

The initial trailers for No Man's Sky showed us several things that we'd never see make it into the game on release, which is one of the reasons for the current uproar.

Now we're getting into the bigger changes. They are all small changes, but when they come together it makes No Man's Sky a different (and much better) experience.

There have also been tweaks to fog levels, visual noise in the sky on planets, and much more. Space is much darker than before, and doesn't have that weird coloured hue that you get in every system. This mod also makes various lighting and colour changes to make the game feel much more atmospheric. As far as removals go, chromatic aberration, scanlines, depth of field, and vignette have all been kissed goodbye, making the game look much clearer right from the get-go. Starting off small here, TheEMMETBROWN's Deep Space V2 mod makes some desperately needed graphical changes, and removes some of the questionable effects that were included in the base game. Most of the mods on the list also require another mod, NMS Extender, to work, and you can get that mod by clicking right here. It's worth noting that these mods are all available on the No Man's Sky section of Nexusmods, and all require you tinkering with the game's files in one way or another, so if you care about your save file it might be worth backing up. It is for this reason that the kind souls at Gamereactor have put something together for you PC users: a list of the best No Man's Sky mods to make your experience as close as possible to the space exploration game we dreamed of. What we saw advertised was a brilliant exploration game with tons of depth and hours of content, but to many, that is not the game we got, and they felt the final product was a shallow husk of what it could've been. Unless you've been living under a rock for the last few months, you'll know that Hello Games' massively anticipated universe simulator, No Man's Sky, wasn't quite what people expected or had hoped for.
