No Man's Sky Origins Update Adds Millions of New Planets

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The popular space exploration video game No Man's Sky from developer Hello Games today released an absolutely monstrous update called Origins which fundamentally alters the title in a number of ways. The largest change, however, is the fact that millions of new planets have been added under new conditions that deepen planetary diversity like a totally new scale for planets, new alien structures, planetary NPCs, weather like tornadoes and lightning, active volcanoes and even gigantic sandworms.

Hello Games' Sean Murray had been teasing that this coming update would be gigantic for some time, and it turns out he was not exaggerating even a little bit. The full patch notes are worth a read just to get a sense of the scope of all of the changes. In addition to the actual content itself, multiple interfaces, visuals, and even Photo Mode have been given an overhaul or seen additions. While all the old planets remain, it genuinely sounds like people playing No Man's Sky today will essentially be exploring an entirely different game than those that were doing so yesterday.


"How do you radically change a universe where so many have made their homes, built bases, named, and discovered? Our solution is to birth entirely new planets into the universe, with vistas never possible before," Murray states in a PlayStation blog post. "Fly your Starship through towering mountains and epic chasms vastly larger than ever. Survive lightning storms, fires and hostile weather systems. Discover new creature behaviours like fauna that land and take to flight, or huge alien sandworms. Walk beneath new giant flora that changes from day through night. Visit buildings of an entirely new scale, containing new lore and much, much more."


No Man's Sky is currently available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC via Steam.

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tO0tPosted:

This game really does have a lot of content! I would recommend it's to anyone that's looking to play something new and refreshing.

MikePosted:

NicknKickn Considering getting this game? Read this:

This game has continued to improve and improve over the years and it's honestly incredible. I bought the game back in August of 2016. I just checked my steam achievements - the first achievements I earned were on August 16, 2016 (game's release date I'm semi-positive).

When the game originally released, it was honestly very, very disappointing. It felt like the devs head stretched the truth of what the game truly was by a factor of a million. You couldn't hardly play with friends, worlds were the same things over and over, exploration was boring and the quest line was incredibly sub-par and only went in a single, very confused, very stale direction.

Immediately after release, Hello Games, NMS creators, went completely radio silent and nothing was said.. Months later an update was released.. Then another, then another. Major content additions were added. Base building, exo-suits, new vehicles, a community 'hub' of sorts - you can finally play with OTHER PEOPLE!

Moral of the story is this - Hello Games has 100% redeemed themselves. This game is honestly turned into a massive, massive hit. I have well over 200 hours in this game now (which is a lot for someone like myself who works 50 hours or more a week) and I wish I could play more.

If you're debating on getting this game - don't. Just buy it and enjoy it. It's everything you want in a space exploration simulator... and more.


Yea the launch of this game was horrible.

0101010101010101Posted:

NicknKickn Considering getting this game? Read this:

This game has continued to improve and improve over the years and it's honestly incredible. I bought the game back in August of 2016. I just checked my steam achievements - the first achievements I earned were on August 16, 2016 (game's release date I'm semi-positive).

When the game originally released, it was honestly very, very disappointing. It felt like the devs head stretched the truth of what the game truly was by a factor of a million. You couldn't hardly play with friends, worlds were the same things over and over, exploration was boring and the quest line was incredibly sub-par and only went in a single, very confused, very stale direction.

Immediately after release, Hello Games, NMS creators, went completely radio silent and nothing was said.. Months later an update was released.. Then another, then another. Major content additions were added. Base building, exo-suits, new vehicles, a community 'hub' of sorts - you can finally play with OTHER PEOPLE!

Moral of the story is this - Hello Games has 100% redeemed themselves. This game is honestly turned into a massive, massive hit. I have well over 200 hours in this game now (which is a lot for someone like myself who works 50 hours or more a week) and I wish I could play more.

If you're debating on getting this game - don't. Just buy it and enjoy it. It's everything you want in a space exploration simulator... and more.

Thanks for this, I'm definitely gonna download it now!

NicknKicknPosted:

Considering getting this game? Read this:

This game has continued to improve and improve over the years and it's honestly incredible. I bought the game back in August of 2016. I just checked my steam achievements - the first achievements I earned were on August 16, 2016 (game's release date I'm semi-positive).

When the game originally released, it was honestly very, very disappointing. It felt like the devs head stretched the truth of what the game truly was by a factor of a million. You couldn't hardly play with friends, worlds were the same things over and over, exploration was boring and the quest line was incredibly sub-par and only went in a single, very confused, very stale direction.

Immediately after release, Hello Games, NMS creators, went completely radio silent and nothing was said.. Months later an update was released.. Then another, then another. Major content additions were added. Base building, exo-suits, new vehicles, a community 'hub' of sorts - you can finally play with OTHER PEOPLE!

Moral of the story is this - Hello Games has 100% redeemed themselves. This game is honestly turned into a massive, massive hit. I have well over 200 hours in this game now (which is a lot for someone like myself who works 50 hours or more a week) and I wish I could play more.

If you're debating on getting this game - don't. Just buy it and enjoy it. It's everything you want in a space exploration simulator... and more.


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