No Man’s Sky’s hefty Endurance update is just the dose of Star Trek I’ve wanted Rock Paper Shotgun Support us Join our newsletter Visit our store Sign in / Create account If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. No Man’s Sky’s hefty Endurance update is just the dose of Star Trek I’ve wanted The 3.94 update reworks capital ships and adds specialist NPC crew News by CJ Wheeler News Reporter Published on July 20, 2022 55 comments The latest free No Man's Sky update is out today, and it's a good job Hello Games called the thing Endurance. It takes some serious stamina to scroll through the patch notes. Looks like it might be worth perusing all the way through them though, with this 3.94 update to the game majorly reworking freighter bases and shipping in some NPC crew members to populate them with. This crew will even share their thoughts as they're wandering about. See for yourself in the trailer below. Watch on YouTube When I first picked up – and bounced off – No Man's Sky in 2016, the spacey sandbox had a distinctly Star Wars flavour. You played a lone star-lad who jumped in his Dacia Duster of an X-Wing, hopping from planet to planet without much reason to care. Well, Endurance finally adds some tweaks that could let you play this more like Star Trek. Having a crew of biologists, technicians and engineers kicking about your capital ships, with even your hired frigate captains and squadron pilots teleporting in to visit from time to time, is a lovely touch. Hello Games have added planetary scanners to survey whole star systems in one sweep, and you can now teleport directly from your freighter to any space station or planetary base terminus. Most Trek of all is the new third-person view of your freighter when you activate warp. There's still fleetloads more in the Endurance update. Now, you can construct windows in your freighter's corridors, and external observation decks, to gaze out into the ether. If you're after the Farscape experience instead of Trek then you can always make a fleet of procedurally-generated organic frigates, also patched in with this update. There's a new expedition called Polestar too, which lets you take a mysterious freighter of the same name on an interstellar cruise in true Fifth Element style. I could go on, but I think my mouse wheel's broken from the strain. No Man's Sky has certainly come a long way since it was released almost six years ago, with some diverse content drops just this year alone. Back in May, the Leviathan update added a roguelike time-loop mode. Space pirates entered the fray in April's Outlaws update. In February, the Sentinel update let players build their own robots, mechs and drones. Perhaps John was on to something in his No Man's Sky review when he said the game was both "massively flawed, and systematically poorly designed" and "a massive playground of potential and opportunity"? You can grab No Man's Sky from Steam, GOG and the Microsoft Store for £40/$60/€55. It's also on PC Game Pass. Check out the full patch notes for the 3.94 Endurance update here, if you've got the arm for it. More News Jack King-Spooner's next handcrafted game has a teaser demo out Judero brings chat and action in the Scottish Borders Alice O'Connor 17 hours ago 1 If you were hoping for any Overwatch 2 balance changes then you'll have to wait until season two The next season begins in December CJ Wheeler 18 hours ago 3 The Dead Space remake will chuck random Necromorphs at you as you wander the Ishimura In space, no one can hear you proper bricking it CJ Wheeler 18 hours ago 8 Valve register mysterious new Neon Prime trademark in the US It doesn’t seem to be for a particularly colourful Steam Deck CJ Wheeler 20 hours ago 11 Latest Articles What are we all playing this weekend? Well? Alice O'Connor an hour ago 21 Past Wordle answers Here's an archive of previous Wordle words Ollie Toms 2 hours ago 1 Wordle answer today (Saturday 15 October) Hints and the answer to today's Wordle word Rebecca Jones 9 hours ago Overwatch 2 hero tier list Which are the best heroes in Overwatch 2? Ollie Toms 16 hours ago Supporters Only You're probably better than me at One Many Nobody You go on without… uh, you? Sin Vega 17 hours ago Supporter podcast - The Nate Files episode 13: dry bones Bad science is also FUN science! Alice Bell 18 hours ago Japanese dating show Love Wagon has surprising parallels with Yakuza and Persona My new obsession Ed Thorn 2 days ago If you're hankering after Bayonetta 3, Valkyrie Elysium might be a good substitute It's not out on PC until next month, but the console demo has been a surprise charmer Katharine Castle 1 week ago 4 We've been talking, and we think that you should wear clothes Total coincidence, but we sell some clothes Buy RPS stuff here