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We're so excited to announce that a large free update for No Man's Sky will be releasing tomorrow! No Man's Sky Visions introduces new biomes, rainbows, more colourful worlds, new fauna and flora, archaeology, salvaging, fireworks, and much more...
Visions will be releasing on Steam in time for Thanksgiving, and we have plenty to be thankful for. We were delighted to be nominated for “Best Ongoing Game” for The Game Awards - alongside some games we are in awe of - and we deeply appreciate the positivity, passion, and support from the game’s incredible community. These ongoing free updates are a little show of gratitude from us, and more will follow.
Full information about No Man’s Sky Visions is available here.
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Update: Hello Games have announced the Vision update will land this Thursday, the 22nd. You can read the (exceedingly pretty) patch notes here.>
Hang on, I’m getting a vision of something. I see… I see a more varied No Man’s Sky, with properly alien aliens and five new planetary biomes. I see cool derelict spaceships, ancient buried skeletons and launchable fireworks. I see double rainbows, all the way across the sky.
I see the new trailer for Visions, an upcoming update that seems to have leaked from Hello Games.
Update: Hello Games has officially announced Visions, another large update for its massive interstellar romp, No Man's Sky. It's also coming very soon. Sean Murray posted the trailer in a tweet today, along with a release date. It will launch tomorrow, bringing salvaging, archaeology, new worlds and, most importantly, rainbows to No Man's Sky.
Original story: Hello Games is preparing to roll out the third No Man's Sky update for the year in the form of 'Visions'. While it's not yet officially announced by the studio, an unlisted video has emerged on YouTube detailing the many updates and additions the expansion will deliver.
The biggest focus is on environment diversity. "Exotic new worlds make exploration more exciting than ever," claims the trailer, while existing planets will be more "varied, vibrant and colourful". The trailer features the text "5x planetary biomes", but I'm not sure whether that means there are five times more than there used to be, or just five more.
Also, folks: there will be rainbows. But if rainbows are too nice for you, expect harsher environments and climates where "precious new materials" can be foraged. Skies and "atmospherics" are being improved, too, and there will be more numerous anomalous planets.
It's not all about looks. You'll be able to dig for rare alien skeleton remains, and you'll also be able to collect rare alien artefacts with which you can decorate your base. On that note, there will be more base parts added, and you'll be able to construct celebratory fireworks too.
Some other major points include "bizarre and otherworldly" new lifeforms, procedural crashed freighters, corrupt sentinel drones, community missions, new emotes and salvageable alien scrap.
There's no word as yet on when the update will roll out. It follows the release of Next back in July, which was one of the most comprehensive updates the game has received yet.
UPDATE 21/11/18: In case you had any doubt of its veracity, Hello Games has confirmed that No Man's Sky's previously leaked Visions update is indeed a thing that is coming. And, better yet, it's a thing that's coming tomorrow, Thursday 22nd November, on PC, Xbox One, and PS4.
Based on Hello Games' announcement, there's not a lot to add that wasn't already in yesterday's leaked trailer. However, it's well worth changing out the official Visions patch notes on the No Man's Sky website, as they contain a huge number of screenshots, and some more granular detail, illustrating the increased variety that tomorrow's update will bring.
ORIGINAL STORY 20/11/18: Visions, a big new update for Hello Games' interplanetary exploration adventure No Man's Sky, has been inadvertently revealed after fans discovered an unlisted new trailer on the developer's official YouTube channel.
Thank you so much for the positive response to The Abyss update for No Man’s Sky, released only a few days ago. We’ve really enjoyed seeing players experiment with the new base parts, explore the enhanced aquatic environments in the Nautilon submarine, and share their close encounters with fearsome underwater predators.
The team here is keeping up the pace this week with another update, patching up a few issues and introducing the next Community Research mission.
Community Research Update
This week, Priest Entity Nada is reaching out to explorers for assistance with Polo’s research missions. Their Gek friend, rattled by the events revisited by the time-altering device, has fallen into an introspective mood, and appears to have withdrawn from the project. Nada intends to act fast to overcome this - with help from their traveller friends across the galaxies.
Nada requests that explorers travel to a strange, colourless planet, and photograph underwater fauna in the darkest depths there. They conjecture that evidence of life enduring in the harshest of conditions will be of comfort to Polo, and - hopefully - will work to restore their usual upbeat disposition.
From the Quicksilver Synthesis Bot
Polo’s synthetic lifeform has generated a number of new collectibles for explorers to trade their Quicksilver for. Several new marine-themed decorations for bases are available, all with customisable palettes...
A living colony of delicate curly coral.
A cluster of aquatic crystals, featuring an unusual marbled colouration.
A luminescent candelabra bloom.
A barnacle that can be placed to encrust the walls of traveller bases.
And a new underwater gesture is also available, to aid underwater communication between aquanauts:
Development Update
Update 1.71 is now released to all platforms, and the full patch notes are available to read below. It is hard to believe it is already November - this has been such an intense, productive, and emotional year for No Man’s Sky - and there are further strides to take in our journey before 2018 is out. Thanks for being here with us, and for all your encouraging messages of support. We are listening.
Thank you so much, Sean
Patch 1.71
Fixed an issue where NPC dialogue could reset if the player's inventory was too full to receive a reward.
Improved icons for underwater products.
Fixed an issue with biological horrors and jellyfish in Permadeath mode.
Fixed an issue with the hypnotic Abyssal Horror and clam in multiplayer.
Disabled gestures while on ladders.
Improved some underwater sound effects.
Fixed some rare crashes.
Fixed an issue where the interior of the science frigate could be missing.
Fixed an issue preventing building multiples of storage container 1.
Prevented an erroneous boost icon appearing while piloting the Nautilon.
A new free update has released today for all No Man's Sky players. We've called it The Abyss, because it's a seasonal update and reimagines underwater gameplay, focusing on some of the eerier elements of No Man's Sky.
No Man's Sky NEXT launched just a couple of months ago. We have been absolutely overwhelmed by the positive response. We are excited to be on this journey with you.
We have been adding new free content, community missions and improvements to No Man's Sky every week. From small features like allowing players to customise body shape, to large gameplay additions like the Pilgrim motorbike, and companion features such as addition of discovery leaderboards to the Galactic Atlas, allowing the community to track progress between factions.
While we continue to add these quality of life enhancements and small improvements to the game, we are also still releasing major titled updates, starting with The Abyss.
The Abyss introduces aquatic environments with over 5 times more variety, varied creature behaviours, improved underwater visuals and much more.
Here are some things you might notice from the trailer...
FLORA AND FAUNA
The variety and visual quality of underwater biomes has been greatly improved. Experience rare exotic aquatic biomes as you explore new depths.
Underwater creatures have become more frequent, and more interesting. Aquatic life inhabits the full depth of the ocean, and unique terrifying creatures can be encountered on the ocean floor.
AQUATIC MISSIONS
A new story, The Dreams of the Deep, brings a new context to the depths and a dark narrative to No Man’s Sky. Discover the fate of a troubled crew stranded from a freighter crash by the rising tides, or explore underwater ruins to uncover the tale of a lost soul trapped deep beneath the waves.
SUNKEN WRECKS
Investigate sunken ruins and find ancient treasures, or dive to submerged buildings to find remnants of their lost occupants. Discover and scavenge lost cargo from gigantic freighter wrecks. Use the terrain manipulator to excavate treasures buried in the nearby ocean floor. Find and repair rare crashed star ships to restore them from the seabed to the skies.
SUBMARINE
Master the depths of planets using a new Exocraft, the Nautilon. This submersible vehicle gives new meaning to underwater navigation, combat and mining – and can be summoned to any ocean on the planet, as well as docked at underwater buildings. Upgrade your submersible with installable Submarine Technology and customise the Nautilon to stand out from your fellow explorers.
SUBMERSIBLE BUILDING MODULES
Over a dozen new base parts have been added to unlock more creative possibilities underwater. Construct the new Marine Shelter for brief respite from the oceanic pressure, and use its protection to reach new depths. New glass corridors, viewing bays and multistory submersible view domes provide travellers the perfect view of the surrounding ocean, and a decorative indoor Aquarium brings aquatic life into your habitat.
We hope you enjoy this and what follows – and we look forward to meeting you out there! Our journey continues.
Sci-fi sandbox No Man's Sky has just received its latest big update, The Abyss, which focuses on underwater gameplay.
For this update, developer Hello Games has implemented a new submersible craft, the Nautilon, plus improved underwater visuals, exploration amd building. Now is the time to realise your dream of building an aquatic utopia - because when has that ever gone wrong?
Intriguingly, there's a "dark" new narrative to uncover named The Dreams of the Deep.
No Man's Sky - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Alice O'Connor)
I’m always touched to receive e-mails imploring me to “Get in the [flipping] sea,” sent by fans who know there’s nowhere I’m happier than in that deep blue. I’m glad to hear that No Man’s Sky players today get to enjoy more life aquatic, with the latest major free update focusing on improving oceans. ‘The Abyss’, as version 1.7 is nicknamed, overhauls and expands ocean biomes with more varied life, boshes in new building modules for sea bases, slips in a submarine, lets us keep aquariums with sealife we find, and new wrecks and stories under the sea. It really is better down where it’s wetter, you know.
