No Man’s Sky Gets Another Major Update
No Man’s Sky fans rejoice! A new update, titled “Synthesis”, is going live on Thursday and it brings ship upgrades, new base materials, a refined inventory system, new VR features, bug fixes, and more.
Here’s a list of the update’s most significant additions, per the official No Man’s Sky website:
- Starship Upgrades: Visit the Starship Outfitting Terminal at a Space Station to add inventory slots to your favorite starship, or spend nanites to upgrade its class.
- Starship Salvaging: The Starship Outfitting Terminal can also be used to salvage unwanted ships for scrap, granting valuable products and technologies.
- New Terrain Editing System: The Terrain Manipulator has been improved and optimized, with new visual effects and new Restore and Flatten Modes.
- New VR Features: Features have been unified across VR and non-VR. Photo Mode and Creature Riding are now available in all versions of the game.
- Inventory Management: Inventory management has been refined and a number of UI quality of life improvements have been added. Items can be dragged and dropped to swap positions, or directly dropped onto damaged technologies for automatic repair. Control over stack sizes has been improved in the shop, transfer and charging interfaces. Hazard protection upgrades that are not relevant to the current environment are now hidden from the Quick Menu.
- New Base Parts: A new range of triangular base building parts have been added, opening up a large range of new structures for builders.
- Personal Refiner: This equipment allows users to refine elements directly within the Exosuit, without having to place a portable refiner on a planetary surface.
- Own Multiple Multi-Tools: Added the ability for players to own more than one Multi-Tool. Purchased Multi-Tools will be added to the Quick Menu for easy swapping.
- Base Building Improvements: Base building benefits from a large number of improvements, including visual and functional improvements to the snapping system. Existing parts have been optimized and building costs have been reduced.
- Quality of Life Improvements: Improvements [such as] instant access to the Galactic Trade Terminal; purchasing Planetary Charts from the full shop UI rather than a dialog interaction; increasing the speed of the Pulse Drive; and the riding of creatures that have been fed only basic bait.
The rest of the update’s additions can be read about here.