I’m thinking this story update will give you more reasons to explore and maybe explore things differently than you have been doing before.
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Hmmm. I don’t think the game will force the story onto you, it won’t be like a “story mode” imo. It will be similar probably to the current Atlas path, but perhaps more in depth. But likening it to the Atlas path, perhaps it will be something that you can reject, not sure that another mode is entirely necessary. Interesting thought though, I’d be happy with that!
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I would like to point out, Foundation wasn’t just bases, and Pathfinder wasn’t just vehicles. We got story missions, photo mode, 2 game modes (3 really), lots of graphical and gameplay updates, tons of minor tweaks. I doubt Atlas Rises will be any different. For anyone worried we’re getting just story mode or just portals, I think we’ll be seeing a lot of those little touches as well.
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…all but confirmed!? All i’ve ever seen is people asking for a 4th race. I’ve not seen squat about any 4th race at all from HG or anywhere. o_O
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The exact words “4th race” did show up at one point. I think it’s a safe bet, but maybe I shouldn’t be saying that as if it was a given thing.
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I’m pretty excited to see what we will get. Either way HG and everyone who’s put hard work into this and I’m looking forward to enjoying more content!
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I’m with Dole on this. I preordered NMS and never regretted it, even before foundation and path finder. They were both excellent updates. I feel a bit cheated by walking titan, or at least by Sean’s email. Fast travel and story (which let’s remember is basically just text) just does not seem like enough to justify the amount of work put in to/hype caused by Waking Titan.
Either way its free content for a game I already own so I can’t complain, but if fast travel portals and story is all that stands out enough for Sean to highlight in his email then I think Atlas Rises may disappoint as a followup to foundation/pathfinder.
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Think going to the hub in seconds instead of 2200 hops 
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Useful? Yes. Substantial? No.
We don’t know how long the story to activate the portals will take. We don’t know how the fourth race will come into play… Wait until the patch notes to be disappointed.
EDIT: Rereading my comment, it looks like I’m expecting to be disappointed. Quite the inverse, I’m telling other people to not complain until the patch notes and game play.
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Portals functionality … but 200+ hours in, and yet first portal is to be found!
So when you’ll find one, this will be epic every time!
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That’s not to mention the new ships (likely a new ship class if we’re being honest) the new language to learn, the nearly-guaranteed Base parts to add to our homes, the potential for terrain generation improvements, and all the awesome little graphical details they’ve managed to add in every major release as of yet.
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The ARG teased portals and an origin story, it’s what we got. Just curious what you , personally, were expecting. I’d seen a lot of lofty expectations on reddit, twitch and dicord channels, did my best to sedate them but I knew disappointment would be inevitable just as it was last august. You’d think people would learn from their mistakes and keep hype/expectation in check.
Hopefully theres more to fill your apetite in the patch notes 
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Still surprised that with the name of the update this track hasn’t been in any of the pdf’s 
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For me the only thing I really wish for in this update is a free look inside ship on PC. Like PS player have. I don’t know why it’s not available ?
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Oh yeah, or at least the view shouldn’t bug so that I can actually look out of the window and not at the ground of the ship 
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Yeah… Same as swinging around the flyby stars at the loading galaxy. I think the feature is available if you are using a pc controller, though not certain.
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I hope with portals we can also travel back to previous galaxies. I’m in Hesperius and want to go back to Euclid galaxy.
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If the codes are made of 16 glyphs for using portals, thats 16 to the power of 16, which is 18 quintillion, which is every single planet spread out across every galaxy (there arent 18 quintillion in each galaxy as far as i can tell, thatd make getting to the centre even more ridiculous, 256 times longer technically) so this should allow people to travel back to euclid
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In my opinion.
Portals allow players to better contribute as a community: you can easly reach a base with shared resources, or simply to do a race. You can easly go to the Galactic Hub or go to a specific planet, discovered by someone else, with specific rare resources.
On the other hand, a story/lore improvement, will make exploration more meaningful and maybe will give more purposes to people who wants to simply explore.
So portal are making more simple to work together and story/lore are making exploration better.
Said that, I think there will be many other new things in the update that also will make use of the features added in the previous two updates.
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