Summary
Following dozens of free updates since the game’s initial release in 2016,No Man’s Skyleaves little left to be desired in terms of features - but the game’s latest Worlds Part I update addresses an incredibly popular fan request. This completely free content update brings a total overhaul to the game’s planetary generation, populating the universe ofNo Man’s Skywith new creatures and fauna while adding worlds that feature terrain unlike anything seen in the title before.
After its controversial launch nearly eight years ago,No Man’s Sky’s small team of developers atHello Games continue to build upon the title’s procedurally generated universeseemingly without pause. Dozens of completely free updates and countless additional features later,No Man’s Skyis almost unrecognizable now from what it was at launch. The game has come to be called the single greatest redemption arc in video game history, and the team behind it continue to make the game even grander at a pace that seems impossible, considering that the small studio is simultaneously working on a new ambitious project titledLight No Fire.
The newest update to the game is called Worlds Part I, and while it looks to be one of the biggest content drops the game has seen in a long while, the update as a whole is split into multiple parts. This update focuses on completely refreshing the game’s universe, allowing planets to generate with an entire spectrum of new plants, animals, biomes, and more. Overhauled water and cloud graphics let players viewNo Man’s Sky’s procedural universewith fresh eyes, with newly-introduced technology allowing planetary weather to dynamically affect the motion of plants as well as the surface of any body of water, resulting in some incredible waves that breathe new life into ocean environments.
Everything No Man’s Sky Worlds Part I Brings To The Table
This isn’t all the update brings, with players now able to embark on anotherlimited-time expedition event inNo Man’s Skywhich helps guide players through the new iteration of the universe. While each one only runs for a limited time, expeditions make for a popular way to play the game, with these events presenting players with a list of challenges to complete and unique rewards to collect. The update also includes a number of quality-of-life features, including the ability for players to rename the discoveries they’ve already uploaded in the past.
This isn’t the first time that the universe ofNo Man’s Skyhas seen a total reset. The game’s exploration aspect generally sees a refresh every couple of years, withNo Man’s Sky’s Origins updatesimilarly bringing new potential for discovery through the addition of entirely new planets to an already incomprehensibly massive universe. In the past, “universal resets” have proven to be problematic for many players due to their constructed bases becoming lost within regenerated planets. While Hello Games have acknowledged this issue in the past, it’s not yet clear how players' bases may have been impacted by this update.
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Lose yourself in a vast sci-fi odyssey as you explore a near-infinite, procedurally generated universe. Set out from the edge of the Euclid galaxy and carve out your own interstellar existence in a vast universe teeming with life, danger and near-endless mystery. No Man’s Sky is a hugely-ambitious, heavily-stylised, sci-fi adventure that spans entire galaxies all brought to life with procedural generation. Travel through an endless array of increasingly diverse and dangerous star systems, prospecting for rare materials, trading with alien life, populate planets and searching for clues to the meaning of the universe’s mysterious existence. How you survive is up to you. Assemble entire fleets of dreadnought-class freighters and tear across the universe; build sprawling habitable bases across planet surfaces, beneath the ground or under the ocean; buy and upgrade your own weapons and star ships and do battle with outlaw space pirates, hostile alien fauna or the mysterious sentinel fleets. The universe is yours to explore - trillions upon trillions of planets, waiting to be discovered.
