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.

 

[Zloth]

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

That's what I'm assuming, too. I'm expecting lots of interesting stuff under the waves, too, because otherwise it's going to be exceedingly dull to cross an ocean.

But what about the plains? Also, will the mountains be mountain sized, or will they be video game mountains that are short enough to run up to the top in less than ten minutes?

P.S. I'm also expecting teleportation to be around on Day 1. Probably teleportation that's as easy to access as base teleporters in NMS, not like the portal teleporters that were there at release of NMS.

 

[Zed Clampet]

That's what I'm assuming, too. I'm expecting lots of interesting stuff under the waves, too, because otherwise it's going to be exceedingly dull to cross an ocean.

But what about the plains? Also, will the mountains be mountain sized, or will they be video game mountains that are short enough to run up to the top in less than ten minutes?

P.S. I'm also expecting teleportation to be around on Day 1. Probably teleportation that's as easy to access as base teleporters in NMS, not like the portal teleporters that were there at release of NMS.

I came in later and after 200 hours didn't even knew how to use the portal teleporters, although I did start to get interested towards the end because there was a website that listed the coordinates of some unique ships you could find.

 

[Zed Clampet]

'There's no such thing as a laser-resistant weed' says company employing dozens of Nvidia GPUs to fry weeds with lasers from above

Imagine laser hair removal, except for fields.

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I don't care what anyone says, if I were driving a machine that was shooting up to 10000 lasers per minute, I'd be the coolest person on the planet...unless, of course, someone else was also doing that, in which case I'd be the 2nd coolest person on the planet, which is still pretty good....

You know that if some random company is doing this for weeds, then someone has to have beefed it up, turned it upside down, and used it to shoot down drones and missiles. You can charge the DOD a lot more than you can charge farmers.

 

[Pifanjr]

'There's no such thing as a laser-resistant weed' says company employing dozens of Nvidia GPUs to fry weeds with lasers from above

Imagine laser hair removal, except for fields.

www.pcgamer.com

I don't care what anyone says, if I were driving a machine that was shooting up to 10000 lasers per minute, I'd be the coolest person on the planet...unless, of course, someone else was also doing that, in which case I'd be the 2nd coolest person on the planet, which is still pretty good....

You know that if some random company is doing this for weeds, then someone has to have beefed it up, turned it upside down, and used it to shoot down drones and missiles. You can charge the DOD a lot more than you can charge farmers.

It's not 10,000 lasers a minute I think, but it is pretty cool:

High Energy Laser with Integrated Optical-dazzler and Surveillance - Wikipedia

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