#No Man’s Sky’s latest huge replace, Beacon, provides settlements and shadow drops at this time alongside Swap 2 model tomorrow – Destructoid

No Man’s Sky continues its ever-evolving journey of free updates at this time with Beacon, however that’s simply a part of the excellent news concerning the house exploration recreation.

Developer Hi there Video games additionally confirmed a free replace is coming to reinforce the present recreation on Nintendo Swap for the Nintendo Swap 2 model, and it drops alongside the brand new console tomorrow, June 5.

“For the final 12 months we’ve had this secret room with some Swap 2 dev-kits from Nintendo,” the dev stated. “New platforms are at all times thrilling and our small staff has beloved pushing the brand new {hardware} to its limits.”

For starters, the Swap 2 model of No Man’s Sky will assist cross save and cross play and add full multiplayer, high-res texture assist, a rise in pixel density in each TV and handheld mode, a rise within the decision of the UI, full assist for contact display screen, and gyro controls.

The free replace for Swap homeowners on Swap 2 may even embrace Beacon, which “utterly overhauls settlements, bringing cities and their administration to the sport, “together with enormous new robotic settlements to find, with impossibly new sci-fi buildings.”

“Gamers can turn into city mayor and take possession of a number of settlements,” Hi there Video games stated. “You may assemble buildings and improve every one, with new constructing varieties like jukebox bars the place you’ll be able to select the music, retailers the place you’ll be able to construct customized starships and even ponds you’ll be able to chill and fish at. Every inhabitant will be conversed with, with their very own talents and attributes to handle. As city mayor you’ll be enlisted to welcome new settlers, resolve disputes, and make selections to create prosperity.”

Beacon is the most recent in a protracted line of free, huge overhaul updates to No Man’s Sky, which has undergone a laundry checklist of quality-of-life modifications since its unique launch method again in 2016 to turn into an impossibly massive house spectacle. And now, you’ll be able to play it on the most recent console on the market when it launches tomorrow.

However the Swap 2 is only one of many platforms the place No Man’s Sky will be performed. The sport, and Beacon, are additionally obtainable on PC, PS4, PS5, PSVR, Xbox One, Xbox Collection X/S, PCVR, and Steam Deck.