Players who pre-ordered No Man’s Sky – and were awarded a beefed-up bonus starship for their troubles – have stumbled across a game-breaking bug that’s leaving them stranded among the stars.
The problem seems to be rooted in the pre-order ship itself. While most players have to grind for a few hours during the early stages of the game to build a hyperdrive that enables intergalactic travel, the pre-order ship boasts one from lift-off.
However as Reddit user McBlurry points out, redeeming the pre-order ship means players skip the tutorial that gives them the blueprint for how to build a hyperdrive. The snag hits a few hours later, if they trade their spacecraft for a more powerful model that doesn’t have a hyperdrive.
Source: IGN Video Games