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No Man's Sky appears to delete your discoveries after two weeks [UPDATED]
Names given to planets and solar systems remain untouched, but everything else seems to be fair game.
Update: 7:44p Pacific
No Man's Sky might not be overwriting discovering after all. In an edit to his original post on game's sub-Reddit, Dark_Nexis explained that he redownloaded No Man's Sky and, after a couple of hours, noticed that the discoveries he'd made on his starting planet had reappeared.
Based on his anecdotal evidence, the issue might stem from game servers taking more or less time to refresh discoveries as players move further and further away from them. "It seems like a server bugs like it takes a while for your old discoveries to re download," he wrote. "Please spread the word and if you are having this problem just wait and see if your discoveries will return. It seems a little bugged where as you get further and further away from your starting point you can't see your old discoveries even when you find your way back. It's like the server lags behind big time and takes a while to find the old information."
Original story follows
According to several users on Reddit, No Man's Sky deletes any discoveries other than names of planets and solar systems after two weeks (via Geek.com).
Reddit user Dark_Nexis returned to the system where he began his adventure only to find that the names he'd given locations, flora, and fauna had been reset. "I check a few neighboring stars I discovered and their discovers were wiped. So none of my named animals plants were ever saved. The system name and planet names were saved but everything else was wiped." [Comment edited for grammar and spelling.]
Other players experiencing the same issue chimed in. "Yesterday I browsed my list of discoveries, and went all the way to my starting planet," wrote Ultrasilvanus. "The system and all the planets I've ever been to are clearly marked as being discovered by me, the planets list 100% completion for animal scans but I can't see any animal or plant in the gallery and all of them appear as ???????"
Further investigation revealed that No Man's Sky seems to be erasing discoveries in chronological order, from oldest to newest.
In defense of Hello Games, deleting discoveries could be a bug rather than a design decision. All evidence has been anecdotal so far. However, it's not surprising that affected players are disappointed. Whether a bug or design decision, No Man's Sky is predicated on exploration, discovery, and putting your mark on those discoveries by naming them—planting your flag in soil untouched by others, so to speak.
Without that hook, many players might decide that exploration is meaningless.
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replyDavid Craddock posted a new article, No Man's Sky appears to delete your discoveries after two weeks
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Obviously credible lol
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This story originated on Reddit. Reddit users are the source for the story.
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Oh wasn't doubting you, but for as much hate as that sub reedit gets I would take stuff as grain of salt. Sorry didn't explain myself :)
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No worries. :)
Believe me, I didn't jump on the story right away. I read through the Reddit thread to see how many other people were reporting the same problem, and hunted around to see if other websites were running with the story. If I were after clicks, as certain other members of the community seem to believe, I'd have published it much sooner.-
How dare you write for this website! The nerve. Using the front page of the Internet as a source of information. Where do you get off?
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I have a lot of respect for you Mr. Craddock, I'm just tired of all these negative articles. I'd rather see posts about the great mods the pc community is producing, or the fact that Hello Games has cranked out 4 very quick patches that address most of the launch technical issues. But I've voiced my opinion pretty clearly at this point, so I'll get off my soapbox.
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Negative? So you want them to smokescreen bad business practices to protect future games from scrutiny?
We need a HOLY SHIT LOL tag for this one.-
Yeah almost ever article about No Man's Sky is negative what would you call it?
Let me ask you this how many negative Star Citizen articles has this site published or any other video game site?
Almost every video web site is unfairly picking on the indie game No Man's Sky and as far as I am concerned its ridiculous, unfair and sad.
No hate on you David, I know your just doing your job, so to be clear I am not pointing the finger at you what so ever for the article in case that is not clear.
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it's a tough call when lots of blogging sites are chasing social media, they're not always going to get things right in general. Kudos for staying on updating it, though how would you feel about using a phrasing like "Redditor claims XYZ" or "Player's losing access to X, game appeared to delete it", as opposed to just "Game appeared to delete it?"
Separate the factual part (they did lose access to it), from the alleged information?
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The planet names are not deleted
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No one's readin', just hatin'.
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Yeah I think it unlikely that a lot of users would ever think to check, I know I have very low interest in ever revisiting any of my planets, but now I kind of want to.
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Planet discovered on Aug 12.
http://chattypics.com/files/20160827100733_1_15qb1i5v4a.jpg
Maybe their online services weren't working.
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Time to update the article.
From the Dark_nexis post:
Huge edit kinda resolved my issue:Ok so after reading some of the comments I played around in the game a bit, I re-downloaded and reloaded the game for about two hours. I don't know what happened but all the discoveries re-appeared on my starting planet.https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cq1KN2oWcAA_SUc.jpg sorry for phone pic. I hope new news sites see this...It seems like a server bugs like it takes a while for your old discoveries to re download. Please spread the word and if you are having this problem just wait and see if your discoveries will return. It seems a little bugged where as you get further and further away from your starting point you can't see your old discoveries even when you find your way back. It's like the server lags behind big time and takes a while to find the old information.-
Gamers are so horny for No Man's Sky drama. It's embarrassing.
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I feel very confident in asserting that no game has ever experienced the amount of hype that No Man's Sky had. It is unique in the history of games. Where are the weeks of threads about how The Division failed to live up to its original promise? Watch Dogs also faded into obscurity quickly.
And yet we now have hundreds of YouTube videos where Sean Murray looks evil as the presenter tries to convince us that he LIED TO US AND SHOULD BE SUED FOR FALSE ADVERTISING.
There is something extremely unique about the No Man's Sky scenario. Also gamers are stupid as shit and they embarrass me.-
Iirc there were plenty of people talking about the problems with the division, especially at the end game level. I know at this point most of what I see about the division around here is people dismissing it as a disappointing experience.
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I wonder if you play this game offline the entire time if anything would happen at all?
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That's it's secret - it's always offline
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BiggerThings mod screenshots:
My first really alien plant...the mod makes it amazing.
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How's that mod working out? I hear there's LOD issues - like the big things pop back into small things when you get close or something like that? Also FPS drop?
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On foot, no real pop. Flying...oh yes. It will be fixed I hope but even with it I refuse to give it up...it makes the game amazing. No fps drops I can see but I'm running a 1080 and 5820k at 4.8
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How are you avoiding pop in?
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Yeah the shots with the Bigger Things mod I've seen have been incredible. Particularly the forests.
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Why not? Here are mine.
http://chattypics.com/files/20160827141907_1_0gam734gx5.jpg
http://chattypics.com/files/20160827142029_1_px6271a5wb.jpg
http://chattypics.com/files/20160827150056_1_14eol96v9h.jpg
No bigger stuff in this one, but still nice.
http://chattypics.com/files/20160827150552_1_pkhrbma2ys.jpg
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It's all fucking garbage. People thought there were servers tracking your position and everyone else. They never had that equipment. It's one server that keeps a bunch of names and locations. Each time you jump it just looks to see if that has a username yet.
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Also I'm willing to bet that the Sony deal was what did this. It wasn't going to have any online before I bet. Sony won't release many games at $60 without online. Of course by that time the entire code was written without a server in mind. Have fun with that.
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What people? I've literally never had that perception? What purpose would positional tracking even have?
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He meana that instance bubble Hello Games talked about.
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This game is the video game equivalent of a prolonged season of sliders, but where every planet is the hitler planet. I really enjoy games like Trove, Minecraft surival mode, h1z1, etc..., too...
I knew nothing about this game when I acquired it (my wife bought it for me, as a birthday gift!). After trying to find fun in it for a good while, I watched some of those sean murray interviews...
Wow, they are just infuriating to watch. What a terrible company.-
That said, this article could have used more vetting going in!
After watching some of the interviews with Sean Murray, I'd really like to see him have to publicly admit how badly he miscommunicated, I even think steam should probably offer folks a refund or discount program considering they're still presenting some of the misleading advertising on the game's sale page, but that's no excuse for hearsay :)-
Nothing in the "About this game" on the Steam store page is misleading at all. It is all 100% accurate as to what the game offers. Some of the videos are outdated of course, but that is no different on many other game's store pages. They always keep old trailers around on those pages, it is kind of weird but absolutely normal.
Basically in terms of selling the game, nothing is abnormal from selling any other game. The biggest problem is that Sean has said and shown some things about the game when it was too early to speak about them. He may have talked up features that were cut from the game.
The mistake of the hype and other things is regrettable, and it is understandable that some people are upset. A small indie studio made some mistakes, but is getting AAA sized backlash which is pretty unfair imho.
But whatever, I am having a ton of fun with the game still, and I am happy that this whole "discovery" bug isn't real, as it is a major component to the game.-
Really?
filled with unique planets and lifeforms, and constant danger and action.
Emphasis on constant danger and ACTION. I guess scanning another plant or dinosaur is action? Atmosphere, sentinels, and dinosaurs]i unique lifeforms provide danger?
But, facing hostile creatures and fierce pirates, you'll know that death comes at a cost, and survival will be down to the choices you make over how you upgrade your ship, your weapon and suit.
How much does death cost exactly? $59.99? 2 minutes spent retrieving all you lost upon death (thus providing approximately a 100% discount on death)?
Trade convoys travel between stars, factions vie for territory, pirates hunt the unwary, and the police are ever watching.
I guess so. I mean I see fighters attacking convoys (but doing no damage) and I never really see the convoys moving other than warping into position to be preyed upon by unknown fighters that do zero damage. And the police? Police=sentinels?
They make the animals and pirates and police sound menacing, but none of them really are. You can pretty much kill any of them with your mining tool. It only gets easier with an actual weapon.
All in all they make it sound EPIC (no really, it say embark on an epic journey ) and exciting and action packed with virtually limitless possibilities. That sounds a lot better than collect resources, warp to next system, catalogue similar looking plants and animals on similar looking planet (anybody found any caves or plutonium yet???), talk to an alien, repeat.
I killed probably 60+ hours so I'm not saying it had no value for me and the sheer size and scope of it all is pretty goddamn impressive, but I can understand how some found it underwhelming and some found it not at all what they were expecting.
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total tag fail. oh well.
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$60 is $60- that's AAA.
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so NMS question, when you guys go to warp and are looking at the star map do you continue on your "path towards waypoint"
or do you tab over to "path towards galactic core"
every single time i go there i tab back over to path towards galactic core.
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The NMS server(s) will go offline in less then a year because no reason to pay to keep them on, so.... who cares?
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Honestly dude your schtick is tiring.
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I wonder if they're removing trademarked names and the like.
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I was just going to rename everything to "Butts" - but I decided renaming is too much work.
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"Further investigation" should have involved contacting the developer for a statement.
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