Hello Games has released yet another No Man’s Sky update, this time adding space wrecks to explore. The patch notes, courtesy of the No Man’s Sky website, are below.
Just over a month after the Voyagers update released for the long-running space game, and the highest player numbers since launch over nine years ago, the Breach update lets players salvage wrecks, unlocking new ship building parts along the way.
Hello Games has also improved and expanded ship building “in response to watching players spend so much time in the workshop designing their dream ships,” Hello Games chief Sean Murray said.
There’s also a new expedition where players will traverse a desolate and abandoned universe to discover what happened to a mysterious abandoned wreck. “Voyaging to the edge of space will be required if you are to salvage from the wreckage of the ill-fated ship and add unique parts and modules to your ship-building workshop,” Murray teased.
“The Breach expedition also brings players together to explore the strange and rare purple-star solar systems,” he continued. “The planets in these systems are particularly fun to explore with their deeper oceans, incredible terrains and volatile gas giants. It guides players towards the new space wrecks, is a great way to salvage some new rare ship parts, while uncovering a spooky story – suitable for the Halloween season!
“It has been a crazy year for the No Man’s Sky team and we’re so proud and pleased to be able to continue working on this game we all love so much nine years after launch.Seeing so many folks enjoying Voyagers has really inspired us, and we can’t wait for you to see what we have in store in future.”
No Man’s Sky continues to receive free updates even now, years after launch. And it’s clearly keeping players interested. No Man’s Sky launched in August 2016 on PS4 and PC to tens of thousands of negative reviews on Steam, with players complaining about broken promises and a lack of meaningful content, particularly on the multiplayer side. The game quickly settled on the dreaded ‘overwhelmingly negative’ Steam user review rating, a clear sign to anyone who visited its Steam page that something was very wrong.
But Guildford, England-based developer Hello Games has continued to update No Man’s Sky over the years, improving player sentiment to the point where it is now considered superb. It took two years to hit ‘mixed,’ then another three to hit ‘mostly positive.’ At the time, five years after launch, Tim Woodley, Head of Publishing at Hello Games, explained how hard it was to claw back Steam user reviews from such a low base.
As Hello Games continues to work on No Man’s Sky, it’s developing its next game, Light No Fire. It’s about adventure, building, survival and exploration together, set on a fantasy planet the size of Earth.
No Man’s Sky Breach update 6.10 patch notes:
BUG FIXES AND QOL
- Fixed an issue that could cause the player to be ejected into space if on an internal stair in a corvette while the pulse drive was active.
- Fixed an issue that prevented the corvette “current flightpath” autopilot from cancelling when the ship came into proximity of a large object such as a Space Station.
- Fixed an issue that prevented exiting the corvette pilot seat in the Space Station and Space Anomaly when using the Quick Menu in VR.
- Fixed an issue that prevented stairs in corvettes from being traversable using VR teleport movement.
- Fixed an issue that caused weapons to be misaligned with the crosshair when flying a corvette in first person.
- Fixed an issue that caused the corvette teleporter to persist after the corvette had landed on a planetary surface.
- Fixed an issue that could cause water to behave erratically when teleporting from a corvette into water.
- Fixed an issue that caused newly-assembled corvettes to appear at the wrong scale if another owned Corvette was docked nearby.
- Fixed an issue that could cause corvette interior doorways to become blocked.
- Fixed an issue that prevented the corvette Torpedo Launcher module from correctly installing the Rocket Launcher weapon.
- Fixed some corvette structural modules appearing under the exterior decoration category of the build menu.
- Fixed a rare issue that could cause corvette assembly data to be replaced with planetary base data.
- Improved the placement of corvette-class ships when teleporting to a Settlement with a corvette as the primary ship.
- Improved the behaviour of floating exotic creatures, especially in response to being offered Creature Pellets.
- Fixed an issue that could prevent biological monstrosities on derelict freighters from reacting aggressively to nearby Travellers.
- Fixed an issue that could prevent some varieties of hazardous flora appearing on planets.
- Fixed a timing-specific issue that could cause the player’s wanted level to get stuck when using the pulse drive to exit planetary atmosphere.
- Fixed an issue that caused the current primary ship’s thrusters to be used for launch fuel calculations when attempting to summon other ships from the Quick Menu.
- Fixed an issue that caused refiners to reset their requested output value to the maximum when refining was started.
- Fixed an issue that prevented the Personal Refiner from automatically starting when an input substance was inserted from the Inventory screen.
- Improved the error messaging when attempting to install duplicate technology in the inventory.
- Fixed an issue that caused rain to be audible when standing inside a corvette.
- Fixed an issue that could prevent the Corvette Assembly tutorial from starting in abandoned star systems.
- Fixed an issue that could cause Exosuit upgrade stations to lose their interaction prompt after a single use, especially in Abandoned Mode.
- Fixed an issue that could cause misleading instructional text during missions requiring planets with extreme weather conditions.
- Fixed an issue that caused some markers to persist unnecessarily in excavation and flora extermination missions from the Corvette Mission Radar.
- Fixed a number of minor messaging inconsistencies in missions requiring the player to prepare ingredients in the Nutrient Processor.
ART AND VISUALS
- Fixed an issue that could cause large waves to abruptly appear and disappear on the surface of water.
- Improved lighting transitions when changing environments – notably when warping between solar systems, when entering or exiting planetary atmosphere, or when moving between interior and exterior locations.
- Fixed a number of minor visual “seams” in lighting.
- Improved the appearance of holographic previews of corvette modules during corvette assembly.
- Fixed an issue that caused the Boundary Herald starship to render incorrectly.
- Fixed an issue that prevented the jetpack from displaying on the Inventory screen when using first-person camera view.
- Fixed an issue that prevented some varieties of aquatic creature from rendering in the Discoveries page.
- Fixed a number of minor visual and collision issues with corvette modules.
- Improved the appearance of corvette modules when viewed from a distance.
- Improved the icons on a number of corvette modules.
- Improved the collision of several planetary curiosities, such as large mushrooms.
- Fixed missing collision that allowed you to walk through the back of some freighter hangars.
- Fixed a number of issues that could prevent decals from being placed on Corvette modules.
INPUT
- Enabled Steam Input on Mac.
- Fixed a Steam-only issue that could cause controller bindings to shuffle or not respond on the first boot after the game was updated.
- Fixed an issue that prevented jetpacking while the Terrain Manipulator was in Create mode.
UI
- Improved the readability of several UI elements.
- Fixed a UI overlap issue on the Corvette trade menu, which could cause the “Make Offer” button to be activated when selecting a part to trade.
- Fixed an issue that caused markers for other players in a multiplayer session to appear at their feet instead of above their head.
- Fixed an issue that prevented the display of additional recipes in the Catalogue.
- Fixed a rare issue that could cause an incorrect UI to appear when absorbing a Memory Fragment to expand inventory slots.
STABILITY AND PERFORMANCE
- Fixed a crash that could occur on Corvettes with a large number of attached weapons.
- Fixed an issue that could cause a hang when opening the airlock door of a derelict freighter.
- Fixed an issue that could cause a hang when jumping through the centre of a galaxy in a freighter.
- Fixed an issue that could cause a softlock if opening the corvette parts menu while a dialog box was open.
- Implemented a number of engine optimisations to improve performance, especially when rendering complex objects such as corvettes.
- Implemented a number of lighting optimisations to improve performance.
- Implemented a number of optimisations and performance improvements on Nintendo Switch.
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