One more day and No Man’s Sky will be (officially) released. In the past few days several outlets already sold the game and it’s becoming increasingly hard to avoid spoilers on places like Reddit and the few gaming related Facebook groups I’m part of. But the creators of the game, Hello Games, already announced that a day 1 patch will be released that will fundamentally change the game as it is right now. They even advise to delete your save and start over, probably a good idea anyway as the servers will be wiped as well. Release notes for the 1.03 update can be found here. It’s a nice list of updates and tweaks, and I am hoping Hello Games will take the same approach to updates as CD Projekt Red does. Lots of attention to detail, the fans (and free).
One thing that did annoy me about the pre-ordering on PSN was the apparent lack of pre-order incentive compared to the European release and the physical Gamestop one. You get a better starting ship and some credits. But it turned out you do get this as well on PSN when pre-ordering, it’s just not mentioned on the store page.
So one more day before I will start exploring the No Man’s Sky universe. I might start a Star Trek style “Captains Log”. Not sure yet.