Followers within the No Man’s Sky neighborhood are as soon as once more getting their hopes up, because the developer is teasing what is nearly definitely the following large replace. That is par for the course in relation to the studio’s co-founder Sean Murray, however this time, it appears he’s going barely off the rails.

Over the course of a number of posts on X, Murray has been hinting at one thing coming to No Man’s Sky by way of the traditional medium of emojis. On this case, Earth ones. The most recent one embedded under exhibits Earth surrounded by a “circle” (I take advantage of the time period loosely) of candles.

An earlier one confirmed many Earths forming the form of some sort of cowboy? There have been a couple of extra earlier than that, exhibiting simply three of the emojis in a row, suggesting his practice of thought started in a much less frantic useless.

So what does all of it imply?

As ever, Murray is participating in a bit of promoting genius, utilizing a free social media platform to tease new content material, and it completely works. Simply check out the No Man’s Sky subreddit to see a couple of discussions on what the Earth emojis may presumably be referring to.

This thread means that the developer posting three in a row in a particular sequence suggests some kind of 3-2-1 countdown. Conversely, this thread opens with a plea to followers to mood expectations, including that the onslaught of teases “is probably not what we expect it’s.”

May they be proper? Properly, one other X publish from Murray that went dwell simply moments in the past has given us a little bit of an replace on the studio’s subsequent challenge, Mild No Hearth. In an identical fashion to NMS, Hiya Video games’ subsequent providing is claimed to be “about journey, constructing, survival and exploration collectively,” which shall be set “on a fantasy planet the scale of Earth,” in response to Steam.

Nevertheless, one other Reddit person has famous {that a} specific display opens up whenever you load into the sport, which exhibits the phrases “No Man’s Sky Worlds: Half 1.” Potential spoilers forward!

A number of others have uploaded comparable screenshots, which do certainly level to No Man’s Sky getting an overhaul, notably for the sport’s “water and cloud rendering.” The picture additionally exhibits a lift to issues like biomes, creatures, colours, and lighting, in addition to the following Expedition.

Briefly: it’s nearly definitely the following main patch for the sport. Nevertheless, it appears as if info and teases are nonetheless being drip-fed, so we’ll must preserve a detailed eye on social media and the official NMS web site to see what it’ll lead to.

Who is aware of, by the point this text goes dwell, an replace might already be rolling out.