nms-expedition

[unkempt kraken]

@royal tundra

COMMUNITY RESEARCH

Current tier: 3/5

Tier 3 progress: 45%

[magic hazel]

ok so can i still contribute to the community missions when i leave the expedition?

[median sparrow]

Nope.

[magic hazel]

damn that sucks- i wonder whats gonna happen with the 5th milestone

[median sparrow]

We're gonna get it.

[magic hazel]

true, now im not gonna leave it unitl we get all milestones

[gilded geode]

how to get advanced mining laser in expedition?

need them radiant shards

[subtle fox]

Anyone have advice on how I can get my community effort to show properly? I loaded the game today and it's showing it back to 0%/phase 1.

I have restarted the game, as well as exited and re-entered the expedition through the terminal.

[raven plover]

Last mission

Thank god

[median sparrow]

Tech vendor in the anomaly.

[primal arch]

probably an ODS bug or something but if you wanted to know, we're 46% through phase 3 rn

[subtle fox]

I just put in a helpdesk ticket in case it's some weird PS5 error. Last I was in, we were at 90% in p2, and I hadn't gotten to claim that yet.

[viral holly]

I'm on pc gamepass and have the same error

[subtle fox]

........ It just randomly fixed itself. Wasn't even doing anything, just sitting in my ship when phase 2 suddenly marked as completed, and I can see the 46% now. So weird.

[brave rain]

Did you have 50 enemy kills? It doesn’t show up until then

[scenic axle]

How many kills have u, u can see it Mercenary Guild Milestones

[subtle fox]

I'm at 561. It's always shown the current progress.

It's like I wasn't online maybe, though I def was. Id even been running around on the anomaly with others around. I'm just chalking it up to a weird glitch.

[manic path]

!tier

[unkempt kraken]

@manic path

COMMUNITY RESEARCH

Current tier: 3/5

Tier 3 progress: 46%

[manic path]

That looks new

[scenic axle]

Its in german but 1424 bugs and 374 sentinel

[subtle fox]

Ah, it just dawned on me what you meant by "ODS" - I do think that was probably the issue.

[buoyant heart]

I heard there is additional headgear you can unlock in the expedition some how? is this true?

[primal arch]

ah yeah my fault. I know the online stuff was down in the beginning so that's what I figured it was

[scenic axle]

I think so i see some other type bug heads but dont know how

[buoyant heart]

is that tracking your sentinel and bug kills in expedition, i didn't see this will have to look for it

[median sparrow]

You get them from the Queen bugs randomly but not in the expedition.

[scenic axle]

It is in german but the icons the same

[scenic axle]

Thx

[buoyant heart]

oh the other bug helmets drop randomly off the queens in normal play? sweet nice to know

[median sparrow]

Yeah.

[raven plover]

Is this community mission or personal?

[primal arch]

community

[raven plover]

Bet

[median sparrow]

I'm gonna let you do your thing before I burst your bubble. 😛

[raven plover]

Lame

Be a homie

[median sparrow]

You're capped at a certain number of kills per day.

So you can't go hard in the paint to progress.

[raven plover]

Do i need those challenges for the expedition rewards

[scenic axle]

if everyone made 1500 kills, we would already be you

[primal arch]

if I did a nexus mission during my expedition, would it mess things up or would I still be good?

[median sparrow]

Nope.

[median sparrow]

Nope. You're good.

[primal arch]

so like when I go to do it, it says that it's taking me somewhere and it'll return me lol it'll return me to the expedition?

[lusty slate]

4 of the 5 new helms are obtained by squishing grubs to fight vile brood queens in the normal game. The other helm is part of an armor set awarded by the expedition.

[median sparrow]

It just means a different system.

So like, a warp.

[primal arch]

but once I'm done, it'll automatically send me back to the current one right

[median sparrow]

Yes.

[primal arch]

fire

boutta get myself 1800 qs for the culture

although idk why i gotta go to a different system to kill hazardous flora but still. As long as I can come back to this for the expedition

[median sparrow]

If you started this expedition from your main save. Your units, nanites and Quicksilver will move over to your main save when you end the expedition.

[primal arch]

beautiful

[raven plover]

Just completed the expedition lfg

[median sparrow]

It will also convert your inventory into units/nanites etc.

[raven plover]

Wut do

Just completed the expedition

[balmy void]

Almost 50%. We're averaging about 25% a day.

[median sparrow]

If you complete it now.

You won't get the option milestone rewards for free.

You will need to purchase them with Quicksilver.

[raven plover]

Which do?

[median sparrow]

They give you Minotaur modifications.

one of them being a flamethrower arm.

[raven plover]

How much quicksilver?

[median sparrow]

Probably hella.

I'm not exactly sure.

[raven plover]

So what should I do

[median sparrow]

You're probably better off just pausing the expedition and just chilling on your main save.

[raven plover]

Return to primary save

[balmy void]

I heard they will be like 3000 quicksilver a piece. Best to not end and wait for free.

[median sparrow]

Return should pause your expedition and send you back to your main save.

Don't quote me on that. I never tried.

[raven plover]

Wtd

[balmy void]

Yeah it will be fine, you can always return to the expedition later.

[raven plover]

I thought you got the multi tool?!

[median sparrow]

It's gross.

not sure why you want it, but you'd get that if you ended.

That would let you make a copy of it I think

[raven plover]

Oh you gotta wait for it to end

Got it

[ashen shore]

!tier

[unkempt kraken]

@ashen shore

COMMUNITY RESEARCH

Current tier

█████░░░░░ 3/5

Tier 3 progress

█████░░░░░ 48%

[swift flume]

you can copy the multitool if you return to the main save without ending the expo

just copy it from the terminal

[teal valley]

Whats the best way to hit 4 things with 1 gernade

[flat canopy]

find 4 things close together

whispering eggs work well, as do broodmothers spawning

Or walkers, since they have multiple separate hitboxes

[teal valley]

Thanks

[median sparrow]

The easiest way I know for sure is find a way point and land and quickly run to the pole that "maps" the point and saves.

And shoot grenades at it.

[lusty slate]

Dropzones also work. Lobbed like four of them around when I approached and got the milestone immediately.

[bold musk]

I mean that sounds right.living ships, cosmetic appearance masks, anything significant usually runs around 3k

[raven plover]

It’s only showing another one i found during the expedition

[gilded geode]

huh

ah

[cerulean olive]

100K nanites earned from sentinels. I'll take a day off tomorrow 😂

[cerulean olive]

Left arm and legs are 1,000. Chest 3,000 and right arm 2,400.
That's 7,400QS for all 4 parts.

[lost heart]

Whatever you are holding when you switch back to the main save will be what you can copy. So you have to switch over for each tool or ship you want to copy. Of course you can do tool and ship at one go.

Don’t be surprised if it shows the wrong name for a sentinel ship on the expedition terminal. When you click to copy it will show the right one.

[ashen shore]

Should all be 3000 each make the people who didn't do the expo or finished it early and didn't stay to help work for it lol

[lusty slate]

Honestly, the Sentinel grinding is the only hard part of this exped. Well, tedious.

[ashen shore]

I opted to do the minator kills and purple sentinel kills at same time

[cerulean olive]

Kill all waves and leave one alive. Hide from it, until their search ends. Then attack it to get 5 new waves. Rinse, repeat and grinding them is less tedious.

[lusty slate]

32 normal Sentinels and a walker already down because one went aggro during a vile queen fight lol

Fighting horrors and quads simultaneously is fun

[cerulean olive]

In case of having the community work for it, I'd say don't reward the parts to players who haven't contributed to the milestones.

[cerulean olive]

Summoned a Brood Mother, when horrors spawned and took on a sentinel during the fight. Had all of them coming for me at once. Minotaur, though, makes it an easy job.

[lusty slate]

Glad I copied my combat alien MT. They are pretty generous with the weapons this time, but my mine's maxed.

[cerulean olive]

I claimed the Atlas Scepter as soon as I reached the Anomaly. Came with almost all tech I have on it from my main save.

[lean gull]

Am I crazy, or did the Purge by Fire progress reset to 0? Or is it based on your star system and it isnt universal

[lusty slate]

ODS is probably being wonky again

[cerulean olive]

ODS acts up sometimes

[lean gull]

Ahhhh ok lol

[snow ruin]

Good that the expedition save gives you the plans for free. Though we don't know if this transfers to the main save if you did it through the anomaly, nor if it unlocks without using for your other saves if you claim the reward on the expedition save.

[lean gull]

Last I checked it was on 50%. We are doing great guys!

[cerulean olive]

I'm able to claim the already unlocked part on my Switch account on which I haven't started the exped yet. On my PS5 account, on which I am still actively grinding sentinels, I got them for free on both exped and main save.

[snow ruin]

For free?

[cerulean olive]

No. Switch account needs to pay for them. But you can claim them.

[snow ruin]

Yeah, that's how community goals usually works

[cerulean olive]

I haven't tried claiming them from another PS5 save, though.

[ebon urchin]

does the expedition end when we complete the quest or it end via the terminal in the nexus?

[snow ruin]

It's still great info

[lusty slate]

I wonder how this is going to go for the redux. Since the Liquidator parts unlock for everyone permanently. Will they change the community rewards in the redux to something else?

[snow ruin]

Shouldn't autocomplete as far as I know, might be more info in #nms-questions message (which is linked from the pins)

[raven plover]

How do you swap to a different multitool

[lusty slate]

Quick menu

[cerulean olive]

Perhaps the redux won't have a community goal at all.

I mean, it wouldn't make sense to redux the community goals, if the rewards can already be claimed from the QS store.

Changing them to different rewards wouldn't make sense.

[swift flume]

sorry i hopped off for a while, make sure that the multitool you have equipped in the expo is the one you want to copy it should show that multi in the copy thing

[lusty slate]

Though if they remove it, the whole "Do you part!" will lose some of its meaning

[snow ruin]

Might be another shot at getting them for free instead of for ?

[cerulean olive]

They can simply remove the Do Your Part entirely.

[cerulean olive]

I think most players can easily pay for them. Maybe new players would have trouble, though.

[swift flume]

pay for what

[snow ruin]

Indeed they would XD

[swift flume]

mech parts?

[lusty slate]

Remove a perfectly good Starship Troopers meme? How dare you. (joking) 😛

[cerulean olive]

I'm sitting on 150K QS and bought everything available

[swift flume]

its pretty easy to save up quicksilver tho

[snow ruin]

I think I have something like 1800 . Though I haven't been religiously doing the missions and have also had a while away from NMS

[swift flume]

doing the weekend missions alone can get you plenty

[ashen shore]

!tier

[unkempt kraken]

@ashen shore

COMMUNITY RESEARCH

Current tier

█████░░░░░ 3/5

Tier 3 progress

█████░░░░░ 51%

[ashen shore]

Ayy getting there

[cerulean olive]

I never actively farmed for QS, but always do daily and weekend QS missions.
There used to never be QS sources in space too, but I don't know if there still are some in the current state of the game.

[snow ruin]

I would kinda call always doing daily and weekend missions farming it, though XD

[median sparrow]

It's going WAY faster than when we first started.

[snow ruin]

Helps when ODS isn't down 99% of the time

[cerulean olive]

I don't do them for the QS, but more for gameplay.

[balmy void]

I got really bored with QS missions some time ago. I wish they'd give us new QS missions are maybe come up with new ways to get it. Those missions get so repetative after a while.

[cerulean olive]

Most missions in the game are.

Then again, they are easy too. So you can get rewarded well for low effort.

[teal cove]

!tier

[unkempt kraken]

@teal cove

COMMUNITY RESEARCH

Current tier: 3/5

Tier 3 progress: 51%

[median sparrow]

7 minutes previously.

You couldn't just...

You know..

[cerulean olive]

Scrolling up is hard.

[median sparrow]

So is eating glue.

People do it with ease.

[swift flume]

couldve gone up to 52 percent in those seven minutes

[median sparrow]

I could have eaten 52 crayons in that timespan.

[swift flume]

didn't know you were a marine

[median sparrow]

Not now, nor in a future life lol.

It's almost off screen.

Might need to queue it up again.

[snow ruin]

*points to pins*
Do I need to get Red?

[median sparrow]

Yeah, we can't read.

Hellen Keller time!

[cerulean olive]

Tbf, can't see pins on mobile Discord apps.

[median sparrow]

You can't?

[cerulean olive]

Well, at least not on iPhone or iPad.

[snow ruin]

!checkpins

[unkempt kraken]

Plz check the pins

-# 📱 Tap (top right) » Pins / 💻 Ctrl + P
-# Click for DM or run !Pins in #bot-spam

[snow ruin]

Should also work to click the title of the channel

[cerulean olive]

Nice. That didn't work before.

[median sparrow]

Or open the Pins on the Discord app. 😄

Time to restock and eat more bugs!

[cerulean olive]

Actually, it's time to sleep. 5am here now.

[snow ruin]

central european confirmed

[cerulean olive]

Yup.

[snow ruin]

I just woke up ;P

[cerulean olive]

👀

[snow ruin]

Time to do my part

[cerulean olive]

Go get 'em!

[slow jay]

is the new minotaur flamethrower Only obtainable from the expedition? cause there's upgrade modules for it in regular shops and it'll drive me nuts they're there if i can't get the weapon normally

[gilded ravine]

it'll be obtainable with quicksilver

currently behind an expedition community goal though

[teal valley]

Does kills on my main count toward the expedition goal?

[latent summit]

does the bug you get from the expo grow from just time?

[ionic bramble]

hey all, how does the community expedition push forward? I only just noticed that's a community event, not a personal achievement

[latent summit]

kills on planetary enemies

[ionic bramble]

is it just everyone's kills for horrors, broodlings, and mothers?

[latent summit]

and sentinels

[snow ruin]

Yup. And sentinels.
Up to 150 per day as far as we know

[ionic bramble]

oh right, and sentinels. Has it slowed down? Not a lot of people are playing the expedition? I'm not sure how much time is left...

[snow ruin]

Per person, of course

Quite a lot of time

About a month

[latent summit]

drastically sped up from before

bc ods

[ionic bramble]

ah, okay... so it's a bit of the long game. So, don't go back to my main once completing all phases! stick it out and crush enemies

[snow ruin]

Help by crushing 150 bugs per day, yes

[latent summit]

ye

[latent summit]

do we know anything about this?

ok

ty

[ionic bramble]

is there any way to tell how many I've killed in a given day?

will the mission text change if I'm at my daily limit?

oh, I see it now

I'm at 150+ for the day

alright, thanks!

[snow ruin]

Not really. The mission text only tells you if you'll get the reward. So for T1 it was 50+, T2 was 100+
You'll have to count loot or something like that to see how many you've killed per day.
@ionic bramble

[elfin hull]

!tier

[unkempt kraken]

@elfin hull

COMMUNITY RESEARCH

Current tier: 3/5

Tier 3 progress: 51%

[elfin hull]

Ohh, nice nice.

My internet's fucked so I can't contribute today sadly.

[ashen shore]

Do I just wait for the current optional goals to be done before I go onto my main save?

My phase 3 optional milestone isn’t counting rn, is there something I did wrong

[elfin hull]

You can play on your main save without having to end the expedition.

[snow ruin]

You can go to your main save a any point

[ashen shore]

Wait seriously

[snow ruin]

See pins

[elfin hull]

Yup, you can even copy over your expedition multitool and ship. But you can't transfer items from expedition to main unless you end it.

[ashen shore]

Thanks for the info guys

You people are nice people

[woeful osprey]

is there still a cap on how many kills can be contributed?

[snow ruin]

As far as we know, yes

[indigo falcon]

yes, there has to be, otherwise a few bad eggs would game the system and complete the entire set of goals via exploits, without community assist

[woeful osprey]

makes sense

[soft edge]

!tier

[unkempt kraken]

@soft edge

COMMUNITY RESEARCH

Current tier: 3/5

Tier 3 progress: 52%

[snow trench]

What is the cap? Like how much grinding should someone expect to do when wanting to contribute?

[snow ruin]

It's explained in the pins, but 150 per day

[snow trench]

Thank you!

[indigo falcon]

you don't have to do that much, of course, just doing the 150 total is enough to qualify you for the item once the progress is complete. and if you want, you can always kill more things (salvaged glass is always nice regardless)

[snow ruin]

Well, if the pattern holds it will be 250 to qualify for all the items

[indigo falcon]

yup

[manic path]

!tier

[unkempt kraken]

@manic path

COMMUNITY RESEARCH

Current tier: 3/5

Tier 3 progress: 52%

[ionic bramble]

I noticed several of this black, maybe purple, hauler at the Anomale recently. Is that an end of expedition reward?

[indigo falcon]

no

[thin notch]

anyone help me kill 4 giants for expedition quest?

[indigo falcon]

you might want to try #nms-lfg-or-trades for that. but also there are are few bases in the drop zone 4 system that lead to walkers on an aggro sentinel planet, you could try doing that (the walker isalready present at op centres on such worlds)

[thin notch]

ty

@indigo falcon by chance do you know what the 4th system name is? ive been flying around aimlessly into other systems trying to find an aggro planet not knowing there was bases

[indigo falcon]

those are all pinned in here, you can just check the names

[thin notch]

ty ty

[flint totem]

bruh just gained s dreadnaught on first try inside expedition

2nd time i've been this lucky. 1st dreadnaught needed 16 reloads on main save

[snow ruin]

Nice

[flint totem]

heck yeah

[indigo falcon]

I just got a boring old C class (venator, which is my preferred style) but given that I can't transfer it back to the main save and the main save has an S one, it's just fine

[hollow kraken]

Find a aggressive sentinel planet and use the Minotaur cannon

Relog to reset the sentinels

!tier

[unkempt kraken]

@hollow kraken

COMMUNITY RESEARCH

Current tier: 3/5

Tier 3 progress: 53%

[hollow kraken]

That is an increase of 1% in an hour

[bold nebula]

Anyone got the head cosmetics from the brood mothers? I've ended the expedition and been crushing the juicy grubs and grinding the brood mothers but still haven't gotten one

[hollow kraken]

At this rate it will take no more than a week per milestone

[indigo falcon]

it should be around a 20% drop rate we think, on a regular save. but you might have bad rng

[rose veldt]

Yeah I've got them all

[bold nebula]

Fucking hell. I've crushed 8 and still haven't gotten one

Should I have done it before ending the expedition? By switching to primary save ?

[rose veldt]

It didn't even took to long
Around 20 for all 5(4)

[indigo falcon]

it doesn't matter when you do it as long as it's not in the expd version of the save

[bold nebula]

Back to grinding then

[primal arch]

Pretty close to wrapping up the expedition tbh need to figure out how to find and kill the walkers

Actually a few sentinel stuff is left

[indigo falcon]

so either go to wave 5 on a regular planet (not dissonant), or go to an aggro sentinel world and find an operations centre there, they have a walker slready present. there might be a couple bases visible to you from the 4th drop zone space station for that aggro world by op centres

[somber remnant]

Got a question. For Fat of the Land, it says collect 900 resources in 'one burst'

Any idea how literal that is?

[dusky oracle]

question about killing bugs, whats the best method to get to 150 kills? do I have to go from one spot to the other spawn spot?

[ornate wing]

You just need to combo off were the counter doesn't reset. Best source is finding Metal Fingers.

[somber remnant]

Ahh

[dusky oracle]

you can find a planet with a lot of trees, rocks, but watch for overheat

[indigo falcon]

ok so, find a bunch of resources like the carbon eggshaped plants near a cave entrance, shoot them all, tap/release to keep the beam from overheating, make sure the milestone is pinned so you can see the counter in the lower left, this worked for me

[ornate wing]

If you catch them early were they spawn at (usually by the save marker) you can use a plasma blast and kill the entire wave each time.

[bold nebula]

Finally I got one helmet after crushing 25 fucking grubs. Wtf

[dusky oracle]

cool, how to respawn them?

[somber remnant]

Can't just hop in ship? XD

[indigo falcon]

you don't have to kill 150 bugs. whack some sentinels and/or some biohorrors too, easiest way to get the numbers up

[dusky oracle]

gotcha, thx

[ornate wing]

To answer your question tho, just crush their eggs if they are around. Will usually trigger another attack early.

[dusky oracle]

ok thx

[wraith junco]

Abandoned buildings. they have multiple whispering eggs and each spawns wave of horrors.

[indigo falcon]

if you really want more bugs, pick up the juicy grubs you see around, crush those to release more. but it's slow going that way. sentinels on a high sentinel planet are the fastest imo

well really fast is grav balls on an aggro sentinel planet, heh

[bold nebula]

Got one more! Just two more to go

[smoky thorn]

So i was gonna try to find a vulture donor but i got to thinking. Am i going to loose my freighter and ships when my expedition switches to a normal save?

[ornate wing]

If it's a fresh save (as in you started in Expedition), AFAIK no.

[dusky oracle]

thanks I can use signal booster correct?

[wraith junco]

Signal booster, ship ping scan, map charts, exocraft scanner

[dusky oracle]

thanks

[granite ridge]

Or (aggressive) sentinel killing spree with a reload after each each 5 star wave killed

[verbal ocean]

how do i install the minataur hand part unlocked in liquidator expedition in my normal save after buying it from quicksilver synthesis?

[acoustic jacinth]

!tier

[unkempt kraken]

@acoustic jacinth

COMMUNITY RESEARCH

Current tier: 3/5

Tier 3 progress: 54%

[ashen shore]

Oh no progress has stalled again

[balmy aspen]

I did it in my Minotaur with maxed out mining laser. Just stood amongst a bunch of mineable stuff, like rocks and trees, and kept mining until I hit 900.

[elfin hull]

Wifi's back.

I'm locking in boys.

[ornate wing]

You install it like a Tech directly on the Mino.

[verbal ocean]

will it work if i have sentinel upgrades intalled on the minator?

[granite ridge]

Yes

[hollow kraken]

Is ODS working?

[ashen shore]

Yes

[ashen shore]

WOW. Some ppl are really trash. They make bases near dropzones with huge number of itmes to crash other peoples games and not allow them to land either. I thought how bad could it be if I play my first expidition with multiplayer on but seriously, to anyone who does this you all are trash.

[limpid swift]

Hey guys? I can't find the expedition tab? I don't know where it disappeard

Done, apparently it was a visual bug

[crimson trail]

It is best to report such issues as feedback through the proper channels including ideas to fix the problem at hand. You are right in the fact that things that negatively impact the player experience should be prevented where possible.

You can submit feedback through the Zendesk site.
https://hellogames.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

[acoustic jacinth]

I am honestly shocked. I was gone from NMS for 1 week and we already have completed 2 Stage of the Optional Milestone?

[hollow kraken]

Yup

[ashen shore]

I have reported the bases but HG can implement a condition like no bases with 3000u of the objectives. will make this much easier

[hollow kraken]

Well I just leave multiplayer off because the ability to pause is very useful especially in combat

[ashen shore]

I relaunched the game and kept it off from the main menu only but i am still seeing other bases for some reason

[royal tundra]

!tier

[unkempt kraken]

@royal tundra

COMMUNITY RESEARCH

Current tier: 3/5

Tier 3 progress: 54%

[crimson trail]

Sounds like a good solution!

[elfin hull]

Where is this?

[ashen shore]

Like literally at the first drop zone in phase 1 of expiditon i.e. Objective no5 phase 1. Someone made like 3-4 bases aorund the landing site making it ahrd for anyone else to land nearby and enclosed the base computer in a wooden box so that no one can take the screenshot

[elfin hull]

Must be recent then.

Let me have a lookie.

[wraith junco]

Report base from Quick menu

Turn pvp off

[boreal violet]

Easiest way to get the "fire in the hole" achievement with the plasma launcher?

[ashen shore]

Shoot a egg and blast rgem as they crawl out

[uncut grotto]

How far along are we on optional missions

[boreal violet]

Phase 3

Half way

[marsh plover]

Ohhh I didn’t know the optional was everyone’s progress I thought it was just me thank god. Yall are awesome. I’m doing my part

[wraith junco]

Half way there 🎶

[nova isle]

Any1 has a planet for the mile stone apex predator?

Cant find 1

[wraith junco]

[craggy echo]

I don’t get how the community awards work? Can people freeload or is there a minimum you need to hit for each tier personally?

(Please don’t take this as an indication that I intend to freeload)

And on that note how do I check my personal contribution?

[wraith junco]

Everyone adds to the pile. U can do the minimum. There is 150 kills limit per day

[craggy echo]

Ah

[left ether]

if you select "purged by fire: 3" in the secondary missions it will give you a popup saying approximately how many kills u have

[wraith junco]

In milestones in mercenary guild tab u can check kill count

[craggy echo]

Cool thanks

[wraith junco]

Buggs drop meat so u can look on that number

Sentinels drop glass but its not 100% drop

[left ether]

btw how come its moving so slowly again? or is it just me

[wraith junco]

HG tweaked the speed after the ods initial problems

Also some are already done with expedition

And they dont feel like it to go back

[left ether]

ahhh yeah makes sense

[nova isle]

How do I find Those pinned planets for the apex predator mission?

[faint sand]

that annoying 'can't land anywhere' bug is back -.-

[granite ridge]

Visit the systems they're in. The majority is found in dropzone systems. Those are the one you (will/did) visit during the expedition.
Either Teleporter travel there (when you activated that system's station teleporter) or look in your galaxy map for the systems you visited
#nms-expedition message

[snow ruin]

Just gonna clear up this false information: The popup that comes when you select the Purged by Fire isn't how many you've killed that day, it's telling you if you've reach the minimum to be eligible for getting the reward for free on that save. So for Purged by Fire tier 1 it said "50 and counting" when people had killed over 50 and we hadn't yet gotten it done as a community.
The only way to figure out how many you kill per day is either looking at the loot you get from killing them or looking through your mercenary guild tab before and after you kill the enemies.

[lusty slate]

!exptime

[unkempt kraken]

-# to view info below, enable embeds

Expedition 14: Liquidators

Event ends <t:1725282000> (<t:1725282000:R>)

See Pins in #nms-expedition & run !Expedition in #bot-spam

[left ether]

oof sorry my bad

[snow ruin]

No worries, it's easy to misunderstand it.

You're not the first, and probably not the last

[gilded geode]

did anyone already finish expedition?

or waiting for something

[snow ruin]

Yes and yes

Someone has finished the expedition, at least some of us are continuing to do our part each day for the community goal

[gilded geode]

so can i store valuables at termius to not forget these?

without finishing expedition

[snow ruin]

Should be possible to just store stuff there without finishing the expedition as far as I understand, yes

[gilded geode]

oh nice

[wraith junco]

Risk of stuff vanishing . Not recomended

[gilded geode]

ok nvm

so where should i store fun cool stuff

[granite ridge]

ship/exosuit/container/freighter

[snow ruin]

Oh really? I haven't fetched everything I took into the expedition, and if it vanished that would be a savage bug.

[wraith junco]

My way is When u get a freighter make storage room specialy for stuff u want to bring back.

[hollow cradle]

!tier

[unkempt kraken]

@hollow cradle

COMMUNITY RESEARCH

Current tier: 3/5

Tier 3 progress: 56%

[hollow cradle]

Insane!

[wraith junco]

U can also name the storage

So it will be harder to forget

[snow ruin]

I can't find any reports to support your claim of this. Do you remember where you learned it?

[wraith junco]

Learned from freighter refiner to not leave stuff around if its not storage container or ingredient storage as a precaution.

[snow ruin]

Yeah, that's quite a different scenario than this, I think. Do you have evidence to support your notion that the expedition terminal is not the same as a storage container?
The refiner thing I've heard about, especially in relation to the stellar extractors close by them. But there aren't really other things nearby the expedition terminal

[hollow kraken]

Well now looking at it, the atlas staff has a larger damage potential then my expedition multitool

With all of the free weapons

This A class staff is somehow better than a decked out S class multitool

Looking at the past expeditions list it seems I could have gotten it without save editing anyway cuz it seems the year’s expeditions get rerun around November

[jagged sedge]

I'm hoping for a redux of the 'blighted' expedition - I was unable to play the original

[hollow kraken]

Maybe if we get 3 this year like last year then we will get an extra one last year it was 3

[jagged sedge]

Sounds good to me

[hollow kraken]

But then again last year the releases were in feb,jun and then aug skipping the expedition in may from the previous years

This year we did get adrift in may

[indigo falcon]

who knows, maybe worlds part 2 will bring a third expedition with it

[hollow kraken]

Yeah that is what I think too

[jagged sedge]

Sean is a wild man, who knows what he's cooking up for us 🙂

[hollow kraken]

Fourth*

Liquidators is the third

[indigo falcon]

oh yeah, fourth! counting is hard

[hollow kraken]

How much of a gap has there been between one expedition ending and the next one beginning in the previous times?

[jagged sedge]

OOoo, a chart!

[hollow kraken]

It’s a solid maybe on worlds part two having a fourth expedition considering if it does come out mid September it puts the expedition ending very close to November and the holiday reruns

[snow ruin]

Since I got no answer to this I'm gonna assume the answer is no, there is no evidence to support the claim that the expedition terminal can lead to items vanishing.

[lusty slate]

The Blighted that ran a few months after the Switch launch was its redux. Is that the only expedition on the Switch you missed? Bummer.

[limpid swift]

need help locating 12.0 predator, anyone has one and can i join your session?

[wraith junco]

[lusty slate]

Kinda hoping for just three this year. Then they can run another remix.

Just a few more walkers and I'm finished.

[hollow kraken]

Me too

[full gull]

There's a planet with that name in the system and then a bunch of communication points clumped together to indicate the exact spot. It's quite hard to miss

[knotty marsh]

Guys, you're not doing your part hard enough, it's obvious in the numbers.

grind like hell

[gilded geode]

are all grub cocoon pets the same or not

[median sparrow]

You can only do your part so much.

There is a daily cap.

[gilded geode]

what

[woeful niche]

You can contribute up to 150 kills per day to the optional milestones.

[lusty slate]

Finishing up the walker milestone right now. Trust me, some of those counts are definitely mine. 😛

[limpid swift]

Do you guys also have the problem where your expedition tab disappears?

[silk jay]

can someone show me

the rewards

for this expedition

[silk jay]

what r the rewards for this expedition

is it the new mech?

or can that be obtained normalyl

whats the liquidator

[buoyant heart]

liquidator parts for the minataur mech

and bug gear i'll show u screenshot in a sec

i'll msg it to you i cant post pics here idk why

and a good S-class multitool that looks kinda cool

[pearl wren]

guys why whenever i try to talk to the npcs in the space station they dissapear along with their ship

[indigo falcon]

turn off multiplayer, save-exit-reload, try again

[pearl wren]

okay i will try

[buoyant heart]

so turn down settings like, turn off Vsync, this is a must for all games unless you actually see vertical tearing, this should not be default in games idk why it is.

[pearl wren]

it worked i think

[buoyant heart]

turn down or off some of the extra's like anbient occlusion, turn on FSR balanced

[lusty slate]

Walkers done! Just the RD5 stuff and that's it.

[buoyant heart]

nice, i just finished last night!

be sure to put in some extra work slaughtering some bugs or sentinels 🙂

[lusty slate]

Parked myself on an aggro planet next to a grav ball patch. Pick up ball, wipe out all waves until disabled. Save, reload, repeat.

[buoyant heart]

i slaughtered tons of extra's by using the minataur and killing entire brood spawns that pop from the eggs by hammering them with aoe cannon they die the second they spawn over n over at each building i went to at each egg pile

[buoyant heart]

that did not even seem necessary to me

i always found multipule grav balls

so i looted one ball, kill them all, loot another ball kill them all

and usually there were sentinels within scan view to agro anyway

was zero need to reload to spawn sentinels

[royal tundra]

!tier

[indigo falcon]

whatever works. I just taunted visible ones, but if you want to reload, that works too

[unkempt kraken]

@royal tundra

COMMUNITY RESEARCH

Current tier: 3/5

Tier 3 progress: 57%

[lusty slate]

I like to have a break between waves. The disabled time gave me breathing room to save and clear inventory.

[buoyant heart]

yeah i did the same, agro ones in scan range/visible , if none , pick up grav ball

[lilac star]

If i collect every reward except the optioanl ones, because idk how to get them can i still get them afterwards

[indigo falcon]

for the 'kill 32' I did not let the waves get up to 5, just kept them at 2, kept the summoner alive, lots of drones that way

[buoyant heart]

i heard you do get them when it completes, the optional ones. my first expedition tho so idk either.

[lusty slate]

If the RNG abides. I tried that, but two planets straight I landed all had no Sentinels or grav balls in sight.

[indigo falcon]

did it in one session w/ no pauses, it was fine.

[lilac star]

is it a community mission`?

[buoyant heart]

ya

[indigo falcon]

if you do not wait for the community missions to be complete before exiting the expedition, you will need to pay quicksilver to get the items instead

[lusty slate]

Didn't feel like hunting, so just teleported to a system with an aggro planet so I didn't have to.

[buoyant heart]

my issue is i don't know how to move my stuff from expedition back to main game.... how do i put items into the expedition terminal at nexus? i asked in help, guess no ones awake yet lol

[indigo falcon]

lotta player bases near stuff too. although I get it if you prefer to find things yourself

[lusty slate]

I copied my maxed MT, didn't take much time.

[indigo falcon]

there's a stash box at the terminal, you can put up to 8 tech and 24 resources in it

[lusty slate]

Honestly, I appreciate how NMS has multiple ways to achieve the same thing. There's no right way.

[indigo falcon]

it's the same way you send stuff to the expedition save from an existing save

[buoyant heart]

most annoying part for me in expedition was bases and comms on planets, only cause when trying to fly to a planet it would be hard to target a specific area due to all the markers, other then that it was np

[buoyant heart]

yeah where do i do that? not just the terminal but something else next to it?

[indigo falcon]

no, the exedition terminal itself is what you want to use

[coarse garnet]

Can we get the liquidator Minotaur upgrade on a normal save ?

[buoyant heart]

cause when i open the terminal i dont see my inventory or a way to move stuff when i click

[lusty slate]

Same terminal you used to start the expedition.

[indigo falcon]

what do you see? wanna share a screenshot?

and, to confirm, you're in the expedition version of the save when you click it, right?

[jagged sedge]

Aw maaan, that figures ...

[lusty slate]

Tried that too. There wasn't anything for Sentinels when I looked. That's dependent on uploads.

[indigo falcon]

yeah, I try to re-upload my two bases every day but who knows which ones are visible, it's a crap shoot

[gloomy trail]

Whats the progress on the community thing for exterminating the bugs

[indigo falcon]

57% (of tier 3)

[coarse garnet]

2 and half

[gloomy trail]

How many more weeks left in the expedition then

[lusty slate]

So yeah, aggro planet was a a surefire, so I did that.

[indigo falcon]

it ends Sept 2, lots of time

[gloomy trail]

Ah alr

[buoyant heart]

yeah i will go there and message you, im in my main save atm, just refining stuffs while on discord wake n bakin i just literally couldn't figure out how to actually move items into that terminal lol

[gloomy trail]

Ngl first time i ever used the minotaur and now im addicted

[indigo falcon]

don't message me in particular, I might not be paying attention, just post here and ask, someone will be able to explain

[buoyant heart]

whichever

[lusty slate]

The cannon has a looong range, which is nice.

[gloomy trail]

I kinda just wish i didnt have to take apart the geobay for it anytime i move somewhere

[buoyant heart]

i just port my freighter and use that to summon it anywhere i want

you get given a free freighter, i just used the first free freighter from warping inside the expeidition

[gloomy trail]

I wish they add a freighter revamp ngl

[lusty slate]

I didn't bother with a freighter lol

[buoyant heart]

threw some storage in it , it came with a exocraft tele terminal in it already was cool

[silk jay]

do that

slide me

[buoyant heart]

i just used it for the minataur and storage

[silk jay]

what is the liquidator parts?

what they do and what they look like

[buoyant heart]

for the minataur

[silk jay]

what the parts look like

[royal pendant]

Guys i have some trubles finding a 12 pav predator undergroudn, some tips on where to find him?

[full sail]

is the part 4 of expedition just really far off or am I misunderstanding how the galaxy map work, warped for like hours now no end in sight for the next system?

[indigo falcon]

the pins in here have several possibilities for those

[indigo falcon]

https://www.nomanssky.com/worlds-part-i-update/ search for "Liquidator combat mech"

[limpid swift]

I am near Alluring Specimen, but where are the sea monstrosities?

[frozen merlin]

never done and expedition before... have no tech, but pleanty of mats. my multi tool and ship will keep the tech they have on them when i start?

[indigo falcon]

something is wrong. go back to drop zone 3 (via space station teleporter) and try again and make sure you have 'expedition' pinned in the galaxy map, not 'galactic core'

[limpid swift]

you start with a new ship and MT

[indigo falcon]

go right up to the glowing orb and harvest, repeat until the horror is revealed

[frozen merlin]

@limpid swifti thoght you can use the same ship and mt with nanites at the anomoly?

[silk jay]

so i can get it after expedition over

thanks

[full sail]

I've had it going all the time, but I'll try that

[indigo falcon]

if you end the expedition early before those community goals are complete, you will need to pay quicksilver for the items

[silk jay]

so i cant get it base game?

HAVE to do expedition?

mandatory?

[indigo falcon]

save-exit-reload too after you get back to drop zone 3, just to be sure

[full sail]

ok

[indigo falcon]

you can get these parts for quicksilver if you do not play the expedition.

[silk jay]

oh ok phew

sweet

[full sail]

Which one was expedition 3? lol

Can't remember the name

Think I found it

[full sail]

Yep, found it, thanks for the help. it was only 2 systems away, not like 50+ or something that I did...

[indigo falcon]

Cartographers, I remember well because I hated it 😛

[wraith junco]

Whaaaaat it was the most beloved community exp that they reruned it 2x times xd

[lusty slate]

Voyagers is easily my least favorite so far.

[wraith junco]

It was mini version of the pioneers

[lusty slate]

Annnd done! Except for tiers 3-5 though, obviously. Going to get breakfast. Then do the QS.

[lusty slate]

I have an RL friend who thinks it was only picked for the remix to coincide with the LNF announcement that happened at almost the same time. Since Cartographers takes place mostly on a single planet.

[gilded geode]

no chitin pants?

[indigo falcon]

I got a horrible spawn for that one, on a tiny island in the middle of the water, had to swim back and forth to everything, and the signal booster sent me back and forth from site A to site B, back to site A, took me hours to get out of that mess. It will remain in my eternal list of hate 😛

(not to mention that it took a ridiculous amount of time to find somewhere I could finally put a base computer that wasn't already claimed)

[indigo falcon]

bugs don't wear pants on their 6 or 8 or 20 legs 😛

[royal pendant]

guys i only got 12/13 eggs of the monsters and i can't find anymore structures with my sight, any tips on that?

[gilded geode]

chitin set without pants?

[granite ridge]

you'll encounter more at the other dropzone sites

[royal pendant]

i can chose with part of the mission i follow?

[indigo falcon]

airless world for more eggs, or trade nav dta for distress signal maps and spam open those until you find another abandoned building, or play the rest of the expd and keep your eyes open for one

[lusty slate]

Oh wow. I played the remix and I lucked out with a good spawn point. Can totally see the hate, yeah.

[indigo falcon]

you can pin almost any milestone and work on that (obviously the drop zone/indested site ones go in an order)

[indigo falcon]

you were lucky, to be fair I imagine most players had a better experience than mine 😛

also I did fgure out one could refine herox so I didn't have that issue at least!

[balmy aspen]

!tier

[unkempt kraken]

@balmy aspen

COMMUNITY RESEARCH

Current tier: 3/5

Tier 3 progress: 58%

[flint totem]

Moving right along

[indigo falcon]

I guess that by Wednesday we'll be starting tier 4

with most of a month left to do the last two tiers.

[lusty slate]

It helps that there's a max that resets every day. Not like Omega's community milestones that were dependent on scanning a limited number of items from a single planet...

[indigo falcon]

ewww well that's unfortunate (I missed that expedition, might do the redux)

[lusty slate]

Yeah, we were stuck on tier 5 for a month. Fun times

[frozen merlin]

question.... just started an expedition... in space but cant recall the anomoly

[lusty slate]

Need to warp out of the starter system first

[frozen merlin]

ahhh got ya. ty for info

[lusty slate]

It had an insane QS payout though...

[indigo falcon]

so I hear, some players went through it multiple times for that reason

[manic path]

!tier

[unkempt kraken]

@manic path

COMMUNITY RESEARCH

Current tier: 3/5

Tier 3 progress: 59%

[indigo falcon]

a reminder to scroll back and see if someone ran that command in the past screen or so... and a note that #bot-spam awaits all your bot command needs.

[lunar orbit]

can anyone give a rough time estimate for the communuity goal? does each tier take longer to obtain than the last, and if so is there usually a common time for each tier to be achieved in the time the expeditions are active?

this is my first expedition so I'm not quite sure how they play out

[indigo falcon]

so far they are moving right along, as players continue to do some daily kills to help with progress. I guess we might finish up with tier3 on Wednesday and then we'll see what tier 4 looks like, it will be two tiers left with about 4 weeks to complete

[snow ruin]

From the datamined information (links to it in the pins) it should be about the same additional number of kills for each tier

[indigo falcon]

that's if we have about the same number of users still playing the expedition then.

[soft pilot]

hi, is there a way when looking at galaxy map to tell which guild will be at station?

[flint totem]

Ship needs economy scanner i think

[soft pilot]

i thought that knowing the race helped, it does not, just got 4 vakeen systems in a row where the guild was merchant. 🙂

i have economy scanner

[granite ridge]

afaik, the region sets the guild. race may vary

[soft pilot]

region?

oh well, guess i'll continue hopping blindly 🙂

[granite ridge]

"The region of a given star system can be learned in the Galactic Map by selecting "Expand" when reviewing the system's details."

[flint totem]

From the fandom wiki: "The factions controlling a system also determine the majority of ships coming into the space station."

Also, "Different systems are controlled by different factions and multiple factions cannot control the same system."

[soft pilot]

does not seem to be regions, i went to a system i know to have a merc guild in station, visited the 2 nearst systems, both ended up to be merchant guild

[lusty slate]

You could have been on the border of two regions

[indigo falcon]

uh, the faction control;ling the majority of ships -> this means that a gek space station has more haulers, a korvax space station has more explorer ships, and so on

[lusty slate]

Right. The dominant race of the system is what dictates the number of ship types. But galaxy region is what dictates the ruling guild (Mercenaries, Explorers, Merchants).

[soft pilot]

@lusty slate nope, same region, so it's def not determined by regions

i have visited 12 system in this same region since i started this expedition, only 2 out of 12 are merc guild

most others are merchant guild

[lusty slate]

Ahh, I didn't think about that. It's expedition mode. I wonder if they altered stuff for it like they did vile brood.

[soft pilot]

so blind hopping it is 🙂

it seems that it would be a waste of time to make an alteration like that, can't think of a single reason why

i will see if i can visit place in couple different other regions

[lusty slate]

If someone on main could check regions and compare...

It could also be just a bug.

[soft pilot]

NMS has bugs? I thought it was all features 🙂

[snow ruin]

This expedition has been a lot of bugs

[indigo falcon]

lots of bugs in this expedition, we must kill them all, Do Your Part 😛 🪲

great minds think alike 😄

[lusty slate]

Anyone name a planet or base with Starship Trooper references yet?

[indigo falcon]

notme, I name my bases so that 1) I know they are mine, when I scan around the planet and there are a zillion base markers by me, 2) I know it's this expedition, so when these bases all appear on my main save I know what they are from, 3) the reason for them (pillar, walker farm, etc). no room for extra cruft 😛

[compact crypt]

Can I complete the expedition multiple times from my main save and continue to contribute kills?

[wraith junco]

From what i know daily limit is per account

[compact crypt]

Figures. Wish it would track whether you've met daily quota

[snow ruin]

I don't think we've heard anything about whether the limit is per account or per save, but I would assume it's per account.
But as far as I know you can't do the expedition multiple times from 1 main save.

[wraith junco]

Its easy to track . Just look on rancid flesh gathered or in milestones merceneries guild

[compact crypt]

Is there a way to toggle between the expedition and my main save so that I can progress on my own things and hop back in and contribute when I can?

[snow ruin]

Yes, see the links about starting and ending expedition in the pins

[compact crypt]

does this include brood mothers?

[wraith junco]

U can jump between main and exp save in options

[wraith junco]

I dont think so. But i didit checked the milestones to see if there are any new ones.

[compact crypt]

So what happens if I 'finish' the expedition on my main save? I can't start again?

[wraith junco]

I think its explained in pins

[compact crypt]

Ok - already killed a bunch of monstrosities today, but I'll go back and make sure I hit my cap - then I'll do main save stuff.

[indigo falcon]

you can do it from another existing save or run it from a new save

[rocky kernel]

Completed all the items in the expedition, I definitely am going to use this as my save, started with a new expedition save, as it's so far ahead of my main save other than a bunch of blueprints I've learned in a few of the quest lines past the starter quest. Only thing I'll miss was the S class hauler I got for my first crashed ship find that had full base slots. 😢

Just so I'm prepared, if I am reading things right, if I started a new save as the expedition save I keep everything after the expedition ends, right? It's only when starting from an existing regular save that I need to do the thing where I chose what items come back, right?

Going to keep doing my part until we get all the optional items as well.

[ashen shore]

I have started my expidition with an ongoing save....So what will happen to my items and base once it is all done?

[rocky kernel]

This gives a good explanation of that.
#nms-questions message

[mental saddle]

Let's gather like 500 grubs and gather in one place to exterminate them all

[fierce aspen]

Our internet went out. Technician to come out monday. I'm playing in offline mode. When internet is back on, will everything I've done since be uploaded once internet is back on? Hopefully i dont have to redo anything.

[soft pilot]

@lusty slate ok, yes it seems to be that the guild is per region, it's a bit like types of ships that shows up according to dominant race, so even if a region is supposed to me merc guild, you still can find some of other guilds.

[indigo falcon]

yes, all items you have, you keep if it's a new save from the start.

[indigo falcon]

yes it will all get uploaded to ods when you reconnect at last.

[rocky kernel]

Thank you.

[fierce aspen]

YES! That's what i was hoping to hear. Thank you!

[quaint crest]

is it possible to use the minotaur flamethrower on my main save?

[rocky kernel]

I heard there's a glitch with it. Where you can only use it once, likely it's a bug.

[elder yarrow]

Is the liquidation progress for hte current expedition bugged on Xbox?

[indigo falcon]

it should not be. we're at something like 58% on tier 3, you can check it by going to #bot-spam and running the command !tier

[dusky oracle]

that 58% is for phase 3 or whole phases?

[indigo falcon]

it's for tier 3, tier 1 and 2 are complete

tier 4 and 5 are yet to be started

[dusky oracle]

ok, I think I checked earlier on tier 3, it was 61%

[indigo falcon]

oh, well then I'm already out of date 😄

[elder yarrow]

That's not what I'm seeing...

[indigo falcon]

check your ods connection

[quaint crest]

so i can only use it on the expedition?

[indigo falcon]

right now there is some problem with building it back on other saves, I'm sure hg will sort it out

[quaint crest]

okay

[indigo falcon]

especially since people are supposed to be able to buy these items for quicksilver later, if they didn't play the expedition!

[rocky kernel]

Yeah, seems like a good bug to fix. 🙂

[quaint crest]

well i didnt even have it on the reward redeem thingy

or do i have to actually do the "finish expedition" button ?

[indigo falcon]

it's not in the expedition reward list, it's somewhere else in the quicksilver things

weirdly

[quaint crest]

okay got it, and also i guess i mistook the minotaur arm we already unlocked for the flame one

okay so i know what you mean by the bug, i dont have it on the tech installation list

[indigo falcon]

yeah that's exactly it.

[lusty slate]

I have a feeling once the community milestones finish, people are going to find that bug pretty quickly and mass report it.

[indigo falcon]

I have a feeling they'll be mass reporting it well before that 😛

[lusty slate]

Yeah, when the flamethrower arm unlocks and people realize they can't build it on main, the mass reporting will go nuts. 😛

[jagged charm]

anyone else can confrim fps tankign when opening catalogue fauna Records?

[slender wraith]

Hi. If I start the expedition with my main save, then finish it to bring back the expedition reward to my main game, will my main game's progress/content/etc still be there or the expedition will overwrite it?

Or can someone explain me how does the main save join to the expedition work?

[snow ruin]

#nms-questions message

[cerulean olive]

Did the farming run with a different approach today, to keep myself engaged enough. Went for Radiant Shard farming and killing sentinels along the way. Less lucrative than farming normal sentinels, but got a nice amount of nanites anyway.
Job for today is done easily. Many sentinels and horrors have died to get this information 😄

[mental saddle]

I accidentally found 7k radon

Where's the guy that was wanting it lol

[stone lotus]

actually this is good if you just want to progress the tier/research process. You can send over resources to your main save later, including echo locators, and then farm sentinel ships

or just look for a cool one; I still haven't found my dream sentinel ship yet

[cerulean olive]

That is why I do these farm runs. To both engage in the community goals and get resources back to my main save. I don't care for sentinel ships anymore, since I have all the ships I currently want on my main save, but the brains do refine into 300 nanites, so I grab those.

And I mainly farm sentinels. Horrors are good for numbers, but not for loot. lol

[jagged charm]

planet has been renamed to JiaRan by someone

[snow ruin]

That's an unfortunate effect of people being able to rename systems later

[jagged charm]

just giving a head's up

in case anyone else is looking for siad planet

[snow ruin]

I think we can all appreciate the update

I just got it from the starting planet on my second run through the expedition, so I find that to be a lot easier to deal with

[teal cove]

!tier

[unkempt kraken]

@teal cove

COMMUNITY RESEARCH

Current tier: 3/5

Tier 3 progress: 62%

[mental saddle]

Damn

[elder berry]

guess you found the beast for the the expedition...

[mental saddle]

Nope

Still looking for it

Been 1h already

[elder berry]

guess its a bug then...or that thing believes in this alpha, beta, sigma nonsense wich is just astrology for incels

[mental saddle]

That guy was an herbivore

I haven't seen a single aggressive creature since the expedition started

Hard to show, but my planet is blinking

||Guys, I think we don't have 16 minutes anymore ||

YOOO

I found it

On the same system as you start the 3rd part

[lusty slate]

Okay, weekend mission on expedition mode time. Mama needs her bonus QS.

[jagged charm]

@hollow shore First discovery on RDV5?

[ashen shore]

It's crazy there's like nothing really worth buying in the Q's store maybe the all white armor& the gek helmet? A void egg idk

[bold nebula]

Finally I got all the helmet drop from the brood mother. Took me 6 hours of grinding. I must've destroyed the bugs on the planet I was

[lusty slate]

I want all possible titles just because.

And the Gek shroud is great. I have it on my Gek avatar currently.

[tawny coyote]

guys, sorry for the random question, but pls, can I claim the rewards of the Liquidators expedition in my main save?

[snow ruin]

Should be able to, yes

[tawny coyote]

not the community one

I see

at the space anomaly probably

[lusty slate]

The Quicksilver vendor specifically

They'll have an expedition section. You can claim your stuff there.

[ashen shore]

The mech flamethrower arm finna be lit

[tawny coyote]

thank you so much guys

really appreciate it

\o/

[ashen shore]

No thank you for doing your part citizen

[elder yarrow]

Figured it out, there's a personal kill requirement to unlock the stage, so I needed to do that then it completed. Didn't know that about this expedition, but that should help keep things moving forward

[fluid flax]

Expedition complete!

[lethal mirage]

Sentinel lite walker

[lusty slate]

What I wouldn't give to have destroyed walker bits as base parts...

[dusky oracle]

Super hero striking pose

[fluid flax]

I did my part!

[wraith junco]

It still counts as 1

[fickle halo]

It implies they killed the 4 waves to get it to spawn tho, no?

[wraith junco]

Lotr reference

[fickle halo]

I am not well versed enough in lotr lol

I’ve only seen the whole series like once or twice

[stray gale]

Gimli says it to Legolas at the Battle of Helm's Deep. When they are competing for Uruk-hai kills.

[snow ruin]

Isn't it with the Mumakil?

[wraith junco]

Yep

[stray gale]

No, the Mumakil were at the Battle of Pelennor Fields. They may have done the kill count thing there as well, but the original line was much earlier, at Helm's Deep.

[teal socket]

btw, what is up with the big space eye monster at the beginning of the expedition?
this is my 3rd run and saw it in my 2nd run but forgot about it.

[wraith junco]

Its space Sauron

[indigo falcon]

ah my bad, I assumed that by now everyone in the expd had done the 150 kills

[stray gale]

IS that supposed to be 150 per tier? Or just 150 total? Like, my thing for Tier 3 said 150 and counting, so I assume I did enough for today.

[snow ruin]

At helms deep Legolas shoots an Uruk which has Gimli's axe in his head, citing "he was still twitching" as a reason that it should be counted as his kill. The "It still only counts as one" is because of the larger enemy a mumakil is. Check up on it if you doubt.

[snow ruin]

50 per tier minimum personal contribution to get the milestone

It has nothing to do with your daily maximum to be counted as contributions for the community goal

[stray gale]

Oh good! I still have murdering to do!

BRB!

[snow ruin]

I use the loot from the enemies as my counter

[stray gale]

Also, weird. My memory is going to crap!

[nova isle]

Hi I have question! I completed the expedition but I still have the missionaris purged by fire. It it possible to end the expedition and still Recieve the loot of the purge?

Is*

[snow ruin]

Check the pins

[stray gale]

Hold the phone.... When could you start doing Expeditions with your main save??? Which update did I miss that on?

[elder yarrow]

no worries, I've been focused on FFXIV lately, so been procrastinating on getting the expedition done XD

[indigo falcon]

150 total to qualify for the free tier 3 item. you can contribute up to (we think) 150 a day to make the progress bar move a little (well everyone together makes it move)

we expect it will be 200 total kills for the free tier 4 item, once tier 3 is complete, and then 250 for the tier 5 item. but we won't be sure until we reach those

[snow ruin]

Fairly recently, I think

[indigo falcon]

Omega I think is the first of those

[stray gale]

I kind of want to rerun this expo with my main save to try and do it faster.

Yeah.... I'm gonna go store all the not needed stuff in my freighter holds, and take my main save through this expo. I assume if I take a ship into the expo, I get to keep said ship after?

[snow ruin]

#nms-questions message

[stray gale]

Ohhohohoho! I'm going murderhobo again!

[indigo falcon]

you make a copy of the ship that gets used on the expd version of the save, the actual ship is still on your main save untouched

same is true if you copy over a multitool. note that both cost nanites on the expd version of the save.

[lusty slate]

It was added in Omega.

[lusty slate]

FYI, you are somewhat limited in what you can take with you. You use a terminal in the Anomaly to start the exped. You can put up to 24 item stacks and 8 packaged techs to transfer over to the expedition. However, you can't claim them until you reach the Anomaly in the exped, so you still have to do the opening with a blank slate.

[astral sable]

! Tier

[unkempt kraken]

@astral sable

COMMUNITY RESEARCH

Current tier: 3/5

Tier 3 progress: 65%

[glad anchor]

Does anyone actually know when the kill counter resets? I've been at 150 kills for a while, and I want to add more 😛

[indigo falcon]

the number that shows in the ui is total kills minimum to qualify for the free item. it's nothing to do with the daily kills, you need to keep track of that yourself

[glad anchor]

I assume you need 150 for the 3rd milestone, because I had to do 50 for the first and 50 more to be able to redeem the second. Fair enough. Now I need to decide if I want to just end the expedition and buy the other 3 parts if I decide to use my minotaur

[snow ruin]

Or just swap back to the main for a while, and jump back in the expedition every once in a while to help do your part

[indigo falcon]

in a couple days we'll probably complete tier 3, why not wait until then? but you can also just switch back to the main save without ending the expedition, and play there if you like, while you wait

and it's 150 for the 3rd milestone, because until you reach that minimum for the free item, you don't see anything on the progress bar but 0%

[glad anchor]

As fun as it was, the combat really isn't my thing. I may just end it and continue my exploring, since Worlds messed up my home planet

[ashen shore]

I collected the phase 2 reward with no progress towards it

No minimum needed

[indigo falcon]

yeah I have a bunch of bases that are no good any more, but I want to wait for Worlds part 2 just incase there are more changes

[indigo falcon]

because the community did it? that's not quite right, but on the other hand, gift horses, mouths, etc.

[lusty slate]

My starter planet is totally different. Super weird that my early game area doesn't exist anymore.

[dusky oracle]

this sentinel wave is kind of glitching, I built a base on top of really tall rock, and they searching below, and the wave kept showing stuck on 2nd wave

[indigo falcon]

get a little closer to them so they don't lose sight of you then

[errant fog]

New player here, 2 hours on my original save, started and finished the expedition, I’m being told to wait to claim the final phase reward, since I’m so new is it worth not making the expedition my primary save? I haven’t even gotten to the anomaly on my main save

[dusky oracle]

yeah thx

[indigo falcon]

seems like the new save would be much further along indeed, certainly worth keeping it, just do exploring over there, no need to convert the save or exit early

to b eclear, you started the expedition from a new save, not the 2 hour save right?

[errant fog]

Yea that’s right, a friend told me I’d prob learn more from
The expedition which I feel like I did but it also gave me so much loot idk what I’m doing yet 🤣

[snow ruin]

The optional rewards will be available for ( a currency a bit like nanites, but slightly harder to get), so you should not be scared of turning your expedition save into your main now by ending it if you want to continue doing the story right now.
While in the expedition you don't have access to the story.

In the end you'll not really lose much by not waiting for the optionals

Unless you really enjoyed doing the minotaur combat and want to get the parts unlocked for free

[errant fog]

Uh it was a bit clunky but I couldn’t do the sentinel stuff without it

[snow ruin]

But then again it can be useful to follow the main story on the first save as a learning experience

It's really hard to say what is best, I feel

[errant fog]

I’ll probably just keep the main save separate for now, maybe I’ll have learned a bunch on my own by the time there’s a new expedition?

[ornate wing]

Rip and Tear tell it's done.

[jagged charm]

welp expedition done

[indigo falcon]

what do you mean, "gone"?

[fluid flax]

+3 more times 😉 thought I did sorta leave a little repair drone to prevent disabling the sentinel forces for the planet entirely so I could just loop it quickly

[indigo falcon]

you can go to an op centre on an aggro sentinel world and slag the walker there, save-reload, repeat 3 more times, skip the waves

(or find more ops centers)

[fluid flax]

I also fully harvested several abandoned locations with the larva core things while scatter blasting the horrors

Just used my nav data to find a bunch of those locations

[plucky briar]

is there a specific planet I can go to for the predator thing?

[fluid flax]

I found one titled something like "PREADATOR 12AP" or whatever but it was hard as hell to find. I heard the starting planet has one in the water

[plucky briar]

do you remember the name of the starting planet by chance?

is it eardog sigma?

[wintry void]

It had 2 planets in system, and it should be in pins

yes

[plucky briar]

thx ❤️

[wintry void]

I just did start planet 1, there are 3 water ones, just get them all in water.

[jagged charm]

i meant done

XD

took me 4 odd hours, was also testing mods in same time XD

[indigo falcon]

in that case, congrats!

[jagged charm]

thx

all that left to do is claim the optionals tho

[indigo falcon]

yep, lot of us in that same boat

[ashen shore]

I wish turning multiplayer off turned off other people discoverys. Having a heck of a time finding a planet without like 20 bases

[flint saddle]

!tier

[unkempt kraken]

@flint saddle

COMMUNITY RESEARCH

Current tier: 3/5

Tier 3 progress: 67%

[flint saddle]

Oh??? New look

I like

Also 67% hell yeah should be done by tomorrow

[ashen shore]

The best reward is phase 5 doe

[pearl wren]

!tier

[unkempt kraken]

@pearl wren

COMMUNITY RESEARCH

Current tier: 3/5

Tier 3 progress: 67%

[fickle halo]

Just veer off the expedition path a lil further and that should help

[summer kraken]

Of course it is.

It literally unlocks a new Minotaur weapon for all players, new and old, to obtain.

[fringe agate]

Two runs of tier so close, getting to where we block it again

[summer kraken]

People just can't bother with scrolling-

[flint totem]

a lot could change in 10 minutes, right? j/k

[summer kraken]

Welcome to Gen Alpha.

Where the average attention span is literally beat by goldfish (yes that is actually true, the average attention span of those in Generation Alpha is a bit worse than a G O L D F I S H)

The thing people use as a JOKE for those with short attention span.

[blissful onyx]

don't insult goldfish like that

[hollow cradle]

!tier

[unkempt kraken]

@hollow cradle

COMMUNITY RESEARCH

Current tier: 3/5

Tier 3 progress: 67%

[summer kraken]

Doesn't the game like, have something like this already...?

[flint totem]

Hey, at least they're engaging.

[stone lotus]

is there any proof that the tier/research progress isn't just on a timer? I don't want to be that guy (or gal I guess) but last time we had something like this that was tied to an expedition, dataminers discovered it was just on a timer lol

[jagged charm]

Well we don't care anymore

😄

We jsut do the exp, play around etc

the community stuff is always done by end of the time

so no pressure

[wraith turret]

!tier

[unkempt kraken]

@wraith turret

COMMUNITY RESEARCH

Current tier: 3/5

Tier 3 progress: 67%

[snow ruin]

@fringe agate , just rip the bandaid off XD

[void cairn]

Do you really lose your inventory after finishing an expedition?

[fringe agate]

There it goes, sad times

[flint totem]

You lose whatever isn't placed into the expedition kiosk slots.

[void cairn]

What can't you put into the slots?

[flint totem]

But you get bonuses for accomplishments like buying ships and discovering waypoints

[snow ruin]

#nms-questions message

As linked in the pinned messages

[summer kraken]

That is if enough people worry about that.

If everyone adopted that mindset and slacked off... We wouldn't have nearly as much in the Quicksilver shop as we do now.

[summer kraken]

Stuff like companion eggs.

[ashen shore]

It'll probably be unblocked next expedition or two it just got allowed here for omega lol

[flint totem]

you also can't put NPCs into the slots

sorry for the lame joke

[magic hazel]

how is everyooone

[woeful niche]

It does seem like a lot of people are finishing the expedition before the community milestones are complete. More than in the past anyway.

[magic hazel]

i mean im still hanging in there and playing daily, no matter how annoying the monstrosities are at every point of interest

and maybe even twice at every point of interest

makes a bit of sense why they left- lol

[ashen shore]

Farm grub babies in the expedition
Trust me they sorta rare outside the expo

Just collect two stacks

[woeful niche]

If you started from the anomaly you can switch back and forth form your main save and the expd. So finishing it early doesn't make all that much sense to me.

[magic hazel]

all i need is a scanning room on my freighter in the expedition then boom systems mapped

[magic hazel]

true, but i guess they were impatient on the amount of goods they got from the expedition and wanted to transfer them

[gilded geode]

should i start feeling old that entire generation has already passed

[summer kraken]

Probably because most people didn't notice or care about the Optional Mission(s)

[summer kraken]

Nah.

[gilded geode]

people after 2010 are not real

[magic hazel]

fr tho-

[ornate wing]

Any specific use for them besides food and what happens when yous squish them?

[summer kraken]

Spawns a Brood Mother.

[magic hazel]

anyway im going to play some nms and get mad at the sentinels for doing their job

[ashen shore]

Bug heads have much better rng outside the expo

You should get one head every 5 queens on a regular save

[ornate wing]

Like the trophies?

[ashen shore]

No appearance

[ornate wing]

Ah, pretty sure I got it. No idea it was with the queen.

[ashen shore]

There's 4 bug helmet options

[gilded geode]

i cant even have fun

i destroy entire army of sentinels and all they do about it

is shut down

stupid fucks

[low fractal]

I just started playing and am new, i bought the game at launch but never got into it and just recently started playing.. im playing the expedition is that a bad way to start? and will my save still work after the expedition?

[gilded geode]

not even interplanetary reinforcements

[gilded geode]

honestly not bad

but

uh

id rather start from existing save

[magic hazel]

lol not like gta5 where they just keep on coming, nooo they gotta recover

[gilded geode]

can transfer valuables

[ornate wing]

Expendition is a great way to start. Just go off a new save and it converts to a regular after.

[gilded geode]

riight.. recover...

[low fractal]

i started it as an expedition, is that bad?

[ornate wing]

No

[gilded geode]

zillion on planet can be found

[low fractal]

i didnt have an existing save

[gilded geode]

and they send only 50

[gilded geode]

na

also do it

its pretty fun

get some doom soundtracks

[low fractal]

ive enjoyed the expedition because it seems to go a little faster, when i played before i quit pretty early on lol

[gilded geode]

you be like doomguy

[magic hazel]

"we are so confident in our big mech sentinels that if they were even ABLE to kill them, they get let off the hook hehe"

[gilded geode]

sadly or nicely expedition was short

[low fractal]

when the expedition is over do i loose my character tho?

[gilded geode]

did it in a day

[gilded geode]

expedition one?

yeah

[ornate wing]

No, it converts to a normal save. AFAIK

[gilded geode]

huh

it makes no sence

[low fractal]

if it does that, that would be good.. i was thinking it might reminds me of how other games do seasons

[gilded geode]

easiest start of all

strong ass weapon

crazy rewards

[ornate wing]

There two types of saves.

Your normal save turned Expendition (Were you can only keep so many things)

A fresh save which just turns into a normal save (Which you just unlock the main quest)

[gilded geode]

lots of expansion slots

[gilded geode]

but you skipped main quest basicaly

you reached anomaly

so early

[magic hazel]

i will say, once the expedition time period has ended, you are still in the expedition and would need to go back to the anomoly and officially end it, idk what happens when you come back during the next expedition tho

[gilded geode]

you were not supposed to

[ornate wing]

You can still go through all the steps. Finding peeps, etc

Yes your OP as hell, but the quest doesn't break

[magic hazel]

also i like your cat :)

[ornate wing]

My one braincell cat yis.

[low fractal]

im mainly spending most of my time hunting for markers for things, theres so many and sometimes takes me 20 mins to find my ship lol

is there a way to show a legend for the markers? or a filter

[ornate wing]

It gets easier as you get more tools like teleporter, Exovehicles, etc.

[low fractal]

i prob made a mistake and kept that first capitol ship then seen some guide said not to take that one and get a S class

[magic hazel]

lol i find that upgrading your freighter in the expedition is not worth it, i only get the trade room and the exocraft room and thats about it, then i give my upgrade modules to my primary save

[low fractal]

but i dont even have enough credits to buy a b class ship from an npc lol

[ornate wing]

It's just a suggestion, I wouldn't worry too much about min maxing. You can always buy or trade for another one down the road.

I started off with a C class Frieghter, and traded for a A class like 3 days alter.

[low fractal]

yeah, thanks for the tips im just trying to understand the game im never sure what i should be doing lol

[plucky briar]

can you transfer the multi-tool to another save at the end of the expedition?

[gilded geode]

you literally get free hauler, free guns, free upgrades, zillion of nanites and overpowered character as whole, so you can literally one shot EVERYTHING

[magic hazel]

lol ur all good, you can do many things in the game that i... still dont know how tf they work lol

[low fractal]

even in the non-expedition i feel like i just wandered all around trying to manage inventory and find where i need to go among millions of blips that i dunno what are what

[gilded geode]

its sandbox

try everything out

consequences are not so bad

unless its permadeath

[ornate wing]

Only big tip is that be stingy with your Quiksilver, google up each item before you buy. Stuff is probably the only real grind that can be annoying if you buy something and not realize what it does.

[gilded geode]

this true

so buy voidegg

free ship

[low fractal]

ah yeah thanks i've yet to do any of those missions

[magic hazel]

make bases, adopt creatures, be the best bounty hunter, or just explore lol and thats just on the surface

[low fractal]

as im afraid to do anythiong multiplayer until i know what im doing enough to not be a burden

[gilded geode]

or to say in 4 words:
Limit is your imagination

[ornate wing]

Nice thing about NNM is you literally can't be a burden. Well maybe you can slip some one some illegal goods for the sentinals to catch, but that is about it lol.

[gilded geode]

do it, dont worry at all

people are generous for most part

and nice

[magic hazel]

eh nexus missions have you go with players to do a mission with no time limit, try the weekend mission as thats popular :)

[low fractal]

lol yeah, even tho i dunno what im doing its fun, i love survival games of all types, just hoping to get a grasp of the game at some point so i dont feel like im just randomly doing stuff infront of me

[magic hazel]

ya i love the community lol its wholesome

[plucky briar]

the game is designed so children can play it aswell, don't think too much about it and just do whatever you want to do

[gilded geode]

in permadeath they are.. strange

im strictly permadeath player and they rarely ever speak

[magic hazel]

ya... they are a different breed

[gilded geode]

you rarely find any ship other than starter one

but sometimes people be just giving all their stuff away

and leaving

to never come back

[ornate wing]

Except some of us ancient ones who still have the pre-order bonus ship 😛

[magic hazel]

ya if there is something you are confused about, try using the "catalogue" tab in the menu and it shouws a guide on what things are, and if not, theres always this server lol

[gilded geode]

aint no my fault in broke

expencive but damn it worth it

[balmy aspen]

!tier

[unkempt kraken]

@balmy aspen Please use this command in #bot-spam.

[fringe agate]

[sand rover]

how do to the sea monster thing >:I i have spent hours trying to figure it out, determined not to ask for help

[upper smelt]

harvest the items it tells you too and kill the monster, gotta be on an ocean planet like the quest says

[sand rover]

i did all of these things but no monster

[ornate wing]

Find a "Alluring Speciemen"

Also Sea Monster milage of "OMG" can vary depending which one you get lol

[summer kraken]

@sand rover

Go to an ocean, use your visor to find a weird red symbol with white dots that says "Alurring Specimen" upon hovering over it, go to it.

There should be very likely some weird plant looking thing with white orbs you can pick up for Hadel Cores. Every one of the orbs has a chance of releasing the Deep Sea Horror hiding.

[sand rover]

i went to lots of the alluring specimen & took the orbs but nothing happened <:[

[summer kraken]

You have to pick up all of them.

[magic hazel]

ya for example theres plants with angler fish anglers and if you (mine it i think) itll spout jellyfish

[sand rover]

okay. i shall go try again. thanks for the help guys <3

[summer kraken]

That or you somehow managed to make the Expedition game difficulty lower to the point it doesn't spawn hostiles.

[summer kraken]

Also having all the orbs not spawn the DSH (Deep Sea Horror) is super statistically low so don't be discouraged, that's super rare.

[plucky briar]

how do you send the minotaur back? it walked into the specimen on its own and destroyed it

[magic hazel]

well i mean rocks or they are plants… i cant remember lol

[summer kraken]

Pretty sure you can't, but you can disable the AI in the Utilities.

[balmy aspen]

Killing the jellyfish that spawn after the DSH also counts as kills

[plucky briar]

dang I see, unlucky

[summer kraken]

They're both I'm pretty sure.

A rock overgrown BY plants.

[magic hazel]

yeye lol

[low fractal]

also when farming astroids how come npc ship always flys directly where im shooting? is like it wants to get shot so it can shoot me ;/

[craggy echo]

Do lost freighter mobs count towards kill count?

[magic hazel]

yeee thats a bug unfortunately lmao ai is weird

[balmy aspen]

Yep, disable AI in the "cog" setting on the quick menu, or summon another exocraft

[low fractal]

ah cool ill check thanks

i dont have any exocraft unfortunately trying to figure that stuff out now (:

[bold atlas]

!tier

[unkempt kraken]

@bold atlas Please use this command in #bot-spam.

[summer kraken]

No.

[craggy echo]

Kk