I came back after 5 years because I got excited seeing all of the content they had. After 2 days…. I’ve fell through my freighter to my death in space, running into walls that aren’t even there, friends walking through my freighter walls, my starship completely disappeared from my list (lost the starship, inventory, and all of my s class upgrades, also a unique the Crystal Wing), friends can land on my freighter but can’t see me. Game shows that my brother is currently hosting multi-player but he is asleep and clearly isn’t, i found a broken s class sentinel ship but couldnt interact with it and could walk through it like it wasnt there (i actually reloaded my autosave and was able to get the ship WITHOUT repairing it, was just automatically added to my list and when i clicked transfer my items, my ship just disappeared like houdini. I am EXTREMELY thankful they give all of these updates for free but what good is additional content if it’s so buggy you can’t enjoy it? I wish they would focus more on performance for once instead of content. I feel like it’s the equivalent of focusing on graphics rather than gameplay. They are focusing on content rather than performance it seems.

I play on pc with a ryzen 7 5800k and 24gb ram and a Gtx 1050 on the lowest settings nearly (i know its a super old card, just dont have funds to get a new one) and still get 10fps on planets and 25fps if I’m in space. At first I thought it was my pc but then my 2 friends whom use xbox one and ps4 have similar issues. They couldn’t explore my freighter because of invisible walls blocking them. I’ve also had my starship dock in the same spot as my friends so the were clipping through eachother. I freaking love this game but I’m so destroyed inside because it’s almost unplayable. I don’t mind bugs, I actually expect them, no game is perfect but when game breaking bugs occur, then that’s when I have an issue.

To anyone who plays on permadeath, mad respect because I died by falling through the floor of my freighter. If I was playing permadeath, I would have broken my keyboard and punched a hole through my monitor.

Sorry about the rant. I really REALLY love this game but it’s borderline unplayable because I keep losing stuff and can’t get it back. Yes I have also had to reload autosaves just so I don’t lose stuff but it’s hard to tell when a bug will occur.

So I arrived by teleporter to my oldest base, which is built on a ridge that overlooks a crashed starship site.

My base has two landing pads, and when I arrived, I found an NPC standing alone on the empty one, walking around and looking at his tablet, and generally acting as though he was inspecting an invisible starship that only he could see.

That’s odd, I thought, his starship must be parked there but didn’t load or something. So I went over and spoke to him, because I was curious, and thought maybe I could see what sort of ship it was if I inquired about buying it.

Well, the NPC did behave like a normal NPC pilot, able to buy and sell items, and able to negotiate on a price for his starship. But when I chose that option, the ship I was presented with was damaged to hell. All tech non-functional, many damaged slots, the works. It was as though the NPC were trying to sell me a crashed ship.

I exited out of the conversation, and I turned and caught sight of the crashed ship that my base overlooks, and realized — this guy is trying to sell me THAT crashed ship, right there. He is standing on an empty landing pad, acting exactly as though he landed there in a working starship, but instead he’s become associated to the damaged one sitting by the distress beacon about 100u away.

After a few minutes, the NPC disappeared from the landing pad, and then the damaged ship at the nearby crash site (which had no working engines) rose into the air and flew away.