No Man’s Sky update clues and the Waking Titan ARG are still underway, and various passwords featured on virtual code disks suggest a fourth alien race may be hidden in the shadows of update 1.3. While some of these finds are a bit confusing to follow, here’s what we know so far.
Shortly after Waking Titan participants uncovered the lore commands from the prompt page last week, the next step involved using a code disk found in emails to answer survey questions correctly. Here’s each solution that’s been confirmed at the time of writing:
- Copy and paste the email survey text and type the word “atlas” at the given link - provides answer Waking Titan.
- Rotate the cipher wheel left three spaces and right 13 spaces. - provides answer DA. But even in the depths of their subjugation, there was hope. - Korvax - ID hyperion. Hyperion is the answer to survey question two.
- Rotate disk 275 degrees to the right, set to zero and rotate 355 degrees. - Provides answer CF. If the Atlas is a God, then it is insane. Vy’Keen - ID orion. The answer to survey question three is Orion.
- Small black letters outside the disk are atomic symbols. The key, after Mercury, is “Lead.” Put that into the cipher. “Refusing to forgive the past. Do not worry, all is well - all is at peace. The A(&I are different now. Gek - ID hastings. Hastings is the final password.
- Superimpose a spiral circle on the resulting image and the letters WFXUOPKN stand out. Enter into the cipher to get the following message:
INCOMING TRANSMISSION...SOURCE: UNKNOWN… you are not - kzzktt- alone- Please, identify yourself. I’m - kzztkk -. Race Fourth - ID mercury.
What we see here is the first official mention of an unknown fourth No Man’s Sky race reaching out to Waking Titan participants. Curiously it doesn’t have a name, so that might mean players will be responsible for deciding what it’s called. The source email does mention participant input in the simulation, after all.
Entering the “mercury” password brings us to the current step called the Calibration Sequence. To complete it, players must take pictures of “public resonant percussion instruments” and upload them to the Project Waking Titan website. These can include bells, clocks and other noise makers in the real world. It’s all being tracked on this website. Once those meters fill, the next step can begin.
The main thing to take away however, is that the fourth race seems to play a role in update 1.3. That’s the second suggested feature addition to the patch alongside portals. Will this race only exist in portals, and how will we find them? We’ll know soon after Waking Titan is complete. There are currently about 2,500 active Waking Titan players. It will be up to them to solve the mystery and influence what happens next.
No Man’s Sky is available now on PS4 and PC. Update 1.3 is expected to release sometime in August.
What would you like to see from No Man’s Sky’s fourth race? Is Waking Titan holding your interest? Tell us in the comments section!
