There are mounts - rideable aliens! - denser and more varied biomes, new construction and crafting, tameable creatures, milkable creatures, cooking and recipes, a new galactic map, a new discovery menu, a new word-learning system, all-new NPC races, NPC encounters on planet surfaces, improved base building that introduces logic and electricity systems and can allow for bigger bases. It can even allow, as Hello Games' founder Grant Duncan mocked up before our visit to the studio, for a fully functioning game of Rocket League to be played out within No Man's Sky, complete with a working scoring system.
Yeah this update keeps getting better and better
this game went from having nothing to having everything. Now I'm almost too intimidated to jump in.
This led to my question about the game's road map for future content. Murray insisted he doesn't have one.
"We're going to stop when we're not creatively into it," he said flatly. "When we're not inspired. The community will probably be mad at us when we do, but I don't think I'd want us working on something we were just adding skins to, or something like that. We get excited about stuff. It's the core of our studio now. It'd make me sad for [our staff] to just put in new costumes or parts week in and week out."
That might make the company more money in a cost-to-profit way, Murray said, "but then we wouldn't be the same studio. That's when we'll stop. I thought that might happen after Next launched; I thought it was going to happen to me. People may be annoyed or not understand that you can't predict when that's going to happen. I don't think I can."
Murray took a breath—not a sigh, though. Not even close to a sigh. "When Beyond is out of the way," he finished, "will I come into work still super-excited about this game? At the moment, yes, I feel that."
Unpopular opinion but with them putting a firm 2.0 on this, I'd like to see them put out similar large updates as no longer free. The studio deserves it, they have gone well beyond any expectations that should be placed on them, and I for one would like to support them for their continued work. I put hundreds of hours into early versions of the game but haven't touched it in forever but the addition of of VR alone is enough to pull me back in
They've all moved onto EGS. Ooblets dealing with them now until the next announcement takes themI always thought the seething vitriol people had about this game and the dude was overboard. I can certainly understand disappointment with the product, but a lot of the complaints felt very personal towards Sean Murray.
I'm really happy they turned this game around. VR mode sold me on Beyond. The way they put their heads down and didn't give up when the entire internet was booing them is a real inspiration. Good on them. People aren't booing now.
I always thought the seething vitriol people had about this game and the dude was overboard. I can certainly understand disappointment with the product, but a lot of the complaints felt very personal towards Sean Murray.
I'm really happy they turned this game around. VR mode sold me on Beyond. The way they put their heads down and didn't give up when the entire internet was booing them is a real inspiration. Good on them. People aren't booing now.