HyperDrive in this game allows the player’s ship to attain warp speed and is extremely fast. Upgrading this tech can allow the player to scale a distance of one light year in just one jump. So if you are try find out how to get HyperDrive, then read on.
This guide will provide information on the HyperDrive upgrades, distance and combinations.
How to use HyperDrive Upgrades
Three upgrades are available for HyperDrive-Reactor Sigma, Reactor Tau and Reactor Theta.
The Upgrades are associated with different Category of Star Systems as shown below.
- Default: You can Warp to Yellow Stars
- Sigma Upgrade: You can Warp to Red Stars
- Tau Upgrade: You can Warp to Green Stars
- Theta Upgrade: You can Warp to Blue/White Stars
Note: If you upgrade the higher tier before the lower upgrades then result will be affected.
Distance by Upgrade
Trying various combinations in a sensible manner can get the player an additional 5% bonus to upgrade per link.
Here are the various combinations you can try to warp distance according to the Upgrades.
Normal Upgrades
- HyperDrive: 100 Light Years
- Adding Sigma: 300 Light Years
- Adding Tau: 500 Light Years
- Adding Theta: 900 Light Years
Combination Upgrades(Bonus for Connecting them to Grid)
- Default + Sigma + Tau: 700 Light Years
- Default + Sigma + Theta: 1100 Light Years
- Default + Tau + Theta: 1300 Light Years
- Default + Sigma + Tau + Theta: 1500 Light Years
Combination Upgrades(without Grid connection)
- Default + Sigma + Tau: 735 Light Years
- Default + Sigma + Tau + Theta: 1600 Light Years
You can find the complete No Man’s Sky Guide here.
Why 1600 without bonus and only 1500 with bonus ?
Ok so I just got to the center of the Galaxy today (it was ruff but rewarding). Two important things that are important to note and wrong in this article. First, you don’t go 1,500 light years closer to the center of the Galaxy when you travel 1,500 light years. It’s simply crazy but the star will show as 1,500 ly away but you will only go like 500ly max.
I initially thought it was because I was because I wasn’t going the direct path or something but no. You simply don’t go but 500ly closer to the center of the Galaxy even though the star you go 1500ly no matter what you do.
After a ton of trial and error I think the best method to get to the center is to warp 1500ish ly (only 500) to a Black Hole. Then save at the space station. Then go through the black hole and hope that one of your unimportant features breaks. If it does then reload and enter the black hole again. Then simply fix what broke, rinse and repeat a ton of times (note you have to complete the Atlas Path first). You can really zip along using this method.