Summary
- A player built a futuristic city on their freighter in No Man's Sky, showcasing customization possibilities.
- No Man's Sky's success story includes regular content-heavy updates, such as the recent Relics update.
- Customization in the game extends beyond freighters, with players building orbital bases in creative ways.
A No Man's Sky player has managed to build a futuristic metropolitan city on their freighter, showcasing the possibilities that large ships have for customization in Hello Games' massive survival game. No Man's Sky already boasts a ridiculously large variety of ships, but the effort put into customizing this freighter makes it one of a kind.
Launched in August 2016 with a staggering 18 quintillion procedurally generated planets for players to explore, No Man's Sky initially faced heavy criticism for a lack of content, with mostly empty worlds and players struggling to seek out things to do. Approaching its ninth anniversary later this year, Hello Games has built its game into a success story with the launch of regular content-heavy updates over the years. The most recent of these is No Man's Sky's Relics update from March, which focuses on unearthing massive fossils.
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While the developers' current focus is buried beneath the surface of planets, one player known as m0ushinderu has been constructing a massive mobile city in space using one of No Man's Sky's freighters. Multiple images of this custom city show off its many features, which include externally lit skyscrapers and other multi-story buildings, a well-decorated hub featuring plush benches and display screens, and a street-like area with lampposts and foliage. While the buildings aren't fully functional, the city isn't exactly barren, as workers on the freighter will venture out into the customized area. Sadly, the city area is not visible from an external view of the ship, but spending time on the freighter provides a unique, lived-in experience.
No Man's Sky Players Can Build Massive Cities on Freighters
There are many different types of freighters in No Man's Sky, and the player who created this particular city utilized an A-Class Dreadnought as a base for their creation. Utilizing a tutorial they found via adobegainzbrah on Reddit, the player was able to create the lit-up skyscraper effects by upscaling illuminated signs purchased from the Anomaly and flipping them on their sides, then adding scaffolding, catwalks, stairs, and other buildable parts and decorations. The process is reportedly simpler than it appears, and the player only used about three quarters of the available space, but they're already contemplating ditching their current freighter to attempt a second build on an S-Class ship.
Of course, freighters aren't the only customizable sections of No Man's Sky, and the game's creative community is still full of recently shared base creations. There's a growing trend around building orbital bases, using stairs and platforms to push the limits of planets' vertical building spaces. Players have been sharing custom Star Wars-themed creations in No Man's Sky using this method, including replicated versions of the Millennium Falcon and the Imperial Shuttle.
No Man's Sky
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OpenCritic Reviews
- Top Critic Avg: 71 /100 Critics Rec: 36%
- Released
- August 9, 2016
- ESRB
- T for Teen: Fantasy Violence, Animated Blood
- Developer(s)
- Hello Games
- Publisher(s)
- Hello Games
WHERE TO PLAY
Lose yourself in a vast sci-fi odyssey as you explore a near-infinite, procedurally generated universe. Set out from the edge of the Euclid galaxy and carve out your own interstellar existence in a vast universe teeming with life, danger and near-endless mystery. No Man's Sky is a hugely-ambitious, heavily-stylised, sci-fi adventure that spans entire galaxies all brought to life with procedural generation. Travel through an endless array of increasingly diverse and dangerous star systems, prospecting for rare materials, trading with alien life, populate planets and searching for clues to the meaning of the universe's mysterious existence. How you survive is up to you. Assemble entire fleets of dreadnought-class freighters and tear across the universe; build sprawling habitable bases across planet surfaces, beneath the ground or under the ocean; buy and upgrade your own weapons and star ships and do battle with outlaw space pirates, hostile alien fauna or the mysterious sentinel fleets. The universe is yours to explore - trillions upon trillions of planets, waiting to be discovered.
- Engine
- Proprietary
- Multiplayer
- Online Multiplayer, Online Co-Op
- Cross-Platform Play
- PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PC
- Steam Deck Compatibility
- Verified
- Platform(s)
- PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PC, Nintendo Switch 2
- OpenCritic Rating
- Fair
- How Long To Beat
- 30.5 Hours
- X|S Optimized
- Yes
- File Size Xbox Series
- 20.36 GB (September 2024)
- PS Plus Availability
- N/A
- Supported VR Headsets
- Sony PlayStation VR, Sony PlayStation VR2, Valve Index, HP Reverb G2, HTC Vive Pro 2, HTC VIVE Cosmos, Meta Quest 3, Meta Quest 2, Meta Quest Pro
