Sunday, August 27th 2023
No Man's Sky 7th Anniversary Celebrated with Echoes Expansion
Hello, it's unbelievable to me that it has been SEVEN years since No Man's Sky was released, and to celebrate today we are releasing our largest update of the year - No Man's Sky ECHOES. Our aim with ECHOES has been to breathe new life into the universe, with a new robotic race, our first race introduced since launch in 2016. We have also overhauled space combat with a focus on creating truly epic space battles, introducing freighter-to-freighter battles for the first time.
In ECHOES Travellers will discover a never seen before, long-hidden race of robots with rich new story content. Engage in robot assignments and rituals to earn a huge array of mechanical parts to create your own robotic avatar. New pirate freighters bring huge space battles to the universe. Defend fleets from pirates. Fly through enemy trenches to sabotage their shields, and destroy them!
Meet a secret society of robotic aliens in update 4.4, ECHOES! Furthering the narrative introduced in INTERCEPTOR, explore the mysteries of the Autophage, perform their rituals, learn their language, and assemble your own ceremonial staff. In deep space, confront huge outlaw dreadnoughts, sweep through their trenches and destroy vulnerable components in new tactical space combat - and much more!
Players can search out and assemble their own sci-fi ceremonial staff. Level this up with unique new technology to mine and battle your way through the universe. Travellers can now search for, trade and scrap weapons, allowing players to become Multi-Tool scrap merchants. Travellers can also choose from a wider array of weapons and tools, including the staff and also a new powerful Atlantid weapon.
This year we introduced the ability to store a catalogue of player's most wondrous discoveries. A new holographic museum allows you to decorate and display your favourite weird and wonderful discoveries in your base for others to visit and see. An exploration focused expedition - VOYAGERS - starts soon for explorers and adventurers to explore the universe and catalogue its marvels. Together with a Twitch drops campaign this brings a host of new content and rewards for players.
Rendering quality, stability and performance have had improvements across the board in this update. In particular for PSVR2 players foveated rendering brings a large quality improvement throughout the game. On Switch new performance improvements and a new anti-aliasing solution makes visuals crisper on screen and in handheld. Whether you're standing on a vista overlooking a planetary landscape, or marvelling at the beauty and the expanse of the solar system, the universe has never looked better!
These are just a few of the things that players can look forward to when they dive into the Echoes update from today.
It has already been a pretty busy year for the small No Man's Sky team with players enjoying the launch of the FRACTAL and INTERCEPTOR updates and the major SINGULARITY expedition. Fittingly ECHOES marks our anniversary by making our universe more exciting, dangerous and interesting to explore.
Our journey continues.
Sources:
No Man’s Sky News, PlayStation Blog
In ECHOES Travellers will discover a never seen before, long-hidden race of robots with rich new story content. Engage in robot assignments and rituals to earn a huge array of mechanical parts to create your own robotic avatar. New pirate freighters bring huge space battles to the universe. Defend fleets from pirates. Fly through enemy trenches to sabotage their shields, and destroy them!
Players can search out and assemble their own sci-fi ceremonial staff. Level this up with unique new technology to mine and battle your way through the universe. Travellers can now search for, trade and scrap weapons, allowing players to become Multi-Tool scrap merchants. Travellers can also choose from a wider array of weapons and tools, including the staff and also a new powerful Atlantid weapon.
It has already been a pretty busy year for the small No Man's Sky team with players enjoying the launch of the FRACTAL and INTERCEPTOR updates and the major SINGULARITY expedition. Fittingly ECHOES marks our anniversary by making our universe more exciting, dangerous and interesting to explore.
Our journey continues.
- Sean Murray, Managing Director of Hello Games
22 Comments on No Man's Sky 7th Anniversary Celebrated with Echoes Expansion
Looks like Starfield has stolen a number of elements from No Man's Sky too.
My thoughts exactly......time passes too fast............
I'm impressed they're still adding to it. Nice to see.
Also, they add expeditions where you learn the new mechanics from updates with a new save you create in th expedition universe. Free rewards and stuff. The next one will arrive soon. You can collect every rewards on every saves and the expedition save is converted to a "normal" save when you accomplish the expedition (or when the timer runs out).
Who remembers historian legendary video about no mans sky? I do.
Good that game receives free additional stuff <3
That's one monumental waste of hours if you ask me, looking at what they've got today. There still isn't much of a game to play. Combat still is godawful as is general movement - ultra clunky, bottom barrel animations, and just plain annoying really. Nobody goes out fighting sentinels for fun. Ship to ship combat is possibly worse.
I played NMS at launch and it wasn't bad as long as there were new things to figure out, and when it ran out it was instant boredom. But with the base building started a new spree of 'content releases' that feel more like busywork and carrot chases than real content. Its more on the level of collecting new skins, or setting 'a goal' so you don't have to wander aimlessly. But the goals amount to nothing.I think this is the game's biggest problem. There are no real reasons to want things. The universe is endless, so while there is some idea of persistence of whatever you do... it doesn't feel much like it because 99% of the places are entirely interchangeable. I really tried liking NMS, I love the idea and the setting... but it doesn't work for me.
reinstall/removed 2-3 times.... right now, removed this game forever.....