Because of Light No Fire having rideable birds and being very much my thing, and it being from the #NoMansSky devs (who really understand how to do primarily cooperative online), I'm once again thinking about No Man's Sky and
seriously if you never did the Expeditions? They're 100% the right way to experience the game now. Taking the game and necking it down to a bunch of specific but wildly divergent goals that sorta, tell a mechanical narrative, and giving you a bunch of resources if necessary to smooth out the rough spots you'd normally hit doing those, is just such a clever thing.
Really dig the community aspect too. Everyone has a good reason to build a bunch of purpose-specific bases to help everyone else along with the objectives, which gives you a new reason to go HAM and build some cool new base themed around (whatever it is), just- the whole thing is super rad. Fucking fantastic sense of community in those.
Been playing #NoMansSky again for the past few hours. What’s absolutely baffling is how I can play it for four hours, and feel like I’ve not spent enough time on it. It’s just so big*.
Ok so my #NoMansSky ship just got glitched in a tree or something and then exploded, and now I've got to repair it, on top of grinding stuff for the expedition. Nobody got time for that.
#NoMansSky just dropping a MASSIVE update today. Taking what we've been told about game development and just obliterating it. Subs? Nah. Cash shop? No way! Box price alone this entire time. This is mostly why I love this game. Hello Games is such an outlier in the industry. Refusing to bow to "live service" shenanigans they've still built and continue massive development on an amazing product. I'm not really a "Day 1" type person but this I may check out tonight.
In the past, when I would come up with a fun phrase, I would say $FUN_PHRASE is my new band name. Which really started to annoy my band, especially the one dude with money who had to get stickers made.
I have a new outlet for this: In #NoMansSky, I can just drop half a Bil to hire a new frigate, and re-name it.
“Machine Gun Ski Patrol” is my new frigate name. Or maybe “Full-auto Biathlon”
Here’s a #NoMansSky tip I learned. If you make the Sentinels on a planet mad and you don’t care to fight, just dig a hole and jump in. They’ll eventually lose interest. I make a tunnel, then another tunnel at a right angle, and they rarely find their way in there.