Hello Games finally has some news about what's coming for No Man's Sky,The Impotent King (2005) in English Subtitles after more than two months of near-total silence.

An update issued Friday on the game's website notes that "The Foundation Update" is coming "this week." The name of the update has a double meaning: it introduces base-building mechanics to the game and it "[puts] in place a foundation for what is to come."

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That's the extent of the details provided, though detailed patch notes — and the patch's release — are expected to follow "soon." The rest of the post addresses Hello's extended silence since the September patch.

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In the nine weeks since then our small team has been hard at work on development, testing and certification for the Foundation Update. It won’t be our biggest update, but it is the start of something.

The discussion around No Man’s Skysince release has been intense and dramatic. We have been quiet, but we are listening and focusing on improving the game that our team loves and feels so passionately about.

Positive or negative feedback, you have been heard and that will truly help to make this a better game for everyone.

This update will be the first small step in a longer journey. We hope you can join us.

No Man's Skyrode a wave of tremendous hype into its August 2016 release thanks to the ambitious scope of its procedurally generated galactic exploration. The finished product left much to be desired, however, thanks to a combination of unclear marketing, broken feature promises and a widespread lack of understanding over what the game was supposed to be.

Hello Games spoke up quickly to lay out general plans — with no timetable — for expanding the scope of the experience beyond where it was at launch, but the studio's semi-regular communications tailed off completely after the September update.

The studio made news in October when in-house email and social media accounts were hacked, reportedly by a disgruntled employee. That situation was seemingly addressed behind the scenes, but Hello didn't comment publicly beyond a handful of tweets.

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