Summary
Starships are supposed to be one of the few things inNo Man’s Skythat players can’t trade with one another, but an incredible interaction between players online seems to confirm that two random members of the community have somehow swapped starships unintentionally thanks to a bizarre glitch in the game. Many fans ofNo Man’s Skyhave shared examples of some odd bugs in the past, and many more have even utilized such faults in the game’s code to their advantage in base building through a process known as “glitch building.”
ThoughNo Man’s Sky’s free updatesand constant support have resulted in many of the game’s bugs being squashed over time, some players have reported similar instances of their starships and freighters mysteriously being altered since the release of the game’s latest content drop, the Orbital update. This massive patch has brought some significant additions toNo Man’s Sky, including the ability to custom-build starships from scratch and enjoy new and improved services offered aboard the game’s completely overhauled space stations. How widespread some of the rumored issues may be is unclear, but an exchange between two members of the community online has piqued the interest of many fans.
Even compared to thestrangest bugs seen inNo Man’s Skypreviously, this particular case is a seriously weird one. Two members of the community, HorseOutaNoWhere and DirtyLoneVagrant, recently took to Reddit for help after they each reported their starships being completely replaced when they traveled through the galactic center and reawakened on new planets. Despite these two players apparently having no affiliation with each other before this, as well as both parties presumably playing in single-player, they found that their starships had seemingly been switched after discovering each other’s posts on the site.
Why This No Man’s Sky Glitch Likely Wasn’t The Result of Chance
While glitches in games are always triggered by one thing or another, it seems impossible to even venture a guess at how this happened. Some in the community have chalked it up to a coincidence, suggesting that the two players' ships were randomly altered upon reaching the galactic core and both just happened to look identical to that of the other player’s ship. The chances of this being the case are astronomically slim though, given the factors involved as well as the sheer number of possibleship part combinations that can exist inNo Man’s Sky.
Many players have found this interaction entertaining due to how similar it is to some of the weird interactions that take place between Traveler iterations withinthe universe ofNo Man’s Sky. Whatever the case, community interactions like this certainly don’t appear frequently, though it’s possible that there may be repeat instances of this in the future.
No Man’s Sky
WHERE TO PLAY
Lose yourself in a vast sci-fi odyssey as you explore a near-infinite, procedurally generated universe. Set out from the edge of the Euclid galaxy and carve out your own interstellar existence in a vast universe teeming with life, danger and near-endless mystery. No Man’s Sky is a hugely-ambitious, heavily-stylised, sci-fi adventure that spans entire galaxies all brought to life with procedural generation. Travel through an endless array of increasingly diverse and dangerous star systems, prospecting for rare materials, trading with alien life, populate planets and searching for clues to the meaning of the universe’s mysterious existence. How you survive is up to you. Assemble entire fleets of dreadnought-class freighters and tear across the universe; build sprawling habitable bases across planet surfaces, beneath the ground or under the ocean; buy and upgrade your own weapons and star ships and do battle with outlaw space pirates, hostile alien fauna or the mysterious sentinel fleets. The universe is yours to explore - trillions upon trillions of planets, waiting to be discovered.
