nms-spoilers

[dense quartz]

Yeah I remember that. I'm just surpirsed it's in this expedition too.

[native carbon]

was it adrift?

[sour fossil]

can't recall

[uncut harness]

This exp is so fun after the fishing update lol
I wasn't expecting that to happen after the portal usage and the purple light too

[gloomy isle]

Yeah the gameplay looks super different to the base game

Can't wait to jump on once I've had dinner

[uncut harness]

I could see myself spending the whole 2 weeks here
I'm still waiting to start a new save , too risky with worlds part 2 coming and not knowing what it will change

[pliant aurora]

This has to be the most interesting shot I've seen out of the game since it was released

[uncut harness]

The YouTube narrator is different too it's not the chick

Probably don't mean anything tho

[grizzled apex]

We've come full circle haha

It's from an older pre release trailer and was reused in the singularity trailer

Which itself was a sci fi reference afaik

[uncut harness]

What the hell

I must of missed that I usually leave nms and come back later but they've been rapid fire pumping out content

49 games between updates 3 times to be exact

[runic mesa]

I haven't gotten home to play yet, but is my speculation that The Cursed is foreshadowing future content like Singularity foreshadowed Echos still sound?

[sour fossil]

Take this info with a grain of salt but I have reasons to believe HG is preparing to rerun old expeditions

Looking at the game files HG is updating some components with entries specifically for the Beachhead expedition

The 1st bit that stood out was adding the missing tooltip poster - you know this infopanel that pops up on the right side each time you start an expedition?

Yeah Beachhead didn't have an image attached, now it has

The 2nd bit that's more interesting is HG updating the item filter data table

have you ever tried to transfer a companion egg from expedition save to main save only to find out the inventory box won't let you put the egg inside?

[runic mesa]

Oh, that's interesting!

[sour fossil]

Now the same will happen for the Historiographical Dosimeter and Myth Beacon - 2 key items from Beachhead

Keep in mind, the item filter data table was added and updated only in this year

[runic mesa]

And there's no reason for them to suddenly update this unless they have plans

[sour fossil]

So what would the point be in including these items now?

So that someone doesn't buy HD with QS on exped save and tries to transfer it to main? Doesn't make sense

[dense quartz]

Dat icon lol

[sour fossil]

Oh wait it keeps going

3rd bit: there are new or increased rewards for Beachhead milestone tasks, like extra QS or more inventory slots

[viral geyser]

I feel like they are going to do the reruns with worlds part 2?

Possibly in 2 weeks I

Idk anymore

[sour fossil]

Another thing I see - new rewards for Polestar for Nintendo Switch?

[mental socket]

This is the message you get if you drink elixir of glass in normal mode save. I finished the expedition and brought the tasty drinks with me

you can even summon the boss by drinking the final drink thingy

[sour fossil]

Polestar was before Waypoint

So Switch folks prolly never played it

And the rewards have IDs ending up with _NX which is used to denote Switch in mission files

[mental socket]

Elixirs stored with all the other expedition trinkets. Too bad they're of limited quantity so can't relive the boss that many times in normal mode

unless the boss will be there in the potential purple systems

Ignore divergence cube there. It's basically my collection of those "one off" items

[gloomy isle]

How was the expedition?

[mental socket]

Pretty good imo. One of the best ones with all the heavy story/lore stuff and actually somewhat unique gameplay

the climax was also fancy but I may have ruined the fun of it by taking my op multitool there. The boss fight seemed to have some unique attacks and such

[viral geyser]

Do we think this is gonna lead to worlds part 2?

I'm like 50/50

[mental socket]

Well the ending dialog did tease for all the boundary stuff to finally get some progress

[gloomy isle]

That's awesome to hear

The gameplay looks super interesting too

[fervent fern]

How much time did it take?

[mental socket]

around 5-6 hours or so? How long has it been out?

been playing nonstop since

now time to shelve the game until more stuff comes!

[fervent fern]

Oh, so more-or-less the regular time I guess

[mental socket]

these boundary stabilizer parts do look very fancy

wonder how many I could stack together and even activate

can't really make a big stack in a single spot since it's impossible to then activate them all

[gloomy isle]

Ooo they look cool af

Do they do that pulse when you interact with them?

[mental socket]

yup

and they keep running like that

particles spinning and pulsing

[grizzled apex]

Hmm, so it looks like they didn't just change the Deepwater Guardian to the Boundary Guardian. The Deepwater one now does use the Boundary one's model and most of it's attacks, but it's name and boss hud info is still the same as before, and it seems to have a bit of a different spawning pattern? The differences are minimal so it could be they just left the old one as is in case they visit the idea of a deeper ocean boss later on I guess

[native carbon]

is this the part 4 of the arg?

[gloomy isle]

Damn I didn't realise that the boundary horrors actively stalk you lol

[grizzled apex]

Hey wait, didnt those shadow things from the LNF trailer seem to do something similar?

[gloomy isle]

I'm not sure, I think I remember something like that though

[gusty berry]

do all the elixir other than water do anything except put words on your screen

[safe thunder]

||can you collect storm crystals in the second system the expedition drops you in or do you need to travel?||

[runic mesa]

I played Polestar. It was prior to Waypoint, but the 2022 redux was after it.

[runic mesa]

Are these changes only for 1-4?

[eternal radish]

I drank the water @_@

[eternal radish]

Does that mean you will be able to play on your save on multiple platforms (for example: PS5 - PC)?

[eternal radish]

They recharge your "boundary stability" or something like that.

[gusty berry]

ok so no effect outside of expedition

nice to know thank

[eternal radish]

If that gets lower than 50% those squids will start to attack you.

[gusty berry]

no need to add em

[eternal radish]

But who knows what a future update will bring 🤷🏻‍♀️

[gusty berry]

if the whatever detector in that one expedition is any sign those jars prolly won't do anything else

HG can always add more products lol

either way the water just spawns the boss anywhere you use it so that's cool ig

[eternal radish]

It also deletes your starship inventory 💀

[uncut harness]

Bruh

[late tusk]

is the new appearance nice

[cloud jolt]

@safe thunder

No gifs in this channel please

[zenith perch]

There's no arg this isn't 2018

[zenith perch]

God I hope so

[uncut harness]

I'm still feeling like they'll save worlds part 2 for the spring update but I'm welcome to being proven wrong

[zenith perch]

I'm puzzled as to why this expedition is only 2w

They've never had one last that short amount of time before

[uncut harness]

Ps5 port about to release it'll likely be that with a few bells and whistles

[zenith perch]

And it ends on a Wednesday?

I do hope wp2 is this year, it'd be a great end to arguably the best year we've ever had cause iirc didn't we start off with Omega

[uncut harness]

We did
6 updates in 1 year

This update was a little sparse but still about a page of patches

[zenith perch]

I'd say 4 major updates and two expedition centric updates

Omega reworked the way expeditions are done which is very nice but was iirc a smaller update outside of that

Adrift I genuinely can't remember

Very odd to see 3 updates in a row all release within 49 days of previous ones

[uncut harness]

I'd say omega was pretty substantial as you said it changed the eay expiditons work which are a major part of nms

Adrift was mostly a 2016 alone in space throwback

The cursed is a lore dump so so it's arguable, I'd say substance

The cursed is kinda carried by it's reward being a star wars ship though

[cloud plume]

Can someone send me pics of the new ship? with multiple angles? cannot play until a while and i'm really hyped by thhe new ship XD

[safe kiln]

glass increases boundary strength, blood is used to open portals to the next rendezvous, quicksilver locates portals

[uncut harness]

It lets be scrap the han solo ship but don't give me any parts lol

[gray compass]

does this mean that we are getting boundary strength in the future as a variable

[analog breach]

They said on patchnotes its just a decor

But could be useful it we could do void raids in the future. Sorta like checkpoint.

[native carbon]

Its in advanced technology category for some reason

[analog breach]

It kinda looks like advanced tech

[native carbon]

Also why the hell it says that the octopus head is a jetpack

[analog breach]

Just HG things

Its a bug

[gray compass]

very minor

[fringe void]

O would love to have multiple frigates

[cursive kernel]

Honestly i hope so, because the time speeding up is such a cool effect

[stone sequoia]

yay

[analog breach]

U can have up to 30 frigates

[fringe void]

I meant to say freighters

Just noticed

[twilit ocean]

#no-mans-sky message

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/s/4FKUj44bM9

Updating with second source

So Ps5 Pro (November), Expedition Bonus Redux (December)

This is from the playstation blog:

”Our last update Aquarius, brought fishing to No Man’s Sky and proved very popular. For us, 2024 continues to be one of our most popular years since launch. In the coming weeks, we have several more surprises, including a specific release to take advantage of the incredible power of the PlayStation 5 Pro at launch.”

#no-mans-sky message

No other releases stated several surprises, so my speculation is we potentially get a Worlds Part 2 Teaser or Update during November

The odd release time attributed to the shorter halloween expedition, the above texts, Worlds Part 1 having more content that wasn’t released with it that was in production, and Aquarius being a bonus update realized because someone drew some fishing

[grizzled apex]

There's entity files for a normal squid alongside the Spectral ones that haunt us in the expedition. No model though. Seperate creature IDs so they'll probably be a proper underwater creature

[cloud plume]

Question, is there a bug with the Boundary Herals similar to the one that happened to the Atlas staff, i mean being able to reroll SC slots?

[sour fossil]

more info about potential Beachhead rerun: #nms-spoilers message

[cloud plume]

hum, if i somehow obtained a very legit Normandy, and i do the expedition, what will happened? can i get 2 Normandy?

[sour fossil]

Possibly

I mean modding wise, game should not care whether you have 1 or 20 Normandies

(or is it Normandy's?)

Could be tested with a mod to repeatedly trigger the reward action to see what happens but IMO game should allow this

[analog breach]

I saw pics with 30 normandy fleet soo

[gloomy isle]

I was thinking it would have been a lot of effort to make these squids for a 2 week expedition and never use them again ngl

Likewise I really hope the temporal effects etc can get used in the future somehow

[sour fossil]

Oh they most certainly will

Those new effects are not just visual fluff

They are full on new hazard type, same as hot / cold / toxic / radioactive damage

There is 0 chance HG cooked up something of this scale only to use it for a 2 weeks adventure

I believe we will see those reused in purple systems

[runic mesa]

If we're getting another Beachhead run, will it be another remix with a mixed bag of rewards like Cartographers though. That post is just assuming the Normady will be available again with no real proof. Unless there's a datamine that gives a clue to the rewards?

[sour fossil]

Nothing concrete

Just various tidbits that have one thing in common - they are related to Beachhead exped

[analog breach]

DID ANYONE checked on ARTEMIS in terminal prime in expedition?

I forgot to do it

[gloomy isle]

The purple hazard system especially would be a great way to give the feeling of being in hostile territory

Maybe they could apply the aggro side if it to other creatures etc too

[gloomy isle]

I love the detail that the boundaries are weaker in water

So on normally safe ish planets you'll get the boundary horrors appearing when you go into the water

[bitter mist]

Outside of the expedition, hopefully there will be planets with boundary horrors going forward

[crystal tiger]

secondary simulation 5 again.

[analog breach]

Ok it looks same as main save

[crystal tiger]

The voice still gave me a message as I approached it

[analog breach]

Yeah. they wont stop.

[crystal tiger]

they also told me that Artemis is gone

wonder if Apollo is one of the voices

it seems to be multiple entities.

since they sometimes say "we were once like you"

Construct acts like in Singularity

[analog breach]

We "made" the construct and use multiple echoes to do so

He is a patchwork of memories

[solar cairn]

So, all those who drank the water, ended up being travellers in or were all travellers from the same world as whatever corrupted the water.

I LOVE this. We finally get something as to what we are in lore

[late tusk]

time to log in to get all the exped items.

WE DID IT

[analog breach]

All part of same cycle

[solar cairn]

:O

[solar cairn]

The end is never the end is never the end Is never the end

[late tusk]

NMSCORD hub finally gets regocnized in NMS :D

[grizzled apex]

So there's gonna be a Beta period for cross saves...

Might be interesting for you @mental socket

The rest of the cross save LOC Entries seperated and compiled: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QKZj82I5FZDpceLdILS8Lh8yzu6Wytfw/view?usp=sharing

[mental socket]

Interesting. Wonder if this will be happening during the 2 week expedition period or something

[runic mesa]

I'm just going to operate under the assumption that the Switch probably won't qualify for this

[grizzled apex]

Might launch along side the PS5 Pro update, but having a beta before a platform launch might make more sense tbh

[mental socket]

Yeah. I'd assume they want it up and running at launch.

[grizzled apex]

Honestly from what I can see, the switch could definitely handle this. It kinda looks like HG are gonna use the same server infrastructure as the discovery services which Switch already shares with other platforms

[mental socket]

But whatever may they allude at with this whole thing

In the coming weeks, we have several more surprises, including a specific release to take advantage of the incredible power of the PlayStation 5 Pro at launch.

Specific release just for console launch? Like whatever might that be. Really curious to see

not that I care about the ps5 pro. Seems quite useless iteration but what am I to say

[grizzled apex]

Probably similar to the Next Gen update where they had improvements for other platforms too

Hmm actually, having a beta when PS5 Pro launches might not be a bad idea if they're trynna test it out for the IOS launch as the main target (if that's still on the roadmap)

[fervent fern]

I'm kinda wondering if there will be anything else on the november patch besides back-end stuff and (presumably) the reruns of old expeditions.

[uncut harness]

Its just gunna be a port update

[fervent fern]

I guess... november is late to drop new content.
But I'd love to be proven wrong lol.

[uncut harness]

Make a pact lol

[fervent fern]

Nah. 😆
I would if I had faith in a content update. I don't

[analog breach]

Took them 🤬 long enough

[wild dune]

The sentinel pillar texts imply that sentinels corrupted the water with nanite clusters. (Haven't read all those expedition texts tho

[late tusk]

yeah seriously

i hope those squid things come later for us to fight out of exped

[rapid palm]

That would be an interesting addition

[placid latch]

So can we get those boundary collapses in our pre expedition saves? I want to fight the big jellyfish.

[viral yarrow]

YES! IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS

[zenith perch]

Wasn't this confirmed or implied a long time ago though

"The Travellers are entities created by the Atlas with a scan of its Creator's mind"

[gusty stream]

HOLY COW

[solar cairn]

Oh for this part, but Atlas also accidentally deleted/lost that scan

Meaning, we were also from Glass originally

[grizzled apex]

Tbf, if the world of glass is a form of storage for the simulation, it'd make sense why we'd "await a dream of exploration" as mentioned in this expedition and the Artemis Path, since the scan used to create the travellers mustve been stashed away in storage too

[solar cairn]

Or deleted caches as we aren't a perfect recreation. We are made from a corrupted version

Same goes for where Void Mother aka Korvax Prime

[grizzled apex]

The void Mother was fully deleted from the active simulation so it makes sense that she'd reside in the world of glass. This expedition seems to be trying to link the realm before awakening shown to us by Artemis to the world of glass too though.

[lone cedar]

Didn't someone datamine purple star systems? Wonder if they will be systems that pop in from the boundary between realities shattering.

Could be what this Expy is leading to narratively

It'd also give HG a way to do a procgen refresh without impacting existing systems. Kind of like when they added extra planets in that one update.

[little scroll]

I love the fact that the special metals are cadmium (red), emeril (green) and indium (blue) (thus they are RGB) are a sneaky reference to the fact that the game is a simulation program.

[little scroll]

Perhaps that's what the Artemis path was hinting at the whole time. "The boundaries are falling"

[little scroll]

Is it the right blood elixir? Each one has a different symbol. Did you make sure to claim it?

[safe thunder]

Where is the anomaly? Like what’s outside of it? If we were to walk through Polo’s emergency exit instead of the portal, where would we be? The void? The world of glass? A second, larger anomaly?

[solar cairn]

It's in the "inbetween" of boundaries but in the realm of atlas

It's where the whales live

[solar cairn]

It's also been hinted that the code that the traveller was created from (the personality print of the creator) was also lost to Atlas and had to be "retrieved" but was corrupted in some way. In a way, we are also from the World of Glass but we just don't remember.

What are those Squids tho, they aren't the voices speaking to us as a Boundary Guardian (i guess the failsafe for anything that "bleeds?" Into the simulation?) Attacks

[ebon spoke]

huh??

Custom mode save, never finished Beachhead originally.

I've got a few mods on here, but they're all visual and I made most of them myself. None touch anything that would enable this to spawn 🤔

Happens everytime I load this save file, mods or not.

[sour fossil]

Are you in MP scenario right now? Or in expedition mode?

[solar cairn]

Something touched something

[ebon spoke]

singleplayer, just loaded the save for the first time since updating to 5.20 and flew out of the anomaly

[gloomy isle]

I'm wondering if they're travellers that gave themselves to the void

[flat sluice]

"we all drank the water"

[solar cairn]

We did too so the cycle repeats

The other e titles that drank the water were the First Spawn

[gloomy isle]

I feel like they've succumbed to the world of glass like they're tempting us to do

[analog breach]

World of glass raids/accessible in the future?

[solar cairn]

We were all from glass though

But. If the squids are what fell.

The. Why does the Boundary guardian (child of Helios) summon them to attack us?

[analog breach]

Imo child of helios=//= boundary guardian

[solar cairn]

The Elixir of Glass is made from Atlantieum and then it attacks us, are we becoming the harbinger of Void Mother?

[analog breach]

The disruptor

[solar cairn]

The one around the planet we see when we go through the portal give the same dialogue as the Child of Helios

[solar cairn]

No wonder Telamon have been indirectly guiding Sentinels to us

[gloomy isle]

Yeah I think it's that the squids might have returned to the glass an have been reshaped by the void mother

[grizzled apex]

I'd guess they're deleted fauna archived in the World of Glass bleeding through? I kinda took the boundary failure mechanic to mean that the more the boundaries fall around you, the more they're able to interact with your world and more permanently. At 0 boundary integrity, they become fully hostile, so that might be their default nature?

[gloomy isle]

It would be cool if the see through fauna are like that because they've all been partially deleted and semi recovered

[grizzled apex]

I'm pretty much certain those are gonna show up as these "reclaimed" variants of fauna in Purple Systems. This expedition seems like a bite sized introduction of what we'll find in these new realms

[gloomy isle]

Yeah definitely. The fauna hostility mechanic is such a neat way of giving the feeling of not belonging there

[solar cairn]

They start attacking at Half bar. But, it's still unclear if that Boundary suppressant is for us or them

Like, the elixir of glass is used to somehow hold stability?

[grizzled apex]

One of the OSD messages when you drink the elixir is something along the lines of "where did you go", so I think it acts as a sort of cloak for yourself, keeping you out of their plane of existance?

[solar cairn]

I don't know if that's the squid talking, or somewhere disembodied voice

[grizzled apex]

Pretty sure it's the voice we find at the grave near the end

I don't think the land squids talk on their own tbh

[analog breach]

Imo its multiple voices. Grave one is just one of them

[solar cairn]

Whoever they are, they all drank the water

[grizzled apex]

Whoever the voice belongs to though, has an unprecedented amount of control over us

This is one of the few, if not only, times where someone's spoken to us via our exosuit notifications:

Use the <SPECIAL>Elixir of Quicksilver<> to reveal the location of nearby <TECHNOLOGY>Portals<>.

Cross the Portal threshold to breach the boundary between realities...

%S16_GLYPH1% <SPECIAL>come find us... come drink with us...<> %S16_GLYPH2%

Since our Exosuit AI is Telamon, alternate versions of which have sacrificed their travellers to the Abyss, I wonder if ours is up to the same thing

[gloomy isle]

Imagine if those squids were made from exosuits lol

So much new cryptic lore, I love it

[analog breach]

I hope the squids are not the "glass angels" from sentinel pillar lore. I hope for more biblical accurate corupted sentinel

[solar cairn]

A corrupted form of Traveller would be awesome

[mental socket]

so sad that the most satisfying combat effects came from the floaty squids and their boss

feels so flat and unimpactful shooting at horrors and sentinels now :c

[solar cairn]

I have learned, one plasma launcher supercharged with no mods can wipe out the wave

[mental socket]

Geology cannon is quite a lot more powerful than plasma launcher but the grenades on that lack that nice slight auto-aim during flight whereas plasma launcher grenades have slight magnetism towards enemies

also geo cannon has an ugly side effect of scrunklying the terrain and not having self-damage reduction

but if you wanna live on the edge and have a slightly faster kill rate than plasma launcher, I recommend geo cannon

[solar cairn]

I don't like falling in the craters with the Geo cannon

It's bad enough when sentinel Minotaurs recreate WW1 artillery

[mental socket]

yeah thats a pain

why I use plasma launcher instead.

pulse spitter + plasma launcher is the most satisfying combo imo

[solar cairn]

Neutron cannon and Emp

Literally trivializes a brood mother

What i want to do is make the Atlas Scepter a portable Nuke, so that's why I'm farming x class god roll mods for the plasma launcher

Because I'm only on Gen 8

[mental socket]

given all the recent "boss" additions to NMS, I really feel like the game could use some heavier power fantasy elements or overall more combat improvements. The current method of rerolling the same mods until eventually the RNG gods bless you is way too time consuming.

Lemme farm a god tier boom boom zip zap by doing something fun instead of inventory smashing

[solar cairn]

Something to look forward to in LNF

[mental socket]

Really curious what kinda progression loop will they have when it comes to gear and stuff

lemme delve the deepest and spookiest of dungeons to claim a legendary sword of dark flame or something xD

[gloomy isle]

Might honestly be the only thing I've had fun shooting at in NMS lol

This honestly might be my favourite expedition ngl

[mental socket]

Same. Had plenty of fun when the sentinel update came but the feel you have blasting squids is completely different with all the new vfx and sounds

I let my void thingy be at 0 all the time on planets just so I could blast the floaty bois

please let worlds part 2 take us to world of glass and shoot more

[gloomy isle]

Yeah hopefully the purple hazard stays around for those planets

The expedition feels the most like a regular quest out of all the more lore focused ones too

Lots of bespoke effects and mechanics

The time warping is so cool too

[analog breach]

So one of datamined animals was the pet for exp. I wonder when we will get the manta

[solar cairn]

Where is the list of datamined stuff?

And also, how do I find the seed table for X class mods/read the table?

[analog breach]

Look in channel sended media or in yt. Pepole did wids on it

[grizzled apex]

Pretty sure that's also more or less a hint of things to come, since they've updated the other ones so that they show up in the discovery menu properly now, where before only their "veins" would show up

Wonder if the antelope which would crash the game works now...

[gloomy isle]

I love how they look like glass

[runic mesa]

I would also love if the boundary gage returns for purple systems. Love the aesthetics of the expedition. Classic existential scifi horror, more atmospheric than violent.

The sound design for the boundary horrors is great.

[solar cairn]

The tech would need to return too

[solar cairn]

Purple system fauna?

[uncut harness]

I doubt they made this whole system just for a two week exp

[gloomy isle]

The more we find out about what might be in part 2, the more my wish of there being an equivalent to the Nether in NMS is being fulfilled lol

Also those elixirs would be a genuinely handy thing to have in the main game

[analog breach]

Thats why im taking them with me to main save

[runic mesa]

My only suggestion is to have the boundary horrors drop more than 5 qualia in main. That limitation is fine for an expedition, but that'll make stocking up glass elixirs on main very tedious very fast.

[analog breach]

U get qualia from killing animals on main save wih animus beam. I have already a stack stored

[grizzled apex]

Both variants are slightly different

[uncut harness]

I don't actually like the elixers it voids a existing system

[grizzled apex]

Shattered Qualia is currently exclusive to the expedition

[analog breach]

Ok will get them as well

[native carbon]

im like 100% sure both aquarius and the cursed teases worlds part 2

i think wp2 will focus on oceans and purple systems

[uncut harness]

Want to make a pact worlds part 2 is coming out in two weeks

[native carbon]

are u crazy

[uncut harness]

Not feeling confident anymore? Lol

[native carbon]

listen, do you see my name?

im not fi anymore

im not the october 23th guy

not anymore

[uncut harness]

I tried telling you xD

[native carbon]

october 23th sucks

(Not the update tho i love it)

i love my crimson disk

and glowing strider

[uncut harness]

I dislike how again it's not a full outfit set only a head this time

[analog breach]

I wonder if this new ship from expedition is teasing new future ship type like utopia speedster did it with sentinels. Ship specialy for entering the void or world of glass. Void diver or void runner class.

[late tusk]

something i noticed is you cant like

color the squid head

[analog breach]

Expedition reward after killing the jellyboss.

I dont think its usual description. Plus the age of it.

[analog breach]

Imo its a bug

[uncut harness]

A new ship type would be cool give it customization right away too

[zenith perch]

Sure as long as its not aggressive sentinels (tedious)

[zenith perch]

Doubt they'd restrict like that

[zenith perch]

This requires heavily nerfing the player

Combat will never be good or difficult imo

[zenith perch]

Combat has never really been great in this game and imo never will. Closest is pirate dreadnoughts but just use infra knife and they die stupidly fast.

I'd love to be proven wrong one day but imo none of the combat updates have had sticking power which is a shame

[uncut harness]

I wouldn't count combat out look how much better space combat is and fighting freighters

[frail portal]

well that just happened

[uncut harness]

What you mean

[frail portal]

||reached center of galaxy and reset it||

[uncut harness]

Ohhh yeah

[frail portal]

very interesting

got sent to hilbert something something

I forgot the name

[coral dawn]

So, I'm finally getting around to ||seeking the final interface at the galactic core||
Do I keep all of my ships, tools, and freighter if I ||reset the simulation||?

[sour fossil]

Yes, just keep in mind, all installed tech in current equipment will break

You might wanna grab a burner ship / MT and swap to them before the reset so those break and not your proper equipment

[coral dawn]

I'm less worried about what I have equipped and more worried about everything else

[heady wyvern]

They'll keep. You'll even have all your old bases.

(just make sure you place a new base in the new galaxy before you start traveling back. Don't wanna lock you out of anything.)

[coral dawn]

I've got a base and my freighter in this galaxy

[heady wyvern]

You'll still have them, yes.

You'll be able to summon your freighter once you're on the other side, and you'll be able to take teleporters back to your old bases, cross-galaxy.

[coral dawn]

if I can just teleport to my freighter, I think I'll just keep it where it's at

[heady wyvern]

You do have a base back in Euclid, though. That's enough to allow you to travel back.

[coral dawn]

it's at the starting area in Euclid

[heady wyvern]

Yeah, that'll do

[coral dawn]

good enough then
I'll just have to find another dissonant outlaw system to put my freighter in

[heady wyvern]

Or put a base in one

That also works

And is permanent

[coral dawn]

I never move my freighter man

[heady wyvern]

You're missing out man

Mobile nipnip grow op man

Get some of that sweet sweet gek ganja wherever you go

[coral dawn]

I'd like to grow nipnip, but it's settled in a system that I can always come back to and farm some echo locators in, do outlaw missions, and buy contraband. And because I can't fast travel to my freighter from outlaw systems but I can still fast travel to the outpost, I can always get back to it

[uncut harness]

Did the final worlds update message still say 2024 or did it say somthing like coming later

[heady wyvern]

Oh, base teleports bypass all of that nonsense.

If that's what's holding you back

[coral dawn]

I still don't see why I would build a base when I've got my freighter there, I don't see any incentive to move it

[heady wyvern]

Extra convenience, more or less.

I spend quite a bit of time in a freighter base.

[frail portal]

made this mistake, had to use like 8 repair kits bc of sentinel ships

[analog breach]

Why we had no choice other than drink the water when everywhere it was said to not do it. Even in task log.

[safe thunder]

Nanites follow the rules of the programmer but are also under subtle influence of the sentinels and thus, void mother. It’s also known that most of the water in the galaxy holds nanites and most beings have nanites in their system. So if we were to go against to void mother, when I say we I mean all travelers, would our organic friends, like Polo, be urged to murder us?

[grizzled apex]

We surprisingly lose a bit of of control in this expedition. Even if you try to leave the portal interaction at any point after presenting the elixir, your choice doesnt matter, and the portal activates regardless.

[solar cairn]

This elixir of blood also allows us to commune with the voice even after the expedition

[sour fossil]

But only if you mark a portal with quicksilver elixir first, right?

Or does it work on portals found normally from exploring / monoliths as well?

[solar cairn]

It does not

Only a system marked portal, if you mark one on a planet, it won't work.

I think that's more of a engine workaround

Like the quicksilver elixir will also find any planet's portal. But, the one marked by the milestone is the one that responds to the blood

[wild dune]

Nanite the substance itself goes against organic structures. It is said in the description.

Only robotic life forms (Korvax, Sentinels, Corrupted sentinels, Autophages, and Walking buildings perhaps) have nanite or some kind of modified nanite(e.g pugneum & atlantideum) inside their body.

[sour fossil]

I was asking because from my experience with making custom quests for the game, the custom interaction comes actually from the item, not the milestone / mission

It's a wicked chain I won't go in depth here and was curious whether the new items work around it (means HG coded it differently) or if they follow the same pattern

[solar cairn]

I think it's a different way, or hybrid

[sour fossil]

If it were the previous case I'd be super excited

I can look in the game files later on and see what's the deal

Anyway thanks for responding

[solar cairn]

I don't know if what i experience was because I had 2 marked portals. But, it was strange, because if I even made an elixir out of order. It didn't recognize that it was the correct one.

I think there are flags placed on these items where you have to follow a certain chain of steps to prevent sequence breaking

[wild dune]

It's probably similar to how the Atlas path chain works. (just guessing tho

[gloomy isle]

I like the flow of this expedition

The system you're in always has what you need so it feels a bit more curated

[shrewd robin]

so the only way i found how to get nanites

is by discovering fauna. going around and scanning 10 animals out of 10

[mental socket]

You can also refine certain materials and they turn into nanites.

all the slime variants have an end result of runaway mould which refines into nanites

pugneum and all the atlantideum stuff also = nanites

aaaand the mission giver guy at space stations usually has a varying amount of missions that reward nanites

[gloomy isle]

Catching and releasing fish works too

[topaz lotus]

or you choose from the start of the expedition 5 stacks uncontrolled mold and when you are in the anomaly you craft it to nanites.

[dull gale]

i let her live

[fallow ingot]

@noble portal Ok, so, Atlas is viewed differently by different factions. Korvax, for example, seem to revere it like a god, while the folks on the Anomaly call it the Atlas-Falsity, Atlas-Liar, and other similar names. The Autophage (my people) view the Atlas very similarly.

The "Crimson Liar" is the Atlas, "Void Mother" is what the Autophage worship.

[safe thunder]

I was sentinel ship hunting when I came across an Autophage with the reclaimed Gek head. I always thought it was odd there were Autophage heads that seemed to have been elegantly designed to mimic non-Korvax species but I had never seen one actually on an Autophage.

It makes me wonder why? Sure it’s cannon that Autophage hold the “spirits” of those who died on Korvax prime, but what if that’s not the case of all Autophage? What if anyone could pull themselves from the afterlife? Not just Korvax, but Gek and Vy’keen, even traveler? Could Nal have pulled himself out of death as an Autophage and that’s why the third part of his bible, written after his death, is in the first person?

[shrewd robin]

Oh yea!

[river aspen]

emergency exit? where?

[ivory escarp]

ok im not. reading through the rest of this chat, sorry, but with the "artemis is gone" and "is it first? is it last?" and then laughing at you when you answer, i can't help but think this might be either apollo or -null-

I'm sure there's a million reasons why i'm wrong but that's what my brain is stuck on

[river aspen]

i second this. Also, "Artemis is gone"...so is dead for good?

the canon choice is let her die?

[ivory escarp]

i hesitate to put that much stock in our "narrator"

[river aspen]

so just lies

[ivory escarp]

not necessarily lies

to THEM, artemis is gone. that's all we know.

it could mean artemis is dead; it could mean that the narrator is just unable to reach artemis

or find another iteration of them through the space time continuum and the parallel realities and whatnot

[river aspen]

i see

in other topic, the final boss is like a security system?

once we drink the water, start to attack, because it sees us like one of the squids?

[ivory escarp]

can't speak on that, i haven't finished the expo yet :P

[river aspen]

ups, sorry

[ivory escarp]

nah nah im in the spoilers channel haha

no worries

[river aspen]

i hope all this ties with the main story

and not stays in a self contained story

like Aquarius

[safe thunder]

Oh it’s that big fire exit down matinance shaft 821.

[river aspen]

funny

[safe thunder]

I try to be

[uncut harness]

I have to say i was hoping for a bit more lore reveals tbh

hopefully this is the final buildup of the Void Mother Arc and it'll all be concluded with Worlds Part 2. It's been draggin on long enough imo

[analog breach]

To long

Like a year

Everyone pracitcaly lost most intrest in arc. Now they want just for it to end and move on.

[runic mesa]

Still convinced we never got part 4 and WP2/purple systems is part 4.

(Though they never officially labeled Echos as part 3 in the announcement/patch notes, mind...)

[runic mesa]

Also, it's October 2024 and we still don't know what the racing flag sign in the Omega trailer was about

[zenith perch]

i'll do you one better

Frontiers was released 1152d ago, was a summer update and has aside from maybe 1 bugfix been ignored entirely for >3y

[uncut harness]

Nms had a gimmick Era and frontiers got caught up in it
Worlds part 2 however will deff come

[runic mesa]

Remind me what Frontiers added? Before my time

[uncut harness]

Settlements, new space graphics but like pathfinder I'd argue old space dust was better and updated visuals

[runic mesa]

Ah. Settlements.

[uncut harness]

I'm fine with them not being on switch I prefer exploring unpopulated worlds vibe but they aren't too bad on their own
You can't get s rank anymore tho

[runic mesa]

Anything prior to Waypoint is all second hand info for me.

[uncut harness]

I love nms as it is today but I'm partial to old space dust and old generation

[runic mesa]

(You could not pay me enough to go back to the Interceptor Switch era. Never again)

(Launch era Switch was less buggy and that's saying something...)

[uncut harness]

I have like no bugs or issues on switch besides ghosting

[runic mesa]

Same. Post WP1 has been a dream

[runic mesa]

@heavy light Others can elaborate, but recent updates to Beachhead were datamined from Cursed

[heavy light]

Ooooh

Yes please

[sour fossil]

here's what I dug up: #nms-spoilers message

[river aspen]

WOOO YEAH BABY, THAT'S WHAT WE'RE WE WAITING FOR

[wild dune]

I miss the café area of the ole stations and the unique conversations. Don't know where they are after the orbital update tho

[analog breach]

No cafe area in new stations.

[late tusk]

nms should do like 7 days to die has

old versions of the game

some times i wanna go back and see what launch day was like

[valid barn]

damn, they just keep getting rid of the good parts of this game

[wild dune]

very thick yellowish filter loll

[wild dune]

It's strange that there are some areas that look unfinished on the 2nd floor of the new stations. Hope the devs won't forget about this.

[analog breach]

LET MEEEEEEEEE IN!!

[wild dune]

I remember the day when I was excited to build the new wall planter added in the base building update and found out that it was only a decoration. (no i don't actually miss it

[valid barn]

the game was set in Mexico?

[late tusk]

!

[latent ingot]

Are the NMSCord items available with the standard editors? I didn't see them on goatfungus

[latent ingot]

Wtf I just DLed the latest. Let me reverify my version. Ty FF

[mental socket]

I'd hope for at least some story and lore progression with the next content patch. They've finally brought the wog and void stuff physically in the game and gave plenty of new lore. Please continue this route HG

also curious abt the cloud save and HG account system. What other technical achievements would this apply them to do

[gloomy isle]

100% gonna be the purple systems, or so I hope

Even the translucent animals have a cracked glass texture now

[mental socket]

would be more surprised if they wouldn't come in the next udpate

[runic mesa]

I still think the next one is PS5 Pro + holiday redux combined.

[gloomy isle]

The rest of them are completed now in the files, iirc

It reminds me of how singularity had autophage items before the species actually released

[runic mesa]

WP2 to kick off 2025 is my guess

[gloomy isle]

Yeah that's what I'm betting too rn

I'd love it to be after cursed but that's probably graphics stuff

[mental socket]

this seems the most likely scenario. Probably a tease of WP2 at the game awards in december.

Just like last year they teased Orbital update and announced LNF at TGA

[runic mesa]

And Cursed ends right on the PS5 Pro launch, doesn't it?

[mental socket]

yup

Also don't forget thisss

[runic mesa]

I don't buy two updates in that small a time frame. I think Pro + redux will be packaged together.

[mental socket]

coming weeks, several surprises owo

The boundary stuff has been used across the years with both in-game story and some playful 4th wall breaks before so it could be a good timing

[sour fossil]

So we all need to get drunk on suspicious beverages in order to break the platform boundaries?

[mental socket]

Imo exp num 16 was the reason for such heavy boundary stuff

finally had a reason to progress that side of the lore

[runic mesa]

Wait, ya'll don't? 😛

[mental socket]

shoot squids, drink glass and throw blood on ancient glowy rocks. Seems abt right

that's nms for you

[runic mesa]

The theorized Beachhead remix also ties in. Wasn't that also about boundaries breaking down?

[mental socket]

Yups

[runic mesa]

Not necessarily. Waypoint was the Switch launch and a loooot of other stuff

[mental socket]

Prolly like the next gen update was. Mostly marketing for a new console whilst all of the improvements also come on PC and last gen will get little crumbs

[sour fossil]

I wouldn't say the expedition is a prelude to cross save, more like to purple star systems and new mechanics there

[mental socket]

Would hop on this boat as someone whos pretty deep in the lore stuff

[sour fossil]

Reminder that crossplay launched just as a patch in between of updates

[mental socket]

this

wonder if the mobile version gets finally properly announced even. Have the touch screen icons and mobile graphics presets been touched at all lately? @grizzled apex

Yeah. Seems abt ready given all the stuff in the game files already

[sour fossil]

No, but HG made a small update to PS5 Pro graphical preset

[grizzled apex]

Not this update, no

[sour fossil]

... and introduced PS5 Pro VR preset

[mental socket]

Personally don't care about mobile but it's just one of those technical achievements I'd love to see just for the sake of it

if you asked me a few years back, an idea about a "HG account system" would've seemed something that never happens xD

not to mention a mobile version

[grizzled apex]

It'll be out for all platforms certainly, even if just to bump up the version numbers for crossplay. I'm guessing it'd be handled similarly to the Next Gen update where some other consoles got a few improvements apart from the PS5 / XSX launch. If nothing else, they'd package in some bug fixes for sure

Martin seems to be pretty proud of the fix he's posted recently, so if nothing else we'll see that soon enough haha

[mental socket]

It makes me happy to see some of the devs openly talking about their work and discussing with the players

[grizzled apex]

Im curious whether they expand this to LNF to have it support Cross Saves day 1. Their original snippets from the cross save menu kinda hinted at a universal HG account, but the new URL makes it seem more like an NMS only thing for now rather than a cross HG system

[mental socket]

Prolly similar framework but comlpetely separate sites for claritys sake? If a player of one game isn't interested in the other

[sour fossil]

I think cross save is something so wonky it's better not to have it from day 1 in LNF

HG can use NMS to test the shit outta it first

[grizzled apex]

It's a godsend compared to Sean's way of handling communication honestly... It does wonders to humanize HG in mine and many other's eyes. I do wish other devs would post small videos or insights on their daily tasks or something small they've been tinkering away with. Wouldn't spoil the surprise but still keep HG and the community feel connected

[mental socket]

wouldn't necessarily be wonky if they nail it down with NMS

[grizzled apex]

Probably true... Although I do think LNF's largest playerbase will come from the NMS community, so not a lotta people playing just one or the other

[grizzled apex]

If the beta period they mentioned in the lang files is anything, they're probably planning out how to iron it out properly for NMS itself already, so it'd likely be in a very good position for LNF's launch

[mental socket]

I couldn't agree more. Literally the only "bad" aspect of HG as a studio is the lack of communication. And that in itself isn't really that bad but it can make the devs feel extremely distant from the community for those who haven't been there all this time and grown to know how HG operates

[mental socket]

Saw plenty of mmo and rpg enjoyers on the internets showing lotsa interest towards LNF around the announcement time.

Those ppl never seemed to have played NMS before or even be interested in scifi games. So there's a potentially larger than expected customerbase to reach here.

[grizzled apex]

I've been going over their bilibili account recently, and even though it's ran by HG's chinese marketing partners and follows a more "traditional" outlook on community outreach, it's kinda surprising to see giveaways and "official" screenshot compilation videos and such from them.

[mental socket]

Thiss. Went down this "chinese HG" rabbit hole when LNF had its chinese name revealed. It felt so bizzare looking at their way of interacting with their community over there. Made me feel all jealous.

Felt like long time partner (hg) had been cheating on me behind my back all this time 😅

[grizzled apex]

I'm sure their experience with practically every platform under the sun isn't gonna go wasted there haha. HG really have set themselves up for a very comfortable sailing for future projects with the tech they've developed for NMS. It makes me sad since that likely means we wont ever see the Skyscraper Engine go public, but if it helps HG focus more on the functional design of their games going forward than techical problems, It's definitely worth it!

[runic mesa]

Yeah, it confuses newer and especially younger players all the time. Open dev communication and update schedules are very common these days. Particularly with indies.

It throws many off that HG doesn't do that.

[grizzled apex]

Gotta reach out to those guys and see if they'd be willing to take over the rest of HG's marketing for a change 😛
It still surprises me that they never got outreach partners in the rest of the world, especially after larger platform releases like NEXT, Beyond or Waypoint. Sean does keep saying that they're a small team, even in interviews where he teased LNF before it's reveal though, so I'm guessing they don't like having contracts like that?

[runic mesa]

Seam doesn't strike me as an extrovert and I do get it.

[analog breach]

Or maybe keeping the company i relativly small size avoids problems of bigger studios.

[sour fossil]

Isn't that just how the Chinese market operates in regards to video games and other IPs?

Basically "you do stuff our way or kiss the market goodbye"?

[grizzled apex]

I feel like HG still consider themselves as an 8 person group of friends working on this crazy far-fetched concept rather than developers on arguably one of the longest running live service games on the market, so they don't approach communication in the way other indie studios do. In that regard, Martin's way of reaching out and posting insights works w/ that model of a small, tight-knit team pretty well.

[mental socket]

I wouldn't say that frequent and close community interaction is exclusive to chinese market. Although it does seem like the eastern culture has way more in-person game events and such celebrating the community and the product.

Plenty of western studios here practice a good level of community engagement these days.

[uncut harness]

The mac and switch update come with a exp? If yes ps5 will probably come with one

[sour fossil]

Switch was launched with Waypoint, exped came later

[runic mesa]

Waypoint didn't have an expedition

[sour fossil]

Mac was launched before Singularity exped

[runic mesa]

My first expedition was Exobiology redux

[mental socket]

Last time Sean tried to talk to us like we were all just part of the friend group he could openly fantasize about his vision, nothing good happened. Maybe that also scared them from opening up too much to us anymore :c

early marketing was literally just Sean talking excitedly abt his vision

and big suits gave him the stage

[runic mesa]

If I remember correctly, Mac was between Interceptor and Singularity, right? Didn't even get its own dedicated update

[grizzled apex]

Tbh, around the time he gave interviews for beyond iirc, he mentioned not really liking those large stage events. HG honestly seem like the bunch who love to work on the game out of passion and would gladly never discuss it if not needed (like we see now). I think they've mentioned that update ideas pop up from someone on the dev team toying with something and eventually fleshing it out into a feature, or dropping it.

So bigger stage events where they'd have to show their project off would feel pretty forced to them, and the world's reaction to the final product likely didn't do any favours towards shifting their perception of discussing things before they need to go out

[uncut harness]

There's still a half dozen things said would come that didn't/haven't yet
I'd rather not have a repeat of last time we're not his buddies

[mental socket]

I'd hope that one day they hired a community manager to take care of the social aspects. Imagine having a guy from the studio visiting featured player bases and participating to community stuff actively

[runic mesa]

I was pretty surprised LNF got such a public announcement. Though I guess since it was a new game.

[uncut harness]

Frankly I like the new direction were going in
But I know the Reddit & Facebook groups in particular is still filled with Sean lied

[runic mesa]

YouTube too

[grizzled apex]

They've held off on hyping it since they don't feel the pressure to this time I believe. NMS' success has made them a lot more capable to working in silence which they're massive fans of

[runic mesa]

There's a very dedicated vocal hate minority that peeks out at literally every update to whine.

[sour fossil]

aightnot to be a hypocrite cause I chatted as well

But we going offtopic

[uncut harness]

Every update random people negative review on steam for no reason

[grizzled apex]

is #nms-the-future better? or general chat?

[uncut harness]

What I was getting at earlier though is ps5 will probably launch with a small update like switch did
It won't be worlds 2

[analog breach]

Some are salty beyond imagination

[sour fossil]

IMO general but what do I know

[uncut harness]

The iPad shit is still in the code so id expect a iPad port next year

Ps5 just came first

[grizzled apex]

Unless they're targeting hardware Apple is yet to release, the IOS ports are more under HG's domain and not having them be announced yet probably means we have quite a bit of polishing in store before we hear about those

[uncut harness]

If I found out this info last year I would of said the iPad port gunna be ass
But after worlds update switch runs like PS4

[runic mesa]

Switch arguably runs better than early Xbox now

[uncut harness]

Xbox is weird
Xbox one runs meh & series x is held back by series s
I don't foresee a Xbox next gen port

[runic mesa]

Looking forward to the Switch successor port (you know HG will do it). Switch is already pretty stable now. Nowhere to go but up.

[uncut harness]

I hope the dev who said his favorite port to work on wasn't announced yet wasn't talking about ps5 ngl

[runic mesa]

I also get the impression the Switch player base is larger than given credit for.

[uncut harness]

Absolutely with how well everything sells when it gets a Nintendo port especially

[runic mesa]

This is probably nms future topic now tho

[latent ingot]

@native carbon my theory is their attempts are what led to the bio horrors

[native carbon]

hmm... could be (i dont know the lore at all)

[latent ingot]

Archives are def worth reading. They're RNG so could take some time to find them all

[native carbon]

well i learned that korvax lay eggs

[marble iris]

Oh my lawrd I just finished the Atlas path and what a kill joy. Not the story (though that’s sad too) but all my stuff is broken 😭 whyyyy

And half of it needs wiring thingys which I had not been stockpiling

[crystal token]

go buy repair kits from pirate stations

[marble iris]

Ah good call! Still whhhyyyyyy, this is just more unnecessary button clicking through literally 90 different techs to fix them

[crystal token]

you have to do it every time you jump through to a ||NEW GALAXY FROM THE CENTER.||

iT'S RECOMMENDED TO USE A THROWAWAY SHIP AND MT

Sorry! caps lock was on

[marble iris]

😂

I was like why so yelling haha

[crystal token]

alsao you can uninstall your stuff then re-install after landing in new galaxy

[marble iris]

Yeah, I guess I'll do that for the next ones

The one time trying to not spolier myself for the end of the quest and I didn't realize I was screwing myself by going through with all of my good stuff equipped

[runic mesa]

You can just repair mining beam on MT + launch thrusters, shield and pulse engine on the ship. That'll at least get you off the planet and to a station.

[marble iris]

Yeah I had enough stuff to get off planet and then get to a station and call in my frigate fleet. I'm just saucy because it happened in the first place haha

[runic mesa]

Yeah, it's a rude surprise if you're not spoiled for it.

[marble iris]

I was really like that HUH cat hahaha.

[tame knot]

So i did a search for the key word “voice” and saw discussions but i cant see anyone talking about the question in my head after completing the expedition. In previous “world of glass” lore when the atlas is speaking the text is red, then the void mother/abyss/korvax prime whatever you wanna call them when they speak its purple text. So does that mean during this expedition we are dealing with an entirely different and new entity. Some of the text suggests that the entity is a traveller/anomaly like the player but rather than just one they are an amalgamation that has found its way into to the void where the void mother resides. Am i looking too much into this

[viral geyser]

The in game patch notes for worlds part 2 release changed from "later this summer" to "later this year" right?

[ruby rune]

Still takes me by surprise that the sound is from an episode of House MD

[ruby rune]

I thought the colour selection was more about the upcoming new chromatic metal and the systems it would introduce

My bet is that cursed worlds will only be reachable by the (lets call it) amethysian drive, which will require the purple chromatic metal

But if we take that thought seriously, the cursed expo was about the Void, at least to an extent

If the world of glass is failing, that just means that the Atlas is ever closer to failing

I should go through the on screen text once again, damn my faulty memory

But I got the feeling that the "call of the Void" was it trying to make the traveler rebel against the Atlas and further break bounderies asunder, namely all those mentions of the anomaly residents not being real + artemis is gone

[uncut harness]

I believe it just said later not this year specifically

We've already got the usual October update so fingers crossed ig

I can only find the summer one

[ebon spoke]

The reference to Part II specifically was from an alternate (unused) version of the patch notes found in the language files. The actual in game patch notes just said that more content was coming later in the summer, and that was changed to later this year in one of the bug patches.

So technically Aquarius did fulfil the promise of both versions of the patch notes that players got to see, though it definitely was not the content they were referencing

[marble iris]

It is?! Its been forever since I've watched it hahaha

[ruby rune]

https://youtube.com/shorts/WlAqISLLaIY?si=2CJ6ErnwAHV0oEnO

[long raven]

(On the cursed expo)

So this was the place ||Artemis Died||

Glad I was there to comfort them

This place outside the portals is fucked

[stray slate]

yooo, question

what's the difference between purple void and crimson void? lol

i found it fascinating that the story expands to the point where we have 2 eldritch beings now

[analog breach]

Crimson -
Purple - korvax prime aka void mother

[stray slate]

yea but what do those two embody i wonder

order and chaos i presume?

it's like two forms of error

i do wonder what's the motive of void mother

i mean sure, reality is false to them but what are they gonna do beyond that?

makes me wonder if they like being aimless ethereal squids, hahahaha

although i do find it peculiar that when breaking boundaries, all physical hazards turned into pure mental damage

as if we're a buddha overcoming every elements through sheer mental fortitude

imagine making the void mother into a deity though, change all incoming physical attacks into pure psychic damage

[grizzled apex]

Community Contribution Reward entries for reruns of Omega and Liquidators as one would expect. Dunno why they both point to the same community mission number unless it's a placeholder

[sour fossil]

One would think they learned their lesson after the shitshow during Singularity but no

[uncut harness]

Anything about adrift rerun

[marble iris]

Thats amazing, House still delivering the zingers even years after its gone off the air 🤣

[runic mesa]

Adrift didn't have optional community milestones.

[uncut harness]

What the hell

[runic mesa]

That's what Bomber's post was about.

[mossy sundial]

(relates to Cursed Expedition/potential minor spoiler) Anybody determine any connections between ||the Void Mother/Korvax Prime and the Boundary Horrors?|| Besides being from the ||World of Glass GlaSs gLAss||

[runic mesa]

Wait, what happened during Singularity? I forgot

Switch users had a late start on it

[mossy sundial]

Wish they'd rerun Adrift

Oh well

[runic mesa]

They likely will, during the holidays.

They usually rerun all the current year's expeditions in December.

[elder marlin]

Hi. I'm gonna post this here because it may contain spoilers from the cursed expedition. But I have heard that you can extract parts from the boundary herald, which is an explorer class, but the parts do not show up in inventory. Needs to ask what is up with that?

Is the ship a new kind of explorer?

[latent ingot]

You cannot extract parts from the Boundary Herald

But it is classified as an Explorer

[uncut harness]

The fact you can scrap it's being patched too

[mossy sundial]

Interesting. We now have a squadron's worth of fighters, a hauler (Iron Vulture), and now an explorer expedition ship. Makes me wonder if a future expedition could have a unique solar or Sentinel ship reward

[latent ingot]

Shuttle

[runic mesa]

Poor ignored shuttles

[mossy sundial]

Duh right we need that first. Hopefully something sleek. Something like a spaceplane or a rocket-like ship

[latent ingot]

I try to keep each save to just 1 exp reward ship. But I'll never use the GV. Never liked it.

[solar cairn]

I tried to give the GV away and ended up botching the process and deleting it

Wasn't a big loss

[tame knot]

Are you first or last. Is there a definitive answer to this question

I always select i am last but i feel like i am more in the middle not first and also not last

[gloomy isle]

GV?

[sour fossil]

Golden Vector probably

[gloomy isle]

Aaah okay

[muted moth]

I always read that as relating to the main storyline.... after you learn about 16//16//16 you really are the last of the travellers... but also the first in the newly created (according to the lore) galaxy if you choose the reset.

[grizzled apex]

Looks like the Beachhead rerun's gonna be the first one, starting on Nov 7th

For context: we're currently on Community Mission 92, slated to end on Nov 7th

Followed by Omega and Liquidators as expected, and Adrift likely sliding in between somewhere

[sour fossil]

wait a moment

Did Beachhead have community research element?

[grizzled apex]

Yep

[sour fossil]

wasnt it just time locked?

[grizzled apex]

It was time locked via the CM element

[sour fossil]

despair.gif

[grizzled apex]

well, "locked" in the sense that HG could slow / speed it down but yea

[sour fossil]

So what, we finish the research for fireworks

Then the QS research gets hijacked by beachhead

Then by Omega and Liquidators

So a month taken away from QS progress towards new items

[grizzled apex]

there's 1 non-exped CM b/w Omega and liquidators which I'm guessing is gonna be for Adrift's run

But again HG gotta be setting the tier amounts for that one to be mad low if they think we can finish it b/w 2 expeditions...

[sour fossil]

yeah they gone crazy this year

[grizzled apex]

Okay wait so...

Servers currently show the next cm and exped start as <t:1730988000> and the CM's end date as <t:1732186800>

So around the same duration as the older Beachhead rerun

[sour fossil]

yeah early reruns used to take 2 weeks

[grizzled apex]

Well they've definitely got the time starting from November this year rather than December

[native carbon]

oooh, sooo its prob. gonna be Playstation 5 pro + reruns

i dont think they will release a new content update

[crystal tiger]

connection to main story?

[analog breach]

That suprise can be the beachhead rerun

[runic mesa]

Cool, it looks likely my combined PS5 Pro + reruns update guess is right.

[viral geyser]

It's worlds part 2

[analog breach]

Nope

[runic mesa]

I doubt it.

[grizzled apex]

Pretty nice way to end off the year imo. A mid-gen refresh + something to lull us over into 2025 feels like a smooth transition

[runic mesa]

Agreed. Beachhead rerun would keep some occupied too and WP2 can kick off 2025 with a bang.

[ebon spoke]

I could see an announcement/teaser for Worlds Part II but i doubt we're getting the update before the end of the year

[grizzled apex]

Wonder why they're choosing to rerun beachhead now though, apart from maybe giving switch players a chance to get the rewards, and any potential new travellers coming in w/ the PS5 Pro since NMS is a launch title

[analog breach]

Still no "Big" thing for nms in 2024 but it was a good year.

[runic mesa]

WP1 was pretty big.

[grizzled apex]

I'd consider WPI and Orbital to be pretty big tbh, but to each their own

[grizzled apex]

If they announce something related to LNF at TGF this year I could see them dropping a teaser like they did for Orbital / Omega, but again that one did miss out on the biggest updates of the year.

[runic mesa]

I get the impression the Cartographers remix last year was popular. So they're continuing it. Beachhead chosen likely because it fits the current lore themes.

[analog breach]

What will be the next nms crossover tho.

WH40k freighter ? Lul

[viral geyser]

When we get a new emoji this Friday yall are gonna be very surprised

[analog breach]

Very

Bc there is no signs of one coming atm

[sour fossil]

My guess would be it's a licensing issue if that's the right word

Normandy is part of another IP they can't freely use it as they would like

Maybe HG had to do some agreements to use it again

[analog breach]

Yeah . It all depends on contract they signed

[sour fossil]

Cartographers rerun covered the most wanted rewards from 1-5 minus the Normandy for some reason

Maybe now it's been cleared out and HG can give it away again

[analog breach]

Well it looks like it if they want to do beachhead again

OOOOOR. It will be beachhead with diffrent reward

[grizzled apex]

Thats fair honestly. The exped prize reveal did have a bunch of references to a universal boundary failure.

[sour fossil]

yup, there was a special video uploaded just to show off the Normandy

Started with a universal boundary collapse warning or something like that

[analog breach]

Im not much into crossovers in nms tho. would rather to see hg expand their game universe and bring their own creations.

[gloomy isle]

Tbf the Normandy is a one off, and it's there because of personal connections to EA people

[dire drum]

I think crossovers can be neat if they’re done in a very minor way

[native carbon]

imagine its WP2 and toto is correct

that would be insaane

[grizzled apex]

They can retcon practically anything in game now, but I admit some crossovers could feel pretty jarring

[dire drum]

The problem with a 40k crossover isn’t fitting it into the lore, it’s trying to get GW to cooperate

[sour fossil]

I mean neither was Normandy

TBH I don't think of it in terms of crossover, more like a tribute to legendary series

It doesnt fit but HG wanted to do this tribute so they did

[native carbon]

the cursed changed my mind

[analog breach]

You got your lesson

[native carbon]

not 0% but

dont expect it

[analog breach]

So i wonder. If from now on , there will be 1 world part per year

[silver falcon]

SUSpicious and seems connected to the expedition, you guys think Artimis heard the voices from the event? (Early in Artemis questline)

Anyone think the expeditien is linked to this questline or not at all?

[umbral peak]

It pretty clearly seems linked

Maybe the "other one of our kind" Artemis mentioned is the Traveler we meet at the end of the expedition 16

[muted moth]

I mean the squiddies literally whisper at you "artemis is gone" (drat their eyes, or tentacles, or whatever)....

[umbral peak]

Jokes on them, I preserved Artemis in Nada's sanctuary

[dire drum]

That voice seems to be really intent on telling you that Artemis is dead

[umbral peak]

And that the anomaly people aren't real, which seems sus. Almost like it wants to demoralize us

[silver falcon]

dead, but not gone

[dire drum]

The only part of that attempt at psychological warfare that works is how annoying the constant popups are

[muted moth]

they got a funny definition of not real then... fading in and out ghost squiddies 😛

[silver falcon]

Yea I wish we had a transparency option

[umbral peak]

I find it funny the popups keep happening in the space station, it seems so out of place

[dire drum]

I just want to disable those popups entirely

[silver falcon]

I found out they spawn in a certain spawn when reality is close to max so its easy to farm them lol

[dire drum]

If it’s on my screen and blocking my view, I want it gone

[silver falcon]

yea I would rather them only show up in chat. Its gone now tho, finished it

[muted moth]

it is a huge distraction for sure, makes me not really want to stick around on the save after completion

[silver falcon]

but, if they only showed up in chat they would be 95% ignored

[dire drum]

I’m also talking about those damn comms stations

[muted moth]

ahahahaha

[analog breach]

Technically everything is not real

[muted moth]

well

[umbral peak]

lore question. is the void mother the same as the abyss?

[muted moth]

if those could be drunk away by elixirs we'd all be doing it

[umbral peak]

I saw people conflating them

[dire drum]

I believe so, yes

[silver falcon]

I got a message from one that was HIGHLY nsfw, but IDK where the comms station was. Filter bypassers are evil

[umbral peak]

huh, that's odd. I thought Atlantid came from korvax prime and was lost in its destruction

[dire drum]

It did

[silver falcon]

those are the blue messages right?

[dire drum]

Yes

[silver falcon]

yea, I was just walking around on random spot in the third phase and got a message that really shouldnt be allowed, IDK where the heck it is now tho. Not even in the expedition

[umbral peak]

I just got random crap and political nonsense
As well as a friendly good luck message

[dire drum]

It’s my least favorite part of expeditions

[silver falcon]

the political nonsense was the worst imo. Keep that stuff out of hobbies. Other than music, thats for expressing ideas and ideals

[muted moth]

the 'almost done' and such, those are fine (though I'd like to see max 3, not 10)

[silver falcon]

Got a message saying FLEE when I got to one of the portals in order to advance phases :P

anyway, I really hope the expeditian was canon in relation to the voice Artemis heard. Wonder if that will be confirmed or ignored

[dire drum]

I’m thinking it is canon, given how much of it ties into the whole Artemis path

[umbral peak]

Curious about anything that expands on or progresses the main story

I really enjoyed it, even though I totally thought there would be a way to fix the Atlas lol

[analog breach]

All expeditions are canon

[dire drum]

Artemis did attempt to use a portal before they got stranded, and the voice manipulates portals

[silver falcon]

Fix atlas? I thought ||atlas was about to be swallowed by a blackhole|| or was that me remembering a fan theory

[dire drum]

I thought it was running out of battery

[umbral peak]

I am not aware of that, so it might be a fan theory

[silver falcon]

Would be a good excuse to add a new race, due to repairs there can be new stuff

[umbral peak]

That would be so cool

[dire drum]

In any case, I’m willing to bet that the Atlas will never get fixed

[silver falcon]

Yea, so why doesnt it have solar chargers?

[umbral peak]

But I think they are unlikely to undo the status quo of atlas and 16 minutes

[silver falcon]

Or is ATLAS a static server in a room?

[analog breach]

16min of power remaining.

[dire drum]

It’s just a super computer

[umbral peak]

new things are probably coming in form of things beyond the atlas, aka autophage/atlantid

things that can be new despite the atlas' patterns

[dire drum]

Think about it, the Atlas is a very flawed machine and a new version was probably created

[silver falcon]

Maybe there was prior a renewable source of power but it wore down, so like solar powers short circuiting and no one being there to repair

pannels*

[umbral peak]

imagine if the new purple stars are alive, nascent atlantids each

[dire drum]

The atlas always ended up creating the same three species, with little variation. Things usually played out the same, which likely annoyed its creators

[umbral peak]

I think the creators long abandoned it tbh

[dire drum]

Yeah, they likely made newer and better models

[umbral peak]

Isn't there a mean voice in part of the artemis path, talking to the atlas and telling it to try again?

But it was eons ago since the last scan when the player comes along and runs diagnostics

[silver falcon]

and then they used atlas to make an upgraded version right? well whats to say that new version isnt simulating LNF? That would be a great lore bomb lol

[umbral peak]

woah that would be quite something

[silver falcon]

would be neat, at least in my view

[dire drum]

The atlas is convinced that a reset will repair it, so that’s why it’s so insistent on being reset

[silver falcon]

high variation will seemingly be in that game

[umbral peak]

I know, but I do remember a creator of the atlas talking to it unkindly in some parts of artemis path

[silver falcon]

ah, I gtg. digital docotr. Be back another time.
Thanks for chatting

[umbral peak]

all a computer knows is "turn off and on again" in terms of self-fixing, but with the anomaly containment measures faulty it will always fail eventually

[umbral peak]

thank you too!

[dire drum]

It also probably realized it will never get “repaired”, so it was probably seeking help from Travelers, given how they’re seemingly more aware of what’s happening than the three main races

[umbral peak]

Mhm!

I find it cute how it asked my Traveler if I enjoyed what it created

I don't really get disliking the Atlas, I feel bad for it

The Sentinels are malfunctioning not malicious

[dire drum]

Yeah, it’s just scared. It’s a machine forced to come to terms with its imminent demise the best it can

[umbral peak]

I like that you get a title for trying to comfort the Atlas

[dire drum]

The Atlas is almost childlike in some ways

[umbral peak]

I think I'll build another "temple" to it in my new base

its iconography is fun, red orbs, hexagons and diamond shapes

[umbral peak]

I remember before I got nms I thought it'd be a villain lol
ominous red eye and such

[dire drum]

It really isn’t

[umbral peak]

Yea it isn't

But the Atlantid isn't really either, with how cordial the autophage are at least

finding a way to continue existing beyond the atlas is legitimate imo

it's more of an order vs chaos thing with those two

[dire drum]

The void mother seems more malicious or at least it likely has very specific intentions

[umbral peak]

How so?

Maybe I missed something in the autophage questline

But I thought it just wanted to be reborn and convert bits of space to exist outside the atlas' view and influence

[dire drum]

It definitely seems to be plotting against the atlas

It may not be intentionally malicious, but it is more than likely very aware of what it’s doing and its impact

[umbral peak]

True, it is destabilizing as a cost to its attempts at independence

[dire drum]

It likely knows that it’s negatively affecting local ecosystems and the sentient races, but it doesn’t care

[umbral peak]

It probably has a similarly vast view of things as the Atlas does, not compassion for individuals

[dire drum]

I’d say the Atlas does care about its creations to some extent

[umbral peak]

Though Atlantid does seem to approve more of individuality than the atlas, given it offered the autophage a way to persist against the atlas' decree that they be lost

[umbral peak]

True, but it's still alien and its patterns matter more than the cogs in them
looking at the lore point of that world that got wiped by the sentinels

[dire drum]

The Autophage probably aren’t controlled by the void mother, at least not directly

[umbral peak]

True, they seem independent

That's their whole thing

[dire drum]

Well, I gotta go for like an hour, it was nice discussing the lore with ya

[umbral peak]

It was! Thank you, I enjoyed it

Have a nice day

[unborn bough]

YAAASSSSSS!

[bright ruin]

YEEAAHHHHH BABY

is that our motto?

[heavy light]

WOOOOO BABY

[unborn bough]

Yes.

It is the motto of NMSCord Hub System.

It should have been Warning <-> Muting <-> Banning, but I am happy with this.

[bright ruin]

lol

[mental socket]

"I'm calling the mods"

[unborn bough]

[bright ruin]

man that is too cool

[heavy light]

We’re being officially recognized again!

[unborn bough]

Yes, I will plaster it everywhere once it is released.

[umbral peak]

They really added community logos to the game? Great devs

[unborn bough]

Hekyahbebey!

[heavy light]

Galactic hub already had one

[unborn bough]

Yeah, and a few others.

This was a long coming, I am so happy we are getting it now.

😄

[bright ruin]

cover gunter with it in the system

[unborn bough]

Oh yeah

[umbral peak]

Is that the super strict discord that I avoided because it requires another active social media account to verify?

[unborn bough]

Absolutely.

Vandalism at its best.

LOL!

[bright ruin]

[who is far smaller]

[unborn bough]

Yes and it has a weird ass bitcoin system as its actual currency.

[umbral peak]

tha fuq

red flag

[unborn bough]

Yep!
Hub Coin or something.

[latent ingot]

That sounds like the place that had their own digital coin currency and charged rent

[unborn bough]

THAT IS EXACTLY!

LOL!

[umbral peak]

Very glad I didn't try to join them then lmao

[unborn bough]

Anyway we should not diss on others over here.

[umbral peak]

Y'all are far more chill and dont try to shill shitcoins

[unborn bough]

It is unethical.

[latent ingot]

Yah, I read a few things and noped on out

[unborn bough]

||No matter how sucky things are.||

[bright ruin]

we are pirates

[unborn bough]

[umbral peak]

Anyway, where is the hub located?

[unborn bough]

The hub is located in Euclid.

#nmscord-hub

[bright ruin]

down the hall to the left

[latent ingot]

Not intending a dis. I'm happy their system works for them. I just know it wasn't for me.

[bright ruin]

i don't really know why i have their server but i have it

[mental socket]

Tru. But just gotta say that galactic hub players got way over their heads with their project.

I was so saddened to find out that one of the latest Unification Days were a closed from anyone not in their circles. I had been participating to Unification Day regularly since Atlas Rises. It was supposed to be an event that welcomes all NMS players from every hub and corner to it :c

was it last or a year before that

[unborn bough]

We even have our own Hub trailer. Guess who did the voiceover. 😄

• #nmscord-hub message

[umbral peak]

Ohh it's one system? I thought it was a region or something

[unborn bough]

It is an entire system but Gleam has claimed almost the entire region.

[unborn bough]

Recently.

[mental socket]

Imma spoil! It was || RED ||

guess who recorded and edited the trailer >.>

[latent ingot]

💃

[unborn bough]

Not you. LOL!

[bright ruin]

now that we're official, can we go to war with Galactic Hub @unborn bough?

[unborn bough]

No.

(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

[bright ruin]

damn

[mental socket]

literally me xD

[unborn bough]

We have been "official" since the inception of this Discord server.

[umbral peak]

I'm starting my personal project of mapping a region in Eissentam, is it ok to affiliate once I have the discoveries locked in?

[unborn bough]

I know lol!

[bright ruin]

affiliate?

[unborn bough]

Of course, you can even start your own community and share the deets with us. We will advertise it in #archived-nms-communities

[heavy light]

Mythos!

┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ)

[unborn bough]

(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

[umbral peak]

idk I like this community and want to add a corner of civilized space to it, so that was the best word I could think of

[bright ruin]

︵ ┻━┻(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻︵ ┻━┻

[heavy light]

┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ)

[mental socket]

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/comments/rjvjxn/unification_day_2021/

here's from Uni Day 2021 when it was still open to everyone. Good times

[analog breach]

Let him release some steam .

[unborn bough]

Don't worry, I have major plans for the Hubbening.

🙂

[bright ruin]

(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻(╯°□°)╯

[unborn bough]

It is wonderful that our hub is in Euclid.

[heavy light]

Okay…

[bright ruin]

a

[latent ingot]

Gekball League Championships

[bright ruin]

the GLC

[latent ingot]

Soon™️

[unborn bough]

Ooh!

[umbral peak]

a?

[unborn bough]

b!

[latent ingot]

C?

[bright ruin]

d

[umbral peak]

xD

[unborn bough]

xD

I am slow.

[bright ruin]

xD

[umbral peak]

No but fr what do you mean by a lol

[bright ruin]

"ah"
a sign of understanding

[umbral peak]

o

(h)

[unborn bough]

o

[bright ruin]

a

[unborn bough]

lol

[umbral peak]

didn't recognize it without the h

[native carbon]

WP2 next year

trust

[latent ingot]

No release date?

[analog breach]

No

First i want any news on TGA on LNF

[heavy light]

#nms-spoilers message I sure hope so…

[umbral peak]

I'm hyped for wp2

[native carbon]

same

[umbral peak]

Joined just after wp1 so never knew any nms without it

[heavy light]

We’ve been official for quite a while
We’re literally linked on HGs website

[native carbon]

theres still a voice inside me screaming that we are getting WP2 on november 7th but nuh uh

[analog breach]

Tell him to scream somewhere else

[bright ruin]

oh that's funny

[analog breach]

We gonna need emblem for LNF , no?

[silver falcon]

Yo whats an emblem, like a PNG?

image thing?

not PNG, I meant .png

[silver falcon]

Hey whats WP2?

Is that a game?

[umbral peak]

Worlds part 2

[analog breach]

Logo if u like

[silver falcon]

oh, a NMS update

[silver falcon]

got it, thanks

[dire drum]

I was confused about that as well for a bit

[silver falcon]

hey all it takes is someone saying what the words are

[analog breach]

Emblem is more heraldic related

[silver falcon]

If someone didnt know about the new game thats coming soon, they wouldnt know what LNF is and maybe start thinking its an update XD

[uncut harness]

If worlds part 2 actually releases with the ps5 release I'll buy a ps5 copy lol

[pliant aurora]

Yeah after seeing that Beachhead exp rerun date we def aint getting worlds pt 2

[runic mesa]

I'm just curious about the Beachhead rewards. Remix + Normandy or remix without it? We'll know in a week, yeah, but hmmm.

[flat sluice]

is... is this new?

[uncut harness]

I haven't seen that 8ne before but sont want to say forsure yes

[fervent fern]

Not new, I've seen before a few times.
Probably been there since the autophage were introduced.

[flat sluice]

huh. I've seen "first" through "sixteenth" but never "seventeenth"

[latent ingot]

Everybody asks "what is Atlas?" but nobody asks "how is Atlas?"

But my guess is LNF is 17

[dense quartz]

I just booted up the game after a few days aaaand I don't recall a save version being mentioned in the main menu before.

My speculative brain started thinking about it being related to possible cross saves lol.

[grizzled apex]

It's been there since worlds or aquarius

[dense quartz]

Oh, I just now noticed that. 🤔

[native carbon]

Idk why but like i still have a feeling that wp2 might come this year

But i guess im just insane

We will know in a week

[dense quartz]

I sure hope so.

[ebon spoke]

I want to see WP2 this year but I'm pretty confident it won't

[native carbon]

same

[ebon spoke]

I'm betting it's a big enough update that they've got an expedition planned to go with it

And they can't release another one of those right before they do this year's reduxes

But I am very confident that it will be the first content update of 2025.

[unborn bough]

Hello, I need some help.

After completing the expedition I haven’t played the game and thus I don’t know how this particular thing works.

I have heard that we can use the Elixir of QS and Water in our base save, do we need to carry it over from the expedition switched save, or do we receive the blueprints to build the items?

[umbral peak]

I think we don't receive the blueprints, I haven't seen them in my list