No Man's Sky 'Singularity' Update Adds New Story, Character Customisation And More

I'm definitely getting NMS for the Switch eventually. I have an admiration for never ending games. But there's so many titles that I'm currently playing and have in the good ol backlog. Keep those updates coming!

Goodness, Hello Games has been really busy with this game. From Interceptor to a MacOS port, to now this. Very impressed with how hard they've been working on it!

I'll come back to this game after I beat totk. I already put in dozens of hours, and I hope they keep improving the game.

Have a rest, Hello games. You've done enough.

The gift that keeps on giving.
What an amazing game.

Huh, I just updated the game this morning but saw no mention of new expeditions in the menu or later in the wiki's expedition list. Better remember to revisit it later. Then again, the end goal reward sounds like mere cosmetics rather than a cool vehicle/ship, and so far I've only blown the deadlines on the latter kind.😏 Anyway, cheers and props for this trove of content becoming yet more bottomless.

As always Nintendo Switch players will have to wait for a couple of weeks to get this update. 🙄

Purchased No Mans Sky but haven't played it, my backlogs already a mile long. But now look's like a good time to start No Mans Sky.

Will they ever stop updating this? fairplay to them.
I'm with the above comment, got it haven't even opened it yet >.<

Heads up to any would-be new purchasers of the game: No Man's Sky has been in an unplayable state for many players on Switch for the last two months, ever since the major "Interceptor" update dropped. Loads of us are stuck with our main saves in an unfixable crash cycle. Others seem to be able to play the game relatively okay-ish so long as their save files aren't too large (ie, they don't put too much time into one save file) and/or they avoid all of the newly added content from that last big update, which includes some of the coolest stuff in the game.

The patch notes for this update mention patches/optimizations specifically for the PC, Xbox, and Playstation consoles. The Switch isn't mentioned once. The Switch is also several updates behind other consoles, and so far this one hasn't dropped yet, either.

All that is to say, don't buy this game on Switch right now. This is coming from someone with around 600 hours into the Switch version (and even more on other platforms), so it pains me to have to tell folks to stay away, but... stay away. For a game that just launched on the platform seven months ago to have been left in a largely unplayable state for two of those months is pretty messed up. Either get this game on another platform for the time being, play something else, or wait until these issues get fixed on the Switch - if they ever are.

Haven't played for a while because the last patch apparently caused loads of crashes and they seemingly never released 4.2.3 (I think) and now theres another?? Will have to check back into this game as it is a fantastic game when it works

I really want to get back into NMS on Switch, but with Zelda, Pikmin, and Starfield I just don’t know if it will happen anytime soon. It’s just a great game to chill out and enjoy.

No Man's Sky is like a huge Shonen anime redemption arc.

I need to take another close look at this and maybe I'll buy it. Is meeting other players finally possible?

@GreyFenyx seconding this. My 200 hour save file has been rendered completely unplayable since Interceptor. Don't buy this on Switch

@GreyFenyx as much as it hurts me to say I have the same problem. 220 hours in and i couldn’t play it for several weeks because of crash cycle. The reason in my case is my capital freighter when its in orbit the game keeps crashing or when i am on board the same. Also i had to erase my large base. After that the game runs better just have to avoid my capital freighter. Also bases that a bit more complex have a hard time loading. I really hope switch 2 is going to be announced soon maybe it will run smoother on the switch 2.

@Alex79uk I know, right? They've redeemed themselves many times over.

@JimNorman This expedition which was supposed to be available on all platforms on June 7th is still not available for Switch today, June 9th. And there's no explanation on what's happened on the official NMS website either. So you might want to update this article to reflect the situation?

It's a bit sad, between this and the common crash issues mentioned in the comments above, it seems Hello Games has dropped the ball when it comes to the Switch version of their game.

We need more coverage as to why the Switch version appears to have been abandoned by Hello Games. We've been stuck with a broken game since the 4.2.2 update over two months ago with not an update or explanation in sight.