No Man’s Sky has launched its sixteenth expedition, The Cursed — an “unexpectedly creepy replace” that hits the eternally in style house sport simply in time for Halloween.
Developer Whats up Video games mentioned The Cursed is a “bizarre and unsettling” gameplay occasion through which gamers “struggle to maintain a grip on actuality” whereas haunted by visions and voices from one other dimension. It takes place in what’s described as a “type of twilight universe” through which time can shift unexpectedly, day turning to nighttime “at a vertigo inducing charge.”
The Cursed introduces the new Boundary Starship, No Man’s Sky’s first flying saucer. “It is a beautiful Giger-esque coil of tubes, pipeworks and engines,” Whats up Video games mentioned. Right here’s the official blurb:
Gamers should shield themselves towards the weakening of the boundaries of actuality. The exosuit’s normal hazard safety has been changed with a specialised Anomaly Suppressor — sustaining that is the key to surviving whereas the universe begins to interrupt down round you.
As gamers battle to navigate these haunted worlds, they might come head to head with the ghostly beings that drift throughout the boundaries. Typically these spectral anomalies merely observe, and typically they will flip rather more hostile… These encounters present gamers with new difficult enemies and boss battles, at a scale not seen earlier than in No Man’s Sky.
Travellers is not going to have entry to hyperdrive expertise, that means no warping between star programs. As a substitute, interstellar journey requires cautious planning and use of the historic portal community.
Haunting voices leak via from one other dimension, offering steering, info, unusual blueprints… and thriller. Gamers should resolve who these voices belong to, the place they’re coming from, and if they’re to be trusted…”
As you’d count on, The Cursed has a set of unique spooky rewards, together with a Cthulhu-esque Horror Exosuit customisation, bioluminescent pets, and the aforementioned UFO-like Boundary Herald Starship.
The expedition begins as we speak, October 23, and runs for about three weeks. Whats up Video games added that in the coming weeks it would launch an replace for No Man’s Sky that takes benefit of the incoming PS5 Professional at launch. The $700 PS5 Professional comes out on November 7.
No Man’s Sky launched in 2016 initially for PC and PlayStation 4 earlier than popping out on Xbox One in 2018, and PlayStation 5 and Xbox Collection X and S in 2020. A Nintendo Change model adopted in 2022. Over the years, Whats up Video games has issued a protracted listing of main updates which have continued to spice up participant numbers.
Certainly, it is a busy time for Whats up Video games, which alongside updates for No Man’s Sky is engaged on its subsequent sport, Gentle No Hearth. It is about journey, constructing, survival and exploration collectively, set on a fantasy planet the dimension of Earth.
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