No Man's Sky: Leviathan is finally here. Here's everything you need to know about the latest expedition – Leviathan.
No Man's Sky's latest update, Outlaws, did really well for both fans and critics. It's been a very fun ride filled with new content and things to explore and experience. Now, Outlaws will be getting its much-awaited expedition: No Man's Sky: Leviathan.
Whales have been used as a teaser to what kind of content players will get out of the Leviathan Expedition, and the whales are finally here. There are a lot of things to unpack with this Expedition which actually plays out a little differently compared to other Expeditions we've seen in No Man's Sky before.
Leviathan will feature roguelike-style gameplay, with survival as a focal gameplay theme for Expedition 7. The setting is ala Returnal, with a mysterious time-loop curse that is apparently caused by a mysterious creature called the Leviathan.
Every time players die in this expedition, some individual progress gets reset, but each attempt will count towards Specialist Polo's research into the time-loop, getting players closer to the Expedition's conclusion. Every run will also equip players with a procedurally-generated loadout which gets better and better the more players progress into the Expedition as a whole. Players also collect Memory Fragments that will contribute to their loadout in future runs. The more players who participate in Specialist Polo's research, the stronger the Memory Fragments become, the easier future runs become for everyone.
No Man's Sky: Leviathan Expedition Rewards
As usual, Expedition rewards in No Man's Sky are very generous, but it's extra generous here in Leviathan. This Expedition's rewards include The Whalestalker Cloak, a mini Organic Frigate for your base, a Temporal Starship Trail, and your very own Giant Whale Frigate, among other, less grandiose rewards like base decorations and an Organic Frigate Calf that you can rehome in your base.
To play, players will have to begin a new Community Expedition save, which gets them into the time-loop. When the Expedition concludes, the save will be converted to Survival Mode, but any rewards you receive from this Expedition will be redeemable across all save games from the Space Anomaly's Quicksilver Synthesis Companion.
The Expedition starts today and will last for the better part of the next six weeks, so be sure to contribute to the Expedition this month to get your very own Leviathan Frigate. For the full details, check out the community update page here.
No Man's Sky 3.90 Patch Notes
Along with the launch of the Leviathan Expedition, the game has also been updated to Patch 3.90. Here are the complete patch notes for No Man's Sky 3.90.
- Expedition Seven, the Leviathan, will begin shortly.
- This expedition takes players on a narrative-driven roguelike adventure to break a time-loop curse, where each death means a reset of the loop.
- Players can work together to assist Specialist Polo as they research the loop, increasing the quality of rewards and upgrades for each new iteration.
- Rewards include new posters; a Whalestalker Cloak; a juvenile cosmic leviathan suitable for construction within a base; and a chance to come face to face with the fully-grown Leviathan itself…
- PvP will default to off during this expedition.
- Fixed a GPU crash on PlayStation 4.
- Introduced a significant memory optimisation for Xbox Series S.
- Fixed an issue that could cause a mission blocker if players were sent to an outlaw station to speak with an NPC or terminal not present in outlaw systems.
- Fixed an issue that could cause a mission blocker if players were sent to speak to an NPC on the Space Station (typically a recruit for their base) who had taken part in the tutorial sequence.
- Fixed an issue that could cause doors to fail to open on derelict freighters if several slime pieces were destroyed at the same time.
- Fixed a rare mission blocker that could occur when attempting to locate a planet with high sentinel activity.
- Fixed a rare mission blocker in the Trace of Metal mission, which would cause players to be sent to a Sentinel Hive many tens of thousands of light years away.
- Fixed a number of issues that could occur when joining players from the friends list page.
- Fixed an issue that could cause settlement charts to fail to find a settlement, yet still be consumed.
- Fixed a number of significant visual issues with wire placement.
- Fixed an issue that could cause a small number of X-class procedural upgrades to have unexpectedly low stats.
- Solar-class starships now display their sails on the inventory page.
- Fixed a small number of cases where items received from dismantling products or opening other items would be placed into the wrong inventory.
- The default craft amount for Creature Pellets has been increased, allowing more pellets to be crafted for the same cost.
- Fixed an issue that could cause Traveller NPCs to manifest on outlaw stations, resulting in badly generated text.
- Fixed an issue that could cause Traveller NPCs to manifest using Apollo or Null’s appearance.
- Fixed an issue that could cause the ship damaged VFX to continue playing even after the ship was repaired.
- Fixed an issue that could cause freighter battle missions to fail to trigger properly while the player was on the Under a Rebel Star mission.
- Fixed a visual issue with some specific underground creatures.
- Fixed a rare issue that could prevent interaction with some objects during specific network conditions.
- Fixed a rare issue that could prevent atmospheric frigate flybys on planets with high mountains.
- Fixed a UI issue that could cause the ship upgrade screen to automatically close after installing a new cargo slot, even if the player could afford to purchase additional slots.
- Fixed a number of minor text issues.
- Fixed a number of audio issues.
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