How to downgrade to Next?

[Patryk]

Any clues?

[japp_02]

Originally posted by GrandTickler:

Originally posted by JasonHunter:

There is no way.

please dont spread false information.

how to roll back version:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1086279994

Very good info, GrandTickler, thanks very much, finally a in-depth and comprehensible guide for reverting game versions in Steam! Much better than all the bla-bla in these forums about this hairy topic.

[Rexxer]

Originally posted by Xentik:

Any clues?

Steam has locked the Beyond upgrade on high priority, so you can't even log into Steam without it starting to upgrade NMS. I was able to prepare for Beyond in NEXT because I always had STEAM backed up on a separate hard drive.

IF you have a backup of STEAM, then you can do it. But you MUST unhook the internet, turn it off, when running the old STEAM. If you need it on briefly to log on, that's ok. Just immediately turn it off once you are logged into STEAM. And I mean IMMEDIATELY. It will already have started to download, but it won't actually upgrade until the download is complete which takes all of 1 or 2 min. So it will nag you about an upgrade pending, but just run NMS without the internet when in NEXT. Once you are ready for Beyond, then move your save game to your other hard drive, the one you usually play NMS on.

[Strontium Dog]

I use GOG as i'm currently playing 1.77 Visions which i've modded and back ported the mods from Beyond that i like. Works a charm and looks and plays great. ;-)

[Rexxer]

Originally posted by Strontium Dog:

I use GOG as i'm currently playing 1.77 Visions which i've modded and back ported the mods from Beyond that i like. Works a charm and looks and plays great. ;-)

Normally STEAM allows you to downgrade to prior versions using the "Beta" option, but they locked that option out for this upgrade for some reason. Must have been by request by NMS or something.

You can always upgrade to Beyond once they iron out more bugs, and it currently is somewhat playable, and the new features makes it a must-have upgrade in the long run. The worst was when it first came out, but the major crash issues are now gone. The 10000 unit upgrade of the inventory slots from 250 u makes it worth it even with some bugs.

[Strontium Dog]

Originally posted by Rexxer:

Originally posted by Strontium Dog:

I use GOG as i'm currently playing 1.77 Visions which i've modded and back ported the mods from Beyond that i like. Works a charm and looks and plays great. ;-)

Normally STEAM allows you to downgrade to prior versions using the "Beta" option, but they locked that option out for this upgrade for some reason. Must have been by request by NMS or something.

You can always upgrade to Beyond once they iron out more bugs, and it currently is somewhat playable, and the new features makes it a must-have upgrade in the long run. The worst was when it first came out, but the major crash issues are now gone. The 10000 unit upgrade of the inventory slots from 250 u makes it worth it even with some bugs.

I have Beyond on Steam and my Xbox One X but i prefer Visions until they fix Beyond. I come back to it every now and again as i'm on the experimental. ;-)

Plus i have started modding and Visions is a good starting point as the mbin decompiler doesn't fully work on Beyond yet. ;-)

I've edited the stacks on Visions already. ;-)

[tattmann]

I wasn't worried about actually rolling mine back per-se, I started a new save under the original version. I found a ship I really want to keep because I have not seen another hauler quite like mine. So, I am working this new save forward through all the versions to #1 waste some time waiting on beyond to get fixed, and #2 bring this ship up to date all the way from the original version to current. Plus, I will have 2 current saves in my computer to choose which one to play whenever I want.

Steam can lock whatever version they want to, as long as you keep steam offline, it won't be updated to beyond until you go online.

[Zorro]

Originally posted by Dirak2012:

Originally posted by GrandTickler:

you just repeated exactly what Asmosis said lol...

I was half sleep 😴

lol it's ok we got a chuckle out of it

[Blake]

If pathfinder was the best version then it shows that adding and changing stuff isn't always for the best

[Rectifier]

The Roll-Back info. is brilliant, thank you. Time to go back to Pathfinder?
The 'enforced' upgrade issue is a real pain.

I avoided Beyond by only playing NMS offlline but unthinkingly logged into Steam for some Fallout New Vegas DLC.
Next time I launched NMS it had been silently 'patched'; no ifs or buts, no roll back option just suck it up...Nice

Still, with the help provided I shall plan my escape. Grah!

[Strontium Dog]

I've got every GOG version since launch backed up on my external drive, a NMS history. ;-)

Just checked and it's taking up about 100gb, well worth it though! :-)

[tattmann]

Originally posted by Strontium Dog:

I've got every GOG version since launch backed up on my external drive, a NMS history. ;-)

Just checked and it's taking up about 100gb, well worth it though! :-)

You sound like me lol, I've got every steam version from launch to beyond saved

[tattmann]

Originally posted by The Wasp:

If pathfinder was the best version then it shows that adding and changing stuff isn't always for the best

Pathfinder being best is subject to personal opinion. Before pathfinder the scenery was great, but a bit old school. Pathfinder has a lot of the stuff that next had. Its sort of an inbetween stage. Watch some youtube videos before you take the plunge is all I can suggest. I can say this, portals didn't come into play until atlas rises which is the next version after pathfinder. So, if you're hoping for portals, you'll be disappointed by that.

[Strontium Dog]

Originally posted by tattmann:

Originally posted by Strontium Dog:

I've got every GOG version since launch backed up on my external drive, a NMS history. ;-)

Just checked and it's taking up about 100gb, well worth it though! :-)

You sound like me lol, I've got every steam version from launch to beyond saved

I guess the next question is when are we going to play the very first version again? :-)

[tattmann]

I updated a couple months ago from the original release, got boring having all the missions completed. Went to foundation for a while. Just started pathfinder a couple weeks back and have 95% of that done too. I'm not wanting to jump galaxies yet.

[Strontium Dog]

Originally posted by tattmann:

I updated a couple months ago, got boring having all the missions completed. Went to foundation for a while. Just started pathfinder a couple weeks back and have 95% of that done too. I'm not wanting to jump galaxies yet.

I'll probably wait until the 10 year anniversary, any longer i might be too old lol! ;-)