No Man’s Sky Fractal update brings PS VR2 support, new Expedition, starship – PlayStation.Blog
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To coincide with the launch of PlayStation VR2 we’re releasing No Man’s Sky’s first main replace of 2023. We’re calling it Fractal (model 4.1). From the second PlayStation advised us about their new headset we knew we’d need to assist it from day one, and Fractal brings full assist for PS VR2 with new immersive controls and subsequent era visuals.
Our small crew has at all times been extremely keen about VR. No Man’s Sky is about exploration and there’s nothing fairly like exploring the infinite universe in digital actuality. Our recreation has modified an enormous quantity since our small crew launched VR assist again in 2019, and we have been so excited to revisit and overhaul all digital actuality for all gamers. The discharge of PS VR2 was the proper time to take action.
Right here’s a short record of among the options gamers outdated and new can anticipate when slipping on a headset:
- Play the whole lot of No Man’s Sky in digital actuality with out compromise, with new ranges of immersion.
- Utilizing the ability of PlayStation 5, PS VR2 offers a really subsequent era digital actuality expertise, that includes reflections, terrain tessellation, elevated draw distance, denser foliage, ultra-quality textures and refraction.
- PlayStation VR2-specific performance consists of headset vibrations, 3D audio expertise and clever monitoring, haptic suggestions and adaptive triggers from the PS VR2 Sense controller and extra.
- Swap between VR and customary gameplay. Proceed from an present save to revisit favourite planets, bases and creatures in full digital actuality.
- The HUD and person interface has been utterly remade for digital actuality, making certain that each interplay obtainable within the recreation feels pure and constructed for goal. Together with controlling Multi-Instrument choices by way of a menu embedded on the in-world Multi-Instrument; and shopping the fast menu and stock by way of a private wrist-mounted show.
- Carry open your starship’s cockpit, then attain out and seize the controls to take flight. Flip round for a full 360° view of the starship and car cockpits, with unbelievable particulars solely seen in VR.
- Many interactions have been given particular VR-only choices, together with: grabbing vegetation and different collectables along with your fingers, bodily opening the cockpits of ships and exocraft, piloting starships immediately with a VR stick/throttle, and punching objects to trigger harm.
- With full head and hand monitoring, interactions in digital actuality make No Man’s Sky extra intuitive, tactile, and immersive than ever. Bodily unholster your Multi-Instrument out of your shoulder. Intuitively purpose and hearth at targets, or put it away to interact in fight along with your fists. Faucet a button in your headset to toggle the Evaluation Visor, then level in the direction of fauna, flora, and minerals to scan and uncover them.
Nonetheless, even for those who don’t have a PS VR2 headset the Fractal replace brings new experiences and big enhancements for all gamers!
Fractal introduces a surprising new starship, the Utopia Speeder, which permits vacationers to skim throughout planet surfaces at excessive velocity. We’re additionally launching a brand new Expedition – “Utopia” – which challenges gamers to work collectively and rebuild an deserted photo voltaic system for the mysterious Utopia Basis. Different expedition rewards embody an unique new helmet (the Fearsome Visor), a robotic drone companion and way more.
PlayStation gamers can now make the most of movement controls on the DualSense and DualShock 4 controllers, making exploring and scanning new discoveries extra snug and exact than ever.
Talking of which, the Wonders Catalog reveals off your most unbelievable discoveries, from tallest mountain to strangest creature, giving explorers an in depth document of their journey and permitting gamers to check their data with fellow vacationers.
We’ve additionally overhauled the sport’s choices techniques, introducing a raft of recent accessibility options and giving gamers much more management over the best way they play and expertise the sport.
2022 was a reasonably packed 12 months for No Man’s Sky with main free updates like Sentinel, Outlaws, Leviathan, Endurance and Waypoint, plus a bunch extra of our common expeditions. We’ve obtained a fair larger 12 months deliberate for 2023, with Fractal and PS VR2 assist marking simply the start line.
Thanks once more a lot on your continued assist. It means loads to us. Our journey continues.
