Hello Games has rolled out No Man’s Sky update 4.70 (PS5 version 4.070) this May 29 on all platforms. Based on the revision jump, we’re expecting this to be another significant title update for the game, and that means new features, improvements and more.
No Man’s Sky Update 4.70 Patch Notes for May 29:
PS5 version 4.070.000
Update: Hello Games has pushed out the official patch notes for what it calls the “Adrift” update!
Development Update
Today’s 4.70 update for No Man’s Sky includes the Adrift expedition, alongside a number of stability and gameplay fixes.
Our journey continues.
Sean
4.70 Patch Notes
- Expedition Thirteen, Adrift, will begin shortly and run for approximately seven weeks.
- During the expedition, every star system has become abandoned, removing all NPCs, all active starships, and destroying system economies.
- A number of other gameplay changes have been made to reflect the strange nature of this universe, including to gameplay events, to player communications, and to the distribution of various hostile entities.
- Rewards include new posters, decals and titles; a set of starship wreckage base building parts; a vile and gnawing companion; a unique cursed frigate; several new starship customisation options; and the exclusive Iron Vulture hauler.
- Introduced a number of significant memory usage optimisations.
- Fixed an issue that caused base parts to pop in after loading.
- Improved the speech audio of the Assembled Construct on the Space Anomaly..
- Improved the audio for planetary titan worms.
- Fixed an issue that could prevent the Space Anomaly from playing its warp-in effects.
- Significantly improved the visual effects around the Space Anomaly’s Prime Terminal.
- Fixed an issue that caused distorted Travellers to pop in when interacting with Unknown Graves.
- Fixed an issue that could cause the crafting page to use incorrect text when attempting to build an object while lacking sufficient resources.
- Fixed an issue that allowed markers belonging to separate resources to be merged together when part of the same clump.
- Fixed a rare issue that could allow damaged technology to appear in the list of refinable items.
- Planets with synthetic or robotic creatures will now report this information in the “Fauna” category of their data readout.
- The purchase UI screen has been tweaked to improve clarity when the current item is unaffordable.
- Fixed a number of rare issues where incorrect rewards were listed in the UI or in the interaction prompt.
- Fixed an issue that prevented the Atlas Path from appearing in the Collected Knowledge section of the catalogue.
- Fixed some misleading mission instructions in the They Who Returned mission while in an uninhabitable star system.
- Fixed a number of rare mission blockers that could occur while reloading a save in the middle of space combat.
- Fixed a number of rare blockers in A Trace Metal related to Tethys’ interactions.
- Added a catalogue guidance mission for Atlantideum.
- Improved mission text clarity in the event that a player travels a significant distance away from their current mission target.
- Fixed a rare issue that could add an “ON PLANET” label to the Atlas Station’s marker.
- Fixed a number of minor text issues.
For more info on the patch, head on over here.
Hello Games hasn’t released patch notes for this update just yet, though that should change within the day. In the meantime, here are some reported bugs from people on Reddit that should be addressed very soon.
Over on Twitter/X, Hello Games boss Sean Murray teased today’s update yesterday with an emoji:
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— Sean Murray (@NoMansSky) May 29, 2024
Outside of that, we’ve listed the bugs that haven’t been fixed which have been listed by the community.
CameToComplain_v6
My ship’s wing pieces were replaced with ones I don’t like.
Xbox Series X. I’d hoped this would get fixed sooner, but the Orbital update dramatically changed the wing pieces on my long-time main ship and never changed them back. This is the Explorer ship named “Oshing’s Coup”, found in the space station of the Nibeiliuhe system (portal code 107AF8441562 / galactic coordinate 0D61:0077:0C40:007A).
Before the update it had (if I have the terminology correct) a Sunspot left wing and a Pulsar right wing, which is sort-of-symmetrical; after the update it had a Shortwave left wing and a Solar Pulse right wing, which is about as lopsided as you can get.
Koala_de_Wombat
Steam version Win11
the game always crashes if I do alt-tab or any other app switch like just clicking the mouse on the second screen, tried fullscreen, borderless – nothing helps. It is the only game in my Steam library that does it. The game was installed from the scratch less than a month ago.
While there’s no guarantee that today’s patch includes fixes for the issues mentioned above, there are many more Reddit users voicing the same feedback, so hopefully today’s update addresses some of these issues. We will update this post as soon as we can when the actual patch notes are revealed later today.
