Do not play multiplayer until you have a hyperdrive! Multiplayer beginner woes!

[Zorro]

Word of caution. Do NOT introduce online friends to NMS in multiplayer until they have their hyperdrive and basic base missions finished. This game is a nightmare for beginners who join/start on multiplayer. First, if they start in some random system in single player, do a few things, maybe get their ship fixed up, and then decide to join you on multiplayer and enter into your system... Yea. That's where the problems start. So they set up a base in the system you're in. Claim it and everything. Set up a teleporter. But they don't have a hyperdrive yet. For some dumbass reason, they can't use a telaporter until they have a hyperdrive. So when they decide to play some more as single player, the save behavior is so screwed up that it won't put them back at their new base where they last saved. It'll put them at the last system they were in before they created their base in the multiplayer session. So now they have no way to get to their friggen base until they have a hypedrive since apparently the teleporters don't work until you get one. It gets really scewed up if they already created a construction terminal and hired an overseer during that multiplayer session (it has the potential to break all the base building quests requiring you to edit the JSON file to set them back to their applicable start points). Long story short. Do NOT play multiplayer until you have a hyperdrive and have a base with the terminals / telaporter. What a friggen nightmare. I honestly don't know what to do to get the game to put one of my buddies at his base in single player. He joined my session so he could be in the system his base was in. He made a save pod at his base and used it. Then he got in and out of his ship (autosave + manual save). I left the session. He saved again just to be sure. Then he quit and restarted in single player. It still put him in the wrong damn system! I can't figure out how to get him to start at his base when he plays single player. VERY FRUSTRATED.

[wakirk2002]

File a bug report on https://hellogames.zendesk.com.

[Zorro]

Reported. Even included a link to this thread for the record.

[Justin Lee]

or reload the game and fixes the issues

[0xBADDAD]

Solution: Get a Hyperdrive

[Zorro]

That's only a partial solution. Even with a hyperdrive, it's possible to still have a ruined save with this bug unless you know how to edit the save file. First, this exact bug was present for 2 different buddies of mine. The second one fixed it right quick by getting a hyperdrive after we gave up trying to get him to spawn in the right system in single player; but the first one simply made another base and construction terminal. When he did, the overseer's missions got bugged with the "I should leave the Gek to do his work" bug. I had to have him send me the save and edit the JSON file to reset the overseer's missions. I thought HG fixed that bug a year ago but apparently it's still there.

[Grim Jester]

They did not fix it. I'm going to lose several hours since I must restart. I have the hyper drive, and a base, near my friend's save, but I can't warp.

I'm going to refrain from screaming incompetence since I played the game when it came out, and appreciate the work that they've done, but man, this sucks. It's not so odd that two people would want to start the game together. Heck, that's why I gave my buddy a copy!

[Exectech]

A year later and bug still exists. Painful first time experience.

[Zorro]

Unfrigginbelievable.

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I'm going to necro the ♥♥♥♥ out of this. On 2020-06-25 this is still a problem. Having friends over like "hey, this game is really cool." can't get any better if the quest that's giving people a hyperdrive is 10 freighter jumps back somewhere. No way to navigate back since teleporters don't work yet. warping is not functional yet. Don't ever make the mistake of showing a new person how awesome warping on your freighter can be. It will mess up their experience. Either make everything in the game accessible at all times, or give the option to reset a quest to the new location. Especially if it's for people starting out. Help them.