Day 1 – Unknown distance from the center of the galaxy

Awoke on a toxic planet.

Ship’s crashed, but I don’t remember how. I don’t remember much of anything before that last jump. Everything’s gone.

Well, not everything…

Previous Log Entries:

• Day 1
• Day 2
• Day 6
• Days 9 & 10
• Day 16
• Day 27
• Day 38
• Day 47
• Day 59
• Day 67
• Day 75

(I thought for sure I’d get bored and abandon this. But I got into it. The early part was especially fun strategizing how I’d maximize the hyperdrive with limited tech slots. That first freighter battle nearly did me in since I pulled all the shield and weapon upgrades for more hyperdrive upgrades.

Eventually, I started to feel some my my character’s obsession. I’d take a break to eat, intending to pick it up again the next day. But I’d feel the pull to log back in and start jumping again. I actually finished the journey a couple days ago. I’ve just been waiting a bit between posts.

I got really lucky on the ship. Fairly early on, I found an S class explorer at a space station. It had a large number of tech slots already unlocked. It had three super-charged slots in a row together and the fourth was two rows beneath. I was able to load up on S and X class hyperdrive upgrades fairly quick and got it up to 2500 light years and +350% efficiency. I wish I’d saved the system glyphs as it made the journey so much faster.

Some “interesting” stats about the journey:

• Total jumps: 341
• Total systems discovered: 339 (only the last two were not “First Contact”)
• Total warp cells used: 105
• On-Foot Exploration: 14,014 – This surprised me, I thought it would be lower. I reckon most of this was running around space stations.
• Total freighter battles: 2 – And not one dreadnought battle. Another surprise. With all those jumps, I expected there to be more. I guess my play time on this save was too low for more. Most of the downed pirates were from a couple missions I did for flavor/variety and getting attacked flying to space stations.

Thank you to those that offered advice on how to make the journey faster. That wasn’t my goal with this journey, but this community has always been great about sharing tips and game info for new players (which I’m not, but I appreciate ya’ll anyway).

Anyway, I hope at least some of you enjoyed this. Thanks for riding along.)

Big patch on the Experimental branch today, these fixes should go public soon.

Including

• Fixed an issue that could prevent the Singularity expedition from converting into a Normal mode save after it was completed.
• Fixed an issue that caused the ship at the start of the Singularity expedition to be missing its Vesper Sail.
• Fixed an issue that caused Sentinel Interceptor ships to be worth 10x as much as other ships when salvaging.

Full List:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/275850/discussions/0/6516193260167070838/

Experimental Branch 15/06

• Players are now able to rebind movement to the cursor keys without that automatically resulting in them moving around while navigating the quick menu.

• Fixed an issue that prevented the cursor from rendering while re-binding controls in the Game Mode options screen.

• Fixed an issue that caused a number of options to be missing from the options menu, or some options to appear when they should not.

• Fixed an issue that caused the Terrain Manipulator menus to scroll the wrong way in VR.

• Fixed a rare issue that could leave player-owned Interceptor ships without any installed technology.

• Fixed an issue that could cause the starship’s landing gear to be incorrectly raised after save/loading within a landed ship.

• Fixed an issue that caused first-person cockpit exit animations to fail to play.

• Fixed an issue that could prevent the Singularity expedition from converting into a Normal mode save after it was completed.

• Fixed an issue that caused the ship at the start of the Singularity expedition to be missing its Vesper Sail.

• Fixed an issue that caused incorrect collision on outpost landing pads.

• Fixed an issue that could cause players to be ejected from the Multi-Tool comparison screen when attempting to pin repair instructions for a Multi-Tool they do not yet own.

• Fixed a rare issue that could cause players to be erroneously told their inventory was full when claiming the reward for “Wayfarer” milestone.

• Fixed a rare issue that could cause the galaxy map Mission Path to point to the wrong destination system.

• Fixed an issue that prevented starship distress beacons from animating correctly.

• Fixed an issue that could cause Multi-Tools belonging to other players to become attached to NPCs.

• Fixed an issue that could result in players becoming permanently stuck to the chair in the Guild Envoy’s area of the Space Station.

• Fixed an issue that caused Sentinel Interceptor ships to be worth 10x as much as other ships when salvaging.

• Fixed an issue that allowed too many Communication Stations to spawn on expedition planets.

• Fixed a rare issue that could cause the current expedition to end early.

• Fixed a Mac-only issue that caused large bases to be loaded very slowly.

• Fixed an issue that prevented some freighter engines from being correctly recoloured when choosing a new engine trail.

• Fixed an issue that could cause the depth of field effect to be applied far too strongly on some platforms.

• Fixed an issue that could cause black speckles to flicker across the screen during interactions that made use of the depth of field effect.

• Fixed a graphical glitch that could occur in the Atlas’ particle effects when playing on Switch.

• Fixed an issue that caused eyeballs to be positioned incorrectly within a specific Traveller-style head in the Appearance Modifier.

• Fixed a graphical issue that could cause the player to briefly appear while teleporting.

• Introduced a rendering optimisation for VR.

• Fixed an issue that could allow too many creatures to spawn when playing in multiplayer.

• Introduced a memory optimisation related to planetary creatures.

• Fixed a crash related to synchronising freighters in multiplayer.

• Fixed a crash related to the Multi-Tool.

• Fixed a hang related to reloading missions.

• Fixed a crash related to base part rendering.

• Fixed a rare crash related to the mission log.

• Fixed a rare crash that could occur in VR.

• Fixed a PlayStation 4 crash related to reporting bases.