10 Reasons You Should Give No Man's Sky Another Chance

As well as base building, farming and buying freighters there’s also a host of new items made specifically to make your time in game that little bit more convenient.

You can now, provided you have the right resources, build machines to mine resources without manual labour taking away the grind that so many people complained about with the original cut of the game. You can also create equipment like the hazmat gauntlet needed to harvest rare crops.

Communication stations let you leave messages for other travellers which is a neat way reminding you that, no matter much it feels like it, you are not alone. User constructed save points, while relatively self explanatory, are useful if you’re out on a long hike and don’t want to lose your progress.

Probably the most useful is the signal scanner, which will point out which way to go to find resources and suit/weapon upgrades.