<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 "Next", will be released for all platforms on 24 July 2018, alongside the game's release for the Xbox One, which will include all four updates . The update will have a "full multiplayer experience" which includes exploration, base building, and ground and space travel and combat . 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> The player character, known as the Traveller, wakes up on a remote planet near their crashed spacecraft . They receive a message from an entity called "The Atlas" that offers its guidance, directing the character to make the necessary repairs to the spacecraft and collecting the resources needed to fuel a hyperspace jump to another solar system . En route, they encounter individual members of three alien species, the Gek, the Korvax, and the Vy'keen, that inhabit the galaxy . </P>

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