The latest version of No Man’s Sky has been released today and is titled Expeditions. This release introduces a new seasonal game mode with exclusive limited-time rewards, miscellaneous rebalancing, performance optimizations and various bug fixes.
One major change in Expeditions is that the various platform-based discoveries databases has been unified. This means a named discovery on PS4 will now be the same on other platforms like Xbox and PC. If a discovery was previously-named on multiple platforms then the oldest discovery will take priority. This is a pretty substantial change that is likely to have repercussions for player civilizations that occupy the same regions on different platforms.
Another major change is that base uploads are now fully cross-platform compatible. Players can visit any other uploaded base, even if the base was uploaded on a different platform. Presumably base uploads are still restricted by game mode, so bases built and uploaded in Creative mode still won’t be visible to players in Normal mode, for example.
You can view the Top Ten portal addresses page to find some of the most popular portal addresses among the community submitted during the various 3.x Origins versions. Addresses published in previous versions of version 3.x Origins (Halloween, Next Generation and Companions) will have a warning notification banner appended to inform players that the discovery names and player bases might be different.
The new game mode “Expedition” has been added to the portal address submission form. Likewise, the new version tag has been created and will be automatically applied to new portal addresses submitted from today onward. Now that it doesn’t matter what platform players are using I will create some new quick links on the site to quickly list all the bases in a certain galaxy by game mode (all bases in Euclid in Normal mode, for example). This should make searching and filtering for desired locations a bit easier.
Please leave a comment if you have any other suggestions for changes on The Portal Repository website.
