I bought this game in anticipation for the VR2 launch and it has blown me away from day one!

Even before the new graphics update it was my favorite game purely for the insane depth and freedom of gameplay.

I know I’m late to the party but I’m 40 hours in and can’t get away from it.

After watching a bunch of flat screen videos of the game I feel like fans of this game are missing out in a massive way by not playing in VR.

Man, when you make that first planetary approach in VR…it’s like, ok.. THIS is the stuff I dreamed about with my mates in 1989 while playing Sonic and Mario.

THIS is what I paid for.

Hello Games…I salute you!

So apparently reading is a good idea, because I’ve been hoarding Faecium because the icon looked like a gemstone or some kind of valuable mineral. It’s poop. My exosuit is filled with poop. My ship is filled with poop. I play in VR and this feels like a personal prank on me by the simulated universe.

“Pay attention buddy, or you might end up in shit.” – Atlas.

I’ve been playing VR for Years now and after playing NMS in VR (and in general) for the first time ever a few days ago, this is the biggest and most fleshed out “VR” game ever. It honestly breaks my brain a bit just how much the systems and gameloops feed into each other. I play a hell of a lot of Elite Dangerous and while that game will never be topped for what it does for me personally, NMS Is the better game VR or no. That almost feels traitorous to say but it’s just a fact for me now.

Just wanted to share this because I think many folks here would appreciate it.

I have NMS on PSVR1 and still prefer to play it this way, despite the blurriness (although the latest update appears to have improved it a lot, even on my headset). And I saw a post here about how it’s the experience of being there that makes all the difference, compared to flat screen, which I agree with.

The day after the recent update dropped, I tried the game again because I hadn’t played in a while and I saw in the release notes that there were graphical updates “for all VR platforms”. I thought there was an immediate difference, IMO, and it all looked much better compared to how I remembered it (this is the PS4 version), but then…

There came a point where I got the “incoming storm” message, so I jumped into my ship. I must have spent 5 minutes just chilling, waiting for the storm to end, and watching the toxic rainfall through the windows. But the thing is, I felt cosy and warm, just as if I was sitting at home on a rainy day!

I had to tell my wife about it, because I’ve never had a game evoke that kind of feeling before (and I’ve been gaming for over 40 years).

Has anyone else experienced that effect in NMS, and/or VR games, in general?

When I play NMS my mindset is not the same as playing other games (playing it in VR also), let me explain:

– Flying on my ship: I tend to not use pulse drive, or deactivate it on purpose when 1-2 minutes close to a planet, I never get tired of the whole landing process, and then get a view of the planet biome.

– Taking it slow: I’ve finished the main quest line about 3 times already, my current save file has been the longest, the first 2 times I rushed for money and I think that kinda made things dull (worst mistake I think, is to rush for money, even more now that you can just change game modes and get anything you want if you wish to do so), this time I took things slow and I’ve been enjoying the game a lot more, A LOT more, even tho right now I have more units than ever before, I never got in a tiresome grind loop, and I never needed to, this game is grindy only if you make it grindy to be honest, you don’t even need to grind for power since most common multi tools will be enough to fight sentinels and kill them all, and if you need a powerful enough ship to kill pirates with ease, just get a living ship and get some good pilots on your squad (tho they are never that good, but hey any help is good!).

– Ignore gifts: not because I’m not grateful (I do think people ingame are very kind) but it feels kinda wrong and breaks the purpose of playing the game, again doesn’t bother me now, but had I taken those gift to sell and get easy money, I wouldn’t have enjoyed the whole process.

– Use my best-looking ship instead of the best one: I just love how my interceptor looks, and it’s black and red! it’s nowhere as good as my living ship, but dang isn’t it cool? and they hover!

– Not rushing to the center: I’ve been slowly traveling to the center, I’ve found some neat planets in the process, my favorite ones are the frozen ones, forever christmas.

– I rather warp using my freight: IDK exactly why I like it more than using a ship, but there’s something special about it, it’s like a home after all.

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Over all my experience with the game since my mindset has been like this, it’s been night and day in comparison, I think my 2 previous save games have been useful as a way to realize what kind of game I was playing, I think remembering my times with minecraft helped me to see why I always came back into the game but never got to know exactly why, and now I realize it, just sit back and enjoy the universe at your own pace, nothing is rushing you to any goal at all, don’t do annoying things because you think the goal will be good, do things to enjoy them so you don’t have to do them the annoying way.

And this is I think the problem many people have, not blaming it on them btw, a game can’t appeal everyone, it’s not a game about goals and many gamers want goals, it’s a game about what you would want to do given a universe to explore, same thing you do in minecraft, explore, craft, build, enhance, and maybe get to the ender dragon and then the exit portal (I’ve never done that just because I never got interested on it, even after playing the game for years).

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Just wanted to share my experience with the game with you all, and also ask you for your experience, maybe I’m not that odd of a player and someone else out there also do the same things, or some of them, or maybe you enjoy the game doing the opposite, it would be interesting to know!

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