Summary
- No Man’s Sky update 5.53 fixes bugs reported by players following the Worlds Part 2 update.
- The patch resolves issues with gestures, ship colors, and mission blockers.
- It also improves load times for mod users and addresses crashes across various parts of the game.
Developer Hello Games has rolled out No Man’s Sky update 5.53, addressing a number of issues following the Worlds Part 2 update. The patch is already available for No Man’s Sky players on Steam and will be released for other platforms soon.
No Man’s Sky came 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 until No Man’s Sky finally became what was intended from the beginning. In January, No Man’s Sky released 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.
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Most of the No Man’s Sky Worlds Part 2 issues 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 after joining another No Man’s Sky player and 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 using No Man’s Sky mods, 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 Sky Worlds 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 Sky continues to thrive and is shaping up to be a great choice for survival game fans in 2025.
No Man’s Sky Update 5.53 Patch Notes
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue which prevented some gestures from ending when attempting to move.
- Fixed an issue that caused the Stellar Extractor to display an invalid slot.
- Fixed a number of issues that could occur when warping on board someone else’s freighter.
- Fixed an issue that could cause life support to drain while in the Nautilon.
- Fixed an issue that prevented the Mineral Rig from being installed correctly in the Colossus.
- S-Class upgrades to the Grafted Eyes now choose 3 bonuses.
- Fixed a number of cases where the highest bonus for X-Class Neutron Cannon upgrades was lower than the S-Class bonus.
- Fixed an issue that caused all hermit crabs to be listed as extinct on the Discovery Page.
- Abandoned Mode saves now indicate their status on the load screen.
- Fixed a number of mission issues that could occur after joining another player in who was already aboard the Space Anomaly.
- Fixed an issue that prevented some decals from being coloured correctly.
- Fixed an issue that could cause some ships or Multi-Tools to appear twice in the list of active items in their respective archive UIs.
- Fixed a rare issue that could cause some ships to change colour when being retrieved from cold storage. This fix will restore ships to their correct colour.
- Fixed an issue that caused Multi-Tools to have an incorrect class listed on the weapon rack UI.
- Fixed a rare mission blocker that could occur at the start of the Artemis missions.
- Fixed a number of issues that could prevent the Space Anomaly or Atlas Path missions from starting correctly.
- Fixed a rare mission blocker where players would not know the correct recipes during In Stellar Multitudes.
- Fixed a number of issues with water simulation, including all water vanishing from the oceans on PlayStation 5.
- Planetary rings and rainbows now reflect correctly in the water.
- Fixed an issue that could cause flickering glitches with water rendering.
- Fixed a number of additional visual glitches with water rendering.
- Fixed a number of visual issues with lighting.
- Introduced a significant improvement to load times while using a large number of mods.
- Introduced a minor optimisation for video memory usage.
- Fixed a rare crash related to creature navigation.
- Fixed a crash related to the animation system.
- Fixed a number of crashes related to memory management.
- Fixed a crash related to memory allocation.
- Fixed a crash related to animations.
Adventure
Action
Survival
- Released
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August 9, 2016
- ESRB
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T for Teen: Fantasy Violence, Animated Blood