No Man’s SkyThe new Desolation update is here, and it’s packed with more creepy content than ever before in the game. The update offers players new spaces to explore by adding abandoned freighters throughout the space, each with their own unique story of what happened to their crew.
The freighters themselves will be procedurally generated, meaning that no two freighter interiors will be the same. When players encounter these ships floating in the vastness of space, they will be able to board and begin exploring. Inside the creepy abandoned spaceship, players can encounter any number of dangers, such as a fake AI security system or a new type of biological enemy that has infested the ship. As players make their way through the dangers of each haunted ship, they will also find procedurally generated stories that can be uncovered through the Captain’s Records, Personal Items, and Ship Records.
But while danger and intrigue may be strong draws for these haunted spaceships, they’re not the only incentives the Desolation patch adds for players to check them out. Anyone who survives their excursion to an abandoned freighter will be able to pick up parts of the ship to add to their own freighter. These salvaged parts can add new and unique technologies to player freighters.
Speaking of unique freighters, the Desolation patch also adds a new customization menu to user freighters that will allow players to fully equip them with custom color schemes. This customization can be done from the onboard freighter at your Upgrade Control terminal.
As for non-loading updates, this patch includes some tweaks to the game’s combat system to make it faster and more satisfying. The Desolation patch also brings a few new types of multiplayer missions, including one that allows you and your party to explore exotic planets, and one that allows them to “help lost souls whose spaceships have had an unfortunate fate,” according to the developer. Hello Games.
To see everything that is changing in No Man’s SkyIn the Desolation update, you can check out the full patch notes below.
No Man’s Sky Desolation patch 2.6 notes
- A new space encounter category was added, the abandoned Freighter. These can be landed and explored.
Abandoned freighters are procedurally generated, with an infinite variety of potential designs.
Abandoned freighters contain large volumes of valuable salvage, as well as new special rewards.
Each star system has an abandoned freighter style, allowing Travelers to share the systems portal address with particularly interesting wreckage.
- Abandoned freighters house several new hostile entities, including security turrets, aggressive drones, and a new assortment of biological horror.
- Abandoned freighters contain procedurally generated stories, with data records to be found and the fate of the crew to be revealed.
- New insights and story content can be found by retrieving the captain’s record.
- The update station on the cargo bridge can be used to recolor your cargo. Unlock new colors available with nanites. Unlocked colors are permanently available and can be reapplied for free.
- Storage containers built on a freighter base now add tabs to the freighter inventory page, allowing quick management of freighter inventory content.
- Fixed an issue that prevented the installation of technology within the general inventory of a freighter.
- Improved display and clarity of statistics displayed on the cargo inventory screen.
- Teleporters can now be built aboard charging bases. These variants do not require power. They can be used to teleport to other teleporters or to the Space Station.
- Capital ships now provide statistics for the success of fleet expeditions. Different freighters have different base levels of fleet coordination. This statistic can be improved with new procedural technologies rescued from abandoned or abandoned freighters.
- The expedition’s user interface now shows the difference between the statistics provided by the fleet and the statistics provided by temporary frigate updates or any capital ship technology.
- Addresses an issue that may cause an expedition to start when adding or searching for available temporary frigate updates.
- Popup text has been added to all armor style, texture and color options to buttons in the customizer, allowing players to know in advance which option they are selecting.
- Added a new item, the Anomaly Detector, found occasionally when extracting asteroids. This strange device will help locate an anomalous space object.
- Added the ability to add a custom title to your player name.
The titles can be selected in the Customizer.
Titles are earned for a wide variety of in-game achievements.
- Sentinel’s health has been reduced, but once alerted and hunting the player, they now spawn in larger groups.
- Sentinel weapon speeds have been adjusted to enhance combat feel.
- Player projectiles and targets have been adjusted to enhance combat feel.
- Overall, the player’s weapon reload speeds have been reduced and the size of the clips has been increased.
- Boltcaster base damage increased.
- Ricochet is no longer in the procedure update group. Specific technologies have been added to the research tree in Space Anomaly that will add bounce functionality to weapons if desired.
- Boltcaster and Scatter Blaster now fire in bursts. Holding down the fire will cause short gaps between the saved. These can be adjusted with new technologies.
- Increased the speed of Boltcaster and Scatter Blaster projectiles, making it easier to hit targets.
- Tracer lines have been added to Boltcaster projectiles.
- Blaze Javelin minimum damage increased if fired without charging.
- Blaze Javelin cooldown decreased.
- He adjusted the FOV while in combat.
- Custom reticles have been added for each weapon mode.
- Impact effects and orientation status are now displayed in the reticle.
- Blaze Javelin’s charge status is now displayed in the reticle.
- Increased FOV zoom speed when using combat range.
- The impact effects and flashes of all weapons have been improved.
- Camera movement and pad vibration during combat were improved.
- Clarity of incoming damage indicator in player’s HUD improved.
- Fixed an issue that caused Secondary Weapon Mode to be deselected when loading a save.
- Added a new exploration-focused Nexus multiplayer quest style.
- Added a new Nexus multiplayer mission style focused on rescuing stranded travelers.
- Digsite’s Nexus multiplayer missions have been redesigned to allow the progression of any bone type, rather than requiring only very rare bones.
- Invoking the spatial anomaly while in Pulse Drive will now properly disable the pulse motor.
- A new item was added, the repair kit. This can be used to repair any damaged subcomponents, rather than the required materials. The kit is consumed with use.
- Fixed rare crash that could occur when using a store in multiplayer mode.
- Introduced a minor optimization for terrain generation.
- Introduced a new implementation for Bloom’s post-processing effects
- Improved lighting for bright and / or emissive accessories.
- Improves the quality and brightness levels of lens flare effects.
- Selected light bulbs, such as the player torch, now use textured light patterns.
- The selected bulbs now display volumetric properties.
- When you join a multiplayer game from the interface, if the player you are joining is in Space Anomaly, you will appear directly on board the Anomaly with them.
- Fixed an issue that could cause flickering text on the Galaxy Map.
- Multiplayer player names are now displayed when you mouse over systems on the Galaxy Map.
- Fixed an issue that could cause players to start on an insecure system when starting a new game in multiplayer mode.
- Fixed various network stability issues.
- Fixed an issue where players’ marker names collided with their interaction message.
- Fixed several instances of chat message spam entering or leaving Space Anomaly.
- Fixed various issues that could cause missions to find incorrect targets when performing multiplayer missions from Nexus.
- Fixed an issue that prevented Photo Missions from working properly on Xbox.
- Fixed an issue that could prevent players from summoning their freighter to RGB systems.
- Fixed several issues that could occur if players removed the Egg from the Void before speaking to the Living Ship for the first time.
- Fixed a number of scaling issues including the Sentinel Discovery, Damage and Nearby Indicators popup.
- The HUD now correctly displays a damage indicator when the jetpack is broken.
- Fixed an issue with VR camera positioning when the player’s body is enabled.
- Added option for VR head bob when player body is enabled.
- Fixed an issue where virtual reality weapon shadows were displayed outside of virtual reality.
- Fixed an issue that could cause a moon to be labeled ‘from an unknown planet’ even after discovery.
- Fixed a number of incorrect or missing icons in the Guide.
- Asteroid placement is now deterministic.
