No Man?s Sky represents one of the best redemption stories in recent gaming history. The infamous 2016 launch resulted in the release of a game that was a technical marvel, but one that had a troubled start due to miscommunication and a nuclear-fueled hype train that smashed straight into the small adobe hut that is indie development. Well, three years later, Hello Games has launched the fifth massive update for this now-thriving game, Beyond. There is more than enough content here to warrant a review, and thus, we present to you our No Man?s Sky Beyond review.
You?re Going to Help Us, PC Gamers
As with previous massive updates by Hello Games, the launch wasn?t bug-free by any means. Players who have stuck with the game this long should know by now to backup their save games before taking the plunge into Beyond. But Hello Games has been busily applying patch after patch, fixing production bugs that their limited testing would have never found prior to release. While PC gamers receive these updates first, they serve as a testing ground for console gamers, who get the more polished version of these patches thanks to the more stringent certification process at Sony (and presumably, Microsoft). The result has been, in less than a week, an update that has been patched multiple times, at a furious pace that makes AAA development studios look as slow as molasses. This responsiveness is the double-edged sword of small-team development.
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