I’m playing this morning, cataloging animals, when I spot a Predator Diplo standing over two dead Grazer Diplos. Yeah I know, circle of life and all that; it didn’t stop me from killing the Predator anyway. Sometimes it just bothers me, maybe because the prey is often cute.

So three dead animals are sitting on the ice and snow and part of me thinks “I don’t like this, just leaving them out like this”. So through a combination of digging under them and Creating terrain over them, I effectively buried them.

I don’t think Hello Games ever thought about players doing that . . .

Metal doors on the basic prefabs require making a logic gate to function properly, and the alternative is using a more expensive (and frankly less cool) holo-door.

I don’t think the current door should be removed, as it allows for making some really cool stuff. But I think adding the automatic door that existed pre-beyond as a separate item would be a welcome addition.

I’d like to begin by saying how much joy this game has brought me over the last 40 or so hours.

Perhaps one day I’ll get bored once I feel like I’ve seen everything, but I just continue to be blown away by this game. The variety in systems, planets, flora and fauna (not to mention ships) is just outstanding.

I keep stopping every 15-20 mins to take a picture of another incredible view, whether its a new planet from afar, or a sunset from the surface, or even a weird carbon structure. All the planets feel and look so, so different, if only slightly, and even individual planets look and feel completely different depending on the time of day and weather. I absolutely love this about the game. The cave systems are also amazing, and the transition from surface to space and space to surface is so, so seamless. And even though I realize the game is procedural, and that fact is fairly obvious, it feels as though it has been done in a way that captures the spontaneous and infinite nature of the universe.

I don’t mean to gush, but I am truly blown away. On top of all I’ve said, the music, the NPCs, even the story has me totally gripped. There is something this game that has had a truly profound effect on me.

Thank you Hello Games.

P.S. Please add ship lights we can switch on and off, and please make it so the weather outside doesn’t appear to be inside the cockpit of our ships!