Discover the Exciting New Features in No Man’s Sky’s February 2025 Experimental Update!

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Summary

  • No Man’s Sky’s Experimental Branch receives a February 2025 update with fixes and improvements.
  • Hello Games allows players to test upcoming patches to help vet solutions for various issues.
  • The new branch includes a bug fix that causes ships to lose their custom name, and several fixes allowing the Exocraft scanners to locate buildings.

Hello Games, developers of the game No Man’s Sky, have rolled out another Experimental Branch update for February 2025. This release brings more fixes to the beloved action-adventure title. The Experimental Branches in No Man’s Sky allow players to test potential fixes slated for future updates. In essence, these players act as volunteers, helping Hello Games to verify various solutions for a wide range of issues. To access this experimental mode, simply right-click on the game’s Steam library page, go to the “BETAS” tab under Properties, enter “3xperimental” in the textbox, and select the beta from the list after pressing “CHECK CODE”.

Initially released in August 2016, “No Man’s Sky” is structured around four primary elements: exploration, survival, conflict, and commerce. Players are given the freedom to explore a vast, procedurally generated universe with approximately 18 quintillion planets, each featuring unique ecosystems, plant life, animal species, and alien races to discover and engage. Recently, in February 2025, “No Man’s Sky” introduced a new hotfix update for its Experimental Branch, aimed at resolving crashes and addressing ongoing problems.

For February 2025, the Experimental Branch is set to rectify a myriad of problems. Previously, the Experimental branch for January 2025 tackled bugs affecting flora, minerals, creature models, multiplayer, and networking crashes. This latest update includes a solution for a bug that makes ships forget their custom names after an expedition, several improvements to help Exocraft scanners find buildings, and a PC-specific fix addressing a graphics glitch when adjusting settings in PCVR mode.

Players generally appreciate getting another Experimental Branch, acknowledging its smooth integration and praising the developers’ efforts. However, some explorers in No Man’s Sky are disgruntled by the new Titan expedition, as they struggle to escape the destructive tornadoes that sweep them away from their initial location within the gas giants’ hazardous environments.

Fans of space exploration games are in luck, as they have a wealth of options when it comes to Hello Games’ action-adventure game, given its frequent updates. Moreover, there’s speculation that fans of No Man’s Sky might soon be able to play it on the rumored Nintendo Switch 2, if the whispers prove true. The Japanese publisher unveiled this potential successor console in January 2025, and since then, the gaming world has been abuzz with anticipation about which games will make the cut for the new system’s library. No Man’s Sky is a strong candidate due to the game’s successful survival project, and if it does get ported, the graphics might even receive an upgrade should the project gain approval.

No Man’s Sky Experimental Branch February 2025 Patch Notes

  • Fixed an issue with the Hazard Pay milestone in the Titan expedition that could notification messages to flicker.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented an underwater crashed freighter from spawning at the second rendezvous point in the Titan expedition.
  • Implemented a recovery for players who have lost their hyperdrive in the Titan expedition.
  • Fixed a number of issues that could prevent Exocraft scanners from locating buildings.
  • Fixed an issue that could cause Specialist Polo to repeat some dialogue in the In Stellar Multitudes mission.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented the In Stellar Multitudes mission from detecting nearby dissonant planets while aboard the Space Anomaly.
  • Fixed a rare issue which could prevent the In Stellar Multitudes mission from restoring the first purple star system.
  • Fixed an issue that caused ships to lose their custom name when brought back from an expedition.
  • Fixed an issue that caused Multi-Tools to lose their custom name when brought back from an expedition.
  • Fixed a UI issue that could cause inconsistencies in the hold-to-confirm time for popups if the popup button overlapped a button beneath the popup.
  • Fixed an issue that could cause a mismatch between the colour of a dialogue box title and the race of the speaker.
  • Fixed an issue that could cause a significant dip in framerate when practising alien language.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented the Surge Battery recipe from being learnt in Abandoned Mode.
  • Fixed an issue that could cause the game to hang when changing graphics options in PCVR.

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2025-02-14 15:04