Summary
It’s been a busy few months forNo Man’s Sky. First, the game receivedits massive Worlds Part 1 update, which saw its water and clouds get a full visual overhaul, alongside the additions of floating sky islands. A couple of months later, the Aquarius update dropped, adding themuch-requested fishing activityto the eight-year-old title. All of this caused No Man’s Sky to hit itshighest player count since 2019.
Not letting the momentum fade away,Hello Gamesfounder Sean Murray could be teasing the game’s third update in as many months.
The Classic Single Emoji Teaser
Murray is known for teasing upcoming No Man’s Sky updates by tweeting out a single emoji. For Worlds Part 1, he tweeted out the globe, for Aquarius, a single pot (which had fans speculating about rivers). Now, unless he’s justreallyangry, Murray has posted a single tweet with the red-faced swearing emoji.
This emoji arguably gives players less to speculate on than the previous two, but that has not stopped them from running wild with guesses online.
Over on the game’sunofficial Subreddit, the update has been dubbed both the “cursing update” and “profanity update”, with playersjokingly suggestingthat “They’re finally going to allow Geks to say the slurs they’ve been holding back all these years.”
Jokes aside, players have recently found a bug in No Man’s Sky that mistakenly marks the word ‘paradise’ as a profanity, so there is some suggestion that this could just be a small patch to fix that.
Another entirely feasible theory, especially as we’re now in Spooky Season, is that the game will be addingsome kind of mystical curses. Given that some items, such as theTerrifying Sample, already reference a curse, this theory might not be too far off the mark.
Whatever happens, it’s likely to be another free update for the game, somethingwhich fans have begged Hello Games to stop.
No Man’s Sky
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.
