During the last few hours, community has discovered a bug that basically destroys save files on No Man’s Sky, PC version, and shared more information about it on the game’s official Reddit. Hello Games has since deployed patch 1.52.2 that gets rid of it on PC.
During the last few hours, community has discovered a bug that basically destroys save files on No Man’s Sky, PC version, and shared more information about it on the game’s official Reddit. Hello Games has since deployed patch 1.52.2 that gets rid of it on PC.
“So it appears that after sending frigates out on an expedition, the game will start to replicate a line of code within your save file,” said user Kanosei, describing the bug that has been luckily enough fixed with the latest patch.
“The line of code will continue to replicate over and over and over until your save file hits around 8mb, and it starts replicating OVER the important stuff that comes after. Once it does this, that save is completely borked.”
Interestingly, this bug didn’t make the game crash, which means that you kept playing while it corrupted your main save and did auto-save, having a severe impact on the saves that should’ve be there as backups.
As said, patch 1.52.2 fixes the bug, Hello Games has explained in a very quick changelog containing only one other fix alongside it.
- Fixed an issue with freighter expeditions where, under very specific circumstances, a certain pattern of loading and reloading within a limited timeframe could cause saves not to be loaded (Fix to recover saves for those affected will follow).
- Improvements for text translations, especially Japanese
The developer has been quite fast this time around, but things like this only remembers us to constantly save and on different slots since, especially on PC, the situation with bugs after the release of Next is often still very complicated.
