Roaming around the galaxy can get a little lonely at times. When you’re exploring trillions of procedurally-generated planets, the mind can often wish for companionship. There is already a multiplayer component to No Man’s Sky, added in a previous update, where you can meet other players and join them on ever-changing quests, but what about the people out there who want to befriend a weird crab-octopus hybrid, and adopt them as a pet of their very own?
Well for all those people, they might just have what you’ve been looking for. No Man’s Sky, as I’m sure most of us know by now, has been on a renaissance post-launch, delivering update after update full of positive changes, and the latest one, appropriately titled “Companions”, allows you to bond with creatures you discover on your travels and summon them to your character.
No Man’s Sky: Companions
🦝Adopt Pets
🐹Raise Cute Babies
🐣Breed Creatures
🦑Trade Eggs
🤖Customise your pets
🐕🦺Train creatures to do chores
🐬Talk to your pet
🦋UI Improvements
🦅Faster PS4 Load Time
🧠Fauna Improvements
🦕Ride giant creatures— Hello Games (@hellogames) February 17, 2021
You can teach your new friend to search for items and even dig them up. Adventuring at night? Use your companion as a portable flashlight. When encountering other players or animals, your companion will react to them depending on their personality type, something that is dependent on a number of factors, from their planets’ ecosystem to species characteristics.
You’ll be able to see how they’re doing through your exosuit, and you can improve their mood by playing with them, feeding them, and generally giving them love. Give them enough love and they’ll even have the chance to lay eggs, which you can take to the new Egg Sequencer to alter the genetic makeup of the newest generation, allowing you to give evolution a gentle push to your liking. You can trade eggs with other No Man’s Sky players, which you may want to do if you discover a particularly rare breed.
Creature taming isn’t the only thing added in this No Man’s Sky update, however. PlayStation 4 players will see a boost to loading times during start-up and warping. That’s a good thing for the many people who still haven’t managed to get their hands on a PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X yet because of supply/scalper issues (I’m not that salty, I promise).
What do you think of No Man’s Sky’s latest update? Let us know in the comments below!
