If you like cool space stuff and/or retro TV shows about pretty cheesy vehicle maintenance, here’s some good news. A new update for No Man’s Sky, called the Orbital Update, will be released today – March 27th. What does it do? Well, it lets you customize your spaceship, for one.
Yes, last month’s Omega update sent you on an exciting adventure, starting with Nafty Gamma and unraveling “mysterious clues involving the past, present, and what could have been.” This update Not so mysterious anymore. , thank God.
As mentioned in the patch notes, it brings a critically acclaimed feature to the game, the Ship Editor [which] Allowing players to customize their ships” and “even create never-before-seen starship types.”
“We haven’t introduced customization before because so many players enjoy exploring and looking for the perfect existing ship to purchase,” Hello Games explains. “In keeping with exploration, travelers collect and trade their ships in order to customize them. The best parts are salvaged from shipwrecks and ruins as they explore.”
You’ll find these ship editors inside a fully modified space station, and they can be used to swap parts like fuselages, wings, and thrusters.After the update, the “Appearance [of these stations] Their scale is unprecedented and wildly varied,” while their interior spaces have become “massive, procedurally generated, and incredibly diverse.” Wherever you stop at one of these hangouts, you can expect new stores and activities, each of which is now “uniquely customized based on system, race, and region,” as you can see in the trailer below.
Another highlight is the new guild system, which is designed to make joining a guild and growing your reputation a more prominent part of the No Man’s Sky experience. There are new Guild Envoys on the space station, who provide supplies, rare items, and the opportunity to make donations to help you improve your Guild Ranking.
Additionally, if you’re the owner of a fleet of frigates, you can now send them on dangerous missions that could end up causing you to wade into water to rescue them if something goes wrong. Hey, stop complaining, you signed up to be a frigate captain and intergalactic nannying is part of the job.
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