Space explorers in Hello Games’s No Man’s Sky can now expertise the pleasure of discovering historic alien spiritual websites, then ramping off them in an enormous spacebike whereas hootin’ and/or hollerin’. The Akira-meets-Popemobile magnificence above is the Pilgrim, a brand new Exocraft added in right now’s vehicle-focused replace. Players eager to take it for a spin ought to take a look at their nearest Blueprint Analyser, and search for the Pilgrim Geobay, together with a brand new gadget permitting you to summon floor automobiles wherever on a planet’s floor. Check out the complete patch 1.63 notes here.
Exocraft ought to be extra helpful all spherical as of this replace. Their stock sizes have been elevated, the Colossus strikes quicker, and floor craft can now be tuned and tweaked the way in which you’ll your ship or go well with. You can repaint your Exocraft, too, including decals and altering increase flame results. On one other aesthetically pleasing observe, whereas not within the slightest bit reasonable they’ve additionally made space-fleets seen from planetary surfaces. Nice to see them constructing on that pulp sci-fi novel artwork aesthetic, and provides us extra excuses to play with the photograph mode.
Outside of vehicular and visible enhancements, there’s the standard bug-fixes and minor tweaks, together with an (experimental) efficiency increase to terrain tessellation results. Unfortunately, the present stay occasion in-game will proceed for an additional week unchanged, so preserve grinding away at Specialist Polo’s present mission if you wish to reap its rewards. Hello Games are teasing large issues, although – “-the trace of another Traveller-Entity beyond this reality suggests the recent galactic changes may have wider-reaching impact than is yet understood”, say the patch notes. Ominous.
Patch 1.63 is out now for No Man’s Sky, which I simply noticed is discounted all the way down to a wallet-friendly £16/$24 over on Green Man Gaming.
