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 28/04
  • Fixed an issue that could prevent the Liberation milestone from unlocking when declining a freighter acquisition during the Blighted expedition.
  • Fixed an issue where Gravitino Balls collected from Sentient Plants would not count towards the Coveted Suns milestone in the Blighted expedition.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented players from transferring items from their ship's cargo inventory when buying a new starship.
  • Fixed an issue that showed an incorrect prompt on the final reward patch having already collected the expedition reward.

Experimental Branch Update 26/04
  • Fixed an issue that could leave some players unable to construct the first map fragment as part of the Blighted expedition.
  • Fixed an issue that could cause a blocker during the Last Piece milestone in the Blighted expedition.
  • Fixed an issue that could occur if players opened the Portal during the Blighted expedition but then did not enter it.
  • Fixed an issue that could cause pilot recruitment to be blocked if the player had already recruited a similar looking NPC.

Experimental Branch Update 25/04
  • Improved the combat behaviours of higher-ranked squadron pilots.
  • Fixed a number of visual issues with cloth rendering.
  • Fixed an issue that caused some Solar ships to change appearance and colours.
  • Fixed an issue that could occur if dismissing your squadron while they are already leaving.
  • Fixed a number of issues that could cause Sentinel drones to spawn underground and become stuck.
  • Fixed a number of specific mission blockers that could occur when using the Neutron Cannon.
  • Fixed an issue that caused the in-game patch notes to display notes from the wrong version.
  • Fixed an issue that caused the Vulnerable Settlement alert to appear on the first planet visited after every warp.
  • Fixed a crash related to Sentinel Hardframe navigation.
  • Fixed a number of memory-related crashes for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
  • Fixed a crash related to the squadron management UI.
  • Fixed a texture streaming memory leak.
  • Fixed a GPU crash on PlayStation 5.
  • Fixed a crash related to squadron recruitment.

Experimental Branch 22/04
  • Fixed interaction dialogue.
  • Fixed untranslated pirate names.
  • Fixed some issues in the Under a Rebel Star mission chain.
  • Fixed scaling on Gek squadron pilot holograms.

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.