Summary

  • No Man's Sky finally added ship customisation, but fans aren't too happy with the limited colour palette.
  • For the primary, secondary, and accent colours of your ship, you have to select from the same pool of 20 colours.
  • Fans want a complete RGB wheel, true black, and even a rust material option to take the system further.

Last month, No Man's Sky finally added ship customisation and fans were so happy with the update that they even begged developer Hello Games to stop releasing new content for free. However, not everyone is happy with the system, specifically the colour palette.

Not only can you alter your ship's design and its internal parts, but you can now change the colour of your spacecraft. But you only have a palette of 20 colours to choose from, of which the choices are incredibly limited.

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For instance, there's no black, just two greys, despite it being featured in the trailer. "It's been a mix of hype and disappointment," OrbitaldRop7 commented on the game's subreddit. "I thought we could customise current ships, but had to make a new one, so spent a day trying to find the same parts as my current one. Then [I] get hit with the pretty lame colour palette. Was hoping for black and gold, but settled for white and gold".

To boot, you can't alter your ship's colours once you've finished customising, so you're stuck with whatever paint job you pick. "I still wish we could change it afterwards [...] like we can with freighters," CNXQDRFS said. "The colours from the space station can kind of mess up the preview and when you see it in a different light it just looks a bit meh.

What Do Fans Want To See?

Aside from a black option, players are calling for "true RGB colour scales" to allow for completely free customisation, rather than having to select from a limited pool. Others want to see "dark neon colours" like blue or hot pink. And if not black, then at least dark grey.

If they give us a nice colour wheel with some saturation and brightness [sliders], I'll spend hours customising everything.

Another commenter suggested a rust material option to further fine-tune the ship's appearance, not only by modifying its colour but by also adding wear and tear to make it look older and more lived-in.

Perhaps we'll see the customisation expanded on in future updates, finally adding that black option we saw in the trailer, but for now, you'll have to make do with the palette of 20.

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No Man's Sky

Adventure Action Survival Systems 4.0/5 8.8/10 OpenCritic Reviews Top Critic Avg: 72/100 Critics Rec: 36% Released August 9, 2016 ESRB T for Teen: Fantasy Violence, Animated Blood Developer(s) Hello Games Publisher(s) Hello Games Engine Proprietary
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Lose yourself in a vast sci-fi odyssey as you explore a near-infinite, procedurally generated universe.

Set out from the edge of the Euclid galaxy and carve out your own interstellar existence in a vast universe teeming with life, danger and near-endless mystery.

No Man's Sky is a hugely-ambitious, heavily-stylised, sci-fi adventure that spans entire galaxies all brought to life with procedural generation. Travel through an endless array of increasingly diverse and dangerous star systems, prospecting for rare materials, trading with alien life, populate planets and searching for clues to the meaning of the universe's mysterious existence.

How you survive is up to you. Assemble entire fleets of dreadnought-class freighters and tear across the universe; build sprawling habitable bases across planet surfaces, beneath the ground or under the ocean; buy and upgrade your own weapons and star ships and do battle with outlaw space pirates, hostile alien fauna or the mysterious sentinel fleets.  

The universe is yours to explore - trillions upon trillions of planets, waiting to be discovered.

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