[GAME BREAKING] Cannot take off from freighter

[Dan-tidisestablishmentarianism]

I have just gotten my first freighter from a Space Rescue mission. I went aboard and the captain gave me the ship. The mission is now telling me to build a Freighter control room, which I couldn't do as I lacked gold and silver. At this point I got in and out of my ship to save the game and then quit to desktop. I cam back an hour later to an emergency distress call, I offered help and the game started another Space Rescue mission. However, I cannot take off from the freighter no matter how long I press the W button. It makes the beeping noise but won't take off. I have attached a video of the problem here: https://youtu.be/Px0IldCFXrc
Another thing to note is that my ship is shown as 'On Planet' before getting into it, not sure if that's important.
Any work-arounds or fixes would be appreciated.

[Minnie]

got the exact same bug right now after accepting a rescue scan. "on planet " just means its in the same instance.

[Minnie]

reloading the game fixed it.

[Dan-tidisestablishmentarianism]

So I've reopened the save file and despite saving 2 seconds before qutting last time, the game hasn't remembered that I selected to help the ship sending the emergency distress call. I accepted it and couln't take off so reloaded my game and refused their call but still couldn't take off. Video: https://youtu.be/twsGyhzag2c

[Minnie]

relaunch the game thats what i did.

[Farnsworth]

I had a bug that my two ships were on the same parking slot (it said it was on the planet below). When i tried to lift off i bugged in the ceiling of my freighter. I had two restart my game three times till it worked again.

[SaXoN]

I'm stuck on my Freighter and cant take off regardless of what I try :-(

[darkjon64]

I'm having this same problem. Red flashing lights and noise and no indication of what to do. I have built the fleet control room, done the first mission, now I can't leave freighter and I can't find any way to progress the game. I have tried interacting with everything on the freighter, but nothing lets me leave on my ship. Not sure what to do

EDIT: Found a workaround. Had to download t he save game editor here:
https://nomansskymods.com/mods/no-mans-sky-save-editor/

Then used it to open my save game, went to freighter inventory, added Warp Cell to the inventory and saved it. Reloaded the game, charged the freighter warp drive, then warped to another system and I was finally able to leave and resume playing the game. Hope that helps anyone with this issue.

As always, back up your save games before messing with the editor.

[SquawkMaster]

just hold W for a bit

[Athravan]

I had the same problem first at the anomaly, then the next day I tried again and another user said it worked when repeatedly hitting the W button. I found out that in my case, pushing it once for about three seconds worked.

[tkwoods]

Originally posted by darkjon64:

I'm having this same problem. Red flashing lights and noise and no indication of what to do. I have built the fleet control room, done the first mission, now I can't leave freighter and I can't find any way to progress the game. I have tried interacting with everything on the freighter, but nothing lets me leave on my ship. Not sure what to do

EDIT: Found a workaround. Had to download t he save game editor here:
https://nomansskymods.com/mods/no-mans-sky-save-editor/

Then used it to open my save game, went to freighter inventory, added Warp Cell to the inventory and saved it. Reloaded the game, charged the freighter warp drive, then warped to another system and I was finally able to leave and resume playing the game. Hope that helps anyone with this issue.

As always, back up your save games before messing with the editor.

So red lights flashing means the freighter is under attack. The bay doors are locked while under attack. Warping the freighter out of system will cancel the attack. Reloading the game would also cancel the attack.

Once attack is no more you are once again free to enter or exit the freighter.