No Man's Sky

Our most requested feature: you can now play the entirety of No Man’s Sky in Virtual Reality without compromise.

Switch seamlessly between VR and standard gameplay. Continue from an existing save to revisit favourite planets, bases and creatures in full Virtual Reality.

Multiplayer sessions can now accommodate more explorers. The Space Anomaly can hold 16 players on all platforms. Throughout the rest of the universe, the maximum player count has increased from 4 to 8 players on console, and from 4 to 32 players on PC.

Virtual Reality and standard mode players can be seamlessly matchmade into the same multiplayer session.

Missions and tutorials have been significantly revised. The early game has been streamlined and focused to better teach players new mechanics, particularly in VR.

New story content has been added to weave together the existing strands of the Atlas Path, the journey of the Space Anomaly, and the story of Artemis.

The Space Anomaly has been transformed into an all-new social hub. This unique communal space exists across all systems and galaxies, giving all explorers an opportunity to see each others’ character and ship customisations, meet new friends, and undertake missions together.

Also features exceptional bases created by members of the No Man’s Sky community, bringing visitors from across the stars to see the best bases in the universe.

Explorers who have encountered the Anomaly now have the ability to summon it in space.

Multiplayer missions are now initialised from The Nexus, located aboard the Space Anomaly. A large set of unique missions is currently available – including a new style of mission – Base Construction.

Nexus mission rewards will soon include Quicksilver, to unlock special customisations and building parts from Polo’s robotic companion.

Blueprints are now visualised through unlockable technology trees. Learning new crafting recipes is now clearer, more interactive, and more rewarding.

The Blueprint Analyser has been transformed into an advanced Construction Research Unit. Players may now choose their own research paths, and more clearly visualise their research progress. Even more base parts are available aboard the Space Anomaly.

Visit the technology specialists aboard the Space Anomaly to purchase enhancements for Exosuit, starship, Multi-Tool and exocraft technology.

Explorers can enjoy longer stretches of uninterrupted mining with less frequent and less aggressive sentinels, and a reworked overheat mechanic for the Mining Beam that rewards pushing heat to the limit.

Ship controls and space combat balance have been improved.

Inventory limitations have been relaxed, allowing explorers to carry near-unlimited quantities of mined substances. The inventory UI has been revised and improved.

being able to move installed technology

The Discovery Page has been overhauled and expanded for a more intuitive interface, and to display alien flora, fauna and mineral discoveries in greater detail.

Specialist Polo and Priest Entity Nada have welcomed 12 new Traveller friends aboard their home. Each has their own role to play – from Iteration Helios, the ancient dreamer, to Iteration Ares, avid collector of exotic goods.

Return to these Travellers each day to experience a range of interactions, missions, and nanite-earning opportunities.

Alien NPCs will now walk around, and interact with elements in their environment, such as chairs, panels, and other NPCs. There is also now a richer mix of NPCs on Space Stations.

Some alien NPCs may be encountered on the planet surface, with new unique sets of dialogues.

More than 700 new alien words have been added to the dictionary, and very similar word variations, such as plurals, are now learned together in groups.

Tame creatures with bait, then mount and ride them to explore planets from a new perspective.

Tamed creatures may also be peacefully harvested for a variety of cooking ingredients, such as milk, eggs, or ‘edible clusters’.

Encounter 10 new varieties of harvestable flora on every planet surface.
Harvest raw cooking ingredients from plants and creatures, and experiment in the Nutrient Processor to discover more than 300 delicious recipes.

Planetary bases can now be powered by fueled biogenerators, or self-sustaining solar panels.

The game has been heavily optimised throughout, improving performance in every area of the universe. In particular, players on lower-end PCs will enjoy significant framerate improvements, and the game now supports integrated Intel graphics cards.

Planetary and freighter bases now have multiple levels of detail (LODs), to increase rendering speed in large, complex bases.

Shaders are now loaded in as required, rather than up-front, reducing the game’s initial load time.

Exocrafts can now be driven from a first person perspective, with new unique tactile cockpits for all 5 vehicles.

On PC, OpenGL has been replaced by the Vulkan API, improving performance across the board, especially for users on AMD cards, or with older CPUs.

Many video and graphical options such as resolution, v-sync, and window mode can now be altered without restarting the game.

Added options to disable vignette and scanline effects.

Refiner output readings now correctly update when more resources are added to an input slot.

Moved substances, products and technologies to their own ‘Catalogue’, separate from the Guide.

Added a new style of mission notification that gives more context to complex mission steps.

The Galaxy Map has been totally overhauled for clarity and visual style.

Player locomotion is more responsive when running.

Significantly reworked all factory and monolith interactions.

Added a chance for guest NPCs to visit Space Stations, eg the occasional Korvax may be found in the Space Station of a Vy’keen system.

Players can practice using the words they know when speaking to alien lifeforms and observe the results.

Day/night cycles are now deterministic and synced between players.

Overhauled the gravity simulation, improving the experience on dead planets.

Added a powered Sphere Generator that allows players to generate large movable spheres. [lol]

Increased the tolerance of trader ships participating in a freighter battle so that they do not report friendly fire as a crime unless the shot is fatal.

Fixed an issue where Sentinel drones would become stuck when scanning a player who was entering and exiting their ship.

Fixed a Multi-Tool animation glitch when firing the Mining Beam from sheathed in first person.

Fixed an issue where the starship can appear floating above the terrain if the player is spawned at a long distance from the ship.

Fixed a number of item duplication exploits.

Fix for the starship HUD reading ‘Moon of Unknown Planet’ when the planet is known.

Overhauled the Analysis Visor. Scanning of flora, fauna and minerals no longer begins automatically, but begins when the player holds a button while looking at the relevant object. [WHY]

Custom Markers placed from the Analysis Visor now drop a physical object at the marker location. [k?]

Made butterflies and other flying creatures much easier to scan with the Analysis Visor.

Added a new set of rare vibrant colour palettes for lush planets.

Fixed an issue where creatures would never poop once they had been scared by a predator.

Predator creatures no longer target and attack players when they are in an interaction.

Creatures will no longer attack players who are in their ships.

Improved the clarity and display of warning icons on predatory or angry creatures.

Fix for biological horrors not playing their death effects for network players.

Fix for incorrect fauna level being displayed in the Analysis Visor.

Added creature marker to display their current mental state.

Added new wild plants to all biomes.

Added the ability to cook plant and animal products in a Nutrient Processor to produce a wide variety of food. Experient with combinations to create unique and complex foodstuffs.

Renamed Coprite to Faecium. [WHY always with the renames!]

Increased the scale of starships. Landing pads and docking areas across the galaxy have been expanded to cope with the new larger ships. As a result, landing pads in existing bases have been refunded.

Fixed a number of issues where trees and rocks could not be run over by Exocraft.

Trade Outposts now have ladders to climb up to the platform.

The Exosuit torch can now be turned on whatever the time of day.

Technology can now be installed in stages, allowing incomplete tech to be placed in an inventory and its individual components added over time.

Technology can now be moved after installation.

Significantly overhauled the system for pinning instructions for building technologies, products and base parts.

Removed the Advanced Mining Laser requirement from large trees on lush planets.

Added an Antimatter Reactor base part that generates antimatter over time.

Added ‘Warp Hypercores’, a large hyperdrive fuel unit with five times the capacity of a regular Warp Cell.

Increased the base mining speed of the Mining Beam.

Fixed a bug that caused resource notifications to stack up while playing without the HUD.

Reduced the length of time resource notifications are displayed when you have multiple resources stacked up.

Added the Launch System Recharger, a starship upgrade that automatically recharges the Launch Thrusters over time.

Added an extra slot to the starting Multi-Tool.

When installing an upgrade module, the correct inventory is automatically selected.

Adjusted the probabilities of low, medium and high security planets in Normal Mode.

Adjusted the timers of Sentinel patrols on lower security planets.

In normal mode, allowed some planets to never spawn Sentinel drones.

Added a chance to collect geodes when mining rocks or asteroids. Geodes can be analysed to extract large quantities of substances.

Increased the base speed of all Refiner units.

In normal mode, increased the slot storage limit for substances from 250 to 10,000. [But what about slot count?....]

Increased the wealth levels at which higher tiers of pirates will attack.

Increased the base energy levels of the Mining Beam and the Terrain Manipulator, allowing for less frequent recharging.

Replaced the ‘Find specific building’ component of the Signal Booster with a system of planetary charts. Acquire planetary charts from Space Station Cartographers.

Navigation Data can be traded for planetary charts. Collect Navigation Data when saving and charting at waypoints and save beacons.

Using the Terrain Manipulator to mine basic ground will award silicate powder, which can be used to refine glass.

Added a note on the interaction label of NPCs that have already been visited.

Increased the minimum speed while in space combat, creating better combat handling in most conditions.

Increased the maximum speed while flying in space.

Added a degree of roll when banking in planetary flight.

The ‘Shields Down’ message is no longer displayed when claiming an abandoned ship.

Increased the likelihood of procedural upgrade modules being relevant to the player’s current tech setup.

Increased the default stack size for Ammunition.

The Mining Beam now has a much higher base heat capacity.

Reworked the Mining Beam overheat mechanic: the beam now cools down correctly rather than instantly resetting; the Mining Beam does more damage as it approaches max heat; the Mining Beam changes colour as it approaches max heat.

Innes has walked over 1400 miles. His journey continues.