Summary
No Man’s Skyupdate 5.03 is now available for download. This release introduces over 60 bug fixes and improvements, on top of debuting some optimizations specific to the Switch and Xbox ports ofNo Man’s Sky.
No Man’s Skyhas long been touted as atextbook example of a great video game comeback story, not least because it has received dozens of major patches following its rocky 2016 launch, which significantly altered its public perception. The latest of those arrived in the form of the Worlds Part 1 update, which rolled out in mid-July 2024. As per usual, this release was immediately followed by a series of smaller patches meant to iron it out with bug fixes and general refinements.
No Man’s Sky Update 5.03 Fixes Visual Issues, Revises Companion Registry, and More
The 5.03 update, which debuted on July 29, is the fifth such revision to date. While largely geared toward addressing visual glitches and bugs, it also includes some extra polish, such as a slightly revamped user interface forregisteringNo Man’s Skycompanions. According to Hello Games, the new UI has been designed to better communicate the fact that the companion registry has more than six slots to offer. A few quality-of-life improvements are also part of the package, including a slightly altered summoning position of the pirate dreadnought freighter that makes it easier to fly into.
ThenewNo Man’s Skyupdatealso packs some platform-specific performance improvements, including multiple memory optimizations targeting the Nintendo Switch version of the game. A Switch-only bug making it difficult to interact with the base Science Terminal has also been addressed. Meanwhile, Xbox gamers are getting a fix for a bug that would sometimes cause an infinite loading screen when starting the game on Microsoft’s consoles, as well as a fix for some water-rendering glitches. The particle rendering quality on the PSVR2 version of the game has also been improved as part of this release.
While the 5.03 update hence includes a variety of platform-specific fixes, it is currently only available for download on PC. The console versions ofNo Man’s Skywill receive the patch “as soon as possible,” Hello Games said, without committing to a more concrete release timeline.
In the meantime,No Man’s Skyis still enjoying a massive PC player spike thanks to the Worlds Part 1 update. Specifically, its daily concurrent player peak on Steam went from under 6,000 to over 50,000 people in mid-July 2024 and is still hanging in the 36,000 ballpark as of the tail end of the month.
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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.
