Earlier last month, the team over at Hello Games released No Man’s Sky’s largest update, Update 1.3: Atlas Rises.
Since then they’ve gone and patched the game five times since adding the new update. Atlas Rises added a slew of big changes including the ability to teleport, manipulate terrain, explore with another player, fly lower on planets and more. Also, about 30 extra hours of story have been tagged onto the game’s campaign, expanding the lore of the No Man’s Sky universe.
Patch 1.35 brings a slew of new changes and fixes to the game based off of community feedback. Hello Games listed all of the changes in an official blog post:
Features and changes
- Introduced ship handling variances between types/classes. Each individual ship now has procedural handling and speed characteristics, based on their type and class
- Handling is now displayed as a value on the ship statistics screen
- It’s now possible to craft multiples of the same product at once
- Added the ability to craft more of the same product on top of an existing stack
- Improved transferring items between inventories
- Added a toggle to switch from buy to sell screen on the trading menu
- Added variance in handling between ship types
- Improved the appearance of popup menus
- Improved speed and smoothness of user interface page transitions
- Reduced the amount of resource required to repair tech in Survival mode
- Improved visuals for editing terrain
- Improved display of critical warning messages
- Added message to notify the player if they select a portal glyph they have not yet learned
- Added additional information to the quick menu when the player attempts to charge something with insufficient resources
- The quick menu will now automatically close after selecting an option
- Alien words which have been translated are now highlighted in interactions
- Improved messaging when portal glyphs are rewarded
- Improved user interface navigation using Q, E, W, S and A and D keys
- Added ability for player to enable torch while in caves
- Improved galactic map saturation, colours and effects
- Added an option in the galactic map to toggle user waypoints
Bug fixes
- Fixed an issue preventing players with very long play times being able to save
- Fixed an issue where black dots would occasionally appear while looking into the sun
- Added audio when interacting with portals
- Prevented hazard effects showing while teleporting or warping
- Prevented mission log opening when you unpin recipes
- Prevented players being able to scan creatures through the terrain
- Fixed an issue causing extremely distant points of interest to show when scanning
- Removed large white marker which would occasionally show up permanently over buildings
- Fixed an issue where visited buildings would not correctly update their icon
- Fixed an issue where visiting a building would not correctly mark nearby waypoints as visited
- Fixed an issue where scanning buildings would not also scan nearby waypoints
- It’s no longer possible to lose the Atlas Path by using a black hole
- Denying the Atlas Path will no longer show you the Atlas Path
- Balanced the damage potential of the Scatter Blaster upgrade
- Players will no longer be directed to the anomaly in systems where it can’t spawn (e.g. when an Atlas Station is present)
- Prevented portals from being incorrectly left enabled at times they shouldn’t be
- Removed grass from bases created prior to the Atlas Rises update
- Completed freighter salvage missions will no longer be incorrectly re-added to the mission log
- Fixed issue where your base teleporter can be duplicated and incorrectly labelled in teleporter location lists
- Prevented incorrect distant paths being drawn in the galactic map
- Fixed an issue where galactic map paths would draw incorrectly
- Fixed an issue where players could manipulate mission boards to get multiple of the same mission type
- Fixed an issue where system race was being displayed incorrectly when talking to mission NPCs
- Fixed an issue that caused general ship handling to overly effect ship boost handling
- Spoiler warning: Fixed an issue where some players were not rewarded the Remembrance recipe at the conclusion of the story
- Fixed some rare crashes
Since the release of the new update, the reviews on No Man’s Sky’s Steam page have changed to “mostly positive.” The work Sean Murray’s team has put in since the game’s original launch is definitely commendable.
Murray had been teasing Atlas Rises since the beginning of the summer. Going as far as sending some strange casette tapes to various moderators from the official No Man’s Sky Reddit page.
No Man’s Sky is available right now on PS4 and PC. You can check out our official review of the game by going right here.