'No Man's Sky' news: Preview to happen on October 3
"No Man's Sky" is an upcoming adventure survival video game developed and published by British studio Hello Games. Players are free to explore the entirety of a procedurally generated deterministic open universe, which includes over 18 quintillion (1018) planets each with their own set of flora and fauna.
By exploring, players will gain information about the planets that they can submit to The Atlas, a universal database that can be shared with other players of the game. Players also gain materials and blueprints to upgrade their character's equipment and purchase a variety of starships, allowing them to travel deeper into the center of the galaxy, or trade with other ships. Some activities will draw the attention of Sentinels that will attempt to kill the player-character for killing too many lifeforms or draining too many resources from these planets. Players participate in a shared universe, with the ability to exchange planet coordinates with friends, though the game will also be fully playable offline; this is enabled by the procedural generation system that assures players will find the same planet with the same features, lifeforms, and other aspects once given the planet coordinates, requiring no further data to be stored or retrieved from game servers.
The game has some very interesting facts. The universe isn't actually infinite and the universe isn't random. The universe isn't stored in your hard disk or in a server and the game is not an MMO. There are bots exploring the universe right now. There isn't a story to follow and the gamer will make some true discoveries. The Atlas is everything everyone has ever discovered and gamers will find ancient artifacts in crashed ships while a jetpack will be an explorer's best friend. Planets are defined by their position in space and most of them are barren. The planets can be toxic and every distant mountain is a real place. The planets also have days and nights. For gamers, the ship upgrade is worth it and a gamer can only have one ship at a time.
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The gamer has to shop for a ship that needs fuel, and a gamer will not be left without any sort of ship. The gamer can get a wanted level and the Sentinels aren't everywhere. The gamer can also side with factions and the multi-tool is an adaptable weapon. For a gamer, death is not the end.
The game has some high expectations from avid gamers and so far it has been extremely promising. On Oct. 3, the creators of the game will share more information about it as they show an exclusive preview.
There is no release date yet for the game.
