Summary
- An unusual sight in No Man's Sky was spotted, as a cluster of 4 crashed freighters formed a gravity-defying tower.
- The strange event occurred above some Ancient Ruins and left the player dealing with wonky gravity, which commenters attributed to a game glitch.
A No Man's Sky player recently stumbled upon a large ship graveyard while visiting a planet, which isn't a normal sight in the massively scaled survival game. While seeing a crashed freighter on a planet's surface in No Man's Sky is a common occurrence, four of them clustered together is something most players probably haven't encountered, and their formation led to some odd experiences for the player that discovered them.
There are numerous types of points of interest that players can discover in No Man's Sky, from valuable natural resources to buildings geared towards trade and science. By following POI markers, players can also discover crashed ships in No Man's Sky. The smaller ships are heavily damaged but can be claimed and repaired by explorers, but players will also often come across massive freighters that crashed down from space, with multiple compartments that can be looted for valuable goods.
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Organically finding four of these big ships all crashed in a single location is practically unheard of, however, but that's just what Reddit user kattdjur has shared in a post featuring multiple images of their bizarre encounter. The images show the four No Man's Sky freighters standing unnaturally as a sort of gravity-defying tower. Only one of these ships appears to be touching the ground with one of its back thrusters, with the other three freighters piled on at odd angles that form a sort of oblong capital Y, and the whole construct held together by some unnatural force.
No Man's Sky Play Finds Weird Freighter Graveyard
One interesting point of note is the location of this strange occurrence. It would take 5 million years to explore all of No Man's Sky's 18 quintillion procedurally generated planets before any of the post-launch content was added, so pinpointing its location is next to impossible. However, the player noted the location was right above one of the game's mysterious Ancient Ruins. The player was able to land on the multi-freighter construct, but its very nature started messing with the game's gravity and controls, and trying to walk or jetpack around on it left the player afraid that they'd never find their way off.
The player who reported the phenomenon originally thought it was the result of another player on PC messing with the game. However, several other players in the comments section have reported running into similar situations complete with wonky gravity, leading many to conclude that the freighter tower is just a strange No Man's Sky glitch.
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
- How Long To Beat
- 30.5 Hours
- X|S Optimized
- Yes
- 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
- File Size Xbox Series
- 20.36 GB (September 2024)
- OpenCritic Rating
- Fair
