finished The Purge, now can't get back to NEW galaxy

[arcanor]

I finished The Purge, got Remembrance, created a new "Improved" galaxy, don't remember the name. Survived long enough to fix my broken ship and summon the Anomaly there. I flew out of the Anomaly and the game asked me to "align" my warp engines with the current galaxy or with my friend's galaxy (playing multiplayer), so I said friend's galaxy, and I wound up back in Euclid. But now I have no idea how to get back to my NEW galaxy. I didn't make a base yet, and I guess the space station is inaccessible. Am I missing something, or did I just lose the only chance to explore the new galaxy?

[>TimeLord<]

I think try the space station and see if it shows any thing new in terms of "other" galaxies. I don't think you went to the space station so it may not work but worth a try.

[japp_02]

You have made a fatal error: You should have visited a space station first to create a teleporter entry before leaving the new galaxy. Or: you should have built a basic base so you can return to it. Without those, bye bye new galaxy if you leave it. That's always true when comming in a new galaxy (in SP mode at least).
Relaod your manual save and replay before it's too late. Good luck.

[arcanor]

I think this is totally unfair. I was not told by the game that would happen. In fact, it didn't even tell me I was going back to Euclid. It just asked me if I wanted to "align" to my friend's game, which I said yes to. I was surprised to wind up in the other galaxy, and fully expected to be visiting space stations, making bases, etc. before attempting to go back to Euclid. The game tricked me!

[MacZulu II]

If you want you can get a "ride" to other galaxies with other players. I have access to 2,3,4 and 10.

I'm happy to help, like I would like a ride to other galaxies I haven't seen yet.

Edit; I forgot to mention. I did the exact same thing, and thanks to Kvozart I got back to 10, which is what I lost.

[arcanor]

Thanks for the offer, but for now I'm going to live with it. However, I think this is something that should be made clearer in a future release. If you're about to go to a new galaxy and your choices from then on will be limited, it should be more obvious than some cryptic message about "aligning" your warp engines to your friend's. It sounded to me like it was asking me if I wanted to quit our session, which I didn't.

[japp_02]

Originally posted by arcanor:

Thanks for the offer, but for now I'm going to live with it. However, I think this is something that should be made clearer in a future release. If you're about to go to a new galaxy and your choices from then on will be limited, it should be more obvious than some cryptic message about "aligning" your warp engines to your friend's. It sounded to me like it was asking me if I wanted to quit our session, which I didn't.

As I said, you can still reload your manual save and replay it the correct way this time - assumed it got not overwritten meanwhile.

[Ygolnac]

You are right, there are a whole lot of cryptic informations that are not explained INGAME in anyway. They are kind of "common knowledge", but still having to outsource information is not the best thing to players that legitematly play what they get.

Before Bryond, you souldn't even go back to previous galaxies, if you moved forward it was forever. Now they have streamlined galaxy teleporting back and forth, but didn't say it INGAME.

So, get a ride to your lost galaxy (blue, cyan, red or green?), build a small base there and you are set. I'm willing to help you, but won't log back for 2-3 days.

When you reach a place you like, put down a base computer AND activate it, it's the only guaranteed way to go back there (stations will be pushed out from tele list if you visit enough, like 50ish).

[Lailantie]

You are not the only one who had this happen. Unfortunately, posts with your experience show up regularly. HG did everything to take care of portal interference and that there is no workaround to it.

So I think they should make it impossible for a player who just entered a new galaxy to use the anomaly teleporter or choose to join a friend before having "registered" in the new galaxy by building a base computer or having visited the space station.

Or they should make a big message showing up on your screen: Attention, you are about to leave XYZ galaxy. Did you build a base computer or visit the space station? Otherwise you won't be able to return to that galaxy.

I have no idea how this could be programmed, and maybe there's better ways to handle that, but I think this should be handled by HG.

[arcanor]

Yep, thanks everybody. I decided to start a new game. :)

After 80+ hours getting there, I want to see if I can do things "better" the 2nd time around. And this time, NOTHING will stop me from building a base before doing ANYTHING else in the new galaxy.

[japp_02]

Originally posted by Lailantie:

You are not the only one who had this happen. Unfortunately, posts with your experience show up regularly. HG did everything to take care of portal interference and that there is no workaround to it.

So I think they should make it impossible for a player who just entered a new galaxy to use the anomaly teleporter or choose to join a friend before having "registered" in the new galaxy by building a base computer or having visited the space station.

Or they should make a big message showing up on your screen: Attention, you are about to leave XYZ galaxy. Did you build a base computer or visit the space station? Otherwise you won't be able to return to that galaxy.

I have no idea how this could be programmed, and maybe there's better ways to handle that, but I think this should be handled by HG.

While it's true that this would help greatly, it's an ironic fact that HG makes everything possible for the players to discover things and procedures on their own instead of giving warnings or to point in a direction, especially with the numerous complaints about too many tutorial messages and alike. I feel that as long as the game doesn't get broken HG will hardly change such sort of things.

I have accidentally found this TRAP by experimenting to see how the new (new at that time) teleporter works, it has taken me a lot of time to exclude a bug (HG never responds or comments on gameplay matters at Zendesk, it would be good to have a pinned FAQ here, but no).

[japp_02]

Originally posted by arcanor:

Yep, thanks everybody. I decided to start a new game. :)

After 80+ hours getting there, I want to see if I can do things "better" the 2nd time around. And this time, NOTHING will stop me from building a base before doing ANYTHING else in the new galaxy.

Have you noticed my post about the manual save? Try this one before restarting. Getting help from a fellow player will NOT bring you at the exact same place in that galaxy but could bring you *somewhere* in that galaxy anyway if you then use the Save Editor to revert the 'Interference' for teleporting and warping. If you want to go this route, tell me so, I will describe to you what you need to do in the Save Editor. It's a matter of minutes to change your savegame.

Next time you go into a new galaxy:
It's enough to put your feet in a space station and then take-off again, that's enough for creating an entry in the teleporter so you can return. Building a base is even better.

[arcanor]

It's too late to revert to a save. And I'd rather not edit the save file, although I'm sure that would work. I'm actually happy to restart and try different things. Thanks anyway!

[No Man's Sky Resources]

Have you tried leaving the game & reloading in single player? In theory, that should put you back in the location you were in during your own game.

[arcanor]

Thanks again, but it's too late for any of that. I've saved multiple times since then.

[Magnus Chro]

You should have gotten all the glyphs! Look for someone to give you an address in the new galaxy you went to and find a portal and bam....profit!