Pre-Order Ship Glitch
If you pre-ordered No Man’s Sky on PS4, you’ll get a cool starship for free. However, you might want to hold off on redeeming the ship until after you’ve completed the tutorial mission that requires you to build a hyper drive. Players have reported that if you claim the ship before crafting a hyper drive, you’ll be able to skip that mission and start jumping to other systems once you have the warp cells for it. This is because the preorder ship itself already comes with the hyper drive.
However, once you jump to other star systems and once you decide to trade off your ship for a new one, you’ll find that none of the new ships you find will come with a hyper drive. The game requires you to have crafted one for yourself before you’ll be able to find new ships with hyper drives. This means that once you trade off your pre-order ship, you’ll be stuck with a new ship that can’t jump to other systems.
You can get around this problem by searching for blueprints for the hyper drive, but the chances of this are pretty small, and this will likely leave you stranded in whatever system you’re in.
