“The density or immersion of worlds, or new types of worlds could exist”. “If you play another game and if they do a remaster of that game, what they will do is up-res the textures and things like that”, he said.
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But No Man’s Sky unique way of creation would lend itself differently to a powered-up PS4, Murray thinks.
Indeed, the changes for the day zero patch of “No Man’s Sky” is not the average change that most first-day patches will do to games. Now, to add to the confusion further still, it appears some limited edition versions of the space faring sandbox have a sticker on the back of their boxes which, once removed, reveal a PEGI 12 rating, a mild violence warning, and an online play icon.
The game is more closely related to Minecraft in terms of the exploration experience.
“For our game it’s procedurally generated”.
The one other online feature that was definitely supposed to be in the game though was meeting other players, even if the chances were extraordinarily against it.
Curiously, though, two Reddit users claimed to have found the same planet but when they tried to meet online, the game would not allow them despite being in exactly the same area at the same time.
No Man’s Sky has garnered plenty of acclaim and its fair share of criticism (Hello Games’ coyness when it came to confirming the specific of the game’s multiplayer nature hasn’t gone down too well), so perhaps a build utilising a more powerful processor could help the developer make good on those elements hinted at so often in the preview stage. It’s capitalism, Jim, and, er, pretty much exactly as we know it. He also noted that 10 million alien species have already been discovered by players.
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Looks like PC gamers in the United States will get “No Man’s Sky” on the same date as the rest of the world after all.
