nms-expedition

[grave helm]

This problem was noticed only during the expedition, when I couldn't warp

[indigo falcon]

uh huh. just describing what you could try to do now

I understood you to say that after completing the expedition, the bases were (still) not rendering, so those are the two things I can think of to try.

[upbeat tide]

will sentinals attack you for collecting waste?

[indigo falcon]

no. I've seen them hovering right at the waste heaps and they do not care.

[upbeat tide]

didnt think they would. lazy little craps are watching us clean up the planet that they are supposed to be watching over. they must not care too much about the planet being polluted

[indigo falcon]

you can dig big ol holes and they don't care. you can mine out piles of gold and cobalt, they don't care. but touch one tiny plant....

[upbeat tide]

or touch blue crystals and they go apecrap

actually idk if collecting the blue/red crystals sets them off

i got investigated earlier for mining the dihydrogen crystals but they didnt attack since i immediatly stopped

[indigo falcon]

yes, they will get all fussy if you harvest dihydrogen or carbon crystals too

just do your business and then run away

[mental grotto]

Yo can someone give me a rundown on what expeditions are and why their worth it?

[solemn bane]

Generally they are a new game within your save (or just a different way to start a new game), and they have a number of (often repetative) tasks to accomplish which unlock things on your account. Sometimes fun, sometimes with good rewards. They also tend to introduce new content.

[indigo falcon]

#nms-expedition message

that has more background info too

[restive hamlet]

They give you solid boosts and limited rewards after expedition completion that return to your main save, my favorites are the ones where you are rewarded with unique ships or something similar of that nature

[mental grotto]

Do the rewards include corvette parts?

[restive hamlet]

The last expedition they did but this one is focused on the colossus vehicle

[mental grotto]

Oooooo

I do like that vehicle

[solemn bane]

Not this time, but if you're on PC you can go back and play older expeditions for that.

[restive hamlet]

I didnt know i was able to play older expeditions noted

[mental grotto]

What's the Discord Event "Community Expedition 21. . ." ??

[solemn bane]

You get to roleplay a garbage man in NMS.

[restive hamlet]

lmao basically yup

[mental grotto]

Ooooooooo that doesn't sound half bad

So, salvage involving the remnant update?

[solemn bane]

Yep

[restive hamlet]

yup

[mental grotto]

How can I join a group on this server and play the expedition with them? Is that why theres a Discord event? To encourage group play?

[solemn bane]

Multiplayer in NMS is pretty rough, and most bugs spring from having multiplayer on. Someone else can answer how to actually do it since I avoid it like the plague, lol.

I'd recommend just jumping in solo (after disabling multiplayer in the network settings) and giving it a go.

[mental grotto]

Oh? I've never had issues with multiplayer... I also haven't played in years

[solemn bane]

One of the best ways to avoid multiplayer issues in NMS is to not play.

[indigo falcon]

the discord event is so people can keep track of start and end date/time

[mental grotto]

LOL

[mental grotto]

Copy

[indigo falcon]

yo ucan join up with folks by asking i nhere, or by going to #nms-lfg-or-trades and asking there

[mental grotto]

Anyone here want to join up with meh? I plan on starting a new save

[upbeat tide]

is there a character editor on this starter planet?

[solemn bane]

You can also check in #nms-lfg-or-trades

[indigo falcon]

I don't have the ability for mp, and I would not recommend it for this expedition. (I went through it already, single player, no bugs for me, I got lucky)

[upbeat tide]

multiplayer is way too buggy rn for me to even think about doing multiplayer

[restive hamlet]

i havent seen any

[solemn bane]

doh, too slow

[upbeat tide]

are we able to craft character editors?

[indigo falcon]

nope, not one of the buildables on nthis expd. no base computer

if it loaded you in as a gek, you're stuck with it 😛

[solemn bane]

If you start from an existing save on the Anomaly you get to carry your character customizations over

[mental grotto]

Sad, what kind of multiplayer issues ya'll running into?

[upbeat tide]

thankfully im not a gek im either a korvax or an anomaly not sure

[indigo falcon]

waypoints not counting for the milestone is a big one

[upbeat tide]

im a korvax i see the blue dot on my blank screen on my helmet

im the techo race

that is korvax right?

[solemn bane]

There are some expeditions where milestones would fail to complete for some people if you had multiplayer on. There was no workaround to get them to work aside from turning multiplayer off. If you're on a multiplayer quest it will flat block you from finishing any milestone, but that won't really apply to this expedition.

[indigo falcon]

sounds like it

[mental grotto]

Sad

[upbeat tide]

anyone got some tips on how i can find waypoints? ive been scanning for abandoned structures and trade outposts i managed to get 3 so far but now i just scanned for a trade outpost and its 2 hours away all i have is the truck

[indigo falcon]

try scanning for drop pods, those might be closer

[solemn bane]

Skip it til you have a ship, then scan for whatever in your collosus and fly there quickly

[indigo falcon]

I'm assuming the ones at the waste heap are notregistering for you

eh once you have a ship you can just fly lowand slow and scan for building markers directly

[upbeat tide]

im not sure

when do i get the spider legs for my truck?

[indigo falcon]

endof phase 4

[severe sail]

Is there a mod I can ask a question to

[indigo falcon]

if you need to report a user or a scam or something similar, there is a list of moderators when you look at the people in the channel, you could send a message to one of them.

[upbeat tide]

this waste collection stuff isnt going away after this expedition right? i really hope it stays in the game forever and isnt just a one time thing

[indigo falcon]

you can get special titles and some custom colossus parts in regular gameplay, that's a permanent addition indeed along with the waste heaps etc

[upbeat tide]

how long do geothermal events last?

[indigo falcon]

not long at all. if you drive on a little, that should take care of it

[upbeat tide]

these cylindrical explosive special wastes are so annoying they fall straight through the force field of the truck bed even when im on smooth terrain

[indigo falcon]

ouch

[solemn bane]

The round objects are definitely a lot more hilarious when it comes to physics

[indigo falcon]

I had some collision problems when loading up the flatbed but otherwise it was fine

[upbeat tide]

everything else stays in fine its just those oxygen tank shaped explosives

[indigo falcon]

oh the tiny ones, right

[upbeat tide]

im gonna put the big boxes near the back and keep the little stuff at the front so the big stuff keeps the little stuff in

[indigo falcon]

those are the ones that would clip right through the flatbed during loading and sit above the wheel outside of the truck, I'd have to go around to the other side, pick them off of there and load them back in

[hardy quail]

Any tips for this one other to just wander around looking at rocks?

It's not any of the cave rocks, I'm pretty sure

[solemn bane]

Could be the one in my pinned comment: #nms-expedition message

[hardy quail]

pretty sure it is -_-

[indigo falcon]

yeah a pebble in a dark grey patch of earth is what you are missing

[hardy quail]

wowwwww

the trouble I'm having rn is picking out the right pebble from just like, the terrain rocks

[indigo falcon]

heh

[hardy quail]

DONE

[indigo falcon]

those ones are only on dark grey patches

yay!

[void condor]

Am I the only one who feels like this expedition is just ragebait

[solemn bane]

nope

[long tinsel]

the fact that the flatbed doesn't lockdown the toxic waste is terrible

physics on stuff in the flatbed is terrible

[void condor]

Its way too easy to lose cargo. And I keep having to drive for 20 irl minutes just to get to any of the processing plants I find when I scan. Its like it chooses to show me literally the farthest one from me. Which basically guarantees I won't have my cargo when I get there. And who decided to have this expedition on a planet covered in 90 degree angle mountains???

I just need ONE MORE radioactive material and I keep hunting everywhere to find one, then losing it on the way. Ive never actually ragequit an expedition before but FECK I cant keep playing this rn

[dim salmon]

It seemed fine to me, I think I only got a single destination that was more than 3 minutes away when I did the expedition. Though I just went back to the same processing plant instead of picking new ones each time. All the expedition dumps were close to the processing plant we started at.

[worthy heath]

So uh I have to do the safari quest and I already have 5/6 of the fauna discovered..

Am I cooked

[dim salmon]

You're fine, just scan the last one and it'll complete

[worthy heath]

Okay

[glossy valley]

is there a way to keep stuff in the trukck better? the collision atm sucks

[dim salmon]

Drive slower? Don't use the mechanical legs, they're good for traversal but not for transporting. Load square things in the back, round things in the front.

[glossy valley]

oh. legs are bad? whats the best wheel to use?

[solemn bane]

It ranges from ok to very bad depending on your hardware it seems. Basically if you have bad physics problems, you'll just need to carry fewer items, go slower, and plan your route to avoid problem areas. Sometimes that won't even help you though.

[dim salmon]

You're not likely to unlock the best type during the expedition since it ends much sooner than that, but even the plain wheels are more stable than the mechanical legs. The thing that makes the legs good (sticking to surfaces) is actively bad for not wobbling.

[solemn bane]

That is a wildly different take than most people have. For most folks, the spider legs are the only noticeably better way to transport items.

[dim salmon]

I think they are awful. They make your truck follow the terrain exactly, no suspension at all. That's not great unless the terrain is extremely flat.

[void condor]

Hard disagree. I was using treds till I got the legs, and I had crap flying across the map on the treds no matter how slow I went. The slightest bumps sends everything to orbit. With legs, I have a much easier time keeping things in the truck.. as long as Im not forced to go up these steep mountains like I have been...

[solemn bane]

Again, a wildly different take than most people have. Are you on console? One of the latest PC patches fixed some issues they had.

[dim salmon]

PC

[solemn bane]

Yeah, bizarre take, based on what I've seen and read.

But at the same time, the physics seems to vary wildly from person to person, so it's entirely possible there's a setup that makes legs bad and wheels good

[dim salmon]

I tested all the types as best I could. Hyperelastic wheels and caterpillar threads seemed to cause less bouncing, offroad wheels were close behind, then the basic wheels. Mechanical legs seemed marginally better than the tracked threads

[void condor]

See, I wandered off trying to stick to decent terrain (and failing) so I lost track of the original ones. But also sometimes I was at the expedition marker, scanned, and it directed me halfway across the globe for no reason. Idk if the scan is bugged or what

[worthy heath]

I just started the expedition today and I'm already on phase 5 it shouldn't take that long to unlock everything?

[dim salmon]

The expedition finishes after you've recycled something like 16 special cargo of each type. The best wheels unlock at 50

[glossy valley]

ok so. it says the POI is 45 minutes away. I have no ship as i started fresh on the exped. any ideas?

[void condor]

Wait whats the Furnace Chasis do

[solemn bane]

Keep on truckin.

[void condor]

It be like that. Main reason im complaining. That combined with the wild mountain terrain

[little glacier]

cant pkace the truck cos i dont have edit permission

[dim salmon]

The furnace chassis is a portable processing plant. It won't count for processing special waste though.

[solemn bane]

Go back to the processing plant and place it there.

[void condor]

Drat... that would have been too easy

[chilly kelp]

sry need to say, bs of expedition, also ppl like allways fking arround destroying cargo

[solemn bane]

Turn multiplayer off in the network settings

[stark whale]

I did the expedition with multiplayer off

[little glacier]

still dont work

[dim salmon]

You don't have to do the expedition if you don't like it, you don't need the rewards if you don't enjoy trucking in the first place.

[chilly kelp]

i turned on to see some ppl and not feel alone, when notice my cargo was gone, fk them all

[solemn bane]

Are you sure you're AT the starting waste processing plant?

Like on it

[little glacier]

WHY DOES IT HAVE TO BE THE STARTING ONE THAT IS SOME DUMBFUCK ASS DESIGN

[dim salmon]

Just report the nearest base to get rid of it, that should let you place the geobay right where you are

[void condor]

I was able to place mine just outside the plant behind the machines that eat the radioactive materials and such.

[solemn bane]

I think that's the only one that comes up. The icon should look like this on your horizon (the craneone in the middle)

[solemn bane]

Doesn't work anymore.

[weak trench]

so i have completed the expedition

which techs are worth

taking to main save

[solemn bane]

The alternative is go completely offline and walk far away. Turning multiplayer off won't be enough as it still downloads bases.

[dim salmon]

The speed upgrades are pretty solid, nothing you get in the expedition is rare though, so don't worry too much about it

[solemn bane]

Take what you like, it's all pretty much worthless or easily obtainable.

[weak trench]

i mean which techs are will take an effort to install

[dim salmon]

It's only a few clicks to uninstall so I guess technically any of them? They're all really low value though

[little glacier]

so i have summoned the brood mother some how and my game is now 3fps

[weak trench]

do you mean the spider

[worthy heath]

If you touch the lil bug critters it just appears and jankilly attacks the air till you Colossus Lazer it to death

[little glacier]

what colossus, since it wont place

[worthy heath]

Why

If it said

[hollow prism]

Hi @worthy heath , do take note that pictures posted here that is not NMS will be subjected to deletion

[worthy heath]

Well my bad what I was referencing is what isn't in the game

But

Whatever

If I just put a low opacity nms logo over the image is that good enough

Jokes

[solemn bane]

Yeah #nms-expedition message

[indigo falcon]

sorry for the very delayed reply, there is a setting in the options where you would turn off pvp, far down the list, "Can access my Exocraft flatbed" and you want to set that to friends or just no one.

for those who are set on keeping multiplayer on

[chilly kelp]

radioactive cannister and explosives can be destroyed if somebody shoot them, also u cant see them cuz multiplayer goes shiity

[indigo falcon]

pvp off ought to take care of damage to the vehicle and contents, but I have no way to test that since I do not have the ability to enable multiplayer (console, no subscription)

[solemn bane]

Just disable multiplayer. It comes with a slew of bugs anyway.

[indigo falcon]

that's the best, multiplayer in expeditions is always a problem

[chilly kelp]

i was playing offline, but i feeled lone and wanted to see others trucks, never expected the multi were so fcked up to not show others but even worse invisible ppl start destroying cargos, from 14 specials end up with 6 when notice how the hek i was losing them

[solemn bane]

Learn to hate people. Made my life ten times better.

[indigo falcon]

there are always a few jerks (another reason no to enable it)... it onlytakes a few to make the experience for others suck

[flat quartz]

anyone know what the last mineral im missing is?

[solemn bane]

Probably the one in my pinned comment: #nms-expedition message

[indigo falcon]

looks like the rock tree (it's a rock shaped like a large tree)

the bark of that "tree" has a weird mottledpattern, look for that

[stark whale]

"the rock that looks like a face rock. it's a rock that looks like a face"

[flat quartz]

are ytou fucking kitting me the first tree I scan and its this one

[indigo falcon]

lolol

[flat quartz]

ty

[indigo falcon]

yw

[stark whale]

real

[indigo falcon]

that gets a lot of folks

literally the discoverer named it "rock tree" which I had to laugh at

then there's the one someone named "big rock" for the small boulder. while the actual big rock that needs an advmining laser, that has some boring name...

[flat quartz]

I worried about all the special creatures one

nvm

oo got a steam achivement for it too

[indigo falcon]

that one is stright forward if you remember to register for nanites after

oooh that's nice

[flat quartz]

thats what always gets me haha, i never do I just scan em so the red dots go away

[solemn bane]

lol, I don't even have all the achievements for this game

[flat quartz]

I respect the people who do

[indigo falcon]

I know I don't. but also the list of titles and sucjh is ever expanding, so ... shrug

[glossy valley]

so if you start a new game on the expedition how do you get to space after finishing it? they give you a busted ship

[indigo falcon]

at the end your ship is fixed, you can just summon it

[solemn bane]

I have never visited another player's base? Damn, I knew I was anti-social but that even surprises me, lol

[indigo falcon]

wut

[paper wren]

I hate trucking

[flat quartz]

yknow how we have the excavator attachment, it would be cool if we got a paver/steamroller attachment so we could flatten large areas of land

also we should be able to rotate held items in the gravity gun

[solemn bane]

1. lmao
2. Yeah I can't carry nearly that much
3. Loading on slopes is real bad

[indigo falcon]

rotating items ought to be available by default for sure

[flat quartz]

id also accept one of those grabby arms or electro magnets as an attachment so I dont need to get out of my truck

one of these

[paper wren]

loading on flat ground will also sometimes launch the truck 100m forward

[indigo falcon]

there was someone in here the other day who loaded up over 40 items without trouble, I've always gone for just one layer

[paper wren]

I've given up trucking. had to restart about 4 times from it exploding

[flat quartz]

yall think we'll get different horns?

[indigo falcon]

I have heardit's a physics thing, that if yo uload stuff in from the rear and the vehicle is full up, there will be momentum carried towards the front which has nowhere left to go except to propel the vehicle itself. I didn't have this happen to me but it's been described by other players multiple times, supposedly the legs are the worst for that

[indigo falcon]

dunno, could be a qs item to get different sounds or something. you could suggest it

[flat quartz]

do yall think that the Phage are sstealing the trash to make new bodyparts,houses, and staves?

[indigo falcon]

I think the gek are leaving all the unwanted crap in piles, discarding what they didn't want in trade

[solemn bane]

Maybe that's why the physics is so fucked up. They keep blasting us with grav guns while invisible.

[flat quartz]

I know probably not but I think its a really funny thought of them being given the choice to recycle stuff for cash to buy better parts, but since were nomads were just skipping the middleman and using the trash to make parts

[indigo falcon]

I just feel glad I didn't have a primary base on one of these planets that is now covered i waste piles

[flat quartz]

I know saaaame, I am so lucky my home planet is a phage civilzation too

[worthy heath]

This expedition is 90% just ugly plant sightseeing with boring animals lol

[flat quartz]

im having a fucking blast

[worthy heath]

The stupid rod collective moving rods are the most boring animal type

[flat quartz]

it is completely unrelated that i play as a phage, and phage love garbage

[worthy heath]

I said rod twice but you get the point

Lol

I just got back into the game so I haven't gotten into that yet

Just finished the story for the first time

Well.

[indigo falcon]

I don't mind the eye clusters,they are kind of quirky

[worthy heath]

Atlas and Artemis at least

[worthy heath]

They don't do anything is the issue

[indigo falcon]

what do you want them to do?

[worthy heath]

At least the fast spinny thingamabobs do stuff

[flat quartz]

they O B S E R V E

[worthy heath]

Anything but be imortal

Immortal

[indigo falcon]

oh you can shoot em and piss them off too

[worthy heath]

Also I have a 20 minute drive so I'm just chatting

In game*

[indigo falcon]

ah

[worthy heath]

Rendezvous 3

[indigo falcon]

safe jorney, traveler, and may all your cargo arrive intact

[worthy heath]

I had to go to Timbuktu to get the landmarks lol

[indigo falcon]

how does everyoe have thes elong drives, my longest was 12 minutes

[worthy heath]

Lol

[indigo falcon]

ohhhhh

[flat quartz]

mine was 40 minutes

[solemn bane]

I mean I doubt you timed that.

[worthy heath]

It helps that I put the two plus 17 speed boosts in my overcharged slots

[flat quartz]

im having a blast haha i like driving in games when I dont drive in real life

[indigo falcon]

12 minutes by the hud, took less time to actually get there

[worthy heath]

I legally can't drive yet but I maxed out my driving skill in another game in like 2 hours also no man's sky is super cool and the developers are underappreciated in their time(trying not to get executed for even MENTIONING anything not nms here)

[indigo falcon]

I usually do try to keep track of hud time vs real time, after my initial experience in the game (which I recounted in this channel yesterday I think)

[flat quartz]

I can drive, I just fucking hate driving

[worthy heath]

Lol

[flat quartz]

theres no consequences for driving in games

[worthy heath]

I've been playing driving related games since like 6 years old

[solemn bane]

There, all the stupid achievements. I beat da game.

[indigo falcon]

no consequences in some games. 😛

[indigo falcon]

you were social for a hot second?

[worthy heath]

What does gathering gravitino balls have to do with industrial cleanup

[solemn bane]

Yeah and also I never registered any of the fauna I scanned.

[indigo falcon]

nothing but you have to get one for the coil so why not make you get a bunch... then you can toy with a sentinel, and then you might as well shoot some

[indigo falcon]

none of them??

[worthy heath]

I have like 4 years of un registered fauna and flora alike so like 400 entries at least

[solemn bane]

Well, the first was this expedition. So I had to upload 9 more planets. Which were of course all the planets that only had one fauna.

[indigo falcon]

ouchie

[worthy heath]

But on my main save I have integer limit money

So ifk

Idk*

[indigo falcon]

ah yeah I have hit that cap a few times, I try to be careful about it but.. ehj

[glossy valley]

what are the "optional" things it talks about at the end?

[worthy heath]

I see only one optional objective so

[glossy valley]

also can you unlock and earn the other chasis once youre in the normal game?

[worthy heath]

It's just killing things with the ram plow

[solemn bane]

Some expeditions have milestones you can skip before ending it completely. This expedition had one.

[indigo falcon]

in the normal game you can unlock all the rest, yes

[worthy heath]

Why is there a plant that is labeled as a mineral

The snakeskin tree or whatever

[indigo falcon]

it's a mineral 😛

[worthy heath]

Totally

[indigo falcon]

a tree-shaped mineral.

[worthy heath]

The bouncy muffin looking critters are funny as well lol

[indigo falcon]

the mushroom hoppers?? yeah those are a classic type of nms fauna

[worthy heath]

My first registered companion I think one of the broad backed green mineral bugs with 4 legs

Kinde disk shaped

At least on my main save I made in 2023

[indigo falcon]

disk shaped bug? this is not ringing any bells for me

[solemn bane]

Registering fauna on planets I discovered 11 years ago felt kinda bad.

[worthy heath]

I think I might be able to send a screenshot since it's nms related

[indigo falcon]

sure

if you can't send it in here, you can put it in #nms-media

[solemn bane]

Wait I musta read that wrong, this game ain't 11 years old, lol.

[indigo falcon]

I was waiting for you to discover that 😛 10 yr anniversary coming up

[solemn bane]

Maybe they will have had added time travel in a future expedition.

[indigo falcon]

lolOLOlol

I will run that one multiple times tyvm

can't wait to see the rewards...

[solemn bane]

You already have.

[indigo falcon]

dang it

these time loops get me every single time

[solemn bane]

Gotta remind myself not to run Remnant.

[indigo falcon]

that never worked before so it can never work

[worthy heath]

If it would send

I have a photo

[chilly kelp]

if i load the colossus with cargo and them i summon it using his bay, do it loss or keep the cargo?

[worthy heath]

Probably not keep it

[indigo falcon]

the cargo drops to the ground where the colussus was

[worthy heath]

They aren't the same entity

[indigo falcon]

nice try though

[chilly kelp]

this rally is becoming annoying

[worthy heath]

Depending on how fast cargo heap junk respawns you could build a a "road" between the depot and the heap to just farm nanites

I imagine it's after a while away from the area or leaving the planet/system and returning

[solemn bane]

Yeah, you could do that or do any of the actually good nanite farming things.

[worthy heath]

Well dang I didn't know it was that deep

[solemn bane]

Resource farm -> units -> nanites via ships or pirate modules is pretty good. I like Interceptor farming or just some old fashioned sentinel murder.

[indigo falcon]

interceptors are good, there's always your standard curious deposits, etc

[worthy heath]

With how much fuel you use up traveling half across the planet you wonder, why do we sustain fusion with carbon or oxygen, no wonder it runs down so fast lol

[indigo falcon]

because they are easy to obtain (well oxy less so in bulk)

[gilded pine]

Just completed it, and was wondering when will the waste heaps show up on main saves?

[indigo falcon]

they are already on main saves

go to an inhabited planet with salvageable scrap as a listed resource

[worthy heath]

Oxygen fusion actually is a net energy loss apparently

Carbon fusion is not cause I think it's lighter than iron but idk I'm not a scientist

But

Iron fusion in a star is what causes it to burn out

Also, sidenote if it's fusion then why is the exhaust grey and not steam colored(power generated through boiling water through a turbine)

[indigo falcon]

dunno but nms phyics isn't real world physics, we all know that

and on that note I gotta close up shop for the day and get some sleep

happy truckin

[flat quartz]

spiuder leg funi

[jagged spruce]

to start the quest, you need to craft a gravatino coil

[chilly kelp]

one cannister just went off the truck, it blow, took 10 more with him, from 25 to 14..

[rose veldt]

meh 😄

[solemn bane]

No no, dig UP

[hasty oasis]

Does anyone have a suggestion on how to do the milestone where we need to activate 5 waypoints? I'm struggling to find any. I know they're usually outside buildings but I can't find any of those either. I used the radar thingy and the nearest one it found was 2 hours away and that's kinda ludicrous.

[solemn bane]

Skip it til you have a ship after Phase 5 is done. That makes it a lot easier.

[hasty oasis]

Cool, I'll do that. Thanks.

[rose veldt]

please let me know there are better transport methods.. i can't go fast because everything will fall offf

[solemn bane]

The spider legs make things better for most folks, but no, it always sucks.

[rose veldt]

there's no fun in doing this after the expedition then , only frustrating

[flat quartz]

how do I get the exo craft parts on my main save?

[solemn bane]

Find a planet that says Salvageable Scrap, search for a waste processing plant with your collosus, interact with the console, build a grav gun, do some stuff, process one scrap

[flat quartz]

oh so its like phage stuff do tasks to unlock cosmetics?

[solemn bane]

It's almost entirely just processing a lot of scrap. There's only like two qeusts to do before it asks you to process one scrap, then it's all waste processing based on the quest in your log.

[flat quartz]

I firmly belive a paver unit would make alot people enjoy this more cause then we could chose between paving a flat road, or excavating resources

[solemn bane]

A million things could make hauling scrap better. Like a magnetized flatbed, or straps. You know, high tech stuff like that.

But at the end of the day, ther is still absolutely no reason to do it. It doesn't tie into the game at all.

As opposed to something like digging for Corvette scrap.

[obsidian zinc]

I wish they would add more stuff to use the flatbed and grav coil with in the future, having 2 things that are as universally useful as they are only having 1 purpose feels like a missed opportunity

[ionic walrus]

me personally they shldve just given us the equipment and let us do the hauling

im not a fan of gatherin all those resources especially on foot

annoyin fr

[remote thunder]

once i realized that there's quite a bit of range to grav coil magnetize pull, i basically stopped driving colossus right up to the waste - i just stop away from it, "on the road", get out and stand on top of the cabin, then pull the waste in and drop it on the flatbed

[obsidian zinc]

I kinda wish there was a push/pull option when locked onto a piece if waste, so i could rearrange easier

[jagged spruce]

you can gentle drop it by pressing the button for magnetizing to release it

[obsidian zinc]

Ik, but sometimes im standing on the flatbed and it just is too forward so i have to get off the flatbed

[jagged spruce]

honestly the furnace is a good enough compromise but you do have to earn it

magnetized strap or flatbed is useless when you can just throw it into the furnace

[obsidian zinc]

Ironically atp you get the furnace there isnt much reason other than fun to use it

[jagged spruce]

if you want easy nanites

but then derelict freighters exist

[cedar hollow]

Hmm am I missing something how do I get dioxite and wiring loom on the expedition?

[jagged spruce]

there should be a tooltip that tells you how to get them

what are you trying to craft

I don't think you need wiring loom, the only way to get it is by buying it

[obsidian zinc]

Atp scanning fauna is a better method lol

[jagged spruce]

you get units not nanites tho

unless there's some kinda wonky food that gives you nanites for scanning

[obsidian zinc]

Nope, if you scan all the animals you can upload them for a decent chunk of nanites

[cedar hollow]

Trying to install drift suspension on the exocraft

[jagged spruce]

that takes too much work

[obsidian zinc]

Still more effecient than waste collection

[jagged spruce]

if I remember, that's a milestone reward

or one of the other wheel upgrades

[cedar hollow]

Ok cheers only got a few left so I’ll keep going thanks for the help

[lusty slate]

If you deconstruct the lower class engine mods and swap to the higher ones you get from the Checkpoint milestones, that'll give you 1 wiring loom each.

[vague fractal]

Is there ever a reason to not deconstruct the old mods once they are replaced?

[tepid basin]

well I know why the planet has garbage scattered all over, you leave a waste heap with a full load and by the time you make it back to the processing center 90% of your cargo flew out along the way

you’d think with the grav gun we’d have the technology to create a grav-flat bed

[cedar hollow]

Thanks

[remote thunder]

it wouldnt be much of a challenge if we could just trail blaze as if we were a Dakar vehicle - and never lose anything

[cedar hollow]

Do I have to un equip my exosuit upgrades and multi tool upgrades when I end the expedition? Or will they automatically be on my main save?

[wraith junco]

Need to unequip and put them in transfer box in expedition terminal on anomaly

[cedar hollow]

Thanking you 😁

[plucky bay]

This planet is so cool

Also whenever i go to a waypoint it dosent log it in for the quest

[thick umbra]

Every checkpoint does count

[vague fractal]

If you are actually using the save points and it is not registering, make sure multiplayer is off. From what I've been reading, that can cause issues when other people got the waypoints.

[thick umbra]

Thats from my last run (MP disabled)
1...After finish Misison 1 in Phase 1
2. Reaching First Heap Waste (Phase1)
3+4 .... Act there with the Light and do a Waypoint Save
5. Act with the Wapoint if you are back at Industral Plant from Phase 1
6. Act with light at waypoint save from Checkpoint 2

[plucky bay]

Ok ok

Also multiplayer is surprisingly very laggy this expedition

Wonder why

[thick umbra]

to many players

[vague fractal]

Everyone is crowded into the same spots on the same planet for the whole of the expedition.

[plucky bay]

also my ping is like 210

So

Also weapon effects actually works on players now

[vague fractal]

We tried the multiplayer and not only was it laggy and buggy, we think someone was stealing the special waste right out of our flatbeds.😆

[plucky bay]

*work

lol

[thick umbra]

There is a way to disable that in Network Settings

[vague fractal]

Good to know. At the time, we just disabled multiplayer again.

[crimson coral]

i need the list of what colossus stuff this expedition gives and when

[thick umbra]

thats always the best solution

[thick umbra]

check the pins

[crimson coral]

ty

[crimson coral]

i dont see what gives the cater tracks lol

[vague fractal]

I mean, when it comes to heists, that one was pretty smooth. 😏

[crimson coral]

i also cannot seem to get more than 3 waypoints

[vague fractal]

Nothing in the expedition directly gave those. I was told I can get them after.

[crimson coral]

ohhh

so i have to do that outside of the expedition? there was an image on what you have to do

[crimson coral]

this

thanks

[thick umbra]

I did it within the expedition

[crimson coral]

yeah i will likely do the same

i need that

50 toxic waste though...

[thick umbra]

I love my caterpillar

[vague fractal]

Ok, so it wasn't in the steps of the expedition, but extra goals/achievements? Is there a way to see that in game, or do people just figure them out as they go?

[crimson coral]

i will have to do the waypoint one on some other planet though

also i cannot seem to find all creatures and the last two minerals

[thick umbra]

Again .. check the pins

[thick umbra]

As soon as you have done all Missions in Phase 5 , you can summon your ship .. and do the monolith and waypoints with your ship

[crimson coral]

i did the monolith already

[thick umbra]

ok

[crimson coral]

the waypoints will surely end up last

i will just fly farther away from the spot i am at

i already play with multiplayer off

done

now need to find the creatures and get one more waypoint

[grizzled valve]

any good guides for this expedition?

[crimson coral]

done

also realized i just had to upload the creatures i found

[tulip oxide]

guys how to find my ship in this exp?

[solid tiger]

isnt one

[tulip oxide]

wdym

[solid tiger]

there

is

no

ship

[wise meteor]

and if one lands nearby, like they do sometimes to sell you stuff, the game won't let you buy it, even if you have the cash

[tulip oxide]

interesting

[remote thunder]

You must complete ALL of phase 5 to unlock your ship

[tulip oxide]

alr i’m on 5 fase, but i think i’m too far from basic location or i would see where it would be?

[remote thunder]

dont worry, it'll be spawned near your current location at the time

[tulip oxide]

appreciate it

[vague fractal]

I had wandered almost an hour away from the start, just exploring and learning words, when I finally looked back and saw the "your ship" icon and I was like, the heck you say. oops 😁

[remote thunder]

hehe

[stone saddle]

hey yall, is it safe to do the expedition on an established save yet? I only did it on a brand new one

[empty flicker]

Does anyone know how I can get my ship during the expedition I searched and tried to spawn it but nothing showed up

[indigo falcon]

I did t on an existing save with no issues, but note that I had mp off and I suggest you do the same

[indigo falcon]

you get access to it at the end of phase 5

[empty flicker]

Oh ok thx

[quick phoenix]

No man’s sky blue collar expedition fr

[finite grove]

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[pulsar echo]

Finally unlocked the fully tracked running gears. It's so cute now.

[worn flame]

Guys, I've spend ages looking for one rock. Is there more than 2 types in the caves? Or is there an ocean biome with under water rocks? I'm tearing out my hair here

I need to discover 8 types of minerals and I can't find more than 7

[indigo falcon]

two in caves with cobalt as the main element; one tall pointy rock; one that looks like a tree, called "rock tree"; one that is a small boulder; onethat is a large boulder and needs an adv mining laser; one that has two pillars form it; two that are small pebbles found only in dark grey patches of earth

[mystic silo]

Check in the || "rivers without water"||. Took me a good while to find but that's where my last one was

[glossy valley]

you do that while still in the expedition?

[versed pivot]

I got all my pieces outside of the expedition, as you will need about 50 items of each type of waste, at least

[glossy valley]

i mean can you unlock everything if you put the time in during the exped without a ship?

what do you guys think is the smoothest best wheels and stuff to carry with?

[wraith junco]

Imo they are just cosmetics.

[glossy valley]

Also. can you change your appearance at all during the exped?

[versed pivot]

Yes, you can. Don't worry about the type of the wheels, as they perfom about the same I'd say

[glossy valley]

where do you change your appearance at?

[wraith junco]

Space stations, players base if they have apperance modifier

[glossy valley]

oh well i am doing the expedition so i dont have a ship to go to the station.

[versed pivot]

The game will give you the option to create and modify the colossus at some point

[glossy valley]

i meant my character. sorry

[pulsar echo]

Some of the cosmetic upgrades are not from expedition but reward for doing other stuff.

[glossy valley]

yeah but you can earn them while in too right?

[lavish rampart]

Hey guys ive never done expeditions mainly because im spooked im going to suck in front of other people.

Is there anything or tips I should know as a newer player going into expeditions?

[glossy valley]

Also is there a way to see progress on those things so we know what out of what we're at?

[upbeat tide]

just completed the expedition finally. first one i ever fully done

[versed pivot]

It was my first expedition after hitting 300 hours in game. First of all you turn off multiplayer off. From there, you just have your time with the game and enjoy it. There's about one month left to complete the journey, so you should not worry about what others will think, but rather just enjoy the ride and have fun. The expedition is not that difficult and you will be glad once you've complete it 🙂

[glossy valley]

damn. so really no way to change my dudes appearance during the exped? not a fan of what they picked lol

[lavish rampart]

OOH! That changes everything then. Thank you so much!

[versed pivot]

at least for me, I went into the exp the same way I was in the game before, unless you started as a fresh start and not within an existing save

[hasty oasis]

Just had another player follow me for the best part of 10 minutes, trying his best to kill me. Following me and firing at me non-stop. Joke's on him though as I have PvP disabled XD

[crimson coral]

if someone made a fully enclosed cargo bed for the colossus, i would appreciate it

[hasty oasis]

It would be great. As it is, what I've been doing for the expedition is to take as many pieces of special waste as I can find in the waste heaps so if I lose one or two it's not an issue. But it is definitely one of the many frustrating things about the current expedition.

[crimson coral]

yeah

and i use a 3x high flatbed wall mod and even the its misery

if i willl ever do this, i will find something more flat

[hasty oasis]

I've been playing on Xbox and so the mods aren't an option. So it's just a case of loading up and hoping for the best, and looking ahead to avoid the many holes.

[crimson coral]

yeah\

every planet what has salvagable scap has trash? if yes thats good

[fluid sentinel]

Hi everyone

[solemn bane]

Theoretically. Someone found a scrap planet with no heaps or processing plants though.

[crimson coral]

fair

i am curious about something in this regard

i guess having an atmosphere or not isnt a question

[tawny hatch]

how do I find the waypoints ?

[crimson coral]

those white pole like things near any surface building

[tawny hatch]

yeah, but should I scan for any structure and head to six of them to get that milestone ? or how do you find them ?

[crimson coral]

@tawny hatchjust activate these. but remember that you have to be the first to activate in order to count. so play multiplayer off and stop near any one what happens to cross your way

[tawny hatch]

Haven´t see any of those yet, im heading to the third waypoint hence my question. Is there a way to locate them with a scanner ?

[vague fractal]

should have been one near each scrap heap, I think

[tawny hatch]

yeah, missed them entirely. They are also on each structure besides trading posts and alien structures. Welp , thanks all

[hasty oasis]

I didn't realise it also needed to be the first person to activate them. No wonder most of the ones I've activated haven't counted.

[upbeat tide]

do npcs still land their ships inside the space stations?

[crimson coral]

FINALLY

i can leave this godforsaken planet and do the other shit elsewhere

[crimson coral]

on the pads yeah

why wouldnt they

[worn flame]

Finally finished. Never been so glad to see a ship

[crimson coral]

yeah same

no hyperdrive on it though, so i will complete what i can get on this expedition before heading off for good

[tender tusk]

There is no point in doing more in the expedition since you can't do anything ship wise and you can't even do default story missions

[vague fractal]

If I started the expedition on what is essentially my first save file (I have a normal one, but barely played a couple hours on it, so very little is there), if I make this my main, have I missed anything, or will I still be directed to the content I'd have gotten to on the normal save?

[hollow heron]

My honest reaction at the end of this damned expedition (i'm about to cry)

[solemn bane]

It'll start you on the usual questline for the game after you complete the expedition.

[patent dove]

If this expedition is your first save, I highly suggest making a new save. You will have access to all rewards once you have access to the anomoly through the quicksilver vendor

[patent dove]

Except if im incorrect the ship they give you has no hyperdrive

[solemn bane]

Getting a hyperdrive and fuel will be part of the questline.

[vague fractal]

Ok, thanks. I'll give it a shot. The new save option will always be there later if there are problems.

[patent dove]

I've never had a ship that didnt come with a hyperdrive so I didnt even know that was an option lol

[solemn bane]

I think it's only if you start a new save with the tutorial on. Some expeditions too if I remember correctly.

[patent dove]

Ah. That would explain it then. I played for the first time on my partners existing save so started my own with no tutorial

................ THIS SERVER BANNED THE STAR WARS SLANG FOR ROBOT

[solemn bane]

lol, they also banned saying something is an issue with skill

[patent dove]

........ dear lord

[lavish rampart]

So i was in here before and someone helped me with my first expedition. Im in the middle of it right now and already almost done with phase 2!

Really digging being basically a space trucker and scrapper XD

(Definitely has gotten into the habit of yelling KOBE before using the gun to lob the scrap)

[wraith venture]

@patent dove And what exactly did the warning tell you? To abstain from bypassing our rules. Be on topic. And be civil on this server to avoid stricter moderation actions.

[modern jungle]

guys i have a question how do you start an expedition this is my first time playing and everyones talking about expeditions

[indigo falcon]

#nms-expedition message this explains all about them.

[modern jungle]

ty sorry i didnt realise there were an nms question

[indigo falcon]

no worries

[viral latch]

good...god...the 5th waste heap is an estimated almost 20 minute drive?? this has been a really slow one

[mental geyser]

And on my regular save I found a trash heap and processing plant 1 1/2 minutes apart. Life’s weird.

[viral latch]

i can't imagine how much stuff is gonna fall out on that drive back

[solemn bane]

I don't have to imagine, I can just remember.

[tender tusk]

someone on reddit found a waste heap next to a processing planet outside of the expedition

here

[crystal fiber]

I am having trouble finding the last animal on this expedition. Its the Rare, Ground, Mostly Nocturnal one. Anyone know a location I should look or something?

[solemn bane]

Just keep looking through your visor for the red dot

[crystal fiber]

I have been since yesterday

I just need that and 3 more toxic scrap

[indigo falcon]

there weren't any fauna in special locations, it was just a mtter of keeping my eyes open.

[crystal fiber]

Oh

[indigo falcon]

while you're out getting the last 3 toxic pieces, if it's night then keep looking around, by now you have the scanner in the exocraft

[crystal fiber]

Yea, that's what I am doing.

Also, what's the best tire/tracks? I feel like the legs are smoother, is that true?

[indigo falcon]

that was my experience too, especiallly sincce they no longer get caught up on dihy or carbon crystals

[crystal fiber]

Ok

[tender tusk]

The Nocturnal Animal one is a bunch of eye stalks constantly moving

[indigo falcon]

which I have absolluteely seen during the day 😕

[crystal fiber]

Yea, I think I saw it once. I just missed it, and can't find again

Got it

It just appeared outa no where

[indigo falcon]

nice!

[crystal fiber]

Now I just need 3 toxic scrap

[lavish rampart]

Let me know if I should direct this elsewhere. Question part of the mission for phase 3 involves scanning 2 creatures from an exocraft, Ive already scanned 5/6 fauna on this planet so idk how i will complete that phase. Any ideas?

[crystal fiber]

Skip ahead, and keep an eye out

[vague fractal]

I really should just get back to my ship and complete the expedition so I can start the normal missions.
I found this on the way back and I'm not sure it is anything I should mark or even if it will still be there later. 😆

[crystal fiber]

That's what I did, and just got it done

[lavish rampart]

Oh! Okay then

Just keep going and im sure it will work out is what youre saying?

[crystal fiber]

Yea

[lavish rampart]

🤙

[crystal fiber]

Does everyone spawn on the same planet for this? Do we all have exactly the same animals and such to find?

[vague fractal]

I had all 6 done on foot before getting the scanner and it still worked in the end.

[viral latch]

yep same thing for all during it

[crystal fiber]

So I'm just lucky I got to name 1 of the 6 animals?

[indigo falcon]

when you scan the 6th one, whether on foot or not, go to 'register all fauna' for the nanites, in the discovery tab, and when you do that you will get both fauna related milestones regardless.

[simple raptor]

ooh cool they finally patched that

[remote thunder]

nah, sounds like your game lost connection to the discovery services server - it will revert to the actual name it has eventuallyafter reconnect

[crystal fiber]

It has said the name the whole time, and says I have online discovery services

[remote thunder]

if you're talking about the expedition 21 planet, pretty sure that all species were discovered within 10min of expedition starting

[remote thunder]

yes, i see that, just some kind of desync, at the time you did it was offline it had to be - but even without that, do you really think that more than a week into expedition, nobody would have discovered that species, when there's a milestone that has us scanning 6 fauna on that planet?

i scanned that, and i hadnt been the one to discover it lol

[crystal fiber]

Idk

Ok just thought it was kinda odd anyway

[remote thunder]

dude we're so fast to get that stuff done when an expedition has multiple systems and planets, let alone all on the same planet

😄

yep, yeah, i understand

sorry to "burst your bubble" as they say sometimes 😄

[crystal fiber]

I just finished the expedition though! Yay

[remote thunder]

yay 🥳 congrats 🙂

that heirloom set is really something else

[weak tangle]

wait so if ive scaned 6 creatures by foot and im mising that last one i cans still complete it?

i dont fully understand

i cane here because im in the same situation

[abstract citrus]

so I sorta messed up with the expedition. I've scanned almost all the creatures but 1 so I cant do the Safari milestone

[barren gull]

This was a great expedition. I enjoyed looking around for the waste and scrap then recycling it. It was quite calming. Oh and now as a result of this expedition, for the first time the Colossus seems actually like a good exocraft
🙂

I wish the first-person aiming of all the exocraft would be fixed from that ultra-slow molasses feeling they have. I like driving them in FPV, but for that silly slow-motion looking around.

[weak tangle]

i think we messed up big time bro

[barren gull]

check the scan list, they usually give you a rough clue where the missing creatures are found, like North, South, or Underwater etc

I had to go underwater to find the rest of mine

[abstract citrus]

yeah but that doesnt help I that need to scan 2 creatures with the truck scanner to get the Safari Milestone

[barren gull]

you might be able to get it to go underwater

LOL

I learned never to do things BEFORE the expedition asks for them, like scanning all the stuff randomly when I first start, because of things like this. A few times in the past I had to restart expeditions because I was trying to be too smart

[weak tangle]

shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit

thats 4 hours wasted

[barren gull]

well you might find another way. See if you can join someone else who just started?

[weak tangle]

wdym?

[vague fractal]

You don't need to scan them from the vehicle. I scanned all 6 on foot and it worked when I uploaded for a later milestone.

[barren gull]

like find another player who is also doing it, but is behind you and just stated, so their planet has not had them scanned yet

[barren gull]

yeah, that is what I did

[weak tangle]

oh but i already uploaded them before doing the safari milestone

so if i join a pleyer that is behind i can scan the creatures again?

[barren gull]

Well, honestly if you restart, you already KNOW the flow and what to do, it will not take you four hours to reach the same point, not even close

[weak tangle]

i see

so thats my only option huh :(

[barren gull]

well you can try to find someone else who just started, then join them if they host

[weak tangle]

ok

[barren gull]

like get them to invite you and you load into their game

[weak tangle]

ill try

[barren gull]

but honestly the restarting won't take you anywhere close to four hours. I bet more like 30 mins to catch up to the same place. I know this from doing the same thing.

I had to restart Titan two times because I screwed it up

you can fast-track to the same point

[weak tangle]

yeah ç

[weak tangle]

im gonna try doing this first

i pulled it up on my playstation since i have a diffrent acc lol

[lost ridge]

After watching couple videos on expeditions I still don't feel ready, does anyone have a video recommendation or should I just go in there and just learn the hard way, am I at risk of losing anything if I die or dont complete it?

[vague fractal]

Speaking for myself, I'd say just jump in. That is pretty much what I did with some tips from people here. Just, for the love of sanity, make sure multiplayer is off.
Worst case, you scrap the save and start a new one, but I doubt that will be necessary.

[lost ridge]

Alright sweet I'll get on that then thanks

[weak tangle]

how do you restart it @barren gull

[solemn bane]

Restarting an expedition in the same save will require you to start a different expedition offline, then restarting the current expedition (using something like my expedition generator), but this will only work on pc/mac etc

Otherwise you can just start the expedition on a different save, or start a new save on the expedition.

[stone torrent]

Am i playing gmod

[eager ether]

I bought NMS a week ago and I´ve been loving it and playing a lot, just found that the Expeditions are a limited time events so I want to do this one but have no idea on what to expect; should I just launch it and try to make it or should advance more into the main missions before? Any advice is welcomed

[tawny hatch]

just launch it and give it a shot. Your progress on your main save won´t be affected and each expedition milestone gives you the rewards to continue through the end.

[runic parrot]

My issue rn IS HOW DO I GET A ||COLOSSUS|| WHEN I HAVNT UNLOCKED IT I THINK IM LOCKED OUT OF COMPLETION NOW?

[tawny hatch]

you will get everything you need in the expedition itself. Expedition are like a separate save you could say, they encapsulate everything , in this case the vehicule and the new mechanics this update brings.

you can start it from your main save via the expedition terminal in the Anomaly, or start a new save.

[runic parrot]

Hmm idk why the geo bay won't pop up

Is it in the build menu or the summon vehicle part?

[sharp gorge]

Alright, I am kinda annoyed by the constant noise the colossus makes since I added the mechanical legs, when you're not in it.
Idk if its a bug or a feature.

[sharp gorge]

Should be the build menu

[runic parrot]

Thanks

[keen musk]

almost done with the expedition, but is there a way to transfer expedition items to main save even though HG discourages the use of ships in this expedition?

[indigo falcon]

yes. at the end of phase 5 you get your ship; summon it and go to the anomaly (assuming you startedthe exped from main save via anomaly terminal)

[keen musk]

just need two more radioactive waste but i hate the back and forth so much i love this game to pieces but i wish this expedition didnt feel so tedious at times

[indigo falcon]

I don't usually have sound on when playing, I have an earpiece in with something else on...

[indigo falcon]

I find this with almost every expedition; there's a point where it just feels grindy for grind's sake

[keen musk]

it feels particularly egregious here without a ship for quicker transport lol, the colossus only goes so fast and i cant get boost upgrade modules beyond the ones that are in the rewards

at least i'm almost done so i can go back to playing normal mode 😮‍💨

[indigo falcon]

there are speed upgrades of each tier as you go through the phases. but I never installed any of them, it seemed to me like speed would be a bad idea

[stone torrent]

i just beat the expedition 😔
so hard to not fall asleep with how much colussus driving i had to do

[barren gull]

don't worry, this is a really easy one!

[mortal breach]

did the expedition end already?

i cant seem to start it

[tawny hatch]

5-4 weeks left on the expedition

[mortal breach]

why cant i open it with the expedition terminus then

it only shows i completed redux 20

[solemn bane]

Are you online?

[mortal breach]

ohh

i forgot

[craggy kiln]

Is there a way to show my ship and save beacon icons on my hud? When I play the regular game they show up but in expeditions they don't and I've now lost the make shift base set up I had going in a convenient spot

[solemn bane]

Ship no. Save beacon should show up fine though. Are you sure you made a Beacon and not just a Save Point?

[craggy kiln]

Pretty certain, I made 2 different save things and even put them next to each other, but now I can't find them or the depot

Just double checked, yes I made a save beacon and I made a save point

[solemn bane]

Can you post some screenshots facing various directions? I tested this yesterday and the depot was showing up.

[craggy kiln]

Yea absolutely, it'll take a minute tho

OMG I think I found it! I was halfway across the planet on reentry, it'll take a sec to get there so I'll send the ss in transit

[sharp gorge]

So, the other upgrades to the colossus are unlocked as you go through the new titles - does what you've done already on the expedition count towards that for your main save?

Is it different if you didnt start the expedition from your main save?

I am kinda sick of doing this scrap stuff atm lol.

[solemn bane]

The expedition stuff doesn’t count. It starts counting when you get the scrapping counter in your log.

[sharp gorge]

Alrighty thanks. I guess I don't need to get them rn

[solemn bane]

Well, I see the waste processing plant 😆

So did you make the save beacon while on the expedition, and now you’re unable to find it after completing it?

[craggy kiln]

I made a save beacon, put a save point next to it, and built a collosus parking spot thing kinda close to that depo (the collosus is the icon right next to it) and saved and quit and when I logged back on today I was in the space station having never even found my ship let alone repair any of it. I was lucky enough to have some of the materials needed to get it started on hand

[solemn bane]

Sounds like you’re no longer on the expedition.

[craggy kiln]

Wdym?

[solemn bane]

Do you still have expedition milestones to do?

[lost ridge]

[craggy kiln]

Yup, I just finished phase 1 before I logged off before

[solemn bane]

Well, the fact that you logged in on the space station after logging out on the planet, and that you have a working ship that you should neither have nor be able to repair, tells me you hit a totally unknown bug, and I doubt you’ll be able to get your save beacon back.

[craggy kiln]

That sucks donkey d bro

I'm almost to that collosus now so hopefully that gives some answers

[solemn bane]

Not really, having a ship on this expedition makes it a lot easier.

[solemn bane]

Oh, so you don’t have a working ship, you just teleported down via the quick menu?

[craggy kiln]

Yea but logging in at totally random places and setting up and safe spot near good stuff just for it to be lost kinda sucks

[craggy kiln]

It wasn't working when I logged off, I hadn't even gone looking for it yet but when I logged on it had the shield, pulse engine, and launch thrusters fixed but no fuel in em

[solemn bane]

Wild

[craggy kiln]

I found it and I'm taking a screenshot now so you can see what I mean, the save beacon is there but not showing up

[solemn bane]

I wonder if it’s still “yours”

The game clearly forgot a lot about your location etc so it defaulted a lot of stuff. My guess is there was a problem when it was writing your save file. I might check to make sure your hard drive isn’t full just in case.

[craggy kiln]

Ok so you can see it all in all of its weirdness, you can see the save beacon with no icon, the ship in the background with no icon, but the collosus with an icon

[barren gull]

this expedition does not use a ship at all, and you will not get access to it until the very last stage, and I mean the very last.

[tender tusk]

you don't get access to the ship until you basically claim all final milestones

[barren gull]

I found it a nice change.

[craggy kiln]

Well

That's not what happened for me so

[indigo falcon]

if you have not completed everything in phase 5, the ship is not supposed to be fixed. that's a bug, and I would not try using it

I mean, it might let you, and things might get even more screwed up than they already are

[solemn bane]

They got blipped off to the space station

[indigo falcon]

groan

[solemn bane]

They now, as far as I can tell, have two ships

[indigo falcon]

the "fix" for that is supposed to be via the quick menu, not flying. welp what a mess

[solemn bane]

Though it seemed to forget the ownership of their save beacons.

[indigo falcon]

time to pick up the save point/beacon and put it down again... and hope that does something

[solemn bane]

IF they even can

[indigo falcon]

and also note the planetary coordinates Just In Case

mm hmm

[craggy kiln]

I can pick up the save beacon, I'll do that after this long haul, I didn't have a way to teleport back as far as I could tell (not aware of any places to teleport on planet yet) so I flew back

[weak tangle]

how did you guys get the 8 minarals scan?

i can only find 3

[indigo falcon]

two in caves (cobalt), a tall pointed one on regular land, another large one that looks like a tree, a small rock called "small boulder", a large rock you need adv mining laser to get, one that has two pillars coming out of it, two in dark grey coloured areas that are both very tiny

@weak tangle ^^

[weak tangle]

thxxxx

saved my life

[indigo falcon]

enjoy!

[weak tangle]

trying to

[craggy kiln]

Btw this didn't work but that's fine I guess

[weak tangle]

had to restat because i scaned all the animals before getting the scaner for the truck thing

[indigo falcon]

now youknow not to rely on the save beacon in that case... ugh

[lavish rampart]

Just finished the expedition in a day. Thanks for everyone who answered questions through it. Wasnt so bad but I will say the back and forth between scrap heaps and what not was loooong and tiring. Otherwise I enjoyed it

[indigo falcon]

you don't need to. just scan all the fauna one way or another, then go to discovery tab and register the faunafor nanites, this completes the missions

[lavish rampart]

Can confirm, had same question earlier

[indigo falcon]

in fact I scanned all minerals and fauna on foot, no problems

[craggy kiln]

What happens when we finish the expedition? Is there any of it we can take to our main saves or stuff we can unlock for it or something? Or is it just it's own separate thing to do in the game with others?

[indigo falcon]

if you started the expd from an existing save, you can ship back tech or other items to the main save via the anomaly terminal. if you started from a new save, it becomes a normal mode save at the end

the end phase and end expd rewards are unlocked account wide; you can claim these items once per save at the quicksilver vendor on the anomaly

[craggy kiln]

Wait I didn't get options for starting it from an existing one, it only showed up in the new save menu

[indigo falcon]

to start from an existing one, you must fly to the anomaly, go to the terminal behind the nexus, and interact with it

(on the existing save)

now you know for next time

none of the tech is hard to get though, it's not like you missed something crucial by running on a new save

[weak tangle]

bruhhh

no way lol

[indigo falcon]

I believe the fix for that went out in 6.22, yeah

[weak tangle]

aslo i can only find one minaral in the caves

[indigo falcon]

there is one from the roof and one from the ground

[weak tangle]

idk if its more rare or not but its wierd

[indigo falcon]

as usual (stalagtite, stalagmite)

[weak tangle]

ohhhh

so the one coming out the roof is diffrent?

[indigo falcon]

uh huh, always

[weak tangle]

ahh

thx

im new so this stuff helps, thank you vry much

[indigo falcon]

hey no problem, we were all new players once

[weak tangle]

welp time to go to bed

thx

[abstract bone]

!exptime

[unkempt kraken]

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[marsh haven]

maybe enough time to drive back from the last waste site

[solemn bane]

Maybe.

[visual crane]

Advice on "Roadsigns"? Seems bugged. I'm at 3/6 going onto Phase 5.
I'm worried since I missed charting at the first one or two rendezvous points.

[solemn bane]

Skip it until you have a ship, that'll make it a lot easier. Just grab waypoints on the way but don't focus on it til the end if it's still not done.

[visual crane]

Oh, many thanks! If I get a ship by the end, that would make it much easier of course 😄

Any details on how I get one? I'm almost done with the milestones except that one

[solemn bane]

Finish all of Phase 5 and collect the Phase 5 reward.

Oh and then summon your ship

[visual crane]

That's great! Much appreciated!

[shut arch]

anyone got advice to find the minerals? ive got 7/8 and cant find the last one

[solemn bane]

Possibly the one of the ones in my pinned comment: #nms-expedition message

[tidal venture]

There are 2 in the dried up river beds, 2 in caves and 1 is a large camo tree

That are the ones u might have missed

There are more than 8 on the planet so u should be able to find it

[wraith junco]

One of the trees is a rock

[tidal venture]

Yeah it just looks like a tree

So its easier to describe it that way

[shut arch]

was the tiny rocks

ty

[robust fern]

how long till the expedition ends guys? that's the only way i can get the spider legs truck right?

[stoic sand]

#nms-expedition message

[solemn bane]

You can check the Event calendar in this Discord. Yes I believe it's the only way to get the spider legs.

Well, you're on PC, so you can also save hack, technically ;p

[runic latch]

!exptime is very usefull to remember for this

[solemn bane]

Though checking the calendar means you won't be spamming everyone. The above command can be run in #bot-spam if you just need to read it in a channel for some reason.

[final wave]

51 minutes ☺️ time for roadtrip

[vague fractal]

That seems unusual. My longest was, I think, 12 minutes. (Granted, it may take me 50 minutes with all the "squirrel!" moments I have, but still. 😁)

[stoic sand]

on foot?

[stoic surge]

hello, is there any way if reseting waste heaps / checkpoints ?

its a bit further than I'm confortable with :/

any way of reseting the expedition ?

[remote thunder]

can you try opening quick menu, see if there's a return to waste processing plant button? maybe that would be closer? update restore point before you try that if it's available

[stoic surge]

it worked ! thanks a lot

[odd harness]

Anyone else missing a single mineral?

[stoic sand]

check the pinned messages:

[vague fractal]

I 100% know I should just head out with the expedition complete.
I know there is no milestone for scanning a certain number of plants.
And I know getting stuck on little things like this will not serve me well with this particular game.
BUT...
I am so close...

[final wave]

Ah nevermind yeah it was on foot, driving time around 20 minutes though 😂

[final wave]

There is such a button, bk? 😲

[remote thunder]

on 6.23:

While on the Remnant expedition, players who have by any means ended up at a significant distance from the Waste Processing Unit can now use the Quick Menu to recover themselves.
While on the Remnant expedition, players who find themselves stranded at the Space Station can now use the Return to the Waste Processing Plant option in the Quick Menu to recover themselves.

[weak tangle]

can someone show me what the tree looking rock is, im not sure if its like a tree or that one with the 2 pillar lookin things

[final wave]

is it this 1?

[weak tangle]

yes thankyou

i tried scaning it but it was picking up the trees instead so i guesed it was something else

[solid knot]

Anyone else experiencing Toxic and Explosive waste, but not radioactive, not counting towards their titles when deposited in the Furnace body?

After about an hour I noticed and ragequit.

Yeah it's still happening.

[wraith junco]

!hg

[unkempt kraken]

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

[forest acorn]

I think it must be truly sorted to count for titles unfortunately

May be same for extra truck parts but im not sure

[magic pilot]

You throwing it in the right furnace? There’s 4 different depositories, and you have to manually sort different waste types into each one

[solid knot]

Radioactive works though. The furnace can unlock the radioactive title, but not the toxic or the explosive. I recorded a video of it and submitted to the Zendesk either way this is buggy and broken.

If they want you to sort it then it needs to say that and the furnace needs to not count radioactives, or the vice versa needs to be fixed.

[magic pilot]

I think radioactive counting being thrown into the wrong one is a bug, I think you’re supposed to sort it properly

[solid knot]

Yeah either way.

Also the furnace acutally works when you upsize it with a wire glitch on the pad. Massive opening just loves to eat trash and not talk back.

Feed me Seymour.

[tidal venture]

finished it, was fun

[heady pilot]

That does not work...the flames do not scale and they look ridiculously tiny. That looks outright absurd.

[solid knot]

You can walk around in there without the fire resists kicking in it's pretty hilarious. It's even better when you minimum size it and the flames are outside the mini garbage truck pointed inwards still.

And the bigger opening does work it even accepts waste without being finicky about it. Just gotta toss it in.

[onyx pagoda]

how do we redo the expedition on a save where we completed the expedition?

[heady pilot]

You can't. You either have to create a new save for the expedition or you play it from another save.

[onyx pagoda]

oh were only allowed to play the game once... they should fix that...

[heady pilot]

You can play it however many times you want...you just have to play it from different saves if you want to do it more than once.

Nobody is restricting you to only having one save. You can have up to 15 different saves at once.

[onyx pagoda]

ehhh just sounds like alot of hassle id rather just use the save I have then go through the process of starting all over again... ah well...

[heady pilot]

You can start directly in the expedition by creating an expedition save.

[torn nova]

I made a little peter griffin laugh at this

[solid knot]

I honestly did too when I went around the back and saw that gaping maw. The upsized flatbed is fun too it holds a lot more and the side"walls" are much bigger and it's harder to lose your stuff (except the tiny sized waste just falls through on bumps).

[torn nova]

How do you do it? I might try to fanagle the furnace once I get it, but I'm pretty comfortable with the bed (I'm also on the St. Sean bridge so terrain is nonexistant)

[solid knot]

Wire glitch at a base to increase or decrease the size of the colossus pad. When you summon it at a sized pad it'll summon sized to the pad.

[raw orbit]

Variety like this is why I play no man's sky :)

Never seen these types of plants before

[indigo falcon]

one you've unlocked the furnace, can you throw any of hte special wastes in it and get the full amount of nanites? I don't care about unlock progress now, because I've don all those, just haven't bothered to equip the furnaceyet

[tawny hatch]

is there a brake for the colossus ? i am having a hard time getting it to stop in place

[obsidian zinc]

Its pretty bad

One of the few gripes i have with it

[solemn bane]

What do you think this is, a driving game?

[vague fractal]

Only thing I found as a "brake" is face the camera backward and tap "forward".

[tawny hatch]

LOL , def not, but just maybe since they added a horn they would at least add a full stop button.

[tawny hatch]

Ok that works, but man going downhill with the bed fully loaded makes me anxious

[solemn bane]

Brakes are like straps for your truck bed. Way too high tech for No Man's Sky.

[tawny hatch]

im guessing they chose this awfull planet on purpouse.

[solemn bane]

For me, a flatter planet was much worse regarding physics. My cargo would just blast out of the back for no reason at all, even if I had just moved an inch.

[indigo falcon]

there are no brakes as such. move backwards, turn, etc. that's all ya got

[solid knot]

Yeah I've been using the Grip Boost Suspension so that I can stop by doing a turny-spin on the spot.

You can use it to tap backwards when going downhill to force it into a zigzag motion by looking back and forth while tapping that normal break. It'll turn you while slowing down-ish, but the descents are manageable this way.

Bonus points for quick turns to not fall into a hole at night.

[shy dagger]

how much time left?

[indigo falcon]

!expedition

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[graceful tendon]

any known way to fix the waypoint bug to complete the expedition?

[solemn bane]

Skip it til you have a ship after phase 5 is completed. Waypoints are a lot easier to get to. You can take your collosus to another planet and scan for stuff there. Until then just collect waypoints along the way, they may or may not register for the milestone randomly.

[solid knot]

jfc anyone else get teleported out of their colosus and into the air only to find their entire flatbed empty? I was less than 200u from the return. Beyond pissed.

[indigo falcon]

this has been reported by a number of users, with video evidence as well...

[solid knot]

yeah I'm ragequitting for today.

Fuck this.

[indigo falcon]

later when you don't feellike breaking things, please report this to hg

!hg

[unkempt kraken]

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

[indigo falcon]

the more reports, the higher visibility it gets (and they know it's still a problem)

[solid knot]

It's happening in corvettes too. Teleported outside into space, teleporting out into atmosphere the moment pulse ends, etc.

It's been an extremely frustrating day.

I'm just going to need to leave it be for now. Hopefully this gets sorted.

[solemn bane]

lol, I hadn't heard about being teleported out of vehicles. Here I assumed these were the same old physics bugs, but maybe there are new ones too.

[indigo falcon]

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/comments/1ratvw1/at_least_it_happened_near_the_processing_plant/ here's a fun bit

[ashen shore]

I feel you on that. So disappointed atm

[shell forge]

What's the expedition like???
I can't play it because im overseas :(

[solemn bane]

Well, you're lucky.

[shell forge]

Why?

[inland niche]

I liked it, though my experience seems to have happened largely due to starting soon after it was out, and disabling multiplayer

[solemn bane]

I played offline and almost broke my keyboard

[inland niche]

Yeah I still dont know why people's experiences with the physics varies so much

Though, for the offline thing, I think it mainly helped with the waypoints milestone

[solemn bane]

I will say I didn't notice the waypoint issue, I just eventually got it so I'm not sure if it was bugged for me or not. But yeah, the physics and just the length of those journeys, ugh.

[inland niche]

I feel like mine werent too bad, though I took the opportunity to listen to a podcast as I drove across lostr major

I did hear some people say they had to go further than others, but it seems like the rendezvous heaps were the same for everyone, right?

[solemn bane]

The rdv points were the same for everyone, but I think some folks got way off track, probably chasing after waypoints or hunting for the one special waste they needed

[inland niche]

Though, I must ask, with you being the expedition generator guy, would you place pioneers as better or worse than remnants?

Ngl I feel like I may have asked something like that before

[solemn bane]

If I were to make an expedition tier list, I wouldn't put anything in the C or D tier to emphasize how much of an F tier Remnant is.

[inland niche]

Not even pioneers?

Cause, like

I remember feeling like pioneers took forever

And I did the redux, not the original

[solemn bane]

Pioneers was the one where you could fly a space ship in the space ship flying game, right?

[inland niche]

Yeah but interspersed with 10 milestones per phase where each step was basically an extended tutorial

[solemn bane]

The one where you didn't have to focus on physics, one of the worst parts of this space ship flying game

[inland niche]

To each their own, I suppose

I feel that I wouldve liked cartographers, if I actually managed to play it then

[solemn bane]

Cartographers is incredible

Guess how much physics is involved

[inland niche]

Ah, I think I'm getting the reason for your ranking, lol

[solemn bane]

And you are actually working towards the goal of flying the space ship in the space ship flying game.

When you fix your ship the next milestone is "fly your space ship like an absolute maniac for 60 seconds" and it is so much damn fun.

[inland niche]

I can only conclude that my character is magical and anchors game physics to be closer to the intended function

Idk whether I'm not noticing the problems or just very lucky to barely be experiencing them

[solemn bane]

Even if the physics worked right, those drives were just too damn long and tedious.

Cartographers didn't have any of that.

[latent owl]

for what it's worth i found this expedition alright too so ur not the only one

[inland niche]

Well that... I was actually okay with tbh

[latent owl]

i just put on a playlist of video essays and went on a very careful road trip

[inland niche]

Ive found myself enjoying using exocraft more, and sometimes the restriction helps me see them in a better light

Colossus isnt my first choice to drive, though. Not by a long shot

But could you imagine the complaints if we hauled using the nomad?

[solemn bane]

At least getting to the Checkpoints wouldn't have been so bad

[inland niche]

"I hit a bump and my nomad and waste flew miles apart!"

This expedition made me glad to have wheels on the ground, lol

[inland niche]

I know a lot of people have been wanting corvettes to be able to transport waste, do you think its a bit sadistic of me to want the hazardous waste to take high damaged from the sudden acceleration?

[flat heron]

My favorite part about the colussus rework is the excavator claw. No one talks about it but its a neat way to gain materials without having to stop to either mine with the laser or carpet bomb a planet. I probably should just build more mines though...

[indigo falcon]

do not get me started on "really? you put me on a tiny little island and the nearest piece of land is... another tiny island far away, and I have to use the signal scanner to get to the next ocation which... is on that other island? and when I try again it sends me... back to the first island? where it takes 20 minutes to get from one to the other, in real life time?" and tell me how great cartographers was

if you got a reasonable starting location, sure, it might have been fine

[solemn bane]

Adding any depth to it at all would be great, but HG doesn't do great in the depth department. Nor the physics department, so yeah I'm sure the adding acceleration logic would just insta-gib me everytime I pressed w

[indigo falcon]

if you got a crap roll, it SUCKED

</rant>

as to the current expdition, it was ok, I did not hate it, I also managed not to encounter any of the physics bugs

[solemn bane]

I feel like no one talks about it because it is so inconsequential. Similar to processing waste for nanites, every other way to do it is faster and more effective.

[indigo falcon]

yes but if you're driving around anyway, it's basically free restocking

[inland niche]

You dont need ferrite much in this expedition

[flat heron]

Maybe because I find it fun to use the exocrafts and no one else wants to. Personally I don't like the more efficient ways ironically

[solemn bane]

if you're driving around anyway

If I'm what

[indigo falcon]

nanites on the other hand, you have to do actual stuff (locate a waste processnig plant, or get out and toss something into the furnace)

see and that's the problem, you don't have "roleplay as a space trucker" in your gameplay loop, fair enough

[flat heron]

Last time I checked running over the ancient ruins on relic planets gives normal mining laser drops (without upgrades) so thats something ig

[solemn bane]

Just think of as good reason for me to drive in the space ship flying game. Begging for some depth in this game, rather than just constantly bouncing from one half-baked feature to the next.

[flat heron]

no reason, but for me thats good enough /shrug

[indigo falcon]

it's not just s spaceship flying game. I spend much more time walknig around the planet than in a ship

why? I just find it more fun, more relaxing, etc

[solemn bane]

Sure, have a reason for me to do that, too. Depth is what I want. Not planets with one damn biome in 2026.

[indigo falcon]

that's a fundamental change to the way the game works. I don't think we'll see that in nms. maybe in some future title

[solemn bane]

I agree, the game lacks depth.

And rather than adding it they bounce around from one half-baked feature to another.

[indigo falcon]

broad bt shallow. uh huh. and yet I still find ways to sink a bunch of hours in

[inland niche]

Id say theres plenty of reason to drive around

Even when having autopilot in my corvette, I feel like I'm missing stuff when searching a planet's surface

[solemn bane]

Missing what

[inland niche]

The structures that scans and charts and signal boosters seem to constantly fail to lead me to

Plaques and buildings and traveller graves I find myself far more likely to encounter when exploring on foot or driving in an exocraft

[solemn bane]

But if there are effectively infinite amounts of them, does it really matter if you miss one?

[inland niche]

It matters when its the thing I want to find

[flat heron]

there definitely is a problem in that though, as its much easier and faster to go between space stations/trading posts until you run into a lost traveller. But I do like taking in the terrain, even if I've seen the biome for the 700th time

[solemn bane]

There's also not much reason to find them at all, unless you're on a mission or in an expedition. Imagine if there were some other reason to seek them out. Depth!

Like dang I'm glad I found this abandoned building so I could get this C class pulse splitter upgrade.

[inland niche]

Must there be a reason to explore in this space exploration game other than simply wanting to?

[solemn bane]

No, but arguing against adding depth to a game is a really weird stance.

[inland niche]

Id like more depth to be added, but I dont think theres only a puddle that exists with what we have

[remote thunder]

personally i just use eye contact and travel along leylines to find more POI and other stuff, whether i'm on foot, ship, etc

[solemn bane]

"Because the procedural generator made a bunch of crap" isn't enough for me. That's why I like expeditions to sort of force me to interact with bits of the game I find very shallow.

[flat heron]

Not really, but it is a bit off putting to most players when the jump between early game straight to end game takes little to no time at all. You immediately get handed everything instead of having much progression to it. I do agree that owning a game isn't a guarantee to being able to enjoy it, but the game definitely would benefit from more depth.

now that you have everything, the things that give you stuff give nothing valuable to purse them for

[inland niche]

Well, thats a consequence of the space anomaly terminals, imo

[solemn bane]

Oh that's a good point. The concept of "friction" in a game's progression is pretty important. Yet another reason I do expeditions, so I don't just jump to the end-game stuff with nothing but repetative procedurally generated stuff to do.

I of course have to enforce my own friction, though. Gotta make a whole lotta rules to keep myself engaged 😆

[indigo falcon]

this really is a "make your own adventure" sort of game, once you get far enough along. and that's the nature of open sandboxes

[solemn bane]

Certainly the more positive way to look at it. I'd probably frame it more towards procedural generation in place of depth. There's probably a cofortable median in there somewhere, but I don't think it's Remnant.

[indigo falcon]

I'm more of a decorator/builder than anything, so the space trucker life isn't for me either, although I did unlock all the customizations

too bad I can't have multiple copies of the colossus (with only one at a time being usable) so I could actually have a small fleet of trucks as part of a build

[inland niche]

I think a nice way to add more depth is expanding on the ways to unlock technology other than the anomaly

[solemn bane]

And we're back at expeditions 😆

I was considering a run where I couldn't buy anything fropm the Anomaly, and could only get it through expeditions. Though once you hit Utopia you get some stations that allow you to buy anything you could from the Anomaly.

[inland niche]

I definitely feel like the anomaly makes things too easy

Problem is that a lot of stuff can only be unlocked from the anomaly

I doubt most players are even aware that most technology blueprints can even be obtained from anywhere else

[indigo falcon]

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1espIrCKg70yYdCIey0Poks3IwMkcweLpi4odhuhF2Zg/edit?gid=1743910286#gid=1743910286

[inland niche]

But some of these ideas would almost certainly have to be implemented as difficulty options

[indigo falcon]

"fugitive run" rules

[keen musk]

i definitely get that the expeditions are meant to kinda ease you into the new features added with each update, but i feel like it gets so tedious that once the expedition is done i just dont want to continue doing the new update stuff in my primary file 😞

[solemn bane]

Well, the good news is there's no reason to, lol.

[keen musk]

yes, but i would've really liked to incorporate the concept/gameplay into my usual gameplay, but the repetition of the expedition just discourages enjoyment i guess lol

[inland niche]

"Reason" isnt... idk how to explain it well

[keen musk]

whenever theres a new update i like to fold it into my usual play habits! it feels great that way. i just wish that the expedition didnt sour the new stuff for me

[solemn bane]

Like imagine of instead of waste you were hauling corvette parts, and at the end you built a corvette out of the parts. How cool would that have been, physics issues aside (lol)

[inland niche]

Well... container physics should probably be worked out before hitching physics, lol

[keen musk]

i like the new waste/scrap stuff a lot tbh, but the expedition milestones just got kinda frustrating after awhile :s

[solemn bane]

Or some other ship, who cares. Ooo, an interceptor since they have a million parts.

[keen musk]

and the colossus overhaul is really neat

[stoic forge]

I really want customizable interceptors

[solemn bane]

That's one of those obvious features that should have landed by now, especially since modders were able to do it already. Woulda been absolutely incredible along with the concept of this expedition.

(Physics issues aside, lol)

[inland niche]

Aside from the new mechanics, this update did expand on an older feature needing more depth (colossus), so I so think expanding on older mechanics is in the works

[inland niche]

Theres a mod that lets you assemble interceptors?

[wraith junco]

FF made one i think

[solemn bane]

Pretty sure. I dunno if it's 100%, since interceptors are incredibly complicated

[stoic forge]

At will customization of small ships should have been integrated as soon as corvettes were launched. Once you have a decent corvette, there is literally no purpose for small ships unless you just like the aesthetic

[inland niche]

I wonder how many parts it would use

[indigo falcon]

there is absollutely a purpose

my regular ships have a nice small footprint and I can teleport to a base without becoming locked inside a non-walkable part of them

corvettes, it's like russian roulette every time and I'm tired of it

[wraith junco]

Some parts rule out others but probably 10+

[indigo falcon]

and these are not some huge complciated bases either

[solemn bane]

I like how the reason is because of deficiencies in the game.

[inland niche]

Oh I meant like, items

[indigo falcon]

they've supposedly fixed that bug a few times, and as usual... nope

[inland niche]

I havent had my corvette teleport inside a base

Instead it looks like its landed midair

[indigo falcon]

now this is not unique to hg, I can think of several other franchises where that's a problem. nonetheless I like my little guppy exotic

[solemn bane]

https://nomanssky.miraheze.org/wiki/Interceptor_Parts_Catalogue

[stoic forge]

the worst I have had with my corvette is when Multiplayer messes up and I get another corvette inside mine in the Anomaly. Outside of that, I would take a corvette over a small ship any day of the week

[inland niche]

They wouldnt all be separate, though, right? Because the assemblies have 3 slots for starship parts

[indigo falcon]

did the yever sort out "people bring their modded corvettes with 500 ppieces into the anomaly and other people's systems crash because of it" ?

speaking of things which are just broken (multiplayer)

[solemn bane]

This is why they weren't added. Way more complex.

[stoic forge]

well, there is a hard corvette part limit of 100 now, outside of hardcore glitching, so hopefully?

[indigo falcon]

mods

and decorative parts that did not count towards the 100 part total

[inland niche]

I remember hearing about the "default model" corvette being displayed if a vette was over a certain number of parts, and i was kinda hoping for that bc it would be really funny to me

[solemn bane]

No. I actually turned multiplayer on for the Corvette expedition to see what all the fuss was about wityh those multiplayer milestones. Friggin lol.

[indigo falcon]

ouchie

[inland niche]

I think i did most of corvettes in multiplayer? I cant quite remember

Breach was a hard no, though

Pulse drive quantum entanglement was too much, lol

[indigo falcon]

lolol

I have been a happy camper doing expeditions without mp, a nice chill experience with way fewer bugs

[stoic forge]

same here. I usually play with MP off, just turning it on when I specifically want to do something with other people