Hello Games makes good on its promise to deliver more content for its widely maligned game.
Now may be a good time to pop No Man’s Sky back into your console, if you didn’t already trade the game in. For its one year anniversary, Hello Games has released the third free update to the game, with the largest amount of new content to date.
Named Atlas Rises, it boasts 30 hours of story gameplay along with combat, delivery and salvage missions you can complete on the side. The mysterious Atlas Path story has also been improved.
Warp portals have also been added to the game, a feature that was teased since the game’s pre-release footage. Previously, committed players had sunk hours into interacting with structures that looked like they should be portals, trying everything they could think of in an attempt to “trigger” it to no avail. But now, portals that can fast travel you to different planets are a reality.
A new alien race has been added and each planet’s identity has also been deepened. Now when scouting out the next planet to travel to, each galaxy’s read out will tell you the state of its economy, danger level and race inhabiting it.
Outside of changes to virtually every aspect of the game, from improved UI to better flight combat, the last big addition is a very basic form of multiplayer. Being able to travel the giant procedurally generated universe with friends has been one of the most requested features, and Hello Games is introducing a rudimentary version of it.
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Players can travel together and interact with up to 16 other players. However, the other players you travel with will appear only as “glitches,” little orbs of blue light. Hello Games promises that this is “an important first step” into a more fully formed co-op experience.
The Atlas Rises update is out today and available for free.