Excellent news, when you’ve ever wished to fireside up No Man’s Sky and roleplay as a man who likes dinosaurs a lot he is made it a profession and in addition someway managed to shag Jennifer Aniston, right this moment’s your fortunate day. Developer Hiya Video games has simply deployed the Relics replace, and its massive factor is letting you acquire massive alien fossils.
This follows the second little bit of huge Worlds replace arriving within the recreation again in Jaunary, brining with it “billions of latest stars and planets” together with enormous gasoline giants and trippy flying squid mums that’d slap you up for fishing simply too rattling exhausting.
As outlined within the weblog publish in regards to the Relics replace and the video under, its massive factor is introducing house palaeontology. You realize, that factor Ross Geller from Pals does for a dwelling, when he isn’t being a depressed lump, freaking out a couple of sandwich, or dressing as a vacation armadillo.
Now you can also David Schwim your approach via the galaxy on a journey to “unearth a whole bunch of distinctive bones” and assemble them in your museum to attempt to work out how these outdated, lifeless issues used to look. Are you able to intentionally stick bum bones the place skulls ought to be and persuade NMS’ array of enjoyable dwelling aliens that they are all descended from a race of ugly technologically-advanced of us with very unhealthy breath referred to as the Fartongueians? I do not know, however it appears price a go.
Ooh, really on second thought, perhaps not. The replace additionally provides Reanimated Guardians, that are “hulking stone lifeforms [which] slumber by planetary fossil beds, defending these historic burial grounds from Travellers who would search to disturb them…”. In addition they look extra like your cool stone robotic issues than creatures with bums for faces, so there goes my idea. There are additionally Residing Stone Sentries and Colossal Stone Effigies, with the latter being seemingly dormant “monumental stone figures, vestiges of long-dead alien civilisations” that watch over relic worlds.
You may also run into some nonetheless dwelling fossils, with Titanic Boneworms and “skeletal fauna” roaming round planets the place bones may be discovered and in some purple star methods. In the meantime, you may “go to Fossil Collectors aboard Area Stations to promote your created fossil displays – or commerce a few of your bones for any of their broad choice of fossils” and cook dinner stuff with bones.
You will additionally need to join the Galactic Palaeology Society and head off on the brand new expedition Relics provides, which rewards you with a jetpack fabricated from sentient rock, the flexibility to override your character’s look to appear like a sentient rock, and a skeletal animal as a companion.
Have you ever longed to be house Ross for ages? Tell us under!