{"id":988,"date":"2026-01-23T21:43:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T21:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlinegamernews.com\/?p=988"},"modified":"2026-01-23T21:43:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T21:43:18","slug":"no-mans-sky-gets-a-significant-visual-overhaul-and-rideable-flying-creatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlinegamernews.com\/no-mans-sky-gets-a-significant-visual-overhaul-and-rideable-flying-creatures","title":{"rendered":"No Man&#8217;s Sky gets a Significant visual overhaul and rideable flying Creatures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The armada of free upgrades from Hello Games continues.<\/p>\n<p>Not two weeks have passed since No Man&#8217;s Sky&#8217;s final free upgrade, which added Volume Impact&#8217;s Normandy to a fleet for a frigate. And there is already another upgrade to Hi Games&#8217;s space exploration sandbox.<\/p>\n<p>It is named Prisms, and it is a fairly hefty visual overhaul for No Man&#8217;s Sky. Prisms includes features such as:<\/p>\n<p>Rain which refracts light and leaves surfaces seem wet and glistening<br \/>\nNew lighting effects in caves<br \/>\nFur for alien critters<br \/>\nA nighttime sky speckled with thousands of new stars<br \/>\nBrand New effects when you use your hard drive<br \/>\nVolumetric lighting effects in space and ship station insides<br \/>\nWhat better way to enjoy new visuals than in the back of a giant monster that is alien?<\/p>\n<p>With so much new things to gawp at, No Man&#8217;s Sky&#8217;s photograph style has gotten some updates too, with greater controls for depth of field and blossom.<\/p>\n<p>Remember that a number of the visual improvements will be dependent on your own PC&#8217;s specs and if you are already utilizing Ultra settings. Nonetheless, it&#8217;s still a very long list of attributes including some welcome technology enhancements such as display distance reflections (SSR), DLSS (in case you&#8217;ve got an Nvidia RTX card), parallax occlusion mapping, refractions such as cockpits and glass base components, particle effect enhancements, and much more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The armada of free upgrades from Hello Games continues. Not two weeks have passed since No Man&#8217;s Sky&#8217;s final free upgrade, which added Volume Impact&#8217;s Normandy to a fleet for a frigate. And there is already another upgrade to Hi Games&#8217;s space exploration sandbox. It is named Prisms, and it is a fairly hefty visual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":989,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[224],"class_list":["post-988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-featured","tag-no-mans-sky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinegamernews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinegamernews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinegamernews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinegamernews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinegamernews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlinegamernews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106546,"href":"https:\/\/onlinegamernews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions\/106546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinegamernews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinegamernews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinegamernews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinegamernews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}