It’s been a month since the arrival of the major update to No Man’s Sky Outlaws, which gave intergalactic explorers a chance to live out their pirate fantasies, but Hello Games is back, this time with a brand new expedition that finally responds to fan requests. to add space whales (of a kind) to the exploratory simulator.
Expeditions, if you’re unfamiliar, are effectively No Man’s Sky’s stab at live service-style seasonal content, offering limited-time, curated experiences that condense and reorganize your different systems into a series of challenges. milestones based on progression. And today’s addition, titled Leviathan, is a very different proposition to April’s The Blighted, and it sounds considerably more ambitious, and significantly stranger, than any of the expeditions we’ve seen before.
That said, Leviathan starts in the same way as previous expeditions, leaving all players in one location. What follows, however, is something closer to a roguelike experience, stripping explorers of their progress every time they die. The narrative twist, however, is that players are actually trapped in a mysterious time loop and the whole community will have to work together to find a way to break free.
No Man’s Sky – Leviathan Trailer.
Essentially, there is a persistent global goal for which the community can work, and this will permanently improve the quality and frequency of upgrade rewards that can be applied to any randomly generated load that a player acquires each time he dies, which which in turn should help. they progress further and achieve the goals needed to escape the loop.
As for the space whale mentioned above, this is the titular Leviathan: a “large, imposing space creature surrounded by myth and mystery” that is part of the story of this latest update. It is also a reward that players can unlock by completing the expedition, taking the form of No Man’s Sky’s first live frigate, and to this are added additional unlockable items, such as the Walestalker layer, an organic mini frigate for the bases. of the players and a temporary ship. Sender. More details can be found on the Hello Games website.
While today’s update may not be as dramatic as some of No Man’s Sky’s previous additions, Hello Games says that in the background, your computer is giving the final touches to the Switch game version. previously announced (expected this summer). ), along with some “big upcoming updates”. More details on both should arrive “in due course.”