No Man’s Sky’s next big update, Adrift, lets players explore a universe where all other lifeforms are gone.
In Adrift, players can experience the game in a new way, being completely alone for the first time. This update removes all NPCs, meaning there are no shops, no trading, no shortcuts, and no help.
This makes the survival experience more dangerous. Sandworms roam freely, fiend eggs spread across planets, and buildings are broken and rusted. The worlds are also filled with graves of lost travelers.
No Man’s Sky Adrift is Out Now
No Man’s Sky has been out for almost eight years, but players have never truly felt alone in its vast star systems. This is changing with the new update, Expedition 13: Adrift, which changes the game in a big way.
The blog post announcing the update explains that Adrift aims to bring back the feeling of early versions of No Man’s Sky when there were “no NPCs, no shops, and no help.” To do this, the update removes all lifeforms from the game and makes all buildings look broken and rusted.
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There are also more sandworms and fiend eggs for players to encounter. However, players can still find a “ghostly frigate” and a Hauler starship called the Iron Vulture to help them out.
Adrift also includes more ship customization, more multiplayer missions at the Space Anomaly Nexus, and special rewards and collectibles for the Adrift update. The patch notes show that the update fixes bugs, improves memory usage, enhances the audio of planetary titan worms, and makes other small changes.
The expedition will last for about seven weeks, so players should start soon if they want to experience it. The last update, Omega, added new planetary missions and a starship called the Starborn Runner.
No Man’s Sky 4.70 Patch Notes
- Expedition Thirteen, Adrift, will begin shortly and run for approximately seven weeks.
- During the expedition, every star system has become abandoned, removing all NPCs, all active starships, and destroying system economies.
- A number of other gameplay changes have been made to reflect the strange nature of this universe, including to gameplay events, to player communications, and to the distribution of various hostile entities.
- Rewards include new posters, decals and titles; a set of starship wreckage base building parts; a vile and gnawing companion; a unique cursed frigate; several new starship customisation options; and the exclusive Iron Vulture hauler.
- Introduced a number of significant memory usage optimisations.
- Fixed an issue that caused base parts to pop in after loading.
- Improved the speech audio of the Assembled Construct on the Space Anomaly..
- Improved the audio for planetary titan worms.
- Fixed an issue that could prevent the Space Anomaly from playing its warp-in effects.
- Significantly improved the visual effects around the Space Anomaly’s Prime Terminal.
- Fixed an issue that caused distorted Travellers to pop in when interacting with Unknown Graves.
- Fixed an issue that could cause the crafting page to use incorrect text when attempting to build an object while lacking sufficient resources.
- Fixed an issue that allowed markers belonging to separate resources to be merged together when part of the same clump.
- Fixed a rare issue that could allow damaged technology to appear in the list of refinable items.
- Planets with synthetic or robotic creatures will now report this information in the “Fauna” category of their data readout.
- The purchase UI screen has been tweaked to improve clarity when the current item is unaffordable.
- Fixed a number of rare issues where incorrect rewards were listed in the UI or in the interaction prompt.
- Fixed an issue that prevented the Atlas Path from appearing in the Collected Knowledge section of the catalogue.
- Fixed some misleading mission instructions in the They Who Returned mission while in an uninhabitable star system.
- Fixed a number of rare mission blockers that could occur while reloading a save in the middle of space combat.
- Fixed a number of rare blockers in A Trace Metal related to Tethys’ interactions.
- Added a catalogue guidance mission for Atlantideum.
- Improved mission text clarity in the event that a player travels a significant distance away from their current mission target.
- Fixed a rare issue that could add an “ON PLANET” label to the Atlas Station’s marker.
- Fixed a number of minor text issues.
No Man’s Sky Is Set to Become the Most Isolated Videogame Ever
It’s hard not to compare No Man’s Sky and Starfield, even though they are different in practice. Both are ambitious space games that arrived with a lot of hype and were disappointing at launch. Starfield’s Shattered Space might be Bethesda’s RPG comeback.
However, after eight years, Hello Games’ No Man’s Sky has recovered and become one of the best comeback stories in gaming, along with Cyberpunk 2077 and Fallout 76.
The new No Man’s Sky update, Adrift, is very different. There are no added quests or extra content. It’s a bold new version of the game based on one idea: what if the entire universe was empty?
Inspired by early versions of No Man’s Sky, Adrift lets players explore the game’s worlds, galaxies, and planets without meeting any lifeforms. If you’ve ever felt the fear of being completely alone in the universe, No Man’s Sky Adrift is for you.
There are no shops, trading, shortcuts, or help. You are truly alone, making No Man’s Sky the ultimate survival game. Some dangers remain, like giant sandworms and spreading fiend eggs.
Everything else is abandoned, rusted, and ghostly. It’s a lonely but peaceful and meditative experience, similar to the game’s beginning before all the updates.
A new Hauler starship called the Iron Vulture, will help keep you alive, and there’s a large new frigate where you can rest and replenish before exploring again. There’s no release date yet for No Man’s Sky Adrift, but Hello Games will share more information soon.
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