‘No Man’s Sky’ Adds Living Space Ships To Its Virtual Universe
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No Man's Sky is one of the greatest success stories in modern gaming. A compromised vision of a virtual universe at launch, its makers at Hello Games have worked tirelessly to expand the game, transforming it from a hyped title that failed to deliver on first impressions into an entire second life for several thousands of players. What's more, there's never a bad time to jump into it - so if you're yet to, please, don't be intimidated.
The game's 'Beyond' update of last summer was said to be the final major addition to the game - and you can read all about that, here. It introduced hundreds of improvements, rolled out VR headset support, and refined its multiplayer options brilliantly. It was kind of a big deal, basically.
But what 'Beyond' didn't add was - checks notes - biological space ships. Thank goodness, then, that now we have the game's 'Living Ship' update, which does just that.
According to Hello Games, the update introduces a race of biological space ships that players can raise from egg to massive interstellar cruiser. So that's you, then, flying around in its guts, I guess? Sounds pretty David Cronenberg-ian to me, and very Farscape-y while we're at it, and I'm entirely here for it. So long as the controls aren't too gunky, and those corridors don't drip with acid. It's remarkably difficult to get stomach juices out of space suits.
These ships will, predictably enough, look entirely unlike any other craft in No Man's Sky. And they're not the only thing coming with the 'Living Ship' update - which is the ninth significant update to No Man's Sky since its 2016 launch. Oh no, players: you also benefit from tweaks and made to exploration, new NPC ship encounters, and a wealth of other quality of life improvements.
Want to know more? Full patch notes for 'Living Ship' can be found online here.
Hello Games adds that it's working "on more radical things, longer term, in the background", and is "experimenting with releasing content we know the community will enjoy, as soon as we're able". Which all sounds super, frankly. Who doesn't want their favourite game to keep getting better and better, eh? Especially if now, in the wake of multiplayer and VR, we're gonna get The Weird Stuff. Love us some of that there The Weird Stuff.
The British indie studio is also working on its new 'short' game, The Last Campfire, which was revealed in 2018. Maybe we'll see something more from that, later in 2020. Fingers crossed.
Topics: Hello Games, No Man's Sky
