Hello to all of my fellow space-faring specimens, hope you all are well today 🙂

Just started back again and I’m looking for any help in the folowing:

Portal glyphs(have 2/16)

Bare essential buidling mats to take with me for a base(mat breakdown)

Not so obvious trade routes for illegal goods(I’m only netting like 3% profit)

My end goal of course is to go to another galaxy. I’m thinking of a harsh as I have some repair kits saved up for the damaging journey, I’m just wanting a living ship/frigate atlas frigate, and a tentacle ship

Don’t get me wrong things have been fixed and stability has improved in one place and crashed in another. If you are also seeing the game crash you are not alone.

Last time I tried to play a Expedition the glitches and crashes forced me to abandon it. The ships glitched all over so fast they could not be tracked with eyes or targeting scanners. Too many locks ups, too many glitches and bugs.

I used to see an issue where from the moment the game started I would have 48hrs to play. The more intense the activity or graphics the shorter the play time got. If I had a fight with sentinels I might have 15-20 min play time. Then Crash.

I fully rebuilt my PS4. Installed new fan, power supply, thermal pads and thermal grease. New Samsung SSD. I know the SSD wasn’t the fix because I still got crashes, but the issue seemed to go away when I installed the power supply. So I wasn’t sure if that was power stability issue or a code issue. But always got those codes that blamed the crash in a 3rd party HDD. -which honestly smacks of cheat programing that directly coded to register locations in the HDD cache chip.

So for a time the game has been stable. Have been able to leave it run for a week and no issues. Though I haven been fairly inactive since the rebuild.

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Expedition: Singularity

I rarely have issues in space or space stations, or even classic worlds.

But Expedition destination worlds, with Dissonance and gravity storms… I have had the ship (code) crash, wont land, acts like it’s in space, spins 360, read outs become glitched and read weird. Game freezes or drops to error screen.

Initially the game just locked up. Might get 5-10 min on a Dissonance world, per login. Until I left the planet. But they fixed something so now it doesn’t lockup, it does go to a blue screen. Just landing at the destination and then locating the camp on foot is a nightmare then and now. Too many crashes.But annoyingly the game requires you to fight sentinels to collect materials, and this is guaranteed to decrease playable time. This compounded by the fact that you must hunt Quads that can go invisible, jump around inside the ground and prefer to spend all their time behind the player, or inside a rock where they are invincible, jumping out just long enough to break a shield. So of not game crash then game over. Thank goodness they added the quick saves.

Just had the game lockup 2 min into a login, on a space station. Crashed last night while trying to find a place to buy glass. It’s not yet part of my skills to make it. So I have to buy a few chunks. Game crashed after several warps. It did pretty good all things considered. Logged in this morning, took about two min to launch and load the game. Started at the Warp Gate on the space station. Checked the trade terminal. Warped to another station. I kid you not, maybe 2 min of game play, and it crashed in transit.

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Unstable is the only way to describe the game play:

Other games do crash randomly. But, of all my games, all 140 some I have collected, only NMS crashes like this. I must have over 200 reports logged with Sony for this game alone, and at least 3 directly with Hello Games for persistent crashing, including singularity.

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ohh and because I know it will be mentioned:

no rebuilding the database on PS4 will not resolve any of this. Please do that until every time you reboot and the game will still crash.

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The Storm has Subsided!

Edit: trying to warp to Zahmanum XV Prime causes crash to blue screen. <– definite bug (WARP)

Edit: Disabling all multiplayer stuff fixes most of the crashing in Dissonant worlds and I have no idea why other than something in memory is being over loaded. Other players edits still show up, just not the players. <– definite bug (Dissonance/Gravity Storm & Multiplayer defaults)

Since identifying these two bugs I am almost finish with the Expedition finally. There have been crashes, but far and few compared to every 2-10 min.

Below are a few popular questions that we’ve received from our past FAQ thread. As always we ask that everyone be respectful and we welcome everyone’s contribution so have fun!

Q- I’m keen to start a new passive money making pursuit. What are some good ideas or guides post-Waypoint?

A#1-Gold farm, then take that stack and sell it at a terminal (not traders) in systems that sell gold. Sell all your gold to the terminal and crash the economy. Then buy it all back at 80% off discount. You just got free money and keep all the gold. All this takes is an initial investment on a gold farm, then you carry all that gold with you and just sell/buy back when you get to another system that sells gold. With 50 stacks in my ship’s cargo hold, I can make somewhere around 150 million units in each system I do this in.

A#2-Start a Farm, Fusion Igniters or Statis Devices Farm which will increase your profits to 100- 200 mil fairly quickly and you can even send out multiple freighter missions which will help you get aronium, magno-gold, Enriched carbon and more which will increase the profits even more.

A#3-Quickest way I’ve found to make a TON of units: Harvesting Storm Crystals. Find a VERY hot planet that has frequent fire storms. DURING STORMS ONLY – you can see the bright white light from Storm Crystals if you fly around low enough. Fly to them, land, quickly harvest them, get back in your ship and fly to the next before you burn up.

Q-How do I get the Advanced Mining Laser? I don’t have the option to craft one, and the multi-tool upgrade vendor at the space station doesn’t have the blueprint for sale.

A-In order to get it, you have to look for the blueprints in crashed ships or abandoned facilities. You get it from the main story (awakenings) or you can buy it on the anomaly.

Q-What do I actually do in the game? I finished the tutorial, is there anything else beside gathering stuff, building a base and repeat?

A#1-It’s really whatever you want, there’s a base story, (assuming you haven’t completed it already), follow the quest log and you’ll figure it out, but things You’d want to do for end game? You can collect multiple multitools, ships, built a fleet for your freighter, etc.

Q-Is there a planet that is populated by many players, and they built their base close to each others like a city?

A- Yeah its the Galactic Hub Project, Its a place where many people have bases and each day the numbers grow. Please help yourself. There are many factions in NMS that do this, even NMS Pirates Hub.

Q-I’m still pretty early into the game, just making my way to the center of the galaxy, what should I be spending my credits on?

A-Go hang around a outlaw/pirate trading post. Cheapest S-class start at around 8-8.5 million without a trade-in. I recommend Vikeen pirate, as then you have two good and 1 remote chances at high-maneuverability S-class: fighter, solar, exotic.

If you haven’t seen them yet, grab a pirate-hunting mission and check them out. Your space battles will feel twice as epic as they did yesterday.

To whoever at Hello Games decided to add this bit of greatness to a random patch on a Wednesday morning: Thank you.

1. Multiplayer fleets/freighters. It’d be great if you and whatever friends you were playing with could all summon your freighters into the same system. This would add to the idea that a planet was a home planet for a group

2. Along the same lines but if I Jump into a system and a freighter battle is happening – let me summon my freighter to defend me and potentially the other freighter

3. Settlements are a start but let them expand to sprawling cities or where settlements are started allow cities to start to grow out of them.

4. Race homeworlds- we have 4 races and none of them have a home planet? Do they do all of their construction of the starships and freighters they pilot from other starships and freighters?

5. Along the same lines again but if a race is the dominant race in a system let them populate the planets in that system. Id love to explore AI citites/settlements populated by Gek.

6. Remnants left of the old racist geks who just want to destroy everything and take over everything. Now that we have freighter battles you could easily implement this but instead of pirates its the order of the first spawn intent on destroying the other races

7. Now that we have freighters intent on destroying freighters add orbital bombardment as a possibility for settlement issues

8. The high conflict systems should feel like high conflict systems whether that means you jump in and fleets are firing on each other or you jump in and all of a sudden fighters just fly overhead and are blasting each other

9. I know it’s probably never going to happen but ship/freighter building. I understand the ship hunting mechanic is huge in the game but adding an element for it would be pretty cool…especially now that we have been able to build a staff and a mechanical body.

10. Melee weapons because sometimes you just need to get up close and personal with the enemy or they just get too up close and personal with you. You could make this a sidearm of a multi tool or its own multitool.

11. Desert planets. We have scorched planets so why not desert?

12. Multiplayer cities/settlements – allow multiple player bases to be seen and allow multiple players to build cities together to make sprawling cities or even city worlds. I know this could cause rendering issues but there should be a way to do this right?

13. Space station ownership/construction – I know they added an element to this with the nexus but let us have our own space stations in planets and make money off of products bought/sold in them

14. Player run economies – I’m not saying the whole economy should be player run but allow players to buy and sell to each other through an exchange of some sort whether that means setting up their own shop or through the previously mentioned constructed space station

I love no mans sky as a game and I will continue to play it but I think adding some of these elements will make the game more immersive