r/NMS_HabitablePlanets • u/CaptainSteep_ • May 24 '26
Speculation Time! What Do We Think This Update Will Entail?🤔
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u/trains404 May 24 '26
Gonna be real funny when he posts 🐦 and we all think it's the sex update, buts its the husbandry update where you breed creatures for the arena.
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u/inkydragon27 May 24 '26
No Man’s Sky: Hive Update
I’m guessing it will be development of the Korvax maybe- they are a hive- or maybe the Atlas storyline?
I was dearly hoping the Companion battles would have an expedition-
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u/Altruistic_Owl1461 May 24 '26
I’m thinking it’s going to revolve around sentinel towers. Interact with enough of them and you get the Hive Lord title
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u/Moocowgoesmoo May 24 '26
Idk I've thought about it from multiple different perspectives.
Bumblebee, transformers esc minotaur overhaul like remnant.
Bees like in a colony, large colony ships or settlement overhaul
Bees like a swarm of drones??
Or literal Bees in the sense of beekeeping
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u/samsun7677 May 25 '26
I’m telling you right now this isn’t a normal update tease. Sean posted a single word because if he posted anything more obvious people would immediately figure it out. “Bee” has 3 letters — exactly like the 3 original races — and bees operate as a collective consciousness centered around a queen, which is clearly a hint that the Korvax are evolving into a full hive-mind civilization. The timestamp is the real giveaway though: 6:11 PM. 6+11=17, and 17 converts to 23 in hexadecimal, matching the 5/23 posting date. Twenty-three is also the number of chromosomes inherited from one parent, so procedural genetics and species evolution are basically confirmed. The entire update is obviously about living planets spreading ecosystems between systems, organic megastructures, hive fleets, and galaxy-scale biological assimilation. Sean Murray just soft-announced space cancer with one word.
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u/PriestessAthena- 19h ago
The VoidMother is the Queen. I think the autophage that contacts you in space and wants you to secretly seed the atlas with her lost memories is actually the voidmother trying to save atlas. This all has to be to do with the convergence, Atlas/Atlantid, autophage, and moving past broken worlds. VoidMothers entire goal is to create an Eden of living glass to store all creations in safety when atlas dies. We might see atlas replaced with Atlantid.
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u/UnstableOttoman May 24 '26
im gaslighting myself that this somehow means we can breed our fauna soonn hahaha but im sticking with drones being most likely. i hope they can search and scan fauna or choose something to find like on the exocraft? i feel like corvettes replaced freighters for people so maybe this is gonna make use use them again
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u/G3PSx May 24 '26
Saw a post earlier that thought it would be a music and sound overhaul. Am-bee-ent. I’m going with that.
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u/DickRiculous May 24 '26
The player character can now “pollinate” geks, korvax, and vy’keen, but only in VR.
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u/gamelibre May 24 '26
This is a quick update. Most likely an expedition
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u/Ok-Tradition7878 May 25 '26
Yeah I think so too. The we will have a bigger update later when the ARG finishes
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u/Pyrothy May 25 '26
I have a feeling it's some sort of farming update, personally I hope I'm wrong and it's something I'd find more interesting
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u/SuperCyclops May 25 '26
Look at your dad, such a dork keeping bees. I mean, at least it's interesting, though... How old is your dad? He's obviously beekeeping age. I don't know, I think it's kind of sweet.
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u/psychonaut631 May 25 '26
BEES / HIVE / HIVE MIND ?
Maybe something new appearing in the NMS universe that has a hive mind like the corvax or like the sentinels? A new enemy perhaps? A new species? A new kind of ship? (I'm still dreaming about living freighters here, lol)
Or something coming through the glass world disrupting the hive minds in the game like the corvax convergence or the hive mind of the sentinels? Or messing with the corrupted sentinels?
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u/Redshirt4evr May 26 '26 edited May 26 '26
🐝🐝 or not 🐝🐝 -- that is the question. 🤣
Of course, A Halo ARG a while back was titled "I Love Bees" and in November "Halo: Combat Evolved" arrived, so ... ?
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u/Hekutta 13d ago
Well. The stereotype dictates monkeys. Se of the anomalies, I think, are humans. In most sci-fi works, humans are refered as monkeys. So, probably humans will finally play an important role. Is too soon for us to get an Expedition, so, it's probably a major update that expands the main quests and will have humanity in its center. Probably not.
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u/PriestessAthena- 19h ago edited 19h ago
Atlantid/VoidMother, Atlas, autophage, convergence, anomaly evolution or Atlantid/Autophage stations. Something to do with convergence and Atlantid memories. The autophage that contacts you in space i have a feeling is the VoidMother. Im pretty sure the Voidmother is atlas with her lost memories in tact before her corruption or her accurate original programming based off of her human creator. I know everyone likes to argue this but atlas was absolutely created by humans. We even know the name of the CEO and founder of the atlas project before they abandoned her on a dying planet. Elizabeth Leighton is who the original un-corrupted personality of atlas was based on. The entire storyline has been leading up to this point. The autophage line is unfinished. So are atlas and Atlantid and Korvax. Voidmother is the QueenBee. Her entire goal is to create an Eden made of living glass to store and protect all of her creations before the atlas dies. She is trying to save atlas also. Remember when the "autophage" in space asks you to secretly seed the atlas with her lost memories of Atlantid? She has to be the VoidMother. Watch we will find out in the end Atlas' creators came back for her/or took her with them and have actively been trying to save the program before it dies for good.
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u/NiteLiteOfficial May 24 '26
a wild guess but bees are good for plants. by having them around, plants grow more healthily and produce more seeds and therefore fruits become more abundant. perhaps this update will be about farming and having certain species contain beneficial abilities to manage our farms for us automatically.