No Man’s Sky Update 6.31/6.031 Deployed for First Xeno Point Hotfix
As expected, Hello Games has released a hotfix for No Man’s Sky, which is live on PS5 and PC. This brings the first round of fixes concerning the Xeno Point content drop, which we assume is the first of many,
Console gamers will see this as No Man’s Sky update 6.31/6.031 (complete version 6.031.000), and this is a small download across all platforms.
Read on for the complete patch notes straight from Hello Games.
No Man’s Sky Update on April 9 Applies First Xeno Point Hotfix
Bug Fixes
- Network optimisation.
- Fixed a crash that could be caused when moving tech while the charge popup is active.
This is the first round of fixes, and for those who haven’t logged in since yesterday, here’s a rundown of the new content added in the Xeno Point update.
The Holo-Arena and Creature Battles
- Added turn-based tactical Creature Battles, with all-new music, visual effects, cinematic cameras, and combat log.
- Players with adopted creatures can now assemble their companions into battle teams, and participate in simulated fights against creatures owned by alien lifeforms or other players.
- Each creature has a unique set of battle moves, influenced by their species and native climate. Battle moves include attacks, heals, stuns, shields, status effects, and more.
- Creatures in battle may sometimes dodge incoming attacks, perform bonus moves, or perform critical hits.
- Companions participating in battles will earn experience, gradually improving their combat prowess.
- Added a new interface for modifying the genetics of owned companion creatures, allowing upgrade of agility, health and combat battle traits.
- Added multiplayer Holo-Arena tables to the Space Anomaly, where players can challenge other Travellers to Creature Battles.
- Added Holo-Arena tables to planetary outposts, planetary archive buildings, space stations, and some settlement buildings, where players can challenge alien lifeforms to a Creature Battle.
- Alien lifeforms playing Creature Battles at space station Holo-Arenas are seasoned system champions. They will be more challenging to defeat than planetary lifeforms, but yield higher rewards.
- Winning Creature Battles will yield a number of rewards, including nanites, invitations to play against alien lifeforms, and retroviral pellets to more efficiently upgrade the battle traits of creature companions.
- A new Traveller NPC, Iteration: Oceanus, has arrived at the Space Anomaly.
- Oceanus is a creature-collecting enthusiast, and will introduce players to Creature Battles and the Arena League through a lightweight tutorial.
- Oceanus offers a fixed-seed daily challenge to all players.
There are more fixes on the way for sure, as is the case for all content drops for the game. Once another one is pushed out, expect it here on MP1st.
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