Limitless Sky: No Man's Sky Unofficial Discovery Guide
LIMITLESS SKY INTRODUCTION Welcome traveler You’re about to embark on a journey unlike any other Ahead you’ll fi nd planets to discover and explore teeming with life and artifacts from those who have come before you You could spend years fully charting a planet’s surface naming your discoveries for those who come after you and mining the world for valuable resources But that’s just the beginning Hop into your spacecraft and you can soar beyond the stars setting a course for the complete unknown as you inch your way toward the center of the galaxy How long that journey takes is completely up to you Between you and that goal are quadrillions of unique planets loaded with unpredictable creatures and breathtaking vistas Fully discovering everything there is to see in No Man’s Sky is an impossible task even if you tap into the collective hive-mind of every player who 6 Th is book is not authorized sponsored endorsed or licensed by Hello Games Limited Th e trademark No Man’s Sky is owned by Hello Games Limited and other company names and or trademarks mentioned in this book are the property of their respective companies and are used for identifi cation purposes only
No Man’s Sky Discovery Guide experiences this incredibly ambitious game This guide won’t even attempt to fully chart one of the game’s 18 quintillion planets Instead it will provide you with everything you need to know to embark on your own unique journey Do you plan on living your virtual life as a peaceful explorer leaving minimal footprints on each planet you visit while adding to the collective knowledge base Would you rather fi nd your fortune and infamy blasting apart trade vessels and avoiding the authorities as a space pirate Or perhaps you’d like to learn the secrets of the universe by cooperating with alien cultures No Man’s Sky can be overwhelming by design but don’t let its scale paralyze you Regardless of how you choose to play we’ll give you the foundation you need to tackle the universe on your own terms Whether you’re looking for guidance on what minerals and resources are worth your time how to upgrade your weapons to meet their planet carving potential or how to get your hands on a ship that will become the stuff of legend we’re here to help No Man’s Sky will surely be changing over the coming months and years as development continues and updates are released but let’s get started We’ve got a lot of ground to cover after all Note No Man’s Sky is available on the PlayStation 4 and PC and the two versions are functionally identical For the sake of this guide we’ll be referring to the PS4 control scheme The button mapping will be different on PC but the references to gameplay and the overall fl ow are the same on both platforms Th is book is not authorized sponsored endorsed or licensed by Hello Games Limited Th e trademark No Man’s Sky is owned by Hello Games Limited and other company names and or trademarks mentioned in this book are the property of their respective companies and are used for identifi cation purposes only 7
LIMITLESS SKY THE ORIGINS OF NO MAN’S SKY Looking at No Man’s Sky it’s easy to assume that it’s the creation of a massive team of developers from a studio with a track record of producing massive open-world games The reality is much different and far more interesting Before it wowed the world with the prospect of discovering an entirely new universe Hello Games found success in a charming little game about a motorcycle stuntman fi ery hoops devoured by ravenous sharks or other career-ending failures The game was a success and the small team worked on bringing it to the Xbox 360 They also hired a few more employees and began work on its sequel Joe Danger 2 The Movie The follow-up added more variety to the formula giving Joe more vehicles to choose from and dropping him into a variety of different movie-style action sequences Hello Games was founded in 2009 in Guildford England The town located a quick train ride away from London is a hotbed of English game development it has served as home to game studios that have created top-tier titles such as Burnout LittleBigPlanet Fable and many others After working at a variety of Guildford studios four developers Ryan Doyle Grant Duncan Sean Murray and Dave Ream decided to break away from larger companies and form their own indie studio Audiences seemed to like Joe Danger and what Hello Games was doing but Murray programmer and studio co-founder was growing restless He had what he later described as a bit of a breakdown and worried that the new studio which he and his friends had founded to express their own creativity was heading down an all-too familiar path After Joe Danger 2 what would come next Joe Danger 3 Joe Danger 4 As much as he loved the little guy it wasn’t a future he was thrilled about That studio became Hello Games and its fi rst title was the PlayStation 3 game Joe Danger The side scrolling action game released in the summer of 2010 featured the titular stuntman in a series of escalating feats of derring-do Players had to time their motorcycle’s jumps and calculate their landings to score big and avoid getting scorched by Murray set up a private offi ce within the studio and for a year worked on a secret project once his work on Joe Danger 2 was fi nished He created another new game engine but this was far more advanced than the one he had worked on with Joe Danger Joe Danger gave players the thrill of being a stuntman This new project would possibly give players an entire universe Eventually Murray took Duncan and Doyle aside and explained what he was working on Until then it had been clouded in mystery For years Murray had been fascinated with games such as Elite which let players explore space and forge their own paths 8 Th is book is not authorized sponsored endorsed or licensed by Hello Games Limited Th e trademark No Man’s Sky is owned by Hello Games Limited and other company names and or trademarks mentioned in this book are the property of their respective companies and are used for identifi cation purposes only
No Man’s Sky Discovery Guide Th is book is not authorized sponsored endorsed or licensed by Hello Games Limited Th e trademark No Man’s Sky is owned by Hello Games Limited and other company names and or trademarks mentioned in this book are the property of their respective companies and are used for identifi cation purposes only 9
