"Some of those things, imaginary or confirmed, didn't make it into the game and modders want to fix that."ĭespite the almost unimaginable size of the No Man's Sky universe, where the chances of encountering another player are almost zero ( though not quite zero), a lot of attention this week has been on what the developers have left out of the game based on what they previously promised. "The interest in modding No Man's Sky is massive because since the initial announcement people have been imagining all the crazy things they will be getting up to in this game," Shah said. In an email to one customer, Hello Games revealed that it will be releasing patches this week and next which will "help to improve the experience further for players" but it is unlikely that the promised official modding tools will be released in the near future.Īccording to Amit Shah, who runs the No Man's Sky Mods website, the interest since the PC release of the game has been huge with almost 800,000 views, 60,000 downloads, and the website temporarily knocked offline this week. Murray and his tiny team at UK-based Hello Games have bigger issues to deal with at the moment, such as fixing the long list of problems already reported on the PC version of the game-something which has led to very average reviews for the game on distribution platform Steam. Two years later and while No Man's Sky has been released, there is no sign of official modding tools.
"We don't have time to wait for official dev tools to fix what can be fixed by us" "I almost feel like we need to give them the tools otherwise then they're just going to start making them, tearing apart your game. In an interview with Game Informer back in 2014, Murray laid out his fears for what the modding community could do to his game. Among the 60 or so mods available for anyone to download are ones to change the look of your ship, add the ability to switch the heads-up display on and off without having to go into the menu, replace the system font with one from Star Trek, disable annoying audio warnings, and replace a "Units Received" alert with "the Rick ' Wubba Lubba Dub Dub' soundbyte from Rick and Morty."
The mods created so far for No Man's Sky are not quite on the same level as Black Mesa, however. Mods range in scope from replacing an in-game avatar with a picture of oneself to entirely reimagining the original game, as was the case with Black Mesa, the remake of Half-Life. Modding is a long established practice in the video game world, where dedicated fans take apart a game's code before adding their own tweaks and making them available for everyone to use-sometimes for a price.
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