nms-expedition

[dull ginkgo]

anyone know what the 1st R1 system is called i forgor 💀

[untold tartan]

And that’s a good idea

[indigo falcon]

see pins in here, there's one with all the systems

[untold tartan]

No just use the multitool slot expansion

[dull ginkgo]

oh sweet

thanks

[sleek spade]

Is this expedition good

[indigo falcon]

I thought it was pretty fun first time through

[untold tartan]

Yeah it’s a fun one

[sleek spade]

Ok good

[untold tartan]

Just get the pirate system out of the way first since it’s near rdv 1

[scarlet ocean]

Where the heck do I get a walker brain-

[untold tartan]

Defeat a tier 5 sentinel swarm

[untold tartan]

I’ll help if you want

[indigo falcon]

you don't need one, buy an economy scanner and use that instead

[untold tartan]

Wait an economy scan works

[indigo falcon]

sure does

[untold tartan]

Omg

[scarlet ocean]

Uh... that would be nice... but I'm also screwed as I don't have enough nanites for that-

[indigo falcon]

in the starter system go to the two exotic worlds and scan the single fauna, then register that for 250 nanites each (warning, one has aggro sentinels, stay alert)

[craggy echo]

Once you have an idium drive do you still need the cadmium and emeril?

[indigo falcon]

nope

[untold tartan]

But it increases your warp range

[scarlet ocean]

...That's a long way back but eh, ok I guess.

[indigo falcon]

it's not. go to space station, use teleporter to go back, do the things, use teleporter at that space station to return

make a note of where you are of course

[craggy echo]

Ah got it. But idium drive can travel to all stars

[dull ginkgo]

any tips on how to find underwater ruins?

[indigo falcon]

the nautlon with the scanner tech does that

you get all the blueprints from the uh

Freighter Blighted milestone in phase 2

[dull ginkgo]

oh okay

cheers

[hazy cypress]

When do you hit the freighter again? I'm at rendezvous 2

[indigo falcon]

I don't quite understand the question

[dull ginkgo]

if you leave your submarine and place another spawning pad will the scanner stay with it?

[indigo falcon]

you go to the pad and summon the exocraft, it is the same one

you do not have multiple copies of the nautilon (or other exocraft), only one

[scarlet ocean]

Is the "high security" mean "High sentinal Activity"

[indigo falcon]

it means they watch you but unless yo break the rules they do nothing

(rules = mining plants and minerals, shooting animals, shooting them)

[scarlet ocean]

I'm on the quest for Gravitino balls.

So...well, yeah.

[indigo falcon]

aggro sentinel world in starter system, see pins

[hazy cypress]

The Blighted freighter I think in phase Ii? The abandoned one

[indigo falcon]

that's in phase 2 but what is your question about it?

[hazy cypress]

Ah I mean I'm worried I missed it

I have one piece of a map but it doesn't cue up a location

[indigo falcon]

pin the milestone and see what the log says

[hazy cypress]

Ok.

[indigo falcon]

you should have gotten some kind of coords at r2

[hazy cypress]

Ok thanks. I'll check. I was in a rush as I had to leave so I'll check it again

[indigo falcon]

ok! you'll get a marker or you should have, which should show when the next milestone is pinned

[hazy cypress]

Also, das with the red star drive do you recommend just buying the plans for the green star drive at the anamoly? I went that route

[indigo falcon]

yep, skip the freighter drives altogether

[hazy cypress]

Got it. Thanks!

[urban ridge]

Is there a cape reward for the expedition?

[indigo falcon]

outlaw cape indeed

[urban ridge]

Which marker is that for

Like what one of the 5 do I need to get it

[indigo falcon]

sorry? it's the reward you get for completing the whole thing

all 5 phases

[urban ridge]

Bruhhhh

Looks like I got lots to do then

[indigo falcon]

better get to it 🙂

[urban ridge]

I got exams for today and Monday

THEN IMA BLOW THIS EXPEDITION OUTTA THE WATER

[indigo falcon]

two weeks to run, you'll still have time

[urban ridge]

Yes

Alr thanks

[indigo falcon]

you bet

[dull ginkgo]

how do you like combine the map fragments together

nvm i needa look harder

[indigo falcon]

lol

[craggy echo]

Gimme a swarm of walkers to fight

But those dogs

They terrify me

[native bloom]

All of them are easy with the blaze javelin and stun upgrade

[craggy echo]

Blaze javelin…?

[native bloom]

That said I did everything today except the two sentinel milestones. I'll do those tomorrow. I built my multitool around blaze javelin and stun already

[craggy echo]

For me its scatter blaster. But I’m trying out pulse splitter on this save

Blaze javelin just never clicked for me

[native bloom]

Pulse spitter with the burning upgrade is pretty good. I think you get some x class upgrades for that early on too

[craggy echo]

Yea

[pine relic]

I did it all with just the scatter blaster since one of the first milestones I completed was the grav ball one

[native bloom]

Does using the sentinel pillar shut down count as killing sentinels?

[craggy echo]

Yea

[native bloom]

Oh shouldn't be too hard then

[pine relic]

yep. Rendezvous 5 has aggro sentinels and a pillar really close to it, so it shouldn't be hard to get a nice pack of 'em to aggro there before doing the shutdown

[indigo falcon]

you can even bait some sentinels into following you to the pillar (if it's on a high or aggro sentinel world) and then shut down to get some extras

hey Bliss, shoved a bit more stuff into one more pin in here, thinking we surely have covered everything by now, even though it will turn out not to be true 😄

[pine relic]

tho I ended up doing the 5 waves to get the pillar marked so I didn't really get to test out that trick myself

[native bloom]

Reload resets the pillar doesn't it? So just do it once, reload, then do it again?

[indigo falcon]

yeah it has, I haven't tested that post 4.0 but I assume so

[patent canyon]

I know that Nexus missions require to defeat all Sentinel waves before being able to pull the plug at the console. Idk if the Blighted expedition has same requirement. 🤔

[indigo falcon]

nope it does not

[patent canyon]

Good.

[indigo falcon]

stroll up, punch into the terminal, while the guarding sentinels just watch you bemusedly

[pine relic]

I thought it was all covered already. Judging by yesterday, people seemed to have less trouble with this one than exobiology. Not nearly as much help required.

[patent canyon]

I joined the expedition today, was welcomed by creepy music playing in main menu. And found that I am confusing the controls of Elite:Dangerous with the controls of NMS. In case of the similar features.

[indigo falcon]

you would think. and yet 😄

[patent canyon]

According to objectives, this expedition seems to be faster and less about RNG (like find random stuff objectives).

[indigo falcon]

it is definitely shorter

[patent canyon]

Also since beginning, there is interesting story about the mysterious Blight faction.

||Who we shouldn't pursue at any time.||

[rocky fern]

I mean, the first few phases last a lot further into the game than Exobiology's.

[pine relic]

and yet its still way faster to finish

[patent canyon]

I still have stuff to do even outside of objectives though - getting 💰 (and I got lucky - got directed by distress call map for abandonded building, so I did "collect" a few eggs) and get resources for required tech.

[indigo falcon]

no 'scan so many fauna/flora/minerals', no 'gain so much standing with explorers' guild'

[patent canyon]

As there are going to be combat quests on foot, I'll need some better weapons.

[native bloom]

I spent about the same amount of time in both I think, though I used optimization tips for the first one

[patent canyon]

Especially the stun grenade.

[stark root]

Yep, definitely faster and didn't have to travel so far either.

[rocky fern]

Explorer's Guild was super easy for me, even thought I'd never done it before. Or any Nexus mission.s 🤷🏻‍♂️

[patent canyon]

I did play the first one without guide to check up how long it will take when playing the supposed way. Also I took my time at beginning for resource hunt.

[indigo falcon]

the only combat on foot is 'kill some sentinels' and you can manage that by shooting a few on a high sentinel world, grabbing the barrels, then run away. repeat as many times as needed. you get the scatter blaster for stealing grav balls, which requires no combat

[native bloom]

I think the tips help cut time more on exobiology

[rocky fern]

How does the Scatter Blaster help with Gravitino Balls?

[native bloom]

Although I also did stuff like gather 200 gravitino balls

[pine relic]

I did this one before we had coordinates up, and before people even had comm balls up, it was still faster than my first run on exobiology... #nms-expedition message

[indigo falcon]

the scatter blaster is given to you for stealing the grav balls

[haughty forge]

Is there a way to consolidate my expedition quicksilver into my normal save?

[indigo falcon]

then you can use it for the milestone of wwhacking sentinels

[patent canyon]

Though I heard that the longest expedition was the first one, Pioneers.

Which required to map undiscovered planets.

Which took forever.

[native bloom]

No, you just have to buy what you want and use the account wide feature

[indigo falcon]

no but you can buy items on this save that can be claimed on the other saves

[haughty forge]

That's so dumb. I've got enough for cosmetics between two expeditions.

[native bloom]

Pioneers was a slog

The original

Pioneers redux wasn't so bad

[indigo falcon]

bad but not as bad

[pine relic]

you should have enough for cosmetics in this expedition. 2688 if I recall... should allow you to buy almost any cosmetic, which will then be unlocked for the entire account.

[native bloom]

I thought it was about 1600 total QS? I'm going from memory though

[pine relic]

888 from a milestone, 1800 from the final reward, going by memory

[indigo falcon]

1800 + 888

[native bloom]

My apologies then

[pine relic]

and a free void egg

[haughty forge]

Does the void egg yield quicksilver?

[native bloom]

No

[pine relic]

which could save 3200 qs if one is able to get some help in transferring to a main save. So, not as much help for the switch... :P

[native bloom]

Just saves you from having to buy it

[indigo falcon]

not but it sure costs plenty

sure hope mp comes to the switch sometime

[native bloom]

I'm not holding my breath on that

[indigo falcon]

if enough people ask for it, Sean has said they will look into it at least

[haughty forge]

Can't unlock any of the helmets, but would have two if I could actually have free use of the quicksilver

[indigo falcon]

maybe it won't be doable but then again, who believed there would ever be a switch port

[pine relic]

even without mp on the switch, I find it super strange that they can use the ODS to see crossplay bases but are unable to get quicksilver missions somehow...

[indigo falcon]

yeah there's a backstory to that I'm sure

hope that gets sorted sooner rather than later

[leaden fable]

Is there anyway for someone to give me a walker brain while I’m still doing the expedition

[indigo falcon]

you don't need it, install the economy scanner

[leaden fable]

Oki

[craggy echo]

Omg I didn’t realise quicksilver purchases unlock for all saves

😱😱😱

[pine relic]

they do, you sill have to go to the vendor to claim it on every save, but it will be free on the others.

[craggy echo]

This makes me happy

[patent canyon]

Wow!

Didn't know it too.

[craggy echo]

Glad I didn’t delete my exo biology save

[indigo falcon]

items you claimed on one save should show as 'available' on other saves

[pine relic]

except for consumables, such as fireworks and void eggs

[leaden fable]

How do I use the econ scan ?

[indigo falcon]

!faq-outlawsystem

[unkempt kraken]

to view, enable Link Preview

Finding Outlaw Systems

Requires economy scanner or conflict scanner installed on ship, or interstellar scanner on freighter.

In the galaxy map, look for systems with a small pirate skull left of the Economy type icon and identified as Black Market, or with Conflict level set to Pirate Controlled.

---

Contributors: bkay201#1943

[leaden fable]

So for the counterfire where do I go

[pine relic]

• After reaching the fifth rendezvous point (which will happen automatically) head to coordinates +68.26, -69.53 (20 seconds away by ship, on the same planet) to find a Sentinel Pillar for the Phase 4 milestone, "Counterfire".

[leaden fable]

Idk how to do cords

[pine relic]

first number is north/south, north being positive, second number is east/west, east being positive.

[leaden fable]

Yeh that does not help

[young sparrow]

Look at your scope thing. They should be in the upper/ middle right corner

[pine relic]

ok, just murder 5 waves of sentinels and it will mark a pillar on your hud :P

[young sparrow]

Fighting sentinels sucks

At least for me

[indigo falcon]

https://nomanssky.fandom.com/wiki/Planetary_coordinates read, use. it may take a bit for you to get the knack

[leaden fable]

Can you buy like a map thing and find it like that

[pine relic]

nope

[indigo falcon]

these charts cannot be bought

you can buy a pile of suspicious packets (goods) from an outlaw system, save, open, no map? reload, try again etc

that's pretty tedious though

I am guessing that you'll see a map about 1 of every 50 times or so

on average

[leaden fable]

I’ll just do that then 🤷🏾‍♀️

[haughty forge]

I've had good luck with the scatter blaster. just boost it with upgrades, which you get a lot of in this expedition

[young sparrow]

It sucks because of the tv I’m using, and the console

[young sparrow]

But I do mostly use the scatter blaster

The mining beam just pushes the sentinels back

[pine relic]

scatter blaster is pretty easy to use... the amount of aim assist they have in nms means you can even snipe with the shotgun lol

[leaden fable]

Nvm I looked and someone has a base at a pillar 😌

[indigo falcon]

ok then

[haughty forge]

watch out for bases built by someone who doesn't have a visible player name. dude is a f'ing nazi

[indigo falcon]

assuming it's not on a volcanic world, should be ok, just report if it's a trap

[prisma sable]

So I've just done most of phase 4 and got a void egg but I'm thinking this won't be transferred to my main save will i

It*

[indigo falcon]

nope

[prisma sable]

Oh ffs

[pine relic]

it can, but not automatically, only by multiplayer

[indigo falcon]

I'm guessing you're a switch player?

[prisma sable]

Me?

[indigo falcon]

yes, if not then you should be able to get another player to help you transfer it

[pine relic]

preferably before answering its call

[prisma sable]

Nah, I'm playing on PS5 but I don't know anyone that plays this unfortunately.

[indigo falcon]

ask in #nms-lfg-or-trades once the expedition is complete

[native bloom]

You know plenty... Right here

I can help tomorrow, already shut down for tonight

[prisma sable]

Ha, very true! I just entered this discord last night so I don't really know how all of this works.

[prisma sable]

Oh thanks that would be great, I'm in the UK so our time difference is a bit crazy so just let me know if anything 🙂

[indigo falcon]

the trades channel is where peole loook for other folks to play, arrange trades, give away items, ask for in game help like what you need, etc.

so yeah this is the right place to be

[native bloom]

Ping me when available and I'll let you know if I'm also available

[pine relic]

keep in mind that it will only work in a different save if you don't talk to the living ship in space, as far as I know, so best to store it in a cargo container until you're ready to transfer

[native bloom]

Yeah, has to be a normal Void Egg

[prisma sable]

Okay great, I just got the egg like 5 mins ago, so I should just get it in the container asap?

[indigo falcon]

yes

[pine relic]

ye

[indigo falcon]

no pulsing at all. call the anomaly, teleport to freighter, stash in container. for example

[prisma sable]

Okay great, I'm like running on the anomaly rn hsha

[indigo falcon]

perfect!

[pine relic]

even pulsing might be fine as long as they don't answer the pinging comms, I think

[prisma sable]

Damn I don't have any salvaged data to get the container crap how long have I go

Got*

[indigo falcon]

don't need it

containers on the freighter, you have the blueprints for those

[pine relic]

it should be unlocked by default as soon as you get a freighter

[rocky fern]

I forgot all about building things like Storage Containers on my Freighter.

[indigo falcon]

50 mag ferrite, 20 sodium, and you've got thepersonal refiner if you don't have the mag ferrite on you

[prisma sable]

I don't have the sodium haha, I got a new shop and didn't transfer my stuff over like an idiot

[indigo falcon]

umm ok let's see how we can be clever about this. sodium nitrate?

[winter whale]

can anyone join vc?

[pine relic]

if the stuff is just in a different ship they should all be either parked in the freighter or summonable there

[prisma sable]

Nope

[indigo falcon]

oh but you can swap ships at the anomaly

swap, grab, swap back. use the quick summoning menu to do that

[pine relic]

you can swap at the freighter too if its not parked there

[indigo falcon]

also true

[prisma sable]

I'm gunna have to pick some up from a planet quickly, seems I didn't have any on my ship either, so odd

[indigo falcon]

nor sodium nitrate?

ok then put the egg in the unequipped ship for now

no cave marrow by any chance? 😄 😄

[prisma sable]

How long until it starts pulsing on average

Hahaha nope I'm as dry as a bone right noe

[pine relic]

you should be fine as long as you don't answer the comms

[indigo falcon]

there is no on average, don't risk it. put the egg in one ship, switch to the other, use that

[prisma sable]

Okay doing that now

[dull ginkgo]

finally finished the expedition

that was p fun

[prisma sable]

If I finish the expedition will I still be able to access the save or should I just wait until the void egg is transferred?

[indigo falcon]

whenyou complete it, the expedition will convert to a save with normal mode setttings

you can then continue to play it

[pine relic]

you're actually unable to transfer until after you finish the expedition, because expedition saves can only meet up with people in other expedition saves, so you'd need to convert to normal mode first

[prisma sable]

Oh okay, I'll crack on with the rest now. Awesome. Thank you so much guys, I would have just followed whatever the void egg did and got a living ship on this save haha

This is my first expedition so I have like no idea about this stuff. You guys are awesome

[indigo falcon]

good luck, enjoy!

[dull dagger]

The next expedition started?

[pine relic]

if by next you mean #6, Blighted, then yes.

[dull dagger]

awesome, thanks @pine relic Helpful as always 🙂

[indigo falcon]

now read the pins for all the good info!

[pine relic]

Most if not all info you need to complete should be in the pins already, tho make sure to scroll down as one of 'em was buried a bit deep in there

[indigo falcon]

Expedition 6 (Redux) Deadlines that's the first of the lot I think

and all the rest

[pine relic]

your original one is below that

[dull dagger]

Thanks! I wish I had known about those resources the first time I did the expedition

[indigo falcon]

oh. welp. then Tips for Expedition 6 (The Blighted) Redux is the first one 😄

[pine relic]

lol

[haughty forge]

anybody else go to a really pretty planet at the end of the expedition?

[ebon leaf]

wheres new edmon?

[pine relic]

If you mean post-core-warp, everyone ended up on the same place I think.

[haughty forge]

oh that's good...no spoilers for those who haven't done it yet, but...very pretty.

[pine relic]

Is it listed as discovered?

[haughty forge]

i believe so?

[native bloom]

Yeah judging by the comm balls, everyone goes to the same place

[haughty forge]

i think it's made me take down my base in my normal save. going to find a pretty toxic planet.

[burnt kraken]

@ebon leaf where are you reading that that should be a place?

[indigo falcon]

meh you can have 400 bases, keep the old ones, build new ones too

[ebon leaf]

following a blighted expedition guide, says new edmon has the counter fire challenge

[pastel star]

the comm balls would indicate we go the same place.. dont know i would call it pretty

[haughty forge]

new edmon is in new canada

[pine relic]

this isn't blighted, this is blighted redux

[native bloom]

New or old guide?

[ebon leaf]

just looked, 7 months old

[native bloom]

Yeah that's for regular blighted

[ebon leaf]

guessing this guide is now useless to me F

[native bloom]

Doesn't apply here

[burnt kraken]

@ebon leaf check the pins here for info on this iteration of the exped

[pine relic]

the pinned messages here should have everything you need to complete it

[indigo falcon]

old one, it's from galaxy 89, just checked the wiki

[pastel star]

we can be your new guide, its a fabulous time

[indigo falcon]

a lot of the mechanics in the guide will still be useful but none of the actual locations

[ebon leaf]

k found a new guide

21 hours ago so it should work

[indigo falcon]

also do check the pins in here, lots of location and other info that can be helpful

good luck, enjoy!

[pine relic]

oh well, we certainly would be completely lost without bad youtubers stealing our info without giving credit :P

[pastel star]

I love some of these special planets, found a sporal and most of the minerals are eggs, one even has a built in tv

[indigo falcon]

they might be playing through without reference to any of the info here, I see a lot of variance in the guides tbh

[pine relic]

Meh, to know for sure I'd have to give 'em clicks and I refuse :P

I've spent too much time in #nms-questions correcting hasty youtuber guides to have any patience for it anymore

[indigo falcon]

some bad info goes viral indeed. other guides (beeble's glitch building ones) are pretty solid. it all depends

[ebon leaf]

does the high security planet have the counter thingy

[pine relic]

pretty much every planet has a pillar, if that's what you mean by 'counter thingy'

[ebon leaf]

yeash

[pine relic]

often more than one

[pine relic]

Good research on youtube is few and far between when it comes to nms. I can only name beeble, xaine and our own DH, and DH isn't even primarily a youtuber, from what I can tell.

[ebon leaf]

cant find any gravatino balls damn

[indigo falcon]

check-the-pins

[pine relic]

second pinned message, #nms-expedition message

[ebon leaf]

i did

[indigo falcon]

we gotcha covered, for real

[ebon leaf]

nah like im at the petrified planet

[pine relic]

sure because there's only the one in the entire 5 quintillion. :P

if you can't teleport back to the starter system using a station teleporter, then the planet for rendezvous 5 will have grav balls.

[ebon leaf]

ok

also wheres this piller at

[pine relic]

same pin has coordinates for a pillar, also in the rendezvous 5 planet.

[ebon leaf]

should i just follow the intended path

im following ways to go faster that are just making me more lost

probs a bad idea

[indigo falcon]

you can backtrack at any time, just make sure you went to the local space station first, keep track of that point (make a note or something) before going elsewhere

[pine relic]

you can stray from the path if you want, but often it will be quicker to just follow it and then at the end clean up any remaining milestones that you didn't get along the way

[native bloom]

I mostly just followed the guided path and did ok. I did a few things to make sure I was prepared or did a couple of things out of order

[leaden fable]

5 hours n 40 min

It would’ve been less but I kept getting distracted n just stalling

[indigo falcon]

we're not (necessarily) speed running here, it's all good

[pine relic]

indeed, I myself only speedrun if bored lol

[indigo falcon]

ah doing som e shuffling? thanks, they are kinda out of order at this point

[fringe agate]

I hate discord pin editing, Let me drag and drop

Wtf is this 1988?

[pine relic]

lol

a mod's work is never done

[patent canyon]

At least it isn't dial up internet.

[haughty forge]

are there any perks to being a mod?

[pine relic]

Speak for yourself, I'm rocking a whole fourteen four hundred baud modem

[indigo falcon]

more stress and strain imo (disclaimer: not a mod, no plans, see: stress and strain)

[haughty forge]

do they get paid in fungible currency?

[pine relic]

Yeah, I avoid anything that involves work just out of principle.

[indigo falcon]

I avoid commitments to do work. if I can walk away or drop it in the middle then it's ok

can't do that as a mod.

[fringe agate]

I get a million shillbucks a month

[pine relic]

Well, that's mostly a semantics issue I guess. If I can do it whenever I please I don't consider it work lol

you don't need it.

[indigo falcon]

don\t. see pins, get the cadmium drive fo r the starship instead

in fact if you already have the cadmium from a milestone, get the emeril drive and install that 😛

[pine relic]

but if you want to fix it you can buy the hypercore recipe from the anomaly and the quantum computer from most stations along the rendezvous path

[haughty forge]

i would like an expedition where i can BE a pirate

[ebon leaf]

is theyre still a free freighter

[indigo falcon]

yes

[pine relic]

after the first warp

[indigo falcon]

you pretty much have to get a free one in this expedition

[pine relic]

can't do the squadron milestone without a freighter, but for everything else you don't need one, and using it for anything other than storage/base building would be counterproductive

[native bloom]

I recommend watching the Nexus for Emeril fetch missions and use that to build the Indium drive

[indigo falcon]

including warping around

if you dismantle the broken red star warp drive thing, I forget what it's called, you can get a hypercore out of that and use it for the starship 😛

[ebon leaf]

47 grav balls sell, for alot

[indigo falcon]

nice job

[pine relic]

I just built the emeril drive, went to emeril system since that was a milestone anyway, and then built the indium drive with emeril from there... didn't do the red skies milestone until near the end of the expedition

[ebon leaf]

i got like 2 acheivments from selling them lol

[indigo falcon]

plus tasty tasty units

[haughty forge]

oh, i saw a couple people with a fighter that had exotic swirly patterns and gold coloring. what's up with that?

[native bloom]

Golden Vector?

[pine relic]

if it was the golden vector, that's the final reward for the first expedition

[native bloom]

https://images.app.goo.gl/myaHrNNYDuG9924eA

Didn't embed, oh well

[ebon leaf]

is it ok if i miss out on a solar mirror

[pine relic]

you're gonna need one eventually

[native bloom]

You'll need the solar mirror

[ebon leaf]

none was sold in this station

hopefully the next

[pine relic]

check the pins for where to buy it

[native bloom]

Random pilots will sell it too

[pine relic]

this?

[haughty forge]

yup

[pine relic]

that's the golden vector, final reward for the first expedition, can be claimed once per save in the anomaly.

[haughty forge]

ahh bummer

[indigo falcon]

https://nomanssky.fandom.com/wiki/Expedition_6:_The_Blighted_Redux handy list of all milestones and rewards for blighted redux on one wiki page

[pine relic]

for just the account unlocks, there's this one too: #nms-expedition message

[ebon leaf]

where do i save intergalactic freighter

[pine relic]

immediately after warping for the first time, a freighter will be under attack by pirates. Kill pirates, answer comms, land on freighter, talk to captain twice.

[ebon leaf]

k

thanks

[bold roost]

Is anyone playing the expedition right now? I just started and could use a Yoda to show me the way

how do we join one another?

[pine relic]

easiest would be to trade friend codes and then second person just joins first persons game from main menu

[bold roost]

thank you thank you

[pine relic]

this being expedition tho, its not impossible to just go to the same station / planet / whatever and meet up, I suppose.

[bold roost]

K0YV-3NV4-SSKXM

wait ill check

Hijinaq

I believe it is already on, i see others

I will wait one jiffy.

should we join a voice call?

in the anomaly or the store thingy

coming

my ship is about out of gas

[median ember]

I died within 5 minutes of starting BLIGHTED.....STUPID PLANET

😭

No not extreme planet...stupid tornado sucked me in... And took me for a ride..

I got a warning ... Incoming storm.. ok...i got sheild

[indigo falcon]

very unlucky spawn in!

[median ember]

Before i could read another warning.... Incoming wind....WHHHEEEEEYOOOOOOO.....(SPLAT)

And the msg is what irritated me most

😑

Seriously...NMS ..HG ..

[indigo falcon]

..I"m not laughing at you, I'm laguhing with you! honest!

[pine relic]

Look on the bright side, you'd be a lot more annoyed if you had that screen in permadeath mode. :P

[indigo falcon]

(but more seriously, that should be your run of bad luck for the entire expedition )

[median ember]

And yet somehow i don't seem to believe you

[median ember]

Don't worry leviathan starts just before Christmas

My 37 times of payback will either add up...or get paid in full

[pine relic]

that's not true PD, but its a nice introduction for players that are wary of attempting the game mode :P

[indigo falcon]

it's oly true pd if you never remember to make a base 😄

[pine relic]

not even then, because the expedition is still progressing... like getting better memory modules and stuff. First run became easier and easier as time went on, even if the player wasn't actually playing it at the time. :P

[indigo falcon]

well it depends on when you die. if the community hasn't progressed the tier, you are just as bad off as you were before!

[pine relic]

true

I'm curious to see how they're gonna implement the tier stuff for the redux (if they will)

[indigo falcon]

I wonder how that willwork this time with the compressed schedule

2 days per tier and X gets extended to the end of the expd?

[pine relic]

I only ran the original once, but at the time I was kinda curious if there was some secret way of finishing it with zero deaths... I ended up having two, I think, and the first one was because a milestone seemed to require it

[indigo falcon]

there is a way with zero, well it's one

||the one where the Leviathan kills you so you break the loop||

[pine relic]

From my vague recollection I think on the first planet I jumped off a mountain because to fix the ship you had to die or something

[indigo falcon]

for the milestone that requires it, ||you buy items instead (takes a while to make that happen) and never collect that that until the 1 required death mentioned above||

[pine relic]

interesting

[indigo falcon]

yeah. a few people did that as a proof of concept.

but it is extra grindy

you're on foot walking until you find somewhere to buy the thing, which ain't sold everywhere

[pine relic]

I also got shredded by one of the rendezvous surprises if I recall

that was a fun expedition, first time in years that I had a legitimate death that wasn't on purpose

[indigo falcon]

well anchor 4 got me, dang thing. first the exocraft got hung on the incline, I had to reload. so then ok can't use exocraft? I'll go without: an incline so steep I could not walkdown it, died of fall damage.

next pass through my prng was better and I got a grave more accessible

[pine relic]

not counting the occasional 'no caves no sodium' snafus when starting new PD saves I guess.

[indigo falcon]

eh right

[pine relic]

I don't even remember if I had any of those at any point recently, because its such a false start that I just forget 'em lol

[indigo falcon]

as well you should

[pine relic]

Starts were more memorable when you had to walk for like half an hour from cave to cave to get to your ship, before they started having it spawn way closer...

I kinda miss that

[indigo falcon]

I expect you looooved cartographers (expd3) then 😛

[pine relic]

was that the on foot one?

that was one of my favorites

[indigo falcon]

uh huh, spend most of the time on the one planet

I got a wretched spawn in and was not savvy enough to recognize it for what it was and just restart

[pine relic]

it was also the first one that I helped people on this channel I think

[indigo falcon]

spent a lot of extra hours because of that

[pine relic]

people were having trouble with geobays because the planet had reached its limit from uploaded bases or something, and people didn't realize that they could use other peoples bays to summon their own exocraft

[indigo falcon]

well when I first came in the channel here, I just found it way too busy, so I closed the tab

took a good while to finally come back around and decide it was actually kinda fun

5 geobays. yeah that was an infamous bug

[pine relic]

but I legitimately liked that expedition

[indigo falcon]

I spawned on a tiny island in the middle of water.... nearest other small island a good swim away... signal booster would just send me back anf forth between the two, couldn't get the milestone to pop because no real building. sucked majorly

[pine relic]

I dunno, I always explored a lot on foot, in all versions... back in the days of portal interference I loved using portals to put myself in a situation where I had to explore without a ship

[indigo falcon]

I like exploring on foot, don't get me wrong. when I first fired up the game I spent days just on foot, like literal days.

[sly pond]

No caves no Sodium shouldn't be the issue it once was, with the new Scannerless hazard protection buff

[indigo falcon]

like 'building 8 hours away? ok, I'm going for 8 hours then, let's do it'

but you can't really do that when most of what is around you is water and you're going to swim most of that 8 hours, if you know what I mean

[pine relic]

I've been wondering why my hazard protection on pd was draining like it was normal mode when I first started my latest save. I guess that was some undocumented change?

[sly pond]

@pine relic Yeah, as long as none of your MTs has a working Scanner, you get ~10x the duration.

[indigo falcon]

so this is for the period when you don't yet have a working scanner?

wow

[pine relic]

oh yeah, I'm fine with walking but swimming is just, oof...

[sly pond]

@indigo falcon It is, but if you wanna cheese it, you can dismantle Scanner to extend your protection lol.

[indigo falcon]

so if I'd been clever I woulda said 'let's restart and maybe I'll get a spawn in with more land around me' but... didn't. so, a lousy experience. oh well

[pine relic]

and its pretty cheap to rebuild so I guess that could be interesting to cheese for doing derelicts early...

[indigo falcon]

it's not like you really need the scanner in a derelict

[pine relic]

I expect its still gonna drain a fair bit on derelicts even with 10x, but it gives you a lot more time to find heaters

[pine relic]

I wonder if that would work. In 5 Redux my back-to-back runs spawned me in the exact same coordinates both times... not sure if it was coincidence or what

[sly pond]

I started a PD file to check it out, and ended up playing til I got the Hyperdrive. When the scripted storm rolled in, I dismantled it out of curiosity, worked like a charm. 🙂 And you should get 25 minutes on a derelict Scannerless.

[indigo falcon]

that's weird and I can't imagineit's normal, most people come in with different locations that I've seen

[pine relic]

25 minutes barebones or with 3 perfectly rolled X hazards? which I did prioritize in my pd save lol

[indigo falcon]

dang 25 minutes, that's a looooong time

[pine relic]

Without the scanner cheese I think I get like 3 minutes or so in a storm

[indigo falcon]

3 mins in an extreme storm? mmm

[pine relic]

and that already feels like a really long time

[indigo falcon]

how about just extreme weather w/o the storm?

[pine relic]

I didn't look, lets see if I can find a planet to check

[indigo falcon]

I think that's the equiv for derelicts (extreme cold but not extreme storm cold)

[pine relic]

for reference, tho I'm sure it could be optimized further,

all X were rerolled to 10-10-10-10, because now its super cheap to reroll lol

[indigo falcon]

it sure is, and yet I haven't gotten around to it (though I am generally on normal where it doesn't matter so much)

[pine relic]

tho I learned thanks to supercharge slots that not all 10x4 are equal, seems like there's some rounding happening...

[sly pond]

@pine relic 25min with base Hazard tech.

And there's actually zero rounding. The game calculates values to 12 decimals and just hacks them off for display, so 5% can actually be anywhere from 5.000000000000% to 5.999999999999%.

[pine relic]

ah so it doesn't round up/down no matter what, that's interesting to know

[sly pond]

Yeah, one of my current projects is testing all "god roll" X-Class upgrade seeds, to figure out which one has the best hidden values for each tech type.

[pine relic]

interesting. If someone had datamined the actual algorithm that converts seeds into actual stats, programming something that just spits out the 'best' god roll seeds for each type of mod should be pretty simple...

[sly pond]

The closest anyone has done to that is zencq, who set up a Python algorithm that goes through 1 upgrade seed per frame and records the visible stat bonuses to a .csv file.

[pine relic]

I expect it shouldn't even be that hard to reverse-engineer something accurate enough with some seeds that have known values...

[sly pond]

Finding those values that way would require hacking the .exe, they're not recorded anywhere in save data.

[pine relic]

yeah, I think the main challenge would be getting the full number if the game doesn't save it anywhere.

[sly pond]

Doable for some tech, weapons mostly. Save edit damage bonus so you do 2 billion or so per shot, and math it out lol.

[pine relic]

btw I can contribute some seeds to the cause if you'd like

[sly pond]

Thought's appreciated, but an assistant and I are literally evaluating every last god roll. We've completed all MT tech minus Mining Beam and Blaze Javelin over the past couple of weeks. 🙂

[pine relic]

you checked all possible rolls to get the god tiers?

that takes more patience than I would have had lol

[sly pond]

We're using zencq's PI repository to identify all god rolls, and then testing them individually.

[pine relic]

I figured, but I assume that still takes quite a while to run thru them all

[sly pond]

Between the 2 of us, 3hrs or so to check 3000 upgrade seeds.

(Afaik only X Hazard mods have more god rolls than that, ~3500)

[pine relic]

that's still at least a hundred hours

[sly pond]

Helps that it's a labour of love, plus I always have my laptop streaming tv shows while I work lol.

[pine relic]

speaking of, I've recently looked into the wiki for some roll ranges... is 8% really a thing for infra knife damage? I think I did some 500 rolls without getting any that even hit 7% (as far as tooltip display goes) so I wrote it off as the wiki being wrong lol

[south dune]

That all sounds like quite the project lol, good luck w that

[pine relic]

nms has a tendency to attract the obsessive I think >.>

[south dune]

I saw something about hidden values? How does that work?

[south dune]

Lmao maaaybe a little

[hoary rover]

@pine relic at one point, doc had gunter hooked up to the upgrade table as it's the same for everyone, and you could run a command and see where you were at. But outside of that i didn't really understand it. Maybe ask him if it's still working

[pine relic]

Lemme illustrate with some pictures

those two appear the same, but when you put 'em in a supercharge slot... @south dune

[hoary rover]

I'm interested to see the pictures.

@south dune the math is also in #nms-questions in the pins. It's about mid-way down in a post of mine, courtesy of Gumsk

[pine relic]

... they're different @south dune

as you can see, one of those gets 3x 38% 1x 37% when supercharged, the other 2x 38% and 2x 37%, even tho the 'displayed' value for them appeared to be the same. According to DH, that is due to not enough decimals being displayed in the tooltip, but the game still keeping track of the highly accurate values.

its a neat little thing but has very little practical application for anyone that's not super nerdy about stats :P

[south dune]

Ohh dang. That’s really interesting! I’m far from a stats enthusiast but neat to see more about how the game works and everything!

[pine relic]

the tldr of it for the average user is to test all of one's best techs in supercharged slots as one might turn out slightly better than the others

[jaunty meteor]

well, uh, so, I could rather use some help. spoiler because talks about part of the expedition ||after going through the treasure hunt, and the portal I managed to end up back in the rendezvous 4 system without the rendezvous 5 system saved as a teleport destination.||

and now I can't get back. ||I found the portal again in the rendezvous 4 system but it just acts like a normal portal. recreated the treasure map and activated, but it does nothing||

could someone send me the portal code for the ||rendezvous 5|| system, either privately, or here as a spoiler, so that I can get back? otherwise ... I guess I can ||go hunt for a random next-to-the-core portal code on the internet?||

[pine relic]

it should be in the pinned messages already

@jaunty meteor #nms-expedition message

[jaunty meteor]

why, yes, it is. I'm sorry that I missed it, and thank you!

[pine relic]

also I don't think its necessary to spoiler tag expedition stuff in the expedition channel, but I'll bow down if a mod disagrees lol

[jaunty meteor]

I figure I'd rather be safe than sorry: I assume someone is going to come here without having mostly completed things, and might by happy for it. :)

[sly pond]

@pine relicYes 8% rolls exist

[pine relic]

they must be damn rare

[indigo falcon]

I figure that it's pretty ok to just ask, this is a redux after all

[sly pond]

@pine relic ActuallyI'm mistaken, doublee checked and 6% ismax

[pine relic]

its not like I need more damage on my guns but still

[indigo falcon]

for leviathan if people have not done it before there are a few things I will try not to spoil but the rest is fine

[pine relic]

I dunno, I always thought this was like the #nms-spoilers channel for expedition stuff

enter at your own peril type thing

incidentally I still haven't found a perpetual hazard planet to see what the timer looks like >.> @indigo falcon

[indigo falcon]

in general we can talk pretty freely but there is the one experience in leviathan of ||breaking the loop when people are really unaware just how that works|| and the emotional roller coaster they go through, I don't want to rob them of that

hmm yeah I dunno if there are any of those, heh

[pine relic]

spoke too soon

[ashen shore]

Jokes on me for always clicking spoiler tags because I’m an inquisitive bugger

[pine relic]

regular extreme heat without a storm on a cactus planet :P

about 3 minutes with default PD settings

[short sierra]

Lol, finished couple tasks. Hand blew up again trying to do expedition

[pine relic]

you should probably get that looked at :P

[short sierra]

Nah just inflammation! Just really sore. needs rest.

I rest it goes away.

I popped some blood vessels on the other side of hand. Keeps up in 3 weeks I will get it looked at.

I can bend the finger and move it around with no pain. No tendent damage or broken bones.

[pine relic]

You do you but if I get some injury that is interfering with my gaming its defcon 1 for me lol

[short sierra]

100% with such a short time for to finish this expedition

secret weapon for pain

Tomorrow will be the test for I have to finish 90% of this expedition. Our its not looking good

[pine relic]

it shouldn't take more than a few hours tbh

[indigo falcon]

3 weeks seems a long time to wait for a hand; these are delicate and complex things. I hope you are always thinking of health first.

[pine relic]

so two weeks is plenty of time to get it done

[wraith venture]

Let's make on-topic posts here plz. Otherwise, you can further discuss / share in #off-topic-bond-james-bond. I hope you feel soon, Xgamer.

[short sierra]

Not sure I could say that. I am ex military tend to be stubborn about pain and doctors. Never can say a doctor has helped me before and most hate vets.

[short sierra]

thank you

Well figure 20 tasks are really close to being done. Just save up 3 million units and the freighter is mine.

Do we really need to find a freighter that needs rescuing or can I just buy the freighter?

[pine relic]

you don't need to find one, one is literally given to you after the first warp

[short sierra]

Cant find chromium?

[pine relic]

its everywhere

[indigo falcon]

make it frm copper

[short sierra]

Lol! thanks

[indigo falcon]

or wait around in a space station for an npc to sell some

[pine relic]

copper / emeril / indium and their activated versions all refine into chromatic, so literally every single planet in the universe is a source of chromatic

[short sierra]

Got lots of copper. my back

[indigo falcon]

lol

[short sierra]

I need to make a manual on resources. 4 months and my brain is fryed.

[pine relic]

and I do mean literally, not the common parlance of literally as figuratively. :P

[indigo falcon]

I'm literally freezing in my apartment (no I'm not, it's just cold)... yeah.

[short sierra]

Well got to pay my rent today off to pay bills.

[indigo falcon]

see you later!

[short sierra]

Have a good day. Thanks again for the simple help. I'm a bone head

[indigo falcon]

we all are entitled to brain farts from time to time

[pine relic]

Good luck with that, I really appreciate good renters. its thanks to them that I generally don't have to work :P

[royal slate]

ive died like 6 times now

anyone know where in the world a sentinel pillar is

[south dune]

I’m procrastinating everything with sentinels lmao

[royal slate]

because i cant defeat all waves with this shitty loadout

[south dune]

I think you can find pillars w a planetary chart? There’s pinned coordinates for one too

[royal slate]

dont think so

there's specific pillar charts

[south dune]

Thats what it was sorry

But if you’re at that fifth rendezvous there’s coordinates for a pillar in the pins

[wraith venture]

This is the pin with a reference to sentinel pillar: #nms-expedition message

[south dune]

[wraith venture]

Lots of helpful tips there fosho

Keep in mind you don't have to do every milestone in the order presented

[pine relic]

If you don't want to mess with sentinels just wait until rendezvous 5 and it should be fine. You can get a nice little wave to aggro you there near the pillar by stealing a grav ball and then disable 'em to get the sentinel kills mission done. :P

[royal slate]

i am at r5

i just am dying on the final 2 waves

but its fine, found the coords

[pine relic]

• After reaching the fifth rendezvous point (which will happen automatically) head to coordinates +68.26, -69.53 (20 seconds away by ship, on the same planet) to find a Sentinel Pillar for the Phase 4 milestone, "Counterfire".

[south dune]

Are the keyboard spam lookin ones unlocked with progressing the main pirate-y objectives? I’m not on rn but hoping to get a few done later today

[royal slate]

yes i said i already did that :v

[south dune]

Good luck 👍👍

[royal slate]

thanks ^^

[pine relic]

Yeah they should 'decrypt' once you get the map bits from the expeditions main storyline.

Don't forget to keep the map pieces as you'll need 'em to craft the full map after finding the third one.

[ebon leaf]

OK I'm going home soon so mentally prepare for 400 more dumb questions as I stumble through the expedition bliss

[pine relic]

There are no dumb questions

[ebon leaf]

False

I'll prove it

[dull dagger]

since the new settings mean space stations don't sell oxygen (I can't change it) is there a good way to get some other than just whatever planet and aggressive flora?

[pine relic]

just dumb people :P

[ebon leaf]

I asked you why they're was no grav stars despite just flying over the planet and not actually landing

[pine relic]

You can refine it from kelp, but I wouldn't call it a good way. You can also use extractors, too time consuming for a throwaway expedition save. My recommendation is fly close to ground over some random planet at night (airless ones are good for this) looking for the red glow that indicates a large cluster of oxygen flowers.

[rough igloo]

anyone can help me get gravitino balls?

[pine relic]

First point on this pinned message, #nms-expedition message

[ebon leaf]

Petrified planet in the first system

[indigo falcon]

grab and run/melee boost is your best strategy

[pine relic]

if you happen to have left the starting system already and don't feel like using a space station teleporter to teleport back to it, you can get that milestone done easily on the 5th rendezvous planet. @rough igloo

[indigo falcon]

you can't be given them and have it count for the milestone, unfortunately

[rough igloo]

ok thaniks!

[ebon leaf]

Is beg posting, begging people to help you with expeditions ?

I've never heard that phrase before

[indigo falcon]

please give me X, that's beg posting

[pine relic]

I think its more about begging for free stuff

[ebon leaf]

Ah

Where the fun in a survival exploration game if you don't explore or survive getting it

Each they're own I guess s

[indigo falcon]

if you're willing to trade time or resources for X, that's not beg posting, and trades can go right in #nms-lfg-or-trades (even if the other player often does give the item for free in the end)

sometimes the grind is just annoying to someone trying to get a particular thing done

shrug

[ebon leaf]

Did you just type shrug

🤷‍♂️

[indigo falcon]

I remember the infamous herox expedition, heh

[ebon leaf]

Was it bad to do

[indigo falcon]

lotta people wound up asking for donations and honestly, I couldn't blame them

[pine relic]

there are all sorts of valid playstyles, but playing creative negates the need for begging if a given player doesn't like resource collection and such

[ebon leaf]

What's bad about the herox

[indigo falcon]

people ask for salvaged frigate modules sometimes, because those can be so slow to get

it was an expedition 3 thing and many people did not know you could get it by refining

[pine relic]

sure but its not like you need to get all freighter stuff unlocked asap :P my latest save is like 90+ hours in and I haven't felt the need to grind for the remaining half or so freighter techs that I haven't unlocked yet

[indigo falcon]

(plus then you wou.ld be grinding for the large refiner but anyways)

[pine relic]

I think the herox thing was my first time being pinned on this channel lol

[ebon leaf]

I don't know what half this stuff is, I'm a klepto so the second I heard the limited time event had cosmetics I went all in

[indigo falcon]

it took me months of one derelict run a day to get all the tech (not sfms, the other tech). some things are slow

[blissful gust]

ugh, now I want to reset this milestone. The underwater wreck is in the middle of an ocean with no land in sight at all

[ebon leaf]

You think the next upcoming expeditions is possible for a new player

[pine relic]

get as close as you can and nautilon the rest of the way, it shouldn't be too bad

[blissful gust]

You don't understand, I don't even see any land from orbit

[south dune]

I went for decor first and unlocked all the rooms for my freighter first 😅 everything else do be secondary for my playstyle. I’m glad this expo doesnt require you to find and use freighter modules on the hyperdrive upgrades, I’d rather have a neat base

[south dune]

Oh it’s an ocean ocean planet

[indigo falcon]

leviathan? get some playtime under your belt before then, you'll want it

[south dune]

Does it involve sentinels

[pine relic]

@blissful gust that's normal for primarily water planets, they still have tiny islands that you can only see while flying by close to the water

[indigo falcon]

it involves all kinds of things.

[pine relic]

those are usually enough to land on

[indigo falcon]

and it's in survival mode - well a sort of hybrid between survival and perma

[blissful gust]

the nearest land I could find is 30 minutes away on foot

[south dune]

Ah right. Do you happen to know what the inventory stack sizes are for it? Not that it particularly matters i guess just curious

[indigo falcon]

survival-type stack sizes

so 250 instead of 9999

[pine relic]

that's fine, land there, use the nautilon the rest of the way, make sure to have the launch thruster on the ship full before you leave it, then after doing the milestone, use the terrain manipulator to create a little platform to summon your ship at the destination so you don't have to make a round trip

[blissful gust]

cruising in the nautilon for 10+ minutes straight is not my idea of fun

[indigo falcon]

I hear that

[pine relic]

Agreed, but that method still makes it just 10 instead of 20 :P

[indigo falcon]

wonder if the upgraded nomad.... meh then you'd have to have the upgraded nomad, that would take longer ot get than just using the nautilon

[pine relic]

if you had the nomad it would be faster but not worth the lengthy sidetracking to get it built

[ebon leaf]

Why

Is blighted like easy or something

[indigo falcon]

blighted is much easier than leviathan

[ebon leaf]

What's bad with leviathan

[indigo falcon]

what's harder: it has harder milestones and you play with survival mode settings as default

plus an additional twist which you'll see if you play it

[pine relic]

at least in the original

hopefully they'll keep the survival settings for the redux, but who knows

[indigo falcon]

so if you are not familar with basic game mechanics, it's going to be an added issue

[ebon leaf]

I don't like the sound of that

I just want my pretty cosmetics

[indigo falcon]

I would be willing to bet a virtual beer that it will be survival-perma like the original

[blissful gust]

the wrecked ship is Literally 80u+ beneath sea level

[ebon leaf]

Perma !!

[indigo falcon]

good, that's your 'go below 60u' milestone then

[blissful gust]

I already got that when I raided kelp for oxygen

[ebon leaf]

Imma need to find a squad for leviathan

[pine relic]

I think so too, but who knows. Maybe they'll lower difficulty due to the time constraint.

[indigo falcon]

I'm guessing they'll rather get people that S gear sooner, and make the milestones easier

[blissful gust]

The first planet will be nerfed like non-expo games

[frigid shard]

Is the next Expedition not out yet? I thought it would be

[indigo falcon]

been for a couple days

[ebon leaf]

10 days

[indigo falcon]

"The Blighted"

(exp 6 redux)

[frigid shard]

Ok so it’s a problem on my end

Thanks!

[indigo falcon]

yep, hope you get it sorted!

[pine relic]

I actually liked the gear constraints, but I guess I may be a statistical anomaly in the playerbase lol

[indigo falcon]

I started on C, finished on B

and I found the hidden/restricted items on the blueprint tree pretty clever

[pine relic]

All the subtle mechanical differences made it my favorite expedition so far

[indigo falcon]

guess who ground at the 10x prices the teleporter and power for a base for people, yep me

[pine relic]

well, some not so subtle like the inflated prices

[indigo falcon]

lol

but they even got the manuf facilities bps fixed up, they were really thorough

[blissful gust]

I'm too effing stupid to make a dirt platform. The TM just stops making ground every 1-3 blobs produced

[pine relic]

since I often play in scrooge gek challenge mode I suppose the whole expedition was right in my wheelhouse

[indigo falcon]

as a player in it for the chill, it wasn't really my bag

the narrative was very nice, and I did appreciate the creativity of it

[pine relic]

it may be a silly question, but are you resizing the manipulator before trying to make the dirt pillar? it might help to use the largest mode, in the off chance that you aren't already

[blissful gust]

Yes I am. I point at alocation next to another dirt blob, and try to sweep across to make a line of dirt, and it just STOPS

[pine relic]

mm.

[ebon leaf]

Really struggling with the solar panel thing

[pine relic]

Do you mean solar mirror? There's a location listed in the pins

[ebon leaf]

Why can't vendors just have it

[ebon leaf]

I know but like I have everything else for it now

And if I had it I could just get it done now

[indigo falcon]

some vendors do, just note which space station you're at and then go to the one in the pins

it's really only a couple minutes to go, buy, return

[pine relic]

random ships may have it, and two of the rendezvous stations are guaranteed to have it on the back room terminal

[ebon leaf]

I've only done the first warp

[indigo falcon]

telerpoters ftw

[dull dagger]

leviathan? of the expos I've played that was my favourite Also required 30 hours from me instead of the usual 5. And I definitely ended some of my play sessions early because I kept dying to fall damage I'd get headbutted or fall off a cliff and panic and use my jetpack up too soon

[indigo falcon]

oh. well just be patient

[pine relic]

shortcuts make for long delays

[blissful gust]

and just for irony sake, and it piss me off. I'm 5 ferrite dust short of the required amount to fix this ship, and of course I'm 80u underwater more than 3ku away from any bit of land, and no rocks in sight

[pine relic]

most of the underwater ferrite sources don't really look like rocks, so I'm sure there'll be some source nearby

[indigo falcon]

any underwater minerals w/ ferrite dust? I suppose they are all salt or chlorine or cytophosphate

[ocean gorge]

The first planet had stuff underwater that gave fertile dust and salt

I’m pretty sure it did

[blissful gust]

Context please

[ocean gorge]

Sorry, are you at the initial spawn?

Oh, then forgive me, my b

[blissful gust]

finally, a damaged container had rusted metal on it so I can double refine that for the fe+ I need

this expedition is worse than my experience on Exp7

[dull dagger]

I did not realize how useful the twitch rewards from a few months ago would be

[blissful gust]

No Nearby Building my butt. Show me a freaking ancient undersea treasure

[south dune]

It was pretty chill, I liked it a lot

[indigo falcon]

funny, I've heard reports from people who found exobiology harder (more work) than this one

[blissful gust]

ExoBio was easy, Blighted is just frustrating

[south dune]

Interesting, the objectives for blighted seem more time consuming? But then again I stay far away from combat usually so it’s the sentinel milestones giving me pause

[tulip jolt]

Everyone doing the Exobiology rerun on PS4 was crashing constantly due to a bug that wasn't fixed until the very end. So there was an entire platform of players (including me) who were banging their heads.

The expedition wasn't hard; the bug that frelled you up every ten seconds was.

[short sierra]

Just do sentinel attacks give you boost on shield from 3 to 7 already. Didn't leave first galaxy

[blissful gust]

sentinels are easy, these undersea objectives are frustrating af

[ebon leaf]

Can you do exos in squads

[glass stump]

In Ex. ^, is there a need to get the modules so that the freighter can jump to red, green, and blue stars?

Yeah, MUCH

thanks

[south dune]

Dang really? That actually sucks :/ was it just exobio on PS4 crashing or all of NMS? PC didnt crash at all for me

[blissful gust]

I blame the crashes on the 42 visible comm balls at each rendezvous

[south dune]

I thought they were cute when you find or two randomly but dozens crammed around an objective is a bit much 😅 do you know if multiplayer settings affect them? Or do you report to make them disappear?

[candid token]

I am stuck. I combined all 3 maps and used it but there is no marker anywhere

[blissful gust]

You'd have to report them

[blissful gust]

Make sure that's the active task in your mission log

[candid token]

There is no active tast.

Task*

[blissful gust]

There's ALWAYS an active task, usually something useless like the settlement distress signal

[south dune]

You can pin milestones and they go to your mission log right?

Is the milestone there?

[ebon leaf]

SOLAR MIRROR WOOOOHOOOO

[south dune]

🎉

[pine relic]

If you click a milestone, it should become your active log thing. In some cases they may get their own log entry, in other cases they get folded in the general top-panel 'expedition' mission.

[indigo falcon]

the sentinels aren't that bad; steal the grav balls to get the scatter blasster plus upgrades; buy pugneum at the starter space station back room to install it; go to a high sentinel world and farm just the wave 1-2 drones, leaving the summoners alone, run away if things get too hot for you, come back and do more later if you need to

[pine relic]

(90% of ships in the starter station also sell pugneum)

[indigo falcon]

you can go to the two exotic worlds in the starter system and scan the one fauna and register completion for 250 nanites each, note that one has aggro sentinels so be careful there

also each 'visit red/green/blue star' milestone gives 800 nanites

[ebon leaf]

this system said water but theyres no water plane

[pine relic]

There's always at least one in every system marked as 'water', it may just not be apparent from your position in space, since you're only seeing roughly half of each planet from any given point. :P

[south dune]

Big thanks!! I’ll do that when I hop on :)) get the sentinel stuff out the way first

[indigo falcon]

I don't think reporting them will make them vanish. but you can unlug internet, save-reload, and they should be gone, if they are interfering with you reaching an objective

[indigo falcon]

at least one should have water, it should be visible from space even if oddly colored

[pine relic]

hiding comm balls needs to be a network setting tbh

[south dune]

Okay! It’s usually not affected me except on weekend missions (which i havent done in a long while and really should do ) but still a little distracting sometimes

[blissful gust]

I filed a ticket about that ages ago

[ebon leaf]

which one

[indigo falcon]

a recent patch note said that there would be a cap on number of comm balls rendered in certain areas. and yet...

[pine relic]

in any rendezvous planet I end up having to do eight times more 360 spins trying to figure out in which direction my ship marker is...

[indigo falcon]

Rumar

also maybe Waburydes

I hate the 'rescue a stranded life form' weekend missions now, not because they take 20 tries to get the decrypted terminal but because when you get there, it's buried in a sea of comm balls and you can't find it

[ebon leaf]

cheers

[indigo falcon]

a reminder to folks to check the pins inhere, lots of good info like, worlds for those 60u and sumbarine milestones, where to find pugneum, worlds for quick nanites via fauna, etc. and much more

check 'em out!

[pine relic]

keep in mind that you have to click here in your creature discovery page for the planet, to get the nanite bonus:

[south dune]

canon: the lifeform that needs rescuing is just swimming in a ball pit of comm balls and cant get out

[ebon leaf]

the what

[pine relic]

it glows yellow when you fill the whole list but some people still manage to miss it :P

[pine relic]

this screen

[indigo falcon]

250 nanites per fauna, if you scan all the fauna on a world. exotic worlds have just the one fauna, so scan it, 250 nanites (if you go to the discovery tab and click that thing)

[ebon leaf]

i hit the upload all discoveries a while ago

[indigo falcon]

that's separate

go to the fauna listing

[pine relic]

click the planet, then click the middle-bottom thing that shows creatures, then you're at the right screen.

[ebon leaf]

ah ok

0 out of 8

[blissful gust]

The pin for the sentinel tower is incorrect. My ancient ruin was nowhere near those coordinates

[pine relic]

you're looking for planets that have X out of 1.

[ebon leaf]

why whats special about them

[pine relic]

The ancient ruin is in rendezvous 3, not 5.

[indigo falcon]

exotic worlds have one fauna

it's easy to find it, scan it.

this however counts as completing all fauna on the world

[ebon leaf]

ah ok

[indigo falcon]

so getitng the resulting 250 nanite bonus is fast.

[blissful gust]

After reaching the fifth rendezvous point (which will happen automatically) head to coordinates +68.26, -69.53 (20 seconds away by ship, on the same planet) to find a Sentinel Pillar for the Phase 4 milestone, "Counterfire".

[ebon leaf]

didnt know that was a thing

[pine relic]

The fifth rendezvous point is not a ruin.

[indigo falcon]

cough it's a portal...

[blissful gust]

I didn't get credit for Rdv5 until I got to the ruin though

[indigo falcon]

you should have. in any case, the portal really is the POI...

[blissful gust]

or it was delayed by 3 minutes because of comm balls

[indigo falcon]

that could be

[pine relic]

then it lagged for you for some reason, but the location is the portal.

[blissful gust]

great, now I have to find it the hard way. I hate this expedition

[patent canyon]

Somebody else seemed to have a problem the last time I was at the place of ships.

[indigo falcon]

could see if anyone's got a base inthe system at one

[patent canyon]

Somebody built there a building to protect people from storm.

I saw there two travellers being hidden.

[pine relic]

I'm sure there's gonna be plenty of setinel pillar bases all over the rendezvous systems by now

[indigo falcon]

the interesting thing is...

that there's no real feasible way for an expedition save to put bases down in the galaxy where 99% of it takes place

[blissful gust]

Is there more than on portal on a planet? Cuz I just found aportal nowhere near the coordinates in the pin

[indigo falcon]

except via save editing

because once you've passed through and are in the next one where you get base computer, you'd have to go through 255 hops to get back around

[pine relic]

of course there is. You can still teleport to the previous galaxy stations from the destination galaxy, after getting the base computer unlock.

[next cosmos]

This one is giving me more trouble than exobiology lol which planet had storm crystals again? I landed on one that was heavily toxic but can’t seem to find it again

[indigo falcon]

ah the space stations, of course

[pine relic]

First rendezvous, name is in the pins. But you don't need storm crystals, as also mentioned in a different pin.

[next cosmos]

Thanks I’ll look

[indigo falcon]

I wonder why I always forget that, maybe because they can drop off the list, unlike bases

[pine relic]

Yep, but it takes over 70 before that starts happening, so in a short expedition like this it shouldn't be an issue

[ebon leaf]

wheres the nautalin chamber

i dont see it in build menu

[indigo falcon]

two things the game tells you to do which you do not have to do (and imo should not do): repair freighter drive (dismantle it instead, buy cadmium/emeril drive for starship), and get conflict scanner (get econ scanner instead)

[pine relic]

did you claim the rewards for the milestone that gives its blueprint?

[ebon leaf]

which is

[pine relic]

I don't remember which

[ebon leaf]

damn

[indigo falcon]

no it wouldn't be, but clearly I've learned to think about space stations as unsafe anchors, heh

[ebon leaf]

probably blighted freighter

[pine relic]

its a list of 25 things, you can check by hand

[indigo falcon]

A freigher blighted, phase 2 -> nautilon bp etc

[pine relic]

yep, that gets stuck in our head after a while :P

[ebon leaf]

help i scanned and no submerged ruins in sight

[pine relic]

did it give a message that none were found?

[south dune]

You might have to move around a lot to find one. Like fly off in a different direction for a while and try again

[ebon leaf]

does a message say that

[ebon leaf]

can i transport my nautalin

[indigo falcon]

land somewhere else, summon it

[south dune]

Yeah you can summon it anywhere in water

[ebon leaf]

k

[indigo falcon]

mm pick up the geobay first I guess

[ebon leaf]

no message at all

[pine relic]

as long as its in the same planet as the geobay @south dune

[indigo falcon]

so you don't lose the materials

[ebon leaf]

whats the geo bay

[indigo falcon]

the round item you built in order to call the nautilon to you

[ebon leaf]

wait im stupid

i was pressing c

[pine relic]

nope

you need to use the quick menu to specifically scan for ruins

[ebon leaf]

figured that out just now

[indigo falcon]

these scanners are specialized things, you can choose different items to scan for

[pine relic]

should be the right-most option in the scan quick menu while in the nautilus

[indigo falcon]

true for all exocraft

[pine relic]

and for ships with economy scanners looking for trade outposts

new players often overlook that

[indigo falcon]

old players do too, I learned about that over 800 hours in

I seriously thought it was only for the galaxy map

[pine relic]

wow, you must play a lot more than I do lol

[south dune]

what now

[indigo falcon]

when on a planet or in atmosphere or even in space in a planetary system, you can use the quick menu, to find the option to 'scan for trade outpost' and get a marker for one

[south dune]

Wow. TIL lol

[indigo falcon]

if you have th economy scanner installed

[pine relic]

(under the gear icon)

[indigo falcon]

you can literally be sitting in your ship on the ground and do this

[south dune]

Dang, more good stuff to know! Does the conflict scanner have any tricks too or is that just for the galaxy map conflict level?

[indigo falcon]

no tricks there

[pine relic]

the main trick there is to not install it since its useless.

[indigo falcon]

lolol

[south dune]

lollll

[pine relic]

tho I suppose now that we have so many tech slots, there's no harm in it lol

[indigo falcon]

I mean eventually you have walker brains fro one thing or another and you might as well but don't go out of your way

[tulip jolt]

Late answer, but it was mainly for expedition, with a bit more crashing in regular game if MP was on. But they fixed it.

[south dune]

True enough lol. Planning on starting another save to be my “main”, really enjoyed the most recent update (4.0?)

But for now it’s expedition month 😎

[indigo falcon]

expedition 2-months 😉

[south dune]

Ayyy even better

[pine relic]

One can do both. This expedition didn't take long to finish so I'm back to my most recent 'main' save... since I start a new PD save for every major update to see if anything progression-related changed, its my 4.0 save in this case.

[south dune]

Ah yea fair! Has much changed this time around as far as progression?

[pine relic]

Not really, but its harder to answer main quest-related stuff in #nms-questions confidently if I haven't played thru them recently to check if there were any undocumented changes.

Well, they changed the rewards from the base computer archives quest but that's fairly minor. No more useless oxygen harvester.

[indigo falcon]

interestingly enough, after one completes phase 2 of the base computer archives (10 abandoned buildings) one gets a single interaction with the base computer for salvaged data, and then the quest disappears from the list, that is new

[pine relic]

yeah I heard it was no longer an infinite plague on our log

[indigo falcon]

only 5 inifinite plagues left

[pine relic]

but I haven't tested that one out personally yet

I can confirm that the atlas path is still harder to get rid of than most veneral diseases, however.

I'm sure out there somewhere there's a player without access to this discord that is on their 5th completion of the atlas path in hopes that this time it'll stay gone.

[prisma sable]

I've finally finished my first ever expedition. Actually proud of myself haha

[south dune]

Ay congrats!!

[pine relic]

just a few more days until your second ever expedition then? :P

[indigo falcon]

now that you know how they work... 2 more to go!

[prisma sable]

Hahaha yeah got time off work so I can play the heck out of this game finally!

[atomic ether]

How do I visit a green system if I can't get the Emeril to finish the drive?

[pine relic]

by using cadmium to build the emeril drive for your ship, rather than fixing the freighter ones.

[atomic ether]

so get the drive plan from the anomaly and just use my little ship. OK thanks!

[pine relic]

yep. That's cheaper to build, less annoying to unlock, and its all you need to finish the expedition, the freighter versions can go untouched.

[ebon leaf]

whats an activated deposit

im on a raining hell hole and wanna stack up warp cells

[pine relic]

Other than serving as an indication that the planet has what the game considers to be extreme weather, it can be refined into more chromatic metal than the non-activated version, but its useless for building anything that requires the regular version.

[ebon leaf]

sound then lad

other then the fact i die super quick

[pine relic]

its also worth more when selling compared to the non-activated version, but not worth farming during the expedition.

[ebon leaf]

just need fuel tbh

this is pretty fun ngl

i like that i have direction

[south dune]

100%, love having objectives and milestones. It’s why I make little to do lists for NMS easier to stick to goals when there’s cool cosmetic rewards for completing them tho haha

[ebon leaf]

rendevous 2 reached

[pine relic]

I like lists too but mine are rarely of the to-do variety. :P

[south dune]

What, like a hit list? lol

[indigo falcon]

what are they, of the 'don't ever do this' variety? 😄

[south dune]

Ah, the to-do and the don’t-do

[pine relic]

nah, more like "This is what you found here" variety.

[indigo falcon]

ah yeah I have those for a series of stations on a couple saves

[pine relic]

Yeah I tend to make those early in the game until I get established.

[south dune]

Thats a good idea :)) I usually do and then lose them under the mountain of other notes in the notes app lol

[pine relic]

They're encrusted around underwater vents like this:

the green jewel looking things are the sulphide.

[ebon leaf]

wheres emiril at

[pine relic]

Every single planet around green stars. Green when galaxy map is set to 'no filter'.

[ebon leaf]

ahk

[indigo falcon]

here you can see one venting, that's when you want to keep a distance from it.

[ebon leaf]

ill go to one on the way to rez 3

[ebon leaf]

goes boom

found out the hard way

[indigo falcon]

ouch!

[ebon leaf]

theyre just around ocean floors

look for bubbles

[indigo falcon]

even shallow bodies of water often have them

try being in the water just a little and using the HUD...

[pine relic]

and by hud they mean visor :P

[candid token]

Yeah the analysis visor

[pine relic]

well there's your problem then :P

[candid token]

Check what range your visor has? You can improve the range to find more stuff faster.
It should mark the sulphide with the visor

[pine relic]

I'm pretty sure that's wrong unless that's a 4.0 change.

Scanner range stat has historically only affected how far you detect things when pressing C

[candid token]

It does mark the sulphide with the analysis visor, idk what C does I'm on switch.

[pine relic]

C = that radial scan that your character does that marks things like oxygen plants with a red icon, sodium plants with a yellow icon, etc

that's what scanner range has up until 4.0 affected, not analysis visor distance

[candid token]

Yeah I may have meshed those 2 statements together incorrectly.
The analysis visor is what you need to find the crystal sulphide, but for other things such that you have listed can be found more easily and from farther away with a larger scanner range, but it is the analysis visor that will be used to located the crystal sulphide.

[pine relic]

its one of the terminology issues that confuse a lot of players, and particularly newer players, because the game also calls it 'scanning' when use the analysis visor to 'scan' a creature or whatever... kind of like Expedition being used for both the game mode and frigate missions. :P

[candid token]

Yes

[indigo falcon]

the word 'scanner' is seriously overloaded (see all the exocraft scanners too)

[ebon leaf]

idk where to go now

just did rev 2

[candid token]

Chech what other tasks you still have for the second section

[pine relic]

traditionally one would go to rendezvous 3 after rendezvous 2. :P

[candid token]

And make sure you finished all of 1 and have redeemed all the rewards

[ebon leaf]

but muh milestones

[pine relic]

they don't need to be done in any particular order tho

[ebon leaf]

but convenience and all thatjazz

do i need anything in a red sky

[pine relic]

occasionally one will require you to have completed a previous one, but in general you can mix and match

[craggy echo]

Which rdv has a suitable planet to do the underwater milestones?

[indigo falcon]

the encrypted ones require certain previous ones

[pine relic]

I believe I did those on the rv3 system, but not necessarily the rv3 planet

[ebon leaf]

arer ossified one of the liveable planets

[pine relic]

they're all liveable, some less comfortable than others

[indigo falcon]

it's not inhabited, if that's what you are asking. no npcs

[ebon leaf]

Do I need hazard protection

[indigo falcon]

no. life support though

[pine relic]

for ossified? generally no

[ebon leaf]

It's grey

Anyway green stuff acquired, single fauna scanned

[indigo falcon]

sweet

get those 250 nanites now

[ebon leaf]

I got like 6k lol

[candid token]

Yeah this expedition was crazy I needed like 5k nanites for everything.

[pine relic]

the only expensive thing was unlocking the squadron slot

[indigo falcon]

2400 are rewards from visiting colored stars, 500 can be gotten by scanning fauna on exotic worlds in the first system, so it shouldn't have been toooo too bad

[pine relic]

maybe 300 for the RGB drives and that's about it

[indigo falcon]

economy scanner cost, but that's not too much, same for cadmium/emeril/indium drives

[pine relic]

ah yeah that's another 300 with the teleport receiver requirement

[indigo falcon]

(oooh just wait until expd7 redux, heh)

[pine relic]

but using the pins one can skip the economy scanner and just finding the pirate system by name :P

[craggy echo]

Switch players can’t get void egg on their main save?

[pine relic]

They can't transfer the expedition void egg if that's what you're asking

[indigo falcon]

it would take a long time. the only way they have to get quicksilver on a regular save is stellar ice

[pine relic]

I'm sure they can farm enough quicksilver from condensed stellar ice to buy it on their main if they're so inclined

[craggy echo]

Yes that’s what I was asking. Okay

[indigo falcon]

3200 qs total, gotten from reloading stellar ice encounters, 100 qs at a time...

[pine relic]

In my experience its not that long...

I've unlocked the entire QS armor set on three different saves by farming ice, before they became account-wide...

maybe 4 hours. Which in the grand scheme of things its less than what I've spent on average per save just rerolling freighters.

[indigo falcon]

I am guessing that reloads aren't quite as fast on the switch as they might be for you

[pine relic]

That's probably a factor I suppose.

I can't say if they are or aren't, switch also has the 'lite version' graphics so the loading may be reasonable, no idea.

[ebon leaf]

whats the void egg

just got it, can i sell it or do i need it

[pine relic]

item used to get a living ship

[ebon leaf]

oo

how

[indigo falcon]

if you plan to play this save later on, save the egg

[pine relic]

There's a lengthy quest.

[ebon leaf]

ah nvm then