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No Man's Sky's latest update, Origins, drops today, and information technology gives players millions of new planets to find. Those strange new worlds will look markedly different from the millions players have already seen over the by four years during their journeying through the massive, procedurally generated spacefaring game.

Howdy Games' new additions to No Man'southward Sky include moving weather systems, with extreme events like tornados and lightning storms; never-before-seen flora and fauna that exhibit new behaviors, like burrowing and improved flocking; bigger mountains, deeper oceans, steeper cliffs, and enormous buildings housing new discoveries. There are active volcanoes and meteor showers, additions that not just look cool, but have a real gameplay impact, Hello Games says.

And in that location are sandworms. Massive, Dune-inspired invertebrates that burrow underground and present the kind of threat only a giant sandworm can.

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The betoken of Hello Games' Origins free update for No Human being'due south Sky is to increment multifariousness, both to wow new players who volition discover a more varied universe and for veteran players who have invested hundreds of hours in the game.

"For people who accept played a thousand hours, nosotros desire them to experience the game is fresh and new," No Human's Sky game director Sean Murray said in an interview with Polygon. But adding that feeling of freshness has presented a claiming for the (still relatively pocket-size) No Man'south Sky team — in role due to the game'due south popularity.

"We've been planning something like this for quite a while," Murray explained. "We built this procedural universe and nosotros put it out there. We've updated the game a lot, only [the game] itself hasn't changed that much, in terms of the fundamental planets that you go around and explore. People take had hundreds of millions hours in that universe nosotros've made [and] ... to an extent, it's a lilliputian bit embarrassing. We should actually make that better."

Updating the core of No Man's Sky — fixing the game's foundation while millions of people are living in its house — included building "so many things we wanted to practise, would have loved to practice day ane," but are hard because the game is a living thing. "The more popular the game has get, the more people who've played it, the more than hard it is for us to go alter some of the fundamentals," Murray said.

"That'south why we're calling [the update] Origins," he explained. "It's non just about this update, it'due south given u.s. a whole bunch of powers and a bit of a rewrite of the underlying engineering for usa to practise this."

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Information technology'due south besides why, while some of Origins' new additions to No Human being'southward Heaven will come to existing planets, Hullo Games had to nativity millions of new planets to be home to the volcanos, more extreme landscapes, and firestorms. The programmer didn't want Origins' changes to destroy or otherwise interfere with players existing bases and community hubs.

"People have fabricated their homes, they've lived in this universe," Murray said. "I would be working on things like making mountains taller, and you'd see online that somebody has defended a planet to a lost loved one and congenital a base of operations for them. And I've got my head in my hands thinking, 'I'thousand going to destroy that planet if we do this.'"

Murray said that "some of the biome diversity," volition change universe-broad, merely that "the key shape of the terrain volition stay the same on existing planets."

While I haven't played No Man'due south Sky'due south big new update myself — it launches Wednesday, Sept. 23 — the changes sound potentially awe-inspiring, even for veteran players. Origins adds new cloud rendering technology for more dramatic skies. Planets will have more color variety. Giant beetles and massive collywobbles will fly overhead. Players will be visited by black market place traders on planet surfaces, and encounter robotic lifeforms on new worlds. It's a staggering corporeality of new additions, paired with less sexy updates, like UI improvements and streamlined crafting.

Simply all of it sounds like a good reason to revisit No Man's Heaven again, only to meet what's out there.

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For a rundown of everything that's irresolute in No Man's Sky's Origins update, read Hello Games' full patch notes. No Man'southward Sky is available now on PlayStation four, Windows PC, and Xbox One.

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Source: https://www.polygon.com/2020/9/23/21452204/no-mans-sky-origins-update

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