That UI makes me think this is going to be yet another game where the Steam Controller is going to shine. First person and UI goodness on the pad + left analog for roll and pitch and gyro for yaw.
I sure hope so. I actually got the Steam Link and Steam Controller with NMS in mind- I’m really looking forward to the versatility of playing the game on my PC, but streaming it to my 70" 4K TV and playing the game from my couch.
So far I really only use the Controller to turn on the Link, I’m hoping to find a good game for it.
This right here is a shining example as to why Kessler and I loathed playing video games with you.
It was literally the worst. It was like that conversation we had about the 770 graphics card I bought.
Normal person: Oh cool man, glad you got an upgrade.
You: LOL WHY NOT GET THIS OR THAT, THEY BOTH PROVIDE PROVIDE A MINIMAL GAIN OF 8.4% OVER THE 770 IN EVERY BENCHMARK CATEGORY FOR $28.87 LESS USING AN AGGREGATE OF ONLINE SELLERS!
Nauseating. That’s the word I would use. We still laugh about you to this day.
I’ll take my warning or whatever. Worth it.
Man, some of the comments on the youtube vids are hilarious. Bunch of console gamers suddenly figuring out this is not in fact filled with cutscenes, does not runs on rails, does not feature a heart warming, direct to DVD caliber story of a man and his son/daughter/ward.
I know Sony pulled all the stops for this game, but the devs never said it was anything other than what it is. A prettier, more complex Terreria.
That’s a mighty big chip on your shoulder there my man.
This is getting too personal and harsh for me not to say something. Take whatever history you have out of this thread and either to the Pit or PM.
Weird. What a masochist Kessler must’ve been to want to play every game I played for like 5 years if he absolutely loathed it. As for you, who cares? No one even remembers who you are.
I don’t remember that conversation, but that doesn’t sound like me at all. A friend of mine just got a brand new 1070 like 3 days ago and my reaction was “oh, cool”
You sound like a teenage girl with the “It was Literally. The. Worst.” stuff, and talking about how you still laugh about me years later for bizarre reasons. If what I posted was OMG LITERALLY TOTALLY THE WORST and the sort of thing you’ll still laugh about years down the road, you must have an incredibly dull life.
The guy talked about deciding between the PC and PS4 versions like he was asking for advice and voicing concerns. Every time he’d say “well I know it’ll be better on PC, but couch! tv!” and so we addressed those concerns with “here’s how to play it on pc via your couch and TV”, and then he said “but… gamepad!” and we addressed concerned by saying that pretty much every game has the same gamepad support that the consoles do right out of the box. And then he said “well… uh yeah, but console anyway!” - what was the whole point of his whole monologue and voicing concerns if he was just going to ignore that his concerns were baseless all along and choose one option anyway? Just seemed silly.
Top notch moderating. A few months ago a new guy to the boards who was clearly toxic insulted me out of the blue (and was banned almost immediately) over post count, and when I turned his own logic around on him with a very mild response in the same vein, instant warning.
But here’s a guy, out of the blue, who I haven’t insulted at all, who comes attacking with very personal insults and then essentially acknowledges he’s going to get a warning for going way over the line, and no warning. Keep up the good work.
Yeah, I should’ve taken that last part to ATMB. My bad.
I don’t like my Steam Link too much, I find the input and stream delay to be too much :(. I have it on a wired connection, but I’ve had issues numerous times with me repeatedly failing at timing-sensitive challenges (like dodging some Dark Souls 3 bosses or consistently parrying in MGR:R) and instantly succeeding as soon as I move over to my monitor. Obviously I got some practice in while playing on the TV, but it’s happened that exact way so frequently it’s hard to attribute it to anything other than a combination of display and input lag. I don’t think I even have it on highest quality streaming.
It would probably be fine for NMS since it doesn’t look like it will require too many twitch skills, but some action games got really subtly obnoxious on it.
You can turn on the debug display on the link which will give you latency readings from network and display.
That is not minor, it sounds like they remade a significant portion of the game.
…I think its important to bear this in mind: getting a game certified means there is always a good chance of a big Day 1 patch being necessary.
Read that this morning. Interesting read on how things work for developers trying to get their game out.
The amount of sheer insanity on the Steam forums over a three day delay to the PC release is mind-boggling in its infantile whinning.
While I don’t endorse that at all, and people are super entitled, if you have a game where some of the appeal is to be the first to discover things before anyone else does, you should really make an effort to launch on all platforms at the same time.
it’s unlikely to actually matter, with an incomprehensibly large amount of planets it’s unlikely people will run into each other’s stuff, let alone in the first 3 days, but a part of the appeal to people is “be the first to discover stuff and name it!” in which case a 3 day delay would suck some of the fun out of it.
Edit: I’m assuming discoveries are shared cross-platform but I guess that may not be the case.
Yeah the whining is deafening.
At the same time I see that in this particular game it kinda might matter.
But meh, the main dev tweeted about it over the weekend saying he was int he office implementing 21:9 support for PC.
I’m happy with that. 
Well seeing as I have been mentioned.
I am still not sold on streaming over the network, from what I have read it is good but not perfect. Hell, someone in this thread has said himself he has issues. I don’t have a Steam Link and so would have to buy one. My Graphic Card is ageing (66ti) and so would possibly have to replace that. Suddenly it is all getting a bit more complex and expensive.
According to Steam the game has “Partial Gamepad Support”. I’m guessing that means the main controls are on a pad but you’ll have to go to the mouse and keyboard for certain things, but as of right now no one knows.
I would have written this, but you were acting like a child and so I decided to duck out of the thread instead.
Hopefully responding to some of your concerns won’t get me labeled a child
Your original post had “better performance on PC” as a plus, but although your 660ti is still a good GPU (@2.4 TFLOPS of performance you’re only 15% slower than the PS4) it is a slower GPU than the PS4. The rest of your pluses for the PS4 were all about playing on your TV vs on a monitor - and Beef’s reply to you was basiclaly, hey you can play on your TV on PC too.
Not sure why that upset you.
In terms of performance your CPU might be able to put you over the top, though I don’t know what you have. Partial controller support usually means that there’s a launcher involved (WHY GOD WHY?). But in a lot of cases that can also be navigable with a gamepad (you usually can just hit A).
If you already own a PS4 and considering a 660ti is a bit weaker than it, I would either go PS4, or maybe I would try the PC version on for size.
Remember, unlike Sony, Valve offers refunds for digital purchases, so long as it’s within 2 weeks of purchase, and you’ve played for under 2 hours.
As for streaming, your network will be the deciding factor. I’ve got a pretty darn good router, and my PC isn’t too far from my TV, so I typically end up with less than 20 millisecond latency and that feels good in most games when using a gamepad. Capping to 30 FPS can help in some as well (you’re essentially playing a console game at that point in terms of latency except with solid 30 FPS + better graphics - well assuming you’ve got the hardware for it, which you currently don’t).
Just remember to turn Game mode on your TV or whatever mode disables all picture manipulation by the TV, as that adds latency. The first time I tried steamlink I was about to return it, when I realized that I had motion interpolate turned on. It was like night and day.
It didn’t. I got fed up with people that just couldn’t deal with the fact that someone may prefer to sit in front of a large TV with surround sound to play. Even the “solution” (Steam Link) is not perfect, as someone in this very thread who owns one said, as well as costing even more money.
And then there were the “guarantees” about performance issues whilst ignoring problems that PC has had with games that have been on console first.
I just got bored of the conversation and went back to NeoGAF where people can discuss PS4 and PC in the same thread without it becoming a my platform is better than yours shit show.
I’m not sure what you were hoping for when asking which platform to play the game on, except people telling you why one platform might be better than the other to play the game on. 
Everyone’s setup and preferences are different, and we can only opine on what we know.
What I know is that my PC gaming experience trumps any console ones I’ve had. I give you the facts and my opinions and you decide if my experiences are likely to match yours or if they are the very opposite of what you like.
No need to take any sort of umbrage, IMHO.