No Man's Sky: 13 Little-Known Facts You Need To See

9. There Are No Loading Screens

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After the game's initial loadup, it will reportedly have no loading screens, which seems absolutely insane considering the game's massive scope and the fact that even games with relatively small worlds such as Destiny have extremely long loading times.

Journalists who have played the game have confirmed that hopping around planets features no loading whatsoever, and it seems that the key is in the game's procedural generation: it is constantly generating new content while you play, and so requires no immersion-killing break to load.

Given how extraordinarily complex the game seems, and how it was made by a small team of roughly twenty, it's nothing if not impressive.

 
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