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No Man’s Sky Update 1.38 Patches in an Improved Save System and More

Hello Games continues saving No Man's Sky with new update.
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Published: Oct 6, 2017 01:48 pm

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No Man’s Sky got its last significant update in August with the Atlas Rises patch. Update 1.38 doesn’t bring anywhere near the changes Atlas Rises did, but it does target one major aspect of the game that has been affecting players negatively since launch, the save system.

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The new save system for No Man’s Sky brings the total of save slots up to five. The slots can be used for any game mode, and they also have sub-slots that split manual saves from autosaves. If you try to load an empty slot, a new game will start, and you’ll be taken to the mode select screen.

There are also many minor improvements with No Man’s Sky patch 1.38. Temperature ranges of dead planets are more varied. The Analysis Visor can be used to scan farm plant growth time; ship class, type, and value; and the distance from resources you discover using the scanner.

For the rest of the changes, No Man’s Sky update 1.38 brings you can see the full patch notes on the official website.

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Brittany Vincent is the former News Editor at Twinfinite who covered all the video games industry's goings on between June 2017 and August 2018. She's been covering video games, anime and tech for over a decade for publications like Otaku USA, G4, Maxim, Engadget, Playboy and more. Fueled by horror, rainbow-sugar-pixel-rushes, and video games, she’s a freelancer who survives on surrealism and ultraviolence. When she’s not writing, watching anime or gaming, she’s searching for the perfect successor to visual novel Saya no Uta.
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