Today several articles came out with additional information from Sean Murray about the mysterious third pillar, now officially dubbed No Man’s Sky: 2.0.
I’ve summarized some of the new features below and the links to the original articles are included at the bottom of this post.
No Man’s Sky 2.0 Features Include:
- – Creature Riding
- – Creature Farming
- – Creature Milking 0_o
- – Creature Taming
- – NPC’s walking around on planets
- – Deeper missions
- – New alien languages
- – New alien races
- – Larger base limits
- – Industrial-type bases
- — Generators
- — Solar panels
- — Mining extractors
- – New base logic
- — Electricity
- — Creative building
- – Cooking
- – New galactic maps
- – Increased scale of all assets (ships, exocraft, building, etc)
- – Ability to sit in chairs
This list isn’t all-inclusive and Sean Murray says that the patch notes for Beyond will be nearly twice as long as the patch notes for NEXT!
Sources:
https://www.gameinformer.com/2019/08/09/no-mans-sky-beyond-will-let-you-milk-aliens
Hands-On: No Man’s Sky Is About To Snap An Entire VR Universe Into Existence
https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/08/09/no-mans-sky-beyond-everything-in-the-new-mega-update