• lwe ( lwe@feddit.de ) 
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    3 years ago

    Let’s be real. The other option would be a 10 year-old pre-alpha with barely 4 planets and a few moons with like 20 unique POIs total.

    I think this is a totally acceptable compromise. And it’s not like you can’t explore more of the planet. It’s just a small loading screen in between. Like going from the overworld to a dungeon in Skyrim.

    • Yeah, but i don’t get the obsession with these 1000 planets, except that it sounds good. Why not 5 well crafted planets to actually do things. I know everyone likes different things but going from cutscene to cutscene to traverse seems like anti fun.

  • peppersky ( peppersky@feddit.de ) Banned
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    3 years ago

    This is something that other games by much smaller companies (like NMS) have already solved. Seems frankly ridiculous that Bethesda can’t fix up their damn engine and their big space game consists entirely out of instanced bubbles, with no way to move between them besides loading screens. Even within your owns ship there are loading screens.

  • dan1101 ( dan1101@lemm.ee ) 
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    3 years ago

    Aww that sucks if true. I swear someone from Bethesda said you could run all the way around the planet if you want, so we’ll see. If you can I bet we’ll see vehicle mods early on if technically feasible.

  • NuPNuA ( NuPNuA@lemm.ee ) 
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    3 years ago

    How many people ever actually walked round a whole planet in NMS or Elite? I tried to see how far I could get on a planet in NMS when I first tried it and got bored in five minutes and went back to my ship.

    • Asafum ( Asafum@feddit.nl ) 
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      3 years ago

      This is how I feel. Yeah I’m disappointed that it’s more like a hub based thing than truly open world, but it’s still large enough that I think most people will get bored trying to walk all over one tile if what I hear is true (30 mins of walking to get to the end)

      Edit: the article says 10 minutes end to end. that is maybe a little small for my taste… Oh well. :/

  • Blizzard ( Blizzard@lemmy.zip ) 
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    3 years ago

    Hard to judge because the video was taken down, any mirrors? Just gonna casually mention this didn’t happen in No Man’s Sky…

    On another note, the game runs in 30 FPS on Xboxes…? WTF? What year is this? This is a bigger issue than those boundry loading. I no longer regret the game won’t be released on PS5.