While No Man's Sky's latest major update had caused a long list of problems for players on all platforms, many of these issues have fortunately been fixed in the game's latest 4.12 update, with the patch notes sporting yet another long list of bug fixes delivered by Hello Games. No Man's Sky's Fractal update introduced a wealth of new features for the game, which focused heavily on improving the experience for players on PS VR2 and Switch, while also expanding on some of the game's existing features.

Though some of the more recent major updates for No Man's Sky haven't been favored by all veteran fans of the game, they have undoubtedly made the game accessible to countless new players around the world. This is perhaps most evident with 2022's Waypoint update, which coincided with the launch of No Man's Sky for the Switch and introduced even more new content, which helped to bring fresh faces to the community. The game's Fractal update, released on all platforms during February, continued to build on the game's existing mechanics while also bringing support for PS VR2, launching a new expedition, and more.

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Inevitably though, a plethora of new glitches and performance issues also found their way into the game along with the Fractal update. As often follows in the wake of a major update for No Man's Sky, the game's community lit up social media with posts bringing attention to issues consisting largely of crashes, visual bugs, and drops in frame rate across all platforms. The developers at Hello Games thankfully have an excellent track record when it comes to providing fixes for such issues post-release, and Hello Games founder Sean Murray posted a tweet earlier today detailing the fixes and improvements that came with the patch. Arriving just a week after the Fractal update launched, the 4.12 patch delivers fixes for many of the issues commonly encountered by players, including the "downloading data" bug that was preventing many fans from starting the new expedition.

The player character on a hill, overlooking an alien planet.

Despite the developers' continuing dedication to No Man's Sky, many veteran fans in particular haven't been so happy with the game's latest updates. Many in the game's thriving community continue to express their craving for certain features, arguing that Hello Games' recent focuses on expeditionary content and technical enhancements are detracting from the game's core appeal: its exploration.

Though Hello Games have been making gradual but often hefty improvements to No Man's Sky's gameplay loop over the years, many fans urge the developers to focus an update on some of the community's most highly-requested features, specifically for improvements to planetary and procedural generation. The game's creator recently hinted towards "an even bigger year planned for 2023," giving hope to many fans that the developers are continuing to take community feedback into account for future updates.

FRACTAL 4.12

Bug fixes

  • Fixed an issue that caused bases built next to some building types to become buried in the ground.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented recolouring of portable base building objects constructed outside of a base.
  • Fixed an issue that caused ship cockpit screens to flicker.
  • Fixed an issue that caused the Galactic Trade Room on freighters to be non-interactable.
  • Fixed an issue that allowed cursor or stick sensitivity to be set to 0, preventing cursor use.
  • Fixed a bug that caused farmable plants to appear in the wrong visual state.
  • Fixed an issue that caused ByteBeat recordings to fail to save correctly.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented Featured Bases from being available to PSVR2 players.
  • The volume of the VR wrist projector’s opening sound effect has been reduced.
  • Fixed a hang that could occur when exiting an Exocraft in VR.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented terrain tessellation detail from being rendered on PlayStation 5.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented controller vibration from functioning correctly on PlayStation 5.
  • Fixed a PlayStation 5 issue that could cause graphical corruption during warp.
  • Fixed an issue with sky rendering on Xbox One.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented system language selection from working correctly.
  • Fixed a number of issues that could cause stuttering.
  • Fixed an issue that caused some metadata used by mods to be stripped.
  • Fixed an issue that could prevent discoveries from showing.
  • Fixed an issue that could prevent expedition data from being successfully downloaded.
  • Fixed an issue that could cause incorrect discovery counts to be reported for discovery-based expedition milestones.
  • Fixed a number of network connectivity issues.
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when playing with a controller on Linux OS.
  • Fixed a crash on boot that could affect PC players with integrated/multiple GPUs.
  • Fixed a crash related to derelict freighter procedural generation.
  • Fixed a number of rendering-related crashes.
  • Fixed a number of crashes related to multiplayer.
  • Fixed a rare crashed related to planet rendering.

No Man's Sky is available on PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.

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