No Man's Sky Next Distribution Of The Trailer

The trailer for No Man's Sky Next arrived yesterday, and feel free to watch it before reading it because there is so much to tell. Hello Games gave a preview of what its fourth free expansion will contain, including – a multiplayer feature and a third-person perspective, but it can not hurt to dive deeper and see the other details that we can extract from the video.

Here's an overview of everything we've seen in the trailer. some things we have not seen

The cooperation seems to be four players maximum

It seems that the multiplayer or the cap of the team can finish at four. The only thing I saw in terms of numbers, Hello Games, is "a small group" or "a small team". The screenshots shown do not contain more than four players, and the different scenes in the trailer show a total of four players at a time (with one possible exception in a little)

This could mean that your team is maxed out at four, but what's wrong, what happens if you meet another team or a solo player? Or two other teams? Or, like, 10 teams? I guess we'll know it soon after Next arrives, because dedicated NMS players have already started planning mbad meetups.

One of the players is a Gek

There are four factions in No Man's Sky: The Korvax Machine Run, the Vy Warriors' Grumpy Keen, the Travelers, and the Gek, Aquatic Bird and Yet. Except in the trailer, one of the players is a Gek rather than a Traveler. Or, at least, it's a Gek who is a Traveler

It's pretty cool, and I'm curious to see if players can also choose to be Vy's keen or Korvax, and if it's just an aesthetic choice that can be traded at will or if it has a deeper impact on the game.

Underwater Bases?

There were random structures that could appear under water in No Man 's Sky, and the players were able to build bases under water with terraforming, but there was no chance of it. water would always fill all the rooms of the base. It's hard to tell from the opening scene of the next trailer, which shows players swimming around some underwater buildings, whether these structures are created by players or randomized.

There is also a frame or two structure that seems to be a base built by a player:

According to Hello Games "The basics can now be built anywhere. on any planet. " It's great because it seems like we will not need to find a livable outpost randomly placed to start building, but I hope it really means everywhere including at the bottom of an ocean where you could build an airtight habitat.

Is it controllable mechs?

Hm.

So, near the end of the trailer, there's a cool show: a player and three big stompy robots. I am not sure that they are controlled by the players, however, a car can be briefly seen in the same scene, which I suppose to be driven by a player. So, if is a cap of four players, and that one is in a car and that we run on foot, there will probably be no other three players flying mechs at the same time. Unless you can have more than four players on your team, or if it shows a team of four meeting a fifth player. I do not know. I do not know!

These mechs could be extra-large sentinel bots (there is also a small quadruped robot) on the lookout for anyone who blows up trees or steals expensive resources. They could all run after the guy in the car for a violation of the guidelines of the planet (you can see some standard glider sentinels following the car, too). But it would be pretty cool if we could fly these robots like a new machine. And if it is not the case, I would be surprised if some modders do not do it in the future.

The Friends of the Portal

It's unclear how you will be able to bond with your friends in the vast expanse of No Man's Sky. This can be as simple as inviting a friend to a session and making them appear next to you. If this is not the case, it might be necessary to use portals to team up, which were inactive in the original game and only became functional in the Atlas Update. . There is a brief overview in the trailer of a couple who walks on one.

NMS is superb in the third person

We were able to see our ships in perspective in the third person since Pathfinder Update added a photo mode, but we could only use it while the game was paused. It has made some great screenshots, but it's exciting to think about running and flying in real-life mode in the third person in Next. It seems like some thought has been put into extra effects that you would not normally see flying in the first person, like the wake that the ship leaves when flying over the water

(I also think that this pilot struck a tree.)

Finally, the ringed planets

The best planets are ringed planets. Scientists agree on this point (probably), and me too. I am personally in favor of a mission to blow up our boring and boring moon and turn it into a soft rocky ring around the earth. Please call your congressman and help us make it a reality.

Modders tackled the flaws of No Man's Sky long ago, but it's still nice to see official annals around planets. I'm interested to see what they look like: is it just an effect or are rings made of real and exploitable rocks?

Bumpers for exterior cargo

Being able to dock on a freighter (and buy one) was introduced in the Foundation's update. But I did not care how you approached them: fly too close to the port of entry and you automatically get sucked into the inner landing zone, which is a bit complicated if you do not have to. 39; had no intention of

At the end of the trailer, we see what seems to be a couple of outdoor landing platforms (I have slowed down in the gif it above) on the outside of the freighter with some boats parked on it. It seems much more pleasant than always having to park in the garage.

This little guy backpack looks around

I imagine it's just a cute scanner animation of our costume, but this little capsule attached to the player's backpack looking around is a good idea. Like visiting an alien planet with a curious child sitting on your shoulders.

What we have not seen a lot of

There had been a big disappointment at the initial launch of No Man's Sky for me, it had to do with randomized alien life forms. Once you've seen a few of them, you've started to recognize the basic parts and the pieces they were mathematically tinkering with, until each life form becomes a familiar blend of limbs, beaks and claws that you've seen dozens of times already. There was not much magic for them, and when they were walking on random terrain on the procedural legs, they often appeared clumsy, gracious and completely unnatural.

There is not much in the trailer showing extraterrestrial creatures. There is one or two in the background, and a scene that lasts a few frames (slowed above) with players attacking one of them. I am hopeful that there has been work on creatures with everything else, and that we will see exciting and truly different life forms in Next. This is certainly not shown in the trailer, however, and not mentioned in the message on the official website.

"You can help your friends stay alive, or attack others to survive." This is something that Hello Games has listed as a feature in NEXT, but it is hard to say how it will work or if any of them is included in the trailer. There are some fast spaceship scenes, but I can not tell if they are NPCs or players fighting each other. Certainly, no face-to-face PvP combat is shown.

If you can hunt others to survive, does that mean you can take their loot? Their ships? Their bases? We do not know it yet, but it will not be long until we discover: No Man's Next Sky arrives on July 24th.