about 1 month 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 13/11
  • Fixed an issue that could cause the Boundary Herald starship to have difficulty finding a clear landing site.
  • Fixed a visual issues with the canopy animation when getting into the Boundary Herald starship.
  • Fixed an issue that could prevent connection to the discovery servers.

  • Fixed an issue that could cause the cross-save banner to appear when not relevant.
  • Fixed an issue that caused the save spinner to display for longer than necessary.
  • Fixed a rare issue that could prevent some saves from loading correctly.
  • Fixed a rare issue related to upgrading very old saves.
  • Fixed a number of issues with the camera transition when saving at a waypoint.
  • Fixed a rare issue that could cause some saves to become stuck while loading.

  • Introduced a texture memory optimisation.
  • Introduced a number of quality and optimisation fixes for VR.

  • Introduced an optimisation to load times on PC.

  • Introduced a number of quality and optimisation fixes for PS5 Pro.
  • Fixed an issue that could cause crashes on PlayStation 5 when approaching the second rendezvous point of the Beachhead Expedition.

  • Fixed a minor memory issue on Xbox.
  • Fixed a number of visual corruption issues on Xbox One.

  • Fixed a rare crash that could occur when loading Multi-Tools.
  • Fixed a rare crash related to loading frigate expeditions.
  • Fixed a crash related to planetary rendering.

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 on PC: %appdata%\HelloGames\NMS\ and here on mac: ~/Library/Application Support/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.