The No Man’s Sky Worlds Half II Replace Overwhelms Me

Whereas I’ve been diving into the updates that landed with Enshrouded final week, I’ve additionally spared a minute or two to look into what occurred with No Man’s Sky and their Worlds Half II replace that landed final week as effectively.

No Man’s Sky – Worlds Half II

It has been nearly laborious to disregard enthusiasm for the replace.  Over on the NMS subreddit folks have been posting display photographs of all of the various things they’ve discovered because the replace, so I had some sense of what was on faucet for the replace.  I imply, there may be some loopy stuff.  I figured I might simply go over to the NMS website and seize the important thing factors from the updates web page… after which it simply stored going and going and going…. holy hell, I’ve seen $50 MMO expansions with much less content material than what has landed with this replace.

It’s the motive this meme surfaces with each replace.

Sean Murray is giving us free stuff once more…

Whats up Video games offered us a “purchase the field” title… a 2018 “purchase the field” title no much less… and continues to provide away huge quantities of latest content material on a daily schedule.  I hope they’re spending a while with Mild No Fireplace, their upcoming co-op survival title, as a result of their tending to NMS makes me all of the extra longing for that to indicate up.

Anyway, I gave up on making an attempt to place collectively my very own checklist of options from the replace web page, which scrolls perpetually, and simply grabbed the patch notes… after which trimmed these down by eradicating bug fixes and high quality of life updates and technical objects like adjustments to lighting to simply tray and concentrate on new options, which is under.  It’s a lot.

There may be additionally a minute and a half overview video concerning the replace.

Or, if you’d like a bit extra, there’s a six minute “deep dive” video accessible… however I’m not positive the FedEx man from the outdated adverts may learn via the patch be aware bullet factors in six minutes.

I believe the brand new “deserted” mode sounds fascinating, although all of that is a lot I’m not even positive how one can start to understand it.  Is that this a “begin a brand new character” degree occasion?  Does this overlay my previous missions?  Doe it change planets I’ve been to already?

It’s nearly an excessive amount of to think about.  Anyway, they’ve additionally been doing a Twitch drops marketing campaign, so I’ve been accumulating these for attainable future use.

So that is what I grabbed from the patch notes:

NEW STAR SYSTEMS

• A brand new class of stellar physique has been added to the universe.
• These purple-class programs are extra stars, permitting the universe to increase with elevated variety with out regenerating current planets or resetting the exploration and development efforts of the neighborhood.

TERRAIN GENERATION

• The terrain era algorithm has been developed and refined to generate extra various planetary shapes, with mountains, deep valleys, and sprawling plains.
• Particular enhancements have been made to scale back repeating patterns on particular person planets, rising the vary of various shapes and terrain types seen on a single world.
• Different enhancements embrace the flexibility to generate considerably deeper oceans.
• These new terrain settings have been utilized to all planets discovered inside purple star programs. Terrain in current programs has not been regenerated, and bases haven’t been reset.
• On all planets in all programs, giant useful resource deposits can now seem underwater.

NEW WORLDS

• Planets present in purple-class star programs function a major vary of latest environments and planetary traits.
• Discover gasoline big planets, with their hostile planet-wide storms and difficult situations. These titans dominate the gathering of moons discovered of their orbit, warping the results of gravity.
• Different planets are completely dominated by water, with seas that dwarf even their highest mountains. Specialist aquatic touchdown expertise will likely be required to land upon such a waterworld. These worlds function exceptionally deep oceans, stretching down kilometres.
• Discover uncommon non-gas giants, colossal worlds on a scale by no means earlier than seen.
• Non-waterworld planets in purple-class star programs may additionally function extraordinarily deep water alongside their typical terrestrial options.
• Moons in purple-class star programs can now function water.
• Gasoline giants and waterworlds have their very own distinctive and beneficial terrain deposit supplies, in addition to new atmospheric gases to reap.
• All planets in purple-class star programs function deposits of Quartzite, a brand new stellar mineral.
• New refining crafting recipes have been added to benefit from these new supplies.

WATER RENDERING

• Floor water rendering has been considerably improved, with a big improve in constancy.
• Clouds, nebulae, and different planets are actually appropriately mirrored within the water floor.
• Terrain reflections have been improved with correct lighting and fogging results.
• Subsurface scattering has been enhanced, creating spectacular glows when the solar’s mild grazes the crest of a wave.
• Wave foam rendering has been enhanced.
• Wave foam now advantages from a higher vary of colors.
• In uncommon circumstances, wave foam now pulsates with unusual and alien results.
• Underwater rendering has been totally reworked to function correct mild scattering and transmittance, creating sensible and atmospheric deep water environments.
• Help has been added for underwater crepuscular rays as mild shimmers via the floor.
• Water caustic results have been considerably improved.
• In uncommon circumstances, water can now settle into completely tranquility, creating a superbly nonetheless floor.
• Rain will now generate tiny ripples within the water floor.
• Different objects – akin to creatures, starships, automobiles, Travellers, and weapon programs – will even generate dynamic water results as they transfer via the floor.

WATER VARIETY

• Important new ranges of environmental variety have been added to the seas of all planets, together with these in non-purple programs.
• The water atmosphere has been enriched with a variety of latest results, coming to life with bubbles, algae blooms, bioluminescent organisms, unusual floating flora, and way more.
• Extra ranges of environmental variety are to be discovered within the deepest oceans…

DEEP WATER GAMEPLAY

• Swimming into deep water now has extra hazard results, together with an elevated charge of oxygen consumption, elevated pressure on life assist programs, and magnified planetary hazards.
• A brand new expertise has been added, the Strain Membrane, which will be put in to offset among the dangerous results of deep water.
• The baseline period of time a participant can breathe underwater has been elevated.
• The bonuses offered by water respiration upgrades have been elevated.
• A beneficial new merchandise, Seaglass, has been added to ultra-deep water.
• Discover ultra-rich terrain deposits within the deepest waters, materials seams with exceptionally excessive yields.

SWIMMING AND BUOYANCY

• The participant now responds precisely to the waves, gently bobbing within the water or being thrown round in a storm.
• The swimming digicam has been considerably improved, responding to the water state in addition to participant actions.
• Fastened numerous popping and jerkiness points with the swimming digicam.
• Fastened numerous visible glitches with participant swimming animations.
• Improved the responsiveness of participant motion whereas swimming.
• The digicam now permits a a lot higher vary of motion whereas underwater.
• The depth of the ocean flooring beneath the participant’s place is now displayed on the HUD.
• Jetpacking straight as much as ascend to the floor of the water now makes use of much less jetpack gasoline than boosting horizontal velocity.
• The jetpack’s water ascent velocity has been elevated.
• When underwater, the participant torch now behaves as a volumetric mild.
• The participant torch is now extra steady and constant in its place, avoiding casting a brilliant mild on the again or arm as you run.
• Fastened a difficulty that might trigger the participant to drop to the underside of the ocean if a popup appeared whereas they had been swimming.
• Fastened a difficulty that might trigger the traditional jetpack results to play whereas underwater.

MISSIONS

• A big new chain of story-driven missions have been added, “In Stellar Multitudes”.
• Work with the Autophage to uncover tales of the Atlas and Atlantid, and weave collectively time and area on an epic journey to get better that which was misplaced…
• A brand new multiplayer fishing mission has been added to the Nexus.
• A brand new procedurally generated fishing mission has been added to the House Station mission listings.
• Fastened a difficulty that might forestall the Atlas Path from being displayed throughout the Collected Information catalogue on very outdated saves.
• Fastened numerous points that might result in a blocker within the House Anomaly mission when gamers haven’t any discoveries to current to Helios.
• Fastened a uncommon challenge that might result in two copies of the Atlas Everlasting mission operating on the similar time.
• Fastened numerous points that might result in two copies of the House Anomaly mission operating after finishing an expedition.

PLANETARY VARIETY

• Planetary selection and variety has been elevated all throughout the universe.
• Dense jungle worlds can now be discovered all throughout the universe.
• New desolate desert worlds can now be discovered all throughout the universe.
• Uncommon and unusual ruined relic worlds can now be discovered all throughout the universe.
• These new worlds have been added to each current programs and the brand new purple-class star programs, however in such a approach as to minimise change to current worlds.
• The range and number of hazardous flora on all worlds has been elevated.
• On high of this, vital extra planetary variety will be present in purple-class star programs.
• Numerous new procedurally generated kinds of scorched, frozen, poisonous and barren worlds have been launched, in addition to extra selection for worlds that includes floating islands.
• A brand new useful resource, polished stone, has been added to relic planets.
• Gamers who search the ruins of relic planets might uncover plans to assemble duplicate ruins of their very own.
• Planetary climate hazards akin to lightning and tornadoes have been reworked for extra visible affect.
• Extra localised planetary hazards have been the place acceptable, offering each visible variety and extra exploration problem.
• Hazards included localised clouds of poisonous spores; small-scale radioactive fallout; electromagnetic anomalies; volcanic eruptions; geothermal geysers; and localised gravity inversion zones.

COOKING

• Cronus now maintains a market aboard the House Anomaly. Every day, they may search a special vary of edible objects. Travellers might donate giant quantities of these things at a time, in trade for nanites and esteem.
• When presenting meals to Cronus for judging, the choices accessible will all the time embrace your highest-quality meals.
• Cronus’ station aboard the House Anomaly now has a practical grill accessible.
• The Exo-Skiff now has a functioning grill for mid-sea cookery.
• The recipe catalogue has been overhauled. {The catalogue} is now sorted by output merchandise, and variant recipes will be considered by increasing the principle recipe.
• Recipe names are actually offered extra clearly within the catalogue.
• The recipe catalogue now permits entry to a crafting-tree fashion view of any recipe, permitting intermediate steps to be seen extra clearly.
• In addition to within the catalogue, these recipe particulars are additionally accessible whereas utilizing the Nutrient Processor.
• Filter choices have been added to type components by high quality whereas searching components to position into the Nutrient Processor.
• The Nutrient Processor’s ingredient storage can now be accessed at any time whereas close by.
• Procedurally generated tasting notes have been added to the descriptions of edible merchandise.

• A brand new Exosuit expertise has been added, the Nutrient Ingestor. As soon as put in within the Exosuit, the Ingestor permits gamers to enter giant quantities of edible objects, which will likely be consumed separately as essential, offering highly effective and long-lasting advantages.

TITAN EXPEDITION

• Expedition Seventeen, Titan, will start shortly after the conclusion of the redux version of the Cursed Expedition and can run for roughly six weeks.
• This expedition invitations gamers to discover the sweetness and the hazard of the brand new planets and stars added in Worlds Half II.
• Rewards embrace new posters; a blinding new starship customisation materials; an explorer’s cape; the Pillar of Titan employees; and the Wraith starship, a singular residing fighter.

EXOCRAFT

• The Colossus has been made simpler to work together with.
• Fastened a difficulty that triggered the participant to be positioned beneath or contained in the Colossus when disembarking.
• Added the Mineral Processing Rig, a sophisticated refining unit that may be put in throughout the Colossus.
• Added the Mounted Flamethrower, a brand new short-range weapon for all Exocraft.
• Fastened numerous points that triggered expertise to be categorised incorrectly when putting in objects in Exocraft.
• Exocraft dealing with in first individual, notably when managed with a pad, has been considerably improved.
• The seating place inside every Exocraft has been adjusted to enhance visibility in first individual.
• When driving in first individual, the steering wheel and throttle throughout the Exocraft cockpit now reply precisely to participant inputs.
• The Exocraft velocity show now outputs in kilometres per hour relatively than meters per second.
• Particular “dive” and “floor” management choices have been added to the Nautilon submarine.
• The bottom velocity and manoeuverability of the Nautilon submarine has been elevated. The higher restrict of the strongest Humboldt Drive upgrades has been tweaked barely to compensate.
• Fastened a difficulty that triggered the Nautilon to slowly rise or sink by itself.
• A Dredging Laser has been added for the Nautilon Submarine, permitting underwater terrain excavation.
• The Nautilon can now activate a brief increase to succeed in increased speeds, much like different Exocraft. No expertise improve is required to entry increase within the Nautilon.
• An alternate Floating Nautilon Platform has been added, permitting development of a Nautilon chamber on the floor of the water.

CREATURES

• New varieties of procedurally-generated fish have been added and should seem in any seas.
• New varieties of procedurally-generated squid have been added and should seem in any seas.
• New varieties of procedurally-generated hermit crabs have been added and should seem in any seas.
• New varieties of procedurally-generated manta rays have been added and should seem in any seas.
• New varieties of procedurally-generated seahorses have been added and should seem in any seas.
• New varieties of procedurally-generated prawns have been added and should seem in any seas.
• Significantly giant variations of sea creatures will be discovered within the deepest oceans.
• New varieties of unusual and unique creatures have been added and will be discovered on planets in purple-class star programs.
• New varieties of bioluminescent creatures have been added and will be discovered on planets in purple-class star programs.
• Creature navigation programs have been improved, permitting creatures to higher choose and attain locations akin to meals or water sources.
• Ragdoll and loss of life results for underwater creatures have been improved.

ABANDONED MODE

• A brand new possibility has been added to the problem settings that enables gamers to take away all superior alien life from the universe.
• This selection is just accessible when beginning a brand new customized sport, and can’t be modified as soon as a save is in progress.
• This selection drastically adjustments the play expertise and can disable the story and tutorial.

STARSHIP AND MULTI-TOOL ARCHIVING

• Gamers with a capital ship can now make use of long-term storage for his or her starships.
• Discover the starship archive on the fleet administration terminal on the bridge of your freighter.
• Archive as much as 18 starships, along with your lively fleet.
• Archiving a ship removes it out of your checklist of accessible starships, liberating up area to amass new ships.
• Archived ships will be reactivated from chilly storage at any time, so long as there may be area in your lively fleet.
• Archived ships retain their put in expertise however will likely be purged of all free cargo.
• The buildable Weapon Rack base half now serves as a degree of entry for Multi-Instrument archiving.
• Archive as much as 18 Multi-Instruments, along with your carried tools.
• Archiving a Multi-Instrument removes it out of your checklist of accessible tools, liberating up area to amass new Multi-Instruments.
• Archived Multi-Instruments retain all put in expertise and will be reactivated at any time, so long as you could have area to hold them.

FISHING

• A brand new array of fish have been added to waterworlds and gasoline giants.
• Gamers might now fish within the moonpool of their underwater base.
• Gamers might now sometimes catch a Baby of Aquarius. Launch this unusual creature to draw the eye of a Deepwater Guardian…
• New titles have been added for gamers who attain vital fishing milestones.
• A group of surprising customisation choices have been added for gamers who attain vital fishing milestones. Apply these skull/aquarium interchanges at an Look Modifier.
• The float utilized in your fishing rig can now be customised. Apply these choices from the Bait menu.
• The color of your fishing line can now be customised.

There it’s.  Now to determine how one can even grasp all of that together with the various bits I disregarded.