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Frontiers: Introducing Update 3.vi

Planetary settlements

Clusters of trailblazing aliens have banded together to build planetary settlements. These pioneering settlements, full of life and promise, tin now exist found in inhabited systems all across the universe.

Found your own settlement

Earn the respect of the citizens to become overseer of your very own settlement. Every bit overseer, you'll be responsible for all aspects of the settler's lives – naming the town, choosing what to build, commissioning festivals, resolving arguments, repelling the attacks of the Sentinels, and much more.

Scenic nebulas

Interstellar clouds have gathered in deep space to form spectacular multi-coloured nebulas, making space skies more beautiful than ever.

Base of operations building grid carte

The base building menu has been totally overhauled. Parts are now laid out in a articulate filigree, allowing fast access to even the rarest of parts.

Likewise every bit speed, this overview allows players to see the full range of available parts, helping bring diversity and interest to your builds.

Each settlement unique

Every settlement is procedurally generated, with unique buildings, neighbourhood layouts, colour schemes, and interior and outside decoration.

More save slots

A new relieve streaming organisation has been implemented, making more efficient use of memory. Very large saves are now supported, assuasive for thousands of hours of play.

The number of possible save slots has been increased from 5 to 15, and the save select screen now supports scrolling.

Equally this new save organisation changes the format of save data, all existing saves have been automatically backed up. On PC, these may be found nether the new strbackup binder within your relieve directory, unremarkably in C:\Users\<Username>\AppData\Roaming\HelloGames\NMS\

Enhanced destruction furnishings

Destruction is crunchier and more satisfying, with reworked visual effects for asteroid destruction, Exocraft crashes, crystal mining, terrain editing, and enemy explosions.

Assistance settlements grow

Settlements commencement off small and pocket-size, with a sparse population and only a few buildings scattered around their town centre. Cull what to build and provide resources to construct new buildings and transform this ramshackle collection of dwellings into a flourishing town!

Dissimilar building types influence how your settlement grows. Build farms and factories to increase productivity, or cull to prioritise the comfort and leisure of your citizens with a more than relaxed arroyo to borderland life.

Hundreds of new base parts

Construct your own settlement-inspired bases with a huge array of new base parts. These detailed, high-definition parts are quick and easy to snap together, and yet produce a huge diversity of exciting sci-fi buildings. These new structural sets of timber, stone and alloy pieces create a tremendous range of possible building shapes.

Over a hundred new decorative parts create all-new ways to add personal character to bases.

Steam trading cards and badges

Playing No Man's Sky on Steam will now earn trading carte drops, with a full of xv cards available.

Collect trading cards to craft badges, and earn emoticons and backgrounds for your Steam profile.

Defend settlements from sentinels

Sentinels regard all pockets of culture with hostility, and as time passes, a prosperous settlement will inevitably draw watch attention. Research defensive buildings to continue the alert level low, or engage attacking drones in combat!

Combat effects – impacts, player weapon effects, Sentinel effects and more – have had a visual overhaul, creating a more dramatic and impactful experience for those who choose to accept the fight to the Sentinels.

More than saved discoveries

The number of discoveries that can be saved locally before uploading has been doubled.

Settler thoughts

Glimpse into the inner lives of settlers with insight into their thoughts and intentions as they go about their daily business.

Twitch campaign

No Man's Sky in-game rewards will soon be available to earn by watching streamers play the game on Twitch. Total details of how to sign up are available on the Twitch Drops page here.

The entrada volition reward viewers with an exciting new gear up of items, including unique appearance customisations, base of operations parts, exclusive companions, ships and more.

Streamlined building interface

The building UI has been totally overhauled. In placement mode, this new contextual menu allows quick access to scale, rotation and recolouring options. In the make-new edit mode, builders can quickly select and edit any existing pieces in-place, without having to delete or replace them.

Resolve denizen disputes

Settlement life is non ever harmonious! Every bit overseer, you will occasionally exist chosen upon to help resolve disagreements betwixt settlers. Exercise your all-time to be a fair and compassionate judge, or bandage blame widely and use the fines to boost the settlement's finances – the choice is yours.

Earn resources from your settlement

A highly productive settlement can generate a steady income of lucrative products and substances. A populous, happy, and productive settlement will provide a generous supply of resources to its overseer every day.

Enhanced ecology furnishings

Visual effects accept been improved across planetary environments. Dust kicked up by Exocraft, Walkers, starships and radioactive vents now whorls with more depth and character, and fireflies volition get together around the street lamps in settlements.

Advanced building controls

The basebuilding toolset has been expanded with several advanced controls. Free placement mode disables all forms of snapping, and allows parts to be placed within other parts. This advanced mode allows builders to identify parts wherever they choose – even in mid-air!

In improver, the ability to indistinguishable base parts makes information technology uncomplicated to quickly friction match your base of operations's existing style.

Motility base of operations parts

Re-architecting and renovating your bases is now easier than e'er earlier, with the ability to pick upwards and motion previously-constructed base parts.

Make important decisions

Every settlement has a unique set of features, influencing the population, happiness, and productivity of its citizens. Go on these stats balanced to ensure a smoothly operation society.

Under the governance of a thoughtful and benevolent overseer, a settlement may be able to rid itself of undesirable features such equally radioactive decay or parasitic eggs, and acquire desirable features such as well-educated citizens, or plentiful nanobots.

Enhanced multi-tool effects

Wield a more than impressive Multi-tool with revamped visual effects – the impacts and trails for the Boltcaster, Blaze Javelin, Scatter Blaster, Pulse Spitter, Plasma Grenade and Mining Axle accept all been given a new breath of life.

Contextual base of operations parts

Structural base parts such every bit walls, windows and arches will now intelligently select an appropriate variation – foundation, mid or height – for their position inside a construction, making it quick and like shooting fish in a barrel to construct aesthetically pleasing and highly varied bases.

Greet visitors

Settlements concenter visitors, and visiting aliens may asking to join your settlement, both increasing and enhancing your population with their unique specialist skills.

Settlement interiors

Settlements are composed of an assortment of building types – in improver to the Overseer's Function, you will meet habitations, factories, farmhouses, cafes and more. Every building is accordingly and uniquely furnished – with tables, chairs, crockery, lighting, storage, wall art, rugs, machinery, and much more than.

Extended deject saving

Account-wide data such as cross-save Expedition rewards are now deject synced, allowing access to these items across multiple systems when transferring salve data via Steam Cloud or PlayStation Plus.

All not-consumable Quicksilver purchases, such as gestures and base building parts, are now treated as account-wide data rather than tied to a specific save slot.

New expedition season

Trek 3: Cartographers begins shortly.

This customs hazard has a dissimilar feeling from previous expeditions. Travellers will begin their journey with a technologically unique starship, featuring an advanced waveform engine and powerful frameshift catapult. Preparing this bespoke ship for flight is a specialised process, and travellers will need to thoroughly explore their starting globe to escape the toxic atmosphere of planet Gisto Major.

As with previous expeditions, when the trek time is upward, you will take the option of converting your save information to a Normal way relieve.

Monstrous companions

The Cartographers expedition will permit travellers to earn a fertile monstrosity egg, which may exist hatched into a monstrous companion. Monstrosities have a different vocalisation when communicating, and their own unique set up of personality characteristics.

3.six Patch notes

SETTLEMENTS

Procedurally generated planetary settlements can be now found on inhabited planets all across the universe.
Settlements are found naturally via a new mission that occurs after a small corporeality of mail-tutorial progress.
Settlements can also exist establish with maps purchased from the Infinite Station Cartographer.
Mission Board missions that involve locating NPCs can also take players to settlements.
Players may submit their credentials to the monument at the heart of the settlement. If accepted by the citizens, they will get Overseer of the settlement and may choose its name.
Every settlement and its layout is unique. Each building is procedurally generated, using only parts available for actor base edifice.
Settlement condition tin can be seen and managed from the fundamental monument. In one case players have constructed their Overseer's Office, they tin can too manage the settlement from the terminal in their office.
Settlements have five primal stats: productivity, population, happiness, upkeep costs, and Sentinel alert level.
Improve their stats by researching new technologies, alluring new settlers to the town, amalgam new buildings, setting settlement policies, and more than!
Settlements where productivity is higher than its upkeep will generate valuable products for its Overseer to claim for themselves. Higher class settlements will produce more than valuable goods.
Settlements can autumn into debt, for example after commissioning an expensive new piece of engineering science. Debt is automatically repaid from surplus production. While settlements are in debt, the Overseer may not merits the extra products.
Primal stat bonuses are awarded in the course of settlement features.
Strong features will replace weaker ones. Once the settlement is at the feature limit, weaker features will exist awarded equally stat bonuses and will not replace a amend feature.
Over fourth dimension, the Overseer volition be called upon to make decisions. A new Settlers mission has been added to the log to help keep rail of these requests. This mission will warning Overseers whenever they are required.
Every few hours, the Overseer may be requested to make a determination. These range from greeting strangers, to resolving crimes, to setting settlement policies and research goals.
These decisions volition assistance shape your settlement into a thriving boondocks. However, be sure to monitor the Sentinel warning level. This volition ascent slowly over time, and may trigger an assault on the settlement. The Overseer must be prepare to defend their people!
The settlement'south citizens volition wander the town according to their routines. Their mood is influenced past the overall happiness of the settlement, besides every bit their ain reactions to your decisions.
Whatever settler may be inspected to glimpse a view at their current thoughts.
Other settlers volition display their thoughts as they wander, assuasive the Overseer an insight into the inner lives of their citizens.
Opportunities to choose a new building to construct will arise frequently. Choose which buildings to prioritise and make your settlement unique.
Once a conclusion has been made at the terminal in the Overseer's Role, a construction site will be placed in the settlement. Visit the site and supply resources to fuel construction.
Completing the structure of buildings will also honor stat bonuses.

Base BUILDING

The base of operations building card has been replaced past a new grid of all available parts.
The grid allows a quick and piece of cake preview of all existing parts, as well every bit offer quick access to role selection.
From the grid, players tin can select a role to place or become straight to edit fashion.
In placement mode, players now have quick access to scale, colour, material and rotation options.
In placement manner, players can speedily wheel between related parts, or can return to the parts filigree to cull their next structure module.
A new 'free placement' mode has been added. This disables snapping and allows parts to intersect with each other and withal exist valid to place. It besides allows players to freely place parts in mid-air.
From placement mode, or straight from the parts grid, players tin enter Edit mode and adjust any existing parts. Simply target the office and select the appropriate option.
From edit fashion, parts tin can be duplicated for rapid construction.
Or, pick upwards a part to fine tune it before putting it back in place.
Over 250 new base edifice parts take been added, from decorative to structural.
Three new structure sets have been added – timber, stone, and alloy. While however versatile and like shooting fish in a barrel to snap, these new sets are much higher particular and more visually diverse than the previous basic sets.
These sets replace the old woods, concrete and metal sets. The older sets are no longer bachelor to learn, but will exist kept for existing players.
Players who accept already researched pieces from the old sets will be awarded parts from the new set for costless. The new sets are significantly larger, so be certain to visit the Structure Inquiry Station on the Space Bibelot to browse the full set.
The new sets are context-enlightened and volition automatically adjust their visuals to adjust their position within a edifice. For case, walls placed at the top of a multi-storey building may add extra trim to their tops, while walls placed at the bottom may characteristic extra support beams.
The Exocraft signal boosters can now locate Merchandise Outposts.
Stock-still an event that prevented the Galactic Trade Terminal from being placed on bones wall pieces.
The Galactic Trade Terminal no longer needs power to function in player bases.
A number of deprecated and unusable base parts have been removed from the research copse.
Betoken Boosters are no longer limited to i per region.

VISUAL IMPROVEMENTS

Infinite skies have been significantly improved, with all-new visuals for generating nebula effects.
Visual effects across the entire game have been significantly improved – devastation, ecology, combat and much more.
The mode select screen has been updated with a new fix of images from the community. Thank you to all the dedicated No Man's Sky photographers!
Fixed an effect that acquired a single black frame during a teleport.
Stock-still a number of rendering issues with stars in VR.

SAVE STREAMING

The save/load system has been overhauled.
On console, each save is now treated as its ain object, rather than all five save slots being bundled together.
All existing saves accept been automatically backed up.
A number of crashes that could occur when saving or loading big and lengthy savegames have been fixed.
The number of possible salvage slots has been increased from five to fifteen. The salvage select screen now supports scrolling to see additional slots/showtime a new game.
The number of discoveries that can be saved locally without uploading has been doubled.
Any non-consumable Quicksilver rewards, such as gestures and base building parts, are no longer save slot specific and tin be used across all relieve slots once purchased.
Cantankerous-salvage Expedition rewards, Titles, and Catalogue information will now be cloud synced along with other save information.
Multiple users on the same PC and Windows login will no longer share Trek rewards, Titles, and Catalogue data.

OTHER IMPROVEMENTS

On the Discovery screen, improved the clarity of the button that is used to annals completion of all fauna discoveries on a planet.
The reward for discovering all creatures on the planet has been significantly increased.
The clarity of the end-of-expedition inaugural has been improved.
Flavor Three will brainstorm before long, and will bring an exciting range of new rewards…

BUG FIXES

Stock-still a number of mission issues related to other players discovering the target creatures/plants/minerals.
Stock-still a number of bug where matchmaking with players who had adjusted their clocks would cause the Expedition to terminate prematurely.
Fixed a number of issues that could forestall players from landing despite the location being valid.
Stock-still an effect that made it difficult to hover-select the concluding Expedition patch.
Fixed an result that caused the text on the expedition start splash screen to overlap in VR.
Stock-still an issue that allowed players to showtime a new Expedition without updating their customer to the correct version.
Fixed a number of mix issues with Bytebeat and groundwork music.
Fixed an animation issue that could occur when stroking a companion immediately before mounting them.
Stock-still an issue that caused the collision detection for biological horrors to be far also modest.
Fixed an upshot that prevented jetpack trail names from appearing if they had not been unlocked.
Stock-still a number of camera issues that could occur when using a planetary chart while inside an Exocraft.
Fixed an consequence that caused some buildings and bases to exist labelled incorrectly when entering them.
Fixed an effect that could crusade players to take hazard damage if their take chances protection was drained merely they were no longer in the active take chances.
Fixed an issue that acquired some markers to have a "time to walk here" estimate despite being on some other planet.
Stock-still a rare crash on Xbox that could forestall players from loading into the game.

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