Hi there Video games has revealed the subsequent replace for No Man’s Sky: Worlds Half 1.
This large replace for the now eight yr previous area recreation is its greatest since 2020’s Origins replace and focuses on much-requested selection and main visible enhancements to the universe. These embrace fancy new water results and even what seems to be like gameplay impressed by Helldivers 2’s group pushed Galactic Battle.
In a brand new developer video, under, Hi there Video games’ improvement chief Sean Murray made a uncommon look to debate the Worlds Half 1 replace. Murray stated the tech Hi there Video games has developed for its upcoming new recreation, Gentle No Hearth, is now being integrated into No Man’s Sky.
“Six months in the past we introduced Gentle No Hearth,” Murray stated. “It is this loopy formidable recreation and we have been engaged on it for years, and we have learnt so many issues and it looks like we’re virtually bringing this expertise again from the longer term.”
On Worlds Half 1, Murray stated Hi there Video games has utterly refreshed the universe with new expertise, new flora, new fauna, and new gameplay. “In No Man’s Sky what you see on display is generated by the pc and we’re reaching a degree of selection that simply wasn’t potential earlier than,” he stated.
The English studio has developed new water expertise that may create waves and reflections to make No Man’s Sky’s ocean planets “really feel utterly new.” Ships can now land on water, planets have wind patterns, and the waves are dynamic and react to the climate.
“Typically a storm hits and, , the waves rise, the clouds collect, you have received the atmospherics, the wind, all this expertise comes collectively abruptly and there is nothing prefer it,” Murray stated.
New floor volumetrics embrace rolling fog, rain, blizzards, and even sparks arising from lava. There are new creatures throughout the brand new biomes, too.
Worlds Half 1 brings with it a brand new Expedition. Expeditions are timed occasions through which you embark on galactic journeys from one particular level within the galaxy to a different. They embody a number of challenges and achievements unique to every named Expedition.
Murray stated the brand new Expedition is impressed by Paul Verhoeven’s cult traditional science fiction warfare film Starship Troopers and is “one thing actually totally different.” It takes gamers on a tour of latest planets, with everybody battling collectively. Progress, Murray stated, is group pushed, with new “tremendous cool” rewards. It sounds a bit just like the Galactic Battle in Arrowhead’s smash hit co-op third-person shooter Helldivers 2, itself closely impressed by Starship Troopers.
And eventually, Murray teased there’s extra to come back from No Man’s Sky. “The replace is named Worlds Half I as a result of, I suppose… there’s far more to come back.”
No Man’s Sky launched in 2016 initially for PC and PlayStation 4 earlier than popping out on Xbox One in 2018, and PlayStation 5 and Xbox Sequence X and S in 2020. A Nintendo Change model adopted in 2022. Through the years, Hi there Video games has issued an extended record of main updates, most lately Adrift.
Certainly, it is a busy time for Hi there Video games, which alongside updates for No Man’s Sky is engaged on its subsequent recreation, Gentle No Hearth. It is about journey, constructing, survival and exploration collectively, set on a fantasy planet the dimensions of Earth.
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