No Man’s Sky hits its subsequent massive “level zero” replace as we speak, this time within the type of No Man’s Sky 4.0: Waypoint. Hiya Video games is promising “an overhaul of design and stability” on this patch, which introduces a brand new ‘relaxed mode’, sweeping stock modifications, and varied tweaks to assist individuals who have been away from the sport ease again in. Oh, and the sport’s getting a Swap launch too, in case you’re into that.
The brand new relaxed mode guarantees to let gamers meander via the No Man’s Sky universe at a, nicely, relaxed tempo. It tones down the sport’s survival components for gamers who “simply wish to relax”. It is mainly a stop-gap between the sport’s regular and artistic modes: letting gamers chill for a bit however with out unlocking all the pieces and eliminating problem nearly fully. As if to compensate, survival mode has gotten just a few tweaks to make it a bit tougher.
Most fascinating for me—somebody who final performed No Man’s Sky a while within the Mesolithic Interval—is the emphasis that Waypoint is placing on welcoming again returning gamers who is likely to be baffled by the myriad updates the sport has obtained over time. Gamers coming again to the sport will discover a log that summarises No Man’s Sky’s story up to now, in addition to a “new milestone system, new collectibles and improved mission content material” to ease re-entry into the sport.
There is a spate of different updates too: inventories have been expanded and streamlined, and ships, gamers, and weapons have obtained elevated degree caps. Plus, gamers can now fine-tune varied problem settings themselves: now you can toggle discrete settings like permadeath even inside modes that do not normally have it.
The Waypoint replace was described as a little bit of a house-cleaning for No Man’s Sky when Hiya Video games’ Sean Murray chatted to PCG (opens in new tab) just lately, and it is actually true that ‘stock modifications and a brand new mode’ does not have fairly the identical flagship function pizzazz as ‘ridable sandworms’ (opens in new tab). However the little issues add up, and it seems like the sport’s twenty first main replace can have severe impression on a recreation that was as soon as in a fairly dishevelled state (opens in new tab) all these years in the past. You possibly can take a look at the total patch notes right here (opens in new tab).
