No Man's Sky Receives Another Large Update, Overhauling Much of the Game
When No Man’s Sky originally released in 2016, it was subject to harsh criticism due to a perceived gap between the game’s appearance in marketing and how it actually looked on launch. (None of that kind of nonsense here at Paste, though—we’ve loved the game from the very beginning.) Developer Hello Games has since taken to regularly updating the game, creating an experience that is more inline with how the game was originally perceived. On Wednesday, Hello Games released the Update 3.0, Origins, for No Man’s Sky, bringing major changes to numerous aspects of the game including new planets, flora, fauna and weather patterns.
The game’s procedural generation engine has been updated to feature new planets and star systems, adding millions of unique places for players to explore including rare binary and ternary star systems. Newly generated planets will have more dramatic landscape features, from taller mountains to wider plains. Volcanos, enormous archive buildings, and new anomalous buildings will also dot the landscape of planets.
