A brand new No Man’s Sky replace known as Endurance has now gone dwell, and is principally including a little bit of a Star Trek vibe to tootling across the stars. As with each different enlargement for the sport since its launch six (!) years in the past, Endurance is free. It is a title that Hi there itself acknowledges is “becoming” for the journey the developer and gamers have been on since launch.
This one leans into the true Trekkie fantasy (or mine anyway) of being your personal captain of the usS. Enterprise. The Basis replace beforehand launched the flexibility to captain your personal freighter, however the Endurance replace takes one other cross and overhauls the entire expertise of being answerable for a capital ship.
The replace introduces an NPC crew to your ship (sure!), a brand new bridge on the command deck with immediate entry to warping and teleportation (sure!!), exterior home windows to observe the celebs float by (sure!!!) after which exterior house walkways so you may stroll across the exterior of your giganto-ship and admire the view (sure sure sure!!!). I imply, as spaceship fantasies go, this can be a good one.
By way of the NPC crew,:”Freighters now bustle with specialist crew members strolling round your base. Engineers, biologists and technicians show their ideas as they patrol the bottom, and your employed frigate captains and squadron pilots go to your capital ship between their deep-space excursions.”
You may as well now do rather more with the inside of the ship itself, with new themed areas for rising meals and manufacturing, in addition to new expertise that may allow you to scan and analyse planets from house with out having to set foot on them.
The replace additionally makes modifications to what Hi there calls the “house atmospherics”, which is to say that asteroids are actually extra diversified and quite a few than ever earlier than, and now hundreds can seem on-screen directly. In addition to this there are “Interstellar-style black holes, nebulae” and extra to admire out of your new fancy home windows.
There is a new expedition, which focuses on a capital ship voyage, and a few new fight targeted Nexus missions as well.
“Endurance coincides with No Man’s Sky’s 6 12 months anniversary and it stays wonderful to us to see gamers nonetheless clocking up a bewildering variety of hours within the sport all these years later,” writes Hi there Video games co-founder and CEO Sean Murray. “We’re eternally grateful for the help.”
The complete patch notes (opens in new tab) are as follows:
Capital Ships
- Capital ship hangars have been visually up to date, with further particulars, options, NPCs and VFX.
- The freighter bridge has been visually refreshed with new lighting, VFX and detailing.
- A teleporter has been added for immediate entry between the freighter hangar and the bridge.
- The obligatory hall in freighter bases has been eliminated, permitting gamers to completely customise their freighter base structure.
- Freighter exteriors have been up to date with enhanced textures and detailing.
- Your freighter is now displayed inside the warp tunnel when making a bounce between methods.
- Lighting and shadow high quality all through freighter bases has been considerably improved.
- Gamers might now warp immediately from their fleet administration terminal to any particular person frigate. New terminals have been added to frigates to permit fast return to the freighter bridge.
- Markers are actually positioned on Fleet Command Terminals in want of debriefing.
- Gamers might now teleport to their freighter base from another base or house station teleport terminus.
- Capital ship engines can now be customised from the present freighter recolouring UI, accessed on the bridge.
- Capital ships may be now reset to their default colors.
- The customisation digicam for freighters has been improved with higher lighting and a wider viewing angle for big ships.
- Participant-constructed freighter bases are actually populated dynamically by specialised crew members, in addition to employed squadron pilots and frigate captains.
- Freighter crew can now transfer across the base.
- Freighter crew periodically show ideas associated to their present process.
- Non-player freighters now include quite a lot of pre-existing bases.
- Freighters now have a Cargo Maintain stock, permitting the storage of much more gadgets.
- A brand new expertise, the Singularity Engine, has been added for freighters. This highly effective warp augmentation is activated by chatting with the freighter’s captain, and can slingshot the freighter via a wormhole.
- The visible high quality of salvaged freighter expertise icons has been considerably improved.
- Gamers might now summon their freighter whereas the Pulse Engine is energetic.
- Freighter touchdown and takeoff trajectories have been improved to stop unintentional docking.
- Gamers are not blocked from summoning their freighter if one other participant has their freighter energetic.
- Gamers can now dismiss their very own freighter as a way to go to the freighter base of one other group member.
Freighter Base Parts
- Freighter base constructing has been completely overhauled. Gamers now have entry to quite a lot of pre-built room modules (which they will additional customise).
- Rooms are available quite a lot of pre-decorated themes, permitting gamers to rapidly assemble a visually diversified and distinctive base.
- Empty room variants can be found for gamers who want to extra manually customise their freighter base.
- Present freighter bases have been preserved, and legacy freighter elements are absolutely appropriate with the brand new items.
- New freighter rooms embrace:
- The Scanner Room, which pings all close by planets and mechanically discovers them.
- Single and Double Cultivation Chambers, which permit gamers to plant immediately into the room itself. Cultivation Chambers include the flexibility to mass-harvest close by vegetation.
- A Diet Room, permitting gamers entry to cooking services whereas on board.
- The Stellar Extractor, a specialist manufacturing unit that extracts quite a lot of sources from the interstellar medium.
- Extra rooms have been added to copy current base performance, however in room-sized modules:
- A devoted Galactic Commerce Terminal room, permitting fast entry to commerce services.
- A Teleport Room, permitting gamers to teleport from their freighter, in addition to return through another teleportation terminus.
- The Look Modifier Room, for participant customisation.
- The Fleet Command Room, for managing frigate fleet expeditions.
- All of the terminals for Base Specialists, such because the Overseer.
- The Orbital Exocraft Materialiser, which permits gamers to summon any of their Exocraft whereas their freighter is within the system.
- A specialist massive industrial refiner room.
- Storage Rooms, with entry to stowed supplies.
- Gamers can now place exterior home windows of their freighter bases, permitting a view via into the celebs.
- Gamers can place inside windowed partitions to divide up their base into aesthetically pleasing sections.
- Gamers can now place doorways of their freighter bases, each between rooms and out to the outside of their freighter.
- A wide range of catwalks and exterior viewing platforms are actually out there to construct inside and across the freighter base.
- Freighter corridors now are available each plain and glass variations.
- Freighter corridors now come as one devoted half that may mechanically bend or add further doorways as a way to hook up with close by rooms.
Natural ships and frigates
- Gamers with a frigate fleet might now obtain plans for a Dream Aerial from a profitable fleet expedition.
- Establishing the Dream Aerial will grant gamers entry to a brand new mission to unite with an natural frigate. This residing vessel might be customised based on the participant’s selections whereas on this mission.
- Gamers can proceed to find further natural frigates to fill out their fleet.
- Natural frigates are available quite a lot of procedurally generated colors and tentacle configurations.
- Gamers can feed their natural frigates varied cooked foodstuffs. Feeding the frigate will alter its temper and will trigger it to generate new skills or traits.
- Sending a residing frigate on a fleet expedition has an opportunity of producing a particular anomalous occasion consequence.
- Anomalous fleet expedition outcomes lead to varied natural implants for residing starships.
- Dwelling ship upgrades have been adjusted. Procedurally generated weapon modules now do extra injury, and the Grafted Eyes can now leech power from enemy starships.
- Dwelling ships can now evolve Neural Shielding, granting them the flexibility to withstand hostile cargo probes.
- Dwelling ships can now evolve a Chloroplast Membrane, which can mechanically recharge its Neural Meeting utilizing daylight.
- Dwelling ships can now evolve a Wormhole Mind, which permits them sight into the financial system and battle ranges of unvisited methods on the Galaxy Map.
- Gamers might now purchase and use a Spawning Sac so as to add further stock slots to their residing ships.
- Mounted a difficulty that would trigger residing ship upgrades to decide on a decrease high quality band than supposed.
- Mounted a difficulty that prevented procedurally generated residing ship upgrades from mechanically choosing the starship stock web page when deployed.
Base constructing
- Base elements which mechanically swap between hidden variants (akin to visually distinct elements for the highest/center/backside of partitions, or the freighter hall that mechanically bends and provides doorways to kind connections) can now be positioned manually. Related elements are marked inside the base constructing menu and may be expanded to view all variants.
- Whereas in modifying mode, pre-existing elements may be now swapped out for another half that matches its placement situations, permitting bases to be rapidly altered with out having to delete and change elements.
- Gamers might now rapidly toggle between placement and choice mode even when no half was beforehand chosen from the record of elements.
- Fast biking elements inside placement mode now shows the title of the newly chosen half.
- Numerous base constructing error messages have been edited for readability.
- Many ornamental elements that weren’t beforehand out there to construct on a freighter are actually accessible within the construct menu.
- ByteBeat modules can now be constructed on board freighters.
- Quick-Vary Teleporters can now be constructed inside a freighter base.
- Lights now mechanically obtain energy on board freighters.
- Freighter base half deletion now extra strictly checks participant navigation, fixing various instances the place gamers may discover themselves by accident falling into house when deleting elements.
- The freighter base now has a walkable backside degree, permitting gamers who deliberately jetpack out of their base a possibility to get better to security.
- Gamers might now toggle snapping and collision checks when putting ornament on their freighter base, permitting extra freedom and adaptability in development.
- Whereas on a freighter, the preview hologram is now seen behind different objects, permitting gamers to extra simply preview the placement of recent rooms and corridors.
- Mounted various visible glitches with the preview hologram.
- Mounted various visible points and glitches with wiring.
- Objects which are moved or deleted now clear up their connected wires.
- Storage Containers now show their customized title (if relevant) within the Construct Menu.
- Biofuel Mills now present energy for a considerably longer period of time.
- Mounted a difficulty that prevented the Ceiling Gentle half from being powered appropriately.
- The Archaic Habitation Heater now truly offers safety in opposition to excessive chilly.
Visible enhancements and house atmospherics
- The planetary ornament system has been considerably optimised and improved, permitting props, plantlife, rocks and different objects to be drawn at each far higher distances and at a better high quality.
- Planetary objects akin to bushes and rocks are actually seen from low orbit.
- Gamers might now encounter storms and different house atmospherics whereas in asteroids fields, in open house, or when encountering derelict freighters in deep house.
- Gamers might now encounter brightly colored nebulae whereas exploring deep house.
- Black gap visuals have been overhauled and considerably improved.
- Derelict freighters VFXs have been considerably improved. Present environmental and fight results have been enhanced, and extra atmospheric particulars have been added.
- Atmospheric results have been added and enhanced inside the house station.
- Starship touchdown and takeoff results have been improved.
Asteroids
- Asteroid draw distance has been considerably elevated.
- Asteroid area density has been considerably elevated.
- Particular person asteroid visible element and selection has been significantly elevated.
- Asteroid destruction results have been improved.
- Gamers might now encounter methods with a lot of uncommon crystalline asteroids.
- Gamers might now often disturb the nest of unusual house creatures when destroying asteroids.
- Passing starships might now enter asteroids fields alongside gamers and start mining close by asteroids.
- Asteroid density patterns have been adjusted in order that there are bigger areas of house with few to no asteroids.
- Gamers can now use the starship’s scanner to find close by fuel-rich asteroids, within the occasion of an antagonistic gas state of affairs when exterior of an asteroid area.
- Mounted various points that would trigger asteroids to intersect with different objects, akin to freighters.
- The rewards for destroying uncommon asteroids have been improved.
Missions
- A brand new class of mission is accessible on the Nexus. Work collectively to raid a Sentinel Pillar and defend a planet from the fixed risk of the Sentinels.
- Gamers can now tackle a brand new fight mission from the Nexus to go to an infested planet and purge it of its an infection.
- Gamers visiting infested planets might now often come upon the hungering tentacles of the many-mouthed vessel…
- Infested planets now have an elevated likelihood of titan worm exercise.
High quality of life
- Gamers can now reposition gadgets inside storage container inventories.
- Mounted various points that prevented full entry to sure inventories when utilizing UI popups.
- Gamers might now deploy upgrades to their fleet expedition from any stock.
- The freighter stock display has been adjusted to higher match the mannequin of the participant’s freighter.
- A brand new starship expertise, the Flight Help Override, is now out there from Iteration Hyperion aboard the House Anomaly. This module reduces the impact of automated trajectory correction whereas flying in house.
- Procedurally generated upgrades for the Evaluation Visor might now generate bonuses for mineral discovery rewards, matching the present upgrades for natural world.
- Elevated the variety of stat bonuses out there to illegal-grade procedural expertise upgrades.
- Diminished the unfold between most and minimal stat values for Positron Ejector procedural upgrades.
- Gamers can now alter the sensitivity of cursor controls in addition to look and flight sensitivities.
- The “Fight” part of the information has new, extra in-style icons.
- Fight frigates deployed from the fleet to help the participant in house fight now launch specialised ships with their very own visible aptitude to assist distinguish them whereas in flight.
- Pirate raid frequency has been decreased.
- Mounted a difficulty that would trigger pirate and Sentinel assault timers to reset one another, leading to too many hostile incidents in house.
- The bottom pace and acceleration of the unupgraded Nautilon has been elevated. Upgrades have been proportionally decreased as acceptable to maintain general improve effectiveness in the identical vary as earlier than.
- Procedurally generated applied sciences for the Nautilon now give extra beneficiant gas utilization discount bonuses.
- Mounted various points that prevented Exocraft and Nautilon scanners from revealing close by planetary objects as supposed. These scanners ought to now reveal not solely customary scanner sources, but additionally different objects of curiosity often recognized through the Evaluation Visor.
- Elevated the period of time objects are marked by the Exocraft and Nautilon scanners.
- The stack measurement of Creature Pellets has been elevated.
- Viewing participant companions via the Evaluation Visor now shows extra particular info.
- The Multi-Software and starship reticles now show overheat and ammo warnings.
- Early-game Sentinel waves have been adjusted to be barely fewer in quantity.
- When promoting gadgets to expertise retailers, costs are actually appropriately listed in nanites.
- The house station scrap service provider’s store now shows your present Tainted Metallic reserves.
- Constructing Half merchandise popups have been slimmed down to chop out pointless info.
Polestar expedition
- The Polestar expedition will take gamers on a cruise throughout the galaxy of their capital ship, forsaking starship warping and planetary base constructing in favour of the lifetime of a heavy transport freighter captain.
- The Polestar expedition presents the possibility to earn an unique freighter engine customisation; new base elements (together with a flaming barrel); a novel cape design; a mysterious jellyfish companion; and rather more apart from.
- Gamers who’ve completely accomplished an expedition might now finish the expedition early and convert the save to regular mode.
