In the space game No Man’s Sky, four players have built a city that nobody thought possible. To make it so detailed, even glitches had to be used.
What kind of city is this? Replicant City is a cyberpunk city created with great care and many details. It looks so good that one might think it was created by the developers.
In reality, however, only four players worked on this project, with the builder ERBorrughs claiming to have built about 75% on his own.
The construction itself was not easy, as No Man’s Sky doesn’t actually support such constructions. But the fans, who love their game so much, found a way to make it happen.
The construction should actually not be possible
What’s the problem? To build Replicant City, the players had to use “Glitch Building”. This involves deliberately using bugs to construct things.
Complicating matters was also the mass of components. “A planet with a lot of flora and fauna would have led to rendering problems,” as the creator JC Hysteria reports. So a remote location had to be found.
The group was thus limited in construction not by their ideas, but mainly by the technology, as ERBurroughs explains. They often had to reduce the number of components to the point where the game ran smoothly and the basic idea was still recognizable.
A tour of the city in VR
Where is the cyberpunk city located? While the four builders of Replicant City have already released a video about their city, they do not want to reveal its exact location yet.
They are saving that for the upcoming Beyond update. There, Virtual Reality is the focus and they really want players to explore the city with VR.
What platform is required for the city? ERBurroughs and his friends used the PS4 version of No Man’s Sky, so the cyberpunk city will only be found there.
Unfortunately, PC and Xbox fans will not be able to enjoy this wonderful player creation live and on their own.
