It's hilarious. Any other scifi lore would have the big burly Vykeen as the bloodthirsty conquerors, but nah, it's the short little squeaky frog people!🤣🤣🤣🤣
I remember reading one guy commenting that he wanted to have the cute Geks as his settlement people. Because there's no way they're bad, right? He came back to say "Oh dear god, they're Nazis."
Just one correction: The new player absolutely does NOT need to know any of this to enjoy No Man's Sky. If you're into lore, you'll no doubt enjoy the unfolding of the story as you continue to play the game. If lore is of little interest to you, you'll still enjoy the richness, vastness and beauty of the game as you complete missions that carry you through the story regardless :)
Except lore is constantly pushed down your throat. I also hate how everything is given some vague lame denominator to sound more profound like (Entity MyCockAndBalls)
There is a difference between a correction and a disclaimer, traveler friend. All that is revealed here is 100% accurate and keeping with the NMS timeline, with no correction needed. However, your disclaimer stating it is not required to know the lore to play the game is ALSO true :)
The lore of No Man's Sky is genius. It's the story of a Simulated being discovering that they are in a simulation. NMS is after all a "Video Game" (a simulation). You play as the Traveller to uncover the truth about them being in this simulation (Video Game). At least that's one way to look at it.
Update on the "World of Glass" from the sentinel update: it's the server room that houses the simulation. They are glimpsing the real world, all metal racking encased in glass.
@@sloppynegan3663 I saw it on one of the first sentinel towers I disabled after completing the glass questline. I can't quote it exactly, but something along the lines of "I saw a world of Glass, but just a room, with glass formed in pillars, wrapped in thin metal, and see the crimson from within". Basically not stated directly, but describing a server room by someone who doesn't know what that is.
So let me get this straight: We are basically a representation of the Atlas' creator, each in our own save file? And some kind of AI that was designed to bugfix Atlas was planted in our characters as this "Telamin"? I remember seeing that name floating around in the latest sentinel update, and wondered what it meant. Am I right? Is our purpose to watch after the Atlas as it attempt to simulate universes, to keep it comfort until it dies? This game is one of the most emotional games I've played without any direct emotion being portrayed, which is why I love it. You have to know how to love, and have a strong heart to be able to feel the emotion behind its story. At first, I was intimidated by the Atlas, thinking it was an enemy. As the story went on, I began to feel compelled to listen to its story and serve under it like some sort of cult. Now, I see it as my own brother of sorts, something I deeply care for and would do anything for; not because I wish to serve it, but because I wish to protect it and keep it company. I've been meaning to look up a video like this for some time now, because while I love the intricacies of the lore, I can't be bothered to take note of every tiny little detail in dialog and piece it together, simply because there's just so many and I can't tell what's important lore to the history of the universe/game, or lore for just one-off characters that don't matter in the grand scheme. Honestly, I'm most interested in the lore about the Atlas. If anyone knows any more since the sentinels update, let me know.
Telamon is the security protocol, safety program, whatever, of the Atlas. I think Telamon also has a sort of control over the sentinels since the Sentinel flare from the Sentinel update mentions Telamon. And the boundary failure terminals scattered around exotic biome planets were made by Telamon and they made entries on them.
I want Sean to start counting down from 16 instead of posting emojis, either to signal the release of LNF or the remaining updates (literally the amount of time Atlas has left as a whole)
I find it incredible that HG took the shortcomings from the original release to create the lore for the game, such as each update meaning the Atlas is degrading more and more. At first, we could only contact Atlas, eventually when the semi-multiplayer was added and Travelers could perceive each others as glowing balls, we could contact Artemis which means Travelers are starting to comunicate, even if they can't actually be in the same place at the same time. Then, Next was released and we could perceive four travelrs at once and a lot more in the Anomaly, and that would only be expanded. The bigger, more beautiful and weird the world becomes, the more freedom the races get and the Travelers multiply, the broken the Atlas gets. I found it really interesting. they seem to have added some new lore to the Sentinel Pillars, something about the Sentinels knowing Nada and Polo left to an space Anomaly and they decided not to interfere and in the crashed freighters I found a dialogue telling that a freighter was checking on the anomaly themselves, trying to understand what was happening there when they noticed the Traveler race was multiplying exponentially. In a week they found that more than 5000 travelers entered and left the Anomaly, what they do there they don;t know. The lore is all scattered, but I really hope someone ends up dumping all the dialogues from all the interacteable parts of the game that will give you lore, so we can just sit and read. I love that the Sentinel Flare you get now calls you Telamon-not-Telamon, meaning the Sentinels themselves knows that Telamon is within your exosuit.
People criticize this kind of indirect lore building, but I've found that it's my favorite kind. Instead of a regular linear narrative, like most games, No Man's Sky, Ark Survival Evolved, 7 Days to Die, and other (mostly survival) games have a story that isn't readily accessible. Instead it is hidden, and you have to utilize exploration to find clues and piece the story together. It's so much more rewarding than a traditional narrative story, but it also isn't as easy to immerse yourself in due to the fact that there may be long stretches in between clues. The player doesn't really know where the story is going, or if it's even a complete story, until they've found all possible clues.
It’s a shame that Euclid (or whatever galaxy we get after resetting the simulation or reaching the galaxy core) is a digital Matrix, and a buggy one at that. It would be so much cooler if this was a real universe... we’d literally have a god machine from which everything depends! The message of the lore would give us more angst for sudden destruction. PS: Null is the closest thing to a villain in NMS, in my opinion. He turned himself into a machine to explore all planets for billions of years, only to appeal his ego... and then he committed mass genocide by resetting his iteration of the galaxy to keep appealing that very same pride, before he finally realized his “challenge” to the infinite was useless.
I feel like we are small cogs in something bigger. Like particles are for us. We literally mean the whole universe for the cells inside our bodies, which live and work to keep us going. They probably don't even have an idea of why they exist and what their existence allows us to be. I imagine we are the same when it comes to our existence in this universe :D i just hope we aren't cancer cells, because then we'll get treated the way we treat cancer.
Most games would’ve made the either the Vykeen or the Korvax the “conqueror race” due to their strength and intelligence respectively, but this one chose to make it the Gek, a tiny little frog people. I can respect the creativity there
Eh idk it's pretty accurate to real life. Slimy merchant types that conquer through the use of subversion and manipulation of money. Ironically both in real life, and in no mans sky they have large beaks/noses.
All the lore exists inside a simulation, which means none of it is actually real... it's just simulated. The real lore would exist outside of the simulation where we never get to see.
@Call of Gruty I wish the game would expand on this eventually, some day in the future, since the lore around and the current state of the Atlas is quite important to the simulated universe at large.
@Call of Gruty I always felt, if Hello Games was ever done with the game, this might be an endgame scenario for us players. We resemble the creators, we are the remnants of them. I figured we might find a way by studying black holes ingame to find a way to effectly shield against their influence, then somehow find a way outside the simulation by being uploaded into an android body or something and then save the Atlas with the knowledge we gathered. So we are the entity that emerges in the end. I know, it's probably how things were meant, but I kinda like the idea of an epic finale and the idea of how to save the Atlas. Afterwards we might return into an open ended simulation once more, maybe with a final gift from the Atlas, the gift of creating new worlds or terraforming dead ones to worlds of our personal liking. There might even be another ingame loop inside. Let the player visit all types of worlds and gather data and soil- and plant-samples and maybe even animals before. When the player has everything they want to have on their world, they might create it. Would be a cool final gift from the saved Atlas to have. But it's just wishful thinking on my part.
@Call of Gruty True, but I figured this just means, that the Atlas can't be removed and must stay in place. What I had in mind was only our character, who exists as a result of the brain-scan of one of the creators, might be able to be uploaded temporarily to some kind of service robot in order to implement safety precautions. Those might be some sort of gravitational shielding technology that protects the Atlas on-site and might allow it and the facility it is housed in a safe passage through the black hole. Given, black holes don't work in real life as they do ingame, but it is save to assume that they work differently in the world where the Atlas originated as well, based on the fact that the Atlas was to simulate it's own reality to great detail and basically turned black holes into wormholes. Either that or the Atlas' understanding of black holes is seriously flawed and it is doomed to find out first-hand what they actually are like, which would be incredibly sad.
@Call of Gruty it would be cool but it would take away the fun of having to find your perfect planet if you could just make one the way you want it to be.
@@crystllclr3743 wouldn't take the fun out of it if you had to collect samples imo, like say you wanted an earth like planet and wanted to create it, you'd still have to find a planet with green grass, a planet with an atmosphere with a blue sky, the type of creatures you'd want, etc, you'd just be finding them in parts and building it yourself instead of getting incredibly lucky and stumbling upon exactly what you want
They built into the lore the fact that it didn't have multi-player at release and as the atlas walls faded players/ traveller's could interact with each other that's so genius
Either the lore has evolved or there's a bit I noticed that others seem to neglect. The boundary failures seem to tell the story that the primitive first spawn would remove the weak from their spawning pools and the Aeron took offense to this and over adjusted by wiping out an entire planet of gek. This was one of the first signs that the atlas was dying.
"Magical enchantments" "witchcraft" "demonic practices" ummmm, wtf!? Could you please explain? Or make a video about this? It's super interesting and I want to know how it works, do they use some kind of "source code of the universe" or something?
I found the whole "witchcraft" and "demonic practices" quite off-putting and out of place. But I choose to believe that it was Gek propaganda to scare their enemies. If you read the Gek plaques, they are nothing more than propaganda to inspire fear in others.
thanks for mentioning that. I found it quite out-of-place. I appreciated NMS exactly for the fact it was pretty much sci-fi with no supernatural content. (been a while since i played, but thats how I remember it)
I remember recently seeing a text from the computer archives found in bases that basically said that "16" were the 16 seconds before the disaster kills the universe or the computer (i don't remember, its been a while). (And i don't know if the computer was simulating this scenario or it actually was happening.)
@@seanowens3153 You know, it comes to mind. The atlas is effectively a supercomputer capable of simulating infinite entire universes at unknown speeds. It's specifically designed to simulate space travel in it's entirety, including colonization of planets, wars between systems, etc etc, which eventually gets humans(?) off of their planet and into space to somewhere else for good. But in the game, a black hole doesn't kill you, it sends you to a new location. The Atlas didn't mess that part up, it calculated "that's what happens if you do X action in space (enter black hole)", that's it's whole job. So it's possible that when black hole in the real world consumes the planet and it, it'll send the atlas somewhere else instead of destroying it.
This game respects the player like few others. Want the story? You'll have to work towards learning and understanding it. Don't want that? Cool, you'll barely engage with it. No harm no foul.
Great explanation but I'm having a hard time following everything I need pictures of the different races and stuff as someone who hasn't played a lot yet
Just going to say the way I gather the "Atlas" it was created to basically keep the "memory" of the universe... Now you can think of it like this... there once were many other races... creatures and beings... and if you note things like Artimis and Null... they are not like Gek, VyKeen or the Korvac... they are the last bits of what was... which would include... Humans... and many other races. So think on that... something... FAR more intelligent than we... as we obviously fell victim like many of the other races... to the war between the Gek, Korvac and Vykeen... my one thought is that this intelligence found it no longer had a need for bodies... built the sentinals to defend itself... and pooled all it's vast knowledge into the Atlas... and after all was destroyed... it then created this unending world simulation to remember at first as it was lonely ... but then slowly gathering up energy it has found (as we are all energy)... it picks up memories of other beings... ie us... and integrates it into the simulation... which eventually becomes corrupt and on repeat... but it tries to build something to repair itself... to repair the simulation... to build the perfect new universe... with itself as the center as GOD... where all live in harmony. But it can't seem to simulate harmony... as most beings have "flaws"... they hate... they lie... they steal... they murder... etc... but it continues to struggle to try to make an iteration that is perfection... it has continued to relive and retell the ending of the universe... trying to discover what went wrong... and prevent it from occurring in some iteration which will allow all to be restored and rebuilt in its idea of perfection... and harmony. Just how I see it. That's not to say I'm right by any means... but it is how my "in-game" character views what is happening... as he himself tries to figure out his purpose in this universe he can't escape... he has come to the haunting realization that he himself is no longer a true living being... and is now forever trapped in the suit inwhich he finds himself... forever cursed to be bound in it... unable to see his true form... he knows yet what he is... he is drow. He remembers a past... that is completely different from this simulation he finds himself trapped in... so he explores... seeking answers to the riddle of how he got here... how to escape, how to get out of the infernal suit he is trapped in... and if any of the "reality" he remembers of his past even exists anymore... or if it too was nothing but simulation.
@@naethanks Dunno... just something I seem to have picked up... and now I can't seem to stop it. Or at least not without some serious concentration. ADD/ADHD issue... OCD not sure. But I suppose it's how my brain functions ... never done with a thought... or always thinking and adding and thinking... and yeah.
This game has insanely confusing dialogue and now that I know the lore I see why. Even with an explanation of all the above one can’t help but think perhaps a story that tries to be a little less Meta may have worked better
I think the lore for this game would be much more interesting if it wasn't based inside of a simulation created by the Atlas. Instead the Atlas is merely a God like machine of Lovecraftian proportions. Atlas could instead be running from something and that 'thing' is supposed to arrive in 16 million years
Regardless of any and all of the issue's of the past, present and future. They continue regardless of how many reset's there has been, or will be. Because nothing is aware of the previous after a reset. Nothing would ever change.
Quick question, but where are you getting the information on demon worship and witchcraft? I know from the wrecks it is implied that First Spawn religion was pretty dark, but I couldn't find anything about it at the monoliths I visited, the wiki, or the art book. And where are you getting this extra information about Hirk and the First Spawn? I would like to read these sources.
So nothing we see in-game really matters, not even the living ships, nor the creatures or what the NPCs may tell you because it's a simulation, the REAL lore and stuff happening is outside the Atlas, so... Yeah... It would be cool if you leave the simulation by reaching the galaxy core and get to experience the "real" stuff but no, feels like that screenshot from spongebob where Squidward is watching Bob and Patrick having fun through the window
My Personal Take Is That, The _"Real"_ Stuff Is, Well.. The Player, Simulating The Universe On Their Device, Running The Procedural Algorithms, The ATLAS Itself.
I would like a xenomorph type species that you have to be on the watch for and can spread planet to planet and can also infect the different sized life forms on each world
So, what about the end of the game? Was that like the end of the multiverse? ‘Cuz it says ‘the Atlas is dying’ but we’re able to choose another galaxy to live in - can someone explain? Edit: I realise what’s happening now, I think, but I’d still appreciate if someone could explain it a bit more
Basically, the atlas is dying, but the time in the simulation compared to the time in the real world where the Atlas is located progresses very differently. So why the Atlas has only a few minutes left, we have all the time in the World.
@@deadlock556 The Atlas is powerful enough to simulate 100s of realities and universes of the same time, and its creators made the Atlas for some unknown reason to learn from the outcomes, but because of the coming death of the Atlas the boundaries start tp fall and things get mixed up, that's the "multiverse".
@@MangoMayhem1785 thanks a lot, very appreciated. Correct me if I’m wrong, but the choosing a new galaxy thing was because that was the only way the Atlas knew to cry out for help, right?
Nice story, but full of holes. For one the Vikeen never defeated the Geck and the war did not change the Geck. The Atlas did. Infact the Atlas is the creater of everything and everybody and it was the Atlas that rewired the Geck in a flash. But it also changed Vikeen from bloodthirsty warriors to commadating others. I have followed every storyline 4 times so far and have the gold trofies to show it.
Yes, and it is heavily implied that the Atlas (on the outside) is dying, having just 16 more minutes to run, which translates to an unknown timespan inside the simulation. Quite a cosmic horror story.
@@eloisdejesuse780 It is, especially since that was basically the end of the storyline, with your character having to say goodbye to their friends on board the anomaly and then, having to enjoy the remaining time (however little that may be inside the simulation) by peacefully exploring the galaxy. It was quite frustrating that the story just simply ended there. With the recent Sentinels update we got a few more lore bits and a hint, that there might be powers at work somewhere, that seem to have a plan on how to escape the inevitable end of all things inside the simulation. But what this plan is, is still a mystery. But it sparks hope that the story isn't over yet and that it might be continued in the not so distant future.
Also pretty sure the main mission is glitched for me and i can’t even proceed past “ghost in the machine” But it ok i don’t need to play the main mission to have fun but i still wish i knew what was going on
sad in a way that all the way though this game the atlas will die in 16 minutes before a black hole ends it.. tho its a beautiful universe and realistic to its real universe wich makes the simulation more appealing then a real universe because this isnt any faker and is very realistic looking at the universe besides it being a replica..yet that doesnt stop the idea that even if we travellers feel it as years the universe is in reality gonna be destroyed in 16 minutes and in reality all the beauty and yourney we had is a glimpse in the universe time..already is even if its years..years are nothing compared to the length of time the universe will exist but im fine with that bc atleast its "compared to the time universe exists" not " meaningless compared to the time a lifeform exists" as we mean less then we are supposed to mean..not that i care about purpose but the time a human is given feels like not meaningless bc of wjat it should be..and 16 minutes as a huma myself feels more meaningless... its not bc the universe is big but bc 16 min is small...
You don't need to know anything about NMS lore. Lore is something to explore while playing. This helps to hide endless repetition. If you know the lore beforehead, you probably get bored faster.
Everything is anything that ever existed and is nothing and you can either live or die. But don't you feel bad that you are deleting your friend's memories? Also ya haven't seen everything nor have ya realized, you can't just cheat life or death without sacrifice. The universe just is and you have control over its fate.
The number 16 most likely the time we was supposed to have left but there agien the atles seem to like to play truths or lie but I did find a story about it it was reset 16 times before it did something to it creators
Awesome dude! I knew Zero of that😅 But one question, whats the matter with the "Alien Eggs", why are they everywhere and what are those creatures? Feel free to answere if you know it / have an idea🧐
Good video but boy is NMS's Lore a mess... I really wish they had integrated a good solid story with some races and characters into the game. Not such a Lorehole-riddled, pseudo-cryptic mess. I mean: yes, a good story in a fully procedural universe might not be easy, but there could definitely have been a lot more. Still, NMS is a really good game. The only thing I find funny about the lore is, that it basically describes reality. We play a game. In a digital world generated by a code/seed. Everything we see and do serves the creator and in some sort the digital world itself. Everyone has their own iteration - our Savefile, but we as Humans are not REALLY in the world, just our Avatars, so we are not part of the simulation. The Altlas is the seed of the world, that creates all procedural. The creators of the seed are the developers, who brought it into the game. You can see so many parallels.
This game has now delivered on all its promises, but there's one thing no one talks about that will never make this game what it could have been for me. This thing was there from the beginning and I didn't like it even then and it ruined the whole thing for me. This thing is the storyline. Why the fuck did you have to point out that the whole game, with all the worlds, everything, is a simulation? I can't get into it, it's all kind of pointless. I had the same problem with the Assassin series, somehow it kills the game for me. Are there others like me with this thing?
Love that gameplay couldn’t care much about the campaign, absolutely terrible, felt like I was playing Pokémon on a 2006 Nintendo DS, there’s no voice acting, it just kills the immersion, they definitely need to hire voice actors and work on cut scenes. Perhaps what we read will someday be what I’d like it to be. I play this game for gameplay, not much for the crappy campaign design,
Cause in the iteration you play in they were wiped out. EIther by the Gek first spawn, Vykeen, or Sentinals. But they exist in other iterations. Which is why they usually have the world Iteration infront of their name (Or the name of their iteration universe idk).
Although you probably don't mind the views, I've already listened to this video 3 times and I still have no clue... Maybe it's your tone, I just don't know. Here goes the 4th attempt.
The Vykeen are based on the Vikings, and the Gek are based on Goblins, like in Harry Potter where they are in charge of banking, finances and trade, but I don't know what the Korvax are based on.
What is going on here? You went from 17 views on a video to 100,000 views and then nothing? Video editing was good. You’re easy to listen too. So what’s up? Don’t want to be a UA-camr or just like squandering opportunities? 😅
AYO WTF FLYING FCK !? Man that’s soooo trippy. I got ADHD and I’m extremely impatient. I don’t want to read dialogue, I want to interact with it. Do a subnautica and hire voice actors. This game would ABSOLUTELY explode if they did, that and if you could share and alter blueprints for bases.
It's hilarious. Any other scifi lore would have the big burly Vykeen as the bloodthirsty conquerors, but nah, it's the short little squeaky frog people!🤣🤣🤣🤣
Somewhat reminds me of the Grox from Spore
Lmfaoooo and here I was thinking they were the sweet innocent ones 💀
the ones that look like toucan Sam
I remember reading one guy commenting that he wanted to have the cute Geks as his settlement people. Because there's no way they're bad, right? He came back to say "Oh dear god, they're Nazis."
It seems, Little Man Syndrome is not only a human trait.
Just one correction: The new player absolutely does NOT need to know any of this to enjoy No Man's Sky. If you're into lore, you'll no doubt enjoy the unfolding of the story as you continue to play the game. If lore is of little interest to you, you'll still enjoy the richness, vastness and beauty of the game as you complete missions that carry you through the story regardless :)
I'm not a fan of looking for lore, So I just search it up on my free time.
Except lore is constantly pushed down your throat. I also hate how everything is given some vague lame denominator to sound more profound like (Entity MyCockAndBalls)
I was just so curious about the sentinel’s and here I am
Me when I was six months into the game: wait.. this game has a story??
There is a difference between a correction and a disclaimer, traveler friend. All that is revealed here is 100% accurate and keeping with the NMS timeline, with no correction needed. However, your disclaimer stating it is not required to know the lore to play the game is ALSO true :)
It's funny how the lack of content of this game, specially the multiplayer, became part of the lore in the game Hello Games really did an amazing job
I think its also cool that the boundary failure explains why you can party up with at least a few other travelers
The lore of No Man's Sky is genius. It's the story of a Simulated being discovering that they are in a simulation. NMS is after all a "Video Game" (a simulation). You play as the Traveller to uncover the truth about them being in this simulation (Video Game). At least that's one way to look at it.
Update on the "World of Glass" from the sentinel update: it's the server room that houses the simulation. They are glimpsing the real world, all metal racking encased in glass.
Interesting, where do you learn about this?
Oh really? I thought it was a literal world of glass, like a planet filled with big shards and pillars of glass littering the surface.
@@sloppynegan3663 I saw it on one of the first sentinel towers I disabled after completing the glass questline. I can't quote it exactly, but something along the lines of "I saw a world of Glass, but just a room, with glass formed in pillars, wrapped in thin metal, and see the crimson from within". Basically not stated directly, but describing a server room by someone who doesn't know what that is.
So let me get this straight: We are basically a representation of the Atlas' creator, each in our own save file? And some kind of AI that was designed to bugfix Atlas was planted in our characters as this "Telamin"? I remember seeing that name floating around in the latest sentinel update, and wondered what it meant. Am I right? Is our purpose to watch after the Atlas as it attempt to simulate universes, to keep it comfort until it dies?
This game is one of the most emotional games I've played without any direct emotion being portrayed, which is why I love it. You have to know how to love, and have a strong heart to be able to feel the emotion behind its story. At first, I was intimidated by the Atlas, thinking it was an enemy. As the story went on, I began to feel compelled to listen to its story and serve under it like some sort of cult. Now, I see it as my own brother of sorts, something I deeply care for and would do anything for; not because I wish to serve it, but because I wish to protect it and keep it company.
I've been meaning to look up a video like this for some time now, because while I love the intricacies of the lore, I can't be bothered to take note of every tiny little detail in dialog and piece it together, simply because there's just so many and I can't tell what's important lore to the history of the universe/game, or lore for just one-off characters that don't matter in the grand scheme.
Honestly, I'm most interested in the lore about the Atlas. If anyone knows any more since the sentinels update, let me know.
Telamon is the security protocol, safety program, whatever, of the Atlas.
I think Telamon also has a sort of control over the sentinels since the Sentinel flare from the Sentinel update mentions Telamon.
And the boundary failure terminals scattered around exotic biome planets were made by Telamon and they made entries on them.
I told it to fuck off lol
I think it would be really funny if one day all the times where the game keeps talking about '16/16/16/16' is changed to '16/16/16/15' out of nowhere
Oh my gosh that would freak the actual HECK OUTTA ME
I want Sean to start counting down from 16 instead of posting emojis, either to signal the release of LNF or the remaining updates (literally the amount of time Atlas has left as a whole)
I find it incredible that HG took the shortcomings from the original release to create the lore for the game, such as each update meaning the Atlas is degrading more and more. At first, we could only contact Atlas, eventually when the semi-multiplayer was added and Travelers could perceive each others as glowing balls, we could contact Artemis which means Travelers are starting to comunicate, even if they can't actually be in the same place at the same time.
Then, Next was released and we could perceive four travelrs at once and a lot more in the Anomaly, and that would only be expanded. The bigger, more beautiful and weird the world becomes, the more freedom the races get and the Travelers multiply, the broken the Atlas gets. I found it really interesting.
they seem to have added some new lore to the Sentinel Pillars, something about the Sentinels knowing Nada and Polo left to an space Anomaly and they decided not to interfere and in the crashed freighters I found a dialogue telling that a freighter was checking on the anomaly themselves, trying to understand what was happening there when they noticed the Traveler race was multiplying exponentially. In a week they found that more than 5000 travelers entered and left the Anomaly, what they do there they don;t know.
The lore is all scattered, but I really hope someone ends up dumping all the dialogues from all the interacteable parts of the game that will give you lore, so we can just sit and read.
I love that the Sentinel Flare you get now calls you Telamon-not-Telamon, meaning the Sentinels themselves knows that Telamon is within your exosuit.
my base expansion person said “my people have caused so much trouble against the Korvax, please be kind to them.” So that’s why i’m here
I've read many people say there is no real story to NMS, but it is pure sci-fi. I feel like I am living in a Chris Foss book cover many times I play.
People criticize this kind of indirect lore building, but I've found that it's my favorite kind.
Instead of a regular linear narrative, like most games, No Man's Sky, Ark Survival Evolved, 7 Days to Die, and other (mostly survival) games have a story that isn't readily accessible. Instead it is hidden, and you have to utilize exploration to find clues and piece the story together. It's so much more rewarding than a traditional narrative story, but it also isn't as easy to immerse yourself in due to the fact that there may be long stretches in between clues. The player doesn't really know where the story is going, or if it's even a complete story, until they've found all possible clues.
It’s a shame that Euclid (or whatever galaxy we get after resetting the simulation or reaching the galaxy core) is a digital Matrix, and a buggy one at that. It would be so much cooler if this was a real universe... we’d literally have a god machine from which everything depends! The message of the lore would give us more angst for sudden destruction.
PS: Null is the closest thing to a villain in NMS, in my opinion. He turned himself into a machine to explore all planets for billions of years, only to appeal his ego... and then he committed mass genocide by resetting his iteration of the galaxy to keep appealing that very same pride, before he finally realized his “challenge” to the infinite was useless.
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Some theorize even we live inside a simulation similar to matrix, well who knows the answer.
I feel like we are small cogs in something bigger.
Like particles are for us.
We literally mean the whole universe for the cells inside our bodies, which live and work to keep us going. They probably don't even have an idea of why they exist and what their existence allows us to be.
I imagine we are the same when it comes to our existence in this universe :D i just hope we aren't cancer cells, because then we'll get treated the way we treat cancer.
This video deserves more attention
My guy just read out the wiki
Most games would’ve made the either the Vykeen or the Korvax the “conqueror race” due to their strength and intelligence respectively, but this one chose to make it the Gek, a tiny little frog people.
I can respect the creativity there
Eh idk it's pretty accurate to real life. Slimy merchant types that conquer through the use of subversion and manipulation of money. Ironically both in real life, and in no mans sky they have large beaks/noses.
All the lore exists inside a simulation, which means none of it is actually real... it's just simulated. The real lore would exist outside of the simulation where we never get to see.
@Call of Gruty I wish the game would expand on this eventually, some day in the future, since the lore around and the current state of the Atlas is quite important to the simulated universe at large.
@Call of Gruty I always felt, if Hello Games was ever done with the game, this might be an endgame scenario for us players. We resemble the creators, we are the remnants of them. I figured we might find a way by studying black holes ingame to find a way to effectly shield against their influence, then somehow find a way outside the simulation by being uploaded into an android body or something and then save the Atlas with the knowledge we gathered. So we are the entity that emerges in the end. I know, it's probably how things were meant, but I kinda like the idea of an epic finale and the idea of how to save the Atlas.
Afterwards we might return into an open ended simulation once more, maybe with a final gift from the Atlas, the gift of creating new worlds or terraforming dead ones to worlds of our personal liking. There might even be another ingame loop inside. Let the player visit all types of worlds and gather data and soil- and plant-samples and maybe even animals before. When the player has everything they want to have on their world, they might create it. Would be a cool final gift from the saved Atlas to have. But it's just wishful thinking on my part.
@Call of Gruty True, but I figured this just means, that the Atlas can't be removed and must stay in place. What I had in mind was only our character, who exists as a result of the brain-scan of one of the creators, might be able to be uploaded temporarily to some kind of service robot in order to implement safety precautions. Those might be some sort of gravitational shielding technology that protects the Atlas on-site and might allow it and the facility it is housed in a safe passage through the black hole.
Given, black holes don't work in real life as they do ingame, but it is save to assume that they work differently in the world where the Atlas originated as well, based on the fact that the Atlas was to simulate it's own reality to great detail and basically turned black holes into wormholes. Either that or the Atlas' understanding of black holes is seriously flawed and it is doomed to find out first-hand what they actually are like, which would be incredibly sad.
@Call of Gruty it would be cool but it would take away the fun of having to find your perfect planet if you could just make one the way you want it to be.
@@crystllclr3743 wouldn't take the fun out of it if you had to collect samples imo, like say you wanted an earth like planet and wanted to create it, you'd still have to find a planet with green grass, a planet with an atmosphere with a blue sky, the type of creatures you'd want, etc, you'd just be finding them in parts and building it yourself instead of getting incredibly lucky and stumbling upon exactly what you want
Nice overview - there has to be more to it - maybe we will see in the next update.
They built into the lore the fact that it didn't have multi-player at release and as the atlas walls faded players/ traveller's could interact with each other that's so genius
Either the lore has evolved or there's a bit I noticed that others seem to neglect.
The boundary failures seem to tell the story that the primitive first spawn would remove the weak from their spawning pools and the Aeron took offense to this and over adjusted by wiping out an entire planet of gek.
This was one of the first signs that the atlas was dying.
1:30 incidentally, this is my absolute favorite hauler configuration. It's actually surprisingly hard to find. Wish I still had my old save.
Thanks for the info . Just moved to NMS from ED . You deserve more subs O7
Thank you! Looking forward to your videos.
Thankyou for the video, its rare to find a proper explanation for a beginner in no mans sky!
Very cool breakdown of the NMS lore.
Heliosphere is genuinely one of the best adventure game tracks out there.
So we are just in the space matrix? This is the abandoned simulation? Where is the improved one
Follow the atlas and it’ll lead you to it
"Magical enchantments" "witchcraft" "demonic practices" ummmm, wtf!? Could you please explain? Or make a video about this? It's super interesting and I want to know how it works, do they use some kind of "source code of the universe" or something?
I found the whole "witchcraft" and "demonic practices" quite off-putting and out of place. But I choose to believe that it was Gek propaganda to scare their enemies. If you read the Gek plaques, they are nothing more than propaganda to inspire fear in others.
makes no sense to the lore, but you do you I guess
thanks for mentioning that. I found it quite out-of-place. I appreciated NMS exactly for the fact it was pretty much sci-fi with no supernatural content. (been a while since i played, but thats how I remember it)
Yeah, none of that lol
I remember recently seeing a text from the computer archives found in bases that basically said that "16" were the 16 seconds before the disaster kills the universe or the computer (i don't remember, its been a while). (And i don't know if the computer was simulating this scenario or it actually was happening.)
The whole games a simulation, its 16 minutes until the blackhole consumes the REAL planet housing the atlas, we're in the atlas.
@@seanowens3153 You know, it comes to mind. The atlas is effectively a supercomputer capable of simulating infinite entire universes at unknown speeds. It's specifically designed to simulate space travel in it's entirety, including colonization of planets, wars between systems, etc etc, which eventually gets humans(?) off of their planet and into space to somewhere else for good.
But in the game, a black hole doesn't kill you, it sends you to a new location. The Atlas didn't mess that part up, it calculated "that's what happens if you do X action in space (enter black hole)", that's it's whole job. So it's possible that when black hole in the real world consumes the planet and it, it'll send the atlas somewhere else instead of destroying it.
@@fusrosandvich3738 The atlas is just a massive hikikomori and will commit seppuku before being forced to leave his house by some nasty black hole
Yeah, i would love more No Man's Sky lore done like this. its nice to sit back and have a listen. Subscribing for more
Imagine a FPS no mans sky game taking place in the past. Maybe when it was the vy’keen vs the sentinels
Nms lore: war, empires, subjugation
Nms gameplay: You have learned the Gek word for 'the'
Great job on the lore man
Wait a sec, this is basically a word for word reading of the wiki.
So in this game, is everything a simulation created by the Atlas? Or did the Travelers somehow become real?
It is a simulation trapped in a video game.
This game respects the player like few others. Want the story? You'll have to work towards learning and understanding it. Don't want that? Cool, you'll barely engage with it. No harm no foul.
It's so cool how the Korvax broke down the Gek through genetic change with their own blood.
If you disagree with this in whole or in part, you probably just found different lore in the game. It is not consistant with itself.
"You're in a computer game, Max."
Id love to see you do a deep evaluation of the Gek, Vykeen, and the Korvax!
Great explanation but I'm having a hard time following everything I need pictures of the different races and stuff as someone who hasn't played a lot yet
Just going to say the way I gather the "Atlas" it was created to basically keep the "memory" of the universe... Now you can think of it like this... there once were many other races... creatures and beings... and if you note things like Artimis and Null... they are not like Gek, VyKeen or the Korvac... they are the last bits of what was... which would include... Humans... and many other races. So think on that... something... FAR more intelligent than we... as we obviously fell victim like many of the other races... to the war between the Gek, Korvac and Vykeen... my one thought is that this intelligence found it no longer had a need for bodies... built the sentinals to defend itself... and pooled all it's vast knowledge into the Atlas... and after all was destroyed... it then created this unending world simulation to remember at first as it was lonely ... but then slowly gathering up energy it has found (as we are all energy)... it picks up memories of other beings... ie us... and integrates it into the simulation... which eventually becomes corrupt and on repeat... but it tries to build something to repair itself... to repair the simulation... to build the perfect new universe... with itself as the center as GOD... where all live in harmony. But it can't seem to simulate harmony... as most beings have "flaws"... they hate... they lie... they steal... they murder... etc... but it continues to struggle to try to make an iteration that is perfection... it has continued to relive and retell the ending of the universe... trying to discover what went wrong... and prevent it from occurring in some iteration which will allow all to be restored and rebuilt in its idea of perfection... and harmony.
Just how I see it. That's not to say I'm right by any means... but it is how my "in-game" character views what is happening... as he himself tries to figure out his purpose in this universe he can't escape... he has come to the haunting realization that he himself is no longer a true living being... and is now forever trapped in the suit inwhich he finds himself... forever cursed to be bound in it... unable to see his true form... he knows yet what he is... he is drow. He remembers a past... that is completely different from this simulation he finds himself trapped in... so he explores... seeking answers to the riddle of how he got here... how to escape, how to get out of the infernal suit he is trapped in... and if any of the "reality" he remembers of his past even exists anymore... or if it too was nothing but simulation.
Bro what is with the constant ....
@@naethanks Dunno... just something I seem to have picked up... and now I can't seem to stop it. Or at least not without some serious concentration. ADD/ADHD issue... OCD not sure. But I suppose it's how my brain functions ... never done with a thought... or always thinking and adding and thinking... and yeah.
This game has insanely confusing dialogue and now that I know the lore I see why. Even with an explanation of all the above one can’t help but think perhaps a story that tries to be a little less Meta may have worked better
I always thought that the Gek were the cute, squishy little traders. Boy was I mistaken
I think the lore for this game would be much more interesting if it wasn't based inside of a simulation created by the Atlas. Instead the Atlas is merely a God like machine of Lovecraftian proportions. Atlas could instead be running from something and that 'thing' is supposed to arrive in 16 million years
Interesting, this is the lore from whitin the game, but what about lore from ARG? I think those events can be considered as lore as well.
I wonder if Hello games would be interested in a spin off story for no man's sky because after the new 2022 updates I have major ideas for a story
Amazing video!
Regardless of any and all of the issue's of the past, present and future. They continue regardless of how many reset's there has been, or will be. Because nothing is aware of the previous after a reset. Nothing would ever change.
Quick question, but where are you getting the information on demon worship and witchcraft? I know from the wrecks it is implied that First Spawn religion was pretty dark, but I couldn't find anything about it at the monoliths I visited, the wiki, or the art book. And where are you getting this extra information about Hirk and the First Spawn? I would like to read these sources.
I am curious about more info on the overseer. Seems like a dark little gek from the hints.
So nothing we see in-game really matters, not even the living ships, nor the creatures or what the NPCs may tell you because it's a simulation, the REAL lore and stuff happening is outside the Atlas, so... Yeah... It would be cool if you leave the simulation by reaching the galaxy core and get to experience the "real" stuff but no, feels like that screenshot from spongebob where Squidward is watching Bob and Patrick having fun through the window
Wait till the VR version pops off.
My Personal Take Is That, The _"Real"_ Stuff Is, Well.. The Player, Simulating The Universe On Their Device, Running The Procedural Algorithms, The ATLAS Itself.
5:55 what kind of windows are those? I wanna put them in my base but they don’t look like any of the 3 prefab window types…
Its not 16 minutes till the end of our universe but 16 minutes till the end of the atlas
saving this to watch later
I would like a xenomorph type species that you have to be on the watch for and can spread planet to planet and can also infect the different sized life forms on each world
massiv potential for greefing but yes that would be cool :D
Im I the only one who's confused?
So, what about the end of the game? Was that like the end of the multiverse? ‘Cuz it says ‘the Atlas is dying’ but we’re able to choose another galaxy to live in - can someone explain?
Edit: I realise what’s happening now, I think, but I’d still appreciate if someone could explain it a bit more
Basically, the atlas is dying, but the time in the simulation compared to the time in the real world where the Atlas is located progresses very differently. So why the Atlas has only a few minutes left, we have all the time in the World.
@@MangoMayhem1785 thnx for the explanation, could you explain the multiverse part and the choosing another galaxy?
@@deadlock556 The Atlas is powerful enough to simulate 100s of realities and universes of the same time, and its creators made the Atlas for some unknown reason to learn from the outcomes, but because of the coming death of the Atlas the boundaries start tp fall and things get mixed up, that's the "multiverse".
@@MangoMayhem1785 thanks a lot, very appreciated. Correct me if I’m wrong, but the choosing a new galaxy thing was because that was the only way the Atlas knew to cry out for help, right?
@@deadlock556 Pretty much
Nice story, but full of holes. For one the Vikeen never defeated the Geck and the war did not change the Geck. The Atlas did. Infact the Atlas is the creater of everything and everybody and it was the Atlas that rewired the Geck in a flash. But it also changed Vikeen from bloodthirsty warriors to commadating others. I have followed every storyline 4 times so far and have the gold trofies to show it.
My lore for NMS. Protect the lil Reptile dudes at all costs. Fuck them nerdy Droids. Vykeen are Vykeen
The gek were genocidal maniacs, but yeah I do agree.
Wait so is the whole world a simulation by Atlas?
Sounds like it
Yes, and it is heavily implied that the Atlas (on the outside) is dying, having just 16 more minutes to run, which translates to an unknown timespan inside the simulation. Quite a cosmic horror story.
@@Streifi wtf that's depressing
@@eloisdejesuse780 It is, especially since that was basically the end of the storyline, with your character having to say goodbye to their friends on board the anomaly and then, having to enjoy the remaining time (however little that may be inside the simulation) by peacefully exploring the galaxy. It was quite frustrating that the story just simply ended there.
With the recent Sentinels update we got a few more lore bits and a hint, that there might be powers at work somewhere, that seem to have a plan on how to escape the inevitable end of all things inside the simulation. But what this plan is, is still a mystery. But it sparks hope that the story isn't over yet and that it might be continued in the not so distant future.
@@Streifi oh wow! well thank you for sharing that, Knowing hello games Im sure there is a lot more to come
Only 110 subs are you made this content need more subs to see it
Nice vid
😂i needed this video. I’ve been played about 40 hours and still no little to nothing.
Also pretty sure the main mission is glitched for me and i can’t even proceed past “ghost in the machine” But it ok i don’t need to play the main mission to have fun but i still wish i knew what was going on
I wish these stories where rather playable instead of random bits and pieces in text.
Thanks for the story.
Amazing, thanks
sad in a way that all the way though this game the atlas will die in 16 minutes before a black hole ends it.. tho its a beautiful universe and realistic to its real universe wich makes the simulation more appealing then a real universe because this isnt any faker and is very realistic looking at the universe besides it being a replica..yet that doesnt stop the idea that even if we travellers feel it as years the universe is in reality gonna be destroyed in 16 minutes and in reality all the beauty and yourney we had is a glimpse in the universe time..already is even if its years..years are nothing compared to the length of time the universe will exist but im fine with that bc atleast its "compared to the time universe exists" not " meaningless compared to the time a lifeform exists" as we mean less then we are supposed to mean..not that i care about purpose but the time a human is given feels like not meaningless bc of wjat it should be..and 16 minutes as a huma myself feels more meaningless... its not bc the universe is big but bc 16 min is small...
So when it says “simulation” it means this entire game takes place inside of a computer in some dudes office?
I followed the Atas path..I am the seeder of worlds
You don't need to know anything about NMS lore.
Lore is something to explore while playing. This helps to hide endless repetition. If you know the lore beforehead, you probably get bored faster.
Everything is anything that ever existed and is nothing and you can either live or die. But don't you feel bad that you are deleting your friend's memories? Also ya haven't seen everything nor have ya realized, you can't just cheat life or death without sacrifice. The universe just is and you have control over its fate.
So the killed and enslaved the korvax This reminds me of a certain event
Sentinel update is out !!
What y’all know about the ai sex video about those two celebrities?
It's through their technology that they are superior I guess
Did you just read out Wikipedia word for word ? :P
The number 16 most likely the time we was supposed to have left but there agien the atles seem to like to play truths or lie but I did find a story about it it was reset 16 times before it did something to it creators
Awesome dude! I knew Zero of that😅
But one question, whats the matter with the "Alien Eggs", why are they everywhere and what are those creatures?
Feel free to answere if you know it / have an idea🧐
Good video, but man, the ads have become too annoying 😢
Good video but boy is NMS's Lore a mess... I really wish they had integrated a good solid story with some races and characters into the game. Not such a Lorehole-riddled, pseudo-cryptic mess. I mean: yes, a good story in a fully procedural universe might not be easy, but there could definitely have been a lot more. Still, NMS is a really good game.
The only thing I find funny about the lore is, that it basically describes reality.
We play a game. In a digital world generated by a code/seed. Everything we see and do serves the creator and in some sort the digital world itself. Everyone has their own iteration - our Savefile, but we as Humans are not REALLY in the world, just our Avatars, so we are not part of the simulation. The Altlas is the seed of the world, that creates all procedural. The creators of the seed are the developers, who brought it into the game. You can see so many parallels.
Man dropped a banger and disappeared
What ship is that
So you are actually starting off your history of the universe actually inside the Atlas simulation of the universe...
I thought the gek came from shreks planet
This game has now delivered on all its promises, but there's one thing no one talks about that will never make this game what it could have been for me. This thing was there from the beginning and I didn't like it even then and it ruined the whole thing for me. This thing is the storyline. Why the fuck did you have to point out that the whole game, with all the worlds, everything, is a simulation? I can't get into it, it's all kind of pointless. I had the same problem with the Assassin series, somehow it kills the game for me. Are there others like me with this thing?
There is lore?
Korvax selfless for a machine saved it's enslavers nobody deserves extinction ig
Love that gameplay couldn’t care much about the campaign, absolutely terrible, felt like I was playing Pokémon on a 2006 Nintendo DS, there’s no voice acting, it just kills the immersion, they definitely need to hire voice actors and work on cut scenes. Perhaps what we read will someday be what I’d like it to be. I play this game for gameplay, not much for the crappy campaign design,
I dedent know no man sky lore was this dark i love it
Seems like theyre cutting a lot of lore, too. Dreams of the deep ended very suddenly and practically mid story.
how are there only three races when there are so many others in the anomaly?
Cause in the iteration you play in they were wiped out. EIther by the Gek first spawn, Vykeen, or Sentinals. But they exist in other iterations. Which is why they usually have the world Iteration infront of their name (Or the name of their iteration universe idk).
They're travellers, not other races
Although you probably don't mind the views, I've already listened to this video 3 times and I still have no clue...
Maybe it's your tone, I just don't know. Here goes the 4th attempt.
The Vykeen are based on the Vikings, and the Gek are based on Goblins, like in Harry Potter where they are in charge of banking, finances and trade, but I don't know what the Korvax are based on.
Elves most likely, the Vy’Keen are more like orcs to me
What is going on here? You went from 17 views on a video to 100,000 views and then nothing?
Video editing was good. You’re easy to listen too.
So what’s up? Don’t want to be a UA-camr or just like squandering opportunities? 😅
it's a simulation that;s all you had to say
My story feels so different.
AYO WTF FLYING FCK !? Man that’s soooo trippy. I got ADHD and I’m extremely impatient. I don’t want to read dialogue, I want to interact with it. Do a subnautica and hire voice actors. This game would ABSOLUTELY explode if they did, that and if you could share and alter blueprints for bases.
No Mans Fun
I gotta give it to no mans sky for having the most dogshit and boring lore in any game i have ever played
Man, that's the most childish non-sensical lore I've ever seen. I miss when No Man's Sky had no story at all.