Hello Games updated No Man’s Sky, implementing various bugfixes for the Voyagers update. Thanks to the addition of customizable vehicles, the game celebrated its second-highest concurrent player count; the only other peak concurrent player count was during its initial launch over nine years ago. The title achieved a record of 98,285 within the last 24 hours as of writing, with various users sharing their unique creations.
Here are the full patch notes, according to the official Steam blog update:
Experimental Branch 01/09
- Fixed an issue which caused players to clip through the walls of a corvette.
- Fixed an issue which caused players to slide as they got out of the pilot’s seat in a corvette.
- Fixed a rare issue that could cause players to be jettisoned out their corvette when activating the pulse drive.
- Fixed an issue which caused sliding on corvette ramps.
- Fixed an issue which caused players to sink into seats aboard corvettes.
- Improved camera framing when exiting the pilot’s seat of a corvette.
- Fixed an issue with Thunderbird Landing Thrusters animations.
- Fixed an issue which caused the Azimuth Reactor to be uninteractable once placed.
- Improved space walking in VR.
- Fixed a number of issues with markers and labels while spacewalking in VR.
- Fixed an issue with multi input refiners.
- Fixed an issue which prevented Humming Sacs and Fiend Eggs from being collected.
- Fixed an issue which resulted in invisible blocking physics in freighter bases.
- Fixed an issue which caused warp audio not to play.
- Added an animation to Skyborn backpack.
- Various corvette asset optimisations.
- Fixed a crash while using a pulse drive.
One of the fan-created customizations was a Nokia-inspired spaceship, joked around to be the most indestructible ship in No Man’s Sky history. Other creations include a skull and the Millennium Falcon.
The ship customization features can be found in the Corvette Workshop aboard Space stations. To commemorate the debut of customizable Corvettes, a limited-time community expedition with exclusive rewards and “narrative-enhanced adventure” is underway. Within the expedition, the starship has been damaged beyond repair, and the Sentinel horde closes in. The player must fight back against the horde while maximizing the ship’s stats.
Corvettes are encountered after a significant amount of in-game progress. The Corvette expedition helps players get to the workshop faster, thereby allowing them to unlock the customization features more swiftly.
