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got it
Yeah exactly
I'm gonna bet 100 million units itss the freighter
It has the same shape as the freighter sticker
Fastest way to find a Crashed Freighter? The task itself recommend Distress Signal Planetary Charts.
yeah, distress can be crashed freighter
What is the hardest mission currently?
Probably one of the encrypted ones.
the one thing that the distressed signals can't add towards progress is abandoned building
Literally can't do them till the earlier phases are completed.
I'm guessing the rest of phase 5 is going to be all community research
Probably not
I don't understand any of this, can you explain all the new stuff/new ways of completing compared to the last one?
Like encrypted missions?!
Yeah, they hid missions that you can't do till you find some key that reveals them.
In Phase 5.
any information about those keys at this moment?
Which, that might be what the Artifact Scanner thingy is for.
All known missions are easy.
From my perspective, at least
Yeah I finished all of them in like 2 hours or so
The S class Launch Thruster mods... not sure how to feel about that.
So, first one is collect Flux readings and the second one is technically timegated
Time gated?
You need to get the myth beacon
Which is a community research item
That has not unlocked yet
I have everything done except phase 5
Oh... Thats not good
And are the other ones time gaited?
_>
Also abusing the heck out of twitch and expedition rewards is a god send
Golden Vector helps a ton.
Kinda funny in a way
Nothing is time gated except for technically so far the myth beacon one
The rest of the phases are just normal easy gameplay stuff
No idea what anything past the myth beacon is, don't wanna read datamining or anything personally
As we complete expeditions we gain stuff that carries over into the next one, streamlining the process for expedition veterans
Its most likely unintentional but cool none the less
Is it reasonable to assume that this expedition is heavily leading into update 16?
I think so
It's at the very least another injection of neat lore
anybody got to Phase 5 with the Myth Beacon ?
cause i for the love of god cant get it
did you accept the rewards?
yeah
i am literally busy doing the scanning and stuff
or by community research you mean its time gated
You mean the not so mystery device?
by community research I mean th more everyone does the faster it gets unlocked
The dosineter
i already have that dosimeter
yes thats what i was already implying
Is your freighter hyperdrive supposed to be fueled
yeah
so is the new expedition largely the same as the last, i.e. same old gameplay different arrangement of tasks?
not......really?
it's similar
but aside from the community research you can blow through it in what, 2-3 hours?
i mean are you doing the same things you could already do for the most part
yeah, but for special rewards
isnt the weird thing though
expedition 1 was just that, do what you were already doing, some different rewards
that we can achieve so much
in short time
but in reality we shoudlnt rush it
and just enjoy it
expedition 2 i guess is the same?
Yes, but phase 5 is new stuff entirely
expedition 2 is similar but with a much more condensed timeframe
and after the first few hours it's all new
isn't phase 5 just unknown atm due to pseudo-timegating?
from what i skimmed above that is
effort-gating. the more you put in, the sooner it will be over
how so? it sounds like some "artifact analysis" via dosimeter?
yeah, but if everyone just stops, it will take a lot longer
Yeah essentially just new lore from monuments
therefore: effort-gating, not time-gating
nah if everyone quits they'll just tweak the progress as the end date approaches
they've done something like that before
Phase 5 isn't time gated rlly
ah, so basically it's sorta tracking how many folks are "gathering data" from those?
this
No, it's tracking people doing the expedition in general
No

Doesn't it track ppl using the dosimeter
Idk
I feel like the only way to find out is to finish the expedition for myself lol
then 0% of us are doing the expedition ig
You can use the dosimeter as many times as you want, you'll eventually get repeating text and still 0%
ah whatever, it sounds like the details aren't incredibly important, as it sounds like it's more or less just a rehash of community research missions of enough folks do x to get things
Oh ok I was wrong nvm
unless it's not instantly updating
The research changed description now
it ltierally is a community research mission
Well it is important
The item is usable
At least it seems so
Because you can get multiples
It's a better version because you aren't really doing fetch quests, it's just some more lore reading
and gives you 15QS but lmao
Right, my point, stemming from my original question, was whether this expedition had folks doing what we were already doing for the most part, and so it sounds like that is more or less the case
Easier RNG this time
that's literally the gameplay loop of NMS, yes
for the most part yeah, but the last phase is a bit different in that it's hidden
it's how the entire game works
and there's a quest that gives new lore via alien artifact locations
Not in an attempt to be reductive, mind, but to see if there was much to encourage a long-time player to bother
But there is
just more lore stuff
if you aren't interested in the lore than no, so far
no idea what the beacon or other things are yet though
Nobody knows, because it isn't unlocked yet lol
You only expect that smth to have a use
It says smth like "experimental summonign device"
Btw
it could be part of an upcoming update
im sure in like 2 hours someone will mod the game to unlock it then figure out what everything does
Has anyone unlocked the phase 5 milestones
just like the void egg being useless for a while
Going from the blog post it sounds like they may be retconning some stuff? Or filling in gaps in the, up to now, largely irrelevant histories, lol
not exactly
How close to PR5 is ||the Atlas Calls system||?
its a little misleading
not far at all
||Gumsk save edited it and it does nothing rn||
I can't see it lol
okay that's kinda nice to know at least
||then it really sounds like the Void Egg, didn't do anything until the update happened||
kinda hate when stuff gets datamined before anyone even does anything lol
but it's my fault for looking usually
That happened before expedition went live
yeah i kinda agree
i like that it's locked behind an update apparently
but also i appreciate it if it's behind a lot of whatever stuff
though i'm not sure why the progress is 0% still lol
jesus christ, first task of the expedition.. cant get off the planet, cause i have no way to get carbon
it doesnt update in real time
We saw the dosineter on consoke first when 3.4 came out
the rocks
mine the rocks
its ferrite dust and carbon after scanning
I think the quest that tells you to build a roamer gives you a ton of condensed carbon
probably temporarily borked as tends to happen with this stuff
all you need is ferrite dust
I have never seen the community progress update in real time
and sohail said it's not updated realtime for this so might just not be showing progress yet
I think it does once or twice a day
Btw sohail
that was my assumption
Didn't you reach phase 5?
do you have an idea of the time gates it updates on?
What is the Atlas Calls system
no I reached the last rendezvous
also fwiw this is what i was referring to from the blog post:
Alongside the new Expedition, Nada and Polo’s regular research effort aboard the Space Anomaly has shifted into a new gear. Priest Entity Nada has detected something thought impossible: a fluctuation in history already written. A new pattern is emerging in the stories of the ancient Gek, Korvax, and Vy’keen. Something is stirring from across the universe. Can you hear it?
||it is a first step||
So you posted the thing
again, like Living ships
With that one milestone
yeah
The nms community always takes time to figure out new stuff, rlly slow this time
I'm gonna finish the previous 4 phases first as they're all so easy
mm, so more stuff to a history that has so far yet to show any influence on the present, neat
All info i can find about beachhead is a captainsteve video about phase 1
then start doing the dosimeter
thank you sohail ❤️
I'm gonna be doing dosimeter soon. I've been working on a project I don't want interrupted
that I will reveal soon
i mean it did just release
Trye
I DID do one
so
nice
I haven't even completed phase 3 lol
also Beachhead is the name of a line of defense set up while waiting for reinforcements i believe
pls tell me finalize grants more than that
has data mining found anything about that new research? sry, i just woke up an hour ago 
and the new lore hints heavily at a || weapon ||
||incinerator return?????||
ok im gonna go finish all this
||or, perhaps, an entity that was lost by its people and used as a weapon of war?||
the much requested combat update because nobody loves puzzies enough
there's more than one new lore entry @crisp fern , and each ones grants 15 QS. You need QS for the myth beacon. so it works towards that.
||KORVAX ALLY????||
You need 80 qs for the beacon tho
yeah i said that?
right, I'm just grinning atm because sohail's image is like the best worst example of them
well you can get multiple so
we have no idea if you need to but it might be like the eggs
one part of the lore mentions || a metal dragon being pierced by the weapon ||
i'm guessing the first part of that lore is metaphorical tho
world of glass 2
Sadly I don't have enough time
If i had I'd have seriously just done the whole thing
||or it could be about Korvax Prime, having been turned into giant ships by the Vek, being hurt by Vy'Keen weaponry||
would tie everything together nicely
it's vague enough to be just about any tech thing
how many stages of expedition are there this time?
smaller, are there rewards for em?
phase 1 is literally getting off the planet and jumping to the next system
That as far as i know no one here has unlocked
just trying to make out what the beacon and tracker are
if they're just mission items then there's no point in making it buyable
tracker might be the dosimeter, though i think that's denoted separately
beacon is the myth beacon which no one has officially unlocked yet
i find the encrypter reward very intriguing
gumsk apparently save edited it but || it did nothing ||
prolly only works in a certain mission stage
Dosimeter is used at plaques afaik
Phase 1 Guide:
They start you off with the Roamer Bay blueprint, so make that. Summon roamer and reclaim the Bay.
Drive to your Starship.
Fix starship.
Craft antimatter and the antimatter housing to make a warp cell.
Launch, summon Freighter.
Dock on freighter, fuel it.
Jump twice (get hypercores after first jump) to Rendezvous 1. Phase One complete.
Phase Two is pretty easy too, but RNG reliant.
I just kinda need to take a looksee at the phase rewards
there's new atlas quest stuff too
hmm.. so both the system you start in.. and the first rendevouz are abandoned systems
this sorta seems to fit the theme of the past mentioned in the post
Phase Two guide:
Jump once to Rendezvous Two.
Dock at Space Station and buy up Planetary Charts for Distress Signals.
Find a busted starship. Fix it's Launch Thruster and Pulse Engine (all that needs fixing. Nothing more).
Save a dude.
Get to a Crashed Freighter and loot it.
Should have your travel milestone by now.
Phase Two done.
Phase 3 and 4 I didn't look too closely at, but...
Iirc, it's just being the first to analyze some fauna in different biomes.
Step in the different biomes.
not the first, just to find them in different biomes IIRc
The language on the task is "Discover".
Which so far has meant being the first person to scan and upload.
A lot of Reputation rewards for the latter end there. Not a big fan of that.
I suppose they're good for users who will decide to keep the save after Expedition ends.
Wait, beacon? You mean like a save beacon?
Yeah, saw some tease about maybe a new race.
this doesn't seem like it's a huge expedition, more like it's building towards something in the next one
or: Sweet, sweet lore
never played it
There's no "time travel" as it were in NMS.
technically it could be argued there isn't any history. it's all just programmed memories of history
Well, that really depends if the simulation is preset with the start point, or if it reruns the whole thing.
Guess we don't really know.
id argue it can, example tales of phantasia.. kingdom hearts, aka disney advertising, isnt a good bar to measure anything by
Kingdom hearts is definately a step beyond disney advertising
3 kinda
But like the 20 other games, no
If you remember majority of the franchises in kh havent even had any major merch or releases a decade or so before implementation
agree to disagree then
Fair enough
Having you start in an abandoned system with a day 1 esque space station
Pioneers ended on the 16th, wouldn't be surprised if instead of 2 weeks it ran for 16 days
so i for the life of me, cant find what planet the first RV is on
like
getting nothing on my HUD
Each day is a Minute till reset, huh?
Make sure that is selected on the expeditions page @fallen warren
it is
but like
So how much of the lore do we all have?
I've got quite a few things
😭
its not showing
if you just started you have to build the exocraft depot
I've been farming monoliths
Is it set as active in your log also?
yep
Blahhh
gonna try entering and exiting the anomoly, see if that fixes it
I know this is kinda pessimistic but
Next update is 16 days after the start of this expedition, maybe
How long do you think they could keep this up
the 16th update
that'd be horrible
for me
an Expedition with 16 super short phases
Free content just means it costs them out of pocket to make
It's been almost 5 years now
I dont see it being feasible for them to keep this up forever ya know
They aren't hurting for money friend
Not the point tho
they've been getting sales over the years
Forever? Of course not
They're getting more sales lately.
Exactly eventually its gonna hit a point where its only a cash and time sink and doesnt produce profits compared to other projects
for a ~20 people studio this is more than feasible
There are 28
Phases
The NMS team itself however is 15 people
Not milestones
Just 1 more
Once they've met the original release promise, it might be then that they either cease continued production, or offer paid updates.
Dlc would be fine after a certain point.
What did they even promise that isn't in the game
I think a few things
There's a megathread for that somewhere...
Rivers?
so while you guys are busy, I think HG likely missed putting in some language data this update around
Ye rivers
hello games is a small company, and game sales themselves actually contribute only a small portion to most IPs income.. as long as people keep buying merch, theres enough interest for investors, cross-promos, and people keep talking about it enough people consider maybe i should try it, i hear its good now
they could keep it up for a considerable amount of time
nope
Does nms even have merch aside from the preorder bonus tin toy ships
Sounds like we're all gonna be locked out of knowing behind the Community Research.
hey uh
Btw
what's the golden gek helmet called?
Can we not call it community research
There's a merch store yeah. Not a large or decent variety of stuff there though.
First spawn golden mask
thank
Golden first spawn yea
Ngl the fact that there arent blob plushies yet is somewhat appalling
Managed to knock out nearly half of the milestones already thanks to that lucky relic gate
Name: Golden Alpha Helmet
Description: An exclusive <STELLAR>Exosuit Appearance Override<>.
This reimagination of the classic Alpha Helmet is cast in a durable and precious alloy.
Transform the appearance of your Exosuit at an <TECHNOLOGY>Appearance Modifier<>.
That thing is like an unoffical mascot for nms its literally everywhere that the atlas isnt
The percentage is tied to global completion anyways
And I've not even fuelled the freighter Warp drive yet
Did someone say gold helmet
An exclusive <STELLAR>Exosuit Appearance Override<>.
A classically-styled Life Support Unit, cast in a durable and precious alloy.
Transform the appearance of your Exosuit at an <TECHNOLOGY>Appearance Modifier<>.```
I think someone mentioned it before
there're a few more
Golden alpha?
stuff for next season
We are actually getting golden crewmate
Alpha is just the name of one of the existing helmets, it's a golden variant
Im surprised they didnt think to do a community dlc contest or something
oh so it's there last update already
Submit designs for head modules and winners get implemented as free dlc heads
Tv korvax, bulldog vy'keen, parrot feather gek. Goofy stuff like that
anyone able to check on the progress so far? still at 0%?
Wait has it been there since pioneers?
I'm the one asking that 
This season seems to have kinda anticlimactic reward
if people know of it already I ain't bothering with pasting the rest
we don't even know the rewards yet
It's lore which leads to the myth beacon
Has anyone thought of using a save beacon?
why?
Just curious about it requiring a "beacon"
But myth beacon doesn't have functionality yet?
Yes
so do I keep pasting or
It's like the void egg ig
you need a myth beacon which is community progress locked @sturdy sorrel
What does it locate
It will tho
it's part of phase 5
You don't need it for expedition
Myth beacon being required when it isnt even unlocked yet doesnt make sense
As far as we know at least
okay. so.
there's new stuff in the Atlas storyline for this.
Each one seems to be locked behind something, and I suspect that it is getting to a certain waypoint
cause you have to wait until it's unlocked.. lol
The ladt missions do require it
Atlas Calling is the first waypoint for the Atlas stuff
there's a parallel mission that moves progress along
What are they
last phase has 2 encrypted missions after the acquire myth beacon
I've spent the last couple hours discovering and naming the systems and planets (except for Atlas Calling) along the Beachhead Atlas storyline (which is like 1-2 jumps from R5)
I feel we are following a red herring here
We'll have to monitor how fast the Research completes.
There is an aqquire myth beacon one?
The Research is filled by doing the Nexus Missions, right?
also somehow I doubt that? they ain't even putting in texts for this season
Well idk how else the rest 2 can be decrypted
Nope
The dosimeter
What if we dont reach the beacon goal in time tho?
anyway you guys get the idea
It's not normal community research
just golden outfit allaround
Are we just expected to be unable to finish
I doubt it.
they will just adjust the goals @sturdy sorrel , they did it with community QS goals before
did dosimeter stuff until text started to repeat itself, no progress made to the percentage
it probably has a time of day that it updates, or there's no total yet and they're waiting to see volume so they can set it on the backend
I don't think a single player will be able to move the bar on their own.
nope, no atlas passes given out this time
basically the progress of this season is timegated
Do please try to contribute to the Research, however.
yeah i did like 12-15 of them
seemed like it was starting to repeat, might do a couple more later just to check
Is it tho
until the research tier is complete
It could just be not updating
what do you need to do for the research? Nexus missions?
To our knowledge we could be on 99% rn
we could be but if it's a bug we're timegated by a fix anyways lol
no @tepid iris just keep doing the expedition and you'll get what you need
also
Description: An exclusive buildable base ornament, cast in gold. The ByteBeat device is an advanced audio generator, allowing the user to <TECHNOLOGY>synthesise complex musical arrangements<>.

Multiple devices may be placed in sequence or connected to <STELLAR>lights<> to generate spectacular displays.```
twitch drop prolly
I hope they realize everything doesn't have to be gold.
but ya probs a twitch drop lol
next time they'll be silver

unlock what
The final phase
i still cant find the first rv..
Gumsk did but I'm not sure if he was at the correct stage of phase 5
I'm sure at least one modder is at least investigating.
Seems like an easy solution to find the flag and check it
prolly takes a bit of time to add numbers by one for about a dozen times
More like 16 times amirire
Bytebeat?
yeah I just found it with notepad
I see the please 2 "inventory is full" bug is still around. Good thing it doesn't halt progress. But I would like to see what the ship looks like lol.
it's actually p easy
I learned from Expedition One to always be ready to claim all rewards.
Were you in ship when checking?
Nice
@wind panther were you at the proper stage of phase 5 when you gave yourself the myth beacon?
anyway Imma get some screenies for the rewards
I honestly couldn't recall.
I had the same, cleared slots, no go. Got out of ship, all good
Just got out of ship and no go. Will try reloading
No go lol
Nice finds Quintessential 🙂
Maybe I did something else? I know I kept clearing all kinds of slots, ship too and jumped out of ship.
I wonder what'd happen if I equip the title without the language string
prolly just an ID with no name
Anyone else just burn an expedition save once you finished pioneers
Yeah, I burned the Pioneers save after I made sure it converted to Normal.
I did save a backup first in case it killed the Pioneer rewards.
Anyone know what exactly the Myth Beacon is scanning for?
Not me, yet.
well I'm not sure if this still counts as datamining
speaking of that helmet
but that's the new banner for now
Also seems to be a bug with my freighter. Says I have a jump range of 353ly but I couldn't make a jump that was 184ly.
okay so just tested this out
I'm at the "acquire the myth beacon" stage of the expedition
prolly, I haven't tried
i save edited the myth beacon into my inventory
it shows the stage of the misson as "checked off", but there are no new updates to the mission and the expedition does not progress
so it's safe to say that final parts of this season may be a bit unfinished yet
so it's definitely locked behind an update
starting system station should sell tritium btw
interesting
idk but that's the existing products I could fine
could be for a future one like you said
I really like how each new expedition feels fresh with the new saves
but that'd leave this one with fuckall rewards
You're given Tritium right away too.
my mission log with the beacon in my inventory
like gumsk said I can "use" it from my inventory but nothing happens
it does a scan animation over the terrain but that's it
I just tend to need it for frigates, so
no functionality
yeah
they're getting better at hiding things from players
I wonder if it may locate a building or something in the near future
pretty glad they hid it lol
nothing much about the exact stage and what it advances to until the game updates/we get access to mission tables again
I wonder if it is actually fully functional, considering the text for using is not quite what it should be I think
just imagine if it located a time rift that took us to the past with cities etc
I wonder if that last line will change once it's useable lol
this is public branch, right?
this is uhh
3xp and public both same currently
So, they've found a way to stop people from cheating things through, huh?
p fragmented to say the least
well you arne't supposed to have this stuff right now without save editing, all the stuff that's required for current content is intact
until we get access to the files again, at least
How do people feel about the new Launch Thruster upgrade modules?
yeah, tbh I haven't invested any time in trying to know how the time gating works
RV1 is Moqemo?
I feel like I'm cheating with the golden vector ship 😛
Me too
okay. I've gotten enough storage on my freighter that I'm gonna dump all the rewards open now
Yeah, we all got C rank Battleship Freighters, I think.
segments?
I don't have a good word for them.
mine is 5x5 general if that's what you mean
The rectangular segments of the visual model.
Lol wtf found a system discovered 5 years ago
Sentinels have 3 of them.
Battleships have 5 of them.
Dreadnoughts have 7 of them.
lol sohail nice
this is mine xD
yeah, not all of these systems are brand new
by chance it's the small version of the huge one I have in my main save
Oh. So we all get different model Freighters. Interesting.
I have a literal black star destroyer in my main save lol
I don't know the names for all the Venator style Freighters.
that's pretty much what mine looks like lol
I just know the Sentinel ones, cause I like them better.
I like how the hubs are discovered by Hello Games
They have to make sure the event locations don't get dumb names. XD
holy crap that's a lot of upgrades
I'm basically collecting all the 1-4 upgrades simaltaneously
just an ocean of yellow
but considering we get both liquid sun and fragmented qualia, I'd say something biological is afoot
I'm having a hard time telling what Beachhead's "theme" is.
Pioneer was clearly Exploration.
Ex...position
Phase 1: Exploration, getting up from being wrecked and abandoned.
Phase 2: Helping and recovering material from wrecks of others
Phase 3: Exploring new and varied worlds
Phase 4: The races, exploration, and Atlas
Phase 5: Something odd is afoot
seems like a loredump to me
anyone finish the expedition yet
wreckage of the past from the history of the three races. and as we all probably know they were brought to their knees by the Sentinels, which are controlled by Atlas
seems like it's all buildiing up to something to me
shrugs
Is this mostly my thought
or are there less ppl doing this expedition than the first? 🤔
oh also, for every planet type we got a cultural artifact, whether that was biological or historyical
oh is that also something new?
no it's just the things you dig up at buried ruins
Are we still on 0%?
lol some Gek landed on my ship
@thin furnace spoilers here.
Look for the system "Atlas Calling"
It's nearby Point 5?
yes, like within 150 light years
I think the Atlas questline activates once you've hit R5
it did something like that for me
I remmber going to the Anomaly to ask for a location, but Polo is just selling technologies, came back out, opened up the galaxy map, and Atlas Calling was there
then I went down the chain naming the planets and systems (save Atlas Calling, that was already done) with flavor text
All atlas systems are yellow, right?
someone was looking for R2, right?
looks like it, yes
@mighty rampart
Finding a Stranded Lifeform
See [Finding a Stranded Lifeform »](#nms-questions message)
I think maybe spoiler tags would be nice since this is where the mods prefer we discuss expedition related stuff
I realize thats a bit out of step for the spoilers channel though
yeah I already know the methods
Rendezvous Points are Always at the planet's ||Portal||
Rendezvous 1: ||Moqemo, planet Lotasham||
R2: ||Mappinerv, Planet Avan||
Rendezvous 3: ||Haykan-Hij, Planet Arcase||
Rendezvous 4: Notes says ||Diykkist XIV, does not specify planet. Probably Uerquel Wachi||
R5: ||Gauraz-Caeru Planet Iopek||
||Atlas|| Quest chain Begins at System ||Atlas Calling||
its just taking way too long
Cheat sheet for y'all. for some reason the planet for R4 is not noted in the system
For me R5 isn't noted, like as if I've never been there
@dreamy oracle You mind if I join on you in-game? I can't find the ||Atlas Calling|| system in the map
give me a couple minutes to get to a station and portal over there
the thing i hate the most is how community research is tied to ||Historigraphical Data||
and not community missions
All primary weapons, save the Blaze Javelin, use Boltcaster ammo.
thanks
whoa, just got a shitton of Atlas language information
I think it's probably a bug because I'm in the same system?
DM me your NMS friend code
You'll have to send me a discord friend request, discord won't let me message you
wont let me send you a FR either
So is there not a quick way to get all glyphs in this expedition? It was how I was able to discover the systems I needed for the milestone last time. Just put a bunch of random glyphs in and took me somewhere far away lol
Yeah happened with me too
Custom waypoints for galaxy map is broken again
Thank god it at least showed me the path of my visited systems
worked for me to get back. granted I had finished ||Atlas|| and Rendezvous
Any systems you named?
Kinda struggling with finding the station system
Nvm found it
It's exactly 78LY from R5 system
Damn bro
You really owned the libs epic style
Dab moment
using twitch emotes in discord chat
Anyways
Is there more to the atlas storyline with this? I see a bunch of people mentioning atlas quest for some reason
Ik it's a requirement for a phase, done with all that
That's it for now
first one is ||Atlas Calling||
If there's nothing new we probably don't need to spoiler tag the word Atlas in the spoiler channel lol
true
same
did a bunch of the new lore things until i didn't get new stuff for a couple. might jump back in and do more in a few days if it isn't already completed by then lol
you've gone a ll the way to Gate of the Crimson Lord?
i did the one required for the phase but didn't complete the whole questline
which planets are toxic again?
any with fungal mould
yeah
solar vine -> scorched
cactus flesh -> desert
just for other peoples' reference if needed
thanks
did they improve performance again?
I'm now not dropping below 120 fps on average maxed out
but
I'm seeing way less players than on the previous expedition
so maybe the multiplayer was taxing
RendezvousUAs:
266081857458867 = 00F2029852B3
219902385869491 = 00C8039852B3
56075153330868 = 0033039852B4
1099588719284 = 0001049852B4
100055635219126 = 005B049852B6
I saw you can apparently claim the historiograph thing in a normal save
Does that mean you can help fill out the bar on your main save?
And then return to the expedition save when it's filled?
you cant finish the phase because you need the myth beacon
I have not been able to get any progress. Not even sure what it even scans for
I wonder if they'll raise the max save slots eventually
Which I have
or will we have to delete old expedition saves at one point 😛
oh what's the next mission then?
or it just refused to do anything since the beacon doesnt have a function yet
No clue, as progress is behind community percentage 0%
So getting it doesn't really enable much other than getting the check
but the fact that you can get the meter on your main save implies some further use soon
yeah that definitely sounds like its to be used in tandem with the meter
I might be able to fool completion, but what would be the point if it results in missing out and getting something that does nothing
yeah dont risk it
I tried to see if this would actually progress things, but it didn't so I left it there
Was this unlocked before?
as soon as you hit R5, pretty sure
ah
I wanted to get a portal, but after choosing the Dosimeter at a Monolith you do not get a 2nd activation?
Yep, each mission you'll do in phase 5 unencrypts the next one
ooh
Nope, it's gone
So we know the final reward?
we don't
locked at the myth beacon, editing it into your save doesn't do anything either
No because the myth beacon can't be obtained aside from save editing and that might break stuff
yeah i tried and it just did nothing
checked off the step in my mission but didn't unlock a next step or activate the expedition reward
Well, there are several ways to get it through save editing. I did it in such a way, I actually buy it at the QS bot, so it should be as legit as can be.
noted
so if you find one with ruins it should give only ruins
and?
yeah i just edited it into my inventory and it looked the same as yours
Looks the same, but may not register the way you want
I mean save editing in the way that you edit the milestones as having done them all, so you can find out the rewards
maybe, but neither of ours worked so I'm guessing it doesn't matter in this case
Although might in this case not make much of a diff, sa it doesn't do much else than show a scan
sohail idk if any of the stuff for the next steps is even in the game yet
scan for new mission tagged location something something lore and some rewards
even the entry for the beacon has placeholder text for the "use" action
so for the come to the aid of a stranded lifeform = luck out and run across one?
Actually, all I did was edit the QS shop and disconnect internet to buy it, so no waiting on percentage ;-)
I kept being told to buy it, so I did
I know that, I meant as a sort of reply for that question of what are the phase 5 rewards as that's also encrypted
yeah im guessing the mission and reward tables aren't even set up to do anything yet lol
Yeah entirely possible
you might try adjusting things offline but it probably is just "unfinished" at the moment
Though I don't think we'll get a sneak update, the content is probably there but disabled server side
it would still need the icons and language file updates
Yup, sure seems that way, which made me feel slightly disappointed. I'd rather wait a week or two longer to just be able to continue
maybe those are in there but from the digging i've seen there's nothing that gives it away
mm, those are outright missing atm? then yeah
Nah I think phase 5 rewards aren't any new items
And the two new items will get their full function in a later update
sure but language files would have more text around the next steps
so we are basically all stuck with universal anomalous research?
So then they will have to update the game 🤔
im kinda glad tehy didn't just toss everything in for people to datamine right away lol
I'm really just expecting more of the same sorta stuff we've seen tbh
Maybe some stuff is still WIP or they're withholding to avoid datamining, but eh
im guessing the final reward is gonna be gold freighter like someone else said
ew tbh, lol
i'm just curious what the myth beacon is supposed to actually do
don't really care about the further rewards
Hey
I'm betting scan for mission location maybe, if i read above right
Nice
it's at 1% now
1%
Did that actually complete your Phase mission, as it did for me?
Hopefully I'll wake up to more progress
goop, lmao
ahh no it didn't that's the difference
so the trigger is buying it rather than just having it
Oh huh the next mission is still encrypted, which means you really have to wait for the server side switch once the progress is at 100%
I think you have to wait for the item to be updated to do something
currently it just runs a scan anim on use?
Quite a weird setup
hm
i think it's only weird because we aren't supposed to have it yet lol
they'll adjust the goal
We will reach 100% well before that
they did it a couple times during community missions
Supposing the scan effect isn't just placeholder i could see it being for locating stuff to interact with several times again
They can just do that thing your parents did and pretend you got more points even though you didn't
👍
im guessing it'll be used to scan for something for the next step after it decrypts
yeah
it doesn't get consumed on use but that might change
if consumable big ew
Definitely a consumable
might get consumed by whatveer the mission mechanisms are
eh it's an expedition unlockable
Ok, thank god that you can get the scans at Monoliths as well as Plaques
Makes sense to be single use as an item, although that is currently obviously not the case
Literally cheaper than fireworks and that's a consumable
omg...what if these are to locate archive buildings? lmfao
No lol
sure but it's for a one off expedition
We can already do that
making it expensive doesn't do much but limit completion
yeah but not easily/reliably
They don't even have anything of that significance to do so
so i just played for 7 hours to be locked 3 mission before it ends? I can stop playing now right?
yeah just wait until it completes or do the stuff to get more lore and contribute to the total
Yeah though I think the progress goes up for all the people who are using the meter
Even though it said earlier that progress goes up for generally doing milestones
when has that stopped them from adding throwaway items tho
They're not that dumb you know
I'm not suggesting they are
It's going to be some sort of a glorified collectible or decoration
youre just supposed to scan with the mission tool right at sites that allow it? Thats how percentage goes up? Just want to confirm
We get it to use for decryption, which progresses with community effort?
Or something like living ships that it's useful but not a replacement for other ship types
Been really getting void egg vibes as that had a similar pattern
Gold is the new Units ... I wonder what the sentinels have to do with gold
Add the item, did nothing, then there was a community puzzle, and boom an update
gold is just there to be gaudy and obnoxious like rl
Yeah, I don't like gold irl either
anybody elses percentage disappear?
I think I'm going to spend most of my time on the repair a ship and save the crashed lifeform missions lol
any tips on these?
Prefer silver or titanium or some white metal shiny
@tepid iris not really, just keep getting distress signal charts
Getting the Minotaur exocraft and it's scanner makes it easier by not having to buy charts
note the repair resources and keep stocked up
These also work to help find the crashed lifeform?
Yeah since it's a distress signal
Ah that's also good to know 😛
oh, missions, right
do you get more scrap if you repair more?
Usually an observatory that will then lead to a crashed ship or an ancient ruin
or doesn't that matter
it finds crashed ships, crashed freighters, stranded pilots, abandoned buildings
went into auto-scavenge tip mode
no the expedition only lists the two things for you to repair
Btw did anyone find it odd that the Atlas station milestone reward is the Starbirth mission chain stuff?
Just so you can skip on mining those items?
i cant even find that bar anymore lol its gone for me
they might be updating it on the backend
may just have to reload or restart game or it may be the flaky network run by 
Are we gonna time travel or sumn?
probably not
that's why it won't happen 
Any lore hunters on the flux readings? So far after ||seven|| I'm only getting repeats. There seems to be ||three distrinct|| 'stories' in there. ||First about a lost weapon, the second about the fusion of Gek and Korvax, the third on repeating iterrations||.
||did you get the one about the citadel||
||Hmm nope, so I'm guessing the last few were bad RNG and there's still more out there!||
||I have three on the weapon, two on the fusion of cultures, and two on iterations||
||Gek and Korvax fusion is probably a reference to the war where the korvax dropped their nanite juice on the newborn geks to make them docile ||
||I have a few screencaps in a folder if y'all want em||
Huh or maybe not
||Hmm maybe. It says "A perfect, unique fusion (…) two minds, two cultures, two uses… Two fates. The gek (…) the Korvax (…) grah!"||
Anyway it's way past my usual sleep time so gn
Would be appreciated!
NN!
@sand karma i don't know the pattern but there are "minor" and "major" flux events, the minor ones seem to repeat, and major ones seem to denote something new/significant.
when you activate the device if you look at the center of your screen it will say minor or major flux distortion or whatever
Ah I had noticed the two events, but didn't put two and two together, thanks!!
no problem! kind of aguess on my part but i did notice when it said major it was something new
minor was stuff like the || 16 16 16 || stuff
I'd have to double check, but I think that lines up with my screenshots so far as well.
you can probably dump them in here with a spoiler tag, would be cool to see it collected somewhere
I'm mostly just happy with lore stuff though. And super curious to see what that Myth Beacon will do. 😄
||• A lost weapon (…) a found weapon (…) always there when needed, awaiting its call, awaiting its duty.
• Few could handle such a weapon (…) few could understand it, fewer still could (…)
• From the very first, the weapon’s fate was known (…) the Prime (…) the first, the tip of the spear!
• A perfect, unique fusion (…) two minds, two cultures, two uses… Two fates.
• The gek (…) the Korvax (…) grah!
• Each iteration (…) each cycle (…) the patterns repeat, the patterns repeat, new patterns emerge!
• The birth of stars (…) the birth of stories (…) the same material, the same language!||
same. expecting it to be a glorified scanner lol but we'll see
do we think they may lead into eventful story missions, or simply remain some fluff btw?
These are the ones I've been getting so far.
It feels like a teaser to me tbh
The two weeks, the build up towards the beacon etc.
but haven't almost all of them to this point?
hard to say without knowing what the beacon does
True
does feel very living ship esque in terms of setup
the weekend missions felt like a tease, too, after all...
Yeah I was thinking about the build up to living ship as well, except using the expedition for a quick 2 hour detour 😄
i very much doubt it but could you imagine if this just led up to the incinerator/flamethrower thing
Hmm true, that still hasn't really gone anywhere either
Heh, well I guess at least we'd have the incinerator. It is a weapon, which is referenced in three of the lores so far. 😄
the weapon seems to be something else honestly
Though that might be a bit underwhelming. 😛
I also got this one @sand karma
along the ||weapon|| storyline there is a note about it ||being used to pierce a metal dragon||
probably just symbolic though
Ooh nice, haven't seen that one yet
Another one
yeah the 16 one i have gotten a few times lol
Fits with ||the tip of the spear|| as well
ngl kzzkt really earning meme status
i found a whole bunch, i should've recorded them
This one I have as well. Adding 16 with the iteration ones.
"what to put here what to put here...Static!"
the epxedition
Appreciated @outer cobalt added all of those to the document I have going 😄
Sure! 😄
Not sure if the part leading up to it is of any importance. Could still be new flavour though
It might just be flavour, but it is always fun anyway :3
I would have to organise it and take out duplicates
Oh no rush, I appreciate the effort you've put in so far, and I'm just happy to be talking about lore stuff!
||Its destiny was among the stars (…) a leader, a beacon for all those who would follow (…) a path to places few could reach…)|| is particularly interesting with the Myth Beacon.
big ol' COME VISIT sign for in the galactic map, lol
Perfection 😛
I hope they make a planet that crashes 90% of the players
so that "few could reach" would actually be true

that planet probably exists out there, we just have to hope they've found it and direct ppl there 
RDV points with MP on.
wut
aaahh
i thought that might have been what you were getting at, but wasn't sure
my brain was also blanking on wtf the gathering/meeting points were called
with how custom base object IDs are doing currently, it's very possible

I've found a system where the spawn point is in an under water cave rather than in space, does that count?
wait you mean the warp-in point? lmao
Yeah
Wow lol
nice
Thought it was a one time bug, but worked every time
Don't know if I have the coordinates anymore, but I did post a screenshot on reddit 😛
I modded that in accidentally awhile back and it was the most exciting moment i'd had with the game in some time
was back when we were trying to figure out some of the global files
Oh yeah I've been pretty excited about bugs in the past tbh
i'd stumbled across the warp-in positioning stuff or something
Even the one where you would get one hit by lightning every respawn on certain planets and certain heights
That was dangerous as hell 😛
it still shows at 0% for me
maybe you've done so much that you single-handedly have done 1% of the requirements
sort of telling that sometimes the most exciting/enjoyable moments are when the game isn't working properly, lol
I think it's more that after the first 300/400 hours you've already seen a lot 😛
nah, you could get the same vibe within 15-30 hours too
Atlas says 0% too
Generally I think it's more around 60-70 hours
Though I kept finding smaller new things throughout the 200 hours and occasionally still now
Just not as big or exciting 😄
