

This means that No Man's Sky rewards will be available for players to earn by watching streamers play the game online. "With unique new challenges and rewards, players will need to thoroughly explore their starting world to escape the toxic atmosphere of planet Gisto Major." One of the previous expeditions added Mass Effect's Normandy ship into the game - here's hoping for similar surprises here too.įinally, the studio has also announced that it will be running another Twitch campaign for the game soon. "The event starts all players in the same place and, as the name suggests, focuses on planetary mapping and exploration," reads the press release. In terms of combat, Frontiers should make weapons and explosions feel more powerful and add "a new visceral element to combat".įrontiers also brings the game's third Expedition, called Cartographers. Interstellar clouds gathering in deep space will add vivid nebulas to No Man's Sky whilst Hello Games also notes that almost all of the game's visual effects have been improved. If, instead of building bases and settling down as an intergalactic Overseer, you'd rather be flying through the vast expanse of deep space causing trouble and fighting your way through anything that stands before you, Frontiers has you covered for content there too.
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The expansion will also introduce a new HUD for placing building parts and incorporate a new free place mode which will allow players to pick up, duplicate and move parts that they've already placed onto the environment. On top of adding new structural sets of timber, stone, and alloy pieces that will allow for a greater range of building shapes, Frontiers will also add more than a hundred new decorative parts for prospective builders. According to Hello Games, the studio will be making a number of improvements to base building. In addition to the new settlement mechanics that will feature in the Frontiers update, No Man's Sky will feature a number of other noteworthy additions in the expansion. Whilst it isn't yet clear exactly how happiness will be measured or what ramifications could result from unhappy citizens, it would certainly be an interesting twist to see a group of intergalactic NPCs surmount a revolution. In the case of the latter, Hello Games says that when called upon to help resolve disagreements between settlers, "fair and compassionate judgments will result in happier citizens". Starting out as newly appointed galactic politicians, players will be able to grapple with a range of issues ranging from treasury management to town planning and conflict resolution. In addition to adding buildings to their new-found settlements, Overseers will also be able to make important policy decisions for their townsfolk going forward. With the sheer size of the universe in No Man's Sky, we're willing to bet there will be some choice color combinations out there. This means that each community that players should happen across should be unique not only in terms of its inhabitants but also its buildings, neighborhood layout, color schemes, and both interior and exterior decorations. In line with the rest of the game, each settlement will be procedurally generated. It will be the job of the town's newly found Overseer to govern and manage the resources necessary to allow the population of the settlement to grow and become a flourishing town.

According to Hello Games, newly formed settlements will start off as little more than a sparsely populated cluster of buildings inhabited by a small collection of NPCs. In addition to the new swanky title, becoming a Settlement Overseer will allow players a range of new in-game options.įirst and foremost, settlement leaders will be able to grow their towns by constructing new buildings and accepting new inhabitants. In addition to providing citizen assistance, the Frontiers expansion will allow budding adventurers across the game to become the Overseer of a settlement. Players embarking across galaxies will be able to interact with settlements and grant assistance to their residents many of whom will be harbored with their own problems. Following the update, new life will spring into the game's procedurally generated landscape through NPC-populated settlements.
