To start with this “rant”, I must say that I’m a big fan of No Mans Sky and its redemotion story. Its the game that I play when I want to chill and relax.

That being said, its time for Hello Games to add depth to its systems! There are so many great systems in game, but a lot of it seems pointless. Here are some examples about how things could connect with each other and gives a better sense of progression throughout the journey:

Food / recipes: there is a entire recipes system, with amazing combinations, common and rare. For what? A few seconds buffs that are useless and maybe some selling potential. This system could improve survival mechanics and companions. Meaningful buffs to better explore a hazard planet. Companions that can only be tamed with certain food and so on.

Settlements: neat concept, meaningless rewards. There could be resources that are only available through settlements. Settlements through different races could provide exclusive resources and cosmetics as you upgrade them. Like a resource needed for a ship or exosuit upgrade, for example.

Ships: resistance upgrades could be available so that you can enter “dense” atmosphere planets. Im not a space specialist (as you can see), but the idea is that some rare kind of planets could be “locked” until you have a specific upgrade equipped on your ship. Its the same concept of the hyperdrive upgrades so that you can travel to different colors stars.

Vehicles: Nautilus could be used to reach certain depth on seas, not possible swimming. Extremely hazard planets could only be explored with minotaurs, and so on.

Derelict Freighters: due to its hazard nature, could only be acessible with specific exosuit upgrade. It could provide exclusive resources too, like I said about settlements above.

Well, these are some of the ideas at the top of my head, but we could go on and on about this.

Any thoughts about it?

Literally went from grinding out dreadnaughts in clusterfucks of lasers and rockets in the search for an S-tier to fearing for my life in a derelict freighter in the span of 5 minutes. How did this become dead space so fast? What happened to this crew? Why are my pants wet? I have no answers to these questions but what I do know is that I’m having the time of my life.

I don’t know what to say. I don’t know what to feel.

Some people say that I only to play the game 3 hours and need to warp 5 times. I have been trying since yesterday. I had even let the game open, hoping that this would pass the “3 hours” cooldown.

No.

I have travelled to 160+ systems already. The galaxy has been to peaceful, where are the pirates? Wave after wave, I gaze into this sea of stars as my heart drowns into loneliness. The music of my warp engine has long made my ears bleed. My heart has turned cold, yet I still have perseverance.

I hope someday I will meet that fateful encounter.