about 1 year 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 28/02
  • Stability fixes.

Experimental Branch 27/02
  • Fixed an issue in VR that caused the camera to behave incorrectly while in an exocraft.
  • Fixed a rare crash.

Experimental Branch 25/02
  • Fixed a bug that caused farmable plants to show incorrectly.
  • Fixed a crash when flying in atmosphere.

Experimental Branch 24/02
  • Fixed a crash on boot for machines with integrated GPUs.
  • Fixed an issue that could cause the Expedition to get stuck in a downloading state.
  • Fixed a crash entering Abandoned Freighters.
  • Reenabled tessellation on PS5.
  • Fixed some stuttering performance issues.
  • Fixed an issue that caused some bases around portals to no longer be aligned with the ground.
  • Fixed an issue that caused some metadata used by mods to be stripped.
  • Fixed an issue that allowed sensitivity to be set to zero.
  • Reenable recolouring of base objects not associated with a base.

Experimental Branch 23/02
  • Reduce audio trigger strength on wrist menu in VR.
  • Fixed an issue that caused controller vibration not to function on PS5.
  • Fixed an issue with sky rendering on Xbox One.
  • Fixed an issue that caused the Galactic Trade Room on freighters to be non-interactable.
  • Fixed a crash that could occur if a lobby had no owner.
  • Fixed an issue that could prevent discoveries from showing.
  • Fixed a rare crash.

Experimental Branch 22/02
  • Fixed an issue that caused ship c*ckpit screens to flicker.
  • Fixed a sync buffer crash.
  • Fixed a rare crash.
  • Fixed an issue that could cause graphical corruption during warp.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented system language selection from working correctly.
  • Fixed a crash when running on Linux OS.

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.