After months of silence, the developers of No Man's Sky have released an update for the PC and Sony Playstation 4. With the substantial update, Hello Games navigates a new direction for the procedurally generated space sim.

According to gaming website Kotaku, the new update makes the game much more grounded. A steady stream of patches are already in the pipeline. The intense and dramatic complaints of fans has also been addressed by Hello Games.

Technology website Ars Technica reports that Hello Games broke two months of silence with the announcement that an update for No Man's Sky was on the way. The studio has unveiled the huge update which introduces base building, freighters, and farming to the game.

Hello Games appear to be planning more content in the future on the PC and Sony PS4. They state that this latest content will not be their biggest update but is the start of something. The studio is calling the update, The Foundation Update, because they have added the foundations of base building and also because this is putting in place a foundation for things to come. They also addressed the outcry of players for the underwhelming and repetitive experience that they believed that they did not pay for. The developer said that the discussion around No Man's Sky since release has been intense and dramatic.

They have been quiet but they are listening and focusing on improving the game that their team loves and feels passionately about. Positive or negative feedback has been heard and that will trully help make the game better for everyone.

According to gaming website Gamasutra, all the vehement criticisms forced Hello Games to widthdraw from media attention and went silent in order to concentrate on putting out updates and fixes as soon as possible. The developer has returned to the spotlight to release the Foundation update.

The update is intended to begin to address the issues that many players have been complaining about. It is meant to build a base for more and better future content and features for Hello Games' No Man's Sky which is available for the PC and Sony Playstation 4.