No Man’s Sky Voyagers Update Ushers in a Whole New Dimension to Ship-Building

It’s been gratifying to see so many Xbox and Sport Go gamers return to the No Man’s Sky universe to take command of the all-new planetary settlements after the Beacon replace a few months in the past. Within the background, the tiny staff at Howdy Video games have been exhausting at work and at this time we’re happy to reveal maybe our largest replace of the yr. The Voyagers replace launches at this time and is free to current gamers. 

Spaceships have all the time been my favorite factor, the best factor. Give me any sci-fi movie or novel or sport, and I need to discuss to you concerning the spaceships in it! I can draw you a map of the Millennium Falcon, or the Nostromo – these are vital characters in these worlds. I do know for our staff and our gamers it’s that very same feeling. Your ship is perhaps an important character in No Man’s Sky.

What if we may construct our personal ships? With actual interiors, med-bays, sleeping quarters, struggle rooms? What if we may get out of the cockpit seat mid-flight, wander round, look out the window because the universe flies by? What if we may share our ship with pals, to construct a crew and journey collectively? That’s a fantasy we’ve had for the longest time. I’m positive gamers by no means thought it could occur, however it’s one thing we’ve been working in the direction of for years.

This has been simply a large enterprise for our small staff. Starships transfer at unimaginable velocity, and to add a participant calmly strolling round inside a ship that’s hurtling by house brings up all kinds of physics and sport growth issues (immediately you’ve got to take into consideration relative house!). 

We went even additional, permitting networked crewmates to stroll about inside too, networking with one another, while additionally travelling at huge velocity on a networked ship. To take it even additional we enable gamers to edit and adorn these ships round them, while pulsing by house or flying over a planet. It’s one of many tougher sport growth issues!

Constructing your personal ship, adorning it with pals, your personal house that you simply share collectively – there actually isn’t something prefer it. These moments the place you look out the cockpit as a House Station spins into view. Opening the airlock to rush out and uncover a new planet, our returning house to your new customized ship from a hazardous surroundings. It feels so totally different and new.

Voyagers is model 6.0 of No Man’s Sky, which for us represents a massive milestone. It’s actually one among our largest updates ever, and what I like about it’s it opens up a complete new path that we’ll need to construct on and develop in future.

Actually although, we see every replace as one other step on a for much longer journey. Typically we’ll put a lot of labor into one thing that the group will understand as small, however we all know is vital for the long run. Typically one thing that was simpler for us is definitely actually significant to the group – these are nice too! Probably the most satisfying half is after we’ve put in a lot of exhausting work for one thing we all know is actually significant to gamers, and I believe Voyagers is fortunately a kind of updates – a lot of exhausting work to create one thing actually significant for the long run.

The most effective factor about No Man’s Sky continues to be the group. One thing concerning the sport attracts the perfect, most welcoming gamers. So long as gamers hold coming again to benefit from the content material we’re making, and so long as the staff is having fun with developing with crazily bold stuff like Voyagers, then we’re joyful!

Behind the scenes, our new sport, Mild No Fireplace, is actually coming alongside nicely. Truthfully we all the time presumed that No Man’s Sky would have sailed off into the sundown lengthy earlier than Mild No Fireplace ever noticed the sunshine of day. If something, from a participant and staff perspective, No Man’s Sky is extra vibrant now than ever, and each initiatives are benefitting from one another.

The Voyagers replace (6.0) is obtainable now, free to current gamers. Our journey continues.