The highly anticipated No Man's Sky update 1.1 “Foundation” is now live on both PC and PS4.

　　As covered earlier, Hello Games confirmed the foundation 1.1 update on its website last week. The update adds new game modes, including the Creative Mode which allows players to build their own base within No Man’s Sky. According to Hello Games, the Foundation update is the first of “many free updates” and is the “foundation” for things to come.

　　Explorers can now decide to play with different rule sets, across three game modes:

　　Normal mode is the original chilled exploration experience

　　Creative mode allows players to explore the universe without limits, and build a huge base

　　Survival mode really changes the game, creating a much more challenging endurance experience

　　Aside from the game’s new Creative Mode, the 1.1 update also introduces a survival mode that should provide mode challenge to players. Furthermore, “Foundation” introduces freighters, new recourses, a new interface, and a long list of fixes bugs and tweaks. Check out the full patch notes below:

　　Patch notes

　　General Gameplay

　　Fixed technology becoming instantly fully charged when repaired

　　Fixed ship appearing on incorrect pad in space station after loading

　　Added interactable objects that required certain tech to collect

　　Added shootable objects that require certain tech to mine

　　Rebalanced resource availability and technology charge requirements

　　Fixed initial game flow - where travelling to space too quickly after visiting the monolith could prevent the first atlas station notification appearing

　　Prevented player being prompted to scan for buildings before leaving the system after visiting the monolith

　　Prevented laser and melee attacks while in space from attempting to edit terrain

　　Improved calculation of resources received when mining terrain

　　Renamed Signal Scanners to Signal Boosters

　　Signal booster objects updated to search for playable bases, suit upgrade pods, and mineable resources

　　Removed signal booster from being distributed on terrain, as player can now build them

　　Improved accuracy of environment detection, fixing cases where it rained inside caves

　　Fixed galactic waypoints not loading correctly across saves

　　Removed atlas pass v1 requirement from doors in stations

　　Suit upgrade pods are no longer spawned in stations

　　Suit upgrade pods can now only be used once

　　Fixed collision in anomaly that was causing issues when exiting larger ships

　　Increased the number of different NPC character models generated per system

　　Fixed the game always remaining in day time for players who began their save prior to patch 1.03

　　Fixed a potential crash in foliage instance renderer

　　Localisation

　　Fixed stats page in asian languages

　　Fixed multiple issues with asian language formatting

　　Multiple improvements and fixes to localisation text in all languages

　　UI

　　Added new icons for specific types of primary resources

　　Fixed health bars not appearing on some targets

　　Added hazard and life support drain indicators

　　Fixed mission messages not appearing in a timely fashion

　　Beacons now notify the player that they will save the game

　　Fixed crash when creature IK animations were updated under certain conditions on the discovery screen

　　Improved navigation in discovery UI

　　Massive speed improvements to browsing huge discovery lists

　　Increased size of discovery storage

　　Added option to load "Earliest" previous save in Options menu

　　Fixed weapon naming

　　Added icon to remind players of the reload button when weapon is empty

　　Multiple fixes for viewing discoveries

　　PS4

　　Added photo mode

　　Large optimisations to the engine to accommodate base building

　　PC

　　Added support for up to 8 mouse buttons

　　Fixed better order position history for mouse smoothing

　　Fixed bug where setting gamma to zero gave a fully bright rather than fully dark image

　　Fixed hard-limiting on save sizes, with appropriate warning about free space on boot

　　Player is now notified when shaders are being loaded

　　Fixed occasional crash on exit

　　Fixed performance of trail renderer for some AMD cards

　　Large optimisations to the engine to accommodate base building

　　Generation

　　Added biome specific plants

　　Adopted new method of distributing resource plants on terrain, for more lifelike clumps of plants

　　Improved distribution of plant life across all terrain types

　　Introduced visual differentiation of red, green and blue star systems

　　Introduced new mineable terrain resources found only in red, green and blue star systems

　　Reduced average building frequency

　　Introduced planets with elevated building density

　　Introduced planets with no buildings or sentient life

　　Increased the proportion of lush and tropical planets

　　Decreased the proportion of lifeless planets

　　Fixed bug where multiple ships could appear, overlapping, at the player's start scene

　　Prevented certain building types being incorrectly placed underwater

　　Prevented multiple buildings occasionally being placed in overlapping positions

　　Prevented buildings occasionally being placed intersecting with the terrain

　　Improved and altered per-planet terrain resource generation, improving gameplay and visuals

　　Creatures

　　Fixed elevation cache mismatches, causing errors in creature knowledge and pathing

　　Fixed slow memory leak in creature role allocation

　　Improved creature animation speeds

　　Fixed issues where some creatures turns had the incorrect frame count

　　Fixed occasional crash when interacting with creatures

　　Atmospherics

　　Increased proportion of vibrant blue skies

　　Corrected cloud levels for clear skies

　　Improved average cloud level settings

　　Fixed cloud rendering while flying in your ship

　　Improved atmosphere depth when transitioning to space

　　Increased fidelity of atmosphere rendering on nearest planet

　　Improved atmospheric fog as you fly to a planet

　　Improved fog method for planets seen on the horizon

　　Terrain

　　Improved terrain generation algorithms

　　Improved and extended blend areas between different terrain noise types

　　Terrains now generate more open spaces

　　Smaller features now appear at nearer lods to improve visuals in the distance

　　Fixed objects being placed on incorrect terrain material types

　　Improved resolution of distant planet terrain

　　Decreased differences between planet as seen from space and actual planet terrain

　　Fixed seams on planets when seen from space

　　Improvements to terrain material selection and terrain material blending

　　Terrain generation priority and cost calculation improvements

　　Fixed terrain generation angle calculations, which would previously prevent nearest region being generated first

　　We now generate caves on lower terrain lods to decrease visual differences in lower detail terrain

　　Introduced more varied and vibrant colouring to terrain for each biome

　　Decreased frequency of brown terrain colour selections

　　Changed texture scales to improve transition between terrain lods

　　Improved terrain colour combinations to add variety and better match terrain contouring

　　Improved terrain texture blending method to better retain vibrant colours

　　Improved settings for hue, saturation and value noise variation on terrain

　　Fixed a number of issues causing holes to be seen in the planet terrain

　　Fixed occasional crash when mining terrain

　　Visuals

　　Fixed colour of muzzle flashes on player weapons

　　Added muzzle flashes to ship weapons

　　Added cockpit lighting for damage and weapon firing

　　Added debris to freighter explosion effect

　　Improved freighter cargo explosions

　　Improved photon cannon hit and space explosion effects

　　Improved turret explosion effect

　　Improved grass colour selection

　　Improved grass colouring method to match underlying terrain colour

　　Improved grass placement to match gradient of terrain, and rocky terrain slope patches

　　Improved lighting on grass

　　Improved alpha cutoffs and blending for grass in the distance

　　Improved colouring method for on-planet buildings

　　Fixed "pop" in lighting when flying between planets

　　Fixed incorrect lighting seen in shadow areas

　　Improved lighting method when rendering tree leaves

　　Fixed procedural texturing on objects with multiple overlapping textures

　　Fixed size of certain texture atlas normal maps

　　Fixed texture scaling on asteroids

　　Zinc plant is now more obvious when it has been gathered

　　Fixed occasional rendering errors due to precision on cockpit during warp

　　Fixed pulse lines not appearing when pulse driving out from planet atmosphere

　　Fixed shadowing artefacts on imposters

　　Space

　　Improved asteroids to allow much denser fields

　　Improved explosion effects

　　Fixed scale of moons on the space map

　　Added freighter groups to the space map

　　Changed distribution of resources in asteroids

　　AI ships will now clear asteroids in their path

　　Planets are now scannable from space to see their resources

　　Space Combat

　　Fixed bounty targets warping out too soon

　　Improved HUD indicators in space combat

　　Added damaged ship effect on AI starships

　　Added formation flying

　　Improved locking on passive starships

　　Improved AI combat flight patterns

　　Added new ship weapon technology

　　Holding brake whilst turning now activates drift for fast turns

　　Improved AI ship freighter attacking

　　Improved freighter targeting code when under attack by enemy ships

　　Freighters

　　Fixed pulse drive to prevent travel through freighters

　　Improved docking code

　　Added hangar to the lead freighter

　　Added docking in freighters

　　Added icon to accessible freighter hangars

　　Added colouring to cargo drops to identify what is in them

　　You can now only pick up cargo drops that will fit in your inventory

　　Added auxiliary freight ships to freighter groups

　　Added alert lights and alarm audio for when freighters are in combat

　　Improved turret lights and explosions

　　Improved muzzle flashes on freighter turrets

　　Added indicator of cargo contents

　　Freighter Commanders now give rewards for rescuing them from pirate attack

　　Fixed collision on freighter cargo containers

　　Audio

　　Updated the lush ambience to make the wind sounds less noisy

　　Ambient background fauna now checks for the presence of creatures

　　Added rain on foliage

　　Added rain on ship

　　Added freighter specific footsteps

　　When on a dead planet, no music will play

　　Round table prop now plays an appropriate sound

　　Added more music to the loading sequence and game start

　　Added audio to new base building props

　　Created sounds for new base building props

　　Added audio to freighter doors and internal freighter ambiences

　　Added freighter explosions

　　Added freighter alarm

　　Added ambient radio comms when approaching a freighter

　　Fixed missing sounds when in a space station due to the mix settings

　　Multi-tool upgrades now affect audio

　　Lots of minor mix changes

　　Changed some compression settings for PS4 audio to make the sub-channel audio play more reliably

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　　No Man’s Sky is available now for PC and PlayStation 4.