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.

Hello Games and No Man’s Sky have been exceptional at providing so many lovely content updates since launch. And they’ve updated so many visual components as well…but mainly relegated to improving and adding to assets that already exist in the game. Flora, Fauna, Lasers, VFX, space whales etc. etc.

But relatively few of the “beauty” updates with the notable exceptions of NEXT and (edit) ORIGINS. have touched on improving terrain creation.

I can’t help but think that these kind of fundamental updates are being avoided, as to not hurt the base building components of the game.

Do you feel this has become a log jam that is preventing NMS from evolving more complex and dynamic terrain features?

Would you be willing to lose your bases for them to update these features?

Is there a solution that could be implemented to let them keep growing fundamental changes without blowing away all the bases?

Let me know what you think.