KCroxtonJr
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the graphical upgrade looks WAY better than expectedThis looks good!!
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RUMOUR: No Man's Sky leak around v1.3 update
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Ryo Hazuki
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PATCH NOTES
GENERATION
EXPLORATION
GAMEPLAY
TRADE AND FARMING
FREIGHTERS
SPACE
GALACTIC MAP
STARSHIPS
UI
GRAPHICS
AUDIO
LANGUAGE
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
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
BlackBanditSho
Member
Thanks a lot to both of you. I'm definitely going to boot it up with a new perspective. I never wanted to get into the venom posts about the game. I kept watching the updates throughout the year waiting for something interesting. Maybe it's in there now.
Here's hoping that they add the life form routines and eco-system updates that I'm looking for in a future update! Until then, maybe this latest patch will be fun after all...
Iriscomeback
Member
I'm happy they finally put in the crashed ships. Promised that since launch.
sectionse7en
Neo Member
So this is a tenner on UK PSN right now so I'm sorely tempted to jump in with this update.
I played it last year on a friend's PS4, got 3-4 hours in before the grind got to me and I kept having to scrounge around for fuel for my ship. Is there less grind now, or are all the things in the trailer (growing stuff, getting a moon buggy, freighters) hundreds of hours of grind away?
My time for gaming is limited, and most of it's being taken up by Just Cause 3 and the impending Uncharted DLC.
I played it last year on a friend's PS4, got 3-4 hours in before the grind got to me and I kept having to scrounge around for fuel for my ship. Is there less grind now, or are all the things in the trailer (growing stuff, getting a moon buggy, freighters) hundreds of hours of grind away?
My time for gaming is limited, and most of it's being taken up by Just Cause 3 and the impending Uncharted DLC.
KCroxtonJr
Member
Portals work almost exactly as I thought, which is GREAT.
This is exactly why i bought the game recently i read those first 2 patch notes and was convinced to buy it but after seeing that ARG i held off.
Space and the Universe interests me deeply so to have a seemingly pretty great simulator is so damn cool and it seems this update improves a whole heck lot.
Ever since playing Metroid games and seeing those programs on discovery and national geo i always wanted a good space sim game.
Seems like that finally is here. This will consume me soon enough for a while
If this ever gets VR i will buy a psvr headset the day it releases.
kraspkibble
Permabanned.
YES!
They mean the crashed freighters.
The à¹ÛBronx
Member
Crashed ships have been in since launch, he's talking about the freighters that were in the original trailers showing the game.
KCroxtonJr
Member
Really strange that there is still no sign of clouds in the sky at all lol
Another huge update - looks like it's all good stuff for the people who have kept with it, what might get me to pick it up though is the story stuff. Looks like there's missions and a better storyline being added to the game. Hopefully it adds an "ending" of sorts to the game for people who don't just want to play survival.
Huw_Dawson
Member
Damn, massive props to the devs for the work they've put in.
Super glad I got this game for £3 from an ASDA a little while ago.
The core feature of "yes, there is now extremely limited multiplayer" alone is cheering.
Super glad I got this game for £3 from an ASDA a little while ago.
The core feature of "yes, there is now extremely limited multiplayer" alone is cheering.
Darkstorne
Member
That is odd, but we know they've been working on a new cloud shader for a while now that isn't in the patch notes, so I guess they just didn't want to use the old gross clouds in their screenshots =P
The trailer specifically mentions there are still more updates to come in the future, so I'm sure clouds will happen one day! I'm also hoping for an overhaul to ground combat (FPS gameplay, both on planets and through ship boarding in space, capturing freighters by force maybe?) and most importantly to animal AI and distribution. I want to see herd animals migrating across planets in the hundreds; birds landing in trees or on lakes; predators stalking through the forests; herbivores grazing on plants or congregating at water holes; rare large animals capable of destroying trees like we saw in the old trailers, etc.
To be honest they still need to overhaul forests and woodland too. Those biomes aren't good enough yet, but I understand density of foliage like that is tough to accomplish on this scale with modern hardware. Either way, it's great to see how many huge improvements the team make to NMS with every single update. This game has easily redeemed itself imo, and the future holds a lot of potential.
KyanMehwulfe
Member
Sounds like we can actually crash our own ship again now, too lolThe ๖ۜBronx;245898286 said:
Dirtyshubb
Member
Just got finished with reading the changes, god damn!
Some fantastic stuff, not only the big stuff but tonnes of little tweaks that sound really good like scanning being better on planet and other stuff.
Cant wait to try this out, especially the 30 hour story!
Some fantastic stuff, not only the big stuff but tonnes of little tweaks that sound really good like scanning being better on planet and other stuff.
Cant wait to try this out, especially the 30 hour story!
KCroxtonJr
Member
Is it just me, or does the player seem a bit taller?
KCroxtonJr
Member
We can see other players bases they've built, but idk about terrain changes just yet, especially since the MP aspect is still so basic.
Oh, I didn't know that. Hopefully terrain is the same.
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The ๖ۜBronx;245898016 said:
Oh. My. Goodness!!!
This is revelatory!
KCroxtonJr
Member
Noisepurge
Member
brb reinstalling ->
Dirtyshubb
Member
No you shouldnt have to.
The à¹ÛBronx
Member
No, but with there being a focus on a revamped story it's probably recommended if you have an interest in that. Personally I'll restart just because I want to fall into this all afresh and I haven't played since before the vehicle update.
Superblatt
Member
Is it up yet?
All we know is that it's from "glitches" in the simulation allowing up to 16 players to see eachother. Whether there's an objective tied to it we don't know.
The à¹ÛBronx
Member
Whatever you're comfortable with. Play around with it a bit.
Wait, what's the galactic hub?
Icyflamez96
Member
I though they said a while ago that a cloud overhaul was being worked on and was supposed to come with the next update. Hopefully it comes soon.
I'm really excited for the future of this game in general if they keep updating it like this. It has so much potential. Still need taller environmental objects, more robust caves and underground terrain. This update though is no joke.
I'm glad I believed in Sean Murray. I said around launch that the game would practically be unrecognizable in a year after all the updates, and I'm glad they didn't disappoint. Still have my copy.
Without a doubt one of the most technically ambitious games ever made, and given time (and lots of money) I knew they could turn it in to what he had envisioned.
Without a doubt one of the most technically ambitious games ever made, and given time (and lots of money) I knew they could turn it in to what he had envisioned.
gingerbeardman
Member
I jumped, thanks for letting me know.
11GB later and it failed to load first time. Might explain why there's already been a bug fix update today.
Will start the story tonight.
