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Helldivers 2-esque war against a giant evil robo-eye beckons in No Man's Sky's The Swarm update, invading the galaxy right now

Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed·Mark Warren·3 days ago
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Sprawling ship battles against a drone army await Image credit: Hello Games It's the Death Star! Well, sort of. It's a big robo-eye invading the galaxy with a swarm of killer drones, as No Man's Sky goes a bit Helldivers 2 -ish in its latest update. Dubbed The Swarm, it'll see folks filed away from their not quite Pokemon battles to join three factions who'll need to work together in ship battles to fend off a big Robo-eye with a space station-scorching laser. Watch on YouTube "Something new, huge and foreboding is hanging in the sky above planets. Unlike anything we've seen before," Hello Games boss Sean Murray warned in The Swarm's reveal . So, you'll be bunged into a faction via personality test and asked to chip in as the fight against "an existential threat to the universe" dubbed the Hive of Glass. That's the big robo-eye, which sends out brigades of drones and charges up its eye laser to take out freighter fleets. Naturally, that sort of behaviour can't be taken lying down.…

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