Those who pre-ordered No Man’s Sky could have the misfortune of running into a game-breaking bug. Reddit user McBlurry shared a detailed post about a strange issue revolving around the special pre-order ship.
The first issue players experienced with the pre-order ship had to do with a persistent pop-up message that kept reminding players about getting their ship, even after they’d already claimed it. Now it seems if you click out of the annoying message, it’s possible you’ll be stuck in the galaxy you’re in with no way off the planet. Here’s what reddit user McBlurry had to say about his No Man’s Sky experience:
“If you (the player) finally give in (like I did) to the annoying-ass message in the bottom right of the screen telling you you have unclaimed rewards during a specific part in the tutorial (before receiving and building the hyperdrive), the game will skip over this section of the tutorial completely, and move on like nothing happened, with no hint to the player that anything is wrong. In reality, the player ends up starting the game without the ability to build the essential item that allows you to get around and progress in the game. What basically happens is the player obtains a ship with a hyperdrive, but not through the proper way of finding the blueprint and building one themselves and attaching it to their crashed ship, but just getting it by redeeming the pre-order ship. I guess the tutorial just sees the hyperdrive box checked and moves on, lmao. So you get the one hyperdrive that comes pre-installed in the pre-order ship, and that's it.”
Read the full post about the potentially game-breaking No Man’s Sky bug here. The reddit user went on to explain he was stuck without the ability to craft a hyperdrive, which prevented him from progressing through the game. Other reddit users responded to McBlurry’s request for help, but none of the suggestions worked for the player. McBlurry updated the post claiming to have taken the “L” and deleted the save.
The No Man’s Sky development team has yet to comment on the issue.
