No Man's Sky Leviathan Update Explained
Though it got off to an extremely shaky start, No Man's Sky is now generally considered to be one of the best space survival sims out there, rivaling the likes of Elite Dangerous and EVE Online. Over the last six years, Hello Games has worked tirelessly to make No Man's Sky a game that lives up to its potential, and the hype that once surrounded it. And by all accounts, the developer has succeeded, with an unprecedented amount of free content having been added over the years.
In April of last year, No Man's Sky received another massive update, this time adding Expeditions to the game. As opposed to the standard procedurally-generated formula of No Man's Sky's usual gameplay loop, Expeditions sought to add a few hand-crafted events to the game, each one designed with unique mechanics and contexts in mind. Since then, six Expedition missions have released, each one more ambitious than the last. The latest Expedition, titled «Leviathan,» has just arrived, and along with some exciting and worthwhile loot, there are some pretty unique mechanics on display here.
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No Man's Sky seventh Expedition, Leviathan, tasks players with seeking out a temporal anomaly. Once players have arrived at the anomaly, they'll become trapped inside a time loop. From here, the usual No Man's Sky gameplay is flipped on its head, instead becoming an intense roguelike survival game, where death means starting from scratch.
Once inside the loop, the difficulty is ramped up to Survivor level, meaning that players who are used to lower difficulty tiers might need to bring in some friends to try and break the cycle. As players make their way through the time loop, they'll encounter Memory Fragments. These Fragments are
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