Hello!

As the title suggests, my question will be about the rumored cross-play update. As I'm still really new to the game, I would like to ask the older players whether a universe reset, possibly resulted from the rumored update, will ultimately delete all the progress, items, bases, frigates, or basically everything that a player has invested his/her time playing No Man's Sky to attain?

I've heard somewhere that previous massive updates also resulted in a reset. However, the reset only applied to bases and such (I have no idea whether this was true or not) and not to the amount of currencies you earned and the number of items you had collected in your inventories. I honestly hope this will be the case for whatever future updates that Hello Games will have in store for the players.

Thanks!

It has been at least two, if not more, years since the last time that the universe was reset but the universe resets did not delete progress or items except that certain items were replaced, renamed or changed. In those instances a player would have constructed technology converted to "Obsolete Items" that could only be sold or discarded (circuit breakers or boards are an example) while some items converted into whatever replaced it (Thamium became Plutonium, etc.). Some installed technologies in ships became obsolete and new technologies would have to be installed and sometimes the "Obsolete Technologies" could be used to help construct something else.

Universe resets often changed the prevailing weather, biomes, fauna and flora for all planets although the base would carry over. Discoveries generally remained credited although new flora or fauna would obviously not be already discovered and almost always fauna was completely replaced. Usually the planetary conditions would worsen and I remember going from a very benign, mild planet to a mildly hazardous (toxic) with storms.

The best thing to do is to wait before upgrading for some posts about what has changed so you can prepare yourself. A good idea before any major update is to backup any existing saves to another directory in case you find changes that you cannot live with. If you have to roll back you would need a compatible save as saves are not backwards compatible.

I also recall reading a post from HG (possibly it was in a video) a few years ago that prior saves would always be allowed to carry forward. I am playing a save made in the first week of initial release. Not quite a true Day 1 save since I had restarted a few times before I was happy enough with what I was doing to even leave my first planet. Initial release was on a Friday (local time) and my current save was actually from a save created about 4-5 days after initial release.

I see.. What a relief to know that your progress won't be deleted from a universe reset. Thanks! :)

There have been what I'd call resets and adjustments.

Real resets are rare; the last one was from the Atlas Rises era to NEXT. Not only the weather and biomes were changed, the planet surfaces were completely redone. All bases were "salvaged" since the landforms changed so much. Think of it as dropping a new seed value into the random number generator. Same gameplay, different universe.

Adjustments are more frequent and leave the planet surfaces intact. Biome changes range from changing the colors to completely altering the weather. The planet Sodalemp in the Omnarb system (portal 2063 FFCA A62E, Euclid) was my first post-NEXT base and it was (was) a nice place. Not anymore.

Its very much confirmed at this point.... but nothing was ever said about GOG in any official channel from Hello Games. unfortunately the multiplayer in GOG is very different and would need HelloGames to code it special.... hopefully they did but do not hold your breath. We will get any content they make but might not get cross play.

Crossplay patch is out now and works.