The first No Man's Sky patch is done, will bring new "features, balances and content"

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Space adventure finally launches next week.

If you're anything like me, instead of playing games this week you've been watching leaked videos of No Man's Sky gameplay footage. Without spoiling anything (though the game is virtually limitless, so what's to spoil?), it does have bugs, ranging minor through to hilarious. That's to be expected for a game this massive and so reliant on procedural generation, but Hello Games is being proactive when it comes to squashing them. The first patch for the game has just been completed.

Here's what the studio tweeted earlier today:

No doubt the promise of "lots of new features" and "content" will turn No Man's Sky's already hysterical fanbase into a pile of frothing maniacs (count me among them). It does suggest that what we've seen in leaked footage isn't the full extent of the game's features, but it could also point to stuff that has always  been planned to roll out post-launch.

Whatever the case, one player claims to have seen a lot of what the game has to offer, but we won't know for sure until next week. Or more realistically, months later. 

Shaun Prescott
Shaun Prescott
Australian Editor

Shaun Prescott is the Australian editor of PC Gamer. With over ten years experience covering the games industry, his work has appeared on GamesRadar+, TechRadar, The Guardian, PLAY Magazine, the Sydney Morning Herald, and more. Specific interests include indie games, obscure Metroidvanias, speedrunning, experimental games and FPSs. He thinks Lulu by Metallica and Lou Reed is an all-time classic that will receive its due critical reappraisal one day.