BREAKING NEWS
https://twitter.com/xXxCOBRA/status/1556667105252196358
https://www.twitch.tv/cobratv_sc
Cobra was supposed to stream at 8pm EST. We’re about 2 hours into his stream.
I’ll plan to post his replay here later… UPDATE: Here’s his Twitch VOD…
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1556022966
Note: This video will auto-delete from Twitch. Cobra plans to add clips to YouTube.
Very interesting interview with RayRod. There is so much untapped potential with NMS. The engine created for this game is hardly touched. So… When will we get that procedural variation overhaul HG?
From my rough notes, after watching Cobra’s NMS Subcast:
CHAT: Have you been able to implement working real-time planetary rotation and/or orbits in-game? — RAYROD: Data for orbital mechanics is actually in the files right now and NMS has actually shown physical rotation pre-release. So yes, this ‘IS’ possible, but it’s currently an unknown! — CHAT: Even just being able to have 100 player servers in NMS would be enough. - CHAT: Cities in NMS, lol. - CHAT: Do you think HG have sacrificed NMS’s potential for more platform availability? Do you think the consoles are holding back HG? — CHAT: Is it plainly obvious to you from a development perspective how the ProcGen and potential was hard-capped by HG? — RAYROD: Content updates are nice and all this free content feels undeserved, but a procedural variation overhaul would transform this game in ways that you just have no idea. My Multiverse Fan API (mod) and its related YouTube videos are proof in concept of this very fact!
One fact I know: HG have been holding back a ‘procedural variation overhaul’ update for some time now, and they have to know that this is the №.1 thing that matters to most NMS players, I mean it is hotly requested. So I can only assume that this is not by sheer neglect or coincidence, but that they are in fact working heavily on just that, and that we will likely see something like a 4.0 or otherwise update — 2 or 3 years in the making.