Highlights
- Planets in No Man's Sky can drastically change over time due to game updates, altering their appearance and life forms.
- Players may find frustration in their home planets changing types.
- One No Man's Sky player shared a picture showing how their home planet changed from launch to the present.
One No Man's Sky player decided to look at their original home planet from launch day and discovered it's a completely different planet eight years later. No Man's Sky has had various updates impacting the appearance of planets since launching in August 2016.
While planets could have their type changed over the course of updates in 2016 and 2017, the major updates that altered a number of home planets were those that added new types to the game. No Man's Sky Interceptor added corrupted worlds to the game, while Origins added Volcanic planets. These additions could change the type of planet someone was already on, as well as their home planet. After taking the time and energy to find the perfect planet for a base, this can be frustrating to players.
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Reddit user Glaiceana posted a screenshot of the planet Rosmittar from 2016 to the present day to note the differences between the two images. They followed up the post with another comment detailing the big changes, like the atmosphere and the number of creatures living there. Since No Man's Sky first launched, Rosmittar changed from a lively, if toxic, place to explore to one lacking life.
No Man's Sky Players First Planet Changed Since Launch
The side-by-side images show Glaiceana's home planet changed quite a bit. Originally, it appeared to be a desert planet with palm trees and cacti adorning the landscape. It had a toxic atmosphere and was slightly radioactive, but still had fauna roaming the surface. Fast-forward to August 2024, eight years later, and that planet is now devoid of life due to being airless. There are giant mushroom-shaped structures and circular rock formations, but nothing else is found there.
Since portals weren't around when No Man's Sky originally launched, it took Glaiceana a bit of work to make it back to her original home planet. After some time, she found a save file that showed the galactic coordinates for the system and made their way back. Not only had the planet changed, but the system did too, which gained an additional planet through the updates. The image from the present includes the portal coordinates so other No Man's Sky players can visit Rosmittar if they want to.
Some players' home planets may have recently changed with the No Man's Sky Worlds Part 1 update. With adjustments made to how many planets are lush, frozen, desert, radioactive, or toxic, already existing planets could have been altered. The likelihood of this is relatively low, as more planets were added in the update, but the chance is still there, especially for those who haven't played for a few updates.
No Man's Sky
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.
Systems
- Top Critic Rating:72/100 Critics Recommend:36%
- Platform(s)
- Switch , PC , Xbox One , Xbox Series S , Xbox Series X , PS4 , PS5
- Released
- August 9, 2016
- Developer(s)
- Hello Games
- Publisher(s)
- Hello Games
- Multiplayer
- Online Multiplayer
- Engine
- Proprietary
- ESRB
- T for Teen: Fantasy Violence, Animated Blood
- How Long To Beat
- 30 Hours
- X|S Enhanced
- Yes
- PS Plus Availability
- N/A
- File Size Xbox Series
- 13 GB (April 2022)
- Cross-Platform Play
- PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One & Xbox Series X|S
- Video Games
- No Man's Sky
- PC Gaming
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