■ The Cursed
At present, we’re asserting expedition sixteen: The Cursed—the place gamers will combat to maintain a grip on actuality whereas haunted by visions and voices from one other dimension.
The Cursed takes place in a form of twilight realm, straddling the boundary between one actuality and the following.
Travellers won’t have entry to hyperdrive know-how, that means no warping between star techniques. As an alternative, interstellar journey can solely happen by way of the traditional portal community.
Haunting voices, leaking by means of from one other dimension, will present steering, data, unusual blueprints… and thriller. It’s as much as you to determine who these voices belong to, the place they’re coming from, and if they’re to be trusted.
In common No Man’s Sky play, Travellers should metal themselves towards a wide range of environmental hazards resembling excessive temperatures, radioactivity, and poisonous atmospheres. The Cursed, nevertheless, pits you towards a single, extra insidious risk: the weakening of the boundaries of actuality. Your exosuit comes fitted with a specialised Anomaly Suppressor; keep it to remain firmly on this actuality.
Spectral anomalies—ghostly creatures drifting throughout the boundaries—will collect to observe Travellers shifting by means of their area. More often than not, they’re merely there to look at, however be warned: as your swimsuit’s Anomaly Suppressor weakens, time will start to behave in non-linear methods, and these anomalies might flip hostile.
Travellers might want to put together a lot of otherworldly concoctions to navigate by means of The Cursed. Maintain boundary power with the Elixir of Glass, reveal the placement of portals with the Elixir of Quicksilver, and prise open the gateways with the Elixir of Blood. For those who attain the top of the journey, its last trial would require a drink from the Elixir of Water—and the results thereafter.
The Cursed expedition begins at present, and can run for about two weeks. Journey past the boundaries, and fortify your thoughts towards spectral anomalies—or succumb to the decision of the world of glass.
■ The Cursed Expedition Rewards
Boundary Anomaly, Portal Breach and Glyph Posters
Bear in mind your journey throughout the boundaries with these ornamental posters: warnings to all those that would enterprise into the tunnels of the portal community.
Anomaly Seal Base Half
Throughout The Cursed, the spectral power radiating from this historical artifact protects close by entities towards catastrophic actuality breaches.
In a extra steady universe, the Anomaly Seal serves as an ornamental memento from past the boundaries.
Ink-Stained Jetpack Path
An unique jetpack customisation. A localised anomaly throughout the jetpack’s core permits the spectral afterglow of the boundary horrors to leak throughout into this actuality.
Boundary Horror Mandibles
An unique Exosuit Look Override. Rework your facade into that of a Boundary Horror, a fraction of what dwells past the tunnels of the portal community…
Bioluminescent Companion
The egg of a gelatinous and luminescent lifeform. This uncommon companion creature is lit by a haunting pale glow.
Boundary Herald Starship
Retrieve this unique starship from the truth collapse, and slice by means of the skies in UFO-like model.
Group Analysis
The Quicksilver Synthesis Companion’s newest analysis endeavour is a set of Blue, Purple and Teal fireworks, which burst right into a cluster of bursts right into a cluster of wildly spiralling ribbons upon launch. Each mission accomplished on the Nexus contributes in direction of the analysis progress for these unique gadgets.
■ Growth Replace
The Cursed expedition is our sixth named replace for 2024, following Omega, Orbital, Adrift, Worlds Half I, and Aquarius. It has been a busy 12 months to this point! It’s unbelievable to suppose that only some weeks in the past, fishing didn’t exist in No Man’s Sky.
We’re persevering with to construct our universe, and have a lot extra in retailer.
■ 5.20 Patch Notes
- Expedition Sixteen, The Cursed, will start shortly and run for about two weeks.
- Throughout the expedition, the boundary partitions between universes have begun to crumble. All typical hazards have been changed by Native Boundary Energy, which should be maintained to keep away from the intrusion of the boundary horrors…
- Rewards embody new posters, decals and titles; a brand new jetpack path; a bioluminescent companion; a cursed helmet customisation; and the unique Boundary Herald starship.
- Launched a lot of particle rendering optimisations.
- Mounted a lot of graphical corruption points on Xbox.
- Mounted a problem with depth of discipline rendering on Swap.
- Mounted a lot of minor graphical points on PS5.
- Launched a shadow rendering optimisation on PS5.
- Mounted a uncommon problem that prevented some massive saves from loading accurately.
- Mounted a uncommon grasp associated to climate results in multiplayer.
- Mounted a crash associated to loading frigates.
- Mounted a lot of efficiency points on Swap associated to make use of of the Evaluation Visor.
- The message model for Communication Station messages has been improved.
- Mounted a problem that prompted Sac Venom to not accurately show rising data within the Evaluation Visor.Mounted a problem that prompted butterfly
- wing audio to be too loud.
- Mounted a problem that prompted the HoverDroid companion to fail to maneuver.
- Mounted a problem that made it troublesome to reap hypnotic eyes from the abyssal horrors.
- Elevated the quantity of bait given when crafting specialist bait gadgets.
- Mounted a problem that prompted the backpack to be rendered with an incorrect offset within the stock if the participant has a cape geared up.
- Mounted a problem which might trigger the participant’s ft to look reversed.
- Mounted a problem that prompted particular face shapes to revert to the default when exiting the Look Modifier.
- Mounted a problem that might trigger some generated pinning missions to skip some crafting steps.
- Mounted a lot of glitches with the navigation of hostile AI starships.
- Mounted a problem that prompted the hearth flames to be purple.
- Mounted a textual content problem that affected the Angler’s Diary entries after the Aquarius Expedition ended.
- Mounted a minor textual content problem within the Earlier Expeditions web page.
- Mounted a minor UI problem that prompted broken gear warnings to flash at inappropriate instances.
- Mounted a lot of minor animation glitches.
- Mounted a problem that prompted incorrect textual content to look on varied fleet administration pages when viewing the Normandy frigate.
- Mounted a problem that might permit system authorities to carry out cargo scans whereas paused/within the UI.
- Mounted a VFX problem when destroying some small vegetation.
Watch a brand new trailer beneath.