Living Ship: Introducing Update 2.3
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Explore space from a different perspective with the Living Ship update. Introducing a new class of biological ship, a new story mission, mysterious space encounters, space NPCs and more.
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THE LIVING SHIP
Living Ships are a new class of rare, sentient starships to add to your fleet, growing in dozens of procedurally-generated variations.
ORGANIC TECHNOLOGIES
These biological ships have their own set of unique organic technologies, all procedurally generated for a customised, evolved loadout.
ORIGIN STORY MISSION
A new series of missions, Starbirth, will take players through the ancient Korvax experiments that led to the birth of these sentient starships.
Players who wish to incubate, grow and ultimately fly their own living ship should visit the Space Anomaly and follow the call of the Void Egg…
ORGANIC COCKPIT
Pilot your sentient ship from its strange, organic cockpit. Grasp vein-covered tendrils to suggest directions to the living craft, and examine the unsettling details in full 360° in VR.
SPACE ENCOUNTERS
Experience rare encounters with mysterious space objects and strange new lifeforms while pulsing through a star system.
Investigating these may often yield rewards – or more dangerous encounters!
SPACE NPCS
NPCs now have the potential to hail your communicator in space.
These alien lifeforms often stock specialty items for sale – but some may need assistance, or approach with more questionable intentions…
QUALITY OF LIFE
Managing items in the inventory has become easier with a new shortcut to instantly divide a stack in half.
Multiplayer exploration has been streamlined with the ability to warp as a group. Team up with friends and strangers on the Space Anomaly, then choose your exit destination to continue your journey together.
Game performance is improved across the board, with a focus on runtime optimisations for terrain, cloud and water shaders for PSVR and PS4.
Patch notes
Living Ship
- Introduced a new style of starship, the Living Ship.
- These ships have their own exclusive range of organic technologies and cannot be upgraded by conventional means.
- Adjust your playstyle to the restrictions and benefits of these organic techs, or hatch and evolve new procedural upgrades to grow your own custom ship.
Missions
- Incubate your Void Egg and learn about the origin of the Living Ships with a new mission chain, Starbirth.
- Completing these missions will hatch the Void Egg into your own procedurally generated Living Ship.
- Additional ships may be hatched from subsequently incubated eggs.
Space Encounters
- While using the Pulse Engine to fly between planets, there is a chance of encountering strange objects in local space.
- Drop out of pulse-flight to begin the encounter.
- A large range of strange objects and exotic rewards await…
- Different encounters have different chances of occurring based on the characteristics of the solar system.
Trader Hails
- As well as strange objects, players may also encounter passing trader ships.
- These will hail the player while using the Pulse Engine and may need assistance, offer to trade, and more…
Quality of Life
- If players are in a group but do not have a Nexus mission active, then when taking off from the Space Anomaly they can now choose to exit directly to the system of any other player in their group.
- Fixed a number of issues that caused planetary charts and others scans to pick from too narrow a range of buildings. Players should no longer be sent repeatedly to the same building when using multiple charts.
- Fixed an issue that caused distress signals to occasionally lead to a crashed ship site with no crashed ship.
- Added an instant split button to allow players to quickly divide stacks of items in half.
- Players can now hold down buttons to increase or decrease stack sizes, rather than having to press repeatedly.
- Fixed an issue that prevented the Exocraft Summoning Station from working if placed within a base.
- Improved the range of the Exocraft Summoning Station, so that it allows Exocraft to be summoned from anywhere in the system.
- Planets that you have discovered no longer need to be repeatedly rescanned to see their resources from space.
- Fixed an issue that caused the planetary resources popup to flicker while pulsing towards a planet.
- Fixed an issue that made it difficult to enter Space Stations from tight angles.
- Allowed starships to reverse during atmospheric flight if stuck in other geometry.
- The automatic Launch System Recharger now functions while the player is sitting in the cockpit, if the ship is landed.
- Improved VR swimming controls for VR devices that use thumbsticks.
- Significantly increased the distance players are able to move the camera in Photo Mode.
Optimisations
- Introduced a number of significant GPU optimisations to terrain rendering.
- Introduced a number of significant optimisations to terrain generation.
- Introduced a number of significant memory optimisations.
- Introduced some minor load time optimisations.
- Introduced some smaller optimisations and visual fixes to cloud rendering.
- Introduced a number of water rendering optimisations for PSVR.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue that caused Proximity Switches to be activated by empty Exocraft.
- Fixed an issue that prevented decals from working when customising Exocraft appearances.
- Fixed an issue that caused the Analysis Visor UI to judder in VR.
- Fixed a number of issues that made it difficult to warp to the centre of the galaxy.
- Fixed an issue that caused the kill count to reset in the final mission for the Armourer if players entered a building during combat.
- Fixed an issue that caused Carbon Planters to be unavailable for purchase.
- Construction-style missions from the Nexus will properly mark the desired construction site if players leave the planet mid-mission.
- Fixed a number of issues that prevented items from being taken out of or put into Storage Containers.
- Fixed an issue where pirates would occasionally ask for wildly incorrect amounts when bargaining for peace.
- Fixed an issue that could prevent special mission Portals on the Artemis path from functioning correctly if they were left while in an active state.
- Fixed an issue that could cause a ship docked at a Trade Outpost to be placed underneath the landing pad when loading into the game.
- Fixed an issue that caused the filter icons to be incorrectly aligned in the Galaxy Map.
- Fixed a rare crash that could occur when warping to a base after having used a Portal.
- Fixed a bug that allowed Nexus missions to be restarted from the mission log.
- Fixed a number of issues that could cause Nexus missions to select inappropriate star systems.
- Fixed an issue that could cause Nexus missions to send players to the wrong building.
- Fixed an issue that could occasionally cause visual elements of the Personal Refiner to render in first person.
- Fixed an issue that caused the Personal Refiner not to stop animating when refining was complete.
- Fixed an issue that caused the names of unknown planets to be revealed by their moons.
- Improved the position of HUD markers in the Analysis Visor UI.
- Improved the positioning of the ship repair UI in VR.
- Fixed an issue that could cause the ship crosshair to judder.
- Fixed some minor text issues in missions objectives and the Guide.
- Fixed an issue that could cause filters to apply incorrectly on the Space Station, Space Anomaly, frigates and freighters.
- Fixed an issue that made the Space Anomaly too green when using HDR.
- Fixed an issue that prevented the VR eject handles in ship cockpits from lighting up when the player first enters the ship.
- Fixed a rare issue that allowed players to equip weapons in the Space Anomaly.
- Fixed an issue that prevented Solar Panels from playing their audio.
- Fixed an issue that could cause the torchlight to flicker while moving.
- Fixed an issue that could cause recently used interactions to be reset shortly after loading.
- Fixed an issue that caused an empty black dialogue box to appear when leaving a planetary Technology Merchant.
- Fixed an issue that caused the Nutrient Processor’s inventory to be incorrectly labelled.
- Updated the visuals of the Bytebeat Cable so it is distinct from the Teleport Cable.
- Fixed an issue with the Bytebeat Switch that caused the On Arpeggio Note output to fire when not playing an arpeggio.
- Fixed an issue with the Bytebeat Switch that caused note colours to be reversed.
- Fixed an issue with the Bytebeat Switch that caused triggers to be sent for parts that are not active in the Synchroniser.
- Fixed an issue in the Bytebeat that caused visuals to go out of sync when editing tempo.
- Fixed a number of minor glitches when scrubbing in the Bytebeat UI.
- Fixed an issue that caused pirate probes to always fail when the Pulse Engine was active.
- Fixed an issue that caused the Pulse Engine tutorial to incorrectly appear in the middle of combat.
- Fixed a text mismatch in the standing rewards, where Mercenary and Explorers Guild standing rewards were mislabeled.
- Fixed an issue that could cause the Surveying Tutorial to move on before the player had actually learned the Survey Device.
- Fixed an issue that prevented the Show HUD binding from working on PC keyboard controls when piloting a ship.
- Fixed an issue that caused a number of building parts to be unknown when starting a Creative Mode game, including industrial Silos.
- Fixed an issue that caused Black Holes not to warp players if they were somehow approached on foot.
Hello everyone,
We were thrilled by the response to the announcement of Beyond and the news that the game will be coming to VR. Bringing a game like No Man’s Sky to VR is a colossal technical undertaking, requiring major improvements to and optimisation of our engine. Your enthusiasm and excitement means so much to us as push on with this difficult task, and we will share more as soon as we are able.
In the meantime, we have some news for players on PC. As part of our optimisation work, we have added Vulkan support to the game. We have been able to do this not only for Beyond, but for the current live version of the game. As such, we wanted to release this to you as soon as possible.
Final Vulkan support will bring many PC players an immediate performance improvement, but it also helps us increase our options as we continue to make significant engine changes. It is only one portion of a large body of work that will see technical improvements for all players on all platforms.
We have also added support for crash reporting. In the event of a crash, callstack data is collected via Steam (we already support this on other platforms). This will enable us to more quickly identify and respond to serious issues. We have updated the EULA to take this into account.
As this is a large change – a complete overhaul of the graphics API – we will roll it out first to the PC Experimental branch, whilst we perform wider compatibility testing with the help of the brave experimental branch players.
In future it will be rolled out to all players.
The patch notes are as follows:
- OpenGL has been replaced by Vulkan. Many players, particularly players with AMD graphics cards, should see a performance improvement
- Revised HDR support, updated output curve in line with advances in HDR calibration
- Adaptive and Triple-Buffered V-Sync are now selectable from Graphics Settings
- Players with more than one GPU can now select which is used from Graphics Settings
- Changing the following settings no longer require restarting:
- Window Mode
- Resolution
- V-Sync
- Shadow Detail
- Reflection Quality
- The ‘LOADING SHADERS’ load step has been removed, improving the loading experience.
- Crash data is gathered via Steam to help us track down and fix issues.
https://tsbrown622.weebly.com/blog/command-prompt-free-download-for-mac. As always, thank you to all players who use Experimental and take the time to report any issues you encounter.
Accessing the Experimental Branch
More so than normal it’s important that you update your video card drivers.
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Please note there is the possibility that experimental builds may introduce new issues that haven’t been caught in test. We’d like to recommend that all players back up their save files, by making a local copy of the st_[userid] folder found here: %appdata%HelloGamesNMS https://tsbrown622.weebly.com/blog/urban-terror-41-download-mac.
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If you decide to opt out of experimental and return to the main branch, we strongly recommend resuming from a backed-up save from the main branch, rather than taking an experimental branch save back to main, which may cause unexpected behaviour.
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Feedback and reports of new bugs/issues being found on Experimental are welcome, so please submit a ticket to hellogames.zendesk.com with the phrase “Steam Experimental Vulkan” in the ticket title. If you are running any mods for the game, please list them along with your bug report.
To play in Experimental, right-click on No Man’s Sky from the Steam library page and select “Properties”. Among the available tabs will be the “BETAS” tab. Enter “3xperimental” in the textbox and click “Check Code”. “experimental – Experimental” will now be available in the dropdown menu under “Select the beta you would like to opt into”.