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halcyon pebble
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yeah it unlocks a mass effect ship

quick summit
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and it is normandy? I'm seeing it everywhere.

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Jesus. guess it was sudden crossover

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So is it just as frigate?

mighty rampart
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just glitched

halcyon pebble
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yes

mighty rampart
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but unexpected

quick summit
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eh well.. rip lol

halcyon pebble
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It probably will be a one time thing

quick summit
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Yeah surely, usually things like this are done by only single time

halcyon pebble
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No like i wouldnt expect crossovers in the future

sand karma
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Yeah that happened to me on my first relog about an hour after completing it as well. It looks pretty bad tbh. šŸ˜›

halcyon pebble
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Probably something they glanced over it

candid orbit
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Bro whatttt we get the mass effect ship?

sand karma
halcyon pebble
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only if you do the expedition

candid orbit
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Thatā€™s awesome!

halcyon pebble
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yeah its neat

candid orbit
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I just finished it.

sand karma
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It's quite something yeah šŸ˜„

quick summit
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wait if it is frigate, how do we repair it? where do we land?

sand karma
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We don't land and it has a stealth mode item so it doesn't get damaged (apparently)

halcyon pebble
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Its invincible so you cant really repair it

quick summit
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Damn lol.

sand karma
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Not sure if there's still a mission fail state for it though

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Cuz it's still only 1 star if you send it on 3 star mission

quick summit
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Probably someone who is glitched like golden vector would have multiple of them.. lol

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not sure what would happen if you spam them while ignoring damaged state if happen..

halcyon pebble
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I think the ship is neat it just feels out of place because its so round

sand karma
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It doesn't look too bad among a fleet of frigates imo

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Just when you compare them side by side šŸ˜„

halcyon pebble
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ah I havent done the expedition

quick summit
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alright, I should continue expedition tomorrow before too late.. lol

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late here, cya all.

sand karma
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NN šŸ˜„

candid orbit
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Iā€™m so pumped. Didnā€™t expect that.

indigo night
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!ExpCountdown

quick summit
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now all we need is frigate to have more role in game..

gusty berry
cursive marsh
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I would love a xenosaga crossover. You could get a multitool out of that or something.

icy citrus
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!expcountdown

cloud joltBOT
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nmscord_emoji Expeditions Countdown

PioneerRole Season 2 - Time Left:
1 week 2 days 19 hours

severe sun
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so

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||Radiant Pillar|| in ||Mass Effect|| when?

cursive marsh
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Hmm

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Maybe the atlas was the secret behind the reapers all this time

halcyon pebble
sand karma
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Want

heady wyvern
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No

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you don't get it

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The Sentinels are the Reapers

cursive marsh
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Yea everything pays homage to something

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I even get classic 70s and 60s Sci fi horror vibes. Unless those are the X-Files. Which in that case would be 90s

candid orbit
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So I didnā€™t get the sparse horizon helmet unlocked?

vague oriole
bronze delta
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Do I accept the SSV Normandy SR1

heady wyvern
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@bronze delta It's what you were working towards, so I guess yea.

bronze delta
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If I accept the titles now, will I be able to do it in another save?

heady wyvern
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I believe you should, if they're Phase rewards

viral yarrow
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I uhh

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I hopped onto the Normandy

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It actually doesnt kill me, I can stand here for as long as i want

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What's weirder is that I swim now in space

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Interesitng

uncut harness
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the war is just a rumor

prime spade
uncut harness
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lol k

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how is it dismissed if a guy like me asks lol....wasnt it mentioned? what did i miss in chati wonder

prime spade
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(I was paraphrasing a scene in Mass Effect, where the council asserts the reapers are in fact, just a rumour)

deep parrot
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Has the person who sent their frigate on a higher level mission had it come back yet?

tepid iris
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so I need to follow the green line to use the myth beacon?

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storm shell
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Ye

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Why do the new ship sounds sound like wet farts?

deep parrot
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All I had to do this morning was log in, and I was already at the system for the Myth Beacon event. XD

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Horray for investigative curiousity!

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@mental socket @wind panther

tepid iris
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So

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can we claim the || normandy || on our main save as well?

storm shell
tepid iris
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nice

deep parrot
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Yep. No Myth Beacon required.

mental socket
still lynx
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I don't even play ||Mass Effect||, but I gotta say, HOLY FUCK WAS THAT COOL

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For a little 2-week expedition, good stuff

hollow current
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ummm how far is the myth beacon thing supposed to be, I've gone 2k ly

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and now 5k

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Should I just warp back to the rendesvous points?

hearty karma
hollow current
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Cool yeah it was 1 jump from starting station for me

dreamy oracle
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wait, you can't land on the Normandy?

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I mean, fair, but still

pearl oxide
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Oh, fuk yea Baby! retroGASM

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empty kiln
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I feel like Iā€™m constantly warping forever towards this ā€œechoā€ point for the myth beaconā€¦ is there a faster way to get to this place?

pearl oxide
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empty kiln
cursive marsh
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Sorry the pic is so dark for some reason. But we did it everyone. Congrats!!!

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empty kiln
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If you canā€™t land on the Normandyā€¦ does that mean it will NEVER fail any missions you send it on? šŸ¤”

cursive marsh
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Frigates can be destroyed normally. But it has a trait to prevent that.

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It can fail and retreat back

empty kiln
cursive marsh
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Technically posting pics in screenshots of the Normandy is a spoiler right? I imagine some people wanna be surprised.

hardy yew
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Iā€™m on expedition mode now. Whereā€™s everyone at?

cursive marsh
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I just finished it

empty kiln
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Same here, just finished

cursive marsh
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I'm like all emmotional. This is a historic moment. Also my first expedition. And I'm such a huge mass effect fan. That caught me by surprise.

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Now I don't know how to spend my time lol. Or which save to play

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I guess I could build the command room and learn how a freighter and frigates work with my new Normandy

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I just sent the Normandy on it's first expedition šŸ˜€

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So I can just discard the myth beacon now?

hardy yew
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I begin phase two of my expedition.

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Is phase two any harder than phase one was?

icy citrus
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No

hardy yew
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If itā€™s as simple as phase one thisā€™ll be easy

cursive marsh
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Nah not at all

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Only a couple were a slight pain

hardy yew
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That sounds manageable.

tame depot
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You can get the entire expedition done in a few hours

cursive marsh
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It took me like 18 hours

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I did a little side tracking like to upgrade exosuit

lone cedar
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Ahaha man this was super unexpected. I have been jumping between playing the Mass Effect Remaster and the No Man's Sky expedition and I kept thinking to myself, man the reaper plot is pretty similar to the lore in this expedition. Couldn't believe it when the Normandy warped in above me lmao.

cursive marsh
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Lol

lone cedar
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Also loving that they're already teasing more big updates for the year šŸ™‚

hardy yew
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Am I the only one going crazy over phase 3 because it has mainly to do with animals?

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Dangit. I pissed off like five sentinels for 12 gravitino balls and their not even worth anywhere close to how much I thought theyā€™d be, seeing how angry sentinels get when you touch them

uncut harness
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anything happen if u buy multiple myth beacons? and why, when i completed everything, does the expedition unfinished, but finished?

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like i can doin it again on my other expedition save

heady wyvern
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"Needs aquarium"

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So, has anyone sent the Normandy out yet? Is it just a Three Races NPC who answers at the debrief?

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wait

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I may have forgotten slightly how frigate missions work

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Disregard.

thin furnace
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Ok, my friend has run into an issue

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she has all 16 glyphs

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she portaled close to the Galactic core

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she has The Purge selected

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but it's not marking a portal for her, nor an actual destination system for the mission

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anyone know whats happening?

heady wyvern
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@thin furnace Did she reset the quest?

cursive marsh
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It was a 3 hour expedition

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Like it's flying to Gilligan's Island.

thin furnace
heady wyvern
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did she actually go though the core

valid pollen
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@lone cedar they are teasing more updates? What do u think is in store?

lone cedar
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No idea the blog post just says they have "more surprises" for the 5th anniversary

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I guess to tide people over who were hoping this would lead up to update 16

meager oriole
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What is the crossover thing

mighty rampart
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added the Normandy ship from Mass Effect as a claimable frigate

meager oriole
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Oh

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Never seen mass effect only heard about it

mighty rampart
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same

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still think its neat tho

uncut harness
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I'm dissapointed (obviously nobody cares, just venting) that No man's sky just threw in some crappy crossover junk at the end of the expedition, tried to phrase it as a rewrite of history, which sounded like an interesting concept, until they made a mass effect ad

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I wish I had missed this expedition honestly

mighty rampart
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it wasnt a rewrite of history

meager zephyr
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I thought it was pretty cool

mighty rampart
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it was a flux in records that got dispelled after it was over

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and it is in line with the game's overarching story

meager zephyr
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Though one of my mods makes it so that I can't claim this Expedition's rewards, which is fun

uncut harness
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Alongside the new Expedition, Nada and Poloā€™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 Vyā€™keen. Something is stirring from across the universe. Can you hear it?

"a fluctuation in history already written" it's loose crossover garbage

mighty rampart
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sigh

uncut harness
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So every game in space is possible in the overarching story, just another interation

mighty rampart
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no

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literally EVERYTHING is possible in the game

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and this was even before the expedition

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been stated multiple times that things from other universes are crossing in the NMS space

meager zephyr
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It's a stack size mod and it was fine playing without it on my Exp2 save, but on my main save, I have massive stacks that would take forever for me to separate before I could load a save without it

mighty rampart
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and NMS space crossing in ours

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as we're all in one giant simulation that's breaking

uncut harness
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what an uninspired take

mighty rampart
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ok

meager zephyr
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That's literally the story of the game

uncut harness
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And adding mass effect is a creative way to explore that story?

mighty rampart
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why not, its just another out-of-the-world space encounter but one that we recognize

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maybe in a parallel universe someone recognizes the plasmid accidents

uncut harness
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no, it's marketing

mighty rampart
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cool

uncut harness
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it was lazy, and uninteresting

mighty rampart
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well I'm done with this discussion

chrome depot
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Wait

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What are we talking about in here-?

uncut harness
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If the story crosses over into our own world, then mass effect is a video game, so now a video game, and the ship in that game are supposed to exist in the reality of no man's sky?

chrome depot
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...Wha-?

mighty rampart
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@chrome depothave you finished the expedition? if not then quit this channel right now

meager zephyr
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No, the Mass Effect ship would be from a different reality, or something along those lines. ME wouldn't still be a video game in the NMS universe

chrome depot
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Thereā€™s not really a reason to now that the barā€™s filled up.

mighty rampart
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uh your loss then

chrome depot
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So spoil me on the expedition thing-

uncut harness
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@meager zephyr so the story doesn't cross with ours then, because mass effect is a video game in our reality

mighty rampart
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Mass Effect Easter Egg

chrome depot
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Dats it-?

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Oh.

meager zephyr
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Well, NMS is a video game, so I'm having trouble understanding where the confusion is

mighty rampart
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its not confusion they're just disappointed the game is marketing another game

uncut harness
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It's the normandy ship, a marketing thing with Hello games and Blizzard, and in my opinion it was done very lazily and I think hurts the game

mighty rampart
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even though its not

meager zephyr
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That sucks

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I'm sorry you feel that way

mighty rampart
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in that case every game that pays homage to another game is "lazy marketing" with the difference being most games dont have an event surrounding an easter egg, they just quietly add it for people to discover

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which actually is lazier if you think about it

meager zephyr
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Were the armoured pieces we unlocked the shoulderpads, chestpiece, and leggings? I can't remember

mighty rampart
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those are not cross save rewards

uncut harness
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"homage"? How is it an homage when they're likely exchanging money to get the ship in front of people to make them more aware of the remaster?

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That's not respect, it's just business

mighty rampart
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because if they did it without getting said license to, they would be sued

uncut harness
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So you're suggesting that they really wanted to add the Normandy in out of love for the game regardless of the fact that it has nothing to do with no man's sky?

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but getting sued was stopping them

meager zephyr
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I'm not sure what you expect to get out of complaining about this here. It won't convince the devs to do anything differently.

mighty rampart
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If a developer has its own creation and its own design that mimics an existing mechanic or reference in another game, itā€™s more likely an acceptable reference. If it references the developerā€™s own prior works, itā€™s even more likely acceptable.

If a developer extracts an exact model of an asset in another game or clearly recreates its existing design, the developer may be infringing on copyrights of the original creator. Developers cannot and should not copy and paste anotherā€™s work. Period.```
uncut harness
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So you're saying, it's more likely that they REALLY wanted the Normandy easter egg, and in contrast, less likely that it was just marketing from blizzard to sell more mass effect copies?

mighty rampart
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yes

chrome depot
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Ooooh I think I get whatā€™s going on here

mighty rampart
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not everything is latest age capitalism

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mighty rampart
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Sean used to work for EA before on some titles, so they probably had it easier to contact them for rights

merry tartan
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Who's it actually hurting? The deal between Hello Games and BioWare/EA is beneficial for both parties. The deal could've gone either way.

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Plus, it's a frigate. It's not exactly in everybody's faces all the time.

mighty rampart
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bro u dont get it theyre advertising you another game by adding a reference in your favourite game its all shady marketing tactics

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EA bad !!1!!

uncut harness
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in my opinion, it seems like a bad direction for the game, maybe not the company, I imagine it's very good for the company

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I never said it was shady marketing

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I just think it's lazy marketing

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and not very creative

mighty rampart
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HG will next add mtx easter egg?? šŸ˜±

merry tartan
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I don't have to pay extra for the Normandy frigate. I haven't paid anything for any of the updates so far and I don't have to buy Mass Effect Legendary Edition.

chrome depot
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Wait so do you actually get a neat lilā€™ Mass Effect-related thing for completing the Expedition?

meager zephyr
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Yeah, you get a frigate that resembles the Normandy

uncut harness
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Why not just sell ad space in NMS? You don't have to pay for it, and they make money

mighty rampart
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this is literally a limited thing

uncut harness
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why not add ads while you wait for things to refine, it costs you nothing

chrome depot
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Now thatā€™s incentive to continue playing that mode.

mighty rampart
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unless they do it again next expedition then you win

uncut harness
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maybe I'm more disappointed in what I thought it could have been (classic NMS stuff) vs what it actually was, i don't disagree that there are going to be plenty of people who have fond memory of both games

chrome depot
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Is the Normandy Frigate locked to the expedition save file though? Or can I transfer it to my normal save-

mighty rampart
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it is for those people, because its no surprise HG staff is a fan of the ME series

uncut harness
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It's shared

mighty rampart
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its quite an influential series

merry tartan
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Plus, people who like No Man's Sky probably would like or already do like at least 66% of the Mass Effect series.

mighty rampart
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rather than slap the model in as an afterthought they wanted to do it in a cooler fashion with the beachhead expedition which is like a couple hours worth of effort

merry tartan
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I'm more cheesed about the fireworks.

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I'm never using those, but I can't make myself throw them away.

mighty rampart
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LMAO same

uncut harness
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When we created Expeditions, we wanted each one to feel fresh, each one to supply its own twists and contrasts. We are very excited to explore the gameplay and stories that this new mode gives us the chance to create.

This expedition just makes me believe we'll see more like these, which is disappointing because it doesn't actually add anything new, it's just some paint on features that already exists, but specifically designed to push you through marketing funnels

mighty rampart
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I binned them in a storage container

merry tartan
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Same.

mighty rampart
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give them the benefit of doubt and wait for the next expedition

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if anything this was better than a golden starship lmao

uncut harness
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I disagree on that, but I can see why they might be equal

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I think the new missions on milestone 5 were interesting

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I would have liked to even just see more than some vague text about "patterns"

merry tartan
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I still don't know why the silver Hadach's Discovery from Phase 2's rewards isn't transferable.

chrome depot
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Speaking of that I hope previous expedition rewards come back at some point. :(

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I returned to the game too late to get em.

mighty rampart
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actually that explorer was abnormal as it had fighter stats

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but my point stands

merry tartan
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Hadach's Discovery looks like it has exotic stats.

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But it could be the mods it comes with.

uncut harness
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I think a lot of the rewards from this expedition were kind of meh, and I mean the ones that were not transferable, the milestone 5 were just stuff to throw away
the first expedition, all the rewards felt like they were pushing you to the end

mighty rampart
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most likely mods and letting you breeze through expeditions

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after all you start a new game each time, would be annoying if you had to grind

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first expedition was 6 weeks long

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it had a lot of stuff to do

uncut harness
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the appearance customization stuff might be interesting if that makes some people feel like they're making progress by changing their appearance, but I didn't do that

merry tartan
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I just want a chrome looking ship on my normal save and I didn't do expedition 1, so I'm sad about my life choices.

mighty rampart
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this was an incredibly short expedition, you're getting what you worked for

uncut harness
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Yeah, I was glad they didn't have fleet missions

mighty rampart
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and I hope future expeditions keep this track, I never want them to give us anything unique enough that they go full into FOMO tactics

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daily QS grind is already bad enough as is

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ah yes mobile grinding in my PC space game, awesome

merry tartan
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I hated the idea of doing fleet missions until I started being a pirate when it came to salvaged frigate modules.

uncut harness
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I'm sure some people probably already feel that way, but hopefully you can get cool ships and customization in future ones

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Animated ship paint would be interesting

mighty rampart
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if it keeps the same track as these two expeditions then I dont mind

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just dumb funny cosmetics for the league gamers

uncut harness
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exactly

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where are the random drops

mighty rampart
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damaged machinery /s

uncut harness
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haha

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Sorry I came in so upset, I just speed ran the expedition and that was a big high to come off of so let down

merry tartan
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It's cool.

uncut harness
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"speed ran" as in I just played as fast as I could

mighty rampart
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well it was incredibly disappointing for me too

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since I had no idea what the fuck I was looking at

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then I see chat saying its an easter egg

uncut harness
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Yeah, I had some fomo because I hadn't gotten to play it all yet

mighty rampart
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which was like ok then its cool for them, I dont mind

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I still would have done this expedition considering how short it was

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if anything I regret doing the first one

uncut harness
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And I didn't know about the easter egg till a little bit ago, and the spoiler + the content was rough

merry tartan
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I think painting ships is a slippery slope, though. I know I'd like it but then I'm pretty sure it'd make hunting ships almost pointless to me.

mighty rampart
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not entirely, depending on how they do it

uncut harness
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It would have been nice if it had been kept secret, but they released a video and a blog post, and seeing that was irritating (although, what should I expect from likely what is a contract deal)

mighty rampart
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they can add basic paints, and for the more interesting colors you still have to go find them

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even in case of freighters, you cant apply "rusted" paint, you have to find one of those

uncut harness
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Yeah I think no man's sky is interesting, because it's one of the only really popular exploring games

mighty rampart
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I would rather prefer they let you add decals on ships

uncut harness
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I think expeditions fits into exploration pretty well, because it forces you to start somewhere new every time

mighty rampart
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I want a pin up korvax on my girl šŸ˜”

uncut harness
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yeah it'd be interesting to see haha

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would be nice to put the expedition badges on my ship, so I can show them off without someone needing to see a base of mine

quick turret
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Well, I finished expedition 2. Would be fair to assume this is the right chat to discuss it?

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As in I'm not going to piss anyone off spoiling things

uncut harness
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Yeah this is the right place

quick turret
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I haven't even played mass effect and that was a delight

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I really wondered how they were going to differentiate this from the last and it's fair to say they have.

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I think it'd be cool if there were other sci fi crossovers. In my headcanon this is an unexplored quadrant in the star trek universe

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Not holding my breath for that. Just saying I like the idea.

uncut harness
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I feel the opposite, but it's interesting to me to read that, I wish I could understand that feeling

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I feel like no man's sky was the material I really enjoyed, and crossovers seem to me, like a bad thing. But I am seeing that the opposite can be true for other people

mighty rampart
quick turret
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Space is so vast. It feels reasonable entirely different events occur elsewhere. Other games I find cross overs annoying, but the game is soooo open and undefined it doesn't damage the immersion for me

mighty rampart
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Destiny 2 crossover soon?? /s

uncut harness
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I feel like technically almost every game takes place in space, of it has the setting on a planet. But some might not have cross universe traveling

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But you see images of other travelers from different iterations, so why not do that for those?

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Trying to think of a game I could enjoy crossing over into nms

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Or maybe a movie/tv show

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Rick and Morty cross over?

icy citrus
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Spaceballs

uncut harness
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Rick and Morty bobble heads for your ship would be funny

quick turret
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The tone is an homage to so many sci fi greats, it's not abrupt to me. It's like a greatest hits of SciFi. It has Alien references everywhere, it has star trek tone and imagery, it has star wars type ships and lone adventurer feel. I think they are all already there.

uncut harness
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Inspiration is different from taking direct imagery though

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But that's personal taste I suppose

quick turret
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The swarms are basically direct as you get without copyright battles I think

uncut harness
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I'm not sure šŸ¤·ā€ā™‚ļø

quick turret
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I am not trying to talk you out of your opinion. It's more I don't that issue here and normally I do in other settings so I'm just explaining why this lands differently.

uncut harness
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Oh I just don't know much about alien, so wasn't sure how close it was

quick turret
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The frigate are very alien.

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But the swarm creatures are very clearly modelled off xenomorphs

uncut harness
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I wonder how much you can change though before things don't feel like scifi, and they do seem similar to xenomorphs just less human like (from a Google image search)

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If I google xenomorphs Trex, I get something that looks like a real life swarm

mighty rampart
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bio horrors dont resemble xenomorphs all that much tbh

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but yes the aesthetic is similar

uncut harness
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I feel like swarms, stylistically feel a little out of place in NMS compared to the horrors, and frieghter sack aliens

mighty rampart
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scary green creatures with long heads

prime urchin
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More like the beasties in 'Pitch Black'

uncut harness
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The derelict frieghter aliens feel like good nms enemies

mighty rampart
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the whispering eggs for sure are a Alien/Metroid reference

rancid ether
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I'd also throw in Pitch Black as well with the weird head shapes

mighty rampart
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even has the cross cuts

uncut harness
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Interesting

mighty rampart
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and humming sacs open with four peels

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the interior has the same texture as whispering eggs

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huh

merry tartan
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Also, the travelers...

fathom notch
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no man's sky better get an Outer Wilds crossover soon

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also "beachhead" - normandy - it was right in front of us all this time. that's clever

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like, as in the beaches of normandy, where allied troops landed on d-day

mighty rampart
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ohh

astral karma
uncut harness
uncut harness
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why not NMS too ? lol

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Im trying to do the side mission of expedtion phase 1 find all 12 creature types on Groll but i just cant find 2 of them, Im following the hints in the discoveries tab Unter Water / In the north

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Is there any strategy to find and scan all fauna on a planet?

placid latch
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Congrats everyone for completing the community portion. I left off playing while we were at 47% and played subnautica, Iā€™m planning on finishing off phase 5 today when I get home. What do I have to look forward to?

placid latch
naive hedge
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how can i add it on my main

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im on the expeditions account pls help

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what do i do

icy citrus
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Add it there, no worries-you can claim in all your saves at the qs bot

mighty rampart
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accept all the expedition rewards including the phase 5 one

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then go to main save and talk to the QS vendor

naive hedge
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so is this it?

icy citrus
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Yes

naive hedge
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lmao alright

mighty rampart
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yeah accept all the rewards

naive hedge
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cant wait for the next one

mighty rampart
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including the normandy badge, click on it too

naive hedge
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so wait can i do the next one with the same save?

mighty rampart
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no, next expedition will require you to start a new save

naive hedge
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oh it says here lol

mighty rampart
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dont worry you wont lose the rewards, they can be claimed on all saves

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even after you delete this save

naive hedge
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alright

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so it says expeditiosn complete what do i do lol

mighty rampart
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well you can continue doing other things if you want, or just go back to playing on your main save

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the expedition will turn into a normal game mode file

naive hedge
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alright lmao

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look at this mess lmao

undone solar
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So, I'm doing the last part of the Atlas Path questline, what is the main reason to not birth a new star?

mighty rampart
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nothing

undone solar
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Kinda thought so.

mighty rampart
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I think you get the star seed item regardless

naive hedge
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and what do i do with the historiographical dosimeter?

mighty rampart
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on your main save? nothing apparently

naive hedge
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lmao alright

mighty rampart
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keep it in a storage container

naive hedge
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was fun lol

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alright

mighty rampart
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ok @undone solar you do need to say yes in order to get the Star seed blueprint

undone solar
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I ended up completing the Atlas Path quest earlier today, but... well I tried going to the anomaly after I went through a black hole afterwards and it crashed my game, so it went back to a point before I did this last step for the atlas path

mighty rampart
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if you say no you wont get it

undone solar
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so since I'm doing it again, I wanted to know if there was any reason to reject it

mighty rampart
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you just dont get that blueprint

undone solar
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I read that its that you see black holes regardless of choice

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just the blueprint is different

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which kinda seems like a pointless choice šŸ¤·

mighty rampart
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yeah you see black holes regardless

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and star seed just adds one point of core health, so not a big deal

undone solar
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when I first did the quest I had no clue what was going on and just headed for the closest black hole thinking it was part of the quest

mighty rampart
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it is though, well it ends up starting the atlas path chain iirc

undone solar
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then after going through it saw that the atlas path quest was gone but thought I had to go to the anomoly to progress, so tried going there but then the game crashed

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I meant that I went to the black hole after I finished it since I only really saw them show up on the galaxy map before then in relation to missions

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oh, so going through a black hole was the next step...

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I just ended up in a space battle after I warped through it last time

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so didn't see any messages concluding it

undone solar
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Welp, now it's time to do this final thing and go through the final portal for The Purge questline

onyx elbow
#

Did they finally patch the ship selling glitch?

spice gorge
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Wait -- to Visit The Atlas in this Expedition do you need to complete the entire core Atlas Quest mission that's been here all along? Or is there a quicker way? There's one week left...

indigo night
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Only one ATLAS Station you need to visit

prime spade
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Don't even need to speak to the Atlas

indigo night
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I did ,, gave me Warp cells šŸ˜‰

onyx elbow
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@spice gorge everything you need in order to do th expedition is unlocked for you

hardy yew
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Cant find a goddamn crashed ship for phase 2

undone solar
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To help a traveller? I just went with the nexus mission cause i got sick of finding abandoned buildings.

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Or for the salvaged task or crashed freighter? Cause they are all over the place if you get the charts.

uncut hound
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Anyone got stats & screenshot of the Hadachā€™s Discovery KH3 ? to know if I want to bother searching for crashed things

undone solar
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Your still gonna wanna complete the expedition and get the cross save frigate, right?

uncut hound
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oh I was under the impresion the frigate was the reward for last phase but you dont need all the little middle milestones ?

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liek i jsut did phase 3 without phase2

thorny gulch
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hmm.. I just finished expedition.. and now I'm wondering about Myth Beacon.. can i use it again and claim as many of those frigates I want?

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or what's the purpose of Myth Beacon for now on..?

undone solar
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Guess its just the title and banner for the whole thing

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Maybe

tepid iris
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I dont think there is another use for now

hard stirrup
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Does anyone know whether Hello Games made the Normandy immune to taking damage? Because since we can't land on it there would be no way to repair it if it did take damage.

uncut hound
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uh good point taht'd be sad ..

prime spade
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Some folks were testing it out, according to them if it would normally take damage it instead escapes and bugs out, or something long those lines.

Basically it's functionally immortal/damageable, but throwing it up against impossible odds can still result in the expedition failing, you just can't lose the ship.

uncut hound
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ah good

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hum the armour/leggins/.. from phase 4, are they unique & transferable ?

uncut harness
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dosimeter, myth beacon...still useful?

hard stirrup
hard stirrup
uncut hound
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thanks šŸ™‚

hard stirrup
# uncut hound thanks šŸ™‚

You can get those pieces on any save from the quicksilver store but they are quite pricy....may have to save your QS for a few weeks but you can get them.

uncut hound
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ah yeah I havent played in a bit and never much looked ath the armours so I didnt recognize the names: )

prime spade
hard stirrup
uncut harness
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Hmm well some support frigates got pretty decent stats

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Stats are RNG anyway, not tier based

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Like you can get a C class that has over 20 in one stat and the rest over 10 if Lucky enough

prime spade
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Fair enough.

The way expeditions work is that each event in an expedition is randomly pulled from a list. if you have say, an exploration expedition, most of those mission events will be "Exploration". But the game also likes to throw a curve ball now and then, and a non-exploration mission will come up, say, a Combat event. And if your fleet has a really low combat score, that means there is a good chance it'll fail it, and possibly take damage.

Hence I personally swear by support ships - they both reduce the fuel cost of a mission, and raise the 'floor' of all the stats, so you're less likely to get caught off guard by a random event. My expedition groups are usually like 1 specialist, and 2-3 support ships

hard stirrup
# uncut harness Stats are RNG anyway, not tier based

Not all stats. Every non support frigate will have a primary stat that gives it +15 in its primary stat.....that is not nothing. And there are ways to curate and grow frigates to have better odds of having higher stats.....which I have. But at the end of the day both the ceiling and the floor for support frigates is much lower.

uncut harness
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Ah well but you save lots of fuel with them

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If you also got modules

hard stirrup
prime spade
uncut harness
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Exactly

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Also ... Why people dont like Calypso?

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Calypso is a dope galaxy

prime spade
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Calypso is the hostile galaxy right? - been a while since I was back there. I like it personally, i lvoe extreme worlds, the atmospherics are awesome

uncut harness
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Yeah

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And has some interesting exotics too

hard stirrup
prime spade
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I imagine people dislike it for the same reason you see so many people pimping the various earth like, safe, no storm worlds.

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Personally I've never seen the attraction of exploring space, just to find something that looks like earth šŸ˜‰

hard stirrup
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I think people put way too much attention to expedition fuel costs. They are pretty irrelevant. The amount of units I spent buying the resources for 20k tons of fuel I got back by scanning one creature....and it wasn't even rare....the creature scan got me 240k units....that was more than I had spent buying the fuel materials.

prime spade
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I'm not sure where you're buying that sort've bulk dihydrogen and tritium. I never see those on sale in stations (Survival difficulty)

tall orbit
hard stirrup
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^^THIS^^

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In 3 star economies you will often see ship traders sell between 100 and 200 dihydrogen jelly and between 3500 and 4500 tritium each....200 jelly is 10k dihydrogen.

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And it's incredibly fast to convert the jelly into dihydrogen with a portable refiner.

cursive marsh
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The Normandy returned from it's first expedition for me. All good. Just a 1 star exploration. Got a mix of items

heady wyvern
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Anything particularly different about the Normandy from the others?

hard stirrup
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Beyond that at 55 expeditions it will cap at 96 skill points which is REALLY good....regular frigates have higher theoretical thresholds but ones that actually develop to have more than 96 are pretty rare so this is a VERY solid frigate to have in even the most elite of fleets.

spark turret
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hey question about the community expodition, once I complete the current one, can i claim the big ship on my main save?

hard stirrup
rancid ether
spark turret
hard stirrup
rancid ether
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I would much rather have another expedition duration reduction, but thats just me.

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You're free to enjoy the frigate, i'm free to have my critique of it.

hard stirrup
# rancid ether You're free to enjoy the frigate, i'm free to have my critique of it.

I didn't say you weren't. Personally I'm not in a hurry to rush expeditions as I don't really rely on them for any particular items, resources, or units. In case like the first expedition where I would want to rush them to get unlocks sooner I can give each expedition 3x duration reduction consumables....pretty great for long expeditions.

jolly thicket
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the point is to build fleets to make sure your trips succeed - not to send 1-hit-wonder ships

rancid ether
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I prefer the duration reductions for the total fuel cost reduction, which is a big deal to me as its one of the few things I don't like spending time on.
Again, that's my preferred play style. I like having an efficient fleet that sips fuel.

hard stirrup
jolly thicket
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but an abandoned mission is still a mission failure

hard stirrup
hard stirrup
rancid ether
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Expedition duration reduction...also reduces fuel

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duration reductions actually reduces the LY count which is used to determine the fuel consumption.

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So a 3% duration reduction actually reduces the fuel consumption by 3%, rounded up to nearest 50

hard stirrup
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That's even better then...double the win,

rancid ether
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Yes

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Im sorry, where was the disagreement in all of this?

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Ive been saying from the get-go I would have preferred another duration reduction trait

hard stirrup
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I didn't say anything about a disagreement. I was just saying the Normandy is a pretty amazing frigate to have.

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Duration reduction or not it's a great frigate.

rancid ether
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And my point was the trade-off for a burner trait was something i considered.
The stat numbers stop making a difference once you send a full group of frigs or have an S freighter anyway

indigo night
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I just cant wait until i can send it on a tier5 mission

rancid ether
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It's a neat ship, but i'm not gushing over it and I don't find it particularly amazing compared to any other frigate in my main's fleet

hard stirrup
gusty berry
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makes ones miss ArmadA, really

indigo night
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@hard stirrup ah ok ..

hard stirrup
rancid ether
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That is true. However, its similar to the GV (and the Twitch drops) in that it really made things a lot easier for players.
Sometimes I don't want that. I plan to run the expedition one more time without the previous rewards because frankly, it felt like cheating

hard stirrup
# rancid ether That is true. However, its similar to the GV (and the Twitch drops) in that it *...

I didn't see anything special or good in the twitch rewards....A class gear is easy too find and units aren't really an issue even early game if you know what you are doing. I was happy to skip on all that. The expedition bonuses on the other hand I love...those are quality items. And I don't really see it as cheating at all....they are earned. We play through lengthy expeditions and overcome significant challenges to earn them. They just alleviate the length of repetition...which is not a bad thing. You don't have to spend as long repeating things you've done in the past.

rancid ether
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The Twitch ships all had 21 tech slots from the get-go. That's a pretty significant boost to a start imo.

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Even claiming them all and scrapping one at a time. That's a few thousand nanites for free in the first warp

hard stirrup
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That's ok I guess but I wouldn't put tech in an A class ship anyway. As for nanites....15 minutes with a nutrient processor and 30 with Cronus will net you around 30k nanites. A few thousand isn't a huge deal.

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By a nutrient processor I mean more like a dozen or so running at once but my point stands lol.

rancid ether
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You don't start with a nutrient processor though. And having access to 4-5 free A to S class ships is a much bigger boost than spending a bunch of time cooking food and standing in front of Cronus. I know you disagree with me, but I feel like its a cheap tactic for a fresh start, and I have chosen to stop using it immediately. I have started probably 20 new saves over the years. Its a massive boost in the beginning

hard stirrup
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And 15 minutes isn't "a bunch of time" cooking lol.

rancid ether
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The time sitting in front of Cronus is quite a bit of time.

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Also you have to collect the items to cook

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Again, were going in circles over my decision to not use the Expedition rewards going forward

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Play as you please, I just don't intend to use the Normandy in the new saves until I'm well established

hard stirrup
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Collecting the items takes almost no time....land by a bunch of Gamma Root or two and that's it....it barely takes a couple of minutes.

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Hazmat Gauntlet costs 80 nanites lol.

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It all takes incredibly little time....literally less than one hour of play to make over 25k nanites early in a game. A class and lower stuff I don't want...it has no value to me.

cedar charm
# rancid ether You don't start with a nutrient processor though. And having access to 4-5 free ...

You're not wrong. In this last expedition, claiming the Golden Vector first thing was a huge headstart, even if only just by virtue of not having to sit at a station recycling ships to get all those tech slots unlocked, since in all probability one would run into at least a few S class fighters (or possibly exotics) before getting all those slots. It was already a pretty short expedition, with that added convenience it took me like 3 hours or so to complete it, since I had to spend 0 minutes worrying about ships. I suppose players that don't start over as often (especially outside of permadeath) see it just as a collectible, but early game it is a huge boost, its pretty understandable that anyone that feels the game is already super easy would opt not to use it.

jolly thicket
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And then if you had gotten all the Twitch rewards the first week of E1 - you had basically a full fleet of starships of A+ rating right after getting to the anomaly

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all of them with fully expanded tech slots

cursive marsh
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Ah I hadn't even considered for those who did the previous expedition

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I did not know about twitch rewards for NMS

cursive marsh
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Long before you need them. And easy to craft

jolly thicket
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realistically, hazmat gauntlets are important pretty much right away

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so you can collect more oxygen and sodium

cursive marsh
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Are they? I don't really seem to need them until the farmer and overseer ask for solaniem

hard stirrup
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I use them almost immediately in every new playthrough....I always start out getting 25000+ nanites and kitting out a ship first thing.

cedar charm
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I assume you mean from the poisonous flora from caves? You can just 'mine' those with the multi tool, but the gauntlet is way faster.

jolly thicket
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takes a hell of a lot less time PICKING the cave hazardous flora than mining them

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also saves a lot of fuel on the multitool

cursive marsh
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I didn't know you could do all that

hard stirrup
cursive marsh
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I'm still pretty new. I just follow the tutorials and basics when I start.

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I've never learned cooking. Or any crafting yet.

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And I put like 80 hours into it lol

jolly thicket
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I don't bother with the nutrient processor - I just go hunting sentinel ships to collect and/or buy pugneum, and refine the various slimes

hard stirrup
cedar charm
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Too slow. I just recycle ships for both money AND nanites, nowadays. With a side bonus of free ship slots. ^^

jolly thicket
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also you get nanites from unmarked cargo pods

cedar charm
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I abused the crap out of cooking in previous permadeath saves tho.

hard stirrup
cedar charm
jolly thicket
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other than buying ships, I rarely actually need to go do something for money (units, that is)

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nanites are the real issue - and salvaged data

hard stirrup
cursive marsh
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Ah ok

cedar charm
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Yeah, collecting all the necessary salvaged data on a fresh save is slow going no matter what...

cursive marsh
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I usually save all the goop. Convert to runaway mold and nanites.

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I've never really worried much about nanites.

jolly thicket
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it wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't so slow per piece

hard stirrup
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You can cook hundreds and hundreds of stews in under 10 minutes with multiple nutrient processors....about 30 minutes with Cronus will net you around 30k nanites.....you cannot match that payout scrapping ships.

cedar charm
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I used to do that but it takes soooo long for it to be converted, at least in permadeath, so I don't even bother with goop to nanite conversion anymore. Even the goop from goop-heavy environments like derelict freighters I just toss it.

jolly thicket
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I just don't like throwing anything away that's going to be useful later

cedar charm
jolly thicket
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yea, it's a lot less expensive scrapping ships after buying, than trying to just buy ship slots

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even if you have a run of bad luck

hard stirrup
cedar charm
#

Once I get to a station with a good first wave selection, preferably an exotic in the first wave, I can usually make nanites, units and slots all at once so it just feels more practical in new saves.

cursive marsh
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I'm a total hoarder. Lol I should be on TLC No Man Sky edition.

jolly thicket
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incidentally, that's probably why I don't ever really do derelicts ... I never have enough space to hold all the loot

hard stirrup
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But for me units are secondary.....kind of depends on whether I need a significant amount for a given expedition...in the first one I did....or at least I wanted to have a fleet of 30 C class frigates for the frigate mission milestone. In the second expedition I didn't need much in the way of units....having the Golden Vector also meant I didn't really have to go shopping for a ship either.

cedar charm
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Yeah, expeditions I use a different strategy than regular permadeath saves. ^^

jolly thicket
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only did enough permadeath to get the steam achievements, never touched it since

cedar charm
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But they're normal mode so its not like you need... well, anything really. You can stand outside in extreme storms for minutes without even needing to recharge.

jolly thicket
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kept dying to too many bugs

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mostly when the base setup decides to send me under the planet

cedar charm
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was that recent?

jolly thicket
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which happened at least 6 times in a row, and about 8 times total

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after I finished E1

cedar charm
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I don't think I've fallen thru the world after like... atlas rises or something

jolly thicket
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the only 2 legitimate deaths I had trying to get it was one lapse in judgement at the first larval core nest I saw in PD ...

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second time I spent a little too long mining in a storm

cedar charm
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I did fall thru a hole in my freighter slightly more recently, back when freighter storage containers didn't have their own model yet and the regular model would just leave a hole on the floor.

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I think they're doing a much better job at avoiding game-ending bugs in the last couple years. Or maybe I got better at avoiding them, I suppose.

jolly thicket
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anyway, those 2 achievements are done so I shouldn't have to ever worry about it again, unless they add more of them

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was nice that permadeath also counted for the survival one, saved a bit of time

cedar charm
#

Different strokes, I guess. I play permadeath exclusively. Well, and expeditions, now...

jolly thicket
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well I only just got the game at the end of January, so I haven't even unlocked everything on normal yet ...

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in spite of how many hours I have into it already

cedar charm
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Ah yeah, time played is a factor as well.

cursive marsh
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I focused the Artemis path first on normal. Still getting comfortable with the basics of base building and such. The controls feel clunky to me.

jolly thicket
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the lack of snap points for most objects on the non-prefab building parts is an annoyance

cursive marsh
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I would prefer sims 4 building tools for a pc NMS honestly lol. It's so easy

jolly thicket
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and you can't even put an exchange terminal on a normal wall

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like - wtf is THAT about

cursive marsh
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I put my overseer in the wooden structure I built. When you got the very first tutorial quest to build a base computer. I ended up making making 3x3 wood structure which fit 2 cargo pods, the portal and the overseer

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But no not snapped to the walls.

hardy yew
#

HolyShitSenitnelsAreFuckingTerrifying

hardy yew
deep parrot
#

Eh...

gusty berry
#

laughs in truly cursed corrupted sentinels

mental socket
#

Just some weird and kinda ominous audio I experienced after the latest patch. Make whatever you want from it. Could be intentional or just a bug

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Also earrape warning. It's quite loud. My ears broke when that happened. The curse of headphones

cursive marsh
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There is some freaky stuff in this game

compact coyote
#

Looks like Space-time distortion

storm shell
mental socket
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mom come pick me up, I'm scared

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this audio is not nice at all

storm shell
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Mayeb they getting a horror update lol after all the , the abyss

mental socket
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So has there been any fancy findings in the files after the update?

rancid ether
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You're in between two planets, triggering two (if not three) different audio files to start playing.

mental socket
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Oh, now it makes sense

rancid ether
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the audio is recognizable to me, but you have to pick it out from the other 1-2 tracks that start playing

mental socket
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well false alarm

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nothing spooky after all

rancid ether
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For some reason, I assumed you'd have picked up on it, but I might be confusing you with someone else that was messing with the audio triggers

mental socket
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Oh I've messed with them some. Didn't really recognize the tracks so it kinda got me there. Now that I see the planet atmospheres are actually touching it makes sense

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would be worth noting it's nearly 4am blob_sigh

meager zephyr
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One thing Iā€™m not caring for with the Expeditions is that because weā€™re limited to 5 save slots and a good amount of the rewards arenā€™t available to other saves, weā€™re losing out on a lot when we inevitably have to delete some of the saves.

meager zephyr
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The reward is a frigate

outer tusk
#

damn

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Than's a bit underwhelming

meager zephyr
#

I was hoping it was going to be a freighter since they originally showed a golden freighter emblem when the Expedition started, but it makes sense that it would be something smaller considering how short it was

pearl oxide
#

I was hoping for . .

Exp2.png
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Gold Dreadnought

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but, Normandy Frigate is pretty cool retroCOOL

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I was "surprised" just like Sean said sean2

vocal hedge
#

thanks to all those handy bases people set up, only took 5 hours of playing to get that done. not bad

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and i had about 2 hours of playtime before this event.

vocal hedge
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(not that i had another save)

icy citrus
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No, that is available on all saves after unlocking it

vocal hedge
#

do i have to buy/find it though? or as soon as i have a freighter it shows up?

icy citrus
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You redeem it at the qs vendor on the anomaly

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Free

vocal hedge
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nice, thanks.

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is that how Expidetion 1 rewards work too?

icy citrus
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Yes

meager zephyr
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The big ones are cross-save, but there are still a lot of good rewards that weā€™ll end up losing and would normally require a good amount of grinding nexus missions

vocal hedge
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When I landed on the last planet of expedition2, minutes ago, it had me name the planet, is that normal? Does anyone else see its name as Peanut

tepid iris
#

I wonder what they're gonna do when we eventually get to expedition 5

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then we'll have to delete saves right? šŸ˜…

icy citrus
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I'm not keeping any of them

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But I would like more save slots

gloomy isle
#

I came back for beachhead so I'll keep this one as my main I think

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And delete the others

storm shell
#

News?

dreamy quartz
# pearl oxide I was hoping for . .

to be honest I'm actually happy we got the normandy instead but not for the same reasons as you, as I've never played a Mass Effect game before. The reason I preferred it though is because I already had an S class max length dreadnought freighter in my main/normal save and I already maxed it out and decorated the inside; I didn't want to have any reason to have to get rid of that lol

sharp ermine
#

star wars needs to do a collab with NMS ASAP

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If games like Fortnite can

prime spade
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I came back for beachhead so I'll keep this one as my main I think
Say what you will about the content of this update; and i personally as a lore nerd have strong misgivings. it DID bring a lot of players, old and new to the game.

A few of my friends who own NMS, but don't regularly play; not even for Expedition 1, came back to get the SR-1 unlocked, and the Steam charts show a clear uptick in players after the reveal that the Normandy was available in it.

balmy nimbus
#

Bringing players back to NMS at any cost is a good idea ? real question

cursive marsh
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I wish the fighter ship was unlockable at the nexus. I really like it.

gusty berry
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not like it's changing the core gameplay

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tho if they do it'd prolly improve the game

indigo night
cursive marsh
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I hate EA personally. But that gets off topic. Love Mass Effect though. I've played them all several times over.

indigo night
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me too

cursive marsh
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I'm gonna keep the save for now. My main save doesn't have a freighter yet.

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But if I'm gonna delete I'd prolly give away items on the nexus first.

uncut harness
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Does Myth Beacon work in Normal mode?

halcyon pebble
subtle gorge
subtle gorge
#

The no mans sky team are clearly adamant Sci-fi fans and it oozes throughout every aspect of the game

cursive marsh
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It's like my childhood hanging out with a friend who was really into the sy-fy channel long before I could appreciate it at that age. He used to watch the x files and other stuff.

mighty rampart
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dosimeter may be buggy, since they do give you that as an expedition reward

indigo night
mighty rampart
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then its not bugged

cursive marsh
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I was debating about just discarding them both at this point

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Tho you did work hard to obtain them. Like inventory trophies maybe

viral yarrow
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I just stored them in me containers

halcyon pebble
rose agate
wild flint
#

I also don't play mass effect but my mind was definitely blown when I saw the Normandy in-game

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I think the best part about it is that it's not shoved in as a mass effect crossover. If you don't know where the ship's from, then you can still appreciate the cool ship

tall heath
#

I can agree with that

sharp ermine
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welp

rose agate
#

I mean... S Class frigate with 30 on Combat im cool with that. =)

fathom nimbus
#

isthere a portal address that gets you near the euclid center?

mental socket
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there are quite a bit

uncut harness
fathom nimbus
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hm

uncut harness
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Since the portal coords are relative to the center of the galaxy (any galaxy)

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And you input 12x the number 0

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It will not transport you directly to the center, but close-ish

fathom nimbus
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I got 2 systems away

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and seem to be unable to select the core as awarp point

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it has a line to it. .but no "warp to this"

uncut harness
fathom nimbus
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so i guess i'm still missing something.. heh

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Woo. i have discovered hilbert

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ey wait, the purge didn't complete..

ripe zinc
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can you get the normandy on other accounts?

icy citrus
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Once unlocked you can claim on any save

ripe zinc
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sweet

dull abyss
deep parrot
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The Normandy mission logs if you send it outside it's ability are funny.

mighty rampart
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what does it say?

deep parrot
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"Accidentally bought fake goods, lost money. Accidentally gave shelter to a known criminal, got fined by system authorities. Elected to pay off fine, but spent some time in jail." And it just goes on and on. XD

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Since it can't break, it just spends the entire mission being a huge, Intergalactic fuck up.

meager zephyr
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Thatā€™s hilarious

gusty berry
robust chasm
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hope there's a "tripped on control board and accidentally warped ship 8 systems away"

sand karma
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It's all hull breaches and everything gone wrong. šŸ˜›

deep parrot
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Yeah, my Normandy crew apparently decided to throw a party when they ran out of fuel for a while.

sand karma
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That's basically the movie night quest in Andromeda šŸ˜›

uncut harness
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Wonder if they will add the tempest next.

jolly thicket
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too bad I never really use my fleet - would have liked that model of ship as a hauler

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it's a little too large to be a fighter šŸ˜›

deep parrot
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Lol. Imagine if they were to let us fly Frigates and Freighters one day.

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Added special docking at Space Stations for them.

jolly thicket
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I wouldn't mind being able to drive frigates to separate systems to scout out star system details

deep parrot
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Maybe be equipped with a "System Scanner" that can report the loads and resources of all planets in the system at once.

jolly thicket
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like send a frigate via the galaxy map to get a report on planet types and main resources

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with like a 3 or 4 hour cooldown or something

spice gorge
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How many ancient bones must one collect for Nada? I found 3 but can't get a count when selecting the mission to be pinned...

cursive marsh
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So am I supposed to show off my expedition completion to Gunter some how?

river jolt
river jolt
ancient swift
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I have a question

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I'm on Phase 5 of the Expeditions and I just added the Normandy to my fleet but I still have one milestone to complete but I dont see the claim Normandy in the Quicksilver shop

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Do I need ALL milestones to be completed to claim the reward?

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I even went to a creative world and went to the Nexus and didnt see it

river jolt
ancient swift
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I did

river jolt
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when you go back to your freighter, the frigate should be flying behind you. or you mean, you're trying to claim it in another save?

ancient swift
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But it's not showing in Quicksilver shop to unlock it

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Claim it in another save

river jolt
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are other rewards showing?

ancient swift
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No rewards for the Normandy showing up like the banner icon or the frigate itself

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The other rewards are there like that clock looking thing

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Heres my Phase 5 screen

river jolt
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so you claimed all the rewards in the expedition save, but when you go to the QS shop in your other save, some of the Expedition rewards show? did you select Expedition rewards when you went to the QS store?

ancient swift
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Damn I cant send a pic

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Yes

river jolt
cursive marsh
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Thanks.

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So there wasn't a vanity role for this one. Just pioneer. Bummer

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It makes sense tho. That was the very first expedition? As it's a new system to the game.

pine igloo
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XD

mighty rampart
cursive marsh
pine igloo
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Lol

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"You just moved to another warudo"

cursive marsh
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The gek are strong in the atlas force young traveller

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The next crossover maybe.

pine igloo
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Nah the two universes are too different

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But it would be interesting

wanton path
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crossover was fun

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but don't want any more, prefer NMS lore stuff

mighty rampart
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yeah I'm also of the unpopular opinion that they shouldn't repeat it, or at least not anytime soon

tame shell
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if theres more on the way, it should definitely be spaced out, and not like 3 collabs in 5 expeditions

wanton path
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the Ariadne thing should go on

spice gorge
spice gorge
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Is the Myth Beacon destination system (where we must go to deploy) far, far from Rendezvous 5 system? Seems to be some distance so far. It's not the start system is it?

jolly thicket
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it's closer to 1 or 2

deep parrot
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It's within eyeshot of Rendezvous 0.

cursive marsh
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I would expect expeditions to be a new ongoing thing at this point. Like seasons in mmo's are back to back every 90 days. Only exception is Diablo 3 which gives you a break in between.

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Currently I'm bouncing between two saved files when I play now lol. I log onto my expedition to check and resend the Normandy out on more expeditions. And than I hop over to my main and check the plants I'm growing at my main base in Euclid.

mental socket
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what's this?

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Apparently they got a letter from HG with text "They're coming"

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is this legit?

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someone else got one too

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and another one

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Would really like to have some Waking Titan experts here right now to confirm this false

mental socket
balmy nimbus
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cards are true. Not NMS related.

mental socket
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ah okay, good

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glad I didn't get my hopes up too soon

balmy nimbus
chilly drift
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i was ready the tweet :<

mental socket
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yeh, too much for HG to pull off

balmy nimbus
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It's big marketing, btw

mental socket
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also that alien alphabet isn't the one we see in NMS

balmy nimbus
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Some are thinking about Iam8bit, some others Halo... and Starfield. We'll know by the E3 I guess

mental socket
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I saw someone thinking of bethesdas starfield

balmy nimbus
mental socket
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do you have the link to the nms alphabet btw?

balmy nimbus
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checked the pin, I don't

mental socket
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ah, it's there

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neato

spice gorge
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Wait...

spice gorge
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At my home

balmy nimbus
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you're aware of it, then...

spice gorge
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I'm unsure what it is

balmy nimbus
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marketing. The purpose is unclear... for now

mental socket
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The most prominent theories are for Halo or Starfield

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Not likely nms related. Too widespread and obvious

waxen garnet
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Well, to be fair, NMS is widespread, now.

mental socket
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But this level of advertisement... like

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literal posters on streets

scarlet horizon
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StarTroopers crossover?

waxen garnet
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I doubt it is NMS related.

mental socket
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across the world stuff

waxen garnet
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But it could have been.

mental socket
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yup

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I got my hopes up for a moment

spice gorge
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Reddit seems to think it's to do with some new Coldplay album...

waxen garnet
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Well...
I'm out, then.

mental socket
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also seems kinda intrusive marketing if completely random people are getting the cards

spice gorge
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No reason to think it's to do w/ NMS tho right?

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I've gotten mail from HG before at home.

severe sun
mental socket
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Who is the sender this time

compact coyote
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This theyrecoming thing is really interesting. idk if its not NMS related but it is pretty cool

severe sun
mental socket
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well if some more WT participants will get it this might be interesting

spice gorge
mental socket
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really hoping HG would pull off something big for their 5th anniversary

severe sun
mental socket
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5 years is a major milestone for a game

spice gorge
mental socket
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nothing of HG there

severe sun
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they still might šŸ™‚ 5 years is still 3 months away

severe sun
spice gorge
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Oh no HG in LA ya.

mental socket
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didn't the original pre-order ship come from the 8bit thing?

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the model

spice gorge
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Model was from them

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and the LP set

severe sun
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HG have worked with Alice and Smith in the past, who are based in Canada, but everything they sent out was drop shipped, so the senders address doesn't necessarily mean much

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my l4 atlas pass had uk postage on it

compact coyote
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Reminder: Waking Titian came out in May 28, 2017

severe sun
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it doesn't feel NMS-y though to me - the look is wrong

spice gorge
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I got no L4 Atlas Pass or a casette. šŸ˜• But I can't complain.

compact coyote
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cmon season 3 pls

deft plank
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Im getting waking Titan flashbacks

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As was the case last time though, we canā€™t be sure itā€™s HG until thereā€™s a good link to the game itself

compact coyote
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WT came out on may 28 2017

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so we got time

spice gorge
deft plank
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šŸ‘€

compact coyote
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good old atlas foundation

icy citrus
deft plank
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The font of the numbers is the same from the wt website too

compact coyote
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If WT comes back for season 3 then what could it be about?

deft plank
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we left off with Elizabeth getting blasted to bits if I recall correctly

mental socket
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As this is our fifth anniversary year, we have some other surprises up our sleeves, with more information coming very soon.

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Said Sean a couple of days ago

spice gorge
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The post cards don't feel like HG to me either, tho.

compact coyote
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and Emily dead

mental socket
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didn't WT end for good?

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so that's more evidence towards this not being it

deft plank
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Kinda left on a cliffhanger

compact coyote
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Alice and Smith have liked twitter posts of people saying they want WT to come back

deft plank
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Not sure if thatā€™s where they wanted to leave off or not but idk

compact coyote
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so that should say something at least

spice gorge
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I can't see WT coming back at this point.

compact coyote
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been almost 4 years

spice gorge
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It was here 2017 and 2018 --- but not 2019, 2020

compact coyote
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there have been ARGs that had a 10 year hiatus then came back

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you never know

spice gorge
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wait - it was just 2017 right?

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Leading to Atlas Rises

scarlet horizon
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Not everything is transferable after Expedition is finished? Turns into a normal save?

vague oriole
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As a ps5 player I'm dissapointed

severe sun
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timing fits

vague oriole
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I'd want to get a pc

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But GPUs are too expensive

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So no starfield for me any time soon

scarlet horizon
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We need brain sucking bugs from StarTroopers

compact coyote
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i want WT pls

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i needdd ittttt

cursive marsh
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I'm starting to wonder if I'm seeing visual glitches or something. The expedition reward fighter changed itself to black when I logged on today. It's normally white.
And the reward helmet is now a weird opalescent rainbow helmet instead of the outfit colors I had dyed.

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And my space suit changed colors on it's own also.

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Weird crap is going on with the colors on both saved files now.

Traveller_glitchness.jpg
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Also made all my plant colors wonky and my base helpers. Like the scientist and farmer.

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Really weird. Wonder if it'll auto correct at the next login

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Ever seen faceium and solaniem pixel rainbow blocks before? Weirdly enough my frost worst were perfectly normal

mental socket
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that is an old issue. Probably GPU drivers or something

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One of my friends who is playing on a min spec PC encounters this issue all the time too.

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Yes, it's a vram issue or an old hdd most likely

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or then jusat a driver issue

cursive marsh
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Good to know. I've never seen it before.

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But I've had some weird stuff with a couple of games this month. I want to get my PC looked at. I am concerned the video card and one of my hard drive are both on their way out.

mental socket
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what the heck did I just see

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since when did NPC ships attack you on-foot when shooting at them?!

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This is definitely new

halcyon pebble
mental socket
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how have I missed this

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well, NMS can still surprise in these small ways too

halcyon pebble
mental socket
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it's weird that they have such feature in since you can't really damage an npc ship with your multitool

halcyon pebble
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Not only does it aggro on to you but also on anyone in your party

halcyon pebble
mental socket
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the last time I tried to shoot at npc ship with my multitool was in 2016 when trade station spawned right next to a cliff and the ships flew over it by touching the ground

halcyon pebble
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Interesting

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Yeah they seem to sometimes land

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A decent bit I think they fight

mental socket
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well the new fighter jet sounds they have make them feel more threatening when doing that

wary mesa
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I find it nits now when sentinels won't give up anymore. They seem to aggro nearly forever.

I was marking a manufacturing facility for my buddy, when I got nailed for mining an ore deposit while I waited. They would NOT stop. The dogs even came inside half in the ground and shit at him!

Even after a cool down they started right back up again after I flew and ay and returned. I even made sure I had no ougneum or other Contraband with me.

wary mesa
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I even have fx turned way down.

subtle gorge
mental socket
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yup, apparently they have

compact coyote
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I'm not ruling out that the "theyrecoming" thing is NMS related

mental socket
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I already have

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:c

gloomy isle
compact coyote
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Imo we shouldnt rule it out yet

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Its a mysterious huge ARG that popped up a few days ago

nocturne zephyr
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a youtuber who covers bethesda stuff

prime spade
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Reads up on it

Could be almost anything sci-fi related. Someone mailed out a bunch of cryptic postcards to a bunch of youtubers and influencers. Doesn't feel likely to me, the iconography of the cards doesn't bare any similarities to the symbollism and iconography of Waking Titan or No Man's Sky, it's fairly generic geometric shapes, numbers and symbols in a plain green screen style. And the attached message "They're Coming" implies something alien coming/invading from without (WoooOoooo spooky scarey aliens are invading!), when NMS/WT's narrative is all about things happening within. What exactly would be 'coming' or 'invading' the Atlas simulation that isn't already within it?

compact coyote
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the abyss

nocturne zephyr
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most likely related to another game

mental socket
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and the abyss is just one entity

compact coyote
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Guess we will see what happens

deep parrot
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Did my good gamer dead of the day.
Took another player to the edge of known space on their expedition save. Left them with a stack of warp cells, and ditched em. ^_^

vague oriole
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People who had given their adress to xbox/Bethesda

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It's starfield

gusty berry
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starfield's another year away right?

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campaigning a year+ early feels a little ambitious seeing how they fucked FO76

uncut harness
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Starfield is being shown at E3 according to trusted leakers.

gusty berry
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e3 still exist?

uncut harness
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Yes, unfortunately.

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That's 12th June so only a little over 2 weeks away.

gusty berry
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thought bethesda would've just hosted in their own time

ocean wyvern
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Not much of a NMS spoiler.

uncut harness
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Have Admins and Moderators said anything about this?

ocean wyvern
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I deleted the video and assumed that would be the end of it.

uncut harness
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Then it's clearly not NMS. Unsure why this is carrying on then.
I thought I might have missed something seeing it still talked about.

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Sorry. Thank you!

ocean wyvern
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Np

deep parrot
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No idea what y'all are going on about.

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I'm starting to feel the lead-up hype for Expedition Three, though.

ocean wyvern
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should be in 4 days when this one ends

deep parrot
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Yes, yes!

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I can see us getting given a lot of Frigates for Expeditions in the future.

ocean wyvern
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i wouldn't mind more plants šŸ˜›

deep parrot
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I hope they don't start making crossover content a regular thing.

ocean wyvern
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i doubt they will; the expedition literally started the week after the ME remaster was released

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it was that friday before

ripe moon
ocean wyvern
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like plantable plants

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more garden making stuff

ripe moon
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oh that would be cool, have they added anything like that with recent content updates?

ocean wyvern
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nah but QS store has plantable plants and they have ones from Origins

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would be a good reward even so for an expedition

hallow beacon
#

Regarding Artemis, do I understand this correctly, were they already dead by the time you receive their transmissions? It was just time travel hijinks that made you receive their calls

deep parrot
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As I recall the situation, she went through one of the Portal ruins, and ended up stuck within the data space of the Korvax convergence.

That is, her mind ended up there, away from her body, which would have withered away and died without her mind.

So, her body died. Mind got stuck in the Convergence.

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There's no time travel in this story. Just several multiverses playing in parallel.

hallow beacon
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Oooh

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It's not as sad as I thought

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I thought you travelled through the galaxy trying to save her only to find out she was long dead.

prime spade
hallow beacon
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It sounds like she's definitely existing in some form or other then. So what's that ghost artemis you create and chuck into the simulation inside the anomaly?

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By choosing to let her live like that, are we creating an artemis copy?

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Or worse, are we ripping her away from her previous existence and trapping her inside the anomaly?

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Though the way she described her afterlife, it wasn't really pleasant. It just sounded dark and lonely. So leaving her as she was probably wouldn't have been great either.

slow yacht
#

WHY IN THE 16 LOOP HELL IS THE NORMANDY IN THE GAME

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LIKE WHAT

nocturne zephyr
#

good question!

prime spade
# slow yacht WHY IN THE 16 LOOP HELL IS THE NORMANDY IN THE GAME

I can only guess some employee installed Mass Effect on one of the original servers because they got super bored during the Waking Titan period.

But I really hope that's not the answer, and that the whole thing is just an Easter Egg and we shouldn't be taking any of this as canon because it causes so many problems for the lorekeeping nerds if the universe is content-unbounded.

slow yacht
#

that makes sense

nocturne zephyr
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Maybe hello games and bioware are merging

prime spade
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Bioware? - Or EA, wearing Bioware's butchered face like a grotesque masque?

nocturne zephyr
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yes

candid lark
#

Sean who founded Hello Games is an ex-employee of EA

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He worked on ME

nocturne zephyr
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did he? i know he worked on burnout

candid lark
#

He put the normandy in as a marketing thing for them

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for ME legendary edition

icy citrus
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Lol

candid lark
#

this is nothing but blatant marketing promotion

icy citrus
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Yeah it couldn't possibly be because he loved the game and added an Easter egg, they are well known for their marketing others games /s

candid lark
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theres that as well ^^^^

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he loved ME as a game, this was an easter egg and the only way to permission to insert it was to sweet talk bioware/EA's marketing dept

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I still wouldnt be surprised if theres some kind of development link between Hello Games and Frontier Developments

elfin spoke
#

just finished the expedition. was not expecting that. couldn't figure out why the music was playing and then i turned around and saw the ship. to bad can't share lol

mental socket
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Been looking at reaction clips and too many people looked away from the warp when it happened

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The camera should've gently adjust towards the warp

stray pike
#

i personally thought there should have been an alert on the HUD like there is in space combat encounters either when the pirate ship(s) are warping in or the locator triangle on the edge of the screen

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an icon to show you the direction to look in with a visual confirmation by the pulsing effect etc

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good event, beautiful ship/scene, but missing the lead up was a party pooper

mighty rampart
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"noooo the normandy doesnt make sense it breaks the lore!!!"

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The lifeform tries to shake my hand, but pauses as we phase through one another. They are fascinated by the encounter, claiming to be a Traveller. It is clear they come from a very different region of space. They have never heard of the Gek, Vy'keen, Korvax, or any of the sights I have encountered. They wish to know more in the spirit of cooperation.