<P> A second update released in March 2017, known as the "Path Finder Update", added several new features to the game . Among these included the ability to share bases with other players, as well as new vehicles called exocraft to help in exploration . The exocraft can be built on the player's set home planet, and called upon on any other planet via a minor update released a few days afterwards . The update also contained a permadeath option that wipes the player's progress completely on death; support for Steam Workshop for user modifications on the Windows version; new base building features and materials, ship and multitool classes and support for PlayStation 4 Pro enhanced graphics . </P> <P> A third update, titled "The Atlas Rises," was released in August 2017 . It included significant contributions to the game's story mode, added an estimated 30 hours of narrative, and added procedurally - generated missions . The player can use portals to quickly transport across the game's galaxy . A limited online cooperative mode, called "Joint Exploration", allows for up to 16 players to explore the same planet and use voice chat and text commands to communicate to others in close proximity, seeing each other as glowing spheres, but otherwise they cannot directly interact with each other; Hello Games called it an "important first step into the world of synchronous co-op". The update was preceded by several weeks of a "Waking Titan" alternate reality game . </P> <P> The fourth major update, titled No Man's Sky Next, was released for Windows and PlayStation 4 on 24 July 2018; this also coincided with No Man's Sky's release on Xbox One which included all updates including Next . Additionally, the Next update will include support for Tencent's WeGame distribution platform in China, which Hello Games says hosts a significant number of No Man's Sky players . </P> <P> No Man's Sky Next is a significant update to the game that Hello Games considered to be more representative of the game they wanted to release in 2016 . The update will include a full multiplayer experience, allowing up to four players to create and customize their in - game avatar and to join as allies to explore planets and star systems and build bases together, or as opponents to fight against each other . Bases are no longer limited to specific spots on a planet and now can be built nearly anywhere, including underwater, and such bases will be visible to all other players of the game (on their respective platform). Players will be able to assemble fleets of starships to be used to send out on various missions . The game's engine has gotten a significant overhaul in how planets are procedurally generated as well as how they are rendered to the player . At launch, the GOG.com version of No Man's Sky Next lacked the multiplayer component, a feature that Hello Games expects to add later in the year to work with the GOG Galaxy software, but otherwise had all new content . As a result GOG offered refunds within a limited window for anyone that had bought the game regardless of when that purchase was made . </P>

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