No Man’s Sky received patch 4.1 (Fractal), which added support for PS VR2 headsets. But not only, since the update reached all platforms and added a new expedition, called Utopia.
Today Hello Games released Patch 4.1 for No Man’s Sky. The update is called Fractal and focuses on implementing support for PS VR2 glasses. As part of this, the PS5 version of the game received, among other things, the following features (you can find the full list here):
- improved reflections, surface tessellation, increased draw distance and higher resolution textures;
- headset vibration, 3D sound, haptic controller vibration and adaptive triggers;
- a modified user interface and control layout, through which all interactions must become natural (for example, using the screen on the protagonist’s wrist will require proper hand movement);
- Similar tweaks to, among other things, how to open ship cockpits and fly them, as well as picking up/pushing objects, aiming weapons, and scanning the environment.
All of the changes should take PS5 immersion to an even higher level. Some of them are shown in the trailer below.
what is important, the fractal the update has reached all the platforms you can play on nobody’s skyi.e. PC, PS4, PS5, XOne, XSX/S and Switch. Along with a number of minor changes, he brought in a previously unavailable ship (Utopia Speeder) and launches a new expedition. It is called Utopia and focuses on rebuilding an abandoned planetary system called the Utopia Foundation. Players will have to play it in cooperative mode.
Additionally, patch 4.1 enabled gyroscopic control on Steam Deck, Switch, and PlayStation (on PS4 as part of PS VR). Hello Games ensures that it will not stop there. The developer intends to make 2023 even more interesting for nobody’s sky players than 2022which brought several important updates.
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