Go For Your First True Adventure
Though you’ll have traveled a short distance trying to reach a nearby planet, nothing will come close to that first time that you set out off into the vast sprawling blackness of space on a long adventure in search of some completely random planet. Getting a feel for how your ship controls is going to be a pretty significant part of the learning process considering how long you could potentially end up sitting in the cockpit.
It’d be silly of us not to mention the other reason that you’ll want to go off on a proper adventure almost immediately in No Man’s Sky, and that’s to get an idea of just how tiny you are in this huge expansive galaxy. Yes, the map can give you an idea of how big things are, but the amount of time it takes you to get from one tiny dot on that map to another is one of the questions on every fan’s lips at the moment. At least we don’t have to wait much longer to find out.