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No Man’s Sky: Be careful moving from your pre-order ship to a new one

Players who’ve taken advantage of No Man’s Sky‘s pre-order bonus — the Domanish S84, Alpha Vector starship — on PS4 are quickly finding themselves stranded after upgrading from that to a new ship.

Those who bypassed the game’s initial quests to move straight to the Domanish S84 are finding they’re without a hyperdrive when next upgrading. That’s because players were really supposed to build a hyperdrive as part of the game’s introduction.

“At the space station in the system I’m in now, I saw a ship that I loved, had a bigger inventory (THANK GOD) and finally had enough money to make a big purchase,” Redditor McBlurry detailed.

“Before pressing the final purchase button, I noticed the ship didn’t have a hyperdrive (no ships I had seen had had one other than the player’s) so I assumed the hyperdrive automatically just gets moved over, whatever, another one of the countless weird obtuse UI decisions. It doesn’t.”

Those who’ve moved on from the Domanish S84 will need to build a hyperdrive before they can warp away — and that requires the hyperdrive blueprint. If you don’t have it, you’ll have to hope you stumble upon it first.

A patch is expected for the problem; we’ll keep you updated.


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