{"id":82261,"date":"2026-05-27T09:00:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T13:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=82261"},"modified":"2026-05-27T09:37:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T13:37:02","slug":"no-mans-sky-launches-the-swarm-update-adds-mysterious-death-star-like-construct-to-the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=82261","title":{"rendered":"No Man&#8217;s Sky Launches The Swarm Update, Adds Mysterious Death Star Like Construct to the Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/no-mans-sky\">No Man\u2019s Sky<\/a> developer Hello Games has announced The Swarm update, which adds a \u201cmysterious Death Star like construct\u201d to the sci-fi adventure.<\/p>\n<p>The Swarm update adds \u201csomething new, huge and foreboding&#8221; to the sky above planets. Hello Games said it&#8217;s &#8220;unlike anything we&#8217;ve seen before.\u201d Patch notes, courtesy of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nomanssky.com\/swarm-update\/\">No Man&#8217;s Sky website<\/a>, are below.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlayers are going to need a combined community effort to figure out what is going on,\u201d Hello Games chief Sean Murray teased. \u201cTravellers will boot up to be greeted with a personality test, dividing players into three factions, each will need to co-operate, strategise and compete to counter the Hive of Glass, an existential threat to the universe.\u201d<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"slideshow\" data-slug=\"no-mans-sky-the-swarm-update-screenshots\" data-value=\"no-mans-sky-the-swarm-update-screenshots\" data-type=\"slug\" data-caption=\"\">\n<p>\u201cA war effort is being launched from the Nexus, with defenses rapidly being constructed, and a new bulletin page tracking progress,\u201d Murray continued. \u201cYour contribution to the face-off with the Hive is being logged for all to see in both the Anomaly and the Galactic Atlas. Travellers will want to keep a constant eye on which squad is contributing the most to the war effort. The most effective faction will be memorialised in the Space Anomaly for all time!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Swarm adds No<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No Man\u2019s Sky developer Hello Games has announced The Swarm update, which adds a \u201cmysterious Death Star like construct\u201d to the sci-fi adventure. The Swarm update adds \u201csomething new, huge and foreboding&#8221; to the sky above planets. Hello Games said it&#8217;s &#8220;unlike anything we&#8217;ve seen before.\u201d Patch notes, courtesy of the No Man&#8217;s Sky website,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":82263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-ign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82261"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82261"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82265,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82261\/revisions\/82265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/82263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}