nms-expedition

[grim fossil]

So yes it will work, and yes I have pondered the idea but it’s not something I care to do because it’s just not favourable.

[solemn bane]

For once, I don’t fault them for this. I believe the point is to show you that there are many ways to get something. Because I tend to not leave the planet until I’ve done all the milestones I can, I tend to have the 5 microprocessors from just looting cargo drops.

[velvet mantle]

How do you get more photonix cores?

[sullen meteor]

tips for finding dissonance resonator?

[grim fossil]

I get two from the expedition that I can bring over without claiming a runner in my main save, I just exocraft dupe them until I have 12

[grim fossil]

Land on a dissonant planet and scan for them.

[velvet mantle]

Is the exp done?

[grim fossil]

Nope still some time left

!exptime

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[velvet mantle]

Any way you can dupe me a few?

Harsh ask

[grim fossil]

Packaged tech can’t be traded

[velvet mantle]

I forgot

Thank you tho

[grim fossil]

I would happily be giving them away in the anomaly like sweet cakes but sadly can’t.

[velvet mantle]

How you do exocraft dupe?

[grim fossil]

1. Have your ship and an exocraft geobay in the same location, preferably a base.
2. Place the photonix core in the exocraft.
3. Make a restore point by entering and exiting your starship.
4. Take out the photonix core back into your exosuit inventory.
5. Enter your ship and fly into space, Do not pulse just use the standard boost function.
6. Summon the anomaly when able and enter.
7. While entering the anomaly attempt to give a player any item, it must be given from your exosuit inventory.
   7.5 you need to give the item before landing. If you fail to give an item Reload restore point and repeat last steps.
8. Once handed an item to a player, reload your autosave.
9. If done correctly you will be back next to your ship and exocraft with a photonix core in your suit inventory and exocraft inventory.

[velvet mantle]

Thank you !

[sullen meteor]

how many mats do I need? I lost track of where the interceptor wreck was lol

[grim fossil]

Three radiant shards, one inverted mirror and a harmonic brain

[sullen meteor]

I have 3 shards 1 mirror and a hyaline brain, but it's not pointing me towards the thingy

[tough forum]

Did you probe the subconscious of the brain

[sullen meteor]

yes, it's not doing anything

[tough forum]

Huh

[sullen meteor]

just closes my inventory

[grim fossil]

Do you still have the quest to salvage an interceptor?

And no I’m not asking about the expedition milestone

[sullen meteor]

sentinel interceptor trace?

[grim fossil]

Correct

[sullen meteor]

yes

[grim fossil]

Try repairing the ship with both other components

[sullen meteor]

I can't find the ship anymore lol

[grim fossil]

Then use the hyaline brain

[grim fossil]

The mission will have a marker for you

Select it

[tough forum]

You have the mission selected right, sometimes it will change my active mission

[sullen meteor]

oh ok I got it

[grim fossil]

Ya expeditions and quite frankly the entire game has a habit of changing your current mission to something different, creating so much confusion

[sullen meteor]

I ended up landing somewhere and getting my ship stuck in a tree, had to reload save and then I got all turned around lol

[tough forum]

It’s more of a pet peeve now but it was quite detrimental to me when I was brand new

[grim fossil]

That’s sadly the problem, and why new players get so confused with what to do, shit just changes

[sullen meteor]

it's not letting me, the pilot interface is one 'thing' and needs all 3 components, including the harmonic brain

[solemn bane]

This game makes some of the worst UI/UX decisions I have ever seen in my entire life, and I am not exaggerating even a little.

[tough forum]

Have you taken the hyaline brain to a ancient monument

Probing the subconscious leads you to one

[sullen meteor]

no, because the thing isn't showing me where the ancient monument is

[grim fossil]

Supply the other two components, then use the hay line brain to locate

As stated

[sullen meteor]

it won't let me
as stated

[grim fossil]

You can partially repair it

[sullen meteor]

no I can't

[solemn bane]

You need to have 3 radiant shards and a mirror in your inventory to use the brain and see the monument

[sullen meteor]

I do have those things, it still doesn't work

[tough forum]

Wonder if the reload glitched the quest out and the game doesn’t recognize that brain as belonging to that ship anymore

[sullen meteor]

it wasn't working before I reloaded the save either

[solemn bane]

And you have the quest that tells you to find all the materials selected?

[sullen meteor]

yes, it says make the ship fit for a non-sentinel pilot

[solemn bane]

Crazy, that's where you should be able to go into your inventory and use the brain

[sullen meteor]

it seems to be working now, I might have just missed the marker...

[tough forum]

Maybe go get another set of inverted mirror and radiant shards, putting a nav beacon down next to the ship just in case

Oh nvm

[solemn bane]

Ah. Well it doesn't help that the marker for the monument and the marker for the ship are the same, lol.

[tough forum]

Yeah

[sullen meteor]

bleh... one more thing to go.

[grim fossil]

lol still got so much time

[sullen meteor]

!exptime

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[sullen meteor]

less than 24h

[tough forum]

The interceptor was the most finicky quest, was able to knock out the final milestones in only a few hours

And I had no idea what I was doing either

[grim fossil]

Plenty of time to get 2 more done 😂

[grim fossil]

I’m just mad they changed the bloody thing.

[mental basin]

Take that free demo lol. I have the physical@card coming in the mail today. Th is was a good expedition.

[tough forum]

Huh?

Change what

[sullen meteor]

it doesn't help that I was doing this on extreme inferno world either

[tough forum]

That’s life

[solemn bane]

And also death if you mess up

[sullen meteor]

death wasn't the problem, being able to see was lol

[solemn bane]

One can lead to the other

[mental basin]

After I get the full game, my save should convert to a normal save yeah? That way I can enjoy my expedition items and all that juicy quick silver

[solemn bane]

Yeah I'm curious too. I don't remember this quest changing

[solemn bane]

Yep

[grim fossil]

It didn’t used to be that you required those items in your inventory, as I do remember not having them and still being able to use the brain to locate a monolith

[sullen meteor]

same

[mental basin]

Sweet. Despite no MP (boooo). It’s SO fun on switch. Even fuzzy no man’s sky still looks exactly like no man’s sky. Definitely my preferred way to play.

[grim fossil]

Fuzzy NMS 😂

[solemn bane]

Ah, honestly I can't remember one way or another.

Wait I don't get it, what is fuzzy no man's sky

[grim fossil]

Doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things, just annoying when small things change and it isn’t mentioned, same occurred with freighter battles.

[grim fossil]

Pffft you don’t know? Mouldy NMS obviously

[solemn bane]

Now is that runaway mould or fungal mould

[tough forum]

Whichever one blocks vision best

[sullen meteor]

... it won't let me transfer the companion eggs D:

[solemn bane]

Correct, but you can claim them from the quicksilver vendor on your main save

[mental basin]

Retrieve them from quicksilver vendor

[tough forum]

If companions had miniature versions of my starship I would be way more interested in having them

[mental basin]

XD I just meant the game is fuzzy docked on switch because it’s 720p. I only have a 4K tv soooooo. It looks fine handheld.

I’ll change the res to 720 instrad@of@1080 though so it scales better

[grim fossil]

Just keep in mind the pet from phase 1 optional milestone (the blob) can’t be claimed from the QS vendor.

[solemn bane]

Ah, nms on Switch. Still a foregin concept to me

[grim fossil]

The better version of squadrons

[mental basin]

wtf. That’s so@weird

[mental basin]

I’m too poor for a PC soooooo. (And when TF is it coming to M1/2 iPads like they originally said it would?)

[grim fossil]

Not really when you know why, but I get why it can be seen as weird, the other milestone pets are just older expedition pets, once claimed no matter the expedition they just get a check in the box on your account so they can be claimed, the blob hasn’t got one.

[sullen meteor]

omg, that second interaction with the atlas... lmao
"oh, you wanted a conclusion? too bad!"

[solemn bane]

You realize this is still weird, right?

[grim fossil]

Hardly, why make a new quicksilver reward for something easily obtainable and not at all unique.

[solemn bane]

Like it's hard to point to decisions HG makes and say "yeah, that's totally not weird" lol

[grim fossil]

And if we are talking weird as in out of the ordinary, it’s not that either, because this is hardly a one time occurrence.

[solemn bane]

Right, so why do it

[solemn bane]

Though if it happened in previous expeditions, you wouldn't have the "why can't I transfer this egg" issue since that wasn't a thing back then, so the choice to do it now is... weird

[grim fossil]

Why make any of the milestone rewards what they are? If they are not for assisting in other milestones or just giving the player something to play with.

[solemn bane]

You can do that while not making weird decisions is all I'm saying.

[grim fossil]

The discussion is why the player can’t claim it from the QS shop not why can’t you transfer it via the expedition terminal because that has another reason that they probably did it.

My point was that there have been plenty of pets, ship me ect from past expeditions that have been optional rewards that haven’t made it to the QS shop, so it’s not like the blob is any way special where it should be expected to be placed there

[solemn bane]

I do wonder if not being able to transfer eggs was a technical limitation or a conscious decision though. Because that also seems weird.

[grim fossil]

You can only hold 18 eggs per save, technical limitations should be obvious.

[solemn bane]

That doesn't answer my question. What I meant was I wonder if it is technically (ie in code) difficult for them to transfer an egg from one save to another, or if they decided they just didn't want it happening.

And I would call an 18 egg limit more of an arbitrary limitation, not a technical one. I would also probably call it weird, lol.

[grim fossil]

Probably just because there is a limit to eggs, being 18, storing them in that terminal is still storing, so they likely made the decision because of that

[solemn bane]

My point was that there have been plenty of pets, ship me ect from past expeditions

Right, and my earlier point was that the expedition terminal didn't exist, so transfering wasn't an issue, but it is now

[grim fossil]

Matter of opinion as i have no idea why they made the decision to limit it

[grim fossil]

You are confusing the expedition terminal with the QS synthesis companion

[solemn bane]

I mean it's not the biggest oversight HG has made, but it's an oversight nonetheless

[solemn bane]

I'm not. What I am saying is in the past any reward you got on a save, you kept. Now, that isn't necessarily the case.

[grim fossil]

No it isn’t, you only got the phase and final reward

All the rest remains in that save

[solemn bane]

You're almost there

remains in that save

This is what I was saying. NOW that is no longer necessarily true, in the case that you started the expedition on an existing save

So basically they added a new mechanic and seemingly forgot how it worked, which has lead to some frustration regarding eggs. Again, not the biggest oversight from HG, but worth acknowledging and fixing given how much it comes up.

[grim fossil]

I get what ya mean now, yeh I can see the issue with that if the player was hell bent on getting the blob

But again it’s likely a decision based on their limit on how many eggs a save can store

[solemn bane]

lol, like I said, not the biggest issue

[grim fossil]

So not really forgot lol

[solemn bane]

I would love to hear their rationale for this. When it comes down to it, it's just another entry in an array. Having hard limit at 18 seems super weird

[solemn bane]

Eh I dunno, they seem to forget how their game works a lot, given some of the weirder decisions they make.

[grim fossil]

There is a limit to all that we have, 6 tools, 12 ships, 16k base parts, not hard to see a limit on them, but yeh would be nice to have a higher limit at least, wouldn’t have to make so many damn saves

[turbid steeple]

im curretly at an underwater crashed freighter for the exebition but i cant interract with the log

[solemn bane]

And I'm not saying a developer can even keep all their mechanics in their head at the same time when doing something like trying to come up with rewards, but it's funny with the egg thing since they were so closely adjacent and they still managed to miss the mark

[grim fossil]

I get ya, would make sense to have a pet limit but why limit eggs? Anyway we live with it.

As for other things that are “weird” matter of opinion, not everyone will agree on gameplay changes, me personally I hated waypoint and think it was done to appease a certain audience I care not to entertain, but anyway.

[solemn bane]

I should crack open a save editor and see how much data is associated with an egg. Now that I remember the sequencing I bet an egg takes an exorbitant amount of space. Spaceships can have a lot of data with all the slots etc. But it's still all nothing compared to how big the discovery array can get

[grim fossil]

Not stored on your end so I do understand why there is a limit to things.

And go right ahead have fun with save editing it’s very fun

[meager scroll]

You dont need a save editor per se

[solemn bane]

It is entirely stored on your end. Your copy of the save file is the source of truth. Steam backups etc are there just in case

[solemn bane]

Well sure, I wrote a script yesterday that converts the .hg saves to json, but you know what I meant

[turbid steeple]

im curretly at an underwater crashed freighter for the exebition but i cant interract with the log, is there any way to fix this or do i have to find another, i really dont tho,i followed cordinets for this one

[grim fossil]

Thinking of something else entirely haha I need to sleep lol

[solemn bane]

That's really weird, never seen that happen. Finding one on another planet or something may be a good bet.

[turbid steeple]

ugh, thx tho

[grim fossil]

Tried restarting? Disable multiplayer?

[turbid steeple]

got multiplayer disabled and i tried restarting it

[meager scroll]

You sure you interacted with that thing?

should a bit of it pop out once interacted?

[turbid steeple]

nothing pops up when im next to it, it dont let me interact with it

[turbid steeple]

i am able to see other bases and such tho

[solemn bane]

If it happens on another planet with another wreck, there may be a deeper problem

Otherwise, run away and pretend this never happened, lol

[meager scroll]

Hmmm watching a playthrough, seems like that pod does not go off like crashed starship beacons do

[grim fossil]

Nah not the question intended, head to a new site and see if you can interact with that one as no point sitting around this one

[turbid steeple]

im following a guide and this kinda screws this all up

[grim fossil]

You just re apply the guide, no? Use the Sub and locate a new crash site, or was this a base find?

[turbid steeple]

i didnt use a sub, i followed coordinates

[grim fossil]

Ah ok, i mean you could try just looking for a new base computer a player has placed that suggests a sunken freighter or.

Deploy the nautilon as you would have been given the geobay in a prior milestone, install the high powered sonar, distort the geobay for components to assist in installing the sonar, enter the sub and enter quick menu and scan for sunken freighter

[solemn bane]

I wonder if someone intentionally bugged that freighter somehow to troll people using that guide

[turbid steeple]

there was a base right next to it

[solemn bane]

Use the quick menu to report the base, see if that fixes it, if you are still there

[turbid steeple]

like on the closed piece of land next to it

[grim fossil]

No method to do such from my knowledge, this could just be one of those bugs, I had a look and a few reddit reports of this issue but dated posts.

[turbid steeple]

na im sadly gone already

[solemn bane]

It didn't have much of a chance of working anyway. Super weird issue

But I will not underestimate trolls or their ingenuity. That's how they get you.

[grim fossil]

Oh yeh totally but sadly not applicable in this situation, probably a few walls around the log but that’s the extent, not a complete bug out of a terminal.

Anyway @turbid steeple Make sure to let us know if another site works for ya.

[solemn bane]

lol, that's what they want you to think!

[grim fossil]

We can think they can do more how about that.

[turbid steeple]

found a new sunken freighter and this time it worked

[solemn bane]

Cut and run wins again

[ocean gorge]

I’d already started the expedition as a new save, is that an issue? It doesn’t have to be on an existing save does it?

Probably couldn’t start it at this point from an existing save anyway with so little time left😂

[tight orbit]

what is the official ent time?

[cold tulip]

!exptime

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[solemn bane]

tree thirty

[tight orbit]

Will another expedition start after this one, or are there months between?

[solemn bane]

In the past it has been weeks or months, we never know.

[tight orbit]

Ty for the info, Traveler

[hazy sparrow]

Bummer, so I have to wait until tomorrow to see if the official end fixes my discovered systems list issue. From reading other threads, starting from Eisentam may have been part of the problem, but I can't be the only person who started from a different galaxy.

[leaden belfry]

is there any other way to find the wreckage freighter underwater other than building the nautilon?

[solemn bane]

Actually you don't. You can go offline and change the end date in SEASON_DATA_CACHE.JSON - But if they have a patch or something between now and then who knows

[hazy sparrow]

Yeah, what I'm waiting for really is a change on their end when the expedition ends. I'm hoping it goes through some expedition-ending data conversion that fixes my issue.

[remote thunder]

you get nautilon chamber prebuilt from a prev milestone

then delete it, and with 1 solar mirror, you'll have the mats to craft high powered sonar

install it, hop in nauti, quick menu, scan for sunken crashed freighter

[hazy sparrow]

Or just find an existing base near one. There's one at Rdv 3 named "Sunken Freighter" that you can warp right to, and it already has a nautilon. I never used my nautilon, nor did I ever find one where someone had installed the sonar.

The expedition kindly lets you use other people's exocraft.

Note that, this late in the expedition, some people may have deleted their bases.

[leaden belfry]

Good to know, thanks to both of you!

[hazy sparrow]

Yeah there are a lot of runaway mould bases that I am going to go back to and claim if their owners have left that spot.

[remote thunder]

hmm, iirc converting to normal removes uploaded bases from expedition "universe" see <#nms-expedition message>

maybe i'm misremembering though, there's some edge cases since waypoint

[hazy sparrow]

Dunno about uploaded, but you keep your bases. You are supposed to forget stations and systems, but with my glitch I know all my bases, both sets of stations now, but only the expedition systems.

[remote thunder]

yeah, i know, but i was just thinking about upload state

[hazy sparrow]

I did not know there was a way to change uploaded data. There are some systems I wish I could rename, since I was a doofus when I started.

Is there a way to name the station different from the system? Normally I name the system upon warping in, then land on the station and it picks up my system name.

[remote thunder]

nope

and i didn't meant to imply that there is a way for us to do that - to clarify, i meant that iirc, when the game converts exp save->normal, it also does some magic behind the scenes to delist/delete bases from or informs/asks the server to do that

[solemn bane]

Wait, you keep all your bases but it tells the server to delist them?

[remote thunder]

i think so, at least from expedition mode saves see <#nms-expedition message>

[solemn bane]

I've been saying "weird" a lot today.

[remote thunder]

just remember like i said at the beginning i could be misremembering, there's a few edge cases with uploaded base visibility cross game mode saves

okay, so i double checked. my apologies. so, the latest info we know of:

permadeath saves only see permadeath and survival bases;
everyone else sees everything, including expedition bases.

[solemn bane]

Wouldn't surprise me really. Luckily it's a simple matter of going back to your bases and re-uploading them

Ah, I can see how they would have to do some weird backend compensation for a permadeath main making bases on an expedition

[remote thunder]

ahuh

lol

was just going through some screenshots

was finishing up another run last night

left sentinel ship and 25 sent kills for last basically

"carrier ai frag, show me a ship"

[solemn bane]

Nice, good scrap.

[remote thunder]

probably not

find inv mirror - sure, i see a resonator, just a sec

[valid linden]

Gorgeous, do you have glyphs for that planet?

[remote thunder]

sorry, i forget sometimes. might look a little different to you, but the glyphs have been posted above <#nms-expedition message>

[worthy beacon]

Damn thought I had another week. Not much time left now.

If I am on the part of trying to reach the secondary redevous point. Do you all think I still have time to finish?

I don't even think I can reach the 2nd point before time is up at this rate been warping for like 20 mins straight ><

[wraith junco]

Whole expedition route is in 1000 LY range. You probably entered black hole

Use space station teleporter and go back to your base

[light sorrel]

Looking for a Walker Brain is anyone has one 🙂

[wraith junco]

Walker sentinels have it.

And autophage units (talling heads) can drop it on dissonant planets

[solemn bane]

Any particular reason? You shouldn't need one for this expedition.

[light sorrel]

Conflict Scanner to find a outlaw syste.

[wraith junco]

Using Ticket to freedom marks outlaw system

[solemn bane]

Yeah just select the ticket to freedom quest in your log and you'll get one marked

After using the item

[light sorrel]

Ohhhh, good to know

[worthy beacon]

Ah ok thanks

[edgy hamlet]

Awesome. I have completed!

Massive thank you @grim fossil for getting me out the rabbit hole I was down 😄

[fallen path]

how do you know where the distressed sentinel interceptor went? I follow their warp trail to the planet marked but now I cannot find anything after a while searching. Thanks

[solemn bane]

Memory is hazy, but do you have the quest selected in your log?

[fallen path]

yeah I have tried that too, it says to land on a disonant planet, I've done that but there are no sentinels to destroy which is my understanding you need to do

[edgy hamlet]

😄 that is the quest I got totally lost on..
Not sure where you are but, but I essentailly went to a dissadent planet and killled the dissonance resonators until an echo dropped

[fallen path]

i've now gone to another solar system (as I had the same problem with the first one using the coordinates provided)

[fallen path]

ok do you just need to find them? pot luck or scanner? I'm OMW now to one. thank you.

this game is a mystery sometimes lol

[solemn bane]

There are tons all over the place

[fallen path]

ooof mine was empty the first disonnant planet I tried, I'll try again

[solemn bane]

I usually fly low in my ship and just fly straight until their purple icon shows up, then I land next to them

[fallen path]

sp probably wrong my bad

[fallen path]

nice thanks trying that now. next thing I have to do is exoitic animal, that one looks like it will be super tough too... I just want the ship man... haha

[edgy hamlet]

you can look for them in the scanner.. not sure what they are called.. 20% chance to drop the echo I had to kill 3 for 1

[solemn bane]

Even if the planet has no sentinels it will have resonators all over

[edgy hamlet]

and you dont have to fight sentinals kill the thing and hide..go to next one

[solemn bane]

Yep

Sometimes they don't even agro, lol.

Like oh well blowin up our buddy whatcha gonna do

[unkempt kraken]

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<:info:850810445577453658> When the game spawns a Dissonance Resonator...

There's a:

• 80% chance that Resonator will be an Inverted Mirror Resonator;
• 20% chance that Resonator will be an Echo Locator Resonator.

Approach and aim at the Resonator to see what it will drop when destroyed.

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[remote thunder]

flying low and slow

[remote thunder]

^ eye contact+visor

[fallen path]

Many thanks people. I just ended up killing the sentinel capital ship so i think that should do the job, just checking the dropped item now

[remote thunder]

yes, but you'll still need to get 3 shards and 1 inv mirror, which drops from resonators

you should have obtained carrier ai frag from a previous milestone, unbounded from phase 3

[fallen path]

whoops, that was the same item then, I thought it looked familiar. Oddly when I last activated that AI frag it never gave a precise planet location, this time it has. Ok time for searching thanks! a bit awkard this mission!

[remote thunder]

my 4th run or so had an issue with it; all my other runs, i saved it for last, and used carrier ai frag after doing to infinity, which i saved for last

[solemn bane]

Aside: My favorite are dissonant planets that have regular sentinels. You can disable the sentinel system and just blow up mirrors from your ship. It was really more of a power trip than anything.

[fallen path]

I've found it now thanks, perhaps it bugged out the first time a bit. Time to get repairing 😄

[solemn bane]

Love watching corrupted sentinels just inexplicably blow up as soon as you look at them, lol.

[fallen path]

Sentinels are the coolest part of the game imo

[solemn bane]

Yeah, as close as I can get to killing mechanical zombies

[fallen path]

I am not sure why I am spending so many hours to get this reward ship when the sentinel ships look the coolest anyway ahaha, I've always been meaning to get one

[remote thunder]

this doesn't exist btw - rather, this isn't intended. this is a bug, consequence of higher difficulty presets/custom

[solemn bane]

Haha, no doubt. I sped through the whole thing, got the ship and was like... ok, anyway.

[remote thunder]

dissonant planets always have corrupted sentinels, that's how it's intended

[fallen path]

ah ok, so even if it doesn't say on the scanner they are there, just sometimes tricky to find

thanks

oops, I don't have the advanced mining laser yet... time to fly to the space ana

[solemn bane]

It had them around the resonators, but the regular ones were the ones that come when I do bad things like loot gravo balls. So that is just on like Permadeath?

[remote thunder]

yeah, or on custom perma/survival

[solemn bane]

That's awesome. I feel like I was finally rewarded for a higher difficulty setting 😆

[remote thunder]

because of that bug, you might see planets labeled aggressive, when in fact there's no grav balls anywhere

or even a mismatch between what the planet resource list says, and what's actually down there when it comes to sentinels/sentinel presence as mentioned

!hg

[unkempt kraken]

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[solemn bane]

ok, last tangent, but it was funny because I didn't notice there were corrupted dogs nearby when I was killing regular sentinels. It turns out they will multiply on any sentinel kill, so when I was done with a couple waves they were machine-gunnimg me down. I turned around and there were like 8 of them just constantly blasting, lol. Wish I had the presence of mind to screenshot that.

[fallen path]

arghhhhhhhhhh no wiring looms again....................!!

[solemn bane]

It's a racket

[fallen path]

have to go to space station for them as far as i know!

off I go again to space 😄

[solemn bane]

Yep. Other choices are to find minor settlements or murder a bunch of orange sentinels and use the glass to make exosuit modules to scrap

[fallen path]

got it. sadly my graphics card stopped outputting signal when I took a steam screenshot, I forgot that it does that. (NMS is only game that does this oddly). luckily I was able to navigate to the ship and back out by audio to make a save 😄

print screen still worked on the crashed image 😄

[remote thunder]

if you still have any, some milestones reward upgrade modules; install and dismantle for looms

[fallen path]

Thanks for the tip. I'm hoping to move them to my main save after - I've tried saving all the good stuff. I don't particulary enjoy expeditions I just do them because I feel like I'm missing out otherwise. I'm more of a hoarder and I enjoy my main save usually lol

[torpid orbit]

Anyone know how to complete the Expansion milestone (in phase 2)?

[ionic glen]

Someone knows which upgrades from the expedition I should transfer back to my primary save ?

[wet sierra]

im stuck on the sentinel interceptor and sunken freighter quests

[solemn bane]

Which one Oh, you just build stuff in your base

[torpid orbit]

It's called 'Expansion: Grow your base', and it says 'Objective: Decorate your base'

[solemn bane]

Yep, go to your base with that quest active in your log and it'll tell you what to build

And for the one part you can't build, it'll tell you how to learn it

[torpid orbit]

Oh, ok thanks!

[torpid orbit]

Ah ok

Thanks for you help!

[solemn bane]

Man, the interceptor one is rough to walk people through. Let's do sunken freighter first, lol.

[wet sierra]

i have am echo locator

[solemn bane]

Build a nautilus, install a scanner, scan for sunken freighter, fly as close as you can to it and swim or nautilus the rest of the way (dismantle your nautilus geobay after you make it to reclaim the mats, then build it again and summon the nautilus for when you are near the freighter)

[solemn bane]

For the interceptor you start by right clicking using that then following the quest instructions. And hopefully it works, lol.

[wet sierra]

so i just go in the water and scan it with the nautilus?

my echo locator says no harmonies detected in system

[solemn bane]

After you install the scanner module to the nautilus there will be a quick menu entry for it, and you can find sunken freighters ez

[wet sierra]

ah i see thank you

[solemn bane]

You probably already used it, so highlight the quest in your log and look at the galaxy map to find where it pointed you to

If not that then just scan the galaxy map for a system that says "Dissonance" or a word very closely related to that

[wet sierra]

oh okay, its like a starship on the galaxy map?

[solemn bane]

Yep!

[wet sierra]

ah thanks so much 🙏

[leaden belfry]

Phew, finally, after 1 month of procrastination and 23 hours left, i've finally done it

well at least its a better expedition than the "building sim" Utopia expedition with the 24 hours nonstop "build a base here" task

[solemn bane]

lol, I am playing Utopia right now because I am trying to replace the "upload base" quests with other quests since those can't be done offline. It basically means instead of building 5 bases I just go back to my base to make the research devices and cook the food they ask me to. Doesn't really feel like a big loss.

[leaden belfry]

wait, you modified the expedition quest? are you doing some voodoo modding thing with the expedition?

[solemn bane]

Yep, when I found out they are basically controlled by a cache file on your computer and you could play any of them offline, I made a tool to help people (me) do it: https://cwmonkey.github.io/nms-expeditions/

I binged all 12 and now I'm going through and fixing bugs, like starting on the wrong planet, having tech in the wrong slots, quests that can't be completed offline, etc.

I need to finish up Utopia, then replace those dumb optional quests in Omega and I think 'll finally be done

[ionic glen]

Someone knows which upgrades from the expedition I should transfer back to my primary save ?

[leaden belfry]

Ah so you basically let us re-play the expedition without HG doing the redux? i gotta try it sometime, thank you!

[faint pelican]

I would also like to know this, but in addition, if you got a really cool multi-tool bit you only get one copy, can you copy your S Class tool and then purchase the atlas spectra tool at the quicksilver thing across all saves (in that way getting two tools on your main save?)

[solemn bane]

Yeah. I did them all on hard mode (permadeath) and made little gameplay rules for myself, like not leaving the first planet until I have done all the milestones I can, not leaving the solar system until the same, visiting as few planets as possible, killing sentinels with my pea shooter right away, etc.

[solemn bane]

I don't think there is much you can't get elsewhere, but you may want to send the Photonix Core from the Starborn Runner back to your main save to have an extra one, since there is no other way to get that

[solemn bane]

Yes

[silver ibex]

Anyone got a idea about the next expedition?

[solemn bane]

Nope!

[silver ibex]

Man I'd love to know

Hopefully they bring out something new and exciting

[solemn bane]

Well. Don't get your hopes up. But yes I hope that too.

The big thing about this expedition was the console. Aside from that it was mostly recycled milestones

Heck, even recycled rewards

But that can be a good thing

[faint pelican]

Thanks

[sage finch]

How do you find contraband? I can't find an outlaw system

[dreamy trellis]

Does anyone know of a base where I can find farms for everything I need to craft the liquod explosive?

[dreamy trellis]

Use the Ticket to Freedom from that other expedition quest

[sage finch]

Got it thx

[dreamy trellis]

I'm trying to speedrun my way to the end of the expedition so I can get the rewards in timr

[solemn bane]

Fungal Mould should be easy to find (any toxic planet, and I feel like those are plentiful), Mordite is just killing animals.

Cactus is on dessert planets, which can sometimes be a pain to find, but they can be made out of 2 Pyrite and 1 Oxygen, and more can be made with one cactus and one pyrite for 2 cactus.

That may be faster than hunting bases.

[dreamy trellis]

I spent the last half hour gathering fungal mould and still don't have enough, I'm definitely going base hunting

[solemn bane]

I think I bought a lot off some vendors at the trading posts on a planet last time

[dreamy trellis]

Normally it wouldn't be an issue but I'm on a time crunch now

[solemn bane]

Hm, that seems odd. That stuff takes me just a few minutes. It glows in the dark so you can fly on the dark side of a planet

Oh also Ammonia x2 + Oxygen x1 → Fungal Mould x1

[dreamy trellis]

I see, ty! Also, do units/nanites earned in the expedition transfer to my main save?

[solemn bane]

Yep

You also get extra units/nanites for certain things like discoveries, sentinel murder, etc

[dreamy trellis]

Awesome, I sold like 15 gravitino balls so this is gonna make me some profits

Farming gravitinos is fun

[solemn bane]

Sometimes after I disable the sentinel network I will just take a few because I know they can't do jack about it. I ain't even need the money.

[dreamy trellis]

Lol true

Also I finished phase 3, gotta do 2 more today. Got the multitool so I'm happy

[wraith junco]

Lol weekend mission system is less than 200LY from system i randomly discovered in my last game sesion 4 days ago.

[remote thunder]

lol this last run i found cactus flesh and fungal mould on pilots in rdv1 😄

didn't even need to go eco scanner or charts

[solemn bane]

iirc I got like 90% of it at a trading station, then I made the rest with oxygen

[dreamy trellis]

NOOOO I used the sentinel ship crash data and it let me to a ship already found 😭

[little pivot]

when the expedetion ends will i get all my rewards on my main save

I haven't completed it and i'm not gonna

I just want the rewards I have so far

[dreamy trellis]

I don't know what to do now, the ship I needed for the expedition is gone

[little pivot]

like the sceptre and helmet

[dreamy trellis]

Yeah you have to claim em

[little pivot]

ok

[dreamy trellis]

But they're available on every save

[little pivot]

ooh

ok

do i have to use quicksilver

[dreamy trellis]

Nope

I can't believe the sentinel ship was taken, now I have to do the full process of getting another

That's gonna take ages

[solemn bane]

Well like unlocked stuff, units and nanites. Some stuff you can pass back to your main save, some other stuff you can't. And FYI, if you do not end the expedition, the expedition will end on you and kick you back to your main save.

[dreamy trellis]

I don't think I'm finishing this expedition

[little pivot]

only 20 hours left

[solemn bane]

quicksilver will transfer back to your main

[little pivot]

but i don't wanna finish it

[dreamy trellis]

I don't think it's possible for me to find a ship now since they're all taken

Unless I go to another system

[solemn bane]

Too bad 😆

[dreamy trellis]

Or if there's a way to reload the ships

[little pivot]

so I WONT GET ANYTHING?!

[solemn bane]

You will get nanites, units and quicksilver, as well as the expedition stuff you unlocked which is claimable at the quicksilver vendor

[dreamy trellis]

Welp the expedition is impossible now, imma go eat. Bye all

[little pivot]

good

[little pivot]

even if i didn't finish it?

i'll still get the sceptre and helmet?!

yay

[dreamy trellis]

There's no way to make ships respawn is there

[solemn bane]

You can also clone your current ship and multi tool to your main for a price, and as I said if YOU end the expedition you can pass items back to your main

[little pivot]

how doo i end it

[dreamy trellis]

Yo

Is there any way for me to progress or is it joever now?

[versed mantle]

There are ways to get another ship but you should turn off multiplayer first

[dreamy trellis]

How

[solemn bane]

Er, the answer to thisquestion is yes. Units, nanites, quicksilver andunlocks will transfer back even if you don't finish, but it will end at the time posted regardless of what you do

[solemn bane]

Progress how?

[versed mantle]

How to get a ship or how to turn off multiplayer?

[dreamy trellis]

Cuz the signal was supposed to lead me to a ship, and it led me to an empty ship spot

[little pivot]

switch doesn't have multi plater sadly 😦 haven't seen another sooul in sooo long.

[solemn bane]

Oh, yeah like you said just go to another dissonance system. The game doesn't like you farming too hard in spite of there being plenty of spots still

[solemn bane]

Damn that sounds lovely.

[little pivot]

it's very lonely

[versed mantle]

Somebody else might be able to give better advice but based on what I've seen seen here:

• turn off multiplayer or the ship can be taken
• find a new method of getting a ship if you used the one you were given
• if it leads you to the same spot, try again

[dreamy trellis]

I don't know how else to find one

[solemn bane]

If you kill 5 waves of sentinels they will tell you where one is

That said, it can get kinda hairy

[dreamy trellis]

That's... A lot of sentinels

[solemn bane]

It REALLY is in this case

Because the dogs multiply as you kill other sentinels

Plus they are smol so the effing rocks eat half of my bolts

Killing corrupteds is way more tedious, but probably easier since there are no big laser dogs or medium walker dudes

And the little dogs like to just wander around all the hell over the place so you gotta go hunt them down

[versed mantle]

I did it by going to a space station terminal and trying a couple of bases with sentinel-related names

You can also defeat the waves of space sentinels which I personally find easier than the ground ones

[dreamy trellis]

I'm trying that now but I gotta say I'm quite discouraged by my first one being totally gone

[versed mantle]

Make sure you have multiplayer off!

[solemn bane]

You get used to this game letting you down tbh.

[dreamy trellis]

Yeah, it totally killed my motivation to finish this expedition

[solemn bane]

For some reason I really like scrapping interceptors, so I usually like do 5 or so even when the game just wants me to do one

[dreamy trellis]

I liked it the first time

A lot

[solemn bane]

When it worked. lol.

[dreamy trellis]

Right now though I just want to get this expedition done so I can get my rewards and go

[solemn bane]

That happened for me on quite a few expeditions. They get really tedious at the end.

[restive walrus]

!exptime

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[restive walrus]

thank

[remote thunder]

(keep in mind this only works in non-outlaw systems) you can repeatedly shoot the space station till wanted level 4 - then pulse boost away from the station to lure sentinel ships away from it (and prevent the infinite sentinel spawn bug from triggering), then just delete ships till wanted level 5, sit tight for incoming sentinel freighter spawn, destroy it (first shield generators to delete shield bar, then just shoot it pretty much anywhere)

that will get you carrier ai frag

take a black hole to get away from exp route, disable multiplayer if you had it enabled save+reload after disabling, then consume ai frag

much faster to get to wanted level 5 with, if your ship is capable

[dreamy trellis]

Tysm

[remote thunder]

sorry: take a black hole, but not before making sure you can return to expedition route ofc, if you've not yet completed the 2 milestones per rendezvous planet

[median bough]

Is it likely the current Expedition will get replayed at the end of the year? Haven't been playing a lot of NMS recently but feeling some fomo on the cool new ship

[solemn bane]

Seems likely

[remote thunder]

if the devs stick to the pattern so far, yes. but who knows what else this year will bring

[dreamy trellis]

Do any of the rendezvous systems have an exotic planet?

[solemn bane]

If you've been to them, just check your discoveries and see if there are any weird ones like pillared or shelled or collumed or something

[dreamy trellis]

I don't think I've been to a weird one like that

I'm hopping between systems rn tryna find one

[solemn bane]

Maybe capped or fungal? All my memories running together, lol

[solemn bane]

Looks like near the last rendezvous there is a blue star called HeRo2u with a plated planet

[prisma gyro]

Dang the luck. Found and S class hot spot and it’s copper 🪦

[solemn bane]

Luckily you don't need many minerals for the expedition 😆

[prisma gyro]

lol I’m hunting the s class gold

[solemn bane]

On the expedition?

That is definitely the long way 'round to make cactus flesh, but it works.

[prisma gyro]

Ah hell im in the wrong chat. My bad

[solemn bane]

lol

[remote thunder]

not to my knowledge. just hunt red star systems for planets with gold

[median bough]

Is there a handy list for things I could bring into the Expedition that would make it a lot faster than usual?

[remote thunder]

1 liquid explosive or 200 cactus flesh and 200 fungal mould; some contraband aka illegal goods; 3 radiant shards and 1 inverted mirror; a solar mirror maybe, easy enough to get from trade terminals en route; salvaged glass/sus packets {tech,arms} to unpack, get modules and sell them for nanites; half stack (or a full stack) of the basics, like condensed carbon, sodium nitrate dust, pure ferrite, mag ferrite, uranium, pyrite, some salt, some gold, some silver, processed sugar 1x+refined flour x1 maybe, easy enough to get;

[prisma gyro]

I haven’t even touched cooking

[remote thunder]

yeah, in exp12's case, the game hints and target sweep guide the player through it, when the milestone is selected

there's hundreds of recipes though, but only a handful of possible effects from eating food

[median bough]

Thank you :)

[dreamy trellis]

I DID IT, I GOT THE STARBORN

Ty all

[fallen path]

does anyone know how many hours are left now?

I need sleep

Oh 11 hours I see, damn

i'll get up early tomorrow then... lol

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Recommendation: Keep Options/Network settings/Multiplayer=Disabled to avoid bugs

❗ Always visit Space Stations of Rendez Vous systems, so that you can always teleport to the last one you've been to, should that be needed. The systems are all fairly close in terms of distance in the galaxy map. Be sure to upgrade your hyperdrive as you're able.

Suggestion: Leave To Infinity (phase 2 milestone 4) and Radiant Flight (phase 4 milestone 3) for after reaching all rendez vous locations, then complete them in that order.

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[dreamy trellis]

What should I do before I end my expedition?

[mental basin]

Just save if you e finished

[wet sierra]

how many hours left?

[remote thunder]

did you start from existing save?

!exptime @wet sierra

[unkempt kraken]

@wet sierra
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[wet sierra]

ah ty

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<:info:850810445577453658> Expedition 12: Omega milestone tips

Recommendation: Keep Options/Network settings/Multiplayer=Disabled to avoid bugs.

• To Infinity (phase 2 milestone 4): Leave it for until after you've completed the milestones in each phase that require the rendezvous systems and planets. Suggestion: Do it before you start doing Radiant Flight later on.
• Grand Tour (phase 3 milestone 2): Can be completed in the starter system, and/or look for planets with Rusted Metal, Frost Crystal or Solanium in their resource list. You don't have to land to progress and complete the milestone (Note for consoles: enter Photo Mode, then hold Xbox logo/hold or tap PS Share button depending how it's configured to get the screenshot menu, then use it to take a screenshot);
• Hot Pursuit (phase 3 milestone 4): Claim One Man's Treasure (phase 3 milestone 1), select Under a Rebel Star in Log tab, an outlaw system will be marked in the galaxy map - if needed, use Ticket to Freedom. Buy items marked Illegal Goods from the Contraband Agent npc in the station, sell in inhabited non-outlaw system;
• Assembly Required (phase 3 milestone 4): Looking for planets with Fungal Mould/Cactus Flesh on resource list, requires Hazmat Gauntlet. Trade outpost and NPC/Player freighter npc pilots can sell these, they can also be refined (Ammonia+Oxygen; Pyrite+Oxygen) or multiplied (Ammonia+Fungal Mould; Pyrite+Cactus Flesh);
• Unbounded (phase 3 milestone 6): Use Carrier AI Fragment right after doing To Infinity mentioned earlier;
• Fallen Giants (phase 4 milestone 2): To find a sunken freighter, claim Relic Hunter (phase 4 milestone 1), build then delete Nautilon Chamber, install High Powered Sonar, open exocraft quick menu, scan for Sunken Freighter;
• Radiant Flight (phase 4 milestone 3): Claim Unbounded (phase 3 milestone 6), consume Carrier AI Fragment, follow mission hints and markers;
• Xenophile (phase 5 milestone 4): Focus on red star systems, and look for planets with Gold on resource list.

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<:info:850810445577453658> Expedition 12: Omega: Starting from existing save

Items you may want to bring:

• 1 Liquid Explosive or 200 Cactus Flesh and 200 Fungal Mould;
• Contraband aka illegal goods worth at least 120K units when sold in a non-outlaw system;
• 3 Radiant Shards and 1 Inverted Mirror;
• 1 Solar Mirror maybe, easy enough to get from trade terminals en route;
• Salvaged Glass/Suspicious Packets {Tech,Arms} to unpack, get modules and sell them for nanites;
• Half stack (or a full stack) of the basics, like Condensed Carbon, Sodium Nitrate, Ferrite Dust, Pure Ferrite, Magnetised Ferrite, Chromatic Metal, Uranium, Pyrite, some Salt, some Gold, some Silver

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[remote thunder]

saw a few players still rushing to finish with a few hours left, thought i'd compile some stuff into some posts, took the liberty of spamming them, apologies for that

[ionic glen]

do i need to hatch the animal eggs i got from the optional milestones before ending my expedition or i can do it after ending it ?

[dreamy trellis]

Yeah

[remote thunder]

did you start from existing save or made a new save for expedition mode?

[dreamy trellis]

I did half of phase 3, all of phase 4, and all of phase 5 today lol

[ionic glen]

i started the expedition from my main save, so yeah

[remote thunder]

!faq-expedition @dreamy trellis

[unkempt kraken]

@dreamy trellis
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[remote thunder]

finishing an expedition link

further reading about rewards unlocked account wide in expedition 12 alone: <#nms-expedition message>

@ionic glen ^ the above goes to you as well

[dreamy trellis]

Quick questions then;
Should I keep the runner/multitool for the technology I have installed, and if so should I scrap my other ships/sell multitools?

[remote thunder]

Should I keep the runner/multitool for the technology I have installed
if you invested enough into runner/atlas scepter that's worth cloning after you're back on main, yes; and yes, scrap the other stuff first

[ionic glen]

from what i see, i think i need to hatch them in order to claim them through the quicksilver after ending the expedition mode

idk

[remote thunder]

claiming the optional milestones was all that's needed to unlock them account wide

[ionic glen]

so if i have the eggs in my inventory, no need to do anything else ?

[dreamy trellis]

Alrighty, my other ships just aren't good enough to be worth it

[remote thunder]

the eggs you got in your expedition inventory can't be brought back to the main save, so it doesn't matter what you do with them. your account already has those eggs unlocked account wide, so you can just goto any save you have now under this account, or any save in the future for that matter, and claim them from the quicksilver shop

that's how expedition12 phase/final/optional 2-5 rewards get unlocked

you getting access to them right in the expedition save, doesn't affect your ability to claim the eggs from the quicksilver shop

Expeditions are an alternate time-limited, season-like game mode with a set of challenges rewarding exclusive items that can be claimed in any and all of your saves, in any game mode account-wide.

The eggs rewarded for the Optional Milestones will also be made available account wide through the Quicksilver Synthesis Companion aboard the Space Anomaly.

[ionic glen]

thx for the infos !

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Omega will end in: 16 hours 55 min 7 sec

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[ionic glen]

how many animal companions can i own at the same time ?

[remote thunder]

up to 18 pets, only 2 slots unlocked to begin with

[ionic glen]

wait, i just realize you can costumize your pets before hatching them, but i don't want to create something weird

[remote thunder]

there's a lot of random results - the layed then modified egg leaves the parent untouched

[wanton raft]

Will finish/convert my PC expedition tonight, but will not be near my PS4 to be able to finish/convert it for the next few days. It's complete on both but won't be near my PS4 in time. Wonder fi that will be a problem.

[remote thunder]

if the ps4 exp12 save was started from an existing save, i don't think so - but i would suggest loading save with internet off

[wanton raft]

Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. I'm disconnect it and set the clock back to do it.

[hazy sparrow]

Here's a new expedition tip: start the expedition from Euclid, and don't go back to your main save and change galaxies during it. That may be what borked my Discovered systems list.

It seems, during the expedition, in the in the DiscoveryManagerData::DiscoveryData-v1::Store list my old entries of type DT: "SolarSystem" just...disappeared. So post-expedition I am going to have to manually add them back.

MUCH thanks goes to @hollow shore for combing through my save data and figuring all this out!

[ashen shore]

Hey everyone has there been anything about the next expedition yet?

[cold tulip]

Nope

A few months away prob

[ashen shore]

Thanks for the info

[worthy beacon]

guess I'll have to wait till this one comes back around to get this ship. couldn't finish in time 😦

dec/jan they will run thorugh them again once a year right?

[cold tulip]

We are not sure, but its very likely. They have done so in the past.

[worthy beacon]

imagine they never bring this one back? surely they wouldn't do that to such an esteemed customer as myself right? right? >.>

[ashen shore]

Since you still have a few hours id say fuck it and pull an all nighter to speed run last missions

[worthy beacon]

was trying that early

[ashen shore]

!exptime

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[ashen shore]

You still have 14 hrs

[worthy beacon]

I only play in VR and I tried grind hard and letting my Quest 3 charge for breaks

[wraith venture]

plenty of time

[worthy beacon]

if I played for 14 hours my dumb ass would spend 10 of those farming storm crystals

I was on redevous 3 I believe

[ashen shore]

.... Yeah you chose the Hardcore route thats impossible to finish in time, shouldnt have playing only in vr

[worthy beacon]

I have 500 hours in the game and all has been in VR. I wouldnt even know what the jump button was on the PC

[ashen shore]

Why....

[worthy beacon]

I was half joking, but I easily in distracted (in life in general)

I spent like 20 mins early getting some for no reason, while I ran around a planet looking for mould stuff to make acid with

to be fair after about 3 I realized it wasn't on this planet but the storm was up and Its not liek I couldn't not get the crystals

[crimson rose]

!exptime

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[terse olive]

!EXPEDITION

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[terse olive]

whops

[wanton raft]

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[wanton raft]

That's interesting. Earlier the exptime said the end of the expedition was about 7 or 8 hours earlier than it does now. Did HG add some time to it?

Earlier it said the 18th at 6:00am. Now it says it's the 18th at 1:00pm.

[crimson rose]

I noticed that too. I thought it was ending at 0400 my time. now it's 1100

[wanton raft]

Yeah. Seven hours more for some reason.

[crimson rose]

Sean be sleepin in tomorrow.

[wanton raft]

Those HG guys don't do a ton of sleeping! They get a shit ton more done than most game companies ten times their size.

Hope they're working on delivering those cool new space stations and much more not to mention Light No Fire.

Wonder if the next game they make will contain the word No as the third word. That's the pattern I'm seeing.

[timber delta]

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[tame wolf]

Hey, i just bought the game as it was on a 50% sale, when i logged in it says the omega thing only has 12 hours left. Is it worth it to even do it?

[solemn bane]

Probably. Even if you don’t finish you get a ridiculous amount of a type of currency that buys account-wide unlockable stuff

[tame wolf]

do i need to understand how to play the game to do it or can i just figure it out as i go, i havent even played 1 min of no mans sky yet

[solemn bane]

It is basically a tutorial.

[tame wolf]

alr i guess ill start now

i wont be able to complete it tho sadly, what would have i got if i did?

[solemn bane]

BUT there are a couple quests that give people a hard time.

[tame wolf]

also after i play it which gamemode should i play normally?

[solemn bane]

An overpowered ship basically. But this thing gives more quicksilver (that currency I mentioned earlier) than any other expedition before by a wide margin, so still worth the time for that alone.

[solemn bane]

Normal is fine to start. The game isn’t super challenging. You can always crank the settings up or down from there, and try permadeath if you’re feeling confident.

[tame wolf]

Is it worth it to "ruin" the starting experience of the game tho, im basically going to skip the early stages and just get a bunch of money early on. Would it be better to just play normally and not play omega at all?

[solemn bane]

I was pondering that too. Like I said it is like a tutorial, and you’re not even going to really know what quicksilver is used for unless you read up on it. Since there is a time limit here you could just play the expedition on one save then make a new save to play the game fresh with your new knowledge. But really the expedition won’t give you anything you NEED, so skipping it this time would probably be fine. Just depends on your fomo level.

[blazing fossil]

You can still do it
If you’re fast it takes maybe 3 hours

[tame wolf]

haha yeah, i mean if its only currency which i can get normally than thats fine, its more so if i miss out on a limited thing or something really hard to get that will make it something i dont want to skip

[blazing fossil]

And just ask us for help if you need anything

[solemn bane]

There are limited things, but they will likely come back at a later time.

[tame wolf]

yeah but i have never played nms before so idk how to play, so doing it fast will be basically impossible.

[blazing fossil]

Again
We’re always here to help

[tame wolf]

do you know when the next one will be?

[blazing fossil]

If you don’t get an answer feel free to ping me and I should be here soon

[blazing fossil]

No one does

[grim fossil]

If you value the initial experience of a game then I personally wouldn’t do the expedition (it is highly likely this expedition will be rerun at the end of the year so always another chance) the expedition while yes it has elements of a tutorial that take you through a lot of gameplay elements, it can be overwhelming to someone who has never players the game.

[tame wolf]

thanks man :)

[tame wolf]

yeah thats what im thinking, i might just play normally for now and i can always play the next one that comes out

[grim fossil]

Add the time restraint into it and you feel like you are rushing, personally I see that to not be a nice experience.

[tame wolf]

yeah exactly

[grim fossil]

Completely up to you, take into consideration everything everyone has said to make your own decision, I hope you have a pleasant experience regardless of what you decide, we are always happy to help.

[blazing fossil]

In December all the expeditions from this year (so far that’s only this one) should be replayable in a shorter format

[solemn bane]

Man I dunno how they’d shorten this one, lol. I think they shortened the other ones because some of the milestones in the past were absolutely ridiculous. Like collect 50 storm crystals. Like how is that at all fun.

Omega already recycled a ton of milestones with the smallest required numbers so far, like take photos of different environments

[blazing fossil]

The reason they shorted the other ones is because they need to go from a several month long thing to a one week thing

[grim fossil]

Pioneers was fun but man chart 60 waypoints made me want to die.

[blazing fossil]

They’ll probably just half the numbers on milestones

[solemn bane]

The Voyagers stuff was so bad I tapped out before I finished. When I realized everyone was just using glyphs or spending like 20 hours finding stuff I was like, eh. But the overhaul on that was good.

[solemn bane]

They are already pretty bare bones. Doubt they will half numbers like 3. Or 1. I think they learned their lesson this time around. The re-release of this will probably be pretty close to the original.

[solemn bane]

After playing all the reduxes, Omega is right in line with them, and I spent less time on it than a good amount of them.

I feel like we will see the short play time + high rewards + mostly noobie friendly formula going forward. Seems to make people happy, or at least not make them mad.

[solemn bane]

Literally sitting here trying to imagine being able to power through that, lol.

[grim fossil]

I loved the expedition but man no flavour when it came to the milestones.

[solemn bane]

My two biggest frustrations in playing the reduxes offline were doing x amount of freighter expeditions since those can’t be done quickly, and growing x amount of plants, since no player bases offline.

Everything else was about like Omega

[wanton raft]

When you end the expedition you don't get all the money and nanites you made in it transferred over to your original game right? From screen shots I've seen it looks like it does some type of scoring to determine winnings or something right?

[terse olive]

so i stepped in the blackhole before getting to rendez-vous point 3, i am doomed? lol

[solemn bane]

I’m pretty sure you end up getting all the units and nanites + more from the scoring, but I haven’t done the exact calculations to make sure. It’s about the same. The numbers are so big I just haven’t even cared how close it is.

[solemn bane]

Go to a space station and portal back to another space station that is closer, or your base

[terse olive]

oh man. hahahaha. that is such a simple solution. i am so dumb. Thank you

[solemn bane]

Don’t feel bad. I had over 700 hours of gameplay on nms and they got me with that on a previous expedition because I just forgot I took a black hole. I did like 8 warps before I head slapped and realized what happened, lol.

[terse olive]

hahahahaha, I was on my 5th wrap when I wrote my question.

i would have probably gotten to 100 before I realized i should have used teleporter

[solemn bane]

Also it is the #1 most frequent issue people have with this expedition, followed by the interceptor salvage.

[terse olive]

ah! great, i don't feel so bad anymore. Thank you very much lol

[solemn bane]

Luckily it’s also the easiest one to help people with, the interceptor one being the hardest, lol.

[terse olive]

well, that should be fun. I only have like 10 hours or something

also I like the fact that you have to spend nanite to get the expedition rewards (other ships)

it made expeditions a bit too easy when you could just trade in for the better ship

[solemn bane]

Yeah I find I have to make my own challenge by not letting myself take the easy path in this game.

[exotic timber]

Intercepter was the worse, there were like player bases in the most trolly locations obstructing it. I had a case where someone dug out the whole ground so the objective was free floating and you can’t terrain edit because their base is there.

[solemn bane]

lmao. I wonder if reporting the base would restore the terrain. That’s pretty rough. But a good troll I gotta say.

(Reporting the base will temporarily remove it for you so you can dig etc)

But yes, for a number of reasons the interceptor quest is way worse when you encounter an issue, but in my estimation the black hole issue is more frequent, at least in this channel.

[terse olive]

so that's weird, I just completed the interceptor one without too much trouble at all

[solemn bane]

Yeah it’s a crap shoot. I’ve done it a million times with no bugs, but some people either hit a troll base, or miss a little something and it just takes forever to walk them through it. There are usually pages and pages of people trying to help one person, vs a “yeah warp back to rendezvous 2” to help the black holers, lol.

Then there’s the bizarre ps5 picture taking issue. That one is simple too but you have to know about it.

[ocean gorge]

I’m on PS5 and found I can’t get it to change the picture of my base. For some weird reason. I had to use the recycle image to get it to one I liked (I mean for expedition who cares, but it’s just weird). I haven’t played NMS since uh, expedition before last I guess (which I also did at last minute😂).

I haven’t had any issue doing the screenshots for the milestone though, they worked

Haven’t gotten to the black hole part yet🤞

[solemn bane]

Yeah I guess there are two ways to screenshot on PS5, if you choose the "wrong" one it won't count

[ocean gorge]

I’m using the one it tells you to. It works for the milestone image, but doesn’t work for changing the base picture. I’m guessing it’s a bug. PS5 has some interesting bugs😂

[solemn bane]

Yeah sounds like it

[terse olive]

@solemn bane thanks for the assist. I completed the expedition

[solemn bane]

Dang that was fast. I think. I had a nap, lol.

[terse olive]

lol, it was a fast expedition. but that blackhole part really turned off my brain hahaha

wow this new ship is pretty cool

however it shouldn't make a "dunk" sound when it lands since it hovering or something

[fallen path]

woo I completed it, first one I've done. Now - I did it on my main save - is there a way I can transport all of the items and ships I gained back to my normal main save? I'm just on my way to the anomaly now.

That took quite a few hours!

Oh I see, it auto converts excess items to nanites / credits

[solemn bane]

You can put some (most) items through the expedition terminal, and you can copy the ship and multi tool you currently have active

[fallen path]

Thank you, I am just going to give that a try now. Is it worth keeping the memories aquired?

Are they useful for anything else

[exotic timber]

You can’t transfer the memory, game won’t let you put it in the transfer box at the terminal

[fallen path]

Ah ok, am I being stupid but I cannot seem to copy the ship, is that a different area? thanks again

ship management area perhaps

[solemn bane]

I'm not a good person to ask what is worth sending back, because I only send back +slot items and weird/special stuff you can't otherwise get, IF you can send it back

[fallen path]

Yes, once I realised you could save slot expansions I kept the rest 😄 haha

[solemn bane]

Yeah that's pretty clutch, since +slot items are a pain to grind for

[fallen path]

is it bad that i am looking forward to returning to my main save so much.. haha

[exotic timber]

Ship copy is after you “end the expedition”. But it will only allow you to copy your last active ship and multitool. Make sure you are on the right one. Also no double dipping on the starborn runner if somehow your normal save already has one and you ended your expedition with it active.

[fallen path]

as the starborn runner ship is the expedition main reward won't that be avaliable to claim on my main save anyway? or is that not the case

I guess I should keep that as my active ship to be safe

[solemn bane]

You can claim it on all your saves after it's unlocked

[fallen path]

oh but as I performed this on my main save anyway I won't be able to claim again?

[quaint pumice]

NEED ADVISE PLEASE
Finally finished all 5 phases
This is my first time finish expedition and only 4days into the game
What should I transfer back to my primary account?

[fallen path]

I am confused, but imagine how upset someone would be if they copied across the wrong ship

[fallen path]

expansion slots seem a great option

[solemn bane]

You will, they are technically different saves. Or rather the expedition save is a save within your save, so it doesn't count towards your 1 limit

[fallen path]

awesome, so I might as well copy across a different ship as you cannot have two of the starborn runner? thanks

if I am understanding this correctly

[quaint pumice]

what is expansioon slot

[fallen path]

you may have accidently used them during the missions

[ocean gorge]

Like Multitool expansion slots

[solemn bane]

Also, once the expedition ends (as in the time runs out) you will no longer be able to copy the ship/multi tool, so best to end it early if you want copies. At least, this is how I think this will work based on my testing. They could patch it to make it different in, whatever, 8 hours

[solemn bane]

Yeah

[fallen path]

understood thanks for your help - i'm just doing it now.

[quaint pumice]

can i ask is this a glithc or bug that we can explit?

exploit?

[ocean gorge]

I don’t even have a “main save”😂

[solemn bane]

Copying your ship/multi tool is built into the UI, it's a legit part of the game.

[ocean gorge]

I’ve got a few saves I’ve got some hundred hours+ on, and then saves from multiple expeditions past lol

[solemn bane]

You will soon!

[quaint pumice]

ok, thank you @solemn bane may i ask how is it done?

[solemn bane]

Oh I see. When I say "main save" etc I mean the save you started the expedition with

[ocean gorge]

I made a new save, like I did for all previous expeditions because I really didn’t have a notion of what save to do this one on

[solemn bane]

It's at the expedition terminal. End the expedition there then go make your copies. While you're IN the expedition you can copy your ship/multi tool from your main save to your expedition save as well.

[solemn bane]

Same. After making the offline expedition tool I made a new save and started doing all the expeditions with that so now I have a "main save" sorta. I'm sure I'll start over eventually though, lol. I had so many saves this time around I had to start deleting them to make more

[ocean gorge]

I’ll have to delete some soon, because I think I’m either at, or close to the limit

At least I’m pretty sure there’s a number limit, for consoles

[solemn bane]

PC too

[ocean gorge]

Or really? That sort of surprises me

[solemn bane]

Googling, some say 15 but that sounds low

I think after 15 it looks like you only have one slot left, but it keeps going til like 30ish then you stop seeing the new game slot

[ocean gorge]

We don’t need to collect any underwater stuff do we, since we are given the nautilon for the expedition (I’m underwater and don’t want to leave if I need anything; I already have some salt if I need it since the guide mentioned salt)

[solemn bane]

Locate and explore an underwater wreck

[fallen path]

doh, I forgot I put 30 wiring looms in the trade terminal for my expedition.... i purchased more xD

[ocean gorge]

Right, but I’ll use the nautilon to find a wreck

[fallen path]

i forgot about that completley

[solemn bane]

Yeah it's just that. I think. Trusting my brain a little less right now, lol.

Problem is after rampaging through all 12 expeditions they kind of blur together

[ocean gorge]

Nah you’re good. I’ll be reading thru the guide again as I go along

[solemn bane]

Fight enough sentinels on Survival/Permadeath and you'll go through those quickly enough, lol

[fallen path]

I bet!

does anyone know if installed ship tech upgrades transfer across when you copy the ship?

back to your main save?

[solemn bane]

They do, just not inventory. I feel like when you hit the copy button it will show you the ship you're gonna copy

I should probably like, do this one time so I actually know, lol. Thing about forcing yourself to only use the starter ship with no unneeded upgrades is you don't feel the need to make copies of it, lol.

[fallen path]

I'll report back - I'm keeping the best stuff in the transfer area and the excess in the ship slots etc. cheers

[terse loom]

Do we know already what the next expedition is?

[solemn bane]

Nope. No date either.

[terse loom]

Aw

[solemn bane]

In the long list of weird things hg has done, naming this expedition “omega” was the latest.

[terse loom]

No data, so probably an old one im guessing?

[solemn bane]

They have only rerun old ones towards the end of the year I think. The ones from that year.

[terse loom]

Ahhhh okay

[solemn bane]

I think we will get some fresh ones then reruns, unless they change their usual format

[exotic timber]

Was there anything “omega” about this update or the expedition? I don’t think I even saw the game mention “omega” at any point (other than the expedition name).

[fallen path]

there wasno option to copy the ship

its gone 😦

unless I'm being stupid

[solemn bane]

Right? There was a weird finality to the name, but given the expedition console it’s clearly more of a beginning.

[fallen path]

multitool as well

[exotic timber]

Access the terminal at the anomaly, it’s towards the bottom

Underneath the item

[fallen path]

ohhhh you have to go back thanks

[solemn bane]

Right

[fallen path]

doh

yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[terse loom]

So is it still gonna be as soon as omega ends (or a few hours after), or do we wait a longer time for the next expedition

Sorry its the first expedition i ever played so i dont know much abt that stuff

[solemn bane]

Again going by the past, we wait weeks to months for the next one.

[fallen path]

I have them and all the tech installed, thanks guys

[meager scroll]

Expeditions usually roll out after major content updates

[terse loom]

Ahh alrighty, thank you:)

[meager scroll]

So at least in couple of weeks

[fallen path]

doh, the multitool is a reward of course and i just spent over 1000 nanites to copy it xD

[stone heron]

Worth it

[fallen path]

I'll gain em again 😄 i shouldn't complain

[stone heron]

U get lots of units to scrap one, and if u don’t wanna do that u can always have a backup

Take some of the good upgrades off it for ur main multitool

[exotic timber]

Nanites are pretty easy to come by~ Pirate system -> suspicious tech/arms -> open them -> sell them -> 2000-3000 nanites for like 1 million units

[fallen path]

thanks guys, I need to play this game some more! I just got 1000 nanites actually so yes not too hard! I just remembered them being tricky to gain in the past

she looks great!

overall, it was fun but quite challenging at times especially when the current objective glitches out and despite being selected / pinned it doesn't work right - but the next time it works fine. The constant changing of the pinned mission is annoying. the rewards are worth it though and was the sole reason I did it lol. the inventory limitations are quite challnging / annoying 😄

[solemn bane]

Yeah, as usual with this game the real challenges come from the UI/UX

And bugs. And trolling. lol.

As for the inventory limitations, I try to mentally prepare myself for that being part of the challenges I make for myself. No expanding, no using different ships, I'm gonna force myself to make decisions and problem solve on the fly when I get stuff. That way I'm prepared and it's not always "ah crap I gotta deal with this crap again"

[remote thunder]

no, 15 saves, won't let you make more

[wraith junco]

!exptime

[unkempt kraken]

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[wraith junco]

Intresting . usualy exp ended around 14:00gmt?

[solemn bane]

Yeah they pushed it back

[wraith junco]

To the daily clock turnover ?

It seems like it

[solemn bane]

I have no idea of the significance of the new time

It was a 7 hour shift

[hoary dock]

can i get help finishing expedtion?

[wraith junco]

What are you stuck on?

[hoary dock]

need roof lamp but cant find thing to buy it

[solemn bane]

Anomaly, in the back, left

[wraith junco]

Left side middle terminal

[solemn bane]

middle console

[hoary dock]

yeah but i spent all the ones i got earlier like a dummy

[solemn bane]

Ah, just look for the wifi signs in the ground with your visor

Buried Technology Module

[wraith junco]

You need to unlock the circle round celing lamp. It cost 1 module

[grim fossil]

BUY THE LAMPPPPP

[solemn bane]

I love lamp.

[grim fossil]

I love @plush fossil aswell

[hoary dock]

i could swear an earlier version you just buy base upgrades at your base

[solemn bane]

Ah, you can buy some of them. With some expedition-specific terminals you could buy anything.

But for this expedition, that light is only available at the Anomaly

[hoary dock]

i wopnder if they will ever do a base automation update

[solemn bane]

Man I hope so

[wraith junco]

Utopia expedition had base terminals because there was no anomaly access untill you finished the exp.

[exotic timber]

Just add a few AND OR XOR type of switches, a light panel and then boom “I built a calculator in NMS”, “I built Doom on NMS”.

[solemn bane]

Cartographers too, right? It had like a mega research terminal iirc

[hoary dock]

i mean before the whole big anomaly hub update, and i think you could get vendors at your base too, but then they thought that was too convenient so i guess now you have to go to a hubworld for no reason

[wraith junco]

Rerun. Had terminals but not the og exp

[hoary dock]

can i do old expedtions?

[wraith junco]

In vanilla no. By using a mod

[solemn bane]

It's a hack, but yes

https://cwmonkey.github.io/nms-expeditions/

(not a mod, but similar)

[hoary dock]

as long as i get rewards from them too

[solemn bane]

Caveat is you have to be offline to do it

And you have to be able to modify a cache file on your system, which means no consoles

[remote thunder]

problem with letting people do this is that you start getting people asking about how do i do utopia milestone x

or whatever

you do this, you're on your own

[solemn bane]

There are worse problems on this Earth. I am mentally prepared to deal with it.

[remote thunder]

other players aren't

[solemn bane]

Mods exist, life isn't perfect

[remote thunder]

people don't read instructions - make sure you bold that some milestones can't be completed

[solemn bane]

fwiw I ended up youtubing some of these things and added notes for how to do them on the page

[remote thunder]

precisely

[solemn bane]

They can all be completed

[remote thunder]

really? what about community milestones?

that require internet?

[solemn bane]

Replaced

[remote thunder]

already diverging

anyways..

[solemn bane]

Yup!

[remote thunder]

what i'm saying is that there's no support for this, -help isn't going to

[solemn bane]

And at some point I may make an expedition builder so you can put your own together from the available missions. I'm sure that'll be interesting.

[solemn bane]

Like any other mod I guess

[remote thunder]

the line between this and a pure mod is clear to me

but anyways

[solemn bane]

I am definitely open to hearing what you think that line is

[remote thunder]

a mod is something you install and are done with

this - is quite something else entirely

a mod barely requires support - this can be the complete opposite

but if there's a channel for this to be talked about, and mentioned

it's in #nms-modding , not in #nms-expedition imo

[solemn bane]

I can be hall monitored into answering questions asked here in #nms-modding no problem

[solemn bane]

As for this, we have not been using the same mods!

[remote thunder]

suggestion: instead of telling people on your website that you're on nms discord, tell them your alias so that they can contact you over discord directly. make notes more visible.

[solemn bane]

Done 👍

[solemn bane]

lmao

Complete 15 fleet expeditions

I wish I would have been around for the fallout

[wraith junco]

Pionners was fun. Still have the save with base near last rdv point

[grim fossil]

Nah as much as I could bash it I still find it my favourite expedition, but yes some of those milestones would have weeded out the players that couldn’t be arsed.

[solemn bane]

I still find it my favourite expedition

Interesting. Is it just nostalgia/it being the first one? I liked Cartographers and Leviathan because they tried something new and executed fairly well. I appreciated the Utopia effort in spite of not liking the execution. Singularity, Emergence and The Blighted get a big nod for having some sort of something that almost resembled a theme/plot (same with Utopia). Polestar was sort of an introduction to the new freighter system, which was a nice way to do that. But with Pioneers, Voyagers and Omega it just felt like go fetch soup with no plot or theme at all.

[remote thunder]

pioneers was most likely as much about experimenting as it was about collecting feedback

[calm yoke]

I tried looking for this but couldn't find the answer, if I copy a ship or multitool from the expedition to my main save, does it come with all the tech/cargo that's installed or is it just the base object?

[remote thunder]

just the current tech inventory, cargo is lost

[calm yoke]

ok cool

tech was more important

[solemn bane]

Oh I totally get that. A great thing at the time, but for it to remain the favorite there'd need to be something else, like a nostalgia factor at least.

[remote thunder]

to me, it will always have that sentimental value, as it was the first expedition, and one that was going through lots of different objectives in the game - the time for that might have been right too: "hey old players, remember you used to do this?"

[solemn bane]

ok, so not so much something you wish they would make again (Voyagers/Omega-esque), but something that you look back fondly on.

[oak abyss]

!exptine

[remote thunder]

yeah. i'm a huge fan of lore - the more they give me on that, the more i'll immerse myself in

[oak abyss]

!extime

[remote thunder]

oh my goodness melanie

🫂

!exptime @oak abyss

[unkempt kraken]

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[oak abyss]

Thanks!

[remote thunder]

there you go, dear traveler

[oak abyss]

Hahaha thank you helpful traveller I wanted to make sure it was in my correct time for my time zone

[solemn bane]

Yeah it uses Discord’s magic timestamp thing so as long as your computer is in the right tomezone it should work

[burnt briar]

Almost done :0

[grim fossil]

Totally get that, I dislike expeditions similar to exobiology because they feel like a low effort fetch quest but with extra steps, but pioneers was the introduction to something new, a new way for players like myself to play the game again with a bit of a twist, for that it will hold a special place as being my favourite simply because it was the first, the expedition I spent the most time on and simply enjoyed the overall experience even if some of the milestones were rather tedious.

But second best will always be expeditions that have a level of story or unique gameplay element, leviathan to name one was amazing.

[solemn bane]

Yeah exobiology was an effort to introduce a pretty lack-luster pet system... or something. I dunno, my effing pet killed me so I'm still pissed about that, lot of bias there, lol.

[grim fossil]

But yeh nostalgia and it being the first are part of why I find it my favourite, but that doesn’t make 50% of why. there is elements that I just enjoyed the feeling of.

[solemn bane]

Yeah that's nostalgia, heh

[grim fossil]

Those expeditions I don’t enjoy, I usually get expeditions completed either day of or week of, (unless constrained by community progress) voyagers however I didn’t have the desire to do, a cut and paste of exobiology but with crap rewards, I just couldn’t be arsed until 2 days before the expedition ended

[grim fossil]

It’s a part of why, not the entire reason.

[wise parrot]

hello can someone help me do the exepdition there is 4 hours left and im on phase 4 radiant flight and i cant find the ship the quest item bugged and didnt show me a ship and now i cant find one is there any way someone could help me find one

[solemn bane]

Did you go to the system that was marked on the galaxy map?

[wise parrot]

yes

[solemn bane]

ok, and you selected the quest in your log and you're saying you don't see a ship icon on the map anywhere?

[wise parrot]

yes

[solemn bane]

Which quest do you have selected?

[wise parrot]

radiant light capture a sentinel intersceptor

[solemn bane]

So you see no ship icon from space on any planets, and you don't see a ship icon on the Dissonance planet. Can you land on the dissonance planet and use your scanner to look for the ship? (switch to the yellow scanning mode)

[grim fossil]

So you’ve used the carrier AI fragment given to you? Try selecting the mission to salvage an interceptor, not the expedition milestone, Will be a mission called “sentinel interceptor trace” select that.

[young warren]

Another thing that might help is to pop up to the space station and look at bases you can teleport to. There might be more than one listing a ship nearby.

[grim fossil]

Us all patiently waiting for Edcora to reply 👁️👄👁️

[solemn bane]

Just realized "quest log" isn't specific enough because the milestone page also seems like a quest log, lol. Man this game needs UI/UX help bad

[remote thunder]

i just say pause menu/Log tab

in expedition, there's a Log and an Expedition tab (where the milestones are)

[solemn bane]

Anyway, while we wait

there is elements that I just enjoyed the feeling of.

I was just saying that is nostalgia. That you wouldn't necessarily get the same enjoyment from the same quests, or the same types of quests if they re-packaged them

[wise parrot]

nah i gave up not going to complete it there isn't any waypoint anywere for it

[grim fossil]

Did you attempt any of the replies above?

[remote thunder]

can you post a screenshot of your Log tab? is there a sentinel salvage site secondary mission or not, can you just confirm that?

[grim fossil]

But that’s not the main reason I enjoyed it, yes it’s a component but I wouldn’t say it’s why.

[solemn bane]

Well, you don't enjoy something at the time for reasons of nostalgia. At the time it was new and different and exciting, but now it may be mundane

[grim fossil]

Personally if they re ran it again I would still enjoy it 😂

[solemn bane]

But would it be your favorite to re-play? I mean I've played it like 3 or 4 times now and I don't hate it

But it being among a favorite when it just seems like a mishmash of go fetch quests makes me wonder if there's something deeper I am missing

[grim fossil]

Couldn’t say for sure, but there are definitely other expeditions I would enjoy that little bit more if it was done again with all elements they had

[grim fossil]

We have our opinions, I have mine

[solemn bane]

Aight, makes total sense, just wanted to make sure I was on the same page

[grim fossil]

Matey I don’t think we are even in the same book lol

[remote thunder]

sometimes it's about feeling something familiar, other times it's about a change of pace

i guess pioneers felt a lot like a change of pace, even though the objectives are familiar

not sure if that makes sense

a change of pace from the main game, i meant

[young warren]

Just in case, I know they gave up, but.
Mazuna-Puqia System
Planet Onana

-43.81, -176.66

[remote thunder]

yeah. which system btw?

[solemn bane]

It totally makes sense, and it's nostalgia because you're thinking about how it made you feel at the time. There's nothing wrong with that, I'm just saying it wouldn't be the thing you'd make today, you'd try to capture the feeling of something being new and exciting in different ways

[young warren]

had to find a time I could break from work to go in and look.
Also if you see a base named Dat Base, head straight west from it.

[remote thunder]

ahuh, i do agree with that - although still, they've got to keep something that's familiar in them, even if they're going for something new and exciting

[solemn bane]

Sure. But Omega and Voyagers felt like rehashes at best. Luckily Omega had really good rewards that kicked up the dopamine

[young warren]

Mazuna-Puqia

It's like really close to R3 system I think.

As a new player Omega was a fun firehose drink that exposed you to a LOT of gameplay elements.

[remote thunder]

i'm not a dev, and i don't know how they're thinking ahead, or what the roadmap is - but at times, focus has to shift to something that's more complex, and that perhaps takes a lot of time to implement, and human resources from making up these really lore intense expeditions for example.

[young warren]

Dunno if ship class is fixed at crash sites but that's an S for me.

[wise parrot]

i managed to find a ship but i dont happen to have any radiant shards, inverted mirror, harmonic brain sadly

[young warren]

All that should be near you on the planet.

[remote thunder]

a screenshot from the galaxy map will probably be helpful. if close to rdv3, then goto rdv3, then post a image with the cursor highlighting the target system, so we can see distance, race, etc

[young warren]

After you collect the first two, use the brain and it sets a map point to "fix" it

[solemn bane]

I may have said nearly the same thing earlier this morning 😆 I'm not arguing that they should have or could have done something better, I'm saying what they made was a rehash, and having more of the same probably wouldn't make for a new "favorite" expedition for most.

[remote thunder]

select sentinel salvage site mission, take the trash and the hyaline brain out from the ship. use visor/target sweep to get 3 shards and 1 inv mirror. inv mirror drops from dissonance resonators. approach one, aim at it, see what it will drop. you don't need echo locator, you need inverted mirror. once you have 3 shards and the mirror, cursor over brain, then press probe subconscious, goto 2nd marker that will be added

[remote thunder]

true - we're talking 12 expeditions so far

[young warren]

Confirmed, really close to R3 system.

[opaque oyster]

how long does it takw to finish the expedition

[solemn bane]

Somewhere between 2 hours and a few weeks for most

3ish hours left may be tight unless you follow a guide and really power through it

[young warren]

After this point, I think it's not too bad though, mostly go here get this and check that.
I Seem to recall the last few things were really close together.

[solemn bane]

Oh, and partially doing this expedition is worth it because the rewards are exorbitant all the way through. Just try to finish whole phases

[remote thunder]

if not, exp12 will most likely be rerun later this year, if the devs stick to the pattern so far

[wise parrot]

what are the names for exotic planets? i cant find the names so i dont know if im on one or not

[wise parrot]

thank you

[ocean gorge]

Am I supposed to do anything at the harmonic camp? Or just go back to the sentinel ship I’d found already (I’m confused why I needed to go to the camp tbh)

[inland thicket]

The harmonic camps now have several uses . . . it is a starting point to recover sentinel ships, but also a place to engage with the autophages

[ocean gorge]

I may be stuck. I probed for the harmonic brain, where you’re supposed to go to calm it, and it didn’t mark a location. And it’s no longer marking the interceptor either. I only know where it was located because I had something else marked near it

Idk what to do now. Fk

[solemn bane]

Select the quest in your... settings page in the Log tab

I think I said that right... no wait, pause menu in the Log tab. lol.

[ocean gorge]

It is selected. It says complete the Salvage Site missions to perform repairs. But I already visited the camp

[wise parrot]

hmmm got a small issue

i dont have nanites

[solemn bane]

It should tell you what to do next once you have the quest selected and close the pause screen

[ocean gorge]

Yeah it says salvage site missions, no idea what that means. I collected harmonic scrap from that camp
There wasn’t anything else to do there so I left

[restive walrus]

need help finding underwater freighter

[solemn bane]

Close the pause screen and see what it tells you to do in the little box in the bottom right

[solemn bane]

Make a Nautilon, make a scanner sonar module for it, get in the Nautilon and open the quick menu and go to the scanner and select sunken freighter

lmao I been sayin Nautilon wrong this whole time

[ocean gorge]

I’m confused. See I found a drill thing that had an echo locator actually before I found one that had an inverted mirror so I found a crash site early. Then I got the radiant shards and inverted mirror, and collected stuff from the ship, THEN went to the camp. After visiting the camp I probed the harmonic brain to reveal its site, but now the ship is no longer marked and there’s no site marked to calm the brain. I’ve never had this happen. I’ve collected a lot of sentinel interceptors before, this is totally wack

[placid flower]

just started the expedition with an hour to go, doubt ill get far

[ocean gorge]

And it won’t let me probe the brain again

[solemn bane]

It's telling you to select a different mission in the log. Do that

[solemn bane]

That's fine, just try to claim the rewards, and probably just focus on finishing phase 1 in full to get the bonus quicksilver

I don't know the mission names off the top of my head so just get one that sounds interceptor/salvagey

[ocean gorge]

My objective atm is “capture a sentinel interceptor”

That’s what the log says

[solemn bane]

That is the only quest in your Log tab?

[ocean gorge]

Let me try something

Ok I think maybe it’ll let me go to the site now…
I swear sometimes this game and objectives

[solemn bane]

Yep

[placid flower]

how do i go to first person? im on pc and its annoying as im used to 3rd person

[solemn bane]

Press X to open the quickmenu, scroll to the gear, click the guy

Actually, for ship or on foot?

[placid flower]

On foot but I figured it out from your previous message

[solemn bane]

ok, I was buying time while I looked in-game because I've done it a million times and somehow can't remember, lol.

[placid flower]

do i claim the rewards when i can or wait till i go back to main save?

[solemn bane]

When you can, since it's ending soonly

!exptime

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[solemn bane]

Cranking "Final Countdown"

[placid flower]

do the rewards go to the save i started the expedition from?

[solemn bane]

There are some account wide unlockables that happen, aside from that if you don't finish the expedition before the time expires you'll keep your units, nanites and quicksilver, that'll be it.

Plus some bonus currency here and there

[high ledge]

Did the expedition end?

[blazing fossil]

One hour left

It’s the final countdown

[calm flax]

@ocean gorge If someone built a base by the sentinel ship sometimes a pilot will take off in the ship. If I look around I can see the ship somewhere in the system. Sometimes it just isn't there when I get back after going to the monolith. So far every time reloading the game has took care of the problem and the ship is there so I can claim it.

[bold umbra]

Disabling multiplayer in the settings and playing solo are a good idea for that

[calm flax]

Sometimes I have to disable multiplayer just to do an expedition. I did this expedition 6 times.

[inland thicket]

So, in one of my runs, even with multiplayer off, there was a little bit of a chase, but the ship would return after being "spooked" and then I would go in space and come back. I'm not sure if this was part of the intentional mechanic, but I noticed it would happen after I removed the materials (which was unique to the expedition) but before I could install the "soothed brain".

To me I thought perhaps there was an addition of an "untamed" mechanic.

[calm flax]

I've seen a npc standing around when I went to get a sentinel ship before and the next thing I knew the ship was taking off. I just reloaded the game and the ship is back.

[inland thicket]

If it wasn't intentional, that is they way the story played out in my head . . . which Is what I do to "explain" alot of things that happen in game.

[ashen shore]

is the update right after?

[restive walrus]

anyone got a base near an underwater freighter?

[solemn bane]

While you wait for that I would still recommend building the Nautilon and Sonar module so it can find a sunken freighter for you

[restive walrus]

!exptime

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[blazing fossil]

What update?

[cinder lintel]

jeez these dissonance resonators are really far away from each other

[ashen shore]

I seen people talk about customization update after this expedition

might be wrong though

[blazing fossil]

There’s nothing official from HG

Probably just clickbait YouTubers

Iirc these were rumors after echoes launch too

[inland thicket]

I would have to go back and check, but I'm trying to think of major updates or changes that came quickly on the heels of expeditions.

[calm flax]

did you check the transporter in the space station. I found a crashed/underwater freighter in about 4 or 5 of the expeditions I did

[calm flax]

The last time I was looking for them I found a bunch of them really close together and quite a few had 2 at each site.

[inland thicket]

Having a "permanent" feature in the nexus for expeditions seems pretty interesting.

[cinder lintel]

I spent almost a half hour looking for a second one

gave up lol

I'm completing the optional objectives and going to try to wrap the rest offline

[blazing fossil]

You’ve got 35 mins

[cinder lintel]

yep. I'm already at R4

[placid flower]

im halfway through r1 with no starting stuff

[restive walrus]

!exptime

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[calm flax]

yeah I've spent a lot of time looking before also. I'd fly a ways and land and scan for them.

[cinder lintel]

exactly what I did. super frustrating

[calm flax]

try going to a different part of the planet and trying.

[placid flower]

what happens to the save after the expedition is closed?

[cinder lintel]

I will when I head back. Just trying to turn in the objectives that require me to be online to complete

[cinder lintel]

converts to a normal save.

[blazing fossil]

It becomes a normal save

[placid flower]

awesome im further through this save ive had for 50 minutes then i am through on my main save lol

[cinder lintel]

You can, however, disconnect from the net and roll back your clock manually and it'll let the expedition continue.

loool

[stray compass]

I just started playing and I really enjoyed the expedition. It was a much better way to start the game for me, I got so much more out of it compared to the normal tutorial. I ended up completing it three times. Can't wait for the next one!!

[solemn bane]

Typically I get in my ship and fly low til their little icon shows up then I land near them

[placid flower]

i need silver and quick best way?

[cinder lintel]

The rendezvous have a quick optional objective that give you some but I dunno how many you can reach in the next 30 min

[placid flower]

was trying to shoot asteroids but i cant find any

[solemn bane]

I was gonna say asteroids, but it's also a mineral resource on some planets as well.

[ocean gorge]

Finished
Thanks for the help

I didn’t get any screen about needing to move anything to another save. So I guess I don’t have to worry about it

[ashen shore]

You have to go to the anomaly and end the expedition from the expedition terminal

[solemn bane]

Did you start this expedition on an existing save? If so go to the Anomaly and interact with the expedition terminal to end it, there you will put your items to transfer back

After you put your items in and end it manually, go back to the terminal to copy ship and multi tool

[ocean gorge]

No, I made a new save. And now it’s a normal save, as the expedition section is closed out

[solemn bane]

Cool, should be good

[ocean gorge]

Good, I’m tired and thankful tbh I don’t have to think about moving anything around lol😂

Nice ship you get

[restive walrus]

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[placid flower]

so if i joined off a save i dont need to do anything or i gotta transfer?

[ashen shore]

If existing save then you need to go the expedition termind, select the items you wanna take back with you, and end the expedition

All unites, nanites, and quicksilver will auto transfer

[restive walrus]

wow i finished the expedition phew i thought i only had enough for phase 4

[placid flower]

dont see how i can pick what i take back

[solemn bane]

Did you click the empty item squares?

[ashen shore]

Yeah

[placid flower]

dont do anything when i try

[rare lotus]

Dude I didn’t know that was a thing. All my squares were empty but some element I put in there when I started the expedition. I just started the game and did a couple things before starting the expedition.

Once I finished the expedition earlier today I got the ship, staff thing, and the multitool but everything else is lost? I found a freighter but that didn’t show up anywhere

[solemn bane]

Maybe you actually have to complete the expedition 😬