No Man's Sky Players Who Colonized A Galaxy Now Have To Find A New Home. No Man’s Sky’s vast universe was part of its initial appeal. You would go from planet to planet, completely alone, discovering and naming things along the way. For some players, that was too desolate, so they banded together to make the Galactic Hub, a portion of No Man’s Sky that acted as a home base. After the most recent update, those established trade routes, farms and bases became unrecognizable. So, the community leaders of the Galactic Hub had to find a new home for their adventures. The Hub That Was.

According to player 7. Galactic Hub, it was supposed to be a place where No Man’s Sky players could settle into an organized community. The goals of the project were to create a place in the enormity of No Man’s Sky where players would have familiar landmarks, so they could get started with a bit more of a guide.

Scott, also known by his handle Uni. Destiny, said over the phone that the first thing every player would see when they got to the hub was the Lennon star system, which is the designated entry point into the Hub for all players.

Everybody posts a pic of getting there, and going down on the planet,” he said. For some of us, it took a long time to get there.”“Near” and “far” are relative terms in a game like No Man’s Sky. Some players might spawn very close to Lennon, while other spawn very far from it. No matter the distance, however, joining the hub was an active choice, and required some legwork to get there. Warping into Lennon and then visiting the capital planet, Drogradur, was a right of passage for players who grinded their way to the hub. When you made it there, what you’d find was an organized, helpful community to welcome you.

Against all odds, the Hub managed to cultivate over 5,0. If you decided to jump into Lennon and join the hub, you would know that you were joining a real, working civilization that could net you not just good tools and lots of credits, but people who would show you the ropes and maybe even become your friends. Then 1. 3 came, and things changed.

As No Man’s Sky has developed, it’s struggled to balance the appeal of its mystery with the utility that makes it playable. With today’s update, Atlas Rising.

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What They Lost. The 1. Atlas Rising, was mainly a story overhaul. It gave players a lot of things they wanted—better steering on ships, working portals, and overhauled graphics. The members of the Hub were faced with utterly different planets and systems post- update. Andy. Krycek. 6, a moderator at the Galactic Hub subreddit, said that the farms he used to visit are now inaccessible. Every day, he used to be able to visit four farms made by other players and harvest their Nip Nip, which is basically just “a smelly plant,” he says.

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Each trading post, found in Space Stations or randomly generated spots on planet, has a different economy where resources are worth different amounts of in- game units. For a long time, selling Nip Nip to NPCs was very profitable. Travelling to these systems on a daily basis provided me with the wealth I have today in NMS,” he said. They no longer exist as either the [player] has moved on or the update ruined their bases.” The reliable landmarks of the Hub have now also changed, as well as the flora and fauna. Our capital planet, Drogradur … turned into a frozen wasteland after a long time as a tropical beauty,” 7. Galactic hub, or the Lead Exozoologist, also said, “We think the mighty Caesarus, largest fauna species ever discovered in No Man’s Sky, has gone extinct.” Planets that were were scanned prior to the update will still list those plants and animals as living there if you check the in- game discovered species, but 7. Caesarus since the update hit.

Post update, the Hub was just unrecognizable. My base sat within shouting distance of two trading posts, a portal, different kinds of cool rock formations.

I thought it was a great place and I was excited to continue into 1. Scott said. “The reset turned it into a barren planet with completely different geography.

That was the most disappointing thing, just seeing that this place I had gotten to know very well was just gone.” But rather than dwell on the things they’d lost, Scott, 7. The Galactic Council. In response to those changes, 7. Galactic Council. Scott, also known as Uni. Destiny, told Kotaku over the phone that, “It’s just a fancy name for a group of people that have been in the hub for a while and know the direction it’s going, and where it’s been.” Finding a new region wasn’t the hard part for them.

We mostly looked for a nearby region which resembled our home region the … Rentocnii Conflux,” 7. Andy. Krycek. 6 called what they were looking for a “Tree” shaped galaxy.

The old Hubs’ stars formed what looked like a huge tree like structure, which made it very distinct in the galaxy,” he said. If you start from the bottom of the ‘trunk’ and work your way up it narrowed and bloomed into a cloud of stars, like the leaves/branches of a tree .. As so many [players] were used to this structure we decided to find a similar, if not exact, set up.” Here’s the Rentocnii Conflux, with the tree shape loosely outlined: Very quickly, council members got attached to a region called the Shungka Void.

From there, a few members of the council scouted out systems and planets and sent pictures back to the rest of the council, who were all head down in the logistical work of preparing new systems and databases for a community of several thousand people. Watch Sniper: Ghost Shooter Online Metacritic. In speaking to the members of the Galactic Council, you might feel like you’re talking to a futuristic space government. Logistically, the move took a lot of work, especially in terms of creating a new wiki for the Hub from the ground up.

The Wiki was a valuable resource for players, obsessively catalogued with every discovery. In order to move, they’d have to update this resource for the Shungka Void. The people who came together to do that included Scott, a No Man’s Sky cartographer who made maps of the stars to help players navigate space; Seamonkey.

Wiki pages, as the Wiki would have to be entirely rebuilt; pahefu, who has made an app to convert glyphs into planet coordinates; and of course Hub founder 7. There are 1. 9 people in the Council, and they spent a week together reworking old systems and preparing the community for the move. It was a fast moving, passionate Discord group. It would take about 5 mins to catch up if you went away for an hour,” Seamonkey. Scott told me that between the council and his full time job, he wasn’t sleeping much. Because No Man’s Sky is a game that’s still in flux, the council tried to create systems that would grow as the game continued to be updated.

It wasn’t conflict free—there were disagreements over how new planets should be named—but the council was able to complete the move six days faster than expected by working together, according to 7. Graduation. Over this past weekend, the Galactic Hub had a party to say goodbye to the old Hub, which they now refer to as the Legacy Hub. Players would journey to the former capital planet of Dragradur, leave messages for other players, and use the portal there to jump to the new system. They encouraged streamers and You. Tubers to come to the event, and in these videos you can see that the area is flooded with messages from other players: Scott described this as bittersweet. We really enjoyed the stuff that we’d done in the old hub, but we’re excited to start things in the new place,” he said. A lot of this was sort of experimental, to get an idea for what we were doing and now we can do it really right the second time.” The conversation felt a little like talking about graduating from college.

The best part of the last update was the photo mode… I’ve got this huge album of everything I’ve explored and everything I’ve done,” he said. The way we cope with it is approaching it from that point of view. Yeah we did that, but it’s gone now. Now we get to do it again, in this new place.

More than sadness or nostalgia, these council members are very excited to see their new systems in action, find new flora and fauna, and make new bases.

No Man’s Sky’s Story Overhaul Gives The Game Focus. As No Man’s Sky has developed, it’s struggled to balance the appeal of its mystery with the utility that makes it playable. With today’s update, Atlas Rising, it feels like the game has finally struck that balance. The 1. 3 update for No Man’s Sky comes with a lot of changes, small and large.

Most exciting among them are a new mission board with randomly generated missions, changes to dog fighting, and—finally—”joint exploration.” It’s not quite multiplayer—you’re only able to interact with up to 1. But what I’ve found most interesting so far is the way the game has refined its story and how it shows what’s possible in No Man’s Sky to players. When I played No Man’s Sky at launch, it was easy to get lost and confused. This was a part of the game’s appeal, in a way: to be able to get so deeply lost in a vast universe.

I’d go from planet to planet, just looking for the best sunsets or strangest creatures. Now the game has actual opening missions, as well as ones that span more than one planet and galaxy. I was a little afraid that a more structured game would take away from the joy of exploration, but instead it’s made the game easier to parse. Instead of making goals for myself 1.

I now I have a neat thing to check out in each new galaxy. Many of these introduced me to new gameplay elements. On one planet, I learned how to make antimatter. On the next, I found my first outpost. This guiding hand is sparse enough that I don’t feel pigeonholed towards one way of playing the game but direct enough that I now have a much clearer sense of what to do if I get bored of sunsets. For the even more mysterious additions, like portals, there’s now a in- game guide that will tell you what to do with them when you find them.

On a sillier note, the terraforming add- on for the multi tool is very amusing. No Man’s Sky has been adding more ways for players to make permanent marks on the world via updates like base sharing and leaving messages for each other, but now you can make a literal mark. If you have the terraforming add- on, you can shoot at the ground using your multi tool and add or destroy terrain. You can use a couple of different textures and adjust the size as well. I’m sure this will have some use for base building, but I just liked getting to indulge in the sci- fi fun of making a huge tower of rock sprout from the ground.

I didn’t have a chance to try out joint exploration or dogfighting, but the maneuverability of the ships has changed a lot. You have way finer control over how ships move, especially on planets, to the degree that I felt like I had to relearn how to fly a ship. I was constantly over turning and flying into rocks, but overall it’s a welcome change. At launch, I’d often ditch my ship in favor of walking; now, using my ship to go to far away landmarks is much more feasible. When No Man’s Sky first released, I wasn’t really sure what it was, or what it was trying to be, but I found a way to have fun with it. Now I have a better sense of the game’s goals: it’s a survival game with base building and a heavy emphasis on exploration. It’s not revolutionary, but now it’s focused enough that it does all those things very well.

This doesn’t mean it’s lost its sense of wonder—there are still views that take my breath away. No Man’s Sky is just easier to play now, and I’m very excited to get lost in it again.