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Hello Games has broken its long silence following the launch of No Man's Sky to confirm details of the game's first major content update, which will add a base-building element.The patch will be called the Foundation Update, to reflect both its construction element and the fact that it is "putting in place a foundation for things to come." The studio didn't confirm the full patch notes or when the patch would be released, other that it would be "soon", but the fact it's even prepared to confirm its existence is significant after a long and controversial period of silence. The game attracted fierce criticism for not living up to the expectations set by the pre-release marketing, which Sony publishing boss Shu Yoshida later admitted was "not a great PR strategy".
The Foundation Update announcement does point out that the game has received seven patches since it released, but the community has long demanded more significant changes, citing pre-release interviews with Hello Games head Sean Murray that referred to features, like rich multiplayer, that didn't make it into the game. Player complaints prompted the UK's Advertising Standards Authority to investigate the game for misleading buyers, and Steam banned non-game-screenshots on store pages shortly afterwards. Both Murray and Hello remained largely silent throughout, until today's announcement.
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