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[viscid bison]

So its normal that i cant scan for the area i have to go?

ok well, flew around and got it now

[atomic perch]

When does expedition 8 start?

[viscid bison]

were very stuck rn xD

[safe falcon]

try going back into the expo tab and reclicking on it

oh nice, glad you found it

[wraith junco]

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[atomic perch]

@wraith junco thx

[safe falcon]

hey, i have a problem

my 2nd memory frag mission isnt working, i can pin it but it wont let me use the resonator

do i have to be right next to the anchor point in order to use it?

[patent canyon]

You must be at the right anchor point planet (or system).

Each resonator use=anchor point place.

But the game should tell you why it isn't working. 🤔

[safe falcon]

my goodness the sentinels at anchorpoint 2 are obnoxious, i cant even land without them attacking instantly

[indigo falcon]

and this sounds like a great thing to report to hg for future expeditions...

!hg

[unkempt kraken]

You can submit bug reports, suggestions or feedback to Hello Games here: https://hellogames.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

[lusty slate]

Yeah, anchor 2 can be a pain. If it helps, that's the hardest one to clear.

[safe falcon]

i ended up reloading my save and the marker ended up appearing finally

[lusty slate]

And you have to be on the anchor planet for the resonator to work.

[patent canyon]

The Anchor point 2 marker indeed broke for me (and I did report it).

There when I was going there from one player's base, it was showing me to go underground and then disappeared.

I had to go to orbit and then from orbit back there. But still it wasn't much approximate.

Or was it the point 3? But one of them it was.

[safe falcon]

does anyone remember what planet anchor 1 was on?

i looked but i didnt see where it mentioned anchor planets

[indigo falcon]

there's a pin with the names of all anchor systems and worlds and portal locations

the whole thing, it's all in there

[lusty slate]

The A2 marker can be a bit weird as it's in a low valley in the middle of really tall mountains.

[patent canyon]

Also on the A2 planet trading rocket broke for me.

It tried to fly to the ground instead of into the space.

[safe falcon]

oh it was put up by gunther, i was looking for a player one sorry

[indigo falcon]

pins are pins, they all have good info 🙂 (the guntie one was of course from info gathered by a player, guntie is smart but not able to explore in the expedition on his own... yet!)

[patent canyon]

We already had I think AI playing Doom and Nethack... Maybe soon we will have AI playing No man's sky.

[indigo falcon]

as long as they enjoy the game 😄

[glass stump]

Only 11 more milestones to go. Keep hoping they get easier and go quicker, but no go so far.

[safe falcon]

ok, ive completed two derelicts now and i still havent been able to complete the mission for it

oh gosh darnit, dont tell me its because i wasnt using my terrain manipulator to collect the cargo is it?

[patent canyon]

They are easy, aside of the storm crystal one.

That took forever for me, as for some reason they are very rare in this expedition. I recommend you to use guide for this objective, as the time is ticking out.

[glass stump]

Oh, I use the pins, and bases when I can. Storm Crystal was easy with the pins.

I have all of ap5 left and 5 milestone between 2, 3, and 4.

[fervent patrol]

yeah you have one more day i think

[glass stump]

Not sure if it is one or 3. Will try and complete today just in case.

[native bloom]

2.5 days left to finish, 0.5 days left to start

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[glass stump]

thanks

[quasi copper]

Anyone still trying to do the anchor point on the aggressive Sentinel world, people have bases at pillars. Go to one of those (on the same planet), turn off Sentinel forces, then do the quest.

When I couldn't make the memory resonator work, it turned out I hadn't claimed the rewards from the anchor point yet. You have to have the latest Memory in order to use the resonator. Hope that helps someone.

[hexed oak]

How many Polo handins to increase the tech class?

[wraith junco]

Many. Its an total community effort

[lusty slate]

Which milestone are we on now? I'm out of town and hadn't had steady internet.

[native bloom]

Still working on 4, so we're at S-class gear

[safe falcon]

is anyone able to tell me, when it comes to the frieghter mission, what exactly are the requirements for it to count as complete? ive done two of them now and it is still active

[waxen shuttle]

for the purpose of the expedition, get to the engineering room and access the terminal to get the blueprint you need for the next part

[safe falcon]

yeah it should say retrieve schematic, but all i ever get when i do them are options for frieghter mods or nanites

[waxen shuttle]

engineering room is always at the very end

[safe falcon]

i just did my 3rd one and got the same result every time

[waxen shuttle]

if you're just doing derelicts to loot them I think it usually wants you to reach all three terminals and then turn in the crew manifest and captain's log at a station?

[indigo falcon]

make sure you have multiplayer off and have the phase 5 milestone pinned (and the previous milestones in phase 5 done already)

[waxen shuttle]

and yeah make sure you have the previous milestones for phase 5 done and pin the associated milestone if you're trying to do the derelict for that

[safe falcon]

multi needs to be off? thats obnoxious

[indigo falcon]

if you're just doing derelicts for Polo, it doesn't matter at all if you touch any of the terminals. just bring back somnal dust as loot. if it's the phase 5 one see above

well if multiplayer is on, weird things can happen

[safe falcon]

also, having issues with polo's optional missions. they wont make any more progress

[indigo falcon]

so if you're getting strange behaviour I'd turn that off

the optional missions are community ones.

there's only one of those left I think. and everyone's contributions together make it progress, not you by yourself

[safe falcon]

then im confused by how theyre optional?

[indigo falcon]

they are optional in that they do not need to be completed in order for you to finish the expedition and claim all the rewards for each phase and the expd as a whole

[serene kettle]

They're optional just in case there's not enough players contributing to the group effort to complete them all before the end of the event.

I believe the main important thing you get, by the community group completing them, is higher grade mods from Polo.

[quasi copper]

May be useful to people who want to continue with this save. I may want to, but I will definitely be turning Permadeath off ASAP. Anyone in my position who wants to help the community goal but is afraid to take any risk with their expedition progress at this late date might want to make a second save for the expedition while you still can, then do community goals on the second save if you have time left.

[hexed oak]

Right, but HG didn't mention how many and there's no estimate?

[indigo falcon]

permadeath isn't really on

this is really survival mode with some extra annoyance

[serene kettle]

When this events ends, does the save transfer to a "Survival Mode" save or a "Normal Mode" save?

[safe falcon]

thank goodness i had a module that would replenish my launch thrusters over time... i landed in a spot that i couldnt jetpack back to and left it at 90%, well apparently the planet i was on required 100% to call my ship >.<

[indigo falcon]

once you complete the expedition you are in surival mode without those extra annoyances, even if the save has not convertd yet from an expedition save

[indigo falcon]

survival

[serene kettle]

Good, because I'm going to park my toon at a base near the center of the Galaxy, so I can get the "Take a Deep Breath" achievement.

[indigo falcon]

so about this community effort thing

it's exactly like unlocking a new quicksilver item at the anomaly

we all do a pile of missions and see the progress bar update

there's never a number of missions given

[lusty slate]

Also, contributing to it in Leviathan unlocks the community title on your account. Which at the moment is the only way Switch users can get that title.

[safe falcon]

oh my goodness... i feel dumb. i figured out what i was doing wrong... i confused a derelict site with a crash site.... i hate myself

theres a reason my name is potatoes

[lusty slate]

Oh well, more dust for you!

[lusty slate]

If you poke around the bases list at any anchor station teleporter, you should find a base near a crashed freighter someone already uploaded.

[safe falcon]

yeah, im just mad that i confused the two this entire time and couldnt figure out why it wouldnt complete >.<

[sinful aurora]

I actually did that same thing.. After expo 7 started I immediately found a crashed freighter and its like "you still need this freighter" I just didnt realize it was the derelict..

[safe falcon]

i appreciate all those that gave helpful info to me, as well as those that pinned information. it really helped out a lot ❤️

[lusty slate]

Ta, that's what this channel's for. 🙂

[glass stump]

What blueprint?

[safe falcon]

when you search the derelict at the end it will say to get the schematic. its for a whale horn or something like that

[hexed oak]

Boo. Though I'm not sure if seeing the large number of handins would be more motivating or less so

[safe falcon]

it calls forth the leviathan

[short sierra]

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[glass stump]

Mine didn't do that. Do I need to run it again, and does it need to be in a specific system.

[safe falcon]

You need to have a specific mission from the last set in order to get it

[viscid bison]

Do you only get the traces of the spaceship from the expedition later after you have collected the reward on all saved games or how does it work?

rewards in general*

[lusty slate]

Rewards from phases are unlocked for all saves and future saves on the account.

To claim on your other saves, visit the quicksilver merchant at the anomaly and select expedition rewards.

[viscid bison]

Aaah thank you sm!!

[lusty slate]

So yes, you can get the spaceship trail on the rest of your saves. And the Leviathan frigate, posters, etc. Anything that was a phase/expedition completion reward.

[viscid bison]

Okay good thank you!

[lilac spruce]

playing expedition and my game keeps crashing when i die and it will not reset me in the loop. when i load back up im right where i left off before i died.

disabled multiplayer and it keeps crashing

am i supposed to die only at specific parts or something?

[glass stump]

Ahh, OK, I'm not at that point yet.

[torpid night]

How to get the last two optional milestones? A Way Out, and Unbound.

[patent canyon]

Finished the expedition, but this time the save wasn't instantly converted to normal save. Probably due the optional milestones.

[patent canyon]

Either by giving the stuff to Polo or by time. 🤔

This is probably my first and last expedition where I managed to map some stuff.

[inner skiff]

How long did it take?

[patent canyon]

16 hours and 35 minutes. Majority of the objectives didn't take so long for me, but the storm crystal finding took some time.

Also the initial startup (looking for basic resources, making the basic tech, etc.).

[inner skiff]

Not that bad

[patent canyon]

Speed running and using the guide would probably take lesser.

Here are my current expedition redux saves (with times) when ending Leviathan.

How funny - I expected Exobiology to take more.

As it had more RNG objectives.

True is that in Leviathan, you might get random derelict freighter and if you do it, it might take up to one hour. Then there is one mandatory (I did two in my playthrough).

The Blighted was short, but I spent many time by exploring and looking for exosuit drops for bigger inventory.

[glass stump]

OK trying to go from Anchor Point 3 to Anchor POint 4. I've made several jumps and I can see at least 6 more without seeing the AP. Is that correct, or is there a better way to get to AP4?

Now that I have the glyphs, can I use a portal?

[rocky valve]

upgrading the hyper jump range would make it more efficient

i think so

[glass stump]

Was it a lot of jumps for you?

[rocky valve]

Not really. For each anchor, I only needed to jump once since my jump range was ~1000

at some point, you need an Emeril drive

[glass stump]

I have the Emeril drive. Not sure what my range is, but I've made at least 3 jumps and can see 6 more. Guess I'll try a protal.

[rocky valve]

ok

[glass stump]

Thanks for the help.

[rocky valve]

np

Does anyone know if there is a daily limit for contributing to the community milestone?

[iron radish]

no but if you think youre gonna move it 10% in 1 day or something it’s not gonna happen

[hexed oak]

It's moving at a decent clip right now

Just did a derelict that was draining both my heat and cold hazard protection

Apparently HG allows derelicts to spawn within planetary atmospheres

[crimson badger]

Can I lower the difficultly? Will it remove me from the exp?

[patent canyon]

You can lower some stuff, like technology damage and enemy damage, but majority of the difficulties are locked up.

As at every Waypoint expedition. As the every one has set up certain challenge.

And nope. You won't get removed from the expedition for changing difficulty.

[fluid cloud]

on the smugging part can one just have the items on them then gate to the station ?

[glass stump]

You mean the $500,000 one. YEs, you can just get nipnip from a farm and sell at a station.

I'm trying to get from AP3 to AP4. I've made 4 jumps and see at least 6 in front of me. Does that seem correct? How many jumps?

[ocean gorge]

You can reroll some of the memory fragments (by saving before opening them, and if you don’t get anything good, reload your restore point hoping for something better like a hyperdrive tech module, noting that some fragments won’t give but certain tech modules such as exosuit, weaponry, or exocraft, so there are some limitations). I had a little luck with that. When I didn’t, I took tech modules (not installed) and sold them for nanites, and bought hyperdrive tech modules (again I saved before buying so I’d have a restore point in case they weren’t very good, then installed to see how much LY I got, if it wasn’t good I tried again maybe from a different space station). It really depends on how much time you want to invest versus just doing the jumps My Ps5 reloads the game in about 10 seconds so it’s fast imo

[sturdy sorrel]

It was way more jumps for me than the earlier APs. I did not count though

[glass stump]

At every AP portal, there are tons of bases and I can only build one FAR away. That makes if almost impossible to find the portal again.

Is there a way around this?

[whole linden]

Is there a way to know which planets have Storm Crystals without having to land on them?

[sturdy sorrel]

I don't think so. Someone else correct me if I am wrong, but here's my opinion. You definitely want to look for planets with "Activated X" deposits on them, but not all of those have storm crystals. To be sure, you have to land and get the message "Extreme Hazard Planet".

[glass stump]

Not sure about that. The pins have a couple of good planets located. I tried to make a base and upload it but it doesn't have a teleporter

[whole linden]

Ok

Thanks

[tight dragon]

Any planets along the expedition with agressive fauna?

[quasi copper]

You want aggressive, or just predators? I think I read the very first planet, Lowest Mano, has a creature that counts but won't attack you.

[tight dragon]

Do you know if that will work for the milestone?

[quasi copper]

Oh, hey, first thing in pins.

[tight dragon]

ok thanks

[glass stump]

Yes, that is what I did.

[quasi copper]

You're welcome. I did it with actual predators. Frantically throwing food at them. Hadn't spotted the pin.

[glass stump]

FYI, AP 4 is a LONG way fromAP3 unless you have good jump range. I took the portal. Addresses are listed in the pins.

[quasi copper]

I had a weird experience with the derelict freighter milestone. I went to that system the Reddit post had the glyphs for, made sure the milestone was my current quest, pulsed, dropped out at the first cue there was something there. The freighter I got had no hostiles, though the poster told me there would be jellyfish.

[whole linden]

The derelict freighter security bots are annoying

Is there a way to heal myself so I can refill all my lives? I only have one

[quasi copper]

The only way I managed to heal in the entire expedition was shutting down sentinel pillars and then opening the combat salvage the two sentinels there drop. I never spotted a way on a freighter.

[glass stump]

I don't think there is on a freighter. There are some player made bases with first aid stations

[sly pond]

@whole linden Keep any type of raw meat in your inventory, consuming 1 restores 1-3 core health points

[crimson badger]

Yes lower damage is fine. In this exp I get damaged tech regularly and darn pirates poppin everywhere

[patent canyon]

The pirates was the biggest challenge for me there.

They are tanky in this expedition.

[quasi copper]

I spent a long time running from every space fight because I didn't have the sodium for shield recharges. Finally had sodium and some confidence in my ship's tech, fought the next time I encountered a freighter in trouble, and hardly had a pirate problem after that. It was almost like the encounters I was dodging just kept coming back, or something. Probably just RNG, though.

[wraith junco]

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[patent canyon]

I had plenty of sodium, but wasn't doing enough damage and being able to hit a 🏴‍☠️ enough before his shield recharged. So I kept paying them and escaping as much as possible. I was able to defeat the only one .

What is shame is that only near the end of the expedition I have found that we start with a freighter. Otherwise I would farm 💰 to hire some combat frigates.

But I have noticed that there combat frigates didn't send me any combat ships support during 🏴‍☠️ attacks.

[quasi copper]

Was your freighter in the same system? Were the combat frigates on expeditions? I think the first has to be true and possibly the second false.

[patent canyon]

It was. At the same system where I hired the frigates.

And they were there as they were freshly hired.

[quasi copper]

Fire 'em. :)

[patent canyon]

One interesting thing though ||is that this expedition has hostile living ships at one part||.

[patent canyon]

Unfortunately I can't get refund from them.

[quasi copper]

My motto was pretty much "He bravely ran away! He bravely ran away, away!"

[patent canyon]

||And the living ships work like the old NPC spaceships - they have no 🛡️ .||

[quasi copper]

I think I either ran away from those or went and hid in a hole on planet until they went away.

Summoned my ship to sit right next to me before I opened any graves. Jumped in and flew off.

Pirates? Space Anomaly.

System authorities because I hadn't found a place to dump that bloody passport? Space Anomaly. Got pinged by system authorities every time I had any contraband. Every time.

[patent canyon]

When I bought a contraband, I then ran to a space station ASAP after jumping.

I usually get caught only when I don't notice getting illegal cargo from the "fireworks".

[quasi copper]

I did if I knew it was contraband. The mouseover item description mostly doesn't tell you. Got surprised by NipNip Buds and that passport.

[patent canyon]

It tells you that the item is smuggled when in normal system.

But I think that it should be highlighted more.

[patent canyon]

Reminds me when I got it from the Freighter expeditions.

Before the Outlaws update, NipNip were legal item.

As Outlaws added the smuggling system.

[quasi copper]

Yeah, the station authorities very kindly let me know every time I had contraband.

[patent canyon]

Interesting is that you can give them either one, everything or nothing.

[quasi copper]

Ohhhh. Interesting. Maybe that's why the labels are kind of an afterthought.

[patent canyon]

It's sort of like bargain/pay/fight with 🏴‍☠️ s.

[quasi copper]

I always chose fight, then ran. I wasn't sure I wouldn't need the passport later (I didn't).

[patent canyon]

And in case of 🏴‍☠️ s when bargaining there is 99% chance for succeed.

Only once in my main save (at normal mode) or twice I got attacked while trying to bargain.

[quasi copper]

Never knew that that would work.

[patent canyon]

Usually it does.

Rarely they say "Nope. Fireworks time!".

Korvax 🏴‍☠️ said that he accepts the bargain as part of an experiment.

Though one thing which I miss there - the 🏴‍☠️ s scan your cargo, yet if you can't pay them its price, you can't just drop the cargo for them.

Like you can do in case of Sentinel scan.

[quasi copper]

Heh. It really was satisfying when I could finally just beat the pirates this expedition. Sort of like the satisfaction I take in grabbing resources after shutting down a sentinel pillar.

[patent canyon]

Actually weird is - Sentinels can scan you even in uncharted star system.

[patent canyon]

I shot down one and it already gave me the required Sentinel kills.

So I had two objectives done.

In the first star system as somebody built a base there already.

[quasi copper]

I was pretty surprised that sentinels "died" when I shut down their pillar, and that they counted for milestones when they did.

[patent canyon]

That's how the shutting down works.

And it isn't just for your area - if you find any sentinel protected building and they are disabled, you'll find an ammo crate instead of the sentinel guarding the building.

[quasi copper]

Hadn't done it before. I hate permadeath, but it's been a learning experience. I've had to deal with a lot of stuff I just avoided in other saves.

[patent canyon]

I died only once.

The mandatory permadeath.

||And then the second time, for ending the loop.||

As I usually managed to run from all enemies.

[quasi copper]

Brave Sirs Robin, we.

[patent canyon]

Even the ones where we are supposed to die. (The loop end incidents when we find a memory.).

This time I laugh instead of .

[quasi copper]

I nearly died on those hills on Ninorb-whatsit until someone told me, yeah, use the Minotaur. I'd never used one before. I love them now.

[patent canyon]

I didn't ever use the Minotaur.

I ran from enemies or shot them later. In case of storms I already had protective upgrades and when needed, I did hide underground.

Or dug a cave to survive.

[quasi copper]

Same for me, but it was great for traversing the hilly terrain. I never got a weapon for it. Just no luck on that.

[patent canyon]

I got 10 vehicle memories. Didn't use them to find out what's inside though.

Minotaur is great with the AI module though.

It turns from a vehicle to your ally.

And serves as great bait against Sentinels.

[quasi copper]

Can't afford it. 4800 nanites in this one. Didn't get it as a random draw.

[patent canyon]

Its modules can get damaged during fight though and then need to be repaired.

You can eventually afford it in main save though.

[quasi copper]

I turned off technology damage as much as I could.

[patent canyon]

Same.

Though now it's fine as it happens (at minimal level) mostly when you have damaged or disabled shield.

At Waypoints release it happened almost everytime when you were hit.

Even on minimal stuff.

Got fall damage? A module goes off.

Hit an asteroid? Say goodbye to pulse engines and thus get stranded in space.

[quasi copper]

That was when I started turning it off. I didn't know it was a bug.

[patent canyon]

It was more bad balance before being fixed.

But same. I turned it off at that moment.

Now I keep it enabled at minimal, as it works as supposed.

And makes game more interesting in case that player isn't careful enough.

[quasi copper]

I liked the idea. Then it happened first time I took any damage, and <yeet>. Nope. Probably ought to try to stay focused on the expedition in here, though.

[patent canyon]

There I got only one time damaged my ship during combat.

Solar's ship solar panels, so it was unable to recharge by ⭐ .

And as it required Deuterium, which requires better refiner, I was unable to fix it for majority of the expedition.

Then I found that I could fix it by my Freighter's refiner.

Yet nobody told me that I start with one.

(I have found it randomly while finally saving a Freighter from s at the end of expedition due being powerful enough.)

[quasi copper]

Oh! I noticed I hardly needed to recharge the pulse drive. Wondered if it was a bug. Never had a solar ship before. With the tiny stack size, I was relieved I didn't have to recharge much.

[native bloom]

Vesper sails don't recharge pulse engines, just launch thrusters. They do have really good reduction in pulse fuel usage though

[quasi copper]

Ah. Thanks!

[fluid monolith]

I got lucky having players donate enough value items in Leviathan that I ship-flipped my way into enough nanites to get by. I suck at combat though and died during the freighter battle, second time around I did it by the skin of my teeth, got really unlucky and never got any exosuit frost armour, burned through all my batteries and sodium. Was waaaay too close for comfort lol

[fluid monolith]

That's so neat! I thought it was a bug or something the the % was different when checking it lol

[quasi copper]

I just ran from that first freighter battle. "Sorry, guys. Good luck with the pirates. I'm on Permadeath!"

[patent canyon]

My Freighter battle which I won broke two times.

The first time I got scammed - saved it, told that I have to land in another Star system (I didn't receive the signal) and when I jumped there, the mission disappeared.

So I reloaded my save.

Second time I one time hit a space station accidentally during the fight.

So now Sentinels started teaming with s against me (what a nonsense). Reloaded save again and was prepared to Alt+F4 in case of dying to such nonsense.

[quasi copper]

I sympathize so much with that. I don't hire squadron members if they don't make me because I'm afraid I'll hit them. Not hitting the freighter is hard enough.

[patent canyon]

Squadron members don't turn against you if you hit them.

Nor call Sentinels on you.

Traders... That's another chapter.

Hit one flying in front of you while you are shooting an asteroid?

Goes instantly hostile.

Though it seems to be fixed a little, as during one Freighter battle I think that I hit a trader once and he didn't turn on me.

[fluid monolith]

I ran from every pirate battle, beefed up my ship with as much armour as possible and just summoned the nexus any time a pirate appeared

[patent canyon]

(I reported this BS before as a 🐛 . Same now with the space station BS.)

[patent canyon]

Same.

Once having enough , I also bought emergency warp drive for the worst case.

This one allows you to randomly jump to other star system even during combat.

[quasi copper]

I didn't farm nanites at all, because I was in a hurry and didn't want to sit through refining. So I could barely afford any upgrades even at the end.

[fluid monolith]

That would have been the smart thing to do

[patent canyon]

In case of need, you can farm both by getting and using distress call maps.

If you find abandonded building, you can steal alien eggs and refine them into s.

They are also at infested planets.

At infested planets, you can also kill the Titan worms and collect their organs and then refine them too.

[quasi copper]

"I'm in too much of a hurry to be smart! I'm also in too much of a hurry to do it over!" I really thought I was going to be down to the wire on time.

[patent canyon]

In case of distress calls, you can also claim ships. Then fix their essential drives and scrap them at space station for getting scrap to sell.

[fluid monolith]

I panicked and spent 10hrs just grinding nanites n stuff for all the upgrades; accidentally sold/destroyed my core weapons, so ended up getting through it without a gun on my ship. Yes, really. lmao

[patent canyon]

Mine one got 3 000 000 Units.

[quasi copper]

Oh, man, that's awful.

[patent canyon]

Though thanks to the memories, you don't need to grind much at least the basic modules.

And they are easy to get if you can mine liquid sun.

[quasi copper]

I found ancestral memories way easier than liquid sun. Go to a planet with creatures and paradise environment. Feed a few, then keep harvesting until a storm makes you quit. I didn't even have to keep feeding them; I got harvests from each about every 40 seconds or so with no re-feeding.

[fluid monolith]

I just got sooo unlucky with the modules. I got heaps of weapon slots but no weapon upgrades. Not even good ones at space stations urgh. Was a blessing/curse the freighter I explored was those sleeping monster things... spent it tiptoeing quietly around them hoping none woke up and thankfully they didn't. What a spicy playthrough

[fluid monolith]

This is the way!

[patent canyon]

I got stun grenades, geology cannon and Boltcaster was enough for me.

[quasi copper]

My condolences on your rotten module luck. I had a mixed bag. I got some great upgrades for just staying in the field (auto-rechargers, solar power for Minotaur, etc.) Good weapon upgrades. Not much in the way of other stuff.

[patent canyon]

I also got shield.

[keen crag]

Ugh, made it the the Leviathan freighter only to be reset by an infestation... So frustrating.

[quasi copper]

I did keep getting plasma grenade stuff. "I don't have any unstable plasma! I probably never will! Why are you doing this to me?"

[patent canyon]

If you have finished the expedition, the permadeath isn't there anymore.

So all you get is lost inventory.

[patent canyon]

I bought some.

[quasi copper]

My condolences. Try the derelict they mention in the pins next time? That one was so insanely easy for me.

[fluid monolith]

I got a lot of great exocraft stuff, but I never used exocraft, didn't feela need to. Are exocraft good? It came out during a time I wasn't playing, and even though I play a lot I've not bothered to try out the exocraft stuff

[quasi copper]

Minotaurs. I'm in love. I will preach the Minotaur to everyone. No more spending two hours to go down a hill. No more spending two hours carving my way up one and hoping I don't slide off and die.

[fluid monolith]

are you still playing? Do you need help? I'm awful at shooting stuff but I can do what I can

[keen crag]

Thanks for the tip, handy info in those pins.

[keen crag]

Given up for the day, I'll be back at it tomorrow.

[quasi copper]

You're welcome. The people who put that information together, and who build bases for eggs and crystals and pillars are heroes.

[fluid monolith]

Is anyone else grinding the memory progression? It's going up so slow

[quasi copper]

I'm going to try to help out later tonight, for the bit of difference it will make. It is slow.

4 will give us X instead of S modules, right? What's left at 5?

[fluid monolith]

It's a timed event, I may as well. Between that and donating cadmium for people's drive upgrades

[fluid monolith]

idk but I'm dying to find out

[quasi copper]

That's a pleasant thing to do.

[fluid monolith]

I got sick and was unable to do the mission until yesterday, I only made it through thanks to random people donating me valuable goods

[quasi copper]

Glad you're feeling better, and glad you got some help!

[feral warren]

is there another expiedtion after leviathon

[quasi copper]

Polestar. Polestar is the last of the series, and the latest so far.

[ashen shore]

@quasi copper I already did Polestar, actually that was my first One.. it's also where I have my main save.

Are there new rewards that we didn't get during the first one

[quasi copper]

Oh, hey, me too! I started the game with the Endurance update. I don't think there are new rewards on these, they're more for those of us who missed them. I'm sorry I missed the first four.

[ashen shore]

@quasi copper yea I'm hoping we get to re do the first 4.

[quasi copper]

They re-ran them as a year-end thing last year. Don't know if they'll bring them back again, but I hope so.

[ashen shore]

@quasi copper right, I'm also curious as to what this other game that Hello Games is working on is.

[quasi copper]

Hadn't heard anything about that.

I'm considering re-running Polestar just to see how different it is with the things I've learned on these previous three expeditions.

[ashen shore]

@quasi copper same how many days are there left until the polestar one

[quasi copper]

Two. You can use !exptime in the #bot-spam channel for up-to-date info.

[clever wren]

Hey guys, which one is easier to get:

1. Liquid sun
2. Ancestral memories
   or
3. Somnal Dust ?

I want to farm to help increase the percentage

[quasi copper]

Ancestral memories, IMHO. Go to the Sentinel Pillar and Paraffine Mine base (name was something like that), turn off Sentinels, and there were loads of creatures not too far from it. You can just give each one a pellet, and round up the herd, then harvest each of them every 30-40 seconds or so. I don't know if you ever need to re-feed them. A storm came up and I called it good and left.

[clever wren]

thanks

[inland dock]

How come the memory progression didn't click over at 75%?
Now at 76% and still nothing.

[sly pond]

@clever wren Liquid Sun would be my bet, simply because it doesn't rely on spawns. Set it to the smallest diameter to get the most material from any type of mineral deposit.

You can get credit for 20 turn-ins per account per day towards community milestones, so don't bother past that if it's the only reason youre doing it

[whole linden]

What's Polestar about?

And how much time does Leviathan have left?

[iron radish]

@whole linden if you havent already started it its too late

[quasi copper]

Mechanically-speaking, Polestar's about freighter, squadron, and fleet mechanics. For time information, use !exptime in #bot-spam .

[whole linden]

I started it already, and I'm close to finishing it

[regal spade]

@whole lindenpress the green button, you'll when it ends in your time zone

or press "1 Event"

[bold saffron]

struggling to get to waypoint 2 due to indium drive requirement (which means 2000 nanites to unlock blueprints). Any tips on fast nanites?

[patent canyon]

Alien egg collecting and then refining it. You can find them either at abandonded buildings (which you can find by distress call map) or at infested planets.

And if you have a gun, you can also shoot titan worms at an infested planet and some of their organs then can be refined into nanites too.

Another way - get memories by bringing resources to Polo, but instead of installing their modules(unless there will be a drive), sell them to the tech module sellers at space station.

And one way, which might take some time - scan all creatures on a planet for sometimes big bonus.

[whole linden]

Sell unwanted tech modules or modules you have no use for from the ones you get from memory fragments

[bold saffron]

thanks for all the tips!

[whole linden]

No problem

[rugged sail]

I'VE DONE IT

If I never have to see another worm world again, it'll be too soon

Thank God Polestar is an easy one, I need a break after all this.

[glass stump]

Worm? Do I have to find and kill a worm?

[rugged sail]

All the Anchor Points are on Infested worlds so you see a lot of titan worms

The amount of times I accidentally landed in between Titan Burrows probably took several years off my life

[glass stump]

Ahh, OK. Yeah, I saw a lot as well.

[glass stump]

LOL

[rugged sail]

Solid expedition though. If I only gave myself time to enjoy it instead of doing the whole thing two days before 😆

[glass stump]

OK all, I am at the end I think. I have the flute assembled and ready for the Whale Song. Is there anything special that I should know first? Is there a specific way that I need to go throuigh the menus?

[candid token]

So I am still hard grinding somnal dust for the community completion. I can now no longer make a new save and I haven't finished the expedition because we haven't gotten the community part done yet. I am so gutted.
I hope we actually get the tier 5 completed before expedition ends.

[timid wagon]

ooh wait how do y'all get the expedition badges?

[candid token]

Roles

[timid wagon]

I finished mine up a couple days ago

[glass stump]

Roles? Is that a discord thingie

[candid token]

Yeah. A lot of people "finished up" and then stopped donating so we probably can't get the completion

[timid wagon]

yeag

what's the reward for community completion anyway

[candid token]

#roles #roles-information

[candid token]

Doesn't matter to me really even if it was nothing. I am compelled to do it.

[timid wagon]

ah fair, I thought it was just tech upgrades for during the expedition and went 'meh, I contributed my part, but no real reason to complete'

[candid token]

I have 32 hours on my expedition save so far because I have been non stop grinding the somnal dust. If we don't complete it I will cry my self to sleep for a month

[glass stump]

I know that in the normal game, the traits of your FIRST living frigate is based on how you answer the questions. Is that true for the Levation (spelling) frigate?

[candid token]

No

Leviathan

[glass stump]

Thanks. Twice.

[whole linden]

We really need an AoE weapon that doesn't kill you too

Does the derelict freighter you encounter for the last phase always have the horrific nests, or does it depend on which system you're in?

[rugged sail]

Depends on system I think

[hexed oak]

I wish the derelict combat was tuned a bit better. After running a few for turnins, you begin to notice annoyances like collisions that are too big, and how resource canisters intercept your attempts to reload your weapon

[fervent umbra]

What are the amounts of the different things that Polo needs for ancestral memories and somnal dust and all that?

[hexed oak]

200 memories, 100 dust, forget how much sun

[glass stump]

If you don't need anything, but the BP, avoid shooting stuff, and just run through it.

[glass stump]

200 sun I think

[hexed oak]

I believe the mining laser's +resources upgrade affects the pustules containing somnal dust. Overloading and surrounding that upgrade, I pulled 1500-2000 somnal dust on each freighter that contained pustules.

Mining the horrific nests gets you dust too, though I didn't see if it's worth the slowdown cleaning up the critters.

[whole linden]

I need to know the exact time it ends, not just "in a day"

That tells me nothing, based on the way videogames tend to tell time

[hexed oak]

For me, pressing the green button shows 6 AM

Dude is saying it shows the end time in your local time zone

Because Discord knows your time zone

[hexed oak]

^

[muted iris]

Whats so great about the expedition X-class modules btw? I heard they're boosted but only temporarily?

[fluid cloud]

I not sure i only use s class perfred.

[fervent umbra]

X class modules have the potential to be even better than S-Class but they could also be as middling as a C-Class.

[muted iris]

I think I understand that. I just thought people may have been saying that something weird happens like the X-class things you get until the expedition is closed for everyone are boosted more than normal. Then after it finally ends, they are nerfed back to normal X-class things.

My concern is just that if I replace an S-class with a more powerful X-class, it will actually end up rerolling those stats to make them between C and above X. Does that make sense as a question.

[fervent umbra]

Ah. I haven't heard anything about those modules being different in an expedition but I suppose that is possible. I don't think it re-rolls existing modules that you've already installed. If you have memory fragments left over you might get one that's lesser than it could be but if you already have it installed it should remain the same, I would think.

[muted iris]

ok cool. Thanks

[fervent umbra]

Haven't gotten a single damn hyperdrive module from any of these memory fragments.

[hexed oak]

RNGesus is a fickle savior

[muted iris]

How have you been farming the memories?

[fervent umbra]

What I just realized, probably far too late, is that you can kind of save scum it by making a restore point by jumping out of your ship then opening the memory fragment and if you don't like what you get then you reload the restore point save and try again.

[muted iris]

Oh. Huh. Yeah true

You getting frags by doing derelicts or?

[hexed oak]

Derelicts seem the most fun

[fervent umbra]

I haven't done a derelict yet.

[hexed oak]

Mining the sun is just boring, collecting milk "memories" is ok, you can scan creatures and whatnot while you do it, but derelicts will get you a lot of dust

[muted iris]

Well first, they're creepy to play through and interesting as to me I see them as the only real dungeons in this game.
Secondly, giving a full go through gets you 800+ somnal dust if you clear most everything.

Thirdly, you trade 100 for a fragment

[fervent umbra]

I remember last time I did this expedition for real, I had like 500 or so dust from my single derelict run so you get a lot of stuff just from one, but I wasn't really speed running it or anything.

[hexed oak]

Use the mining beam with upgraded and overloaded +resources and you can get 1-2k dust

[muted iris]

Fourth and finally, there's an extra cheap exploit (but might as well make use of it) where you can melee the wall when you get into the dungeon-y part of derelicts, and each time it gives you 1 somnal dust. I timed it. It takes me about 25-30 min to do one. Meleeing the wall? You can get 800+ dust in 8 minutes.

But doing the melee thing is way better if you're on PC cause then you can remap the melee button, stand next to a space heater and put something heavy on the key and go do something else, haha

The issue being, you don't get any of the extra derelict freighter goodies from doing that

I mean you can still go through it and get them but

If you're just looking to farm somnal dust than

[hexed oak]

Haha, that's crazy

NMS is so full of exploits. Good find

[fervent umbra]

[muted iris]

Yeah I was getting somnal dust (supposed to be specifc to this event I think) from freighters when I meleed them outside the event and was like, "Uhh, what is this?" I think you can still get it with this method outside of the event

[muted iris]

Haha yeah. I think exploits are the best. It's so fun. There's cheats. But then, there's exploits-- the grey area of gaming. 🙂 If they didn't want you to do it, then they shouldn't leave it in. Haha XD

[hexed oak]

Ooooo, and it sells for good cash too

[muted iris]

yea

Also, if you didn't know this, somnal dust I think? is the only thing that gives you not only frags but derelict freighter scanner things.
Is that part true or am I talking out my butt there?

The liquid sun and memories don't give scanners when you turn em in, right?

I got 68 of those scanners so far. normally you buy 1 to 2 per star system for 5 million and 10 million respectively. This is the time to farm those things. Cause Polo just hands them to you.

[hexed oak]

Oh yeah. I started selling them because I don't know what to do with more than one slotful

It appears that the level of fleet upgrades improves as you run more derelicts

[muted iris]

Haha. Yeah, keep em for sure from now on. If you dont wanna be hunting for them later. The end of one is the only way, you may know, to farm upgrades for your freighter.

[hexed oak]

But I don't know that I'm EVER going to run more than 50

[muted iris]

Right haha. Well that depends on your level of NMS obsession eventually.

But I do agree. 50 for me is still insane. I just overdo everything

Fun fact-- the grade of upgrade at the end of derelicts is purely decided by the star system. No way to tell until you do one, but if you find a system with a B level one, you can keep getting B level upgrades.
The drawback? It's a little ridiculous to have on your freighter 10 B-class upgrades all from the same named derelict, because the name of the derelict doesn't change between systems anyway XD

So yeah... little bit of a continuity error there

[hexed oak]

Oh yeah, I had duplicate derelict names after only grabbing 4 or 5 upgrades

Sounds like the RNG gets stuck sometimes

Oh, wait, I didn't read your post completely. The class is based on the star system, ok, good to know, because my last run had a "10 freighter runs" achievement or something and I got a B class

so I thought it was a natural progression, rather than a random roll that each star system makes.

[muted iris]

Yeah nah. It's something I learned. Totally based on type. So when you find one with a S-class reward, you're kind of golden. Unless you don't like the thought of it being from all the same one haha

It's laid out different every time too hahaha

[hexed oak]

Wait, the layout changes even as the name remains the same?

[muted iris]

Yeah lol

Large continuity holes but whatever lol.

Dungeon changes every time I believe

[waxen shuttle]

floating dungeon in space

[fervent umbra]

When you say the dungeon-y part of derelicts do you mean the area past the entrance just after you unseal the door? Or somewhere deep down in there?

[rocky valve]

quick question, are the colors and style randomized for the starter solar ship?

[muted iris]

Specifically, after the unsealed door, yes

[muted iris]

I'm personally not sure. Maybe it's different per player?

[fervent umbra]

Maybe it only works on pc? I'm on PS5 in a derelict on the first floor and I was meleeing the wall and getting nothing.

[muted iris]

No way. Really? That sucks. Let me show you something--

Just showing you to show I'm not messing with you

You can def do it on PC at least. Cause I'm here doing it rn. Did they really take it from the PS5 version? That'd be weird.

And nothing small is in your way or anything right?

Like something small between you and the wall?

[whole linden]

They need to do something so the little green scorpion things can't kill you so easily

Or maybe make the plasma launcher and the geological cannon be viable in closed spaces

[merry compass]

before you piss em off dig a hole lure them there then shoot em or just run away lol

[quasi copper]

There's a base called something like Boxed Eggs in the Ilongkar system.

[whole linden]

I mean the small green scorpion things from derelict freighters

[quasi copper]

It's sort of on the expedition path, not too far before Satands.

[quasi copper]

Neutron cannon?

[whole linden]

I don't have it in Leviathan

[quasi copper]

Easier freighter?

[hexed oak]

Try to get exosuit shield and health upgrades before taking them on

[muted iris]

I actually agree with the geology cannon thing. I shoot like 5 shots in there and 4 or 5 come away anyhow

[whole linden]

I had the max amount of shield upgrades

But died to my own geo cannon

Twice

And once to the plasma launcher because the balls just bounce back to me

[quasi copper]

This is the system referred to in the pin post. It's supposed to have only jellyfish. I didn't even have those when I did it. Just lockers and lockers full of dust.

[whole linden]

I think the derelict for the mission in the final iteration will always have the scorpion things

[quasi copper]

Nope. That was what I was doing.

[whole linden]

Huh

[hexed oak]

Anyone know of S-class freighter upgrades in expedition systems?

[muted iris]

@fervent umbra Check that out. That may be better for you on PS5.

[whole linden]

I mean, I already finished the derelict by using the scanner trick and staying still

[hexed oak]

Never use the explody weapons. That's my philosophy

[whole linden]

Plasma launcher isn't exactly the best against small targets when your controller's R stick is drifting

[muted iris]

But I like explosions. Maybe they should just make it so they don't autokill you

Damage to user times .25

[whole linden]

Plus, how come the little security robots can see you even if you're using the camouflage device?

[hexed oak]

The plasma launcher has been known to kill players accidentally since the beginning and they never changed it, just updated the text noting that fact

[muted iris]

That does need to be fixed. Makes no sense.

[quasi copper]

Yikes! I'm glad I never had any ammo for the thing. I might have fired it!

[fervent umbra]

I finished mine and all it had was turrets. There weren't even any roaming sentry things. I got almost a thousand dust from all the lockers.

[whole linden]

Even the exocraft cannon kills you while you're inside the exocraft

Exocrafts really need to have their own shield and HP

Especially the minotaur

[muted iris]

Wow. So that really may be the very best way to get it plus other loot

[hexed oak]

Yeah, it's easy to switch to accidentally, because NMS lacks visual cues like a different handheld weapon

[fervent umbra]

Fucking... If I had one more somnal dust I would be perfectly fine to get five more memory fragments with my gatherings and have enough for the flute but if I unloaded all the stuff I have I would have 31 dust left.

[muted iris]

Butn there are visual cues somewhat. Different primary weapons have different crosshairs

[whole linden]

But the secondary ones don't

[hexed oak]

True. That is a bit of a cue. I'm trying to recall if they added that in an update, or always like that.

[whole linden]

And the plasma launcher, geology cannon, and paralysis mortar all have the same logo in the UI

[hexed oak]

Oh wait, is the plasma launcher a secondary?

That's right it is!

So you'd try to zoom and BOOM

[whole linden]

To me sometimes I have to press the button twice for it to actually fire when I select it

[fervent umbra]

I think either the plasma launcher or the geology cannon is the reason I never finished this initially on PS5. All I had to do was mine a little bit more liquid Sun I think but I had that set as the secondary and I killed myself so I had to restart and I had to go to work so I couldn't finish in time.

[whole linden]

I just quit the game before it resets the loop

[hexed oak]

Yeah. The worst is when button presses would do all the things at once, so you might middle click to get rid of something, but it would also change your secondary behind the scenes

So you'd expect the combat scope to still be on, press secondary, and whoops it's a giant explosion!

[fervent umbra]

I think I tried but I wasn't fast enough.

[whole linden]

The force field is useless against groups of enemies, and the camouflage doesn't work with derelict freighter enemies for some reason

[fervent umbra]

Oh I was pissed that day.

[whole linden]

I just do it by instinct now

Like, before the death animation finishes playing I just hold the PS button and quit the game

[fervent umbra]

I think I didn't know at the time about holding down the PS button to get to the menu quickly and I was trying to do it through that little pop-up if you just press it and that lost me time.

[hexed oak]

Does coordinate exchange list S-class fleet upgrade modules?

[whole linden]

I had no idea you could get freighter upgrade modules from derelict freighters

I always chose the nanite or storage options

And I was wondering why freighters had so much tech space

[hexed oak]

Yeah, I wasn't really aware of it either

https://www.reddit.com/r/NMSCoordinateExchange/comments/w5xrn5/repost_from_stharward_the_holy_grail_of_derelict/

It seems they do!

[fervent umbra]

I managed to get a C-Class 87ly hyperdrive module from the derelict because it had one of those landing pad rooms so I salvaged one from a fighter in there, then I managed to get a suspicious tech packet using tainted metal from the space station and I just opened it up and it had a 311ly + 100% warp efficiency buff, and putting it into a supercharged spot bumped that up to 389ly + 125% efficiency

[hexed oak]

Oooo, I haven't seen a landing pad room yet

Nice

[plain kettle]

Ugh....may not finish this one....been busy with r/l...and didn't get to start until the day before the starting cutoff. This is the one i wanted too....hoping I can grind it out this morning after work.

[quasi copper]

Good luck. Lots of helpful information in the pins for finding things.

[plain kettle]

Thanks, I always read the pins ahead of time. That may be the only thing that saves me....lol

[hexed oak]

Plus you now have boosted X-class upgrades to work with!

[quasi copper]

Bburnt's Mouldtasia base on Lowest Mano (Kusinst System, starting planet) has a teleporter, three medium refiners, about 20 balls of mould, and a lovely overhang out back that you can pull creatures under and just stand there feeding them for quite a while. Got 4000 ancestral memories and my Cluster Horde milestone done, too.

[vague pasture]

I just started the expedition….well the good news is that I won’t need help dying at first

The bad news is that I’m in the middle of a next level heavy toxicity storm that drains away my shields in a matter of seconds

[quasi copper]

That's probably another restart, then. I think that's actually the hardest part of the expedition.

[inner skiff]

Wait for the storm to pass

[muted iris]

In a cave or a hole you make with the matter manipulator 🙂

[quasi copper]

Can't when you start; it's broken.

[muted iris]

Oh

[quasi copper]

Need carbon nanotubes and di-hydrogen jelly to fix. Depending on where you spawn, that might be easy or not.

[vague pasture]

Okay so how fucked am I exactly? I used clock setback just to start the expedition

[muted iris]

Well if you're trying to get to your ship which is a long journey, what I did for all 4 of my characters is grab carbon, make pellets and tame an animal to ride there

[quasi copper]

You can do it if you have some time in the next couple days.

[quasi copper]

I never thought of that. Neat solution.

[vague pasture]

I plan on doing NOTHING ELSE for the next 2 days

[muted iris]

Also, you have to die once if you want to complete the expedition anyway.

[muted iris]

Thank you.

[quasi copper]

Once you get to your ship, if it's not in a terrible location, you're probably alright.

[muted iris]

Some of the animals are pretty slow, but when it comes to the slopes of that acidic planet, they run right up and down them, no issues

even through large rocks

[quasi copper]

I struggled with that on my second save; it was on a small ledge halfway up a really long, steep slope. Burned most of my life support getting there before I died of toxic inhalation.

[quasi copper]

Sweet. Yeah, maybe try the animal riding thing. :)

[vague pasture]

Oof

I’ve never tamed animals before despite having 200 hrs in this game

[muted iris]

Yeah, that's really tough without an animal buddy. First time I did this expedition I just died over and over and over on the first part.

[quasi copper]

And then when I got there, there weren't many resources in reach to go on. I got really lucky though; someone had built a sodium mine up-slope from me. Grabbed some of that.

[quasi copper]

Yeah, I'm not usually a fan of animals in games; they usually require more attention and regular maintenance than I want to deal with, and then I feel bad.

[vague pasture]

What about in this game?

[quasi copper]

I adopt when the milestones make me, feed, pat, dismiss, and mostly never summon again. I only feel a little bad. But riding flying creatures is pretty neat.

[muted iris]

Nice on the sodium. Again I had to use the tiny skinny wolf things to get around at all. If there's a cave, go mine a lot of stalagmites and stalagtites for cobalt. Throw that together with ferrite dust, and you'll make yourself a ton of batteries

That will keep you charged for a long time. Won't have to worry as much. I did that multiple times (finding caves, mining, making batteries) like 4 or 5 times for this expedition

Yeah I like flying beetles 🙂

[quasi copper]

They're the best.

[vague pasture]

Two people are in the system at least

[quasi copper]

To be honest, I backed up my save files, just in case, but I never had to try to restore them.

[vague pasture]

Anything I should know? Apart from die on purpose and it takes about a day IRL of doing stuff to complete?

[quasi copper]

Always see what bases you can reach from the station. There are some very helpful ones. Oh, and you already own a freighter. If you can't find it, summon it from the vehicles menu when you're in space.

[vague pasture]

I managed to get to my ship before I died on purpose

What do I do in this expedition?

[quasi copper]

Your main thing is going to "anchor points" and experiencing memories of dead travellers ||who seem to be implied to have been you||.

It's generally about your character's relationship with other creatures.

Most of your upgrades are going to come from completing milestones, because anything that costs nanites is ten times the price in this one.

And if you aren't amazing at combat, I recommend channelling the spirit of Brave Sir Robin, and bravely running away, like, all the time until you have some good upgrades. ||You are going to be ambushed every time you read a memory at a Traveler's grave, but you don't have to fight. I park my ship next to it before opening it, and run away in the ship.||

[muted iris]

quality reference there

[quasi copper]

Thank you. :)

Oh, and you'll get a Minotaur geobay as a reward. Use the Minotaur on hilly planets and when you need storm crystals, if you have to go very far for them. But remember to pick up the geobay itself right after summoning. I lost mine. :(

[ashen shore]

@quasi copper I usually have my freighter with the orbital thing on board so I can call in my Minataur anywhere

[quasi copper]

I don't know if any quests award the plans for the orbital materializer. If they don't, it'll take a while to get; base part plans are also 10x cost.

[crimson badger]

Only aggressive animal and storm crystal left, anyone know where to find them?

[quasi copper]

There was a suitable animal on the first planet; see pins. Storm crystals I found on one of the planets in the Ilongkar system.

Ilongkar (symbol 10 should look like a radiation symbol, kind of; this seemed to be the thing):

[muted iris]

First message on the pin seems to have the answer. Otherwise I may lead you on a wild goose chase

[meager scroll]

Just a little FYI, there are emotes here to use for portal glyphs

[quasi copper]

Frabjous -- thank you!

[meager scroll]

Goes 0-9 and A-F

Not that you have to edit your post, just letting you know

[muted iris]

My best advice though is to just keep adventuring until you find both of them. Aside from looking at the pins.

[rocky valve]

What were the colors of your ship? If you did play the expedition.

[muted iris]

It was like pinkish/grey. Kind of weird. But now I'm looking on another character, I see they have blue and grey. So colors must change.

[rocky valve]

Hmm okay, looks like people do get different colored ships. Mine was all white

[muted iris]

That's awesome!

I wanted a yellow one and kept restarting but all I even got was these pastel kinds of colors. I don't like that, but it seems like it was all it'd give to me no matter if I rerolled. Still can't beat a free S-rank ship and multitool though.

[quasi copper]

The lighting changes the ship colors so dramatically for me that I honestly have never been able to tell what color any of my ships was supposed to be.

[crimson badger]

Thanks a lot

[vague pasture]

I haven't repaired my ship yet, I'm just starting out. I take it a majority of this expedition is just resource harvesting?

[sly pond]

@quasi copper I actually built a base specifically for doing ship screenshots showing true colour lol

[quasi copper]

Nifty!

[sly pond]

Those triangle things in the main shot are guides you use to catch the photo mode camera to ensure shots are taken from the exact same angle. Me, OCD? That's crazy talk!

[vague pasture]

Wait by cycle observed do they mean they want you to reach the center of the galaxy as an optional milestone with this expedition?!

[quasi copper]

No, they want you to turn in certain expedition-specific items to Polo. Liquid Sun, Ancestral Memories, or Somnal Dust.

[vague pasture]

You mean the BS materials from the living ship quests?

That I don't physically have the time to obtain?

[quasi copper]

You get memories from animals you've fed, liquid sun from mining terrain manipulator materials using the Solar Ray on your multi-tool, and somnal dust from running derelicts.

I got 4000 memories in, I think, less than an hour of milking animals. 20 turn-ins. You only need to turn them in, like, 5 times.

[vague pasture]

daaaamn

[quasi copper]

Find a spot with 4-6 animals, feed each animal you see, then keep milking them when the timer on them comes up. I had 5 going, and got about 75 memories per 50 seconds or so.

[vague pasture]

should I bother attaching multi-tool attachments to my base multi-tool or will I soon get much better ones?

[quasi copper]

If you just started today or yesterday, you should have an S-rank multitool, and you get lots of expansions for it. If you started two weeks ago but are just now playing, dying should upgrade you.

It also wipes out your milestones, of course, so don't do that if you've made much progress.

If you've made much progress, I suggest trying sentinel pillars to see if you can find a better one; the C-class runs out of spaces you can buy way before you run out of modules to expand it.

[vague pasture]

I literally just started out 20 minutes ago and my ship still isn't repaired

Neat it IS an S class multi-tool

[quasi copper]

Then your multi-tool is probably a worthy one for the whole expedition. Also, you may want to look at difficulty settings. There are a few you can change, and you may want to.

[vague pasture]

This is ALSO my first expedition, ever

[quasi copper]

Welcome to expeditions! I like them a lot. I don't like the permadeath (sorta) of this one, but it certainly has been educational.

If you get an unlucky derelict freighter in Iteration 5, that's probably the worst problem. Check pins or my post way above with image for easy freighter system. There's also a big nanite-farming hitch where you need an emeril drive (unless you get lucky with Memories) and don't even have cadmium. There are lots of mold-ball bases in the first system now, though, so it shouldn't take too long to get the nanites. (You need 800 for the cadmium drive recipe and 1200 for the emeril drive.)

My new save has 4953 nanites right now from the balls from one base, where I also farmed the ancestral memories, and then selling the techs I didn't want from opening 19 memories.

[vague pasture]

Ohhh right, the stuff you can smelt to get nanites

I'm still trying to repair the ship inbetween being on discord and stuff

[vague pasture]

How do I get dihydrogen in this expedition? I desperately need a bunch of it to continue and I'm on slopey hell

[quasi copper]

You can refine 5 tritium into 1 di-hydrogen, and if you can ever launch, you can get more tritium.

Don't know if they gave you enough, but there's some tritium on the ship, I believe.

[vague pasture]

There is! Thank you!

[quasi copper]

It won't do all of it, but it'll cut down how much you have to find.

If you can even repair the launch thrusters, you can at least go to a different spot.

[vague pasture]

heck it only gets my down to half the dihydrogen

[wraith junco]

You can multiply dihydrogen by crafting di jelly in refiner and back to di hydrogen and again to jelly and back to di hydro

[vague pasture]

Very funny

[quasi copper]

He's serious. It takes 40 to make the jelly, and refining it back gives you 50, according to the wiki.

But if you don't have enough for 1, that doesn't help.

[vague pasture]

It will when I have 50 at least

That does really help though

[quasi copper]

Are you in multi-player?

[sly pond]

You can refine 30 DiHy to 1 Jelly for better multiplication, it just takes a lot longer

[vague pasture]

Apparently I am because I occasionally get messages about people warping in and out of the system

[quasi copper]

I'm in the system. I can bring you some di-hydrogen if I can find you. Might want to make sure you have PvP off, BTW, unless you enjoy that.

[vague pasture]

pvp is off

[quasi copper]

What's the closest base to you?

[scarlet ocean]

Welcome to pesudo permadeath. Tbh it's fun.

[vague pasture]

Also I found dihydrogen crystals hidden near my ship.....enough for exactly 7 of it

[scarlet ocean]

Did you die 1 time already?

[vague pasture]

yes

[scarlet ocean]

Good, saves time

[vague pasture]

7 total dihydrogen lol

[quasi copper]

Whee. Don't spend that all in one -- oh, wait.

[vague pasture]

I'm at 27 lol

To find me I think I might have to add you as a friend

[quasi copper]

PM me, then.

[vague pasture]

There's no base remotely near me. The closest one is 14 hrs of walking away

[quasi copper]

Yeah, that won't work for a landmark.

[vague pasture]

Sorry for the white noise coming from my mic I have no clue how to automatically turn it off

[unkempt kraken]

https://discord.gg/nomanssky?event=1060127751706787890

[ancient pivot]

landing pad rooms? all i ever get is corridors and rooms with scattered about boxes chairs, tables and beds

[vague pasture]

I'm playing the expedition and I just realized something....What do you mean our capacity for stacks of resources is limited to 500 per material?!

[placid dew]

What do you mean it's limited? It's plenty.
We play with "500 material per stack" all the time!
P.S. I play on permadeath.

[quasi copper]

Your ship can hold stacks of 1000.

[vague pasture]

I'm used to 9,999 in my normal save file

Should I use the starship inventory expansion on the ship I start out with?

[quasi copper]

Depends on whether you want a different ship. It's S-class if your multi-tool was. It's a good ship. The sails that open and block half the screen annoy me a bit, though.

[vague pasture]

Fuck me, I left that menu and it seems that memory fragment is now deleted

[quasi copper]

I didn't know that could happen. Damn.

[hexed oak]

Doesn't it give you ship inventory modules? I think it just auto-uses them when you open an inventory memory

[vague pasture]

What's a good flat planet in the system? I need to collect liquid sun and somnal dust

[hexed oak]

Whenever I used an inventory memory, I noticed it would actually spawn inventory upgrades and use them up as I selected spaces. If cancelling leaves them (which it should) you can visit a space station to use the inventory upgrade modules

Why flat planet? Liquid sun can be collected from any deposit anywhere

[vague pasture]

Because I just started out on some hell slopes and want to avoid that again at all costs

[hexed oak]

Though honestly getting anscestral memories from animals is probably simplest. It's like milking animals

Ah, gotcha

[quasi copper]

You don't need to do all three of those possible things to get the milestone in Iteration 1.

Any one of the three of dust, memories, or sun will do.

[vague pasture]

Okay....but I still want a flat planet recommendation

[hexed oak]

Can't say offhand. My recommendation is just to set down somewhere flat on any planet

[quasi copper]

Don't have one. :( I didn't explore the first system, and the anchor worlds are pretty much all made of hellslopes.

[vague pasture]

cries

[finite rover]

most planets aren't mountainous.

[hexed oak]

Employ the terrain manipulator for footholds, if need be. And hope you get movement modules in tech upgrades

You will get movement modules, I should say

[finite rover]

that said, landing on mountainous planets is easy. the hassle is (and this is for any planet) that at least on the xbox one x the first 30s of your time on the planet is nms trying to decide how to render it and, so, whilst you can see a point of interest you wont be able to land on it until nms is fully done.

[quasi copper]

Generally I go to the space station, use the gate, look for likely bases. Try one. If it works out, great. If it doesn't, I take off, summon the Nexus, use its gate to return to the space station, and try again until I give up and go to a new system or get distracted.

[vague pasture]

thanks for the help everyone. I'm off to sleep because my body is finally going "sleep off the booster shot damnit"

[quasi copper]

You're welcome. Good night, and good luck.

[glossy trout]

I m plaing leviathan on switch and I can't any planes with storm crystals. Any help?
On Xbox was quise easy to find.

[quasi copper]

There are some posts linked in the pins that should have crystals. I got mine at Ilongkar system.

[glossy trout]

Thanks. First time using discord. Didn't it know it was possible to search.

[quasi copper]

No problem. Welcome to Discord!

[fervent umbra]

@muted iris so I just made it to the freighter that you land on for phase 5. The one I was in before was one I had just found. This one does have that somnal dust melee thing going on so maybe it's only certain types?

[topaz kettle]

Huh, that's weird - I'm following the Xaine's World guide for Leviathan Redux, just made it to the anomoly and spoke to Polo for the first time, but instead of getting 18 suit expansion slots it gave me multitool ones instead
Is it meant to be random? Or have I just bugged out?

[jagged charm]

! exptime

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[quasi copper]

It's seemed to be random for me.

[topaz kettle]

Ah damn, I'll have to do the expansions the hard way then haha, cheers for the quick response!

[vital otter]

Good luck to everyone finishing up Leviathan
see you all in Polestar!

[fervent umbra]

Finally finished it on PS5

[royal slate]

hey, whats going on with the expedition?!

why is the universal memory restoration at 0%

and everything was demoted to C tier

[fervent umbra]

I'm glad it wasn't just me that noticed that. I'm not sure what happened.

[sturdy sorrel]

Same here

[finite rover]

they've stopped showing the community count for the expedition?

wtf? all my memory fragments are class C, now?

[halcyon karma]

same here i just looked on my inv and i had 100memories S to open and now they are C

is that normal ?

did i wait too long to open them ?

[quasi copper]

Fresh ones are coming up as C-class, too, and earlier tonight, they were X.

[halcyon karma]

:\

[finite rover]

smells like a bug.

[inner skiff]

This is a pretty large bug

[finite rover]

the expedition community quests may have been done so it switched to anomaly community quests but the tech didn't remember the expedition one being done

it's a very impressive bug indeed

[halcyon karma]

i think they are preparing the next expedition and that changed probably since it starts in some hours right ?

but still ... that was bad

😦

and cant turn to normal either which bugs even more

[finite rover]

bugs happen

lets see how fast they fix it

[halcyon karma]

there wont be something to fix since its ending i guess and personally i already trashed the C memories and i think a lot will have too so it wont matter if they change it since no new entries are allowed on expe save

[finite rover]

of course there's something to fix. don't use the items. they can flip them back.

[halcyon karma]

all gone now 😄 lol

[finite rover]

well. poo. I recommend less salt in the diet in the future. :)

[halcyon karma]

hahahah 😄

[frank lynx]

so I just got into this game about a week ago, finished the leviathan expedition. looking forward to more. I saw they reran 5,6,7, and now 8. is this something that'll be in rotation for the ongoing future?

[finite rover]

not sure. this is the 2nd redux set they've done. 1st one was last year. am hoping we get to catch up on everything.

[frank lynx]

dang

with 8 coming out tomorrow, I really hope it becomes a recurring event. its been fun

[finite rover]

there'll likely be new ones in '23

[keen crag]

Anyone else had an issue with the expedition not updating as complete, upon completing and claiming all rewards?

[fervent umbra]

I think all the optional milestones have to be completed for it to convert early and the last optional milestone is bugged.

[keen crag]

Ahh, OK. The last option is the only thing not complete. I guess it'll convert after the timer finishes.

[candid token]

So it looks like the community event ended the same day that we lost the ability to make a new save for this current expedition.
So yeah gonna be crying myself to sleep for the rest of my life.

It's hard to believe that as a community we didn't get tier 5 done. Soul crushing even.
I donated minimum 5,000 somnal dust per day of the event

[halcyon karma]

do we still get the cosmic fauna cape ???

[candid token]

If you are on switch no.

[halcyon karma]

xbox pc

[candid token]

No idea.

[halcyon karma]

i see it at dealer but says (0%)

[candid token]

Then no

[halcyon karma]

how does that go to 100%?

dont tell me its the bugged milestone

[candid token]

Yo so can someone explain to me the point of this expedition and why I am even trying to complete it when the last 2 community event milestones are bugged and can't be claimed.
Like the full 20+ hours I spent on this expedition feels like a waste of time

[fervent umbra]

Well I completed it because I didn't the first time around so I wanted the Leviathan frigate on PS5.

[native bloom]

Damnit, I had 20 x-class memories last night and figured I'd open them all this morning. No such luck. Oh well, I probably wasn't keeping the save anyway

[candid token]

They should have made the community milestones required so we actually could get them done. Maybe that would have given this community the motivation it needed to try hard

[inland dock]

Just logged in. This is bleak.
I'd hoarded about 80 Memory Fragments too.

[plain kettle]

Well, that's it....was on my way to the 3rd spot....glitched through the side of the mountain....dead. And I don't have the time to start all over....oh well. Maybe they'll run them again in the future.

[candid token]

If you can get the glyphs unlocked you can just portal to all 5 points and then do the very easy other stuff.

Also satands junction is the best derelict to do as there are only jellies and it's a required stop

[plain kettle]

Thanks for the tip...but if I can't complete it all and get the Leviathan, I'm not going to bother. And I don't have to time to complete everything again.(had parts of 4 done already too)

[indigo falcon]

the new qs unlock is indeed now back at the anomaly so I guess the memory fragment class for new fragments is a screwup, that shouldn't have happened until tomorrow when Leviathan actually ends

[candid token]

I mean you have 16 hours. So you should have the time to do it.
And all the steps are pretty simple. If you unlock the glyph set, then you can portal to every planet and get all 5 rendezvous point in like 5 min. And all the resonator steps at the same time. That would be 20 milestones done in a few min.

But you do you man.

[plain kettle]

The event has 16 hours...I don't. Need to be in bed soon....then work for 10+ hours.....

Not that big a deal, just kinda bummed is all. Wish I could have started sooner....but it is what it is.

[indigo falcon]

they need to provide a way to rerun them at a later date, maybe it's "2 years after, anyone can go through them at their own pace" but I don't know how a new system would be selected, tricky stuff

it doesn't make sense to send future players of the expedition through the old systems and regions

[plain kettle]

Or for those of you that have done them already, a new "path" could at least give you something new to do, even of you don't need the rewards.

[ocean gorge]

So what happened, the optional milestones got screwed up?

[indigo falcon]

yeah it seems so

[ocean gorge]

Wow, that sucks for those doing it towards the end. I suffered thru having crappy B mostly and a few A modules

[indigo falcon]

what's supposed to happen is tht after the expedition period is over, the new quicksilver item goes live at the anomaly, nexus missions contribute to that again, memory fragments go back to C class for new ones (and the ones you can of course craft), etc

for anyone who was hoping to do some cheap X rolling, they did just get screwed

I went through the original starting on C and ending with B

lotta folks went through just on C

but I wasn't planning on playing the save later....

[ocean gorge]

I did notice, whenever one of my fragments rolled S class when I did it last week, it didn’t sell for more like you’d think.
Really all around this expedition should be reworked, for Waypoint and the future. I don’t think it fits so well anymore tbh, way too stressful imo

[indigo falcon]

apparently it was the one hg got the most positive feedback about (on the original run at any rate)

[ocean gorge]

Yeah on Xbox I started out with C and ended with B class modules. On PS5 I died and restarted, so I think I mostly had B on that one, and some A

[indigo falcon]

ah right, you went through on multiple platforms

[plain kettle]

I kinda liked it.....up until the aforementioned glitch death.....lol

[ocean gorge]

Feedback is a tricky thing, since it depends on who leaves the feedback. It can be very self-selecting. So if there’s a smaller, but vocal survival section of the playerbase, they could leave a lot of positive feedback about wanting a survival mode expedition, but that doesn’t mean the entire playerbase enjoyed it. I suspect especially now with Waypoint options, more people are choosing more freedom with settings, or at least more normal saves with a few options

[indigo falcon]

oh yeah, I don't want to claim anything about the player base as a whole, I know the loudest voices tend to drown out others and there was a lot of "if you don't like it, eff off" in the subreddit the first time around

which would tend to make the people who weren't the most vocal about dislike, decide not to even bother to post

it was pretty ugly really

the usual hardcore gamer vs casual gamer vibes, all that

[ocean gorge]

I’ve seen a lot of feedback here of people not liking this expedition and it’s stress. I would never play NMS in survival. I quit playing a few years ago on Xbox GamePass because it was grindy and just not fun. I don’t think normal was an option back then? Came back to it this past summer which I guess was some months after Outlaws came out, it was much better (other then the constant pirate attacks). Got it on PS5 in August, and have been loving the custom game options Waypoint brought because now people can make the game tailored to their liking

[indigo falcon]

yeah, the customization settings are really a great thing

but I do notice a number of people calling them "cheat settings" and such

seems like we're not as mature a gaming community as we'd like to believe

not yet at least

[ocean gorge]

Rather than maybe “difficulty settings” I think using a term such as “custom game options” (which is what Unknown Worlds went with when they added them to Below Zero earlier this year) might’ve been a better choice of wording. I know the end result is somewhat similar, but makes it seem less like they’re cheats. It really is about customizing your game experience, not always about making things easier (some settings can make it harder for example)

[indigo falcon]

sure

it might be about skipping the grind for this or that

or about making this less about combat and more about the grind (I have a save like that)

whatever people want at the time, really

[ocean gorge]

I like not having pirate attacks constantly, because it gets a bit tedious

[indigo falcon]

yep

sometimes you want to go shoot 'em up, and sometimes you don't

[ocean gorge]

Plus the game mechanics aren’t ideal. They can shoot you even if you dig underground, or are in the water where you might drown if you tried to hide. Just very inconvenient stuff

[indigo falcon]

in theory they do not not attack you if you in the water or underground

that was a patch to Outlaws at some point

[ocean gorge]

I’ve had their weapons reach underground if I dig a tunnel (yes, still)

[indigo falcon]

welp

!hg

[unkempt kraken]

You can submit bug reports, suggestions or feedback to Hello Games here: https://hellogames.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

[indigo falcon]

especially if that's the current version, report report report

[final bridge]

Anyone have the coordinates for the portal on Anchor Point 1 planet? I messed up.

Not glyphs, just the +/- coords on the planet.

[sand wigeon]

Look into 📌 of this channel

#nms-expedition message

Hope that solves it for you

Anyhow is there a difference between current redux mission rewards and original Leviathan expedition?

[final bridge]

Thank you

[vast stump]

missed the expedition cause i prostainated and thought tomorrow was the last day realized you had to make a save yesterday 😞

[fluid cloud]

i has been doing my best on the expedition

[vague pasture]

I'm in the expedition and I just saw a Titan Worm and on my visor there's something labeled as a "titan worm borrow" what are they/what do they do exactly and should I worry about dying from them?

[still dirge]

they're giant worms that attack you when you get close

What happened to the community loop progression?!

[vague pasture]

So far they haven't attacked me. Do they only attack and deal damage when I'm in my ship?

[lusty slate]

This. My main is normal mode with a few tweaks. Mainly I have all creatures set to passive as I intensely dislike being forced to murder the local fauna for no reason.

I like Leviathan giving me a brief taste of survival mode and being afraid of everything killing me. As a temporary event it's fun. I don't enjoy it for the long term tho.

[sinful aurora]

It will still convert to a normal save right?

[still dirge]

So the expedition broke on the last day, eh?

All my X-class upgrades reverted to C-class!

[muted iris]

Huh. Interesting. Yeah, maybe you're right. Mine are usually the ones with the weird meat lumps in them

[leaden fable]

Is there a new expedition or

[vital otter]

Polestar is next, tomorrow I think (depending on time zones)

!exptime

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Exp 8 - Polestar (<t:1672916400:f>)

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[leaden fable]

Oh oki

[vague pasture]

Okay, what the actual fuck? The expedition says I need to reach the first anchor point, so I follow its instructions and go to the atlas system it tells me to go to. So I do that and now it still tells me to go to the first anchor point....which I'm already at aka the inside of the Atlas station. What the fuck!?

[vital otter]

There's no Atlas Stations in this expedition, all anchor points are on planets
check you have the expedition quest active in your log, it sounds like you are following markers for the Atlas Path here

[fervent umbra]

Yeah now that I think about it, the one I went in first that only had turrets didn't have any of those growths anywhere.

[vague pasture]

ughhh it NOW shows the PROPER system I should be in

screw this I'm going into the nexus then teleporting back to where I started.

[vital otter]

yeah, that would be the quickest way to get back on the expedition route

[final bridge]

Once I've completed the expedition (but haven't claimed the last milestone) I thought I'd try this. Won't work.. Any ideas?

[muted iris]

you need full warp fuel to make that last jump

[fervent umbra]

Also, the infestation freighter is way more terrifying now that the sacs pulse and can pop open at any time.

[final bridge]

It's at 100%

Maybe not possible during the actual expedition?

[muted iris]

Hmm. And you've followed the orange line all the way to the end? Looks like you may still have just one more system to jump

Oh. Hm... I don't know

That could be possible

Dunno. Looks like you're on the closest system though

[final bridge]

Got it! Finnicky but it worked!

[brittle linden]

It just started working on its own?

Or did you use a trick?

[muted iris]

Nice! Love the scene that happens after. May be simple but the music and experience are all like, woah

[final bridge]

I went up and down the “line” and finally found the sweet spot. Last time wasn’t so difficult.

Got the survival achievement, not the permadeath one if anyone is curious.

[ocean gorge]

I think it converts to a survival save. I’m hoping we can still adjust it to any settings we choose, using the custom difficulty settings, because I don’t have any desire to play with survival save restrictions😂

[final bridge]

It says “normal” save but not sure what they mean.

[ocean gorge]

Oh, well that’s good at least

[sinful aurora]

Oh I just meant normal as in not expo. I play survival on my actual save. Thank you

[ocean gorge]

Normal is better than survival (for me xD)

[brittle linden]

It's strange that after finishing, the save isn't converted right away.

[vague pasture]

I get ancestral memories by taming animals right?

[brittle linden]

Yes.

[muted iris]

They're all just... different to me. Which is why my goal is to have all 15 save slots filled with differing characters and experiences. 🙂

[ocean gorge]

You get ancestral memories from feeding animals and choosing to select that instead of milk or whatever

You don’t want to adopt them

Sorry, I consider taming=adopting
I think the correct term is “friendly” when you feed them, but don’t adopt them

Friendly is a temporary state

[vague pasture]

I get gold easily enough from just destroying asteroids, right?

[muted iris]

yeah]

But they give a few different things so you do have to look around just a little bit

They give silver, gold and platinum amongst a couple other things I think. The big ones you can shoot multiple times, sometimes those have gold

[finite rover]

so... the memory fragments etc all still C class?

[muted iris]

No no. They're X-class now. But the expedition is only still open to characters that have been made

And it's only open for just under 12 more hours

[finite rover]

i best turn them in then

[vague pasture]

Oh fml there’s a signifigant level pirate threat that keeps finding/following me in this system

I am very very weak in this ship right now

[muted iris]

You over a planet or close to the space station or?

[vague pasture]

Yes

[muted iris]

Not able to pulse on outta there?

[vague pasture]

I did pulse out of there, the same ahole still gave me an alert

[muted iris]

That sucks.

The best thing if you can't take them is to get to a space station or find an asteroid belt to run away in or something

[vague pasture]

I summoned my frigate where I’m stuck now. According to this the bounty on the ahole is 160k so you know that it would absolutely wreck my shit

[muted iris]

Haven't upgraded your ships shields or anything?

[finite rover]

160k is on the low end

500k is the high end

[vague pasture]

This IS my ship right now.

[finite rover]

get out of your freighter and summon the anomaly

[rocky valve]

is the save gonna convert to survival or normal mode when this ends?

[finite rover]

you've pulse?

[vague pasture]

Yes, I have pulsed TWICE

[finite rover]

pulse is good. it regens your shields

[muted iris]

Normal, but you can change it to whatever you want after

[finite rover]

I mean the weapon

maybe it's plasma something. the green beam thing

[muted iris]

phase beam?

[finite rover]

yes :

)

[muted iris]

I never had much luck with that myself. I just use the defaults photon canon and missles when sheilds are down on my normal

[finite rover]

I use phase beam to suck their shields dry and regen mine and then rockets to drop it deaad

[muted iris]

Also, if you didn't know if you have got batteries for environmental planet walking shields and such, those same ones can be used in the exact same way in space, but on your ship's shields.

Just brings them right back up.

[finite rover]

but if you don't want to fight (which is fair) get out of your freighter, bring up the anomaly, go into that and use its teleporter to go elsewhere.

[muted iris]

So you get low? Just use that. Or the sodium variants to bring it back up

I've run out before though and THAT is nerve wracking

[finite rover]

nope. all my tech still C class. FFS.

thanks HG :/

[whole linden]

Was the loop fixed?

[finite rover]

nope

I have 140 items I wanted to convert and all I have now is poop

[vague pasture]

Dear god my weapons were so weak I had to use the anomaly to escape basic pirates

[finite rover]

all good. you got out. that's the big thing.

finish the expedition and rejoice. :)

you, at least, have a phase beam. I don't even have that. :)

[unkempt kraken]

https://discord.gg/nomanssky?event=1060127751706787890

[muted iris]

I'm so excited, and I just can't hide it. Gonna do Exp. 8: Polestar and I think I like it

[vague pasture]

It seems that the pirate in question is in space just above the portal 1 anchor

So if someone with better ship combat stuff wants to come in and nuke the ahole that’d be great

[muted iris]

You playing on Switch or other systems?

[vague pasture]

Pc

[muted iris]

Same. I guess I could find a way if it will allow me to.

[vague pasture]

Omg wtf

I go into orbit to get to my next destination quicker and more pirates appear

Conflict level 3 my ass, this is higher conflict level than a pirate system

[finite rover]

did you make off with their treasure map? :)

[muted iris]

Oh wow. I'm getting C level memories now too. That's so strange! Last night I was getting X-classes

Why'd they switch just before the end? That sucks

[finite rover]

HG snogged the chicken. :(

indeed. :(

[final bridge]

I got harrassed by pirates every 2-3 minutes at one point.

[slender glade]

With the Expedition 8 restart coming tomorrow I posted my original 4 min overview and quick tips vid for it down in the #content-creator-corner if that's useful to anyone. Good luck all... it's a great Expedition!

[final bridge]

Why do you need to start a new save before Monday?

Oh you can't start it after that?

[finite rover]

Monday?

ahh. yes. new saves are turned off for expeditions 2 days before they end

[void bramble]

i just missed leviathan

i am determined to do redux

[scarlet ocean]

Survival.

[finite rover]

but if you don't like that you can tweak it away from it

[chrome saffron]

does anyone know when exactly the next expedition will start?

[finite rover]

!exp

damn. that wasn't the command. :)

[chrome saffron]

i think? i know the time zone but i doubt it'll start immediately

[lusty slate]

Usually as soon as the current one ends.

[vague pasture]

God damnit I need the emeril drive now

How the hell do I get it? I don’t even have basic blue prints for mildly advanced warp drives

[lusty slate]

You'll have to unlock it from the anomaly.

[finite rover]

need nanties. around 3k i think

fauna hunting is a good way to get them. otherwise tech sales.

[vague pasture]

Currently I’m stuck in a pirate controlled system how do I best go about this?

Fauna hunting doesn’t give me nanites for some reason

[finite rover]

it does when you find /all/ the fauna on the planet

[lusty slate]

If you're trying to finish before it ends, farming memory frags from Polo and selling them will probably be fastest.

[vague pasture]

I’m only on iteration 2

And just finished I1

[lusty slate]

Reaching and clearing Anchor 2 is the hardest part. It's much easier from there on.

[vague pasture]

I don’t know how to even create more food pellets since I never did that on my main save

[finite rover]

need carbon and create in inventory

[lusty slate]

Craft them, you have the blueprint from the start.

[vague pasture]

So my best bet to complete this bullshit is to find a planet with a bunch of animals, feed them a ton of pellets and collect ancestral memories from them?

[finite rover]

sounds good

[vague pasture]

Is this seriously how I get the most nanites?

[finite rover]

fauna hunting and tech sales (that you can get from memories) are the best means.

[lusty slate]

Scanning fauna. Or using the solar ray on every deposit you find and turning in the liquid sun to Polo. But you only need 100 ancestral for each memory frag. For liquid sun it's 250 each, I think.

[finite rover]

100 dust 150 memory and 200 sun I think

C class tech is pretty sucky for sales so fauna hunting is a best bet

[vague pasture]

How much does each fragment go for in terms of nanites?

[tired vortex]

400-500

[finite rover]

C class?

[vague pasture]

And I already said hunting fauna doesn’t give me nanites for some reason, now

[finite rover]

did you find all the funa?

fauna

[vague pasture]

I thought you meant killing fauna missions, because hunting would reasonably imply KILLING

[lusty slate]

You don't get the nanite bonus on fauna unless you locate and scan all the creatures on a planet.

[finite rover]

scanning. you hunt them down and scan them. once you get all the fauna types you get nanites

[vague pasture]

I remember doing that for a nexus mission on my main file with a lot of high upgrades….lol no, Fuuck that

[tired vortex]

I didn't even bother with that just sold my exocraft modules. Way easier.

[finite rover]

then you'll need to find a /lot/ of animals or pools of resources.

[lusty slate]

The starter planet gives you 2750. But there's a rare underwater creature that's a PAIN to locate. That's how I got the nanites on my run. Don't recommend.

[tired vortex]

3-4 of them will get you the nanites.

[vague pasture]

What do I need to make a cadmium drive again?

[quasi copper]

Hello! 150 Chromatic Metal and 3 Wiring Looms, IIRC. And the recipe: 800 nanites.

[tired vortex]

Make sure to tag a planet with cadmium though since you need that for emeril drive to get to the second checkpoint system.

[finite rover]

there are planets without rare critters. much easier :)

[lusty slate]

Exactly. That's why I'm saying don't do what I did lol. Also, the toxic damage.

[finite rover]

at 800 you really just need one planet's worth of critters. they usually have more than 4 to find.

[lusty slate]

The only reason I wasted time on it was for insurance if I died and restarted, as scanned creatures carry over. Then I ended up getting lucky and not dying aside from the mandatory deaths.

[finite rover]

I wanted it but the toxic damage was a bit much to deal with

[lusty slate]

It was very much not fun. I blew nearly all my early resources doing it.

[finite rover]

not surprised. ow.

[quasi copper]

The merit of turning in stuff to Polo and selling the tech you don't want is that you might draw the drive itself, or other good stuff. Failing that, I'd do mould, especially if you have an output-enhancing mining beam upgrade.

[lusty slate]

Had to spend an hour or two running around the nearest lush planet after A2 replenishing everything.

[finite rover]

heh :)

[quasi copper]

Are the fragments still C-class again, or did they fix it?

[finite rover]

still C :(

[lusty slate]

Oh, I heard about that! That bites.

[quasi copper]

Bother. Yeah. Kind of kills my interest in farming up more of them before the end.

[finite rover]

same

though I had heaps

[lusty slate]

Sadly, it's probably not going to be fixed this close to the end.

[finite rover]

played the save for 45 hrs.

[vague pasture]

I got an artifact from an artifact site should I save it for a mission this expedition or can I just sell it?

[quasi copper]

I was never asked for anything like that.

[lusty slate]

Pretty sure that's safe to sell.

[brittle linden]

Some artifacts have enough value to be traded. At collossal archives there are exchange vaults and you can be given another item of higher value. Sometimes even those can be traded. There are 3 vaults per archive: 1 on the top level and 2 on the lower level.

[vague pasture]

How many ancestral memories do I need to feasibly get all the nanites I need?

[finite rover]

300 or so

[quasi copper]

Er, that's one and a half turn-ins. 200 per turn-in. I did 4000 memories and got about 2000 nanites, but it also has to do with what techs you want and what you draw.

[tired vortex]

You don't get nanites from ancestral memories; you get nanites from selling the resulting memory fragments that polo gives you after you give him the memories. About 4-5 memory fragment upgrade modules will do it.