No Man’s Sky update 4.06 details are now available for PS4, PS5, PC, and Xbox One. According to the official No Mans Sky 4.06 patch notes, the latest update added gameplay changes, optimizations and improvements. Apart from this, No Man’s Sky version 4.06 also includes stability fixes.
Previously, a major free No Man’s Sky update 4.0 added a relaxed mode, overhauled inventories, revamped UI, and improved missions. Recently, a hotfix 4.03 was also released. Unfortunately, players are still experiencing several issues when trying to play the game. NMS patch 4.06 will fix a few of these issues.
Read more details below.
No Mans Sky 4.06 Patch Notes – November 8, 2022
- Story summaries for the various NPC base specialists have been added to the Collected Knowledge page of the information portal.
- Plaque interactions will no longer loop back to the first piece of history for that planet’s race after completing every interaction.
- Abandoned building interactions will no longer loop back to the beginning of the first story after completing every interaction.
- Fixed an issue that could cause some journey milestone guidance missions to become stuck in a loop.
- Players joining a friend’s game directly from the frontend but without a valid save slot will now have the option to customise their difficulty settings.
- Fixed an issue that could cause all planetary Drop Pod missions in the same system to complete when loading a save where one had been recently completed.
- Fixed a number of issues that could cause the shortcut button to take players directly to a newly unlocked guide entry to fail to work correctly.
- Fixed an issue that clamped the craftable amount for an item at the size of its current stack – crafting amounts can now be adjusted up to the current free inventory space.
- Fixed an issue that could cause the shortcut button to take players directly to a newly discovered mineral/plant/creature to fail to work correctly.
- The shield strength, hull strength, and combat manoeuvrability of hostile starships now scales correctly with the space combat difficulty setting.
- The non-functional companion summoning options have been removed from the starship Quick Menu.
- Fixed an issue that could cause the Stasis Device and the Fusion Ignitor crafting steps to spill beyond the edges of the screen.
- Fixed a collision issue affecting some Alloy door parts.
- Fixed an issue that caused the living frigate “Feed” options to appear when talking to standard frigate captains aboard your freighter.
- Fixed an issue that caused the non-functional technology warning to be displayed twice for blocked slots.
- Fixed an issue that could appear to present the freighter inventory as valid when no freighter was owned.
- Fixed an issue that caused invalid text to appear in some journey milestone guidance missions.
- Fixed an issue that caused unpurchaseable slots to flash as selected despite the ship or multi-tool in question having reached the max inventory size for its class.
- Fixed a rare issue that could cause invalid items to be awarded from derelict freighter containers.
- Fixed an issue that could cause the wrong inventory to be increased when unlocking new slots.
- Fixed a number of issues that could cause inventories to be scaled or scroll incorrectly.
- Fixed an issue that could allow players to interact with hidden inventory items while using the expanded inventory.
- Fixed a rare issue that could leave some Multi-Tools with unremovable broken technology after that technology was repaired.
- The Living Ship now uses the correct inventory labels.
- Fixed an issue that could cause invalid text to appear in various mission information fields when several Planetary Drop Pod missions were active at the same time.
- Fixed an issue that caused some UI elements to overlap the bottom of the inventory screen.
- Fixed a number of issues that could cause inventory numbers to spill outside of their icon in particular languages.
- Fixed inventory readability issues caused the background to be too transparent in VR.
- Fixed a number of particle flickering issues in VR.
- Fixed a number of visual glitches that could occur while using the Appearance Modifier.
- Fixed a number of rendering issues affecting Oculus/Meta VR headsets.
- Fixed a PC-only issue that could cause network settings to be unavailable without explanation.
- Fixed a number of memory issues related to FSR 2.
- The visual quality of FSR 2’s Ultra Performance mode has been increased.
- Fixed a number of multiplayer game invite issues that affected Xbox platforms.
- Fixed an issue that could scramble information important to modders.
- Fixed a crash related to playing custom ByteBeat tracks.
- Fixed a rare hang that could occur when summoning the Space Anomaly using a hotkey.
- Added an “Unread” icon to new entries in the Collected Knowledge catalogue of the information portal.
- Fixed an issue that could prevent the save summary text from appearing correctly on the final save slot in the list.
- Fixed a memory issue affecting time-based missions.
- Fixed an issue that could prevent the technology slot purchase screen from offering more than 30 slots in some rare circumstances.
- Added an option on the inventory page to temporarily expand large inventories and view them without the need to scroll.
- Clicking an inventory filter a second time will now disable that filter.
- Fixed a visual issue that caused some customisation banner options to appear in the wrong place in the UI.
- Fixed an issue that could cause framerate loss while browsing large freighter inventories.
- Fixed an issue that could cause entries to disappear from the Plaque, Monolith or Abandoned Building pages of the Collected Knowledge catalogue.
- Fixed an issue that could cause players to fall through the floor of their freighter when loading in very specific locations.
- Fixed a number of visual issues with inventory slot purchasing.
- Fixed an issue that could cause the base building tutorial to fail to progress past the “Powering the Base” section.
- Fixed a rare issue that could cause mission events involving base NPCs to point to the wrong system. This recovery will take place upon visiting the incorrectly marked system.
- Launch Fuel canisters now always fully recharge the Launch Thrusters, even on harder difficulty settings.
- Added additional fuel information to the “Summon Ship” error messages.
- The chance of technology being broken by incoming damage now scales with the current strength of your shields.
- The Save Point blueprint is now available for research aboard the Space Anomaly.
- Fixed an issue that caused some players to have inaccessible slots when viewing storage container inventories on their freighter.
Download free No Mans Sky update 4.06 on Sony PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and Xbox One.
