Key Takeaways
- No Man’s Sky players are just finding a planet that lets you float around effortlessly, simulating a feeling of low gravity.
- It’s explained that this phenomenon is due to two planets almost colliding, with the gravity of both planets fighting over the player.
- It is warned that your game can crash if you get too close to these planets, so approach at your own peril.
No Man’s Sky is such a massive game that nobody can really have claimed to have seen everything, what with there being countless updates from Hello Games adding new stuff almost every month. Occasionally, a player will stumble across something wild, and share it with countless other fans that are baffled by what they’re seeing. They did it with the Nomad a couple of months ago, as many recently discovered you can actually ride it underwater.
Now another player is at it, having recently shared their personal discovery with the No Man’s Sky subreddit earlier this week. A user called Gentoo133 recently posted a video of themselves effortlessly floating around a planet, using their jetpack to seemingly swim through the air and appreciate the scenery as they slowly drift along.
No Man’s Sky Fans Are Just Finding A Planet That Lets You Swim Through The Air
It’s a video that baffled quite a lot of fellow players, as many attempted to figure out exactly how Gentoo133 found this and how they were performing their seemingly miraculous feat. Very quickly, several players noticed that the skyline was filled by a planet so close to the one that Gentoo133 was floating around on that they might as well be smooching.
Even though the effects are pretty neat, it doesn’t appear to be an intentional feature on Hello Games’ part. Instead, it’s possible that the planets are so ridiculously close together that the game can’t really figure out which planet’s gravity Gentoo133 should be affected by, leading to this weightlessness effect. As Buzz Lightyear would say, they’re not really flying, they’re falling with style.
Planets as close as these can occasionally happen due to the game’s planet generation, with some full on collisions, though other users have reported that because they’re not meant to be close together, it can end up crashing games and wiping saves. So, if you see two planets practically holding hands, you may want to think twice about docking your ship there. Sure, you could play around in low gravity, but it’s not really worth corrupting a 200-hour save, is it?
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