I know the game is going to be more than that, but it helps me keep expectations in check until I learn more about the underlying gameplay systems. As someone who loved NMS, that's not an issue for me. I won't even begin to try and imagine the possibilities of the game, and, instead, am going to take this early look at face value, which, to me, at least, seems like No Man's Sky in a fantasty setting. The trailer showed us a fair bit of what we can expect on a surface level (building settlements, some melee and ranged combat, riding mounts, exploring the environment, that's all). At least until we hear more.įrom what we know, the game seems pretty straightforward, with its boldest claim being one of it being an Earth sized (or bigger) planet.Īs far as gameplay goes, I'd caution against going to wild with expectations. I'd definitely temper expectations and not let your imagination run wild with you. Obviously they'll have to force people together to create multiplayer encounters (I assume they did this in NMS?), but the quantity of explorable space - not even taking into account caves, or the expanses on and beneath the oceans, seas, lakes and rivers - is basically bonkers. Now imagine the average space per person when servers will hold only a tiny fraction of that 2.5m number at any one time. If you and they walked directly towards each other at real walking speed, without pause, that would take you about 45 minutes to meet up. That's 5 real-world miles to the nearest other player. In that ridiculous case, everyone would still have about 25 square miles of land to themselves.

And all of them spawn equidistant from each other on that single planet (people will surely be clustered). Just imagine that all PC players at any one time are on one server (lol), and LNF equalled CS2's all time 2.5m concurrent players (nah). I can't believe this world is going to be Earth sized, with a similar amount of landmass.

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