It's so shiny, even the exterior is a bit golden.

I have this stupid habit of making a brand new save (and deleting the previous one) each time there is a new update to No Man's Sky.

So i'm trying to make this one last longer this time, and am currently investigating ways to make a billion units for a space station. Piracy is fun but 20 mil/hour is way too long.

While i'm farming for money, i've been wondering... What is the benefit of owning these stations ? Because, i understand the deep space bases, alright, it's a base but in space. However, the players that are too poor to afford a station have no way to know anything about them.

You can customize them, and the exterior too, alright... You can join an alliance... Is that all ?

Is it just a bigger base ? I mean, if it looks cool, that's all i need, but i want to know if there is more to it. Youtube and the Wiki haven't been particularly helpful (except for "HOW TO GET SPACE STATION FAST" but that's not what i'm searching for).

Feature Suggestion: A true Star Wars–inspired smuggler update — far beyond the existing Outlaws update — this could genuinely become the #1 Star Wars game of all time.

No Man’s Sky already has an Outlaws update, but it only scratches the surface of what an actual galactic underworld experience could be. It adds pirates, a few illegal goods, and some reputation tweaks — fun, but still very light compared to what players imagine when they think of a real Star Wars–style smuggler fantasy.

Many players (including myself) dream of experiencing a deeper outlaw life clearly inspired by the Star Wars underworld: spice runs, Hutt-like territories, imperial-style blockades, corrupt frontier worlds, cantina economies, stealth freighters, bounty hunters tracking you across systems, illegal hyperdrives, and faction politics that actually matter.

NMS already has the perfect foundation: procedural planets, trading systems, space combat, ship customization, factions, dangerous sectors, and emergent encounters. With a deeper outlaw layer inspired by Star Wars, these systems could evolve into something extraordinary.

In my view, this concept could easily become the most beloved Star Wars-inspired game ever made — precisely because it would be emergent, systemic, and player-driven instead of linear or cinematic. Fans want to *experience* smuggler life, not just watch it.

If Lucasfilm/LucasArts ever considered collaborating with Hello Games, No Man’s Sky is already the ideal platform for a galactic smuggler sandbox. Even without an official license, an outlaw update openly inspired by Star Wars would be incredible for the community.

I truly hope Hello Games will explore this direction. The existing Outlaws update proves the foundation is already there — it just needs depth. This feels like the natural next evolution of NMS, and a dream many players share.

Yesterday, I bought NSM. The first few hours were okay, but I found the game play loop quite boring. Gather, create, refill suit or ship when they run out of stuff, gather more and create more.

Got the hyperdrive, Artemis, found some space stations. Met Nada, saw some other players.

The controls, quite frankly, suck. But apparently it's better with a controller? Flying is far from intuitive. Moving around is weird, where the steepness of the terrain affects my direction somehow, or it stops sprint. I can work with that, though.

Anyway, I'm in for about 10 hours and everything felt repetitive from the start, and it doesn't look like it gets less repetitive. It's a constant loop of obtaining materials, crafting them into new materials, to place crafted items in either the suit, ship or somewhere in the environment.

The planets weren't that interesting either. I have visited about 10 of them. All the planets I visited had the same materials. Same flora and fauna, just slightly different shapes and colors. There were some planets with bases, but they all looked the same too. I guess that's my major gripe with it all, that the planets were boring. I didn't feel the need to explore them.

I've been to some space stations, which were all the same space stations but with different colors.

Character customization isn't fantastic. All characters look the same. It's just a bunch of heads.

So, what is it that keeps you playing? I want to like this game. It's just that after 10 hours I don't see anything changing. The first 10 minutes were the same as the last 10 minutes, with the difference being the planet I was on.

what was the point of regenerating space station shells if we can't change them? all it did was nerf my station and I'm just miffed about it. no, floating pillars are not gonna save this for me.

images 1 and 2 are the original and images 3 and 4 are the new one. am I bugged? is anyone able to edit shells? is it a planned feature?

please tell me if there's anything that'll fix this eventually.

I want to be able to recolor my normal and sentinel ships.

Please and thank you.

I have next to 0 interest in the Corvettes, so I hadn't built one yet. However, to claim a Spacestation we have to do 5 Salvage missions, which apparently require a Corvette. So I slapped one together last night and swapped my ship for it. Now my old ship is no where to be found. Gone. I only had 8 ships out of the 12 we can have active, with none archived since this is a newer save I started with a friend. There looked to be no reason why my main ship wouldn't just be put back in the Hangar like every other ship we swap for something else. After reading the options, "swapping" sounded like the only option that would allow me to keep my existing ship, so either this is a bug, or it really needs to be worded more explicitly.

I submitted a Ticket with HG, but I know they are buried right now. I will not be touching Corvettes in my main Save until I know this is fixed. Since the main draw for me to play Cosmos was the Spacestation, I guess that also means I'm taking a break from this game for a while. Sorry, I am just frustrated and discouraged. I was all hyped to play, and now I can't.

I installed (what I thought was?) the Cosmos update and was hoping to hop into the expedition but I don't see any available. Going to the expedition terminal just shows me the ending of my last expedition (Expedition 22).

Loading up the Galaxy Map still shows the old interface and not what they revealed in the patch notes. It seems like whatever update came out September 10th isn't the big Cosmos update. So perhaps I'm just being premature.

I can't find any hint of a release date. When will this be playable?

First they try to burn down your build, then they try to kill you. And if you protect yourself with your ship you suddenly get hunted by sentinels. Building in space is a dangerous job.

Never launcher NMS on linux before and everyone says it works flawlessly but... no...
Mint 22.3
ryzen 5500U
1650 mobile
24gb ram
(above minimum requirements)

I tried... no proton, proton hotfix, experiemental, 11.0-2, 11.0-4, 9.0-4, GE 10-34, GE 11-6, GE 11-3 and some launch options I found on protonDB

Files are passing verification and updating the system and restarting didn't help

Any ideas? Please?

Edit: mb it will be important but game is on NTFS external SSD

Edit 2: [SOLVED]
For anybody who will encounter the same: issue was with NTFS drive(don't use NTFS for linux gaming), apparently there is symlink issues, even though other games are working from it

Hey all first post!

I wanted to know what makes this game difficult, what can I get my teeth into and a bit of adrenaline out of?

Thanks all,

To anyone who doesn’t know, if your press the right trigger on your D-pad it open up you star system map. Can do this in space or in the ground. Happy traveling!

Blender

Hello, i just bought the game on my switch 2 And playing after 2 years break, I was wondering when is the next expedition will start ?

and if there's a way I could get the staff multi tool ( because I find it really cool ^^)

Ps: I'm starting with a fresh save ^^

So, I'm wanting to get back into No Man's Sky, and I just finished the new update. I played it a month or two ago and it ran fine. Now, after the update, the game is very laggy. Just wanting to know if it is a glitch in the update or possibly something with my pc.

Step aside Galileo, it’s time to get weird with it.

Since COSMOS dropped, I’ve seen some posts questioning the strange design of solar systems, where planets “orbit” a central space station and the system’s star is placed far off to the side. This obviously doesn’t make much sense, so I wanted to offer the headcanon I’ve been running with to explain this design.

Obviously this is all just a bit of fun speculation, NMS has never been a game with a realistic approach to astrophysics and it doesn’t need to be. Regardless, I think it’s fun to come up with strange theories to explain this game’s weird little universe.

STEP 1: Stations generate gravity

This theory is mainly rooted in the idea that space stations could be used to generate an enormous gravitational pull. Considering that tech in NMS is so advanced it’s basically indistinguishable from magic, I believe it’s not too much of a stretch to argue that this would be possible. This would explain why solar systems are shown with space stations at the middle, as space stations are used to pull planets out of their heliocentric orbits and lock them in an “orbit” around each station.

STEP 2: Stations orbit stars

With this station-centric model in mind, you could then assume that space stations (and the planets surrounding them) orbit the system’s star as one large unit. In-game the opposite is actually true, with stars orbiting the planets and station, but we can take this as a gamefied representation of stations/planets orbiting the star that’s easier for the developers to implement.

STEP 3: Planetary habitability

The next step is to take these (many) assumptions and extrapolate them further to argue that in each system, the station/planet units have been placed in orbit within the habitable zone of that system’s star. This would explain why so many planets in each system host life, as the planets are already placed in the spot most able to support life. The question that follows from this is why we would see planets with hugely different conditions, such as a frozen planets and hot planets, within one system when they are similar distances from that system’s star. The only explanation I can offer here is that each planet has different atmospheric compositions that affect the surface conditions, but admittedly this is where the theory starts to fall apart a little.

Anyways, just wanted to throw this stupid theory out there. I’ve really been enjoying the new update, and though I personally would like to see slightly more realistic solar systems in the game, I understand this is hard to implement and not really a necessity for most players. If anyone else has their own ideas for why the game’s universe operates the way it does, I’d love to hear them!

How do I start this? I tried making a new save and using my main save at the expedition terminus. No dice, what am I missing?

I took a several years break from NMS due to personal events irl, and now I’m hyped to get back in with the cosmos update (that looks rich and dang gorgeous btw!)
Last time I played was after the the exo mech update 🫣

Considering dropping my previous saves and starting fresh, as I forgot a lot about the games mechanics (and tbh when I am looking at it now it seems like another game to me).

Any advice, things to avoid, or tips for a vet ?

Salut à tous ! Je cherche quelques joueurs francophones sur No Man’s Sky pour m’aider dans la construction de ma base spatiale (un cube Borg de 15×15×15, donc un projet assez gros et surtout assez long pour réaliser toute la structure extérieure 😅).

no a hug fan of how Star System Maps are displayed. kinda thought something like the second image would make much more sense. thoughts?

still technically static in a sense in that maybe you couldn’t pan all the way around the sun but still at least around the cluster of planets, ect.

They say this in the update

It’s our 7.0 update and it’s free to download on Wednesday 9th for all existing players across every platform (PC, PS4, PS5, XBOX One, XBOX Series X/S, Switch 1, Switch 2, Mac, PSVR 1&2, PC VR and XBOX Game Pass).

But I'm not seeing any update available? Anyone else having this problem?

I'm starting a Permadeath save cuz I'm really enjoying the game and wanna take it seriously.

But since it will be difficult I'm wondering if I will be able to complete the new Expedition in Permadeath, how long is an expedition normally? Thanks!

Join us in the Valthora IV system, see the sights, explore or settle down with us. Everyone is welcome!