No Man’s Sky Path Finder Update is out now

The Path Finder Update for No Man’s Sky has rolled out on PS4 and PC, bringing with it a whole host of game tweaks, visuals updates and new content, such as new planetary vehicles.

VISUAL UPDATES

We’ve introduced a host of visual improvements, allowing you to explore the universe in even greater detail.

• High and ultra resolution textures
• More accurate Ambient Lighting
• Horizon Based Ambient Occlusion
• High contrast lighting effects
• Crepuscular Rays from the Sun
• Improved post-processing with several filter options
• HDR mode for compatible monitors and televisions

ONLINE BASE SHARING

Bases can now be shared online, allowing other players to discover and explore your outpost.

Steam Workshop integration allows players to upload their bases to the Workshop, making it easy for other players to discover, visit, rate and subscribe to your creations.

OWN MULTIPLE SHIPS

Use the enormous hanger in your Freighter to purchase and store your own collection of starships.

This is even more meaningful with the introduction of ship specialisation, classes and the ability to trade in previous ships against new purchases

STARSHIP SPECIALISATIONS

Find and collect the perfect starship with new specialisations and classes.

• Each starship has a specialisation (Shuttle, Fighter, Hauler or Explorer) that improves performance in specific areas.
• Shuttles are all-rounders, Fighters specialise in combat, Haulers have expanded cargo holds and Explorer vessels feature increased warp capabilities
• In addition to new ship types, all ships will now be class-rated: A, B, C or the ultra rare S class.
• When purchasing a new ship, you’ll now be given the option to trade in your current ship for a discount.

PLAYSTATION 4 PRO

PS4 Pro support has been enabled allowing 4K resolution gameplay. 4K rendering on PC has also been optimised. Together with visual improvements for all versions, No Man’s Sky has never looked better.

NEW VEHICLES – EXOCRAFT

Master the surface of your home planet using new Exocraft. These land-based vehicles give new meaning to planetary navigation, combat and mining – and can be summoned from anywhere on the planet they were constructed upon.

• The smallest Exocraft is the Nomad. What it may lack in cargo space, this hovercraft makes up for in speed, agility and its ability to glide over water
• The mid-range Exocraft is the Roamer, a great all-rounder capable of quickly crossing rugged terrain and adapting to most situations
• Finally, the Colossus is the largest of the Exocraft. This lumbering behemoth offers an enormous cargo hold perfect for those looking to harvest resources

Acquire Exocraft by hiring a Vy’keen Technician for your planetary base and completing a new series of missions:

• Mount powerful mining lasers and harvest resources with far greater efficiency
• High-intensity long-range scanners aid the discovery of distant buildings, objects and resources
• Equip weapons and eliminate threats with increased firepower
• Boost your vehicle’s speed with the acceleration module

EXOCRAFT RACES

Hone your driving skills by building your own race circuit on your home planet. Find the most interesting planet, create a time trial and challenge others to beat it.

• Obtain the Race Initiator and place it inside your Base Building zone
• Hop into your vehicle and drive the route you’d like to map out, dropping checkpoint markers anywhere on the planet
• Once a circuit is complete, race the track over and over to set an unbeatable lap time
• Players visiting your base via Base Sharing will be able to race using the circuit you created, challenging themselves against your split times.

Below you’ll find the complete Patch Notes for 1.12 – Path Finder.

AUDIO

• 50% more generative soundscapes
• Additional game loading and game start music
• Added multi-room base ambiences
• More detailed rain system, including room dependent and indoor window rain
• Added indoor storm ambience
• Changes to reverb system
• Fix for a flood of sounds which could occur during the tutorial

SHIPS AND SPACE

• Improved ship landing code
• Fixed AI ships appearing in the air with landing gear deployed
• Ship weapons operate using a new multi-mode system
• Fix for being able to spawn freighters underground while you are jetpacking
• Prevent all docking points in stations, freighters and outposts being taken by AI ships
• Fixed issue where ships could occasionally become invisible
• Fixed an issue where spawning into a freighter in near-planet orbit would occasionally place the player underground
• Freighter containers now drop less Titanium, Thamium and Copper
• Freighter containers now have a chance to drop Nanite Clusters
• Traders can now drop Nanite Clusters
• Traders no longer drop Copper or Iron
• Reduced camera shake whilst taking hits in space combat
• Reduced pirate damage in survival mode
• Reduced damage on ship laser
• Tweaked ship exit animations to improve player placement

GAMEPLAY

• Added damage and resource numbers in combat and when mining, toggleable in the Options menu
• Allow multiple weapon types on the multitool
• Free weapons and ships now have broken slots
• Recruit NPCs have more descriptive names
• Fixed holes appearing in high detail terrain regions
• Made player respawn positioning more robust
• Introduced new growable plant type
• Fixed slow memory leak in material effects
• Removed several minor memory leaks on warp
• Boosted shield recharge rate whilst in caves slightly
• BoltCaster Rate of Fire and Laser Mining Speed upgrades are now known from start. Tweaked build requirements so that both are possible to build on player’s first planet
• Drones now drop small amount of zinc on destruction
• Reduced amount of platinum from depots
• Fixed Vy’Keen depots dropping titanium instead of platinum
• Improved balance of hazards on Scorched and Frozen planets
• Reworked NPC secondary interactions to give you standing in exchange for offerings
• Reduced the amount of tech given by NPCs. In most cases they will now reward tech fragments instead of blueprints
• Reduced the amount of tech available for NPC reward
• Fixed projectiles shooting through certain unmineable substances
• Adjusted space stations to minimise cases where NPCs intersect with the environment
• Fixed issue where the suit upgrade chamber would occasionally disappear

BASE BUILDING

• Fixed NPC terminals and ladders being removed from the central room of bases after the player leaves
• Moved snap points for the glass corridor to be correctly grid aligned
• Galactic Terminals now have consistent pricing, regardless of where in a base they are added
• Fixed plants not being removed after removing the planter below them
• Deleting a room now refunds not only the room itself, but also its contents
• Fixed some plants and rocks not being removed when placing down a base building part
• Fixed the colour of the base terminal light occasionally resetting to red
• Terminals no longer can be build over windows in the central room
• Fixed base building colours becoming corrupt under specific circumstances
• Fixed some NPC missions counting the number of parts in your base incorrectly
• Fixed landing pad not snapping correctly to some parts
• Fixed issues where resource harvester would fail to gather resources
• Left mouse button and right trigger can now be used to build
• Fixed various precision problems with building in freighters
• Fixed some cases where grenades would fail to edit the terrain
• Organised parts in the base building menu to be more intuitive

UI

• Added animation within the Quick Menu
• Changed the hyperdrive stat to be measured in Light Years
• Opening the menu will now return to the last page you viewed
• Added a new Tech stat section to the Tech info popup
• Improved mouse smoothing
• Improved mouse sensitivity
• Clearer and more detailed multitool, ship and freighter comparison screen
• Fixed flickering transition between Inventory and Options Menu pages
• Reduced number of menu options requiring a button to be held rather than pressed
• Improved responsiveness of button holding
• Fixed a bug in the options menu where the title bar would flicker
• Improvements to discovery timeline UI
• Added “Set Waypoint” option to the solar system pop-up
• Improved alignment at aspect ratios other than 16:9
• Prevented player notifications showing up during credits and redeem screen
• Fixed issue whether error messages would be shown for charging and repairing before the options had been selected
• Increased icon resolutions to support play at 4k resolutions
• Fullscreen effects are now correctly displayed when entering a hazard
• Disabled the quick menu while warping between systems
• Removed obsolete Generation Detail option in settings
• Updated display of new discoveries to be clearer and more readable
• Fixed some Japanese and Russian localisation issues and text overlap
• Made cinematic black bars less frequent and obtrusive
• Made is so cinematic black bars can be dismissed
• Race standing is now displayed on the journey milestone page
• Fixed various windows occasionally appearing partially offscreen
• New visuals and backgrounds on mode select, options and inventory screens

VISUALS

• Reduced banding artifacts on some metallic surfaces
• Fixed seam artifacts on some normal maps
• Fixed shadows being too black over water on certain planets
• Fixed very occasional errant black geometry in space
• Improved performance of water rendering
• Improved performance in forward rendering passes
• Improved performance in spotlight rendering
• Fixed some issues with flickering lights
• Correctly oriented IBL map, fixing several lighting issues
• Fixed issue where vertex displacement would glitch when walking between regions

PC

• Support for Intel HD Graphics 530, 540, 550, 580, 630, 640, 650
• Reduced banding artifacts in gamma correction on some GPUs
• Escape key now goes directly to the quit options page
• Improved and expanded Steam Controller mapping

PS4

• Support For PS4 Pro 4K Rendering
• Support For PS4 Pro Delta Colour Compression
• Support For PS4 Pro automatic Depth Buffer decompression

Source: Hello Games