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The Foundation Update Ver. 1.1 is out!

book-desktop-2The new update for No Man’s Sky is out now on PC and PS4 called the Foundation Update Ver. 1.1 and it adds a bunch of new features and content to the game.


Explorers can now decide to play with different rule sets, across three game modes:

  • Normal mode: is the original chilled exploration experience.
  • Creative mode: allows players to explore the universe without limits, and build a huge base.
  • Survival mode: really changes the game, creating a much more challenging endurance experience.

base-building-1dBASE BUILDING

Players can build a base to suit their needs for storing resources or creating a farm. You can even hits NPC aliens to run the base for you and much more.

freighter-1FREIGHTERS

Purchase huge interstellar Freighters at great expense, and then summon them from anywhere in the galaxy.

PATCH NOTES

  • General Gameplay
    • Fixed technology becoming instantly fully charged when repaired
    • Fixed ship appearing on incorrect pad in space station after loading
    • Added interactable objects that required certain tech to collect
    • Added shootable objects that require certain tech to mine
    • Rebalanced resource availability and technology charge requirements
    • Fixed initial game flow – where travelling to space too quickly after visiting the monolith could prevent the first atlas station notification appearing
    • Prevented player being prompted to scan for buildings before leaving the system after visiting the monolith
    • Prevented laser and melee attacks while in space from attempting to edit terrain
    • Improved calculation of resources received when mining terrain
    • Renamed Signal Scanners to Signal Boosters
    • Signal booster objects updated to search for playable bases, suit upgrade pods, and mineable resources
    • Removed signal booster from being distributed on terrain, as player can now build them
    • Improved accuracy of environment detection, fixing cases where it rained inside caves
    • Fixed galactic waypoints not loading correctly across saves
    • Removed atlas pass v1 requirement from doors in stations
    • Suit upgrade pods are no longer spawned in stations
    • Suit upgrade pods can now only be used once
    • Fixed collision in anomaly that was causing issues when exiting larger ships
    • Increased the number of different NPC character models generated per system
    • Fixed the game always remaining in day time for players who began their save prior to patch 1.03
    • Fixed a potential crash in foliage instance renderer
  • Localisation
    • Fixed stats page in Asian languages
    • Fixed multiple issues with Asian language formatting
    • Multiple improvements and fixes to localisation text in all languages
  • UI
    • Added new icons for specific types of primary resources
    • Fixed health bars not appearing on some targets
    • Added hazard and life support drain indicators
    • Fixed mission messages not appearing in a timely fashion
    • Beacons now notify the player that they will save the game
    • Fixed crash when creature IK animations were updated under certain conditions on the discovery screen
    • Improved navigation in discovery UI
    • Massive speed improvements to browsing huge discovery lists
    • Increased size of discovery storage
    • Added option to load “Earliest” previous save in Options menu
    • Fixed weapon naming
    • Added icon to remind players of the reload button when weapon is empty
    • Multiple fixes for viewing discoveries
  • PS4
    • Added photo mode
    • Large optimizations to the engine to accommodate base building
  • PC
    • Added support for up to 8 mouse buttons
    • Fixed better order position history for mouse smoothing
    • Fixed bug where setting gamma to zero gave a fully bright rather than fully dark image
    • Fixed hard-limiting on save sizes, with appropriate warning about free space on boot
    • Player is now notified when shaders are being loaded
    • Fixed occasional crash on exit
    • Fixed performance of trail renderer for some AMD cards
    • Large optimizations to the engine to accommodate base building
  • Generation
    • Added biome specific plants
    • Adopted new method of distributing resource plants on terrain, for more lifelike clumps of plants
    • Improved distribution of plant life across all terrain types
    • Introduced visual differentiation of red, green and blue star systems
    • Introduced new mineable terrain resources found only in red, green and blue star systems
    • Reduced average building frequency
    • Introduced planets with elevated building density
    • Introduced planets with no buildings or sentient life
    • Increased the proportion of lush and tropical planets
    • Decreased the proportion of lifeless planets
    • Fixed bug where multiple ships could appear, overlapping, at the player’s start scene
    • Prevented certain building types being incorrectly placed underwater
    • Prevented multiple buildings occasionally being placed in overlapping positions
    • Prevented buildings occasionally being placed intersecting with the terrain
    • Improved and altered per-planet terrain resource generation, improving gameplay and visuals
  • Creatures
    • Fixed elevation cache mismatches, causing errors in creature knowledge and pathing
    • Fixed slow memory leak in creature role allocation
    • Improved creature animation speeds
    • Fixed issues where some creatures turns had the incorrect frame count
    • Fixed occasional crash when interacting with creatures
  • Atmospherics
    • Increased proportion of vibrant blue skies
    • Corrected cloud levels for clear skies
    • Improved average cloud level settings
    • Fixed cloud rendering while flying in your ship
    • Improved atmosphere depth when transitioning to space
    • Increased fidelity of atmosphere rendering on nearest planet
    • Improved atmospheric fog as you fly to a planet
    • Improved fog method for planets seen on the horizon
  • Terrain
    • Improved terrain generation algorithms
    • Improved and extended blend areas between different terrain noise types
    • Terrains now generate more open spaces
    • Smaller features now appear at nearer lods to improve visuals in the distance
    • Fixed objects being placed on incorrect terrain material types
    • Improved resolution of distant planet terrain
    • Decreased differences between planet as seen from space and actual planet terrain
    • Fixed seams on planets when seen from space
    • Improvements to terrain material selection and terrain material blending
    • Terrain generation priority and cost calculation improvements
    • Fixed terrain generation angle calculations, which would previously prevent nearest region being generated first
    • We now generate caves on lower terrain lods to decrease visual differences in lower detail terrain
    • Introduced more varied and vibrant coloring to terrain for each biome
    • Decreased frequency of brown terrain color selections
    • Changed texture scales to improve transition between terrain lods
    • Improved terrain color combinations to add variety and better match terrain contouring
    • Improved terrain texture blending method to better retain vibrant colors
    • Improved settings for hue, saturation and value noise variation on terrain
    • Fixed a number of issues causing holes to be seen in the planet terrain
    • Fixed occasional crash when mining terrain
  • Visuals
    • Fixed color of muzzle flashes on player weapons
    • Added muzzle flashes to ship weapons
    • Added cockpit lighting for damage and weapon firing
    • Added debris to freighter explosion effect
    • Improved freighter cargo explosions
    • Improved photon cannon hit and space explosion effects
    • Improved turret explosion effect
    • Improved grass color selection
    • Improved grass coloring method to match underlying terrain color
    • Improved grass placement to match gradient of terrain, and rocky terrain slope patches
    • Improved lighting on grass
    • Improved alpha cutoffs and blending for grass in the distance
    • Improved coloring method for on-planet buildings
    • Fixed “pop” in lighting when flying between planets
    • Fixed incorrect lighting seen in shadow areas
    • Improved lighting method when rendering tree leaves
    • Fixed procedural texturing on objects with multiple overlapping textures
    • Fixed size of certain texture atlas normal maps
    • Fixed texture scaling on asteroids
    • Zinc plant is now more obvious when it has been gathered
    • Fixed occasional rendering errors due to precision on cockpit during warp
    • Fixed pulse lines not appearing when pulse driving out from planet atmosphere
    • Fixed shadowing artifacts on impostors
  • Space
    • Improved asteroids to allow much denser fields
    • Improved explosion effects
    • Fixed scale of moons on the space map
    • Added freighter groups to the space map
    • Changed distribution of resources in asteroids
    • AI ships will now clear asteroids in their path
    • Planets are now scannable from space to see their resources
  • Space Combat
    • Fixed bounty targets warping out too soon
    • Improved HUD indicators in space combat
    • Added damaged ship effect on AI starships
    • Added formation flying
    • Improved locking on passive starships
    • Improved AI combat flight patterns
    • Added new ship weapon technology
    • Holding brake whilst turning now activates drift for fast turns
    • Improved AI ship freighter attacking
    • Improved freighter targeting code when under attack by enemy ships
  • Freighters
    • Fixed pulse drive to prevent travel through freighters
    • Improved docking code
    • Added hangar to the lead freighter
    • Added docking in freighters
    • Added icon to accessible freighter hangars
    • Added coloring to cargo drops to identify what is in them
    • You can now only pick up cargo drops that will fit in your inventory
    • Added auxiliary freight ships to freighter groups
    • Added alert lights and alarm audio for when freighters are in combat
    • Improved turret lights and explosions
    • Improved muzzle flashes on freighter turrets
    • Added indicator of cargo contents
    • Freighter Commanders now give rewards for rescuing them from pirate attack
    • Fixed collision on freighter cargo containers
  • Audio
    • Updated the lush ambiance to make the wind sounds less noisy
    • Ambient background fauna now checks for the presence of creatures
    • Added rain on foliage
    • Added rain on ship
    • Added freighter specific footsteps
    • When on a dead planet, no music will play
    • Round table prop now plays an appropriate sound
    • Added more music to the loading sequence and game start
    • Added audio to new base building props
    • Created sounds for new base building props
    • Added audio to freighter doors and internal freighter ambiances
    • Added freighter explosions
    • Added freighter alarm
    • Added ambient radio comms when approaching a freighter
    • Fixed missing sounds when in a space station due to the mix settings
    • Multi-tool upgrades now affect audio
    • Lots of minor mix changes
    • Changed some compression settings for PS4 audio to make the sub-channel audio play more reliably

 

YouTuber EpicEthan33

image1Ethan is a young YouTube gamer who is playing No Man’s Sky. His videos are better than some adult players I have seen. Check out his videos and give him a like and subscribe to him. Click the link below to visit his YouTube channel.
EpicEthan33’s YouTube Channel.

New Screenshots

Planet from Cockpit View.This is one of my photo’s. I thought it was a great shot of the planet from my ships Cockpit. Thought I would share it with you all.

Planet on Horizon.This was a cool shot of a planet on the horizon. I have many more screenshots to go through, so I hope to post more soon.

No Man's Sky_20160829170943This last photo was submitted by  Paftronz 89 of a cool looking Cat like creature. They have a video as well. Check it out!

Thanks for the submission Paftronz 89!

PlayStation 4 patch, version 1.06

Hello Games tweeted that the new PS4 patch, version 1.06 is coming later this week and should fix 90% of the crash issues in the game. I know my game hasn’t crashed any since the last patch, version 1.05, so that’s definitely a good sign.

4K Picture Submissions

4KWe have our first 4K screenshot submission from Vitality.
If you have any 4K pictures you want to show off, feel free to submit them. I increased the file size for submissions to 4mb now, so it shouldn’t be a problem to send 4K now. Sorry if anyone tried and wasn’t able to.

Thanks everyone for all the great submissions. Keep them coming.
If you have any cool videos as well posted online somewhere, send me the link. If I think it’s cool, I’ll feature it here on the front page.

We would love to have screenshots from your game. Send them to us by using the Submit Screenshot at the top right of the page, or click the link below.

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Great Looking Creatures

no-mans-sky_20160816204859This great looking Mantis type creature was submitted by Jason N. Pretty freaky looking, that’s for sure.

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This feathered dinosaur was submitted by our regular Vitality. He keeps sending in great stuff!

Thanks everyone for all the great submissions. Keep them coming.
If you have any cool videos as well posted online somewhere, send me the link. If I think it’s cool, I’ll feature it here on the front page.

We would love to have screenshots from your game. Send them to us by using the Submit Screenshot at the top right of the page, or click the link below.

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2 New Submissions

20160817152555_1We have 2 new submissions from Vitality. The first is of a cool looking Starship!
20160817152706_1The second is a shot from the cockpit of that ship showing asteroids and a planet. Very cool looking shot! Thanks for the screenshots Vitality!

We would love to have screenshots from your game. Send them to us by using the Submit Screenshot at the top right of the page, or click the link below.

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More Screenshot Submissions

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This screenshot is sent to us from Leenie Dee of her starting planet named “Yepatunuten”. It’s a nice looking planet!

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Alienpendant sent in this photo of a cool planet! Be sure to click his name to go to his YouTube channel and watch his videos on No Man’s Sky.

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Nicholas sent in this shot of a fantastic looking creature! Really cool looking!

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Vitality submitted this picture of a sweet looking ship! Thanks for sending us that Vitality!

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Another cool looking ship! This one is sent to us by Dip.
Thanks for the submissions everyone!

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2 More Screenshot Submissions

2016-08-15-15.00.01We have 2 new screenshot submissions. The first one is from Richard of his first ship, the “Rusty Bucket”. That’s a nice looking ship.

No Man's Sky_20160815004943Our next screenshot is from Kyle B. of his perfect landing, or as he called it, “Don’t drink and fly.” Nice one Kyle!
Thanks for the submissions everyone!

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Our First Screenshot Submission

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No Man’s Sky Creature

Our first Screenshot submission comes from Mark B. of the first creature he encountered in the game. It looks awesome! Thanks Mark for sending it to us.

We would love to have screenshots from your game. Send them to us by using the Submit Screenshot at the top right of the page, or click the link below.

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