No Man's Sky get's a huge freaking updates, goody goods, and even a freaking MP! (Kinda get's MP)

Coming from metro Entertainment news, No Man's Sky is getting some huge improvements and it's by far the biggest update I seen so far. I still play this game since launch and still finding myself enjoying it despite the hating it got. I'll just highlighted what it comes with:

GENERATION

• Increased variety in weather, planet and structure names
• More base building parts have unique names
• Prevented trees spawning on sheer cliffs
• Improved object placement on slopes
• Improved grass placement and density
• Changed the default starting ship model
• Regenerated galaxy to remove differences between survival, normal and creative game modes
• Improved building distribution
• Increased distribution of heridium deposits
• Improved generation of beaches along shorelines
• Repositioned player bases to accommodate generation changes

EXPLORATION

• Improved balance of hazards between planets
• Improved settings for hazard damage and strength
• Reduce cave hazard recharge times
• Added Shielding Shard to the starting player inventory
• Limited the depth at which buildings can spawn underwater

GAMEPLAY

• More tech available in tech shops
• Balanced tech shop standing requirements
• Standing lights have a proper name when you interact with them
• Increased robustness of systems for locating buildings
• Increased number and types of objects which can be scanned
• Increased information available about scanned foliage and creatures
• Improved planet resource lists
• Craftable products now sorted by most recent use
• Improved differentiation of weapons
• Fixed pinning product recipes and technology guides
• Continued story unlocked through abandoned buildings
• Added interactions and dialogue options for many structures and characters
• Overhauled secondary character interactions
• Joint exploration has been introduced allowing 16 players to see visual representations of each other in game.
• Joint exploration does not require PS Plus, and is not currently available on GOG Galaxy.
• TRADE AND FARMING
• Alloys, farm products and new gas products now form separate branches of a larger craft tree
• Added new valuable higher tier craft products
• Added new harvester to harvest atmospheric gases
• Added new trade specific products
• Added new farmable ‘Star Bramble’ plant
• Added larger 4 plant hydroponic tray
• Increased contrast between picked and unpicked resource plants to more easily tell them apart
• Balanced priced of alloys, farm products and gases
• Improved distributions of resources on planets
• Improved scan ranges for resources on planets
• Added scan markers on more smaller plutonium crystals to aid resource gathering

FREIGHTERS

• Balanced freighter prices
• Fixed collision on freighter bridge
• Added freighter classes
• Added ability to warp in your freighter
• Fixed floating turrets on capital freighters

SPACE

• Improved space heavy air
• Added requirement to scan planets in order to reveal their names
• Improved planet name display as you enter orbit
• Fix for massive carve radius when mining asteroids

GALACTIC MAP

• Updated galactic map UI
• Improved galactic map controls
• Improved star names gathered in galaxy map flythrough
• Improved distribution of different coloured stars
• Added interstellar scan events

STARSHIPS

• Added ability to summon your ship from the quick menu
• Refined ship reticules
• Added new holographic cockpit HUD elements: mini map, pulse drive warning and target ship
• Added new ship technology
• Balanced space combat
• Balanced ship weapons and technology
• Updated ship weapon projectile effects
• Updated ship hit direction markers
• Improved flare graphics on ships
• Improved loot containers dropped by AI ships
• Improved effects on damaged AI ships
• Balanced crashed ships broken slots and repair costs
• Added a more convenient swap inventory button for moving items between new/crashed ships and storage units
• Updated design of Atlas pass icons
• Added ability to look around the cockpit when landed
• Allowed player to remain in ship cockpit after landing
• Improved spawning and distribution of AI ships
• Improved ship altimeter
• Added in-ship communicator
• Added button prompt for ship zoom
• Fixed a bug where your ship could become invisible by visiting the galactic map
• Improved Pirate systems including the ability to negotiate or call in support
• Added low flight mode
• Improved landing code

UI

• Divided options menu into several pages
• Revised Journey page
• New Gek, Korvax and Vy’keen medals
• New medals for the merchant, mercenary and explorer guilds
• Revised log page
• Fixed animation on markers as they are removed
• Improved binocular UI
• Updated journey milestone icons
• Overhauled discovery log
• Added cardinal directions to compass
• Added distance markers to compass
• Fix for ‘redeem content’ showing twice on Steam menu
• New trade and product icons
• Revised combat ship markers
• Improved ship tracking arrows when flying away from targets
• Overhauled conversation interface

GRAPHICS

• Improved HBAO filtering around edges
• Improved TAA handling of grass blade edges
• Introduced depth of field effect during interactions
• Added LOD meshes and imposters to various props
• Fixed texturing on the buildable door
• Reduced HBAO shimmer
• Reduced shadow acne
• Fixed artifacts with imposter shadows
• Improved double-sided normals for foliage
• Improved terrain texturing and texture blending
• Improved grass colour blending and integration with terrain
• Improved grass and leaf materials
• Improved colour palettes across several biomes
• Improved planet night skies
• Fixed z-fighting on small glowing plants
• Various graphics optimisations and fixes
• Visual improvements to Atlas stations
• Replaced all terrain textures with higher detail and quality variants
• Added new higher detail foliage variants to several biomes
• Upgraded textures on several cave props

AUDIO

• Four new sets of soundscapes by 65 Days of Static
• Reworked space combat audio
• Reworked space explosions
• Added new ship weapon sounds
• Added weird biome soundscape
• Added new music and sound effects for story mode
• Lots of new UI sounds
• Minor mix changes and optimisations
• LANGUAGE
• Various minor language fixes and improvements

Wow! At this rate the game might be finished in 2 years.

Jeez... I just might actually dl this from my Steam account to play again. This could actually be a decent game now.

Almost ready to to try it.

awesome improvements! I need to hurry up and get to the Galactic Hub

Sure NMS is one the most overhyped and biggest flop this gen but if you lower your standards and expectation it's not that bad. They should make it free for PS+ though, if they want people to actually check it out. It's too little too late.

Might have been interested two years ago

I have it held for me at a local game store for $15 and will pick it up later today. Should provide a nice mix of gaming from Dark Souls 3, Persona 3, and Splatoon 2.

Is it just me, or is most of this stuff balances and small improvements?

Doesn't seem like they really added all that much as far as actual content goes.

@DragonfireXZ95: it's just you.

Yeah but when will sean murray do another interview? I swear he's just fallen off the face of the earth.

I hope this makes the game better, I bought it 3 weeks ago for around 15 euros on the store and I hated it. Also my PS4pro sounds like it's exploding with this game, what the hell?

The last update wasn't really as big as this one is now. I get that this isn't want anyone expected but it's still a big update.

Sean Murray is still hiding from all the lies and can't say I blame him. He was such a bad PR, all he wanted was that fast money. But since Hello Games has been working hard, I'm sure Sean is still with them, so there's that.

@Bread_or_Decide: he gave a talk at a conference about procedural generation recently. Also has made posts in a couple different places. I think it's clear he has been spending the majority of his time working on this game.

I'm not convinced it's worth my time again.

There'd be no point, no one would believe a word he said.

@davillain-: if all he wanted was that fast money then why didn't he just take the money and run? He did the exact opposite and invested that money back into the game with three major updates and more to come. Seems like an odd way to "scam" people.

Ya know, the hiding is what really makes him come off like a real scum bag snake oil salesman.

Yup, that's a big update. Not sure if I ever want to get it though.

@Bread_or_Decide: except he isn't hiding?

What's the actual content?

I guess seeing each other? But you can only see up to 16 people, and you can't interact, so it's not really content in a sense?

I like this game, and am excited to keep plugging away at it on random rainy days for... god knows how many years. It's more like Minecraft in that sense - kind of an endless, sit back and relax, experience to be picked up and put down whenever you feel like it

PSVR or GTFO.

@DragonfireXZ95: would you consider 30 hours of story content. Honestly this update is being universally praised for its large amount of content. Maybe you should read the official patch notes?

I never caught the original hype as I often miss these things so wasn't particularly let down by the game on release. It wasn't great but I got some fun out of it. May go back to see what this is about, but probably wont.

dude just wants to parrot some hate. This update is HUGE.

Are you in the Galactic Hub?

@davillain-:

EXPLORATION

• Improved balance of hazards between planets
• Improved settings for hazard damage and strength
• Reduce cave hazard recharge times
• Added Shielding Shard to the starting player inventory
• Limited the depth at which buildings can spawn underwater
• GAMEPLAY

adding in gameplay as feature at last? :P

Reading through that least it looks like any other patch, what were the major changes?

Pretty much everything on that list looks like balancing or a slight tweak.

Up to 16 players on a planet at a time (15 of which will be represented with a floating orb which cannot be interacted with)- yup even with my extremely low expectations I was pretty let down. What a bunch of talentless a holes.

@Sphensen: yeah I visit the hub often. It seems to have taken a big hit with the new generation though.

I guess I'd have to see the story content, because wasn't it basically non-existent before?

What does "story content" mean?

@DragonfireXZ95: ffs look into the damn thing you are so intent on criticizing.

This is all I found: "Discover the truth behind the Abandoned Building logs, the World of Glass, the Sentinels, the Redemption of the Gek, and the meaning of sixteen..." the developer teased."

So I assume this is just a bunch of lore and not an actual story?

LOL yeah, I made a little typo! Thanks.

@DragonfireXZ95: ok I'm going to try to make this easy. I'm on my phone so I can't link. But go to no man's sky.com. All of the relevant info is there. I know that seems like an unlikely place to find official patch notes but all the info you need is there.

And how are we supposed to be defining "content "? The original game is 6 gb. This patch alone is 7.3 gb.

I think everyone was expecting some kind of story lead and some kind of space battle MP kind of content. Content of a game can be whatever it is there adding that the original game didn't have before launch. From 6GB to 7.3GB is more then enough of a content.

you call that MP? lol

It's a far cry from dudebro Xbone COD that's for sure! Which is the way I want it to stay, thank you kindly.

Great ! .... I'm still not getting it.

Why?

I've been playing it today since the update and I have to say I'm very impressed. If the game had launched in this state I'm sure it would have been better received.

$14.99 and I'll entertain this PoS.

The only way I'll try it if it ends up being free on PS+.

Well the update sounded pretty good to me, so I checked it out on PSN----->and found that the game is $23.99 right now. Couldn't hold out anymore. Looks like I'll be flying my little ship through the cosmos soon.

Checks price. Still not $7.99

Game is shaping up nicely..another major update and it would at least almost deserve the hype it got in the first place.

Sweeten the deal with a 50% discount and id buy immediately.

You are in luck. it's $24. That is less than 50% of $60. There really isn't too much left that they talked about before the game released still missing.

I runs in VR on PC via VorpX with an openGL profile but once you get over the initial "wow cool" factor that VR usually brings, its still a shit game. Havent tried it with this latest update and tbh I cant be bothered to.

Damn, I reset my save to get to the galactic hub. I hope they rebuild it.

The update seems pretty sweet so far although I did have a sweet base location prior :(