No Man’s Sky Remnant Update Lets You Wield A Gravity Gun And Drive Garbage Trucks

No Man’s Sky is nearly a decade previous, and developer Hi there Video games continues to be dropping free expansions for it each couple of months, together with right now’s one, Update 6.2, AKA the Remnant replace. The Remnant replace is themed round interstellar environmentalism–and most importantly–harnessing the facility of gravity that can assist you clear up your messes.

The Gravitino Coil is a brand new anti-gravity module that may be slotted into your multi-tool, permitting you to seize chunks of stuff and responsibly deposit them in recycling receptacles–or yeet them into the horizon in case you’re feeling irresponsible. Different new additions to the sport embody Waste Processing Crops, the place supplies might be recycled into uncommon assets. Salvageable scrap and industrial waste might be discovered on a number of planets, and you may want to collect the particles together with your new Gravitino Coil with the intention to earn rewards.

In fact, there is a restrict to how a lot you’ll be able to carry, so it is a good factor that aspiring scrap-hunters can set up a tippable flatbed on the Colossus Exocraft. An electromagnetic containment subject minimizes cargo loss, however you will nonetheless must be cautious once you’re driving on tough terrain or up steep slopes. New super-elastic wheels, tracked treads, and off-road working gear ought to assist with navigation, and a time-limited expedition will begin quickly for the No Man’s Sky group. Colossus automobiles may also be outfitted with a furnace for speedy disposal of commercial waste, in addition to a brand new obstacle-demolition attachment for amassing a small variety of assets from minerals and vegetation.

Contributors may even earn a “lavish” set of exosuit armor, camouflage end, and an unique asymmetrical cabin to your Colossus for collaborating within the expedition. Hi there Video games has additionally highlighted “considerably improved” clouds within the recreation, which now look extra life like and fluffier. You can see the complete patch notes under for extra particulars and a better take a look at the problems being addressed within the Remnant Update.

Again in September, the Voyagers replace added a ship builder to the sport, and naturally, gamers went wild with off-the-wall corvette designs that ranged from a huge Nokia flip-phone-inspired spacecraft to a billboard-sized portrait of Hi there Video games co-founder Sean Murray.

No Man’s Sky Update 6.2 Patch Notes

The Gravitono Coil

A new gravity-manipulation gadget for the Multi-Software, the Gravitino Coil, is now accessible on the House Anomaly or at planetary Waste Processing Crops.
A variety of moveable objects might be magnetised and launched with the Gravitino Coil, together with industrial waste, golden balls at planetary ruins, spheres fabricated by the Sphere Creator base half, fight provides dropped by Sentinel drones, and Sentinel drones themselves.
Sentinels shall be shocked for a brief interval after being launched from the Gravitino Coil.

Industrial waste assortment and salvage

Industrial waste can now be discovered on planets that includes salvageable scrap, distributed in small piles and huge heaps.
These scrap worlds additionally characteristic a brand new constructing sort, the Waste Processing Plant: extremely interactive amenities the place scrap-hunters can extract recycled assets and earn rewards for cleaning planets of particles.
Double-tooting the Colossus horn whereas parked at a Waste Processing Plant valuation scale will provoke the management panel interplay.
The Colossus can utilise the Exocraft Radar to pinpoint the situation of close by processing vegetation and waste heaps.
A small tutorial mission has been added to information new scrap-hunters.
A new Scrap Salvaging & Industrial Waste entry has been added to the information.
A set of recent participant titles can be found for accomplishments in scrap hauling and waste processing.
These titles additionally unlock a variety of customisation modules for the Colossus Exocraft.

Colossus Customization

The Colossus Exocraft can now be customised with a variety of aesthetic and utility modules, together with a tippable flatbed for transporting hauls of commercial waste, and a mountable furnace, for processing supplies whereas on the highway.
The cabin options for the Colossus additionally embody new cockpit interiors that mirror their exterior geometry.
The Look Modifier for the participant, and the Geobay for the Colossus Exocraft can now each retailer as much as 6 named look configurations.

Remnant Expedition

Expedition Twenty-One, Remnant, will start shortly and run for about six weeks.
Rewards embody new posters, decals and titles; a playful animated gesture; three unique modules for the Colossus Exocraft – a camouflage end, asymmetrical cabin, and mechanical legs – and the stunningly detailed five-piece Heirloom customisation set.

Twitch rewards

A new bundle of Twitch drops will start shortly. Enroll and join your platform accounts on the Twitch Drops web page, then tune in to Twitch to earn unique base elements, high-tech starships, fireworks, look modifications, and extra.

Exocraft

Improved Exocraft functionality for destroying obstacles of their path, decreasing how usually they get caught or snagged.
Improved the dealing with of the Colossus – particularly, the braking efficiency when driving downhill, and the turning responsiveness in first individual.
Fastened the “Observe” vs “Guide” setting for Third Particular person Digicam Motion not being appropriately utilized to the Exocraft digicam.
Considerably improved the looks of Exocraft mud path and exhaust results.
Added a brand new Exocraft expertise, the Cyclops Scope, which permits use of the Evaluation Visor whereas driving.
Added a brand new Colossus-specific expertise, the Excavation Blade, which harvests assets from obstacles destroyed by automobile collision.
Added a brand new music monitor related to driving the Colossus Exocraft.
Fastened a difficulty that prevented different gamers from listening to Exocraft horns in multiplayer.
Fastened a difficulty that precipitated expertise to look on the outside of Exocraft earlier than it was absolutely put in.
Fastened a variety of delicate points in missions the place markers positioned by Exocraft scans weren’t all the time detected.
Fastened a difficulty that might trigger the participant to exit their Exocraft when making an attempt to tag a marker.
Fastened a difficulty that precipitated the Exocraft laser to create small holes within the terrain.
Fastened a difficulty that precipitated Exocraft to visually re-generate when customising minor particulars similar to decals.
Fastened a difficulty that prevented the Exocraft laser audio from enjoying when first fired.
Fastened a difficulty that precipitated Exocraft driving enter to be registered whereas adjusting the digicam in Picture Mode.
Fastened a difficulty that prevented the Exocraft Radar possibility within the Fast Menu from detecting if the required expertise was broken or solely partially put in.

Corvettes

Corvettes are actually accessible to construct on Nintendo Swap.
Added the flexibility for gamers in multiplayer to assist embellish the inside of different gamers’ corvettes. Base modifying permissions might be modified within the Community settings web page of the pause menu.
Added the flexibility for gamers to brighten the inside of a corvette whereas the corvette is in flight.
Fastened a variety of edge-case digicam, placement, and collision points associated to including small corvette modules when standing near the corvette.
Fastened a difficulty that allowed gamers to position corvette elements on prime of themselves.
Fastened a uncommon timing-specific softlock when making an attempt to open the Construct Menu at precisely the identical time as confirming modifications to a corvette.
Fastened a difficulty that precipitated interactive corvette modules, similar to Refiner Items, to permit interactions when positioned on a non-finalised corvette.
Fastened a uncommon timing-specific subject that might enable invalid corvettes to be finalised.
Fastened a difficulty that might trigger corvette touchdown pads to flash their lights indefinitely.
Fastened a difficulty that might forestall the Construct Menu from opening after starting design on a brand new corvette, however not finalising the construct.
Fastened a difficulty that precipitated a replica marker when beginning a brand new corvette and exiting the Workshop with out inserting any modules.
Fastened a difficulty that might trigger a newly bought corvette to be positioned on the participant’s place, as a substitute of on the touchdown pad.
Improved a variety of lighting transitions associated to house stations and corvettes. Specifically, prevented some points the place corvette interiors may undertake the lighting circumstances from close by planets.
Fastened a variety of messaging points associated to beaming aboard a derelict freighter from a corvette.
Fastened a difficulty that precipitated the House Rescue mission to vanish from the Log after rescuing a freighter in a corvette.
Fastened a difficulty that prevented unique reward corvette modules – such because the Aeron Drive – from rewarding any items if bought at a Galactic Commerce Terminal.
Fastened a difficulty that prevented the amount arrows from being seen when buying modules from the Corvette Workshop.
Fastened a difficulty that precipitated the color of exterior corvette elements to influence the color of inside decorations.
Fastened some lacking geometry within the Titan Cockpit on decrease high quality settings.
Fastened a difficulty that prevented the Titan Hab from connecting appropriately to the Wings of Aeron.
Improved participant motion animations whereas aboard a corvette.
Improved the looks and animations of the corvette hydraulic legs.

Clouds

Considerably improved the visible stability and efficiency of clouds, and enhanced their look, particularly on decrease high quality settings.

UI and enter

Improved the format and look of unlockable expertise bushes, particularly on handheld gadgets.
Fastened a variety of cropped UI parts on handheld gadgets.
Fastened a variety of UI overlap and alignment points on handheld gadgets.
Fastened a difficulty that precipitated button glyph icons embedded in textual content to look blurry on handheld gadgets.
Elevated the textual content measurement on a variety of UI screens on handheld gadgets.
Fastened a difficulty that might forestall the “Section 5” patch showing on the expedition terminus at some display resolutions.
Fastened a variety of UI textures that appeared blurry in sub-4K resolutions on PC.
Fastened the background alignment for pictures that may seem within the bottom-right notification space of the HUD (for instance, when putting in a expertise).
Fastened a difficulty that prevented planet thumbnails from showing in Private Information with out exiting and re-entering the display.

Enter

Fastened a difficulty that prevented contact enter from being detected on Steam Deck.
Fastened a variety of digital keyboard enter points on handheld gadgets.
Fastened a difficulty that prevented DS4 and DS5 controllers on Steam from with the ability to scan whereas in an Exocraft.
Fastened a PC-only subject that precipitated the mouse cursor to lag on the preliminary boot screens if V-Sync was enabled.

Stability and optimisation

Enabled multi-threaded rendering on Nintendo Swap and Nintendo Swap 2, considerably enhancing GPU efficiency.
Carried out tiled lighting, considerably enhancing efficiency in environments with many particular person lights, and fixing a variety of minor flickering points.
Added assist for DLSS 4.5.
Made a variety of efficiency enhancements to deep house and planetary environments.
Carried out a variety of memory-saving optimisations.
Carried out a major efficiency optimisation in settlements.
Carried out a major efficiency optimisation for giant save video games which have accomplished a lot of missions.
Fastened a variety of uncommon crashes.
Fastened a variety of multiplayer disconnection points.

High quality-of-life and bug fixes

Fastened a difficulty that might forestall Helios from permitting gamers to submit discoveries to them every day.
Added a variety of visible variations for floating stone guardians.
Visited House Stations are actually robotically added to the teleport checklist if the participant owns a base in that system.
Fastened a difficulty that prevented the Nutrient Processor from robotically retrieving the contents of its output slot when picked up.
Fastened a difficulty that might trigger deployable Refiners and Nutrient Processors to refund an incorrect quantity of gasoline when picked up.
Fastened a difficulty that prevented the Private Refiner from working instantly if its enter slots have been stuffed previous to its gasoline slot.
Fastened a uncommon subject that might forestall the Misplaced in House steering mission from showing within the Mission Log when the participant had a Crew Manifest or Captain’s Log accessible to promote.
Fastened a difficulty that precipitated the Multi-Software to robotically holster when switching to a specialist mode, such because the Fishing Rig, in VR.
Improved the location of the “View Craft Steps” tree in VR.
Fastened a difficulty that might trigger player-owned starships to spawn on the improper scale.
Smoothed the rotation of docking ships in multiplayer.
Fastened a difficulty which may trigger ships to sink into their touchdown pad in multiplayer.
Fastened a difficulty that might forestall the participant’s Multi-Software from robotically holstering.
Fastened a difficulty that might trigger freighters to load the improper bridge sort (for instance, a pirate freighter bridge on a non-pirate freighter) when reloading a save with out absolutely quitting the sport.
Fastened a uncommon timing-specific subject that precipitated the digicam to malfunction when loading a recreation on a freighter and instantly interacting with the galaxy map.
Fastened a difficulty that might trigger Sentinel drones to fly by planetary terrain.
Fastened a difficulty that might trigger planetary creatures to generally ping off into the air after being shot.
Fastened a difficulty which prevented monstrosities from precisely monitoring the participant’s place.
Fastened a difficulty that might enable automobile weapons to hit the automobile itself.
Fastened a difficulty that might trigger Exocraft or Starships to fall by the panorama when the proprietor travelled a protracted distance away.
Prevented offline short-range teleporters on derelict freighters from saying “Community Reactivation Required” when a little bit of house particles floated into teleportation vary.
Fastened a difficulty the place “Visited” labels for lifeforms within the house station could be shared between all gamers in multiplayer.
Fastened a uncommon subject on Nintendo Swap which may trigger full-screen flickering when taking pictures planetary creatures.
Improved volumetrics and lighting on Nintendo Swap, particularly in House Stations and the House Anomaly.
Fastened a difficulty that precipitated the participant torch to light up the participant’s head.
Fastened a difficulty that precipitated a portion of the House Anomaly to fail to render when immediately teleporting there.
Fastened a visible subject that might trigger planetary ambiance results to “pop”, particularly when flying shortly throughout planets.
Fastened a difficulty that precipitated a brief black display when inserting the Emergency Mild base half.
Fastened a difficulty that might trigger some very giant objects to all of the sudden disappear when near the digicam.
Fastened a difficulty that might depart seen specular behind when fading out objects near the digicam.
Fastened a difficulty that precipitated some giant planetary props to be spawned sunk into the terrain.
Improved the steadiness of sunshine rendering inside cockpits.
Improved the lighting at planetary digsites.
Improved the supplies of a number of settlement objects and base elements.
Improved the glow on Gravitino Balls.
Fastened a visible subject with the glass within the Horizontal Alloy Window (High) base half.
Made a variety of minor visible enhancements to the Skyborn Armour customisation set.
Fastened a difficulty that precipitated the lights on the freighter bridge to flicker.
Fastened a difficulty that precipitated the floor of the buildable Mild Desk to flicker.
Fastened a difficulty that precipitated capes to hold rigidly after sprinting.
Fastened a variety of visible and efficiency points when viewing planetary objects similar to bushes and rocks from a distance.
Miscellaneous textual content fixes.