No Man’s Sky will supposedly be getting a PS4 Pro patch that improves the game’s visuals. This news arrives via a tweet from Llamasoft founder Jeff Minter.
After one of his followers asked if No Man’s Sky performed better on the updated console, Minter said that “one of the devs told me at the party the other day that a PS4 Pro upgrade is in the works and looks great apparently.” Unfortunately, however, nothing more was shared on the matter.
@blakespot One of the devs told me at the party the other day that a ps4 pro upgrade is in the works that looks great apparently.
— Jeff Minter (@llamasoft_ox) December 14, 2016
Before immediately discrediting this single message as baseless speculation, it’s important to note that Minter is a pretty valued contributor in game development and the current small-team scene. He’s been making games since the early ‘80s and is responsible for coding Tempest 2000 on the Atari Jaguar. Over the years he’s crafted dozens of titles and brought TxK to PS Vita in 2014. Today, he’s working on a PSVR title called Polybius.
Of course, just because Minter knows his way around development circles, that doesn’t guarantee he has a direct line to the No Man’s Sky team at Hello Games. That being said, the fact that both creators live in England makes the mentioned interaction all the more feasible.
What this tells us, then, is that this supposed PS4 Pro patch at the very least improves the game’s visuals. Like others have done before, it’s also possible that such an update might boost performance at 1080p resolution too. Until the developer reveals the complete details, we don’t know the full scope of what’s to come.
The tease of a PS4 Pro update for No Man’s Sky completely jives with the increased positivity surrounding Hello Games since the release of the Foundation Update last month. Alongside bugfixes for base building, the studio also recently pushed a series of tweaks that drastically improves the title’s space combat.
Ultimately, as a PS4-centric game, a Pro patch for No Man’s Sky seems like a rather sure thing. Shortly before the console’s formal reveal, Hello Games programmer Sean Murray praised the hardware as something that could “fundamentally change” the game’s base experience because it’d allow the procedurally generated universe’s algorithm more room to work its magic.
No Man’s Sky is available now on PS4 and PC.
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