The developer didn’t want Origins’ changes to destroy or otherwise interfere with players existing bases and community hubs. It’s also why, while some of Origins’ new additions to No Man’s Sky will come to existing planets, Hello Games had to birth millions of new planets to be home to the volcanos, more extreme landscapes, and firestorms. “It’s not just about this update, it’s given us a whole bunch of powers and a bit of a rewrite of the underlying technology for us to do this.” Image: Hello Games “That’s why we’re calling Origins,” he explained. “The more popular the game has become, the more people who’ve played it, the more difficult it is for us to go change some of the fundamentals,” Murray said. Updating the core of No Man’s Sky - fixing the game’s foundation while millions of people are living in its house - included building “so many things we wanted to do, would have loved to do day one,” but are hard because the game is a living thing. to an extent, it’s a little bit embarrassing.
People have had hundreds of millions hours in that universe we’ve made. We’ve updated the game a lot, but itself hasn’t changed that much, in terms of the fundamental planets that you go around and explore. “We built this procedural universe and we put it out there. “We’ve been planning something like this for quite a while,” Murray explained.
But adding that feeling of freshness has presented a challenge for the (still relatively small) No Man’s Sky team - in part due to the game’s popularity. “For people who have played a thousand hours, we want them to feel the game is fresh and new,” No Man’s Sky game director Sean Murray said in an interview with Polygon. The point of Hello Games’ Origins free update for No Man’s Sky is to increase diversity, both to wow new players who will discover a more varied universe and for veteran players who have invested hundreds of hours in the game. Massive, Dune-inspired invertebrates that burrow underground and present the kind of threat only a giant sandworm can. There are active volcanoes and meteor showers, additions that not only look cool, but have a real gameplay impact, Hello Games says.Īnd there are sandworms. Hello Games’ new additions to No Man’s Sky include moving weather systems, with extreme events like tornados and lightning storms never-before-seen flora and fauna that exhibit new behaviors, like burrowing and improved flocking bigger mountains, deeper oceans, steeper cliffs, and enormous buildings housing new discoveries. Those strange new worlds will look markedly different from the millions players have already seen over the past four years during their journey through the massive, procedurally generated spacefaring game. No Man’s Sky’s latest update, Origins, drops today, and it gives players millions of new planets to discover.
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