No Man’s Sky Cursed Update patch notes – New enemies, community research, and more

The Expedition Sixteen: Cursed update has been announced for No Man’s Sky as developers Hello Games continue their brilliant job with post-launch content.

The new update has been announced ahead of the Halloween season, and there are plenty of exciting things in store. As part of the new content, players can enjoy fresh challenges in a new twilight realm situated at the boundary between one reality and the next. Let’s find out all the crucial details as revealed by Hello Games ahead of the update.

No Man’s Sky’s Cursed update introduces a new threat

Unlike the traditional threats of extreme environmental hazards, Cursed will have new dangers. As you travel through the lands, you’ll be surrounded by Anomalies. As long as the Anomaly Suppressor of your exosuit is working, you should be fine. As soon as your Suppressor weakens, the Anomalies may turn hostile and work against you.

You’ll also get to brew other concoctions like Elixir of Glass, Quicksilver, Blood, and Water to help you on your adventures. The new expedition will be available for two weeks and will allow you to get plenty of fantastic rewards as well.

Among all the different cosmetic items that you can get, having a gelatinous, luminescent lifeform as your companion is indeed a strange one. Additionally, you can retrieve the Boundary Herald Starship as part of the expedition. Additionally, there’s plenty of new community research available as well for all to explore. The Cursed Expedition update is now live in No Man’s Sky and available for players on all platforms.

No Man’s Sky v5.20 patch notes

Hello Games continues to work and improve the game, and the latest update includes several gameplay tweaks ahead of the new expedition.

• Expedition Sixteen, The Cursed, will begin shortly and run for approximately two weeks.
• During the expedition, the boundary walls between universes have begun to crumble. All conventional hazards have been replaced by Local Boundary Strength, which must be maintained to avoid the intrusion of the boundary horrors…
• Rewards include new posters, decals and titles; a new jetpack trail; a bioluminescent companion; a cursed helmet customisation; and the exclusive Boundary Herald starship.
• Introduced a number of particle rendering optimisations.
• Fixed a number of graphical corruption issues on Xbox.
• Fixed an issue with depth of field rendering on Switch.
• Fixed a number of minor graphical issues on PS5.
• Introduced a shadow rendering optimisation on PS5.
• Fixed a rare issue that prevented some large saves from loading correctly.
• Fixed a rare hang related to weather effects in multiplayer.
• Fixed a crash related to loading frigates.
• Fixed a number of performance issues on Switch related to use of the Analysis Visor.
• The message style for Communication Station messages has been improved.
• Fixed an issue that caused Sac Venom not to correctly display growing information in the Analysis Visor.
• Fixed an issue that caused butterfly wing audio to be too loud.
• Fixed an issue that caused the HoverDroid companion to fail to move.
• Fixed an issue that made it difficult to harvest hypnotic eyes from the abyssal horrors.
• Increased the amount of bait given when crafting specialist bait items.
• Fixed an issue that caused the backpack to be rendered with an incorrect offset in the inventory if the player has a cape equipped.
• Fixed an issue which could cause the player’s feet to appear reversed.
• Fixed an issue that caused specific face shapes to revert to the default when exiting the Appearance Modifier.
• Fixed an issue that could cause some generated pinning missions to skip some crafting steps.
• Fixed a number of glitches with the navigation of hostile AI starships.
• Fixed an issue that caused the fireplace flames to be purple.
• Fixed a text issue that affected the Angler’s Diary entries after the Aquarius Expedition ended.
• Fixed a minor text issue in the Previous Expeditions page.
• Fixed a minor UI issue that caused damaged equipment warnings to flash at inappropriate times.
• Fixed a number of minor animation glitches.
• Fixed an issue that caused incorrect text to appear on various fleet management pages when viewing the Normandy frigate.
• Fixed an issue that could allow system authorities to perform cargo scans while paused/in the UI.
• Fixed a VFX issue when destroying some small plants.