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

Howdy,

This yr has already been a really busy one for No Man’s Sky, with six updates already this yr, together with the massive 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 the moment we’re releasing some options which were years within the making.

Cross-Save Help on All Platforms

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

Having the ability to leap seamlessly between platforms is transformative. Gamers can play from the consolation of their couch on console, proceed an Expedition on the transfer with Change or Steam Deck, construct an unimaginable base on their beefy PC rig, and think about 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 of us have already been enjoying for. Each these numbers are giant for our tiny group. 

It’s quite common for gamers to rack up hundreds of hours of saves exploring throughout area, constructing elaborate bases and cataloguing their discoveries, with extremely detailed saves. Including Cross-Save for us is a bit 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 now have secretly been introducing the expertise for this replace for over six months. We at the moment are prepared to begin rolling Cross-Save out to a small variety of gamers. From at present, 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 can be enabled to then choose their saves from a number of gadgets on the in-game save display. Within the coming weeks all gamers can be invited to take action.

The Normandy Returns

Everybody right here at Howdy Video games is a big sci-fi nerd. One among our absolute favourite collection 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 with the ability to declare the Normandy for his or her fleet.

Within the intervening years since that occasion, we now have welcomed an enormous variety of Travellers, not least an entire new cohort of Change 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 the moment, and for the following two weeks, as a love-letter from one science fiction sport to a different, we’re giving everybody one other likelihood to come across the Normandy in an overhauled model of the unique mission and add it to their assortment.

Large 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.