This week saw the arrival of yet another major, free content drop for No Man's Sky with the Sentinel update. Taking a big ol' pass across the game's combat systems, adding new story-driven missions and AI drone companions, and a lot else besides, it marks the latest in a stream of major, game-improving updates - and it seems Hello Games isn't calling time on its space game any time soon.
"As many updates as we've done since launch and as many bucket list items we've checked off, our list of things we're excited about never seems to get any shorter," Hello Games founder and No Man's Sky creator Sean Murray tells IGN. "The team are always coming up with new things that they want to do with the game: new content and features and areas for improvement."
Murray expresses his amazement that the No Man's Sky team's energy levels are "as high now as they've ever been", and that, while the studio doesn't tend to "talk about what's on that list publicly [...] suffice to say we're not done yet by a long shot."
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The Sentinel update is now available to No Man's Sky players, and it features new foes, a total overhaul of weapon systems, new lore and stories, all-new Sentinel enemies and combat behaviors, the ability to reprogram and adopt your very own friendly AI drone, and more./
The update comes with three different types of Sentinel Drones: Heavy Combat Drones, Repair Drones, and Summoner Drones. Sentinel drone navigation has been reworked, they now deploy static combat shields, and a new high-level Sentinel has been added, the Hardframe Battle Mech.
You can also expect PC support for AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 1.0 with the update,
VR image quality has been improved for PS4 Pro, and for PC players with a compatible RTX card, support for Nvidia DLAA has been enabled. And, for PC players with a compatible RTX card, Nvidia DLSS support has been upgraded to version 2.3.0.
Seems if you want to do a little space exploration and building, No Man's Sky might be the place to be - with the Sentinel update out now. This brings with it enhancements for the Steam Deck.
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