Depends what platform you’re on - I tested our last city on my old PS4 and it worked pretty well aside from some lighting issues, but other PS4 players have occasionally reported lag. For current-gen consoles and decent PCs, the usual experience is very smooth with seemingly-random, short-lived lag spikes every once in a while.
I don’t think anyone in the NMS community really cares if other people cheat. (I also wouldn’t even call what you did cheating tbh.)
But I do wish Hello Games hadn’t combined Normal / Survival / Creative all into one universe. I preferred playing with other people who were subject to the same constraints as me (even if the PC people could easily circumvent those constraints).
I would just play Permadeath but I’ve been on my Normal save since release night and couldn’t really stand to give it all up.
…Right, which is why the rest of that quote which you truncated for some reason was, “(except people who make it and wish other people would like it)”
It forecloses art as a career, thereby depriving future generations of evolution in style and professional craft.
I hate AI art too, but I don’t think it’s so bad as that. It’s terrible because it uses obscene energy and steals art. But that doesn’t mean anyone actually likes AI art (except people who make it and wish other people would like it).
If you tell me your “art” is AI, then I instantly lose interest (with very rare exceptions that generally use older types of AI, like MGMT’s “When You Die” music video"). Momentarily disregarding economic considerations, AI “art” is to real art as over-processed food is to whole-food, made-with-love meals. Will some people eat it, for whatever reason? Sure. But are Twinkies competing with fine dining? No. I’m interested in art for the relatable human element. If that’s emulated, then you can only hold my interest until that fact is revealed. AI artists can only be disinteresting or deceitful, there’s no third option.
Voltaic staffs and Sentinel multi-tools have the best damage stats. Atlantid doesn’t perform as well in terms of pure damage.
In practice though that doesn’t mean much… if you do competitive PVP, you will probably use the Blaze Javelin anyway, and that’ll kill an enemy in the same number of shots regardless of what type of multi-tool you use (as long as it’s S-Class). It’s like a 4? shot kill so, say you have a total of 4000 HP (I’m just making these numbers up to demonstrate the concept) - it doesn’t really matter if each shot does 1,100 or 1,300 points of damage, you’re still going to kill them in 4 shots. If you do PVE, you’ll be able to easily shred any Sentinels with a fully upgraded multi-tool regardless of what type.
That’s just my understanding though. I’m not a dataminer so I’m speaking more from experience than knowledge of the actual values or code.
I don’t know the specific stats for the Atlas Sceptre but generally Expedition rewards are relatively middle-of-the-road for their category, so I’d expect Atlas Sceptre to perform like an average Voltaic Staff.
If we are able to come out with a public version, yes. Unfortunately we have to limit access otherwise due to issues with unapproved base uploads - that was what ruined our last city and why it’s no longer available.