No Man's Sky's Beyond update launched yesterday, bringing a new lease of life to the divisive space exploration game. While it adds all kinds of new features to the already huge experience, some players - including this author - ran into some pretty glaring problems. Namely, hard crashes when playing on an old save file.
However, Hello Games has jumped on the bug pretty quickly. A new patch takes the game to version 2.04, and after testing, it seems to have resolved most of the crashing issues. It's only a small download, but it's made a big difference from what we can tell.
We imagine more patches will arrive fairly frequently while the developer stabilises things. Fortunately, these crashes were the only problems we've run into so far, and they're now largely fixed. Fingers crossed no more bugs like this crop up.
Have you encountered any bugs playing No Man's Sky Beyond on PS4? Blast through the stars in the comments below.
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A bit disappointed with the VR - telemovement is not my favorite.
Otherwise, great update so far. I started a whole new game and the tutorial is much better than I remember.
So much praise for such an anti-consumer game and game model. You all should really be ashamed of yourselves for letting trash like this prosper. A redemption story can be a great one, if it didn't start with deception. Absolutely beyond ridiculous that this game is being praised in any capacity and if you can't understand that and support this game, then you're half the reason this hobby is going down.
@NoxAeturnus You can change to smooth movement in the settings. I did that, I find it much better.
@kyleforrester87 your comment didn't read like something you would typically write. Then I saw yesterday's article.
@Jimmy_G_Buckets I did say I'd reevaluated my entire outlook on life
https://youtu.be/CXeE4_8Hf3U
Looks amazing! Cant wait to play. Thank you sean Murray. Legend!
@kyleforrester87 Darn you and your excellent satire. I literally can't think of anything to beat it. Well you have my like sir.
does anyone know if this fixes the loading issue whereby if you've got a PS4Pro and a HD tv with Supersampling turned ON, the game won't load? It took me three attempts at loading plus some interweb searching to discover I needed to turn that option OFF.
Still; once I'd disabled that option, I had a great couple of hours on NMS VRing away last night
@NoxAeturnus you can change that from what Ive read
Hands down the worst performing game on the PS4. If it was a new game it should have been pulled from sale. This game runs 10 times worse than Dayz. The latest patch today what can I say. The game loads up after 3 or 4 minutes waiting and thats running it on a ssd. Then maybe 10 fps if I am lucky and movement is so laboured I can not bear to play it for more than a few minutes.
Hello games should move on they tried to add features that should have been there a few years ago all they did was create a mess and have done yet more damage to their already terrible reputation.
@grahamd
Nothing wrong with amibiton. But I would rather have a game that has the features from the start rather than waiting 2 years for them. Then you also have a game that runs far worse after updates. Does the team not have anyone looking at quality control? Testing the product before they roll it out. Simple issues which should have easily been picked up were missed.
@Quintumply Oh thank god, thanks so much for letting me know!
@kyleforrester87 "A redemption story can be a great one, if it didn't start with deception." Perfection. 10/10, would read your comment again.
@NoxAeturnus Truth be told, I am quite the wordsmith.
My game still won't launch with the VR headset on. It just goes to a black screen. Works fine in normal 2D mode. I hope they're working on patch 2.05.
@kyleforrester87 Agreed. Hats off. It's amazing how the same words arranged in the same way can have such a drastically different meaning in the hands of a competent wordsmith.
A tip for everyone. Use smooth movement instead of teleporting it makes the game feel so much better. I get motion sickness easily and have had no issues with free movement. Also hard crashing seems to be for old save files and random for some people. I played 3 hours yesterday on a new save and didn't crash once.
I recently bought No Man's Sky on sale so at least this bug would not apply to me, as I haven't started it yet. I still have to finish Judgment!
NMS
Never Mention Sean.
Good to see the game has finally delivered on its promise to not be absolutely rubbish. It's now just mostly rubbish.
Ill take the opinion of youtubers streaming no man sky vr over anonymous comments on this site.
@MattyHammo do you have a PS4 Pro? If so, have you tried turning Supersampling off in the PS4 menu system? It worked for me: try Settings - Sound and Screen - Video Output settings. I have this on normally as I’ve not got a 4K tv but need to turn it off for NMS + PSVR
No it didn't fix anything.
Crashes in this game are worse than anthem's release.
@JonnyBGoode422 As per community rules
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So let's watch the language please.
Thanks for understanding
@NoxAeturnus you can change to smooth movement and turning in the options menu
Loaded the new update (another 11GB) and tried VR on my PS4 Pro with upsampling enabled. It worked fine for the most part. The screen with all the stars (and planets with completion percentages) flying by would lag from time to time. Not a lot, but enough to notice. I loaded into a trade freighter using a DS4, which I couldn't figure out the controls for until I switched Movement and Turn to smooth setings.
After that, I played around, entering an orbit and exploring. The VR is down right awesome. Graphics are downgraded, but the immersion is...
@michaelf thanks mate. After reading your comment last night I tried it and it worked! Only tested about 1 minute of gameplay before going to bed. Will be spending the weekend in NMS VR.
@MattyHammo glad it worked for you! Enjoy !!!
No bugs so far but I'm a new player. Loving this game in VR!
I tried the Beyond update first on my old 100 hour save. It did seem sluggish and the game crashed on me. I'll come back to that when it's had a few patches. But when I started a new game in VR, I had no issues whatsoever with performance. No motion sickness either. So VR is definitely my preferred option for NMS now.
@NoxAeturnus You can change the movement controls in the settings to "smooth," which turns off the teleport and let's you move normally. I also changed the snap camera rotation to smooth.
@MattyHammo according to the release notes, patch 2.05 (released today) fixes the Supersampling error, so may not need the workaround after all!
Maybe one day they'll fix all the bugs and glitches, but there's no way they can fix broken gameplay mechanics.
Adding an attic or a balcony to a rickety mansion won't make it better.
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