No Man’s Sky’s Halloween expedition, The Cursed, launches today – PlayStation.Blog
Hello, our little No Man’s Sky team has a Halloween party for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and PlayStation VR players.
Our most recent update sees players having a fun, relaxing time as we add fishing to No Man’s Sky. Our next update couldn’t be more different. As we approach Halloween, we want to scare and surprise players, and The Cursed is a surprisingly scary update for No Man’s Sky.
The Cursed is a strange and disturbing gameplay event where you will fight to grasp reality while haunted by images and voices from another dimension.
Taking place in a twilight universe, The Cursed straddles the line between this reality and the next. Here, time can change unexpectedly, turning from day to night at breakneck speed.
The new Boundary Herald Starship is your safe haven in this haunted universe. Our first flying saucer was a beautiful Giger-style tube reel, pipework, and engine.
Players must protect themselves against the weakening of reality boundaries. Your Exosuit is equipped with a specialized Anomaly Suppressor – maintaining this is key to survival while the universe begins to collapse around you.
As players struggle to navigate these haunted worlds, they may face ghostly creatures that drift through the boundaries. Sometimes these anomalous spectra are merely observed, and sometimes they can become much more hostile. These encounters present players with new challenging enemies and boss battles, on a scale never seen before in No Man’s Sky.
Visitors will not have access to hyperdrive technology, meaning no warping between star systems. Instead, interstellar travel requires careful planning and use of an ancient portal network.
Haunting voices, leaking from other dimensions, will provide instructions, information, strange and mysterious blueprints. It’s up to you to decide who these voices belong to, where they come from, and whether they are trustworthy.
The Cursed carries a host of exclusive spooky rewards, including a Cthulhu-style horror Exosuit customization, a bioluminescent pet, and the ultimate reward, obtained from the reality crash, the Boundary Herald-like Spaceship UFOs.
Travel beyond the boundaries and fortify your mind against spectral anomalies – or succumb to the call of the glass world. The expedition begins today, is free for current PlayStation players, and will last about two weeks.
Our most recent update was Aquarius, which introduced fishing to No Man’s Sky and proved very popular. For us, 2024 continues to be one of our most popular years since launch. In the coming weeks, we’ll have more surprises, including a specific release to take advantage of the incredible power of the PlayStation 5 Pro at launch.
Our journey continues.
