No Man’s Sky just got its latest update, called Echoes, and it’s a big boy with a chonky list of features, bug fixes and more. This is the cool thing about No Man’s Sky. Although it was released with lots of hype that it didn’t live up to, Hello Games worked tirelessly to turn that around and over the years have dropped more than a few massive updates with lots of new content. Echoes is the fourth huge update for No Man’s Sky in 2023. And although it’s not the biggest update the game has ever seen, there’s a metric ton of new stuff added.
Basically, players will be dining out on this for probably many months to come. A lot of the new additions appear to revolve around combat. For example, there’s now a trench run capability. Allowing players to “swoop directly into the superstructure” of outlaw dreadnaught ships and obliterate their cores. You can also now create and customize your own robotic avatar for gameplay using a mix and match system of different robotic parts. These can also be combined with existing armor pieces.
No Man’s Sky Echoes lets you engage in freighter vs freighter combat
Not only can you battle it out with huge, hulking freighter ships, but freighters are also now destructible. The freighter combat should introduce some nice new experiences. And, because you can destroy them you can reap the rewards. For instance, you can loot every cargo pod on the ship and then destroy it for additional scrap. A new combat HUD has been added as well that allows players to keep tabs on hull integrity of large ships. So you can methodically plan out your attacks.
Additionally, there’s a new race of long-lost robot beings you can encounter. And this ties into some of the new robotic parts you can find for use on your avatar customization. Alongside all of that, there’s a laundry list of even more updates and improvements, such as the foveated rendering for PS5 players using PS VR2. You can read about all of the changes in the official post, then get ready to go play No Man’s Sky.