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Hello!
One of our biggest surprises in 2021 has been the popularity of Expeditions. It’s been absolutely lovely to watch folks play No Man’s Sky in new ways (like working together to escape a hellish planet, which prompted this lovely Eurogamer article), and to surprise players with unexpected rewards (like the moment the Normandy from Mass Effect warped into No Man’s Sky for the first time in Beachhead).
We have always wanted starting a new expedition to be an exciting refresher, a way for experienced players to find a new perspective on No Man’s Sky, or for new players to find a part of the universe they hadn’t yet experienced. But this very busy year, and the limited-time nature of the expeditions, has meant that it has been difficult for some people to participate in them.
As a one off, we wanted to give people who missed out on any of this year’s expeditions another chance to experience the unique challenges and rewards they offered over this Thanksgiving and Christmas period, when life slows down a bit and hopefully gives us all more free time! We’ve even managed to bring back the Normandy as a reward for those who missed out, which I know so many have asked for.
We’ll be starting on the 24th November with another opportunity to play Pioneers, the very first expedition. Starting an expedition is as simple as starting a new game. Instead of loading a save, choose Community Expedition from the mode select screen and begin your journey!
Expedition Schedule
Alongside the expedition, we are also releasing a small update with a number of bug fixes and quality of life improvements. See below for the full patch notes.
Each expedition will run for two weeks, and they have been tweaked to account for this shorter time window. Each expedition has also been given a new starting planet and route through the galaxy. They will run back-to-back, as follows:
Expedition 1 (Pioneers): 24th November – 7th December
Expedition 2 (Beachhead/Normandy): 8th December – 21st December
Expedition 3 (Cartographers): 22nd December – 4th January
Expedition 4 (Emergence): 5th January – 19th January
Development Update
This marks the end of another busy year for our small team, as we celebrated No Man’s Sky’s 5th anniversary with 4 major updates! This now takes us to 17 large releases, as well as countless smaller updates, community requests, and hotfixes – a huge amount of work for such a small team. We are very proud to have been on this adventure with you, and humbled that we are able to continue taking No Man’s Sky to new and exciting places.
The 5th anniversary year started in February with the Companions update. We were delighted to see all the screenshots of players exploring the universe side-by-side with their newly adopted alien creatures. We loved the reaction of the community as people began breeding creatures and sharing their eggs, with the weird and wonderful (and colossal) creatures that players brought into existence never failing to surprise.
Expeditions in April introduced a brand new way to play No Man’s Sky. We have always loved the magic of starting afresh – vulnerable, trapped on a planet, a whole universe of possibilities ahead of you. Expeditions brought new ways to experience that feeling, as well as bringing the community together and allowing everyone to feel what it’s like to be in a hub world. We are very excited for the future of expeditions and all the different possibilities they contain!
In May we released Prisms, and dramatically refreshed the No Man’s Sky experience with a range of new visual features. We have always wanted everyone to have a real sense of wonder whenever they set foot on a new world or stare up at the stars, and we were so pleased with the way Prisms made the journey across the universe feel exciting and new, even to veteran players. No Man’s Sky has never looked better, with reflections, new texture effects, more planetary details, improved lighting, new skies, new warp effects, creature fur, and much more besides.
September saw the release of Frontiers, which not only overhauled the visuals and mechanics of base building, but also allowed for players to become Overseer of their very own procedurally generated alien settlement. We wanted to make it easier for newcomers to build beautiful bases, as well as open up new possibilities for the experienced building community, and we have been dazzled by the outpouring of creativity that we have seen from you all.
Looking back on all that, it’s an amazing achievement and testament to the hard work of a small group of people. Already work has started on some exciting plans for 2022 and there are no signs of us slowing.
Over the Holiday period the No Man’s Sky merch will be on sale periodically here with a 15% discount.
An extra 15% will be applied if you use the code ATLAS at checkout.
Black Friday (25th-29th November)
Boxing Day (26th December)
New Year’s Day (1st January)
Thank you all for your support, newcomers and veterans alike. We have one of the best communities in all of gaming and that is never taken for granted.
Our journey continues.
Sean
3.73 Patch Notes
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Fixed an issue that could cause protected terrain edits inside a player’s base to occasionally be overwritten when downloading a large number of terrain edits from other player’s bases.
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The base computer can now be picked up and moved within the bounds of the base.
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Improved the clarity of messaging when placing a base computer in an invalid location.
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Fixed an issue that could cause audio problems on PlayStation 4.
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Wiring mode now has access to rotation and free place options.
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Fixed an issue that caused the HUD message that accompanies entering a base to trigger too frequently.
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Fixed an issue that caused the personal refiner audio to continue to play forever if the refiner ran out of fuel.
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Fixed a collision issue with timber roof corner base parts.
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Fixed a number of snapping issues with basic shape adornment parts (cubes, pyramids, cylinders, and so on).
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Fixed a number of collision and terrain carving issues with small paving parts.
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Fixed a collision issue with one visual variant of the timber wall with windows.
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Fixed an issue that could cause base part preview holograms to be offset.
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The Pipe and Curved Pipe building parts have been combined into a single new Pipe part that adjusts shape contextually.
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Fixed a snapping issue with ByteBeat Cables.
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Introduced a significant memory optimisation for PlayStation 4.
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Introduced a number of significant base-building physics optimisations.
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Introduced a significant base-building networking optimisation.
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Fixed a number of rare issues that could cause planetary objects to have no collision.
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Fixed a rare issue where grass could grow around the edges of settlement building interiors.
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Fixed a rare issue that could cause NPCs in settlements to hover above their chairs.
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Fixed a number of base-building LOD issues.
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Fixed a number of snapping issues with inner pieces.
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Fixed a number of issues that could cause settlements to be incorrectly classified on the CBAS scale.
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Fixed an issue that could cause players to fall out of their freighter while constructing new rooms on board.
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Fixed a number of issues that could occur when collecting rewards after a fleet expedition had finished.
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Fixed an issue that could cause the Armourer mission to become blocked if players destroyed the targeted depot from the air, or before the mission had begun.
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Fixed an issue that could cause creature-related missions from the Nexus to pick inappropriate planets.
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Fixed an issue that allowed base part duplication mode to duplicate non-buildable parts.
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Fixed a rare issue that could prevent players from completing the construction of a settlement marketplace.
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Fixed an issue with base reporting.
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Fixed an issue that caused the “Spawn Beneath Your Skin” milestone of the Emergence expedition to fail to find any valid target when using the Target Sweep.
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Fixed an Xbox-specific crash that could occur when loading corrupted save data.
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Fixed a rare issue that could cause very large player bases to crash when loading.
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Fixed a Xbox-specific crash that could occur when running out of audio memory.
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Hello Everyone!
The release of Frontiers has been an intense and exciting time for the team. Populated civilisations are something the community have requested for a long time, and it’s incredibly rewarding for us to see players claiming their first settlement, meeting their first citizens, and experimenting with all the new base parts. We love seeing your process of discovery, and are often blown away by your extraordinary creativity with base building. Thank you for sharing your screenshots and stories!
Today, we are releasing version 3.64 of No Man’s Sky, and we are very excited to announce an event we know players have been anticipating. Expedition Three: Cartographers begins today!
In the Pioneers expedition, travellers embarked on a long journey across the galaxy: exploring, trading, building, mining and rendezvousing across five different planets. The second expedition, Beachhead, confronted travellers with a tightly-woven mystery, and a race against time to unravel it, with players all across the world eventually helping to summon the legendary SSV Normandy SR1 from Mass Effect.
Expedition seasons give us the opportunity to craft No Man’s Sky experiences that differ from the established game modes, and Cartographers is yet another unique journey, focused primarily on deep exploration of a single planet. This season places all expeditioners on the toxic world of Gisto Major, where their bespoke starship will require specialist attention to repair and launch into space.
Cartographers begins today, and will run for approximately two months.
Anniversary T-Shirt
To help commemorate the fifth anniversary of No Man’s Sky, we are releasing this stylish black and gold t-shirt, available for a limited time in the Official NMS Merchandise store here (Americas and Canada) or here (rest of world).
Twitch Drop Campaign
We’re also very pleased to confirm the dates for a new campaign of Twitch drops! This weekend, from Thursday 9th September to Monday 13th September, tune into streamers playing No Man’s Sky on Twitch to earn an exciting new spread of in-game rewards.
Our very first Twitch drop campaign earlier this year worked out really well – in addition to welcoming a number of new travellers to No Man’s Sky, and offering existing players a new way to earn rewards, the campaign helped bring a new audience to streamers who have supported us from the very beginning, which means a lot to us!
Full details are available on the Twitch Drops page here.
Community Research
Polo’s Quicksilver Synthesis Companion is exhibiting almost organic-seeming emotion as travellers unlock the Antimatter Observation Orb, Synthesis Core, and Bubble Vat: items fashioned in the likeness of their own anomalous home. The thought of these items decorating planetary bases makes them emit a few delighted sparks.
They have hinted that they are next planning to synthesise something nautical-themed, inspired by the ancient maritime trade vessels of the Gek. Complete missions at the Nexus to contribute towards unlocking the Bubble Vat and unveiling the next batch of exotic items!
Development Update
Patch 3.64 is releasing today, and will be available for all platforms soon. We will continue to listen out for issues reported by the community. Thank you for playing! In the longer term, we are continuing to work on features and content for No Man’s Sky, and look forward to sharing more when we’re ready.
3.64 Patch Notes
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Fixed an issue that could cause settlement buildings to spawn within the terrain and become blocked (note: this fix may slightly move some existing settlement buildings).
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Added a Galaxy Map marker to the player’s settlement.
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Fixed an issue that could cause settlement NPCs to become stuck and stop navigating.
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Fixed an issue that could cause all settlements to be incorrectly labelled as belonging to another player.
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Fixed an issue that caused settlement charts to be used up when they failed to find a settlement.
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Fixed an issue that could cause settlement building timers and states to repeat endlessly.
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Fixed an issue that prevented settlements from being added to the teleport destinations list when starting a settlement in a different galaxy.
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Fixed a number of visual polish issues with settlement walls.
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Fixed a number of collision issues in settlement decoration.
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Fixed an issue that caused settlement construction times to be overly long (and costs to be repeated) for landing pads and towers.
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Fixed an issue that caused some small settlement buildings to have an additional construction stage that did nothing.
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Fixed an issue that caused settlement debt payoff rates to be calculated incorrectly.
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Fixed an issue that caused incorrect audio to play when selecting an option in a settlement decision.
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Fixed an issue that caused water to leak inside underwater bases.
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Fixed an issue that caused missing geometry on the underside of some landing pads.
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Fixed an issue that caused inconsistent window placement on new timber wall/window pieces.
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Fixed a number of snapping issues with generators, batteries, solar panels and planters.
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Added the ‘Report Base’ option to the Quick Menu, so that bases can be reported without finding any parts.
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Fixed an issue that caused the build menu grid hints to still be active when loading a different save.
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Fixed an issue that caused the Oxygen Harvester to appear in the wrong group in the build menu.
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Fixed an issue that prevented the wooden material from appearing in the base part recolour UI.
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Fixed an issue that could cause the base building menu to be overly jittery.
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Fixed an issue that caused the base building menu to be too close to the part being placed.
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Fixed an issue that prevented ladders and other technology items from snapping correctly in cuboid rooms.
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Fixed an issue that prevented player ships from being correctly placed on landing pads after teleporting to a base.
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Fixed an issue that caused players to spawn outside the Space Anomaly when joining a friend who was already inside the Anomaly.
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Fixed an issue that allowed players to delete the freighter room they were standing inside.
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Fixed an issue that could prevent legacy saves from loading correctly.
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Fixed an issue that could cause stutter animations around the Space Anomaly and the ship salvage station.
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Fixed an issue that caused the sunlight direction to be incorrect while in space.
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Fixed an issue that could cause pilots to fail to navigate around their ship after landing on a planet.
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Fixed a number of issues with localised text.
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Fixed an issue that could cause players to occasionally spawn below the ground.
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Fixed an issue that caused players to take damage when being recovered to the terrain after spawning below the ground.
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Frontiers: Introducing Update 3.6
Become Overseer of your very own procedurally generated alien settlement in update 3.6, FRONTIERS. Make choices, guide your citizens, develop new structures and defend your people from the Sentinels. Or, take advantage of a massive overhaul of base building to construct your own dream base.
YouTube: No Man's Sky Frontiers Trailer
Planetary settlements
Clusters of trailblazing aliens have banded together to build planetary settlements. These pioneering settlements, full of life and promise, can now be found in inhabited systems all across the universe.
Found your own settlement
Earn the respect of the citizens to become overseer of your very own settlement. As overseer, you’ll be responsible for all aspects of the settler’s lives – naming the town, choosing what to build, commissioning festivals, resolving arguments, repelling the attacks of the Sentinels, and much more.
Breathtaking nebulas
Interstellar clouds have gathered in deep space to form spectacular multi-coloured nebulas, making space skies more beautiful than ever.
Base building grid menu
The base building menu has been totally overhauled. Parts are now laid out in a clear grid, allowing fast access to even the rarest of parts.
Each settlement unique
Every settlement is procedurally generated, with unique buildings, neighbourhood layouts, colour schemes, and interior and exterior decoration.
More save slots
A new save streaming system has been implemented, making more efficient use of memory. Very large saves are now supported, allowing for thousands of hours of play.
The number of possible save slots has been increased from 5 to 15, and the save select screen now supports scrolling.
As this new save system changes the format of save data, all existing saves have been automatically backed up. On PC, these may be found under the new strbackup folder within your save directory, usually in C:\Users\<Username>\AppData\Roaming\HelloGames\NMS\
Enhanced destruction effects
Destruction is crunchier and more satisfying, with reworked visual effects for asteroid destruction, Exocraft crashes, crystal mining, terrain editing, and enemy explosions.
Help settlements grow
Settlements start off small and modest, with a sparse population and only a few buildings scattered around their town centre. Choose what to build and provide resources to construct new buildings and transform this ramshackle collection of dwellings into a flourishing town!
Different building types influence how your settlement grows. Build farms and factories to increase productivity, or choose to prioritise the comfort and leisure of your citizens with a more relaxed approach to frontier life.
Hundreds of new base parts
Construct your own settlement-inspired bases with a huge array of new base parts. These detailed, high-definition parts are quick and easy to snap together, and yet produce a huge diversity of exciting sci-fi buildings. These new structural sets of timber, stone and alloy pieces create a tremendous range of possible building shapes.
Over a hundred new decorative parts create all-new ways to add personal character to bases.
Steam trading cards and badges
Playing No Man’s Sky on Steam will now earn trading card drops, with a total of 15 cards available.
Collect trading cards to craft badges, and earn emoticons and backgrounds for your Steam profile.
Defend settlements from sentinels
Sentinels regard all pockets of civilisation with hostility, and as time passes, a prosperous settlement will inevitably draw sentinel attention. Research defensive buildings to keep the alert level low, or engage attacking drones in combat!
Combat effects – impacts, player weapon effects, Sentinel effects and more – have had a visual overhaul, creating a more dramatic and impactful experience for those who choose to take the fight to the Sentinels.
More saved discoveries
The number of discoveries that can be saved locally before uploading has been doubled.
Settler thoughts
Glimpse into the inner lives of settlers with insight into their thoughts and intentions as they go about their daily business.
Enhanced environmental effects
Visual effects have been improved across planetary environments. Dust kicked up by Exocraft, Walkers, starships and radioactive vents now whorls with more depth and character, and fireflies will gather around the street lamps in settlements.
Advanced building controls
The basebuilding toolset has been expanded with several advanced controls. Free placement mode disables all forms of snapping, and allows parts to be placed inside other parts. This advanced mode allows builders to place parts wherever they choose – even in mid-air!
In addition, the ability to duplicate base parts makes it simple to quickly match your base’s existing style.
Move base parts
Re-architecting and renovating your bases is now easier than ever before, with the ability to pick up and move previously-constructed base parts.
Make important decisions
Every settlement has a unique set of features, influencing the population, happiness, and productivity of its citizens. Keep these stats balanced to ensure a smoothly functioning society.
Under the governance of a thoughtful and benevolent overseer, a settlement may be able to rid itself of undesirable features such as radioactivity or parasitic eggs, and acquire desirable features such as well-educated citizens, or plentiful nanobots.
Enhanced multi-tool effects
Wield a more impressive Multi-tool with revamped visual effects – the impacts and trails for the Boltcaster, Blaze Javelin, Scatter Blaster, Pulse Spitter, Plasma Grenade and Mining Beam have all been given a new breath of life.
Contextual base parts
Structural base parts such as walls, windows and arches will now intelligently select an appropriate variation – foundation, mid or top – for their position within a structure, making it quick and easy to construct aesthetically pleasing and highly varied bases.
Greet visitors
Settlements attract visitors, and visiting aliens may request to join your settlement, both increasing and enhancing your population with their **unique specialist...
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