No Man's Heaven developer Howdy Games has announced the adjacent update for the game, called Outlaws. Launching on Apr 14, Outlaws will focus on the game's underworld and as well includes a number of significant upgrades throughout No Man's Heaven.

For the new underworld exploration, yous'll be able to visit outlaw space stations and star systems that have been overtaken by criminal elements, which creates an opportunity for you lot to earn some extra credits. A new series of pirate missions will open up black-market technology that y'all can purchase, valuable appurtenances that are illegal elsewhere in the milky way can be caused, and you lot tin even catch a forged passport that will permit you to skid past the Sentinels with your smuggled cargo.

All players--not but the smugglers--will benefit from the addition of specialist cargo inventories to all starships. These are loftier-capacity slots that can store big quantities of cargo, and storage-hungry players can unlock actress slots from the ship upgrade terminal constitute on all infinite stations. Yous'll be able to recruit and upgrade their own wingmen now every bit well, allowing yous to collect your ideal set of ships and pilots. Each pilot comes with their own abilities and tin can be upgraded over fourth dimension to meliorate their combat skills.

As for spacecraft, a new ship that features a solar-powered sail and sleek bodywork volition debut in this update. The Solar Ship is No Man's Sky's first new starship since the starting time of 2020, and the maximum number of ships a player can ain has been raised from vi to nine.

Infinite gainsay has also been overhauled significantly and will at present take a decidedly faster feel to its design. Handling has been improved, weapons have new visual effects and enemy starships now have shields. Weapon selection will take a diversity of specialist secondary effects to create more depth, such as slowing enemy engines or disabling shield systems. You won't be rubber in a planet'due south atmosphere either, every bit send-to-ship combat can now occur there too.

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You'll also need to keep an eye on your settlements, equally they may exist vulnerable to pirate raids. If the combat does feel too difficult, No Homo'south Sky will besides feature a new Auto-Follow mode to make things easier.

No Homo's Sky recently took dwelling a Bafta Game Laurels for its ever-evolving space sandbox, and the game is yet on track to be released on the Nintendo Switch. The team said in a previous update that it will be revealing more leading up to launch, as it's optimizing everything from the UI to controls to feel at home on the Switch.

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