BEYOND: INTRODUCING UPDATE 2.0\nUpdate 2.0, Beyond, massively expands the multiplayer experience introduced in NEXT, takes immersion to a whole new level with fully-fledged Virtual Reality, overhauls base building, NPCs, technology trees, and much, much more.\n\nMarking the three year anniversary of No Man’s Sky, this is our largest update so far, broadening the experience across the entire game.\n\nOur journey continues.\n\nVIRTUAL REALITY SUPPORT\nOur most requested feature: you can now play the entirety of No Man’s Sky in Virtual Reality without compromise.\n\nSwitch seamlessly between VR and standard gameplay. Continue from an existing save to revisit favourite planets, bases and creatures in full Virtual Reality.\n\nEXPANDED MULTIPLAYER\nMultiplayer sessions can now accommodate more explorers. The Space Anomaly can hold 16 players on all platforms.\n\nThroughout the rest of the universe, the maximum player count has increased from 4 to 8 players on console, and from 4 to 32 players on PC.\n\nVirtual Reality and standard mode players can be seamlessly matchmade into the same multiplayer session.\n\nTHE BEST TIME TO START A NEW JOURNEY\nMissions and tutorials have been significantly revised. The early game has been streamlined and focused to better teach players new mechanics, particularly in VR.\n\nNew story content has been added to weave together the existing strands of the Atlas Path, the journey of the Space Anomaly, and the story of Artemis.\n\nSubstances, crafted products, new technologies and other curiosities are automatically added to the new Catalogue when first encountered. A rework of the Pinning system allows players to get detailed step-by-step instructions on how to find or build any item in their Catalogue.\n\nGuidance features throughout the game have been dramatically improved, including auto-highlighting of relevant crafting requirements and better messaging of context in complex missions.\n\nAMBIENT MULTIPLAYER\nAmbient encounters with other explorers are now represented with full character models, allowing players to see each other’s character and ship customisations. Surviving, building, and exploring together is richer and more immediate than ever.\n\nUse the Voice & Networking interface to group up with any explorers you encounter.\n\nPC players can use an expanded chat interface to control group options and manage communications.\n\nA NEW SOCIAL HUB\nThe Space Anomaly has been transformed into an all-new social hub. This unique communal space exists across all systems and galaxies, giving all explorers an opportunity to see each others’ character and ship customisations, meet new friends, and undertake missions together.\n\nThe Space Anomaly’s powerful teleporter allows explorers to easily browse and visit each others’ bases directly from the Anomaly.\n\nThe Teleporter will also feature exceptional bases created by members of the No Man’s Sky community, bringing visitors from across the stars to see the best bases in the universe.\n\nExplorers who have encountered the Anomaly now have the ability to summon it in space.\n\nNEXUS MISSIONS\nMultiplayer missions are now initialised from The Nexus, located aboard the Space Anomaly. A large set of unique missions is currently available – including a new style of mission – Base Construction.\n\nGroup up with other explorers – friends, or random encounters – to undertake missions for Nada and Polo and earn rewards.\n\nNexus mission rewards will soon include Quicksilver, to unlock special customisations and building parts from Polo’s robotic companion.\n\nTECHNOLOGY TREES\nBlueprints are now visualised through unlockable technology trees. Learning new crafting recipes is now clearer, more interactive, and more rewarding.\n\nThe Blueprint Analyser has been transformed into an advanced Construction Research Unit. Players may now choose their own research paths, and more clearly visualise their research progress. Even more base parts are available aboard the Space Anomaly.\n\nVisit the technology specialists aboard the Space Anomaly to purchase enhancements for Exosuit, starship, Multi-Tool and exocraft technology.\n\nUnlock freighter and frigate technologies from the freighter bridge.\n\nLearn product recipes at specialist research trees in planetary facilities.\n\nGAMEPLAY BALANCE\nExplorers can enjoy longer stretches of uninterrupted mining with less frequent and less aggressive sentinels, and a reworked overheat mechanic for the Mining Beam that rewards pushing heat to the limit.\n\nShip controls and space combat balance have been improved.\n\nInventory limitations have been relaxed, allowing explorers to carry near-unlimited quantities of mined substances. The inventory UI has been revised and improved.\n\nA large number of quality of life issues have been addressed, and new recipes and technologies have been added to alleviate grinding.\n\nExamples include: large specialist Warp Cells; being able to move installed technology; being able to install technology in stages, similar to repairs; adding additional ramps to the Space Station; adding Mining Beam upgrades that increase resources gained; adding starship technologies that automatically recharge the Launch Thrusters; and restoring Carbon Planters.\n\nDISCOVERY PAGE\nThe Discovery Page has been overhauled and expanded for a more intuitive interface, and to display alien flora, fauna and mineral discoveries in greater detail.\n\nPLANETARY CHARTS\nSpecific buildings are now located via a system of Planetary Charts purchased from a Space Station Cartographer.\n\nPurchase charts for nanites, or exchange your own navigation data for new charts. Earn data by charting the buildings that you discover as you explore.\n\nGALAXY MAP\nInformation on the Galaxy Map is more concisely displayed, with clearer text, icons, and navigation.\n\nVIRTUAL REALITY USER INTERFACE\nThe HUD and user interface has been completely remade for Virtual Reality, to ensure every interaction available in the game feels natural and built for purpose.\n\nSlip directly into your Exosuit, and manipulate and manage your inventory directly from your wrist.\n\n2D menus such as shops are rendered on an in-world, “diegetic” user interface, navigable with intuitive point-and-click style interactions.\n\nNEW TRAVELLER NPCS\nSpecialist Polo and Priest Entity Nada have welcomed 12 new Traveller friends aboard their home. Each has their own role to play – from Iteration Helios, the ancient dreamer, to Iteration Ares, avid collector of exotic goods.\n\nReturn to these Travellers each day to experience a range of interactions, missions, and nanite-earning opportunities.\n\nNEW ALIEN ENCOUNTERS\nMore than 60 new dialogues are available from alien NPCs encountered in planetary facilities, featuring mini stories and missions.\n\nAll existing alien NPC dialogues have been revisited and enhanced.\n\nAnimations have been improved, with aliens exhibiting more appropriate moods from the start of conversations.\n\nDialogue boxes have been improved, to more clearly distinguish between descriptive text and dialogue.\n\nDYNAMIC NPCS\nAlien NPCs will now walk around, and interact with elements in their environment, such as chairs, panels, and other NPCs. There is also now a richer mix of NPCs on Space Stations.\n\nNPCs will also respond to gestures from explorers.\n\nSome alien NPCs may be encountered on the planet surface, with new unique sets of dialogues.\n\nALIEN LANGUAGES\nAlien language learning has been enhanced, giving explorers a choice of what category of word to learn.\n\nNew auto-translator tech is available for the Exosuit, to translate a small number of unknown words.\n\nMore than 700 new alien words have been added to the dictionary, and very similar word variations, such as plurals, are now learned together in groups.\n\nCREATURE RIDING\nTame creatures with bait, then mount and ride them to explore planets from a new perspective.\n\nCREATURE HARVESTING\nTamed creatures may also be peacefully harvested for a variety of cooking ingredients, such as milk, eggs, or ‘edible clusters’.\n\nCOOKING AND RECIPES\nEncounter 10 new varieties of harvestable flora on every planet surface.\n\nHarvest raw cooking ingredients from plants and creatures, and experiment in the Nutrient Processor to discover more than 300 delicious recipes.\n\nCreate bait to tame creatures.\n\nConsume your creations for a boost to your Exosuit, or present them to Iteration Cronus aboard the Anomaly for culinary critique and potential rewards.\n\nBASE POWER SYSTEM\nPlanetary bases can now be powered by fueled biogenerators, or self-sustaining solar panels.\n\nWire up powered parts to the grid, and experiment with 5 varieties of logical switch to direct the flow of power.\n\nCreate brilliant light and sound displays…\n\n…or complex contraptions involving sphere generators and short-range teleporters.\n\nOPTIMISATION\nThe game has been heavily optimised throughout, improving performance in every area of the universe. In particular, players on lower-end PCs will enjoy significant framerate improvements, and the game now supports integrated Intel graphics cards.\n\nPlanetary and freighter bases now have multiple levels of detail (LODs), to increase rendering speed in large, complex bases.\n\nShaders are now loaded in as required, rather than up-front, reducing the game’s initial load time.\n\nIMPROVED BASE BUILDING\nThe experience of building bases has been improved with a special new camera perspective, the ability to jetpack while building, and visual hints of possible snap points.\n\nExplorers can expand their creativity even further with large range of new base parts as well as taking advantage of flexible new ways to scale and rotate base parts.\n\nBuild menu usability has been improved, with better categorisation, more intuitive grouping of parts, and more visibility of the menu hierarchy.\n\nINDUSTRIAL BASE BUILDING\nSurvey planetary surfaces for hidden deep-level mineral deposits, concentrated gas clouds, or electromagnetic hotspots.\n\nConstruct specialist industrial base parts in surveyed locations to take advantage of these hidden resources.\n\nMinimise grid downtime and optimise autonomous resource extraction by constructing Supply Depots and Batteries. Industrial base parts will continue harvesting in real time, even when the game is not running.\n\nSTARSHIP ENHANCEMENTS\nAll starship cockpits have been overhauled with a complete remodel and retexture, and the wings and nose of the ship are now visible from inside the ship.\n\nIn VR, turn around for a full 360° view of the starship cockpit.\n\nThe scale of ships has been increased, and retextured in greater detail.\n\nVIRTUAL REALITY USER INTERACTIONS\nWith complete head and hand tracking, interactions in Virtual Reality make No Man’s Sky more intuitive, tactile, and immersive than ever.\n\nPhysically unholster your Multi-Tool from your shoulder. Intuitively aim and fire at targets, or put it away to engage in combat with your fists.\n\nTap a button on your headset to toggle the Analysis Visor, then point towards fauna, flora, and minerals to scan and discover them.\n\nLift open your starship’s cockpit, then reach out and grab the controls to take flight.\n\nFIRST PERSON EXOCRAFT DRIVING\nExocrafts can now be driven from a first person perspective, with new unique tactile cockpits for all 5 vehicles.\n\nVIRTUAL REALITY CONTROLLER SUPPORT\nA range of motion controllers are supported in Virtual Reality, to allow players to enjoy the game with their existing VR setup.\n\nOn PS4, the game may be played in PSVR with a DUALSHOCK4, or with PlayStation Move controllers for full hand tracking.\n\nSITTING\nChairs may now be sat upon.
