No Man’s Sky Releases New Experimental Branch for February 2025

No Man’s Sky developer Hello Games has released another Experimental Branch update for February 2025, supplying more fixes to the popular action-adventure game. No Man’s Sky’s Experimental Branches allow players to test fixes scheduled to deploy in upcoming patches, serving as volunteers for Hello Games to vet different solutions for a myriad of problems. For players to enter Experimental mode, they need only right-click on the game’s Steam library page, navigate to the “BETAS” tab under Properties, and enter “3xperimental” in the textbox, followed by pressing “CHECK CODE” and selecting the beta from the list.

No Man’s Sky first debuted in August 2016, and gameplay is built around four core pillars: exploration, survival, combat, and trading. Players have access to a procedurally generated open world harboring 18 quintillion planets, and each planet has its own ecosystem, flora and fauna, and alien species to encounter and interact with. To join the game’s latest Experimental Branch, No Man’s Sky also received a new hotfix update in February 2025, designed to fix crashes and solve ongoing issues.

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The Experimental Branch for February 2025 fixes a long list of issues, following No Man’s Sky’s Experimental branch for January 2025 that addressed bugs attacking flora, minerals, and creature models, and crashes in multiplayer and networking. Some of the main takeaways from the branch include a bug fix that causes ships to lose their custom name after an expedition, several fixes targeting issues that prevented the Exocraft scanners from locating buildings, and a PC fix regarding a graphics problem that occurs when changing options in PCVR.

While players are collectively pleased to receive another Experimental Branch, highlighting that the update works seamlessly alongside praise for the devs’ hard work, some No Man’s Sky explorers are frustrated by the new Titan expedition. Featuring gas giants with hazardous environments, some players find it difficult to escape the tornado that sweeps them away from their starting point.

Space enthusiasts are spoiled for choice when it comes to Hello Games’ action-adventure, considering the steady stream of updates the game receives, and No Man’s Sky fans may also be treated to a Nintendo Switch 2 port if the rumors are true. The Japanese publisher finally announced the successor console back in January 2025, and the industry has since been speculating what games will grace the catalog. No Man’s Sky is a strong contender because of the survival project’s success, and the title may even get improved graphics should the port receive the green light.

No Man’s Sky Experimental Branch February 2025 Patch Notes

• Fixed an issue with the Hazard Pay milestone in the Titan expedition that could notification messages to flicker.
• Fixed an issue that prevented an underwater crashed freighter from spawning at the second rendezvous point in the Titan expedition.
• Implemented a recovery for players who have lost their hyperdrive in the Titan expedition.
• Fixed a number of issues that could prevent Exocraft scanners from locating buildings.
• Fixed an issue that could cause Specialist Polo to repeat some dialogue in the In Stellar Multitudes mission.
• Fixed an issue that prevented the In Stellar Multitudes mission from detecting nearby dissonant planets while aboard the Space Anomaly.
• Fixed a rare issue which could prevent the In Stellar Multitudes mission from restoring the first purple star system.
• Fixed an issue that caused ships to lose their custom name when brought back from an expedition.
• Fixed an issue that caused Multi-Tools to lose their custom name when brought back from an expedition.
• Fixed a UI issue that could cause inconsistencies in the hold-to-confirm time for popups if the popup button overlapped a button beneath the popup.
• Fixed an issue that could cause a mismatch between the colour of a dialogue box title and the race of the speaker.
• Fixed an issue that could cause a significant dip in framerate when practising alien language.
• Fixed an issue that prevented the Surge Battery recipe from being learnt in Abandoned Mode.
• Fixed an issue that could cause the game to hang when changing graphics options in PCVR.

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August 9, 2016

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T for Teen: Fantasy Violence, Animated Blood