nms-spoilers

[dense quartz]

Yeah same lol.

[analog breach]

"Unused version" . So not official. and usualy we say that should not take datamined content close to heart.

[late edge]

Not talking about anyone in particular but I do find the nms community can be a bit.. whiney at some points. Especially if an update is a bit underwhelming

[uncut harness]

Well Relics did this but it still didnt feel that substantial

[analog breach]

Ofc they are. Me included

[gloomy isle]

Honestly, the fact they called it part 1 is automatically an announcement of part 2. Anything beyond that it really semantics imo

[grizzled apex]

yea i didnt mean that its official, but im pretty sure it points quite substantially to WP2 having been at leasst a little delayed, no?

[dense quartz]

Yeah that's exactly the update where I was certain people would stop bringing up the same argument... but they did it again with Relics.
It was so damn surprising to see it be the general consensus.

[uncut harness]

didnt they literally put a vague release span for worlds part 2 in some wp1 announcement, and then removed it from the notes/announcement?

[analog breach]

Yes they did but didint specify what they are delaying

[grizzled apex]

They had "more to come later this summer" which was removed. That could've meant either Aquarius or WPII, but I don't think Aquarius came too much longer after WP1, which wouldn't have necessitated the removal imo

[gloomy isle]

Aquarius was thought up and made entirely after part 1, too

[dense quartz]

You go from
Collect bone item... sell it.
To
Collect variations of bone items, use as base parts, construct skeletons, trade them with a new shop, new POI for bones, new bone creatures, new combat around bones, new cooking bone recipes... and sell them.

...and people legit said that it wasn't an overhaul/expansion of something existing but was instead a brand new shallow and pointless addition that went nowhere. Like how.

Like if Relics weren't an expansion of an existing part of NMS, I really don't know what is lol.

[uncut harness]

it was def more depth but to something that is moreso a niche part of the game

[dense quartz]

Yeah, I think the niche part of it is what made a lot of people dismiss it a bit too harshly.

[gloomy isle]

Imagine having a ship of this size to fly around

[late edge]

Yes agreed.

[analog breach]

Imo it def was an expansion.... but they forgot to implement underwater bone gathering from the trailers 😂

This bigged me the most

Showing something that is not in final game

[dense quartz]

Oh I have to rewatch the trailer now to see that lol

[uncut harness]

they did?I didnt even pay attention to that

[analog breach]

Tsk tsk. HG should learn by now

[grizzled apex]

cough cough shuttle building cough

[dense quartz]

Oh yeah I see it!

[spark pecan]

i hope they make it happen

[gloomy isle]

Or something like the federal corvette (ahem)

[uncut harness]

Wow

they messed up!

[analog breach]

Ups u already sended it.

[grizzled apex]

watching this bit made me genuinely think that the different creature types needed bones collected from their respective environments before I played the expedition and realized its just switching the same parts around on a basic rig

[uncut harness]

At least underwater ruins kinda look cool

[native carbon]

I really hope the update is tomorrow... 😦

[mint lynx]

It will unless you're on switch Xbox or Mac then maybe not aha

[frigid valley]

Switch has been getting updates day one for the last couple updates

patches tho

for patches they have to wait

[uncut harness]

Xbox players have cool helmet, so they can't complain!

[analog breach]

There are high chances for that

[mint lynx]

The patch wait is real I had bugged bases that annoyed me so much I just played on PS4 for awhile

[uncut harness]

so many people had big issues, im glad it never seems to affect my saves

[late tusk]

Corvettes would be sick

[dense quartz]

What's all we know about corvettes btw?

[analog breach]

The name

[uncut harness]

just some textures iirc, and insides apparently nostromo inspired?

[grizzled apex]

unique texture files (one of which is reminiscent of the nostromo's padding from alien), and likely a mechanic which allows bases to be built and carried around on flyable ships. nothing else

[gloomy isle]

Also they apparently have a hangar

But yeah other than that nothing

[mint lynx]

17 hours

[dull verge]

That sort of sub-capital, but still with room to get up and walk around is my favorite kind of ship and I hope they become Real.

[zenith perch]

I will ping you if I see nsw1 mp

PLEASE be this and 2025 will be the BEST nms year ever

Its more for stability reasons tbf

wp1+2 being two updates and upgrading their engine were nuts tbh, p2 is the best ever nms update to me

[mint lynx]

We thinking ns1 will get mp back ported before settlements?

[zenith perch]

Adding to what was said already, this weird image exists

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/345378190568587275/1334188551209877624/image.png?ex=68af28ea&is=68add76a&hm=4ef72dcb04e85113f71e6d5c678a8c2cfe6e14fb26091aa8b4ebc6c09191bf1b&=&format=webp&quality=lossless&width=1311&height=656

[mint lynx]

Mission log

I don't even gotta click the image aha

[late edge]

Oh were getting corvette missions?

[mint lynx]

I ain't say that, the image posted just looks like a mission log
I suppose it's possible though

[runic mesa]

Anyway, whatever it is... it's free.

[mint lynx]

So is the common cold

Amoungst other things free don't mean devoid of expectations or critique

[late edge]

Ehh some nms fans nitpick things.

Complain if its not the exact thing they wanted

[glass flare]

weren't you the one who keeps wanting Sean to be fired though lol

[mint lynx]

Define nitpicking often that gets confused with critique

Damn you want Sean fired that's crazy

[late edge]

I just said that because I talk to captain steve and he tells me all the thing seans cut, like the superformula

I think we would have a better game if grant Duncan took over

[late tusk]

im still waiting for the warring factions shown in the PS showing in 2015 or so.

[glass flare]

Captain Steve is not a very reliable source of information tbf

[late tusk]

yes im still on that. im still waiting for warring factions

[glass flare]

I guess I don't know what your idea of better game would be. Also that Superformula stuff is just fantasy that some in the community can't let go of. it was never going to revolutionize the procedural generation or anything

[late edge]

Ah okay i didnt know that.

[glass flare]

Grant's probably had more influence on the game than anyone else there. NMS would probably have been more towards the hardcore sim side of things if it was up to Sean

they had big arguments about that according to Sean

[late edge]

Your right

I dont think sean should be fired or that Grant would make the game "better." Idk why i said that.

[glass flare]

the two of them kind of balanced each other out in terms of game design and aesthetics

[late edge]

I think what I meant was, I wish hello games would make this game a bit deeper is all. Like, I know star citizen isnt good but I watch gameplay videos of that sometimes and I wish NMS had some of that stuff

[ebon spoke]

People do still unironically go on about the superformula but like, it's still there. It was never removed, you can find planets that use it right now. It's just extremely underwhelming for something called the 'super' formula so people who don't understand how any of this stuff works think it's some sort of magic bullet that would make proc gen better or something

[late edge]

And I just blame sean sometimes because hes the face of the game

[late edge]

True

[gloomy isle]

Captain steve fundamentally doesn't get what the superformula is or any of the context surrounding that entire issue

[mint lynx]

YouTube misinformation strikes again innit

I just want the stuff shown in trailers they cut

[gloomy isle]

He's not a bad creator but he gets a decent amount wrong

Not as bad as certain others though

I don't think he's ever deliberately disingenuous

[mint lynx]

I hope that cynical guys right and we get a satisfactory crossover

[glass flare]

Yeah, the game was definitely a team effort. Sean definitely has a lot of his DNA in the game, but NMS would have been a much more niche, indie hardcore experience if he was dictating everything, and it probably wouldn't have had anywhere near the popularity. It would probably already be "finished" and no more updates.

I don't agree with all the ways Grant pushed the game towards a more casual, aesthetics-first experience, but it certainly made it appeal to a broader audience

[late edge]

The more realistic art style post launch. Who do you think pushed that? Has anyone said?

[glass flare]

I haven't heard anything directly, not that I remember. That road really started with Pathfinder (1.2), so they've been working towards it for a while. Maybe it was all the backlash about the "pee filter" they got, I dunno. Or maybe just wanted to appeal to more people

[pliant aurora]

Ready for update day tomorrow!

[mint lynx]

The pee filter was awful

[gloomy isle]

The Atlas rises to Next change was at least partially influenced by player feedback I'd imagine. During atlas rises there were a lot of people calling for more natural, less saturated colours etc. Bigger props and trees was another big one

[ebon spoke]

People really complained about it. It sucks because the problem was more with the colours and lighting than the filter, all the trailers and stuff had the filter too and they looked great but it's because they were colourful instead of grey and brown

[gloomy isle]

Though I do think it was an overcorrection and it's taken till now to find a good balance imo

[glass flare]

yeah, there was a very vocal contingent on reddit basically wanting their planet to look like Earth. i'm sure NEXT was in response to that (yuck)

[late tusk]

i miss the pre NEXT deserts. they were flat and desert like

[gloomy isle]

I do think atlas rises planets were a bit too much at times, had a bit of a melted ice cream look

[late edge]

Worlds pt 1 and 2 really made me fully satisfied with planet generation. Im good on variety updates now, perspnally

[ebon spoke]

I think a lot of the assets and stuff were simple because of art direction but also because of technical reasons. When the game became more optimized and newer systems like the PS4 Pro came out, they got a lot more room to add detail, even if that detail changed the art direction of the game significantly

[late edge]

The planets even in nexts trailer looked so different from the final game too.

[gloomy isle]

Yeah same. For the first time ever I'm actually hungry for a gameplay content update as opposed to proc gen stuff 😂

[late tusk]

im just happy we dont have many planets that are just super hilly

anymore

i want more ground based combat. dungeons should be on planets. i want to raid a pirate camp steal their things or something

[glass flare]

in retrospect, part of it was also the lighting engine, which just didn't handle saturated colors that well

[gloomy isle]

I forget how far it's come in terms of rendering too

[pliant aurora]

So the expedition is a week after the update?

[late edge]

I want combat AI for npcs too.

[glass flare]

yeah, the self-shadowing and other lightning changes in Worlds Pt 1 are unsung heroes

[mint lynx]

It's refreshing to hear this server have good things to say about next I'm use to everyone hating it

[gloomy isle]

If I saw views like this in 2016 I'd never in a million years believe it's NMS

[late tusk]

i want to take down a freighters shields and engines. board it with a party of npc pirates and hold the crew for ransom

the stuff introduced in outlaws should definatley be expanded upon. if i piss off a faction they should put a bounty on us (where bounty hunting npcs attack us occasionaly) and when we enter that races system we get what bounty we have on us

like those pirate npcs

[pliant aurora]

i wonder if it will be a big or small update

you never know with them

[late tusk]

because as of right now its like

[glass flare]

the draw distance was so bad in 2016 that you couldn't even see to the bottom of a mountain, they'd just turok fog that all up

[late tusk]

yeah i have negative rep but it doesnt do anything lmao

[gloomy isle]

Next is in a really weird place for me. On one hand it basically ruined variety for several years, but on the other hand it laid the framework for most of what the game is today

Didn't even have refiners until then

Not to mention the addition of free base computer placement

[pliant aurora]

Yeah I remember pathfinder had a crazy amount of color vaierty and next killed that

[mint lynx]

Before I really started talking here I knew no one who liked next everyone says it ruined generation and it took from 3.0 to worlds to fix it

[glass flare]

I mean I've tried to find beauty in every version. some are harder than others

[pliant aurora]

Bringing in third person was the best part for me

[glass flare]

the sense of scale was much better in NEXT. like actually tall trees. but the lack of color variation was a big bummer for a long time

[pliant aurora]

i cant go back to 1st person mode because the models look so nice

[late edge]

I remember most lush planets being orange blue or green. Thats it

[ebon spoke]

I hate refiners, the last thing the already tedious resource collection/crafting loop needed was an extra step where you have to gather even more resources to place a physical piece of machinery that takes more resources to fuel so you can sit next to it for a couple minutes doing nothing while it refines some essential material for fuel

At least the personal refiner does a lot to fix it, but we were stuck without that for a good while

[mint lynx]

Thank god for freighter refiners

[late tusk]

i wish an update would make stellar refiners actually do something

[gloomy isle]

I feel like origins bought variation to a place where it was pretty good in a lot of ways. Worlds part 1 and 2 were kind of insane in that they added a similar number of biomes to origins each, on top of the other improvements and having them be way more procedural

[ebon spoke]

Pre Origins exploration was bad, frozen planets had two possible biomes, and one of them had no procedural variation aside from the terrain and creatures

[gloomy isle]

The one thing still weirdly lacking atm is probably sunset colours

[glass flare]

I wish that star color affected the atmosphere and sunsets

[late edge]

I loved origins, swamps, mountains and volcanos was fun to explore.

[glass flare]

someday, someday I'll get my wish of longer day/night cycles and we can enjoy sunsets for more than 20 seconds

[ebon spoke]

I think sunset colours used to actually be affected by the daytime atmosphere? They aren't now, each planet just chooses a day atmosphere, a sunset/rise atmosphere, and a night atmosphere totally independently of each other.

[glass flare]

yeah the transitions can be a bit odd at times

[gloomy isle]

I found a mod that does this so I hope it stays updated 😂😂

[ebon spoke]

I'd love to see varying day/night cycle lengths per planet, but we can't really get that without planet rotation because of multiplayer

[glass flare]

not sure why that would require rotation? i assume it's just a numeric value for the planet gen set somewhere..

[gloomy isle]

The time of day is system wide I think

(unless cursed did something to get around that, I don't remember)

[ebon spoke]

day and night is caused by the sun rotating around the system. So in order for the sun position to be synced for all players in the system, it has to be moving at the same speed.

[late edge]

Stupid play testers kept saying planet rotation was a bug

[ebon spoke]

Before Next the day/night cycle would pause when you were in space so you didn't see the sun moving across the sky, but because of multiplayer it never stops now

[gloomy isle]

I do think planet rotation would look jarring with the current length of the days

Not confusing but just aesthetically a bit weird

It works very well in elite dangerous because of the timescale involved

[glass flare]

damn multiplayer

[mint lynx]

Multiplayer the root of all issues

[humble kayak]

nah i'm good

[gloomy isle]

All hands on deck 👋

[mint lynx]

It's worlds part 3 stop the cap

[humble kayak]

I've learnt my lesson cinder I will not extend the pact LOL

[humble kayak]

what makes you think so, anyway?

[late edge]

Do it 🔫

[dense quartz]

2 am
Today's the day.

Time for me to fast forward time and wait less by sleeping lol.

[molten karma]

It'll be delayed and come out in 2 weeks.

[gloomy isle]

Night everyone

I'm off to bed early so I can work early and clock out 😂

[late edge]

With corvettes i wonder if that means EVA. Maybe you can pop open the back and float

[mint lynx]

It came to me in a premonition

[late edge]

Can I be in your dreams

[humble kayak]

🤨

[mint lynx]

🤨

[zenith perch]

The superformula is massive copium

[mint lynx]

No cowboy or gib yet?

[zenith perch]

They pick very specific ones tbf, probably generated specifically for trailers

[mint lynx]

Update on the way in 14-16 hours

[zenith perch]

Hey if they try fixing mp

[humble kayak]

i almost wonder if this update is a special one

in what way? I don't know

but no cowboy or gib is

peculiar

[river surge]

No

Less

[mint lynx]

That's what I'm saying

[humble kayak]

hmm

[spark pecan]

only 10 hours left

[river surge]

Maybe it will drop early morning

[humble kayak]

in the immortal words of yoda

"Difficult to see, always in motion is the future"

[spark pecan]

always at 12 sometimes 2pm

[humble kayak]

AKA we can't figure out jack shit

who knows what HG is planning

[river surge]

I mean the last emoji

[late edge]

They post the cowboys when theyre about to publish the update

[spark pecan]

so we will get a big update and twitch drops

[mint lynx]

https://x.com/Griff_/status/1960461064438444539?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^tweet

Martin Griffiths (@Griff_)

After our Switch 2 release I forgot to post an update of our fun list of the platform combinatorics that we currently support in No Man’s Sky! A single emoji can’t describe the effort to support such a long list, but I hope this conveys the complexity involved in releasing a

X · Aug 26, 2025, 9:55 PM

[viral geyser]

hear me out, what if its just a celebration update where they add items and little things to celebrate hello games and no mans skt, and the expeiditon could be based off that, like crafting fireworks, building bases that kind of thing

would be lame but I could see that happening

[late edge]

Its possible

[viral geyser]

my prediction is an expidition celebrating 9 years since same day expiditions tend to be for smaller updates

[molten karma]

I wonder if that's Martins way of saying to tamper expectations tbh.

[viral geyser]

oh nvm now its a week later

could be a big one then

that actually gets my hopes up

[glass flare]

just seemed like a way to shout out the massive undertaking maintaining the beast is

[spark pecan]

i do feel they will stop updating the game next year with a last update bc the game came out in 2016 and now it is almost 10 years probably the best thing to do and dont forget light no fire coming out next year... it does sound right

[white edge]

it has been said they will continue development alongside LNF

[spark pecan]

i see

[glass flare]

I guess the only tea leaves I could read into this is if Martin is saying "hey, look at all these platforms we support, and now we're about to support another...." (aka my iOS port theory)

[late edge]

You'd think theyd announce it already. With switch 1 or Mac they made sure people knew those were QOL updates

[glass flare]

well, it could contain multiple things in the update. dunno

[late edge]

True

[solar prairie]

Honestly the one thing I want is better cave gen planets are fine but caves are the last thing that are kinda lacking from a procgen standpoint

[mint lynx]

Worlds part 3 🙏🏽🥀

[late edge]

Im fully prepared to wake up and to see you going off about what a shit update it is 😂

[mint lynx]

I will only say it's a bad update if they waste a update on mp lol

🏘️❌

Beacons was like 50% good all the new buildings parts lol

[late edge]

Me too tbh

[mint lynx]

Hell yeah 💯👍🏽

[humble kayak]

i just want corvettes

literally just corvettes

thats it

[mint lynx]

Call me Debbie Downer because I don't see a point in space corvettes with freighters existing now boat versions for water worlds

[molten karma]

I'm indifferent if corvettes add nothing to gameplay they're 100% useless filler. For all we know the corvettes could just be a unique ship reward for a expedition no different than the wraith and ufo looking one. Also I personally just want a combat update and more color variation. Such amazing terrain but the colors of it hold it back.

[mint lynx]

Poi update is what I'm hoping for

[viral geyser]

beacons sucked

it did nothing to even make settlements better it just added more

core settlements are lowkey uselss

[late edge]

Thats a complain I never understood. Not every new feature needs to include gameplay. Living ships. Exo mechs and settlements didnt add anything to do. But it still added stuff

This new feature needs this gameplay loop surrounding it, this feature needs a gameplay loop. Oy lol nothing against anyone here. Just talking about in general

[humble kayak]

Giving everything its own unique gameplay loop is how we got to the mile wide inch deep problem

If a new feature is to be added it should interlock with another feature

there should be cohesion

otherwise you're just going to have a bunch of freefloating mechanics that don't tie in to eachother

[ebon spoke]

I wouldn't put it past Hello Games to drop yet another disconnected gimmicky feature, but at the same time I really don't see how Corvettes (as we understand them) could even be added without some changes to space gameplay

[humble kayak]

you're right

[viral geyser]

yes except most of the new stuff was just mission based, settlements you put a constant flow of resources into just for it to give nothing in return

[humble kayak]

With our VERY limited knowledge on corvettes it seems they'd have to be launched alongside other content to "prop it up"

corvettes on their own would be an odd piece to fit into the puzzle

you're joking, we know that, but the server leadership won't take kindly to that

like at all

anyway,

corvettes would need some form of supporting gameplay mechanics to not make them gimmicky and awkward

Unless they're made into a new ship class outright

which would be really funny because haulers have been neglected in the ship customizer for like

awhile now

[mint lynx]

Rip shuttles even more

[glass flare]

plot twist, corvettes are just 6 shuttles taped together

it's hard for me to draw any conclusion or opinion about them because like... other than "hey I can ride with my friends" or "hey I can have yet another base", I'm not seeing the big gameplay opportunity for SP folks like me. not unless they revamp the NPCs

[mint lynx]

I like my theory of 👋🏽means NPCs still
It's what they do when you walk up to them

[humble kayak]

for me they're interesting as a mobile base that isn't a massive capital ship, so both for headcanon lore reasons and gameplay reasons i'd like the corvettes

but I do understand where like, everyone else is coming from lol

people would look at the corvettes and go "Okay this looks cool, but what does this bring to the table?"

and we don't know if HG has an answer to that just yet

[humble kayak]

never occured to me that the wave was potentially referencing the NPC wave

but it makes sense

[mint lynx]

Turbo brain activate

[ebon spoke]

There's no way they're an existing ship class unless they're a new type of frigate. You can't have a ship big enough to have it's own hangar and also be small enough to fit in the space station or even use planetary landing pads

[humble kayak]

You're probably right

they're either a type of frigate or something else entirely

reasonably speaking, that is

[glass flare]

which is why it's probably doubtful that these things can land on a planet

[humble kayak]

The corvette's hangar is probably so you can send normal ships into space stations and landing pads, though I still hope corvettes can actually land anyway

[humble kayak]

i fully expect that landing would be a difficult thing, to be clear

and that using a normal ship would just be easier

[humble kayak]

though in that case, what's the point of them

[late edge]

I hope we can space walk or walk into the ship.

[humble kayak]

they're just smaller freighters that can move at that point

they can't land on planets or dock with stations

[glass flare]

maybe something we haven't thought of yet, like a fleet (military or trade) command ship?

[humble kayak]

Wouldn't make sense given that freighters exist

freighters fill that command ship role

[glass flare]

i'm just spitballing, I don't know. like I said, I don't see the value of them in the first place right now :)

[humble kayak]

well you've got valid critiques, theres no doubt about that

at least within the context of what we know, which admittedly

isn't much

[glass flare]

I guess if it was like a Defiant class ship (Star Trek DS9) with heavy firepower... but to use against what exactly?

[humble kayak]

yeah exactly

unless their value is that we can take them places we cant take other ships

but that wouldnt make sense in any typical sense

because they're physically larger

[late edge]

Maybe deep space

[humble kayak]

But what'd be out in deep space?

[glass flare]

yeah, I think it would require an opposing force we haven't seen yet (VM ships?)

[humble kayak]

I immediately thought like

maybe the corvettes could reach the world of glass

but that opens up a big can of worms

on what the world of glass would even be like from a gameplay perspective

what'd be in it

what you'd do in it, etc

[glass flare]

or why we'd want to go there since VM already came to us

[humble kayak]

exactly

[ebon spoke]

A space overhaul would be really nice. I don't think 👋 means "Space: Part I" which would be my ideal update right now, though sadly

[late edge]

Maybe its not even corvettes rn and that'll come out next year in space part 1

[humble kayak]

that's a real possibility

I'd say "but we dont know what else could be in this update"

but

we never know what'll be in the updates

so that's a moot point

[humble kayak]

((most of the time))

[late edge]

I just hope everyone is happy with whatever it is.

[humble kayak]

as long as its not ocean related i'll be ok with it

[ebon spoke]

if Sean ever tweets the 🌌 emoji, that's when the real hype starts

[late edge]

What if he tweeted 🖕

[humble kayak]

i'm about as transparent as a glass of water on what I'd like the update to be, but its looking like it'll be something different

[humble kayak]

i mean he did tweet 🤬

which is really funny looking back on, on twitter

[late edge]

I do imagine space will get updated eventually.

[knotty mountain]

would love to see an actual spacewalk mechanic

like instead of falling inexplicably

[glass flare]

the problem with space is it's so big and empty, it will never feel like a cool place to explore unless they change the way they allow us to explore it. no more "use your pulse drive until thing appears" which is just a crap way to do it

[ebon spoke]

Endurance was a good start for new space stuff; space storms (that don't do anything), new, rare asteroids that only spawn in some systems (and have the same loot as normal asteroids), space fauna (that are all the same design) and space whales (that you have to do an overly complicated series of actions to even see)

[late edge]

And to be fair, a lot of space games, space is a dud. Starfield, star wars outlaws, star citizen.

[late edge]

Living ship also added the random encounters

[novel summit]

Not Jumpspace. That game is nuts.

[late edge]

What is jumpspace?

[knotty mountain]

I mean but to some extent, isn't the emptiness of space kinda the point?

like it do be like that

space be empty

[humble kayak]

yeah but a different "kind" of empty

[novel summit]

A game that needs more attention. It's super combat oriented, and very very chaotic and fun

[humble kayak]

Starfield tried to use the "space is boring" excuse

it didn't end well

[glass flare]

i think part of the space issue with NMS is that the star systems are just not actually big explorable 3D environments. i mean aside from the planetary arrangements it's all smoke and mirrors. and we don't get to see deep space at all

[humble kayak]

there's a difference between sailing uncharted systems and seeing no civilization or any proof of prior habitation in a place

and going some place and seeing it just

quite literally empty

[late edge]

I love starfield. But its crazy how NMS does it all so much better

[humble kayak]

except ship customization

starfield does that better imo

but they're aiming for something else so it isnt entirely a fair comparison

[knotty mountain]

what would deep space even mean if it's not empty?

[glass flare]

I didn't say it shouldn't be? but the way in which we navigate through space should feel like it IS empty, and big. which it doesn't really right now

[late edge]

True, ones a sandbox the others a big rpg

[late edge]

I wonder why they scrapped the physical star. Sean said pre release the team tried to go between star systems manually.

Maybe it was just boring idk

[knotty mountain]

okay I think I'm smelling what you're stepping in now, I get you, like flying through space feels almost more like an interactive menu between planets/stations

[glass flare]

yeah. there is no "experience" to space. hence why I was calling out the "pulse to find thing". it turns something really humbling into something very videogamey and dull

[turbid harness]

I would have liked traveling through nothingness, over the warp load screen

[glass flare]

I imagine they scrapped it whenever they decided against having orbital mechanics

[late edge]

Sad

[ebon spoke]

most 'voxels' on the galactic map are empty space as opposed to stars. If you make the game load those coords it'll generate a system like normal but it would be cool if they a) were accessible through legitimate means and b) loaded as 'deep space' with no planets or sun.

They could do a lot to make them useful, like having certain encounters be exclusive or more common in deep space (derelict freighters and living frigates come to mind), they could have special asteroids or gas clouds that you could harvest for valuable resources, they could maybe have really rare rogue planets where it's night all the time

[late edge]

I hope you submit this to zendesk lol

[glass flare]

pirate bases

[eternal girder]

would be interesting if thatd also make hyperdrive drain fuel per ly rather than per use

[zenith perch]

Imagine they call this update like, Testimony instead of things I've guessed

[ebon spoke]

They randomly added that exact feature to the Steam experimental branch a few years ago then reverted it after a few days :(.

[eternal girder]

aw

[ebon spoke]

The fuel consumption was based on the percentage of your max jump range, more or less

[eternal girder]

would also be nice if launch thruster drain per use was dependent on atmosphere/gravity

[zenith perch]

Give me ship boost toggling

[glass flare]

"boost toggle" sounds maximum 1990s

[humble kayak]

all i want in the game is to feel like I'm really living in the universe

if a feature works towards that goal, all the better as far as i am concerned

if some of those features are more controversial, make them a toggle in the difficulty menu

[misty pollen]

I don't know who gave me a spaceship pilot license but wow they're unqualified to judge

[mint lynx]

Still no Gibb

[late edge]

Probably a smaller update then with no Gibb

[charred mason]

Or it’s delayed past today

[late edge]

Don't put that in the universe

[mint lynx]

😮‍💨

[late edge]

Im not listening

[viral geyser]

you guys realize he does the gib like an hour before it drops right

its not dropping for AT least another 7-8 hours

[charred mason]

Yeah it’s still Tuesday here lol

[late edge]

Oh true

[mint lynx]

242pm here lol

[late edge]

11:43 here.

Canada

Is Tasmania a different country from Australia? Or a part of it

[runic mesa]

And this is why we play other games while we wait. 😛

[cosmic anvil]

Do we have the update?

Sorry bit late to the party hehe

[late edge]

Few hours yet

[sour fossil]

No, expected in like 6 hours

[cosmic anvil]

Thanks cool

[sour fossil]

You can always check #nms-news-ticker channel

For notifications for specific platforms

[cosmic anvil]

So what can we expect a lot of people say corvettes, others say Worlds Part III, what is the most likely?

Like I know we don't know anything until the update drops but something to look forward to would be nice

[mint lynx]

What if we're in the evil timeline and Sean removes a update from NMS instead of giving one

[ebon spoke]

👋 goodbye to purple systems (HG was just testing gas giants for LNF and now that the test is done the NMS universe is going back to normal)

[late edge]

Star citizen does crap like that lol

[native carbon]

Ah yes testing gas giants for lnf

[grizzled apex]

PS sale up

[mint lynx]

https://a.co/d/e3UcfKT
Indoubitally

[rotund wren]

This is NMS, not Starbound

[grizzled apex]

Oop, and there's that unnamed SteamDB update again

Can't say it is an internal, can't say it isn't?

[late edge]

@grizzled apex 65 days uploaded 2 nms songs

[grizzled apex]

Oh really?

[lime birch]

Definitely happening 😄

[grizzled apex]

They've never done that before

[glass flare]

what do you mean, new ones?

[grizzled apex]

Could you send a link? Is it on their YT?

[grizzled apex]

I'm guessing the WP2 / relics ones?

[lime birch]

Oh yes, it's even on Spotify

[grizzled apex]

I recognize the Journey

[mint lynx]

@grizzled apex Is the exp still gunna be a week late?

[grizzled apex]

Paul Weir uploaded it himself a while back too

Vostock sounds familiar though

I wonder if we're getting a new NMS album for the anniversary too?

[grizzled apex]

Yep, just checked. The start dates are still a week away

[lime birch]

Maybe we will also get No Man's Sky Vinyl

[grizzled apex]

Unless they change before the update drops, I think the exped is gonna launch later

[mint lynx]

Damn hopefully the update itself big

[grizzled apex]

Oh hey

[grizzled apex]

The Album cover art here is very similar to the T shirts / bottle merch in the world's deep dives

[late edge]

Ohh 👀

[grizzled apex]

I think they're gonna announce more than just the update today

[sour fossil]

The cover reminds me of the old Atlas logo T-shirts they had

Wanted one but it was out of stock, settled with the ship designs one

[lime birch]

Well he wrote that there will be few surprises

[grizzled apex]

Gonna be a fun day it seems

[late edge]

Mhmm! Seems so

If they release a physical album of nms music I will buy it. And im not even a big music guy lol

[mint lynx]

Know what I just thought of

Corvettes are kinda like halo ships and hello is sorta like Halo too

What if the update halo inspired

[grizzled apex]

That would make sense for a merch drop actually, maybe a vinyl drop if we're lucky?

[late edge]

Yeah I think so!

[ebon spoke]

They did a vinyl at release, right?

[glass flare]

Yeah

[mint lynx]

Yeah you can get it for like 200 bux

[late edge]

Why does all this stuff have to happen at 1 in the morning 😂

[viral geyser]

Holy fuck I’ve been wanting a new nms vinyl for so long

[viral geyser]

So since it’s now a week away I’m assuming it’s a much larger update?

[late edge]

I would guess so. What else are we going to do for a week lol

[grizzled apex]

No the update most likely isn't delayed by a week, just the expedition

They'll have submitted gold versions of the update for certification to consoles already, so delaying it this late isn't feasible

[dusk blade]

Shutdown of the NMS team and moving them to LNF? lol

[viral geyser]

No no I’m saying that the update itself is probably big because the exposition isn’t on the same day

[lime birch]

@viral geyser they are probably waiting for all platforms to have a new version

[viral geyser]

Because usually for the smaller updates they have the whole expedition centered around the one feature and have it the same day

[grizzled apex]

You're gonna bring about a flurry of "NMS Modding Leader CONFIRMS NMS farewell???" videos by saying that 😛

[dusk blade]

Haha. Just a joke to rile up the natives. 🙂

[viral geyser]

Why do all the content creators of nms (mainly professor cynical and captain steve) both use ai slop in there videos

[grizzled apex]

It was originally meant to launch beside the update though. Usually expeditions launching after their updates don't have their start date set until a week or two after their updates go live

[dusk blade]

Just like ALL of us. I know just as much, or as little, as everyone else outside of HG. That is to say nothing

[grizzled apex]

All in good fun, unless someone takes it too seriously haha

[dusk blade]

Given the relative simplicity, expeditions probably are the last thing put together for a given update. Last thing on the punch list, after feature adds and bug fixes are done. Could very well be that they don't begin slapping the expedition together until tomorrow. 🙂

[mint lynx]

Said exp was uploaded on the 28th tho with nothing announced for the anniversary crazy work

[dusk blade]

Could just be an internal beta build. We shall see in a few hours either way.

[mint lynx]

My minus 6ish hours indeed

[safe quarry]

omg, if Captain Steve, after 9 years, keeps misconstruing what the 'superformula' even is to his fanbase then I will go crazy. Its a nuisance with NMS but it will actually become a problem for the discourse around LNF when it comes out if he starts bringing it up again without even understanding what it even is.

[uncut harness]

6 hours to goooo! (Hopefully)

[safe quarry]

Like, i once saw him even bring up the wikipedia page on it, but if he had actually taken the time to read it rather than focus on content, then he would have realised his mistake then and there. That the 'superformula' is a bit of a misnomer because really all it does is make pretty patterns with ellipses. Like it is basically a glorified version of a kid's spirograph in terms of what it actually outputs, hehe.

[rancid flax]

what does captainsteve claim it to be then?

[safe quarry]

He thinks its some kind of formula that HG couldn't use because of licensing issues that generates entire worlds and procedural flora.

[rancid flax]

ooohhh wait i remember hearing about this now

[safe quarry]

Which kind of devalues the incredible amount of work and attention the team puts into the myriad of different formulas and generations that overlap to actually create the terrain we have.

[safe quarry]

mhm, but most of the media covering at launch realised what a nothingburger news it was and moved on.

The creator of the 'superformula' had patented the formula for use in media like games. And he accused HG of using it in NMS.

Truth was, accordig to a video from a developer talking about terrain generation works, they'd tried all sorts of interlapping formulas to see what would create interesting terrain, and the superformula is one they tried but didn't use in the final build. Likely because it didn't make any interesting geometric features.

The terrain generation is actually a lot of formulas overlapping, its a bit reductive of me, but say the terrains tapology is handled by a different formula to cave generation. Then the results of one formula is subtracted or added to the other. That's really speaking about it in laymans terms tho, more complex even than that.

[gloomy isle]

Okay so exp is in a week an we have new ost??? Hype engaged

[safe quarry]

new exp is today?

According to @grizzled apex

at least the start date is set to later today

[viral geyser]

It’s in a week

Look again

[grizzled apex]

Not new OST, a release of old music on Spotify for the first time

[safe quarry]

oh speak of the devil. I thought the exp was today? @grizzled apex

[grizzled apex]

It was set to start today initially, but when I checked later (and a few hours ago), it got shifted to 3rd Sept

[safe quarry]

oh that's interesting!

Yes that's news to me.

[zenith perch]

New ost?

[grizzled apex]

They could move it back and forth again (I'll keep an eye out till I can), but currently it's set to 3rd sept

[grizzled apex]

New album of 2 old tracks:

https://open.spotify.com/album/7tAE4DlUVV4LDsn7PNoKLI?si=9cuNqzrvQFihKAHhY6LTWw

[safe quarry]

Well that's kind of good because historically the more meaningful expeditions are set to go live later.

Tho it also implies they are increasing their runway or whatever comes next.

[zenith perch]

Oh shit nice I'll listen to that later

[gloomy isle]

Plus it's usually bigger updates that follow this pattern too

[grizzled apex]

I've never seen a week's delay though, the ones meant to start late are usually always set as such

[safe quarry]

It also shoots down Professor Cynicals 'leak' that the new update is intrinsically tied to a new expedition.

[zenith perch]

This update might be larger than I thought

[safe quarry]

Do you think the last minute change means there was a last minute issue

[zenith perch]

2 songs?

I hope it's uploaded on yt

[rancid flax]

the 2nd one is already in the game i swear

[zenith perch]

What is vostock I wonder

[rancid flax]

or is it some varitation?

[sour fossil]

Those songs were in game for long time

[dusk blade]

It's coding, there's always last minute issues.

[sour fossil]

Maybe these are some variations of the existing ones

[safe quarry]

Hopefully not one that puts back the update proper.

[grizzled apex]

Could be, something unprecedented can happen anytime

[dusk blade]

Normally such lead to release later in the day, more than on a different day.

[safe quarry]

Depends on the severity of the issue i guess

[grizzled apex]

The sales are still going live, the songs just dropped and they most likely already submitted certification builds of the update to platforms, so we might just see a release build followed by a patch immediately after fixing whatever bug caused the pushback

[safe quarry]

but they could have put it back a week just to be safe and not have it tick live accidentally before they've caught it

[dusk blade]

They save time by skipping unit and system testing.

[safe quarry]

then again any patches would also need to go through authentication with their platforms

which takes time.

[dusk blade]

Yes, the code for todays release was finished and submitted for approval days ago.

[zenith perch]

How many songs are there

[dusk blade]

2

[safe quarry]

So they could push a smaller patch through certification same day?

[zenith perch]

Wait how long are they

If it's 2 it suggests a new quest maybe

[safe quarry]

Someone at HG probably has a busy morning, hehe

[gloomy isle]

If anything it's an indicator that the update is chunky imo

[dusk blade]

I don't think hotfix patches go through the same rigorous approval process.

[grizzled apex]

They're not new songs

[safe quarry]

That's good to know. It makes sense if you need to plug an issue up fast.

[grizzled apex]

They're rereleases of existing songs. Hell, Paul even uploaded The Journey to his soundcloud a while back

[uncut harness]

The cover is nice, i‘m at always at awe how simple yet aesthetically pleasing the Atlas is actually designed

[zenith perch]

They would for Microsoft at least

Microsoft is very strict on this stuff

[dusk blade]

Yeah, they've released hotfixes same day or day after a major release.

[safe quarry]

I am surprised Supermoon is not on there

[gloomy isle]

I'm mainly interested in why they're on Spotify today I guess

[zenith perch]

Idk how they're as fast as they are with hotfixes

[safe quarry]

since that is kind of like the 'iconic' no man's sky soundtrack

[sour fossil]

uhhh Supermoon?

[dusk blade]

In this case, not even close. HG has to meet Apple and Sony standards. Much more strict.

[sour fossil]

Sorry I read that wrong

[zenith perch]

Like remastered versions with new updated sounds or

[safe quarry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nru86VmoEK4&list=RDNru86VmoEK4&start_radio=1

[sour fossil]

There's bunch of music that hasn't been "officially" relased

Yeah I know it, I read your message wrong, sorry

[uncut harness]

It was the main reward for making it to the centre I always felt like

[dusk blade]

Can be same day or next day. Usually, after a major release, every 2-3 days for about two weeks to fix most of the bugs.

[grizzled apex]

The cover art is reminiscent of the "teased" merch in the world's deep dives, so it might be part of a physical merch drop? A vinyl if we're lucky?

[zenith perch]

I saw a game fail cert once because of wrong terminology used in a non English language.

[sour fossil]

BomberBoi has WP2 tracks on their YT channel

[earnest nebula]

whuh? how do we know this?

[grizzled apex]

Nope, we just never had releases of these on any platform before, they were added post release

[sour fossil]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTg_i8sJJa0

[safe quarry]

With them updating both soundtracks and their website it does look like they're doing some general housekeeping.

[zenith perch]

Bomber is actually Sean /s

[zenith perch]

CRIMINAL these aren't used more

[safe quarry]

Probably off the back of also having to find new mech suppliers

[zenith perch]

Incredibly incredibly good soundtracks

[sour fossil]

... in their defense, they are new ones

Like added this year

[dusk blade]

How dare you disparage BomberBoi like that!

[zenith perch]

Yeah but they're used like once

[sour fossil]

How could they use them more if they just added it

Also the same point can be made for existing tracks

[zenith perch]

Make them randomly play in purple systems

[grizzled apex]

Tbf, they added a setting to expedition files to override the music when the exped starts, when these tracks were added, so they can reuse tracks added in other parts of the update for the exped starts track

[sour fossil]

Why is Blueprint for Slow Machine play only once? Why is Asimov limited to just 1st station visit?

[safe quarry]

You know it makes me super curious what soundscape they'll lean into for LNF's music.

[dusk blade]

Because HG. 🙂

[sour fossil]

Because they are meant to highlight significant steps in your journey

[zenith perch]

Eotws1 variation 10h version

[sour fossil]

Not being thrown in randomly

[earnest nebula]

itll probably contain instruments

and sounds

[safe quarry]

Suspect.

[zenith perch]

It's only 0819 for me but if I go back to sleep I'll wake up at like 1pm ish and I'm not missing this

[dusk blade]

They'll just use one song, Muskrat Love by Captain and Tennille. Cheap to license.

[blissful dragon]

The Journey very blade runner esque

[safe quarry]

What they could be doing actually by putting the expedition back, is mitigating their world load.

If they expect to be bug fixing the update proper

why put extra work on top of that having to bug fix the expedition too.

gives them a week to catch high priority issues from the update.

and push it back further if they have to

[dusk blade]

We've exactly zero visibility into HGs development process. They have a system, done these content add updates and expeditions for many years. They are going to do what they do, when they do it. 🙂

[safe quarry]

and it also gives them more engagement, because we won't burn through all the content and expedition at once.

Oh yes, just speculating 🙂

Finding ways it might not be doom and gloom of some big issue forcing them to push back the exp

[dusk blade]

Don Quixote, NMS edition. lol

[glass flare]

I really hope they rework the distribution of the newer creatures they added in purple systems. plant creatures and bone creatures are way way way too common right now

[mint lynx]

It's delayed because switch won't be getting the update again woe be upon ye

[safe quarry]

especially the bone cows.

[zenith perch]

What's the earliest an update has dropped pre trailer

[mint lynx]

Bone animals aren't really any less random then plant animals to be fair

[glass flare]

it's made worse by the fact that neither of them have much at all procedural variation to them. seen in once, you've pretty much seen em all

[dusk blade]

Historically, unlikely for them to re-touch something very recently added.

That doesn't make for new sales, brand new content does.

[earnest nebula]

this is why i dont really want a pirate freighter, as cool as they are

[safe quarry]

Corvettes! Corvettes!

I think it will be void mother related, or first person animations.

[uncut harness]

Yeh finding a natural resurgent Venator is actually a much more rare catch

[mint lynx]

First person animations would be cool give a reason to use first person mode again

[safe quarry]

Altho the expedition being pushed back... depends how if its void mother related, they've divided up the narrative

[earnest nebula]

space barge

[safe quarry]

clearly the exp isn't critical to the narrative of the update.

unless it teases what will come in the expedition.

[earnest nebula]

how do we know when the expedition is?

[glass flare]

haha damn that's pretty cool

[gloomy isle]

When an exp drops the week after an update, it's usually a decently big update too iirc

[dusk blade]

Once the dust settles on this update, in a few weeks, I'll turn my Modding Eye of Sauron on a mod to make plant and bone creatures a little rarer. Tricky though and will most likely break Discovery a bit.

[safe quarry]

This is why @ebon spoke decided it was a smaller update, so they should be happy.

Did relics expedition drop alongside the update? I think so? It was Titan that got pushed back?

[analog breach]

Looks cool with containers. I want vanators with containers.

[zenith perch]

They did it with abandoned mode, it got improved in Relics

[uncut harness]

Imagine if it actually turns out to be a space related updated, they might have actually taken your suggestion into consideration then and upped the variety on freighter outsides too. Would fit in with a corvette update.

[zenith perch]

Relics dropped with Relics as part of the Relics update

[gloomy isle]

Titan was weird because iirc Wp2 dropped during an expedition I think?

[safe quarry]

Soo a delayed expedition is a good sign for it being the big summer update.

[safe quarry]

it did yes! that caught me off guard.

during the reduxes i think, because it broke the cursed redux.

I want to say Titan was two weeks after WP2 because they had to push the timeline back to give people more time to finish the cursed once they fixed it?

maybe 2-3 hours-ish until playstation gets the update first?

I feel its usually around that time all the playstation players start posting screens of their download bars, hehe

[zenith perch]

Give it about 1h 21 idk and ps4 players will probably get the update first if it's definitely today

[safe quarry]

That's what i'm banking on yush

[glass flare]

Nah more like 5-6, because I’m always asleep when it drops (LA here)

[zenith perch]

Update not trailer

[safe quarry]

I am sooo tempted to only look at the splash page, and then avoid seeing any screens of the new content (depending on what it is)

if its new first person animations, or new POIs I will sneak a peak

but if its void mother stuff or corvettes, i want my experience of them in-game to be the first time i see them.

[dusk blade]

If no issues, should drop in about 2-4 hours. If they hit snags, could be later in the day.

[zenith perch]

<t:1756299614:F>, <t:1756299614:R>

The in game blurb never does updates justice anyways

[safe quarry]

It does just enough to tell you what the update is about, without actually spoiling it.

[zenith perch]

We'll get a name at least

I will await patch notes before playing it as always

[dusk blade]

Welcome to the Coffee Hand update

[glass flare]

Anyway night yall, see you in the update zone

[safe quarry]

I won't hehe. Tho some updates without knowing how to trigger the update you can go in just like 'sooo...where is it?'

[dusk blade]

It'll be anywhere from 1-7 days before I actually get in-game to check things out. That's my usual, based on external influences.

[zenith perch]

I'd never play an update without knowing what's been changed

[dusk blade]

Just depends on how much the update breaks.

[safe quarry]

That reminds me to backup my save.

[zenith perch]

I survived the 14 ish patches of Beyond, I'll manage

[safe quarry]

Its safe to delete the cache part of the save file right? That thing is huge and as far as I'm aware its just base screenshots?

(delete it from the backup i should say)

[uncut harness]

The Update will be perfectly polished, HG is going to surprise us this time!

[safe quarry]

Kaboom!

[quartz thistle]

The update will have no bug whatsoever, we tested it thoroughly
The nefarious amount of players :

[rapid hedge]

I know I'm a minority here but I would love for them to update VR to have actual roomscale 😭 been asking for it since released. Maybe this update will answer my prayers 🙏

[molten karma]

So which platform is getting it first this time? I remember when PC use to get the updates first than recently it's been PS and I remember a couple of times where Xbox got it first. Than you got Switch which is usually two weeks late.

[plain sluice]

I personally do that for all my backups, or at least search and delete all .DDS files

[gloomy isle]

It's usually been PS lately iirc, but I'm not sure

Time's closing in

[grizzled apex]

It varies a lot. I remember one of the recent ones dropped on switch first and Steam last, which was kinda funny to see

[grizzled apex]

It's usually 12 am HG time right?

[vestal barn]

yeah.

[gloomy isle]

Yeah usually between midday and 1 ish for the first platform I think

[grizzled apex]

Should be in 2 hours then. The quiet before the storm haha

[zenith perch]

Samsung smart fridge

[gloomy isle]

Then the wait for someone to take a screenshot of the update splash screen 😂

[zenith perch]

Gonna tilt the entire fridge and tip it over to do a right turn

[grizzled apex]

Atlas bless the PS4 travellers who usually do so first 🙏

[icy citrus]

@spiral patrol A larger ship type, with an area to build on

[spiral patrol]

That's what a lot of people have been asking for to be fair but I doubt it would be as an expedition ship rather a new ship type all together

[eternal girder]

past updates were that reliable that you guys can predict the exact update date and time based off 3 tweets from a dev containing waving emojis? 😭

[cosmic anvil]

Do we have to backup the save?? I have a lot of time invested in it 😅 and if so how do we do that?

[spiral patrol]

I would love my Boundary Herald to have place for more people inside like falcon millenium lol but it only has a small cockpit

[gloomy isle]

Unironically my favourite is when it's not an English version of the game so people have to go off machine translated text lol

[spiral patrol]

At best haulers could be overhauled with that ability if not a new ship design

[gloomy isle]

It adds to the experience 😂

[earnest nebula]

spoiler: the sky is truly owned by ||no man||

[dense quartz]

It can be fun exploring for new stuff before the patch notes are available.
Though it can also be a trap like someone hearing about Echoes adding a 4th race and they go streaming for 5 hours looking for then and give up.

[molten karma]

He usually shows signs of life by now hopefully Seans okay... Who am I kidding I'm more concerned about the update. Sean please say something already. 🥲

[gloomy isle]

Ngl the autophage are probably one of the coolest concepts in NMS

[grizzled apex]

Martin's online it seems

[spiral patrol]

When do the patch notes and trailer drops then?

In my opinion we should be getting trailers before the update with he exact date

[molten karma]

Martin is the new face of the company confirmed?

[dense quartz]

Usually playstation gets it first, then Sean is like "we are about to push out the new update"
Then Steam gets it
Sean be like "Are you ready??" while PS dudes already reported what's new.
And then the trailer and patch notes drop.

[safe quarry]

I did just to be safe

[flint hollow]

Why backup needed?

[molten karma]

Can we recall what time it usually drops early or is it always random?

[dense quartz]

It's like whoever is in charge of pushing it out and marketting it aren't too organized or something lol.

[zenith perch]

Has a mainline update ever dropped on a day that isn't Wednesday

[zenith perch]

They have times decided in advance likely.

[icy citrus]

Every day but Sunday has been used I think

Wednesday is most common

[grizzled apex]

After all platforms get the update

[safe quarry]

I would expect ps4 will get theirs soonish

[cosmic anvil]

Sometimes the update screws up the save file

[grizzled apex]

Still probably an hour or so to go

[safe quarry]

mhm

[spiral patrol]

So in 30 years when switch gets an update?

[flint hollow]

How to backup on steam

[spiral patrol]

Also how do you all back up the save

[safe quarry]

What platform are you on?

[spiral patrol]

Steam

[cosmic anvil]

Same question but I put it in #nms-questions

[safe quarry]

Do you know how to reach your appdata folder? its hidden.

[quartz thistle]

Windows+R then enter appdata I think

[safe quarry]

mhm and then it's in Roaming, and just copy the Hello Games folder and save it somewhere.

Probably not needed, but always good to be safe!

Beacons was the first time ever if i recall where HG just had to shrug their shoulders with an issue and tell players to go back to a backup. Think it was an issue in experimental tho.

Normally with live issues if there's a problem they bake in a way to reclaim what they can that was broken by the issue.

or to retroactively fix things.

[dense quartz]

What was the issue?

[safe quarry]

I don't remember exactly, something to do with missions restarting

But its the first time i've seen the patch notes just telling people to revert

[molten karma]

So this is pacific time US but usually with the last two updates he dropped the first tweet before release around 4 to 5 am which its 2:53 am right now and for WPII he dropped the first tweet around 2:57am the video and patch notes seem to come out around 7 to 8 am.

[gloomy isle]

Yeah we're getting close

[uncut harness]

Cowboy imminent

[icy citrus]

Maybe

[dense quartz]

Yeah the update can drop anywhere between right now and the next 5 hours.

[molten karma]

I just wonder if he doesn't tweet until 4 am like with relics and beacon I wonder if it means its smaller. Worlds had less tweets but also the tweets started two hours earlier.

[gloomy isle]

Corvettes imminent

My name depends on it

[safe quarry]

oh no, you didn't make a pact did you???

Me and my ridiculous 'corvette wave' theory refuse to be complicit in your pact :p

[icy citrus]

Too late

[safe quarry]

Whatever @gloomy isle has done is all on them!

[spiral patrol]

Cowboy when

[safe quarry]

if it really is that, Sean will have to do like 10 follow up tweets explaining the history of chevrolet, just so people understand the emoji.

[icy citrus]

No, he will let us (community) explain

[spiral patrol]

How long before realesee?

[gloomy isle]

No one knows, within the next hour or two is pretty likely

[gloomy isle]

I did 😂😂😂😂

[spiral patrol]

Do we get a maintenance tho?

[zenith perch]

No

[spiral patrol]

If I was in game what would happen

[flint hollow]

Any chance for the update to be tomorrow?

[gloomy isle]

Nothing, iirc multiplayer just stops working until you update

[zenith perch]

Sean tweeted 30s ago

[spiral patrol]

I actually really hope your pact will come true

[flint hollow]

?

[uncut harness]

Fr?

[zenith perch]

A 😅 emoji

[flint hollow]

Same here as well

[flint hollow]

Yeah it's cooked

[zenith perch]

He tweet a "you guys ❤️ " too

[spiral patrol]

Did two tweets actually

Retweet a meme of himself also

[gloomy isle]

Possible, but overwhelmingly likely to be today

Not sure when the last time was that Wednesday wasn't update day

[zenith perch]

Give it 13 minutes and one platform will get it source it came to me in a dream

[spiral patrol]

Make a pact real quick

[safe quarry]

The funny thing is, it was a tweet about how NMS will be on its 1000th update in 2050, and the community has still managed to panic that this is some sign that this is the last update.

[grizzled apex]

Oop Sean's up

[spiral patrol]

They are doing that all the time they can't believe Sean is still giving away free update a true goat

[spiral patrol]

Pookie woke up

[safe quarry]

mhm. He could sneeze and they would be convinced that's him calling quits on NMS.

[zenith perch]

Vostock is the same ost as The Journey @grizzled apex

Wasn't this used on the main menu during NEXT

[uncut harness]

Vostock is a different track than Journey?

[quartz thistle]

Him calling quits on nms is their equivalent of Minecraft end update

[grizzled apex]

I've heard that Vostock is a combination of a loading screen and a combat track

Didn't get to give both a full listen yet

[uncut harness]

This is also used now when you first locate your ship during the tutorial (The Journey)

[gloomy isle]

I've heard journey a lot on poison planets (not sure if it's to do with the biome but my brain just links it to those specifically for some reason)

[ebon spoke]

so he confirmed another 960ish updates, then

[grizzled apex]

Yt videos incoming

[uncut harness]

Hmmm fr? I dont think The Journey plays regulary, only in the tutorial and living ship quest iirc, here the ingame version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMvu4C5F8vk&list=LL&index=2

[quartz thistle]

Speculation on every of those 960 updates, at least one has gotta hit

[dense quartz]

Oh yeah there's that whole thing with yt content creators making HG sponsored videos today.

[grizzled apex]

https://x.com/NoMansSky/status/1960646617469530426?s=19

Sean Murray (@NoMansSky)

༼ つ 👋_👋 ༽つ

X · Aug 27, 2025, 10:12 AM

Gib's here

[uncut harness]

its kinda cool how they decided to use the title the yt uploader gave it

[quartz thistle]

GIB

[uncut harness]

it was fitting so why not

[safe quarry]

I'm surprised he didn't replace the hands for a change

[hybrid pendant]

Should come out in a few mins ?

[flint hollow]

What the heck is that

[dense quartz]

Gib!

[quartz thistle]

This is gib

[grizzled apex]

Yep, missed opportunity haha

[flint hollow]

What's that?

[safe quarry]

Its a sign the update is coming very soon

[flint hollow]

Oh

[uncut harness]

༼ 👋◕_◕ ༽👋 is a missed opportunity

[safe quarry]

the community made it to 'summon' the update once

and so Sean now runs with it hehe

[ebon spoke]

"Sean knows better than to say misinterpretable things after the launch disaster, so he wouldn't retweet that if he didn't mean it"

[flint hollow]

Got it

[fervent wren]

update today or tomorrow?

[safe quarry]

one time the community paid to have it put on a public billboard outside their studio

[flint hollow]

Normal day for a nms fan lol

[gloomy isle]

The Bladerunner style slow synths I could swear I hear semi often

[uncut harness]

Something similar probably is in the OST for sure

[grizzled apex]

I hate how well this would fit in certain videos 😅

[spiral patrol]

He's pretty based ngl

[safe quarry]

and little Sean:

[grizzled apex]

In a few hours or less

[uncut harness]

def today now, the gib is here

[gloomy isle]

I need to get a weyland yutani shirt like that ngl

[uncut harness]

though the cowboy is even more important

A WY shirt would be lit, hopefully we gettin some Alien Earth merch soon...but anyways, this is NMS!

[safe quarry]

IS this because u think the corvettes will look like the Nostromo :p

[quartz thistle]

So basically for the newer people
One emoji
Three emoji
GIB with emoji
Emoji cowboy

[gloomy isle]

Slightly 😂 I've been watching a lot of Alien: Earth too

[safe quarry]

hehe

Well best you wait until next year for your corvettes

[uncut harness]

Inb4 corvettes are dropped now

[spiral patrol]

If we got a gib will we also get w cowboy?

Gib meaning few hours and cowboy would mean like few minutes?

[grizzled apex]

There's no real meaning to either, except as a way to say "update imminent"

[safe quarry]

If i keep saying they aren't coming, Sean will drop them to spite me ❤️

[molten karma]

We do get both. Sometimes they're in different orders. The gib was dormant for a while after NEXT actually.

[cyan nova]

he just tweeted the cow boy

[safe quarry]

People kept speculating that cowboy meant expedition, gib meant big update, but really there's no correlation. Its just: it's coming.

[uncut harness]

Don't forget to keep your expectations in check guys!

[safe quarry]

I can't wait for No Man's Sky: Universe!

[quartz thistle]

Cowboy is here boys

[wind panther]

It's go time

Or cloberrin', if you're a classic F4 fan

[spiral patrol]

Let's go

So hyped

[grizzled apex]

What in the body horror

[quartz thistle]

Hand

[earnest nebula]

oh boy oh boy

[spiral patrol]

Anything new will make me happy so I'm good I don't have huge expectations

[burnt oyster]

hellooo

[spiral patrol]

I mean I do but I mhappy with whatever

[wind panther]

It's a Hellraiser game collab

[spiral patrol]

As long as it's free update time

[quartz thistle]

I'm just happy that they keep giving free updates

[wind panther]

devkits

[drifting perch]

!update

[cloud jolt]

⚠️ NO UPDATE SPOILERS

Go to #nms-spoilers until official patch notes come out in #nms-news-ticker and #nms-announcements.
-# Content not officially announced by HG and not released on all platforms is considered to be spoilers -- this includes data-mined content and leaks.

[earnest nebula]

nms got flamed on at launch and has been having the most incredible redemption arc for the past 9 years

[earnest nebula]

but

but this is #nms-spoilers

[earnest nebula]

this is where the spoilers go

[drifting perch]

Ye sorry accidentally typed it

[earnest nebula]

how 😭

[burnt oyster]

`????

[wind panther]

I hear the update has megabytes in it

[burnt oyster]

LOL

[earnest nebula]

woah

[safe quarry]

Don't we normally have at least the ps4 downloading before all the emojis? I feel they come closer to the patch notes and trailer drop?

[wind panther]

No

[safe quarry]

Are they giving us the trailer ahead of the update for a change?

[earnest nebula]

after some intense datamining i've discovered that this update is indeed composed of code

[dense quartz]

"Do NOT post spoilers in this channel! Go to this channel to post spoilers!"

[burnt oyster]

which device gets the update first?

[wind panther]

Cowboy is before any of the platforms drop and PS isn't before others

[icy citrus]

Mine

[safe quarry]

NO, mine.

[wind panther]

Often PS or Steam, but even Switch had the win once

[safe quarry]

I already have it. It's Beacons 2.

[spiral patrol]

Sean rn:

[cloud jolt]

@spiral patrol

No gifs in this channel please

[spiral patrol]

Damn

[burnt oyster]

F

[earnest nebula]

i wanna hang out here while it's about to come out, but

[spiral patrol]

😔

[earnest nebula]

i also wanna chat in #no-mans-sky 😔

(im gonna do both)

[burnt oyster]

dual screen it

[wind panther]

Too bad, pick a side! You're either with us or you're against us

[burnt oyster]

one on discord app the other on browser

[gusty stream]

Maybe ps4 gets it first again this time...

[native carbon]

Is de update out?

[safe quarry]

Welcome all the new peeps waiting for spoilery news

[wind panther]

Soon

[earnest nebula]

cowboy

it's today

you win

[gloomy isle]

Next few mins probably

[wind panther]

We get Gunter notification on Steam update, yes?

[orchid bronze]

Face and cowboy nearly right after the other? Damn they are quick

[wind panther]

Gib, not face

[earnest nebula]

maybe sean's excited for this one

[native carbon]

Heh, who won the pact again? Meee!!!

[wind panther]

I didn't lose a pact...

[earnest nebula]

you should make a pact that it'll come out on the 28th

[orchid bronze]

Right gib sorry

Been a minute since I hung around here lok

[earnest nebula]

youll be right, trust

[wind panther]

Corvettes? More ship customization? Inquiring pacts want to know

[earnest nebula]

i REALLY want corvettes

sean, do this for me pretty please

[burnt oyster]

im just excited how they communicate with the community, its such a cool concept

as a new person (couple weeks) its super cool to see

[gloomy isle]

I really want them but I'm fully prepared to be stuck with a new name 😂

[safe quarry]

Corvette wave!

[orchid bronze]

September just keeps getting a more stacked month for me gaming wise

[earnest nebula]

if we get corvettes im gonna go totally bonkers

[rotund perch]

Yeah wasn't there a Corvette datamine?

[wind panther]

It's really just because Sean isn't allowed to say anything anymore, so that's the only way he can communicate 😛

Yes, corvettes are in the files, but no idea when or if they will hit the game

[earnest nebula]

the deaf kids took away his speaking rights 😔

[wind panther]

Minotaur was in the files over a year before released

[earnest nebula]

when were they found in the files?

[wind panther]

They didn't care

[grizzled apex]

WP2

[wind panther]

First quarter I think?

[flint hollow]

I just want ship interios

[gusty stream]

Theres always the 'if' part

Remember the Dragonfly Exoxraft 😔

[flint hollow]

It's the only thing that makes me think about buying star citizen

[earnest nebula]

waiting for this to say "update"

[safe quarry]

Its all Bomberboi's fault we even know about corvettes

[earnest nebula]

oh god so it's not ancient and there's actually a chance?

[safe quarry]

blame ^

[earnest nebula]

grahh im so excited

[grizzled apex]

Wasn't that just reused for the nautilon?

[uncut harness]

If you do it like that it‘ll feel like en eternity lol

[earnest nebula]

i cant wait for the release of worlds part 2 1/2!!

[gusty stream]

It was?

[burnt oyster]

so do we get like trailers or dev blogs with updates?

[gloomy isle]

The Wp2 datamines found bones and corvettes

[wind panther]

Dragonfly was never used

[earnest nebula]

bones?

[wind panther]

Still in the files

[dense quartz]

I always have to restart steam for it to show up for some reason. And it's only for NMS.

[earnest nebula]

like what came in THE bone update?

[native carbon]

Skibi

[midnight stream]

what is meant by corvettes though

[wind panther]

Yeah, I've got steam closed so I can re-open

[midnight stream]

any info on that?

[wind panther]

When I get the Gunter notification

[grizzled apex]

Yes, the UI for the skeleton assembler and some indications of how it'd work

[earnest nebula]

@sean RELEASE THE UPDATEEE

[safe quarry]

It's a long story, and if we're lucky we won't have to explain it soon.

[earnest nebula]

GIVE IT TO ME 🙏

[native carbon]

Bro tried to ping sean

[burnt oyster]

Is there like a trailer with it?

[earnest nebula]

he saw, trust me

[burnt oyster]

[wind panther]

Corvettes will be like small freighters that move with bases

[earnest nebula]

it'll release like

rn

[wind panther]

I think it's a test for boats in LNF

[burnt oyster]

lol

[earnest nebula]

and if it isn't, allow me to be struck by lightning or something

[safe quarry]

or airships

[wind panther]

Trailer comes after the drop

[burnt oyster]

ah

[steady monolith]

anyone know the time it comes?

[burnt oyster]

and dev notes?

[midnight stream]

move with bases 😮

[earnest nebula]

we got the cowboy tweet, so, within an hour possibly?

[safe quarry]

yup! and potentially multicrew

[wind panther]

I think 2 hours for trailer, though they seem on top of things today

[earnest nebula]

stop teasing me like this

[gusty stream]

Nah

[steady monolith]

-oooooooh

[earnest nebula]

gib and cowboy in the same hour

[wind panther]

Update should hit some console within an hour

[safe quarry]

I bet we won't get them yet. 💔

[gloomy isle]

In hoping they'd be elite dangerous scale ish

[steady monolith]

Yoooo

[earnest nebula]

STOP TEASING ME

[wind panther]

I could mod the player character to be tiny, if that would help

[earnest nebula]

im gonna be disappointed 😔

[gloomy isle]

That's elite dangerous 😅

[gusty stream]

Nothing on the ticker, time to wait another 30 mins

And get breakfast

[safe quarry]

Meet the update on its own terms and you'll be happy

[earnest nebula]

no sean's gonna release it like rn

[grizzled apex]

They never drop at the exact time mark

[spiral patrol]

Would be epic but how would that fit into space stations lol

[earnest nebula]

oh no no im 100% gonna love the update no matter what

[wind panther]

Not then? What about now?

[earnest nebula]

i care not what it is, new content is new content

from one of my favorite games

[leaden flax]

Letssssssss gooooooooooooo

[safe quarry]

First person hand animations ❤️ i would still be happy with that.

[earnest nebula]

i havent even interacted with beacon's content 😭

[wind panther]

For so long I thought your handle was ThaiBomberBoi

[hybrid pendant]

Literally what vr is ?

[wind panther]

I don't know why I thougth that

[safe quarry]

yes but applied to the rest of us

[gusty stream]

First person could use an overhaul in general
Its unchanged from the 2016 besides the UI

[heavy light]

I only care if there’s ship building, I don’t want to be peepeemcpoopoo for a month

[earnest nebula]

@sean

pretty please sean

[safe quarry]

They added player vocalisation, visible hands is step 2

[wind panther]

Let the VR players have their head patting and other stuff. They deserve it

[gloomy isle]

From the files, it seems like they would have a hangar that fits at least one regular ship

[grizzled apex]

Oh no, I've been been caught! 😛

[earnest nebula]

🤤

i want corvettes so badly, ive wanted them for years really

[wind panther]

I think I misread it once and then just never looked closely after that

[earnest nebula]

i need a space rv immediately

[spiral patrol]

Oh that would be pretty cool anything else that was in the files?

[native carbon]

Big fat juicy update

[earnest nebula]

i feel like the name "wayfarer" could perhaps support corvettes being added

[safe quarry]

I wanted freighters to fly, but this is the next best thing

[leaden flax]

Hope its something good

[late tusk]

why is everyone saying its gonna be corvettes lol

[steady monolith]

Good thing it’ll probably be a big update

[steady monolith]

Yeah

[earnest nebula]

based on signs ive seen, it will

[gusty stream]

Im not gonna set expectations

[earnest nebula]

so @sean PRETTY PLEASE 😭

[wind panther]

What in the files tells you that? Hangars are just a locator that says to load the freighter hangar

[earnest nebula]

ok fine take your time

[grizzled apex]

It'll definitely be content!

[flint hollow]

Bcz it's the only thing we know

[gloomy isle]

That's all really. It might not even be this update though, we'll have to wait and see 😂

[earnest nebula]

no matter my expectations, im gonna love whatever this update adds

[gusty stream]

Only thing im gonna expect is expedition stuff

[gloomy isle]

Iirc there were corvette textures labelled hangar

[late tusk]

ive learned not to get my expecations up for things i hope is in it

[earnest nebula]

i said it before, ill say it again, its new content for one of my favorite games, of course im excited

this only happens once every few months, so

[icy citrus]

Expedition is slated for next week

[earnest nebula]

it's a big occasion

[wind panther]

Ah, didn't know that

[gusty stream]

Oh?

[earnest nebula]

why next week?

and how do we know?

[native carbon]

That means juicy big update is dropping