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No Man’s Sky’s newest massive update, Beacon, adds settlements and shadow drops today alongside Switch 2 version tomorrow
No Man's Sky continues its ever-evolving journey of free updates today with Beacon, but that's just part of the good news about the space exploration game. Developer Hello Games also confirmed a free update is coming to enhance the existing game on Nintendo Switch for the Nintendo Switch 2 version, and it drops alongside the new console tomorrow, June 5. Image via Hello Games "For the last year we’ve had this secret room with some Switch 2 dev-kits from Nintendo," the dev said. "New platforms are always exciting and our small team has loved pushing the new hardware to its limits." For starters, the Switch 2 version of No Man's Sky will support cross save and cross play and add full multiplayer, high-res texture support, an increase in pixel density in both TV and handheld mode, an increase in the resolution of the UI, full support for touch screen, and gyro controls. The free update for Switch owners on Switch 2 will also include Beacon, which "completely overhauls settlements, bringing towns and their management to the game, "including huge new robotic settlements to discover, with impossibly new sci-fi buildings." "Players can become town mayor and take ownership of multiple settlements," Hello Games said. "You can construct buildings and upgrade each one, with new building types like jukebox bars where you can choose the music, merchants where you can build custom starships or even ponds you can chill and fish at. Each inhabitant can be conversed with, with their own abilities and attributes to manage. As town mayor you’ll be enlisted to welcome new settlers, resolve disputes, and make choices to create prosperity." Beacon is the latest in a long line of free, massive overhaul updates to No Man's Sky, which has undergone a laundry list of quality-of-life changes since its original launch way back in 2016 to become an impossibly large space spectacle. And now, you can play it on the newest console out there when it launches tomorrow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgYYQwHuh-Y But the Switch 2 is just one of many platforms where No Man's Sky can be played. The game, and Beacon, are also available on PC, PS4, PS5, PSVR, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PCVR, and Steam Deck. The post No Man’s Sky’s newest massive update, Beacon, adds settlements and shadow drops today alongside Switch 2 version tomorrow appeared first on Destructoid.
No Man's Sky continues its ever-evolving journey of free updates today with Beacon, but that's just part of the good news about the space exploration game.
Developer Hello Games also confirmed a free update is coming to enhance the existing game on Nintendo Switch for the Nintendo Switch 2 version, and it drops alongside the new console tomorrow, June 5.
"For the last year we’ve had this secret room with some Switch 2 dev-kits from Nintendo," the dev said. "New platforms are always exciting and our small team has loved pushing the new hardware to its limits."
For starters, the Switch 2 version of No Man's Sky will support cross save and cross play and add full multiplayer, high-res texture support, an increase in pixel density in both TV and handheld mode, an increase in the resolution of the UI, full support for touch screen, and gyro controls.
The free update for Switch owners on Switch 2 will also include Beacon, which "completely overhauls settlements, bringing towns and their management to the game, "including huge new robotic settlements to discover, with impossibly new sci-fi buildings."
"Players can become town mayor and take ownership of multiple settlements," Hello Games said. "You can construct buildings and upgrade each one, with new building types like jukebox bars where you can choose the music, merchants where you can build custom starships or even ponds you can chill and fish at. Each inhabitant can be conversed with, with their own abilities and attributes to manage. As town mayor you’ll be enlisted to welcome new settlers, resolve disputes, and make choices to create prosperity."
Beacon is the latest in a long line of free, massive overhaul updates to No Man's Sky, which has undergone a laundry list of quality-of-life changes since its original launch way back in 2016 to become an impossibly large space spectacle. And now, you can play it on the newest console out there when it launches tomorrow.
But the Switch 2 is just one of many platforms where No Man's Sky can be played. The game, and Beacon, are also available on PC, PS4, PS5, PSVR, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PCVR, and Steam Deck.
The post No Man’s Sky’s newest massive update, Beacon, adds settlements and shadow drops today alongside Switch 2 version tomorrow appeared first on Destructoid.
