No Man’s Sky gets into the Halloween spirit with the new Forsaken update introducing a new type of trade merchant and missions to send players into the eeriest locations in the game for new rewards.
This update coincides with the iOS launch of the game. Here’s the trailer:
The deep-space outposts, introduced in the Cosmos update this year, now have forsaken traders, new merchants who task you with retrieving haunting mementos from hulk wrecks in space, infested outposts, derelict freighters, and paleontological digsites. The mementos can be traded for special modules for corvette ships, a new ship type introduced in the Voyagers update, including new cockpits and biomechanical components.
You can also pick up new space courier contracts from deep-space outposts, tasking you to deliver important packages for high pay.
The Forsaken update also brings significant quality of life features, some of which have been requested by the community:
- The new minimal HUD mode minimizes the compass, hazard protection bars and mission notifications while hiding non-essential markers.
- The holo-arena battles introduced in this year’s Xeno Arena update have been extended to deep-space outposts.
- Stars in nearby systems will now appear as targetable destinations that can be flown to directly while flying in a ship in deep space, bypassing having to navigate to them via the galaxy map.
- Off-planet bases can now be uploaded to No Man’s Sky, allowing other players to visit bases that are not their own.
- The multi-tool now has a weapon select wheel for quick switching between modules instead of cycling through with a button press.
No Man’s Sky is available on Steam and PS VR2. The Forsaken update is free to all players.
