No Man's Sky: Brilliant New Update Makes This Game's Biggest Redemption Story 

Hey guys! Glad to see you decided to cover NMS evolution. Just a few suggestions: If you played the game on Sunday on Xbox, you played the previous version. Update 5,0 is dropping only today for Xbox and Switch. About the performance comparison, what you can do it use Creative mode and find a portal, then you can travel to a planet by inserting a glyph sequence. Just use the same ones on every platform and you will go to the same planet and the same position (the portal on the other side).

With the amount of games that a blithely abandoned. Leaving gamers cynical and despondent about investing their time and effort. This is a breath of fresh air.

The redemption was achieved long ago

The fact they updated the switch version as well is pretty phenomenal!

It's one of the very best VR games as well. The PSVR2 version of this game is stellar.

its so funny that no one talks about Starfield anymore and No Mans Sky is still going strong

We need a documentary highlighting the progression of this game. Truly a great redemption story!

Valuing your customers in the long term will always be good for your bottom line(wished all studios knew this). Planning to pick up thier new project and blindly purchasing all DLC when its released. Been loving this game for years. The flight system alone makes me annoyed with Starfield

The developer literally loves his own game. He is building this for himself first and share his passion with the rest of us. What is mind blowing is that they don’t even charge for these updates. I bought it 3 times: on ps4/5 and switch at full price, and recently on steam/macos for half price. Never been happier to support a developer like I am now

Still doing my occasional rounds of NMS on the PSVR 2, it's the only way to play this phenomenal game for me. Every new update i'm tempted to jump back in and see what's new, more than once taking off the headset when the birds start singing..😂

the update wasnt on xbox yesterday, it came out today

I would love to see a comparison between launch NMS and current day NMS! That would be fascinating

Finally out today on Nintendo Switch & Xbox

I just want to say that I really appreciate the effort this team has put into this game not only to deliver on original promises, but to really expand and add a lot more to the game. And without charging people who bought in so early on into the idea. it is truly a redemption story for this studio. Huge props to the dedication to the team and the love and belief in what they were doing to get us to where we are today. I felt ripped off in the beginning, but I've certainly gotten my moneys worth now. No complaints and nice job!

Alex comment wasn't on point, the update came to the Switch and the game looks awesome there, NMS 1.0 on ps4 was a great game, they built that game and all that tech in. 3 years, there's a lot of noise around nms 1.0 because the game had a lot of noise around, Sean said many times before launch that not everything was going to be at launch, but apart of the noise at launch, thousands of players did like the game and stick with it. Best procedural generation and exploration was actually in NMS 1.24 The Pathfinder update, then the procedural generation and colour palette had to be turned down because at the time it was complicated with the tech they had to bring all the new features with the taxing procedural generation. Now with 5.0 it feels that they were able to bring back that procedural generation and the good colour palette and the fact that 5.0 runs on the Switch with the new water is absolutely nuts, the thing that the Switch version does not have is water reflections and on the ps5 the game is just gorgeous on the TV, this game deserves a proper DF analysis on alm platforms in the current form. And for DF guys it's really easy for you to make comparisons, just start a creative save on all platforms and locate a portal, then you can input the same coordinates on all consoles and you can visit the exact same location on pc, switch, Xbox and playstation.

At around @6:08 when Alex says "I think it's something that we probably should cover ... In some way ... I don't know how possible it is", I jumped into a parallel universe where they were going to talk about the PSVR2 version. But of course not 😂

It's beyond impressive everything they've done since launch, but no matter how many times I tried to play it after however many updates, I just found in boring and soulless ultimately. It never felt like a proper "game" to be, as in great gameplay, but more like the procedurally generated space that it is. Shooting rocks and collecting them to build something so I can shoot more rocks and collect them to build something so I can shoot more rocks just isn't fun for me. And the other stuff wrapped around that basically core mechanic can't overcome it imo. Even playing it in VR didn't really move the needle for me--and I love VR. But, hey, what an amazing redemption story. And for all those people who do love it, it just keeps getting better and better.

4:40 I think they could've. We have to remember their offices were flooded and they lost a lot of data.

I'd have to guess that doing this update for NMS will dramatically improve both the quality and features for Light No Fire. It's like a early access release on steroids, without needing to tip your hand about what the new game is like. I'd have to bet that the cost investment in NMS will give them upsides both with new sales (to fund LNF) as well as a good launch later.

I can't wait to see what they add for Part 2

The game that keeps on giving...

while i've been really enjoying the new update overall, when playing multiplayer with some friends, we were running into many sync issues. stuff like mountains of rock appearing inside our home base for a few of us, weather conditions not synced, buried technology modules not appearing in the same spots, etc. i'm afraid this game might just be best played solo.

While Sean was definitely speaking more ambitiously than he should have before launch, they had a bunch of things happen that delayed NMS a lot. Not only did they have to deal with a bunch of dumb lawsuits, at one point the studio flooded and they lost a bunch of equipment.

We all should buy No Mans Sky just for all the effort the studio put into making their promise come true! This dedication to the players should be standard for all studios!

I truly can't believe how beautiful it looks.

it is indeedn cross play, and you ca indeed easily meet each other by sharing your NMS friend codes and meeting up (except from Switch). Up to four people, one enters the game normally and the others join their game from the game menu

This is the kind of game devs we need. Loaded it up last night on the OLED deck and it runs stable 60fps played for almost 2 hours

I pre-ordered NMS before release many years ago now. I was lucky and managed to keep my expectations in check, but was still disappointed. But I’ve received every single upgrade for free since then, and have watched it slowly but surely become something truly amazing. At this point I almost feel bad for now giving them any more money. Dev Champions!

The switch graphics are actually wonderful with water rendering and reflections. It’s an impressive achievement. And it’s not crashed after finishing the expedition with little frame drops in combat.

Yea DF here blindly knows what there talking about! Lol The original build is Far more Radical and AMBITIOUS than the game we have now still!

Great redemption for this company. The game looks amazing now.

@2:20 Alex was not happy about being interrupted for really no reason since he was about to elaborate on this.

I re-downloaded the game on PC, I haven't played it since 2019. I'm sure it's quite a different game by now. I'm looking forward to their new fantasy game, hopefully it's more feature rich and dense since it's limited to a single planet and not a galaxy.

I love how much support NMS received. Been a long time since I played it, but for me it didn't need a redemption. I massively enjoyed the original PS4 release.

If you have the disc version of No Mans Sky you can play the OG version of the game if you don't connect it to the internet to get the update. Also I think on PC you can get the OG NMS somewhere

Don't worry about finding each other! There is a multiplayer lobby on board the Space Anomaly! It's a mobile spherical shaped space station you'll be able to summon pretty early on in the game once you complete the tutorial missions. The anomaly will find you, and once you go inside you'll be able to call it to your location wherever you are. Inside the station there is a multiplayer hub where you can all meet up and go on missions together.

The biggest redemption story of all time. Saw this, purchased it for my PS5 (it’s on sale btw) although I already have it on steam for my PC. Things like this need to be encouraged.

I just started playing the game for the first time, and in VR. The game is highly polished as an VR game, with well thought out controls that are highly intuitive. Many dedicated VR games aren't this smooth to control. It's not perfect, and things like starship controls are a bit janky at times, but overall it's a must play for anyone with VR at home.

Good to see VR mentioned in the comments, would be good if DF could include VR in their coverage

The community missions always start out on the same planet afaik, so then you can benchmark the next one of those on all platforms

Best played on psvr2, astonishing

I don't think everybody is going to permanently leave No Man's Sky when Light No Fire comes out. Sure, they will temporarily head over to play the new game - but No Man's Sky is like Animal Crossing, you never really quite put it down because it's designed to be endlessly replayable. It's also a completely different game, as NMS is focused on exploring galaxies and LNF is focused on exploring a single planet. Different people will prefer different experiences. I also wouldn't be surprised if Hello Games keeps making updates. Also - there's so many ways now to get to where you want, I don't think it would be a problem to be able to get to the same place to do testing.

The fella in the middle said he tested the update on his Xbox, but I read that the Xbox update was delayed?! What the heck. Remind them to hit the options button (on PS5) and click Information to see the exact game version you’re playing.

I play NMS in the switch. The biggest update I received was rather small, just over 2g. It drastically improved game crashing. I would crash a half dozen times a night but no crash yet in about 18 hours.

Its a proof that some developers have their hart in the right spot ..you see other games not even changeing ..but thodse developers ..cudos hat off fore them ..did the right thing ..make this game into ..what it now is ...a dream a legend ..way past that other gamemakers do ...❤

please do some coverage on the update. Idk how much switch is handling this. They made a custom FSR for switch only. This thing runs natively on Mac. It's pretty impressive to see where they got after all these years. This is all the "base game" no DLC/Expansion/BattlePass/PremiumPass/Microtransactions were ever released

I'd love to see a full comparison video and Hello Games deserve some celebration for how much effort they've put into improving this game. I've bounced in and out of this game over the years and really enjoy it

i really hope that the next game will have a bigger purpose, even a villan and a journey that will have a spectacular ending

This is one of those games that really throws a wrench in the argument for owning the physical (i.e. non updated) version of a game.

I would love to have sports like surf and ski in this game. Also we should be able to have a mercenary/assistant (could be a robot or a alien). Another thing is, the game does not allow you to share the same ship with other people. I think they should do ships just like millenion falcon so you could share adventures with other players. My full respect for NMS

Please also do a review on PSVR2

I have been trying to play this in VR (on PC) and it just doesn't work, it crashes every time. So over it.

the game is great now, if you've been on the fence about buying it worry no more, its worth buying. and Yes, John, Rich and Alex, you can play in the same instance as your friends. when you connect to their game you essentially are in the same universe per se but on thier planet where they might have a base and if they have a claimed base they control whether you have the right to build there.

Been playing the switch version its actually decent minus the horrendous frame drops

It’s easy to get to the same planet in creative mode. Also using glyphs and portals. Talk to the community, Captain Steve has plenty of information that can help.

For me personally, NMS is the only example of a games-studio that cares about their customers a.k.a. players and not simply dumps their product and forget about it (like many, MANY other companies do meanwhile). Updates over updates (not only buf-fixes) over such a long period of time, free of charge. I still can't believe it. It's one of the best "investments" I've ever done in buying that game.

@DF - it is possible to play the original 1.0 version of the game by installing it from a physical copy and disconnecing the playstation or xbox so it can not update the game

HG clearly long term goals for this game. It’s one the best space exploration games out there. Small improvements are prioritized over sequels. It’s seeming like a good business model. I haven’t bought a new COD in years but I always check in on Siege and no man sky. I guess fortnight does it as well.

It’s plenty more than a visual update guys. For one thing, each type of extreme weather planet as well as storms 100% effect the gameplay such as your mission and exploration planning and preparing! There is a new expedition. Certain layouts have been revamped in recent updates, including menus, inventories, etc. You can get in Star Wars sized space battles with freighters and space stations and Dozens of starships! You can also get in the Other kind of Star Wars space battle…where it’s you against one or two bad guys in fast, heavily-armed fighters similar to yours! 🤙🏼 You can literally build your own starship now! Which I very much look forward to figuring out how to do. Not to mention…I think I’m getting close to finally reaching the Nexus, or Anomaly, or whichever that special and important meeting place is. Based on discussions and comments I’ve read, it quite seems like once you reach this Space Nexus, the game is really only just beginning!

Hello Games and Sean have been knocking it out of the park for years now. They seem possessed, in a good way.

This would be great for you lots to do a deep dive on. Especially the pc version where the setting options are extensive but have some strange outcomes with regards how they affect performance. For instance the game won't run at high frame rates without triple buffering as opposed to normal or no vsync. The frame gen doesn't work and dsr doesn't seem to work how you'd expect either. I hasten to add this is on a 4090 with a 7800 x3d. Furthermore current builds seem to understand utilise both the GPU and CPU which is strange. Would love to see your thoughts and perhaps some recommended settings! Thanks for your videos

Once you set up a Stargate and travel through it, you can always go back, as long as it has power. I always run solar and several batteries so I can always get to my old bases or other areas I want to travel to. I never tried getting on with multi-player because I'm not convincing anyone to play with me lol but all I'm saying is that it's technically possible to easily link up and warp to your friends base almost Instanly once your Stargate is properly established.

I remember I played the vanilla version it was so daunting that in a life you will not see a fraction of the planets and solar systems in the game.

They gotta address the pop in though, kinda sad how they make their trailers hide this glaring issue when it absolutely destroys visual immersion.

you could actually save a game on v1 and reload it on the new patch, someone did that on the subreddit within the last day or so.

Here’s my tip for John and anyone else who can’t get into the gameplay, coming from someone who also finds mining and crafting boring: check out the new difficulty options, you can turn off the need for materials. This made the game so much more fun for me. Now instead of spending all my time shooting minerals and plants with mining laser, I fly around and do missions and stuff. Yeah, it’s still ‘pointless’, but this game is good for killing time for an hour before bed while listening to some music.

I love when these devs focus on perfecting a game over time. 1 good game is better than an infinite number of bad games.

I feel like this is only groundbreaking for anyone who played it at launch and is only now just catching wind of how far its came since.

And it's possible in VR, not to be forgotten!

Is it only on current gen? I have it on my PS4 Pro but would grab another one for my X

I love No Man's Sky but I don't play aimlessly. I currently play every seasonal expedition and sometimes replay the main story when there's a massive update. It's fun to replay the story when you know how to make the most of the systems. The seasonal expeditions are fun, faster and different than the story mode to play No Man's Sky and earn cosmetic rewards. In an expedition you meet TONS of people from different platforms in the player hub area previously only known as "The Anomaly". You also encounter even more players as you visit the static (not procedurally generated) way points and quest locations since everyone is going to the same location.

John, also try it on PCVR with your Quest 3!

Y’all haven’t played in a while. You can easily find the same planet now. And yes it’s cross platform

I see this as a single-player game with broken multi-player. I have a much more incredible experience when I'm playing alone. When I play with my friends we almost always... let me repeat... almost always run into weird bugs that break immersion or stop us from progressing with our objectives or just screw up the fun-having aspect of the game. Unfortunately I don't think Hello Games is going to fix multi-player in No Man's Sky. I hope for a different experience in Light No FIre.

Regarding multiplayer as long as you guys add each other ID's you can then enter a persons game it will instantly place you in same system and planet.....later on you can unlock the anomaly if spelled correctly and when you exit it asks if you wish to exit to a selected friends system or your current own 8) recommend placing bases down and a teleporter when starting out together so you can teleport also to the same planet or system! VR is epic a group of us always play VR now.

Indeed, Hello Games studio certainly has expertise and talent to deliver something amazing.

Remember that this update says its PART 1. So more is on the way folks

Did they already push the update in gamepass?

I've enjoyed this game since day 1 and have been impressed with everything they added. This company does not get the credit they deserve for all this free content.

I would love to see an in-depth review on this and where it came from, i only got it since PSVR2.. GT7 is my main fix, but this is my go to when I'm in need of some chill time, I've not done a lot of it but it just feels endless and the time you can loose exploring in VR is crazy.. I've literally felt ive spent 30 mins exploring a planet and realised 2hrs plus have vanished.. please do a psvr2 part if you do an in depth, its not crystal sharp but pretty incredible for a 10 year old game 👍

Would it be better to get it on PS5 or PC? Is the PS5 version noticeably limited in terms of graphics and performance?

The game just feels like it has no actual core, it's just a hollow collect-resources thing.. I wish I felt differently since it is undeniably cool in VR but I just can't get into it

I am still waiting for a 60fps update on AC: Unity, and while Ubisoft doesn't give a damn, Hello games, here, is doing a miracle. Over and over again. These guys (Hello Games) are awesome.

Still really hope it's playable on old hardware that could run the game previously. I'm poor as dirt and can't afford a fancy new computer, everything up til now has still worked on minimum settings - I'm away from home so can't even check.

16 quadrillion planets per galaxy to be exact. But yea, when I started out on day with this game, it was waaaaaaaay different. It was nice to see them finally putting in new water physics. We have been asking that for yeeeeeears! I poured 2900 hours into it since day one, so I am grateful they pumped these updates into the game!!

This is all around incredible indeed. I hope their next game is going to be more up my valley.

Does anyone else try to get into this game but drop it after 10 hours Becasue it’s just mining crystals and not any actually interesting gameplay?

Please cover NMS in future videos, I would love to see. Can you also look at Elite Dangerous, I have long wanted to see a DF video on that game.

by the time this video came out, the switch update was already up. yep, it has clouds and the new water

I still really enjoyed it when it came out, just the exploring aspect of it all, the planets did look a bit samely at the time, but now, oh my God, it's so big now it's unbelievable what they have done to it now, well done Hello games 👏 👏 Great share mate, liked and subbed 👍

I wonder if it’s even possible for the OG version to work without updates, doesn’t it need cloud compute or access to a global database to run, I would guess the apis for those have changed over time

The thing is you aren't coming across the beautiful planets they showcase unless you actually get the location runes after seeing screenshots and that basically spoils the discovery process. Most of the planets suck.

Driveclub took a similar turn. Also, Final Fantasy 14 shouldn't be overlooked when talking about redemption stories.

And don't forget about the PSVR2 version of this game, it's one of the most amazing VR games ever made.

Why isn't anyone doing any before and after videos?

This game should be an example to be followed by other studios/publishers, for me this is a real exemple to how a proper Game as a Service should be, and not that BS games full of pay walled features and battlepasses and whatnot.

I'm one of the few who loved the game at launch, and I disagree that the game wasn't beautiful then. I found all kinds of pretty planets that I wished I could have made my home, but the game didn't allow any sort of building at the time. Now it does. Whether the game is your cup of tea or not, it's always been a massive accomplishment in procedural generation. Hello Games have literally created a universe. Pretty wild.

They're MORE than paid their debt to us and now we are indebted entirely to Hello Games. I will support them financially as much as I can.

I would love a video that compares the game currently to how it was on launch

comparisons between the 1.0 version and 5.0 version I think are possible! There is a system in the game where you can input glyphs into a big portal structure to go to a specific planet. That was also in 1.0. It would be cool to compare the same planet between 1.0 and 5.0. It would be a completely different planet with no similarities, but it would technically be the same in-game location. Unless the universe resets broke that. I'm not sure. If anyone can do it it's you guys :) oh also the original PS4 discs have 1.0 on them! It still works if you load it with no internet connection. I could send you mine :)