No Man’s Sky Update 6.43/6.043 Released for Swarm Fixes on June 3

by Alex Co June 3, 2026 7:14 am in Title Updates and Patches
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No Man's Sky Update 6.43

Hello Games has released No Man’s Sky update 6.43/6.043, and this applies another set of fixes to the game’s The Swarm content.

Thankfully, the fixes included today are a lot more than in past patches, and these sort out technical and gameplay issues.

Check out the complete patch notes for the game today.

No Man’s Sky Update on June 3 Brings Platform-Specific Fixes

Swarm Expedition

  • Fixed an issue that could cause the “Space Rescue” mission to erroneously appear in the Mission Log when fighting the Hive of Glass.
  • Fixed an issue that caused the “Initialise” screen to get skipped if starting multiple new games in the same session without re-launching.
  • Improved the messaging during the Countermeasures milestone to indicate when all missions have been completed for the current Swarm Activity period.
  • Improved the balance of the fight in the Emperor of Glass milestone.
  • Fixed an issue that could lead to incorrect colours displaying for the Purge/Restore/Sabotage milestones if the Swarm expedition was started offline.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented interaction with the Prismatic Core if playing the Swarm expedition offline.
  • Fixed an issue that allowed the Divine Intelligence milestone to be completed prior to the Disassembly milestone during the Swarm expedition.

Swarmer Fixes

  • Fixed an issue which could cause too many corrupt sentinels to spawn during seasonal encounters.
  • Allowed the extraction of corrupted ichor from swarmer debris recovered from crash sites.
  • Improved the physics behaviour of removable components at swarmer crash sites.
  • Improved the visual effects when dismantling fallen swarmers at crash sites.
  • Fixed an issue with swarmer crash sites in Exterminator missions.

Hive of Glass Fixes

  • Prevented the Space Anomaly from being summoned into battles against the Hive of Glass.
  • Fixed an issue that could allow the Space Anomaly and freighters to be summoned intersecting with deep-space objects (e.g. Atlas Interfaces).
  • Fixed an issue that caused a freighter icon to appear during battles against the Hive of Glass.

Technical Fixes

  • Fixed an issue which could cause object markers to be offset.
  • Fixed an issue that made it difficult to place a refiner on crucial expedition planets.
  • Fixed a minor visual issue with the Direwasp Helm.
  • Updated the game mode image for the Swarm expedition.
  • Improved the legibility of the Swarm expedition team initialisation in VR.
  • Added audio to the Prismatic Core.
  • Improved audio balance during the Swarm expedition.

Platform-Specific Fixes

  • Fixed a crash that could occur when continually opening and closing the Galaxy Map.
  • Minor physics optimisation on Switch 1.
  • Fixed a rare PS5 crash related to model streaming.

Expect more patches to be released in the coming days and weeks.

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