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Issy van der Velde

12 September 2025

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I’ve written a lot about the excellent new ships you can build thanks to the latest free No Man’s Sky update, but one feature I haven’t touched on is your ability to skydive out of them from low orbit. That’s right, it’s basically Halo ODST or Mission Impossible now. Turns out, skydiving really pushed the game to its limits, but one developer is very proud of the end result.

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A beautiful shot and one that makes us super happy to see – skydiving stretched our engine limits, to the point that some biomes (even a few weeks before release) had drastic fps drops with the combination of a slow decent and so much of a planet in view:It took the combined… https://t.co/B4CJvfbiLySeptember 11, 2025

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