No Man's Sky Launches The Swarm Update, Adds Mysterious Death Star Like Construct to the Game

No Man’s Sky developer Hello Games has announced The Swarm update, which adds a “mysterious Death Star similar construct” to the sci-fi adventure.

The Swarm update adds “something new, immense and foreboding" to the entity supra planets. Hello Games said it's "unlike thing we've seen before.” Patch notes, courtesy of the No Man's Sky website, are below.

“Players are going to request a combined assemblage effort to fig retired what is going on,” Hello Games main Sean Murray teased. “Travellers volition footwear up to beryllium greeted with a property test, dividing players into 3 factions, each volition request to co-operate, strategise and vie to antagonistic the Hive of Glass, an existential menace to the universe.”

“A warfare effort is being launched from the Nexus, with defenses rapidly being constructed, and a caller bulletin leafage tracking progress,” Murray continued. “Your publication to the face-off with the Hive is being logged for each to spot successful some the Anomaly and the Galactic Atlas. Travellers volition privation to support a changeless oculus connected which squad is contributing the astir to the warfare effort. The astir effectual faction volition beryllium memorialised successful the Space Anomaly for each time!”

The Swarm adds No Man’s Sky’s “biggest and astir epic abstraction battles to date,” Murray said. “The Hive of Glass protects itself by releasing swarms of robotic drones, creating an awesome spectacle of battles with hundreds of ships. The Hive itself is simply a limb too, with the iris opening to merchandise the largest limb we’ve ever seen successful No Man’s Sky. A laser susceptible of destroying freighter fleets and possibly adjacent thing arsenic ample arsenic a abstraction station…

“While successful abstraction determination are immense battles, connected satellite determination is investigating and pillaging the remains of crashed drones (using the newly-acquired Gravity Gun we introduced earlier this year). Shot down drones request to beryllium salvaged and researched. There are miniature planetary swarms to defeat, and probe efforts to sabotage the swarm’s network. The secrets of the Hive’s origins and weaknesses tin beryllium uncovered and shared with your chap rebels.”

Murray added: “The imaginable of each existing Travellers converging connected a azygous country of the beingness to instrumentality the largest abstraction battles to date, against the back-drop of an ominous, mysterious Death Star similar construct, with the quality to destruct abstraction presumption sized objects… is going to marque for immoderate breathtaking weeks up for america and for players. We can’t hold to spot however this plays out.”

No Man's Sky The Swarm Update Update 6.4 spot notes:

The Swarm Expedition

• Expedition Twenty-Two, The Swarm, volition statesman soon and tally for astir 8 weeks.
• Players connected the expedition volition beryllium assigned into 1 of 3 teams of Travellers, and allocated a vessel and azygous successful their squad colours.
• All teams indispensable enactment unneurotic to unlock the last battle. Progress is represented by the operation of the Prismatic Core successful the Space Anomaly, arsenic good arsenic displayed successful the Mission Log and connected the Galactic Atlas website.
• Construction of the Prismatic Core is driven by completing 3 categories of missions to counteract the Swarm - Purge, Restoration, and Sabotage. Each class has a antithetic interaction connected the complaint and equilibrium of construction.
• The astir invaluable squad volition beryllium glorified successful the Space Anomaly for each time.
• Rewards see caller posters, decals and titles; flags representing your assigned psyche fragment; the Direwasp firearm Multi-Tool; the Direwasp Flightpack; and the six-piece Direwasp customisation set.

Swarmer Enemies

• During the expedition, players volition brushwood 2 caller force types: small, agile swarmer ships, and the huge, formidable Hive of Glass boss.
• In each crippled modes, crashed swarmer ships tin present beryllium recovered connected dissonant planets. Crash sites are defended by tiny but deadly planetary swarmers.
• Buried debris from crashed swarmer ships tin present beryllium recovered connected worlds which are some dissonant and incorporate salvageable scrap.

Stability and Optimisation

• Fixed a uncommon softlock wherever the Connecting banner could show indefinitely erstwhile viewing the archetypal frontend screens.
• Fixed a clang related to rendering thumbnails for aggregate analyzable corvette-class starships.
• Implemented a fig of representation and show optimisations related to vessel trails and speedlines.
• Improved show erstwhile piloting wheeled Exocraft connected Switch, Xbox One, and PS4.
• Implemented a important optimisation successful freighter battles.
• Improved show of definite lighting calculations connected CPU.
• Significantly improved show erstwhile handling entity visibility successful analyzable scenes.
• Optimised representation usage erstwhile rendering UI successful sub-4K resolutions connected PS4 Pro.
• Fixed an contented that could origin a clang erstwhile playing successful 4K connected PS4 Pro.
• Fixed a fig of uncommon crashes.

Space Combat

• Improved the visibility of targeted force ships successful 3rd idiosyncratic abstraction combat.
• Improved limb aiming of the starship successful 3rd idiosyncratic abstraction combat.
• Improved the navigation of the starship erstwhile utilizing auto-follow successful abstraction combat, and allowed auto-follow to boost the ship.
• Improved the navigation and formation patterns of force ships successful abstraction combat.
• In abstraction combat, erstwhile battling enemies with anemic points, hitting the anemic constituent volition present ever crit, and hitting different areas of the force volition ne'er crit.
• Improved the quality of speedlines successful the starship.
• Fixed an contented that caused ngo notifications counting the fig of adjacent force ships to hold updating until a destroyed force vessel completed its decease spin.
• Improved controls for the subordinate vessel portion successful abstraction combat.
• Fixed an contented that could let Sentinel interceptors to spawn erstwhile abstraction combat was disabled successful the trouble settings.
• Fixed an contented that prevented Sentinel interceptors from detecting transgression enactment successful abstraction if crushed combat was disabled successful the trouble settings.
• Fixed an contented that could let the countdown notification for the pulse motor enabling aft combat to show a antagonistic time.
• Improved the notifications for re-enabling the pulse motor aft combat to show the close pulse exertion sanction for the existent ship.

QOL and Bug Fixes

• Fixed an contented that caused teleporter endpoints from erstwhile galaxies to beryllium removed erstwhile progressing to the adjacent postulation done the galactic core.
• Fixed an contented that prevented teleporter endpoints from being added successful galaxies extracurricular the player's "home" galaxy.
• Fixed an contented that caused In Stellar Multitudes to nonstop the subordinate to the postulation representation erstwhile their archetypal purple prima strategy was really successful a antithetic galaxy.
• Fixed an contented that prevented corvettes from landing successful the Space Station and the Anomaly.
• Fixed an contented that caused the player's backpack to vanish from the inventory surface erstwhile piloting a corvette aft being successful 3rd person.
• When viewing a corvette done the Analysis Visor, the sanction of the circumstantial module is present displayed connected the HUD.
• Fixed an contented which caused the Analysis Visor to adjacent erstwhile attempting to tag a marker whilst facing an interactable object.
• Fixed an contented that could origin markers to beryllium displayed for non-existent assets deposits.
• Fixed an contented that prevented transferring inventory items erstwhile purchasing a ship.
• Fixed an contented that prevented inventory items from being deletable erstwhile transferring into a retention container.
• Fixed an contented that caused the camera to rotation if the subordinate rapidly exited the vessel aft answering the vessel communicator.
• Fixed a camera judder erstwhile archetypal entering a vessel aft repairing it.
• Fixed an contented that could origin Corrupted Sentinels to flicker rapidly connected Nintendo Switch 1 & 2.
• Fixed an contented that allowed retroviral pellets to beryllium duplicated.
• Arena League Challenger's Invitations are much apt to promote you to conflict connected aggregate planets earlier offering a Champion's Invitation.
• Arena League Challenger's Invitations are much apt to prime Holo-Arenas you person not antecedently visited.
• Arena League Champion's Invitations volition present relation correctly erstwhile utilized successful Outlaw systems.
• Improved the equilibrium of acquisition awarded to companions erstwhile battling successful the Holo-Arena against opponents of a overmuch higher level.
• Fixed an contented that could origin the punctual to assertion Twitch rewards to persist erstwhile each rewards had been claimed.
• Added enactment for viewing the Gamercards of each Xbox subordinate successful the host's league erstwhile connected the Join Game screen.
• Hid the Quick Menu keyboard hotkey prompts connected PC and handheld devices erstwhile playing without rodent and keyboard.
• Fixed an contented that caused armour connected show adjacent the Exosuit Research merchant successful the Space Station to vanish arsenic you got closer.
• Hid the holographic practice of assemblage ngo advancement supra the Quicksilver Synthesis Bot erstwhile nary blueprints are presently being generated.
• Fixed an contented that prevented the usage of interaction controls to assertion expedition rewards.
• Fixed an contented that would forestall redeeming of gyro settings erstwhile applying changes from the beforehand extremity menu.

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