Hmm I seem to be to stupid for this. I started the game but I cant get it to be controlled right.
My XBox 360 does nothing in the game. I set a profile in steam and NMS, no difference. In Game I can not configure any action to the key or game pad.
ALso the Laser keeps pointing behind me…
Are there any tipps on this? I dont have LH or other controllers at the moment.
Thx
Ok so i just got done play NMS for about 2 hours with the index controllers. Took a while to get used to and I had to calibrate the joystick because pushing what I felt was up, was moving me diagonally to the left.
Its pretty good. But since most games dont do anything meaningful with finger tracking, i’d have to say my ranking for best controllers are:
*Ranking(not considering finger tracking)
- Rift S + Mamut Touch Grips
- Original Touch
- Valve Index Controllers
- WMR Controllers
- PS Move
- Razer Hydra
- Nintendo Wiimote
- 2 chopsticks powered by a watch battery (Thanks @jTeller)
- Vive wands.
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Someone said NMS seems to have gamepad option but I think said it wasn’t working in vr? (Could be mistaken)
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In the bindings menu of NMS there are input columns for both K&M and Gamepad, but nothing binds when you choose an input. Perhaps support coming soon in a patch?
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Yeah hopefully NMS has a patch to fix it.
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Hello Games have set a high bar in game patching over the last few years so there’s a good chance for additional controller support.
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I would put 2 chopsticks powered by a watch battery above Vive Wands.
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I think they’re aware of the issue… 
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I used the gamepad in NMS in 2D before Beyond dropped, but it seems to have been disabled for VR control atm. Perhaps Hello will beef up controller compatibility. I would like to see native HOTAS and rudder support, but prefer they work on optimizing performance as a priority.
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yes as @Heliosurge mentioned, like in The Forest, there was gamepad support in the 2D ver and then it was dropped in the VR ver. so yea, annoying. Right now I’m playing RiftS with full controller support (thankfully).
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I have spent 20+ hours in NMS-VR up to now, so a quick update:
The above settings work great but i went back to 100% Steam-SS to avoid below 45fps dips on some high-foliage planetary surfaces.
Installed newest nvidia-driver.
Installed newest Steam-VR Beta because motion smoothing was upgraded there to avoid it to throttle CPU somehow.
Now somehow motion-smoothing does not kick in anymore and i have 60+ fps on surface and mostly 90 fps in space. 
Beside some shimmering though of planet boundaries behind asteroids i can not recall any graphical glitches i encountered. It runs stable and nice.
Presence is great in that game and i enjoy it a lot. ED is more of a sim but NMS is way more fun - at least for me.
Did not try it on my 8k yet. Was thinking about getting an index headset but i do not want to go back to lens-glare-issues after enjoying the clarity of the gear-vr-lenses on my vive pro.
Edit: a few issues ingame i encountered playing with index-controllers:
When scanning something in the foreground with right trigger-button always a marked target behind the scanned object gets marked automaticly. That is annoying.
When sprinting and then using jetpack (to move quickly) i have to let loose (open palm) the right index controller or it does not stop sprinting so sprinting does not recover to be used after using jetpack and so on.
Also when packing the raffinery to inventory i have to let loose the grip, too or it does detect that i want to open the raffinery.
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Have played around with this now for some hours. (For people using the GOG version: Go to More->More->No Man’s Sky (OpenVR) in GOG Galaxy).
Could easily become one of my favourite VR games up to now! (Besides Eleven Table Tennis, Holoball and Elite Dangerous).
Have high hopes for the mentioned enhanced comfort of the upcoming 8kX. Playing with the 5k+ looks great but gets uncomfortable for me after more than half an hour or so. (Fine for short sessions of table tennis and holo ball, E:D or NMO would invite for longer sessions though…)
How are you playing at 100% and getting 60fps? I have to SS at 50% to average in the 60s with many dips into the 50s, and I’m on a 2080ti. The biggest problem that I can see is that it’s not loading my GPU.
I’ve tried lastest Nvidia drivers. I’ve tried the last 3 Pitools.
If I do the GPU trick with MSI afterburner (spam the default button a few times) my GPU usage will go up to the 90s and I’ll get higher frame rates but this doesn’t last and it fails back down to the 60-ish %
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Hoping for some help/answers:
- Can you play with 360 controller/mouse, keyboard without lighthouses/wands?
- I can’t get past main menu. Mouse cursor stuck on far right of screen, only moves up and down, not left and right. Any idea why??
Thanks for any help.
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I would do the same , but after I ate my ramen
P.S. I updated the list 
My understanding is that only the PS4 version supports controller right now, PC is motion controller in VR only.
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I have finally installed No Mans Sky and have played it for a couple of hours. It’s starting to get boring . Do I need to keep playing or is every planet the same grind of mining resources.
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You will be doing mining no matter where you go, but dont go too hardcore on it as thats how you burn yourself out on the game. Plus you’ll always find more resources so you don’t need to panic and get everything all the time.
The fun is supposed to be finding new planets with different animals and plants, flying through space, building bases, using ground vehicles and exploring oceans. There is also some amount of campaign/story too.
In a way the game play itself isn’t great, but its about the exploration and just wandering around doing what you want where you want.
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Yeah I am going to put in few more hours before I decide if I like it or not . I have only been to one other planet and the terrain , plants and animals were very similar so I will fly to a few more and see if things change . I was really hoping I would like it so I had a game I could spend a lot of hours playing . The Forest was the last game I played to death.
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Yeah you do definitely get some similar feeling planets.
But just keep in mind you don’t need to stay there, if it looks similar/boring, just fly away immediately to a new planet. No point wasting time on a cr*p planet.
I haven’t actually tried it in VR yet and haven’t seen anyone mention it. But you should also give a look at mods for the game. There were some quite interesting ones, so if they work with VR thats one way to spice the game up
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