Hey NMS community! As the title says, my friend group is looking for our next survival sandbox game to play and No Man’s Sky is popping up on our radar! After discovering all of the updates this game has undergone over the years, we are hopeful that this is something that we can all play together and put a bunch time into for the foreseeable future..

However;

We are aware that the game allows up to groups of 4 and after some light research on YouTube and Reddit, we are NOT quite sure what all that entails:

We see that 32 people can be in the same instance at a time on PC.. Does this mean we can all play with each other, build bases, quest together etc. in multiple groups of 4 (or less) at the same time?

In other sandbox-survival type games that we have played together thus far (Age of Conan, Ark, Terraria, Minecraft etc.) we had the freedom to pretty much play through those games together, interacting and doing objectives with eachother as a whole as much as we pleased.

So our main concern is are we going to be able to play most of the game together as a collective? Since we are pretty unfamiliar with how the game works and plays (we didn’t want to over-research on youtube and spoil the gameplay), we weren’t sure that, being such a large group, would we be relatively alienated from each other via the limited 4-man group sizes and if NMS is the type of game we are looking to play together as a full goon squad!

Thanks for any and all info guys!!

I am 15 hours in, got my self an S class Explorer have 12 mil in bank. I am completely and utterly lost in any of the missions and their story’s it all seems gobbldegook to me, so confusing. Having to keep mining copper is doing my head in, its repetitive and boring, never enough back pack space I hate it…..
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And yet, I keep wanting to play it, I look forward to playing it when I get home from work, a cheeky 20 mins turns into 3 hours. What is it with this game? I still can’t work out what’s brining me back.

I land on a planet and lets face it you have seen everything in the first 10 mins. I know there is cobalt in caves, I know scanning everything is pretty pointless. Iv seen the same building and trade hubs a 1000x on 20 or so planets. So while I am enjoying the game, I don’t know what I am doing, have zero understanding of the story, there are no cut scenes, combat is naff, rarely see other players..

Why do we love this game? I don’t know!!

… boots up xbox series x for a quick go….