The subject of this article is from the Atlas Rises update.
The information from this article is up-to-date as of 23 July, 2018. |
The subject of this article is from the Atlas Rises update.
The information from this article is up-to-date as of 23 July, 2018.
The information from this article is up-to-date as of 23 July, 2018.
Update 1.30 | |
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Update date | 11 August 2017 |
Platform(s) | PS4/PC |
Release | Atlas Rises |
Update chronology | |
Previous update | Next update |
1.24 | 1.31 |
External links | |
Update 1.30 on nomanssky.com |
Update 1.3 is the 15th update to No Man's Sky.
Summary[ | ]
Update 1.3 is the 15th update to No Man's Sky released on 11 August 2017 to Playstation 4 and PC.
It is better known as Atlas Rises, and introduces basic multiplayer, working portals, a main story, expansion of the lore, and much more.
The previous update is 1.24.
Generation[ | ]
- Increased variety in weather, planet and structure names
- More base building parts have unique names
- Prevented trees spawning on sheer cliffs
- Improved object placement on slopes
- Improved grass placement and density
- Changed the default starting ship model
- Regenerated galaxy to remove differences between survival, normal and creative game modes
- Improved building distribution
- Increased distribution of heridium deposits
- Improved generation of beaches along shorelines
- Repositioned player bases to accommodate generation changes
Exploration[ | ]
- Improved balance of hazards between planets
- Improved settings for hazard damage and strength
- Reduce cave hazard recharge times
- Added Shielding Shard to the starting player inventory
- Limited the depth at which buildings can spawn underwater
Gameplay[ | ]
- More tech available in tech shops
- Balanced tech shop standing requirements
- Standing lights have a proper name when you interact with them
- Increased robustness of systems for locating buildings
- Increased number and types of objects which can be scanned
- Increased information available about scanned foliage and creatures
- Improved planet resource lists
- Craftable products now sorted by most recent use
- Improved differentiation of weapons
- Fixed pinning product recipes and technology guides
- Continued story unlocked through abandoned buildings
- Added interactions and dialogue options for many structures and characters
- Overhauled secondary character interactions
Trade and Farming[ | ]
- Alloys, farm products and new gas products now form separate branches of a larger craft tree
- Added new valuable higher tier craft products
- Added new harvester to harvest atmospheric gases
- Added new trade specific products
- Added new farmable Star Bramble plant
- Added larger 4 plant Hydroponic tray
- Increased contrast between picked and unpicked resource plants to more easily tell them apart
- Balanced priced of alloys, farm products and gases
- Improved distributions of resources on planets
- Improved scan ranges for resources on planets
- Added scan markers on more smaller plutonium crystals to aid resource gathering
Freighters[ | ]
- Balanced freighter prices
- Fixed collision on freighter bridge
- Added freighter classes
- Added ability to warp in your freighter
- Fixed floating turrets on capital freighters
Space[ | ]
- Improved space heavy air
- Added requirement to scan planets in order to reveal their names
- Improved planet name display as you enter orbit
- Fix for massive carve radius when mining asteroids
Galactic Map[ | ]
- Updated galactic map UI
- Improved galactic map controls
- Improved star names gathered in galaxy map flythrough
- Improved distribution of different coloured stars
- Added interstellar scan events
Starships[ | ]
- Added ability to summon your ship from the quick menu
- Refined ship reticules
- Added new holographic cockpit HUD elements: mini map, pulse drive warning and target ship
- Added new ship technology
- Balanced space combat
- Balanced ship weapons and technology
- Updated ship weapon projectile effects
- Updated ship hit direction markers
- Improved flare graphics on ships
- Improved loot containers dropped by AI ships
- Improved effects on damaged AI ships
- Balanced crashed ships broken slots and repair costs
- Added a more convenient swap inventory button for moving items between new/crashed ships and storage units
- Updated design of Atlas pass icons
- Added ability to look around the cockpit when landed
- Allowed player to remain in ship cockpit after landing
- Improved spawning and distribution of AI ships
- Improved ship altimeter
- Added in-ship communicator
- Added button prompt for ship zoom
- Fixed a bug where your ship could become invisible by visiting the galactic map
- Improved Pirate systems including the ability to negotiate or call in support
- Added low flight mode
- Improved landing code
UI[ | ]
- Divided options menu into several pages
- Revised Journey page
- New Gek, Korvax and Vy'keen medals
- New medals for the merchant, mercenary and explorer guilds
- Revised log page
- Fixed animation on markers as they are removed
- Improved binoculars UI
- Updated journey milestone icons
- Overhauled discovery log
- Added cardinal directions to compass
- Added distance markers to compass
- Fix for “redeem content” showing twice on Steam menu
- New trade and product icons
- Revised combat ship markers
- Improved ship tracking arrows when flying away from targets
- Overhauled conversation interface
Graphics[ | ]
- Improved HBAO filtering around edges
- Improved TAA handling of grass blade edges
- Introduced depth of field effect during interactions
- Added LOD meshes and imposters to various props
- Fixed texturing on the buildable door
- Reduced HBAO shimmer
- Reduced shadow acne
- Fixed artifacts with imposter shadows
- Improved double-sided normals for foliage
- Improved terrain texturing and texture blending
- Improved grass colour blending and integration with terrain
- Improved grass and leaf materials
- Improved colour palettes across several biomes
- Improved planet night skies
- Fixed z-fighting on small glowing plants
- Various graphics optimisations and fixes
- Visual improvements to Atlas stations
- Replaced all terrain textures with higher detail and quality variants
- Added new higher detail foliage variants to several biomes
- Upgraded textures on several cave props
Audio[ | ]
- Four new sets of soundscapes by 65 Days of Static
- Reworked space combat audio
- Reworked space explosions
- Added new ship weapon sounds
- Added weird biome soundscape
- Added new music and sound effects for story mode
- Lots of new UI sounds
- Minor mix changes and optimisations
Language[ | ]
- Various minor language fixes and improvements