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?

With Light No Fire on the horizon, a repeatedly huge game that will probably get a lot of content updates like NMS has, what do you think will come next for NMS?

Of course, my worry is that they will phase out continued support. But, they have added so much at this point that maybe ceasing continued development will be forgiven. We don’t know when the next game is coming out. Maybe we will see a huge final content update with a gameplay overhaul. Something like fully customizable and buildable ships and freighters, a more in-depth reputation system with the ability to engage in combat with NPC’s, on-foot pirate combat, and world’s with multiple biomes.

Then again, maybe the engine just can’t do these things, so perhaps they will eventually come out with a proper sequel?

I don’t know. But what would you folks like to see from NMS or what do you think Hello Games will add moving forward?