Experimental Branch 16/08

[Hello Games]

Hello everyone,

First of all, thanks so much to everyone who has already spent time playing BEYOND and letting us know about any issues you’ve experienced. It’s overwhelming to watch thousands of players begin or continue their journey across the universe.

Steam users are able to opt-in to the Experimental Branch, where we have pushed a rapid patch to fix a number of crashes and other problems seen since release. 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:

Update to Experimental Branch 16/08

• Reduce texture quality if it is causing an out of memory error.
  
• Don't let the VR player punch in places they aren't allow to use weapons.
  
• Revert to the non-device-local heap in low memory situations.
  
• Removed misleading version number from main menu.

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.

[Kurochi フォールン]

"Reduce texture quality if it is causing an out of memory error." Does this mean that the game will automatically lower the setting if an out of memory should occur?

[Vazonic]

Can you guys help with what Im experiencing, I have a GeForce GTX 1060 3gb, 8GB of RAM and a AMD Ryzen 5 2600x CPU. Before this update and before I upgraded to this processor, this game played on 60fps on high settings. Now when I load in its almost like Im not playing with a graphics card due to the low FPS. What is going on and is there a way to fix this? Im not sure whats going on.

[PurSpyk!!]

Can the key mapping be fixed, and remove the use of the Steam interface for the controller config.

[Plutheros]

Keymapping.....please........can't......running.....out.......oxygen...../slump

[YouTube.com/StoneLegion]

Thank you for your constant updating :)

I am one the lucky ones without any crashing and such so far!

I hope you can get a few things fixed up like wiring and such for people. I love the system but it needs cleaning a lot of people dislike it and if it was made easier and cleaner I think people would like it more.

[AngelDeLaMuerteX]

Repair the quest with anomaly on old saves! We cannot progress! - Cannot summon anomaly

[Rogue_Salem]

I bought this game on 8/14 and haven't even been able to play it because of this most recent update. The game wont even launch and its incredibly frustrating.

[BmanFx]

Originally posted by Kurochi フォールン:

"Reduce texture quality if it is causing an out of memory error." Does this mean that the game will automatically lower the setting if an out of memory should occur?

Yes.

[InterrobangTF2***]

Originally posted by VeCheeto:

I bought this game on 8/14 and haven't even been able to play it because of this most recent update. The game wont even launch and its incredibly frustrating.

If you crash at the Hello Games logo screen, make sure to update your GPU drivers because that is the #1 cause for that crash.

[don800]

These performance updates are nice, but without gamepad support for VR it's just too much of a hassle to actually play the game.

[Det.Nathan Grim]

a good start would be fixing the crash to desk top issue this newest update seems to have ¬_¬

[Warmo]

Any fix for deleting bases and frigates coming soon?

[Hi Five Ghost]

My friends can't see my freighter and I cannot see theirs while in multiplayer.

[Encryption]

Keep plugging away at it. Don't let the influx of negative comments get to you.

At the same time, Consider using a close beta branch in Steam to get some help with testing for a major update before it is pushed on the main branch. Would save a ton of headache at launch and make everyone happier in the end.

Nothing wrong with having tagged branches for earlier releases of the game on the beta tab in steam either. Only allow the online function for the latest release though :P

[Frederick Taer]

As far as now the best place for solar panels is inside big rooms, round and square.
BTW, it's the only place i could dock them. So, now i have solar power plant under the ground on -2..-4 floor. Is this intended? )