The 3.94 update reworks capital ships and adds specialist NPC crew
The latest freeNo Man’s Skyupdate is out today, and it’s a good job Hello Games called the thing Endurance. It takes some serious stamina to scroll through the patch notes. Looks like it might be worth perusing all the way through them though, with this 3.94 update to the game majorly reworking freighter bases and shipping in some NPC crew members to populate them with. This crew will even share their thoughts as they’re wandering about. See for yourself in the trailer below.
Having a crew of biologists, technicians and engineers kicking about your capital ships, with even your hired frigate captains and squadron pilots teleporting in to visit from time to time, is a lovely touch. Hello Games have added planetary scanners to survey whole star systems in one sweep, and you can now teleport directly from your freighter to any space station or planetary base terminus. Most Trek of all is the new third-person view of your freighter when you activate warp.
There’s still fleetloads more in the Endurance update. Now, you can construct windows in your freighter’s corridors, and external observation decks, to gaze out into the ether. If you’re after the Farscape experience instead of Trek then you can always make a fleet of procedurally-generated organic frigates, also patched in with this update. There’s a new expedition called Polestar too, which lets you take a mysterious freighter of the same name on an interstellar cruise in true Fifth Element style. I could go on, but I think my mouse wheel’s broken from the strain.
No Man’s Sky has certainly come a long way since it was released almost six years ago, with some diverse content drops just this year alone. Back in May, theLeviathan updateadded a roguelike time-loop mode. Space pirates entered the fray in April’sOutlaws update. In February, theSentinel updatelet players build their own robots, mechs and drones. Perhaps John was on to something in hisNo Man’s Sky reviewwhen he said the game was both “massively flawed, and systematically poorly designed” and “a massive playground of potential and opportunity”?
You can grab No Man’s Sky fromSteam,GOGand theMicrosoft Storefor £40/$60/€55. It’s also on PC Game Pass. Check out the full patch notes for the 3.94 Endurance updatehere, if you’ve got the arm for it.
