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No Man’s Sky’s Free ‘The Swarm’ Update Launches a Community War Against a Hive‑Like Mothership

Hello Games has begun an eight‑week expedition that splits players into three factions to cooperate and compete to build a Prismatic Core and stop a giant Hive of Glass.

New No Man’s Sky The Swarm update threatens the universe with a murderous, robotic hive - not the bees!
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Overview

  • Hello Games released The Swarm on May 27, 2026 as update 6.4/6.040 and the expedition is live now across PC and consoles, including Xbox Game Pass.
  • The update assigns players to one of three teams via a short personality test and logs every contribution in the Space Anomaly and on the Galactic Atlas.
  • Players advance construction of the Prismatic Core by completing three mission types — Purge, Restoration, and Sabotage — which shape the expedition’s progress and final outcome.
  • The new enemy, the Hive of Glass, deploys hundreds of fast swarmer drones and can open an iris to fire a massive laser that threatens freighter fleets and large structures, requiring coordinated large‑scale space battles to reach its weak point.
  • Patch notes also add Direwasp rewards (armor, flightpack, rifle), planetary salvage and research tasks, and a suite of stability and space‑combat optimizations and bug fixes to improve performance across platforms.