Let’s say you’re a high-profile person. You’re doing something you’d be embarassed to reveal - like trying to buy drugs, or soliciting a prostitute. You get robbed in the process, and you naturally want to just let the whole thing drop - but oops, you already called your mom because it was traumatic and you wanted…

So if you create and enter a new galaxy, it will be just you forever (ie no other players discovering stuff), and so on for every new galaxy you create? Or will it start populating new players into your galaxy...?

tweet 2/2 We will use the 368 extra days to really put out a game we are proud of. Thanks to Jason S. for the idea!

“...and reviewers from various outlets have just gone and bought copies from local retailers instead of waiting for Sony to send code”

offline play is confirmed

I’m still looking for the 30 hrs number, but for the portals i might have been misremembering this from reddit:

I’ll go back and try to find it again but i could just be misremembering

sure, there will be a day 1 patch, as with almost every game. My only point was that the disc he got is as good as any he could get in a store on the 9th or whenever

well i couldn’t find it but it’s in that video somewhere. 56 mins...

That’s 30 hours of nonstop hyperspacing, I think...(which is impossible).

Yea, but imagine the satisfaction if you overtook him...

What, don’t watch videos about any games? You realize that the autoplay & recommended features are smart enough to serve you up a video about a different game than the one you’re watching. Especially if you frequently watch.

It was just an example, but it still could easily happen. I frequently get auto-played down a rabbit hole of one topic, with no decision made on my part. I’ll watch something completely unrelated to NMS (this happened to me yesterday, btw - and I’m not even complaining about it, anyway), but still about games, then…

but what if he just played offline until it was out for awhile, and only then synced with the server. If he had been manipulating his system clock, it seems like it could be possible. But I’m no expert.

or by YouTube autoplaying the next video

The discs are already printed. AND devs have to send a finished copy to Sony weeks before launch to get compliance certified or whatever they call it, I forget. In other words, his disc is as complete as any PS4 copy that will be available on launch. Not to say that there won’t be some kind of day 1 patch download -…

That is, the interview I heard made it sound like the pattern of play is going to be : gather, save up for a ship, Buy (?) / Build (?) / Discover (?) a jump portal to the next solar system, repeat until you get to the center. I don’t mean that as a criticism, I still think the game looks amazing. Just that that is…

According to an interview I heard on IGN (i think), everyone spawns on the far edge of the galaxy; nobody closer or further from the center. Also, it would supposedly take something like 30 hours to fly from the edge to the center non-stop, and in the game you actually have to do a lot lot lot of resource gathering,…

It does seem like that would be easy to get around if you wanted to; you could probably just change the system clock on your PS4 and keep it offline or something similar. Who knows what he’ll actually do, but even if he played non-stop from now until release, it seems like that’s such a small drop in the bucket of…

Maybe that’s the party platform, but the candidate disagrees: