Hello Games has released the Breach Update for No Man’s Sky. To celebrate this release, the team shared a new trailer for it. Moreover, it shared its full patch notes. So, let’s take a look at it.
In Breach, players will explore a dark, empty universe filled with the wrecks of destroyed corvette ships. These ships are perfect for scavenging. You can collect parts and add them to your own ship-building toolkit. By exploring these wrecks, you’ll find many different corvette pieces, including rare vertical parts that let you create brand-new ship designs and unleash your creativity.
This update also adds space wrecks for players to explore. You can step out into zero gravity to search through wrecked corvettes and use your Multi-Tool laser to break down valuable parts. Then, you can reuse the scrap to build your dream ship at the Corvette Workshop.
The Breach Update also brings some visual improvements. For example, corvette modules will now look better when viewed from far away. The update fixes a bug where big waves would suddenly appear or disappear on the water’s surface. Lighting now changes more smoothly between different environments. Plus, it improves collisions for several planetary objects, like large mushrooms.
And that’s not all. The devs have implemented a number of lighting optimizations to improve performance. The game should also be more stable now. To be more precise, the devs fixed a crash that could occur on Corvettes with a large number of attached weapons. They have also fixed an issue that could cause a hang when opening the airlock door of a derelict freighter.
Along with all the fixes, improvements, and new features in today’s update, the No Man’s Sky team has also been improving Voyagers since its launch in August. Building is now smoother with better snapping and stronger collision. Plus, the Corvette Workshop now lets you apply a color palette to your entire corvette with just one option.
Like always, Steam will download this update the next time you launch its client. Below, you can also find its complete changelog.
No Man’s Sky Breach Patch Notes
BUG FIXES AND QOL
- Fixed an issue that could cause the player to be ejected into space if on an internal stair in a corvette while the pulse drive was active.
- Fixed an issue that prevented the corvette “current flightpath” autopilot from cancelling when the ship came into proximity of a large object such as a Space Station.
- Fixed an issue that prevented exiting the corvette pilot seat in the Space Station and Space Anomaly when using the Quick Menu in VR.
- Fixed an issue that prevented stairs in corvettes from being traversable using VR teleport movement.
- Fixed an issue that caused weapons to be misaligned with the crosshair when flying a corvette in first person.
- Fixed an issue that caused the corvette teleporter to persist after the corvette had landed on a planetary surface.
- Fixed an issue that could cause water to behave erratically when teleporting from a corvette into water.
- Fixed an issue that caused newly-assembled corvettes to appear at the wrong scale if another owned Corvette was docked nearby.
- Fixed an issue that could cause corvette interior doorways to become blocked.
- Fixed an issue that prevented the corvette Torpedo Launcher module from correctly installing the Rocket Launcher weapon.
- Fixed some corvette structural modules appearing under the exterior decoration category of the build menu.
- Fixed a rare issue that could cause corvette assembly data to be replaced with planetary base data.
- Improved the placement of corvette-class ships when teleporting to a Settlement with a corvette as the primary ship.
- Improved the behaviour of floating exotic creatures, especially in response to being offered Creature Pellets.
- Fixed an issue that could prevent biological monstrosities on derelict freighters from reacting aggressively to nearby Travellers.
- Fixed an issue that could prevent some varieties of hazardous flora appearing on planets.
- Fixed a timing-specific issue that could cause the player’s wanted level to get stuck when using the pulse drive to exit planetary atmosphere.
- Fixed an issue that caused the current primary ship’s thrusters to be used for launch fuel calculations when attempting to summon other ships from the Quick Menu.
- Fixed an issue that caused refiners to reset their requested output value to the maximum when refining was started.
- Fixed an issue that prevented the Personal Refiner from automatically starting when an input substance was inserted from the Inventory screen.
- Improved the error messaging when attempting to install duplicate technology in the inventory.
- Fixed an issue that caused rain to be audible when standing inside a corvette.
- Fixed an issue that could prevent the Corvette Assembly tutorial from starting in abandoned star systems.
- Fixed an issue that could cause Exosuit upgrade stations to lose their interaction prompt after a single use, especially in Abandoned Mode.
- Fixed an issue that could cause misleading instructional text during missions requiring planets with extreme weather conditions.
- Fixed an issue that caused some markers to persist unnecessarily in excavation and flora extermination missions from the Corvette Mission Radar.
- Fixed a number of minor messaging inconsistencies in missions requiring the player to prepare ingredients in the Nutrient Processor.
ART AND VISUALS
- Fixed an issue that could cause large waves to abruptly appear and disappear on the surface of water.
- Improved lighting transitions when changing environments – notably when warping between solar systems, when entering or exiting planetary atmosphere, or when moving between interior and exterior locations.
- Fixed a number of minor visual “seams” in lighting.
- Improved the appearance of holographic previews of corvette modules during corvette assembly.
- Fixed an issue that caused the Boundary Herald starship to render incorrectly.
- Fixed an issue that prevented the jetpack from displaying on the Inventory screen when using first-person camera view.
- Fixed an issue that prevented some varieties of aquatic creature from rendering in the Discoveries page.
- Fixed a number of minor visual and collision issues with corvette modules.
- Improved the appearance of corvette modules when viewed from a distance.
- Improved the icons on a number of corvette modules.
- Improved the collision of several planetary curiosities, such as large mushrooms.
- Fixed missing collision that allowed you to walk through the back of some freighter hangars.
- Fixed a number of issues that could prevent decals from being placed on Corvette modules.
INPUT
- Enabled Steam Input on Mac.
- Fixed a Steam-only issue that could cause controller bindings to shuffle or not respond on the first boot after the game was updated.
- Fixed an issue that prevented jetpacking while the Terrain Manipulator was in Create mode.
UI
- Improved the readability of several UI elements.
- Fixed a UI overlap issue on the Corvette trade menu, which could cause the “Make Offer” button to be activated when selecting a part to trade.
- Fixed an issue that caused markers for other players in a multiplayer session to appear at their feet instead of above their head.
- Fixed an issue that prevented the display of additional recipes in the Catalogue.
- Fixed a rare issue that could cause an incorrect UI to appear when absorbing a Memory Fragment to expand inventory slots.
STABILITY AND PERFORMANCE
- Fixed a crash that could occur on Corvettes with a large number of attached weapons.
- Fixed an issue that could cause a hang when opening the airlock door of a derelict freighter.
- Fixed an issue that could cause a hang when jumping through the centre of a galaxy in a freighter.
- Fixed an issue that could cause a softlock if opening the corvette parts menu while a dialog box was open.
- Implemented a number of engine optimisations to improve performance, especially when rendering complex objects such as corvettes.
- Implemented a number of lighting optimisations to improve performance.
- Implemented a number of optimisations and performance improvements on Nintendo Switch.
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every new update trailer looks the same. Nothing they saw excites me to play it.
the game is too open ended, anything you do is meaningless.
Yep, a game without an objective isn't a game. By that definition Minecraft and other sandboxes also aren't games.
worse the stuff they add dont actually feel like new content. Just more of it.
I'm still waiting for them to fix the performance in VR.
What system do you practically need to enjoy max fps on full graphics with VR?
Depends on your VR device. I have a Vive Pro 2, which has a native resolution of 2800×2400. Rendering at that resolution for VR can be difficult for a lot of GPU's. My RTX 3070 Ti can play most games at that resolution, but the 8GB of VRAM isn't enough for some to be smooth, and the performance isn't enough for some games. Might need a RTX 4070 or RTX 5070 at the minimum.
You also need a decent CPU. AMD Ryzen 5000 series (Zen 3) or better with at least 8 cores. On the Intel side anything from 10th gen and up should be fine as long as it's at least 8 cores (newer is obviously better). 32GB of RAM is a good minimum as well, and note that for Fallout 4 VR RAM speed is important too (make sure your CPU supports your RAM's rated speed and then enable XMP/DOCP/EXPO in the BIOS).
Edit: I should probably say that my performance in No Man's Sky VR is something like 30-40 FPS on planets, and that's with everything set on "Low". You might need a RTX 4080 or RTX 5080 and a Ryzen 7800X3D or Ryzen 9800X3D to play the game smoothly on a Vive Pro 2, and that's without maxing out the graphics.
As much as I respect them for turning this game into something the fans love and stuck with it even thru the hate,
to be fair the game still feels empty there is no point in doing anything, it's just mindless task, you have to make up your own story
instead of making so many updates they could of worked on a dedicated story mode, or something that could be a driving force for players to do the things in the game
this game is just a massive beautiful well made Time Waster.
"it's just mindless" is why I enjoyed it at release. Very relaxing.
I get you, but it does have a vague main quest line and the Atlas one, and maybe some other, idk, haven't played it since close to launch… Still to me it looks bland and aimless as ever, and I can't play games anymore that make you mine resources and have forced base building.
NMS is the most primitive form of an AI generated game and it doesn't give me any hope on the future of videogames when i see how people are overlooking its soulless nature, it looks bland, has generic content, grindy progression, uninspired visual design, no sense of level design because everything is generated and is average on every gameplay aspect from its awful UI up to its boring combat and flat traversal.
IMO this game has always been what it was, updates made it more stable, added more stuff, made it looks better, but its core issues are still here.
The food was bad, the waiter changed the plate and people suddenly started cheering…