Sean Murray Could Be Teasing New No Man’s Sky Update With Swearing Emoji

Summary

• Founder Sean Murray teased a potential third update with a single red-faced swearing emoji tweet.
• Fans are speculating wildly about the upcoming update, predicting curses or profanity-related content.

It's been a busy few months for No Man's Sky. First, the game received its massive Worlds Part 1 update, which saw its water and clouds get a full visual overhaul, alongside the additions of floating sky islands. A couple of months later, the Aquarius update dropped, adding the much-requested fishing activity to the eight-year-old title. All of this caused No Man's Sky to hit its highest player count since 2019.

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Not letting the momentum fade away, Hello Games founder Sean Murray could be teasing the game's third update in as many months.

The Classic Single Emoji Teaser

Murray is known for teasing upcoming No Man's Sky updates by tweeting out a single emoji. For Worlds Part 1, he tweeted out the globe, for Aquarius, a single pot (which had fans speculating about rivers). Now, unless he's just really angry, Murray has posted a single tweet with the red-faced swearing emoji.

This emoji arguably gives players less to speculate on than the previous two, but that has not stopped them from running wild with guesses online.

Over on the game's unofficial Subreddit, the update has been dubbed both the "cursing update" and "profanity update", with players jokingly suggesting that "They're finally going to allow Geks to say the slurs they've been holding back all these years."

Jokes aside, players have recently found a bug in No Man's Sky that mistakenly marks the word 'paradise' as a profanity, so there is some suggestion that this could just be a small patch to fix that.

Another entirely feasible theory, especially as we're now in Spooky Season, is that the game will be adding some kind of mystical curses. Given that some items, such as the Terrifying Sample, already reference a curse, this theory might not be too far off the mark.

Whatever happens, it's likely to be another free update for the game, something which fans have begged Hello Games to stop.

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