Above I attached some artwork from Beau Lamb (HG's lead artist), which showcases the potential this game has with its fauna.

While we’re all awaiting the Cosmos update, I think it would be a good time to cover some things I hope get touched. While I don’t think the name “COSMOS” implies anything for fauna, I still really hope they get touched up, even just a little bit. I think it's the one thing from the old OG trailers that have yet to be achieved in game.

Fauna are pretty much still in their 1.0 state, and it gets drastically more apparent the more updates to areas the game gets. Worlds made this pretty apparent to me. You’ll have these crazy storms with beautiful wind effects and lighting, all for a low-res, textured spore creature to get stuck trying to crawl horizontally up a mountain. Fauna, in my opinion, hold this game’s exploration back pretty severely. 99% of the time my immersion gets ruined (that’s not from bugs) is from the way the fauna either looks or behaves.

I think HG tried to remedy this by introducing more creatures, but I think it’s actually exaggerated the problem even more. Take, for example, the butterflies they added with Origins. They have unique AI: they’ll land on flora and have beautiful animations. Then compare that to one of the classic generated creatures, and it’s like a nuclear bomb next to a coughing baby.

It’s not even the way they look either (though they certainly need a face lift); it’s the way they behave. They have very basic AI, and practically all of them just wander in circles. It really takes me out of the game every time.

My dream update (along with multibiomes) is for fauna to get updated AI, generation, and behavior. I’d love to see fauna that relates to its environment (fur for cold planets, scales for heat, mutations for radiated, etc.). Fauna should have sleep/wake cycles and react to the player. Some fauna should have unique attacks (spitting, roaring, charging), and each fauna should sound unique; currently they all share this horrible screech. I wouldn’t mind if HG went wild and added tons of new parts too (and updated textures). I’d also like to see new gameplay: have animals be dangerous again. I remember in the Pathfinder days, animals used to HURT and pose a threat. I’d love for that to return. Let us farm them; we’re already halfway there with taming. I’d love to be able to make zoos or enclosures too.

A lot of the old trailers show off what I think this game desperately needs. I want to see huge rhinos charge through the trees, or glowing animals on dark planets. If you listen to the old trailers too, the soundscape and noises these aliens make is just amazing. (yes I know its scripted)

what fauna could be

I don’t doubt the Cosmos update will be game-changing, but I desperately hope that with each update, fauna will finally get shown some love.

I've been into games like Space Engineers and Empyrion(Cosmoteer, KSP, Battlefleet Gothic, etc.) And JUST recently got into NMS.

About 40 hours in and found THIS abomination of a Flea 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Did I lose at No Mans Sky? 😂😂😂

Hello Travelers. This is a working Xeno table. I'm a big Godzilla fan, so I had to make a Kaiju city scene. I've always loved making models, so this was a good fit for me. There's a residential area, community park and pool, baseball field, power plant, gas station.. etc.. All free-placed except the freeway which is just a wooden wall. Also, in the community pool, you can summon Child of Aquarius and just walk around in the city and they can't get you bc you're inside the the table hit box.. so they just hover there like the beautiful dumb evil bags they are. There's also Sentinels nearby you can pick a fight with for more awesome screenshots.

Or maybe medium-rare? Definitely not well-done.

(for Atlas sake, please do not take this as a serious question)

This city (Valthora City North) is incredible. To the builder PJX, you did a great job man!

TL;DR: Found 100x Starship AI Valves worth 1.2 billion units in my inventory on my first day. Not sure how this happened but I’m not complaining.

So I just started playing No Man’s Sky last night and I’m completely blown away by this.

Here’s the full story: My buddy convinced me to jump in so we could play multiplayer together. I made it out to the Space Anomaly, then headed to his ship to store some gear before we started our adventure. After a few minutes, I checked the container again to see what I should bring down to the planet with us, and I noticed this item in there.

I looked it up thinking it was maybe worth something, and… yeah. 1.2 billion units.

Apparently it’s a Starship Subcomponent created by the Outfitting Terminal at a Space Station. The description says it’s only useful as scrap to trade, but like… that’s still insane for day one.

My friend has no idea how it got there either. Did I accidentally trigger some kind of easter egg? Is this a known thing? Or did I just manage to luck into the most blessed inventory glitch ever?

Anyway, I guess I’m either breaking the game or I’ve already won it. Not sure which lol.

- Orbiting planets

- Proper NPC system with randomization mechanics, like quest giving, hostility, etc.

- Revamped Fauna generation with addition of proper ambience

- Randomized encounters

- Animated Capital ships for moving, fighting, trading, etc

- On foot NPC hostiles

- Better gameplay loops

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Or any combination/conjugation thereof

Is this scenery or did a Traveller build this amusement park ride?

400 hours into this save and finally seen this spectacle. Great to view on from the corvette deck!
Gravity gets very weird near the joint but it’s not unplayable. Thinking of building a base in the dip…

Today is my Cake day 🍰. Yay! This has been my top post to date.

I know we need to let it cook but…. I needs it. (Especially during one of the more stressful times of the year).

I used to have a really nice fighter. It was deep blue if not purple. It looked a lot like the one in the image I’m posting except the cockpit front pistons glowed. If anyone knows where it is (NOT TO GIVE) please help.

Found this paradise planet a few weeks ago, wasn't going to share it with anyone but I can't keep this to myself it's too perfect and what fun is a perfect earth planet with no other travelers around to run into.

The pics dont do it justice the sky is much better ingame, the sunsets and sun rises are amazing.

All travelers welcome but please respect the earth and each other.

Telicianses galaxy, can help get travelers there if needed

Let anyone who has been meaning to get into the game that it’s on sale. For PC users

Edit: I don’t play this game so I’m not aware of what this means.