No Man’s Sky’s new update addresses one of the toughest bugs the developers have faced, with an apology for its oversight.

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Just days after No Man’s Sky lead Sean Murray teased fans with safety vest emojis, Hello Games has rolled out a patch addressing one of the most challenging bugs the team has encountered.

The Remnant update introduced everything from a Garry’s Mod-style gravity gun to spider mechs, but it also came with a significant bug. Hotfix 6.22 went live recently, as noted on the official No Man’s Sky website, fixing various issues, including black screens and serious crashes. However, one bug stands out.

So significant that engine programmer Martin Griffiths highlighted it in a post responding to the Remnant 6.22 patch notes. “This patch has lots of fixes, but in particular, it addresses a bug that was causing numerous hangs and crashes on Xbox Series S|X,” he stated. He then revealed something quite astonishing—over nearly a decade since No Man’s Sky’s launch in 2016, this bug is one of the most notable.

“This patch has lots of fixes, but in particular it has a fix for a bug that was causing a lot of hangs/crashes on Xbox Series S/X: No Man’s Sky has had dozens of updates and hundreds of patches over the last nine years, and we’ve only encountered two bugs (including this one) that were this severe,” Griffiths explained. “It was a particularly tricky class of GPU hang, and this bug had not been detected during testing. We apologize for this one slipping through—the patch went live on Xbox around 4 PM, and while it’s still early, things are looking much better!”

That must have been quite the troublesome bug. It raises the question of what the other notorious bug was, and I’ll be pondering that until the next patch. Knowing Hello Games, it won’t be long before we see more updates. As Griffiths mentioned, there have been “hundreds of patches” so far, so there’s plenty more to look forward to. Plus, even with nothing else on the immediate horizon, there’s Light No Fire to anticipate.

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