No Man’s Sky: Leviathan Expedition Out Today, Includes Space Whales And Roguelike Time Loop

Developer Hello Games simply launched the Outlaws update for No Man’s Sky back in April alongside information that its subsequent undertaking gained’t be a sequel to the sci-fi title, and now, the studio has revealed that it’s launching one other expedition…at this time!

Dubbed “Leviathan,” this expedition is the results of a neighborhood in-joke that No Man’s Sky is lacking house whales as a result of house whales is strictly what Leviathan brings to the sport. However, past that, Leviathan additionally introduces a roguelike expertise to play by way of. 

“[Leviathan] is very different to anything we’ve done before,” a press launch reads. “It is extra roguellike, with gamers caught in a time-loop. Players begin collectively on an expedition, and every time they die, they lose their progress, however assist the neighborhood attempt to break away from this loop collectively.

“Difficulty has been turned up in a vairety of ways, but every death means a reset of the loop and a new proc-gen loadout. To make it easier to complete the eventual goal of breaking out of the loop with just one life, the community can work together on a persistent, global goal that permanently improves the quality and frequency of upgrade rewards found during each loop.”

The story of Leviathan reveals itself as gamers work alongside Specialist Polo and the precise Leviathan, “a large and imposing space creature shrouded in myth and mystery.” Those who undertake this expedition can earn rewards like The Whalestalker cloak, a mini Organic Frigate to your base, a Temporal Starship Trail, and extra. Hello Games says the last word reward, nevertheless, is the first ever residing frigate – an imposing tentacled beast – which shall be your very personal Space Whale so as to add to your freighter fleet. 

You can view the complete patch notes for Leviathan here.

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