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

First of all, thanks so much to everyone who has already spent time playing the Synthesis update 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 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 Update 03/12
  • Fixed a crash when redeeming pre-order bonus content.
  • Fixed an issue where falling off a frigate could lead to players continuing to fall after respawning.

Experimental Branch Update 02/12
  • Fixed an issue that caused the wrong rewards to be listed when handing in missions on the Space Station mission board.
  • Fixed a rare issue where players can become stuck in a conversation with Polo on the starship communicator.
  • Fixed a crash when using the pulse drive to fly towards a freighter if that freighter is your mission target.
  • Fixed a UI issue that made it very hard to install technology in a freighter.
  • Fixed a rare crash in the pirate AI.
  • Fixed a crash in the network replication of AI starships.
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when leaving the Nexus mission details page.
  • Fixed an issue that caused buried technology to be destroyed by the Terrain Manipulator.

Experimental Branch 29/11
  • Fixed an issue that could cause the backpack to swoop into view when opening the inventory in the starship.
  • Fixed an issue that could cause the backpack to be visible in VR Photo Mode.
  • Fixed an issue where Multi-Tool purchase brought up an incorrect UI when taking the Multi-Tool from an NPC, not from a terminal.
  • Improved the tip text when charging a technology from an inventory popup, so that it is more clear you can now change the stack size before using the fuel stack to charge the tech.
  • Fixed some misleading information in the description of salvaged components harvested from starships.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented the Shield Lattice from increasing hazard protection.
  • Fixed an issue that was incorrectly hiding underwater protection upgrades from the Quick Menu when players were low on oxygen.
  • Fixed a rare crash in the Nexus mission UI.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented players with starships that were acquired before the Pathfinder update from upgrading the number of available Technology Slots.
  • Fixed a number of problems that could occur when repeatedly reinteracting with the Starship Outfitting Terminal.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented Photo Mode from being available while in the ship in VR.
  • Fixed an issue that could prevent players from leaving the Terrain Manipulator's Create Mode in VR.
  • Fixed an issue that could add invalid ships to a player's saved ship data after salvaging a ship.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented players from saving more teleport destinations if they entered their current galaxy via unconventional means.
  • Procedural movement upgrades are now guarenteed to upgrade the jetpack tanks, alongside whatever other stats they might roll.
  • Fixed an issue that could cause players to fall through the terrain in multiplayer.

The disable mods flag was reset for the Synthesis update because changes to the data structure were made and caused many mods to be incompatible.

We are tracking an issue where some players have incorrect controller bindings after updating the game. If you have this problem please restart the Steam Client to correct the issue.

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.