Summary
Developer Hello Games has rolled outNo Man’s Skyupdate 5.53, addressing a number of issues following the Worlds Part 2 update. The patch is already available forNo Man’s Skyplayers on Steam and will be released for other platforms soon.
No Man’s Skycame out in 2016, offering players an open-world space exploration game featuring procedurally generated universes, each with unique biomes, weather, creatures, and resources. However, the game didn’t perform as expected and was heavily criticized at first, prompting Hello Games to keep refining it untilNo Man’s Skyfinally became what was intended from the beginning. In January,No Man’s Skyreleased its big Worlds Part 2 update, bringing plenty of new content into the game, and now Hello Games is rolling out a small patch to rectify some issues that arose after the big update.
Most oftheNo Man’s SkyWorlds Part 2issues that Hello Games is tackling with patch 5.53 have been reported by players through the developer’s bug report webpage. Among them, a bug that prevented gestures from ending when the player wanted to move was fixed, along with a problem with the Stellar Extractor displaying an invalid slot. A rare issue that changed some players’ ship colors has also been addressed, with the fix restoring affected ships to their original colors.
Users were also experiencing issues in certain missions, such as problems afterjoining anotherNo Man’s Skyplayerand mission blockers in the Artemis and In Stellar Multitudes missions. These have all been resolved. Visual problems were also rectified, such as issues with water simulation on PlayStation 5, rings and rainbows not reflecting properly, and plenty of other visual glitches involving water rendering and lighting.
Just as importantly, update 5.53 will make things faster for players usingNo Man’s Skymods, as load times have been improved, alongside optimization for video memory usage. On top of that, Hello Games has also tackled a significant number of crashes across different aspects of the game, such as in creature navigation, memory management, animations, and more.
No Man’s SkyWorlds Part 2 update is yet another testament to Hello Games’ commitment to refining and delivering an exciting space exploration experience for players. By bringing new water worlds, gas giants, and new stellar bodies, as well as improving its terrain generation algorithm along with many other enhancements,No Man’s Skycontinues to thrive and is shaping up to be a great choice for survival game fans in 2025.
