No Man’s Sky Now Supports Cross-Save Across Multiple Platforms

Whats up,

This yr has already been a really busy one for No Man’s Sky, with six updates already this yr, together with the large Worlds Replace. Our final one, The Cursed, dropped simply a few weeks in the past, and gamers have been loving the spooky Halloween vibe. 

In sport improvement some options take weeks or months, and others take years. At present we’re releasing some options which have been years within the making.

Cross-Save Help on All Platforms

Ranging from at the moment we’re rolling out Cross-Save assist on all platforms together with PC, Xbox One, Xbox Collection X|S, Nintendo Swap, Steam Deck, and extra. This has been an enormous endeavor and is certainly one of most requested options.

With the ability to bounce seamlessly between platforms is transformative. Gamers can play from the consolation of their couch on console, proceed an Expedition on the transfer with Swap or Steam Deck, construct an unimaginable base on their beefy PC rig, and examine it in extremely immersive Digital Actuality. 

Including the power to switch saves between platforms through a server is particularly troublesome for No Man’s Sky, because the work concerned will increase with every platform supported and the way lengthy people have already been enjoying for. Each these numbers are giant for our tiny crew. 

It’s quite common for gamers to rack up 1000’s of hours of saves exploring throughout area, constructing elaborate bases and cataloguing their discoveries, with extremely detailed saves. Including Cross-Save for us is just a little bit like transferring home, the longer individuals have lived there the extra sophisticated it’s to maneuver them! We even have gamers who performed as soon as at launch, eight years in the past, all of a sudden loading up that save on a platform that didn’t even exist again then!

For these causes we’ve secretly been introducing the expertise for this replace for over six months. We are actually prepared to begin rolling Cross-Save out to a small variety of gamers. From at the moment, all No Man’s Sky gamers can hyperlink their completely different accounts collectively at No Man’s Sky: Cross-Save web site. A subset of gamers might be enabled to then choose their saves from a number of units on the in-game save display. Within the coming weeks all gamers might be invited to take action.

The Normandy Returns

Everybody right here at Whats up Video games is a big sci-fi nerd. Certainly one of our absolute favourite sequence is the unimaginable Mass Impact video games. To affix in Mass Impact’s annual N7 celebrations, we’re happy to welcome the legendary SSV Normandy SR1 again into No Man’s Sky! 

It was in 2021 that the Normandy made its first look in one of many first expeditions we ever ran. The limited-time expedition culminated in gamers having the ability to declare the Normandy for his or her fleet.

Within the intervening years since that occasion, we’ve welcomed an enormous variety of Travellers, not least an entire new cohort of Swap gamers and an more and more giant variety of Chinese language followers. Many of those new gamers have envied those that proudly displayed their Normandy of their frigate assortment.

Mass Impact followers know that this legendary freighter solely seems when it’s most wanted! At present, and for the following two weeks, as a love-letter from one science fiction sport to a different, we’re giving everybody one other probability to come across the Normandy in an overhauled model of the unique mission and add it to their assortment.

Big because of our pals at EA and Bioware for serving to make this occur.

It has been a momentous yr for No Man’s Sky in a number of methods. We’re so grateful to have the ability to proceed this journey with you.