 This is game chat one episode 127 the next chapter of no man's sky. Oh Boy Welcome to the show Now here's your host born on McCall all the gaming news of this week By the way, that's me Please folks and welcome to episode 127 of game chat one. I got a great show lined up for you Thank you for coming by listening today. I got about four stories to talk about for the week of July 25th ending July 25th 2018 And if you this is your first time the game chat one and we talk about the latest news We try to find some of the better stories to talk about not everything for this past seven days This is produced every Wednesday, so we go from Wednesday to Wednesday to actually talk about that gaming stuff This is on iTunes. This is on Google Play. We're on Spotify. We're on YouTube, but we're on Probably everywhere you can possibly listen. I won't thank everybody for listening Podcasts I haven't been saying that that much but that's my landing page where I talk about or where I put all the episodes and stuff like that This week I've been playing a lot of no man's sky Actually starting yesterday Before that I was playing Warframe on my live stream at twitch.tv slash Warner But we're gonna have a couple stories to talk about with no man's sky If you're into that game or not into that game, maybe you can get some interest out of today's show All right without further ado, let's get it going If our first story we're gonna talk about steam it's like cranking up a car, but it didn't actually crank up We're gonna talk about steam and steam released their new client today to everyone It's been in beta for quite some time Which has a kind of an overhauled look of the client and namely with the social features a lot of people have been noticing some of The changes with chat and the changes with the friends list because they're completely different than what you're probably used to I know the first thing I know this one I got the I got the beta client because I've been using it for a little bit Because I want to ease into it and kind of get used to this whole thing the first thing I know this was that the the the the friends list tries to auto group your friends by by game and by activity and that kind of stuff So it's like some smart filtering going on but they made the widgets and they made the you know A lot of the controls bigger than before so even if you can press the friends list is not going to be as small As it was before so I immediately start to miss pressure the skin I use for steam all the time You know which made that a lot better looking than it normally would the other thing you're gonna know This is a chat the chat is very very Slack slash discord slash, you know modern Chat clients uh gotta admit steams chat was getting a little dated So I'm kind of glad that they're actually looking at modernizing a lot of their stuff for some some smart in beds and a lot more 2018 type of things I guess you can call them But this has changed obviously a lot of people are not gonna like it at first There's a lot of things I don't like at first myself But admit it this is from from the article from rock paper shotgun, and this is what valve explained You know why they did it. It says the new chat broadly makes themes chat less clunky in 2003 ish. Oh gosh. This is a old piece of software and I absolutely agree Kind of what I was just saying it's like it brings it into 2018 and Modernize it a little bit. You know the reason why people Point to discord and point to slack is because they are the forerunners in modern chat clients, you know They're like IRC 2018 and I'm fighting allergies again. You can probably hear it in my voice I don't want to cough or sneeze all over the all over the mic but they're they're the representative clients for for modern chat and You know it's nice to see steam updating hopefully they'll refine it Hopefully the skin makers out there will update their skins to You know to meet this new client. Hopefully still supported I didn't even look into that because you know having the option of having steamed skins is really nice a lot of people out There don't even know that steam support skins, which is kind of you know kind of cool But kind of worrying at the same time because every time I show my steam client like by accident or on purpose on My live stream But how did you make your steam look like that people like going crazy? How'd you do that? That looks amazing like skins? Like what I didn't know Steve had skin And sure and be low and behold I have introduced him to the powerful land Of steam skins, but check the story out I got a link over at rock paper shotgun. They got the details the steams client new client new chat update new Friends list update new social feature stuff has rolled out excuse me to everybody as Of today you'll see you'll get a pretty big steam update if you weren't in the beta You're not going to be using this new client check it out guys if our next story we're going to talk about valve and Steam again. This has to do with bands a record has been broken and in the form of bands 60,000 steam accounts were banned by a VAC or valve anti-cheat on Tuesday July 17th Making it the largest vac wave in the platforms history. This article comes by way of PC games and calm Wow, my goodness This is crazy says but it was on Wednesday morning that The band hammer really started swinging with twenty eight thousand four hundred and eleven accounts being banned throughout the day Nuts looks like the way the wave of bands have to start to slow down But I don't think you know they're talking about that the VAC system watches over a number of games you include including Counter-Strike global offensive Dota 2 the call of duty series and arc survival evolved and Man, I think a majority of these of these bands probably came by way of Counter-Strike global offensive We live in a day and age where cheating is just becoming more and more Rapid and companies are you know valve not valve but Blizzard Has sued some companies in the past and There's just companies out there that are making money off of selling these sheets to people online Well, and there's a lot of you and including my I'll include myself in this because I'm guilty sometimes Why just assume that it's a kid? I'll assume that it's a you know a teenager I should say not a kid because I call people in 20s kids these days. That's how old I am you're just a kid You're 20 what? You're a kid. You're just a young buck. But anyway um It's becoming more rampant cheating is becoming more rampant and It's still generally Socially unacceptable in gaming, but it's becoming so commonplace that people aren't necessarily shocked anymore. It's just like so excuse me So-and-so playing overwatch some big pro or some big pro playing Counter-Strike was caught cheating or some Korean player was caught cheating and people like oh Well that explains that and then they move on with that for their days no longer a shocker like oh, no They were cheating. How could they you know, it's it's becoming more commonplace And as you know a nominimity not an anonymity and then Anonymity anonymity anonymity anonymity Manamana do-do-do-do-do as a nominimity is becoming more and more commonplace kids are More likely to do these things Some kids even take the parents credit card some kids even have their own money to use it with and as Bitcoin is becoming more popular I think a lot of kids and adults are Be are able to generate their own currency and their own money to pay for these cheats to the finance their How do you say winning Because if you look at the life of a cheater, it's kind of hard to understand the justification. Why would you cheat? You want to win so bad excuse me you want to win so bad that you just absolutely have to break the rules It's not about getting good. It's about winning. It's not about fun. It's about winning winning winning. So You gotta wonder how much how much of these people's lives is spent Applying to win at any cost. I don't know man, and you know, there are some people out there that defend it Especially people who just generally exploit and do stuff in like PvE games and You know run programs to gain an advantage and The justification is it's not affecting me Therefore, I'm not gonna say anything Which is an overarching kind of a Attitude that's plaguing the internet these days. It doesn't affect me I'm not gonna say anything as long as it's not affecting me. I'm fine Yeah That's where things start to go wrong people. So check this story out guys PC games in has the the story has been all over the web valve banning over 60,000 guys over 60,000 steam accounts and the previous record just got demolished And for our next story, we're gonna talk about no man sky no man sky. Oh man sky No man sky had a major update called no man sky next this has been like teased for weeks now and The headliner is that you know, it's gonna finally add true multiplayer to the game Which was a big topic of controversy at launch because you know, Sean Murray, you know talked about multiplayer being in a game has been a very very light part of it and How you will probably never see anybody to even play multiplayer with so It Shocked everybody that the game didn't have multiplayer when it came out Nick you shown of lying and there was this whole thing about negative blah blah blah. So you remember though, right? Um I'm not gonna dwell on that too much Not gonna talk about that that whole Controversal topic. I want to focus on this update and then we'll come back To possibly that topic. I'll see how it goes No man sky next. This is update 1.5 headliner updates adds co-op multiplayer From their site at no man sky.com slash next update team up with a small group of friends and explore the universe together Or be joined by random travelers Help friends stay alive or pray on others to survive Fight as a pirate or wingman in epic space battles with friends and enemies. Okay, so that's kind of like the The marketing paragraph or a few sentences there Um, they've also updated the base building which was added a couple years ago after launching Uh group up to build communal bases farms and racetracks and share your creations with all players online Explore the galaxy at your own pace And or progress together at the very start of the game and all the way through the story Now one of the big changes with this update is that you'll be able to build more than one base You'll be able to build more than one base now, which is kind of a big deal because When the base building was introduced you were limited to one base which kind of Put a thorn in the whole future. It wasn't as good as it could be Big deal is that soon after the release of no man sky next a few weeks after they're going to start The first season of weekly content and community events to kind of give you something to do And they're going to have rewards and customizations as a result. It's going to be free to all players Just what the game needs, honestly It needs a reason to keep bringing you back because there's a ton of content This is a big update, but people are going to churn through it. They're going to eat through it. I mean gamers are hungry For content, they'll go through this stuff now. I'm numb numb numb. They'll go through it and just destroy it So fresh customizations fresh events to keep you coming back is going to be a big deal Also, they're going to integrate with the mixer because uh as of this release I didn't say it but the game will now be on xbox one And if you don't know mixer.com is an alternative streaming site that's out there uh in competition with twitch And it has some really really tight integrations with xbox one since mixer is owned by Microsoft, but they don't turn away ps4 or pc streamers or anybody like that so they're going to be Uh adding some features to mixer to allow you to either help or hinder the streamer Because you guys like beating us up, don't you? So as a result of this thing, they're launching a galactic galactic atlas website To track all these events and community stuff that's going to be coming out soon A lot of more base building components have been added. So base is going to be a lot more Lot more I guess you can call them varied uh third person view third person view with both uh The soldier view or the man or the on foot as you call it or and on ship so you can fly first person view Character customization has been added you can you can play as the anomaly the gek the viking the corvax the traveler And they've got several different heads torso and armor options and colors That you can just change for free just by going to a space station Fraders have been updated you can assemble and upgrade a fleet of frigates Each specialized to excel in combat exploration trade industry or support and they look really cool um You can command your frigors frigates from the bridge of your uh freighter To complete the real-time fleet missions calling fleet insistence space balance blah blah blah and stuff like that Crafting resources they have really really overhauled and revamped Just the balance of all the recipes and and the resources So if you played this game in the past and you come back to it now Everything is going to be different For example, if you remember you had to use plutonium to power your launcher to basically refuel your launcher so you can take off Well, that's been replaced With a launcher battery thing it's like you have to build it with uh With uh, what is it ferrite with a metal plate and with this this hydrogen based component now They've got some re uh some What they call them deployables where you can build these Machines and you can pick them up and take them with you Deployable tech and it can be carried in your inventory. So they're buildables and you can refine stuff You can build blueprints. You can you know all kinds of cool stuff The planets and the textures have been greatly overhauled No, I haven't got to any opinion stuff. I'm just talking about what's in the update Big time update to the textures and the the planet generation and the animals are now Uh, they roam in you know herds Instead of just having one here and one there you'll see big herds of animals run by it's really really really different Analysis visor enhancement the visor which you use to scan stuff has been completely overhauled Not only does it allow you to scan the animals and get their information You can also scan plants and fauna and rocks. You can also find points of interest On the map. So you can find like things like buried Buried technology you can find a crash pods. You can find like mineral deposits All kinds of stuff just by using The browser a lot has been added to missions graphical enhancements. I talked about that Um, which is really really nice And more the ui has been overhauled I'm scrolling down as fast as I can the space stations have been changed Uh Audio has been different has been added and updated There's so much. So if you go to no man sky.com slash next update, you'll see like these high level These high level uh sections of all the things I talked about but at the bottom there's like detailed patch notes So what do I think? I streamed this game for about eight hours yesterday Probably like nine hours and I would have kept going if my internet didn't go out. Um Uh, uh, I streamed from four o'clock to like one a.m. And at one a.m My internet went out and I had no idea that the time it passed that fast So that kind of gives you a clue how how I feel about the game I titled my stream. Is it worth 30 dollars because I think that was a good Not only a clickbaity title But it's actually what people are coming to streams to find out. Is this game worth it? Common questions were is this game fun now? Uh, did they fix it? Is it worth the money and I say 30 dollars because the game is 50% off Most everywhere it's on sale big sale with this update. So the normal price is definitely 60 dollars So I don't want I don't want the people to try to correct me there But it is now 30 dollars as of as of this recording and it's going to run through july 27th for most outlets So what do I think? It feels like a brand new game There's some things that feel the same but most things feel new And that's good because they're all positive changes Um, all those things that I talked about are in the game. There is no lying There's no deception All those things are in there and they work as design for the most part. There are bugs. Definitely bugs Uh, most of the the negative stuff I've seen so far Uh, well, I didn't talk about performance. Performance is vastly improved. That was one of my things against the game at launch performance has improved One of the negative things I I found about no man's guy next was the Not only the performance of co-op but bugs in co-op and just just just wishy-washy stuff and Haven't been in the software development field for a while I kind of expect that this is a major new feature that has a lot of moving parts And if you've ever developed multiplayer games, you know how many how much stuff you have to do um Just synchronization issues, whether it be internet, whether it be state um When you know someone crashes, how do you handle that situation? How can I handle that situation? For instance this morning I saw on the stream today um Where one player they were they were on another player's freighter And the player's freighter the player who owned the freighter crashed And the other player in a group basically just fell through the ship and died Now that's not very common. I don't think but it's happened to more than one person Also, there are some issues or some some problems. I should say With uh game saves. I think people were reporting some issues with steam cloud And how saves are being handled through steam cloud And how it's not working as design in most cases some people are getting rolled back some And some people are you know, I haven't confirmed this but people are claiming That they lost a lot of time if not their entire save So I heard that and I decided to turn off Steam cloud for now because I haven't confirmed that but just the idea of that being a possibility Kind of makes me worry a little bit and turning off steam cloud is not that big of a deal It's only if you play on multiple machines or you're going to be probably deleting games quite a bit So I just have to remind myself That uh before I If I do decide to delete no man's sky to make room on my ssd, which is probably going to happen at some point Um, I need to turn steam cloud back on so I can synchronize that before I do so But overall guys the game just got you know, it was like over 100k viewers on twitch Probably going to a lot of viewership on youtube as well Twitter's a buzzing about it. It was on the you know, it was on my twitter moments. It was trending no man's sky a very very powerful and um Revigorating update Some people or fans I should say are calling it the game comeback The biggest game comeback of the ever they're not saying up to you. They're saying ever I don't agree with that. It is a bit comeback The steam reviews have gone from overall mostly negative to mixed Which is kind of a huge deal given the amount of negative reviews the game received uh During or at launch Because there was a lot of issues Both with content and with performance and it's the building But this is this is I mean the game has had great updates since launch and a lot of people don't talk about that Because they don't really know about it people don't follow the game that much This is the first update where it was massively promoted by both you know, hello games And the media it was really hyped because of so much stuff that was put inside of it Uh, and the multiplayer headline really caught people's eyes. They're like, oh, they're adding multiplayer That's the only thing I wanted which I don't understand personally, but that's what people were saying um So no man's sky next I really like it. I'm addicted to it today, I've been trying to I worked on a video that uh It's called the adventures of the gravaton balls gravaton balls are very Rare and and valuable item in the game and when you take them You immediately get a grade three security bounty on your head So I put up a like a 20 minute ish video The original counter was about 45 minutes of me taking these gravaton balls or They're called gravaton I've been called them gravity gravity ton gravaton. I've been calling them all kinds of stuff Uh, gravatino, they're called gravatino balls and the video is called the adventures of the gravatino balls And it tells a tale of how I could not resist the shine and luster of those gravatino balls and ended up running from the cops For almost an hour And it was Some some people were calling it one of the best moments on my stream. They've ever seen On my live stream There was lots of yelling. So if you do watch the video turn your volume down. There's lots of screaming lots of frantic statements and then there was like You'd have one minute of logical thinking with me. I'm like, man, I gotta get out of here These cops are gonna kill me. Then I see some more gravatino balls And then all that will be erased and I'll get some more and then start this whole thing up again It's like I wasn't thinking pretty hilarious Um, and I've been trying I put together that video I took the 45 minutes and I cut it down to like 20 minutes most of the morning And I was getting ready for this show and I'm just like all I can think about was no man's guy Like I actually want to stream now after I finish Uh, after I finish recording this podcast I actually want to go out and stream no man's guy because there's so much I want to do I want to get a base built. I want to build a farm Um, I want to get those upgrade ones. I want to get a freighter. I want to get trade going So much So the game's been injected with new life now Is everyone going to love this update? Is everyone going to you know going to Embrace the game like a majority of people have absolutely not There are people that absolutely hate Sean Murray like physically hate them hate him And vehemently call him a liar And that they'll never forgive such a liar and never Support such a liar for what he did This is extreme how people how far people are going And there's a you know, there's people that absolutely hate them And then there's people that just they just want the game to fail Every single bug is like amplified and they just want they're rooting for the game To fail just so they can say I told you so you shouldn't support this game How are you supporting this game? What is wrong with you? Um, and then there's some rational people out there some logical people that are legit asking Is the game actually worth it now because I I agree with a lot of assessments that the game Wasn't really worth 60 dollars at launch I think it was uh, it was an early access title um released on console As a full release and a pc as a full release early access And here we are two years later with the game actually being fleshed out and complete Just like your typical early access game So the blame game can go to sony the blame game can go to Sean Murray can go to hello games It was a small team and six to twelve people With all these weight on their shoulders But the the bottom line is today no man's sky next is out and it has all these features and it's very fun And very fulfilling to play If you own the game, I highly recommend you check it out Highly highly recommend you check out this update if you still feel the same way about the game So be it and and and just like I told the people on my live stream If you're on the fence now's the time to make a decision because the sale will not last that much longer Get the game for 50% off now because when it goes back to full price and you're probably going to be feeling to play it again It's going to be a harder decision. You're going to be paying twice as much Playing twice as much so get on it right now Also, it's on green man gaming.com. I think for 58 off. So it's a little bit cheaper on green man gaming So check the story out guys. I'll link it over to no man sky.com slash next update has all these features laid out and the patch notes at the bottom What a patch what an update is probably the biggest The biggest turnaround of the year I think of any game out there. I think they've really Inject their life into a game that people didn't even they forgot about Check it out guys If our final story, we're going to follow up with no man's sky and talk about gog.com's Version of no man's sky and it was kind of a surprise to me when I read this that no man's sky on the gog platform Did not have multiplayer at launch The drm drm free version which you know gog.com prized himself with Will not have multiplayer a majority of the multiplayer on pc that I know of right now is on on the backs of steam It uses the steam friend to connect the people I'm not sure what technology they use to find random people But this whole thing has been gutted On the gog version all the multiplayer all the co-op stuff It's just not there and the game is sold for the same price you know And from what I saw On their page. I I didn't I didn't see it anywhere You know announced pre-announced, but people just didn't know There was nowhere that said that that was gone until after the fact Um, then there's a forum post i'm gonna link you to which talks about this and that the statement that they have Is that the multiplayer element of next is not yet included in the drm free version of the game um It says from launch the drm free version of no man's sky will include all single player content Included by next third person mode upgraded visuals blah blah blah However, the multiplayer component will not be ready at launch. We expect it to be released later this year As full multiplayer parody remains in the pipeline For a small independent studio Developing the feature across multiple platforms is a hugely ambitious and technical challenge which resulted in this delayed release Hello games is however joining forces with gog.com.com to introduce full multiplayer via the gog galaxy platform We appreciate your immense support and patience. Hello games and gog.com team So I read that and I go Well, why did you release it at all? Because that's the that's the the giant question in my head if the game is not complete Which it isn't it's been gutted a major thing the top headlining feature of the game by the way It's been gutted and you released it anyway same price Why even release it just delay it on gog? Until you get multiplayer in don't even bother releasing a half It boggles the mind a half Built version of the game You're releasing and you you're only going to patch that version later on. I've never heard of anything such So so so crazy and you gotta wonder who's pushing this. I mean Is it hello games or is it gog or is it both? It seems like they're really trying to get money. It seems financially motivated That's the only reason I can think of is I think it's financially motivated to release a gutted version of the game for full price Well, I say full price. I mean the you know the going price. I believe it was 50 off on the gog.com as well As it is on steam and ps4 and xbox one So if you buy it on gog expecting a drm free version of game sure you got that but you also gotta have the game The bit like I said, this is the headlining feature of this patch multiplayer and it's gone I don't really get it The good news is that gog.com is Offering refunds. I think for up to a year. They're gonna extend it up to a year So you can't get a refund if you did buy there, which is good But they're gonna circle back to the question why release it anyway It makes me suspicious of both of these companies now gog.com and hello games. What were you thinking to do this? Check it out guys over on the gog forum page Where the post is they talk about this check it out for yourself. Let me know what you're thinking the comments because I don't know. Like I said, I'm suspicious I mean for all the praise that I gave next and the update and what they did with the developers and stuff The gog thing is like making me go what? Huh? It's like I was just praising you and then you turn around and do this Check it out guys. The story is over there and that concludes episode 127 of game chat with boon. I wouldn't think you're all for coming by Please please feel free to follow the stream on my my my live stream at twitch.tv slash boona Also youtube.com slash boona That's where I post videos this video every wednesday or thursday depending on how late it goes And uh, also you can follow me on instagram instagram.com slash boona as well We're also on spotify itunes and google play I hope you enjoyed the show. I'm going to be playing some no man sky right after I published this I'm hooked. I'm hooked. I gotta say it's got its hooks in me I don't know how long the hooks are going to stay in me, but right now it has gotten me That's all I can think about I want to play today So if you want to watch me play I may be streaming tonight twitch.tv slash boona or That's probably going to reach you a little late for that But uh, I stream daily now at 4 p.m. Until 4 p.m. Eastern So if you're on the east coast You'll be able to catch me when you get off work Central as well I'll stream for a minimum of four hours, but I usually go about eight hours And I think it's going to be a lot of fun I want to be playing no man sky some warframe a lot of games got updated I don't even want to play fortnite safe of world because that got updated they they updated the game to Not have as much screen shake which was giving me nausea Which is why I didn't play fortnite save of world now. I want to go back and play that too many games It's a good time to be a gamer Really good time to be game Please support the stream if you can at patreon patreon.com slash boona I'm going to be updating that page with this podcast because right now it's kind of focused on youtube But I am going to be updating patreon with this podcast So if you want to support the stream monetarily a dollar a month five dollars a month I think that's the highest I go is five dollars or something like that I want to open up that option to you guys patreon.com slash boona If you want to support the stream, this is my full-time thing. I do this podcast. I do the live stream I do youtube this is I don't go this is me going to work I eat sleep and breathe content for you all Everybody have a great day. I'll see you all next week game chat one episode 127. Bye. 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