I have to point out that before I step out of the cabin of my old ship Pilar Radiante BC1 I have to point out something. This review focuses on my current experience of No Man’s Sky on Nintendo Switch, especially its technical behavior and performance in portable mode, since the game still has its essence from the first review, and it also has . Although the first few days were a little more tedious, a few hours ago version 4.02 (Waypoint) was released that brings this version of Switch to the same level as its older sisters and luckily it has arrived because it has solved a good part of the Errors he had observed in these first 72 hours of exploration since last Friday October 7th, the date of his launch.
Condensing the near-infinite universe of No Man’s Sky into a tiny cartridge is in itself a feat of engineering on a level few studios can match, but in Hello Games are specialists in fighting adversity and most importantly, listening to community opinions and feedback. Six years of changes, adding new stories, deeper exploration, new materials, ships, base building, the big cruisers… it’s all now available on your small Nintendo console. But of course, there are inevitable compromises to port the game to a hybrid without the need for cloud play, and it begs the question again: is it worth having No Man’s Sky on Switch?
To answer that, you have to feel completely alone and defenseless again in a strange world that no one has ever stepped on. That sense of emptiness and exposure to the elements no longer ties you to your computer chair or the couch where you play home consoles. No, now you can explore the galaxy from anywhere with all the possibilities that the game offers in the rest of the versions today. Although of course visually we lose a lot in terms of resolution (which the native version, also current, has collected in the physical format of the PlayStation 5 to offer us the greatest possible sharpness). In portable mode, the resolution can’t overcome the screen’s 720p limitation, and in the current 4.02 version, we still get a few glitches every now and then pulls and Bajonazole the frame-per-second ratealthough much less than you might think.
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Yes, during the weekend of exploring on foot, we had a few bugs that still need a patch response, such as trying to fix the desync when using the tool terrain manipulator. Changing the geography of the planet (either by gathering minerals from the surface or adjusting the terrain to build a base) is essential to progression, and by all accounts it’s something the console is almost unable to replicate. You aim at the ground, activate the tool and it takes a few seconds for the terrain to change. It’s a nuisance for everyday use, but in certain situations the lag can lead to accidental crashes or even an item collision bug that kills you and loses your inventory (this happened while playing Survival). It also led to an unexpected game ending.
In walking mode, they render the textures when No Man’s Sky Switch suffers, but everything flows wonderfully in the room. Before the waypoint update, it was struggling to load details on the surfaces of moons and planets, but it seems to be getting better now. Space combat is going great, and thanks to this we were able to accumulate a good number of units (the game currency) as bounty hunters of refugees and space pirates in the sector. Traveling between systems using the Warp Engine and Hyper Turbo can take longer to charge up the ride, but it all comes together in the end. In any case, it’s always good to remember that playing No Man’s Sky is a slow game, since its progress is slow and doesn’t just depend on how lucky we are to discover the right resources when we get them need, but also of it It’s important to take your time making upgrades to your exosuit, ships, and multitool.
maybe that’s why Waypoint also comes at a good time for those who are in a hurry to explore, because you can always adjust the difficulty of the game, for example by releasing the ship’s fuel, or increasing the resource spawn rate, or simply have no curvature limit and be able to travel to any solar system even if you don’t have a Cadmium or Emerilio enginewhich were previously essential pieces.
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In short, there’s not much more to say about the No Man’s Sky experience on Nintendo Switch. The game more than delivers on its promise of taking you anywhere in its vast universe on a 6.2-inch screen, but the ship still needs to tighten some screws and give the paint a good refresh to experience the same rewarding experience like on the other side platforms. Hello Games has my complete trust, so I have no doubt that my complaints will go down in history at the speed of light very soon.
