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No Man's Sky: Eight tips to get you started

If you want to sit back and admire the scenery, you had better be cautious Photograph: The Guardian W ell, it’s finally here. After two years of beautiful trailers, ambiguous claims and lofty expectations, No Man’s Sky has touched down and opened its blast doors. Judging by its opening hours at least, it is a big, bold and bewildering experience. In my first few minutes, I headed out across my starting planet to find the necessary materials to fix my crashed spaceship, saw my first animal and promptly scared it away when I destroyed the rock it was prancing around, fell down a big hole, was discovered by a sentinel drone, and died. I’m really enjoying No Man’s Sky, so much so that it was very difficult to drag myself away to write this, but my first few hours were a learning process. So here are some things you may want to know before you start your intergalactic journey. Note: I’m playing the PS4 version, so any reference to controls will involve a PS4 controller. Facebo...