New to NMS, 200 hours in, about to give up playing on Switch
Sorry for the long post that's probably been written a million times. This is a long rant from someone who discovered No Man's Sky in August and apparently is locked out of playing any longer due to the Nintendo Switch's limitations.
I discovered No Man's Sky from the free trial on Switch in August, which I'm incredibly thankful for. I know I'm pretty late to the party. I played through the free trial, bought the game, and I haven't been able to put it down ever since.
I'm kind of a casual gamer in that I don't own any consoles other than Nintendo or a gaming PC. Everything I play I play on Switch. I haven't been able to afford a Switch 2 yet due to other priorities, and since in the last year the only big new games I've played were Silksong and Metroid Prime 4, I still haven't felt fully compelled to upgrade.
I'm well aware of the original Switch's limitations compared to its competitors, especially with big games that are ported there. That didn't stop me from thoroughly enjoying No Man's Sky, and after learning about its history, I believe it's a game that I could easily sink a thousand hours into. Or at least I believed that.
As I got to the late game, the game has become almost unplayable. I'm overwhelmed with several frame drops, constant crashes whenever trying to do anything (hyperdrive, summoning a freighter or trying to land in one, managing inventory).
I played throughout Expedition 23 and the experience was actually very smooth and I think my game only crashed about 3 times in over a week. Now, switching to my main save, I tried to get into my freighter to manage my inventory and transfer items from the expedition... Just trying to land on the freighter resulted in five consecutive crashes when exiting my ship, so I had to teleport in from a space station. I figured I'd archive a few ships to make room for the expedition's, and so I tried moving items out before archiving them... five more consecutive crashes. Hell, just as I'm typing this, I simply tried to enter and exit one of my ships without touching anything in the inventory and it crashed again.
I'm pretty bummed about this. I mean, my save is still functioning (apparently?) and nothing seems to be lost. But it's a little heartbreaking knowing not only that a lot of this also seems to happen on Switch 2, which is the next console I intend to purchase eventually, but that I pretty much can't afford any other consoles, even if I were interested in any of them.
I dont place any blame on Hello Games, I still believe this game running on the original Switch is a technical marvel, and as I said before, I've still had a fantastic time with the game, but my time with it seems to have come to a halt as it seems I'm completely unable to do any of the actions needed to make room for my Expedition 23 rewards.
If anyone has any tips to make any of this better, I'd appreciate it. I have the physical version of the game and the data is save on my console's internal storage, as I read once it could help with these issues (it really didn't).
Sorry for the long rant, thanks if you made it this far.