Vor wenigen Tagen kündigte Hello Games ein erstes umfassendes Update zu ‚No Man´s Sky‘ an, mit dem man sich der ursprünglichen Vision des Spiels weiter nähern möchte.
Im Fokus des sogenannten ‚The Foundation‘ Update stehen die Grundlagen des Basen bauen, aber auch Features wie ein Fotomodus halten mit dem Update Einzug, wie der finale Changelog verrät, den Hello Games heute veröffentlicht hat. Wer die Kurfassung dazu bevorzugt, findet diese in Videoformat folgend oder auf der offiziellen Homepage.
Patch Notes Version 1.1
General Gameplay
- Fixed technology becoming instantly fully charged when repaired
- Fixed ship appearing on incorrect pad in space station after loading
- Added interactable objects that required certain tech to collect
- Added shootable objects that require certain tech to mine
- Rebalanced resource availability and technology charge requirements
- Fixed initial game flow – where travelling to space too quickly after visiting the monolith could prevent the first atlas station notification appearing
- Prevented player being prompted to scan for buildings before leaving the system after visiting the monolith
- Prevented laser and melee attacks while in space from attempting to edit terrain
- Improved calculation of resources received when mining terrain
- Renamed Signal Scanners to Signal Boosters
- Signal booster objects updated to search for playable bases, suit upgrade pods, and mineable resources
- Removed signal booster from being distributed on terrain, as player can now build them
- Improved accuracy of environment detection, fixing cases where it rained inside caves
- Fixed galactic waypoints not loading correctly across saves
- Removed atlas pass v1 requirement from doors in stations
- Suit upgrade pods are no longer spawned in stations
- Suit upgrade pods can now only be used once
- Fixed collision in anomaly that was causing issues when exiting larger ships
- Increased the number of different NPC character models generated per system
- Fixed the game always remaining in day time for players who began their save prior to patch 1.03
- Fixed a potential crash in foliage instance renderer
Localisation
- Fixed stats page in asian languages
- Fixed multiple issues with asian language formatting
- Multiple improvements and fixes to localisation text in all languages
UI
- Added new icons for specific types of primary resources
- Fixed health bars not appearing on some targets
- Added hazard and life support drain indicators
- Fixed mission messages not appearing in a timely fashion
- Beacons now notify the player that they will save the game
- Fixed crash when creature IK animations were updated under certain conditions on the discovery screen
- Improved navigation in discovery UI
- Massive speed improvements to browsing huge discovery lists
- Increased size of discovery storage
- Added option to load „Earliest“ previous save in Options menu
- Fixed weapon naming
- Added icon to remind players of the reload button when weapon is empty
- Multiple fixes for viewing discoveries
PS4
- Added photo mode
- Large optimisations to the engine to accommodate base building
Creatures
- Fixed elevation cache mismatches, causing errors in creature knowledge and pathing
- Fixed slow memory leak in creature role allocation
- Improved creature animation speeds
- Fixed issues where some creatures turns had the incorrect frame count
- Fixed occasional crash when interacting with creatures
Atmospherics
- Increased proportion of vibrant blue skies
- Corrected cloud levels for clear skies
- Improved average cloud level settings
- Fixed cloud rendering while flying in your ship
- Improved atmosphere depth when transitioning to space
- Increased fidelity of atmosphere rendering on nearest planet
- Improved atmospheric fog as you fly to a planet
- Improved fog method for planets seen on the horizon
Terrain
- Improved terrain generation algorithms
- Improved and extended blend areas between different terrain noise types
- Terrains now generate more open spaces
- Smaller features now appear at nearer lods to improve visuals in the distance
- Fixed objects being placed on incorrect terrain material types
- Improved resolution of distant planet terrain
- Decreased differences between planet as seen from space and actual planet terrain
- Fixed seams on planets when seen from space
- Improvements to terrain material selection and terrain material blending
- Terrain generation priority and cost calculation improvements
- Fixed terrain generation angle calculations, which would previously prevent nearest region being generated first
- We now generate caves on lower terrain lods to decrease visual differences in lower detail terrain
- Introduced more varied and vibrant colouring to terrain for each biome
- Decreased frequency of brown terrain colour selections
- Changed texture scales to improve transition between terrain lods
- Improved terrain colour combinations to add variety and better match terrain contouring
- Improved terrain texture blending method to better retain vibrant colours
- Improved settings for hue, saturation and value noise variation on terrain
- Fixed a number of issues causing holes to be seen in the planet terrain
- Fixed occasional crash when mining terrain
Visuals
- Fixed colour of muzzle flashes on player weapons
- Added muzzle flashes to ship weapons
- Added cockpit lighting for damage and weapon firing
- Added debris to freighter explosion effect
- Improved freighter cargo explosions
- Improved photon cannon hit and space explosion effects
- Improved turret explosion effect
- Improved grass colour selection
- Improved grass colouring method to match underlying terrain colour
- Improved grass placement to match gradient of terrain, and rocky terrain slope patches
- Improved lighting on grass
- Improved alpha cutoffs and blending for grass in the distance
- Improved colouring method for on-planet buildings
- Fixed „pop“ in lighting when flying between planets
- Fixed incorrect lighting seen in shadow areas
- Improved lighting method when rendering tree leaves
- Fixed procedural texturing on objects with multiple overlapping textures
- Fixed size of certain texture atlas normal maps
- Fixed texture scaling on asteroids
- Zinc plant is now more obvious when it has been gathered
- Fixed occasional rendering errors due to precision on cockpit during warp
- Fixed pulse lines not appearing when pulse driving out from planet atmosphere
- Fixed shadowing artefacts on imposters
Space
- Improved asteroids to allow much denser fields
- Improved explosion effects
- Fixed scale of moons on the space map
- Added freighter groups to the space map
- Changed distribution of resources in asteroids
- AI ships will now clear asteroids in their path
- Planets are now scannable from space to see their resources
Space Combat
- Fixed bounty targets warping out too soon
- Improved HUD indicators in space combat
- Added damaged ship effect on AI starships
- Added formation flying
- Improved locking on passive starships
- Improved AI combat flight patterns
- Added new ship weapon technology
- Holding brake whilst turning now activates drift for fast turns
- Improved AI ship freighter attacking
- Improved freighter targeting code when under attack by enemy ships
Freighters
- Fixed pulse drive to prevent travel through freighters
- Improved docking code
- Added hangar to the lead freighter
- Added docking in freighters
- Added icon to accessible freighter hangars
- Added colouring to cargo drops to identify what is in them
- You can now only pick up cargo drops that will fit in your inventory
- Added auxiliary freight ships to freighter groups
- Added alert lights and alarm audio for when freighters are in combat
- Improved turret lights and explosions
- Improved muzzle flashes on freighter turrets
- Added indicator of cargo contents
- Freighter Commanders now give rewards for rescuing them from pirate attack
- Fixed collision on freighter cargo containers
Audio
- Updated the lush ambience to make the wind sounds less noisy
- Ambient background fauna now checks for the presence of creatures
- Added rain on foliage
- Added rain on ship
- Added freighter specific footsteps
- When on a dead planet, no music will play
- Round table prop now plays an appropriate sound
- Added more music to the loading sequence and game start
- Added audio to new base building props
- Created sounds for new base building props
- Added audio to freighter doors and internal freighter ambiences
- Added freighter explosions
- Added freighter alarm
- Added ambient radio comms when approaching a freighter
- Fixed missing sounds when in a space station due to the mix settings
- Multi-tool upgrades now affect audio
- Lots of minor mix changes
- Changed some compression settings for PS4 audio to make the sub-channel audio play more reliably
Das The Foundation Update erscheint in der kommenden Woche.
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