No Man’s Sky Testing New Experimental Branch Update

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On September 1, the experimental branch of the game “No Man’s Sky” was launched, aiming to resolve several problems that players have faced within the game. Occasionally, Hello Games introduces experimental updates for the steam version of “No Man’s Sky” for testing purposes, and this most recent one aims to enhance the gaming experience overall.

The new patch for this latest experimental branch of the game was recently released, not long after Hello Games unveiled the Voyagers update for No Man’s Sky. This exciting update introduced customizable Corvette-class starships and a plethora of fresh content for players to explore. Yet, it also unearthed some new bugs that the development team is diligently working to fix.

For September 1st, Hello Games released an update for their experimental branch, aiming to rectify problems players have experienced due to the recent content additions. As per the patch details, multiple Corvette-class starship issues have been tackled, allowing you to stack up to 50 Corvette parts now. Furthermore, the workshop cache capacity has been boosted to 160. Various other fixes were carried out in this update, and several crashing glitches have been dealt with as well.

For PC gamers on Steam, there’s currently an experimental version of No Man’s Sky available, which includes recent updates not yet rolled out to the main game. To access it, players should go to their Steam library, right-click on the No Man’s Sky icon, and choose “Properties.” Then, in the “BETAS” tab, they can type “3xperimental” into the text field, click “Check Code,” and gain entry to the experimental branch. It’s advisable for PC players to back up their save files before joining this experimental branch, as Hello Games suggests. If you’re uncertain about how to back up your saves, they’ve offered a detailed explanation in a post on Steam.

These recent enhancements should significantly boost enjoyment for all the game’s numerous enthusiasts. Nevertheless, Hello Games requested feedback from beta testers on any problems they faced in the testing branch. It’s noteworthy that No Man’s Sky has experienced a remarkable resurgence in interest. The Voyagers update seems to be the reason behind this surge; since its release, the game has attracted over 90,000 concurrent players – a figure not seen since it debuted in 2016.

Looking forward to discovering what the future may bring for No Man’s Sky, as Hello Games is still developing Light No Fire and recent updates like Voyagers hint at potential expansions for the 2016 release. For now, players appear to have plenty to explore in this space-adventure game.

No Man’s Sky Experimental Branch September 2 – Patch Notes

  • Fixed an issue which caused players to clip through the walls of a corvette.
  • Fixed an issue which caused players to slide as they got out of the pilot’s seat in a corvette.
  • Fixed a rare issue that could cause players to be jettisoned out their corvette when activating the pulse drive.
  • Fixed an issue that could caused corvette technologies to be placed in the inventory of regular ships.
  • Improved camera framing when exiting the pilot’s seat of a corvette.
  • Fixed a large number of issues with corvette ramp/door synchronisation.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented players from teleporting back to their corvette after a save/load aboard a freighter.
  • Players can now manually summon their corvettes while aboard a freighter.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented corvettes from docking with some pirate and abandoned stations.
  • Fixed an issue which caused players to sink into seats aboard corvettes.
  • Fixed an issue which caused sliding on corvette ramps.
  • Fixed an issue that could cause group member’s freighters to despawn after boarding in a corvette.
  • Fixed an issue that could prevent players from sitting on chairs in a moving corvette.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented players from summoning a corvette over water.
  • Fixed two specific corvette parts that would not stack / could not be spent after rotating.
  • Fixed an issue with Thunderbird Landing Thrusters animations.
  • Fixed an issue which caused the Azimuth Reactor to be uninteractible once placed.
  • Corvette parts can now be manually placed in the Corvette Workshop Cache.
  • Corvette workshop cache capacity has been increased to 160.
  • Corvette parts now stack up to 50.
  • Fixed a rare issue that prevented players from deleting some items once added to a corvette.
  • Improved the visuals of the thunderbird-class landing thrusters.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented players from teleporting aboard a corvette with a thunderbird-style accessway.
  • Fixed an issue with multi input refiners.
  • Fixed an issue which prevented Humming Sacs and Fiend Eggs from being collected.
  • Fixed an issue which resulted in invisible blocking physics in freighter bases.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented players from summoning secondary ships on planets, if those ships were in a high-numbered ship slot.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented settlement sentinel and infestation attacks from ever occurring.
  • Fixed a number of collision issues in abandoned and pirate space stations.
  • Added an animation to Skyborn backpack.
  • Fixed an issue which caused warp audio not to play.
  • Fixed a number of audio issues aboard a corvette with its pulse drive active.
  • Improved space walking in VR.
  • Fixed a large number of control issues in VR.
  • Fixed a number of issues with markers and labels while spacewalking in VR.
  • Fixed a number of issues with corvette cockpits in VR.
  • Various corvette asset optimisations.
  • Introduced a significant memory optimisation for Xbox.
  • Fixed a crash while using a pulse drive.
  • Fixed a number of networking-related crashes.
  • Fixed a crash related to summoning your freighter.
  • Fixed a crash related to AI spaceships.
  • Fixed an experimental-branch only hang that could occur when summoning a freighter.

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2025-09-03 03:42