Guess I'll crack open the hundreds-of-hours save again, give it a whirl. 😅

FWIW, I'm consistently pleased to see that NMS updates don't feel like late-game grinds when you've all but 100% the thing before them. Always fresh, new things to explore! 🤓🖖🏼

AFAIK, it may need to verify game files, maybe download one or two additional small files (which I thinks is the specific manifest) and be good to go. Another thing I'm reading just on a brief search is you can find the games steam id and then modify the appmanifest_####.acf file to read-only to prevent any further updates if the option does not appear in properties. Good luck, and don't give up hope!

Edit to add: the commenter who gave this bit of info also rightly noted you should back up your game files if you have the disk space to do so

Thanks. Once the updates were available I posted it here

News page is up: https://www.nomanssky.com/news/

Better link: https://www.nomanssky.com/forsaken-update/

If you downgrade does it need to install that version? Or does it just say "ok it's already on here let's launch"?

I just updated finally, but I'll check that out if I need to again. What mods are you using?

Right. I'm still on the last update lol

Steam has version locking but it's up to developers to utilize it. Cyberpunk does utilize it, mine is still version locked to before the auto-drive update because I didn't want to mess with my modlist.

You should be able to go to properties>versions and just select the previous version. I believe you can also find the steamDB manifest for the previous version and use the steam console to download it with commands, then it allows you to disable updates? It's super early rn for me so I'm kind of fuzzy but most steam games can be downgraded and if you have the proper game files already it should be simple enough to trick it into letting you. There are most likely guides for downgrading game version available

The newest update (the one this post is about) comes out tomorrow.

It's already got the signal to update. Launch is permanently on Update now.

Launch in offline mode?

Steam has either "let steam decide" or "update at launch". Which both do the same things basically.

I know in gog you can turn off updates. I think you can with Steam as well.

Years ago there was an update I hardly got to play and by the time I was doing a lot with it the next update was available, so I stopped updating for a while.

Most people would complain they are having to pay for new content, not that it has free.

I have shit Internet. Everytime I spend the time to download this game to play it there's another major GB update the next day and I never get to play it. It's just always downloading.

I miss games being finished.
I have another update for cyberpunk that's going to take forever to dl too, so I can't play it. Both games are just perpetually in Update mode.

Please update the inventory system.

I already preordered it.

I would love it if they gave an option to remove 90% of the tedium of going around and harvesting random shit. That can fly on a console or a PC (but it's not really my cup of tea), but on a phone? They need to make it less like work and focus on exploration. JMO.

Also, for iPad users, iPad Air 3 and up. I didn't hear what iPad base, iPad mini, or iPad Pro is required.

Wooshed right over my head 😅

I was making a joke about the nonsense that I wrote being compelling, I agree with your analogy. It's pretty spot on lol

What you don’t like the story?

Dunno about her, but I dislike how just about everything is 100% tell, don't show. The fact that you get small advances by simply visiting random systems that happen to have an Atlas around breaks immersion for me.

Truly compelling stuff I say.

Might be, but the delivery is so flat it's indistinguishable from a tumblr poet posting while high.

Thats cool. Ill wave my peepee too.
I have exactly 957 hours according to steam. Expedition, and the entire Nexus, is a huge waste of time and are boring. I hate it every time ive done even one of them.

As someone who has almost 600 hours on their new save (my old save from day 1 was corrupted and I fubared the restore) expeditions are my favorite part of the game.

I get they can be frustrating. But I really enjoy them, and usually do them multiple times.

Ha that’s a good way to put it. Explains my experience pretty well

I was a day one player. The game has a lot to kind of do now. But it's like sifting through the bargin bin.

This game lost me a few upsates ago. The creatable ships was fun though. Untill it wasn't. This update just sounds like more bullet sponges to deal with when i dont want to.

Plus, expeditions suck ass.