I got a warning email about my "conduct" in the game
I had it from launch day, since along with The Last Guardian it was one of the reasons I'd got a PS4 in the first place (and TLG absolutely exceeded expectations). I played it to galaxy-centre-reaching completion. Twice. I was annoyed with it, not least for the fact that there was apparently no way at all to interact with anyone in any way.
So how can your "conduct" in a game that was notorious for its complete lack of the promised interaction lead to a warning email?
I hit upon a way to interact with my fellow players, at least in one direction. The galaxy is big - blahdyblahdybillion stars, quincytillion planets etc... the chances of ever finding a system discovered and named by anyone else are next to zero. Except...
Except everyone is heading to the core. There's a layer of systems around the outside of the centre of the galaxy that everyone has to pass through to get to the only objective in this otherwise entirely motiveless game. Which means if you get there and start vanity-naming as many of those systems as possible, there's a reasonable chance other players will see them. On my second playthrough, I spent a couple of days just jumping from system to system around the sphere that surrounds the galactic centre. A few had already been discovered and named, confirming my theory. All the undiscovered ones got a name of my own devising. Most of them were just things like "MOST DISAPPOINTING GAME EVER" or "I WISH I'D BOUGHT AN XBOX" or "HELLO GAMES ARE LIARS". They weren't specific, but I'm guessing that the email referred to me naming a system "DIE SEAN MURRAY DIE". Antisocial behaviour, or valid comment? You decide. I don't care.
My advice to people disappoint with NMS is to get Elite:Dangerous. It's the game NMS wishes it was. It is (or can be) a long, tedious grind to get anywhere, but hey - space is big. Really big. You just won't believe... and so on. Dump the amateurish cartoon nonsense and tool around an actually somewhat accurate recreation of our own, real galaxy.
(, Mon 11 Jun 2018, 23:42, Share, Reply)