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Posted July 18, 2020
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alt3rn1ty: Thank you but I know all this already.
What about other features ?
Did something besides 'Void egg' is unawailable for offline users ?

What about 'Desolation' features?
Posted July 19, 2020
Damn - I really should spend more time in the forums.... I downloaded the 2.55 update and installed that only recently and then began the rather painful process of starting the game from scratch because I didn't seem to be connecting with the living ship storyline. This morning I discovered the new 2.60 update so checked it out on the Hello Games website and thought it sounded so good I downloaded and installed that manually straight away (inadvertently deleting my current game - Doh!) only to find that it doesn't work as per what others have already said. As soon as you try to start a game it crashes.

I've always appreciated that this game would run offline because I don't have a permanent internet connection at my place and as one of the newly unemployed I'm not likely to get it any time soon. To use the internet I have to tether my computer to my phone and I have a monthly limit so I won't be reinstalling NMS via Galaxy this month.

Looks like those of us who aren't interested in or can't take advantage of the online experience are getting left behind by GoG. Thanks to others for posting useful info about the way things are around here....
Posted July 19, 2020
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XenonS: One way to check that you get all online and MP capability is: When you start you are presented with the 3 game option's window which is: Start Game, Start Multiplayer, Exit To Desktop (in the lower right is written the version number).

If you don't get this window, then you may still have online connectivity for your discoveries etc. but you may have limited access to Nexus missions or other MP features.
What I do is downloading and installing the offline backup installers (from the website in my account), then I launch GoG Galaxy, then I launch game. I get the window above and all is alright, I get the Community Missions, I get the option to buy the Void Egg at the vendor in the Anomaly, I think that's how you start the Living Ship thing if I'm not wrong.

I hope this insight helps you,
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alt3rn1ty: Thank you but I know all this already.

The point is, for those of us who bought a Single Player game, Pre-ordered back in 2016, when the GOG Website advertised the game as a Single player game which did not need GOG Galaxy installed to play it .. That is what we invested in. And we expect to be able to play content which does not require online connectivity, just like everyone else can.

Well done to Hellogames for all the Multiplayer / VR additions since for those who want it.

But the content of a major update (Living ships) is effectively cut off to us Offline players, purely because we do not wish to use GOG Galaxy.

However the Living ships story is perfectly playable without being online or using the Galaxy client .. Except for one minor oversight, Hellogames does not include a Void Egg in the Exotic Items shop for us to be able to participate.

Note I have during one play through allowed GOG Galaxy to enable all the extra items in the shop, just to get the void egg in my save game, and thereafter played the entire storyline through without GOG Galaxy running. So the Living ships storyline does not require us to have online connectivity, it is only currently required to make the Void egg appear in the shop.

It would be so easy for them to correct and enable offline players to participate in the living ships storyline, just by enabling the Void egg as a default item, but so far they have not.

So we are forced to use GOG Galaxy if we want to play all storyline content in the game, which we should not have to do.
(Similarly, we should not have to use a third party save editor tool to enable it either).

That is why I keep testing each new update to see if they have finally included a Void egg in the shop for us Offline players.

I presume we can discuss anything related to the "Desolation Update" in this topic.
Thanks for letting us know. Now to to start a new game and that editor again.
Posted July 19, 2020
I get a CTD as soon as I try to load a save game or try to start a new game. I do not have Galaxy installed.
Post edited July 19, 2020 by Noishkel
Posted July 19, 2020
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Noishkel: I get a CTD as soon as I try to load a save game or try to start a new game. I do not have Galaxy installed.
join the rest of us, we ALL have this crash who try to play offline. idk why its taking so long to fix this issue.. :/
Posted July 19, 2020
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alt3rn1ty: Thank you but I know all this already.
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Edward_Carnby: What about other features ?
Did something besides 'Void egg' is unawailable for offline users ?

What about 'Desolation' features?
:) I haven't got that far yet, doing everything I know to speed things along without cheating but its going to take time.

Really don't like Lens flare in game, wish we could turn that off. I guess it will be good for the reddit screenshot brigade, but for immersion my eyes don't act like a camera RL so I prefer not to have lens flare imposed on my 1st person views in game.

There is an annoying thing in the Desolation Update - The new Scrap merchant in Space Stations, to use him you need 5 million credits. Every time you go to a new station there is an annoying notification advertising the fact that there is a Scrap merchant available. I'm guessing (or rather hoping) after you have paid him the first time that notification will go away .. But its like a petulant child pointing at a toy it wants all the time and wailing until you do.

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Noishkel: I get a CTD as soon as I try to load a save game or try to start a new game. I do not have Galaxy installed.
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machine4578: join the rest of us, we ALL have this crash who try to play offline. idk why its taking so long to fix this issue.. :/
Hellogames will be watching feedback from the weekend of the latest beta experimental patch before they commit to producing the public version, GOG is usually the last to receive updated files which get put into the Offline Installers.
Even if GOG had received any updated files from Hellogames .. GOG do not work weekends.
Post edited July 19, 2020 by alt3rn1ty
Posted July 20, 2020
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Noishkel: I get a CTD as soon as I try to load a save game or try to start a new game. I do not have Galaxy installed.
Although with other games GG is optional, with NMS you should install GG but you are not forced to install the game with it, you can use the offline installers and their patches.
After installing GG, simply launch it, then launch NMS with the game icon, that's it.
Not doing so will NOT give you all the NMS online features.
Posted July 20, 2020
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Noishkel: I get a CTD as soon as I try to load a save game or try to start a new game. I do not have Galaxy installed.
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XenonS: Although with other games GG is optional, with NMS you should install GG but you are not forced to install the game with it, you can use the offline installers and their patches.
After installing GG, simply launch it, then launch NMS with the game icon, that's it.
Not doing so will NOT give you all the NMS online features.
Getting awfully close to DRM like steam.
Posted July 20, 2020
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XenonS: Although with other games GG is optional, with NMS you should install GG but you are not forced to install the game with it, you can use the offline installers and their patches.
After installing GG, simply launch it, then launch NMS with the game icon, that's it.
Not doing so will NOT give you all the NMS online features.
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Whereaminow25: Getting awfully close to DRM like steam.
Exactly. I buy my games almost excursively from GOG because I dislike having my games tied to a client that has to be running to run the software I paid for. And even if I don't have to have GG running just to run NMS it really chafes me that the update broke the game just a little and the way to fix it is to installer a client I don't really want to install.
Post edited July 20, 2020 by Noishkel
Posted July 22, 2020
2.61 has just gone live on Steam and GOG Galaxy, so no doubt the GOG Offline installers will be updated soon.

https://www.nomanssky.com/2020/07/desolation-patch-2-61/
Posted July 23, 2020
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alt3rn1ty: 2.61 has just gone live on Steam and GOG Galaxy, so no doubt the GOG Offline installers will be updated soon.

https://www.nomanssky.com/2020/07/desolation-patch-2-61/
Just installed the 2.61 update and it fixed the CTD issue.
Posted July 23, 2020
Can confirm.

Offline installers are all fine now.
Posted July 23, 2020
How do I tell which version I have, if I have the latest patch? Or which version I have for that matter.
Post edited July 23, 2020 by adabo
Posted July 23, 2020
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adabo: How do I tell which version I have, if I have the latest patch? Or which version I have for that matter.
When you launch there is a window with 3 options, it's on the lower right. The current build is 62432.
Posted July 24, 2020
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adabo: How do I tell which version I have, if I have the latest patch? Or which version I have for that matter.
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XenonS: When you launch there is a window with 3 options, it's on the lower right. The current build is 62432.
Perfect, thanks!
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