No Man's Sky Foundation Update

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Hello Games has broken their long silence and released a 'Foundation Update' for No Man's Sky. It adds new game modes and base building.

The name of the update is no accident as they claim it lays the foundation for things to come from and that it marks the "first of many free updates".

No Man's Sky has been something of a polarising game since launch following the disappointment and anger people felt, particularly with regards to Hello Games' Sean Murray for the way he portrayed the game.

No Man's Sky now supports three game modes:

• Normal mode is the original chilled exploration experience

• Creative mode allows players to explore the universe without limits, and build a huge base

• Survival mode really changes the game, creating a much more challenging endurance experience

Also introduced as a new feature is base building where you can construct and then decorate - aesthetically or for utility - and create yourself a safe haven on a designated world.

Base building highlights:

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• Construct your homestead for shelter, using modular structures and decorations, replicated from resources gathered while exploring

• Recruit alien lifeforms to help research new technology. Farming, engineer, weapons and science specialists are hirable from Space Stations

• Use Terminus Teleporters in Space Stations to teleport to and from your base at will

• Expand your base with storage containers to stockpile precious resources and rare products

• Find an even more beautiful location and you can simply dismantle your previous homestead to refund all of the spent resources

Hello Games have also included farming which goes hand-in-hand with base building, as you can now set up your own hydroponics with research available to discover another 10 different types of growable plant. Players can also now build camp and construct equipment on planets. Automated harvesters can be built and used to continue extract resources in your absence.

Own and control a freighter:

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• Purchase huge interstellar Freighters at great expense, and then summon them from anywhere in the galaxy

• Resources can be teleported to your Freighter while on-planet, ideal for stockpiling goods for trading

• Customise the inside of your Freighter within the Base Building section

• Create extended cargo holds to expand your vessel’s capacity, and grow crops of rare resources on board

• Transport your Freighter and its cargo to different, more economically favourable systems to maximise your earnings

• Use the new recruitment system to crew your Freighter with Engineer, Farmer, Weapons and Science specialists to help research new technologies

Other updates in version 1.1 include new resources and technology, user interface improvements and the addition of Temporal Anti Aliasing (TAA) to remove jagged edges and motion blur. Visit the official No Man's Sky website for the full Foundation Update changelog.

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Release Dates
24 Jul 2018-Xbox One
10 Nov 2020-Xbox Series X
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