Multiplayer

• Team-up with a small group of friends and explore the universe together, or be joined by random travelers.
• You can help friends to stay alive, or prey on others to survive.
• Tiny shelters or complex colonies that you build as a team are shared for all players.
• Fight as a pirate or a wingman in epic space battles with friends and enemies.
• Race exocraft across weird alien terrains, creating race tracks and trails to share online.
• Character customisation allows you to personalise your appearance.

Visual overhaul

• The game is fully playable in third- or first- person, both on-foot and in ship.
• Planetary rings and improved space visuals make space more beautiful than ever.
• Dramatically improved planetary terrain generation, ground textures, water and clouds bring the environment to life.
• Significantly more detail added to ships, NPCs and buildings.

Unlimited base building

• Bases can now be built anywhere on any planet.
• Dramatically increased base-building complexity and size limits.
• Hundreds of new base parts.
• Own multiple bases.

Command freighters

• Assemble and upgrade a fleet of frigates and command them from the bridge of your freighter.
• Send your fleet out to into the universe, or deploy them to help you as you explore a specific system.
• Improved freighter base building allows a truly custom capital ship.
• Invite your friends aboard and take on challenging multiplayer missions from the Galactic Commission Station on your bridge.

https://blog.eu.playstation.com/2018/07/17/see-no-mans-sky-next-multiplayer-and-third-person-mode-in-action-ahead-of-next-weeks-launch/