In patch notes for the update due to go live on PC and PS4 this week, Sean Murray has laid out what he envisions as being the first of many free updates expanding and improving the highly awaited game.
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“No Man’s Sky” designer Sean Murray said that anyone who played the game prior to installing the first patch will need to delete their saved data.
The patch notes for version 1.03 to No Man’s Sky are pretty extensive, detailing new features to the game, fixes and changes to planetary systems and galaxy size as a whole.
The Universe – we changed the rules of the universe generation algorithm. Different kinds of planets, moons, creatures, and atmospheres have been added, and more depth has been added to the mechanics of space combat.
But the patch isn’t exclusively mechanical. However, the first patch will have nearly an entire restructuring of the game including a ten-time bigger universe in the gameplay and three paths players can follow.
No Man’s Sky owes Minecraft a big debt – right down to the limited inventory space and item combinations that let you build better tools.
Meanwhile, it seems like this isn’t the only massive patch that Hello Games will roll out for “No Man’s Sky”. “We are running a control experiment to see who names things the most juvenile things”, Murray adds. Not only will No Man’s Sky remove the possibility of the valuable resource exploit that player used to reach the game’s ending in just around 30 hours, but the game will get multiple endings. Murray is the creator of “No Man’s Sky” and founder of Hello Games developing studio. The unveiling of the game’s update came just ahead of its official launch worldwide.
No Man’s Sky will be officially released on August 9 (August 10 in the UK) for Playstation 4 while the PC version comes on August 12.
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Players should however be unaffected by any framerate drops during normal play as they explore planets on the ground. This encourages exploration and gives freedom from the beginning. “We’re probably going to increase this even further in the next update, for people in the latter game phases, and will allow greater trading potential”, Murray wrote.
