Hello Games has revealed the subsequent replace for No Man’s Sky: Worlds Part 1.
This large replace for the now eight yr previous house recreation is its largest since 2020’s Origins replace and focuses on much-requested selection and main visible enhancements to the universe. These embrace fancy new water results and even what appears like gameplay impressed by Helldivers 2’s neighborhood pushed Galactic Conflict.
In a brand new developer video, beneath, Hello Games’ improvement chief Sean Murray made a uncommon look to debate the Worlds Part 1 replace. Murray mentioned the tech Hello Games has developed for its upcoming new recreation, Light No Fire, is now being integrated into No Man’s Sky.
“Six months in the past we introduced Light No Fire,” Murray mentioned. “It is this loopy bold recreation and we have been engaged on it for years, and we have learnt so many issues and it appears like we’re virtually bringing this expertise again from the future.”
On Worlds Part 1, Murray mentioned Hello Games has fully refreshed the universe with new expertise, new flora, new fauna, and new gameplay. “In No Man’s Sky what you see on display is generated by the laptop and we’re reaching a stage of selection that simply wasn’t potential earlier than,” he mentioned.
The English studio has developed new water expertise that may create waves and reflections to make No Man’s Sky’s ocean planets “really feel fully new.” Ships can now land on water, planets have wind patterns, and the waves are dynamic and react to the climate.
“Typically a storm hits and, you realize, the waves rise, the clouds collect, you have acquired the atmospherics, the wind, all this expertise comes collectively suddenly and there is nothing prefer it,” Murray mentioned.
New floor volumetrics embrace rolling fog, rain, blizzards, and even sparks developing from lava. There are new creatures throughout the new biomes, too.
Worlds Part 1 brings with it a brand new Expedition. Expeditions are timed occasions wherein you embark on galactic journeys from one particular level in the galaxy to a different. They embody a number of challenges and achievements unique to every named Expedition.
Murray mentioned the new Expedition is impressed by Paul Verhoeven’s cult basic science fiction warfare film Starship Troopers and is “one thing actually completely different.” It takes gamers on a tour of recent planets, with everybody battling collectively. Progress, Murray mentioned, is neighborhood pushed, with new “tremendous cool” rewards. It sounds a bit like the Galactic Conflict in Arrowhead’s smash hit co-op third-person shooter Helldivers 2, itself closely impressed by Starship Troopers.
And at last, Murray teased there’s extra to return from No Man’s Sky. “The replace is named Worlds Part I as a result of, I assume… there’s rather more to return.”
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 Sequence X and S in 2020. A Nintendo Change model adopted in 2022. Over the years, Hello Games has issued a protracted listing of main updates, most lately Adrift.
Certainly, it is a busy time for Hello Games, which alongside updates for No Man’s Sky is engaged on its subsequent recreation, Light No Fire. It is about journey, constructing, survival and exploration collectively, set on a fantasy planet the measurement of Earth.
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