I apologized, then transferred 20 Chromatic Metal into their inventory, then fled in shame. They respawned and (presumably) recovered their gear from their grave (which I couldn't see, so I guess you can't loot someone after you kill them). They had probably been playing No Man's Sky for under an hour. What's still worse is that I turned around and noticed they were in the midst of repairing their starter ship. It was basically no fun, and kind of felt gross, and much as I hate being a criminal when another player is watching me, it was somehow worse that they were facing in the other direction. I landed on a planet, ran over to someone, and shot them in the back of the head. So, I just summoned the willpower and did it. Preying on someone to survive surely, surely must involve cold-blooded murder. Not while they're standing there watching, at least. Clearly, I'm not made of the cold-hearted stuff that lets you just ruin someone's base. They greeted me and we chatted a while and I was just staring at the base thinking, 'Delete something! Do it! Be a horrible bastard.' Within a few minutes I was helping them gather carbon so they could actually build more. I was going to just start deleting stuff to see how they'd handle it.īut they were so nice. I landed at a player's base with intention of being an evil No Man's Sky griefer. Maybe if you had to at least shoot a wall repeatedly to destroy it, or bombard it with space rockets, but simply using the construction tools to erase another player's stuff-it's a bizarre design choice. Which is weird! I understand if you've crewed up with friends you would be free to delete things from their bases, but a stranger joining you and then destroying your work seems a little out there. Walls, floors, windows, stairs, pretty much everything they've built. It feels too extreme in some cases and not extreme enough in others.įor instance, you can join a random game, enter a stranger's star system, fly to their base, and just start deleting shit. The things No Man's Sky multiplayer lets you do to strangers, and the things it doesn't let you do, are both pretty weird. When I needed asteroid fuel after that, I resorted to simply ramming my ship into space rocks to break them. This is a known bug that will hopefully be fixed soon, but my advice in the meantime is to fuel up fully in singleplayer before becoming a pirate. If I had noticed, I probably wouldn't have switched to missiles, which blew up an asteroid but also killed me.

You'll notice (I didn't) that the first few shots with my laser not only blow up the asteroid but also damage my own shields.

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