Hello Games has shipped a hotfix. No Man’s Sky Hoping to address some of the fans’ concerns with the recent 4.0 update. While there is a strong community around the Galaxy Quest title, even with it being a popular game on Valve’s Steam deck, there has been some backlash since the Waypoint update launched a week ago. The developer has received some feedback with the aim of fixing some of the issues players are experiencing.
A large number of No Man’s Sky Fans were unhappy with version 4.0, which was released to try and streamline the game, especially for those who were new to it or hadn’t played in a while and were held back by all the updates. was One of the biggest complaints voiced by many in the community is about the changes to the inventory system. While more slots were added to the player’s stock and armory, it came at a cost, the patch reduced the number of technology upgrades. Some criticized the game and the developer with a bombastic review of the release on Steam, currently sitting at a “mostly positive” rating.
However, it looks like Halo Games has tried to fix this with a new update. According to the patch notes, players who upgrade No Man’s Sky Save to Waypoint will be given an additional technology slot. On top of that, a new difficulty setting has also been added, allowing fans to “lock themselves out” of other difficulties, becoming permanent once the option is selected. Several bug fixes have also been made. Studio co-founder Sean Murray recently took to Twitter to say that players should start seeing “a bunch of improvements,” driven by community feedback.
It’s possible that these changes will comfort those who were unhappy with version 4.0 of the game, but there will always be criticisms. This is not a secret. No Man’s Sky When it was launched in 2016, many people accused the developer of deliberately misleading about the game’s content. Fortunately, the team was able to turn things around with a ton of free updates and fixes, turning the game into a popular sci-fi title for the most part.
On top of the update, Hello Games said a while back. No Man’s Sky A dedicated graphics card is no longer required to run. This opens up opportunities for those playing on lower spec PCs, and with the recent hotfix, hopefully the game will remain as popular as it has been.
The full patch notes are as follows:
Bug fixes
- Players who upgrade their save to Waypoint are now awarded additional free technology slots (this fix will also apply to players who have upgraded their save to Waypoint).
- A new difficulty setting has been added that allows players to further lock themselves from changes to difficulty settings. Once activated, this process is permanent.
- The Photon Cannon can now be deleted from a ship’s inventory, with at least one other weapon installed.
- The power of the starship specialization bonus has been increased, so that higher tier ships have more inherent bonuses to their stats. This scales exponentially with both class and ship skill, so for example Explorer class ships will have significantly more warp range.
- Along with damage, shield, and warp bonuses, starships now have an inherent agility-based stat, which benefits all maneuver upgrades in the same way that other specialization stats affect their respective upgrades. .
- The stat bonus on procedural jetpack upgrades has been increased.
- The stat bonus on the Procedural Hazard Protection upgrade has been increased.
- The stat bonus on the Procedural Plus engine upgrade has been increased.
- Stat bonuses on procedural hyperdrive upgrades have been increased.
- Fixed an issue where broken tech could permanently block some inventory slots.
- Exosuit shields have significantly reduced the chance of damage from breaking a piece of technology while charged.
- Increased the drop rate of spawning sex obtained by live frigates from fleet campaigns.
- The “Starting Slots” difficulty setting now adds additional inventory slots as well as additional companion and squadron slots.
- Added a confirmation button to the “Delete Base” option when communicating with the base computer.
- Hazard Protection now notes when HUD is severely damaged.
- Fixed an issue that prevented players from loading their manual save in Permadeath.
- Fixed an issue that caused the Neutron Cannon to take almost no damage.
- Fixed an issue that could leave some players floating in space when reloading their save.
- Fixed an issue that prevented Exocraft technology from charging correctly.
- Fixed an issue that prevented players with a very large inventory from seeing all of their items when transferring them to another inventory, such as a storage container.
- Fixed an issue that could cause large numbers of Sentinels to spawn in player settlements, especially in multiplayer scenarios.
- Fixed an issue that caused missions to fail to recognize when Exocraft technology was correctly charged.
- Fixed an issue that caused some items (such as projectile ammunition) to be produced in incorrect quantities the first time they were produced.
- Fixed an issue where cargo vehicles could lose their hyperdrive after purchase.
- Fixed several crashes between changing inventory tabs and changing stack size.
- Fixed several issues where different popups would take the same scrolling input.
- Fixed an issue that prevented changing tabs in freighter inventory while hovering over an empty slot.
- Fixed an issue that could trap players on a space station if they managed to dock with a broken pulse engine.
- Fixed an issue that allowed players to save their only operational starship.
- Fixed an issue that prevented technology attachments from appearing on Exocraft.
- When reporting a base, the owner’s name is now more clearly displayed in the UI.
- Fixed an issue that could cause some newly acquired inventory items to visually disappear from the main inventory.
- Fixed several issues where old cargo slots were visible in the UI, such as when viewing ships through the analysis wizard.
- Fixed an issue that could prevent large inventories from being fully displayed in some situations (such as when using storage containers).
- Fixed an issue that caused duplicate hyperdrives to be detected in crashed and NPC ships during the tutorial.
- Fixed an issue that caused the Livestock unit to show too few inventory slots in the UI.
- Fixed an issue that caused a heavily damaged Hazard Protection to appear to recharge and activate while sitting in a starship.
- Fixed an issue that could cause an incorrect ship value to be returned.
- Fixed several visual issues with unlocking the inventory slot.
- Fixed several issues that caused Journey Milestone Guide missions to end too quickly.
- Fixed an issue that could prevent bases from uploading correctly.
- Visual quality of stars has been improved when using TAA and FSR 2.0.
- Fixed an issue that prevented FSR 2.0 from being enabled when using HDR.
- Fixed several rendering issues with particle effects.
- Improved the rendering of a large number of particle effects.
- Optimized star and sky rendering.
- Fixed several visual issues with freight engines.
- Improved the effects of commercial rocket engines.
- Fixed an issue that could cause volcanoes to cease to exist.
- The visual effects of the last Atlas station on the Artemis route have been improved.
- Improved the text displayed when viewing cooking items in the catalog.
- Fixed an issue that caused predatory fish to move very slowly.
- Fixed several text scrolling issues in the Information Portal.
- Fixed PlayStation 5 crash.
- Fixed an Xbox Series S/X crash related to the file system.
- Fixed an inventory-related crash that could occur when loading the game.
- Fixed a memory-related crash on PlayStation 5.
- Fixed a number of networking issues.
- Fixed a memory issue related to squadron icon rendering.
- Fixed a crash related to multitool rendering.
- Fixed a crash related to the recipe page within the information portal.
- Fixed a memory-related crash on all platforms.
No Man’s Sky Available for PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
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