The No Man's Sky Iceberg 

Iceberg idea: Polo is on the anomaly because he's the last surviving First Spawn. Coincidentally he's also the only one who isn't evil. Also the Vy'Keen are a younger species given how little they're mentioned by the other two's monoliths.

As one of the 4 people that actually liked NMS on release day, the past years have just been a constant stream of W's

Anyone who bought NMS seven years ago has nothing to lose by giving it another go. Yes, we all were suckered into paying a AAA price for an unfinished game, but seriously have a look at what our money has paid for. You now own a game that's way more than anything you were expecting prelaunch, and there's no end in sight to the roll-out of new content. I reinstalled it a couple of days before the recent Echoes update (had no idea it was coming) and I've absolutely no regrets. I'm coming around to forgiving Murray for being a lying twat, because NMS is a stupendously brilliant game now.

Their dedication wins my heart with every update. Hopefully they keep going, this can definitely be the best space game ever if they keep up

It may be blasphemous to say, but I've basically playing it on easy mode and its been an amazing experience being able to explore endlessly without worrying myself about resource management

Looking back at all this, No Man’s Sky really did have quite an impact on the gaming industry. It revived the space exploration genre, advanced procedural generation in 3D environments to the next level, and taught people a lesson about the dangers of pre-ordering and backing early access games. Aside from all that, it’s a programming technical marvel that it can run on so many platforms now (PC, Xbox, PS4/5 of course, but ALSO Linux, MacOS, Steam Deck AND Nintendo Switch!). All from an indie team in the British Isles.

18:25 I remember this so clearly, new players have no idea how much finding Diplos meant to the NMS community😂

Omg tier 3 got me in the nostalgia feels. I miss hiridium pillars. The arches! Plutonium!!! And T9. Oh those were the days.

21:22 There was something about the Pathfinder Era of No Man's Sky that I absolutely loved, and its what I miss the most out of anything The whole colourful aesthetic of the game was still intact, the planets wildly varied and you couldn't just tell what you're gonna get by looking at one from space. I like what we have now, and are grateful for it, but that era was something else, alongside whatever improvements they give it.

I've just recently started playing NMS after buying it in 2016 and putting it down immediately... I've since put 60+ hours in, in two or so weeks. I'm so hooked, and super impressed at what the team was able to build!! The story is absolutely wild to me and can't wait to keep exploring all the books and crannies of the different galaxies for hundreds of hours to come 😎 awesome video!!

Tier 5: Back 3 months before release they shared an image about activities in NMS "What to do in no mans sky". They listed several dull features such as "Hunt for sport" xD

I just started playing nms and was thinking that the planets don't feel alien enough with colour palette. Sometimes I'll get a texture corruption that looks really cool and I wish I could keep it after i reset the game

Instant subscription Watching NMS go from bare bones nothing to one of the biggest sci fi games out there to date was like watching a kid growing up. Seeing NMS Next update get teased was absolutely awesome and to be honest i really do kinda miss the early first person days of the game (playing the very first iteration on Christmas Day was a blast aha) but im glad its come so far, better late than never i suppose. As someone who played this game on and off ever since it first came out, i really gotta get back into it and give it another good go. I hope Starfield can evolve like this because i love sci fi to death and there’s nothing i hate more than wasted potential. No signs of slowing down, so proud of Hello Games. Brilliant video 💙

There's one thing that I believe the OG No man's sky had that today's version doesn't have... That feeling of being absolutely... A L O N E. Today we have: 90% of planets filled with life forms, the 3 alien races present almost everywhere, very hyper realistic planets that most of the times have plants and identical sky and ground color palette, too many easy ways to achieve millions if not BILLIONS of units, tons of weapons, easy access to our spaceship and teleportation devices, constant interactable thing made just to give you a (personal opinion) FORCED sense of progression and gameplay. The original game (as ABSOLUTELY BAD AS IT WAS) was challenging and somewhat... Scary. You wake up on an unknown planet, stranded, you have to look for resources that are EXTREMELY RARE, fear the cold, the heat, the poisoning clouds, angry animals that had an insane amount of health, spaceship where rare to see flying in the sky, life was rare and gave a feeling of beauty when you found it, you could not call your ship which was frustrating but challenging, you had to always be on the lookout. Sentinels where bugged but dangerous, the lore and the story seemed to be going on a different plot direction, almost every death and mistake was YOUR FAULT. You where alone... alone in SPACE, where most of the time life was NOWHERE to be seen. It was empty, creepy, mysterious... an empty sky... a dark sky... a sky that was literally... for NO MAN to survive. (i love the amazing updates, but I miss that emptynes)

This was great. As one of the people who played NMS at launch and continues to play to this day, I remember so much of what you showed in this video. I frequently think about how much I miss the old towers of metal. I know they were less "natural" in appearance, but there was something so... zen... about carving those big towers, taking different approaches to each, sometimes even sheltering within them during storms while continuing to carve away at the metal surrouding you. It was honestly one of my favorite things to do in the game. I also wish the devs would put more focus on planet variety for us old school explorers. Maybe it's because I was one of the 1% who actually loved the game at launch, but NMS to me will always be a game about solitary exploration within an immense universe. The new stuff they've added is great, but I still spend most of my time wandering around, getting distracted, and taking in the occasional vista. Anything that enhances that experience would make my year, to be sure. In any case, great job with the video. I appreciate the walk down memory lane.

I never thought I’d get a video as good as this. I was wrong

WOW - I'm a big LoreNut and watching this video was like a kiss of fresh air. I wanted to say thank you - because of what you have been putting out I reinstalled NMS 3 days ago and am enjoying it again. Keep up the good work *hugs*

Heridium Pillars... I was stuck on my spawn planet (Day1) for an extra hour scanning every damn pebble looking for Heridium!! I was so pissed. Then... By accident, happened to scan one of the hundreds of rock pillars surrounding me... (they didn't look like metal at all, they looked like the environment) Not sure if I felt more relieved, or foolish at that moment.

Regarding multiplayer at launch, there's actually multiple interviews on RU-vid where SM very clearly states that multiplayer is not in the game, that the only interaction is seeing the "footprint" of others by way of them naming discoveries and such. Game Insider has a couple good ones off the top of my head. But for some reason these clear and honest interviews got ignored by the media and public, maybe because he didn't say what they wanted to hear and then get mad about

I played this game when it first released for a few weeks and honestly had a lot of fun cuz all I knew was it was a space game, I completely forgot about all this other stuff about limited slots for things. The thing I do remember was warping was the hardest thing in the world and anytime I landed anywhere I would get stranded cuz my launch fuel would be dead in 2 seconds. Coming back to it now I’m having a lot more fun and honestly it’s one of my favourite games

So much nostalgia in 1 video. I was one of those, day 1 pre-order players who expected one thing and got a steaming pile. Played long enough to go to the centre of the galaxy and then really didn't pick it back up for about 3 years. I do remember some of the things here fondly but other also bring back that feeling of disappointment with the state of the game at launch. like NMSPTSD Any, great video dude.

Thank you for a great video man! Love watching your vids! Good luck with some next vids!

I remember the heridium pillars. I kinda of miss them. Thanks for the nostalgia! I'm playing Starfield right now, but from a gamer that played NMS from day one and poured over 2k hours into the game, it's nice to look back (and eventually get back) at the game from time to time!

pretty good tier list, seeing all the old no mans sky stuff gave me so much nostalgia even though i didn't get to play it till a long while later (because i only had a wii u during that console era) it was still very cool to watch each new update release and getting excited for the day i can finally play this game

BRO I LEARNED SO MUCH! Now I gotta play this game again lol Amazing video, commentary and editing was really good!

Just started watching this video, and I don't know if this is mentioned, but if you look you'll find a log saying "There is a world in the great void where all things are made of razors and glass. Pity anything of simple, soft flesh that goes there. The glass is thirsty. It is brittle and crystalline, and so very beautiful to behold - but it must drink. You will go there and you will forget my warning. Then it will cut you with an edge so fine that you will feel no pain, and only as your life gushes out to dampen the cracked and broken landscape will this come back to you. Too late. Too late." So uh- Don't go to the dimension of glass.

I bought this game on release day and was thoroughly disappointed. After seeing how they were releasing big updates every now and then, I decided I'd check it out again every few updates. Every few updates I'd play for a little bit and think "oh neat, it's changed quite a bit" and then uninstall until a few more updates have happened. I started playing again a couple weeks ago, to see the new changes and I can't stop playing, it's become so addicting, this is the longest I've played it for and I plan on continuing this save file till I've done everything. I'm hyped to see what more they're gonna add in the future

I just love to see the difference between old No Mans sky and new Its just so incredible what hello games did, there is no other game company who wouldve done this esp. not today There are still huge features that has been promised back then (my fav. landing and harvesting a meteor before it crashes onto a planet or coliding with a freighter or space station) And i really really do hope at least some of these "lost" features get added into the game, but for now im still stuck in the second galaxy and im not nearly done with the atlas missions so....

As a month 1 player (I bought it late, not day one) I am happy to see that the game is so much better, I loved the game at its worst and now I play it in VR exclusively at its best… I miss some of the old places I found in the original game, but now there’s so much more potential.❤

No way. I know the song in the beginning of the video. Just added it to my playlist last week Caligula by Windows 96 Interloper, you have excellent taste!

When you build software (including games) you use a VCS to make sure you don’t lose things and maintain the code history. Most VCS isn’t centralized on individual computers, but rather servers, so it’s not likely they lost much in the flooding.

22:47 I can't escape shart life, can I? All jokes aside this is an absolute baller video. Entertaining from start to end. I was about to leave a cocky "haha I know everything loser" comment until the midpoint. Great finds my dude Pizzfizz is coming for you

Man I remember when you was first starting your channel. I like what you’re doing here

Thanks for this!! I'm excited to watch. Super cool nms is my favorite

Digging the videos, thanks for all the hard work and creative insight

That reference to the greatest single clip in history (A-Aron) got you a like right there. Great freaking video. And I’m only halfway in

Bought it like a month ago and I can't stop playing. Every hour feels fully packed with stuff and it gets so addicting. Only thing I don't like are certain long uninterruptible sequences like docking the Anomaly or a spacestation.... it has to be done so many times and it always feels too long until you can get out of your ship. I rather teleport to those than dock with my ship if possible.

I can't hear black heat without thinking of nexpo lol great video!!!

Good video bud, quite a few very interesting snippets in here that I didn't know about the game. On a note about the flood and the games early state. You theorised that it caused them to lose data before launch affecting the game and could be a factor on why it sucked on launch. What affected the games drastically missing content on launch (if memory serves) was because it was originally coded using Gielis super formula. Near the official release of the game said scientist patented the formula preventing anyone from using it to digitally generate or synthesize organic forms and patterns. That meant that the Hello Games Dev teams had to completely re-code the procedural generation at a core level to what's now a noise pattern generation style with mutations. Obviously the time between this forced change and the promised launch meant years of development got set back that had to be redone and redesigned. The old worlds in trailers still exist as static worlds because they were already generated before all this happened. Have to admit it is such a shame that we didn't get to see what the game would have developed into if they were allowed to use it... even though I still enjoy what we have today.

No Man Sky did legally commit false advertising on launch day. However, the cost of suing them in some class action lawsuit never happened (to my knowledge) because there'd be no money in it for the plaintiffs. You could just do a refund instead. The unspoken reason is that suing Hello Games would've by default meant, realistically, suing the Publisher Sony; who forced Hello Games to release a alpha build video game for full retail price. Game evolved wonderfully over the years.

The Atlas *IS* 16 mins from being torn apart. That's where real physics kicks in. The more you get near to a black hole, the slower it seems to be fofr those which are outside. But for the subject being sucked in and getting near, the time flows "normally" and it sees the unvierse outside moving faster and faster the nearer it gets to the black hole. THat's why you can play for more then 16 minutes (actualyl eternally) but the Atlas is 16 mins away from annihilation. Yes, you can use this in an update to the video. ;)

this video earned my subscribe. (you deserve more)

God the lost variety section hit so hard. It really put into words some of the magic I’ve been missing from my first tens of hours with the game. I love what we have, but I really miss some of the crazy terrain generation

Good shit. Good video here. Found this on Reddit. Stay up on what you’re doing. Play that algorithm baby

I like how you allude to the Atlas is currently dying. It makes sense when someone made a video saying the universe of No Man's sky is nearing its entropic end some years ago.

Once multiplayer was added in it was amazing watching the community map out a small corner and find each other and build communities

Surprised you didn't talk about Bensavirgin, the Phantom stars/Inaccessible stars and the glitched galaxy: Odyalutai, aka the 256th galaxy which before 2019 could go up to infinity or even negative infinity. But now the next galaxy is Hilbert

Man, the pillars, thamium-9, and old signal boosters takes me back dude.

thank you for that video. i wanted to play it from the very first day but was held back by all the bad reviews. I started playing last year and i love it so much! And i'm with you: i'd love to have more emphasis on the exploration part. maybe we're lucky someday

My god I remember Plutonium and Thamium. I played when it launched, and I remember hating landing on planets so much that I wouldn’t go down until i absolutely had to, because it was such a chore refueling landing thrusters. Pretty sure max stack back then was like 250, and backpack upgrades were a massive hassle to get. That being said, I loved the game so much back then because I couldn’t just find whatever gun or ship I want with a press of a couple buttons. Exploring was rewarding, like my first time running into an Alien multitool, or buying my first Exotic ship (one of those ball cockpit ones, had a bright pink exterior with silver details on the cockpit, and the splitting bottom wing. Looked like a bright pink space bird with that ship I still love the game today, but it feels more like an MMO RPG, kinda like a cartoony Elite Dangerous, as opposed to a procedural exploration game

My team and I (Spectrumental Games at the time) won 2nd place in the no mans sky game jam during waking titan. The 2nd place prize was a cell phone and some type of hologram display thing with a set of numbers you could only see under a blacklight. I cannot remember if it was coordinates in the game or something for the WT website. (I have photos though) Anyways when you activated the cell phone it displayed a blue see through hologram of the player models before the atlas rises update. I thought that was such a cool moment to be directly a part of. The whole waking titan ARG is one of the best times I've had in gaming. Love the NMS community.

This game came out I couldnt hardly play and was upset my friends couldn't join, I stopped pre-ordering games because of it coming back now it brings back my love of games I haven't had for years 😅 bought a copy for all my siblings can't wait to get home and play. Guess I should thank hello games for not leaving what they obviously love unfinished

I LOVE this game in VR, I play it alot still it's so fun just flying around. CANT WAIT till I can get a PSVR2, apparently its incredible.

No man’s sky went from a great example of a bad game that was overhyped at launch, to this is how you fix a game and take care of your consumers. I did come in very late to no mans sky. It was finally on sale or free. So I jumped at the opportunity to play since the game was improved so much. I love my purple sentinel ship

Played since release. Did about 40 hours at release and routinely go back for new updates. Now it's in VR as well it's my game i sink into between games.

Ice Berg videos didn't "die" you silly goose, they just stopped being mainstream, and went into niche fandoms... Like this one!!

BRO THE BACKGROUND MUSIC! i listened to windows 96 all the damn time while playing NMS back then!!

As someone who remembers those different mining formations but did not play that much back then, I appreciate them removing them. It was always awkward aiming up to mine those and they looked hideous on the landscape after you mined the arches

I still love these videos I’ve watched a ton of them and I’m about to join the capital on the planet just need to get my 2 final glyphs love your videos

If the Atlas hardware is indeed falling into the black hole, the time dilation in the presence of such an immense gravitational field could explain how we get so much time to play 🤔

keep up the videos loved it

Bought NMS a year past launch, and it's been my favourite game the entire time. I have played it more than Skyrim, more than all my other games. And I will play it again tonight. fantastic game! I don't even really bother with online or with the DLC content, just the vanilla game in survival mode.

Interesting to see how the game (and the scene begind it) evolved, for me as a new player^^

Nice work!

I agree with you on the exploration side of things. These new updates are very impressive with new combat and races and all that bombastic great stuff. But when I play No Man's Sky, I partake in the new stuff and go right back to what I always do. Pick a system, warp and explore the worlds, wander for hours on the same planet or document everything in one system. I've done one of the new freighter battle thingys (in the expedition of all places) and since then I've not actively sought it out. I prefer those quiet solitary moments of stumbling upon a gorgeous sunset on a distant alien world.

Suggestion: If you were to do an extended iceberg, there’s a song that plays when you get your ship’s signal (the distress signal at the beginning of any non-creative run) and it’s by Paul Weir, a guy who made some of the music for NMS, but this song is unreleased. In the game files, it’s called “Mus_GameStart_LushWalk”.

That time two players go to the exact same spot reminds me of the mission where you try and find Apollo and it’s revealed that ur coordinates show ur both in the same spot but you cant see each other lol

There are a lot of references to popular science fiction shows and books, and i think the 16 minutes before being sucked in a black hole might be a reference to the book infinity welcomes carful driver's. On the ship time moved differently depending on if you where on the fount or back because of the black hole and it was corrupting the ships AI because some of it was moving exponentially faster or slower then the rest of it.

My PC is pretty old so when I play NMS sometimes it takes a while for planets and objects to materialize, then shape up, then add low poly detail, then I can land when I see the next level of detail. When I teleport to my town it just looks like bare ground at first but the collision of the buildings is there. Same thing happens with Freighters. Anyways that's what I think the World of Glass is. The underlying infrastructure that holds everything together, hidden behind... well, everything. (also the Three Species thing is about tropes. Mercenaries, Traders and Engineers. It's a worldbuilding exercise for writers to include representatives of these three groups in a story - fantasy stories tend to have Mages instead of Engineers but they serve the same purpose. Basically there's only 3 species because they are essential tools for the universe as opposed to actual organisms) edit: I found an entire system with only plants literally yesterday, they still exist.

I have insight into the color revamps. Its easier to replace colors then to add. Planets are pre generated with the old colors so if they want to introduce new colors they would either generate a whole new galaxy and reset all bases or just replace colors. And you could see the outrage in base resets.

Regarding the "Stuff we lost," part where you mentioned planets with plantlife but no animals, there are still planets like that. I just landed on one and thought of this video.

5:00 my theory is that, because the Atlas is an advanced computer, it can make a lot of calculations very fast. Time runs faster inside the universe of No Man’s Sky than outside, where the Atlas is sixteen minutes from being torn apart.

I love nms and when it launched I did not expect it to be a multiplayer experience but I DID expect to be able to play with a friend in some way. They said it was technically multiplayer you were just not likely to see anyone - and I thought that was cool too. But since they had that I figured they’d at least give you an incentive or even a possibility to explore the game and world with a friend as it would make it all the more better. Still leaves a slightly sour taste in my mouth

You remember old Base Building, where you needed to find specific spot? As you play a lot of No Man's Sky you likely have ran into Old Base Devices that allows you to Claim Land around them. I found one last week from those bygone days randomly. However it was odd that is was from System that had not been Found yet.

I know I'm really late but a huge thing that goes overlooked and probably should be on here is that the day one patch ENTIRELY CHANGED the unpatched story as well as several gameplay features. If you uninstall the patch on PS4 the game operates very differently to the launch version of the game in many ways, some of them positive IMO. Either way it could be a very cool thing to cover on its own.

I remember playing no mans sky and looking for this last material i needed to repair my ship at the start of the game then i made a weird computer thing that scanned and found certain materials and i remember thinking “That huge tower on the horizon thati have always questioned about but never looked is the thing i need?”

This video is amazing, it brought me so many memories; but honestly I feel it just barely scratched the surface of the true history of NMS: i miss things like the hunt of the Portals since launch time; the first questline of the Atlas, the data mined hidden history of the Atlas, the archeology of old player bases; no mans high and the nip nip hubs and farms; how the initial state of the game might be due to pressure from Sony to lunch the game faster; negative galaxies, planet sized pets, the government investigating NMS for false advertising (and finding them inocent), among so many other things...

I started playing some weeks ago and I love it.

My dad bought me No Man's Sky on Christmas 2016, and I've loved every second of it. I loved it then, love it even more now. It was my favorite game then, even with its flaws, and it's still my favorite game today

I kinda find it interesting how they actually worked the lack of multiplayer at launch into the game's lore. According the the lore, Travelers / Anomalies used to exist in their own universe separate from others. This explains why initially players couldn't see each other, even if they stood in the exact same place. However, as the Atlas's systems are shutting down and becoming more and more unstable, those boundaries eventually came down, allowing Travelers to see each other in the universe.

I was so hyped for no mans sky I took off of work the day it came out so I could spend all day with it. I was one of the ones who loved it since the beginning, but definitely ran it dry really quick so I gave it a rest. Started playing it again at the NEXT update in 2018 and haven't put it down since ^^ I honestly miss the heridium pillars. They looked so cool sticking out of the ground and all the other unique shaped metals. Wish they would bring them back lol

💚 Great done!!

Love the they will kill you reference 😅

I started playing NMS 🚀 just two months ago, and I am hooooooked. Just another gamer who jumped in after all the good words finally reached a fossil like me 🎮🦖 💬 🤩 📺

Great stuff.

I imagined that the time difference between Atlas' 16 minutes and the time in the game is that Atlas is simulating at millions of times a human's perceivable speed, so within the simulated universe, those 16 minutes would be measured as more like 16000000 years The idea that the flood destroyed most of the progress on an NMS that was exactly like they promised early on being the reason why they were, and still are, so determined to deliver is also wonderful to me

i remember those heredium pillars

As far as I know, I was the first player to build a base with a portal within it. Was a small NMS version of stargate command.

For the 16 minutes the Atlas has,in theory when you go into a black hole,time slows down alot to for example 1 second inside is 1000 years outside

yknow personally ive never really been a fan of NMS being a simulated universe, at least not in the way its handled. Like i could accept if the universe is simulated, but we dont know whos behind it or who created it, but the fact its a military experiment in "our" world and the fact the atlas might be a person just doesnt feel right and just kinda takes me out of the experience also, planets with plants, but no animals still exist, found one during the expedition, theyre just super rare i guess and on one hand i do believe or wanna say we have more variation now than ever, but man seeing that OG footage reminds me of stuff i forget exists, like that pink desert planet. back during atlas rises i even found a 'lush' world that was kinda like a desert, but with small patches of greenery and its still one of if not my favorite discovery ive made in this game

I still have my Atlas Pass v4! :) That ARG was LIT!

I just looked up a NMS Iceberg video the other day and couldnt find one.. now here we are

I would love to see an event where the first spawn returns and that everyone including travelers, nada and pole, normal gek, korvax, vy'keen, sentinels, autophages and pirates all fight together in a huge war wich also further damages the atlas's hardware further breaking some things but possibly by accident creates nanites irl wich the atlas can control. 10:55 One thing that is possible is that the first spawn join forces or subjugate the void mother or even imprison her and controlling the corrupted sentinels as their lackeys wich we wil fight against with the normal sentinels. The first spawn war could be something for nms 2, and have the game start in the simulation and have it go similar to how the current base story but instead of going to an alternate universe atlas makes with the nanites a select group of people like you, nada, polo and some others from the space anomaly and one custom freighter and send them with the atlas to find the original crew to help fix atlas whilst it being carried in an offline state on that freighter, possibly nada and polo tirelessly trying to fix atlas's systems but only able to extend the current state until what is left of the original crew is found(possibly only finding the person whom scanned himself creating the traveler's being, with an extra possibility that whom we played wil keep playing and have the original either become an extra ai and dies or wil go and explore with you)

Just want to mention about the variety part - you CAN find planets with plants and no animal life. But they are only in abandoned systems

Don't forget about random base computers that are still in the game. I found one a while back and it took me a while to figure out why it was even there since I didn't play on launch.

the return of the king

I got the impression that the "Glass" talked about was the Glass Door on the Server in the "Real World." As if seeing the glimpse of the Real World from such a small perspective within the machine, all of actual reality would look like a world of Glass. Admittedly I don't have the specific lore text to back that up since I hit that point a year ago. I like the Glass = Silicon theory a lot too.

It’s super weird for me to come across a random video on the internet which has video clips of my home town. Despite Hello Games being based in Guildford, it is such a small town that it’s just odd for it to be shown here 😂

i was on the fence about playing this game but after watching this vid I realise there's a lot more depth to it than I expected. If the game keeps going in this direction fleshing out the universe and its lore I could well see this turning into my all time favourite. Its high time I finally started playing No Man's Sky.

fucking finally it felt like every month i would search “nms iceberg” THANK YOUUUU