This post is not about cool starship/planet/freighter/etc. that I found. I just want to share something really terrifying that happened to me today. I’m not looking for advice, just want to share.

I was playing NMS for a long time (since 2017 or so). There is something charming in endless space with uncountable amount of planets to explore. Someday I discovered for myself permadeath mode. And then it all began: I know that 500+ hours of pure gameplay isn’t that much, but for a working person that don’t have much spare time it feels like (and it truly is) years to be able to achieve this. Fully upgraded S-class Resurgent freighter, full dock of different S-class spaceships (basically every type available I love to collect some useless junk to please my soul), S-class multitools, expedition rewards, only one achievement left to 100% the game and now it’s all gone.

How did that happen? It was absolutely my fault. I’m not gonna blame the game despite the fact it has plenty of bugs. I went afk for 5 minutes and when I returned all I saw was starting screen so I don’t know what killed me.

I don’t have backup or cloud safe. I play on PS4. And tbh it doesn’t matter. I knew that this will happen sooner or later and you cannot be prepared for this.

I absolutely wish to return to this magnificent and fascinating game. I believe that there is still endless possibilities and opportunities. But all lost progress seems just too heavy duty for me to handle now.

Be safe and make backups, but more importantly: have fun in your journeys, Travellers.

I’m absolutely gutted and I’m pretty sure there’s nothing I can do about it, managed to find a lovely A class solar ship, I’ve spent insane amounts of time and resources upgrading almost everything to S class, I took a different B class solar ship to a space station to scrap, my main ship I left on my freighter, I scrapped the ship, sold the scrap and then noticed the ship I had brought to be scrapped was still in the hanger, I then stupidly flew it back to my freighter wondering if it was a weird glitch or something forgetting not thinking that it would have scrapped my main ship and then when I got back to the main ship and saw my main ship wasn’t there I realised it had been scrapped instead. Honestly I’m very overtired so particularly emotional, but I’ve cried over it, I tried reloading the saves, would have been willing to go back hours but there was only autosaves. Absolutely hours of work and grinding plus the luck of finding a ship I love for nothing. This is my first time playing too. Just needed to share my woe with other people who would understand how sucky this is.