No Man's Sky

Over the past year, Hello Games has been releasing major update patches for No Man’s Sky to try to bring us back to the stars. While the previous updates introduced new vehicles, base building mechanics, and fixes to graphical issues, No Man’s Sky’s 1.3 patch focuses on developing the story, new ways to play the game, UI improvements, and some MAJOR quality-of-life components. While there are many parts to the Atlas Rises update, in this review, I will be focusing four elements of the update.

Hello Games has released a brand new trailer and information about the large update called Atlas Rises. The content expansion is expected to launch later today. There are a lot of big things coming with Atlas Rises, most notably a limited online cooperative mode called Joint Exploration.

After probably one of the quietest years in post-release game development, Hello Games has announced Atlas Rises, a long-awaited update to No Man's Sky. It is set for release on or near the anniversary of the game's deployment on August 9, 2016 for PlayStation 4 and PC/Steam. The free update aims to improve the story and will allow players to "quick travel" throughout the game universe.

The No Man's Sky Steam page has been updated with the news that the Pathfinder update will be deployed next week that will bring a new home planet vehicle into the game as well as further build on the recently deployed Foundation patch. Pathfinder also promises a hint at what may lay ahead in the future.

Hello Games has been cleared of all registered complaints that its Steam promotional advertising for No Man's Sky was in any way misleading. All claims against the company have been dismissed and no further review will be necessary by the Advertising Standards Authority (UK).

Hello Games has broken its months-long silence with a brief note on the No Man's Sky site that promises a large update "soon". Called The Foundation, the patch will be adding the basic base building functionality as well as laying "a foundation" for future updates.

According to reports across several media and reported first by Polygon, Hello Games' Sean Murray ostensibly posted a Tweet saying "No Man's Sky was a mistake". The Tweet has since been taken down and the Twitter account has been set to private. Long after the original post, Murray posted that the server was hacked and that "it was using Linked In without 2FA".

Eurogamer is reporting that the United Kingdom's Advertising Standards Authority is investigating No Man's Sky with regard to allegations of false advertising that are "in breach of its code of conduct" based on the NMS Steam store page. According to complaints, the assets on the page ostensibly misrepresent the game on release.

During the Tokyo Game Show, Eurogamer interviewed Sony president Shuhei Yoshida about the release of No Man's Sky and its possible impact on Sony. While shrugging off the game's rocky start as not having much of an effect overall on Sony, Yoshida did indicate that the game was fun but that criticism of Hello Games and Sean Murray specifically is warranted. Without a public relations person assisting Murray, the situation was not a "great PR strategy".

Hello Games has released a large No Man's Sky patch that addresses a number of bugs and tweaks to the game. The patch comes in response to what the developers call 'an inundation of feedback and discussion' about the game.

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No Man's Sky with paid DLC? It's possible according to Daily Star Online where Sean Murray told reporters that it might have been "naive" to think the game would never have anything but free updates. While Murray did not explicitly state that paid DLC is incoming, his statements could be interpreted as leaving that door open.

No Man’s Sky is a hard game to quantify. I mean, we initially included it on MMORPG’s list because we (along with many others) expected it to be a multiplayer experience akin to say Elite: Dangerous. But as launch drew closer, we began to realize that No Man’s Sky is indeed a single-player experience.

Hello Games' Sean Murray has taken to Twitter to announce that a PC patch has been released on both GoG and Steam. The patch for PlayStation 4 has been submitted for approval and should be out "very soon".

Ripper checks out No Mans Sky and talks Dual Universe in this weeks episode of Not So MMO.