Hello Games continues its quiet, methodical cleanup of The Swarm expedition with patch 6.43, dropping on June 3 with a laundry list of mission and technical corrections that feel less like sweeping innovation and more like the studio finally noticing the cracks in their latest procedural playground.
The fixes target the kind of friction that turns a grand space-rescue narrative into a spreadsheet of edge cases: erroneous "Space Rescue" missions popping up mid-Hive fight, milestone messaging that failed to confirm completion, and color bugs on offline-started expeditions that made the Purge, Restore, and Sabotage stages look like a corrupted save file. Swarmer crash sites now yield corrupted ichor properly, the Emperor of Glass encounter got a balance pass, and the Prismatic Core finally talks back with new audio cues.
Platform quirks receive attention too, including a Galaxy Map crash on repeated opens and a minor physics tweak for Switch. Official notes confirm the patch is live on Steam with consoles and other platforms queued behind certification. It is the predictable next step in a live-service cycle where expeditions arrive with ambition and patches arrive with the receipts.
The Swarm's core loop of team-based milestones and Hive of Glass battles remains intact, but these targeted corrections at least remove some of the friction that could derail a collaborative campaign before it even starts.
