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No Man’s Sky Foundation Update released

by on November 27, 2016
 

After mostly being silent for a while, Hello Games breaks the silence with details of a huge update to No Man’s Sky.

The Foundation Update is now live on PlayStation 4 and is roughly 2.7GB. The update adds new game modes, base building, and more. This is the first of many free updates for it as the release notes claim.

Platform specific changes are as follows:

PS4
Added photo mode
Large optimisations to the engine to accommodate base building
PC
Added support for up to 8 mouse buttons
Fixed better order position history for mouse smoothing
Fixed bug where setting gamma to zero gave a fully bright rather than fully dark image
Fixed hard-limiting on save sizes, with appropriate warning about free space on boot
Player is now notified when shaders are being loaded
Fixed occasional crash on exit
Fixed performance of trail renderer for some AMD cards
Large optimisations to the engine to accommodate base building

Watch a video detailing the patch below:

More details about the patch are available here.

No Man’s Sky is available on PlayStation 4 and PC.