Managed to save from a corrupted save. [Bug]
May have been a day one player, or at least very early. I know I played into 2019, as I had a couple starter saves from there. But I had so much going on in my life, that were more important than playing computer games.
Now that things have settled down, I purchased a new laptop, and wanted to rejoin and replay some of these games, including NMS. Launched the game upon installing it, and found my Triton waiting for me in the space station. Exited the station and became completely lost, as I had forgotten the keyboard commands. I finally came back in yesterday, and found myself fighting sentinels in a little village, the usual ones and purple ones, not realizing that the purple ones were the ones that I should be killing, and quickly.
When sentinel starships started attacking me, I noped out and loaded a save, just after I killed all the corrupted ones. So I was able to get the overseer's office built and working on the warehouse. I saw the portal there and engaged it, discovering that my first base was still available. Warped there to discover that the buildings were there, as a gardening base. I built the base way before power systems were added to the game, and while the modules were updated with conduit, no power source meant it was a one way trip. I could build a biogenerator, but could get the hang of wiring. Which meant reloading the settlement back to one mentioned above.
So finished my office again and was waiting for the terminal to be completed. I dashed to my Triton to perform a save, then exited the game. Upon relaunch, the screen stayed white for more than a few minutes, until it eventually bombed. Relaunch and eventually the white became a very lagged, until the game bombed.
I don't know what got into me, worried that I'd lose my 317 in-game hours, but I kept loading the advancing but still corrupted save, as I creapt towards my ship, getting a little...