Listed here are the main feature updates coming out for the 'Next' update for NMS.
Multiplayer
- Team up a small team of friends and explore the universe together, or be joined by random travelers.
- You can help friends to stay alive, or prey on others to survive.
- Tiny shelters or complex colonies that you build as a team are shared for all players.
- Fight as a pirate or a wing man in epic space battles with friends and enemies.
- Race exocraft across weird alien terrains, creating race tracks and trails to share online.
- Character customization allows you to personalize your appearance.
Visual Overhaul
- The game is fully playable in third or first person, both on-foot and in ship.
- Planetary rings and improved space visuals make space more beautiful than ever.
- Dramatically improved planetary terrain generation, ground textures, water and clouds bring the environment to life.
- Significantly more detail added to ships, NPCs and buildings.
Unlimited Base Building
- Bases can now be built anywhere on any planet.
- Dramatically increased base building complexity and size limits.
- Hundreds of new base parts.
- Own multiple bases.
Command Freighters
- Assemble and upgrade a fleet of frigates and command them from the bridge of your freighter.
- Send your fleet out to into the universe, or deploy them to help you as you explore a specific system.
- Improved freighter base building allows a truly custom capital ship.
- Invite your friends aboard and take on challenging multiplayer missions from the Galactic Commission Station on your bridge.
DaOpa's Opinion section and questions
This update looks to be really interesting in the terms how multiplayer is going to work. My main concern is how will they deal with cheats and exploits? If the game is going to have random PVP encounters and people are still able to hack for credits, it will cause issues for users who want to play in a fair environment.
Will they have a universe wipe?
Are players who play hardcore going to be mixed in with others who do not?
When going to center of universe, it will go thru a sequence that ports you to a new universe seed, will this still be the same for the multiplayer update? Seems weird if that is the case, how would you find someone in different universe seeds? I would help they change the sequence so it just throws you back to the start of the universe in a random location instead of a different one. So that as go thru again, you will see other players buildings, sign posts etc.
