{"id":81048,"date":"2020-09-23T16:57:56","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T16:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/no-mans-sky-origins-update-sandworms\/"},"modified":"2020-09-23T16:57:56","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T16:57:56","slug":"no-mans-sky-origins-update-adds-billions-of-new-planets-and-sandworms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/09\/23\/no-mans-sky-origins-update-adds-billions-of-new-planets-and-sandworms\/","title":{"rendered":"No Man’s Sky Origins Update Adds Billions of New Planets and Sandworms"},"content":{"rendered":"

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With every new update, No Man\u2019s Sky<\/em><\/strong> becomes more like the game many thought it would be when it launched four years ago. Hello Games has taken major steps to improve the game from its underwhelming debut with a consistent stream of updates, which has culminated in today\u2019s release of No Man\u2019s Sky<\/em>\u2019s Origins update<\/a>, one of its biggest to date. It\u2019s so big, in fact, that the game\u2019s version number has been pushed up to 3.0 to reflect just how much larger the game is now.<\/p>\n

Everything about the game, from the visuals to the gameplay to the procedurally-generated universe, have been tweaked and improved multiple times already, but the new update takes it a huge step further. Not only does it update the UI and add billions of new planets, it also introduces new environmental elements like volcanoes, firestorms, tornados, and lighting, on top of improved clouds, larger mountains, and larger structures. Players can also now encounter NPCs on planets as well as discover all sorts of new fauna, including a sci-fi staple: giant sandworms<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s an understatement to call it a lot, and according to Hello Games\u2019 publishing head Tim Woodley, all that new content was quite a challenge to create. Speaking with GameSpot about it, he explained that overhauling No Man\u2019s Sky<\/em>\u2019s universe was made trickier by the fact that much of it has been colonized by\u00a0No Man’s Sky<\/em>‘s players who’ve built things like full-on cities<\/a>. As such, none of the major environmental changes have been applied to existing planets, as that would have \u201crun the risk of nerfing people\u2019s finely honed bases and creations,\u201d according to Woodley.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we launched No Man\u2019s Sky<\/em><\/a> in 2016, we created a universe which was our best guess for what people wanted to discover and explore,\u201d he said. He went on to state that the goal with the Origins update was to recapture the experience of that original launch, where players \u201cnever really knew what was over the next hill, on the next planet, in the next star system.\u201d<\/p>\n