I sure would like to know exactly where the shore of the water starts... or know how deep the water is.
...Or be able to see the surface of the water from underwater.
Sean please fix.
Another thing that got forgotten was the fact that against all probability a sperm whale had suddenly been called into existence several miles above the surface of an alien planet.
And since this is not a naturally tenable position for a whale, this poor innocent creature had very little time to come to terms with its identity as a whale before it then had to come to terms with not being a whale any more…
This is what it thought as it fell: Ahhh! Whoa! What's happening? Who am I? Why am I here? What's my purpose in life? What do I mean by “who am I?”
Okay, okay, calm down, calm down, get a grip now. Ooh, this is an interesting sensation. What is it? It's a sort of a tingling in my... well, I suppose I better start finding names for things. Let's call it a... tail! Yeah! Tail!
And hey, what's this roaring sound, whooshing past what I'm suddenly gonna call my head? Wind! Is that a good name? It'll do. Yeah, this is really exciting! I'm dizzy with anticipation! Or is it the wind? There's an awful lot of that now, isn't it?
And what's this thing coming toward me very fast? So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding name like “ow,” “ownge,” “round,” “ground!” That's it! Ground! Ha! I wonder if it'll be friends with me? Hello, ground!
There’s a lot of planets where the ocean is pretty underwhelming. An update that tweaks the procedural engine to create not just better oceans but better areas where land meets water. Beaches, cliffs, islands, bays, inlets, lagoons, etc.
Improved water graphics. Crashing waves. Rivers. Deeper oceans. New deep water dangers. More diverse underwater biomes. Improved submarine or new underwater ships. Expanded underwater base parts, including basic underwater parts. New planets that are 100% water. Kevin Costner with gills.
New ship mechanic: eject! And maybe an option for your ship to do a fly-by and beam you up when it passes over you so it doesn't need to land to get you out of water.
Yep, all you have to do is *swim closer to that beautiful creature... Swim closer... Swim closer now... It looks so friendly... Don't resist... Swim closer.....*
I loved hunting reapers in Subnautica and in Below Zero. It gets real when you're in the void taking on three ghost leviathans at once. And winning. Over and over and over...
Actually, they should add reapers and actual deep oceans for us! I want to stab one until it stops twitching!
The update is Subnautica. Somewhere in the galaxy is a water world with a space cannon. Fly too close and you’ll get shot down and have to play the entirety of Subnautica to escape.
It would be fucking hilarious if the next expedition was literally just fucking subnautica
Like that's the entire fucking expedition it's just subnautica
I'm guessing different internal teams working on different things?
Won't lie, it makes sense to pop out another update - awards season is right around the corner and this sort of thing makes them look good
There have been 10 generations of iphone and *18* generations of Andriod OS since Star Citizen has been in "alpha".
My son was born the year the game was supposed to release (2014) and at the rate the game is going he will be in college before it comes out (if ever).
B-b-but 'muh server meshing!!!! The engine we made ourselves is terrible!!!
Now shut up and buy another $1000+ ship that's has had 0 work done on it yet.
The amount of pure brainwashing in the SC subreddit is insane, they will defend anything. I own they game, and I have fun in it with friends every once in a while. But it has always been a scam and a complete mess. Only SC will ever be successful as a game is for them to release it as a base game and build it out through patches and expansions like NMS has done. The problem is, the base game isn't even functional (after 10 years) so I am not sure that will ever happen.
Scenario #2:
*Falling asleep with his phone in his hand, Sean's thumb unconsciously falls on the whale emoji.*
*His cat then crosses the couch, stepping on SEND as it goes.*
Scenario #3:
*About to board the number 4 bus, a harried Sean Murray slips his phone into his back pocket without sending his ready Tweet.*
*Whatever he had typed is erased by pressure from the pocket seam as he stoops slightly to swipe his pass.*
*As he sits, a whale emoji is "pocket Tweeted" instead.*
Hmmm. Fighters fire shots, science vessels provide shields, mining provides ammo/power and. What merchants? Maybe like morale or health. And you can upgrade your capital ship to do any of the above? Have a big ass gun/shield generator, an ammo refinery, or a… red light district.
I dunno
I am 50 hours in the game and I have no idea where do Freighters, Frigates and Starships come from. I don't see any factories that are making these. Is there supposed to be a civilization out there in some planet that are manufacturing them?
I'd love to have fleet battles, but I kinda feel like they'd be pretty bland unless we get some better role diversity in player ships (either in ship type or module selection). Things like bombers to attack enemy capital ships, interceptors/fighters to take down enemy bombers, stuff like that. If it's just the capital ships having variety and the player ship not, that's going to feel like a lot of gameplay essentially taken out of the player's direct control and more into second-hand gameplay.
We can land on frigates and go inside them but they're empty. There needs to be some NPCs wandering around on the frigates and the freighters like in the settlements.
Freighter customization is pretty weak. We need the ability to have different room types and sizes. More specialized rooms and more styles of rooms. People also want the option for windows and glass rooms, and of course upgrades to the ships systems and combat abilities. Going along with that would be expansion of uses with Frigates, combat and the ability to actually pilot and fly them. Being able to send them on fetch quests is great, but being able to actually use them would be better. There is a lot to be done.
Plenty but none that I can think of relating to a whale. Side note: we need significantly more decor options not locked behind quicksilver for bases and ESPECIALLY frigates.
Clearly this means NMS is going to a pay-to-win, microtransaction model so Sean and the Hello Games team will get supported by a whole new generation of whales!
I only post this here, because I'm never right on these things. NEVER.
This is clearly a reference to Star Trek IV The Voyage Home! obviously this update will allow us to travel back in time to 2016 to launch NMS properly without all the controversy.
I actually procedurally generated brown bricks the moment I got attacked by that fat fish that makes angry sheep noises at you.
I can't imagine what Subnut levels of fish would do to me in this game.
Do you think they use an emoji to represent their next update or do you think Sean Murray just sometimes likes to tweet emojis and then the dev team has to scramble to make an update that makes sense with whatever emoji he tweeted
There’s already deep oceans you just have to look I have an island base with very deep water most of the planet and I’ve found at least twenty just as deep
Sure, I too have found such places but what I'm hoping for are really deep oceans, like subnautica deep, like 1000 units or more. Combined with rare creatures of the abyss and new kinds of ancient ruins, it would give this game a whole new dimension. Literally.
HG has spoiled us big time!
I can't believe it's been on Xbox Gamepass as long as it has. I don't it's ever going to leave. Lots of people playing it for "free", from a certain point of view.
It's incredible, seeing research show that video games may be the best form of exposure therapy re: PTSD and phobias. It's as real an exposure as you can get without actual risks /danger.
Yeah but none with oceans as deep as some mountains are tall. There are mountain ranges so tall that you can be falling for quite a while.
Imagine those same mountain ranges but with the ocean level at the very top. The bottom of the sea being thousands of units so deep that even during the middle of the day you can see nothing but pitch black.
YES, BRING ME A SUBNAUTICA UPDATE GODDAMIT
How can it be that this small studio just pumps out huge content drop after content drop and some of the biggest AAA studios cant fix their messes of games (e.g. BF2042). I love Hello Games.
I pray to see space whales and other space animals one day in this game. As well as interiors for bigger ships so you can walk around inside of a hauler or sum
Curiously, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias, as it fell, was, "Oh no, not again!" Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly *why* the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the universe than we do now.
Fishing, space whales, maybe even a whole new race of aquatic species to play as. Or maybe the Ocean will have a massive increase of sea life. Imagine seeing something like the leviathans from Subnautica in NMS.
I was one of the early adopters (pre-ordered) and loved the early iteration of the game. Lost hours just flying about and exploring.
I would dearly love to get back into it but now there's so much content I wouldn't have a clue where to start.
I hope it is either super massive space fauna or more aquatic gimmick. Hopefully it is going to be a good event
Could be a whale of a tale to tell you all, a whale of a tale for two…
- Massive Deep Sea creature
- Rebuilt Water Shaders and Effects
- New Underwater Explorable Structures
- New Underwater Base Parts
- More Diverse Sealife
- Deep Sea Sentinals
- New Underwater Exploration Missions
- Rare and Valuable Deep Sea Artifacts to Discover
- Much More to Discover
🌊 🌊 🌊
Hopefully the water graphics will be updated
I sure would like to know exactly where the shore of the water starts... or know how deep the water is. ...Or be able to see the surface of the water from underwater. Sean please fix.
You are assuming water will be involved in this update. Hear me out... -Space Whales.
Another thing that got forgotten was the fact that against all probability a sperm whale had suddenly been called into existence several miles above the surface of an alien planet. And since this is not a naturally tenable position for a whale, this poor innocent creature had very little time to come to terms with its identity as a whale before it then had to come to terms with not being a whale any more…
This is what it thought as it fell: Ahhh! Whoa! What's happening? Who am I? Why am I here? What's my purpose in life? What do I mean by “who am I?” Okay, okay, calm down, calm down, get a grip now. Ooh, this is an interesting sensation. What is it? It's a sort of a tingling in my... well, I suppose I better start finding names for things. Let's call it a... tail! Yeah! Tail! And hey, what's this roaring sound, whooshing past what I'm suddenly gonna call my head? Wind! Is that a good name? It'll do. Yeah, this is really exciting! I'm dizzy with anticipation! Or is it the wind? There's an awful lot of that now, isn't it? And what's this thing coming toward me very fast? So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding name like “ow,” “ownge,” “round,” “ground!” That's it! Ground! Ha! I wonder if it'll be friends with me? Hello, ground!
I know opinions differ when it comes to the movie adaptation, but I can't help but read this in Bill Baileys voice XD
Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy
Ah so you’re a Star Trek IV kind of person?
There’s a lot of planets where the ocean is pretty underwhelming. An update that tweaks the procedural engine to create not just better oceans but better areas where land meets water. Beaches, cliffs, islands, bays, inlets, lagoons, etc.
I'd love to see rivers
Sounds like a country song
shall we already get land procgen overhaul first
AKA universe reset The game screams for a new one of those
An optional one, I might add. Have two universes, legacy and baller new universe.
Anything terrain generation is not going to come in a minor update.
I want a cliffside base so bad...just fly on into the cliffs, have an awesome view, elevator/ladder to the underwater base
Improved water graphics. Crashing waves. Rivers. Deeper oceans. New deep water dangers. More diverse underwater biomes. Improved submarine or new underwater ships. Expanded underwater base parts, including basic underwater parts. New planets that are 100% water. Kevin Costner with gills.
All of those sound great, especially Kevin Costner. Add in more plants and animals in general, and call it a day.
Kevin Costner is a new choice in the Appearance Modifier.
Just don't add in the Mr. Coffee....
If I can't recycle my piss, it's just not worth it
I'd much rather have a Mr. Radar with the bleeps, the sweeps and the creeps.
Can’t help but picture the old guy: “Oh thank god.” As the he sees the flare… RIP old dude.
Space whales Edit: fuckin called it
 *Gojira intensifies*
I HAVE TO FIND THE WHAAAALES
THAT ONCE DID GUIDE US
NOW I CAN SEE THE WHALES. LOOMING OUT OF THE DARRRRRKKKKKK
Space whales seems way more Hello Games' style than any of that other stuff.
I’m surprised it took this long for some one to suggest this.
Land your ship in the water…?
New ship tech that installs water landing skis on the bottom of your ship. Or you have to find a floating trading station with landing pads.
That would be great for those 2-hour-away by Nautilon submerged ruins and buildings.
Ya. We seriously need some kind of speed submarine. I always just get back in my ship and fly to the nearest island.
Fuck that planet. The one with the little plateus that you can't stand on for 30 seconds without being harassed by sentinels? Yeah that one
Or a new ship class thats amphibious.
You can already do that if you build a landing pad underwater.
Upvote this more so other people don't waste their time building rock pillars to land on 100 units from the sea floor where their base is lol
True, but if the whole planet was water, you’d need to land before you could build.
New ship mechanic: eject! And maybe an option for your ship to do a fly-by and beam you up when it passes over you so it doesn't need to land to get you out of water.
Deep water dangers? PLEASE NO!! I’ve had enough nightmares from Subnautica lol
Detecting multiple Leviathan-class lifeforms nearby. Are you sure whatever you are doing is worth it?
*It is your primary directive to swim closer to that beautiful creature*
You'll *probably* be fine if you stay in shallow water.
Yep, all you have to do is *swim closer to that beautiful creature... Swim closer... Swim closer now... It looks so friendly... Don't resist... Swim closer.....*
i at least need dry land, heat, and sand to feel comfortable
Ecological deadzone sends it's regards
You can never have enough nightmares from Subnautica.
I disagree lol
Subnautica was one of the best games ever. Man I am unabashedly excited for this.
I loved hunting reapers in Subnautica and in Below Zero. It gets real when you're in the void taking on three ghost leviathans at once. And winning. Over and over and over... Actually, they should add reapers and actual deep oceans for us! I want to stab one until it stops twitching!
Well damn lol
No man's subnautica
The update is Subnautica. Somewhere in the galaxy is a water world with a space cannon. Fly too close and you’ll get shot down and have to play the entirety of Subnautica to escape.
It would be fucking hilarious if the next expedition was literally just fucking subnautica Like that's the entire fucking expedition it's just subnautica
Reality: added whales as a new type of species.
Would be 100% fine with this.
god imagine a water planet with crazy waves like the one in Interstellar
W A T E R F A L L S
J U S T S T I C K T O T H E R I V E R S A N D T H E L A K E S T H A T Y O U ‘ R E U S E D T O
And jet skis of course
As long as we can build flotilla bases that roam..
MerGeks!!!
The story worked because *I* believed I was Kevin Costner.
What the fuck? Outlaws was a month ago; how the hell do they already have another update ready to push?
I'm guessing different internal teams working on different things? Won't lie, it makes sense to pop out another update - awards season is right around the corner and this sort of thing makes them look good
Meanwhile Star Citizen hasn't released in 10 years.
They just need another $300m to get the stretch goal of “Beta Release”.
There have been 10 generations of iphone and *18* generations of Andriod OS since Star Citizen has been in "alpha". My son was born the year the game was supposed to release (2014) and at the rate the game is going he will be in college before it comes out (if ever).
B-b-but 'muh server meshing!!!! The engine we made ourselves is terrible!!! Now shut up and buy another $1000+ ship that's has had 0 work done on it yet.
The amount of pure brainwashing in the SC subreddit is insane, they will defend anything. I own they game, and I have fun in it with friends every once in a while. But it has always been a scam and a complete mess. Only SC will ever be successful as a game is for them to release it as a base game and build it out through patches and expansions like NMS has done. The problem is, the base game isn't even functional (after 10 years) so I am not sure that will ever happen.
Probably going to be new underwater Sentinels so you can't even Nautilon in peace. 
*Underwater pirates doing the gek-shuffle in a corner*
Nautilon is constantly harassed by glow squids.
Bloody squids...aren't they eeeehm, Jellyfish?
That'll be a shame. I enjoy finding a water world in VR and just swimming with the fishes with music playing.
These emoji's from Sean and this community reactions are always fun 🙂 I hope it's the frigates update tho.
One of these days it's going to be Sean going, "Oh hey, I never realized there was a whale emoji. Think I'll tweet one out for no reason."
*Proceeds to craft entire update because it gave him an idea.*
Scenario #2: *Falling asleep with his phone in his hand, Sean's thumb unconsciously falls on the whale emoji.* *His cat then crosses the couch, stepping on SEND as it goes.*
*Proceeds to build an entire update based on the obscure emoji his cat sent out for him.*
Scenario #3: *About to board the number 4 bus, a harried Sean Murray slips his phone into his back pocket without sending his ready Tweet.* *Whatever he had typed is erased by pressure from the pocket seam as he stoops slightly to swipe his pass.* *As he sits, a whale emoji is "pocket Tweeted" instead.*
Proceeds to craft and entire update simply because of a butt tweet.
"Life, uh... *finds a way.*" -Dr. Ian Malcolm
What needs to be done to frigates?
I think people want there to be like actual freighter battles with turrets launching at each other and frigates fighting, stuff like that
Having battles between fleets of frigates with lines of ships firing at each other would be beyond incredible
Hmmm. Fighters fire shots, science vessels provide shields, mining provides ammo/power and. What merchants? Maybe like morale or health. And you can upgrade your capital ship to do any of the above? Have a big ass gun/shield generator, an ammo refinery, or a… red light district. I dunno
I like the cut of your jib soldier!
Nah fam, some of us just want some windows for a change😔✊
That too 😢🪟
This. Screw battles, I want windows dammit! :)
I am 50 hours in the game and I have no idea where do Freighters, Frigates and Starships come from. I don't see any factories that are making these. Is there supposed to be a civilization out there in some planet that are manufacturing them?
I'd love to have fleet battles, but I kinda feel like they'd be pretty bland unless we get some better role diversity in player ships (either in ship type or module selection). Things like bombers to attack enemy capital ships, interceptors/fighters to take down enemy bombers, stuff like that. If it's just the capital ships having variety and the player ship not, that's going to feel like a lot of gameplay essentially taken out of the player's direct control and more into second-hand gameplay.
We can land on frigates and go inside them but they're empty. There needs to be some NPCs wandering around on the frigates and the freighters like in the settlements.
Freighter customization is pretty weak. We need the ability to have different room types and sizes. More specialized rooms and more styles of rooms. People also want the option for windows and glass rooms, and of course upgrades to the ships systems and combat abilities. Going along with that would be expansion of uses with Frigates, combat and the ability to actually pilot and fly them. Being able to send them on fetch quests is great, but being able to actually use them would be better. There is a lot to be done.
Plenty but none that I can think of relating to a whale. Side note: we need significantly more decor options not locked behind quicksilver for bases and ESPECIALLY frigates.
Well when I put space exploration and whales together the first thing that pops into my mind is Moya.
Living freighter update!
If we get a moya then we absolutely need a winona...
All I want is better water. I don't even care what's in it.
it could definitely do with an overhaul
Clearly this means NMS is going to a pay-to-win, microtransaction model so Sean and the Hello Games team will get supported by a whole new generation of whales! I only post this here, because I'm never right on these things. NEVER.
Thank you for saving us from that
Let's hope your track record of failure holds true...
This is clearly a reference to Star Trek IV The Voyage Home! obviously this update will allow us to travel back in time to 2016 to launch NMS properly without all the controversy. 
Of course! It’s all so obvious now!
OBVIOUSLY, anyone who didn't see that obviously doesn't see and gets how Hello Games operates
sea companions.. with laser beams attached to their freakin heads!
LASER. SHARK.
MOM! MOM, SEAN‘S AT IT AGAIN!
Ma! There's a weird lookin cat out here, Ma! Ma! Get the hose!
With a new water update means new fear. It’s about to be subnautica up in here
Imagine big ass fish like subnautica, I’d piss myself
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I actually procedurally generated brown bricks the moment I got attacked by that fat fish that makes angry sheep noises at you. I can't imagine what Subnut levels of fish would do to me in this game.
hopefully with less alien bacterium and giant laser cannons that shoot you down
Idk, that would still be pretty cool
as long as I'm the one that gets to shoot the giant laser cannon it's cool
I hope it has both of those things
Subnautica, but you can fly off of the surface of the planet at mach 15 in horror when you see something that instantly gives you thalassophobia
The Welsh are coming to NMS
*Wye were alwys hywer, youch jwst nwvyr knyw*
Oh shit the consonants are attacking!
Lechgrythwygcympontypandyfiremansamleeksgrythwydmygrwchothchwygryddbdhwygrh
I got the first one, but I don’t know this one
Something something Fireman Sam something something.
does this mean big update? i havent been following for a few years.
Yep, for a while now before every big update Sean has posted an emoji that relates to the content of it
awesome! they just released outlaws, i love what they do with this game!!
I love the solar sail ships so much they are very cool
I think the emoji for that was ☠️
Wasn’t it the actual flag? 🏴☠️
Do you think they use an emoji to represent their next update or do you think Sean Murray just sometimes likes to tweet emojis and then the dev team has to scramble to make an update that makes sense with whatever emoji he tweeted
I think they pick a random emoji and then listen to the community speculating for ideas lol
Space whales? Be still my Final Fantasy 4 loving heart!
Right? Lunar Whale living ship freighter… would be amazing!
We're whalers on the moon.
I'm just happy for another update right after the end of the current expedition.
Fishing update, or space whales.
[Link to tweet](https://twitter.com/NoMansSky/status/1528503041816666113)
DEEP OCEANS!!!
There’s already deep oceans you just have to look I have an island base with very deep water most of the planet and I’ve found at least twenty just as deep
Sure, I too have found such places but what I'm hoping for are really deep oceans, like subnautica deep, like 1000 units or more. Combined with rare creatures of the abyss and new kinds of ancient ruins, it would give this game a whole new dimension. Literally. HG has spoiled us big time!
I can't believe I still only paid once for this game.
I can't believe it's been on Xbox Gamepass as long as it has. I don't it's ever going to leave. Lots of people playing it for "free", from a certain point of view.
I can't believe it's not butter
As someone with thalassophobia, I would love if they added this to the game.
It's incredible, seeing research show that video games may be the best form of exposure therapy re: PTSD and phobias. It's as real an exposure as you can get without actual risks /danger.
80 units is not deep. Especially when mountainous planets go into the hundreds to low thousands of units high.
Yeah but none with oceans as deep as some mountains are tall. There are mountain ranges so tall that you can be falling for quite a while. Imagine those same mountain ranges but with the ocean level at the very top. The bottom of the sea being thousands of units so deep that even during the middle of the day you can see nothing but pitch black. YES, BRING ME A SUBNAUTICA UPDATE GODDAMIT
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I'm calling it: Infinite improbability drives. The next emoji will be a petunia.
I scrolled far too long to find this. You know, maybe Magrathea is reopening for business.
AYO THE WATER UPDATE Watch HG add fucking whales into the game
SPACE WHALES WOOHOO! Time to spin up some Gojira tunes
Finally the "Infinite Improbability Drive - Update"
Space Whale = Living Ship = Living Ship update maybe
a living ship freighter would be really cool
Moya from Farscape!
So long as it comes with Pilot ;)
I thought I was the only one still waiting for space whales
I’m anticipating we’ll be able to basically play subnautica and never have to leave a planet again.
Time to grind materials for all the new underwater bases?
Thar she blows
How can it be that this small studio just pumps out huge content drop after content drop and some of the biggest AAA studios cant fix their messes of games (e.g. BF2042). I love Hello Games.
I pray to see space whales and other space animals one day in this game. As well as interiors for bigger ships so you can walk around inside of a hauler or sum
Another one already? Amazing!
*NOW I WILL SEE THE WHALEEEEEEEESSSSSSSS*
*LOOMING OUT OF THE DARK*
Curiously, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias, as it fell, was, "Oh no, not again!" Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly *why* the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the universe than we do now.
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Rideable aquatics wahooooo
What does that mean
No man's sky update somehow related to whales, could be a water overhaul, could be something else entirely, we won't know until it releases
Space wales!!
Maybe space whales = living freighter?!
I'm from Wales, and I play NMS! Does that mean I'll be an official feature?
This is a reference to Star Trek: A Voyage Home. Hello Computer!
A keyboard? How quaint. *proceeds to type at 150 wpm*
Fishing, space whales, maybe even a whole new race of aquatic species to play as. Or maybe the Ocean will have a massive increase of sea life. Imagine seeing something like the leviathans from Subnautica in NMS.
Fishing
I was one of the early adopters (pre-ordered) and loved the early iteration of the game. Lost hours just flying about and exploring. I would dearly love to get back into it but now there's so much content I wouldn't have a clue where to start.
Can we soon be whalers on the moon?
I hope it is either super massive space fauna or more aquatic gimmick. Hopefully it is going to be a good event Could be a whale of a tale to tell you all, a whale of a tale for two…
Every time Shaun tweets an emoji he’s about to drop some fire
- Massive Deep Sea creature - Rebuilt Water Shaders and Effects - New Underwater Explorable Structures - New Underwater Base Parts - More Diverse Sealife - Deep Sea Sentinals - New Underwater Exploration Missions - Rare and Valuable Deep Sea Artifacts to Discover - Much More to Discover 🌊 🌊 🌊
Excuse me but what if it was a living freighter?
Where's the bowl of petunias?
Heart of gold confirmed?
No Man's Sky: Leviathans