Even after nine years, No Man’s Sky is still releasing new updates and with the newest Beacon update, Hello Games has deployed settlement options.
After a full rebuild with exciting updates, Hello Games is not finished yet and have launched its next big update onto the planets of the No Man’s Sky. Hello Games names their latest in-game update Beacon, possibly due to the settlement building options included with the update and as an added feature with Beacon is Nintendo Switch 2 functionality has been included with today’s update. The update is essential for explorers to explore the sky on Nintendo’s latest console. Hello Games has launched a trailer celebrating the Beacon launch and it can be seen below.
Players who explore No Man’s Sky for the cozy elements will have a lot more content to mess around with as players can build and manage their own settlements. By taking ownership of multiple settlements, fans will be able to construct buildings and upgrade each one effectively. New building types have been added with Beacon including dive bars where you can blast music out of jukeboxes, new merchants where fans can build custom starships, and even non-building structures like ponds can be constructed where players can relax and fish.
On top of the notable updates to existing platforms, Hello Games and No Man’s Sky have been hard at work optimizing the title’s efficiency on the Nintendo Switch 2. Hello Games said it had spent a year making No Man’s Sky optimized for the Switch 2 and the fine-tuned upgrades for the Switch 2 Edition include better resolution and frame rate, high-res texture support, and higher pixel density, as well as support for touchscreen and cross-saves. These improvements are included with the day one Switch 2 patch that also dropped today.
Hello Games said “For the last year we’ve had this secret room with some Switch 2 dev-kits from Nintendo,” adding “New platforms are always exciting and our small team has loved pushing the new hardware to its limits” in their Beacon press release, and they’ve deployed included console features like Game Chat to allow fans to take to the No Man’s Sky together in starship and person.
No Man’s Sky Beacon update is free, and it’s live now.
