No Man's Sky 6.0: Voyagers - players working together (also Light No Fire update)

[Techwright]

https://www.nomanssky.com/voyagers-update/

 

One of the lynch pins of No Man's Sky until recently has been the designers idea that the player character is to get a constant sense of being mostly alone in a vast universe.  While it is true that there are ways to bump into other players, especially at the Nexus, the procedurally-designed multiverse is so vast that in some parts of it, a player may never see another player avatar.  Ever.

 

No Man's Sky update 6.0: Voyagers is considered a major update to the game.  Introduced in this is the Corvette class ship.  Larger than your previous landable ships, it is fully customizable (small or large), and it allows you to invite your friends onboard to serve as crew as you explore the universe together. This comes with other bonuses like being able to walk around in the ship while it is traveling. and for the first time, safely exiting your ship for spacewalks.  

 

The ship's components essentially mean you're designing more of a small base, than just a ship.  It will have several habitation elements.

 

Hello Games states that they had to create significantly new game designs to run this update, and that this new technology is being added to the upcoming game Light No Fire.  Most likely this will be used for crewing ships at sea, since the Light No Fire world is supposed to be the scale of a real Earth, so traveling seas will be a notable part of the experience.

 

 

 

[Oubliette_Red]

Just reinstalled No Man's Sky a while back and binge-played for a couple of months, haven't played for a couple of months now so didn't know they were coming down the pike with this. 

 

[WanderingAries]

5 hours ago, Oubliette_Red said:

Just reinstalled No Man's Sky a while back and binge-played for a couple of months, haven't played for a couple of months now so didn't know they were coming down the pike with this. 

 

 

Heh, I played a bit initially, but now it's more like when I remember it's there. So it's always a new game to me when I bother picking it up. Evolution at its finest and worth the initial investment.