almost 2 years ago - Hello Games - Direct link
Hello Everyone,

First of all, thanks so much to everyone who has already spent time playing No Man's Sky and letting us know about any issues you've experienced.

Steam users are able to opt-in to the Experimental Branch, where we have pushed a patch to address some problems. 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 Update 30/05
  • Fixed an Experimental only crash that could occur when entering the Space Anomaly after fighting living ships.

Experimental Branch Update 27/05
  • During the Leviathan expedition, players who fall into space will no longer die, but instead be placed in a safe location (as in creative or permadeath modes).

Experimental Branch Update 26/05
  • Fixed an issue that could cause Memory Fragments to be consumed but fail to award any items, if the player's inventory was full.

Experimental Branch 26/05
  • Fixed an issue that could cause previous expedition saves to be converted to Survival rather than Normal mode after the end of the expedition.
  • Fixed an issue that could cause items to be deposited into technology inventories.
  • Fixed an issue that could prevent players from collecting the final reward from an expedition while there were uncomplete optional milestones.
  • Fixed an issue that could prevent progress on The Anchor milestone in the Leviathan expedition.
  • Fixed a memory-related crash on Xbox Series S.
  • Fixed a physics crash.
  • Fixed a crash related to despawning bases.
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when maxing out freighter inventory slots.
  • Fixed a GPU crash on PlayStation 5.

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.