No Man's Sky's Leviathan Expedition Lets You Own a Space Whale

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The new Leviathan update for No Man’s Sky has been revealed, and it will let players own their own space whale. The game has received several meaty content updates over the last few months, and developer Hello Games has also confirmed No Man's Sky will come to Nintendo Switch.

No Man’s Sky is a survival game that places a player in the role of an interdimensional traveler. Their task is to explore a vast procedurally generated open world galaxy and either engage with or research the alien life found on each world to fulfill objectives while also improving their own equipment and technology. Since its launch in 2016, Hello Games has been working to update and refine the game's content, and one of these improvements was the addition of Expedition Mode in March 2021. Expeditions are the equivalent of seasonal content in other games, which task the player with completing a variety of objectives and research over the duration of the expedition. Players are gifted an assortment of rewards at the expedition’s end, and recently, this included the ability to recruit the Normandy from Mass Effect to the player’s fleet.

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Available now, the newNo Man's Sky update revealed by Hello Games is the Leviathan expedition. Unlike previous Expeditions, Leviathan adds a whole new gameplay element by introducing roguelike mechanics. The Leviathan Expedition traps participating players within a cursed time loop where if a player dies while exploring, they must begin again from scratch. However, the newly revived player may use items called Memory Fragments which grant random technology advancements. Players may also collaborate to participate in the expedition