No Man’s Sky Now Helps Cross-Save Throughout A number of Platforms

Howdy,

This yr has already been a really busy one for No Man’s Sky, with six updates already this yr, together with the massive Worlds Replace. Our final one, The Cursed, dropped simply a few weeks in the past, and gamers have been loving the spooky Halloween vibe. 

In recreation growth some options take weeks or months, and others take years. At this time we’re releasing some options which were years within the making.

Cross-Save Help on All Platforms

Ranging from at the moment we’re rolling out Cross-Save help on all platforms together with PC, Xbox One, Xbox Sequence X|S, Nintendo Swap, Steam Deck, and extra. This has been an enormous enterprise and is one among most requested options.

With the ability to soar seamlessly between platforms is transformative. Gamers can play from the consolation of their couch on console, proceed an Expedition on the transfer with Swap or Steam Deck, construct an unbelievable base on their beefy PC rig, and examine it in extremely immersive Digital Actuality. 

Including the power to switch saves between platforms by way of a server is very troublesome for No Man’s Sky, because the work concerned will increase with every platform supported and the way lengthy of us have already been taking part in for. Each these numbers are massive for our tiny group. 

It’s quite common for gamers to rack up 1000’s of hours of saves exploring throughout house, constructing elaborate bases and cataloguing their discoveries, with extremely detailed saves. Including Cross-Save for us is just a little bit like shifting home, the longer individuals have lived there the extra sophisticated it’s to maneuver them! We even have gamers who performed as soon as at launch, eight years in the past, immediately loading up that save on a platform that didn’t even exist again then!

For these causes we now have secretly been introducing the expertise for this replace for over six months. We are actually prepared to start out rolling Cross-Save out to a small variety of gamers. From at the moment, all No Man’s Sky gamers can hyperlink their totally different accounts collectively at No Man’s Sky: Cross-Save web site. A subset of gamers might be enabled to then choose their saves from a number of units on the in-game save display screen. Within the coming weeks all gamers might be invited to take action.

The Normandy Returns

Everybody right here at Howdy Video games is a large sci-fi nerd. One in every of our absolute favourite collection is the unbelievable Mass Impact video games. To hitch in Mass Impact’s annual N7 celebrations, we’re happy to welcome the legendary SSV Normandy SR1 again into No Man’s Sky! 

It was in 2021 that the Normandy made its first look in one of many first expeditions we ever ran. The limited-time expedition culminated in gamers with the ability to declare the Normandy for his or her fleet.

Within the intervening years since that occasion, we now have welcomed an enormous variety of Travellers, not least an entire new cohort of Swap gamers and an more and more massive variety of Chinese language followers. Many of those new gamers have envied those that proudly displayed their Normandy of their frigate assortment.

Mass Impact followers know that this legendary freighter solely seems when it’s most wanted! At this time, and for the subsequent two weeks, as a love-letter from one science fiction recreation to a different, we’re giving everybody one other probability to come across the Normandy in an overhauled model of the unique mission and add it to their assortment.

Big due to our mates at EA and Bioware for serving to make this occur.

It has been a momentous yr for No Man’s Sky in a number of methods. We’re so grateful to have the ability to proceed this journey with you.