The latest No Man’s Sky update, Waypoint, is live now on all platforms, including Nintendo Switch, and it brings a bundle of quality-of-life changes and the option to tailor the space game experience more closely to your needs. This is developer Hello Games’ 21st major update to the game, and the goal is bringing a bit of order to the slew of tweaks and changes implemented over nearly half a decade and making the game a bit easier to pick up and play on Nintendo’s handheld platform.
One of the biggest changes in Waypoint is the option to customize the difficulty. Players can fully customize their games, adjusting everything from how quickly the scanner recharges to adding a permadeath feature that resets your progress if you die. Those who want a less grueling experience can take advantage of the aptly named Relaxed mode, which reduces the level of resource management and survival tension required.
Ships, weapons, and players all have “greatly increased” level caps now, while Waypoint also adds new features to help players keep track of their current goals and progress, the option to pin milestones to the quest log, and streamlined inventory management, including filters.
These major features come alongside several smaller ones, including visual enhancements, which you can check out on Hello Games’ patch notes page. And as always, the update is absolutely free.
Written by Josh Broadwell on behalf of GLHF
