To coincide with the launch of PlayStation VR2 we’re releasing No Man’s Sky’s first main replace of 2023. We’re calling it Fractal (model 4.1). From the second PlayStation instructed us about their new headset we knew we’d need to help it from day one, and Fractal brings full help for PS VR2 with new immersive controls and subsequent technology visuals.
Our small workforce has all the time been extremely keen about VR. No Man’s Sky is about exploration and there’s nothing fairly like exploring the infinite universe in digital actuality. Our recreation has modified an enormous quantity since our small workforce launched VR help again in 2019, and we have been so excited to revisit and overhaul all digital actuality for all gamers. The launch of PS VR2 was the proper time to take action.
Here’s a short listing of among the options gamers outdated and new can anticipate when slipping on a headset:
- Play the whole lot of No Man’s Sky in digital actuality with out compromise, with new ranges of immersion.
- Using the ability of PlayStation 5, PS VR2 offers a really subsequent technology digital actuality expertise, that includes reflections, terrain tessellation, elevated draw distance, denser foliage, ultra-quality textures and refraction.
- PlayStation VR2-specific performance consists of headset vibrations, 3D audio know-how and clever monitoring, haptic suggestions and adaptive triggers from the PS VR2 Sense controller and extra.
- Switch between VR and commonplace gameplay. Continue from an current save to revisit favourite planets, bases and creatures in full digital actuality.
- The HUD and person interface has been fully remade for digital actuality, making certain that each interplay out there within the recreation feels pure and constructed for function. Including controlling Multi-Tool choices through a menu embedded on the in-world Multi-Tool; and looking the short menu and stock through a private wrist-mounted show.
- Lift open your starship’s cockpit, then attain out and seize the controls to take flight. Turn round for a full 360° view of the starship and car cockpits, with unbelievable particulars solely seen in VR.
- Many interactions have been given particular VR-only choices, together with: grabbing crops and different collectables together with your arms, bodily opening the cockpits of ships and exocraft, piloting starships straight with a VR stick/throttle, and punching objects to trigger injury.
- With full head and hand monitoring, interactions in digital actuality make No Man’s Sky extra intuitive, tactile, and immersive than ever. Physically unholster your Multi-Tool out of your shoulder. Intuitively goal and fireplace at targets, or put it away to interact in fight together with your fists. Tap a button in your headset to toggle the Analysis Visor, then level in the direction of fauna, flora, and minerals to scan and uncover them.
However, even for those who don’t have a PS VR2 headset the Fractal replace brings new experiences and large enhancements for all gamers!
Fractal introduces a shocking new starship, the Utopia Speeder, which permits vacationers to skim throughout planet surfaces at excessive velocity. We’re additionally launching a brand new Expedition – “Utopia” – which challenges gamers to work collectively and rebuild an deserted photo voltaic system for the mysterious Utopia Foundation. Other expedition rewards embrace an unique new helmet (the Fearsome Visor), a robotic drone companion and far more.
PlayStation gamers can now reap the benefits of movement controls on the TwinSense and DualShock 4 controllers, making exploring and scanning new discoveries extra snug and exact than ever.
Speaking of which, the Wonders Catalog reveals off your most unbelievable discoveries, from tallest mountain to strangest creature, giving explorers an in depth file of their journey and permitting gamers to match their information with fellow vacationers.
We’ve additionally overhauled the sport’s choices techniques, introducing a raft of recent accessibility options and giving gamers much more management over the way in which they play and expertise the sport.
2022 was a fairly packed 12 months for No Man’s Sky with main free updates like Sentinel, Outlaws, Leviathan, Endurance and Waypoint, plus a bunch extra of our common expeditions. We’ve acquired an excellent greater 12 months deliberate for 2023, with Fractal and PS VR2 help marking simply the place to begin.
Thanks once more a lot on your continued help. It means so much to us. Our journey continues.
