Hello Games has announced that cross-save is available now in No Man’s Sky. Players can transfer saves between the Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4/5, Xbox, PlayStation VR2, and more. Additionally, the game has been updated to include enhancements for the PlayStation 5 Pro. Further, a limited-time update featuring the Normandy from Mass Effect is also available.
Check out the trailers for the cross-save and Mass Effect update below:
Hello Games initially released No Man’s Sky for the PlayStation 4 in August 2016. Critics and fans alike panned the game at launch, due to its broken state and numerous promises from the developers that were never delivered. However, in the almost eight years since its launch, Hello Games has turned the game around.
They’ve added several features, released it on other consoles, and have overall delivered the experience that people were hoping for eight years ago. In February 2024, Hello Games released the “Omega Update.” The most recent update for the game is the “Orbital Update,” which released in March 2024.
The official No Man’s Sky website outlines the difficulties in adding cross-save:
Adding the ability to transfer saves between platforms via a server is especially difficult for No Man’s Sky, as the work involved increases with each platform supported and how long folks have already been playing for. Both those numbers are large for our tiny team.
It’s very common for players to rack up thousands of hours of saves exploring across space, building elaborate bases and cataloging their discoveries, with incredibly detailed saves. Adding Cross-Save for us is a little bit like moving house, the longer people have lived there the more complicated it is to move them! We also have players who played once at launch, eight years ago, suddenly loading up that save on a platform that didn’t even exist back then!
