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Hello,

For the last week the No Man's Sky community have worked together on the new Beachhead expedition, solving the puzzle of its hidden and encrypted goals. Today is a lovely moment, as explorers are discovering that at the end of this mystery is the appearance of the legendary SSV Normandy SR1 from Mass Effect!

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There has been crazy speculation as to where this mysterious voyage would lead. Huge thank you to the dedicated travellers involved: those who figured out the purpose of the "Historiographical Dosimeter" and how to use it; those who cracked the code and translated the messages hidden in a secret alphabet; those who pieced together the story of the coming of the Normandy out of flux fragments at monoliths all across the universe; and to everyone involved in the colossal research effort to unlock the Myth Beacon and summon the 'weapon' into existence!

This is a lovely little Easter Egg moment, and something hopefully no one was expecting.

We are thrilled and flattered that BioWare and EA let us pay tribute in this way. As huge fans of the series, it's a lovely moment for sci-fi fans. Like everyone else we've been rediscovering the amazing universe of Mass Effect through the release of the Legendary Edition. I still have chills every time I see this incredibly iconic ship warping in, and was delighted to see so many people have the same reaction.

All players now have until the 31st May to undertake this expedition for themselves if they wish to ultimately add the SSV Normandy SR1 to their frigate fleet for good.

As this is our fifth anniversary year, we have some other surprises up our sleeves, with more information coming very soon.

Our Journey Continues,

Sean

Patch 3.41

Added the ability to dismiss a frigate from your freighter fleet via the Fleet Management terminal.
Fixed an issue that prevented Expedition rewards from being redeemed by players who had already earned parts of the reward from the Quicksilver shop.
Players starting the Beachhead expedition will now begin with warp fuel available.
Fixed an issue that could prevent Nada, Polo and other Space Anomaly inhabitants from offering the correct dialog options if spoken to in abandoned systems.
Fixed an issue that caused the Atlas Fireworks to have no audio.
Fixed an issue that prevented the fleets tutorial from advancing if players skipped the initial conversations with the navigator and immediately built a Fleet Terminal.
Fixed an issue that prevented the Historiographical Dosimeter from being redeemed from the expedition rewards section of the Quicksilver shop.

Mass Effect's Normandy SR1 is in No Man's Sky now

No Man's Sky's most recent expedition sounds like a toughy, but stick with it, because it's hiding an excellent Easter egg at the end. Hello Games have revealed that players who complete the Beachhead expedition before May 31st will be met with Mass Effect's Normandy SR1 arriving in style right over their heads. You get to keep it too - Shepard's ship will be a permanent part of your No Man's Sky frigate fleet.

Man, I always thought No Man's Sky wasn't for me, then they add something super cool like this.

If you're a No Man's Sky fan, you'll probably have been getting stuck into the latest expedition, Beachhead, which has been taking players on quite the trip across the space game's galaxy. But, not is all as it seems, as it turns out there's one heck of an Easter egg at its conclusion, which Mass Effect fans will be sure to spot a mile off. Naturally, there are spoilers ahead, folks!

The latest No Man's Sky expedition - a kind of shared, seasonal experience introduced to the game in March - has got players trying to wrap their heads around what a mysterious device called a 'Historiographical Dosimeter' was, and how it works. Today, the mystery comes to an end, as players will discover that lying in wait at the end of the voyage is the legendary SSV Normandy SR-1 from Mass Effect. There's a clip below to show you this in action, if you're keen for a peep.

As fans of BioWare's action-RPG games series will know, the Normandy is the enormous, multi-deck, literal flagship of the series, and it's pretty darn distinctive - though it looks pleasingly at home in Hello Games' space survival game, too.

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Nvidia's DLSS tech is now available in VR, including No Man's Sky

VR fans with Nvidia RTX graphics cards can now enjoy the benefits of Nvidia's performance-boosting DLSS tech in some of today's best VR games, thanks to a swathe of new features included in today's GeForce Game Ready driver update. No Man's Sky, mechanic simulator Wrench and survival shooter Into The Radius are the first three VR games to support DLSS, with Nvidia claiming you'll be able to get double the performance in No Man's Sky on Ultra settings to help you maintain a smooth 90fps on an Oculus Quest 2 with an RTX 3080.

Last month, space exploration craft 'em up No Man's Sky launched its new "expeditions" game mode. Expeditions are limited time adventures though, so the first one has come to a close and the second one, called Beachhead, has launched today. I've definitely not landed on a beach though. This second expedition has stranded me, and everyone else, a long and frozen walk away from our ships. This should get interesting.