Relatively new player here, loving it and just the sandbox – do whatever the hell you want – nature of the game. My one gripe (partly of my own making) is that a I dead (no permadeath here) due to being caught in a tornado and plummeting to my death. So far, so NMS. However the tornado was ripping through my settlement at the time and I died within its boundaries. As such I cannot use the terrain manipulator to simply build a bridge in the sky to reach my grave and retrieve all my stuff, and due to catastrophic inventory maintenance, I died with all of my valuable items on my body. I have tried everything I can think of but just cannot reach my grave marker for love nor money. At some point I’ll accept defeat and just move on but for the time being it’s just hugely frustrating.

TIL another cool feature of ancient ruins. I had started a survival-mode playthrough and was getting to the very first stages of constructing a base to have a shelter available from the environment. Earlier I’d found an ancient ruin and I decided to drop a base computer right next to it. Long story short, I discovered the entire flat circular area around the ruins was basically treated as a big building by the game. No weather or storm damage! Pretty nice in the early game when I have yet to upgrade the old exosuit! 😄

So lately when I start my game up, it’s been taking me to the “Start New Game” menu by default. Tonight when I started playing, I thought “you know, I died on my permadeath save a few days ago. Let’s give that another go.”

So I make a new save, make progress, then decide to finish the night out casually. I go to switch to my daughter’s and my shared save (she’s 4 and just likes to fly the ship and help build bases). Turns out the start a new save screen it’s been taking me to this whole time overrights whatever game save you were on last. So I’ve lost my 50 hour save that I share with my daughter.

I’m bummed that we’ve lost all our Elsa castles and whatnot we’ve built, but I’m also sad for all the other stuff I accomplished on that save. It was a lot… and now it’s gone.