nms-spoilers

[humble kayak]

But jokes aside something official would be cool, but I don't know if NMS has done many crossovers?

The only one I know of is the Normandy from Mass Effect being made into a frigate

[analog breach]

Yes. Tha was the only one

To do crossovers u need money for license. I think atm HG would rather invest that money into lnf

[cursive ivy]

The best chance is doing exchanges, like balatro and dave the diver

Having dave the diver getting to use a lighted version of balatro and balatro adding dave the diver cards/skins

[cosmic anvil]

which we can't enter. I was so disappointed. I did the redux expedition just for that

[zenith perch]

They'll more than likely update them eventually to have crews on em

Glad the gimmick era of 2023 ish stopped being a thing, it was eh tbh

Remnant is the closest to it I suppose

[cosmic anvil]

all the frigates?

[analog breach]

Didint hear anything about what might indicate the change of how frigates work in near future

[zenith perch]

Freighter multi-ownership was datamined, no reason to not expand frigates imo

Crew repairs would be nice

Plus it adds a bit more depth to the mechanic which is something NMS lacks in a lot of things unfortunately.

When was remnant released

[humble kayak]

Feb 11th

[zenith perch]

I want one thing for corvettes and its the ability to copy other's designs so you don't have to manually build one yourself

[humble kayak]

yeah thatd be nice

[zenith perch]

Hmm 5 to 6 month gap between updates now ish so

June 14th, random guess

[humble kayak]

I don't think HG counts the gap over holidays

[zenith perch]

If we get anything this month I'd be surprised.

There was a linkedin post they did at some point mentioning their update cadence

I don't have a screenshot on hand but it exists somewhere.

[humble kayak]

which they aim for 6 to 8 weeks i thought

though Ive always known them to release updates like

every three months

[zenith perch]

I thought it was 5 to 6 months, they don't do updates every 2 months like the gimmick era (exomech, the companion update etc etc)

[drowsy dune]

Idk it’s been more like an update every 7-9 weeks and then no updates from September till the next year

[humble kayak]

I mean if they changed it they must've done so recently because worlds 2 came out in january, then relics in march and beacon in june

[drowsy dune]

Fr, I liked companions, but sentinel was such a breath of fresh air

[zenith perch]

Gimme bounty hunter and npc changes so I can build a brig on my corvette and deliver bounties somewhere

[distant bronze]

i think it would be interesting if they went and did about, 6-8 designs of corvette per race, set some elements to be randomized with the colors, and added them as about 10% of system ship traffic

[humble kayak]

i think itd be cool if HG made a set of premade corvettes, like in-universe makes & models

they'd be NPC controlled and could be bought like any other starfighter

there could only be a set number of variations, sure, but colors could change

[distant bronze]

Yeah like, maybe they take note of the most popular player made vanilla builds and just canonize them into the universe under the different aliens

[drowsy dune]

I like this, but on the other hand, when the CPU’s have the best of the best ship designs it could feel discouraging to try and make your own

[distant bronze]

i mean to be fair there are some builds that have become very popular with the player base, i know for a time the "Rail-Gun" Corvette was all over the feeds and on the anomaly landing pads. Might as well make them canon.

[robust owl]

Haven’t been back since corvettes, what did I miss?

[humble kayak]

not a lot. the Remnants update was released abt a month and a half ago, which basically gave us the option to turn the colossus exocraft into a garbage truck

we're awaiting the next update, but it's not known when exactly it'll drop or what'll be in it

[humble kayak]

i also think that NMS corvettes have such diverse styles you'd have trouble sorting them under the different alien races

instead of using popular player-made designs id rather HG just build their own

[frigid storm]

Some of the sunken ship beacon traveler logs seem to reference parts of the story or lore bits.

Old mineral reference.

[humble kayak]

I wonder if the thing the traveller shouldn't have seen was the creation of a new Korvax

I was re-reading all the lore excerpts I'd accumulated in the logs

[frigid storm]

Water sampling went wrong.

[humble kayak]

And one excerpt is of the creation of a new Korvax, as documented by an iteration called an Observer (effectively a historian, I think), who notes that the Korvax do not like outsiders seeing this process

[frigid storm]

I was hoping some of the race ones could be found again. No dice I guess.

[humble kayak]

it documents the "soul" of the korvax being imbued into the shell, and hints at what happens if said korvax doesn't properly assimilate into the Convergence

also good job cataloguing these excerpts, they're all very interesting

[frigid storm]

I'd imagine it would go about as well as trying to run the wrong software with mismatched hardware.

[humble kayak]

yeah

I mean they hint that the korvax is destroyed if things don't "take"

they basically get liquidized

[frigid storm]

I wish I'd have started on a few of them sooner, since the race ones seem to go through a sequence and then end...
Then the traveler ones start in.

[humble kayak]

If I remember I'll get a screenshot of it and post it here tomorrow

[humble kayak]

I mean, it wouldn't look as good, but wouldn't you have records of those logs in the knowledge section of the menu?

Where you can view crashed freighter logs and stuff

maybe you could use that as backup if they're there

[frigid storm]

Hmm... Might have to look

[humble kayak]

I'd give you directions to possibly find them but I don't know the menu well enough to describe it off the top of my head, sorry

Should be in the same menu you go to to access the different races' languages

[frigid storm]

Nope, only see ones for crashed freighters and such, the crashed ship ones aren't in it.

Should be around 20 of each going off the Gek ones I gathered.

Could vary though.

[humble kayak]

unfortunate

[hollow wagon]

I need help with the Seeds of the atlas main quest (I believe that’s what it’s called) || I don’t want spoilers I just wanna know if I select to birth a new star if that will cause a permanent thing to my save like something bad ||

[gentle spindle]

no, the only difference is to get one of the seed to equip on your exosuit and a title

[icy citrus]

Don't walk away

[gloomy isle]

I wonder if this update could be MP related? 🤔

[icy citrus]

Multiswords

Gotta practice animations

[hard stirrup]

I've been slowly collecting some salvaged frigate modules as well, in case the next update is the freighter update. Looks like I'll need to pick up my efforts with whatever this new update is, likely to drop in two days. I collected lots of cargo bulkheads and freighter tech modules so that's all good but if this is the freighter update it might add more tech and rooms and build parts and so on...so might as well prepare have the salvaged frigate modules too..

[outer summit]

i think multi-swords would be super cool

especially with all the castle builds some civilizations i'm in are doing

[zenith perch]

Would be nice but not likely, they've not done a big mp update since beyond

[frigid storm]

Then its likely due...
I'm thinking something with multi-player, otherwise base building.

[cosmic anvil]

We have emoji?

Stadium?

So demolition derby update? 😂

[distant bronze]

I mean, we have the new colossus wheels

[humble kayak]

Fuck yeah we have an emoji!!

I'm really surprised honestly

[grizzled apex]

Well that's one hell of an emoji

Completely lost this time around tbf 😅

I've heard coliseum as a take so far, but I'm not sure what that'd entail past a PVP update, which I don't think they'd focus too heavily on

[cosmic anvil]

maybe we fight Apollo to the death

[grizzled apex]

Hey, lemme take up his offer for a drink first Sean! 😛

[cosmic anvil]

I wonder how many pacts are going to be lost this time

[grizzled apex]

There doesn't seem to be any new expedition loaded up serverside, so that might mean it's a decently sized update?

[humble kayak]

What even is it? An arena?

I can't tell lol

[flint hollow]

oh how long until update normally?

[humble kayak]

Usually comes out on wednesday

But given this was dropped on a Monday I wouldn't be surprised if it happened on thursday

[grizzled apex]

Looks like the emoji's called stadium

[humble kayak]

hmm

Maybe a mini game update?

Racing improvements and stuff?

But I know emojis don't typically hint towards features in the update

[grizzled apex]

Tbf, the only emoji of the year so far was moreso tied to the headline feature than the name this time

[humble kayak]

Oh I suppose

With the vest and garbage man simulator

[midnight stream]

nms gravball league confirmed

[native carbon]

woah woah woah a emoji I DIDNT NOTICED

HOW

when was it posted?

[cedar rover]

About 4 hours ago, give or take! Uncommon Monday emoji post.

[native carbon]

a sunday emoji drop, interesting..... totally unexpected

i mean monday*

wait a minute monday?! what?!

thats so weird

[cedar rover]

Strange, ain't it?

[native carbon]

that explains why i missed the emoji

usually these drop on saturday

[midnight saffron]

Maybe Sean was too busy over Easter holiday to post emoji. So he posted it today.

[cedar rover]

If the update drops Wednesday, it'll be quite the short cycle. BomberBoi noted at least right now there's no Expedition serverside at the moment, so that's interesting.

[native carbon]

anyways my theory:
coloseum -> colossal
colossal -> freighters

[cedar rover]

I wouldn't mind a second update to Freighters. Correct me if I'm wrong, there was a time HG was testing multiple freighter ownership in the code?

While I doubt we'll see multiple owned freighters, I bring it up as it shows they're at least tinkering with them.

[velvet verge]

Pvp update??

[hard stirrup]

To be honest I doubt this has anything to do with PvP or multiplayer for that matter. It's either the freighter update or something completely unexpected like the last update when we got the recycling plants and colossus revamp.

[cedar rover]

I concur at least at this moment, Blakespot made a good point for us to think more broad about the emoji. Can't stop thinking about the code that tinkered with Freighters.

[hard stirrup]

I think so too...either freighter update or something completely unexpected.

[midnight saffron]

Just went on sale on steam.

Also does anyone else find it suspicious that we are getting a possible update the same week starfield is getting an update? Maybe possible collab?

[hard stirrup]

Nah, I'd be VERY surprised if there is ever any kind of collab between Starfield and NMS...NMS has largely been used as a rather embarrassing comparison for Starfield so I doubt Microsoft or Bethesda want to revive that particular conversation.

[cursive ivy]

Ya'll too invested in starfield collab

Besides, i haven't seen a single thing worth of importing to nms

Besides maybe a frigate

[distant bronze]

I don't know, I think a limited event corvette set based on one of starfields in game ship building company's would be a fun thing to import

personally think it could be freighter update or gravity gun based sport update with either a stadium poi or zone on the space stations

[near forge]

HG kinda already made a subtle nod towards SF; the corvette used in the Voyagers update cover art looks very similar to the Frontier. Could just be coincidence ofc, but I think it‘s highly likely that the art was inspired by it.

I‘d also love to have SF‘s fauna behavior in NMS, but due to the much more volatile terrain of NMS and all the pathfinding challenges that provides, and on top of that all of SF‘s creatures being fully handcrafted…I can‘t really see that happening.

And the combat? SF is a proper FPS, NMS not. I would welcome a few more combat touchups, but we‘re never gonna get something akin to SF/Fallout; and it wouldn’t fit NMS‘ style anyways.

As for the update itself…I‘m thinking about the stadium meaning to represent a colloseum, which besides combat could also go in the direction of procedural ruins in the style of derelicts, but planetside instead. That‘d be a very welcome surprise.

This could also be connected to the ancient guardians; perhaps it‘s even meant to represent rome in the sense of an ancient glorious civilization? So new procedurally poi‘s to explore, or even an overhaul of the older poi‘s? I feel like they could really use it, I know of many players who tend to avoid a lot of them like the burried ruins.

Might be wishful thinking, but one can dream…

[analog breach]

Olimpic stadium - olimpic fire - olimpic brazer-

[native carbon]

copium

[analog breach]

Ofc lol

[analog breach]

But with all the greek references in game i could not to not make that connection

[hot trout]

Stadium makes me think of possible friendly competition stuff in multiplayer

[distant bronze]

we do know there are new 4k ruins textures in the game, I would seriously welcome a new procedurally generated POI

[hot trout]

I do feel like 🏟️ being interpreted as "colosseum" specifically is a bit of a leap

[cosmic anvil]

wanna start another countdown?

[cosmic anvil]

maybe it is Bread and Circuses and we're getting a food update

also what if I make another pact and lose again? can't go lower than a laptop, palmtops don't exist anymore and some modern smartphones are actually more powerful than the lower end laptops loll

[deep mountain]

It probably is a multiplayer update low-key

[hot trout]

Thinkpad

[cosmic anvil]

yoo those are actually bang for buck. Not pretty but they get the job done

[cursive ivy]

It's the world cup update

[analog breach]

Olimpics update

[hot trout]

Sure, but thats basically it

[hollow wagon]

Thank you

[cosmic anvil]

would match NMS tech tho. A lot of it is very functional. Like look at the ship cockpit displays — they have this very retro and functional display over any kind of fancy sci-fi aesthetic.

[humble kayak]

pfft its obvious what the emoji means

fighting pits, people

im gonna name a planet Nuceria and keep an abnormally large man there to fight in the arenas

[cursive ivy]

It's relics part 2

[humble kayak]

what could possibly go wrong

[humble kayak]

i'd cry

[cursive ivy]

With new artifacts and lewd manuscripts

[dire drum]

more lewd manuscripts, you mean

[hot trout]

Maybe if the one I had to use wasnt as slow I'd hate them less

[gloomy isle]

@grizzled apex sorry for the ping, but have you seen if there's any expedition lined up?

[grizzled apex]

yep, nothing's lined up serverside for this update yet. Likely no expedition for this update, unless it launches after the update itself.

[muted moth]

so is this pvp arena or some new extension to the build system?

[gloomy isle]

Huh that's interesting then! Might be something larger than the last one, if I'm remembering right and most of the smaller ones go with their own expedition

Thanks for taking a look

[gloomy isle]

My thoughts are multiplayer, building, or ruins

All of which will be iterated upon to some extent in LNF too

The only educated thing we can maybe deduce is that it probably won't be a minigame/ gimmick/ small feature update like fishing, relic, or remnant

Providing it really does end up having no expectation

I feel like it'll be a targeted overhaul more like Orbital or Beacon, since neither of those had an expedition either

[muted moth]

we already have the relics stuff going on, so I am skeptical about more in the way of ruins

[spring hawk]

Overhauls my beloved 🤤 🤤 🤤

I'd buy the entire game again to have a (good) economy overhaul

[gloomy isle]

Relic was fossils tbf, not ruins

The ruins and fossils mechanics are totally seperate

[muted moth]

sorry for being ambiguous, what I meant was that we have a bunch of ruin items that can be located and learned, and it seems unlikely that this would be expanded.

of course, lots of things have been unlikely. like fishing 😄

[violet cosmos]

Next expedition will be a farming sim where you are trapped on a planet literally watching grass grow, book it.

[cursive ivy]

Oh that's a nice guess, being able to build real wonders like the romanian colosseum

[hot trout]

I wonder if the next expedition will be a special extended one for the anniversary

[frigid storm]

Maybe the one in the summer, depending if this update has an expedition or not.

[humble kayak]

I hope it's not

[humble kayak]

oh ruins could be a safe bet

sry for the double ping mb

But there were datamines relating to ruins

and the colosseum is debatably a ruin

[muted moth]

were there? I had not heard

[humble kayak]

i think so

texture overhauls tho

no models

[muted moth]

sounds like that might be a side thing then, dunno

[hot trout]

I still feel like colosseum is a tad specific of an interpretation

[humble kayak]

yeah probably

and i kind of hope i'm wrong

I was never a fan of Relics

felt too much like filler

and i figure this update, if ruins focused, would be pretty Relics-esq

[gloomy isle]

It probably won't be similar, since there's no expedition

[humble kayak]

I hope it's a building overhaul, but i dont see how an arena emoji would translate to that

[gloomy isle]

It'll be more of a proper overhaul imo

Whatever it is

[analog breach]

Nintendo got revoked the sumoning animals for fights patent . Soo battlepets arenas 🏟️ incoming lol

[humble kayak]

HGs dev team isnt THAT quick lol

[humble kayak]

well, when can we expect the update?

I know wednesday is the regular time, but given the emoji got sent out on a monday, could we be looking at a Thursday release?

[grizzled apex]

not really an overhaul, just 4k res for existing textures

[frigid storm]

Well, you could build a stadium better now with an update. 🤷

[ebon spoke]

Nah, probably still Wednesday. Hasn't been a Monday emoji in a few years, but they've all still been Wednesday releases when they did happen (Sentinel, Outlaws, Interceptor, Singularity).

[grizzled apex]

Yea we havent had a non-wednesday release since 2020 (except for echoes)

[hard stirrup]

Worth noting that we have had updates that came with delayed expeditions that didn't start until a week or two after the update. So just because it isn't scheduled in the server yet doesn't necessarily mean there won't be one. We'll find out on Wednesday after downloading the update if the QS bot lists any expedition 22 rewards or not.

[hard stirrup]

Most likely still Wednesday. There was one time where we didn't get the emoji until Tuesday and then the update dropped the next day.

[humble kayak]

ok thanks guys

[grizzled apex]

Yep, larger updates such as WPII didnt have a serverside expedition go up until a week after the actual update dropped.

[gloomy isle]

It's a 4 day weekend in the UK so that's probably why

[hidden moth]

What if collesium = combat overhaul ?

[frigid storm]

Possible, plenty of people have been asking for one.

[hot trout]

How did the general consensus end up at colosseum?

[muted moth]

already suggested: pvp arena or some such. other versions of battle arena (companions: think nmsword instead of palworld :-P). who knows

stadium, well we don't exactly have sports except for gekball which is purely a local affair, no galactic leagues

[hard stirrup]

I don't think it's so much a general consensus as much as it being the most direct and literal interpretation of the emoji...which is generally also the worst interpretation...at least most of the time.

[cursive ivy]

Probably Thursday
I remember the updates were on Tuesday before being on Wednesday

[hard stirrup]

No, the update will almost certainly be on Wednesday. And this isn't even the most delayed emoji either. One time we literally had an emoji drop on a Tuesday afternoon and the update dropped the next morning.

[cursive ivy]

Right

But I'm from xbox so i get it a bit delayed

[hard stirrup]

Maybe...hard to say for sure. Xbox has been getting updates on day one at least some of the time. Hopefully no delays for you guys this time.

[cursive ivy]

Worst one yet was the corvettes, i still remember back before the expeditions and the firsts ones were launched simultaneously with pc

[hot trout]

The most literal interpretation is stadium though, or arena if we arent being absolutely exact

[hard stirrup]

Yep...but at least I don't think anyone here has yet said this will be a football update like some of the brain rot interpretations on X so I guess it could be worse.

[frigid storm]

I won't be surprised if this one has more to do with construction than anything.
Other guesses are multi-player overhaul in some way, or changes to combat.

Its pretty open at this point.

[hidden moth]

That’s the name of the emoji lol

[hard stirrup]

In terms of anything multiplayer or pvp related topics, I doubt it. Those features are what they are, and I think that's what they'll remain...likely even for LNF. In terms of combat...like some kind of arena fighting, possibly but it would probably be solo vs AI enemies like waves of sentinels. Though I would be surprised if it is that literal of correlation between emoji and update this time.

[hard stirrup]

Yeah, but the vast majority of emojis aren't that literal. Last update with the safety vest everyone was thinking construction and building related stuff...it turned out to be a colossus centric recycling update...which nobody guessed. That's how it goes with most emojis. The most direct and literal interpretation is almost always bad.

[hot trout]

It literally isnt

The name of the emoji is stadium

[glass flare]

I've been so locked in with the moon orbit, I didn't even realize an emoji dropped

here's hoping for a big content update and continuation of the Worlds storyline

[frigid storm]

For multi-player I was thinking of improved syncing and such.

Combat more on the pve side, pvp seems pretty doubtful in my mind.

[hidden moth]

Stadium..

As in

no mans sky coming to google stadia 2026

[humble kayak]

i pray to Atlas it's a building overhaul

But something tells me this'll be a gimmicky update like Remnants, Relics, or Aquarius

[velvet verge]

If it was a building overhaul, you'd think he'd use a more apt emoji

[glass flare]

maybe they're going to revamp the ruins with procedurally generated buildings you can explore. I'm sure proc gen architectural structures tech is being built for LNF, so I could see that kind of things coming over to NMS

[velvet verge]

There's a million other emojis that better communicate ruins/buildings, the stadium is so weirdly specific

[humble kayak]

yeah I think so too

but emojis aren't always on-the-nose

corvettes were a hand wave, this channel spent days speculating about its meaning

Beacons was bacon, and idk how a beacon relates to a settlement

[cursive ivy]

What do you think fishing update emoji?
🏺 : ... (it can't talk it was a jar)

[cursive ivy]

The building have light beacons?

[humble kayak]

I mean yeah, I guess

still an odd name imo

[cursive ivy]

Yeah 100% odd

[hot trout]

Were those towers added in the beacons update?

[glad kernel]

🏟️

[deep mountain]

I hope we actually get the update this Wednesday didn't the emoji just come out today

[velvet verge]

Dang fr?

Oh wait that's a reference to Aquarius, that almost makes sense

[humble kayak]

we probably will there's been tighter timeframes before

[cursive ivy]

The triple emoji and the cowboy will tell

[muted moth]

reminding people of the good old 🍊 emoji drop

maybe it will be clearly related and then again, maybe not

[hushed wyvern]

what was the tangerine emoji for?

[vital flint]

The Origins update

A wordplay of sorts

[hushed wyvern]

i see, it really can be anything

[muted moth]

"orange" -> origins

and frontiers had this emoji: 👀
why? because settlements have an "overseer" which is the role you take on, and settlements shipped with the frontiers update 🙄

[humble kayak]

trying to figure out this coming update's name

Thing is though, who knows if the emoji even references the updates name at all

Apergos mentioned Frontiers' emoji not even referencing its name, and neither did Remnant's

[violet cosmos]

Stadium -> Super Bowl -> Toilet Bowl. We are going to be janitors. Multitool will have mop attachment.

This is actually why they disabled fauna from being able to poop. They wanted to save up enough poo for an entire planet to be covered.

[analog breach]

Colosseum - colossus update name . maybe these guys will do something more than sit around

[violet cosmos]

Looks like a space toilet to me.

[humble kayak]

maybe it's just a colossal sized update

[analog breach]

Nada would like to take word with you

[violet cosmos]

Also looks like a space toilet.

Actually it would be very topical if the space game released an update that required us to fix all the space toilets.

No Man's Sky: Artemis #2

[raw girder]

Pve and pvp companion battles as well as pve and pvp turn based freighter battles

[hard stirrup]

Zero chance of that of that happening.

[violet cosmos]

tbf I'd give about a zero chance of anything suggested so far of happening

[cosmic anvil]

bruh

now I can't unsee it

[cosmic anvil]

what?

really?? I remember farming poop even in the Remnant expedition

[violet cosmos]

lol, it broke in one of the recent patches and they haven't fixed it yet

[analog breach]

Nah. No 3 seashells .

[restive stump]

They don't know how to use the 3 seashells heh..

[near forge]

Also kind of my guess, if it actually came true I would be super stoked. Could also be entirely new poi’s though. But the way things usually work out it‘s probably gonna be something different lol.

But even if it doesn’t happen now, I‘m pretty sure we‘ll get something of the sort at some point. It would be almost essential for making LNF‘s world interesting long-term. So this would only be a continuation of the trend of porting LNF’ features/mechanics over to NMS.

[faint kayak]

A nms pvp/pve arena mode would be fun, like if the arena mode like you both get like auto assigned multitools so theres no edge that would be cool

[analog breach]

Only problem with pvp arena is that pepole dont want pvp. And u need subscription to see other players ( except pc players )

[faint kayak]

oh yeah I know thats why I said pve too, like it shouldn't be an exclusive thing for instance they won't force you to pvp to get certain rewards like you can opt for pve but obviously some players do want pvp so I think it's probably good to cater to both sides yknow

like having pvp duels with people who want it and maybe the people who don't wanna can watch would be cool

[safe quarry]

I think the latency between players right now is waaaay too bad for a pvp mode in earnest. It's like seconds of latency, not milliseconds

But they could be updating the netcode, i mean they should for LNF anyway.

[faint kayak]

exactly swhat I've thought like nms in it's state should be a good testing ground for lnf features

yeah the latency is absolutely terrible

[safe quarry]

My bet is still on this being the next exocraft based update for pilgrim/roamer, and it being build pieces to make tracks, maybe skate park style bits, and maybe some logic gadgets to make minigames with score keeping, etc.

and then customisation for pilgrim, roamer, or both.

[cosmic anvil]

yeahh

seems a minority opinion

besides LNF is more suited for that

There are other, far better games for PVP content. NMS is a space exploration game and that is what they do best imo

[safe quarry]

mhm, i think anything pvp would show they do not know their playbase very well. Its normally a vocal minority that want pvp, like professor cynical.

and NMS has had enough drama with griefing without giving the griefers more tools to ruin people's games with.

[faint kayak]

oh god nah it's not him

the pvp stuff comes from like the nms civs

they kinda do their own versions of it

they're probably in the minority in terms of the actual playerbase but they're not irrelevant

[cosmic anvil]

who's Professor cynical? CC?

[late tusk]

a NMS youtuber whos uh...yeah

[faint kayak]

cynical reall isn't the type of person people should look up to for pvp

like the euclid war was just kind of a farce

[cosmic anvil]

oh I see

I mean he does have the cynical in the name

[cosmic anvil]

Euclid war??? 😂 tell me more!

[faint kayak]

I was there lol from the top of my memory he had like a planned war etc with people who wanted to join, and I'm pretty sure it ended because cynical himself basically threw out his own rulebook which HE wrote and hail mary'd it, basically killed the whole thing

and lets not forget the time where he posted a video about base greifing, it was like a whole thing of "don't base greif this is for educational purposes only, so anyway this is how you base greif" then does a step by step

[near forge]

Just looking at his video titles and thumbnails he seems like a pretty cringe person who mostly makes needlessly long clickbait videos based on nothing basically.

[cosmic anvil]

what the heck is base griefing? like commenting on other people's bases?

[frigid storm]

That is common for some just to pull in views.

[near forge]

Yeah, I feel like Cpt Steve is the same nowadays, but tbh I haven‘t watched him in a rather long time now.

If you aren‘t an avid base builder there‘s not really many reasons to dive into NMS YT I feel like, I really only watch Kanaju still, and he‘s the type who doesn‘t upload very often anyways.

[gilded girder]

They're talking about Professor Cynical, a youtuber

[hard stirrup]

Oh...that dude. Ok, got it. Yeah that dude makes a lot of stuff up.

[runic mesa]

This is my guess. This or maybe a sport to play using the gravity coil.

[late tusk]

i hope this update isnt related to sports or something like that.

[faint kayak]

it's like building over peoples bases

shithouse stuff

[cosmic anvil]

yuck

seems disgusting

[faint kayak]

yea and cynical basically taught mfs how to do it, he only took it down because one of his mods was kicked out after speaking out then said mod became a whistleblower and he was forced to delete it

[cosmic anvil]

these people need to be censured or banned from the game. Why would anyone do this? I play NMS occasionally since I'm in late game and I'd be appalled if someone had built over my base.

[faint kayak]

no they actually do get banned tho

like console banned too

[cosmic anvil]

that is good.

[near forge]

Yeah same I also don‘t see a lot of people caring for these kind of features in their space exploration game

[cosmic anvil]

Tbf I don't want anymore 'new' features at all. Expand on the existing ones. Remnant was a step in the right direction. More corvette parts. Freighter revamp. Space Station interiors. Make the universe feel alive.

[faint kayak]

yeah like new features are like adding decorations to a car with an outdated engine

deepen what we already got

I'd say

[cosmic anvil]

so now we have the emoji. When can we expect the update?

[distant bronze]

Agreed, them going back to older systems, pois, activities, and upgrading them to work with some of the new mechanics theyve added would be a plus

[near forge]

As per usual I‘d expect tomorrow? Darn I was actually excited to get back into SF, now I‘ll also have to check out NMS, while staying afloat irl

[cosmic anvil]

San Francisco?

[distant bronze]

Like, IMO, trading posts need an overhaul, maybe add a cargo/shipment loading dock on the lower levels to work with the flatbed and gravity coil

[near forge]

Lol no, never been to the US yet but San Francisco probably wouldn‘t be the first place I‘d want to see, even though the red bridge‘s kinda cool ig.

Starfield has a huge update launching today which apparently might improve a lot of things (but I already thought the base game was decent and a bit overhated), so now I got two huge space games to waste time in simultaniously.

[late tusk]

a revamp of on foot combat or even first person animations would be nice

[cosmic anvil]

oh Starfield right hehe

also what??! you ain't American? idk why but in my hc, you always were 😂

[near forge]

Oh rly? Hmm my dad was actually born in Murica, but I‘ve been in germany my whole life pretty much.

[cosmic anvil]

but then why stadium? stadium = this year football WC = foot = foot animation improvement?

[hard stirrup]

I don't watch his videos but this is unsurprising. The last time I watched any of his videos he was pretending that save edited or modded things were "glitches" he found.

[frigid storm]

I suppose when that updates others like HG probably look to see what got done, sometimes it isn't even that huge overall but if gameplay gets improved in some fashion others will look.

[near forge]

Well whatever it ends up being I‘m always hungry for things expanding the lore, and I also feel like a lot of the older features are in dire need of a revamp/overhaul especially the older poi‘s.

But HG might just do HG things and come up with something totally random, we won‘t rly know until we do.

[vital flint]

Could it be that it's a small update to celebrate the 1M subs at X?

Maybe just a single feature and a new expedition

[drowsy dune]

I do think that colosseum - colossal and being a freighter or space update is most likely

I would be very happy about that if it was true, endurance is one of the games best updates

[vital flint]

A freighter update would be cool indeed

[frigid storm]

They don't give out timelines either so we don't know if they have a plan for certain updates or if they take ideas and go with it.
Might be a mix of both since they do have some areas that should at least get tweaked a little.

Stadium seating for your freighter?

[deep mountain]

Three emojis have hit my news feed they actually doing a update two days after announcing it that's crazy

It probably multiplayer related

Just by their track record for emojis only being semi related to the product lol

[hard stirrup]

We do know that Hello Games are working on some sort of freighter update that will at least let us own up to eight freighters. Whether that is this update I don't know but it is a reasonable line of thought.

[deep mountain]

They gotta get stuff ready for lnf too innit that's why we got new clouds water whatever so what in lnf multiplayer

[drowsy dune]

People always say multiplayer related every update and it never is 😔

[hard stirrup]

Doubt it. I think the multiplayer and pvp part of the game just are what they are and that's about it. I don't think NMS will ever get significantly better multiplayer because it requires much more expensive servers and the game has too many glitches, bugs, and exploits that let players get vastly more powerful than is legitimately possible, which is also too easy to save edit and so on...in short if you are expecting a multiplayer dedicated update, that's very unlikely to ever happen.

[deep mountain]

It's already been updated 3x and it's a requested feature some may argue it's a requested fix to what buggy system we have now

You never know who thought they'd update water or add dinosaur parts

Infact I can check the words that'll never happen and link it to 5+ updates lol

[hard stirrup]

Those don't require ruinously expensive servers or to make the game borderline impossible to cheat or heavy online moderation to ban players who cheat, all of which costs a lot. What you have now is basically it I think...and will probably be it for LNF as well, which is being lined up to be a single player with optional coop game like NMS.

[cosmic anvil]

because that is like banging the head on a wall. Or beating a dead horse

They expect an update this game wasn't even designed for

[faint kayak]

I've been hoping for a multiplayer update since 2023

whats 3 more years

[cosmic anvil]

LNF has been designed with MP from ground up

NMS has the basic MP just tacked onto it like sticky tape

I'm afraid this is the furthest to go. I'd much prefer freighter or corvette or exocraft updates.

[deep mountain]

Do you really want to open the game wasn't designed for multiplayer can of worms? A feature advertised since before launch
I don't think you actually do I just think you prefer singleplayer which is fair

I honestly hope for a poi update, I just think it might be mp

It could be hinting towards pois I guess
It's a point of interest for sure

[faint kayak]

I do hope it's arena cause tbh this game doesn't have a whole lot of repeatables

like pve or pvp don't matter

could be a fun concept

[deep mountain]

that would be cool we got space dungeons to shoot stuff in but it's cramped and buggy

The bugs literally go through walls

[hard stirrup]

It's not a can of worms...it's the literal fact. The game wasn't designed for form of dedicated multiplayer. And as long as the game remains easily moddable with easily accessible save files dedicated multiplayer will not work and it would be a mistake for HG to try.

[deep mountain]

But just by advertising it pre launch it's expected and we'll advertised , it was sold as a mp game and they updated mp three times nothing's really saying they won't again

As for can't, just look at anything they've done on switch
It's a can of worms because you gotta get into launch issues

I'm not a day one player not even day two but I did own and refund a launch day copy news hit when I was at work

[hard stirrup]

Not much was advertised before launch...the only things they said was that you could encounter other players...that's about it. They never promised extensive dedicated multiplayer and PvP.

[deep mountain]

Now I'm confused you just said it wasn't advertised then admitted they said you could encounter players

We not on the same wavelength anymore with that one lol

Mp advertised is mp advertised

Again as for cants just look at anything done on switch

[hard stirrup]

I didn't say that...you might want to go back and read what I said. I said it wasn't designed for multiplayer...which is 1,000% true. Also you can argue with me all you like, it won't change the facts.

[deep mountain]

It doesn't matter once you advertise mp it designed for mp it's basic consumerism

I'm sure they don't mean for the current mp to constantly break everything too
There is room to grow

I think I'll stop here and agree to disagree though you seem like you're getting agitated but maybe you're not tone can be hard to tell over a computer

[hard stirrup]

Literally not true. Being advertised to have the basic ability to run into other players and see them does NOT mean the game will ever support the kind of seamless multiplayer experience you dream of. It just means you can see other players...nothing else was promised. And it wasn't designed for much more. If HG were to try to do a dedicated pvp or multiplayer arena system it would go hilariously badly. The game has too many bugs and exploits that let people make broken ships and multitools and it's too easy to save edit that stuff too.

[deep mountain]

Yeah no worries as per my last reply were good to agree to disagree I'm not even going to read that we good

[grizzled apex]

Seems like a few more internals

[deep mountain]

damn did I just get Reddit'd

[drowsy dune]

Oh yeah

[deep mountain]

you know discord sends emoji notifications now right lol

[drowsy dune]

You both have good points but like, that’s a poor way to respond to criticism

I agree with what both of you are saying

[deep mountain]

hold on now I dropped it due to rising tensions, it wasn't a response to their disagreement

[deep mountain]

this is pretty cool im guessing the emoji would of dropped sooner if it wasn't for April fools since it's already coming out

[hard stirrup]

Not really...emojis normally drop on Friday or Saturday which would have been Apr 3rd or 4th...so that shouldn't have had any impact on emoji drop.

[deep mountain]

nice i could even be awake when the update drops thanks to a new baby i am ready 👴🏾

[cosmic anvil]

that feature imo is precisely the one we have now. Play with a party of friends

PVP is something they have never advertised

[deep mountain]

Ok (see above you late on the reply lol)

[frigid storm]

The 5th being Easter might have been a reason to wait for the emoji.

[runic mesa]

Me still stupidly hoping we'll get to explore the World of Glass at some point. I want lore, gimmie.

But, I wouldn't turn down more customization or motorcrossing features for the Pilgrim either. 😛

[humble kayak]

Agreed

[near forge]

Stadium cuz HG is gonna announce a huge event for the upcoming 10th anniversary where they invite all NMS Players and we gonna celebrate it in a huge arena.

They are announcing it already so that we have time to reserve our tickets and they can calculate how many seats will be needed.

[drowsy dune]

I kinda feel like they could straight up double the speed of the three non colossus cars and it would still be balanced

[hot trout]

Ngl I feel like an accurate World of Glass would be hard to design and implement

[deep mountain]

i hope it's a Poi update the towers and crashed freighters scream I'm from 2016 meanwhile the rest of the games been updated

The same copy paste buildings 🚬

[hot trout]

The crashed freighters being outdated-looking kinda fits with their lore

Though more variety would definitely be nice

[near forge]

Yeah, there are some old buildings I wanna keep, I especially have grown fond of the abandoned ones and how many variations of them there are between the races, specifically in abandoned systems where every poi is abandoned; but there should be some sort of revamp for a lot of the older poi‘s imo.

[velvet verge]

Fun as that may sound, I think it'd completely ruin the mystery. The stuff we imagine about lore tends to be way better than how it's implemented

[deep mountain]

Who knows maybe it's a poi update they did post a building emoji

[hot trout]

@west kelp 16 minutes until catastrophic system failure

[west kelp]

oh simple enugh

[hot trout]

On paper, yeah

[west kelp]

i did that part, but i thought it was just part of the puzzle...

of somthing muchbigger

[hot trout]

According to the Atlas' internal system clock, it has 16 minutes until it suffers enough damage that it will no longer be able to function

[west kelp]

and yet, it has been months since i did that... HOW OFF IS ITS CLOCK?

[hot trout]

Not off at all

[west kelp]

is time in nms like, one year for us a minute for them?

[hot trout]

Considering it is measuring the Atlas' system time rather than that of the simulation

[west kelp]

yep

[hot trout]

It seems far more extreme than that

I think a minute of Atlas system time is at least a thousand years simulation time

[west kelp]

why make a similaton that can kill you? the thing you made (the travveller), first one hated you, sentinals made their own hive mind, only one race worships you, even more hate you... poor atlas...

[hot trout]

I dont think the Atlas creates with specific intention

[west kelp]

eh, kinda like roll of dice i suppose

[hot trout]

It was designed to simulate universes, an intrinsic aspect of its very being

[west kelp]

yep

[hot trout]

Given the way some actions of Atlas are described, its more like dreaming

Even its more direct actions lack the type of interference I'd expect for something in the Atlas' position

[midnight saffron]

So if the atlas wakes up we all die.

[west kelp]

come to think of it, is it a it, or a machine? it dose say "well here i am." to you, so it is a living entity i suppouse...

[hot trout]

No

[hot trout]

It is alive, in a sense of the word, but its hard to tell if thats what the intention was

[west kelp]

is it just one atlas of many? is this universe just one that the "atlas" we know of owns?

perhaps that atlas is in a simillaton, too, being ruled by another atlas, and so on...

[hot trout]

First question: no, but there are other things that are like an equivalent to the Atlas
Second question: yes

The Atlas is capable of running many simulated universes simultaneously

Instability from the damage it is enduring are resulting in what once were separate universes gradually coming together

[west kelp]

yep, only one atlas... then who created the atlas (not gonna get that deep into lore...)

[hot trout]

The Atlas didnt create itself

[west kelp]

it would not

a paradox would arise

[hot trout]

But the homeworlds of the species did have their own equivalent in the form of supercomputers that simulated universes

[west kelp]

nada has a universe sim, so i suppose they are a atlas? idk

a atlas to ones in the sim...

[hot trout]

Nada's isnt exactly an entire universe

[west kelp]

nope.

it is a single system

[cosmic anvil]

tbh could be done in the Anomaly 😂

[cosmic anvil]

should be updated in terms of textures tho, the blurry textures take us out of the immersion so hard

tho it COULD be worked into the lore as an earlier iteration of the sim so it like that or whatever

[deep mountain]

Has anything about the update been leaked or a exp start time

[humble kayak]

no exped loaded and the update will probably launch tomorrow morning

Otherwise no we don't know what'll be in it

[gloomy isle]

Different layouts would be awesome

And just gameplay in general

The scale being wrong also makes me think they'd be better as frigates instead

[deep mountain]

Cool probably no exp then I know the hacker dudes can see a exp loaded in

Probably big update?

[humble kayak]

We aren't sure

There's really no way to tell until the update drops

Some people say the emoji configurations like gib or cowboy Sean uses might be a hint

But I don't know if that's true

[deep mountain]

Worlds didnr have a exp loaded right?

[gloomy isle]

Only thing we can really deduce is that it probably won't be a minigame type thing like remnant etc

Since those almost always have their own associated expeditions

If I had to guess it's some sort of targeted overhaul like Orbital or Beacon but I could be very wrong

[deep mountain]

I eee

See

[runic mesa]

All we can deduce is... uh, that there's going to be an update.

[ebon spoke]

no expedition loaded means it won't be an expedition only update, thats about all we can tell from it.

[runic mesa]

Has there be minor content updates with no expedition before?

[gloomy isle]

Nothing similar to fishing etc iirc. There's definitely been small stuff though

[humble kayak]

if this update is another small one, I'm going to assume the next one will be too, as HG is probably focusing on the anniversary update

[gloomy isle]

But from what I remember nothing that was specifically some sort of minigame activity

[gloomy isle]

Tbh I wouldn't be massively surprised if this is the case

We'll see ig

[ebon spoke]

In terms of "leaks", the last update added a new corvette cockpit that's slightly unfinished, the one before that changed the save data structure to allow for more than one freighter per save. No idea if either of those things are coming this update but they are the only unreleased things we know of atm

[near forge]

that's why it would make sense for this to be a larger update if we're get one of the sort at all before the anniversary

[gloomy isle]

Just on vibes alone I'm leaning towards orbital size

[runic mesa]

Maybe a larger exocraft customization overhaul...? Well, we'll see soon.

The Remnant expedition might not have been popular, but the customization concept definitely was.

[gloomy isle]

That could be cool

Or something building related maybe

[near forge]

yep, i'll go to sleep soon, wake up, chill a bit and then the update will already be almost there

well, most likely

don't drop a thursday release on me now lol

[runic mesa]

Lucky. In my timezone, the update hits when I'm about to leave for work. 😛

[grizzled apex]

Orbital and Beacons are the only 2 updates these last 2 years which didn't have an expedition attached. Iirc, WP2 was the only one which which did have an expedition but wasnt pushed until the actual update dropped.

[near forge]

I was kinda wondering if the delay for the titan expo had something to do with the lore, cuz yknow we first had to bring VM back heh

[runic mesa]

So, we can literally get anything.

[gloomy isle]

For me the update falls during the middle of the day, so I can take my lunch break when it launches 😂

[grizzled apex]

Kinda just goes to show that there isn't really a pattern. HG might just be saving an expedition for later in the year, or the update might not have anything worth doing 5 phases of tasks with

[hard stirrup]

Update content wise and whether there is an expedition it could be almost anything. We'll find out tomorrow.

[gloomy isle]

Part of me does think it might be a lighter year until summer. I think they're probably going to do something special for that update but no idea what it could be

[grizzled apex]

It drops around 6 am here, but I'll have to stay up for the most part anyway so I might not miss the pre-drop scrambling 😅

[hard stirrup]

I'm kind of inclined to think they are holding something special for the 10 year anniversary as well.

[runic mesa]

"Here's the bling for the Roamer and Pilgrim ya'll wanted, now go play with that and let us work." 😉

My hopium mainly

[near forge]

Ah well I hope you'll be able to distract yourself, I love my timezone in such situations cuz sleeping is basically a fast forward button heh^^

[hard stirrup]

But they are dropping an update right on top of Starfield's PS5 release, which I think is a bit funny, and part of me hopes this will be a more significant update just rub Bethesda's nose in it lol.

[near forge]

Well that already dropped today ig

[grizzled apex]

They did mention that 2025 was a "surprisingly" packed year (most of which likely arises from that fact that Worlds probably wasn't meant to be broken into 2 parts), so I definitely wouldn't expect 2 major updates again. They seem to have plans for the 10 Year Anniversary (iirc Paul Weir talked about it off-handedly somewhere), but I'm not sure if all of those will be NMS-centric

[near forge]

I wonder how big the download for SF's new content is...damn I just forgot I'll also have to redownload NMS again, and my internet sucks

[hard stirrup]

With NMS update tomorrow, basically right on top of it. Not sure if HG did this on purpose or if it's a coincidence but I'll take it.

[runic mesa]

More LNF news on the NMS anniversary would be an interesting choice...

[near forge]

I doubt it, if the reference on the Voyagers cover art which suspiciously looks like the Frontier is anything to go by, I think he's on rather good terms with Todd/Bethesda.

If anything as a dev who experienced a lot of slack for his game as well, I believe he would have a soft spot and sympathize.

[grizzled apex]

I feel like a good chunk of the initial adopters would be NMS players already, but if they market the 10 Year Anniversary more it'll probably be a good spot to stick LNF news in since they'd have this big talking point about NMS already and could piggy-back off that to basically say "but wait, there's more!"

[runic mesa]

Use the audience you already have as a diving board basically.

[hard stirrup]

Ehhhh...I don't know. Not really comparable. And Bethesda has been pretty miserable when it comes to patching their game for a company with near infinite resources. And Starfield support has been pretty slim all things considered. They are releasing a few DLCs now fairly close together but overall Starfield hasn't had a lot of content since it released.

[near forge]

Yeah ig so, but SF despite its flaws also didn't have as bad of a release as NMS, it actually started out with mostly positive reviews and after a few weeks/months the reception shifted.

But yeah, not exactly comperable. I fear we're going off topic now anyways.

They also did take this pic together and Sean seems really happy there lol

[hard stirrup]

Not as bad of release but it also doesn't have the ceiling that NMS has now. It will never have seamless exploration without a million loading screens, planets are still very much largely barren without much to find, and there being basically only human enemies which devolves into fairly normal cover-shooter gameplay is ehh...and it doesn't have a fraction of the activities and features of NMS.

[near forge]

Well they're kinda two different genres, one is a space rpg and the other a sandbox survival space exploration game. I dislike comparing the two, it makes sense in some areas ofc but fundamentally they're trying to do different things.

Elite, NMS...SF all of them are part of a nice triangle of cool space games, imo.

[deep mountain]

Sf got a bad wrap people love dead empty worlds in NMS but Starfield gets shit on

[near forge]

Some of the faction quests like the UC Vanguard one also belong to the better set of Quests Bethesda has ever done, imo.

[grizzled apex]

Tbf, people hated dead empty worlds in NMS on launch too. Pathfinder specifically increased life across worlds.

[deep mountain]

I see I didn't even play NMS till voyagers so I'll have to take your word for it

Was pathfinders like worlds?

[hard stirrup]

NMS has a lot more to planetary exploration than Starfield. There are always interesting things to find and the views are always gorgeous...there's basically none of that in Starfield. Mostly brown and dreary sights aside from the hub cities and even those have largely modern buildings that just look...ehh...nothing that inspires much excitement.

[near forge]

Starfield has more complex fauna and a ton more poi's tbh. The algorithm for the poi spawn was a bit messed up though which is why you'd often run into the same ones.

But overall there are 120 handcrafted poi's in Starfield. With mods like poi cooldown the algorithm issue was easily fixed, but yeah that it took Bethesda this long to finally fix it outside of that...they did adjust the algorithm with the new update.

[grizzled apex]

Woops, might be misremembering, had to go back to check the trailer and I don't see it mentioned. But people generally didn't like how empty some of the worlds in game were back on launch, since a lot of the pre-release trailers just had more "happening" clips.

Iirc HG got bomb threats for not including butterflies in game (which they were, just rare)

[deep mountain]

damn

[analog breach]

Bethesda makes empty boring game- its just bethesda what did u expect.
Indie dev makes empty game - i will bomb the faecium out of u
Smh

[native carbon]

we expecting it tomorrow? or thursday cuz of the very weird monday emoji drop

[hard stirrup]

120 that feel like 10. With the same few things to do in them. And everything looks the same....there is vastly less planetary variety and fauna nowhere near as rewarding. In NMS there is a whole rabbit hole you can dive in that leads to making tens of millions from each individual fauna scan. There is a lot of that depth to a lot of features in NMS and it has a lot more features than Starfield too.

[analog breach]

Yeah

Probably tomorrow

[near forge]

But wasn't there also a rather large crowd which claimed that NEXT ruined and streamlined the terrain generation? Maybe they were a loud vocal minority, but I remember them.

And even some here on the server like Blake tend to still prefer the terrain of old.

[hard stirrup]

Tomorrow....it's Wednesday...basically always Wednesday. We haven't had a non Wednesday update release since like 2020 or something.

[distant bronze]

personally I think nms and sf make excellent pallet cleansers for one another, play nms for a few weeks, then switch to sf and both will always feel fresh

[native carbon]

i know but, the monday emoji seems veeeeery weird

[near forge]

Well Starfield is an RPG where it's moreso about living the story of your character and interacting with the world in that way.

In NMS a lot of people do nothing but base build. And NMS mechanics also really aren't that deep if we're being honest, you are grinding just for the sake of grinding a lot of time

[native carbon]

i play no man sky for the journey🔥

[near forge]

I love NMS, but for a better comparison I would cite Subnautica, which is a much more 'tight' game

[analog breach]

Could be next wed. Low chance tho

[hard stirrup]

We once had a Tuesday afternoon emoji drop and the update dropped the next morning.

[native carbon]

copium?

[native carbon]

wait when was that

[grizzled apex]

I also feel like pre-NEXT versions had much more alien terrain (which we've only begun to get close to since WP2), but I think a lot of that sentiment started showing up a few updates after NEXT iteslf as the novelty of a total revamp slowly started to wear off.

[grizzled apex]

Companions and Prisms

[hard stirrup]

Adrift, May 28-29 2024.

[native carbon]

what did prism add? i forgot

[grizzled apex]

A lot of graphical upgrades, and the ill-fated station override

[near forge]

I still feel that way myself too tbh, but I admittedly also haven't explored purple systems that thoroughly yet

But old NMS felt...it was like a super liminal game

[grizzled apex]

Ah I've been missing data for that on my sheet lol. The timestamp on twitter looked odd when I went to check so I put off adding that.

[hard stirrup]

Hopefully Station Overrides will still end up doing something more meaningful in the future...eventually.

[grizzled apex]

I'm pretty sure that's the original intent HG had for the game's art design pre-release. That vision's changed a lot since (notably starting from NEXT it seems), but I do wonder what the game would've looked like had they stuck to that original idea.

[analog breach]

It was expedition item right?

[hard stirrup]

Yes but you can also get it in the main game as reward from some pirate missions.

[analog breach]

Oryginal visuals really hit the og classic space sci fi vibes

[grizzled apex]

It was added as an unobtainable item in prism, but was later given as an expedition reward in cartographers

[grizzled apex]

Which is precisely what HG cited as their inspiration for the game, so I feel like they hit that goal pretty well.

Martin's gone on record to say that he prefers the current art direction of the game despite the people who miss the legacy artstyle though, so maybe the shift's pretty universally agreed on in the studio.

[near forge]

I wish I could have both versions tbh, like a timeline where they stuck to the original vision and updated it in unison with that, while also being able to access the modern NMS we have now.

It was super simple back then, but it was also so efficient at what it was doing...the most Zen survival walking simulator I've ever experienced.

[ebon spoke]

NEXT was by far the biggest change in art direction, but it wasn't exactly static before either. If you look at the trailers from 2013/2014 they look quite different from 2015, which is different from 2016, which is quite different from release.

I still genuinely think that 2015 was the best the game's visuals have ever looked, but the art style has been in constant evolution for the game's entire existence

[analog breach]

Few items are like that. Like cursed dust.

[near forge]

Sometimes I'm still wondering how different things might have turned out if the flood had never been a thing

[ebon spoke]

Probably the same. We didn't really see anything from before the flood, and what we did looks to have been recovered.

Since most of the stuff showed up again in post-flood builds

[near forge]

Hmm; I'm just not sure if HG was totally honest about how much they lost. Wasn't it a situation where they were basically saved by one laptop?

I don't really know the details of the story, but remember hearing that there was like one person with a device which happened to have some backups, otherwise that would have been it.

But I don't know how accurate that actually is.

[analog breach]

I know that they didint lose any important data. How close it was we might never know

[near forge]

Hmm ic then, then the shift in art direction and all was most likely also a result from the backlash at launch.

To me NMS was never a bad game even though the orginal version did offer less than expected, but I could see how if the backlash wasn't as intense, HG would have kept to their niche instead of streamlining the game in a way which was more compatible with a mainstream audience.

[tawdry quarry]

NMS has started going toward this riveted steel plate look for a lot of things but im all here for it

[near forge]

Some of the hard sci fi feel the corvettes give off I love, but then I also miss the retro sci fi. NMS is such a tough relationship to be in lol.

I'm happy with it, but also often find myself dreaming of an alternate version which was more in tune with the og vision. I hope I can eventually let it go^^

[ebon spoke]

My one problem with how the corvettes look is how the paint on them is so dark

You can really see it if you use any of the classic panel base decorations and apply the colours to the entire ship

I'd much prefer if they allowed the colours to be as vibrant as the paint on regular starships

[deep mountain]

I got a few problems with corvettes
The limit is too small if there's a required part limit
Surly giving 6-10 parts more wouldn't break the bank

Abandoned stations you gotta walk

Low variety could use 1 more type
& Some parts are locked to exp that seurdt never got

Switch

[cosmic anvil]

flood?

[stuck plank]

🏟️ = new SPACE STATION, NEW Upgrades FOR THE Colossus AND gravitino gun, parking space to customize, OR A space station for the freighters.. adding multiplayers TO JOIN IN THE SAME Colossus.. EVERYTHING BIG

[native carbon]

mega copium X

holo full art mega copium X

[vital flint]

Maybe a space shipyard and the ability to upgrade and add weapons to the freighter?

[native carbon]

we all know the update will add gekburgers

nah but jokes aside dont get your hopes a little bit too high, sayin from experience

i think they are saving up something big for nms's 10th anniversary

[ebon spoke]

Christmas Eve of 2013, there was a ton of flooding around the UK. Hello Games was located in a ground floor office at the time and they lost basically all their computers that they were using to develop No Man's Sky

[native carbon]

my brain gave me a funny idea, interaction between AM and atlas

[cosmic anvil]

ohh yikes

sounds like the Pixar Toy Story 2 stuff

[cosmic anvil]

You mean VM?

[native carbon]

AM

[cosmic anvil]

who's AM?

[native carbon]

A and M

[cosmic anvil]

VM = Void Mother, AM = Anomaly mother?

[native carbon]

AM aint from nms

[cosmic anvil]

oh.. what is it?

[native carbon]

the friendly AI from a certain cute and funny story

[cosmic anvil]

well spill the tea so that I can look it up !

[native carbon]

"i have no mouth and i must scream" antagonist

[cosmic anvil]

found it

bruh

the ATLAS isn't that evil is it?

[native carbon]

atlas and AM would have a cute tea party totally

[cosmic anvil]

over the grave of humanity?

[native carbon]

yes

[hushed wyvern]

Wait atlas is suppssed to be Bad in some way?

[native carbon]

no

just a funny thought i had

i mean atlas isnt good or bad its neutral

[cosmic anvil]

depends on how you see it

[native carbon]

atlas is purely neutral i guess

[cosmic anvil]

for me it feels like it is just a computer running sim code as it should. Not like AM from what I read is actively hostile

[hushed wyvern]

Yeah i thought maybe i missed some lore. I agree is just neutral, has to be. Can't fall under good or Bad because atlas is everything

[glass flare]

Atlas has gone out of control due to hardware corruption, so you can define that as "neutral" however you'd like. It stuffed Telemon into our suit because it didn't like Telemon questioning it. Hard to say that's neutral behavior

[humble kayak]

Yeah I think atlas is neutral just bc it wasn't programmed to be anything else. Atlas' directive is to simulate a universe, not to be a benevolent/malevolent god dedicated to doing good or harm

It might have opinions on varying things, given as Solarparty said it basically exiled Telamon over what basically seems like a disagreement

And that Null(?) committed enough atrocities that the atlas even went "wait wtf"

[analog breach]

It has kinda selfish goal tho .

To survive

[glass flare]

doesn't every sentient thing have that goal though

I would say Void Mama has more of a will to survive. Atlas is afraid of dying but doesn't know what to do about it

[gusty stream]

Void Mama might be delusional

might be

[glass flare]

I think she somehow has the knowledge, or at least the hope, that there's a level of reality outside the Atlas's universe. I wouldn't say delusional, just desperate for any option

[glass flare]

Disagreement is one way of putting it. Telemon was the entity that was supposed to prevent the Atlas AI from going into a rampancy state. Telemon started seeing signs of that and confronted Atlas about its behavior. So Atlas stuffed Telemon into a backpack :(

Seems kind of a badly designed security system though

[analog breach]

Telamon is just sub function after all

[glass flare]

well like I said, bad security system. it's like giving robbers the ability to shut off a security alarm

[analog breach]

More like turning off smoke detector by yourself

[glass flare]

not really. Telamon was a process created by the people who built Atlas, to keep Atlas in check

though from what I remember Telamon was the person from Waking Titan ARG that got lost in the system? or am I misremembering

[hard stirrup]

No. Telamon was not a name that ever came up in the ARG...ever. That was Emily. Telamon is a name from the boundary failure lore and from the quest A Trace of Metal.

[glass flare]

no I know that, but I think the iteration number was the same as the ID of the child that got trapped

it's been years since I looked at the WT lore files though

[hard stirrup]

Waking Titan is largely irrelevant to NMS lore...HG never tried to integrate any of the lore from the ARG into the game. That was all written by Alice & Smith, and HG never really acknowledged it beyond like a matching iteration number but largely irrelevant.

[analog breach]

They should.

A&S did great job

[glass flare]

uh from what I remember Sean did say it was canon

[hard stirrup]

Maybe but a bit late now...that was 2018, it's been nearly eight years.

[hard stirrup]

Don't remember that but even if he did it was meaningless talk...actions say differently.

[analog breach]

Its Never too late. And its shorter than 16 min

[grizzled apex]

Iirc, the final memo for one of the seasons for WT mentioned that we had all "participated in the origin story for No Man's Sky". Id personally count that as canon but whether or not that influences the story going forward is debatable

[runic mesa]

We can't really fault HG for the Switch 1 part limitations though. Given it took them six months of optimizing the engine just to get it working. They could have just thrown in the towel and stopped Switch 1 updates (and a lot of people thought they did).

[deep mountain]

The real corvette part limit is 34 after required parts it's abysmal 💔

[runic mesa]

Necessary evil to keep the Switch 1 relevant tho

[deep mountain]

Need I even mention no interior decorating

[hard stirrup]

What do you mean? The requirements are 2 launch thrusters, 1 hab module, 1 cockpit, 1 exit ramp, 1 engine, 1 weapon, and 1 reactor...that's a total of 7 parts out of 100...so you are still left with 93 more to add, not 35.

[grizzled apex]

Tbf, the limit on switch is 40 parts, if that's what they had in mind

[hard stirrup]

Ah...I didn't know Switch had a different part limit.

[deep mountain]

it the apple storage logic

[runic mesa]

Switch 1 is a 40 part limit + no base parts allowed

[analog breach]

No base parts? Oof

[deep mountain]

Atleast give switch the expedition sentinel parts pretty weird

[analog breach]

Aeron

[runic mesa]

Yeah, just the corvette prefabs

[hard stirrup]

Oh wow...that's bad. Interior decoration parts are not even included in the corvette build cap on other platforms.

[grizzled apex]

Wonder if switch might get a different reward set for future expeditions mixing the ones the missed with the current exped eventually?

[analog breach]

How big base switch 1 can have?

[grizzled apex]

Y'all definitely shouldn't be missing out on timed rewards bcz HG couldn't get corvettes to work in time

[analog breach]

Does switch 1 has diffrent upload limit?

[analog breach]

I suspect that they will rerun it again for switch players

[deep mountain]

In pretty understanding about most the issues but playa give me the fucking mouse 🐭 (exp reward) lol

I'm

[grizzled apex]

I wonder how the schedule would work for that though. The timings are already kinda tight on the yearly reruns, unless they start early for switch this year and we don't get a new expedition when the year ends

[hushed wyvern]

telamon having a name makes us empathize but in the atlas pov is just another anomaly that have to be erased just like countless other. I dont think just because it have a name makes atlas bad

[analog breach]

Or they might do mixtape rewards.

[deep mountain]

I can't see a good reason why the console that was forced to miss the two exps can't get a little kickback

[glass flare]

pretty sure Atlas was aware that Telamon was a security agent, wasn't just a random NPC or something

in any case Telamon had good reason to check Atlas on its behavior, it was way out of pocket

[hushed wyvern]

im not saying telamon was doing wrong, but once it got classified as an anomaly by the atlas, it tried to do what it does with anomalies

anyway ofc each one can have its own opinion, but on mine, it cant be said its bad for doing what atlas always do with anomalies

[glass flare]

it wasn't just erased, it was stuffed into the player's backpack, basically imprisoned for eternity. that felt like maximum pettiness from the Atlas

[humble kayak]

^

[gentle quarry]

At the last mission of the Artemis Path "The Purge" if I reset the simulation does that reset my save? and what does refusing the Atlas do?

[brazen cedar]

One choice leads to you gaining an item called starseed, the other choice leads to you getting "mark of the denier"...
.. both nearly kill you, and damage all the tech in your suit, ship and tool.
One flings you into the next galaxy, the other leaves you spit out on some random planet in Euclid.

Neither one takes away the things you have done, or bases you have built

You only get ONE chance to make the decision. if you leave to think about it, you will effectively be denying them.

[gentle quarry]

guessing resetting takes me to another galaxy yes?

[brazen cedar]

it will give you 4 options

[hard stirrup]

Telamon was isolated in the player's suit because the Atlas couldn't erase it. If it could erase Telamon it would have.

[grizzled apex]

PS sale's up

[gentle quarry]

yo after I warped I left my ship behind to go to space station, is there a way to get back to it.
cant call it as it's critically damaged

[runic mesa]

Hey, remember that door with the racing flags in the Orbital teaser way back when? That weren't there when Orbital released. I wonder if this update will include that... (likely not, but)

[deep mountain]

Isn't 60% sales for big updates

[white edge]

it's for all updates, as far as I'm aware

[grizzled apex]

They've been going on 60% sales consistently ever since WPI dropped, even for smaller updates

[deep mountain]

Damn

[grizzled apex]

There were more differences between that trailer and the final product iirc. It's more likely that was just a working version of the guild envoy we eventually did get.

[ebon spoke]

Or just the exocraft shop

[hushed wyvern]

Even if critically damaged i think You are able to call them to space stations? Or was it only in the anomaly? One of those i'm sure can be used to call Even broken ships. You need to change to them from the quick menu

[molten karma]

Do you think this update could be a 6.5 and then the summer update will be 7.0? Worlds Part 1 was 5.0 Worlds Part 2 was 5.5 and Voyagers was 6.0 we got 3 .5 increment updates within a year timeline so I don't think this is to far fetched but at the same time that leaves hardly any room for a 6.8 for one more smaller update since the next update after this is most likely the anniversary/summer unless we're aiming for a more September timeline this year but I think that's unlikely due to this year being the 10th year anniversary so I'm sure they want to release an update closer to initial release this time around.

[gusty stream]

What version are we at again

6.2x okay

This could be either 6.3 or 6.5

[molten karma]

We're at 6.24 but we have jumped to .5 from a .2 before. Like Worlds Part 2 was 5.5 and the update prior was 5.29

[ebon spoke]

7.0 this summer is likely I think

[grizzled apex]

Their press page lists 5.0 as a major release and 5.5 as contemporary, even though WPII was as major, if not moreso, than WPI. So a 7.0 for the 10 year anniversary would probably make sense optically.

[ebon spoke]

Looking through the list, it seems like they just do the summer updates as .0's

exceptions being 4.0 which instead of being Frontiers was actually Waypoint, which came out that December

But I think the part about Waypoint is just because they ran out of 3.x updates after not rolling over with Frontiers

[gusty stream]

I'll see everyone in the morning

[grizzled apex]

Could potentially also be them wanting to tie in the Switch release as an X.0 update? Though by that logic strictly, NEXT should've been 2.0

[humble kayak]

it's tough being an Xbox player

I'll probably have to wait a few days for the update

[cursive ivy]

I keep hopping

[cloud jolt]

@cursive ivy

No stickers in this channel please

[native carbon]

theory: 6.5 this time, 7.0 for the anniversary

[deep mountain]

I just hope poi update
Great game but kinda gets dragged down by the same building everytime, same tower everytime

[humble kayak]

Well I'm heading to bed. I'll see you guys update-side

[stuck plank]

At what time is the up and date lol

[hard stirrup]

Precise time can vary, can be as soon as in 3 hours or as late as in 9 hours.

[glass flare]

oh we think it's in a few hours?

[grizzled apex]

Drop time's usually afternoon in the UK iirc

[analog breach]

Between 2 to 5 pm

[hard stirrup]

Will most likely be out in the next 8 hours...at least on one platform...usually PS5 and PC are first up. Xbox and Switch have been known to suffer some bad delays of several days or a week. PS5 only suffered a bad delay once that I can remember and it got an update 2 days late but is usually either 1st to get an update or very shortly after PC.

[wind panther]

Yeah, usually in about 4 to 6 hours from now

[cosmic anvil]

and when exactly is the anniversary??

[cosmic anvil]

nighty night, Batzy

[analog breach]

9.08

[cosmic anvil]

8th of September?

that seems to be months away

[hard stirrup]

August 9th.

[cosmic anvil]

oh

still months away so I guess we get 6.5 now

small update perhaps?

but Bomber said no exp has been loaded right?

[analog breach]

U never know with HG

[native carbon]

thats a sign of a big chonker right there

[cosmic anvil]

yeah, true that

[cosmic anvil]

BIG STADIUM?

[hard stirrup]

Could be, unless they want to do something big to rub Starfield's nose in it, since that game just had its PS5 release yesterday. But either way I suspect they'll have something significant for the 10 year anniversary.

[cosmic anvil]

I don't think Sean is that grudgy... or maybe he is 😂

[native carbon]

typically when theres no expedition we have a big boy coming up

but not 100% confirmed

[deep mountain]

I checked the chat logs and everytime there was no exp it was a big update
hopefully switch gets this one😅

[cosmic anvil]

hmm, any predictions Fishy?

maybe we finally get cities 🤣 /s

[grand pollen]

Not very likely they cause a lot of lag, if you build them with the current building system at least

[cosmic anvil]

Fi................................ why?? 😂

[cosmic anvil]

yeahhh hence the /s. They tried with settlements but it really didn't go anywhere. If they wanted cities, that is the place to start. Even so it contradicts lore so best chance of urbanisation is the interior of space stations.

[analog breach]

Hipodrome?

[cosmic anvil]

but those are LONG tho

[analog breach]

And?

[cosmic anvil]

The Colosseum would be a better match for the emoji in terms of scale

[wind panther]

No, a hippodrome, arena built in the skull of the Ocean King!

[cosmic anvil]

would align with the Vy'keen's raging personalities

[wind panther]

There have only ever been experimentals before release twice, I think

And one of those was the biggest update ever

[analog breach]

Nascar stadium

Kachow ⚡

[hard stirrup]

Kind of makes me wonder if this new freighter update they're working on could bring some mega freighters...even larger than the large capital freighters we can have now. Could probably fit a giant arena on one of those...theoretically. Almost certainly wouldn't be multiplayer but maybe we can fight waves of sentinels or something in there...would have to be something like either a simulation or fake sentinels as the real ones probably wouldn't willingly cooperate to come fight in an arena and would opt to attack the freighter instead.

[wind panther]

When the emoji comes on Monday, I tend to think very small. He tends to increase the amount of time between first emoji and release based on size of update

[cosmic anvil]

mega freighters? the ones we already have are almost 25% the size of space stations. 💀

[wind panther]

What new freighter update?

[cosmic anvil]

if it is not a freighter update, @native carbon will die

[wind panther]

That's a vicious pact

I hope it's really small and releases early, since I have a full day tomorrow

[hard stirrup]

All we know for sure is HG are working to allow us to own up to 8 freighters...this was datamined after the Voyagers update last year. Will almost certainly come with new freighter models and probably an expedition reward freighter but that and any other possible features is speculation.

[wind panther]

That's reading a lot in, but that could happen. Currently there's no way to reward freighters (I wish there were)

Can reward substance, products, ships, and multitools

oh, and recipes

Though the model for the mech was in the files for two years before the Minotaur was released, so don't hold your breath 😄

[cosmic anvil]

that is..... long

[hard stirrup]

I mean...we can be fairly certain that owning up to 8 freighters will happen at some point. And it's more than reasonable to think there will be more freighter models added to the game with such an update. In terms of my thought about even larger capital freighters or massive arenas on them, those are just idle thoughts of possibilities, not things I necessarily expect to happen. But some kind of freighter update is almost certainly happening...probably this year.

[wind panther]

We have very different views of the meaning of probability vocabulary. We've had this argument before.

[stuck plank]

We are all hype an it turns out to be just a 🏟️ a new statue whit that design or a Sticker lol lmao to buy in for quicksilver in the anomaly like a reward lol lmao

[hard stirrup]

Yeah but almost everything that was datamined over the years has made its way to the game over time. Once we know HG are working on something we basically know it's coming.

[wind panther]

It will at least have an expedition, I just don't expect a lot more than that

They need to go back and overhaul the older low-res textures. I think there is a 4k update coming sometime based on one weird thing in an experimental

But it could have just been a mistake

[hard stirrup]

Well the update today isn't an expedition...we know that for a fact. It might contain an expedition that will start later like in a week or two but there is no expedition starting today...so the update today is definitely an actual update and if there's an expedition to it it's not scheduled to start soon.

[stuck plank]

WOW thats was wired gunter said no lol

[cosmic anvil]

Me after the update in the Anomaly

I am Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.

[cosmic anvil]

this did happen with Remnant

everyone thought it was a base building update

[stuck plank]

yeah olol adn we got stikers lol and newn trees lol

[cosmic anvil]

that and the garbage mechanic tho again with a lot of things in NMS, it has potential

[hard stirrup]

This might not actually be any kind of coliseum or arena...I mean it might, but emojis are very rarely that literal. It might not even be a combat update. I can totally see HG adding some type of Arena where you can slaughter waves and waves of sentinels or something but don't be too shocked if it ends up being something nobody has predicted or not all that related to the emoji.

[cosmic anvil]

yeah, that definitely is on the cards

[near forge]

Plz let it be POI related 🙏

[cosmic anvil]

never forget bacon = beacon = settlements... somehow

[cosmic anvil]

more ruins!

[near forge]

Procedurally generated, just like derelicts but planetside! I need this, gimme my minecraft dungeons in NMS!

[analog breach]

Yeah but how much new content it would add

[wind panther]

That's exactly what I meant. We don't know that for a fact. But whatever, we'll see.

[near forge]

Depends on what exactly they‘d do with poi‘s ig. Derelicts warranted their own update, so I don‘t see the hurdle there.

And I‘m sure something like derelicts but planetside are in work for LNF…admittedly there are a plethora of more fitting emojis for this sort of update though

[hard stirrup]

We do, because we can see there is no expedition scheduled to start today or soon. If an expedition is included it will start later...so today's update is definitely an actual update, definitely not just an expedition.

[gloomy isle]

Yeah it's pretty unlikely we'll get an expedition today

Whether or not it comes later is another thing but personally I think no

[next lagoon]

I am leaning towards multiplayer because in a stadium you have lots of people

[hard stirrup]

Not likely. It might be something you can do in coop or pvp but I don't expect this update will actually make coop of pvp any less broken than they are. If an actual arena is added the main functionality will most likely be single player first and foremost.

[next lagoon]

No mans sky pokemon batle but with geks vs vykeens

[safe quarry]

Interesting that there's no expedition. Could mean its content like beacons which doesn't lend itself to being made into an expedition?

[hard stirrup]

It might have an expedition attached but it's not starting soon...so if there is an expedition it will probably only start a week or two after the update.

[cosmic anvil]

image it would be derelict update lol

[cosmic anvil]

they already fought and ended in a stalemate

[safe quarry]

would be worth asking @grizzled apex if expeditions that launch a week or two after the update are still uploaded by now or not?

I feel the titan one was still loaded before the update dropped

[next lagoon]

Why are you guys comparing stadium to pois??

[near forge]

Duh the first spawn were a bunch of pushovers they waited until the Vy‘keen and Sentinels had exhausted their forces on each other, pathetic Gek grah!

[charred nebula]

Why not

[hard stirrup]

He looked, they're not scheduled in the server yet. But if an expedition if planned for a week or two from now HG has time to schedule that in the servers after the update launches.

[grizzled apex]

The last time this happened (that I have data for) was with titan, which was uploaded at the exact same time WPII started rolling out to other platforms, and started a few weeks after the update dropped.

[safe quarry]

Ah oki, so could well be a delayed one

[grizzled apex]

Which is why I didn't strike off an expedition entirely, but it might mean that the expedition isnt tied to the highlight of the update, or considered a large part of it if it does happen

[safe quarry]

That to me says they might expect to be putting out fires with the update before putting more on their plate with an expedition too

I am sticking to my theory that its a lot of logic gadgets and bits for making minigames at our bases. Race track parts, half pipes and things for tricks, maybe some better goal posts, counters we can hook up to hoops or goalposts for scoring. That kind of thing. And thats the kind of thing that would have a lot of QA to run.

along with the expansion of roamer/pilgrim customisation.

If that's it, I hope the roads/tracks they give us work through pathing rather than fixed parts that clip together.

[near forge]

Sounds like rather niche content though, tbh

[safe quarry]

The updates that seem to resonate best and do the best for them in terms of player numbers, seem to be the ones that allow player creativity. That's also the part Sean likes to show off: screenshots, corvette builds, base builds etc.

No Man's Sky: Arena. And it will be an update all about making minigames.

[charred nebula]

-# Living freighter update

[native carbon]

holy copium?

[hard stirrup]

Honestly of the other exocraft, beyond paint, only the Minotaur is in desperate need of help. That thing is an absolute menace to pilot...turns slower than tank and its jetpack duration is pathetic. If they are to do the colossus treatment for another exocraft it needs to be the minotaur imo.

[safe quarry]

The trailer will feature a lot of customised roamers or pilgrims racing around a track. Mebbe some confetti cannons tied to the finish line as the lady goes 'use logic gates, to trigger special effects.'

[native carbon]

first we need em to fix the multiplayer

lol

[safe quarry]

hehe well i guessed the colossus update and its name! So mebbe I am a prophet :p

[native carbon]

my personal theory is that its freighter related

colosseum -> colossal -> freighters

[charred nebula]

Stadium->colosseum->something colossal->space whales
Its definetly living freighters

[native carbon]

and update title is colossal

[safe quarry]

If it's colossal I actually hope its just giant cosmetic POIs on planets like that mod

[cosmic anvil]

copium max 😂

[safe quarry]

and then mebbe some temples that act the same way derelicts do, but planet side

[wind panther]

They can change that at any point. That is fully in their control, which means it's not a fact that we know. You can be quite confident, and it's good evidence, but it's not a fact

[native carbon]

copium ultimate full art holo

[safe quarry]

I don't think we will get the freighter update until the anniversary

and I think it will involve actual moving freighters too

[native carbon]

i made a pact that its a freighter update

[safe quarry]

Since they were talking about the corvette tech being used elsewhere

[native carbon]

i will prolly loose but oh well

[cosmic anvil]

true but ultimately what counts is the actual battle, not any hypotheticals.😛

The Gek played to their strengths while the Vy'keen just brute force everything.

[runic mesa]

I agree with Evellin that Arena is a pretty good title guess

[safe quarry]

Yes i dun think this will be the freighter update for sure.

[native carbon]

im like 80% sure the title will be colossal

freighters rework trust

[safe quarry]

If Morgeil says so, its probably true. She guessed Voyager!

[native carbon]

or imagine its gladiator or smth

😭

[charred nebula]

Colossal sounds like the kind of mental gymnastics Sean uses to link the emoji to update

[cosmic anvil]

[0]

[runic mesa]

Arena and exocraft large scale revamp is my guess

[native carbon]

my guess are freighters

another fun guess is maybe colossal creatures

(level 100 copium)

[runic mesa]

I forgot about that lol. I should try a pact sometime but I'm chicken. 😛

[loud jewel]

Coliseum = Colonoscopy = Medical skills update

[wind panther]

I think possibly some sort of game using objectspawner and gravitino coil. I'm not really confident about that

[safe quarry]

I think it'll be more broad. just a lot of logic tools and items to make our own games

[native carbon]

Sean release the update now to prove im right

[safe quarry]

and hopefully some improvement to multiplayer latency

[runic mesa]

Nah, I think that's a fair guess actually. Sean sounded really excited about the grav coil.

[safe quarry]

mebbe some harmless nerf style pew pews for an arena to keep the pvp players happy.

[cosmic anvil]

maybe they'll let us drive the exocraft around in a race. Kachow

[native carbon]

kachow

[cosmic anvil]

4 Piston Cups

[safe quarry]

the grav coil rn has so much potential, they need to include more things that use it

[native carbon]

freighters 100% trust meeeee pleaseeeee

[safe quarry]

Nuh. Exocraft races and minigame gadgets.

[native carbon]

we need a multiplayer fix for that

[runic mesa]

Imagine a bunch of fun gravity coil targets as new base parts.

[safe quarry]

I have spoken.

[wind panther]

oh no, they have to redo all the entity files to add gravcoil. That's going to break a lot of mods

[safe quarry]

I think we'll be hooking up logic wires to do things like make it that if u hit a target a confetti cannon fires, or a counter ticks up (or down)

[cosmic anvil]

a new name ain't that bad

see me, I've embraced it

[native carbon]

no 😭

dont loose hope Fi

[runic mesa]

Hitting targets for sparkly is exactly up my alley, I'm in.

[wind panther]

I'm just not very confident because they can be so random sometimes

[runic mesa]

Oh yeah, definitely. Fair

[cosmic anvil]

this time, hope you get the update on DAY 1

[safe quarry]

They do like to throw away toys the second after they've made them

[native carbon]

yall will look like clowns when they will reveal the fancy new freighters 🤡

/joking

[cosmic anvil]

A lot of them actually

[cosmic anvil]

sure buddy

🙂‍↔️

[safe quarry]

I want to be using the grav coil to be loading large haul trade cargo onto my corvette

[native carbon]

yeah

[near forge]

The living freighter

[runic mesa]

Yeeeeah, didn't forget how they took almost a year to fix the fishing helmet bug.

[cosmic anvil]

please no

I don't want to be pooped out

[safe quarry]

so u have the small tier trade stuff as u do now. But can also buy large industrial goods that are so large they're an actual physical thing u have to ship on your corvette

[near forge]

If we get a living freighter I want to be able to raise my own xenocolony of biohorrors and minifiends on it!

[gloomy isle]

Maybe they'll fix some of the Corvette geometry issues

[safe quarry]

and years plural to improve the minotaur turning radius

[near forge]

And then unleash it in the anomaly muhahah

[wind panther]

PS, XBox, and Steam are all on sale now

[cosmic anvil]

EVILLLLL

[wind panther]

need Nintendo and GoG

[native carbon]

oh boy ya all will say "Oh fi! you were right! Fi you are the best!"

trust

[runic mesa]

Or to get the wormskin folios to drop properly. Or those bugged titles they fixed years later randomly...

[near forge]

You‘ll be thankful for all of the meat though…oh wait! No weapons on the anomaly! You‘re cooked

[safe quarry]

U are just worried u will lose your thingy thing i forget the name of :p

[ebon spoke]

Nintendo and GOG sales sometimes don't come till after the update

[native carbon]

me? im known as the pact winner

[safe quarry]

I have never been so close to making a PACT (that's what its called) but i am too wussy.

[wind panther]

I've never lost one, but I rarely make them, and I narrowly tailor them

[cosmic anvil]

Sure buddy

let's ask @humble kayak

🤣

[native carbon]

im the pact god

[safe quarry]

No Man's Sky: Arena. Logic gates, race track parts, pilgrim or roamer customisation (with mebbe stats tied to them? 🤷‍♀️ ) targets, hoops, all that fun stuff. And mebbe a multiplayer latency improvement.

That's my prediction.

oh and a nerf gun or laser tag style harmless multitool for fair pvp arenas.

[native carbon]

nerf gun lmao

[near forge]

Or pokemon style companion battles

[cosmic anvil]

yeah sure, actually, you are the ATLAS

[native carbon]

5 hundred lawsuits

[cosmic anvil]

HG will be sued into the Old Bailey

[safe quarry]

if nintendo didn't exist, i'd put this in the mix for my prediction

Didn't Starfield just get its big update? Sean Murray being griefy :3

[ebon spoke]

was thinking, it could be
stadium > colosseum > No Man's Sky: Colossal (the freighter update we've been anticipating?)

[wind panther]

US just pulled the patent they gave Nintendo on that

[cosmic anvil]

but then Pokemon won't exist either?

[hexed flume]

When updaaaate?

[wind panther]

3 or 4 hours probably

[analog breach]

Colossus update

[native carbon]

smart minds think the same

[safe quarry]

I feel if it was colossus then he would have used a colosseum emoji rather than a football stadium?

[ebon spoke]

is there one?

[native carbon]

theres no colosseum emoji

[gusty stream]

Should start releasing on some consoles starting next hour

[near forge]

The emojis rarely are literal though no?

[cosmic anvil]

But there is no colosseum emoji

[wind panther]

Is there one?

[cosmic anvil]

nope!

[safe quarry]

Oh...

[cosmic anvil]

there is a Greco Roman Temple tho

[native carbon]

🏟️ also this look more like a medival'colosseum vibes

[wind panther]

Stadium is closer than a temple I think

[near forge]

That one might be too on the nose though

Depending on what this turns out to be

[native carbon]

🛕

[runic mesa]

eyes flash red Someone say nerf gunning Sentinels?

[wind panther]

🍊

Worlds

[analog breach]

It is simliar to collosal archive icon 🏛️

[native carbon]

the year is 3027, sean Murray (brain in a jar) ran out of emojis to post. No mans sky will no longer receive updates.

[near forge]

The exception confirms the rule, or smth like that

[runic mesa]

Wasn't here then, but I heard about it lol

[native carbon]

origins

[safe quarry]

i hope it makes raspy poor audio quality pew pew sounds and a squeedgy sound as it bounces off the sentinels.

[hard stirrup]

This took entirely too long but I have added 180 Salvaged Frigate Modules to my freighter hunting ship in preparation for a freighter update. 180 is probably overkill but I had nothing better to do and didn't know of anything else I could reasonably prepare for and better too many than too few.

Though I only had to grind 100 odd the past couple of days as i was already slowly gathering them before...for the past few weeks I'd gather like 3 to 5 every day when I was doing the daily missions by looting the salvaged frigate modules from like 3 or 4 npc freighter fleets and had like 74 or something like that when the emoji dropped on Monday. I thought I would have more time to prepare once an emoji dropped...I thought it would drop on like a Friday and I could leisurely collect all I wanted over 4 days....nope.

[cosmic anvil]

The U.K. would probably be underwater then as well so post the emoji from Greenland

[runic mesa]

No Man's Sky: Sure, we'll throw the 90s kids some scraps, why not

[vast prawn]

I feel it could be community based. World Cup = stadiums. The worlds biggest stage

[safe quarry]

Sean is a 90s kid. he will!

[near forge]

Yep, bring them together with the deaf kids!

[native carbon]

Sean has a little room hiding some deaf kids tho

[near forge]

Same brain cell?

[cosmic anvil]

wow, that is young

isn't he like 45 or something

that would make him in the 70s-80s no?

[native carbon]

we share a singular braincell

[runic mesa]

Gotta love how that's a forever meme now lol

[wind panther]

90s kid means grew up in the 90s

not born then

[icy citrus]

Multiswords

[native carbon]

playing poker with dinosaurs

[wind panther]

I think Sean was an early 90s kid, maybe late 80s

[safe quarry]

Is that like a sword with too many blades?

[runic mesa]

Oh, I know. I'm true 90s kid, actually. 8 in 1990, 18 in 2000.

[near forge]

Imagine slicing through biohorrors with a multisword…almost feels a bit too gory for NMS