Greg I agree that swimming always felt clunky but it also kinda makes sense that you move slower in water. Even if they do nothing else with swimming, I think the third-person camera will help. Seeing the swimming animation may make it feel less cumbersome.

But I’m hoping for some more water improvements too. It looks like you can build bases underwater now so I’m hoping that extra.

And Adam: yes. Most definitely!

I’m sure they’ll explain it somehow, and it’ll probably be pretty intuitive. As it stands right now, it’s kinda hard to find people but they haven’t had that focus before. The teleporters in stations and bases could have an option or something.

And thanks for the well wishes! Some bad shrimp.

They look like larger sentinels. If you really anger the sentinels they send out walkers that look like that but they’re about 1/3 the size. Since there were a few people running with them, I’m imagining it’s something we can hack to work with us or something.

And yeah Jon, the SEAN LIED ABOUT MULTIPLAYER rhetoric was overblown but based in truth. Basically all the other launch complaints had been worked out except for this one.

Check out this trailer mashup on reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/comments/8zmo0u/how_this_game_has_changed_3/

They basically re-created the original trailer with the new stuff. Interesting to see how far the game has come but... even still I'd love to play the game with that original art style/color palette. By the time the game released they'd changed quite a bit.

Also Greg-- you mentioned how they might implement playing together. If you check this screen there's a clear portal placed on someone's base. That's absolutely new, and looks more like the portals you find out in the world and activate with glyphs, rather than the teleporters that are automatically in bases and space stations

https://i.redditmedia.com/zmP-UQpa9RJGYQgbSmhdSj3FB4citN5gaXHZowcFAM4.png?fit=crop&crop=faces%2Centropy&arh=2&w=960&s=bbc3a5d1fe97e32212e217c6a2e4603f

Wow here’s a list of some minorish changes coming.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2018/07/20/28-changes-coming-to-no-mans-sky-with-next

That sounds like they’ve made multiplayer very easy and added some depth to the game.

And not only that, NMS is getting free weekly updates from here on, with new missions and events each week.

And a new website is launching, Galactic Atlas. It will show in-game events on the map and let you warp there straight from the site. Somehow‽

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vqk3f4bL3E

Tuesday, the 24th:
https://www.nomanssky.com/2018/05/no-mans-sky-next-multiplayer-and-release-date/

I should have put that in the post. On it!

In addition, since the Xbox version of this is a new release for the console, the new update is on the disc. There may be some updates on release day, but the core of it is definitely there. And as frequently happens, the street date was broken. So, if you want to search them out you can find videos of the new stuff.

A couple highlights I noticed:
The water is so great. It’s way improved over the current water. And it looks like it reacts to things. You can fly right over it and tip your wing into it and it will create a ripple effect.

Space stations have been heavily redesigned and kinda look like the Citadel from Mass Effect. There’s way more going on now. It actually looks like a space station instead of ... a boring place that people land.

Freighters have gotten a redesign and some new missions to spruce them up. You can build specific things for them to get new abilities.

We knew clouds would cast a shadow but it seems that storms actually follow cloud formations properly, and some really great weather effects have been added.

Building seems to be much easier than before.

It’s out! Yaaaaaayyy! Can’t wait to dive in tonight.

Yes. Some smaller movies that are free to experiment with genre and don’t have to be these huge productions.

And some new characters/events.

Yeah there's no way that's a legit rumor. I think it's wishful thinking.

Wow I’m two degrees of separation from JJ. Thanks Will, I feel special now.

Yeah that’s Katie’s new car. I’m driving it because she has some time off and has my Nissan in the shop for an oil change and inspection. I adore her car though.

And no I didn’t get a second controller Will, but I have an SNES classic and those controllers work, plus and 8bitdo and the adapter so I’m set on controllers.

Yep and those cable extenders are cheap. Very worth it. They’re sitting next to my original NES extension cables in my game junk cabinet.

It's likely to work Greg-- https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/17341/~/which-controllers-are-compatible-with-the-nes-classic-edition%3F

They don't list nearly all the third-party controllers that will.

I don't think IM3 is terrible by a long shot. I think at worst the MCU films have been ok and mostly fun if forgettable. I put IM3, Thor 2, and Hulk in that category.

I don’t even remember Pepper being a badass fireflower superhero. Kinda similar to our Thor 2 discussion, I literally remember no plot from that one.

I remember like 50 iron man suits maybe preventing some destruction? That’s all I got.

FWIW I remember thinking it was better than Iron Man 2, but the second one stuck with me pretty well with the same number of viewings.

And like last time, I apologize for my sick-sounding self. We recorded this one before the Solo review and you can kinda hear my voice breaking down in real time, so that's exciting.

I’ll buy your NES Classic ;)

Worth a shot!

I don’t have a Samsung Smart Fridge unfortunately.

Todd said you could play solo but I play MMOs mostly solo. That doesn’t necessarily mean you can play single-player. We still need some more details about the specifics there.

Oh wow. I assumed that was pure joke.

https://youtu.be/PdYtulRRfDU

Interview with Todd Howard linked above. He clarified a lot about Fallout 76.

There is no offline mode. Playing solo does NOT mean you will be playing alone. They're working on ways to opt out of PvP and balancing the rewards for people who aren't interested in that kind of gameplay.

VATS is going to be present but it won't slow time like it has.

There are no NPCs aside from robots. Presumably other than the Overseer but that may just be a voice on the intercom in the vault and nothing else. There's still a world to discover via terminals and things like that, but there are no NPCs. That seems weird but they could make that work.

Mods will come, but not at launch. Private worlds will come, so you can mod up your server the way you want, but not at launch.

I dunno about great news but hopeful for sure. If they can keep griefing from being a problem then most of my worries are gone.

"Listening" I'm not sure about since they just announced it and haven't exactly had time to react to anything people have said. But it definitely shows they knew what people would be concerned about and are working on those things.

I don't know what you mean about it not being a game for me. I went into their conference knowing that it would almost definitely be online only and was still interested. I've already said that even with my questions about it I'm very interested. I don't need private servers. I play MMOs some. For me it's just about being able to have fun playing a game without a troop of assholes wrecking my fun, and that's where the questions still lie, as for what kinds of things are planned to prevent that. He did specifically say that griefing is something they're spending a lot of time working out, thus it's hopeful news.

Ohhhh "By yourself"

I get it. lol

That doesn’t mean a release in August, that’s just when they’ll be giving it a proper showing.

While it wouldn’t be unheard of for Bethesda to drop one of their “and its available... right now!”, they would want to show it off and then leave time for pre-orders for such a huge game.

There was a behind the scenes mini-doc and interview that gave us some new info about Fallout 76.

This is a reddit post that breaks down the new info and links to the video if you want to watch the full video


https://reddit.com/r/Fallout/comments/8qsx8s/complete_notes_from_the_noclip_documentary/

This mostly hit all the notes I wanted it to. You can’t just get repeatedly killed by the same person. That kind of targeted griefing isn’t possible. But you can still get randomly killed because they want that kind of danger. You don’t lose anything, you just respawn, and people who do this get bounties so if you grief you have a target on your back.

Also nukes can be used on players but considering how hard they are to get, it would be wasteful to do so. The player you nuked respawns and you lose the potential loot you would have gotten from nuking a better spot.

It does really seem like they’ve balanced things pretty well.

Saying that I'm more interested in a Rage sequel than a Fallout game feels weird, but Rage 2 is high up on my most anticipated list. Right below Spiderman.

It’s worth noting that there’s no Steam page for Fallout 76 or Rage 2. And based on this FAQ it looks like the Bethesda launcher may be the only way to get them.

https://fallout.bethesda.net/faq

They would sell a lot more copies for sure but those micro-transactions for cosmetics would get the Steam tax. They might figure they can get more money on their own turf. What may happen is an initial launch on their own launcher and then a month or so later launch it on Steam. This is just spitballing on my part.

The only place to play Fortnite is via Epic’s launcher and they seem to be doing pretty well.

It’s also worth noting that this may just be for the beta and the final release may go on Steam. It’s hard to tell. But the only way to get into the beta is to preorder, and the only way to preorder seems to be their launcher.

I would agree except that there's just no Steam page for pre-ordering, and right after E3 is when people are excited about that and their previous games that were announced with a release date later in the year have all gone up there immediately. I'm like 50/50 on it.

Two-months-later necro bump

https://www.overclock3d.net/news/software/fallout_76_won_t_be_released_on_steam_-_pc_version_will_be_exclusive_to_bethesda_net/1

No Steam version of Fallout 76.

Honestly the POTENTIALLY worse news here is that they're shooting to have beta progress transfer over to the full game.

Which means people who preorder have a clear advantage in this.

I say "potentially" though, because it depends a lot on how they deal with balance.

It may be eventually but the beta requires a preorder so it won’t be for launch or a lot of people who are out $60 would be very upset.

It seems like at a certain point publishers can save money running their own servers and skipping the 30% Steam tax. I imagine if it goes well for them, this may be the way forward for Bethesda.