I don’t know what to say. I don’t know what to feel.

Some people say that I only to play the game 3 hours and need to warp 5 times. I have been trying since yesterday. I had even let the game open, hoping that this would pass the “3 hours” cooldown.

No.

I have travelled to 160+ systems already. The galaxy has been to peaceful, where are the pirates? Wave after wave, I gaze into this sea of stars as my heart drowns into loneliness. The music of my warp engine has long made my ears bleed. My heart has turned cold, yet I still have perseverance.

I hope someday I will meet that fateful encounter.

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.

Not sure why this isn’t already a thing. Systems and planets are already like this, so it’s clear that Hello Games has the ability to do this. These are already done this way to (probably) stop people from naming these larger systems into something offensive.

But based on the past few expeditions, it’s become increasingly clear that people won’t use this system to make fun or funny names for things and instead will choose to name commonly found resources or creatures into things that are political or offensive.

I don’t think specific words need to be locked or anything. If I found one of these discoveries in the normal mode then I can just move on. But, expeditions (especially the last one) force you to interact and see the discoveries of other players for much longer periods of time compared to other parts of the game.

Having all discoveries on necessary progression systems (starting places, rendezvous points, etc) be pre-discovered by Hello Games eliminates any need for them to ban any names and still lets people name random systems whatever they want. I’d imagine this would also drastically cut down on reports sent to HG. For the most part everyone wins by doing this. People can still name random systems whatever they want, HG doesn’t have to deal with a bunch of reports, and people can play their space game without political and offensive names being shoved down their throat.