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 own a Sentinel Interceptor for home-planet defense, because that’s what the ATLAS intended. Four pirates warp into my system. “Hostile ships approaching.” As I grab my controls and switch to Infra-Knife, blow a gravitino ball-sized hole in the first pirate, he’s dead on the spot. Draw my rocket launcher on the second man, miss him entirely because they’re unguided and smash into a passing freighter. I now have to resort to the Defense Turrets mounted on my capital ship below. “Tally ho lads.” The high-powered Phase Beam shreds two men in the blast, the shockwave and debris field sets off proximity alarms. I now resort to dogfighting the last pirate, select my Sentinel cannon, pull him into the reticle and fire. He bleeds out in the cockpit because high-powered photon wounds are impossible to stitch up. Just as I get a “Shields down” warning.