August 2025 PCG Article Discussion

[Pifanjr]

Sean Murray says the Earth-sized planet in Light No Fire will have 'real oceans' that players will need 'large boats and crews' to cross

As part of a new No Man's Sky update, Light No Fire also got a mention.

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I'm curious how this will work. It seems that crossing the Atlantic ocean nowadays takes well over a week by ship. How do they expect players to make this trip as a group when you have no idea when people will be online? And how will they make this journey interesting?

Even if the game includes futuristic ships that somehow go at the speed of an airplane, it would still take like 8 hours of continuous sailing to cross.

 

[Zed Clampet]

Sean Murray says the Earth-sized planet in Light No Fire will have 'real oceans' that players will need 'large boats and crews' to cross

As part of a new No Man's Sky update, Light No Fire also got a mention.

www.pcgamer.com

I'm curious how this will work. It seems that crossing the Atlantic ocean nowadays takes well over a week by ship. How do they expect players to make this trip as a group when you have no idea when people will be online? And how will they make this journey interesting?

Even if the game includes futuristic ships that somehow go at the speed of an airplane, it would still take like 8 hours of continuous sailing to cross.

I wondered this too, and maybe they are going to be a lot smaller but more numerous.

 

[Zed Clampet]

As I strongly suspected, it appears there was (almost) nothing to the Windows update destroying SSDs:

After 4,500 hours of testing, SSD controller specialist Phison rules out allegations that a Windows 11 update is bricking drives

Correlation without causation, after all?

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One poster said, "Updated my Windows 11 yesterday. I had the same issue while updating. It restarted and no SSD was being seen after that. I thought I lost it completely. Tried checking the BIOS and found that it doesn't recognise the SSD anymore. But after sometime, when I restarted it came back miraculously."

If you go back through my posting history (God help you), you'll see that I've been having this problem for months, and it has nothing to do with your drive being destroyed. Windows just can't find it for some reason. It's very easily fixed so long as it isn't your system drive. Just run a devices troubleshooter.