Experimental Branch 19/08

[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:

Experimental Branch 19/08

• Vulkan-1.dll with workaround for some AMD driver issues.

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.

[Bum]

Great, still not launching on Nvidia, another patch to wait for. I CANT WAIT TO NOT PLAY THIS GAME.

GTX 1080 (431.60)
r5 1600
16gram
win 10 pro

PLEASE

[InterrobangTF2]

Being in multiplayer and approaching the multitool vendor in the space station causes you to fall into space.

[Ydyp]

Are keyboard bindings for non-vr version being fixed? If not I do not see any need to swap to experimental yet.

[Mog]

Every day Sam hopes this will be the day Hello Games fixes keybindings... :/

[Dragnet]

OMG, fix the keybinding issue and several thousand of us will no longer have a need to b%*ch and moan!!! :)

[Lost]

Originally posted by =MoG=:

Every day Sam hopes this will be the day Hello Games fixes keybindings... :/

very trustful

[Warz]

Gas harvesting is broken, something it does not work and i lose all material that i put in them

[Kane]

Hi, Hello Games, what about Vehicle camera position? Its hard to mining with that camera in the vehicle. its nearly impossible :D

[Slimey]

I dont have much of an issue with keybinds or stuff, but i really just want my blaze javelin to work in VR

[InterrobangTF2]

Originally posted by Dragnet:

OMG, fix the keybinding issue and several thousand of us will no longer have a need to b%*ch and moan!!! :)

Fixing crashes preventing thousands people from playing the game is more important than fixing a quality of life annoyance that most people can play the game without.

[Yote]

still not able to remap keybinds, would like to be able to actually play the game again

[Forwarded]

at the rate of how you push the patches the game will be fixed by the time you release the next big update "infinity"

[Bum]

Yes complain about key mapping while tons of people can't even start the damn game...

[InterrobangTF2]

Originally posted by Forwarded:

at the rate of how you push the patches the game will be fixed by the time you release the next big update "infinity"

1-2 patches a day since release is pretty dope. They even did one on Sunday.

But they'll miss a lot of bugs. Count on it. Atmo Harvesters still empty out their product in multiplayer if you leave rendering distance, and that was introduced with NEXT.

[Mimh®]

Hello, thank you for your work. But please fix the key mapping problems, and also those of the controller.
On NMS Beyond with the Xbox one pad we can no longer tag an object/location with the X key (I have to use the E key instead).
There is also a conflict with the pad settings in steam that make the left stick move by itself at times, before I solved the problem by disabling the steam controller options, but now we can't do it anymore.
My pad is brand new and works very well in other games so it's not the problem.
Thank you very much. :)


Ps: English is not my native language and I do my best to be understood.. :p