In the event you’re a fan of cool house issues and/or retro TV reveals about relatively cheesy automobile upkeep, this is some excellent news. A recent replace for No Man’s Sky, dubbed the Orbital replace, arrives at this time – March 27. What does it do? Properly, it enables you to customise your spaceship, for one.
Yup, after final month’s Omega replace, which despatched you on a pleasant expedition that kicked off on Nafut Gamma and concerned unpicking “the threads of a thriller involving the previous, the current, and what may very well be…”, this replace’s a bit much less cryptic, fortunately.
As outlined within the patch notes for it, it brings a hugely-requested function to the sport, within the type of “a ship editor [which] permits gamers to customize their ships” and “even create by no means earlier than seen starship varieties”.
“We haven’t launched customisation beforehand, as a result of so many gamers love exploring to search out the right ship already on the market to buy,” Howdy Video games explains, “Consistent with exploration, to customize their ship, Travellers collect and commerce components for his or her ships as they discover, salvaging the very best parts from wrecks and ruins.”
You may discover these ship editors, which can be utilized to swap and swap the likes of fuselages, wings, and thrusters, inside completely revamped house stations. Following the replace, the “exteriors [of these stations] are at a scale by no means seen earlier than, and are massively different”, whereas their interiors have change into “huge, procedurally generated, and extremely various”. You may anticipate new retailers and actions wheever you dock at certainly one of these hangouts, every of which is now “uniquely customised based mostly on system, race and locale”, as you possibly can see within the trailer beneath.
The opposite massive spotlight is a brand new Guild system, designed to make becoming a member of up with one and rising your repuation far more outstanding components of the No Man’s Sky expertise. There are new Guild envoys on house stations, providing provides, uncommon objects, and the possibility to make donations that’ll make it easier to stand up the Guild ranks.
Additionally, should you’re the proprietor of a fleet of frigates, now you can ship them away on harmful missions which may find yourself resulting in you having to wade in and rescue them if one thing goes awry. Hey, no moaning, you signed as much as be a frigate captain, intergalatic babysitting’s a part of the gig.
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