So, I was extremely hyped for Starfield, and also got the collector’s edition, but for real, it’s like it’s not the game that makes me happy.

I started playing No Man’s Sky again (after three years without playing) and oh man… I forgot how good this game is, and how much I enjoy its exploration features.

I never finished the story, and of course never left Euclid, so that’s even better because now I’ll be discovering new things and getting more involved into it (knowing glyphs, different types of planets and galaxies…)

It’s like Starfield made me feel like No Man’s Sky is what I really wanted to play, but never figured it out. It’s weird actually…

But yeah! I’m texting this while navigating through a night glowing planet, haha.

… it really lacks of civilization wars ! I want to be able to join a species and go campaigning against the enemy species, as in the universe of Star Wars or Dune! I know it’s a game of construction and discovery and that’s fine, I love this aspect, but I want to be able to embody the leader of a colonizing Empire!

It’s update time, so I thought I’d post my “guide for noobs” on how this all works here on the subreddit.

There’s nowhere really to watch, necessarily, other than this subreddit and Sean’s Twitter (Twitter.com/NoMansSky).

It’s actually a bit obnoxious, to be honest. Here’s how it usually plays out:

Sean Murray will tweet a really vague, innocuous emoji or something. The tweet will be screenshotted and posted here a dozen or so times, usually with little to not accompanying context.

For the next ~3-4 days (depending on Sean’s mercy), this subreddit will be literally nothing but an endless stream of screenshots of his post, other posts guessing (usually all guessing the same 3-4 things), memeing his post, with the occasional actually interesting conversational thread thrown in here and there for flavor.

Then the update will actually drop – Sean will tweet it, there will be coverage of it on all the big gaming/tech sites, on all the No Man’s Sky social channels, etc. You won’t be able to miss it.

Then the next ~1-2 days will be people coming onto the subreddit to ask if the update dropped, when it’s going to drop, why hasn’t it dropped yet, is this game worth jumping into, etc.

It’s usually ~a week or two after a major update before this subreddit is tolerable again.

The mods do an admirable job trying to corral the crazy, but it’s just an impossible task.

TL;DR – keep an eye on Sean Murray’s Twitter account [it’s (at)NoMansSky]. If/when he tweets something cryptic, unsub from this subreddit but keep an eye on his account or your favorite tech/gaming site. ~2 weeks after the update hits, it’s safe to rejoin the subreddit.