Stop Thinking Of No Man’s Sky As A Multiplayer Game

GameInformer- "We spoke with Hello Games' managing director Sean Murray for hours about his team’s difficult-to-grasp game. One subject that’s spurred confusion since No Man’s Sky was announced is the incorporation of multiplayer. Even though players can name their discoveries, affect the galaxy for others connected to the cloud, and encounter other player characters, friends planning to meet up and explore together might want to temper those ambitions.

To settle exactly what No Man’s Sky’s multiplayer is and isn’t, we've provided an excerpt from our conversation with Murray to nail this subject down once and for all."

[thorstein]

I can't believe the idiotic comments on GI! Lol. Someone is actually saying that they "haven't shown gameplay."

What is this thing we are using wherein one can find information at the press of a button. Certainly there couldn't possibly be a gameplay trailer or three out there!

[DougLord]

Ohh GOD this is TERRIBLE! So we have this shallow but massive universe to explore, but we only do it to mine shit. No plot, everything it randomly generated! Sound HORRIBLE!

[DanteVFenris666]

What really horrible is your inability to play it cause you obviously don't have a ps4. I feel bad for you man and understand your upset

[FlameHawk]

Oh yeah, it must be terrible when you don't own a PS4.

[lameguy]

Not sure if sarcastic or not. Some games like Minecraft do just fine in that realm (albeit with a $10-20 entry fee)

[DigitalRaptor]

Awww no, baby boo.. The game won't hold your hand for you and guide you?

Poor little casual gamer. http://images.essentialtrav...

Get out of here with your DUDEBRO sensibilities. I thought you were a grown man.

[yarbie1000]

More I hear about this game...the less excited I become :/

[Eonjay]

You spend the whole day trolling PS4 so how can it be that you were ever excited for it :)

[Antifan]

I was wondering why people were criticizing this game until you clearly pointed it out......they're Xbox Fanboyz. It all make sense now.

[IVanSpinal]

Good point, but the game looks boring to me also

[DragoonsScaleLegends]

Minecraft in Space but without the building option and better graphics. Still the game looks awesome and will be if it's better than the description I just wrote.

[JEECE]

I hate how they say to play Destiny with my friends if I want a No Man's Sky type of experience with multiplayer. Destiny doesn't have real space flight or combat. Destiny also only has 4 planets, and those each only have 1 area. I know it's their opinion, but Destiny doesn't come close to what multiplayer in No Man's Sky *could* be.

[Jadenkorr021]

Ya. im WAY too sceptical now. Game looks nice. But they are so evasive about game mechanics. And now you cant even really hang out with a friend. I'll wait to buy this AFTER launch and see whats being said then.

[WeAreLegion]

We've known about this for a long time.

[KrisButtar]

Does anyone know what the combat is like or have a gameplay trailer showing combat against other spaceships, players, beasts, aliens, machines or anything?

All I seen in this game is to explore and look at the scenery. I don't mind that, kinda like flower. I want to know more before I get my hopes up and be disappointed afterwards.

[JsonHenry]

What other players? I thought this game was single player only?

[KrisButtar]

From the article

"If another human player flies past you, will their username pop up or will you not even know that it was another player?
At the moment it doesn't, and I would like to keep it that way. "

It seems like you can at least fly by players. I have no idea if you can try and shoot them or even interact with them though. Hell I don't even know if the ship can fire weapons.

The only thing I'm understanding about the game is exploring and looking at scenery. They did at one time say you get a gun and its upgradable. So there has to be combat of some sort.

[MysticStrummer]

It's multiplayer, but seeing another player is supposed to be a rare event by design.

[JsonHenry]

So its kinda like dark souls type of multiplayer then? Just random encounters?

[MysticStrummer]

http://www.theverge.com/201...

E3 trailer…

It shows the player shooting at other ships in space. Also, at the beginning when he walks out of the cave and discovers a new species of dinosaur, it says "nonviolent" in the description. Other species will presumably be hostile and you'll have to defend yourself.

[KrisButtar]

Thanks Mystic

That's exactly what I was looking for. I barely remember that trailer and all these guys have done is talk about how open the universe is and you can go anywhere you see. That's great and I understand that but they need to move onto the next thing about the game, as to me they are starting to sound like a broken record.

We can at least have some dog fights in spaces and look like you can attack fleets or ships as well?

I think the rhino creature was hostile, the player ran and jumped into the ship pretty quick when the herd started running after it appears.

[Special-Agent-Milo]

I'm thinkin' it'll be like Call of Duty where I can 1080p no scope skrubbs from the top of the moon.

[MysticStrummer]

Astrocamper.

[The_Sage]

To those that think the game looks boring and don't plan to buy it.... Good. I'm sure we won't have to deal with very many Call of Duty try hard fruits in No Man's Sky. This game is not aimed towards the short attention span types anyway. It is for thinking people. I'm glad it will weed out the riff raff just by its premise. Can't wait to play.