nms-expedition

[wide jackal]

no idea what that means, sorry

[keen ember]

aka a sick ass flamethrower for your minotaur

[wintry void]

250million kills needed according to beeblebum stream

[keen ember]

thought it was 6 million?

[cursive willow]

hope the devs pull a supercell and artificially inflate the kill count

[wintry void]

I thought it was 6mill in 1 day

[wide jackal]

oh awesome (I don't have a minotaur but when I do, It will be amazing)

[cold rover]

if I complete the expedition before the community goal is done will I still get the skin? :3

[cursive willow]

yea

[wide jackal]

🤣

[flint saddle]

Yeah if the pet is extra Aggressive the it will protect you from predators and maybe help in battle

[keen ember]

i think so long as you dont specifically end the expedition in the anomaly

[cursive willow]

god

polestar was such a lame expedition

rewards wise

[wintry void]

1 of best to do though

[cursive willow]

it was quite fun

what was like the cool reward again

just a cape and a pet right

[flint saddle]

Idk isnt that the one with the Singularity Engine that is now impossible to get?

[cursive willow]

i forgot tbh

[wintry void]

outside of save editor yes

[cursive willow]

i remember it being the only expedition i did

and now this one

[flint saddle]

I want the Singularity Engine so bad but its no longer available

[wintry void]

wasnt that the 1 with normandy?

[cursive willow]

no

normandy was a different one

[flint saddle]

Idk

[cursive willow]

polestar is the one where you start in a beat up freighter

[flint saddle]

Normandy is another thing i wish i had

[cursive willow]

save editor is calling

[minor jackal]

or the servicebot

[flint saddle]

Im on switch, you cant save edit switch

[minor jackal]

if you dont own pc

[cursive willow]

ah

the save editor is like craco

crack

once you start using it

you can’t stop

[minor jackal]

how do you get more creature eggs?

[cursive willow]

egg incubator

[flint saddle]

Creature has to lay more eggs XD

[flint saddle]

What incubator XD???

[cursive willow]

in the anomaly

[limpid trail]

this expedition is a pain

[minor jackal]

it was manageable

[flint saddle]

Theres no Incubator in the anomaly XD, Theres the Egg Sequencer that changes the Genetics of the egg but nothing else

[cursive willow]

o

maybe im confusing it with another game

[cursive willow]

what about it

[minor jackal]

sounds more like pokemon :D

[cursive willow]

yea probably lol

i wish the pet mechanics werent so jank

[hot mason]

Could someone on Steam add me as a friend so I can tp back to the Expedition?

[flint saddle]

I love pokemon

Id love for Archive walkers to be in pokemon

[minor jackal]

i wonder what the archive walkers even eat

:D

[cursive willow]

those things are crazzy

[heavy merlin]

Neither of the predators in the starting system worked for my goal

[flint saddle]

Ion Batteries

[cursive willow]

theres one a couple systems in

one of the planets with a drop site has a predator

i forget which

[gilded ravine]

third i think

[heavy merlin]

It’s saying n/a for the pav and the predators didn’t say they were predators

[gilded ravine]

someone named the planet that has the one you need

it's underground

[remote thunder]

predators are identified by simply observing fauna movements - saw an animal running after others? predator.

they can also be predatorial towards player, in which case, a red paw icon appears

[cursive willow]

it requires a specific aggression level

[tawdry relic]

so uhhh i crushed the grub required for the metamorphosis quest but nothing happened

did it glitch because i was in my ship

[subtle stratus]

So i left a communication message on the underground tunnel in the planet pinned for that predator hopefully itll spawn there for someone

[heavy merlin]

Is 3rd drop zone system renamed or changed on switch?

[remote thunder]

get another i guess

[remote thunder]

might be - on switch might be named sangju or something

[tawdry relic]

how do i find them

[remote thunder]

in any case, markers don't fail

[heavy merlin]

Thx

[remote thunder]

use visor on a vile brood planet

[cerulean girder]

before i start the event, what should i bring? idk what to expect

[heavy merlin]

I already went there that’s why i needed the name

[arctic crystal]

Ok, what’s the easy way to kill 32 corrupt sentinels. I can’t even find any (am on corrupt planet)

[remote thunder]

it will be easy, expedition will pretty much provide everything anyway. bring the basic survival stuff, the basics to fuel a ship systems, stuff you can sell for some units and for some nanites

[devout flint]

expansion for inventory

[remote thunder]

literally - sentinels spawn on a random basis around the player position - landing and standing around often does the trick. use secure planetary charts on that planet, if the system has a space station

[cold rover]

if you can find gravitino balls, they will come for you

[strong dawn]

Is anyone else having periods where they are unable to upload exploration data? My last task for the expedition requires this, and it says I've lost the community connection. Yes I have tried resetting router, etc. Could just be due to server strain? Haven't had this before, wondering if it's common.

[misty plinth]

im tryin to do the collect 900 of reources in a sweep mission and ive gotten 1200 carbon from plants before i over heated and then i did the teraign and got over 2600 of silicon powder before i over heated;. What am i doin wrong rto no get credit?

[remote thunder]

yes, pretty much everyone having issues with the discovery services server connection

[wide jackal]

maybe just a bug, save ur expedition and then reload into it?

[strong dawn]

Ok well, not just me at least!

[misty plinth]

i already tried that

[west forum]

Disconnects for me all the time too

[remote thunder]

and then i did the teraign and got over 2600 of silicon powder before i over heated;.
terrain manipulator won't count

and ive gotten 1200 carbon from plants before i over heated
sounds like this should have worked - try again

[strong dawn]

Eager to end expedition and start exploring the new patch on my main save, so I'll check regularly this week to hopefully finish it.

[remote thunder]

well..

you can return to primary anyway

that's up to you

[heavy merlin]

Third drop zone planet type?

[remote thunder]

all dropzones are vile brood, apparently, at least the ones i've been in so far

[heavy merlin]

Yeah i meant biome. Whoops

[keen ember]

pretty sure all the planets in the expedition are vile brood, could be wrong stopped playing for today

[faint mesa]

I have a feeling the quantity of an element you gather isn't quite related to the number the milestone computes while you are mining

[loud inlet]

anything I should bring with me into the expidition that would speed it up?

[faint mesa]

I had to mine a lot of stuff to reach those 900 lol.

[keen ember]

warp cells

[faint mesa]

Chromatic metal would be good

[tawdry relic]

do they only spawn near structures

[keen ember]

also probably those ship mods that let you warp further

[faint mesa]

Perhaps stuff to refine into nanites

[keen ember]

make sure to get nanites yeah

[faint mesa]

Although the associated milestone isn't hard, really

Considering you have to kill a lot of sentinels, and they will give you a lot of upgrades to sell...

[keen ember]

make sure you copy your multi-tool

and you dont really need to copy your ship since you get a lot of pretty good ship upgrades from the milestones

went through the entire thing with the starter hauler

[heavy merlin]

Best planet for ocean monstrosity

[remote thunder]

juicy grub? no

[keen ember]

anything with a large body of water

[tawdry relic]

i cant find any

[remote thunder]

any that has water

explore further out

[faint mesa]

Can be the starter planet I guess

[arctic crystal]

Why doesn’t this count half of my corrupt kills

[heavy merlin]

Also do they only spawn near sunken buildings or what?

[keen ember]

no

just pull out your visor and look for alluring specimens

interact with their things that drop larval cores until an ocean monstrosity spawns

[heavy merlin]

They’re not spawning for me

Ohh

[carmine prism]

Anybody else having trouble finding an apex predator with 12pav or whatever it is

[keen ember]

look in pins

[carmine prism]

I have been to multiple planets, found several species that attack on sight, says my record is zero pav

[keen ember]

dropzone 3's system also has a planet with one

[arctic crystal]

Yep

Hard to miss the planet

[carmine prism]

I checked every planet there

[keen ember]

irradiated i think

bottom right planet

[carmine prism]

Yeah I know I went to that one

[keen ember]

cave dwelling life form

[carmine prism]

Guess I'll check again

What was the name of the system again?

[keen ember]

go to a space station

you can teleport to it

rendezvous 3

is what you're looking for in the teleporter

[arctic crystal]

Rudoin-Blosa

[carmine prism]

Rudoin-Blosa, thanks

[wide jackal]

lmao, I JUST warped there right now

[wide jackal]

thank you!

[signal kayak]

The Minotaur skin is locked to community progress right?

[wide jackal]

yes

[carmine prism]

I am guessing what you need to progress is killing monsters?

[wide jackal]

yep!

[remote thunder]

we'll all get them

do your part, doesn't have to be a big part

[pine relic]

interesting, looks like the grub cocoon is counting as an account unlock despite not being a phase reward...

[remote thunder]

not the first time

i was expecting that actually

[carmine prism]

Grub cocoon?

[remote thunder]

p5m7 reward: companion egg

[pine relic]

Did you check yesterday? I'm wondering if that changed after I patched to latest experimental

[carmine prism]

What

[faint mesa]

Where do you get it? QS shop?

[remote thunder]

i didn't, but truthfully, as soon as i saw that reward in there, i guessed that was going to be the case

[carmine prism]

Phase 5 mission 7?

Ah you mean the one that I need to progresss to see

[remote thunder]

Swarmsong - Learn the fate of Liquidator #3813G
Grub Cocoon

[pine relic]

Yep, quicksilver companion under expedition rewards

[faint mesa]

Hmm, interesting!

[pine relic]

I guess it makes sense. The eggs from recent expeditions that didn't end up as expedition rewards were all re-released pets from older expeditions

[carmine prism]

Eh, would have probably found out soon, bar that 12pav mission, the rest of the expedition was done by phase 1-2, now it is just jumping purge zones

[old parcel]

So I beat the expedition, how do you get the liquidator mech after that? I thought you got it as a reward

[faint mesa]

You do, but it's tied to community milestones

So... you gotta wait.

[pine relic]

It is a reward, for the optional community milestones.

[old parcel]

😞

[faint mesa]

It doesn't take too long usually

Couple of weeks perhaps? Maybe less...

[old parcel]

I can wait lol, happy to have the new armor and jetpack, just wish there were some bug legs and not just boots

[faint mesa]

Indeed. And perhaps a nice chest.
But hey, I'm happy nevertheless

[keen ember]

tbh the armor obscures a good bit of the chest anyways, but god the outfit looks so jarring with a lot of legs

best i've seen was someone running the construct legs but even then it looked out of place

[faint mesa]

I want to pair that set with the feasting casque helmet from Emergence lol.

[keen ember]

lol

[faint mesa]

Should look good.

[keen ember]

wish the game told you how to get the other bug helmets

[pine relic]

random loot from big momma bugs if I recall

[keen ember]

i see

[pine relic]

Or at least one of 'em is. I think it was listed in the 5.0 patch notes somewhere, but they were pretty long so I'm really not keen on confirming it.

[faint mesa]

There are four you get from those huge bugs, and one from this expedition

They don't always give you the reward though, so expect 10-30 fights to get them all

[arctic crystal]

Ok I’ve definitely killed over 200 bugs by now, my part is done for the day

[keen ember]

i think it caps out at 50

kill counter at least caps out at 50

[arctic crystal]

I believe the kills after count towards community

[keen ember]

i hope its just a visual bug ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[pine relic]

I don't know if 'caps' is the right way to put it. I'd need to start a new expedition save to check but it may just be always 50 even if you never killed anything.

[keen ember]

definitely something that needs further looked into from someone willing

[ashen shore]

It says 50 and counting after you pass 50. so I think 50 is the minimum you have to kill to get the reward once the stage is complete.

[keen ember]

weird

[pine relic]

if it was a counter related to a daily cap I would expect mine to have gone down at some point today, but I'm quickly approaching 48h of it being stuck at 50, without going up or down at all. :P

[vapid gate]

For some reason I cannot complete the " fat of the land" task.

What am I doing wrong?

[keen ember]

so it must be like what FrozenPeak said

[keen ember]

make sure you're using your mining laser NOT terrain manipulator

[solemn bane]

Ugh, my Apex Predator will not trigger. I've scanned the eel on the first planet as well as tons of other fauna, but it still says "N/A pav" is my record.

[pine relic]

that makes sense too. Like the minimum number of kills to claim the reward.

[fading cipher]

!friendcode

[keen ember]

i hope they do something about Apex Predator

[west forum]

Same here, can't seem to trigger it, scanning everythign I can find on both planets

[vapid gate]

See I did, what does it mean in one burst?

[fading cipher]

!myfriendcode

[unkempt kraken]

XKY4-252E-16XT4
(@fading cipher)

[keen ember]

i one go I guess, I dunno, when I did i just went to a cluster of materials and used my mining laser, despite stopping due to overheating it still counted

[meager stream]

Dont let go of the button

Easiest way is with minotaur, its laser doesnt overheat

[vapid gate]

Does using it on trees and farming carbon count?

Cuz I got like 1,200 from a group of trees on a planet and it didn't give it to me

[meager stream]

It counts anything

[vapid gate]

Maybe my game was just being sketchy last night 🤷🏼‍♂️.

Thanks for the help

[pine relic]

It counts, but you should pay attention to the number on the bottom right with the milestone selected, not how much resources you're actually getting on the top-right loot notification. It took over 3k carbon + ferrite for mine to climb up to 900...

(I ran out of trees and had to switch to rocks to get it all the way to 900 lol)

[keen ember]

i just went up to a cluster of rocks and trees lol

[remote thunder]

does ship mining work

[cursive willow]

20% yet?

thank god

what part of the mech is that again

[pine relic]

I didn't test with ship mining. Someone yesterday said that it was easier with the minotaur mining laser but I had finished it already when that suggestion was made.

[west forum]

I found a cluster of Metal Fingers and got it easily. I just shot a bunch down to a little bit of health and then got them all in one go.

[cursive willow]

you know how theres a little counter in the top left

or top right i forget

that shows the resources you mined

[keen ember]

top right

[cursive willow]

make sure it doesnt disappear

[keen ember]

i think top right idk

[heavy merlin]

Yeah that is correct

[cursive willow]

i wonder whatll end up being better

hardframe or liquidator mech

[keen ember]

sometimes i surprise myself with my shitty memory

[lethal mirage]

I've beaten the expedition now, if i end the expedition will i be unable to claim the optional rewards?

[keen ember]

what if i use the hardframe body with the liquidator flamethrower

[cursive willow]

true

[pine relic]

Its also possible that both options stack :P

[cursive willow]

thats crazy

actually someone could probably test it

[lethal mirage]

Because i wanna get the autophage stuff but that requires main quest stuff

[remote thunder]

don't end it

[cursive willow]

the first phase is done right

[lethal mirage]

Pain

[remote thunder]

@lethal mirage you can pause/options/return to primary

[pine relic]

is it? My ODS is down and mine is reading 16%. I assume we need to get to 100% to complete phase 1 :P

[lethal mirage]

This is my 5.0 save tho

[cursive willow]

oh

[summer kraken]

As long as you keep using the Mining Beam (without the heat gauge completely resetting or overheating) you'll keep contributing to the goal.

So basically you can nearly overheat, wait a couple seconds, then keep mining just before the meter entirely empties.

[cursive willow]

someone reacted to my question earlier and implied its finished

[lethal mirage]

This basically is my primary save

[cursive willow]

edge the mining beam

[stark root]

Wow...just my luck with these corrupted sentinals 🤣

First...I couldn't find any on the planet anywhere...I was picking up gravatino balls and only getting regular sentinals on a dissonant planet.

Next...I find some dissonance resonator, shoot them and no sentinals anywhere...

So, now I finally find some corrupted sentinals and start the fight. All of a sudden both waves of sentinals are on me...🤣 don't get me wrong, it was super fun and exciting for a whole hour to battle both waves of corrupt and regular sentinals. I sure got my practice in...and just as the big guys get there a storm starts and I keep getting hit by lightning...🤣🤣

And not to mention, all I got was 8 corrupt sentinals the whole time 🤣

[summer kraken]

For lack of better terms... Yep.

[remote thunder]

yes, exactly, isn't there where you want to keep progressing to get the autophage stuff?

[cursive willow]

starting with an expedition save is nuts

[remote thunder]

and only getting regular sentinals on a dissonant planet.
options/difficulty/on foot combat or enemy strength changed, probably

[cursive willow]

this expedition just gives you a crazy stacked multitool

sentinel too

very cool

[keen ember]

copied my main multi tool, bc what is an autophage without her staff? and omg the amount of tech slots it has now

[lethal mirage]

I want to play on this save and get the autophage stuff, but doing that (probably) requires me to quit the expedition

[remote thunder]

you can't do quest stuff in expedition, no.

[lethal mirage]

Pain

[eternal berry]

is the anomaly inaccessible in the new expedition? or only after a certain waypoint?

[remote thunder]

after 1st warp

[eternal berry]

thanks

[feral obsidian]

question, i did destroy my minotaur, can i make a new one or i just need to repair it?

[stable leaf]

Can someone help me complete apex predator, I literally can't find one anywhere

[pine relic]

if its from combat damage, you need to repair any broken techs installed in it

[feral obsidian]

F

[remote thunder]

starter system planets both have 1 aggressive enough species, planet in dropzone 1 system also does (check pinned post) - or just go on your own, stick to expedition systems, and systems around those expedition systems - you've got 6 weeks to complete it

[feral obsidian]

idk if i can do that literally need very rare items

[teal cove]

How dose purge by fire work

I don’t get it

[pine relic]

Well, you can use repair kits instead of the very rare items, but that adds the problem of having to find a source of repair kits. The more reliable would be a black market / pirate station, where you can usually buy repair kits for units.

[remote thunder]

answered in -help, but yes, community progress milestone

[teal cove]

Ah

[feral obsidian]

ye that's kinda unlucky, any way where i can get tempest cristall?

[pine relic]

third dropzone planet has storm crystals. Those can only be looted during storms, however.

[feral obsidian]

well small update i manage to get it working , now engine isn't a problem, another question, can i pick him up? and deploy in another planet\place or it's stuck on the planet i summon him

[pine relic]

Very easy to do with a minotaur, but in your situation that creates a bit of a chicken / egg conundrum.

[elder reef]

What’s the community percentage?

[pine relic]

It can be summoned in any planet that has the minotaur station, or in any system where you have either an exocraft summoning station placed, or a freighter with exocraft materializer room parked in the system. After summoning it you can delete the stations to retrieve the components so that you can build it in a different planet.

[feral obsidian]

got it

thank you bliss

[wary fulcrum]

does anyone know if the optional rewards will be free? or will they cost quicksilver / nanites?

[keen ember]

free

like every other expedition reward

[wary fulcrum]

W thank you

[elder reef]

How close are we to getting them

[keen ember]

20% through the first phase

[elder reef]

Dang, we’re moving slow this time

[keen ember]

it just released

[wary fulcrum]

a lot of bugs need to be slain

[pine relic]

Free to claim as a milestone reward, but it is unknown at this point if it will be free to unlock in other saves or if it will cost quicksilver :P

[elder reef]

I mean, I think you can at least get the flame thrower because you can purchase upgrades for it in space stations

[pine relic]

My guess is that it'll cost QS, but we're only gonna find out for sure when the stuff actually gets unlocked >.>

[wide jackal]

Anyone have the location of the aggressive predator on the irradiated planet in the 3rd system? I literally have 6/7 animals found and the last one should be the aggressive one

[jade pier]

If anyone has been looking for Floating Island planet this is THE one, this is the planet code but it’s in the Eissentam (Green) Galaxy

[wide jackal]

Is the floating island planet for the expedition?

[pine relic]

that seems kinda unrelated to the topic of this channel :P

[keen ember]

expedition takes place in euclid, so nope lmfao

[wary fulcrum]

Ya because this idk 🤷‍♂️

[jade pier]

Calm down I was just letting people know😂

[keen ember]

literally any other channel would have made more sense

[wide jackal]

^

[jade pier]

But why not let everyone know, smh

[pine relic]

well, there you go, looks like its gonna cost QS

[keen ember]

oh its gonna be a grind lol

[wary fulcrum]

haha glad i checked, time to grind qs

[pine relic]

That's gonna put a bit of a dent on my 20k QS stockpile >.>

[wary fulcrum]

7,400 QS total set 💀

[keen ember]

you get, what 400 QS for a normal QS mission, right?

1,800 or smth for a weekend one

that's gonna be quite the grind

def gonna be worth it though lol

[wary fulcrum]

and i think you can only do 3 QS missions a week right?

or is it per day

[pine relic]

at least its gonna motivate me to do dailies again lol

[keen ember]

i think 3 QS per day?

4 with the weekend one

[jagged sedge]

I'm wondering if I'm even gonna finish this one, I barely ever use the minotaur anyway

[pine relic]

1 regular qs mission / day, stacks up to 3 days

plus 1 extra juicy weekend mission per week

[keen ember]

wanted to grind QS anyways tbh

I grinded QS to get a bobblehead, I'll do anything sean asks of me

[wary fulcrum]

is it the mantis one?

[keen ember]

no but I have the intelligence of her

[wide jackal]

Yes

[keen ember]

caves

its found in caves

[jagged sedge]

Would any of you happen to know of a dissonant world without storms? Having trouble finding one

[keen ember]

looks more like a crab tbh

[wary fulcrum]

check the "caves" on that world. you can drop creature bait to make it come out

[keen ember]

on xbox its fittingly titled "THIS ONE!!! GRAHHH!!!"

[naive prism]

without storms? pretty rare-- without extreme storms: between Rdv 1 and 2

[wide jackal]

Oh I didn’t know you could drop creature bait! Thank you!

[jagged sedge]

Ah, ok - thanks

[wary fulcrum]

ya good luck hunting for it its kinda hard to find haha

[wide jackal]

That planet is called “apex predator mantis looking” (something like that) which is pretty funny

[naive prism]

and that dissonant one has the apex predator milestone too

[wide jackal]

Yikes okay. Did you find it?

[jade sparrow]

How do I figure out where to go next in this expedition? I'm stuck on the second part

[wary fulcrum]

ya, thank goodness for that guy

[pine relic]

Keeping in mind that it is 1 QS daily per save, and QS shop unlocks are all account wide, so... with patience you could work towards all 4 pieces at once, using 4 different saves :P

[wary fulcrum]

yes, i found it because there was a weird open-air cave near a settlement. found it after like 30 mins - 1 hr

[wide jackal]

Go to ur page where you can find your logs. Next to it is a menu called “expedition” all the info should be there

[wide jackal]

Ah okay

[naive prism]

and if you want to cheese it, you can just unlock (don't save), reload save, redeem and unlock next, repeat

[jade sparrow]

Yeah I got all that, but it doesn't tell me where to go in the system I'm in

[wary fulcrum]

honestly using the ship to wander around and find caves kinda helped. minotaur might be good to use also, if you prefer it

[elder reef]

Use the mintotaur to get the 900 reasorces in one go

[keen ember]

currently have 1 save on a mix between creative and survival, and one save on permadeath, thought it was a max of 3 saves lol, good to know

[pine relic]

sure, but at that point it would make more sense to just save edit the stuff in, much faster :P

[jade sparrow]

Ah nvm I had to activate the tracker on the quest

Thanks

[pine relic]

Max is 15, I have... my main save + 12 endgameish saves going back to 2021, all in permadeath lol

[wary fulcrum]

will the qs from the expedition transfer to main save?

[keen ember]

good lord!

[naive prism]

on one of my normal saves i built up to 60k quicksilver anyway-- save, unlock a whole batch, leave game and forget the whole thing, then redeem on current main/permadeath save 😆

(also, permadeath bro 🤜 🤛 )

[stark root]

I didn't change any of the combat settings at all

[pine relic]

I had the habit of starting a new permadeath save with each major patch, tho I skipped the last 3 or so. :P

[keen ember]

no joke started a permadeath save right before the expedition and update dropped on xbox 😭

def gonna get back to that save once the expedition is over

my poor gek anomaly is stuck in save limbo

[naive prism]

permadeath and max difficulty is fun-- it's just a bit slower

[pine relic]

its a good way to learn the game. When you lose a save after doing something stupid, the lesson tends to stick with you much better than if you just lose 5 minutes to a corpse run :P

[keen ember]

i've spent liike the past 71 hours of my playtime, (albeit split over a couple years) on my main account, which used to be creative but now with some difficult stuff sprinkled in, so going for permadeath is gonna be interesting

[ashen shore]

I’ve stopped playing permadeath when I lost my save to a glitch. I may come back to it sometime

[valid roost]

Yh so if I end the expedition without 'doing my part' (the optional milestones) will I not be able to get the liquidator plans for the mech or will they be available to everyone regardless of how many horrors, sentinels or broods you killed

[elder reef]

I found a planet with a peak at 1,131 units

[ashen shore]

We don’t know exactly. I wouldn’t recommend ending the expedition until the community event has finished

[valid roost]

Alr got it

[pine relic]

I'm 99% sure that it doesn't matter. The optionals are for getting the stuff unlocked for free, instead of having to pay quicksilver.

[remote thunder]

did you change any of the difficulty settings? because the behavior you described is literally caused by raising or lowering enemy difficulty, i don't know of any other cause for it

[keen ember]

so "doing my part" will unlock it for free? whereas someone who didnt participate in the optionals would have to pay QS?

[pine relic]

I assume it will unlock for free for the expedition save, not for the account. Since its listed in the regular quicksilver section of the shop, rather than in the expedition rewards section.

[keen ember]

interesting

[pine relic]

and the prices are 1000 / 1000 / 3000 / 2400 so its not as bad as I thought from that screenshot earlier

[elder reef]

How do you have the prices?

[keen ember]

quicksilver shop

[elder reef]

Wait, can I just go buy them

[ashen shore]

Not yet

[keen ember]

not until the community unlocks them

[pine relic]

Its all listed in the quicksilver shop in the anomaly, its just greyed out since the community research hasn't unlocked 'em yet

[valid roost]

Makes sense, so as long as I'm 'doing my part' I won't have to pay for it (judging by what I've read)

[ashen shore]

We’re 99% sure that’s how it will work

[hollow cradle]

I haven’t even got a clue on how I can get quicksilver efficiently.

Gonna have to grind it for that sweet mech.

[pine relic]

Expedition rewards + quicksilver dailies / weekly.

[ashen shore]

Weekend/daily/weekly nexus bounties are the main way of getting it

[pine relic]

All other methods are painful.

[keen ember]

or you could do your part with liquidating this bug menace

[valid roost]

Honestly I hope so cause I feel like ending the expedition so that I can transfer my new grub to my main save (despite the fact you can find them naturally)

[hollow cradle]

I already have. I thought that we’d only get it for free in the expedition and not outside of it?

[ashen shore]

You can also get it from the expedition rewards section in the quicksilver vendor

[sly gate]

Finally beat the Expedition and got the armour. I like the look of it a lot more than expected I know it'd a bit much considering we just got a whole host of new content but it does feel a little weird that there isn't a leg price and an undersuit.

Overall the Expedition was alright. Got the set up, did a bunch of (kinda meaningless) tasks and then got some fun lore and stuff at the end that I didn't expect

[valid roost]

Quicksilver tasks or weekend events

[hollow cradle]

Sorry, wrong reply

[pine relic]

You're misunderstanding, I'm saying that some expeditions reward a large amount of quicksilver. Not this one tho. :P

[hollow cradle]

My bad! Wrong reply.

[hollow cradle]

Meant to reply to this message regarding the mech.

[stray sluice]

how do u do the "purged by fire" ?

[pine relic]

Some previous expeditions had like 10k quicksilver+ as milestone rewards

[ashen shore]

It’s a community event

[keen ember]

community milestone, kill baddies and you contribute to it

[stray sluice]

oh so just over time ? 😮

[keen ember]

if you do your part (which I think for part 1 of the community event is 50 kills), you're basically guaranteed to get that phase's part for free, i believe

assumedly the further we get the larger the kill requirement

[valid roost]

Community event

[wary fulcrum]

is there way to track if we've done enough for the community kills?

[pine relic]

Yep. Just do some casual daily bug killing to contribute, no need to hardcore grind it (since there's probably a daily limit to how much a player can contribute)

[hollow cradle]

Ah. So, if I continue doing my part in the various other Purged by Fire milestones, I should be able to get the other mech parts for free outside of the expedition?

[keen ember]

you can really only do the first milestone rn

[hollow cradle]

I meant after we’re done with the first one, mb.

[stray sluice]

the missions on the community station ?

[keen ember]

i believe you've done enough when it says "and counting" in the kill count

[keen ember]

yeah yeah

[ashen shore]

The purged by fire milestone is based on the number of bugs the community kills

[keen ember]

continue to contribute and you'll get the mech parts for free, assumedly for that save, not account

[stray sluice]

hm ok :3

[hollow cradle]

Ahh, gotcha.

Thank you!

[hollow cradle]

We’re at 15% now, I think. Or.. we were at 15% when I logged in earlier today lol.

[pine relic]

Missions or not, what counts this time is murdering bugs and sentinels and such:

[ashen shore]

It’s currently at 17% but we have until September to finish it

[hollow cradle]

That’s a lot of time, phew.

[wary fulcrum]

and then i imagine we can transfer the parts from expedition save to primary save?

[ashen shore]

You should be able to claim them from the quicksilver vendor once they are unlocked in the expedition

[pine relic]

In community terms we have quite a bit of time to get it all unlocked but for me personally its a bit trickier, I'm gonna be otherwise occupied from august 5 onwards so I'm worried that I might forget to come claim the stuff before the expedition ends >.>

[wary fulcrum]

i see, kind of confusing but overall it works

[pine relic]

I guess you're a relatively new player? Quicksilver shop unlocks are always a community-driven effort so this is basically just business as usual, with an optional opportunity to get the stuff for free

[wary fulcrum]

yes, this is my first expedition so its all new

[pine relic]

in this case the only part that's new is the opportunity to get it for free :P

[wary fulcrum]

but that does make sense

after the expedition is over, those items will remain in the shop then?

[thick umbra]

yes

[pine relic]

yep, even for people that didn't do the expedition at all

[wary fulcrum]

oh cool. i was worried about that haha

[meager stream]

is it safe to play from main save? no destructive bugs found?

[pine relic]

Safe.

[ashen shore]

There are no major save-breaking bugs right now

[waxen pilot]

the eliminate corrupt sentinels objective seems to only count the drones, not the other units

[stark root]

I swear, I didn't touch any of the difficulty settings. I never do that when I play the expeditions. I don't want to chance.messing anything up.

[waxen pilot]

is that intentional? takes a lot of time to go kill 32 separate drones cus ground units mostly spawn when you're fighting them

[remote thunder]

weird, i guess something to do with the planet itself?

multiplayer was disabled too i assume

[ashen shore]

It counted all of them when I did it

[waxen pilot]

hmm weird

i'll try again

[pine relic]

I don't think that's intended. When I did it, all types of corrupted sentinels counted towards the milestone...

correction: all types found in dissonant planets, I didn't test the corrupted sentinels spawned from salvageable scrap / settlements :P

[valid roost]

I personally found it rlly quick, especially since the dissonant planet I landed on had no camps, meaning that whenever I defeat wave 5 the wanted level soft resets and I can do it all again without having to find another dissonant planet

[remote thunder]

6 5

[valid roost]

Yh mb lol

[naive flame]

Can any1 help me by expedition?

[clever falcon]

Use the minotaur with the cannon....cuts through those waves like butter

[remote thunder]

what do you need help with?

[reef raven]

How do you find biological horrors?

I only have 1 more to get

[remote thunder]

just pop a whispering egg - plenty of clusters around abandoned buildings for example (emergency planetary charts, 5 guarantees an abandoned building)

[reef raven]

So search for abandoned buildings, is there a quick way of doing that?

[remote thunder]

emergency planetary charts, for example

[valid roost]

Whispering eggs, found either at abandoned buildings, infested or airless planets

[ashen shore]

Also they have a high chance on spawning when you land near a waypoint in the expedition

[remote thunder]

yep

[waxen pilot]

oops, it works properly, i just miscounted the enemies 😅

[pine relic]

during the expedition that's really not necessary. Every POI that you land at will spawn a wave of horrors.

[reef raven]

Ok thanks

[remote thunder]

it's more about player distance to waypoint/building - if landing spot is near waypoint then yeah, you may immediately spawn some

[pine relic]

not just from waypoints, there are various interactions that spawn waves of horrors too

[remote thunder]

so just pop a chart instead of quick scanning spam

[pine relic]

like those crashed debris things that give nanites/modules tend to spawn horrors when interacted with, for example

[remote thunder]

yeah, they're everywhere

[pine relic]

and I've had waves spawn after clearing manufacturing facility puzzles lol

[ashen shore]

I had waves spawning while I was destroying a sentinel pillar

[remote thunder]

i've had them spawn when i was just waltzing around a waypoint

like deleted a wave, then after a bit another one spawned

[thorn talon]

Is the liquidator mech community level connected to time or actual player activity?

[valid roost]

Definitely the worst place they can spawn imo

[remote thunder]

player activity

[ashen shore]

Actual player enemy kills

[pine relic]

yep, they're literally everywhere in this expedition, there's no real need to actively chase 'em :P

[thorn talon]

God damnit.

[remote thunder]

that said

[ashen shore]

It should be done within a week or 2 at our current pace

[remote thunder]

ultimately, it's up to the devs

they could rotate the knobs as they want

should pace ease up

and end date becomes too close

they could

anyway

[pine relic]

yep, they may very well tweak it partway thru so that each 'point' a player contributes actually counts as 2 (or 5 or 1/2 or whatever) to adjust things on the fly

[valid roost]

Saying that they could also decide to extend it if we do end up breezing through the community thing

Anything can happen

[remote thunder]

that i find a bit less likely

[valid roost]

Could still happen though

[ashen shore]

I’m interested at seeing how many kills are needed per milestone as Sean has already confirmed we have killed at least 6.5 million enemies

[thorn talon]

Also how do you get the other chitin headpieces?

[valid roost]

Kill brood mothers

[thorn talon]

Kk

[valid roost]

You can spawn them by crushing juicy grubs in your inventory

[remote thunder]

just from being around for a while and having seen how they behave towards the community, they wouldn't want to make us feel that way i don't think. but i digress offtopic.

[pine relic]

its possible, but based on prior experience they usually start things at a really low rate and then adjust towards 'faster' depending on how many people are still actively contributing say a week after it started

[ashen shore]

Yeah they have never increased the amount of time it would take based off of past expeditions and community milestones

[valid roost]

Ah so as long as we continue at our current rate it should speed up (well saying this I only joined nms during the interceptor update/switch launch so what would I know abt the devs intentions)

[crystal mortar]

If we clone our ship from the Expedition kiosk, is it our active primary ship or our most recently acquired?

I thought it was like the multitool, whatever we have active when we started Expedition, but my ship is not the one I entered the anomaly with.

[pine relic]

updates and expeditions usually have A LOT of activity in the first few days and then people gradually slow down after they finish the content

[naive flame]

@remote thunder message you

[valid roost]

Thats odd

When I started the expedition and cloned my ship I got the one I entered the anomaly with

[cerulean girder]

when im done the expedition can i take items items back out with me?
plus how does one leave the event

[pine relic]

did you claim a ship after entering the anomaly? :P

claimed ships automatically become the active ship when you claim, regardless of source

[remote thunder]

help with phase 3? which milestone?

[crystal mortar]

No. And I deliberately did not bring my newest ship because I just built it and it's not fully upgraded yet. I brought my previous ship.

[craggy echo]

How do I refresh online discovery service?

My internet is choppy

[ashen shore]

The discovery service is having issues in general today so it may not be your internet

[remote thunder]

for the past few weeks, it's been having issues

especially on weekends

that weekend quicksilver mission lol

[crystal mortar]

It's not a huge issue because anything is better than this uggo starter hauler! But I just wanted to clarify how it's intended to work.

[pine relic]

in that case yeah, it should have copied the ship you entered the station with. The only reason it would switch up to my knowledge would be if you claimed a quicksilver / twitch reward / expedition reward ship between landing in the anomaly and starting the expedition.

[ashen shore]

Yeah that mission was really bad with discovery services

[limpid trail]

Well I am not finding this apex predator anywhere. Getting really annoying.

[ashen shore]

It took a bit but one can be found on one of the planets in the first rendezvous system

[pine relic]

(or if you switched active ship via the quick menu on purpose, but if you had done that you wouldn't have asked the question lol)

[limpid trail]

I've looked at two planets people have marked for it. Couldn't find one either one.

[west forum]

I had the Apex Predator bug where I scanned it, but it never showed up in the Discoveries tab and I didn't get the Expidition unlock. I reloaded my restore point and after a few tries it unlocked.

It had fish that were invisible too, but still scannable. Just showed up as dots in the visor.

[ashen shore]

The discovery service is having a lot of issues today so that may also cause you some problems

[limpid trail]

This whole expedition is just weird

[fresh ice]

What are the planet glphys for the apex predator

[west forum]

Both planets in the starting system have one, but my experience has shown that the milestone is bugged and doesn't always trigger.

[fresh ice]

Ok I will work my back their

[pine relic]

you can just use a space station teleporter. The name of the starting system is in the pinned messages. The predator in the starting planet is an underwater eel / worm type guy. #nms-expedition message

[naive flame]

@remote thunder provocation and apex predator

[solemn niche]

I cannot for the life of me find the predator one, anyone else having trouble with it?

oh the starting planet

i just saw your message bliss

[pine relic]

oh good, you managed to read it before I pointed out that I had just answered the same question seconds ago lol

[strong dawn]

Found it but the data upload outage is preventing completion for now

[wraith junco]

I found 1 predator on rdv 1 system

[solemn niche]

@pine relic lol sorry homie

[remote thunder]

are you talkig about.. apex predator milestone?

[strong dawn]

Yeah. Can’t upload the data because of the connection issues

Guessing it’ll catch up

[remote thunder]

see message above yours <#nms-expedition message>

[pine relic]

its fine, but kinda funny that the next 2 messages after I posted it were asking the exact same thing lol

[remote thunder]

i got the milestone completed and didn't upload a thing

it completed as soon as i scanned it

[strong dawn]

Mines bugged then

Ah well

[ashen shore]

Are you sure you scanned the right guy

[strong dawn]

Yep

[solemn niche]

@pine relic im on the planet someone named Apex 12.0 but i cannot seem to find it, was getting frustrated been on this planet for over an hour running around

[strong dawn]

All creatures on both planets in the first system, including the aggressive one

Just a bug I’ll be fine

[limpid trail]

What is the first system

[pine relic]

the underwater dude in the starting planet was REALLY easy to find for me, just land somewhere in the ocean and it should go pretty quickly

[solemn niche]

heading there now

[pine relic]

if that somehow fails there's another one in the other planet in the same system, see pinned messages, but that one is a cave creature so it could be more time consuming to locate

[solemn niche]

@pine relic thank you. Trying to finish this thing off todayt

[midnight falcon]

pinging with C will show ore deposits right?

nope nvm F scanner does

[pine relic]

sort of. It'll make ore deposits glow, but it won't put any icon markers in the hud. To locate 'em by icons you'd use F instead.

[lethal mirage]

I have killed 450 monstrosities and 310 sentinels so far

[midnight falcon]

this is annoying no matter where I go all copper is gone

[summer kraken]

Am I the only one who likes this expedition way more than Adrift-

[midnight falcon]

I dunno I just been spending an hour finding empty copper ore spots back to back

[pine relic]

They were both fun but I liked adrift a bit more because of the eerie spooky lonely vibes

[summer kraken]

For me it was some of the bs missions that basically gate kept me from progressing.
Yes I still despise the Activated Copper shit.

[lethal mirage]

Assuming we need 100k kills for the next stage

I think I'm doing pretty good

[pine relic]

keep in mind that there is almost certainly a daily limit to individual contributions, so its advisable to pace yourself instead of trying to hardcore grind it :P

[lethal mirage]

I've just been killing things as i go

[ashen shore]

Also just to let you know we have already killed at least 6.5 million as a community and are only at 18% https://x.com/nomanssky/status/1816485922830970972?s=46&t=ae7VDw4y9LShQHOaxc8gqg

Sean Murray (@NoMansSky) on X

Join the Liquidators Vanguard!

Since yesterday the community have already come together to kill around 6.5 million bugs in our latest Expedition 🎯

☄️Clear planetary infestations
🦑Defeat the Brood Mother
🦀Earn exclusive insectoid armour
🤖Unlock the Liquidator Combat Mech

Twitter · Jul 25, 2024, 2:49 PM

[lethal mirage]

O h

That's a lot more than previously assumed

[willow rivet]

So I hatched the ||insect egg|| at the end of the last mission, can I still bring it back to my main save?

[lethal mirage]

Someone smarter than me math this out

[ashen shore]

You can get it from the quicksilver vendor in the expedition rewards tab

[pine relic]

My current plan is to grab a few grubs a day to try to slowly collect all the broodmother helmet drops while doing my daily contributions to bug genocide :P

[willow rivet]

Ah ok thanks!

[lethal mirage]

I should try and get those

Any idea what the droprate is?

[pine relic]

no clue

[solemn niche]

@pine relic thank you, that worked. Found the Eel.

[pine relic]

I assume that was more convenient than the dropzone 3 predator planet? :P

[solemn niche]

took me like 3 mins

[valid roost]

I'll be honest I prefer adrift slightly over this, mainly due to how eerie it was to be alone in an infinite universe

[willow rivet]

Also does anyone know where a close dissonant planet is?

Nvm found one

[solemn niche]

what is the Liquidation process? Do I just need to kill a bunch of stuff in each stage? Sorry first expedition.

[pine relic]

its a community goal, so everything you kill contributes a bit, but not enough to visually budge the % :P

[devout edge]

What if you’ve already scanned the eel and it’s still not counting to the 12 pav. Do I just have to keep searching for more eels?

[solemn niche]

ok got it! I was over here killing everything i could find and it wasnt moving lol

[old sierra]

I Willis like to give a massive thank you once again to @pine relic and @dry escarp I was stuck one part of the expedition and both of y’all helped put tremendously. With that another expedition complete

[ashen shore]

I don’t know what the % was when he tweeted that but the 1st milestone should be around 40-50 million depending on the %.

[dry escarp]

np mate

[summer kraken]

The \text is part of a LaTeX formatting for mathematical expressions, which isn't necessary here, by the way.

1. Given Information:

   • 6.5 million kills = 18% of the goal.

2. Calculate the Total Goal:
   [
   \text{Total Goal} = \frac{6.5 \text{ million}}{0.18} \approx 36.1 \text{ million}
   ]

So, the community's Liquidation Goal is approximately 36.1 million bugs.

Here's a concise way to share it, in Layman's Terms.

"Based on the latest update, 6.5 million kills represent about 18% of our goal. This means our total Liquidation Goal is approximately 36.1 million bugs. Let's keep up the great work, Liquidators!"

[pine relic]

and since its your first expedition, keep in mind that you don't need to necessarily do every milestone in order. You can leave some phase 2 stuff incomplete and move on to do phase 3 stuff then come back to phase 2 stuff etc

[ashen shore]

The 6.5 million was posted in the morning so it would round it up to 40 million due to progress throughout the day

[summer kraken]

I'd say that's reasonable.

[old sierra]

I have only done 8 of the expeditions i really hole one day they wont be “limited time” and we are able to re run then all using the expedition terminal in the anomaly

[summer kraken]

And sorry if it was confusing, I'm a fucking nerd-

😂

[solemn niche]

@pine relic got it! Thanks again.

[ashen shore]

I’m also a huge programming nerd so I completely understand

[summer kraken]

Yeyyyyy a fellow nerdddd

[pine relic]

Its based on a flawed assumption. If every player can only contribute a daily cap of (as a random example) 100 kills, then a large part of the 6.8 million kills will have been wasted, and calculating the percentages based on the 6.8 million will not reflect reality :P

[summer kraken]

I mean we don't have much to go off of.

I just tried using what information we were given, under the assumption there is no daily cap.

I excluded it because we are never told if that even exists for this.

[wide jackal]

Grubs can help you unlock the bug armor? I have 2 grubs from the expedition. If I take them back with me to the regular game that will help me get the armor?

[pine relic]

Indeed. Even if people datamined all the values, HG can tweak the knobs to speed things up / slow things down at will on their end so anything we do will be speculative in nature :P

[summer kraken]

You can't bring items collected in the Expedition back to your primary save.

Only the rewards earned from the Phase Completions can be collected on your primary.

[midnight falcon]

is there a bugs section

[ashen shore]

You can but you would have to end the expedition save. It’s possible to transfer items through the terminal in the anomaly

[midnight falcon]

I think restoring resource nodes is a new bug lol

[pine relic]

I do like to approach things scientifically just for the intellectual exercise but in practical terms its best to just go with the flow lol

[wide jackal]

Yes you can, before you exit you can put some stuff with you to take back in the terminal

[severe cloak]

what are the chances that we could form and organize a group of up to 10-15 people to take out literally every bug, sentinel, and horror in sight?

[summer kraken]

Oh? I never even knew or was able to do that.

Like at all.

[wide jackal]

My question is more about how to get the bug armor

[summer kraken]

Ahhhh...

My bad-

[wide jackal]

I’m totally down for that

[summer kraken]

If only Nintendo Switch wasn't shit, I'd join.

[pine relic]

It depends on how you start the expedition. If its started from within the anomaly in an existing save, you can do the item transfer thing (with a limited number of slots) but if it was started from the main menu as a fresh expedition mode save then that doesn't apply

[severe cloak]

if only such a feat was possible. doubt we could ever accumulate enough people to bulldoze enough creatures to unlock that flamethrower

[summer kraken]

Ah.

[summer kraken]

I would assume it'd still help quite a nice bit.

[severe cloak]

yea.

[summer kraken]

Especially if the Minotaur AFK farming strategy works in your favor.

[severe cloak]

m. true.

My original idea was system hopping as a group along a set path to destroy every dangerous creature in sight

[summer kraken]

That would work and be more fun.

[pine relic]

And you just summed up why HG puts a daily cap on how much each player / save can contribute to community goals :P

[severe cloak]

aaaaand HG sucks for that :T

[wide jackal]

I’m also down for that

[limpid trail]

Well this is just getting tiresome

[jade sparrow]

For deep sea monstrosities do I just need to find an ocean and go explore?

[wide jackal]

Holdup, the insect armor is a reward from this expedition?

[severe cloak]

the community goal would likely never be met because people dip from the expedition way too early to even contribute

[summer kraken]

Yes.

[pine relic]

That depends. The way you described is correct if you want to do it the 'legit' way but not if you'd rather cheese it to do it quickly before the next patch comes fixing the cheese method :P

[arctic crystal]

Anybody know the expedition progress is rn

[summer kraken]

Yep.

And that, frankly, is a very depressing yet possible reality.

[stray sluice]

the APEX Predator one . is that just a random mob on a planet ?:o

[jade sparrow]

I like cheese? What do I do lol

[arctic crystal]

Why is goal 2 at 3%

[pine relic]

kill any 3 random fish

[severe cloak]

no clue

[remote thunder]

examples <#nms-expedition message>, <#nms-expedition message>

[jade sparrow]

Ez

[solemn niche]

@stray sluice per @pine relic and it worked. Go to the first planet you spawn on Eardog, go to the water. Swim around there is a Eel there

[wide jackal]

Ohhh, then why was someone saying they needed grubs for it

[summer kraken]

I'm actually somewhat saddened by all this.

It seems HG may have made the goal a bit too hard for us to achieve as a community.

[summer kraken]

I dunno.

[stray sluice]

thanks :p

[wide jackal]

No, there are certain predators on certain planets. Check pins.

But also, in the system for part 3 there is an irradiated planet with an apex predator

[remote thunder]

that's probably to get the 4 helmets and 4 player titles, but that can be done off expedition as well

[limpid trail]

Close to just calling this expedition a bust for me. Not worth the trouble.

[ashen shore]

They would most likely manipulate how much progress each enemy would count for so that we can’t fail it. Every community goal is typically complete especially when it’s a main expedition.

[pine relic]

Nah. They're just taking into account that player activity is very front-loaded immediately after an update / expedition goes live. As player activity starts to normalize, they'll turn the knobs so things go faster. :P

[summer kraken]

Hopefully they do.

[remote thunder]

we hope anyway

[severe cloak]

yea. Thanks HG for putting a cap on how much each person could help forward a community driven goal on a limited time expedition where people would dip immediately off of after completing

[pine relic]

I'm guessing it'll take about 2 weeks to finish all 5 optionals

[summer kraken]

And I keep forgetting HG actively cares for its games-

I'm used to even INDIE companies (Motion Twin screwing over Evil Empire, thus ending Dead Cells a couple years before support was intended to end).

[severe cloak]

I'd say longer given well- over time, people would become less interested, or less people would join in because over time there wouldn't likely be enough people to play and finish the expedition maybe.

[pine relic]

Yep. HG is a very consumer-friendly dev even in the indie space. We've literally had 8 years of free DLC-sized updates every 4 months or so.

[severe cloak]

m

[summer kraken]

Yep.

[pine relic]

I can't really think of any company that does that lol

[summer kraken]

Seriously the Motion Twin situation sucks so bad because Evil Empire said they wanted to try and keep supporting the game until nearly 2025.

[severe cloak]

I'd say Team Cherry since the HK Voidheart DLC was free

[summer kraken]

All the DLCs were free-

[severe cloak]

m

[marble heath]

Even Elite Dangerous charges for major gameplay overhauls. The ability to land on planets is DLC and the ability to walk around on foot on the surface of planets is a totally separate DLC

[pine relic]

that's one of the reasons I dropped ED

it was like a full triple A game a year to keep up with the expansions

[ashen shore]

Team cherry’s reputation has sorta dropped for me considering the whole silksong debacle.

[summer kraken]

And apparently Silksong has a Tears of The Kingdom situation where it was originally an expansion (or DLC, I forgot) of the base game but had so much stuff that it's now a game of its own.

[marble heath]

Space Engineers has been treading on thin ice with this regard as well

[summer kraken]

Yes TOTK was originally a BOTW dlc made out of pure passion.

[severe cloak]

the reason it's taking so long is because it's in development hell. their kickstarter raised a million dollars, so they're not going to skip out and make a $500k game, they're trying to make a million dollar game

[summer kraken]

The fact they're still trying is admirable to me.

[severe cloak]

agreed

well hey, it'll hopefully be amazing when it does finally release

[pine relic]

It is admirable in todays terms, but like 10-15 years ago that would be like the bare minimum

[summer kraken]

Most just stop when stuff goes wrong.

Look at many FnF mods for example. Sonic EXE 3.0 was cancelled because something went wrong.

[severe cloak]

anyways, back on topic

[marble heath]

Larian has been doing some neat stuff with their free updates. Ironically they’re one of the few companies I’m literally begging to let me give them money for a DLC but alas we won’t be getting any

[summer kraken]

Yep, especially because the workers cared about their products.

And yes, as Xander said.

[severe cloak]

since this conversation would be more of an off-topic discussion

[summer kraken]

Yep lol

[marble heath]

On topic I came here to check the pins for that animal

[severe cloak]

k

[marble heath]

This mission is kicking my butt

[summer kraken]

It was a nice tangent, honestly.

[severe cloak]

yea

[pine relic]

there's an easier (underwater) one in the same system: #nms-expedition message

[severe cloak]

anyways, about that mission

I managed to get one in the center of the galaxy. it just kinda attacked me while I was powering up the portal

[marble heath]

Thanks for the rec I’d much rather search Eardog for sure it’s a decent planet

Might even build a base there I haven’t decided

[pine relic]

I'd recommend the eardog one first mostly because underwater creatures are easier to track down than cave ones

regardless of how nice the planet itself is

[lofty compass]

Finally managed to complete the expedition

[severe cloak]

gotta love multiplayer glitches

[marble heath]

I love how many Helldivers jokes I’m seeing at the objectives

[severe cloak]

insert "I'm doing my part" joke here

[marble heath]

Yep literally found one the millisecond I landed and jumped in. Thank you for getting me past that nightmare

[pine relic]

all that helldivers stuff goes right over my head. My knowledge of it goes pretty much only as far as 'thats a thing that exists and I think it might be a game'

[ashen shore]

It’s more of a starship troopers reference than a helldivers one.

Both this expedition and helldivers 2 take inspiration from starship troopers

[naive flame]

@pine relic didn't get apex predator from the fish

[pine relic]

that's unfortunate, try the cave one then, in the other planet, same system: #nms-expedition message

[severe cloak]

also, is 50 the limit on kills to help the community goal for the expedition? because it's stuck on "50 kills and counting" for both my friend and I, and I know I've killed more than 50 sentinels, bugs, and horrors

[pine relic]

by virtue of being an underground creature tracking it down could take a while

[pine relic]

There are varying theories about it. The more likely in my opinion is that 50 kills is the minimum amount of kills for a player to unlock the milestone AFTER the community finishes that stage. So that people starting the expedition a few weeks from now won't have it auto-completed.

[stray sluice]

found the Apex predator in a system marked with a star

[severe cloak]

hm. can the community goal be forwarded even when not in the expedition? or is it expedition exclusive? because under that theory, I don't see how players could come back and help with goal 2+ to get that milestone

given this.

[pine relic]

Easy enough to test, lemme switch to a non-expedition save

[severe cloak]

k

[pine relic]

Mm. I'm not seeing the community goal mission in my non-expedition save, but since I'm having trouble connecting to ODS at the moment, that could be why its not showing up.

If you notice in your log, there's the milestone mission, and a separate mission for the community goal itself.

[severe cloak]

well I'd think ODS has nothing to do with missions or multiplayer though

[pine relic]

if people outside the expedition still have the 'the liquidators' mission then their kills should count towards the community goal, in theory

[severe cloak]

maybe

[summer kraken]

It doesn't show up outside of the Expedition.

[marble heath]

So as far as the harvesting resources mission goes do I just have to find a sufficiently large patch of cactus flesh to make that work or am I misunderstanding what it’s trying to get me to do

[solemn niche]

Im literally trying to figure that one out too haha

[pine relic]

I did it by mining rocks and trees, not sure if cactus would work or not

[ashen shore]

Any mineable object should work

[marble heath]

Ok I think it’s glitched for me then because I went to a cave and mined the carbon based plants until I had 1k and I didn’t get the mission

[pine relic]

the procedure for me was basically: find a spot with a whole mess of trees and rocks, recharge mining laser, mine continuously (pausing briefly to avoid overheating) until the milestone completed.

Important to note that it took 3k+ resources for the milestone to count up to 900 in my case :P

[marble heath]

Oh nice one HG

[pine relic]

because HG math works in mysterious ways

[marble heath]

Also funny glitch I’ve been having is I keep getting random milestone pop ups for stuff I’ve scanned despite me being in space

[solemn niche]

i just did it

[marble heath]

Every so often “coldest temperature” will pop up

[solemn niche]

rocks and trees

[pine relic]

Sometimes those pop-up messages get delayed until the game recognizes you're no longer in combat

[lost summit]

Oh they’re letting me get my starship

[pine relic]

(or taking enviromental damage)

[lost summit]

Bugs are cooked

[pine relic]

Its a bit inconsistent but a big improvement. It was really annoying to get those popups while being shot at in earlier versions.

[marble heath]

Yep just took 3.5k carbon

That’s basically 900 I guess

[pine relic]

math is hard :P

[naive flame]

@pine relic think is bugged and can't get away from water need to make a new save

[pine relic]

making a new save sounds like a pretty extreme solution. I'm not entirely sure what you mean but if you're stuck, just reloading the last restore point should work.

[urban ridge]

anybody looking for the 12.0 pav, i found one

[severe cloak]

I mean

space is cold

not sure how this relates to the expedition but aight

[pine relic]

cool screenshot, but you may have sent it to the wrong channel :P

[buoyant escarp]

Went and found and scanned still didnt count it at all

[naive flame]

@pine relic can't get away from the water no fuel

[pine relic]

Ah, no fuel for the ship?

[naive flame]

@pine relic yh

[lilac heart]

whoops

[remote thunder]

try the other pinned in the channel

[severe cloak]

this however, belongs here, because I encountered this in the expedition, and still am on the expedition (got the apex predator milestone here)

[pine relic]

do you have some dihydrogen and ferrite dust on hand? if not you may need to go looking for nearby islands to find some to craft fuel with

[naive flame]

I'm in the mid on ocean

[pine relic]

yep, that's why I said islands :P it may take a while to swim around until you find one, but its still better than abandoning the save.

[naive flame]

Expedition Is save wide I think

[pine relic]

alternatively you could turn on multiplayer and get someone to bring you fuel

[marble heath]

Where you are you DeJinnz I can get you

[knotty tangle]

If you can find Organic Rocks, harvest one and it should give you a lot of mordite.

[fluid lintel]

Does this expedition really worth it?

[severe cloak]

maybe

[knotty tangle]

I'm stuck on the Blood in the Water challenge, only found 1 Abyssal Horror, hopping around an ocean and cant find any others.

[marble heath]

Its fun and I always like the opportunity to start from scratch with a new ruleset and objectives

[pine relic]

give it a try, if you don't find the expedition fun, and don't care about the cosmetics, then skipping it is a valid option :P

[marble heath]

The overall rewards are meh for me but I’m having a good time

The ship from the last expedition is hard to top it’s pretty rad

[knotty tangle]

I started from scratch and i've already got a better multitool and ship.

[pine relic]

Personally I'm kinda enjoying that its very action-packed.

[marble heath]

Same

[lethal mirage]

I still haven't gotten a straight awnser out of why is there a giant eye in the sky on the starting planet

[marble heath]

‘S cool

[lethal mirage]

Like WHAT IS THAT

[pine relic]

decoration :P

[marble heath]

He’s friendly go say hi

[naive flame]

@marble heath eardog -31.27, -58.48

[lethal mirage]

I did

[knotty tangle]

Question: does everyone start with the same equipment? I started with Scatter Blaster parts on my tool and a teal C class Hauler.

[lethal mirage]

He tried to eat me

[severe cloak]

this sucks

[lethal mirage]

Was it a brick?

[pine relic]

Well, its your fault for poking it in the eye. :P

[lethal mirage]

(very small wings)

I started with a blue brick hauler

[pine relic]

yep, mine has been down for the last few hours

[marble heath]

I may need to join your instance if you wanna shoot me your friend code

[knotty tangle]

no, mine was a Teal ship with wings.

[lethal mirage]

Picked up this sweet looking sentinel ship around the third point

[naive flame]

@marble heath I pm you

[lethal mirage]

Only B class but it looks amazing and matches my colors

[marble heath]

This was my strat as well same as the last expedition. Guarantee at least a functional ship

[lethal mirage]

Hope to upgrade to A class tomorrow once i get more nanites

[knotty tangle]

I upgraded to a Sentinel ship in the first drop zone system, im kind of poking around the systems for an ADV laser part to harvest bigger rocks.

[marble heath]

Sure

[lethal mirage]

Can the ||brood egg|| be modified in the thingamabob

[heady pilot]

Seems like the server measures the milestone progression in millions of bugs killed by all players in the expedition and each tier requires 50 million kills. Not sure that's going to happen and with how iffy the game servers have been I'm not even sure the game can count this stuff correctly anyway so HG might have to edit those milestones(which they can do server side without patching the game at any time in a few minutes).

[knotty tangle]

Also the Horrors spawned by alluring specimens dont count towards Blood in the Water.

[pine relic]

they counted for me

[lethal mirage]

For fat of the land one of the trees on a desert planet gives you a insane amount of carbon

[marble heath]

Guess we all just gotta do our part

[swift anvil]

anyone got spare grubs theyd spare so i can help with the goal?

[lethal mirage]

Like i broke one and got about 1000

[lethal mirage]

They do tho?

I killed one and it counted

The jellyfish count too

[swift anvil]

just kill fish. i just had to kill 3 fish and it gave me blood in the water

like any fish

[lethal mirage]

If you look at the liquidation quest thing it says you can kill sentinels for it too

I think basically everything except fauna count

For the general killcount

[knotty tangle]

Did it and it counted. shotgun any 3 fish and you got it done.

[swift anvil]

👌

[knotty tangle]

More fish for Fish Brothers.

[lethal mirage]

Also is it just me or do sentinels now get mad at you for killing the monstrosities

They didn't used to do that

[heady pilot]

Wait, blood in the water is the horror sharks spwaned by picking up alluring specimens...those should count...they did for me. Unless 5.02 somehow messed it up since I did it or you ran into some weird bug those should count. Fish probably shouldn't count but that doesn't really matter, better to have more options.

[knotty tangle]

were they spawned by messing with an egg or walking to a Point of Interest?

[lucid elk]

Struggling to mine 900 resources in one burst, any tips?

[swift anvil]

find a bunch of trees and shit close by, and just dont let your beam meter go to zero before you gather 900 total

[knotty tangle]

I just went after Organic Rocks.

[lucid elk]

I assume that it can't overheat either?

[swift anvil]

yea no overheating and no reaching zero

[lethal mirage]

Cactus trees!

[marble heath]

Has anyone tried to see if mining silicate powder with the flatten tool counts

[lucid elk]

I definitely spawned somewhere where resources are a bit too far apart for 900 in one go😂

[knotty tangle]

For Timberwolf, how am I supposed to spawn in a Minotaur?

[swift anvil]

it does and its way quicker

[lofty compass]

I easily got that done via “Organic” Rocks

[trail rock]

Apex prefator????

Where is it I went to like 3 diffrent recommend planets

[lucid elk]

I will try that, thank you so much!

[trail rock]

Use minotaur laser

It never runs out I swear

[lethal mirage]

You get a minotaur from the third infestation point

[trail rock]

Just keep holding it down

[heady pilot]

import a fully upgraded multitool with S class mining beam modules, maybe move that stuff in supercharged slots too. That's what I did and my MT was mining 200+ resources per tree and was basically not overheating almost at all...I did that stuff really fast.

[lofty compass]

@trail rock apex predator you can easily find

[lethal mirage]

Imagine porting in a multitool

[lucid elk]

Thank you so much!!

[lethal mirage]

(this message is sponsored by the per major update new save gang(

[median sparrow]

You wanna know my favorite part of this game is?

The mountains.

They make me exceptionally happy.

[lofty compass]

I didn’t even need to do that for the 900 resources part

[swift anvil]

whelp. ive completely disabled sentinels 8 times tonight, and did 6 vile broods. along with beating the expedition: "IM DOING MY PART"

would be nice if it didnt just say 50 and counting though

[lethal mirage]

Check your mercenary reputation!

Gives you a killcount

[swift anvil]

wheres tht

[lethal mirage]

Catalogue

[swift anvil]

not seeing it

nvm got it

[lethal mirage]

Under factions?

How many you got

[swift anvil]

whats yours

[wide jackal]

What's mordite used for?

We get is as a reward in part 3

[lethal mirage]

450 horrors 320 sentinels

[swift anvil]

not bad

[storm fiber]

I got myself a little problem. I have landed and I don't have enough juce to take off. do I just start a new expedition?

[swift anvil]

no just go hunt down what you need on the planet to recharge

[lethal mirage]

Trade in your sentinel loot for reputation at space stations in the right hand corner

[wide jackal]

make yourself some launch fuel or get some uranium

in part three there is an irradiated planet with uranium i'm pretty sure

Also, what does "get 900 resources in one burst mean"

I got 2k on my screen at one point and it didn't count

[storm fiber]

I am on a small island surronded by water, no resources on the island\

[swift anvil]

kk will do. does it carry over from the expedition

[swift anvil]

look underwater. scan everything

[storm fiber]

thx

[swift anvil]

theres always a way to get off the planet. just look for the right resources.

[wide jackal]

?

[swift anvil]

craft starship launch fuel or find uranium

[swift anvil]

means harvest 900 resources without overheating or letting your minign thing reach zero

[wide jackal]

I did that - all the way to 2,000 carbon

[swift anvil]

follow the number down in the lower right corner, while you have the mission pinned

[wide jackal]

ah, okay thanks - will do

[swift anvil]

np

does standing carry over from the expedition ?

[lethal mirage]

Yes (if you're keeping the save file)

[swift anvil]

cool. thanks

i did it on my main save

[tepid grove]

For the community milestone
What day/days are the fastest for progress

[lethal mirage]

Wait you can do that

[swift anvil]

yes theres a terminal in the back of the anomoly that allowed you to start it from your main save and move items over

[lethal mirage]

Huh

[swift anvil]

its right behind the nexus

[lethal mirage]

I thought people were cheating to bring multitools over

[swift anvil]

nope. you can pay nanites to bring stuff over. i didnt though. just sent myself some supplies

honestly the starting multitool in the expedition is perfectly fine. never felt the need to waste the nanites

[warm sedge]

i just claimed the atlas sceptre from expedition rewards and used that

totally free and its a solid tool

[swift anvil]

wait atlas sceptre?

[warm sedge]

yeah

[swift anvil]

you get that in the expedition?

[warm sedge]

the one from the expedition

you can go to the quicksilver guy

[naive ocean]

when i claim the Final Phase reward, will i be able to stick around for the optional objectives? I don't remember how it worked last time i did the exp from my main

[warm sedge]

and claim any expedition rewards you've unlocked

kinda like how it works onna fresh save

even if you're using an existing one for the expedition

[swift anvil]

yea its not available for me. i never did that expedition

[inland rain]

What percentage we at?

[warm sedge]

F

[midnight falcon]

how do I use the lock on follow thing? It says e toggles but nothing happens

[swift anvil]

i got all the other ones from this expedition though

[warm sedge]

awesome

[naive ocean]

or was it only when i return to the terminal that ill get locked out of it

[inland rain]

Only 19% 😭😭😭

[magic hazel]

ok so im not out of sync with everyone else, i keep seeing the number being higher for everyone else, is it a platform thing?

[inland rain]

Unsure bout that

[swift anvil]

..... so you cant equip the helmet to any race?

[midnight falcon]

Should there be a building or something at the first drop point?

[inland rain]

Yes

[quartz mist]

How do I get my itens back

[thorn crane]

does anyone have the coordinates for a planet with the 12pav predator? i have gone through at least 5 systems scanning every animal and haven't found a single predatory animal

[quartz mist]

¿

[thorn crane]

ok

[lethal mirage]

Starting planet

[solemn niche]

Eardog, Go to the ocean there is an Eel in the water

[lethal mirage]

Is the expedition in elucid or a different galaxy?

[solemn niche]

Starts in the Anomaly

[lethal mirage]

I started from making a new save

[swift anvil]

just call the anomoly from your save and go behind the nexus

[solemn niche]

Then you shouldve spawn on Eardog Sigma the first planet. Go to your Expedition Tab and click Phase One

[lethal mirage]

I've already beaten the expedition

[solemn niche]

Then your done

[lethal mirage]

I just wanna know if it starts in a different galaxy

[solemn niche]

No idea

[little idol]

So uh, I'm stuck on the infestation delta part of the expedition? Idk what happened, but I went to the site, used the terminal, and then nothing happened. When I select the mission again and have it active in the log, it shows me no info. Any ideas?

[midnight falcon]

Uh question about the expnsion slot rewards, why do I have one left over in my inv and I cna' tuse it?

[hollow idol]

How often are storms? Its the last one i have 😔

[full bane]

How many bugs do I have to kill in order to unlock the flamethrower mech parts

[lethal mirage]

Go to the exosuit outfitter or multi tool upgrader

[midnight falcon]

okay weird cause it let me use 2 right when I got them

[lethal mirage]

About 100 million, however this progress is between all the players

[storm fiber]

are the larval cores good for anything or just to sell?

[lethal mirage]

Can process them into nanites

[lethal mirage]

Do your part liquidators!

[full bane]

I guess I should’ve asked how to do the optional objectives

[solemn niche]

https://tenor.com/view/water-gun-tom-ellis-lucifer-morningstar-lucifer-spray-you-with-water-gif-17808346

aww cant use gifs in here

I think there is a cap on how much each player can contribute per day, or at least thats what i read from other posters earlier

[lethal mirage]

The optional objectives are the milestone progression

[midnight falcon]

does thi sjust complete itself over time?

[swift anvil]

it wont complete if people arent ginding

which means no new mech for everyone

[thorn crane]

scanned it but didn't get the milestone, it still says my record is N/A pav

[midnight falcon]

its a comm thing then?

[swift anvil]

yes

[solemn niche]

you need to get close tro it @thorn crane

[midnight falcon]

we have 6 weeks I think it should get close

[lethal mirage]

Progress the community milestone by killing basically everything

Do your part!

[full bane]

So the optional objective is also community based

[lethal mirage]

Yes

[rain lance]

Is the apex predator objective bugged? I’ve scanned multiple creatures other people said worked for them but it didn’t complete.

[swift anvil]

try to relog

[solemn niche]

@rain lance you need to get close to it

I got it when i Encountered it

[lethal mirage]

(you need to kill at least 50 to do your part)

[little idol]

Anyone?

[solemn niche]

try to relog?

[little idol]

I have

[solemn niche]

No idea, i just did that one and got it. Did you kill that massive bug that pops up?

[little idol]

No bug appeared for me