No Man’s Sky: Beyond has launched – right here’s the patch notes

14.08.2019

Games

No Man’s Sky – Beyond: Update 2.0

Virtual Reality

No Man’s Sky is now totally playable in digital actuality.
Many interactions have been given particular VR-only choices, together with: grabbing vegetation and different collectables together with your palms; bodily opening the cockpits of ships and exocraft; piloting starships instantly with a VR stick/throttle; and punching objects to trigger harm.
Introduced particular VR menus: together with controlling Multi-Tool choices through a menu embedded on the in-world Multi-Tool; and shopping the short menu and stock through a private wrist-mounted show.

Graphics and Performance

OpenGL has been changed by Vulkan. Many gamers, notably gamers with AMD graphics playing cards, ought to see a efficiency enchancment.
Significant optimisations to asteroid era.
Significant optimisations to planet era.
Improved loading occasions.
Significant optimisations to 2D rendering.
Reduced reminiscence utilization throughout the game typically.
Significant optimisations to cloud and terrain shaders.
Significant optimisations to the animation LODing system.
Added level-of-detail mesh optimisations to nearly all of in-game belongings.
Significant optimisations for big bases.
Revised HDR help, up to date output curve in keeping with advances in HDR calibration.
Adaptive and Triple-Buffered V-Sync are actually selectable from Graphics Options.
Players with multiple GPU can now choose which is used from Video Options.
Many graphics settings now not require a restart to use.
The ‘LOADING SHADERS’ load step has been eliminated, bettering the loading expertise.

Controls and Options

Added help for full rebinding of PC controls through Steam and OpenVR.
Reworked all settings and choices pages, making graphics settings extra clear for PC gamers.
Added choices to disable vignette and scanline results.
Added the choice to take away button holds and make all non-destructive clicks on the spot.

The Space Anomaly

Added the power to summon the Space Anomaly to your location from anyplace within the galaxy.
Significantly expanded and reworked the inside of the Space Anomaly.
The Space Anomaly now serves as a hub, bringing collectively all of the Travellers who’re onboard no matter their bodily location within the universe.
Removed orbs from the game and changed them with totally simulated different gamers, met ambiently as you discover.
The community participant cap has been raised to between eight and 32 relying on platform and present location.
Added a brand new teleporter to the Space Anomaly. This teleporter permits gamers to go to the bottom of some other participant presently on the Anomaly with them, in addition to highlighting featured bases from the group.
Moved multiplayer mission choice to the Nexus, a brand new hub space within the Space Anomaly.
Added an interface for shortly discovering different gamers to affix on multiplayer missions.
Added many new varieties of multiplayer mission.
Automatic chat messages are broadcast when performing game actions, together with making discoveries, attacking pirates, putting in tech, performing gestures, and preventing organic horrors.
Multiplayer missions now warp gamers on to the mission location as they depart the Space Anomaly.
Added the power to show a customized participant banner, adjustable on the Appearance Modifier.
Player graves in multiplayer games will get reset to the present participant’s system when returning to single participant.
A brand new save icon is utilized in multiplayer to spotlight that whereas progress is saved, the participant’s present place just isn’t.
Reworked the story missions to combine Nada and Polo’s journey higher with the story of Artemis.
Added new story content material for Nada and Polo.
Reworked the tutorial and far of the early game mission circulate.
Added new and distinctive visuals for brand new NPCs aboard the Space Anomaly.
Added an NPC to the Space Anomaly who will change a distinct product for nanites every day.
Added an NPC to the Space Anomaly who will change milestone progress for nanites.
Added an NPC to the Space Anomaly who will change totally different classes of discovery information for nanites every day.

User Interface

Added a tech-tree fashion show for all of the applied sciences, merchandise and different recipes accessible within the game.
Added know-how and base half analysis stations to the Space Anomaly, permitting gamers to browse the total tech tree, plan their upgrades, and buy new applied sciences with nanites.
Tweaked the visuals of HUD and compass markers for improved readability and consistency.
Some HUD icons now shrink to cut back visible noise.
Adjusted the behaviour of compass markers whereas within the ship to raised mirror the fact of navigating 3D house.
Improved the UI for evaluating and buying ships, Multi-Tools and freighters.
Added a warning when making an attempt to swap starships should you nonetheless have cargo aboard your previous ship.
Improved the stock web page, together with making stock sub-categories extra clear.
Changed textual content scrolling to a full wraparound slightly than a bounce.
Reduced the quantity of bloom in circumstances that brought about photosensitivity points.
Refiner output readings now appropriately replace when extra sources are added to an enter slot.
Improved the visible fashion and readability of the Buy/Sell filters on commerce screens.
Improved the icons used to show the category of ships, Multi-Tools, and different purchasable objects.
Updated the ‘Summon Vehicles’ icon on Quick Menu.
The icons for summoning different ships in your assortment now precisely mirror the looks of these ships.
Updated the visuals for the in-cockpit ship screens.
Significant enhancements to the chat field, together with the power to decide on whether or not messages are despatched to your group or the whole system.
Moved substances, merchandise and applied sciences to their very own ‘Catalogue’, separate from the Guide.
Added Guide entries for a number of new options.
Increased the dimensions of icons within the Catalogue.
Improved the looks of the dialog / NPC speech UI.
Mission notifications / aims are now not hidden by the construct menu, stock or refiner screens.
Added a brand new fashion of mission notification that offers extra context to complicated mission steps.
The Galaxy Map has been completely overhauled for readability and visible fashion.

NPCs and Interactions

NPCs can now stroll round their environments and work together with environmental parts.
Player locomotion is extra responsive when working.
Players can now sit on chairs.
Improved the digital camera dealing with when sitting in a confined space.
NPCs will reply to gestures carried out by the participant.
NPCs now often browse holographic creatures, ships and extra on their handheld gadgets.
Added all new NPC interactions at planetary salvage websites.
Added all new NPC interactions at crashed ships.
Significantly reworked all manufacturing facility and monolith interactions.
Changed the reward sequence for manufacturing facility interactions to permit gamers to decide on which product recipe they wish to be taught.
Reworked a lot of present NPC interactions.
Added a variety of biome particular interactions for NPCs at planetary buildings.
NPC pilots now depart their ships when touchdown at Space Stations and Trade Outposts.
NPCs can now select a chair to sit down on, sit down for some time, then proceed with their day.
Geks often swing their legs whereas sitting.
Expanded the vary of NPC moods and animations.
Increased the richness of textual content interactions with further audio, colors and NPC animations.
Added totally different textual content printout speeds for every alien race, giving them their very own fashion of ‘speech’.
Added an opportunity for visitor NPCs to go to Space Stations, eg the occasional Korvax could also be discovered within the Space Station of a Vy’eager system.
The Trade Outpost is handled as a constructing (for the needs of offering hazard safety), however performs right outside audio atmosphere.
Added AutoTranslator applied sciences to the Exosuit that enable random phrases to be translated with out being completely unlocked.
Fixed a difficulty the place }} alien speech brackets would seem on a brand new line by themselves.
Alien phrases are grouped collectively to stop studying phrases similar to ones already identified (e.g. interloper/interlopers).
Alien phrase studying has been overhauled. Players might direct the circulate of language acquisition when interacting with NPCs.
Players can follow utilizing the phrases they know when chatting with alien lifeforms and observe the outcomes.

Building

Reworked the Base Building Menu: improved visible readability; improved usability; and allowed faster entry to elements, together with including the power for elements to be in multiple group.
Day/night time cycles are actually deterministic and synced between gamers.
Significant enhancements have been made to the bottom half snapping system, permitting for quicker and extra handy constructing.
Added a brand new photo-mode fashion constructing digital camera to permit simpler placement of complicated constructions.
Added the power to scale some base elements.
Added the power to rotate some base elements round multiple axis.
Added new energy era base elements: Biofuel Reactors, Solar Panels, Electromagnetic Generators and Batteries. Each affords a distinct approach to generate energy to your base.
Added wiring, permitting you to attach base elements that want energy to your mills.
Removed the handbook fueling of many base applied sciences and changed it with energy grid necessities.
Added energy necessities to present elements equivalent to lights.
Added a variety of logic gates and switches, permitting for artistic management of powered elements.
Added new large-scale mineral and gasoline extractor base elements.
Added mineral/gasoline pipelines, permitting gamers to attach their new extractors to distant depots for ease of assortment.
Added a brand new Survey Device improve for the Analysis Visor, permitting participant to hunt out the optimum spots to position mineral/gasoline extractors and electromagnetic mills.
Overhauled the gravity simulation, bettering the expertise on useless planets.
Added Short-Range Teleporters. These pads could also be positioned round your base and wired as much as create a community of near-instant transportation.
Improved the administration of base choices when interacting with the bottom pc, together with bettering the power to take screenshots of the bottom.
Added the power to jetpack whereas the Build Menu is open.
Improved the visible results of the Terrain Manipulator.
Unified the performance of the Message Module and the Communications Station and added a brand new distinctive artwork asset.
Added a number of new roof items, permitting gamers to construct full sloping roofs.
Added new exocraft-sized doorways that may be powered to open and shut routinely as you method.
Added new interactable props, together with customisable gentle packing containers and audio frequency mills.
Added a powered Sphere Generator that enables gamers to generate giant movable spheres.
Improved the visible results when developing base elements & know-how.

Bug Fixes

Increased the tolerance of dealer ships collaborating in a freighter battle in order that they don’t report pleasant hearth as a criminal offense except the shot is deadly.
Fixed a difficulty the place Sentinel drones would change into caught when scanning a participant who was getting into and exiting their ship.
Fixed a difficulty the place the third individual participant mannequin would by no means look instantly on the digital camera.
Fixed a difficulty the place ship rain audio was being performed when it was not raining.
Added creature sounds to the bizarre biome creatures.
Fixed a Multi-Tool animation glitch when firing the Mining Beam from sheathed in first individual.
Change Asian numerical separators to be right format.
Fixed a difficulty the place the starship can seem floating above the terrain if the participant is spawned at a protracted distance from the ship.
Fixed various merchandise duplication exploits.
Fix for the starship HUD studying ‘Moon of Unknown Planet’ when the planet is thought.
The Mining Beam is now the right color when upgraded with a procedural improve module.
Fixed a difficulty the place the fallacious affect particles had been typically used when capturing Sentinel Quadrupeds.
Miscellaneous textual content fixes.

Discovery and Exploration

Overhauled the Analysis Visor. Scanning of flora, fauna and minerals now not begins routinely, however begins when the participant holds a button whereas wanting on the related object.
In VR, the Analysis Visor turns into Analysis Mode. Objects are scanned by aiming at them with the Multi-Tool.
Custom Markers positioned from the Analysis Visor now drop a bodily object on the marker location.
Significantly overhauled the Discovery Page to point out a graphical illustration of the system, in addition to shut up 3D representations of all discoveries and lengthy textual content entries for fauna.
Made butterflies and different flying creatures a lot simpler to scan with the Analysis Visor.
Added a brand new set of uncommon vibrant color palettes for lush planets.
Creature markers within the Analysis Visor now show how far-off the creature is.
Fixed a difficulty the place creatures would by no means poop as soon as that they had been scared by a predator.
Predator creatures now not goal and assault gamers when they’re in an interplay.
Creatures will now not assault gamers who’re of their ships.
Improved the readability and show of warning icons on predatory or indignant creatures.
Fix for organic horrors not enjoying their demise results for community gamers.
Fix for incorrect fauna degree being displayed within the Analysis Visor.
Added creature marker to show their present psychological state.
Added new wild vegetation to all biomes.
Added the power to cook dinner plant and animal merchandise in a Nutrient Processor to supply all kinds of meals. Experient with mixtures to create distinctive and sophisticated foodstuffs.
Eating meals supplies a lift to your life help.
Added bait merchandise, created within the Nutrient Processor, that enable creatures to be harvested for meals merchandise. Scan creatures to be taught their bait preferences.
Killing creatures additionally permits the harvesting of a number of new meals merchandise.
Added an NPC to the Space Anomaly who will choose the participant’s cooking potential.
Renamed Coprite to Faecium.
Added compass and HUD icons to Faecium deposits.
Improved the visuals of Faceium deposits.
Added a base half that can appeal to creatures to your base and routinely feed them.
Added a base half that can routinely extract milk and different related sources from close by creatures which are able to be harvested.
Throwing bait can appeal to a lot of creatures to at least one location.
Throwing specialist carnivore bait can distract and placate indignant or predatory creatures.
Creatures which were tamed by supplying their desired bait could be ridden. Creatures will nonetheless try and go about their very own enterprise, however their routines could be formed by their rider.
Upper physique gestures could also be used when seated or using a creature.
The Nutrient Processor and the Portable Refiner now show a marker when they don’t seem to be positioned inside a base.

Visual Polish

Nada and Polo now use a bigger vary of animations.
Improved the visuals for the Space Station entrance beam.
Entirely reworked and expanded the cockpits of all ships.
Increased the quantity by which you’ll be able to look across the starship cockpit.
Added totally modelled cockpits / interiors for all of the Exocraft and the Nautilon Submarine.
Starship exteriors can now be seen whereas contained in the starship.
Improved the particle results for the Scatter Blaster and the Blaze Javelin.
Increased the dimensions of starships. Landing pads and docking areas throughout the galaxy have been expanded to deal with the brand new bigger ships. As a end result, touchdown pads in present bases have been refunded.
Improved the visible element on fighters, haulers and shuttles.
Added ramps to the entrance of the Space Station balcony platforms.
Fixed various points the place bushes and rocks couldn’t be run over by Exocraft.
Trade Outposts now have ladders to climb as much as the platform.

Quality of Life

The Exosuit torch can now be turned on regardless of the time of day.
While the Pulse Engine is engaged, the central ship display now shows a clearer message about gas use.
Technology can now be put in in phases, permitting incomplete tech to be positioned in a listing and its particular person elements added over time.
Technology can now be moved after set up.
Significantly overhauled the system for pinning directions for constructing applied sciences, merchandise and base elements.
Added the power to pin a substance and obtain instructions for the place to seek out it.
Removed the Advanced Mining Laser requirement from giant bushes on lush planets.
Added an Antimatter Reactor base half that generates antimatter over time.
Added particular environment friendly Starshield Batteries to be used in starship fight.
Added ‘Warp Hypercores’, a big hyperdrive gas unit with 5 occasions the capability of a daily Warp Cell.
Increased the bottom mining velocity of the Mining Beam.
Fixed a bug that brought about useful resource notifications to stack up whereas enjoying with out the HUD.
Reduced the size of time useful resource notifications are displayed when you might have a number of sources stacked up.
Added alerts when new objects are encountered or recorded to the Catalogue.
Added the Optical Drill, a Mining Beam improve that will increase the sources gained from mining.
Added the Launch System Recharger, a starship improve that routinely recharges the Launch Thrusters over time.
Added an additional slot to the beginning Multi-Tool.
When putting in an improve module, the right stock is routinely chosen.
Adjusted the possibilities of low, medium and excessive safety planets in Normal Mode.
Adjusted the timers of Sentinel patrols on decrease safety planets.
In regular mode, allowed some planets to by no means spawn Sentinel drones.
Added an opportunity to gather geodes when mining rocks or asteroids. Geodes could be analysed to extract giant portions of drugs.
Increased the bottom velocity of all Refiner items.
In regular mode, elevated the slot storage restrict for substances from 250 to 10,000.
Increased the wealth ranges at which greater tiers of pirates will assault.
Increased the bottom vitality ranges of the Mining Beam and the Terrain Manipulator, permitting for much less frequent recharging.
Replaced the ‘Find specific building’ part of the Signal Booster with a system of planetary charts. Acquire planetary charts from Space Station Cartographers.
Navigation Data could be traded for planetary charts. Collect Navigation Data when saving and charting at waypoints and save beacons.
Using the Terrain Manipulator to mine primary floor will award silicate powder, which can be utilized to refine glass.
Added a be aware on the interplay label of NPCs which have already been visited.
When craftable merchandise are the present mission goal, they’re routinely pushed to the highest of the product record.
Adjusted the frequency of uncommon asteroids.
When shopping for a freighter, it now comes with some primary cargo already within the stock.
Increased the minimal velocity whereas in house fight, creating higher fight dealing with in most situations.
Increased the utmost velocity whereas flying in house.
Added a level of roll when banking in planetary flight.
The warning triangle within the cockpit is now not displayed when the Pulse Engine just isn’t being requested.
Added a cockpit throttle indicator to point out present thrust settings.
The ‘Shields Down’ message is now not displayed when claiming an deserted ship.
The ‘How to land the ship’ notification now not shows instantly after planetary takeoff.
When charging the Pulse Engine, the present autopilot goal marker is now highlighted.
Missions now add hints to spotlight the related objects within the construct and crafting menus.
Inventory popups are actually closed routinely should you click on exterior of them.
Tweaked the weighting of mission choice within the mission board to present a greater vary of accessible missions.
Increased the probability of procedural improve modules being related to the participant’s present tech setup.
Added a number of new environmental safety Exosuit upgrades.
Ammunition is routinely promoted to the highest of the crafting record if gamers attempt to reload however haven’t any accessible ammo.
Increased the default stack measurement for Ammunition.
The Mining Beam now has a a lot greater base warmth capability.
Reworked the Mining Beam overheat mechanic: the beam now cools down appropriately slightly than immediately resetting; the Mining Beam does extra harm because it approaches max warmth; the Mining Beam modifications color because it approaches max warmth.