• Plaque interactions will no longer loop back to the first piece of history for that planet’s race after completing every interaction.

• Abandoned building interactions will no longer loop back to the beginning of the first story after completing every interaction.

• Players joining a friend’s game directly from the frontend but without a valid save slot will now have the option to customise their difficulty settings.

• Fixed an issue that could cause invalid text to appear in various mission information fields when several Planetary Drop Pod missions were active at the same time.

• Fixed an issue that could cause all planetary Drop Pod missions in the same system to complete when loading a save where one had been recently completed.

• Fixed an issue that clamped the craftable amount for an item at the size of its current stack – crafting amounts can now be adjusted up to the current free inventory space.

• Fixed an issue that caused some UI elements to overlap the bottom of the inventory screen.

• Fixed a number of issues that could cause the shortcut button to take players directly to a newly unlocked guide entry to fail to work correctly.

• Fixed a number of issues that could cause inventory numbers to spill outside of their icon in particular languages.

• Fixed a rare issue that could cause invalid items to be awarded from derelict freighter containers.

• Fixed an issue that could cause the wrong inventory to be increased when unlocking new slots.

• Fixed an issue that could cause some journey milestone guidance missions to become stuck in a loop.

• Fixed inventory readability issues caused the background to be too transparent in VR.

• Fixed an issue that could cause the shortcut button to take players directly to a newly discovered mineral/plant/creature to fail to work correctly.

• The shield strength, hull strength, and combat manoeuvrability of hostile starships now scales correctly with the space combat difficulty setting.

• Fixed an issue that could allow players to interact with hidden inventory items while using the expanded inventory.

• Fixed a rare issue that could leave some Multi-Tools with unremovable broken technology after that technology was repaired.

• The non-functional companion summoning options have been removed from the starship Quick Menu.

• Fixed an issue that could cause the Stasis Device and the Fusion Ignitor crafting steps to spill beyond the edges of the screen.

• Fixed a collision issue affecting some Alloy door parts.

• Fixed an issue that caused the living frigate “Feed” options to appear when talking to standard frigate captains aboard your freighter.

• Fixed a number of visual glitches that could occur while using the Appearance Modifier.

• Fixed a number of rendering issues affecting Oculus/Meta VR headsets.

• The visual quality of FSR 2’s Ultra Performance mode has been increased.

• Fixed a number of particle flickering issues in VR.

• Fixed a rare hang that could occur when summoning the Space Anomaly using a hotkey.

• Fixed a crash related to playing custom ByteBeat tracks.

I bought this game when it first came out for PS4, without knowing much about it. The concept seemed cool, but I was wrapped up in a few other games at the time. By the time I had time to give it a shot,the internet was teeming with negative reviews and reactions. I decided to pass.

Fast forward 6.5 years, my VR2 shows up on my doorstep. Looking through the limited selection of games available, I see NMS (still sitting on my shelf, gathering dust). Cool– I already own a game that has a free upgrade and VR2 compatibility! I pop it in and… wow! This game is vastly outperforming any expectation I developed over the years.

Now, I am very slightly aware that in the years since its launch, the devs continued to work on making this game what they intended it to be. But I had a lot going on in my life too, and with new games coming out weekly the NMS ship had kind of sailed for me. I don’t think I ever would’ve given this game a shot if it weren’t for the VR2, but I’m oh so glad I did.

Anyway, still very new to the game (~5 hours), so tons left to learn and explore. Just wanted to say hi to everyone and sorry I’m late.