Light No Fire Reveal Breakdown & The State of Hello Games

[@dizshiz]

Totaly Agree … I have faith in Hello Games to deliver something amazing. I have been a gamer since the 70’s and was fortunate enough to end up working in the industry .. I Have never seen a studio so committed to deliver what they promised and give its community something special with NMS So this new game might fall foul of the hype train again but i know that it will be tweaked into another 10 year project that will keep us coming back for more … I’m very excited for this game ❤

[@GB-22]

I am looking forward to this game and I think this may be the sequel to NMS. This could be Atlas being rebuilt or restarting after falling into the black hole in the lore of NMS. Super excited to see if I'm correct.

[@jdm8702]

This makes NMS seem like a tech test for this game. They've taken what they've learned and put it all into one planet.

[@CyberVikingGaming]

One thing that I have noticed that makes this look so good is since the planet is so massive, the horizon looks much more like an earth horizon that we're used to seeing. And by that, I mean that it doesn't curve nearly as much as in nms. That alone makes me excited. I hope that the world is actually "mappable". that perhaps at some point, we can actually see the globe and all of its continents, mountain ranges, and anything else that might be there. Visit sites that other players have found. Very curious how they'll handle long distance travel.

[@josefwollersberger1552]

I love that kingfisher mount. I want that even more than a dragon. 🤩 And given the size of the mountains, we will probably get deep oceans this time around too.

[@ROBOTBOYINITIATIVE]

That would be great. I wonder how we'd go about exploring them though, as submarines etc. I assume won't fit within the lore.

[@josefwollersberger1552]

@@ROBOTBOYINITIATIVE I could see it being a species and/or magic thing. One of the people in the underwater scene looked like they were based on an Otter, so that would cover lakes, rivers and coastal waters nicely already, and maybe they will add in other playable species who can go deeper as well, like something based on whales, merefolk or argonians. They could also add magic that lets players breath under water for a while, like the suit modules in no mans sky, and aquatic mounts to get around faster, or a combination of all those, where some species can hold their breath for longer or can breath under water, while others need some spell or trinket.

[@DelbertStinkfester]

The mount variety looks super good

[@GThompsonMusic]

Everyone knows if Light No Fire is a little bare bones to begin with… it certainly won’t stay that way

[@MrSly036]

glad to see you back

[@ROBOTBOYINITIATIVE]

💙💙💙

[@youhan9574]

holy shit, dude seeing you post again is pretty nostalgic.

[@ROBOTBOYINITIATIVE]

We back 🤩

[@yellowsnow024]

This game is going to be amazing

[@CaptainSteveVPT]

Good to see you Back buddy !!

[@ROBOTBOYINITIATIVE]

Captain Steve! Great to be back dude, hope you're well :)

[@andrewshandle]

As a day one NMS player who left for years only to return about 18 months ago, I can say without a doubt that I trust HG to deliver something compelling. Maybe it won't be everything people want it to be, but it'll be enough to give me 100+ hours of entertainment which is all I can ask for in a game.

[@exile9024]

It looks like mounted combat will be in-game if you look closely you can see different weapon icons show up on the bottom right of the screen throughout the trailer whenever the player is shown riding a different mount, I spotted a bow, magic staff, and a sword, which gives me the impression that they might have aerial opponents that can swarm us in the skies or maybe even siege weapons we can destroy from above.

[@werejustgaming]

Of course mounted combat is in the game. This is an RPG first. They said that. You will have quests, story probably a skill tree

[@maikelb1098]

I really hope this game performs as good as i hope it does. One point of worry for me is not rendering of the world when flying. What do you think about this? This is shown @10:26 and @11:20 you see the world is rendering just below the mount on the left.

[@ROBOTBOYINITIATIVE]

Agreed. Probably my main gripe with NMS still, but I try look past it because of the scale of it all. Here, just rendering a single planet, I'm hoping that they're able to optimise their LOD pop-in a lot better. But if that's the worst thing about this game, it's not the end of the world for me, and I imagine on-foot will be more than fine.

[@X862go]

I'm super hyped

[@TheJordan276]

welcome back man feels good to see u back

[@ROBOTBOYINITIATIVE]

Good to be back dude. Let's do this.

[@matthewgumabon7498]

I swear back during the original launch period 10 years ago, Sean Murray was asked by an interviewer (maybe it was Game Informer?) something like “Why not just take all the procedural universe tech and bring into a single planet?” At the time Sean brushed it off, but I guess the idea must have stuck with him looking at the concept of Light No Fire 😅

[@Pharaoh025]

Also, don't forget, if they can apply biome diversity to Light No Fire, they can do it to No Man's Sky.

[@simonlanglois2441]

For real I can't wait to see the collective builded bases, real virtual cities. Can't wait to see what Beetlebum would come up with.

[@ROBOTBOYINITIATIVE]

The builds are gonna be crazy

[@observantmonkey4055]

Ppl making their own live quests etc. maybe wars? Havent played nms for a good bit but, i wonder how many ppl will be in one server or whatever

[@bawlzack7877]

@@observantmonkey4055 Sean Murray said "we are going to let everyone play in it together". Sounds to me like they want to have the entire player base on one planet. Or at least a planet per region. It's bigger than earth so would be technically possible. Hoping that is what he meant. Would be incredible if they could pull it off.

[@observantmonkey4055]

@@bawlzack7877 yeah, it would be sick. Wanted a game just like this for sooo long.

[@DelbertStinkfester]

This game looks like it could become my forever game. It looks freaking amazing.

[@EEKman71]

Hello Games saw the 'No Mans Skyrim' meme and said hold my beer.

[@nathanvosburgh718]

is it me or is the Icon resemble the Icon for NMS? but broken

[@ROBOTBOYINITIATIVE]

Would be wild if there's interconnected lore

[@nathanvosburgh718]

@@ROBOTBOYINITIATIVE the Earth looks as big as the Planets we have in the Game my headcannon is that this Game is set in NMS Universe the reason we never saw the Milky Way ( our Sol System) is because it was left for this and its in a Medevil Setting(from the looks of it) it has that familiar feeling to NMS YES i know its the same engine and all but still it just feels like we are still in NMS

[@kubabooba548]

I also hope that mission locations, or beacons or whatever, exist in a physical area in the world, and doesn't just spawn in within a radius when activating a mission. I'd like to travel across this Earth planet for days even, to experience that journey to get to beacon, temple, npc, or whatever. To really feel like a traveller, and with survival elements. I hope theirs survival elements in the game like eating, drinking, sleeping, and temperature stuff as well to really live within the game world. I'm excited! I'll preorder this game like I preordered NMS those many years ago.

[@ROBOTBOYINITIATIVE]

Good point. I wonder how persistent the world will be, especially if everyone is sharing the same planet. I'm assuming it'll be the same for everyone, unless each player gets their own seed for the planet, which would equally be interesting.

[@kubabooba548]

I don't think their will be seeds, however if everyone is sharing the same planet, and the experience is the same for everyone then a mission location could be like a hub, and players from all across this planet could coincidentally meet. Imagine, you spawn in the northern hemisphere, I spawn in the southern hemisphere, and by chance we both meet at the same mission location. That'd be awesome, and because the game is so huge, we would talk about were we came from. What we saw. What the climate is like lol. That'd be crazy immsersive. @@ROBOTBOYINITIATIVE

[@Rogerfoulger]

good to have you back! My initial feeling on this new game I wasn't too excited but as I watch and listened to other opinions I'm on the hype train now

[@ROBOTBOYINITIATIVE]

Hello Games just have the abilitiy to create a sense of magical excitement

[@efxnews4776]

I saw 10 years of experience from HG here NMS is brilliant, one of the most fantastical games i ever play. And say what you want but NMS satiated my thirst for space games, so i can see them pulling ou a single massive well detailed planet.

[@gregwaste2594]

Spot on when you describe the tech mate. Absolutely spot on. And this is why there is a legitimate reason to trust this game. Because after 7 years, we've seen how the engine works on all kinds of proc gen, we've seen how MP works. So the baseline experience of Light No Fire has been already set by NMS. It can only get even better from there. Looking forward to that game as well.

[@MacForaday]

Hey there Robo Toby! Glad to see you covering a Hello Games game again!

[@ROBOTBOYINITIATIVE]

Mac! Great to be back my friend. Hope you are well :)

[@YOUareGODSMACKT]

Hey robotboy, here "youaregodsmacked" allot of thought coming back of the good old ďay.s so loved that time, mr. Noodles🐹 and all the puzzels. Cobra tv...ect... Sutch a great time, Sean gäve us all so mutch in NMS. ❤. Keep the video coming when the game comes out❤bye

[@ROBOTBOYINITIATIVE]

MR NOODLES! what a throwback. Great to see you back here Godsmackt, I'll definitely be covering this game as I did with NMS so keep an eye out for more content!

[@YOUareGODSMACKT]

@@ROBOTBOYINITIATIVE i will😁👊

[@er_burroughs]

You’re Back!!!! Woot!

[@ROBOTBOYINITIATIVE]

Let's gooooo

[@TheOnePistol]

5:40 You can actually see that beaten on top of the mountain in this shot. The draw distance is insane!

[@-soaponarope-1261]

Welcome back Robot Boy! I'm still subscribed 😂 nice to see you covering hello games again

[@ROBOTBOYINITIATIVE]

Hello Games will always have a special place in my motherboa... I mean heart...

[@dimitri0404]

As of now we can only assume its gonna be co-op. Eveyrhing that we've seen till now suggests that.

[@clemguitarechal]

It feels like Valheim on steroids :D

[@kubabooba548]

I'm more hyped for this than GTA 6. They look to have included features into Light No Fire from No Mans Sky, I just hope Light No Fire isn't No Mans Sky 2.0, but with a completely different identity with Hello Games DNA. I wonder if the medieval age is just a starting point and as more people play, over time, maybe you progress through ages. I hope theirs enough variety in the biomes because in NMS you land on a planet, and what you see around you is the entire planet. Everything starts to feel the same, theirs a lack of variety, so I hope theirs more to see, within the biomes. I'd like to just walk, and notice the colour of the grass change, the trees start to look different, that sort of thing, to feel like I'm moving between areas. I hope you can play solo, because I wouldn't want to buy Xbox multiplayer pass. For a game this big, Hello Games really needs to release a polished, and grounded game because the flop that NMS was, and the recovery, Hello Games still wasn't able to recover those player numbers that they lost on release. It's really hard for a developer to bounce back after a failed launch even with the updates, and so on.

[@TheWizkaz116]

Hahaha all the old waking titan boys are coming out of the abyss...good times. Next up L Plays and Cobra hopefully soon

[@ROBOTBOYINITIATIVE]

We've been in cryostasis, then we heard Sean speaking on the Game Awards and were defrosted

[@Johnjds]

It’s a great concept. They’re positioned to slay with this. Subbed 🙌

[@KingArthur101]

You got a new sub from me i hope to see you grow from 3k to 1 millions soon.

[@ROBOTBOYINITIATIVE]

What a legend, thank you so much! We'll get there one day!

[@brandonrickner1321]

The robot boy is back!!! Yayy

[@Brickticks]

I haven’t heard from you in ages. Why the absence?

[@SpyderKing34]

I have been a fam of hello games since day 1 release of No Mans Sky. I was one of tge very few who didn't get there money back and new exactly what the game was and was going to be. I will deffanitly be getting this game on release

[@AUTO6]

It's like Valheim + ARK so expect very good game and fun to play.

[@werejustgaming]

It also is an RPG they said that. Meaning leveling, dungeons, perk trees etc

[@MattGalaxyN7CDR]

This looks so cool!

[@OggieDoggie]

I look forward to this game. I know people are saying oh no hello games. To me there isn't anther dev as devoted to making sure their games are good even if it means releasing 10 years of free content. Although i doubt it will release in a bad a shape As no man's sky.

[@ROBOTBOYINITIATIVE]

100%. If anything, Hello Games are probably now the LEAST likely team to drop a broken game, a) because they simply can't afford to take the backlash again and b) they are in their prime rn and don't show any signs of having issues with development.

[@RodneyG669]

​@@ROBOTBOYINITIATIVEI think the fact that they've been developing this for five years and this is the first time the public has heard of it is important. They announced NMS too soon and it cost them severely, they learned their lesson I believe.

[@observantmonkey4055]

Its going great, thanks!

[@ProgrammistMusic]

This is the groundwork for No Man's Sky II. If they can pull of Light No Fire, we will get NMS II using the same tech for planets in a couple of years. Within this time period HG may update NMS with some new features based on their experiences with LNF, but in the end they need to use the updates engine for NMS II.

[@jlstruyde]

This game almost reminds me of the canceled Playstation 4 game, WiLD. The precedule earth part.

[@ROBOTBOYINITIATIVE]

Yooo I forgot about that game!

[@MWZTACTICALGHOST]

CANT WAIT!

[@TheOnePistol]

Sean already said he wants to update this game like the did No Man's Sky. And that is what has me most excited because this game already looks great and I'm assuming will be as feature rich as current No Man's Sky. So imagine what Light No Fire will look like in another 10 years.

[@in-craig-ible6160]

Welcome back man.

[@bawlzack7877]

Very excited for this game. I hope they add voice acting instead of the typical NMS text based interactions.

[@bukinibee4062]

Although the new game looks amazing, I'm mostly worried about how excellent the draw distance will be because it's not that great on No Man’s Sky.

[@Dave_Langer]

If they keep it to PC and current gen and not last gen, the draw distance will be what we saw in the trailer.

[@hk4110]

​@@Dave_Langerdraw distance can make the game really enjoyable ❤

[@werejustgaming]

​@@Dave_Langerit's only listed for PC steam specifically

[@Dave_Langer]

@@werejustgaming it will be on consoles too

[@werejustgaming]

@@Dave_Langer the trailer simply says Steam. Steam page is already live and it's unconfirmed on consoles at this time

[@robertlawrence9000]

Best showing at The Game Awards for me. I'm very hyped for Light No Fire! Imagine after this game, they make a No Man's Sky 2 with planets as detailed as this! 🤯

[@TaderSamich]

My theory is this is the world we uploaded Artemis into. The games are linked. Atlas, knowledge golem, purple corrupted crab... Everything procedural

[@tomgarden]

I’m gonna make the call that this is actually set in the same universe as NMS

[@YOUareGODSMACKT]

At 4.38 minutes could it maby be, that you come in a certain place, were every character automaticly changes to a Skeletton, a cursed place on the planet maby 🤔

[@ROBOTBOYINITIATIVE]

Oooo interesting!

[@Burnt_notfound]

Will it come out on ps4?

[@jayjayhooksch1]

Seems unlikely.

[@Burnt_notfound]

@@jayjayhooksch1 why?

[@jayjayhooksch1]

@@Burnt_notfound With no release date we can probably expect 2025 or later. Do we really expect last gen to be supported 4 or 5 years into this generation? Additionally, if this game is MMO, which seems likely to me, draw distance is going to be very important, last gen just can't keep up with the types of draw distance necessary for an open world MMO.

[@lazy_ape]

@@jayjayhooksch1 Not MMO, the steam page says single player and online co-op. You'll probably only see players you're in group with and maybe a few random others if you're in a popular place, just like in NMS.

[@H2Ohexagon]

Big yellow guy looks like Etrigan (Kirby)

[@davidkeller6282]

No man’s skyrim

[@theclash24]

Man been a month and no more news that's rough

[@ilithielxd2356]

imagine of World events as content devs adding world events like big bosses,dragons for raids raids time events fishing events dungeons Dragon/flying Races (yes.. imagine that) and so much more stuff like at a point maybe we will get flying combat,, like shooting magic/arrows while riding a dragon midair which can be extended with events like sky battles/raids/bosses that require a flying mount

[@jamesmc1038]

I think you are right im so hyped and have to say hello games qill deliver

[@LtCaveman]

No Man's Skyrim looking great!

[@chrisdcrus5404]

Maybe the objects floating in the sky like platforms are a form of magical teleportation devices which allow you to fast travel to different discovered locations or other types of biomes that you want to visit!

[@yautjarelven4373]

I'm keeping my hype in check. I'll like this game if it is not a mile wide and an inch deep. It'll need challenging/dangerous things to do solo or with others, that would help player progression when conquered. Furthermore, the content cannot fall victim to the procedural generation issue of being too repetitive.

[@johnnybertrand2039]

Pre order when? TAKE MY MONEY!!!!

[@samghost13]

Yeah, in NMS you can build cool bases but the problem is that it is only static. Yeah, we have a cooking station and a teleporter but that's it! I really really hope that Hello Games can do it, so players have really things that matter and not only a static thing that stays there. It would have been cool to go the Alien and Space route like they done in NMS but anyway i am hooked to get Light no Fire in my Hands and play the shit out of it! Perma baby!!!

[@violentnexus3563]

i read the description, they said 'persistent communities' what im guessing is that they will have some sort of NPC that will live in your place or work for you. I mean , it wouldn't really be persistent if no one is there in my book. atleast i hope so.

[@samghost13]

well thought@@violentnexus3563

[@peterburgan4974]

Excited for this also and i do have some trust in hello games. BUT!!! I think a little caution is ok , won't buy on release day will wait a couple of weeks and see how the game pans out :) if its good then great !!! if its crap you doged a bullet 😀

[@exquisite-gaming]

I could never trust the developers since No Mans Sky release, and how crappy it was, but after watching how they went from nothing to something amazing, I can not wait for this game to be something amazing!

[@tomu6859]

🎉

[@andrewshandle]

One high level concern is if the planet is really the size of earth, the earth can be _very_ boring for huge stretches. Forget even the thousands of miles of oceans, I drove across the US a few years back and my god, you hit stretches when you drive through six straight hours of flat fields with no other geographic features.

[@samghost13]

HG is still rolling out and i have to say that is so Awesome so they roll out free updates! No DLC that you have to pay for! Buy the game and you get 10 Years of free updates! Uhhh boy! Avatar has the best FSR 3 implementation the devs. made a awesome job! When doing well FSR3 looks miles better than DLSS. I am still not shure what AA they are using?

[@stratcat3216]

NMS: 1 mile wide, 1 mm deep.

[@h.b.2847]

But i don't want it to be earth ! I would rather it be a newly discovered planet that's earth-like . 😄

[@SuperCosmicChaos]

Just wait a month or 2 after game comes out. You will see the real reviews then.

[@0oDUBLINo0]

Valheim had this potential

[@EEKman71]

If they replicate monster hunter/fromsoft combat with procedural dungeon delving and procedural variety its gsme over. The last game ill ever buy.

[@Riflez0ne]

Okay, yes hello games as redeemed no mans sky but can we at least realize that they released the game completely unfinished and with man man lies attached to it. It took years after launch for them to fix/ live up to their promises With thar being said why would we not expect the same here? I feel like getting hyped over games is idiotic. Wait for the game to come out, wait for reviews from youtubers (not like ign) and buy it or wait a few years for it to be fixed/ be on sale.

[@ROBOTBOYINITIATIVE]

Yes, in 2016 the game launched unfinished. No one denying that. But 2023 No Man's Sky is proof that their tech is functional now. And Light No Fire is promising, if anything, LESS than what No Man's Sky promised at launch, and is made of content/systems that NMS is doing extremely well right now. If anything, Hello Games have done everything possible to prove that they will NOT release a game in the state they did before, and simply would not allow themselves the possibility of that to happen again.

[@RodneyG669]

A huge part of NMS failing so badly on launch was that they underestimated how long it would take to develop. This new title has already been in development for five years, two more the NMS was when it launched. I'm confident that they'll be able to deliver on their promises because they've learned from their past mistakes.

[@gamingtonight1526]

Think of this as an RPG/Exploration/Survival. Hence, you can be a human or beast person. You will have enemies like skeletons, giant crabs, etc, and you will be either a wizard, a warrior and others. Maybe to be a warrior, you have to be a bear, for example. Of course, you will have magic, so look at it as a fantasy game, and stop with all this NMS rubbish! If there is only PVE in the trailer, there will only be PVE in the game!

[@cleanserofnoobs4162]

When No Man's Sky failed at release, people called it No Man's Lie. If Light No Fire fails at release, I'm betting people will name it Light On Fire.

[@david2727]

No hype from me. The last time I got hyped on an NMS game. It was ten years ago and we all remember that launch.

[@Burnt_notfound]

Hello games improved

[@211tfahey]

Is it just me or does this look pretty far along in development?

[@Xof_D-Dawg_Fox]

No mans sky is borig as hell, pretty and boring. Nothing to do besides same sh*t, no good quests or enough of them, everything looks the same but in different colour, no pvp interaction no nothing. Mine and build, boooooring af! And this will be too. They got no clue on how to make a story. Free updates? Wow, they all the same like expeditions, bleh.

[@x1138-4EB]

no mans reskin

[@efxnews4776]

You talk as if this is a bad thing... NMS is fantastical, but the procgen spread too thin in NMS, here it would be focused on one single planet. So yeah, a full world filled to the brim with adventures and mysteries, the potential is endless just like in NMS.

[@werejustgaming]

This game is way more ambitious than No Man's Sky. No I agree NMS is a graat game now and I am looking forward to it, but it is alot harder to render one giant lush planet, with quests and dungeons and NPCs than millions of nearly empty planets with only a handful of thing sto do. The density and scope of this game makes it more ambitious and harder to pull off. I have faith they can though

[@werejustgaming]

Don't get excited for the finding other people's towns in multiplayer. Its going to be like NMS. Only a few people will be allowed a server at any given time

[@RodneyG669]

You're basing this claim on what exactly?

[@werejustgaming]

@@RodneyG669 on the capabilities 9f the engine NMS is built on

[@werejustgaming]

@@RodneyG669 additionally they used the term coop. That is a partying system.

[@werejustgaming]

@@RodneyG669 also throughout all the footage trailer and presentation at Game Wards no more than 4 people have ever been shown together

[@RodneyG669]

@@werejustgaming are you implying that NMS can't have more then four players loaded in together?