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No Man's Sky Omega Update Patch Notes (from PS5) (i.imgur.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/nomanssky

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Welcome to No Man's Sky OMEGA, version 4.5 The OMEGA update invites everybody to embark upon a new shared interstellar expedition. Featuring a complete overhaul of expeditions, new on-planet missions, claimable pirate freighters, and much more!

A new expedition system allows Travelers to join with bespoke provisions, favorite starships, custom Multi-Tools and return with loot and exciting rewards.
New Omega expedition invites all Travelers to answer the call of the universe together.
A huge array of new planetary missions challenge players with quests specific to an alien lifeform's locale, climate and personality.
Defeat pirate freighters in combat and board them to demand control.
For the first time, take on the universe with a fleet of frigates led by a dreadnought capital ship. The OMEGA update is the best time for players old and new to come together and explore the universe. For full details please see www.nomanssky.com. Our journey continues.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Their vision includes fighting ships in space, fighting and boarding pirate vessels, fighting bug aliens on derelicts, and fighting sentinels of multiple varieties including walkers of various sorts, and you draw the line at fighting regular NPC’s that could easily just be a part of the aforementioned factions?

I'm not drawing that line. HG is. I just don't have a problem with it. Was my comment not clear on that point? I thought it was...

I just don’t understand the mentality

Fortunately I'm not asking you to. I didn't make that comment to convince you, only to offer an alternative perspective.

I just think their vision already possesses multiple avenues of combat yet they have failed to include the one thing that would allow them to expand that gameplay logically to make things more fun.

More fun for you.

Personally, I'm fine not running around with my multitool littering freighters with Gek corpses. If I want to play space marine I can bust out Mass Effect. To each their own and all that.

Their vision is clear, and it includes combat as a central focus in every way except fighting pirates in ground combat.

Yes. Exactly what I said.

[–] c0mbatbag3l 0 points 10 months ago

So why have any combat at all?

It's just illogical, either the game IS about combat or it's not, they obviously chose for it to be about combat, I'm merely pointing out that about half of their gameplay loops would be improved by just taking the one final step that they refuse to do.

Sure if all I wanted was combat I'd play ME as well, it's my favorite game franchise, but that doesn't mean NMS can't or shouldn't have ground combat (cause it already does) or that it should be the focus (it shouldn't), but if they're going to make a game about boarding pirate ships then it should logically include some kind of gameplay surrounding that instead of casually strolling in the front door and requesting command.

I'm just asking for consistency, really. That's all.