No Man's Sky Relics Update Lets Players Become Space Palaeontologists

No Man’s Sky developer Hello Games has elaborate its latest update, Relics, which lets players go palaeontologists by digging up the skeletal remains of alien creatures. It’s retired present crossed PC, console, and VR for free.

When caller bones are discovered, players tin portion them unneurotic to their ain design, Hello Games explained. They tin adjacent make their ain museums, oregon stock their collections with different players.

“There is simply a genuinely immense assortment of procedural prehistoric bones, successful each shapes and sizes, to excavate and collect,” Hello Games added.

“It’s up to you however you reassemble them and there’s a batch of amusive to beryllium had gathering ever-more outrageous skeletons to enactment connected show successful your bases-turned-museums oregon stock with your chap Travellers.

“Fossils retired determination to beryllium discovered alteration hugely successful rarity, truthful you ne'er rather cognize what you’re going to unearth. There’s a existent buzz erstwhile you find thing genuinely rare. The astir uncommon finds clasp immense value. For those trying desperately to decorativeness their collection, we introduced a specializer who tin beryllium bartered with astatine the Space Station.”

Alongside the motorboat of Relics is simply a assemblage expedition focusing connected palaeontology, which challenges players to vie for the rarest finds.

“Players should beryllium wary wherever they take to excavate though,” Hello Games warned.

“Some things person been buried for a reason. Dangerous creatures defender the top treasure and whitethorn beryllium awoken from their slumber, including Stone Ghosts, and the colossal Stone Golem. New creatures person been introduced too, on with their skeletons. Including the awesome skeletal Titan Worm!”

No Man’s Sky continues to person escaped updates adjacent now, years aft launch. And it’s intelligibly keeping players interested. Hello Games said the precocious released Worlds Part II update fueled immoderate of No Man’s Sky’s highest subordinate numbers aboriginal successful the year.

In November, Hello Games hailed No Man’s Sky hitting a ‘very positive’ Steam idiosyncratic reappraisal idiosyncratic standing for the archetypal time, 8 years aft the game’s arguable motorboat was slammed by players.

No Man’s Sky launched successful August 2016 connected PS4 and PC to tens of thousands of antagonistic reviews connected Steam, with players complaining astir breached promises and a deficiency of meaningful content, peculiarly connected the multiplayer side. The crippled rapidly settled connected the dreaded ‘overwhelmingly negative’ Steam idiosyncratic reappraisal rating, a wide motion to anyone who visited its Steam leafage that thing was precise wrong.

But Guildford, England-based developer Hello Games has continued to update No Man’s Sky implicit the years, improving subordinate sentiment to the constituent wherever it is present considered superb. It took 2 years to deed ‘mixed,’ past different 3 to deed ‘mostly positive.’ At the time, 5 years aft launch, Tim Woodley, Head of Publishing astatine Hello Games, explained however hard it was to claw backmost Steam idiosyncratic reviews from specified a debased base.

As Hello Games continues to enactment connected No Man’s Sky, it’s processing its adjacent game, Light No Fire. It's astir adventure, building, endurance and exploration together, acceptable connected a phantasy satellite the size of Earth.

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