Some people cannot wait another minute to play No Man's Sky, the upcoming PS4/PC space-exploration game whose gargantuan, open-ended galaxy contains 18 quintillion planets. (That's 18 followed by 18 zeros.) One lucky man managed to get his hands on a copy on Friday, a week and a half ahead of its official August 9 launch. Whether his brag about paying $1,300 for an advance copy on eBay is true, his stream of the game's opening sequence, which has since been taken offline, is wholly legitimate.

Reddit user "Daymeeuhn" posted videos to DailyMotion on Friday containing the PS4 version's opening sequence and a full 24 minutes of first-planet gameplay. If you're the kind of No Man's Sky enthusiast who wants zero spoilers, you should tune out right now.

Spoilers ahead

"Sean Murray, if you're watching, I'm an asshole, I'm sorry," Daymeeuhn says as he begins his stream of the full, retail game. After a brief star-screensaver visual sequence, overlaid with the No Man's Sky text logo, the player wakes on a planet named "Fljodal Nientv." This isn't the game's "default" planet; instead, every player's game starts on a unique rock in Sky's massive galaxy, and it's highly likely no other player on Earth will ever discover Fljodal Nientv. No opening sequence or explainer plays out, beyond a robotic voice alerting players that they have crash landed.

Daymeeuhn receives a single directive: repair your spaceship. To do so, he uses a default laser weapon to mine materials from the planet, which he can use to craft elements that will repair his ship. Trouble is, new players always spawn on a random planet—so how are you supposed to craft stuff for a spaceship if, say, there's no iron where you've landed? No Man's Sky solves this by giving you a ship that can be repaired by all kinds of objects in this first mission. Meaning, players can fulfill the repair mission by spamming whatever one or two resources are most abundant on the random planet where they land.

Otherwise, the game does little to coax players in its opening sequence. Players must to dig through all the floating icons in the game's Destiny-like menus, which they'll want to do after receiving various alerts. You're overheating; your visor is damaged and needs repair; your life support systems are failing. Better get to the menus and see if you can resolve that!

In terms of what players do on the planet, the open-sequence video shows a player walking around in a first-person perspective with little guidance while doing random stuff just to see what happens. You start with a little laser blaster, and you're expected to shoot it around and hope for the best. Maybe you'll get a resource. Maybe you'll open a hole in the ground. Who knows?

Having attended an official No Man's Sky preview event , I can safely say that the experience daymeeuhn had differed largely from my own—and that's a testament to the game's procedural planet, structure, and monster generation system. The video does a good job of selling how unique and exciting a single No Man's Sky planet can feel, in terms of generating towering mountains, bizarre underground caves, and weird alien creatures.

The video answers one major question I had after my hour with the game: how it performs. This leaked video appears to show the game holding onto a much more stable frame rate, which is good, because the number of creatures and crazy structures on screen at any time can get huge, at least in my brief experience.

Whether that exciting, exploratory feeling will last while hopping across hundreds of the game's planets remains to be seen. We're going to have to wait a little longer to see more of the game's content, as Daymeeuhn shut down his DailyMotion account following a Friday post from game director Sean Murray, asking fans not to spoil the game for themselves.

"There are more spoilers than you probably realize with this game," Daymeeuhn said on Reddit in his goodbye post. "I'm only a couple hours in, barely touched a few planets, and already I've had many FUCK YEAH moments. On the one hand, I'd love to share those with you, but in the other hand, Sean is right... why not just wait and experience them firsthand? I dunno. The first videos I posted were perfect—they spoiled nothing and just showed a taste."