago. Take off your rose-tinted glasses, and you will see...
So you telling me I have no sense. Fuck you.
Posted August 13, 2016
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Painted_Doll: Is there any game in the Gog catalog that similar to NMS and don't requires a power plant PC ?
I don't know what do you mean by power plant PC but where I used to workthat power plant had a Pentium 2 PC with Win 95 on it. :P
Posted August 13, 2016
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AlienMind: So you telling me I have no sense. Fuck you.
Why so aggressive, seems you are under a lot of stress...
So, does that mean that you keep thinking that the feature you are talking about is revolutionary despite it being around for a long time already; and you agree with me that people with some sense wouldn't do this?
Post edited August 13, 2016 by elgonzo
Posted August 13, 2016
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Painted_Doll: Is there any game in the Gog catalog that similar to NMS and don't requires a power plant PC ?
Starbound
Posted August 13, 2016
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AlienMind: So you telling me I have no sense. Fuck you.
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elgonzo: Why so aggressive, seems you are under a lot of stress...
So, does that mean that you keep thinking that the feature you are talking about is revolutionary despite it being around for a long time already; and you agree with me that people with some sense wouldn't do this?
I don't know, I have no sense remember?
Posted August 13, 2016
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Schnuff: I feel lucky, that I trusted the previews in my game mags and didn't bought this experience. Long time ago I lost interest in every games with procedural generated content. But than...its funny to see so many fall for the next hype ;-)
I know, right?
Posted August 13, 2016
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nepundo: However I guess some people just want to download the installer manually, install the game and run it without any Galaxy client, and in that case I also infer from B0SC0's reply that you have to disconnect your internet.
The manual installer works fine, and runs the game in offline mode. You don't need to disconnect your internet connection.
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Schnuff: I feel lucky, that I trusted the previews in my game mags and didn't bought this experience. Long time ago I lost interest in every games with procedural generated content. But than...its funny to see so many fall for the next hype ;-)
I feel lucky that I bought the game instead of listening to the negativity. I'm having a great time with it.
Post edited August 13, 2016 by barleyguy
Posted August 13, 2016
Is it me, or does elgonzo come off like HAL? :P

Every time I read a post of his, I hear it in that voice.
Post edited August 13, 2016 by tinyE
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