nms-expedition

[remote thunder]

i think there's a big difference here - most people don't want to work to play - that's NMS community, much more chilled out

[solemn bane]

Yeah, the problem is with my appearance my butt looks stupid, so I gotta cover it up

[solemn bane]

Yeah, that's why we have settings

[remote thunder]

give the devs time, they're still evolving

they can't just drop in and let every one make a custom game out of an expedition - at that point, might as well let players customize everything

[real rose]

yeah they're abt to invent fire and then not light it

[solemn bane]

Yeah that's what I'm doing, lol

[real rose]

🥁

[remote thunder]

in game..

not everyone's on pc

[solemn bane]

And yeah, also do that. No reason not to

Because not everyone can mod, like you say

[remote thunder]

i think that we're eventually going to see the ability to replay past exps in game

i think that exp terminus was the first step

perhaps then with allowed customized difficulties

[real rose]

I like to imagine that all expeditions will be permanently available before the game's lifecycle ends for good

[solemn bane]

Or even the difficulty settings you have on your main save

[livid minnow]

yeah the terminus seems like a huge step forward

[remote thunder]

yeah, something like that

so iow i think we got to support them, help them test - they're still a small team you know

[livid minnow]

its basically the reason i returned on this omega patch ive had my eye on nms for a while now

[real rose]

if we still getting QoL updates and future Expeditions it'd be a worthy sendoff

[livid minnow]

the ability to move in and out of expeditions excited me also the multiplayer element but so far thats been rly abd and theres lag

[solemn bane]

They are constantly adding stuff which is really cool. Unfortunately the game always feels 66.66% done because they never add anything that feels like it's "end game"

[real rose]

I almost tend to forget just how small HG is compared to something like Bethesda's Starfield team. and how great of a redemption arc they've had

[solemn bane]

I can't think of any redemption arc like this for sure

[real rose]

no MP on Switch side sadly 🥲

[wintry void]

"end Game" is play in the sandbox

[livid minnow]

against the storm team managed a sick game with just two devs lol

but yeah the visuals in NMS are very striking so well done to all of that

[solemn bane]

Exactly. The end game is "now that you have done everything, do more of the same, a lot"

[livid minnow]

end game in massive space war games is usually some exotic aliens fighting yall

[wintry void]

or make your own fun like eve online sandbox

[livid minnow]

happened in eve online and elite dangerous

could easily be implemented here too though different regions wormhole space for example

[solemn bane]

By doing more of the same stuff you've already done.

[livid minnow]

is a great way they did it in eve online wormhole space where the instance vastly changes the way space even flying around affects you but there are great rewards there if you team up with ppl to fight hard encounters

[real rose]

that's the endgame for a lot of games. difference between this imo is there (while the proc-gen repeats a lot of aspects) is no way to ever see "everything" in this game. I wanted to make my way to the core last couple days and after 2 days noticed I had barely moved 100Ly closer...I just dialed 12x at that point lol

[livid minnow]

they should do seperate instances one for normal one for survival and one for custom to keep the survival one on equal footing in fights

[remote thunder]

the concepts of early, mid, late game in NMS are kinda blurred out a bit, depending on what we're talking about. for example, while farming stasis devices can be considered endgame for some, the reality is that once a player has access to the space anomaly, they can sidetrack and effectively do "late game" activities while holding progress at alone amidst the stars

such an example, is it going to be lots of info to take in for a new player? absolutely

can they still do it? 100%

[livid minnow]

u can do that in eve online too

you can skip everything and go to endgame if you fight for it

[remote thunder]

that's the sandbox vein, yeah

[solemn bane]

Oh yeah, changing universes should matter in a big way. If THAT were the way to unlock harder difficulty settings it would be cool. It kind of is right now, but it's negligible.

But RNG as a way to say there is end game content, eh.

[remote thunder]

personally..

i'd like to see leviathan's loop concept applied to galaxies - but i know that this isnt ever going to be a thing, not affecting all modes anyway

you core warp, you do --kzzt--

[real rose]

apologies if dumb question but it's still my 1st playthrough. besides the surv+pd mechanic what was Leviathan's loop you refer to?

[livid minnow]

mining asteroids is so amazing in elite dangerous

[solemn bane]

The loop was really interesting. A mechanic that felt new, rather than just some differently packaged thing that already existed n the game.

[wintry void]

Rogue like, you die, you start at beginning

[real rose]

it's chill vibes

[livid minnow]

when i played eve online i had like ten accounts mining asterouds

it was literally the best years of my life

i cant do it now cos i have gf and all but i still remember those gaming days more than any

[real rose]

die > pd > complete run > do it all again type roguelike?

[livid minnow]

i had my own coorperation defending me cos they knew i could replace all their ships i was so rich

[solemn bane]

It was more fun that shooting space poops to get tritium?

[real rose]

Eve sadly is forever tarnished for me..I lost a friend who was obsessed to that game. but I can't really fault the game for that obv but still..sour taste

[remote thunder]

no dumb questions; everytime you died, you reset the loop, you couldn't break out - basically brought you back to phase 1, but with access to stronger and stronger memory fragments, stronger gear, that got upgraded with community rsearch

[livid minnow]

different divisions crazy americans with guns for defence. the europeans were especially good at espionage and spying and russians and chinese helped me munch on the rocks

[wintry void]

Maybe if you not talking about expeditions or nms, take it to off topic or other games?

[livid minnow]

created more real life friendships in that than any game

ill see myself out

[livid minnow]

yah ez to get obsessed

[real rose]

oh that's dope that makes that surv+pd modifier so much more worth it & interesting. when I get the game on PC imma love replaying that endlessly I think

[remote thunder]

yeah, leviathan definitely on my top 3

[real rose]

I have a soft spot for roguelites as it is. and in nms? reminds me a bit of everspace lol

[livid minnow]

eve soundtrack is beautifully crafted

[remote thunder]

NMS'es proc gen'd

but 65 days of static

asimov/first visit to a space station gives me goose bumps everytime

[livid minnow]

its perfect background music to nms the 6hr eve youtube link

here goes new survival mode fresh start hope i dont get a -100C planet

is it max tuned hardest difficulty or you can make it harder in custom? thats my last question

[real rose]

there's this vid on yt that I love to fall asleep to and it's the most bizarre me thing ever it's just "12 hours of Elite Dangerous docked radio announcements and ambience" 🤣

[remote thunder]

note that there are a few bugs lingering still with custom/highest difficulty settings for example when it comes to dissonant planets and sentinel presence level

[remote thunder]

when creating custom mode, simply slide everything to the max, i guess those are it, not sure where else we'd tune it further

[livid minnow]

yeah but is it max in survival like full survival mode?

[remote thunder]

the only option that you won't be allowed to customize to higher difficulty after a game start is death consequences

[livid minnow]

just found out in actual fact survival is not max difficulty

[remote thunder]

because permadeath exists

[livid minnow]

nope

you can custom make it hardeer

[remote thunder]

yes..

[livid minnow]

also you can make rep grind harder

[remote thunder]

well, because the possibility of permadeath exists on new game - since they removed the preset from new save screen, has to go through custom now

[livid minnow]

looks like im gonna max enemy strength purchases too but definately not maxing rep gain

im not interested in perma death thats just heart attack material

[remote thunder]

then survival custom can literally be the max

fine tune to your liking, that's what they're there for

[livid minnow]

problem now i dont get survival milestones

cos i made it harder than survival

[remote thunder]

don't disable tutorials?

[remote thunder]

why not?

[livid minnow]

thats only reason i wanted survival but its fine

ill stick with uber difficulty should be way more fun

[remote thunder]

to my knowledge, the only option that disables achievements is disabling tuts

[livid minnow]

i heard there was specific survival mode select milestones

since i upd the combat and purchase cost etc its change to custom now

[remote thunder]

that doesn't matter, afaik

[livid minnow]

oh cool

[remote thunder]

i've got all achievements, only 2 of them were not done on normal mode

oh, sorry, mb - that's right - lol - i still don't have the pd one though

so yeah, i've got all but 1, only the surv one had to be done in a save started from survival

[livid minnow]

its fine ill just ignore them

what exactly is it do you know?

[solemn bane]

If you want a true pain in the ass, set the stack size to the highest difficulty.

(I always do, lol)

[remote thunder]

"what exactly is it" - sorry i'm lost here

[remote thunder]

old normal stack size limits

[solemn bane]

That's one thing that makes expeditions feel like super baby easy mode, 9999 stack sizes

[livid minnow]

i went fulll throttle max difficulty

[wraith venture]

Friendly reminder about our channel rules: #nms-expedition message

Let's try to focus on discussion about the community expedition in this channel

[livid minnow]

so upgrades expensive af enemies do a lot of dmg scanner is very challenging recharge time etc

[keen steppe]

🤣been playing pd so long i forgot when i did expedition and was so happy haha

[livid minnow]

thats rly cool to me cos that means i will actually hunt scanner recharge modules now

things matter

[real rose]

I personally like increasin encounters and difficulty and making rescources and goods abundant

[livid minnow]

sorry i will end this discussion now

[wraith venture]

For general NMS gameplay discussion > #no-mans-sky

For general NMS gameplay help > #nms-questions

[solemn bane]

It's such a wild feeling, almost like I don't have to care about my inventory in expeditions. My whole plan was to start a new game and go right to expeditions and just send all my unused slot expantion items to my main

[livid minnow]

scanner takes forever to recharge

[remote thunder]

[solemn bane]

Haha, apparently the planet you start on in Omega is actually an extreme sentinel planet, but they have the BlockAggressiveSentinelsInStartSystem set to true in the JSON. This could get interesting.

[real rose]

sets to false "welcome to Omega maggots! here's your multitool and broken service equipment. figure it tf out!"

[solemn bane]

It's true. You can also set BlockStormsAtStart to false and it almost always starts you in a storm. I wagged serious butt to get to my ship, lol. Of course it's not a huge deal since they give you a fully charged terrain manipulator at the start. That's another thing I actually like about the tutorial is it's actually harder than when it's off since you don't have that.

But, no tutorial option in expeditions, so

[versed mantle]

Do note that this is only actually relevant if you started your expedition on a previously-existing save. If you started a new save you get to keep everything once your save reverts to normal
And by "menu" I mean the one in game with the log and discovery tabs. The "return to main save" is on the last tab. You can also go back using the terminal in the anomaly, but only before accepting the last reward of the expedition, after which you can only do it from that menu

[hasty arch]

Hmm completed all milestones including the optionals but when choosing end expedition from terminal it says I'm ending it early ?

expedition research seems to be at 100%

[livid minnow]

extreme difficulty settings no joke lols

[solemn bane]

Did you go to the last page which has the mission for completing all the phases?

[hasty arch]

Yes

[real rose]

in-game go to the options menu there should be an option to return/switch to normal save the same applies when in said normal save to return to expedition

[fervent horizon]

!exptime

[unkempt kraken]

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[fervent horizon]

...whew still got time lol

[wraith venture]

good point, i still gotta get started

[median heron]

Has anyone seen a text-based walkthrough for the omega expedtion? I've seen some videos, but I'd rather have a checklist.

[hazy sparrow]

Yes, google Omega expedition walkthrough and it will come up

https://www.thegamer.com/no-mans-sky-omega-expedition-12-walkthrough/

Follow that guide, plus starting from an existing save and cloning a good ship and multitool and you will zip through it. Be sure to take advantage of other player bases that have farmed mould and nipnip so you can get tons of money and nanites easy

[median heron]

Thanks. I googled a while back but didn’t see that one.

[jade zodiac]

hey does my freighter get turned into units when i go back to my primary save ?

[hazy sparrow]

Everything I've heard so far is freighter is just lost, so sell what you can off of it.

[jade zodiac]

and there is no way of selling my freighter at all or get anything out of it ? it just dissappears ?

[hazy sparrow]

I'm hearing conversion only really applies to what's in your suit and your ship, and even then its not optimized, so I would back up your save file and sell everything manually (that's my plan).

[jade zodiac]

how could they have designed this so poorly

this is amazing

[hazy sparrow]

No difference from the main game; freighters are a sunk cost.

[jade zodiac]

all my time is basically in the expedition so i havent really played much of anything else

thats why im so frustrated

[hazy sparrow]

But you started from a main save?

[jade zodiac]

because i actually have a game where i got somewhere and now i cant even play it

yeah

well i can play it for 8 more days i guess

[hazy sparrow]

No way to have known it at the time, but sounds like you would have been better off starting from a new save. You has found the Anomaly, so you have gotten somewhere at least.

I'd spend the remaining time farming units (by finding and selling sentinel ships, and player bases growing nipnip) and nanites (by finding player bases at runaway mould) so they transfer back.

[jade zodiac]

yeah i probably will but man its been a while since ive been disappointed like that

lmao

if i started a brand new save though could i get all my customization and stuff ?

[hazy sparrow]

And remember, you will keep all bases you build, plus you can send 24 stacks of items back to your main save and 8 pieces of tech.

AND you can clone ships and multitools multiple times to get multiple copies of tech...so you are better off.

[jade zodiac]

wait you keep any base you build ?

like so if i stored stuff in my containers at my base

would they stay ?

[hazy sparrow]

Bases yes, stuff in containers no. space stations found no.

[jade zodiac]

does all the stuff attached to my ship like the tech i have installed come with my ship ?

because ive been trying to figure out which pieces of tech to bring and which not to bring

[hazy sparrow]

Yes, that is the beauty of cloning a ships back before ending the expedition. And you can do it multiple times, you just have to take the tech off the ship back on your main save then scrap it, rinse, repeat.

Same for multitools.

[jade zodiac]

wait how do i clone a ship

[hazy sparrow]

Guide on how to end the expedition. The key is to do all this BEFORE claiming the Starborn Runner. https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/comments/1au26gx/best_way_to_exit_the_expedition/

[jade zodiac]

ah shit

rip

[hazy sparrow]

Equip multitool and ship you want to clone, switch back to main save, get clone from terminal. Then you can keep it or remove the tech, scrap it, then go back to the expedition and repeat.

[jade zodiac]

damn so what if i already have the starborn runner

[hazy sparrow]

If you do not have a backup of your HelloGames save directory...you are screwed

[jade zodiac]

oh well

so do i keep my muiltitool and all the upgrades that are on my exosuit and ship ?

anything im carrying ?

[ruby pine]

what things will carry over the omega save to the normal save when the event ends?

oshie it was already asked

mb

[jade zodiac]

or i heard the stuff im carrying that i dont transfer via terminal gets turned into nanites and stuff

[hazy sparrow]

WAIT I MAY BE WRONG!

You can't switch back and forth between the expedition and your main save at the terminal, but you CAN from the options menu! So you might still be good.

However, before you do ANYTHING ELSE, go make a backup copy of your HelloGames save directory.

[ruby pine]

i recently started playing this game and made my fresh new save on omega

do i really not get to keep my stuff when it ends :(

[hazy sparrow]

%user%\AppData\Roaming\HelloGames

[hazy sparrow]

No, you do, your Omega save will turn into a regular save and you get to continue playing. You keep everything.

It's only if you started from an existing save that you have the options of all these hijinks.

[ruby pine]

:o

dayum lets gooo

[ruby pine]

ahh i see i see

[jade zodiac]

do i just backup the whole hello games folder ?

[hazy sparrow]

It's actually a huge advantage to start the game through an expansion over regular, as it greatly accelerates your progress.

[ruby pine]

totally! its amazing

[hazy sparrow]

Inside it is a folder called NMS, that's the one you need to back up. I have, like, 15 copies over various points in my history of playing the game.

I saw my play time for this game, it's nuts. I started in Nov and already have more hours in it then any other game.

[jade zodiac]

is copy and pasting it into another drive enough ? beacuse thats how ive backed up game files before

it just feels to easy though like i feel like i should be extracting them to another drive

too*

[hazy sparrow]

You can simply select the folder then do CTRL-C then CTRL-V and it will create a NMS-copy right there

[jade zodiac]

okay cool i figured there wasnt much too it but i wanted to be sure

and it works the same if i just copy the hello games folder right ?

oh nevermind i see what you are saying

i got it

[hazy sparrow]

yep I have all my backups in the actually HelloGames folder and it doesn't interfere with anything. If I ever screw up, I just delete NMS and rename NMS - Copy to NMS. Then I copy it again so I always have a copy.

[native veldt]

When does exp omega end?

[hazy sparrow]

9 days

Whale hunting is another good reason to keep a backup directory, so you don't accidentally waste an anomaly finder. I've been pulsing for over 17 minutes before hearing whalesong. Had to refill pulse drive twice.

[jade zodiac]

so in order to do this, I through the pause menu, go back to my main save without ending the expedition, create a copy of my starborn runner, scrap/sell it, and then go back to the expedition and my main ship is still there ?

and if it fucks up in some way i can use the copy of the save to retry it ?

[hazy sparrow]

yes, cloning then scrapping the ship on your main save does not affect it in your expedition.

I have heard that the man save can get bugged if you clone the Runner multiple times, so I would use a different ship to transfer tech over.

[jade zodiac]

how do i get nanites over to my main save

because it costs nanites to copy the ship

[hazy sparrow]

Oh...yeah...if you don't have any nanites at all on your main save then this is not doable.

[jade zodiac]

what if i were to send over tech or something to sell for nanites

[hazy sparrow]

I doubt you have all the portal glyphs either, do you? I could give you the coords to some planets with a ton of mould, but without the glyphs you can't get there.

[jade zodiac]

glyphs?

i swear im about to just give up on this game

[hazy sparrow]

No that would not work as equipped tech sells for a pitiful number of nanites.

[jade zodiac]

but what about like nanites recieved from missions

like if i did a couple nexus missions or something for nanites

would that interfere ?

[hazy sparrow]

One of the expansion steps was to talk to a traveller. When you went to his grave, you learned a glyph. You need to do that 15 more times to be able to fully operate portals.

[hazy sparrow]

That's a lot of missions, as you need about 3200 nanites per clone iirc

[jade zodiac]

jesus fucking christ dude its like they planned for people to spend their entire lives on this game

im literally just gonna give up and start a new save i dont even care at this point

i really appreciate your help anyways though

i think i have really screwed myself here

lmao

[hazy sparrow]

Not a lot of handholding and a whole lot of googling and time on this discord server is how I've gotten through it.

[solemn bane]

I’ve done this so many times I ran out of save slots. Another reason I like expeditions is it feels like starting over, but I get to keep stuff so it still has a sense of permanence to it.

[jade zodiac]

so we can just do the expeditions forever ?

its just the omega stuff that ends ?

im so confused about the entire thing

[hazy sparrow]

Yeah at first I almost bailed on Omega (my first expedition) because you started with nothing, but then I realized it was going to accelerate progress through.

[jade zodiac]

oh i see

[hazy sparrow]

When the expedition ends, you lose access to it, but once a year, usually December, Hello Games makes them available again. The previous 11 REQUIRE starting from a new save; the whole point is just to unlock stuff at the Quicksilver vendor.

[solemn bane]

If you’re on PC or something similar folks have figured out how to play any past expeditions offline whenever you want though.

[wintry void]

I was gonna make a new normal save, but made a new expedition save instead because of the accelearated progress

[wintry void]

I find making a new save best way tbh, less likely for saves to break, and especially for new people, they often have greater progress in the expedition save than the normal save. I tend to think that starting from a current save should be only done on saves where things like freighters have been farmed and most quests completed

[ashen shore]

How much time till Expedition ends??

!exptime

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[distant spoke]

What kinda person would cover a traveler grave with a base and name it trololol

That's not even a good name

That's such a 2010 name

No one says trolololol

[hazy sparrow]

I don't know why people do that when it's so easy to just report a base and get rid of it.

[distant spoke]

It is?

I'm trying to figure out how

Nvm it's easy

Cant place a message thingy even with it gone tho ):

I want to say "looks like a grave accident happened here"

[hazy sparrow]

I don't think it's really gone, it's just removed for you, they then revieew it.

On the expedition I have found TONS of buried base computers, marking areas but also making them un-diggable, like at freighter crashes.

I just found a planet with...flying pufferfish?

[ashen shore]

Reload restore point

[solemn bane]

"I'm not dead yet"

[soft saddle]

so how many or what kind of biscuits do you need to make for that to clear off your expedition?

[crimson rose]

1 cookie. Any kind, really.

[cerulean olive]

Just one, but with an extra ingredient added. use the nip nip you got earlier.

[wary pine]

Is this expedition worth doing? I'm so tapped irl but the fomo..

[cerulean olive]

If you really want the Starborn Runner, or any of the former expedition reward companion eggs, then yes.

It's a really easy one and if you check the pins, you can finish it without a hassle.

[hazy sparrow]

Aye, follow the walkthrough and you can be done in a few hours.

Just resist the urge to be an exploration nut like me and focus on checking off objectives.

[solemn bane]

As the others have said, there is nothing new or interesting about it gameplay or story-wise, so do it if you want the rewards. Also if you're on PC etc you can do it (and any other expedition) offline with a pretty simple hack when you've got more time

[ionic glen]

So…I’m at the space anomaly and I need the brain from a sentinel walker for the expedition, but I don’t even know if I’m skilled enough to fight one. Anybody wants to help me or it’s easier to defeat it that it seems ?

[proven fog]

Rendezvous 3 is absurd to get to

[solemn bane]

You probably took a black hole. Go back to r2 and warp from there

[solemn bane]

I'm going to sleep soon so I don't want to explain this one, lol. Might want to check youtube.

[proven fog]

I took a black hole passed it so I went back and followed the path for a good 30-45 minutes. Now I'm back at the end that was passed it and working my way back.

[solemn bane]

Just go back to a space station from the starting system, r1 or r2. It'll be very close

r2 is closest, obviously, but if you didn't hit that space station you can go back farther

As in use a portal

Or like your base

[proven fog]

I'll try going from r2

[proven fog]

I'm so gd mad rn. Ty

[solemn bane]

lol, I did the same thing. I 100% forgot I ever took a black hole

[proven fog]

I figured the 3rd one was close to the center. The description says it might be far away. I was following the expedition route that was running parallel to the center guide. Went through the black hole and it was still running parallel. Nothing makes sense.

[solemn bane]

The description says it might be far away

Yep, they got me with that, too. Afterwards I realized they ALL say that regardless of how far or close they are.

[proven fog]

Oml

Another question, do all crashed freighters have un-editable areas or did someone manage to overlap part of the area with their base?

[solemn bane]

You can make a base right in a crashed reighter. If you need to dig it out you can report the base and it will disappear for you so you can dig to get the, whatever, treasure

[proven fog]

I'm not sure if it's a base or just the game being weird. It's just 1 cargo pod 🤷‍♂️

[solemn bane]

Oh, I bet those pods can be under the part of the planet you can't dig through

[proven fog]

It's a base. How do I report it?

Someone buried it and sealed it underground

[solemn bane]

Good question. All I know is it's easy because everyone says it's easy, lol.

[proven fog]

interesting

[solemn bane]

go into quick menu (down on D-pad for console), scroll to the far right, and select Report Base.

Just another reason to play offline. I hate multiplayer and stupid bases and stupid icons and stupid "discovered by hello games" etc.

[proven fog]

Yup just watched a video on it. I hate the multiplayer too

I was so happy I didn't have to see other people's garbage when I was a few black holes away

[hazy sparrow]

Fly around and talk to all the autophage on the ground (the wrocked robots by sentinel crashes and scattered elsewhere). Eventually one will cough up a pack of 10

[hazy sparrow]

I did all the memories, and one of them was a giant dinosaur skull. I have seen this skull in some people's bases, but I don't see it as a QS reward. Where do you get the skull decoration?

[solemn bane]

Singularity, apparently

[hazy sparrow]

Ah. Omega is my first expedition, so I did not do that one.

[proven fog]

Is Palate Cleanser bugged for anyone else? Doesn't matter how many biscuits I seem to make the quest keeps looping

[solemn bane]

Make them with carbon or something else extra. I had to make a couple before it completed

[proven fog]

Had to make a few different types ty

[solemn bane]

Yeah I think it’s random. Did the expedition twice and each time I got the mats for six biscuits and just made carbon ones one at a time til it popped for me. They make some weird choices in this game.

[main pendant]

ayee just completed the expedition

[hazy sparrow]

There are a couple of ingredients listed in the walkthrough, impulse beans and hexaberry, that it will always pop for.

[solemn bane]

Man, putting a varying proc chance on a mission completion. How bizarre.

[crimson rose]

5th pin down

[uncut grotto]

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[uncut grotto]

I have 8 days to finish it
Great 😦

[arctic ice]

Wait wait, what happens if its over?

Can i still finish it and get my rewards?

[wraith venture]

You must finish it by that deadline in order to claim all the rewards. As you finish each phase, you can claim each phase's rewards along the way though. But to claim them all, including the final reward, you must complete it before.

[arctic ice]

Dang it

Idk if ill make that i can only play next weekend

But i must.....

But if the time runs out can i still DO the expedition?

[wraith venture]

Thankfully this expedition takes less time than others we've had before.

[wraith venture]

No. You must start / create a save and finish the expedition before that deadline shown above.

[thin ivy]

how come i made the cookie and the mission didnt finish

[wraith junco]

Basic buscuit dosent count. Need add something to sugar dough.

[thin ivy]

likkke?

or anything

[wraith junco]

Other cooking ingredients. Even carbon will work. Try things out.

[thin ivy]

okei

i literally been loking forever

[real rose]

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/s/5KQP7aXGet

[thin ivy]

mmmbeesstt plaacee to get cobalt?

[wraith venture]

Try caves If no one gets back here (server slow at this time), also try #nms-questions for tips

[thin ivy]

im on a dumb water planet

[flint jewel]

will there be a new one after 8 days?

[blazing fossil]

Most likely not immediately

They have done back to back before but it’s usually a few months wait

[flint jewel]

how do we collect these?

[blazing fossil]

You do exp 9 IF it ever returns

But until exped 9 returns or they introduce another way you don’t get them

[flint jewel]

so they were like battlepass rewards

damn
i only came back to play this game after it reached expedition 12?
damn

[near remnant]

Hey guys, not a question this time, I finished expedition 12 - 100% just under… 14 hours! 🥹
Without y’all I’d have freaked out the entire time but it was absolutely doable even as an entire newbie. Thank you. ♡

[wraith junco]

Its more like seasonal event reward.

[fierce jasper]

Here I am 182 hours into E12 and still not even half done.

I get sidetracked easily.

[worldly ferry]

Can some tell me how much distance is between rendezvous 2 and 3? I've been warping for about 1 hour still not reached rendezvous 3

[wintry void]

1 warp

Id teleport to a base or station in the area and start again and make sure target is set to expedition route in galaxy map

If you have gone through a blackhole it can take you far away, or sometimes the destination auto changes without you noticing

[wraith venture]

As Stobbsy mentioned above, you can backtrack. One way to do so, is if you visit the space station in the systems you've been to before, you can always use a teleporter to get back to a previous system. Here: #nms-expedition message you can see the full list of all the Rendezvous points for this expedition, along with the system names and coordinates. Maybe you can get back to Rdv 2 and try again. Making sure you have your next Rdv 3 milestone selected so you can see the path easier in your galaxy map.

[worldly ferry]

Thanks @wintry void @wraith venture

[wraith venture]

Edit: Please disregard. See follow-up below... One more thing, based on that list I shared, it appears that Redv 2 & 3 may be in the same system...? @remote thunder does that sound right to you? Sorry I gotta ask but I still gotta do the expo myself

[heady coral]

💀

[wintry void]

Thats wrong

[remote thunder]

they aren't in the same system red

rdv1:
rdv2:

[wraith venture]

Oh okay, I was wondering why they showed 0ly distance between them...

[remote thunder]

hmm, where are you seeing this?

from rdv1 to rdv2 should be about 140LY iirc

[wintry void]

I think they are near each other

[wraith venture]

Check this out... I'm also asking Doc about it...

!coords 104D02900054 501202900054

[unkempt kraken]

0853:0081:00FF:004D // planet 1

104D02900054
X:84, Y:2, Z:-1792, SSI:77
Distance from galactic core: 717588 ly

0853:0081:00FF:0012 // planet 5

501202900054
X:84, Y:2, Z:-1792, SSI:18
Distance from 0853:0081:00FF:004D: 0 ly
Distance from galactic core: 717588 ly

[wraith venture]

0ly distance between those 2

[remote thunder]

they're super close, 140LY - perhaps that short of a distance doesn't get picked up by guntie

[remote thunder]

they're basically in the same region

not the same SSI though

(solar system index)

[wraith venture]

Ooh got ya. Super odd that it'd say 0. Ty for clarifying.

[remote thunder]

2nd, 3rd and 4th glyphs are diff

np 🙂 you know you're always free to ping/ask whatever

[wraith venture]

follow-up, per Doc:

gunter only knows the distance between regions unfortunately. the SSI isn't taken into account, since they're unpredictably scattered throughout the region. so if the two systems are in the same region, it's 0 ly
Good to know. Ty @fossil walrus & @remote thunder

[young warren]

Ending the expedition for a first time player, making sure I understand how it works depending on if I started play from the expedition free weekend or created a new save in regular game and then went into expedition.

If you are coming from an existing save:

When I click end expedition and end up back in the base game, I will be back with whatever ship and multitool I had back then.
I will have all bases I built accessible, but storage containers in those basses will be empty, correct?
To get a copy of rewards from the expedition (eggs, ship, multitool) visit the anomaly quicksilver vendor.
Whatever ship/multitool I had when I click end expedition I can pay nanites to copy back and it will have all installed tech but no cargo, correct?

If using a save that started with the expedition, it converts to a regular save game and starts up story/missions like you just started the game.
Does this mean you end up keeping all the ships, bases and inventory created during the expedition, including cap ship?

[wintry void]

Not sure about the bit from existing save as ive never done it, the stuff about the new save is correct however.

I think but not 100% that you might have to trade back the ship or mt back to normal save, like i say im not 100% as ive never done, ive always started a new save the 6 times ive completed this expedition

@remote thunder Can you answer his question regarding the existing save??

or this been answered in help?? just realised question was asked 30min ago

[solemn bane]

Does this mean you end up keeping all the ships, bases and inventory created during the expedition, including cap ship?

No, just the bases

Everything else seems correct

[young warren]

Thans. So anywhere I want to revisit, make sure to have a base there.

[solemn bane]

Right

[wintry void]

its what i do anyway, find a ship or planet i like, put a base computer down

[young warren]

For my game that started with the expedition, the anomaly says expedition completed, but I seem to still have a freighter in orbit and every ship I have picked up. Does the actual end for me happen when the timer runs out in ~7 days?

[solemn bane]

You go back to the expedition terminal to end it completely and return to your main save

But yeah if the expedition ends by running out of time, you log in to your main save

[bright moth]

So I'm running the expedition on a primary save, did the whole copy thing of my multitool and ship, and I got a nice S class freighter a little bit ago from fighting pirates. will I lose that freighter once i finish the expedition?

[solemn bane]

yep

[bright moth]

aw dang 😦 that sucks

[young warren]

This is the save that was started as the expedition, so it is "mainsave".
If I go to the terminal now it just says the expedition has ended.

[wintry void]

Was it a new save?

[solemn bane]

Ah gotcha, if you started the expedition from the new game page then yes you will keep everything

[young warren]

Thank, you. the whole ending thing has been messing with my brains trying to work out clearly what to do when when starting out from expedition (as a new player).

[solemn bane]

I read one of your sentences wrong. I didn't catch the "or"

[weak creek]

Hey, so I’ve been resetting the Atlas Scepter‘s Supercharged slots from the Quicksilver buddy for three days in a row for approximately 1000 resets now. Even after getting three Supercharged slots next to each other, I’ve never had the rng gods on my side to encounter the 4th slot also connected to the other three. My question: has anyone ever seen a four-linked Supercharged Atlas Scepter regardless the Supercharged layout? Is there even a square Supercharged Atlas Scepter?

Am I wasting my time here because the last Supercharged slot, after upgrading the Atlas scepter, will never be connected to the other three or even be squared?

[solemn bane]

You may have better luck asking in #no-mans-sky or maybe #nms-multitools. As to the question of if you're wasting your time, I mean it ain't like the game is hard, so going on these quests doesn't really pay off in the end other than to say you did it.

[solemn bane]

On second thought, google may be a better place to look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ajys8yLt7IU

I've watched a few of this guy's videos

[hazy sparrow]

Yes, I have a ton of his video's bookmarked for weapons and ships

[west kernel]

this ship from expedition is awesome

how often there are expeditions

[hazy sparrow]

Not sure, this is the 12th, but once a year they unlock them all to be playable again. There is also a hack to play them in offline mode.

[remote thunder]

to clarify, devs don't "unlock them all at the end of the year" - devs have rerun every expedition at least once, and that usually happens at the end of the year they originally released in

[remote thunder]

usually, 4 each year

not counting the reruns mentioned above

[weak creek]

Thanks, but you understood me wrong I guess. I’m already done with the expedition and about to receive the Atlas Scepter as reward from the Quicksilver NPC. Since you can randomize the Supercharged slots by opening and closing the preview window, I cannot help but wondering if anyone has ever seen a 4-linked Atlas Scepter after upgrading it to S-Class? I’ve been resetting the slots for over three days and have encountered many 3-linked slots but have always missed the 4th one to be linked to the other after upgrading the staff to S-class.

[solemn bane]

Yes, you can see it in the video.

[west kernel]

so 3 left

[hazy sparrow]

If you clone the Atlas staff, can you skill claim a 2nd one from the QS vendor?

[remote thunder]

fwiw, 4 slots in a square might not even be ideal for many weapon systems

[hazy sparrow]

What about the Starborn Runner? I heard something about more than one being bugged.

[remote thunder]

same deal

basically, afaik, can't clone a starborn runner if you already own one

owning one isn't the same as having unlocked it account wide

so you either scrap it and clone it multiple times, or you use different ships

[hazy sparrow]

but you can claim it if you already own it from a clone, basically resulting in two?

K, not that I really want to do that, just curious.

[remote thunder]

sorry, misunderstood the question

[hazy sparrow]

Okay, cool.

[remote thunder]

i need more coffee

geesh

you can goto the quicksilver shop and claim it

[hazy sparrow]

Copy, clone, claim, coffee

[remote thunder]

but if you already own it, you can't clone it again

[hazy sparrow]

Affirmative, I found that out trying to clone back my squid ship

[remote thunder]

would have to scrap it first to be able to clone it yeah

[hazy sparrow]

I'm wondering if it's worth the effort to scrap all but one of my expedition ships just for the minor gains. I don't need the money.

[remote thunder]

personally, only things that matter to me are phase and final rewards

[hazy sparrow]

I've already cloned the equipment 3 times

[hazy sparrow]

Does anyone know if there is a way to learn the "Memory of" recipes on your main save?

[remote thunder]

not that i'm aware of

[weak creek]

Hey, yeah, I know this video. I’m quite sure I’ve also had this layout before but the last one wouldn’t be connected to the three. So I’m wondering if the last slot will always be the same for certain layouts or is completely random?

[remote thunder]

with normal ships at least, and excluding interceptors that weren't class upgraded, the supercharged slot layout is set by ship seed

[solemn bane]

ok, so you're less wanting to know if anyone has seen 4 linked supercharged slots on the atlas staff, and more wanting to know if it's random. I would say if you do what the video says and the 4th one shows up in different spots, then it's random. I haven't heard of them placing arbitrary restrictions on supercharged slots, but you never know.

[remote thunder]

with atlas scepter it seems to be randomized somehow yes, i've been meaning to test it but for now i'm assuming it's different saves

[weak creek]

The thing is, I have never seen any other screenshot/video of a 4-linked Atlas Scepter. I probably had 100 3-linked but as soon as I upgraded it to S-Class, the 4th slot would be somewhere distant from the others.

[solemn bane]

lol, I like how there's another video called "UPDATED How to Get The Best Atlas Staff 4 Connected Supercharged Slots | No Man's Sky Omega Update" and in the end they aren't connected

[weak creek]

In the video above, he doesn’t show the upgrade procedure. It’s just a cut and then a screenshot.

[quick berry]

So my friend informed me that the expedition will finally let you complete but we can't transfer companion eggs. How can I carry these companions back over to my main save?

[solemn bane]

Without save file editing etc you cannot, as far as I know

[quick berry]

😦

[solemn bane]

I think they are unlocked in the quicksilver vendor though? You could swap back to your main save and see

[quick berry]

They are claimable in the quicksilver vendor but I honestly don't know if it was from previous expeditions or not. I was really hoping to transfer the eggs themselves.

[remote thunder]

check this post <#nms-expedition message>

if you already completed the past expeditions where they were originally released under this account, afaik you won't see any new entries added. yeah, double checked, you won't

[lusty slate]

The optional community rewards for rendezvous 2-5 are expedition eggs from Emergence, Exiobiology, Polestar and the original Cartographers (not the 2023 remix run). If you have already completed those and claimed the rewards, you can't get a second egg from the vendor.

[remote thunder]

iow, can only be claimed once per save

[lusty slate]

If you haven't, then those eggs will be available to claim from the vendor. (Which is why a lot of Switch players were so invested in RD5 completing. It's the first time the bio horror egg has been available to us since its launch)

[bleak bough]

Is the headshield not rendering properly for anyone else?

[coral frigate]

Is it just me or the 3rd RDV is wayyyy further ahead? I must of jumped over 35+ systems and not even close, have travelled over 340.000 ly

[placid hedge]

3rd rdv shouldn't be far away from the 2nd one. Not further than 1.000 ly for sure, most likely less than 500

You should recheck your galaxy map, maybe you have route set to galaxy center

[jaunty wren]

for omega mine was always one or two systems away but on beachhead i had to warp for a couple hours

[placid hedge]

You can return to the initial expedition zone with teleports on space stations. Bases are usually in thag region

[placid hedge]

I'm that one fella that rushed into playing NMS again when living ships just appeared. I forgot everything about the game, but still decided to get a ship first. I warped manually through every system to my destination. I didn't use portals

[jaunty wren]

that just means you deserved the ship lol

[placid hedge]

I guess so haha

At least interceptors are easier to find

[jaunty wren]

yeah and no 3600 quicksilver

[placid hedge]

Just a little bit of fighting and flying

[blazing fossil]

You used a black hole
Teleport back to expedition route

[faint mesa]

When does the expedition end? I don't remember the command... 😅

[blazing fossil]

!exptime

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[faint mesa]

Thank you! Ok, not much left

[jaunty wren]

you should have enough time even if you wanted to start over most of the objectives only take a couple min

4th and 5th the hard ones

[faint mesa]

I finished already 😅

[jaunty wren]

noice same

[faint mesa]

Just asking because when it ends, the window for the next update opens

[jaunty wren]

yeah i already wanna do another scince they sync to your main now

since*

[hazy sparrow]

That's funny, the first thing my cheap butt did was realize I rarely ever needed to warp anywhere. I only use it to go to new systems. The only time I use it to return to old ones are when that system (usually outlaw) has a pirate fight on warping in.

[hazy sparrow]

Are all future expeditions going to do this, be able to be cloned off of a main save?

[solemn bane]

I would assume so. It's a simple setting in the JSON file. I've played all 12 expeditions in offline mode by editing the expedition json and it all mostly works. There are some offline quirks, but passing items back and forth works fine.

[hazy sparrow]

Noice!

Hey, I switched back to my main save and now my old discovery list is gone, showing only the expedition discoveries? Anyone else seen that?

[solemn bane]

Yeah the only shared stuff is unlockable rewards at the quicksilver guy and bases

Automatically shared, anyway

[hazy sparrow]

Weird, right now my base list is showing BOTH sets of bases, but the discovered systems list is just the expedition. This happened when I switched back to my main save before claiming the Runner in the expedition. I was wondering if anyone else had seen this.

Not a huge deal since I have bases and portals for most places I have been, but still a pain.

[solemn bane]

Ooooh, I see what you're saying now. Yeah that is weird, probably a bug

[hazy sparrow]

Thing is, I don't know when it started.

I know the discovered system list is supposed to NOT transfer over, so I'm hoping it resets itsslf once I actually end the expedition. Otherwise I will end up with a completely empty discovered system list. Dunno if that can be edited in the JSON or not.

[solemn bane]

Now that I think about it, I think that happened to me, too. But I just didn't care because it's all just noise to me

[feral flame]

Hello, I play rarely, once every few years for a month or so.

I'm returning, and thought I read somewhere that I could depart on an expedition using an existing base save, then return to my base save later, is that correct?

And if so, how do I depart on the current expedition from my base save?

[solemn bane]

Correct. Go to the Anomaly and next to the quicksilver guy there is a terminal

[feral flame]

Thank you

[hazy sparrow]

I do suggest making a backup of your main save before you start though.

[solemn bane]

Sorta behind the big quest... thingy

Nearly 800 hours and I still can't remember the names of things... Nexus, that's it

[hazy sparrow]

The Nexus...the great floating eye of weekend quicksilver missions.

[solemn bane]

Ah yep, just returned to my save and I see all my expedition discoveries. Can't portal to them though (only my bases). Gross.

[remote thunder]

yes, known issue with switching between primary/exp

discoveries and bases are supposed to merge back into primary, when expedition is completed/ended

(visited stations, that's excluded yep)

[placid dew]

I finally completed the expedition! Took me a total of 3 hours... starting in a brand new save.

[remote thunder]

congrats, good job!

[magic lodge]

Guys Can I found a sunken freighter on nagus?

I only have to find a sunken freighter than Im done

[cold tulip]

Mostly anywhere with water

[magic lodge]

I have a place with a lot of water

But I couldn’t find it

[remote thunder]

deploy nautilon chamber you got from previous milestone

it will spawn nautilon

be sure to be in an inhabited system

(gek, korvax, vykeen)

delete geobay to get mats back

hop in nautilon, click on a free tech slot, install high powered sonar

exit inventory UI, quick menu, scan for sunken freighter

goto ship, fly near marker, resummon nautilon using quick menu/summon vehicles or swim to objective

[hazy sparrow]

Check the list of existing player bases, there is one named sunken freighter

[remote thunder]

(in which system? other player bases seen on teleporters can only be downloaded when we're in the same system)

[hazy sparrow]

Check the walk-through. It will tell you the name of the system/planet that has a sunken freighter on it.

[remote thunder]

any planet with water in an inhabited system will have sunken crashed freighters

[hazy sparrow]

It's at one of the rendezvous points.

[remote thunder]

yes, there's multiple suitable planets for this even in rdv systems

[hazy sparrow]

True, but it's nice when one of them has a base named "sunken freighter" that you can warp right too lol

Other player bases got me through a lot of this

[remote thunder]

yep, can be a good time saver

[median bough]

!exptime

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[magic lodge]

Thanks man I’ve appreciate it. I’ll do this tomorrow my time zone is almost 21

[exotic fiber]

I'm a step or 2 away from completing the expo and I have one simple question. At one point can I/must I put items in the transfer-inventory-thingy by the Nexus that I want to send back to my main save? I don't mean the expedition rewards, but just some valuable (to me) items I've obtained that are in some of my inventories.

[hazy sparrow]

Many bases near sunken freighters already have nautilons built that you can summon and use. You never even have to build your own.

[solemn bane]

Yep, do that when all your quests are done and you are ready to end the expedition and return to your main save

[hazy sparrow]

I got through a lot of the expedtion by using other people's stuff. Bases with runaway mould for nanites, nipnip for money...

[exotic fiber]

so I have to wait until AFTER I've completed the final milestones, thus finishing the xpo, but before I click whatever dialogue button or whatever to "end" the xpo save?

[magic lodge]

I never build bases, it’s hella boring

Well I have my portable freighter base

[solemn bane]

There will be a message that says the expedition is done, but it will not automatically return you to your main save (unless you wait for the expedition to run out of time). At that point you will still be on the expedition save and can choose to go to the terminal, put your items in, and return to your main save, ending the expedition for good.

[hazy sparrow]

Steps (as I understand them) to end the expedition:

1. Do everything but claim the starborn runner
2. Switch between your omega save and main save at the terminal to clone back anything extra you want to (ships, multitools, etc., making sure you have slots for them).
3. Claim Starborn Runner.
4. Use the MENU to switch between Omega and main saves if you want to clone any last bits (I am going to try this to duplicates copies of tech unique to the Runner, but not the Runner itself).
5. Using the terminal, store any gear and tech you want to transfer back to your main save. Equip a multitool or ship you might want to clone back. Rumors are you can bug your main save if you try to clone the Runner more than once, so don't.
6. Using the terminal, select End Expedition.
7. Once back on your main save, collect at the terminal the tech and items you sent back.

[exotic fiber]

that sounds too complex & unintuitive to be the way HG intended players to do it. What is the purpose of doing it that specific way? Is it to get duplicate copies of things on your main save?

[hazy sparrow]

Yes, just for duping, or cloning more than one multitool or ship.

[magic lodge]

I’ve cleared everything except for sunken freighters and that’s pretty annoying because I really wanted the star ship that levitates

[hazy sparrow]

It only levitates when parked, not when flying. Only sentinel ships can do that for now.

[solemn bane]

Just make a nautilus and put a radar in it. you can scan for sunken freighters with it

[magic lodge]

My ship I’m using right now is the sentinel ship a red. I got a red sentinel ship but I’ve preferred if the ship was red

[exotic fiber]

well i dont need more than one copy of the same thing on my main save so i dont need to use that method

[magic lodge]

Yeah I have the scanner

[magic lodge]

The sentinel never levitates? Or I’m I wrong?

[exotic fiber]

the levitatoin is just a visual effect, not an actual function

[hazy sparrow]

Milestone 2: Fallen Giants
To complete this milestone, you'll need to find a sunken wreck using the Nautilon Exocraft. This means finding a world with oceans--luckily, Haku 57/Q1 (the same planet as Rendezvous 3) has plenty of oceans for you to explore, and you'll have already been rewarded with a Nautilon from the previous milestone.

[magic lodge]

Hmmm yes I got one

But I think I’m on rendezvous 4

That planet have a huge ocean

[hazy sparrow]

Once you are in that system, look for a base named "Sunken Freighter"...it's right beside one. It also has a Nautilon you can borrow.

[magic lodge]

Aaaaaa okay thank you

Who took away my role icon beside my name?🤔

[hazy sparrow]

Walkthrough with tons of tips if you are looking for expedience: https://www.thegamer.com/no-mans-sky-omega-expedition-12-walkthrough/

[magic lodge]

Thanks for the tip but I rather found out it by myself except for that dreadnought

[hazy sparrow]

Jesus my hands are shaking so bad today I can barely type (I have Essential Tremors).

[magic lodge]

What have you done?

Hmm

[solemn bane]

Iceman is shaking?

[magic lodge]

This was the coolest thing today in my opinion

Yes he is

[hazy sparrow]

I see a lot of people with that skull in their bases, I want one.

[magic lodge]

I just found it in the space

Don’t know how to get but it was awesome

[exotic fiber]

People were able to collect it & put it in their bases?!?!?!?

[hazy sparrow]

No, I think it came from a previous expedition.

I'm sending the "memories" back to my main save to see if they will work there also.

I'm pretty sure learned recipies don't copy back.

[magic lodge]

I think it was called Memory of bones

When I did the mission today

[solemn bane]

It may get unlocked in the quicksilver vendor

[magic lodge]

You sure?

[solemn bane]

If I were sure I wouldn't have said "may" 😉

[magic lodge]

Okay, I understand what you mean and I want this in my ship

[solemn bane]

Though if you completed it, you should be able to hop back to your main save and check to see if it's unlocked there

[magic lodge]

Yeah that’s my main goal with speed running the expedition

I did like 18 missions today

Hella intense

[solemn bane]

(You can switch to your main save without ending the expedition)

[magic lodge]

I started with the easy one and

What?

How’s that even possible?

[solemn bane]

You can jump back and forth

[magic lodge]

How?

[solemn bane]

It's in the pause menu somewheres

[magic lodge]

Hmmm tf

The fish

What kind of life hack is that

[hollow shore]

Titanic Trophy, was a reward from the Emergence expedition. Also been a Twitch drop (Season 6)

[hazy sparrow]

I forget this game has twitch drops sometimes

[modest sparrow]

ok what am i missing, been playing for years but aint played in a while, doing latest expedition my ship is repaired but still smoking burning outside and wont take off, what am i missing please?

[hollow shore]

Maybe something you overlooked? Can you show a screenshot of your ship tech?

[hazy sparrow]

Scroll down in the tech section, maybe there's another row? AFAIK you only have to repair launch thrusters to take off.

[modest sparrow]

still shows it burning and sparking outside

[wraith junco]

Visual bug imo. It should work fine after reloading or reseting the game.

[modest sparrow]

ill try restarting the gamwe and see

nope still burning when i try and launch the screen says "ignition failed critical damage

[hollow shore]

Can you check each tech one at a time, see if it still asks for a resource to be added for repair?

[modest sparrow]

and a small red lightening bolt appears on lower right screen

[hollow shore]

It might be the Launch Thruster not showing a proper indication for being broken.

Could be any tech actually, but I think that one is suspect

[modest sparrow]

yup did that only thing missing is the pulse engine is at 50% but needs tritium and or pyrite which pyrite is nowhere to be found

[hollow shore]

I am not talking about charge, I am talking about full install/fix

[modest sparrow]

yea i clicked everything in tech inside ship

[hollow shore]

I just broke my launch thruster on purpose, and no indication at all, while being 100% charged. Not even able to repair again either though, so hmmm

Just to be sure, no mods are involved?

[modest sparrow]

this is actually me 5th new game to try and figure out whats going on same thing every time

nope mods disabled after update

[hollow shore]

Are you on PC by any chance?

[modest sparrow]

yea pc

[hollow shore]

Steam?

[modest sparrow]

7yea'

already verified all files

[hollow shore]

Could have a quick look if you wish, using a Save Editor?

[modest sparrow]

well normal game plays fine and this is just an expedition ill just miss it. thanks for the help tho. appreciate it

[hollow shore]

Ok, so it is in fact just visual only?

[modest sparrow]

well beside the burning outside the ship wont launch so more than just visual

but just in this expedition.all the reast played fine

[hollow shore]

Ok, so there is a Tech broken, but no way to repair or see which Tech

[remote thunder]

do you have any tools like wemod enabled?

[modest sparrow]

nope no trainer

but i just restarted the game again and when i got in ship i got the welcome pilot text and now for some odd reason it appears to be working

[remote thunder]

nice

[hollow shore]

Anything you did different?

[modest sparrow]

i guess i had to threaten to not play the expedition to get it to work

[hollow shore]

hehe

[modest sparrow]

no just restarted the game for the 3rd time

wierd

[hollow shore]

Hopefully no further weirdness, but do let us know

[modest sparrow]

and lift off, i honestly cant figure it out ive tried 5 new games and every time the same thing till i threatened it

mysteries of the universe, go figure

[hollow shore]

Good luck and most of all, enjoy

[modest sparrow]

man hate these solar wing s on these ships thanks

[inland belfry]

Working on the expedition - Phase 4 Milestone 3 "Radiant Flight"
- I'm in the system w/ the sentinal ship icon but can't find the dissonant planet/ship icon

anyone else having issues?

[hollow shore]

@inland belfry One of the milstones rewards a Carrier AI, with which you can locate an Interceptor

Also make sure to have multiplayer disabled, as it can otherwise cause issues with the presence of the ship

Ah, I see it got sorted in #nms-questions , all good 😉

[inland belfry]

@hollow shore Yes, i was just being a bonehead, but I do appreciate you taking the time to respond and provide some help

[remote thunder]

near rdv1 (i didn't make it; it just looked cool)

[ashen shore]

Oh that thats the famous cannon using teleporters that launches you into space at high speeds

Could be wrong though

But it's all over yt and a lot of the community knows about it

[remote thunder]

oh yeah is that what this was? i remember players playing with this kind of glitch

[mental geyser]

Any suggestions on what to bring for the expedition

[jaunty wren]

the main thing for me was getting nanites to buy my OP gear from my main save and that was the most helpful so maybe load up with some outlaw modules to sell in the expedition.

you need cactus mordite and something else i had trouble with that one more than the rest

[placid dew]

Yeah, one of the milestones require you to craft Liquid Explosive, so bring enough materials for a Liquid Explosive. Otherwise you'll have to find the plants on planets.

[placid dew]

I suggest bringing some salt and cadmium since some of the milestone needs it. Saves a lot of time from finding an ocean and red star, respectively.

[jaunty wren]

i think you get cadmium but it couldnt hurt to be prepared

[grim fossil]

An alternative to locating planets with the necessary resources (cactus flesh and fungal mould) is just purchasing the resources from landed pilots at trade outposts.

[jaunty wren]

i have trouble finding plants from traders i feel like i only ever find star bulbs

[grim fossil]

They will have an assortment, interact then locate a new pilot if they don’t have what you want.

[jaunty wren]

i usually only go to space stations to trade though that might make a difference

[proven citrus]

How hard are expeditions I've never done one

[jaunty wren]

not

harder for new players though but if you know the game youll be a-okay

[grim fossil]

Space station pilots won’t trade those items, pilots landed at trade outposts specifically will trade items like cactus flesh, launch fuel and the systems race specific relic

[jaunty wren]

thank you thatll completely change how i trade

[grim fossil]

Depends on how much you know the basic mechanics of the game, if you know the game pretty well the expedition can be very quick, not knowing a lot can make it a bit frustrating, all in all they aren’t hard, this expedition is rather easy.

[proven citrus]

So I'd like to join you on your expedition if I can.

[grim fossil]

Would be difficult since I have finished it 😂

[jaunty wren]

this ones basically just an in depth tutorial to be honest its still fun though

[proven citrus]

Even so, I'd like to join . Maybe get a feel for expeditions

[jaunty wren]

he cant without starting over

[jaunty wren]

the exp changes to a normal save

[grim fossil]

Pretty much, to give a good idea it was used as a free to play introduction for people that wanted to have a brief look at NMS, that being the focus was on players that haven’t even played the game so it would of course be very simple.

[proven citrus]

Are you going to do one anytime soon. or is it just a one off thing/ Once in Blue Moon.

[jaunty wren]

i want to try all of them but that means i gotta wait till hello games puts the next one out lol

[grim fossil]

The player only really needs to do it once, as the rewards from said expedition will be unlocked for the player account wide but that doesn’t stop people just replaying if they want to.

[placid dew]

I wonder if I could replay the expedition (while it still lasts) to get 10000 quicksilver per expedition run...?

I mean, it's free quicksilver.

[jaunty wren]

not on the same save

[jaunty wren]

it closes it off but you can make a new save

[grim fossil]

As for past expeditions, typically the answer is no and don’t get your hopes up. The pattern so far has been the current years expeditions will get a rerun at the end of the year, past years don’t however this changed with cartographers being rerun the end of last year but the rewards weren’t the same. So keep this in mind.

[grim fossil]

Considering quicksilver unlocks are account wide you would achieve the same end state.

[proven citrus]

What's the point of expedition then? Because I am lost.

[cold tulip]

Rewards

[proven citrus]

What kind of rewards like cosmetics?

[placid dew]

What do you mean by "the same end state"?

[cold tulip]

New ship, decals, pets, etc

[jaunty wren]

hello games made it to boost player counts you get upgrades ships pets anything really depends on the exp

[proven citrus]

OK, thanks!

[grim fossil]

Why do you obtain quicksilver? To purchase cosmetics from the quicksilver synthesis companion, even if you obtained the quicksilver in multiple saves the fact the unlocks are account wide just gives you the exact same achievement as if you were to get the quicksilver all on one save

[jaunty wren]

this one gave a ton of engrams for your base

[placid dew]

I mean, quicksilvers are normally obtained sparingly through daily quicksilver mission or weekend mission, so having a way of obtaining quicksilver without daily limit would be great, right?

[grim fossil]

More ways would be nice but as is I see no problem considering the small intended mechanic I mentioned you could do earlier.

[solemn bane]

For most folks probably rewards. For me there are very few (no?) rewards I like/use. Maybe a cape I use? I'm not into overpowered items that everyone and their mother has, and I don't really build pretty bases.

I see the expeditions are an excuse to start over at zero(ish). I keep the default multitool and ship and I don't use any +slot items (though I do use the space station exosuit terminals and drop pods). I also force myself to complete as many milestones as possible without leaving the first planet, then the first system, then by going to as few planets as possible. I also try to fight sentinels whenever I see them (until it gets tedious).

Basically I want a challenge, and to experience more survival aspects of the game. I went as far as to write a tool that allows me to change the difficulty to the max and even set expeditions to permadeath (and to let me play the past ones offline). I just finished the first expedition doing this. Psyched to get to Cartographers and Leviathan (Leviathan wasn't actually permadeath, once you make it for real permadeath you can't die or your whole save gets wiped).

Oh but I do send the +slot items back to my main save, because there aren't many fun ways to grind those out (I started a new permadeath save for this). So that's pretty neat.

[jaunty wren]

i might do the exp again just to get more of the +slot items i dont need em but why not

[solemn bane]

Start a new save, then suddenly you need them 😆

Also you can only do the expedition once per save, I assume until they bring them back some day. I have a guess as to how to get around that with my expedition editor thing, but I haven't tested it yet.

[jaunty wren]

yeah but you could have someone port them for you thats what i was thinking i just was a butt ton and i dont like cheating things in

i have an absurd amount of exosuit inventory but its still letting me buy them so

[hazy sparrow]

To speed through the expedition, look for other players bases that have the materials you need. There are several runaway mould bases that you can farm for nanites, and a few that farm nip-nip which sells for really good units. Also, once you find a dissonant world, players have marked sentinel ships that you can scrap for very good money; two of those will get you enough cash to do the whole expedition.

As for quicksilver, if you ever want a living ship you need it to buy your first egg.

[wraith venture]

!ExpTime

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[grim fossil]

Make sure you get in and do it

[olive gull]

how do i find an airless planet?

and how to i find cactus flesh

[calm plover]

They are pretty 'rare'. Look for planets with one of the following labels:
Forsaken, Life-Incompatible, Lifeless, Low Atmosphere, Terraforming Catastrophe, Abandoned, Airless, Dead, Desolate, Empty

Cactus flesh can be found on desert planets but can also be crafted by combining Pyrite and Oxygen in a refiner.

[wintry void]

Airless planets have rusted metal on them

[magic lodge]

I’m on nafut gamma

[wintry void]

Cactus flesh on the planet will be a plant called Echinocactus

When looking through visor

[ruby pine]

pog

[magic lodge]

I’m done with the expedition

[grim fossil]

Yayyyy

[ruby pine]

does this mean i can't play with my friends who have yet to complete the expedition?

or can i still play with em on the normal save

[grim fossil]

Once the save converts back to normal and is no longer labeled an expedition save you can’t join players on the expedition unless you start a new save in the expedition.

[ruby pine]

nooooooo 😭

is there no way for me to play with my friend

[grim fossil]

There is not no way just not with that save once it converts

[nova sleet]

If you didn’t go to the anomaly and end it yet then yes u can still play w them

[ruby pine]

noooooo 😭

[grim fossil]

That would assume the player started the expedition with an existing save?

[ruby pine]

i already converted the saveee

[ruby pine]

i started it on a fresh save

😭

[nova sleet]

does it auto convert on a new save? My new save expedition was buggy so idk

[grim fossil]

Just like any other past expedition it works the same

[nova sleet]

I did both

Oh I didn’t know, I didn’t play before this one

[ruby pine]

how am i gonna play with my friend now 😢

[grim fossil]

Once you complete all necessary milestones the player is prompted the expedition is complete and the save is converted.

[grim fossil]

This photo also suggests the same

[grim fossil]

Make a new save or wait for them to conclude the expedition

[magic lodge]

Hmmmm

The expedition was pretty easy once you knew what to do

How does the quicksilver shop works?

It works on all saves if I buy something?

[grim fossil]

Quicksilver unlocks are account wide, apart from void eggs and fireworks

[magic lodge]

You sure?

Well thank you

[grim fossil]

Wouldn’t have said it if not

[magic lodge]

That’s true, and the atlas helmet is way cooler than the backpack actually

The staff is the best part tho

[ruby pine]

is it possible to clone my old save ( the save before it got converted )

[grim fossil]

Do you have a back up of that save stored anywhere?

[ruby pine]

nope

😭

[real rose]

then nope also if you did idk if HG would flag it.

[ruby pine]

😭

[grim fossil]

Then no matey are your friends far off from completing the expedition?

[ruby pine]

either phase 1 or phase 2 😭

[grim fossil]

Ah I mean in that case you could always start again

If they are in phase 1 then not much to catch up

[real rose]

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[real rose]

@ruby pine figure you can catch up well enough and them be in time to finish?

[ruby pine]

i really dont wanna start over since this is my first time playing and im really attached to this save 😔

[round panther]

didnt read all.. but you could start a new, just to play expedition with friends.
after everyone of your group is through, you can play together with your "main-save" again.. ?!?!? so you lose only those some hours from expedition

[real rose]

then don't? let your friends wrap up on their own and once expedition is over y'all have normal saves to play on togheter again

it's a marathon not a race but it seems you got over the finnish first regardless. could still await them at the end yk

[hazy sparrow]

Cannot transfer companion eggs?? Bummer. I read you can claim some of them on the QS vendor, but do you have to hatch them first to do so?

Can't transfer the Memories either. Sheesh, 50% of what I meant to transfer back you can't.

[keen steppe]

Yeah i couldnt figure out a way to get my companion eggs, my main thing i wanted

Ill get some from someone XD

[round panther]

i dont think you need to hatch the egg in expedition in order to claim the rewards at the QS on your main

memories give tech or? you could open the memories and then sell tech. before i finished expedition i sold every ship that i couldnt keep anyways and the exp save had more money and nanite than my main save
which then transported over. still a win imo

[keen steppe]

I think if you dont claim them on expedition it should transfer over, too little too late for me and mr iceman i think

[hazy sparrow]

As long as I can get the unique stuff from the QS vendor I'm fine. But the memories, those were crafted and those recipes wont be known on my main.

[round panther]

ah i get you. though its still a great improvement with this expedition. we can carry over some things AND the rest is transformed into units and nanite (i wont complain about that :D)

am known to overthink. i probably spent an extra 30-50 % time of the whole expedition time to just think about what to carry over and sell 🙂
seem in the end i managed to not get the super rare upgrade modul though hahah

[hazy sparrow]

Okay, looks like 4 of the 5 companion eggs are claimable at the QS vendor. The Memories are just....forgotten.

Bi Bi is the one egg you can't claim. I'm going to try to raise it to egg-laying age before i end the expansion, see if I can get an egg that way.

[solemn bane]

You should get an item in a previous quest that tells you where a ship is

Barring that I assume you could go to a system marked "Dissonance" and find the Dissonance planet, kill some mirrors til they drop a camp locator, then use the camp to find a spike to repair

[hazy sparrow]

Or just go to one of the gazillion communications markers on dissonant planets where people have noted crashed sentinel ships

[cold tulip]

You get a carrier AI fragment form a milestone

[mortal shoal]

is there some branching choice milestone in the exp like the Crimson and Atlantean helmet?

[trail kraken]

no

[hazy sparrow]

Finally finished the expedition, and boy did I squeeze every drop of blood out of that stone. 378m units, 10.8k quicksilver, and 63k nanites.

However, unfortunately, my Discoveries list remains corrupted, containing only the expedition systems I visited. All previous systems are lost. 😦

[bold umbra]

Ime the discoveries are hit and miss overall

[hazy sparrow]

Does anyone know if there is a way to edit a file and restore them? I have saves from before the expedition, as I frequently back up my NMS save directory

[bold umbra]

There are save editors pinned in #nms-modding
Best to ask your question in there

[remote thunder]

yo @bold umbra 🫂 :)) nice to see you 🙂

[bold umbra]

@remote thunder aloha and likewise!
Im just getting started on the expedition myself haha...

[remote thunder]

i had fun 🙂 enjoy 🥳

[outer light]

How do you bring your multitool and ship into the omega expedition?

I see the page where you add technology and cargo but then it just says start the expedition

[tough forum]

You don’t

You just bring stuff back

[hazy sparrow]

Once in the expedition, you will have the option to clone the multitool and ship you had equipped when you started it. You won't be able to do this until you get to the anomaly and have about 3.5k nanites. Fortunately this happens fairly quickly.

[tough forum]

Oh I didn’t know that

Not like it mattered for me anyway

[hazy sparrow]

When you end the expansion, you get to reverse the process. So if you find a cool sentinel ship while in Omega, you can clone it back. Note that I did not see any good sentinel ships on any dissonant worlds I found.

You will NOT be able to duplicate the tool or ship you brought over at the start.

[remote thunder]

"good" is subjective since looks ;), but right on

[remote thunder]

can only be used if starting from existing save, ofc

[muted lotus]

Im trying to be like this guy next expedition

[hazy sparrow]

Yeah, I was able to copy a lot of stuff over, but I think switching multiple times is what borked my Discoveries list. I'm trying to get the save editor to run now, but windows is being a jerk and won't let me click on the "More Info" link.

Dang all that, and the editor says it can't run on my pc...sheesh

[remote thunder]

needs java runtime

see reqs on the github page

if you're using nmsse aka goatfungus

[hazy sparrow]

Oh F that, I do not pollute my systems with JRE

Especially not my gaming rig, which I keep lean.

[slim cradle]

I need some help. I'm stuck on the Atlas Rises mission. Can't collect the warp cells, can't interact with the atlas. Nothing. Restarting made the balls visible but I still can't collect them

[remote thunder]

disable multiplayer in network options, save+reload from main menu, try again

[slim cradle]

Didn't work

I guess I'll reverify the files and try again tomorrow

[remote thunder]

okay; for tomorrow then: reselect the atlas station milestone, then open the galaxy map, then be sure to warp to the system it wants you to; try to warp out, restart the game, then warp back into the atlas station system; let us know if that didn't work still, perhaps going to a diff atlas station system will work.

[slim cradle]

👍

[wanton raft]

I typeed that ! exptime command in #bot-spam . Is the time it gave me adjusted for my timezone?

[solemn bane]

Probably, here's what it says for me: "Event ends March 18, 2024 4:00 AM (in 5 days)"

[wraith venture]

Yes. Discord shows you YOUR time (based on your system/device's clock settings).

[distant spoke]

Yep 4 billion standing with alien factions

That's correct, game

Looks like it freaked out when I was in the negative and looped to the max 32 bit integer

[ashen shore]

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[neat mica]

Isnt this the atlas staff exp

[grim fossil]

The atlas staff is a reward for the current expedition yes, phase 3

[neat mica]

Was just making sure I didn't miss out on it, forgot all about the expedition so I couldn't recall doing it

[lament linden]

I cant seem to finish the expedition quest where I need to find an airless planet, can anyone help me with that

[wanton raft]

LOL, does standing with alien factions get applied back to the main save? Probably not.

[distant spoke]

It somehow made my main save have the max possible amount of money

4.2 billion

[wanton raft]

Nice bug! How close were you before?

[distant spoke]

Not even close

And I did not do it on purpose

I thought standing wouldn't matter since it's kind of a temporary save file so I attacked every freighter that came my way

[wanton raft]

I bet just -1 would do it to the absolute max.

So were you a pirate and had bad rep?

Wait. I see. The result was that it did end up a total of -1.

So it looks like doesn't actually carry over the nanites you have in the expedition save, just nanites for discoveries and deliveries?

I would test this but I've made way too much money in the expedition to get it wiped out be negative rep. No wait. It doesn't count that money over looks like?

[candid token]

Has anyone made a list of the best items to start this expedition with?

[wanton raft]

Yeah, hold on...

Take 200 cactus flesh, 200 fungal mould, 99 pugneum, 67 or something mordite and a bunch of runaway mould if you want though you can get that there too.

More important than all that though is taking S class upgrades for your suit I think.

Don't worry about upgrades for your ship and MT because once you get to the nexus in the expedition you can copy over one ship and one MT from you main save.

[candid token]

And that's it? I shouldn't bring an echo locator or a carrier ai fragment? Or salvaged data or anything?

[blazing fossil]

There is one in starter system

[candid token]

Don't we also need some Emeril on the expedition,

[wanton raft]

Salvaged data might be a good idea to save some time. I think I did that the second time come to think of it.

All of those only save you minutes especially considering you can go to player bases.

[lament linden]

Thanks

[wanton raft]

As for salvaged data, I think the milestones make you dig for them even if you have a bunch, but I could be wrong on that.

[candid token]

I'm getting ready to do the expedition on my main save from PC. I already beat the expedition 3 times, but I just wanted another opinion on what to bring.
I wanna make it as quick and easy on myself as possible so I have time to grind out money and milestones

[wanton raft]

I've done it one PC and PS4, so twice, but I haven't ended either of them yet. Waiting till the end of the week to do that.

[candid token]

Yeah same. I did it on switch with a new file then with my main. And again on PC with a new file. But I just got the game on PC like 10 days ago lol

[little pivot]

HOW LONG TILL IT ENDS

[wraith junco]

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[little pivot]

how do i end the expeditiotn

[grim fossil]

Idk probably a billion years until earth is consumed

[little pivot]

I wanna end the expedetion and get all my stuff on my main save

[grim fossil]

Complete all phases (no need to do optional milestones) then you will get a message stating you completed the expedition.

If made with an existing save use the same expedition terminal you used to start it

[little pivot]

but i don't want to finish it

it's to hard for mee

[grim fossil]

If you don’t feel like completing it just wait for the end of the expedition date and the save will convert

[little pivot]

but I don't WANNA WAit 😠

[grim fossil]

Then not sure how to help impatience

The expedition itself is rather easy and simple, you should be able to finish it before it ends in a few days

[wraith junco]

Can you switch to normal save in options?

[grim fossil]

Anything in particular you are stuck on that we can help with?

[grim fossil]

Ya I think they want the items tho

Which they can’t transfer until expedition complete

[wraith junco]

Yeah but all claimed phase rewards should be unlocked in qs shop

[wraith junco]

In that case he has only 2 options like you said

[grim fossil]

Ya ya

@little pivot happy to help you with any questions or if you are stuck on a milestone matey.

[little pivot]

idk how to complete wphase 4

i wanna give up

[jaunty wren]

shh

i said nothing

[wraith junco]

On What specific task you are stuck ?

[grim fossil]

We need to know specifics to be able to help you matey. What milestone is giving you grief?

[little pivot]

finding underwater crash freightr

i'm very confused with it

[jaunty wren]

tou get a bunch of underwater rewards from previous quests take them to a water planet then make a submarine with a signal booster i think and scan for a sunken freigter

[grim fossil]

Ok. You can do this a few ways.

Simple way is look for a base on the phases RV planet that suggests it has a sunken freighter.

Alternatively you get a nautilon and install a high powered scanner to locate a sunken freighter

[little pivot]

ok

[grim fossil]

Crystal sulphide for the scanner is found underwater

Other components are self explanatory

[wraith junco]

If you place nautilion bay to spawn it. Then you delete the bay you will have enough materials to install scanner for the submarine

[near remnant]

When do the next expeditions typically get announced?
I can see the time between past expeditions of course, I was just curious if there’s a typical announcement pattern or if we simply find out when a new one comes out

[wraith junco]

No one knows. We spaculate od exp date based on data from previous expeditions.

[near remnant]

That makes sense, thank you! (:

[trim dome]

Got a late start but heading for marker 2 and I have already jumped like 20 times. did I mess up or is it really this far ?

[wraith junco]

You probably jumped into black hole

[trim dome]

Yeah forgot about that, so prolly best to take a portal back to marker 1 and go from there

[wraith junco]

Use teleporter to go back to previous system/your base/other player base with " RDV 2" or rendezvous 2 in name

[trim dome]

is there a way of telling how far away you are from a rendezvous ? I tried following the line in the galaxy map but it fades after 3 or 4 jumps.

I jumped well over 20 times post black hole and then came back and have jumped at least 10 times and does not seem any closer

[solemn bane]

Go to a space station and portal back to one of the "Rendezvous" space stations

[trim dome]

Tried that, none said rendezvous

[dapper jetty]

My gane broke like this the first time I played (mian save) I couldn’t get to the center no matter what i had to look up gliphis to get there

[dapper jetty]

Make sure you put a base if you do it so you can come back

[solemn bane]

Where is your base?

[remote thunder]

@trim dome ^ either teleport back to base in starter system or if you have multiplayer access, goto anomaly teleporter with mp enabled, find and teleport to a base that mentions the rdv number you were last in in the base name for example

[dapper jetty]

someone wana help me with the expedition (im on phase 2)

[hazy sparrow]

Go to Rdv 3. Look at the base list, you will find one named "Sunken Freighter". That base already has a nautilon and a sunken freighter right outside.

I did every crashed freighter I found in the expedition and was able to transfer back 15 freighter and bulkhead modules. Well worth it. Hoarding them until the expedition is over and I go S class pirate dreadnaught hunting.

I also cloned the Runner's equipment six times and now have stealth exhausts on my favorite ships. It looks cool on my green squid ship.

[tough forum]

Wish I knew how to do all that so I could’ve gotten a bajillion of it’s pulse engine upgrades

[gilded oriole]

I think screwed up somewhere along the way. I need 99 cadmium which apparently I should have gotten for deconstructing a pulse engine upgrade but I dont have one and I dont know where else to get it.

[solemn bane]

You can make a Cadmium drive by researching at the Anomaly (it just takes chromatic metal, no cadmium), which lets you get to a red star, which has cadmium deposits

[blazing fossil]

Can always buy one at a space station

[gilded oriole]

Buy what at the space station?

It was the positron upgrade I was apparently supposed to uinstall to get cadmium from but I still dont have it

[blazing fossil]

Pulse upgrades

Pulse works too

[gilded oriole]

Do you mean the base pulse engine? Im really just learning this game so just figuring out my way around.

[dapper jetty]

can i finish the expdtion before it ends?

[gilded oriole]

Unless you are me and keep stumbling over knowlege blocks 🙂 SO close but when I run into a wall it feels like a huge mountain.

[dapper jetty]

It wont be hard to finish tho theres like 4 days left?

[blazing fossil]

No
Pulse engine upgrades

[blazing fossil]

Depends on how much you can play

It takes a few hours depending on how experienced you are

[gilded oriole]

I am looking at the wrong thing then - where do I find those at? The Starship upgrades terminal just shows verious drives

[dapper jetty]

ok so i can probably do it

[blazing fossil]

Not anomaly

Go to any space station

When looking out through the exit go to the right

There’s a guy selling ship modules there

@wraith junco do you have the picture of space station layout?

Damn

[wraith junco]

Ship module guy is beside mt vendor guy

[wraith junco]

There is guide in pined messages

[dapper jetty]

i know how to do stuff i just didn’t think its possible to do i a week

ive been playing for almost a year

[wraith junco]

I did it lazy in 8h

[tough forum]

I got the game like 3 weeks ago and was able to finish it in a couple days

[gilded oriole]

Can you only buy one? I bought one, installed it, and then thought I disassembled it but I didnt get any cadmium from it and when I went back to the vendor I couldn't buy it again

[wraith junco]

When you reload auto save ut will restock

[gilded oriole]

For whatever reason I dont think it is working. I install, then disassemble but I get nothing from it

[wraith junco]

Not all tech gives cadmium

[gilded oriole]

it told me it would give me cadmium, unless it is just a possibiliity

[wraith junco]

What did u install?

[gilded oriole]

Pulse engine upgrade. the disassemble said 75 cadmium along with some other stuff

I just learned now to go to a red star to get it - spending a lot of time trying to figure a workaround for something that probably can just be done. sigh 🙂

[wraith junco]

I did it on my end and it worked. Are you sure game didint moved it to exo/freighter tabs?

Infraknife module also gives cadmium

[gilded oriole]

I dont have a freighter and it definitely wasn't in exosuit. I'm sure I am doing something wrong but I have cadmium solved so , at least for now, crisis abated 🙂

[solemn bane]

lol, I mentioned this an hour ago

[gilded oriole]

You did and I noted it. Actually had installed the drive but I hadn't discovered free navigation mode (or how to identify a red star. At first I thought they were all far away, then I found the close one). The technology disassemble option seemed easy but... apparently not for me, lol

[solemn bane]

Yeah I never rely on that

Relying on RNG in this game is a nightmare. That's also the reason I'm done trying to find the best whatever in the game.

[gilded oriole]

I face the same problem every one does on pop test day when they hadn't studied or done their homework 🙂 Trying to learn this game with a last minute deadline hanging over my head so all routes lead to frustration 🙂

[remote thunder]

ship weapon modules pretty much always drop cadmium for me, but i may have already installed a few modules, bumping that seed

[solemn bane]

Give me a pea shooter and a jalopy and I'm happy. That's why I like expeditions

[remote thunder]

it's literally my blind goto for cadmium/rushing through mind ark

has been for years now tbh

always get two c-class - normally positron, infra are the ones

[gilded oriole]

Down to nine objectives. End is in sight, trips on speedbump and cracks jaw

[remote thunder]

good job

[solemn bane]

Did the black hole trick get you? That one's my favorite

I could almost hear the developers giggling when they put that back in. It got me in a previous expedition

[gilded oriole]

It hasnt gotten me yet. That is the only step left from phase 2 for me.

[remote thunder]

you did good

at the very least, leave it to after youv'e completed all milestones from all phases, that require specific locations near expedition route

[solemn bane]

ok, so when you take it, just remember to go to the space station and portal back to a rendezvous system if you need to go to any more rendezvous points, otherwise you'll be very far away from the next one you need

[gilded oriole]

I'm going to guess that this guide I am trying to follow leaves that to the end (or very close to it)

[remote thunder]

that said - if you just visit the station of the bh system before going through it, you always have a way back

[solemn bane]

Ah, yes a guide will save you

[gilded oriole]

I learned that lesson after wasting antimatter on my first few warps. HEY, if there is a station in system I should go unlock that first!

[solemn bane]

I have anxiety attacks when I hit a system with no space station, lol.

[gilded oriole]

This whole excursion is an anxiety attack for me because I keep fearing running into a fatal oversight I can't recover from. THis is what I get for flying blind 🙂

[solemn bane]

Luckily this expedition doesn't have any of those.

[remote thunder]

like cwmonkey mentioned, always visit stations of rdv systems, at least before you warp out

[gilded oriole]

It did for me, until I got wise and found this group. You are all amazingly supportive.

[remote thunder]

that's nms community

this server just strives to embody that

[gilded oriole]

Well I aspire to get to helpful level knowledge but I have work to do, lol

[remote thunder]

you'll be a pro at it soon enough

[solemn bane]

Oh, yeah, I definitely had to figure some things out via community support on previous expeditions. For example, Polo has a bug where he won't tell you where Atlas stations are UNLESS you also ask him where black holes are, and there are two previous expeditions which require you to talk to him to get Atlas coordinates, or just get lucky and find a station on your own. That had me raging.

[gilded oriole]

Once I finish this I will start a new game and actually progress more 'naturally' I think.

[solemn bane]

I like how you can do both now (start a new game, then do an expedition with the same save, but it doesn't affect your main save progress unless you pass items back and forth).

I'm passing the +slot items back to my main save, as well as any "weird" stuff you can't get in the main game

[gilded oriole]

Unfortunately I was all gungho to do the expedition so I started a new game to do that specifically.

[solemn bane]

Mostly because farming +slot items in the main game is so boring

[remote thunder]

perfectly fine, it's not like there's anything mandatory

[solemn bane]

You can always do it again on your new save, now that you know everything 😉

[gilded oriole]

my 'main' save is only a couple hours old so I really didn't have an option to do it the other way

[gilded oriole]

I think you may be trying to kill me 😛

[remote thunder]

a "main save" can be used to start exp run as long as it has access to the anomaly

[gilded oriole]

I didnt know that at the time and my 'main' didnt have anomaly access yet. I dont think I had even been off the starter planet yet

[remote thunder]

yep, i remember

[solemn bane]

You do! All you need to do is go to one planet, then get the ship which is one of the first quests. After that you get to board the Anomaly

[gilded oriole]

hides I have become 'that' guy

[remote thunder]

like i also said at the time

this isnt' a race, everyone progresses at their own pace

[gilded oriole]

well it is only a race because of my desire to actually finish the expedition. With the objectives I have left I know I have plenty of time but I HATE leaving things to the last minute

[solemn bane]

I've been testing stuff with expeditions so I found the fastest way was to

Turn tutorial off -> Make it to your ship -> fly to another planet and land -> exit, get back on your ship and pulse engine out into space -> wait for the message -> find the crashed ship -> claim it and scrap the shield (so you have the mats to fix the beacon) -> talk to the beacon -> launch and Nada will contact you to give you access to the Anomaly

[remote thunder]

creative save works well enough as a base, initially stage is basically disabled

[gilded oriole]

Ironically, years ago the contractor I worked with at my first client site had the last name of Nada. Nada DID contact me