Can you revert to a previous save?

[Danté]

I'd like to know if I can undo a save, as I had an emergency and left the game running while afk and died a few times, meaning my grave is empty and I have a bunch of broken technology.

[Zak]

No, unless you have your own backups.

There is a small chance you may find an older save in Steam Cloud:

https://store.steampowered.com/account/remotestorage

[Antaiir]

The save mechanics in this game are totally crap. So i'm afraid there's no chance to just load an older save.

I have no idea, how on earth the devs think, this save system is useful in any way. I mean... why do we save a games progress? To have the game overwrite it, even when things gone wrong? Stupid design decision.

[Zak]

Originally posted by Antaiir:

The save mechanics in this game are totally crap..

Absolutely.

Originally posted by Antaiir:

I have no idea, how on earth the devs think

They have their own ideas how the game should be played, they're not open to players input much.

[Mandrake]

Main thing is to keep a save beacon on you. Plop one down if you're going anywhere dangerous and make a manual save then pick it up. Every so often I'll plop it down after I've done something major, like collected a ton of resources or completed a mission or milestone, etc. and plop down the save beacon and make a manual save again.
That way, if you die and for some reason can't get to your grave - or you have warped away a bunch and don't want to mess with it and there's nothing you're worried about losing... just reload manual save. Bang, you're done.
It's actually a great save system they've come up with. Most games that have a single-save design (which is most games) don't even have a secondary 'hold point' save. It works really awesome for all kinds of things.
On a side note: I would recommend backups in general principle. I wrote a script that I can run to backup my NMS saves to my cloud server, or just local zip.
I run a timed version that backs up every 5 minutes while I play. Then I just delete all but the most recent for that session... but I'm paranoid :) LOL

[Trip]

I never know if the game saves other than the restore point when you get out of your ship. There is also the save beacon but my ship is usually near by so why bother with it.
When you teleport it just names the location, not if it saved(?!). When I go to quit I always make sure my last save was very recent.

[Zak]

Originally posted by Mandrake:

On a side note: I would recommend backups in general principle.

With NMS backing up is pretty much necessary due to the lousy save system..

Originally posted by Mandrake:

but I'm paranoid :) LOL

Nah, you're not, it's common sense.