No Mans Sky - Update

[alt3rn1ty]

.. Or even player characters with traveller heads and no helmet 

More fixes on experimental, good to see the Galactic Trade Room orb getting fixed, sometimes it just goes for a wander or looks inebriated.

Experimental Branch 03/08

• Fixed an issue that could cause the orb of the freighter Trade Room to become detached and drift across the freighter.
• Fixed a number of minor visual glitches with freighter technology rooms.
• Fixed an issue that prevented the expedition from correctly ending after completing all objectives early.
• Fixed a number of memory-related crashes on PlayStation 5 and PC.

 

[alt3rn1ty]

Another update to the experimental branch

Experimental Branch 08/08

• Fixed a visual glitch that could occur when warping in the freighter.
• Freighter storage containers now display their number designation as part of their hologram.
• Some base parts that were previously restricted as underwater only can now be built on land.
• Fixed a lighting glitch that affected freighter interiors.
• Fixed an issue that caused incorrect pricing data within the Quicksilver shop UI.
• Fixed an issue that could cause sentinels to temporarily stop network synching when a player died.
• Players can now place internal walls freely around their freighter, including within automatically generated doorways.
• Fixed a number of visual issues and glitches with the corridors connecting the freighter hangar to the bridge.
• The freighter industrial expansion room now has a unique floor.
• Older style freighter industrial expansion rooms have been added as variant parts.
• Introduced a number of optimisations to freighter NPC pathfinding.
• Fixed an issue that hid certain storage containers from the build menu if they were not built in that particular base.
• Freighter storage containers that have already been built within the current base are now greyed out in the parts menu.
• Fixed an issue that prevented other base parts from being placed upon Shelf Panels.
• Fixed an issue that could cause other people's freighter base parts to be placed within your own freighter base during an expedition.
• Fixed an issue that could prevent mission progress during Sentinel Pillar Nexus missions.
• Fixed an issue that could cause players to fall through their freighter when saving the game at extreme distances from the centre of the solar system.

[alt3rn1ty]

After the last three updates to the experimental branch, there have been 2 further updates, but no more notes added to the fix list. Probably a case of making sure the fix lists actually did fix the issues, possibly throwing in a few more.

And just a bit of speculation but the release of this bunch is taking ages, maybe they want to round up as much as possible making this the last patch until the next big update. Presuming this next patch is 3.99, and they want to reserve 4.00 .. .. I guess 3.100 could be a thing but I haven't seen them do that before.

Anyway at least we know walls are coming aswell as the glass staircases.

[alt3rn1ty]

3.99 released https://www.nomanssky.com/2022/08/endurance-patch-3-99/

Bug fixes

• A glass version of the freighter stairs is now available to research and construct.
• Fixed a number of issues with freighter customisation that caused areas of paint to be too small or to be incorrectly labelled as primary/secondary/tertiary.
• Freighter surface details (such as numbers and decals) are now recoloured when changing paint options on the freighter customisation screen.
• Fixed an issue that could cause the orb of the freighter Trade Room to become detached and drift across the freighter.
• Players can now place internal walls freely around their freighter, including within automatically generated doorways.
• The freighter industrial expansion room now has a unique floor.
• Older style freighter industrial expansion rooms have been added as variant parts.
• Freighter storage containers now display their number designation as part of their hologram.
• Fixed an issue that hid certain storage containers from the build menu if they were not built in that particular base.
• Freighter storage containers that have already been built within the current base are now greyed out in the parts menu.
• Fixed an issue that prevented other base parts from being placed upon Shelf Panels.
• Fixed an issue that could cause other people’s freighter base parts to be placed within your own freighter base during an expedition.
• Fixed an issue that could cause players to fall through their freighter when saving the game at extreme distances from the centre of the solar system.
• Fixed an issue in how remaining battery life was calculated for power grids.
• Fixed an issue that caused fleet coordination bonuses for fuel use to be inverted.
• Fixed an issue that could cause organic frigates to occasionally roll stats with a 0 strength.
• Fixed an issue that allowed duplicate organic frigates to spawn once the player has collected that system’s unique frigate.
• Fixed a number of visual issues and glitches with the corridors connecting the freighter hangar to the bridge.
• Improved the appearance of landing lights in the freighter hangar.
• Fixed a number of minor visual glitches with freighter technology rooms.
• Fixed a visual glitch that could occur when warping in the freighter.
• Fixed a number of visual issues with decorative items that glowed too intensely.
• Fixed a lighting glitch that affected freighter interiors.
• Fixed an issue that could cause Nada to use the wrong dialog during the Artemis path.
• Fixed an issue that could prevent progress in Sentinel Pillar Nexus missions if players dropped out.
• Fixed an issue that could allow players to get stuck in the freighter bridge teleporter if they were jetpacking on entry.
• Fixed an issue that could prevent players from claiming expedition reward frigates on other saves.
• Fixed an issue that could cause a progression blocker in the Taste of Metal mission (and others) during an expedition.
• Fixed an issue that could prevent players from claiming the reward for the first Polestar Log milestone if they had already maxed out their ship inventory.
• Fixed a rare issue that could cause Infestation Nexus missions to direct players to an inappropriate planet.
• Fixed an issue that prevented the expedition from correctly ending after completing all objectives early.
• Fixed an issue that could prevent mission progress during Sentinel Pillar Nexus missions.
• Fixed a number of instances where players were unable to reset missions involving blocked mission destinations (such as recharging a portal).
• Fixed a rare issue that could prevent players from acquiring the Dream Aerial in very specific circumstances.
• Some base parts that were previously restricted as underwater only can now be built on land.
• Fixed an issue that caused incorrect pricing data within the Quicksilver shop UI.
• Fixed a number of network synchronisation issues with Sentinel combat.
• Fixed an issue that could cause sentinels to temporarily stop network synching when a player died.
• Introduced a number of optimisations to freighter NPC pathfinding.
• Fixed a number of memory-related crashes on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 and PC.

[alt3rn1ty]

3.99.1 released https://www.nomanssky.com/2022/08/endurance-patch-3-99-1/

Bug fixes

• Fixed a crash related to NPC navigation.
• Fixed an issue that prevent frigate fuel bonuses from working correctly.
• Fixed a multiplayer disconnection issue.

[alt3rn1ty]

4.0 is coming this Friday, and Sean Murray has given an interview mentioning what we can expect (besides it also being the Switch release day) ..

https://www.eurogamer.net/no-mans-sky-sean-murray-talks-switch-this-weeks-40-update-and-the-future

[alt3rn1ty]

v4.0 Waypoint update released ... But beware Inventory and upgrades might not be where you left them.

I haven't downloaded it yet but a lot of complaints on reddit.

Anyway, read all about it here ..

https://www.nomanssky.com/waypoint-update/

In the spoiler below is just the patch notes

 

4.0 PATCH NOTES

INFORMATION PORTAL

• The Guide, Catalogue and Milestones UI pages have been merged into one unified information portal and given a visual overhaul.

• The catalogue has been divided into more fine-grained categories, allowing quicker access to information.
• A dedicated catalogue has been added for gathering stories and information from planetary sites, such as monoliths, plaques, abandoned buildings and more.
• A dedicated catalogue has been added that records the story of your own journey across the galaxy as you complete missions.
• Specific catalogue pages have been added to record language information gathered from various aliens met on your journey.
• Specific catalogue pages have been added to record refiner recipes learned via experimenting with the various sized refiners available.
• A specific catalogue page has been added to record any cooking recipes learning from experimenting with the Nutrient Processor.
• Procedurally generated technology is now listed in the catalogue.
• Guide pages can now be manually scrolled.

• New Guide entries are now previewed on the main information portal.
• Key milestones are now previewed on the main information portal.
• The milestones page has been given a visual overhaul.
• The factions page has been given a visual overhaul.
• The medals awarded for faction and milestone progress have been improved.
• Milestones and medals can now be pinned as a mission, giving guidance on how to progress.
• A new range of faction medals have been added.
• The Extreme Survival journey milestone has been reworked so that it counts cumulative time spent in extreme environments, rather than the longest continual time spent in an extreme environment without dying.

NEW DIFFICULTY FRAMEWORK

• All the core difficulty and other differences between the game modes have been reworked into a new framework that players can adjust as they see fit.

• All existing game modes have been retained as quick and easy presets, and can be selected as before when starting a new game.
• Alternatively, players can now choose to create a Custom game where all settings are fully customisable.
• Expedition and Permadeath games will remain in their own pool for the purposes of matchmaking and base sharing. All other game modes have been unified so that players can explore together, whatever their difficulty preferences.

• An additional game mode has been added to this list, Relaxed mode. Relaxed is the full Normal mode experience, but with significantly reduced need to manage survival systems and maintain technology and resources.

• Players wishing to make their existing games more challenging, or take advantage of the new Relaxed mode settings, can customise difficulty options from the pause menu at any time. The vast majority of difficulty settings can be tweaked at any time, in any mode.
• Some limited restrictions are imposed when wishing to play Permadeath.

• Customisable difficulty options include:
  • The ability to disable life support and / or hazard protection management.
  • The ability to customise the speed at which life support and hazard protection are depleted.
  • The amount of material yielded when mining and harvested.
  • If sprinting is limited by life support drain and/or stamina.
  • How fast the scanner recharges.
  • How much damage players take from combat or the environment.
  • If technology takes damage when taking damage from combat or the environment.
  • What consequences there are for death, from none to permadeath.
  • How much fuel various pieces of technology use, including in Relaxed mode the ability to have free use of ammo, the mining laser and the terrain editor while still retaining general fueling mechanics.
  • If crafting items is free.
  • If the game is started with most recipes and blueprints already known, or if they must be earned.
  • How much items and upgrades cost to buy or learn.
  • The range of items available in shops.
  • How large item stack sizes can be within the inventory.
  • How much health hostile ships / Sentinels / creatures have.
  • How frequently, if at all, ground combat takes place.
  • How frequently, if at all, space combat takes place.
  • How hostile various planetary creatures are in their behaviour.
  • If the tutorial missions take place or not.
  • If other inventories (such as the ship and freighter) are always in range or not.
  • If specialised warp drive upgrades are required to enter specific systems.
  • If bases and base equipment require power.
  • How fast standing is gained with various factions.
  • If the game starts with all squadron or companion slots pre-unlocked.

SAVING

• The autosave system has been reworked. Instead of saving when getting out the ship, the game now autosaves silently and automatically during regular play. A full save is still made at all times a save was made before, including getting out of the ship.
• Players may now rename their saves. The option is found in the main menu once the save has been loaded.
• The most recent player location is now displayed in the save summary.

VISUALS

• No Man’s Sky on PC now supports AMD FidelityFX™ Super Resolution 2, a cutting edge open source temporal upscaling solution, providing high image quality and improved framerates.

• The visual variety of NPCs found aboard freighters has been increased.
• The smoothness of third person player movement on slopes has been significantly improved.

• The Fleet Command Room freighter component has been visually overhauled and given new visual effects.
• New rare asteroid variations have been added to systems across the galaxy.

• The freighter hangar entrance effects have been significantly improved.
• The space station docking bay entrance effects have been significantly improved.

• Atmospheric effects across the entire Space Anomaly have had a visual overhaul.
• Visual atmospherics throughout the Atlas Station have been significantly improved.

• The visual effects used when harvesting sodium, oxygen and other small plants have been improved.
• The cave drip visual effects have been improved.
• The landing and ground hover effects for the living ship have been improved.
• The visual effects for plaques and word stones have been significantly improved.

INVENTORY

• Inventory pages have been given a visual overhaul, including new backgrounds and new item slot styles and backgrounds.

• Inventories such as the ship, exosuit, freighter, etc, are no longer subdivided into multiple pages. Technology and Cargo inventories are displayed together on one page.
• General inventories have been removed. Items and technology are now separated into their own inventories. All existing saves have been upgraded to combine their slots accordingly, so that no items or unlocked slots have been lost.
• The maximum number of slots per inventory has been significantly increased, with 120 item slots and 60 technology slots now available.
• Inventory sections are now able to scroll, to accommodate these increased sizes.
• Exocraft now make use of the technology inventory. Exocraft inventories have been generally expanded.
• Storage Container and Ingredient Storage inventories have been significantly increased, up to 50 slots each.

• The cost of purchasing new slots has been generally reduced.
• Players can now choose exactly which slot to unlock when purchasing new slots.
• Item inventories can now be filtered to highlight specific item types.
• Players can now adjust stack sizes and manually choose slots when arranging items inside storage or ingredient containers.

• When transferring items to another inventory via quick transfer, free space is now represented as the number of slots rather than item counts.
• When transferring items to storage containers via quick transfer, the item will be placed in a container that already contains other items of that type, rather than into the first available slot.

• Refunded items (such as fuel from refiners or frigate upgrades from cancelled expeditions) can now be refunded into inventory with space, rather than only into specific inventories.

• Oxygen and Pure Ferrite have had their icons updated.
• Salvaged Data has had its icon updated.
• Log Encryption Keys, Factory Override Units and Salvaged Frigate Modules have had their icons updated.
• Starship Storage Augmentations, Cargo Bulkheads, Multi-Tool Expansion Slots and Exosuit Expansion Units have had their icons updated.

• Drop-Pod Coordinate Data has been replaced with an Exosuit Upgrade Chart that leads players directly to Drop Pods without having to use the signal booster. The charts can be found while exploring or purchased from a cartographer aboard the space station.

USER INTERFACE AND QUALITY OF LIFE

• All menu and options screens have received a visual overhaul.
• The mode select and save select screens have received a visual overhaul.
• Players may now construct a Trade Rocket upgrade for their Exosuit. This allows the deployment of a personal rocket via the Quick Menu. Items loaded into the rocket and launched will be automatically sold.

• Players may now package up any installed technology into a deployable item, which can be archived in storage or redeployed to a new location.
• When crafting complex items, players can now view detailed interactive crafting steps, which will take them step-by-step through the entire tree of requirements and sub-requirements.

• The number of Communication Station icons displayed is now capped in areas that are dense with many messages.

• Interaction targeting has been improved, so that nearby objects are highlighted without the need to aim at them precisely.
• Cursor control in menus has been improved for pad users, making it easier to select small buttons.
• Crafting products and installing technologies now both use the same button.

• Repairing interactions, such as clearing out substances from blocked terminals in abandoned buildings, now have more bespoke text and instructions that more closely match that specific interaction.
• A number of instances where inventory animations would snap rather than flow smoothly have been fixed.

• Players can now disable first-person head bob effects from the main menu.
• A number of instances where the cursor was being reset to the centre of the screen during an interaction have been fixed.

• Item highlighting has improved during missions and pinned instructions, making it more clear which items need to be built, repaired or installed.
• Pinned technology instructions will now correctly guide players to learn the relevant blueprint if they do not already know it.
• Item highlighting hints have been extended to the repair screen and craftable item lists.
• Button prompts are now highlighted when a usable item (such as a chart, geode, or procedural technology package) is ready to use.
• The Quicksilver Companion Robot will now give advice on how to earn quicksilver.
• The signal booster now uses a fast-style interaction, making it quicker to find nearby buildings.

MISSIONS

• The Base Computer Archives mission chain has been reworked to remove timers. The archives are now unlocked by decrypting its various passwords, achieved via learning new pieces of alien language.
• The rewards for the Base Computer Archive mission chain have been improved.

• Missions involving the player’s base now respond dynamically to the construction of new bases. When moving to a new system or building a new base, the mission system will attempt to locate the mission at the nearest appropriate base, rather than whichever was closest at the time the mission began.
• New Creative Mode games start with a short and non-mandatory guidance mission, to help orientate new players.
• Mission details in the log page can now be manually scrolled.

• A procedurally generated mission is now activated when encountering a drop pod. This mission will mark the site and allow players to easily find their way back if they need to leave to gather repair materials.
• The auto-generated crashed freighter digsite mission now marks individual sites so they can be returned to with ease.

• The Vile Spawn dropped from the vessels spawned at Titan Worm burrows can now be collected.
• Collecting Vile Spawn may yield the secrets of the worm cult who worship them.
• Vile Spawn physics have been improved so they no longer roll away at high speeds.
• Vile Spawn are now highlighted by the Scanner and Analysis Visor.

• Building waypoint beacons are now shown in the Analysis Visor.
• Text tips when changing your active mission or when new missions become available have been improved for clarity.
• The mission restart button that becomes available when mission targets are very distant has been improved for clarity.

• Mission board rewards have been generally improved, so they are of higher value.
• Mission board rewards now more strongly correlate to the player’s standing with the commissioning faction, with higher ranks earning better rewards.
• Fixed an issue that could prevent mission boards from quickly presenting the mission hand-in page on their first interaction, if the player had missions to hand-in from another system.

• Fixed a number of rare blockers in the Armourer and Overseer mission chains.
• Fixed a number of instances where mission markers could be lost for core story objectives.
• Fixed a number of mission issues that could cause the target sweep to fail to locate a building correctly.
• The mission icons for the Living Ship missions have been improved.
• Fixed an icon inconsistency in the Armourer missions.
• Fixed a number of text formatting inconsistencies across base NPC missions generally.
• Improved the message box that appears when interacting with an NPC terminal that has no specialist working available.

BALANCE

• The Analysis Visor’s base scanning speed has been significantly increased, making it faster to discover creatures, plants and minerals.
• Damaged objects encountered in the world (such as cargo crates in the wrecks of freighters) are now far more likely to require a repair that can be resolved in place, rather than necessitating gathering additional materials.

• The amount of Quicksilver rewarded by standard Nexus missions, as well as special weekend event Nexus missions, has been increased.
• In addition to nanites and portal rune knowledge, the grave sites of fallen Travellers now offer Memory Fragments, containing valuable technology.
• Interactions with Travellers now generally give higher quality rewards and items.

• The list of additional substances that can be gathered from planetary rocks and flora after successfully analysing them has been streamlined, to avoid polluting inventories with small numbers of a wide range of items.
• The range of items awarded as scrap when salvaging a starship has been decreased, to avoid unnecessarily polluting inventories and to make the salvaging process more streamlined.
• Deployable technology products of the same type now stack, reducing the inventory slots required while waiting for the right time to use them.

• The amount of oxygen harvested from plants has been slightly increased.
• The amount of sodium harvested from plants has been slightly decreased, but sodium plants are now distributed more densely across planets.
• The sell price of storm crystals has been increased.
• The sell price of various raw materials gathered on planets has been decreased, to reward the creation of more complex trade items via crafting.
• The purchase price of key survival materials in space station trade terminals has been increased.
• Extremely large mineral extractor arrays are now affected by diminishing returns, reducing the effectiveness of each additional unit over the cap.

• The potency of the Oxygen Recycler has been increased.
• The amount of time that fuel asteroids stay marked after a space scan has been adjusted.
• Teleporters can no longer be used to avoid danger while smuggling illegal goods.

• Creative Mode games now start with a hyperdrive pre-installed.
• The time that Sentinels will continue to hunt wanted players now scales with general combat difficulty.
• More challenging game modes and difficulty settings now restrict the availability of key items at trade terminals, so that key survival items must be found or crafted instead of bought.
• When using higher difficulty settings, the starship is significantly more expensive to summon than it is to launch while piloted, making the decision to summon rather than walk a more complex equation.

• On higher difficulty settings, technology can be broken when taking damage. The chance scales with shield strength, so that more fully shielded Travellers are largely safe.
• On all but the harshest settings, the base probability of technology breaking is very low.
• The damaged technology is relevant to the type of damage received, so that (for example) extreme cold damage is more likely to break thermal hazard protection.

BASE BUILDING

• Power cables and other wire placement has been improved so that wires snap more easily, reducing fiddliness when building power grids.
• Power cables and other wires are now more easy to highlight when using delete to remove base building objects.
• Power cable visual effects have been improved.
• Fixed a number of visual issues with power cable snap points.
• Fixed an issue that prevented plug sockets from appearing at the end of power cables.

• The build menu UI now stays stable while placing power cables and other wires.
• In edit mode, the build menu now gives information about which part is currently being targeted.
• Hydroponic planters can now be placed freely without the need to snap to a structure.
• Fixed a snapping issue with the cuboid room frame.
• Fixed an issue that prevented players from picking up or editing already placed parts that happened to be near a landed starship.

BUG FIXES

• Fixed a number of crashes related to memory management.
• Fixed a rare crash related to frigate expeditions.

• Fixed a rare issue that could cause mission-critical objectives to become stuck inside volcanoes.
• Fixed a rare blocker that could occur when saving and reloading immediately after visiting the Atlas station in key story moments.
• Fixed an issue that caused the starship to judder when opening the inventory with the pulse drive active and the starship camera in third person.
• Fixed an issue that could prevent teleporters on derelict freighters from working correctly.

• Fixed a number of network and matchmaking issues.
• Fixed a number of network synchronisation issues affecting Sentinel drones.
• Fixed an issue that could cause thousands of sentinels to spawn at a settlement during the Trace of Metal mission.
• Fixed an issue that could cause missions to incorrectly report their target as being in another system, when their target was in fact the Space Anomaly.
• NPC navigation systems have been optimised.

• Fixed an issue that could cause phantom item alerts about new upgrade modules appearing when the inventory was full.
• Fixed an issue that could cause conventional mission messages and detailed mission message boxes to draw over the top of each other.
• Fixed an issue that caused ground collision in the starship to be incorrectly reported as Exosuit damage.
• Fixed an issue that caused the incorrect number of required slots to be listed when attempting to salvage a starship without enough inventory space.

• Fixed an issue that could cause starship inventories to become corrupted when getting a ship that was in the process of being salvaged.
• Fixed a rare issue that could prevent living frigates from making contact with the player.
• Fixed an issue that could cause freighter base NPCs to claim to be the captain of living frigates.

• Fixed an issue that caused the black market mining laser upgrades to have too few stat bonuses.
• Fixed an issue that caused the substance collection boost effect of the Optical Drill to affect all item collection, not just mining.
• Fixed an issue that caused substance collection across the game to be drastically reduced when the Soul Laser is installed in your current Multi-Tool.

• Fixed an issue affecting the first-person camera that could cause the Exosuit backpack to become invisible in the inventory after getting in the starship.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Minotaur’s Icarus Fuel System to display an irrelevant fuel bar and not correctly report its upgrade stats when viewed in the inventory.
• Fixed an issue that could cause the Space Anomaly interior to remain visible and floating around the system after using its teleporter to warp to the space station in your current system.
• Fixed a number of instances where interactions would fail to correctly give rewards upon their successful completion.

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.. oh and heads up, a new experimental branch is out already

Experimental Branch 07/10

• Fixed an issue that prevented the "Change Craft Amount" option from working when crafting products.
• Fixed a number of issues affecting base power when enabled or disable the Auto-Power difficulty setting.
• Fixed an issue that prevented ship and Multi-Tool trade-in prices from being calculated correctly.
• Fixed an icon inconsistency in the Journey Records page.
• Fixed a crash that could occur when pinning a completed journey milestone.
• Fixed an issue that caused audio corruption when upgrading inventory slots.
• Fixed a number of issues related to selecting the next inventory slot to be upgraded.
• Fixed a UI issue that could make it difficult to expand inventories up to their intended maximum dimensions (of 60 for technology and 120 for items).

[alt3rn1ty]

After reading the problems people are having, I dont get it, why have the tech slots expanded to 60, and we cant have more than 3 upgrades per tech .. and the old 3 upgrades can no longer live in the general inventory. What else is going to live in the tech slots if we cant move all of our upgrades in there.

I think HG have mistakenly not allowed to have 6 upgrades in tech .. or there are future plans to add more kinds of tech. If its the former then I am disinclined to allow the update for now on my old saves, but if its the latter I may aswell download it and get used to the new setup.

Or maybe its time to start a complete new game and experience the "streamlined" missions.

Undecided what to do just now. I can see a game which allows less upgrades being more challenging which would be a bonus along with the custom starts and difficulties, but omg starting again.

[alt3rn1ty]

Another experimental update

Experimental Branch Update 07/10

• Fixed an issue that caused some doorways in freighter bases to become blocked.
• Fixed an issue that made it difficult for the living ship to land on planets.
• Fixed a crash related to upgrading Multi-Tool inventories.

[Arthmoor]

I'm just twiddling thumbs waiting on it to drop for GoG users.

[alt3rn1ty]

Oh wow, I just noticed they haven't even got it on the GOG depots, at time of writing this post the latest is still 3.99.1

https://www.gogdb.org/product/1446213994#builds

Ah well, sometime next week then and hopefully we just skip right to 4.1, then I can continue game saves and keep everything earned from every expedition so far. Losing all those would be the worst thing about starting a new game, but also losing all the S Class upgrades acquired so far for my Freighter, getting those is a ball ache.

[alt3rn1ty]

The above experimental updates 07/10 have gone public, but probably only for steam users.

[alt3rn1ty]

4.03 release notes https://www.nomanssky.com/2022/10/waypoint-patch-4-03/

And apparently GOG Galaxy has this update, just about to try it.

[alt3rn1ty]

Bit of a shock but its not bad actually.

We lost 3+3 upgrades .. But the base 3 have been upped a little in the adjacency bonus they give.

I didn't lose anything important from my long term play through save, just a bit of a ball ache expanding inventories again.

TIP: If you haven't found out this already - When you go to the Space station or Anomaly Suit expansion (2 x suit expansions per system), it automatically offers to expand your cargo first.

Press Q and the expansion jumps to your Tech inventory instead before you apply it.

I had all my old extra expansions ghosted and ready to re-install in Cargo, so needed to expand Tech first and its not obvious how to switch inventory to expand.

[Arthmoor]

Yep, I was sitting on something like 1.6 billion units and ran myself down to just over 100 million spending it on nothing but slot upgrades. Then I noticed the mission boards give away slot upgrades like candy

[alt3rn1ty]

New experimental out today, quite a lot of fixes ..

https://steamcommunity.com/app/275850/discussions/0/3392924441164529589/

Experimental Branch 11/10

• Fixed a number of issues where old Cargo slots were visible in the UI, such as when viewing ships through the Analysis Visor.
• Players upgrading their save to Waypoint are now awarded additional free technology slots (this fix will also apply to players who have already upgraded their save to Waypoint).
• Fixed an issue that could cause broken tech to permanently block some inventory slots.
• Fixed an issue that could cause freighters to be missing their hyperdrive after purchase.
• Fixed an issue that prevented the correct charging of Exocraft technology.
• Fixed an issue that could prevent large inventories from being fully displayed in some circumstances (such as when using storage containers).
• Fixed an issue that could cause duplicate hyperdrives to be found in crashed and NPC ships during the tutorial.
• The photon cannon can now be deleted from the ship inventory, providing at least one other weapon is installed.
   
• Fixed an issue that could cause volcanoes to pop out of existence.
• Fixed an issue that caused Livestock Unit to display too few inventory slots in the UI.
• Fixed an issue that caused predatory fish to move too slowly.
• Fixed an issue that could cause improbably large numbers of Sentinels to spawn at player settlements in particular multiplayer scenarios.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Neutron Cannon to deal nearly no damage.
• Added a confirm button to the "Delete Base" option when interacting with the Base Computer.
   
• Fixed a number of visual issues with freighter engines.
• Improved the Trade Rocket engine effects.
• Fixed a number of rendering issues with particle effects.
   
• Improved the text displayed when viewing cooking items in the catalogue.
• Fixed a number of text scrolling issues in the info portal.
   
• Optimised the rendering of a number of particle effects.
• Optimised star and sky rendering.
• Fixed an issue that prevented FSR 2.0 from being enabled while using HDR.
• Fixed a number of networking issues.
• Fixed a crash related to Multi-Tool rendering.
• Fixed a memory issue related to squadron icon rendering.

[alt3rn1ty]

Experimental branch linked above has been updated today, again a large list of changes/fixes ..

Quote

Experimental Branch 12/10

• A new difficulty setting has been added which allows players to lock themselves out of any further difficulty settings changes. Once enabled, this action is permanent.
• The strength of starship specialisation bonuses have been increased, so that higher-grade ships receive greater inherent bonuses to their stats. This scales steeply with both class and ship specialisation, so that eg the Explorer class ships will have significantly further warp ranges.
• As well as damage, shield and warp bonuses, starships now also have an inherent agility-based stat, which benefits all maneuverability upgrades in the same way as the other specialisation stats affect their relevant upgrades.
   
• Stat bonuses on procedural jetpack upgrades have been increased.
• Stat bonuses on procedural hazard protection upgrades have been increased.
• Stat bonuses on procedural pulse engine upgrades have been increased.
• Stat bonuses on procedural hyperdrive upgrades have been increased.
   
• The drop rate of Spawning Sacs retrieved by the living frigate from fleet expeditions has been increased.
• Significantly reduced the likelihood of incoming damage to break a piece of technology while the Exosuit shields are charged.
   
• Fixed a number of issues where different popups would take the same scrolling input.
• Fixed an issue that prevented changing tabs in the freighter inventory while hovering over an empty slot.
• Fixed an issue that caused critically damaged Hazard Protection to appear to become recharged and functional when sitting in the starship.
• Hazard Protection now notes on the HUD when it is critically damaged.
• When reporting a base, the owner's name is now more clearly displayed in the UI.
   
• Fixed an issue that caused missions to fail to recognise when Exocraft technology was correctly charged.
• Fixed an issue that caused some items (such as projectile ammunition) to build the wrong amount when first crafted.
• Fixed an issue that allowed players to salvage their only operational starship.
   
• Fixed an issue that could strand players on the space station if they managed to dock with a broken pulse engine.
• Fixed an issue that could leave some players floating in space when reloading their save.
   
• Fixed an issue that prevented players with very large inventories from seeing all their items when transferring to another inventory, such as a storage container.
• Fixed a number of clashes between changing inventory tabs and changing stack sizes.
• Fixed an issue that could cause some newly acquired inventory items to be visually missing from the main inventory.
• The "Starting Slots" difficulty setting now adds additional inventory slots as well as additional companion and squadron slots.
   
• The visual quality of stars has been improved when using TAA and FSR 2.0.
• The visual effects for the final Atlas Station of the Artemis path have been improved.
• Fixed a network matchmaking issue.
   
• Fixed an Xbox Series S/X crash related to the file system.
• Fixed a PlayStation 5 crash.
• Fixed an inventory-related crash that could occur when loading the game.
• Fixed a memory-related crash on PlayStation 5.
• Fixed a crashed related to the recipe page within the information portal.

[Arthmoor]

Increasing the stat bonuses ought to make the whiners happy about the slot rearrangement. I wonder if they're going to boost the ones that are already installed too?

[alt3rn1ty]

Yep I think that's what its all about. Hmm, methinks I will probably be trying more of those difficulty settings to make things harder when this all goes live, I was just getting used to the new feel of battles 

[alt3rn1ty]

More fixes to the experimental branch

Experimental Branch 13/10

• Player difficulty settings are now visualised next to their name, including a note if they have previously changed to easier settings.
   
• Fixed an issue that prevented technology attachments from appearing on Exocraft.
• Fixed a number of visual issues with inventory slot unlocking.
• Fixed a number of issues that caused Journey Milestone guidance missions to end too early.
• Fixed an issue that could cause starship salvage to return an invalid price for the ship.
• Fixed an issue that prevented players from loading their manual save in Permadeath.
• Fixed an issue that could prevent bases from correctly uploading.
• Fixed an experimental-branch only issue that could prevent ships from being salvaged.
   
• Fixed a memory-related crash on all platforms.

[alt3rn1ty]

4.04 is now live

https://www.nomanssky.com/2022/10/waypoint-patch-4-04/

Bug fixes

 

 

 

 

 

• Players upgrading their save to Waypoint are now awarded additional free technology slots (this fix will also apply to players who have already upgraded their save to Waypoint).
• A new difficulty setting has been added which allows players to lock themselves out of any further difficulty settings changes. Once enabled, this action is permanent.
• The photon cannon can now be deleted from the ship inventory, providing at least one other weapon is installed.
• The strength of starship specialisation bonuses have been increased, so that higher-grade ships receive greater inherent bonuses to their stats. This scales steeply with both class and ship specialisation, so that eg the Explorer class ships will have significantly further warp ranges.
• As well as damage, shield and warp bonuses, starships now also have an inherent agility-based stat, which benefits all maneuverability upgrades in the same way as the other specialisation stats affect their relevant upgrades.
• Stat bonuses on procedural jetpack upgrades have been increased.
• Stat bonuses on procedural hazard protection upgrades have been increased.
• Stat bonuses on procedural pulse engine upgrades have been increased.
• Stat bonuses on procedural hyperdrive upgrades have been increased.
• Fixed an issue that could cause broken tech to permanently block some inventory slots.
• Significantly reduced the likelihood of incoming damage to break a piece of technology while the Exosuit shields are charged.
• The drop rate of Spawning Sacs retrieved by the living frigate from fleet expeditions has been increased.
• The “Starting Slots” difficulty setting now adds additional inventory slots as well as additional companion and squadron slots.
• Added a confirm button to the “Delete Base” option when interacting with the Base Computer.
• Hazard Protection now notes on the HUD when it is critically damaged.
• Fixed an issue that prevented players from loading their manual save in Permadeath.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Neutron Cannon to deal nearly no damage.
• Fixed an issue that could leave some players floating in space when reloading their save.
• Fixed an issue that prevented the correct charging of Exocraft technology.
• Fixed an issue that prevented players with very large inventories from seeing all their items when transferring to another inventory, such as a storage container.
• Fixed an issue that could cause improbably large numbers of Sentinels to spawn at player settlements in particular multiplayer scenarios.
• Fixed an issue that caused missions to fail to recognise when Exocraft technology was correctly charged.
• Fixed an issue that caused some items (such as projectile ammunition) to build the wrong amount when first crafted.
• Fixed an issue that could cause freighters to be missing their hyperdrive after purchase.
• Fixed a number of clashes between changing inventory tabs and changing stack sizes.
• Fixed a number of issues where different popups would take the same scrolling input.
• Fixed an issue that prevented changing tabs in the freighter inventory while hovering over an empty slot.
• Fixed an issue that could strand players on the space station if they managed to dock with a broken pulse engine.
• Fixed an issue that allowed players to salvage their only operational starship.
• Fixed an issue that prevented technology attachments from appearing on Exocraft.
• When reporting a base, the owner’s name is now more clearly displayed in the UI.
• Fixed an issue that could cause some newly acquired inventory items to be visually missing from the main inventory.
• Fixed a number of issues where old Cargo slots were visible in the UI, such as when viewing ships through the Analysis Visor.
• Fixed an issue that could prevent large inventories from being fully displayed in some circumstances (such as when using storage containers).
• Fixed an issue that could cause duplicate hyperdrives to be found in crashed and NPC ships during the tutorial.
• Fixed an issue that caused Livestock Unit to display too few inventory slots in the UI.
• Fixed an issue that caused critically damaged Hazard Protection to appear to become recharged and functional when sitting in the starship.
• Fixed an issue that could cause starship salvage to return an invalid price for the ship.
• Fixed a number of visual issues with inventory slot unlocking.
• Fixed a number of issues that caused Journey Milestone guidance missions to end too early.
• Fixed an issue that could prevent bases from correctly uploading.
• The visual quality of stars has been improved when using TAA and FSR 2.0.
• Fixed an issue that prevented FSR 2.0 from being enabled while using HDR.
• Fixed a number of rendering issues with particle effects.
• Optimised the rendering of a number of particle effects.
• Optimised star and sky rendering.
• Fixed a number of visual issues with freighter engines.
• Improved the Trade Rocket engine effects.
• Fixed an issue that could cause volcanoes to pop out of existence.
• The visual effects for the final Atlas Station of the Artemis path have been improved.
• Improved the text displayed when viewing cooking items in the catalogue.
• Fixed an issue that caused predatory fish to move too slowly.
• Fixed a number of text scrolling issues in the info portal.
• Fixed a PlayStation 5 crash.
• Fixed an Xbox Series S/X crash related to the file system.
• Fixed an inventory-related crash that could occur when loading the game.
• Fixed a memory-related crash on PlayStation 5.
• Fixed a number of networking issues.
• Fixed a memory issue related to squadron icon rendering.
• Fixed a crash related to Multi-Tool rendering.
• Fixed a crashed related to the recipe page within the information portal.
• Fixed a memory-related crash on all platforms.

[alt3rn1ty]

Well soon after 4.04 went live today, a new expiramental was pushed ..

https://steamcommunity.com/app/275850/discussions/0/5533260453827804363/

Experimental Branch 15/10

• Technology inventories now have a chance to contain supercharged slots that offer substantial boosts to the stats of technologies deployed to those slots. The number of supercharged slots is tied to the class of the starship, freighter or Multi-Tool in question, with 1 slots available for C-Class and 4 for S-Class.
   
• An icon reflecting the player's current mode is now visible alongside the icon representing their current platform.
• Players who elect to permanently lock their difficulty settings will have this reflected in their mode icon.
   
• Fixed an issue that could cause technology items to fail to install correctly in some weapons or ships acquired from the Quicksilver Synthesis Companion .
• The technology research trees now stay open when purchasing multiple parts with the difficulty set to zero costs.
• Fixed an issue that caused the cursor to reset to the centre of the screen upon certain button inputs on the storage container transfer screen.
• Fixed an issue that could cause Exosuit Upgrade Chart hints to continue displaying after the chart had been used or sold.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Paralysis Mortar not to be known by default when opting to start with all technologies known.
   
• Fixed a number of visual issues related to purchasing new inventory slots.
• Fixed a minor visual issue with mission icons during Journey Milestone guidance missions.
• Fixed an issue that could occasionally cause asteroids to appear the wrong colour.
   
• Fixed an issue that could cause a softlock on load after triggering a Journey Milestone guidance mission involving the mission board whilst within a pirate-controlled system.

[alt3rn1ty]

Another update to experimental

Experimental Branch 18/10

• Added an "Unread" icon to new entries in the Collected Knowledge catalogue of the information portal.
• Fixed an issue that could prevent the save summary text from appearing correctly on the final save slot in the list.
• Fixed a memory issue affecting time-based missions.
• Fixed an issue that could prevent the technology slot purchase screen from offering more than 30 slots in some rare circumstances.
• Added an option on the inventory page to temporarily expand large inventories and view them without the need to scroll.
• Clicking an inventory filter a second time will now disable that filter.
• Fixed a visual issue that caused some customisation banner options to appear in the wrong place in the UI.
• Fixed an issue that could cause framerate loss while browsing large freighter inventories.
• Fixed an issue that could cause entries to disappear from the Plaque, Monolith or Abandoned Building pages of the Collected Knowledge catalogue.
• Fixed an issue that could cause players to fall through the floor of their freighter when loading in very specific locations.
• Fixed a number of visual issues with inventory slot purchasing.
• Fixed an issue that could cause the base building tutorial to fail to progress past the "Powering the Base" section.
• Fixed a rare issue that could cause mission events involving base NPCs to point to the wrong system. This recovery will take place upon visiting the incorrectly marked system.
• Launch Fuel canisters now always fully recharge the Launch Thrusters, even on harder difficulty settings.
• Added additional fuel information to the "Summon Ship" error messages.
• The chance of technology being broken by incoming damage now scales with the current strength of your shields.
• The Save Point blueprint is now available for research aboard the Space Anomaly.
• Fixed an issue that caused some players to have inaccessible slots when viewing storage container inventories on their freighter.

[alt3rn1ty]

and another update to experimental

Experimental Branch 19/10

• New visuals have been added when reloading a save from within the game menus.
• Fixed a number of networking issues.
• Increased the amount of time the information portal displays the preview of unread guide entries before cycling to the next entry.
• Fixed a number of instances of untranslated text in Journey Milestone guidance missions.
• Fixed an issue that caused the collision box for the Industrial Pallet to be too big.
• Fixed an experimental-branch only issue that caused the inventory page not function correctly in VR.
• Warp Hypercores will now always fully charge the ship hyperdrive, even on the hardest fuel settings.
• Bases now show the difficulty settings with which they were created.
• Fixed an issue that prevented the "Missions Done" stat from being displayed correctly in the Korvax section of the Journey Milestone page.