No Mans Sky update 6.40 is available to download on PS4, PC, and Xbox One players. According to the official NMS update 6.40 patch notes, the latest NMS Swarm update introduces team-based Swarm progression, new Swarmer enemies, the Hive of Glass boss, and exclusive Direwasp rewards. Apart from this, No Mans Sky patch 6.40 also upgrades space combat controls, improves freighter battle performance, and resolves major galaxy travel, corvette, inventory, arena, and expedition reward issues.
No Man’s Sky Expedition Twenty-Two Update Summary
- Expedition Twenty-Two: The Swarm introduces team-based progression and new exclusive rewards.
- Added Swarmer enemy ships and the Hive of Glass boss encounter.
- Improved space combat targeting, flight controls, auto-follow, and enemy behavior.
- Major performance improvements for freighter battles, object visibility, and older consoles.
- Fixed teleporter, inventory, corvette, arena, and expedition reward issues.
NMS 6.40 Patch Notes – May 27, 2026
The Swarm Expedition
- Launched Expedition Twenty-Two, The Swarm, running for approximately eight weeks.
- Assigned Travellers to one of three teams with unique ships and uniforms.
- Added collaborative progression through construction of the Prismatic Core.
- Introduced Purge, Restoration, and Sabotage mission categories that influence expedition progress.
- Added team recognition rewards within the Space Anomaly.
- Added new posters, decals, titles, team flags, the Direwasp rifle Multi-Tool, Direwasp Flightpack, and a six-piece Direwasp customization set.
New Enemies
- Added agile Swarmer ships as a new enemy type.
- Added the Hive of Glass boss encounter.
- Added crashed Swarmer ship sites on dissonant planets.
- Added planetary Swarmers guarding crash locations.
- Added buried Swarmer debris on dissonant worlds containing salvageable scrap.
Performance and Stability
- Fixed a rare frontend softlock caused by the Connecting banner remaining on-screen.
- Fixed a crash related to complex corvette-class starship thumbnails.
- Optimized memory usage and performance for ship trails and speedline effects.
- Improved wheeled Exocraft performance on Switch, Xbox One, and PS4.
- Implemented major optimizations for freighter battles.
- Improved CPU lighting calculations.
- Enhanced performance when handling object visibility in dense environments.
- Reduced UI memory usage at sub-4K resolutions on PS4 Pro.
- Fixed a 4K-related crash on PS4 Pro.
- Resolved several additional rare crashes.
Space Combat Improvements
- Improved visibility of targeted enemy ships in third-person combat.
- Improved starship weapon aiming in third-person view.
- Enhanced auto-follow navigation and enabled boosting while following targets.
- Improved enemy flight patterns and navigation behavior.
- Weak-point hits now always deal critical damage, while non-weak-point hits no longer crit.
- Improved speedline visual effects.
- Fixed delayed enemy count mission updates after ship destruction.
- Improved overall ship controls during combat.
- Fixed Sentinel interceptor spawning when space combat was disabled.
- Fixed Sentinel interceptor detection issues tied to ground combat settings.
- Fixed negative pulse engine countdown timers after combat.
- Updated pulse engine notifications to display the correct technology name.
Quality of Life and Bug Fixes
- Fixed teleporter endpoint issues across multiple galaxies.
- Corrected navigation guidance for purple star systems in different galaxies.
- Fixed corvettes being unable to land in Space Stations and the Space Anomaly.
- Fixed backpack visibility issues while piloting corvettes.
- Added module names to Analysis Visor HUD displays for corvettes.
- Fixed Analysis Visor closing unexpectedly when tagging markers.
- Fixed markers appearing for missing resource deposits.
- Fixed inventory transfer issues when purchasing ships.
- Fixed item deletion issues involving storage containers.
- Fixed camera spinning after quickly exiting a ship during communicator interactions.
- Fixed camera judder when entering a newly repaired ship.
- Fixed Corrupted Sentinel flickering on Nintendo Switch systems.
- Fixed retroviral pellet duplication.
- Improved Arena League invitation progression and location selection.
- Fixed Champion’s Invitations in Outlaw systems.
- Rebalanced companion experience gains in Holo-Arena battles.
- Fixed persistent Twitch reward claim prompts.
- Added Xbox Gamercard viewing support from the Join Game screen.
- Removed unnecessary Quick Menu keyboard prompts when not using mouse and keyboard.
- Fixed disappearing armor displays near the Exosuit Research merchant.
- Hid inactive community mission holograms above the Quicksilver Synthesis Bot.
- Fixed touch control support for claiming expedition rewards.
- Fixed gyro setting save issues from frontend menus.
Previously, a major free No Man’s Sky update 4.40 added a relaxed mode, overhauled inventories, revamped UI, and improved missions. Unfortunately, players are still experiencing several issues. NMS update 6.40 will fix a few of these issues.
Download free No Mans Sky update 6.40 on Sony PlayStation 4, PC, and Xbox One.
