Desolation

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1

Optional

No

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Rendezvous

No

Stage Index

2

Target Name

Stage Control

No

Team Overrides

Milestone Index

0

Public Subtitle

Our Journey Continues · Phase 3 · Milestone 1

Reward Description

Seasonal Commentary

Desolation might be the darkest update we've made for No Man's Sky, leaning into the space horror side of sci fi. Perhaps we were feeling the effects of being locked down after all! It took a bit of iteration to get the rules for the procedural generation of these huge space hulks feeling correct. Making the spaces interesting to explore without being frustrating to navigate without a mini-map is a fun problem. All the generation happens behind the scenes, in the moment you unlock the airlock door. Just after Desolation, we added cross-play support, to let Travellers across all platforms play together, and added a custom system for adding players from other platforms as "No Man's Sky friends". Not many other games were doing this at the time and it was a huge undertaking. No Man's Sky is generated using maths, and each platform has different hardware that results in tiny differences in how their maths are calculated. For instance some maths differences between platforms meant the space stations had always been generated in slightly different positions before this update!

Seasonal Commentary Title

Desolation