Summary
No Man’s Skyjust announced a brand new expedition called Adrift in which you’ll explore an “Abandoned Universe” with no aliens, traders, space stations, or players.
As revealed in theXbox Wireblog post, everyone will awaken on the same planet - Lapezuk - in an alternate universe. “Communication is consumed by static and the boundaries between each of your individual realities have thickened”. So, you’ll be completely alone, devoid of even merchants on the Space Anomaly.
Adrift will launch later this week and run for seven weeks. It comes with a new pet, the Iron Vulture starship, a “ghostly” frigate, extra customisation, and “hidden lore”. It’s free for all platforms and you can watch the trailer below.
No Man’s Sky Ship Customisation Has Proven Controversial
Adrift promises brand new ship customisation options, which is something fans have been asking for since the system was addedearlier this year in March.
A big complaint levied against ship customisation is that it hasan extremely limited colour paletteof just 20 options, which doesn’t include black, only greys. To make matters worse, you can’t alter your ship’s colour once you’ve finished customising, something else fans want to see change in a future update.
Details are scarce on how Adrift will further expand customisation, but with the expedition-update hybrid out this week, it won’t be long before we find out.
No Man’s Sky
WHERE TO PLAY
Lose yourself in a vast sci-fi odyssey as you explore a near-infinite, procedurally generated universe.
Set out from the edge of the Euclid galaxy and carve out your own interstellar existence in a vast universe teeming with life, danger and near-endless mystery.
No Man’s Sky is a hugely-ambitious, heavily-stylised, sci-fi adventure that spans entire galaxies all brought to life with procedural generation. Travel through an endless array of increasingly diverse and dangerous star systems, prospecting for rare materials, trading with alien life, populate planets and searching for clues to the meaning of the universe’s mysterious existence.
How you survive is up to you. Assemble entire fleets of dreadnought-class freighters and tear across the universe; build sprawling habitable bases across planet surfaces, beneath the ground or under the ocean; buy and upgrade your own weapons and star ships and do battle with outlaw space pirates, hostile alien fauna or the mysterious sentinel fleets.
The universe is yours to explore - trillions upon trillions of planets, waiting to be discovered.
