Det er syv år siden, at Sean Murray skrev de første linjer af kode, og to år siden, at spillere endelig blev inviteret indenfor til et stort men tomt univers i No Man's Sky.
Siden da har meget ændret sig. Der er kommet The updates Foundation, Pathfinder og Atlas Rises der tillod at bygge baser, at eje store rumskibe, mere historie, flere køretøjer, og meget mere, men nu er spillets hidtil største opdatering ankommet, NEXT.
"One day I hope to reach a point where I feel No Man's Sky is "finished", but until then there's still so much more we want to do. More than any other update so far, NEXT has been important to our small team. It feels like a major landmark in the game's story and an appropriate point to bring it to the Xbox platform. But I know it's not the end of the journey, a journey which will be much more fun together," udtalte Sean Murray.
NEXT vil tilføje en masse nyt, og for neden kan du se nogle af de største tilføjelser, samt en kort beskrivelse af dem:
Multiplayer
In the overhauled multiplayer experience you can join forces with friends or strangers and explore the universe together, help each other survive, build and thrive, engage in epic space battles or create race tracks and challenge each other in exocraft races.
Visual Overhaul
You can now play the game in third person, both when you're planetside, and when you're aboard your ship.
Space visuals and planetary rings have been improved, as has terrain, textures and weather effects. Details have been added to ships, buildings and NPCs.
Unlimited Base Building
You can now build bigger and more complex bases on any planet, anywhere you like, and own several bases at the same time.
Command Freighters
Build a fleet of ships and command them from your own freighter. Send the ships out to explore, or participate in challenging multiplayer missions.
For neden er der en liste af andre opdateringer, der giver en meget god idé for, hvor meget der kommer med 1.5 NEXT:
- Third person camera for walking, jetpacking, swimming and in-ship flight
- New player models
- Completely reworked animation system
- New animations for players, as well as NPCs and creatures
- System and animations for gestures
- Character customisation
- Player character turns to look at points of interest
- New get in / out of vehicle effect
- Real time missions
- Multiplayer missions
- Completely overhauled tutorial
- New mission types - photography, feeding, freighter combat, archaeology, and specialised hunting missions
- Hundreds of new base parts
- Increased base complexity / size limits
- Joint base building
- Improved teleporting and selection between teleport destinations
- Improved terrain editor modes and options to be more intuitive
- Improved system for placing base building parts
- Increased base building radius and made it expandable
- Disabled base auto uploading, and added manual controls
- Enabled downloading more than one external base from other players
- Frigate fleets feature - including missions, upgrade system, system combat and exploration assistance
- Overhauled base building inside player freighters
- Reworked and added procedural textures to freighter bridge hologram planet
- Reworked and rebalanced all core substances and resources
- Deployable tech can now be picked up
- Added refiner based crafting system
- Added Craftable ammunition
- Additional markers visible in analysis visor
- Points of interest can be tagged from analysis visor
- Latitude / longitude displayed on analysis visor
- Improved HUD layout
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For flere detaljer, kan du gå til denne hjemmeside.
