NMS is for all intents and purposes now a testbed for LNF features. But LNF is not going to have the same story as NMS.
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True, I guess I focused on mechanics.
Still, that just sounds like the players will become too familiar with the mechanics that LNF doesn't have quite the same impact at launch. Wouldnt want to burn everyone out of your new mechanics before you release the game they are supposed to be featured in imo
I think the primary differentiating factor will just be the nature of the world. 16 quintillion planets is going to feel WAY different than 1 massive one. HG also implied that LNF will be an MMO - something I, frankly, still have a hard time believing given NMS's network issues, but I can't imagine they'd overpromise again.
"Hello Games is procedurally generating just a single instance of this planet, one which every player (and everything the build, discover, and name) will exist on simultaneously." - GamesRadar
Doesn't sound like it. It sounds like the games are going to be complimentary to each other on some major ways. There are incoming enhancements to NMS that are happening because of what they are building in LNF.
That's what I was thinking about. Features that would be "new" in LNF are not going to be new if you've played NMS where they're being backported before LNF even launches.
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Counterpoint: It's giving me confidence that Light No Fire will be available for my PS4 instead of only next gen systems like the PS5.
I don't think PS5 can reasonably be called "next gen" when it's been the current gen for over 4 years.
Still, I've got my fingers crossed for you. They support NMS on Switch, so anything's possible.
cannibalizing?
pfft. let the devs dev. stop second guessing every thing they do as some plot to cannibalize something ffs
I second-guessed exactly one thing. Chill out a little bit.
what makes you suppose that backporting new development to an old product takes ANYTHING AWAY from the new product?
It's your terminology that needs to chill out. And your assumptions.
Look, I asked a question about a game, and you came in here telling me what to do.
I'm open to having a discussion, but the way you started it was needlessly combative.