nms-expedition

[woeful osprey]

no?

it's not intended

[calm flax]

Can't put the scrap in the colossus and call it back to the destination either if you haven't already tried

[devout echo]

i figured that out on the first HOLE i drove into.

of which i drove into all of them I think.

[calm flax]

I loaded the colossus and walked over a little ways to check it out so I wouldn't have to make the long trip back if it didn't work

[final island]

This is so painful xd

[calm flax]

I guess I'll start the expedition for the second time. I wanted the second time to be on Xbox since I do them twice on Xbox and twice on Steam.

[final island]

I am down to 1 special waste outta 8 of the 5 that are needed now because apparently going over the top of a mountain is an incredibly aggressive gravity induced event

[deft pasture]

Moments before disaster (I hadn't realized my game didn't save and I had to get to phase 5 all over again)

[calm flax]

Maybe DOT needs to be notified to see if they can force the game to be able to secure the load better.

[short zenith]

evidently driving very close to the top of a ridge is fairly stable for the cargo despite the incline

[halcyon rose]

The stuff we're hauling bouncing around drives me completely crazy. I never thought about playing no man's sky with mods until this update.

[deft pasture]

Lol I drove on the peak of a mountain, worked surprisingly

[short zenith]

that's exactly it...weird, but it works

[deft pasture]

Everywhere else my cargo kept flying out because I hit plants and crystals at 1 mph...

[calm flax]

A peak works good unless it's the peak that's so sharp you can shave with it.

[halcyon rose]

@calm flax side note, do you know where your towel is?

It is very fitting to meet a fellow Hitchhiker here.

[calm flax]

I'm leaning against it. It stays there all of the time

[deft pasture]

Transformers pfp spotted

[winged grove]

is it easier to do this expedition with multiplayer on or off?

[halcyon rose]

I am a very happy nerd right now.

Also do this expedition with multiplayer off

[short zenith]

also the greyish ruts on the sides of mountains are decent stand-ins for a road

[winged grove]

if i'm not in a party

[wraith junco]

Off

[devout echo]

I went to anothe planet and tried to call the colossus and it comes up as exocraft not owned ?

do I have to drop down a bay?

[calm flax]

If you've ever played No One Survived they have little tardis around here and there.

[winged grove]

why can't i react to other people's messages

oh i gotta talk

[calm flax]

Have you right clicked and clicked on reply

[winged grove]

i don't have enough messages to get to the level to react

[deft pasture]

I do like the outfit the exp gives me! Very nice, fits well with my theme

[calm flax]

I've been using the Skyborn outfit for quite a while. I like it pretty good.

[deft pasture]

Skyborn is good yeah, I used it

[dreamy bolt]

On the last stage~

[halcyon rose]

Good luck interloper!

[shut pasture]

It has always bugged me the community calls other players "interloper"

[frank thunder]

i am so fucking scared right now, 5 minutes of up a mountain, down a mountain to closest scrapyard

[shut pasture]

"traveller" I get but I always get the sense that when people picked up on the word "interloper" they didn't actually know what it meant and were just using it because NPCs said it

[halcyon rose]

Breathe and pray that you don't hit any bumps or unforeseen caves.

[shut pasture]

@frank thunder how much special scrap do you have in there?

[frank thunder]

its jover

[dreamy bolt]

I mean, I could've called them a "Pre-built entity" in return? lol

[shut pasture]

If it's under all the other stuff you're golden. i found it to be pretty forgiving tbh as along as you're not launching off of cliffs

[frank thunder]

no idea lmao ive been to 2 scrap heaps now

[shut pasture]

Well you know you're trying to get special scrap right? It's different colors and has the hazard symbols on it

[frank thunder]

oh yeah ive got like 6 or 7 maybe more in it

4/5 on my milestone

[shut pasture]

There's ~15 special scrap at each heap. You should get as much from each as possible

[frank thunder]

ezpz

[pastel sun]

That fixed it! Thank you!

[final island]

One would think a cargo vehicle would have something to keep the cargo inside said vehicle

[frank thunder]

true lmao

[shut pasture]

It might also help to put treads on the rear, I'm not sure but I've been using that and haven't had much problems with stuff falling out

[pastel sun]

Watching all my hopes and dreams roll down the mountain over a inconvenient little bump 😔

[frank thunder]

mine are on front but does it matter?

[shut pasture]

I mean maybe? Try it the other way

[final island]

Idk that type of movement parts matters when I'm climbing a 70° incline

[shut pasture]

Also the game tells you to choose your path carefully if you're just trying to go to your target in a straight line you're gonna have a bad time

[torn ermine]

I've decided that Sean was cackling with insane glee the entire time his team was designing the "pick up the special waste & transport it a few thousand U's to the facility". The slightest bump sends those !@$@#$ containers flying half-a-world away, I swear. 😆

[final island]

I've started driving backwards to keep stuff from rolling away but getting over the top of the mountain is proving interesting

[sturdy zealot]

Do the colossus variants I unlock during the Expedition carry over to the rest of the game?

[chrome gust]

Man this is such a bad planet for this expedition.

[surreal raven]

i turned off multiplayer and went back to the save, but most of the places have already been claimed

[sturdy zealot]

It seems designed to make you drive carefully.

[surreal raven]

am i just gonna have to journey so far off the map that it will take hours for me to get back?

[sturdy zealot]

Turning off multiplayer worked for me...

[surreal raven]

that did net me two

but thats all it netted me, all the others seem "taken"

[shut pasture]

I don't know what I'm doing different than y'all but I'm not having a big problem keeping cargo in the bed

-put tracks on the rear. Not sure how much this helps.
-load the bed as much as possible. The less empty space the less things can shift around. Obvs don't overload
-choose path carefully. Don't go straight for the target icon. Slow down where needed. Should be obvious

[surreal raven]

also always choose the smoothest path, the time for reaching is a minimum, not a maximum

[clever portal]

anyone have any idea how to do the find 6 waypoints task ive tried turning off multiplayer

[chrome gust]

Can’t find any waypoints…

[shut pasture]

Oh also avoid sidehilling! If you have to go up an incline go directly up, don't let your bed lean left/right too much

[surreal raven]

same, i only got two

[clever portal]

im stuck at one

[short zenith]

each dump site has a waypoint, as well as random waypoints will show up as you drive towards your objectives

[hollow ibex]

i just build a corvette in expedition. bought the parts. build them together. and then i still have to buy it? wtf

[short zenith]

also along the east-west leylines, there are the random buildings that usually have waypoints; i came across a comm tower, a basecamp, and a exosuit drop pod that all had waypoints good towards the milestone

[fluid mirage]

my waypoint are not counting lol is it a bug?

[chrome gust]

Why did they have to lock such cool customization items behind such a tedious expedition?

[shut pasture]

So far my only complaints about the expedition are 1) controls/camera for the grav coil are terrible, particularly for getting things UP into the colossus bed, and 2) please never make us scan all of anything

[chrome gust]

What were they thinking making us scan 8 minerals on this planet?

[gloomy wraith]

Wtf is the 8th mineral on this godforsaken planet

I can only find 7

Been looking for 2 hours

[frank thunder]

this expedition is worse than breach oml

[gloomy wraith]

Seriously what is the 8th one called pls god

[heady pilot]

Expedition complete and with me doing all the main game objectives for the titles before the expedition I have now 100% completed the update. I have all 10 player titles, all 9 unlockable Colossus modules, and both unlockable paints from this update.

[gloomy wraith]

Cool, can you take a pic of the minerals @heady pilot ?

.>

[crystal steeple]

I bet the mineral is underground...

[gloomy wraith]

I've been in 485782 caves

All udbergite and pillar of stone

[remote lava]

Should be a couple on that gray colored terrain.

[gloomy wraith]

The highway? I will go look again

[remote lava]

And they are quite small, of course.

[shut pasture]

Pretty sure that's like lavender not gray

[heady pilot]

On I already closed the expedition, so that save is gone. But there are plenty of youtube videos already...I was surprised how fast and how many video guides started popping off today for this expedition.

[remote lava]

Everyone when done with the expedition:

[short merlin]

Damn pirates...

[rain stream]

I'm a pirate lol

[gloomy wraith]

Legend. It was a slightly smoother BigRock on the highway

[fluid mirage]

i think its this

[gloomy wraith]

That's the one

Just found it

[crystal karma]

Okay, so apparently we’re meant to have base computers at the end of the expedition????

[weak trench]

help pls
i was wandering around in expedition looking for pyrite somehow i ended up very far from starting point and it is showing 2 hours to go back
i dont have a starship , only colossus
what to do?

[gloomy wraith]

Put on a podcast and drive, homie

🤷🏼‍♂️

Use the highway @weak trench it'll always get you there faster

[weak trench]

😔

[crystal steeple]

And eat dinner like a real trucker

[fluid mirage]

just drove around collecting waste while listening to music. i was 1 hr away from the point lol

[weak trench]

come pick me up

[crystal steeple]

Somehow it feels like it isn't impossible for the next truck exped is gonna ask us to start hauling shipping containers and logs

[gloomy wraith]

Use the highway

[weak trench]

sadly all barren land

no highway there

[dreamy bolt]

\o/

[weak trench]

are you in expedition

do you have a corvette?

[crystal steeple]

@gloomy wraith HG should've given us gas stations and convenience stores 😭

Just like real truckers should

[fluid mirage]

just think of it like garbage disposal simulator lmaooo

[weak trench]

🙁

[unkempt kraken]

@gloomy wraith

No gifs in this channel please

[gloomy wraith]

Agree

[blazing fossil]

GIF fail

[crystal steeple]

I joke but it'd help sell the update theme too

[gloomy wraith]

Also agree

Gas station/rest stop base building parts would've been

[sweet palm]

took me an hour and a half to drive to checkpoint III... i'll never get that back 😪

[hasty seal]

Question: Is it possible to get the cosmetic unlocks for the Colossus after the expedition, or do you have to unlock them before moving back to a main save?

[blazing fossil]

The non-expedition rewards can be unlocked on any save, I’m unsure but you might also require unlocking them on every save to use them

[hasty seal]

Ah gotcha; I might figure that, because of the required scrapping for some of the unlocks

[remote lava]

Pretty sure every save will have to go through the torture of unlocking if they want it on other saves.

[blazing fossil]

Since they’re tied to the titles it may be a universal unlock

[remote lava]

I haven't checked, my only other save is permadeath.

[sullen solstice]

Does someone know how to scan all the minerals? I cant find something i haven't scanned

[remote lava]

Should be at least 1-2 types on the road looking terrain, a couple in caves, one looks like a tree, then a few other more obvious looking rocks. (A couple are quite large.)

[tough furnace]

So, is the field guide milestone bugged?
I found all the creatures, but it appears at 0

[devout echo]

Go to the discoveries page and upload your findings.

I think you get credit as soon as you do that.

[hot grail]

was stuck on that for 2 min yesterday its not explained very well

[lavish stream]

How do you unlock the flatbed module? I finished the expedition and grabbed all the rewards already

[molten hill]

so is the base computer locked until i finish the expedition?

[hot grail]

modifying the exocraft

did you try that

[lavish stream]

Its locked for me?

[remote lava]

On your non-expedition save go to a scrap processing place, and interact with the console by the claw crane.

[lavish stream]

o

[hot grail]

mmmmmmmmmmm

restart your game

you sure you claimed it

[remote lava]

It does give a task list in the log to toss scrap into the furnace thing as well.

The rest of the parts like the furnace module are unlocked from bringing scrap to the processing place

[tough furnace]

Thanks mate

I uploaded the discoveries on the planet page but didnt work, since it was on the animal one which tbh, never used, lol

[lavish stream]

are processing plants only found on certain worlds

[remote lava]

The ones with the corvette salvage stuff.

[night sluice]

I apologize if this has already been asked, but how long does the remnant expedition last?

[blazing fossil]

!exptime

[unkempt kraken]

-# to view info below, enable embeds

Expedition 21: Remnant ends <t:1774447200> (approx. <t:1774447200:R>)

See Pins in #nms-expedition & run !Expedition in #nms-commands

[night sluice]

Oh wow that’s a lot longer than the reduxes

[crystal steeple]

lmao pirates shot my cargo 😭

like as if I even have a ship lol

what are pirates going to do with toxic sludge anyway

[unkempt rover]

alright so i got slightly confused here for e moment, how do i unlock the colossus visual mods?

[blazing fossil]

Yup, because this is the original run and not a rerun

[unkempt rover]

cause i was just rammin into things an unlocked a paint type

[devout echo]

It's a good source of earning nanites in expedtions if you need to import a ship/tool, or just need nanites.

[crystal steeple]

damn how did I transport 10 special cargo without dropping a single one driving over a canyon... no way I just did that

[blazing fossil]

Non expedition ones are unlocked by doing things tied to scrap
(Image spoilered because it’s lifted directly from the games files)

||Destroy = throw in furnace, unsure what scrap is, the three that require 50 are 50 of each hazardous material, exosmash is running things over with the shovel thing in front||

[unkempt rover]

thank you so much

[woeful osprey]

you are a life saver

[unkempt rover]

||cargo scrap might be just raw scrap stuff||

[chrome gust]

Road signs isn’t working for me…

[crude sinew]

Does anyone know what settings I fiddle with to make the third-person view in the Collossus less smoky?

[silk birch]

How do I get more special waste for the toxic and radition mission

[unkempt rover]

its tedious it still works, its just most locations dont work

[chrome gust]

Oh great…

[unkempt rover]

you can find those a waste heaps, or find them randomly in scattered piles, the marker for those piles are green

[chrome gust]

I wish they gave the special waste a different colored icon.

[unkempt rover]

specialist waste is rare but they can be found in higher quantity in waste heaps

i mean, some great QoL would be to make the specialist waste have their respective colors and icons, but then it becomes less about digging in a trash planet for gold and more about min maxxing

[silk birch]

are there more than 5 ?

like does the waste respawn

[fading arrow]

ho can i go back to my main save ?

[unkempt rover]

the waste does respawn yes

[unkempt rover]

it should be in your exit game tab i think

[fading arrow]

ok cheers

[silk birch]

oh mann I really need to drive another 30min

[rain stream]

I'm coming to destroy your cargo 👀
Lolol

[silk birch]

?

I turned off Multiplayer bc it lags to much

[rain stream]

I learned your starship can destroy cargo when accidentally landed my ship on someone's exocraft

[chrome temple]

How am i supposed to find the last 3x16 special waste? When i use the scanner on the truck it shows me the waste heap from checkpoint V

[rain stream]

And my ship unlocked itself part way through step 3 somehow when my game goofed when I was trying to summon my exocraft lol

You can find the special waste at a lesser frequency at regular piles

[chrome temple]

I see. Thats annoying. Thanks

Is there really no other i way? I still need 8 radioactive and 8 toxic, and not even every pile has special waste

[bright barn]

soo many placing bases around the starting zone god damit

[chrome gust]

Why did they make one milestone give a reward that takes up a bunch of inventory space?

[unkempt rover]

i sure hope they punish whoever done it

[frosty zodiac]

how do i locate the randavue point?

[chrome temple]

The fossil one? Just call a trade rocket and sell

[frosty zodiac]

theres no map

[unkempt rover]

most of the spammed bases dont even have names

[bright barn]

they only exist to block the resorces

[unkempt rover]

you use radar for a waste heap

[frosty zodiac]

aw

ty

the station or the car?

[unkempt rover]

no worries, try to not get too stress on this expi

[chrome temple]

Did you guys finish the expedition yet?

[unkempt rover]

in the colossus

[unkempt rover]

i have yes

[chrome temple]

How did you do phase 5? With the 16/16 of every type?

[dreamy bolt]

...Question, can you do Expo phases out of order?

[unkempt rover]

via just going tones of other waste heaps

[chrome temple]

Any order you'd like

[unkempt rover]

yes

[dreamy bolt]

Cool, thought so lol

[chrome temple]

Damn, actually? I still need 15 and in the past 7 minutes ive only found 1 new one just now

[chrome gust]

I found 5 minerals and can’t find anymore…

[unkempt rover]

you can always use radar, the waste heaps respawn their resources

[chrome temple]

Did you scan the small ones, in the rocky/dry heaps?

[chrome gust]

The “Big Rock”? Yeah

[unkempt rover]

that snake lookin tree is a rock

[chrome gust]

I know, I swear it’s alive.

[chrome temple]

No, expedition 21 rock edition, atyorrhite and oelovite

[chrome gust]

Are some of them underground?

[unkempt rover]

there is also a flat rock inside of the caves

[chrome temple]

Yeah the cobalt pillars

[unkempt rover]

and the stalactites and stalagmites

[crude sinew]

omfg if that hostile attack vector hits my exo I'mma be so mad

That's my junk!

[devout echo]

This is why we can't have nice junk anymore.

[chrome gust]

I need one more mineral…

[chrome temple]

Roads are worse here than in belgium

[crude sinew]

In between Heap2 and Recycle plant there's a 'highway' that has two sorts of rocks in it?

[chrome gust]

Got them all.

Yet another waypoint that didn’t count…

[devout echo]

Report your mineral findings.

you will get credit after reporting it.

[chrome gust]

Anything to fix Roadsigns?

[crude sinew]

Tch, why can't you exit the exo on the dump lever side!

[unkempt rover]

its unreliable

they shoulda made road signs less misleading

[chrome gust]

They should fix it

[unkempt rover]

the dev team for NMS has decreased anyways, they are focusing on light no fire

[devout echo]

Brits drive on the right side.

dump lever is on the left

[hasty seal]

So I completed the initial missions of getting special waste, but now I'm going towards the cosmetics; does the auto collect count towards the unlock goals, or am I gonna have to manually scrap each piece?

[unkempt rover]

i dont know if you are able to get them out of expo, but there is a list of secret tasks one can do to unlock them

[humble geode]

I enjoyed this expedition so much i'm going to re-play it but on my main save this time

[unkempt rover]

go ram into a bunch of large objects tell me if you unlock a paint

[humble geode]

i almost screwed myself out of one of the milestones though

[bright barn]

hi wierd question, how can i change the movment of exo vics to be keyboard and not the mouse

[humble geode]

by ||scanning ALL THE CREATURES|| before ever installing the ||exocraft scanner.||

[unkempt rover]

sorry, not my realm of knowledge, im ps4

[humble geode]

luckily the last restore point on my main save was BEFORE i started this so i was able to reset to pristine! :D

[unkempt rover]

quick question Cyclone, how did you enjoy the roadsigns misson???

[hasty seal]

Oh! I am still on the expo save, and I haven't gone to the anomaly yet. I will test out if I can still unlock things after completing the main quest, but still in 'expo mode' :v

[unkempt rover]

out of expo mode there is a list of things to do, its a little further up in a spoiler image

[unkempt rover]

its right here

[humble geode]

my first playthrough i had multiplayer off so it worked just fine, and i obsessiveliy use every single waypoint thing at every POI every time i find one, so i kinda completed that one without realizing it existed until i got notified there were rewards waiting XD

[bright barn]

factory nms update when

[unkempt rover]

you are so lucky...

[hasty seal]

Oh those are the things I'm working towards..!

[unkempt rover]

it took me three hours to complete that mission alone

[humble geode]

OH HEY do y'all also use those geological troughs (that look like they were lava rivers) as roads too?? :D

they're so relatively smooth

[unkempt rover]

go to Omega's message it has the list

[humble geode]

i really wish we could build actual sloped, curved roads in this game...

[bright barn]

so many exploiter bases

[unkempt rover]

its actually an amazing idea, they seem to be working on the exo crafts anyways so maybe someday

[unkempt rover]

they are highly cringe

[crystal karma]

I have good news people, for those that complete the expedition and want to continue the save for a while (like me).

You CAN collect Freighters
You CAN own Settlements

You CAN’T own bases, even once you’ve completed the whole thing.

[unkempt rover]

its ppl coming back to the system and spamming bases everywhere

[crystal karma]

The last one is due to the fact you are not given the blueprint for base computers as far as I can tell

[crystal karma]

It is, yeah

It’s why I prefer playing in singleplayer lol

[unkempt rover]

fyi, you can just report them and they will vanish

[crystal karma]

Unfortunately, I have found a brilliant planet the expedition could’ve occurred on 😭

[bright barn]

that can be fixed

save editing tools for exemple

[dreamy bolt]

Now, with the Expo done!... time to go find some mods for the truck in the actual game... xD

[crystal karma]

This is true also

[gloomy wraith]

Restart game and you'll start getting credit for them again, it's a bug

[bright barn]

anyway what is specil salvage

[unkempt rover]

the nuclear, explosive, toxic salvage

[crude sinew]

Stuff with stickers, tbh.

If It ain't got a sticker, biff it in the chomper off to the side

[unkempt rover]

nuclear is yellow,explosive is red (ofcourse it is) and toxic is green

[silk birch]

ahmm my waste doesnt respawn do i need to be in multiplayer for irt

[dreamy bolt]

Who knew stickers could be so dangerous lol

[unkempt rover]

gotta get far enough away for long enough

[humble geode]

look for specific insignia on the specialist waste

[unkempt rover]

and no, do not go multiplayer, its not worth the suffering

[humble geode]

☢️ is obvious,
☣️ looks slightly different in-game but eh, it's still kinda 'arranged circles' too,
Explosive has a stylized squarey-lookin'💥 on it i think...?

[crude sinew]

Behehe. made a hole in the ground, and am popping out to play grabby hands with a sentinel, then hide until ti's not mad again. Hurr

[unkempt rover]

i tend to always kinda throw around random waste(generally wreaking havoc), so i know where i have been before, a few waste heaps i come to have had these scattered resources with new spawns, so i was her before

[bright barn]

anyway time to do chores

[unkempt rover]

you can just spam it U_U

grab throw cycle in rapid succession, giving the poor scout sentinel whiplash

[crude sinew]

Its friend keeps trying to murder my butt (rude) so I hide until they not mad

Like putting the spider in a jar and then shaking it up real hard

[unkempt rover]

yuh can just grab one of those repair ones, bring the goober into your hidey hole and play ping pong with you and the wall, them being the ball

[crude sinew]

That's very smort

[frosty zodiac]

is the speical waste the stuff with the hp bars?

[unkempt rover]

yep, make sure to not dmg em too much, they yield grand and chaining results

[frosty zodiac]

just not the junk stuff its the toxic waste in the conatainers right?

[unkempt rover]

yup yup, and so is the nuclear and explosive

[frosty zodiac]

i keep hitting the stupid dump button when trying to get in the car

[unkempt rover]

there is small med and large versions of them

[frosty zodiac]

kind of annoying

[unkempt rover]

large are usually boxes, med are mostly barrels, and small are canisters

[frosty zodiac]

is it only at the waste heap locations or can you find it on the ground randomly

[unkempt rover]

both

more common at waste heaps, but can be found in the piles uncommonly

its two in the morning, imma have to sign off

get yo last questions in i will try my best

[frosty zodiac]

is there a upgrade for the flat bed so stuff doesnt fallout of it when you go up hill

[silk birch]

How long do i need to be away

for waste to respawn

[unkempt rover]

i wish, you just gotta move slowly, and dont accelerate fast

[unkempt rover]

just go to other waste heaps, they are often shown on the compass, but for some reason cannot be marked

make sure to stifle through the small piles of waste as you make your journey

you can find special waste in those too

[silk birch]

ok

[orchid harbor]

im about to start the pioneers expedition. Anyone have any tips?

[unkempt rover]

.. how?

[silent nest]

scan every thing and chart everwhere

wait yeah

[orchid harbor]

you have to have steam offline. but cwmonkey's website has them

[unkempt rover]

ah, so modding yes?

[orchid harbor]

basically, but not really

editing the cache to make the game think the pioneers expedition (or any one) is the active one

[unkempt rover]

i honestly can't remember how i did pioneers

[wraith junco]

Patience

[orchid harbor]

oh no.....

this could be rough xD

[little epoch]

I'm sure I'm not the only person to have this issue but i cant find anything on google so..

Does anyone know how to fix what i assume is a bug where I can't use the terrain manipulator during the expedition beucase it says "no edit permission" ?

[unkempt rover]

you will learn the ways of the monk

[wraith junco]

It was basicaly whole game playthrough

[wraith junco]

U are in range of other player base.

[unkempt rover]

thx for the remindr :p

[little epoch]

they are everywhere and i can't get away from them.. am i just screwed then?

[unkempt rover]

oh, just report all the bases around you :v they will vanish lul

[crude sinew]

Turn off multiplayer?

[little epoch]

I turned it off but only after i started the mission because i forget it was on

[wraith junco]

Uploaded Bases will still stay

[unkempt rover]

idk if it will remove their grimy grasp of building permissions, i just ran far away enough

[crude sinew]

Oh lol, I join exptn's from my main save which is Multi off - so they never load in the first place, for me. Good to know!

[unkempt rover]

wats the point up react mean, im rather tired i dont understand such social cues :p

[little epoch]

there isn't a base within a 5 minute walk of me and its still doing it... i think im bugged

[unkempt rover]

some bases dont show up

there is like 70+ of them around there

[little epoch]

lovely... so how am i meant to do this then?

[unkempt rover]

find a crack, and like water flow through

[crude sinew]

Persist

[unkempt rover]

i dunno, run far away from the start zone, maybe do the melee jetpack jump boost

[little epoch]

found a work around, if i hit X i can just report them even if i cant see them. was like 12 of them i had to report but i can mine now

[crude sinew]

Wooooo

[unkempt rover]

fighting fire with an extinguisher, like a true logical person U_U

[little epoch]

ty all 👍

[unkempt rover]

no worries, imma go sleep now

[crude sinew]

Night cat, sleep good

[little epoch]

uh... shoot how do i find my way back to the plant? 😂

[silent nest]

you can scan for the plant with the scanner on the truck

[little epoch]

❤️

[silent nest]

Okay so im assuming im not insane but i have saved and charted like 12 different places but the milestone isnt completing, ive tried restarting multiple times and have driven so far out of the way to try to scan other things but i just cant seem to get it done

[dreamy bolt]

...Has anyone checked if you can "recycle" the Sentinels?

[crude sinew]

I had an issue with fauna scanner, but it completed itself after I completed the discoveries for nanites. I haven't had any other issues, sorry.

[crude sinew]

Now I'm curious...

[silent nest]

dang.. im also trying so hard to find the last mineral i need

[dreamy bolt]

If our machinery can break down radioactive waste, surely it can melt down a Sentinel lol

[placid flame]

did they just hotfix the walker legs?

[calm flax]

Everyone else may already know but, i just found out I don't have to go back to the waste processing plant marked for me. I found a second one over 6 minutes closer and it worked fine. I't's only 3 minutes from the monolith now.

[mystic mural]

https://youtu.be/IOgUaFkpS3Y?si=CUdzXu-Q0jVBsC5E

Relevant Song for the expedition

[heady pilot]

Captain Steve did...they just got stuck in the recyclers but were not destroyed.

[dreamy bolt]

Awwwwww lol

[wraith junco]

Make a cage on corvette and throw them in and adopt them

[placid flame]

seriously i'm not getting stuck on dy-hydrogen crystals

[meager stream]

Hey! i know we cant go to anomaly during this expedition, but is there anything good we can bring back FROM the expedition to the main save, that make it worth it doing from main save?

[placid flame]

walker legs, furnace, armour

[meager stream]

those are just cross-save rewards, arent they?

[placid flame]

account wide

[meager stream]

those are not what i was asking about

[placid flame]

your account isn't platform restricted so yes, cross save

[wraith timber]

good news, you can save and quit and your cargo will still be there

[meager stream]

i was asking about stuff we can bring back from the expedition to the main save through the anomaly terminal, like corvette parts, etc

[placid flame]

if you store it in the expidition menu yes

[meager stream]

im not asking HOW, im asking if there is anything in the expedition worthy doing so

[crude sinew]

Depends how much of a loot goblin you are, tbh.

[placid flame]

just the multi-tool gravitino coil, and the resource blade but other than that what loot you found aka mats you can get in your regular playthough

oh and cyclops scope

[crude sinew]

Maybe the radar enhancers?

[blazing fossil]

You can get all those very easily on your main saves too though

[blazing fossil]

Same for that

[placid flame]

true but its easier

[blazing fossil]

It’s just going to the anomaly and unlocking the blueprints

[meager stream]

no corvette parts?

[crude sinew]

shrug Like I said, it depends how much of a loot goblin you are. I'm not aware of any new corvette parts being added.

[blazing fossil]

There’s no corvette parts in this expedition

You can’t even use your ship until you’re done

[meager stream]

ty
i just heard from someone that sometimes u can get corvette parts from processing special waste, i guess it wasnt true

[blazing fossil]

I haven’t seen it, so can’t confirm but I don’t think so

And if you can there’s no new parts afaik

[placid flame]

unfortunatly no, this is untrue unfortunatly

[dreamy bolt]

Okay, the di-hydrogen crystal bug on the crab legs is kinda funny lol

[placid flame]

they've seem to have fixed it, not encountering it anymore

[dreamy bolt]

Oohhhhh it's still there for me at least, unless I missed a patch

[placid flame]

maybe it was deployed as a hotfix for ps5

[dreamy bolt]

Mmm very possible. Well glad they're working on it, at least

[placid flame]

i get the apeal of the walker legs its much smoother when on the move

[short merlin]

How do I exit the expidition?

[placid flame]

by finishing it your ship will be myraculously repaired you can take it back to the anomaly

[short merlin]

neat

[placid flame]

wish hello games gave us a exocraft bay for corvettes

[short merlin]

The collousus needs a horn.

[placid flame]

it has one

[crude sinew]

It needs a more distinct one

Gimme some clown horn shenanigans

[placid flame]

its a trucker horn

my gek is living out his dream of being a space trucker

[crystal steeple]

finished exped, jesus christ those toxic barrels are just so rare lol

[wraith junco]

For me the radioactive waste was rare.

Its rng i guess

[placid flame]

same'

[wraith junco]

Keep an eye out for special waste when going from A to B

[crude sinew]

Radioactive waste, and the lil explody rockets are so much nicer to transport.

[crystal steeple]

no.

[crude sinew]

Sorry, aready clicked my quota of sketchy links for the year. :P

[crystal steeple]

why don't you join the euclid trucking company

haul some waste yeah?

Your loss of cargo is not service-related.

[wraith timber]

for everybody who found second plant, how far from the original one was it?

[crystal steeple]

I did come across some but it was always an explosive waste

[crude sinew]

I told you not to eat the taco bell!

[crystal steeple]

you know maybe HG should implement tacos in the game

[crude sinew]

I'm sure it wouldn't be a stretch to add flatbreads

[crystal steeple]

we have cakes and soups

so a taco? not that out of place

fun fact, tortilla tacos are a staple ingredient on the ISS so this fits NMS way more than you think lol

[crude sinew]

That is beautiful knowledge.

Someone stamp it on a stone.

[humble geode]

i feel like maybe it should be a use for dough other than bread

we don't have an exact corn analogue but flour tortillas exist and we definitely have flour

[crude sinew]

Tarts, beef wellington, pasta...

Dumplingsssss

[noble cobalt]

Off topic

[crystal steeple]

I forget but I think it was like... maybe like two more minutes further?

[crude sinew]

Sorry fi

[crystal steeple]

I remember each waste pickup area gets like a bit further each milestone

[wraith timber]

Did I go in wrong direction? I am going away from the plant and already like 40-50 minutes ride from them and nothing found via radar except the default one

[crystal steeple]

what the... you shouldn't be that far are you tracking the second rendevous point?

[wraith timber]

no, I wanted from the let go not to return to overoccupied area

[crystal steeple]

well I would strongly advise clearing the transport milestones first

[wraith timber]

and radar still point to the original one

[crystal steeple]

oh uh...

[placid flame]

turn off multiplayer

[crystal steeple]

have you restarted game?

[mellow badge]

so how many has restarted the expedition out of boredom after already finishing it?

[crystal steeple]

also regarding the waste disposal area I'm pretty sure you're always pointed to go back there

[wraith timber]

yeah, this is my second day of trying to find the plant 😄

[crystal steeple]

not gonna restart this one, I ran so low on patience with the track travel distance lol

[crystal steeple]

pretty sure there's only one plant

[patent sage]

Yo, did anyone else loose their "scan every life form" milestone after finishing it? 😄

[humble geode]

i almost did that just today

[crude sinew]

Yes, but it let me complete it after submitting the discoveries for nanites

[wraith timber]

people claimed to find more of them

[humble geode]

oh wow that's nice

[patent sage]

And seems like the char waypoints is just like.. stuck

is on 1/6 I'm am sure I'M over like 10 at this point

[crystal steeple]

huh, I never strayed away from the original- again, as people said turn off MP if you don't want to see the players

[placid flame]

turn off multiplayer then travel for 30-45 mins in any direction then scan for drop pods and abandoned buildings and check to see if it has unknown sector on the save points

[patent sage]

Lovely 😄

Thanks

I'll try

[placid flame]

good luck

[humble geode]

anyone else get mondo dopamine and serotonin from putting the waste VERY NEATLY in the back of the colossus? X3

[crude sinew]

I really like doing little baby drifts to shuffle it around to settle together reallllll good

[placid flame]

then watch it all go to mess in 5 seconds

[humble geode]

i prioritize neatly placing the specialized waste.
I just use the common crap to weigh it down :3

this was the neatest load that i ever arrived with

[crystal steeple]

I crammed a ton of random other junk with my specialized waste so I can keep the specialized waste locked down when I'm going over rough terrain

[crude sinew]

it's beautiful

I just drive slow via the worm tunnels

[crystal steeple]

sure, I might lose a random metal junk once a while but at least I'm getting my specialized waste to the plant

[placid flame]

this man is a true trucker

[humble geode]

THE WORM TUNNELS YESSS \o/

[placid flame]

wait what race are you?

[wraith timber]

seems like it was a mistake going blindly, HG could add more points around rather than focusing in one direction only

[humble geode]

i do have real life experience as i work for a towing company and we sometimes transport stuff other than cars, like heavy equipment or bulk shippingcontainers

all this amazing technology in no man's sky and we don't even have ratchet straps and hook points, smh :p

[placid flame]

gek, traveler, korvax, autophage...

[wraith timber]

so now 1 hour trip with my 15 special waste back

[crystal steeple]

eh, it's already hard enough in other games- NMS is doing its best with already some funny vehicle physics if you ever dare stepping on a strange piece of terrain

[placid flame]

good luck

[humble geode]

honestly if we had a way to lock down the cargo as a 'stretch goal' technology that requires endgame resources, it'd actually make the game easier to run because all those physics objects would no longer need collision calculations.

[crude sinew]

The accidental catapult is always funny the first time

[placid flame]

my gek needs a trucker hat

[wraith timber]

counting that 50k milestone was done long time ago I already ahve a grasp how to control this guy. I am driving with 20+ cargo for a couple of hours 🙂

[humble geode]

they'd be temporarily converted into static meshes with no physics load while 'locked down' by some sort of futuristic scifi 'ratchet strap'-adjacent technology.

so smaller process-load.

[crystal steeple]

as much as I'd like those but I'm defo certain HG purposely made the cargo in the truck loose for a reason but yeah this defo will the game's performance a lot if it was static

[humble geode]

hence if it were a 'long term' 'endgame' upgrade

so the loose cargo gameplay stays relevant until you've already finished everything

[sly pewter]

quick q&a: does auto collect counts on progress?

[simple raptor]

nope

[humble geode]

(also would set a precedent for transporting exocraft on ships like corvettes...! :D)

[wraith timber]

we need bigger lights on our colloses for night

[humble geode]

YES.

[simple raptor]

would be cool if we could load the scrap into a corvette

[humble geode]

oh my GODS yes. Why do so many vehicles lack decent headlights x.X

i would LOVE to mount a big spotlight onto my corvettes...

(one that actually illuminated worth a dang -_-)

[west ember]

This way point task is annoying. Some sector work and not others.
Anyone have tips for completing?

[humble geode]

offline/single-player mode

[mild root]

How is everyone finding the update? I've been having fun for hours trying to hual explosive stuff in the flatbed without dropping into unexpected caves below while driving over bumps.... I'm in the last part of the expedition phase

Just wish the loading with gravity gun was easier...

[heady pilot]

I still don't get the purpose of the weighing mechanic. I literally finished all scrap related objectives in the main game and expedition and weighing only mean that I can sell scrap for nanites without offloading the truck...but why would I do that when doing that way doesn't count for objectives and doing manually also pays nanites

[eager grove]

what's the deal with the 're-orientate sentinels' quest? i'm hitting them with my grav gun like the quest says, but nothing seems to be happening?

[strange elk]

Expedition 21 is fine. Its pretty short so it doesnt get annoyingly reppettitive. Cargo on flatbed phisics are way to wanky to stay fun for longer tho.

[strange elk]

grab one - release it - repeat 32 times. For me, it got counted in after i lost sentinels.

[eager grove]

i can't seem to grab them, it's just with a right click yeah?

[strange elk]

just like the cargo

[eager grove]

hmmmm. is it different for hostile sentinels vs the ones you find just hanging out?

[crystal steeple]

I'll go first with the exped as a whole

I really like we finally have a exocraft rework with the exped mainly focusing on this with more physics related interaction with almost flash game like cargo crates while transporting it to a waste processing facility. Especially given the Colossus is the first Exocraft I'm aware that has customization for things like wheels and the entire body of the vehicle. (Oh waaait, I think I forgot the big robot boi.)

Didn't like how far I had to constant drive the vehicle and it didn't help the planet wasn't too much of a favorite to roam around but it just took kinda long for me to finish. Rewards are still great though, can't beat this swanky looking set.

Going forward I'd like a variety of land delivery missions if HG wants to put on a planet again and if they ever decide to rework more exocraft vehicles.

[strange elk]

For me, the distance was not the problem, but combination of that distance + wacky physics thowing items out of flatbed.

[mild root]

@if only the loading stuff onto Flatbed was easier and yes I agree traveling for a long distant is a bit brutal when hualing scrap stuff

[crystal steeple]

yeah I think the distance would be a lot more tolerable if the wacky physics wasn't that severe, I get what the physics are for but again as you said the distance + physics can be a serious gripe.

[royal basin]

Finally finished! I'm not sure I want to even look at a Colosus ever again! It was a lot of fun in VR, but now my arms ache from all the holding on to an imaginary steering column! Also, everything seemed to take so long because there's no way to see the cargo falling out of the flatbed in VR - you have to listen out for the sound of something falling, and then get out and check every time. We need mirrors!!! That's probably my biggest gripe.

[heady pilot]

Unlocking everything in the main save was pretty brutally hard with a maxed out Colossus that could go very fast. But I got it under control and finished all the milestones for titles and Colossus parts. Then I finished the expedition so I am largely done with the update. It was fun though, and very rewarding. A lot of new stuff to unlock and play with. Kitting all my exocraft with the scanner tech is a huge quality of life improvement.

[crude sinew]

Yes, I feel like I was severely hampered even in third-person because I had to look up at the sky to keep my cargo from hitting the ground, which also meant I had no idea where I was stepping.

[crystal steeple]

Unfortunately near the end of my last milestone my truck fell into a hole.

[heady pilot]

That can happen...get out, got to the surface, respawn the colossus up top, then go in the cave and grab all your scrap one by one again.

[crystal steeple]

luckily it wasn't that deep of a hole so I could just lazily recover my specialized waste items

[mild root]

Just wondered if we need more camera angles on moving stuff about

[crude sinew]

Yeah, auto zoom me out some more so I can see my feet and my cargo at the same time

Or widen view radius within xxxx units of the collossus

[wraith junco]

What if other player stands on moving colossus with flaten mt mode on ?

[molten hill]

i have massive respect to your organizing ability and patience

[crude sinew]

Magic collossus bus?

[crystal steeple]

land corvette

[crude sinew]

"free candy" flatbed?

[mild root]

We could do with an autoload cargo funtion as well.. like straps on the flatbedwould help ease the loading

Just to hold all the crap together

[crude sinew]

Yeah, make it somewhat expenny with something wierd like activated emeral or something if you wanna gatekeep it. Or a loading ramp that's down the side of the exo - so you can walk up a ramp and organise your load from the side?

[crystal steeple]

a corvette style loading would be really nice

[crude sinew]

It doesn't have to be idiot proof, but being able to stand easily ABOVE the flatdeck and move stuff around? Maybe like a gantry crane you can build like they have at international ports (for loading/unloading container ships etc) or something.

[crystal steeple]

give it time, maybe we'll get a thematic sequel of the expedition we have right now

[mild root]

Apart from unlocking stuff from the expedition, I still feel there is somthing missing from the update it was nagging in in my mind somthing still missing...

[mild root]

Imagine having that content to ship stuff into huge containers and watch them send them of in rockets into other planets 🚀

Does stuff disappear if you pile stuff up?

Like if you go a long way drop stuff off and come back to pile it up?

[crude sinew]

Not sure. If I don't pick it up, it's dead to me.

[mild root]

That was another thing... being able to store the scrap in case you needed it it's not somthing you put into an inventory

[crude sinew]

I saw a message from someone that indicated cargo left on your deck would be 'saved'

[mild root]

That means whatever is loaded on the flatbed is saved from the last save point

[humble geode]

if your colossus is parked with stuff loaded on its deck, and you use a save beacon or any other restore point creation thing, it will reload that restore point with all the cargo still loaded just as you left it

[winged grove]

anyone know why i can't build? it says i have no edit permission

[humble geode]

but if you summon your collossus using the deployment bay or the menu, it will leave all the cargo behind

[mild root]

Don't think you can build during an expedition....

[winged grove]

then how can i place the colossus bay?

don't i need that to get the colossus

[mild root]

Maybe it just centain rules or coded just for the mission only

[mild root]

Yes you do need the colossus for the as long as youvget thebparts to build it first

[crude sinew]

Sometimes it's uncharitable players who have claimed bases near key points. In that case, you'd turn multiplayer off and report the base(s) using the HUD menu (x on PC).

[humble geode]

underneath all that common scrap weighing it down is one of my neatest and most organized flatbed loadings ever :D let's see how well i can drive it home...

[marsh plover]

you might be by someone’s base try moving away kinda far from it

[winged grove]

i've turned multiplayer off?

oh i just spawned it somehow

[marsh plover]

shoot i’m sorry then never played offline before

[winged grove]

i mean built it

[placid flame]

you'll have to do a minimum of 30 mins of travel before you look for save points

[mild root]

That'll be the travel 50k part achieved going all that way

[placid flame]

true but even with multiplayer off the save points closer than that would be registered to other players

[royal basin]

I had MP off and it allowed me to register the closest WP every time. Not sure if I just got lucky...

[mild root]

There is a distant I was trying to work out how far it would actually ne in real life like traveling 50 miles in 30 mins going at 40 miles an hour

[placid flame]

then you probably loaded into your own instance

[royal basin]

I'm not sure..Don't know how that works. When I first got to the planet MP was on. I got to the first trash disposal site and saw someone else was using it, so then I turned off MP.

[tardy lark]

Anyone know why the "Roadsigns" objective isn't working?

[placid flame]

and i just snagged an exotic ship using the credits i got from piracy

[mild root]

Probably a bug they missed

[wraith junco]

!hg

[unkempt kraken]

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

[placid flame]

turn off multiplayer travel for 35 mins then look for save beacons that says unknown sector

[tardy lark]

ok...

[placid flame]

its because when a player interacts with a save beacon it becomes known to all players in the area

which then makes it so it doesn't count

which is kinda stupid

but thats NMS for you

[mild root]

How many save beacons are there? Must be alot from what I've learnt.......

Per planet....

[placid flame]

a lot scan for drop pods and abandoned buildings

remember you're looking for save beacons that says unknown sector

[humble geode]

wow i'm grateful for the build camera glitch so i can get a better overview of my surroundings but daaaaang there really are no convenient "worm tunnel" troughs connecting Rendezvous-1 back to the processing facility apparently x_x;

[placid flame]

that way it will map out the vacinity

[mild root]

Didn't HG say that it's impossible to scan enery planet or find every point that's on the galaxy it would take your entire lifetime to do so

[placid flame]

you're just using the radar on the colossus

[humble geode]

i do still wish there were a minimap mod like the ones we have in minecraft. alas.

totally aftermarket

just ripping info from the game client and regurgitating it in a new viewport

re-projection.

[mild root]

Yes that's what's really needed in nms a goddamn minimap

[placid flame]

impossible since the planets are procedually generated and buildings and such are also all procedually generated

[eager grove]

now finished with the expedition apart from the waypoint quest 😭

[placid flame]

the radar forces these buildings and such to spawn

[royal basin]

They're also procedurally generated in MC though, aren't they?

[eager grove]

wondering whether i should wait for a patch or something before completing the waypoints

[placid flame]

yeah

well kinda

[mild root]

That's what I thought a minimal man couldn't be hardvto implent?

[placid flame]

in games like minecraft they use a seed system but in NMS it doesn't use a seed system

[mild root]

Imagine what it would look like with a seed system every galaxy having own seeded chart

[wraith timber]

meh, due to night felt into a hole 🙁

[placid flame]

basically the procedual generation on a seed system is a prodictive procedual generation where instead of being randomised theyll generate content based on preset enviroments so it isn't random whereas NMS is fully randomised

[royal basin]

This is what I was thinking, but then I'm no programmer. My thinking was, if the game knows to draw it in the 'real world' so to speak, then it already has a map of sorts, otherwise the landscape would change every time we turn around?

[humble geode]

BZZZZZT i'm SO sorry but your conclusion is INCORRECT--minecraft is ALSO procedurally generated and minimaps can read the seed and generate preemptive estimations of what will be over there!
-# ALTERNATIVELY HOWEVER IT COULD JUST DOCUMENT WHAT YOU HAVE FOUND AS YOU FIND IT TOO

better luck next round!

[placid flame]

SEED is an algorythim for creating precreated areas then randomly loading them as procedual generated but it will have premade assets that aren't randomly generated but are generated in but will always be the same

so if your in an area that is supposed to have flowers it will always have flowers every time

[humble geode]

what is randomly generated, however, is that there will be a POI there, and what category of POI, which is literally the same info you get when you use one of the in-game charts or the signal booster tool--it does not load the custom geometry you are talking about until you get closer to it AND YET somehow it still shows you ... an icon. That's all we need. A terrain overview with an icon.

Which both already exist.

As they already are.

In the game.

But just with a different view.

[austere ridge]

can you get a longer flatbet or nah?

[placid flame]

the SEED system is very old school used in older games like Elder Scrolls Arena and Elder Scrolls Daggerfall

[marsh plover]

i don’t think so

[mild root]

What if the flowers change everytime you load the game up ? That's procedural change

[austere ridge]

oh fair wanted as much trash as possible XD

[placid flame]

then its cycling through the assets seeded to that area

[humble geode]

the game has low level-of-detail meshes of whole distant planets if you're at least in the same star system as them and it generates further detail based on the randomised seed-number as needed. A minimap could generate the same info from that seed number

but it doesn't have to.

All it has to do is show you what's already there from a high up top down perspective, with icons denoting POIs (and no specific built structure geometry)

[placid flame]

you should be always in range of a monolith, drop pod, abandoned building, ruin supply depo ect.

thats regardless of where you are on the planet

these are guarenteed and supply depos also have save beacons

[woven shadow]

(honks Colossus horn) GOOD MORNING!

[placid flame]

so you shouldn't be too far from save beacons

[humble geode]

even when i'm not,
using one of the planetary charts will force-populate a POI from the generative seed and display it at any distance within that star system. A minimap doesn't even need to go that far. All it needs to show you is what's around you from a top-down view.

[meager stream]

what is Special waste in Roadtrip milestones?

[placid flame]

they appear on your compass

and have a distence display

[winged grove]

lol who at hello games had too many hours on truck driving games

[hot scaffold]

What are the rewards from current expedition please?

[placid flame]

trucker gek needs his trucker hat

[mild root]

Someone whonplayed farming simulator ir simulator games

[woven shadow]

There’s a new gesture for one

I haven’t seen many gestures or maybe ANY gestures as expedition rewards before

It’s that gesture you make at big trucks to get them to honk

[quaint crest]

wiggle wiggle this aint going anywhere

[placid flame]

the notible ones collossus walker legs, armour, emote, furnace you can unlock in main game by disposing of waste

[marsh plover]

are you asking what special waste is or what the roadtrip milestone is

[dreamy bolt]

Did you do the Dad thing of smacking the stuff before you left? lol

[woven shadow]

I love how this Expedition is clearly an homage to Half-Life 2 with its Gravity Gun and an OSHA violation

[humble geode]

well whoever they are, they clearly thought they have not yet had enough hours on truck driving games X3

[mild root]

It's the toxic or explosives or radiation waste

[winged grove]

how do i put the truck bed down

i dunno how i got it up

[quaint crest]

yes

[mild root]

HLf 3 confirmed lol

[woven shadow]

There’s a control on the back of the truck on the drivers side

[placid flame]

trucker gek: "yeehaw look at my trucker hat"

[woven shadow]

That’s how you operate the bed

[winged grove]

thanks

[placid flame]

thats a team4star reference, dragon ball z abridged

[quaint crest]

for me it gives Death Stranding meets Euro Truck simulator vibes

[meager stream]

what special waste is
my truck is full with explosives and it still says 1/6

[woven shadow]

Driving around with a bunch of junk rattling around in the back of your truck is also funny especially if it’s hazardous waste

[winged grove]

if your truck bed is raised for more than 4 hours, please take it to a doctor

[dreamy bolt]

It shouldn't be as fun as it is, but dumping a whole pile and throwing it into the recyclers is extremely cathertic lol

[marsh plover]

there are different types of special waste explosive, toxic, radioactive, your case you need explosive so look for the red ones with like a explosion symbol

[meager stream]

as i said, my truck is full of it

[mild root]

Imagine traveling a long way to get rid of it then tipping it only for it to all explode 😒

[woven shadow]

What’s annoying is that the little red ones fall out of your truck so easily. You need the large red ones

[meager stream]

what is wrong?

[woven shadow]

Yeah I get it I can see you have at least 3 in there

[dreamy bolt]

I think that's how many you've recycled

So gotta do five more Special waste recycles

I can't say for sure though, since I can't read whatever that language is xD

[woven shadow]

I’m such a freak every time it looks like some stuff fell out of my truck I have to stop and look for it and put it back in.

[meager stream]

oh i see that might be the case

[dreamy bolt]

Read all the Milestone objectives, it helps lol

[woven shadow]

I’m figuring out how to pick good terrain to ride on so I don’t bump around as much or hit cave holes

Those cave holes bruh. They will ruin your road trip

[dreamy bolt]

^

Potholes the size of Texas

[woven shadow]

I want a bumper sticker that says “Hirk is my co-pilot”

[mild root]

Thats the ocd kicking in telling you you dropped your crap again for the 5000th time

[eternal cedar]

Does anyone have multiple screenshots of all expedition challenges

I'm trying to decide if I want to wait to just redux this one or not

[woven shadow]

I already got the jump on some challenges where you run over things

I love squishing hazardous flora in my big rig

[eternal cedar]

God no this game isn't nearly as absurd as daggerfall's maps, put a daggerfall dungeon into this game and the community would lose their minds.

[storm fiber]

the milestone part, it is hard to get, any tips?

[woven shadow]

Also it’s not hard to scan all the fauna species while still on foot and I highly recommend doing it.

[mild root]

That's where you have the excavator thing running over everything that biggervthen you

[signal igloo]

If they cut the distance to save time redux would be the way. It is long haul

[woven shadow]

I’m glad the one for ||running over fauna|| is optional though since some people may really not want to do that.

(I did it.)

[marsh plover]

which milestone

[storm fiber]

to get the 6 waypoints

[mild root]

If there wasna pay system fro every mile you drove with cargo 🤣

[signal igloo]

Nah all pcs between 15-30 N

[meager stream]

im not stupid, the ru localization is just very bad this patch
the logbook mission for scrapping doesnt even have progress tracker lol

[marsh plover]

def a bit time consuming. i had to drive awhile to find unknown sectors. a tip i used was looking for abandoned buildings or drop pods. also i drive around until you hear that sound you got into a new region then look for the way point.

[muted mirage]

how do i even find copper bruh

[quaint crest]

you dont need it

[mild root]

Imagine driving for 4 hours straight without realizing your coffee has gone cold

[meager stream]

emeril instead

[muted mirage]

am stoopid

Thanks

[gaunt ridge]

are you fucking kidding me

[muted mirage]

i never made it that far

[quaint crest]

oh god with those durability markers this thing's gonna blow like an Eagle 500 before i get to the scrap processing plant

[vast pollen]

the waypoint one is awful, 2 of six and I already went to more than ten of those save points

[marsh plover]

😭🤣 bruh i deadass drove 2 hrs for that one looking for new/unknown sectors not knowing i would have to drive all the way back to that certain waste plant

[woven shadow]

I think there’s more than 1 waste plant and any of them work?

[vast pollen]

There's more than one, but you have to use the same for the quests

[woven shadow]

Oh. Because I found a different one and used it for one of the quests where you have to recycle special waste and it worked

[lavish reef]

oh god

[mild root]

Again it's just the distant between the plants and waste heaps

[lavish reef]

where are you bro i want to see some fireworks

[mild root]

Just remember to 'hold onto your butts'🤣

[gaunt ridge]

fuck this expedition, seriously

[eternal cedar]

If its annoying you just wait till redux honestly

[gaunt ridge]

this is the second time i've hauled back scrap only for something to go wrong and the game just breaks and doesn't give me the reward

first time, it all just fucking vanished into thin air, and now i brought it back, sold it, and NOTHING HAPPENED

did HG playtest this expedition even once

[dreamy bolt]

Wasn’t implying that at all, my friend. I apologize. Most of the 0/5 and 0/6 objectives are taking Special Waste back to the Plant, for future reference.

[mild root]

It's becise you have to manually put the special item in the correct things with the gravity gun

[marsh plover]

if it’s special waste make sure you’re putting it into its correct spots, if you drive on that platform with it to sell it will disappear. (i did that) lmao

[gaunt ridge]

all the quest said was to put the truck on the valuation bed

nothing else

[quaint crest]

it in fact, did NOT blow like an Eagle 500kg

[gaunt ridge]

this expedition sucks, and this whole update is a half baked enigma

[humble geode]

I could swear sometimes it feels like some of these items are chosen by lottery to fall out next rather than physics. I put it back, i nestle it in tight, same piece falls out. I put it back in a DIFFERENT spot... same piece falls out!

[gaunt ridge]

congrats, you can now haul scrap for 30 minutes, stop every 5 seconds to pick up the ones that got flung because of shitty physics, and get a whole 15 nanites for it

[marsh plover]

yeah this one does have a lot of rage bait but some of the rewards are cool

[tulip root]

It's like a real life job simulator 😉

[fringe agate]

Or just not play it if it's frustrating you that much. Make sure you give HG feedback, this is prime time for fixes/tweaks

[gaunt ridge]

with none of the benefits of doing actual work

[humble geode]

... y'know, under most circumstances, my first impulse would be to roll up my sleeves and really lean into the verbal fisticuffs, to make as much amusement as possible from a good old fashioned online shouting match rhetoric sparring session.

but genuinely, your frustration is relatable @gaunt ridge . And the way you're voicing it is cathartic. I'm not gonna dispute anything you've said at all because you're right that the frustrations are real, even if they aren't affecting, for instance, me in particular.

i do wish there were some more accommodations supporting folks for whom this kind of gameplay is not their ideal cup of tea.

[fiery hound]

so i just finished the expedition yey! this is my first, so like i'm not gonna be able to carry over the things I got to my main save right? :c

[humble geode]

i think something about the physics could've been configurable on a spectrum scale of difficulty. tweaking things like rest inertia so once an object is at rest relative to the bed of the truck, it would take a lot more force to dislodge it. like, only by doing so on purpose. i dunno.

i already played through the expedition once and i enjoyed it enough i'm doing it again but challenging myself this time x3

[quaint crest]

okay, i just finished the expedition, and my only complaint is a bit of a nit-pick.
While usually expeditions have some story behind them or narative this one is just... empty, and as far as i know its not unique enough from normal waste disposal gameplay

[quaint crest]

you mean rewards?

[fiery hound]

not the rewards, like the units I got and the bone collection one

[quaint crest]

i think they only transfer as nanites or quicksilver, not 100% sure

[fiery hound]

Ohhhh 😮 oki thank you!

[humble geode]

i have 42 pieces of scrap on my bed, 19 of which are specialized, and i'm doing my darnedest to not lose a single one. And y'know, so far so good, i'm surprised to say!

[fierce kiln]

hey there everyone is there anyway to craft protable refiner in the current expidition?

[marsh plover]

there should be on on your exosuit

*one

[fierce kiln]

there is one but i wanna build more for other things to refine at the same time

im tryin a stack everything to max so ican gift other ppl who r stuck in expedition

[marsh plover]

ohhh, maybe ? i’m not sure you might have to learn ur blueprint which is hard bc starship isn’t available till end

[humble geode]

home stretch, almost there with the whole load! :D it feels exhilarating

[winged grove]

is there a way to get a different processing plant & waste heap pair shown? the current pair doesn't really have a viable path without losing all the scrap

[fierce kiln]

exactly and we cant make base so we cant make them

[quaint crest]

wrong screesnhot i think buddy

lol

[dreamy bolt]

I’d do some unholy things for a radio in the truck lol

[humble geode]

yep i managed to finally find the right one XD

MADE IT \o/
i'm gonna SAVE Before I do anything else!

now for the infernal satisfaction of DUMPING THIS WHOLE BED OUT :D MUWAHAHAH

[wraith junco]

Just donk honk twice on auto scrap platform

Dont ask how i know

[tidal pollen]

oh I did not know about the Pyrite + Ferrite thing

that's a lifesaver

[humble geode]

My Word...!
Yes it got jostled but everything is almost still arranged relative to each other!

[marsh plover]

ayee good stuff cyclone, that’s quite that haul you got there

[gaunt ridge]

did those teleport to the shadow realm when you brought them to the plant

[marsh plover]

🤣😭

[humble geode]

nope, i dumped my bed and now i'm fastidiously YEETING them each into their specialized receptacle :3

anyone else enjoy standing on the roof of the colossus' cab while sorting it all out? :D

[quaint crest]

uhh guys i returned to my main save after the expedition and it says i dont own a freighter.... WDYM WHY DID IT DISSAPEAR

[humble geode]

HEH. "Unstable Waste"... that should'a been my nickname in college X3

[storm plank]

15 minutes of off-road for THIS? thanks, i guess

[tidal pollen]

hey you know what would be cool? those things we had in subnautica 1 and 1.5 where a big vehicle could carry a small one. a colossus back chassis for that and all would be really cool

[quaint crest]

OH YOU'VE GOT TO BE- i started the expedition from the wrong save

[humble geode]

ohhhh

[humble geode]

whew that's a dodged bullet friendo

[quaint crest]

yeah but the techhh

[humble geode]

my heart would've been lodged in my THROAT if i thought my S-Class pirate dreadnought went poof

[quaint crest]

im just wonderign why i had another save

oh wait it was the corvette expediton one

[humble geode]

ohhh

... man i hope i get to play expedition 11 someday

I want that tent ;_;

[lone lichen]

Does anyone know when it's coming to Xbox?

Thank you for the useful reactions lmao

[fierce kiln]

lol

if anyone figures out how to make portable refiners do let me know plzzzzzzzzzz

[wraith junco]

U have personal refiner tho no?

[quaint crest]

i mean i started out with a mk2

and you cant have more than one

[humble geode]

oh wow okay

[wraith junco]

Why u need more

[humble geode]

I did not know this before:
apparently the furnace chassis on the colossus does NOT award the same number of nanites as the dedicated scrap furnace

[stuck belfry]

Omg yay another 9 minute trip in the colossus to the next waste heap only for me to lose all of it on the way back because this planet's terrain is conscious and hates you

[wraith junco]

It probably works simliar like cronus food feeding. It gives X-Y nanites range

[stuck belfry]

Is there any way to make transporting a ton of stuff more bearable? I have to be really slow across any terrain that isn't completely flat lol

[near eagle]

The roadsigns mission isn’t working for me. Any way to fix it?

[marsh plover]

not really, other than packing it the best you can. i wish there was a way to strap down or tie down your haul. but yeah just gotta drive slower and careful. the legs on the colossus make it better for sure

[humble geode]

... wait y'all get nanites from cronus? O_o

[humble geode]

i didn't do a lot of cookery in this game so far, i didn't know cronus even did that XD

[stuck belfry]

That'd be great if the legs weren't unlocked at the end of the expedition lmao

[stuck belfry]

And yeah a way to tie stuff down would be a godsend. Maybe as an upgrade to the flatbed, or some iteration on it in between that and the built-in furnace

[stuck belfry]

A shipping container or something with that shape could work well. Stuff still rattles around so you have to drive carefully but it doesn't fall off

[royal basin]

If you look for the purple-ish tracks across the planet, these are very smooth and can save a lot of time. Get to the highest point and look to see where they go. Sometimes they can get you within 5 mins of your destination. The only thing to look out for is hidden(ish) caves in the floor, which are usually given away by marrowroot; when you see it - approach slowly, or get out and see which is the least steep part to cross.

[fierce kiln]

there is but it takes a lot of time im making stacks of stuff to gift to ppl

[signal igloo]

I am at rv5

Been a long trek

In fairness I chased a tower down between 3-4

I wonder if anyone’s load was shot by pirates? I mean near every RV they are firing I was taking damage but never got load exploded

[sacred radish]

@stuck belfry I laugh now but when I start the expedition you'll be laughing at me.

[signal igloo]

I’d say the legs do improve mobility close to 6 or 7 out of 10
Where tracks were 4/20

[stoic jay]

guys? how to play around with waste after expedition? do i have to find specific planet or smth?

[viscid sparrow]

ive never had this problem, i can drive up an 80 degree slope and lose little to no cargo

idk how people lose so much

only problem ive had is the harvestable plants but those are easy to spot and go around

[viscid sparrow]

its any planet with salvagable scrap

[sonic notch]

How to get help with a bug. I found and scanned all the animals. Shows up on the discovery page but not in the expedition milestone. Can’t complete without it. Same for navigation markers too.

[near dome]

when does the expedition end?

[stoic jay]

ok ill look for it . thx

[near dome]

ty

[stoic jay]

how does it look? coudl u make a screenshot of it?

nvm found it

[viscid sparrow]

is the milestone where i have to find and chart waypoints broken

ive found like 10 of em but it wont count any

[copper sedge]

Xbox update is live now

[remote thunder]

see <#nms-expedition message>, this has worked for some players

[viscid sparrow]

oh i have to be the first to find it

thats a bit stupid

we cant go that far until like

the end of the expedition

[remote thunder]

you could leave this milestone for last i guess, for after you get your ship

[viscid sparrow]

yeah im gonna do that

cuz thats bs

[tranquil basalt]

salvagable scrap world but find something that is flat

[strange elk]

I agree. I played it with MP disabled because tons of other players tanked my PFS.

[viscid sparrow]

nah its fun to have to plan routes instead of just afk driving from point a to b

welp, time to go forcefully relocate some sentinels

[slow cobalt]

!exptime

[unkempt kraken]

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See Pins in #nms-expedition & run !Expedition in #nms-commands

[wraith timber]

where is last creature is it time dependant?

[remote thunder]

check discoveries/planet/fauna list

[wraith timber]

yup, rare mostly nocturnal

[remote thunder]

then yeah, mostly a night time spawn

[wraith timber]

but having only one plant when those waste are 10 minutes away is sad

[strange elk]

dont forget to use scanner on taht vehicle, it can detect it thru terrain

[humble geode]

another beautifully stacked load of salvage. i do it for just the love of the game--i don't NEED the game to reward me for being tidy. But it would still be (the other kind of) neat though x3

[fringe star]

I think this expedition is really just testing of some mechanics for Light No Fire, which is why the expedition seems so thrown together. No story whatsoever. Most of the awards you receive for completing task have no purpose in the expedition and unless you transfer stuff into your magically appearing hauler at the end, or stuff what you can into a market rocket, you get nothing from them.

[strange elk]

...till the first microbumb

[humble geode]

i manage to get 'em back mostly in good shape, surprisingly.

like, stuff is still relatively arranged

[clever mist]

do different tires have different effects on how the collossus reacts to terrain or are they purely visual changes?

[woven shadow]

Oh! An update already, but it’s a small one.

Anyhoo back to truckin’

[humble geode]

see anything particularly notable in the changelog?

[woven shadow]

Oh I turned the music off for some reason and I need to turn it back on

[woven shadow]

I’d have to go looking for it and I’m too lazy TBH

[daring halo]

i think someone is griffing or there is a bug, on the first salvage hub there is a mech with i think all parts and particles possible enabled and it's also stuck in a wall and lags the crap out of my game

[remote thunder]

options/network/disable multiplayer, then save, +return to main menu, load save again

[daring halo]

nope tried that

[humble geode]

eh s'all good fam ^^ i was being lazy too. it was worth asking if anything stood out but i'll just check later same as you eventually

[round panther]

honestly, i had tears of laughter on this expo. because everyone lagging through the environment 😄
i saw trucks and the scrap parts fly through air, as if it just exploded 😄

[remote thunder]

i thought so, but then saw someone saying that mechanical legs are more stable, that tracked treads in the back also help. i've not spent much time playing it yet, but yeah.

[shy kettle]

Right now the mechanical legs have a bit of a glitch where they will get stuck on small bumps relatively easy, so I would avoid using them for now

[remote thunder]

yeah, avoid stuff like dihydro crystals i've heard

[clever mist]

im using the bakc treads atm, will keep using those then... are the mech legs the same speed as wheeels?

[woven shadow]

I just have wheels in the front and a caterpillar track in the back because it looks cool

[remote thunder]

not sure sorry

[clever mist]

alr, nw, thanks again!

[shy kettle]

Captain Steve saying this exp took him 8 hours and you're a legend if you do it in under 3... i did it in under 3 and I don't think I am a particularly special player. I think he just didn't realise you can do multiple rendesvouz before heading back to the facility.

[humble geode]

i don't believe i'll ever do an expedition multiplayer from what i've heard--it sounds awful x.x;

[shy kettle]

I had two that were 2 mins apart from one another. Yes it means a more careful trip back, but it also means just one trip.

[remote thunder]

i'm half way through and with 1h25m clocked

[shy kettle]

Exactly. I can't imagine how he clocked up 8 hours?!

[remote thunder]

no idea either

bad luck on the spawns

[shy kettle]

mebbe but i feel there must be some consistency on how far they are. They were always about 10 mins-ish out for me

Plus CptSteve is maybe not necessarily the best NMS player...

[remote thunder]

10000u or so, probably less

[clever mist]

wait, i collected special waste and automatically unloaded it using the terminal like it said i should but the second part of this mission isnt completed? was i supposed to only park my collossus at the weight station and unload manually, if so cna i use waste heaps instead because the exp marked rendevouz isnt marked anymore?

[woven shadow]

That’s a lot of u but not eight hours of u

[fair shoal]

This, but also a testing ground for further exocraft customization. I can see the other exocraft getting the same treatment eventually

[shy kettle]

Yes sorry, I think you are supposed to do them manually after that first time.

[neon zephyr]

is the milestone 2 (Road trip 2) bugged? on one places it ways i have to deliver 5 special waster, on another it says 15

I load more secial waste and the couunter stays at 11/15

[woven shadow]

I’m gonna hotrod my Nomad!

[clever mist]

ohh so the first time was correct, this is just a second mission?

[woven shadow]

I think the Minotaur is already hot-roddable with the special armor and parts you can put on it

[shy kettle]

There's one time where it shows u how to do the quick way, but for it to count after that I think you have to deposit them all manually for the rest of the expedition.

[shy kettle]

This is actually just keeping track of the waste in your flatbed

you still only have to deliver 5, but its recognised that you started out with 15 and probably lost 4 along the way

[clever mist]

good to know, thanks! i can use waste heaps from now on for special waste unless i find it in the wild right?

[shy kettle]

so long as you deliver 5 of your 11 intact, you'll be okay.

[clever mist]

alr tysm!

[shy kettle]

Yup!

[split raven]

How do I get back to the waste terminal, I got teleported to a observatory 5 hours away and I got no teleporter to go back. What do I do?

[neon zephyr]

but i already did... thats the issue

[shy kettle]

Was it all special waste and delivered manually?

or did you use the shortcut thing to offload it at the terminal?

[woven shadow]

I really like that there’s a way to use your analysis visor in the Exocraft now, that is amazing

[neon zephyr]

yes and no

in that order

[viscid sparrow]

it has to be manual

[neon zephyr]

huh...

[outer lotus]

Reload a past save or walk/drive.

[shy kettle]

Yes you have to put it all in manually for it to count

[viscid sparrow]

drive, you get a fun road trip

[neon zephyr]

well, time to find special waste lying around

[split raven]

I just built the gravital gun, I got no veichle or ship…

[shy kettle]

Yes I had a few special waste still to get by the end. One trick is use the visor and pay attention to the names of the icons. the special waste ones are actually marked as special

[viscid sparrow]

if your that early in just make a new expedition save or reload to when u first started

[shy kettle]

How did u manage to warp???

[knotty pasture]

is special waste rare? been driving for ages ...

[neon zephyr]

Good to know thanks

[shy kettle]

Yes I would restart if you're that early on

[remote thunder]

found some player base with a teleporter

[shy kettle]

quicker than a 5 hour hike!

[tidal pollen]

this is helping me out a lot on my second road trip, thank you 🙏

[viscid sparrow]

it very rarely spawns in the piles lying around you usually have to find it at waste heaps

[remote thunder]

made the mistake of teleporting out

[outer lotus]

Ship doesn't unlock till you've completed the whole thing. Yeah reload a past save if you can otherwise restart.

[knotty pasture]

thanks

[shy kettle]

This is why its best to play expeditions offline.

[clever mist]

how do i know if something is special waste or just junk?

[remote thunder]

also, try to arrange cargo in a tightly packed way, use grip suspension, travel on the hills of mountains

[shy kettle]

There's icons on the special waste that match the ones on the waste disposal facilities

and they're color coded

[shy kettle]

regular waste is just scrap with no icons

[outer lotus]

Color. The metallic and rusty ones are basic scrap the, yellow, green, and red ones are the special ones.

[clever mist]

so this ones just junk?

[remote thunder]

yep

[shy kettle]

yup just junk

[clever mist]

ight, thanks!

[shy kettle]

Every special type has two forms, a small and medium sized one. You'll start to recognise them pretty quickly

[remote thunder]

there's more than 1 type for each of those sizes though

[viscid sparrow]

ive seen 3 forms on all of em

[remote thunder]

correct.

[viscid sparrow]

other than explosive

[remote thunder]

explosive i've seen 2

[shy kettle]

oh really? I suppose I wasn't paying enough attention 😅

[outer lotus]

There's three explosive ones too. The big one is a crate.

[viscid sparrow]

k

[shy kettle]

What would be neat is if the size also counted as more.

[snow basalt]

is there a way to turn off all the "player has left the planet", "player has mined X" ... messages on the left without turning off multiplayer compltetly?

[remote thunder]

@clever mist e.g.

[clever mist]

ahh got it!

[remote thunder]

disable text chat iirc

[snow basalt]

doesnt work unfortunately

[viscid sparrow]

hello games if you add a vehicle bay to corvettes my life is yours

[shy kettle]

I would recommend turning off multiplayer anyway. I didn't have it on, but i hear a lot of issues with multiplayer and this expedition

[outer lotus]

A big grav gun that let's you pick them up and transport them, with cargo.

[shy kettle]

plus u don't want to be fighting over scrap!

[woven shadow]

IRL I have a 64oz trucker cup from Wawa. I want one for my space dump truck. It can have the Golden Gek on it

[tidal pollen]

someone is building very high up lol

[snow basalt]

i've had MP off for all other expeditions, thought it might be fun to have it on for once

[signal igloo]

i have questions - did anyone else try to overstuff the flatbed to make everything tight in there in hopes to lose less items? (like line the top with iron junk keeping the high up stuff below)

[storm fiber]

Is it even possible to findd all 8 minerals? I do not know where the rest are. I am driving around, I even looked underground

[snow basalt]

still weird that having it off is the optimal way to play a community event lol

[shy kettle]

I just waited until towards the end of phase 5

[viscid sparrow]

it took me so long, the last ones i found were in the big chasms they were tiny rocks

[shy kettle]

i don't know when exactly, but before the expedition ends you get your ship back

then u can fly to another planet

My guess would be its the fifth rendesvouz that does it?

[tidal pollen]

yeah it's the only time of the game where we see this much people

[woven shadow]

Ugh every time night falls I start getting cold. Isn’t there any cabin heating in this space truck?

[signal igloo]

no, not just then, you still have to make that delivery

[humble geode]

after you install some there is.

[lunar nest]

in what thing do i process the special waste?

[woven shadow]

Oh! That’s one of the expedition rewards LOL

[humble geode]

yep :D

[tidal pollen]

only thing I'm nitpicking so far is how little nanites this activity yields

[remote thunder]

image:

[lunar nest]

ah

thanks

[knotty pasture]

Is there some actual easy way to find 6 waypoints

I've done at least 12 but only 3 have counted

It's driving me mental

[remote thunder]

see <#nms-questions message>, and/or the pinned post in this channel. leave milestone for last

[humble geode]

use the truck's radar to scan for POIs

[knotty pasture]

I do that but whenever I find one, it keeps sending me to the same one if I try to scan again

[storm fiber]

I am having touble getting the 32 grav balls. any tips?

[tidal pollen]

the planet is so full of them

[storm fiber]

I know that, but I always get attacked, and have a trouble defending myself

[tidal pollen]

just run away

I grabbed more than that without killing a single sentinel yet

[vast pollen]

grab gravitiño, quickly dig a hole and wait down there

[tidal pollen]

or that

[knotty pasture]

Thank you so much