over 4 years ago - Hello Games - Direct link
Hello everyone,

First of all, thanks so much to everyone who has already spent time playing BEYOND and letting us know about any issues you’ve experienced. It’s overwhelming to watch thousands of players begin or continue their journey across the universe.

Steam users are able to opt-in to the Experimental Branch, where we have pushed a rapid patch to fix a number of crashes and other problems seen since release. We’ll be rolling out these fixes to other platforms as soon as possible.

To play in Experimental, right-click on No Man’s Sky from the Steam library page and select “Properties”. Among the available tabs will be the “BETAS” tab. Enter “3xperimental” in the textbox and press “CHECK CODE”, then select it from the dropdown menu.

The patch notes are as follows:

Experimental Branch 04/09
  • Increased the speed at which text in alien interactions prints out after clicking to move the interaction on.
  • Cut down the amount of text in Cartographer interactions.
  • Allowed players to exchanged multiple pieces of navigation data at a time at the Cartographer.
  • Fixed an issue that caused sulpherine to be extracted at a significantly lower rate than other gases.
  • Fixed an issue that caused mineral extractors to fail to work when placed on rare mineral hotspots such as gold.
  • Fixed an issue that caused all technologies installed on the freighter to be filled with incorrect products.
  • Fixed a number of issues in driver warning boxes that could occur when all available drivers were out of date.
  • Fixed a rare memory corruption issue.
  • Fixed an issue where the Mod Warning and Low Disk Space Warning could cause a softlock in VR.


As always, thank you to all players who use Experimental and take the time to report any issues you encounter.

Please note there is the possibility that experimental builds may introduce new issues that haven't been caught in test. We'd like to recommend that all players back up their save files, by making a local copy of the st_[userid] folder found here: %appdata%\HelloGames\NMS\

Note that we don't anticipate any issues here. However, performing your own backups could mean the difference between resuming play immediately, or waiting for the next patch.

If you decide to opt out of experimental and return to the main branch, we strongly recommend resuming from a backed-up save from the main branch, rather than taking an experimental branch save back to main, which may cause unexpected behaviour.

Feedback and reports of new bugs/issues being found on Experimental are welcome, so please reply to this thread or submit a ticket to https://hellogames.zendesk.com/ with the phrase "Steam Experimental" in the ticket title. If you are running any mods for the game, please list them along with your bug report.