No Man’s Sky has been seeing a significant uptick in participant numbers for the reason that title received its Voyagers replace simply final week. Good day Video games founder Sean Murray has taken to social media platform X to have a good time the sport hitting new heights when it comes to concurrent gamers, noting that the sport is getting the very best variety of gamers because it first launched.
“Highest variety of gamers since launch,” wrote Murray on X, together with a screenshot indicating that 97,986 individuals had been enjoying No Man’s Sky. Whereas the screenshot doesn’t specify which date noticed this rise in concurrent gamers, a fast take a look at SteamDB would point out that the sport had hit a peak of 98,285 concurrent gamers earlier this week.
Going by Steam’s official listings, No Man’s Sky is presently sitting on the quantity 17 spot of the most-played titles on PC, with greater than 50,000 present gamers and a 24-hour peak of 78,259 gamers. The sport additionally struck a significant return to the highest sellers listing, sitting at quantity 10 within the listing between August 26 and September 2. When taking income into consideration, No Man’s Sky presently sits within the ninth place of the highest 100 promoting video games proper now.
The spike in participant figures can possible be attributed to the Voyagers replace, which introduced with it a bunch of recent options, like permitting gamers to create their very own Corvette-class starship from scratch. The replace additionally gave gamers extra customisation choices, together with the flexibility to vary up their ship’s dwelling quarters and hull, amongst different issues.
Together with this, Voyagers introduced with it the flexibility for gamers to fly their Corvette-class starship into area, after which manually exit the starship, permitting gamers to easily float in area. This new function even extends so far as permitting gamers probably to dive from a starship orbiting a planet proper onto the planet’s floor by means of the ambiance, offered the participant has acceptable means to outlive the touchdown.
A serious addition to the sport due to the flexibility of gamers getting to construct their very own Corvette-class starships from scratch is the brand new mission board. Utilizing it, gamers can now register for a mission as a whole co-op crew, permitting them to get rewards primarily based on the missions they could discover and full within the native system.
The Voyagers replace additionally introduced in some new behind-the-scenes expertise to enhance the sport’s efficiency, together with help for Nvidia’s DLSS 4 expertise. These enjoying the title by means of PlayStation VR2 may also make use of the PlayStation Spectral Tremendous Decision expertise (PSSR) to get higher picture high quality whereas sustaining excessive body charges of their VR headset. The help for picture upscaling applied sciences additionally extends to Intel’s XeSS 2.
No Man’s Sky is offered on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Sequence X/S, Nintendo Swap, and the Swap 2. The title was initially launched all the best way again in 2016, and on the time was met with a lukewarm crucial reception. Regardless of this, and early complaints, Good day Video games has continued to develop free updates for the sport, making the No Man’s Sky of at the moment primarily unrecognisable in comparison with the sport’s state at launch.
