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No Man’s Sky ‘Path Finder Update’ Announced

Hello Games have announced they will be releasing a “Path Finder Update” for No Man’s Sky. Some of the features in the update will allow PS4 Pro support, base sharing, ship specializations, and a permadeath mode.

You can view the patch notes and the trailer down below..

Audio

  • 50% more generative soundscapes
  • Additional game loading and game start music
  • Added multi-room base ambiences
  • More detailed rain system, including room dependent and indoor window rain
  • Added indoor storm ambiance
  • Changes to reverb system
  • Fix for a flood of sounds which could occur during the tutorial

Ships and Space

  • Improved ship landing code
  • Fixed AI ships appearing in the air with landing gear deployed
  • Ship weapons operate using a new multi-mode system
  • Fix for being able to spawn freighters underground while you are jetpacking
  • Prevent all docking points in stations, freighters and outposts being taken by AI ships
  • Fixed issue where ships could occasionally become invisible
  • Fixed an issue where spawning into a freighter in near-planet orbit would occasionally place the player underground
  • Freighter containers now drop less Titanium, Thamium and Copper
  • Freighter containers now have a chance to drop Nanite Clusters
  • Traders can now drop Nanite Clusters
  • Traders no longer drop Copper or Iron
  • Reduced camera shake whilst taking hits in space combat
  • Reduced pirate damage in survival mode
  • Reduced damage on ship laser
  • Tweaked ship exit animations to improve player placement

Gameplay

  • Added damage and resource numbers in combat and when mining, toggleable in the Options menu
  • Allow multiple weapon types on the multitool
  • Free weapons and ships now have broken slots
  • Recruit NPCs have more descriptive names
  • Fixed holes appearing in high detail terrain regions
  • Made player respawn positioning more robust
  • Introduced new growable plant type
  • Fixed slow memory leak in material effects
  • Removed several minor memory leaks on warp
  • Boosted shield recharge rate whilst in caves slightly
  • BoltCaster Rate of Fire and Laser Mining Speed upgrades are now known from start. Tweaked build requirements so that both are possible to build on player’s first planet
  • Drones now drop small amount of zinc on destruction
  • Reduced amount of platinum from depots
  • Fixed Vy’Keen depots dropping titanium instead of platinum
  • Improved balance of hazards on Scorched and Frozen planets
  • Reworked NPC secondary interactions to give you standing in exchange for offerings
  • Reduced the amount of tech given by NPCs. In most cases they will now reward tech fragments instead of blueprints
  • Reduced the amount of tech available for NPC reward
  • Fixed projectiles shooting through certain unmineable substances
  • Adjusted space stations to minimise cases where NPCs intersect with the environment
  • Fixed issue where the suit upgrade chamber would occasionally disappear

Base Building

  • Fixed NPC terminals and ladders being removed from the central room of bases after the player leaves
  • Moved snap points for the glass corridor to be correctly grid aligned
  • Galactic Terminals now have consistent pricing, regardless of where in a base they are added
  • Fixed plants not being removed after removing the planter below them
  • Deleting a room now refunds not only the room itself, but also its contents
  • Fixed some plants and rocks not being removed when placing down a base building part
  • Fixed the colour of the base terminal light occasionally resetting to red
  • Terminals no longer can be build over windows in the central room
  • Fixed base building colours becoming corrupt under specific circumstances
  • Fixed some NPC missions counting the number of parts in your base incorrectly
  • Fixed landing pad not snapping correctly to some parts
  • Fixed issues where resource harvester would fail to gather resources
  • Left mouse button and right trigger can now be used to build
  • Fixed various precision problems with building in freighters
  • Fixed some cases where grenades would fail to edit the terrain
  • Organised parts in the base building menu to be more intuitive

User Interface

  • Added animation within the Quick Menu
  • Changed the hyperdrive stat to be measured in Light Years
  • Opening the menu will now return to the last page you viewed
  • Added a new Tech stat section to the Tech info popup
  • Improved mouse smoothing
  • Improved mouse sensitivity
  • Clearer and more detailed multitool, ship and freighter comparison screen
  • Fixed flickering transition between Inventory and Options Menu pages
  • Reduced number of menu options requiring a button to be held rather than pressed
  • Improved responsiveness of button holding
  • Fixed a bug in the options menu where the title bar would flicker
  • Improvements to discovery timeline UI
  • Added “Set Waypoint” option to the solar system pop-up
  • Improved alignment at aspect ratios other than 16:9
  • Prevented player notifications showing up during credits and redeem screen
  • Fixed issue whether error messages would be shown for charging and repairing before the options had been selected
    Increased icon resolutions to support play at 4k resolutions
  • Fullscreen effects are now correctly displayed when entering a hazard
  • Disabled the quick menu while warping between systems
  • Removed obsolete Generation Detail option in settings
  • Updated display of new discoveries to be clearer and more readable
  • Fixed some Japanese and Russian localisation issues and text overlap
  • Made cinematic black bars less frequent and obtrusive
  • Made is so cinematic black bars can be dismissed
  • Race standing is now displayed on the journey milestone page
  • Fixed various windows occasionally appearing partially offscreen
  • New visuals and backgrounds on mode select, options and inventory screens

Visuals

  • Reduced banding artifacts on some metallic surfaces
  • Fixed seam artifacts on some normal maps
  • Fixed shadows being too black over water on certain planets
  • Fixed very occasional errant black geometry in space
  • Improved performance of water rendering
  • Improved performance in forward rendering passes
  • Improved performance in spotlight rendering
  • Fixed some issues with flickering lights
  • Correctly oriented IBL map, fixing several lighting issues
  • Fixed issue where vertex displacement would glitch when walking between regions

PC

  • Support for Intel HD Graphics 530, 540, 550, 580, 630, 640, 650
  • Reduced banding artifacts in gamma correction on some GPUs
  • Escape key now goes directly to the quit options page
  • Improved and expanded Steam Controller mapping

PlayStation 4

  • Support For PS4 Pro 4K Rendering
  • Support For PS4 Pro Delta Colour Compression
  • Support For PS4 Pro automatic Depth Buffer decompression

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