Experimental Branch 08/06

[Hello Games]

Hello Everyone,

First of all, thanks so much to everyone who has already spent time playing No Man's Sky and letting us know about any issues you've experienced.

This is an incremental build to prepare for upcoming patch.

Steam users are able to opt-in to the Experimental Branch, where we have pushed a patch to address some problems. 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 08/06

• Fixed an issue that could cause players to crash when playing the expedition.

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 on PC: %appdata%\HelloGames\NMS\ and here on mac: ~/Library/Application Support/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.

[DanCyber]

Please set the minimum distance between communication stations to 1000u.

[Prescient Stones]

Analysis Visor Pitch Mode: I didn't think this a problem on PC Steam. Before and After Vid

https://youtu.be/oJG_ekED8fw

Thanks for the switch up, I do remember users asking for this.

[DiamondWooWoo]

PS5 controller trigger effects no longer work (steam pc), but were working last week on mac launch.

[MrsNemo]

My friend & I aren't able to join each others game since the update.

[EnterPrise]

The messages of the message modules are no longer recorded to the server, the Byte-Bit music is no longer recorded to the server, so other players do not hear your music and cannot read the messages of the message modules

[Discord]

I've been experiencing regular game crashes right after loading for over 4 months now. None of the methods found on the Internet solved the problem, because the reason for the crashes does not lie in the laptop (from which I played 223 hours before the start of problems with departures). Please fix the game.
Playing from a laptop:
Процессор Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-10300H CPU @ 2.50GHz 2.50 GHz
8.00 GB RAM (available: 7.87 GB)
System type: 64-bit operating system, x64 processor
Windows 10

[Desolator]

I can't even start the new expedition, game crashes when I try to load it. Existing games work fine though

[Anga Hakuna]

Originally posted by Discord:

I've been experiencing regular game crashes right after loading for over 4 months now. None of the methods found on the Internet solved the problem, because the reason for the crashes does not lie in the laptop (from which I played 223 hours before the start of problems with departures). Please fix the game.
Playing from a laptop:
Процессор Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-10300H CPU @ 2.50GHz 2.50 GHz
8.00 GB RAM (available: 7.87 GB)
System type: 64-bit operating system, x64 processor
Windows 10

I had crashes after this update and the prior one.

The fix on my system: I used GeForce Experience to lower all video graphics settings to the minimum, then restarted the system. (I also deleted shader cache for added cleanup). After this update, I am able to bump up a couple of settings (in game) that stressed the system "stress."

My old system, which I hope to replace soon:

• Processor: Intel Quad Core i7 with 32GB system RAM
  
• Graphics card: NVIDIA GTX960 with 4GB RAM [This is below the newer minimum specs listed by Hello Games]

[gomanu95]

i have this problem. some times when you talk to someone the game zoom on the npc and there is no dialogues, no prompt, you can't skip it and you cant use the menu... you can hear the sound of the menu but cant be used... in the meanwhile your pg can go around but the focus still remain on the npc and the only way to make it work again is to restart the game.
second problem is the xbox one controller that at the start of the game doesn't work and i have to restart the game same thing if i turn on the controller after the start of the game.

[Zak]

Please give us the option to hide the communication stations. The spam is out of control. I rage quit the expedition.