No Man’s Sky released a new experimental branch on September 1, addressing various issues players have encountered in the game. Hello Games occasionally rolls out experimental branch updates for No Man’s Sky players on Steam to test, and this latest one should improve the gameplay experience.
This latest experimental branch patch comes shortly after Hello Games released the Voyagers update for No Man’s Sky. Bringing customizable Corvette-class starships to the game, Voyagers added lots more new content for players to check out. However, it also introduced some new bugs that the development team has been working to squash.
The new experimental branch update for September 1 is Hello Games’ latest effort to fix issues players have encountered as a result of the new content. According to the patch notes, numerous issues with Corvette-class starships have been addressed. Additionally, Corvette parts can now be stacked to 50, and the workshop cache capacity has been increased to 160. Other various fixes were implemented, and several crashing issues were resolved.
While these numerous changes will likely be introduced to the base game in the future, this experimental branch is currently limited to PC players on Steam. To test out the latest changes, players have to navigate to their Steam library page and right-click on the No Man’s Sky icon. They can then select “Properties,” which grants access to the “BETAS” tab. From there, players can enter “3xperimental” in the text field and click “Check Code” to bring up the experimental branch. It is worth noting that Hello Games recommends that players back up their save files on PC before entering the experimental branch. Fortunately, the developer provided an in-depth explanation in a Steam post for those unsure how to do so.
These new improvements should make the game even better for its many players. However, Hello Games encouraged testers to report any issues they encountered in the experimental branch. It is worth noting that the game has recently seen a surge in popularity. Thanks to the Voyagers update, No Man’s Sky’s popularity has spiked. Following the launch of the update, the game exceeded 90,000 concurrent players, the highest total since its 2016 launch.
It will be interesting to see what the future holds for No Man’s Sky. While Hello Games continues to work on Light No Fire, the recent Voyagers update suggests that much more for the 2016 game could be in the works. In the meantime, players seemingly have lots to check out in the space-faring game.
No Man’s Sky Experimental Branch September 2 – Patch Notes
- Fixed an issue which caused players to clip through the walls of a corvette.
- Fixed an issue which caused players to slide as they got out of the pilot’s seat in a corvette.
- Fixed a rare issue that could cause players to be jettisoned out their corvette when activating the pulse drive.
- Fixed an issue that could caused corvette technologies to be placed in the inventory of regular ships.
- Improved camera framing when exiting the pilot’s seat of a corvette.
- Fixed a large number of issues with corvette ramp/door synchronisation.
- Fixed an issue that prevented players from teleporting back to their corvette after a save/load aboard a freighter.
- Players can now manually summon their corvettes while aboard a freighter.
- Fixed an issue that prevented corvettes from docking with some pirate and abandoned stations.
- Fixed an issue which caused players to sink into seats aboard corvettes.
- Fixed an issue which caused sliding on corvette ramps.
- Fixed an issue that could cause group member’s freighters to despawn after boarding in a corvette.
- Fixed an issue that could prevent players from sitting on chairs in a moving corvette.
- Fixed an issue that prevented players from summoning a corvette over water.
- Fixed two specific corvette parts that would not stack / could not be spent after rotating.
- Fixed an issue with Thunderbird Landing Thrusters animations.
- Fixed an issue which caused the Azimuth Reactor to be uninteractible once placed.
- Corvette parts can now be manually placed in the Corvette Workshop Cache.
- Corvette workshop cache capacity has been increased to 160.
- Corvette parts now stack up to 50.
- Fixed a rare issue that prevented players from deleting some items once added to a corvette.
- Improved the visuals of the thunderbird-class landing thrusters.
- Fixed an issue that prevented players from teleporting aboard a corvette with a thunderbird-style accessway.
- Fixed an issue with multi input refiners.
- Fixed an issue which prevented Humming Sacs and Fiend Eggs from being collected.
- Fixed an issue which resulted in invisible blocking physics in freighter bases.
- Fixed an issue that prevented players from summoning secondary ships on planets, if those ships were in a high-numbered ship slot.
- Fixed an issue that prevented settlement sentinel and infestation attacks from ever occurring.
- Fixed a number of collision issues in abandoned and pirate space stations.
- Added an animation to Skyborn backpack.
- Fixed an issue which caused warp audio not to play.
- Fixed a number of audio issues aboard a corvette with its pulse drive active.
- Improved space walking in VR.
- Fixed a large number of control issues in VR.
- Fixed a number of issues with markers and labels while spacewalking in VR.
- Fixed a number of issues with corvette cockpits in VR.
- Various corvette asset optimisations.
- Introduced a significant memory optimisation for Xbox.
- Fixed a crash while using a pulse drive.
- Fixed a number of networking-related crashes.
- Fixed a crash related to summoning your freighter.
- Fixed a crash related to AI spaceships.
- Fixed an experimental-branch only hang that could occur when summoning a freighter.
No Man’s Sky
7/10
- Released
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August 9, 2016
- ESRB
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T for Teen: Fantasy Violence, Animated Blood
- Engine
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Proprietary