nms-expedition

[unkempt plaza]

IKR XD

[verbal rover]

Is anyone having trouble with the expedition completing after getting all phases

[indigo falcon]

known bug fixed in experimental branch on steam

[unkempt plaza]

p sure its a visual bug atm not sure

and that ^

[vivid stream]

yeah, i wasn't aware that after i submitted to leviathan, i didn't realized that my expedition missions are preserved instead of dying back from scratch

[indigo falcon]

has anyone clicked "what do you mean" in answer to the question "are you ready to break the loop"?

I'm wondering what that explantion says

[vivid stream]

✋

[merry gazelle]

Yup

[vivid stream]

i did

[unkempt plaza]

lel

[indigo falcon]

ooohh! what did it say?

[merry gazelle]

I am too

[unkempt plaza]

honestly

[vivid stream]

i think it says on death that i got atoned

when i chose "submit to leviathan" option to end the loop

[unkempt plaza]

it wouldve been even more amazing if if you clicked "what do you mean" the last thing you hear would be a rickroll

like before you die

[runic fiber]

Anyone else ran into this bug?
https://imgur.com/a/1ChFAIg
I can't unlock the ship because of this.

[indigo falcon]

some folks have dared the "not ready" choice 😄

[vivid stream]

let's wait for it

we did same

mine's already submissive

[indigo falcon]

#nms-expedition message

[vivid stream]

my options like:

say i don't know > say i'm sorry > i'm ready > submit to leviathan

iirc

[unkempt plaza]

@indigo falcon wel i can confirm that moon has storm crystals

if im correct atleast

[indigo falcon]

sweet, added to tip list

[unkempt plaza]

lemme confirm in dm's if this is a covered 1

[vivid stream]

mine's at 4th rendezvous point

[indigo falcon]

r4 has aggro sentinels so I look for alternatives for people who many not love the extra hassle

[vivid stream]

i can't handle a player with harsh climate so i've been forced to use minotaur to gather storm crystals

because i'm too scared of dying or else it'll be total reset button

[silent agate]

It’s also quicker to get around

[vivid stream]

yeah, definitely

[silent agate]

Storm crystals were literally my last milestone

[vivid stream]

i have experienced survival mode before trying 7th expedition

only 6th and 7th are completed

my last milestone is sentinels

storm crystals are 2nd because using minotaur during harsh storm that saps protection fast without it is a must

[indigo falcon]

you did the derelict (with the frickin drones) before storm crystals?

[smoky meadow]

i got lucky and i had cold protection installed on the frozen planet with storm crystals on it, makes it so there is basically no storm

[vivid stream]

mine's derelict > flute > sentinels > leviathan

[silent agate]

Yes

I can just run through the derelict if I wanted

I did stop to read all the logs tho. I wanted lore

[alpine topaz]

What's the best way to get these hazard protection modules?

[indigo falcon]

how do you just run past the drones and turrets?

[meager stream]

I just learned that ur bases stay after death

[indigo falcon]

oh dear.. that sounds like an unwanted reset

[meager stream]

It makes the expedition a bit easier upon deaths

[silent agate]

Uhm… you just… run? I didn’t get caught by a single turret tho

[indigo falcon]

yes, inventory goes, bases remain including freighter bases

[silent agate]

I had a bunch of shields tho

[indigo falcon]

okay, now I am beginning to believe it (plus you need to read logs to get the creds for the captain's log)

[meager stream]

U can place them in all important places like crashed freighter, sentinel pillars, anchor points

And just tp to them

[granite walrus]

If you die, and your base stays, I know the items in your storage are bound to player and not to the planet. So if player dies, storage is empty. BUT, what about supply depots and miners?

[silent agate]

The creds were in the first log I read

[indigo falcon]

nice!

[smoky meadow]

i just got it from a memory thingy, but i think you can get them at the station

[silent agate]

I had six s class shield tho so I wasn’t too worried

[brave rain]

Are normal permedeath each saves as hard as this expedition?

[silent agate]

All I know is normal permadeath saves delete themselves completely

[indigo falcon]

where di you get 6 S class shields from, that's um

how many thousand nanites is that? 😄

[silent agate]

Blasphemous deeds were committed

[smoky meadow]

i thought running through the deleric was the easiest strategy

[indigo falcon]

deeds that cannot be done by someone on a ps5 I am guessing

[silent agate]

I duplicated the S class modules. I’m on PS4

[smoky meadow]

when i went at it i had just a few shield upgrades and i just kinda ignored most sfuff

[silent agate]

I did need to get enough nanites to afford at least one tho

[humble bramble]

Dirty deeds but definitely not dirt cheap

[vivid stream]

ugh i guess i hated when leviathan rickrolled me

[indigo falcon]

the standard C crap I guess?

[smoky meadow]

yes

[vivid stream]

at least i'll wait for latest update so far

regarding to leviathan update fix

[silent agate]

Does submitting to Leviathan also fulfill the “die” milestone?? 🤔

[humble bramble]

Idk

[vivid stream]

ah u mean that?

[humble bramble]

Also please don't tell me you did all of the thing without getting "Die" out of the way

[runic fiber]

So what should i do now?

[silent agate]

No I’m just curious

[indigo falcon]

how you gonna get to that milestone if you don't get your ship repaired 😛

[silent agate]

You don’t need to do the milestones in order

[indigo falcon]

wait for the fix to go public in the next days

[smoky meadow]

can someone just give you the item you need to repair your ship though 🤔

[vivid stream]

well actually after i got "die" milestone, submitting to leviathan would cause it to die, instead of resetting back to zero for any milestones, it preserved it instead.

[silent agate]

Yeah

[indigo falcon]

if your ship isn't repaired you can't get to any anchor system or space station or anything at all tho

[silent agate]

I’m not talking about the fix your ship milestone. I’m talking about dying

[ashen shore]

The cost of items in survival in nanites is 10x higher than in Normal?

Fuck me

[vivid stream]

mine's dying-related

i can tell smoothly

[indigo falcon]

no, just for this expedition.

otherwise we would all be rushing out to buy good modules instead of relying on the memory fragment crap

[vivid stream]

i learned that dying before talking to leviathan would cause reset button to zero milestones

[indigo falcon]

also all base blueprints: 10x normal cost

[smoky meadow]

the dying milestone gives you a recipe that is required for repairing the ship

[silent agate]

I see

Alright so hypothetically you can that item from someone else and repair your ship without it

[hot drum]

i got a question for the hot pursuit milestone, what do i buy exactly?

[vivid stream]

however, i chose "submit to leviathan" is basically rickroll, i shocked when my player died after that

[hot drum]

like anything but all tgt must be worth 500k units?

[humble bramble]

Yeah

[vivid stream]

but when i check milestones, it was left intact

[silent agate]

Is that the snuggling milestone

[humble bramble]

When you sell

[quartz salmon]

I just bought all the black market stock and sold it all next time

[indigo falcon]

can be over multiple purchases

[silent agate]

Just buy a bunch of illegal stuff and sell it in another system

[hot drum]

it’s anything right? i don’t need to get a mission from the bounty master thingy

okayyy

thanks

[smoky meadow]

can people just give you the item to call the leviathan? because if yes would be easy to test if you get the die milestone or not

[inland girder]

Smuggling is easy if you have your own portal

[silent agate]

Specifically “illegal goods”

[fringe agate]

!ptp

[unkempt kraken]

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Portals/Teleporters

Portals are found on planets and require glyphs to charge and use. Teleporters are found on the Anomaly, Space Stations and are constructible at bases.
See image below

Contributor: Use Less UK#7734

[hot drum]

ohhh is it the one with purple writing under

illegal black market goods

[silent agate]

Yeah

[indigo falcon]

now a proper Ai would discern from the context when that image needed to be posted!

nipnip, grahgrah, all that stuff from the contraband merchant

[vivid stream]

i completed any of five milestone and i got pissed by dying to them without knowing

[lime lichen]

If no portal, you can anomaly jump contraband into a system, so id set up a base at a local trader

[vivid stream]

unlike when i got relieved at completing at expedition 6

[indigo falcon]

ok so that image was for you: a portal is one per planet, needs glyphs to get you anywhere. a teleporter is the thing you put at your base, or you find at space stations, and it has a list of places you have already been

[smoky meadow]

wait what can happen if you are carrying smuggled goods?

[indigo falcon]

we get picky about the language because many players are already confused about it.

[vivid stream]

exp. 7 is my worst encounter

[hot drum]

what’s the point of a bushel of tarnished loot btw

[indigo falcon]

get stopped and scanned by system authorities, then depends on your answer, etc

[smoky meadow]

ooh i see

good im lucky

[humble bramble]

Just ignore authorities

What are they gonna do

Shoot me?

[indigo falcon]

yep.

[hot drum]

can i sell the bushel of tarnishes loot?

[smoky meadow]

wait are the authorities as weak as pirates or are they anything special?

[indigo falcon]

they should be stronger, trying to think if I have encountered them since outlaws dropped

oh, yeah, in the expedition 😄

yes they take longer to finish off

[smoky meadow]

oh well all ships are weak anyways, the fact that you can instantly recharge shields makes anything even less of a threat

[indigo falcon]

https://nomanssky.fandom.com/wiki/Unearthed_Treasure yes you can sell your bushel of trnished loot, it should say it's a trade item

[hot drum]

thank you again NSNNSNS i’m just worried a lot that i might sell smth that i’m not supposed to

hell yeah i’m rich now

[hasty dragon]

Anyone got a pirate enconomy/extreme world r pear 4th anchor?

[indigo falcon]

nope, only near starting world

what's wrong with space stations to get you close though?

oh not an extreme world there, I dunno. just outlaw station

[hasty dragon]

Welp, just found an extreme by fourth

[gilded tiger]

I'm surprised ppl feel FOMO'd by expedition on Reddit

[indigo falcon]

why wouldn't they? here's an example: suppose you are a base builder. then these base building items can be gotten no other way (not everyone's platform supports a save editor)

and building in creative when your community is mostly in normal mode, it's not actually a helpful alternative

now having the title and maybe even a trophy/achievement be expedition exclusive, that makes perfect sense to me

[granite walrus]

There are barely modern games that don't, in some way, use FOMO tactics.

[gilded tiger]

Don't these items come to quicksilver store eventually? Isn't that what all items are in qs vendor?

[indigo falcon]

no. some do. many don't.

[granite walrus]

If you did those expeditions, you can buy it fromn the store.

The store is meant so you can get the items you unlocked on your expedition save to your normal save.

[humble bramble]

I saw like 3 pirate stations on the expedition path

[gilded tiger]

Oh damn, I thought they all did

[indigo falcon]

yeah, that would be another slution right? delay of 4 to 6 months depending on the item, have them show up.

but it's not the way hg chose to go

[noble wagon]

You don't buy them. They are free on all saves if you've done the expeditions.

[granite walrus]

Good correction!

[indigo falcon]

yes, "buy" as in "click the thing for the item"

[topaz brook]

Expeditions are FOMO content by nature

[gilded tiger]

Mb they want some ppl to have that sense of, "I've been here all along"

[topaz brook]

Having them only available for limited periods is going to do that, no way around it

Other than to not have them be limited time, of course

[noble wagon]

That guy has
quicksilver items for sell.
Expedition rewards to redeem.
Twitch rewards to redeem.

[inner oasis]

they rerun the expeditoin occasionly

[indigo falcon]

I like that there is a fixed starting time so many people are going throughthe same process of discovery together

[noble wagon]

@inner oasis they have only done that once.

[topaz brook]

Hence the plural “periods”

[indigo falcon]

but that's true for any update, it doesn't have to be an expedition with a time limit

[granite walrus]

I tried to play expedition again today, I just couldn't. I feel burned out. All the small things frustrate me. I know I am the problem and not the game. I just feel a bit burned out to start a new for the 4th time in a month. I started to play this game a month ago. I restarted my normal save. Then I did expedition. And now I gotta do it again. I just can't. I cannot sprint. I cannot fly. I die if a drop of water falls on me head. So I am struggling with FOMO vs "I am not having fun."

[inner oasis]

oh

[topaz brook]

Them being rerun is a good thing but it doesn’t make them not FOMO content

Especially since it seems like at best the reruns might be yearly or so

[indigo falcon]

if you need to take a break, take a break. games are meant to be fun (or give you such bragging rights that the short term suffering is worth it 😛 :-D)

[noble wagon]

I'm also giving out expedition dust in the anomaly in bulk.

[indigo falcon]

somnal dust?

[inner oasis]

yes

[gilded tiger]

Idk, HG is just a breath of fresh air after dealing with companies like EA/Respawn for years. I'm not a fan of "X did it worse than Y so...." But I just can't help it this time

[noble wagon]

Yup. Been handing it out like candy.

[indigo falcon]

saves people running one of the derelicts

[inner oasis]

I got tired of that, Spent 5 hours grinding liquid sun and felt like almost 100k to research is enough KEKW

[noble wagon]

Upon looking at the expedition optional stuff it's best if somebody does it lol

[indigo falcon]

if everyone does a little, it adds up

[inner oasis]

we only at 60% phase 1

Sade

[topaz brook]

Yes, HG is great about most things, I just don’t like FOMO content

[indigo falcon]

if some people like the additional grind for awhile, that's fine too

HOWEVER

[gilded tiger]

It's meant for all of us to do it, you can't finish it yourself

[indigo falcon]

let's stop at S class upgrades shall we 😄

[noble wagon]

I could also give out stacks of liquid sun or the other thing. I've noticed it takes 250 of those while the dust is only 100.

[inner oasis]

liquid sun is faster to collect if you have a good planet and rng

[noble wagon]

That's why I'm giving out dust.

[topaz brook]

Somnal dust is arguably the easiest to collect

Just be careful

[inner oasis]

You get 1k pretty damn quick if you have soduim to recharge the tool

[topaz brook]

And bring a good gun

[granite walrus]

don't we all start at the same planets? so I assume everyone is farming the same too.

[indigo falcon]

I feel like the ancestral memories might be the easiest

[noble wagon]

I have about 3k dust on me that I'm constantly giving away.

[topaz brook]

Exploration is still a thing

[indigo falcon]

toss pellet into group of creatures, harvest, wait, harvest some more, etc

[inner oasis]

yes but I did this first day within 3 hours...

[topaz brook]

In terms of item per unit time, and when factoring in how much you have to turn in at once?

[indigo falcon]

so "bring a good gun" might be the hardest to do in here

[gilded tiger]

I guess FOMO is FOMO at the end of the day. I'd like to think positive intent with HG considering they're pumping out huge content updates 6 years later especially in this era of gaming.

[granite walrus]

Not really, exploration is VERY restrained by dying.

[inner oasis]

a good way to keep the people active tbh

like you are forced to actually come back and play more

[indigo falcon]

doesn't take much effort and if you have several creatures at once you just harvest in a little loop (so to speak :-P)

[inner oasis]

if you want the rewards\

[granite walrus]

I got instant attack by pirates twice when leaving the start planet. This did not make me think "oh let me just explore". I was scared and summoned anamoly to hide in.

[topaz brook]

That would make the intent less than positive

[humble bramble]

I can't even play nms without being reminded of the halo community 😭

[topaz brook]

Player retention is a good thing, but having limited time events when they don’t need to be limited time to increase player retention…

[humble bramble]

True...

[topaz brook]

And even then, why not just drop a new expedition at the same rate they’ve been doing

It would still keep a number of people playing

For me personally, FOMO stuff will often turn me off from picking a game back up if I’ve dropped it for a while

[wanton delta]

Does the Expedition 7 bug that duplicates game saves still exist?

[indigo falcon]

yes

for now back everything up

[topaz brook]

“Aw man, this thing is cool. Too bad I’ll never get it because it was limited time”

[wanton delta]

@indigo falcon Is it going to be fixed ever?

[indigo falcon]

I would assume so? please report it if you have not already

[inner oasis]

🙏 Update today please

[indigo falcon]

there's nothing specifically about that in the experimental patch notes

[inner oasis]

The final reward was fixed in experimental

[wanton delta]

I backed up yesterday but I haven't played the expedition yet.

[indigo falcon]

there is a fix to save files but that specific one is not listed

[wanton delta]

Thanks

[gilded tiger]

Yeah that makes sense. Get ppl to dip their toes again rather than "I'll do that next month"

[inner oasis]

yes

[ashen shore]

does the expedition rewards save in other game saves

[indigo falcon]

any save on the same account can access the phase end rewards and the final expedition reward

(via the quicksilver vendor, "claim expedition rewards")

[shy narwhal]

which milestone gives the minautor reward?

[tough sluice]

Building a base on an infested world

[shy narwhal]

oh nice, I'll just warp to a base from a space station and build a base there.

[indigo falcon]

"The Anchor" (phase 2)

[shy narwhal]

Wait so just reach anchor 2? and then build a base I guess

[foggy cloak]

No, that's two different things

[shy narwhal]

oh "The Achor" is build a base on an infested world

Is there a wiki with all the milestones somewhere? I'm not in game right now.

[foggy cloak]

I think so, look it up

[indigo falcon]

no the article on the wiki isn't ready yet

or it wasn't 30 minutes ago when I looked 😄

[gritty depot]

Wait so if you die, do you spawn at your last anchor or at the very start

[indigo falcon]

the start with reset inventory

[fringe agate]

!leviathanrole

[unkempt kraken]

Leviathan role is manually assigned, when you DM or ping <@&233305774745583618> with proof of completion: screenshot of the Expedition tab: Final Phase: 5/5 completed. See example »

If you don't have proof, the role will be self-assignable in #roles at a later date.

[shy narwhal]

right, I think the recommendation is don't die

[indigo falcon]

I'll put a pstebin together with my milestone list

gimme 10 min

[shy narwhal]

the only rogue like part is the community milestone

[signal halo]

I have a question, I've reached the system with the second anchor point, but I don't know what to do with the anchor point from there to get the expedition milestone

[wheat warren]

so how tf am i supposed to do the milestone with the 10 whispering eggs? i get one shot by the horrors and i'm trying to camp my ship near the eggs but it's not consistent

[foggy cloak]

Do you have the Milestone selected as the one you follow?

[signal halo]

might not have no.

got kinda confused with what I was suppose to do, so I went to the second anchor point before finishing iteration 1.

[indigo falcon]

https://pastebin.com/kq5xepnA milestones and rewards.

this has spoilers in it; it's got the three encrypted milestones in it. be forewarned

[signal halo]

I'm just confused, I've reached the system for the second anchor point, but it hasn't triggered

Gonna try to wrap back with it as my main milestone i suppose

[ashen shore]

Ok, done with Phase 1 (minus the optional milestone) and random milestones from all other phases I managed along the way

[indigo falcon]

approaches you can try; be on the roof, shoot an egg on one side of the building, hop down to other side,e harvest a few eggs quickly, hop to the roof (or inside building out of spitting range), wait for subside

[ashen shore]

Also, to the person who came with idea of || spawning biological horrors at the 1st memory bit || - fuck you and the squid you flew in

[indigo falcon]

another: build 4 walls around each set of eggs, build floor panels as roof "path" from one set of walls to the next, leaving the tops open so you can hop in and out, shoot, harvest, job to next opening, shoot, harvest...

[fringe agate]

Or my way, which is just grab some eggs

[indigo falcon]

another: there is a nicely built base (several probably) built upon similar principles, find one in the teleporter list, go and use

Gleam, they started your way and got one shotted

[fringe agate]

Not doing it right if they are getting hit

[indigo falcon]

you might describe the technique a bit, see if they can apply it

[fringe agate]

Shoot egg on one side from roof, go to other side harvest eggs

[indigo falcon]

ah, so my first described alternative, gotcha

[fringe agate]

Be quick

[indigo falcon]

yep, you need to watch because they will come around from the other side, just not in the first few seconds, gives you time to grab and run

[ashen shore]

Anyone tried to grab the eggs while in exomech? Player still takes damage from horrors while in a fucking space power armor?

[indigo falcon]

I believe they die if they touch the mech. but I don't know if you can pick the eggs up

I guess someone needs to do the research (outside of the expedition, heh)

[ashen shore]

I've found it out with the Sentinels update release

[indigo falcon]

note if a sentinel happens along they will not like what you do to the horrors

[ashen shore]

And I was on Normal mode

[true bronze]

I don't suppose a small group of people could collaborate to get the eggs? Like 3 or 4 people take on the beasties while the other person runs in and grabs the eggs under cover fire?

[indigo falcon]

some people have brought their mech with ai and set it to shoot the horrors while they gather

I'm not sure how effective it is but it must do some good

if sentinels investigate that could escalate quickly though

[true bronze]

I have never actually commanded my mech to do anything...it just follows me around and acts like a big, dumb, metal, bipedal dog hah

I should try that

[hot drum]

HSNNSNS I WARPED INTO THE WRONG SYSTEM AAA

[indigo falcon]

lolol

if you live to tell the tale, all is well

[hot drum]

true

[umbral forum]

For the expedition, is it always the same 3 items that can be given to polo for the loop tier thing?

[hot drum]

is there a bug with archor 5 btw?

[indigo falcon]

what do you mean?

[hot drum]

i landed at like where the approx location is at but it kept telling me it’s too weak to estimate or smth

[indigo falcon]

you're over 1000u away. does it give a direction?

[hot drum]

like the yellow thing on the side?

[indigo falcon]

yes, can you tell if you're heading to it or away?

[fossil dew]

Will old expeditions come back around? Will we ever get a chance to unlock their rewards again?

[indigo falcon]

no way to know. there will be an influx of new switch players so it would make sense to me, but I'm not an hg dev

[frozen turtle]

this mode made me fall in love with permadeath

[hot drum]

heading to it? i think so

[indigo falcon]

just keep going then. check every 100 u or so to make sure you've not drifted and whether there's a range yet

also... check the comm ball distances ahead 😄

[foggy cloak]

You need to do a Target sweep

But try and see if you spot some comms balls

[indigo falcon]

they are, hence "too weak to estimate"

[ashen shore]

They are too weak to estimate cause of all the comm balls

Signal interference and stuff

[hot drum]

found it

there’s so many comms balls

got confused which one to go to first to check NSNNS

[indigo falcon]

there ought to be a lmit on how many render for a given player, sheesh

[hot drum]

it’s like spread out? not like one clutter together

[indigo falcon]

yes but in any 300u radius let's say

20 max. that's it.

[hot drum]

ohhhh

also i got a question

is it normal for my starship to eat half of my fuel every time i launch..

[ashen shore]

Better idea, disable any player builds within 1000u from target point

[hot drum]

i normally use the reduced launch mod thing on my main save so i have no idea NNSNS

[indigo falcon]

no, sometimes those bases are very useful

[ashen shore]

Not like we had a year of weekend event missions where shitbags blocked access to mission sites with their bases

[indigo falcon]

more than 20 comm balls are never going to be useful though

[umbral forum]

I find the comm balls annoying.

[indigo falcon]

plus the living ship missions forever

[ashen shore]

I can't really member the details of the LS mission

[slate mountain]

Whoever put that base around the whispering eggs, genius!

[indigo falcon]

probably just as well 😄

[runic flower]

so what exactly needs to be done for 'partners in time'? just turn in some of those community things 5 times?

[indigo falcon]

base name, world and system?

[indigo falcon]

yep, even the same one 5 times is ok

[ashen shore]

I think so, I did the 3 quests for Polo regarding loop research

[indigo falcon]

note that later in phase 5 you will need a small amount of each substance

[ashen shore]

But because I did a derelict and gathered more than 100 dust, i could turn it in multiple times

And that gave me the phase 5 milestone

[indigo falcon]

During the Leviathan expedition, players who fall into space will no longer die, but instead be placed in a safe location (as in creative or permadeath modes). <--- one small step

[slate mountain]

@indigo falcon it was either the 1st or 2nd anchor point planet. I wanna say 1st. I don't recall base name

[indigo falcon]

ok, thanks for the info!

[inner oasis]

Permadeath is a lot of fun

[rotund jewel]

what is an infested planet?

[ashen shore]

A variant or regular biomes (scorched, frozen, toxic, radioactive) that is abanoned (no NPC populated structures)

And most of flora looks like Living Ship parts

[hot drum]

JSNSNNS the freiger got so many boys thing

😭😭

[rotund jewel]

i just realised i already did it lol

anchor point 1 is an infested world

[ashen shore]

I think the tool tip said all anchor points are on infested worlds?

For sure the 1st one is

[inner oasis]

Yes all are

You just have to find the right place to build the base on the planet

[runic flower]

im freeeeeeee

[signal halo]

question, if i die after reaching iteration 2, do i start from anchor point 2?

[runic flower]

so now i wait for the final reward bug fix to go thru and go get my frigate?

[foggy cloak]

||You attoned for your sins||

[foggy cloak]

Yeah its bugged

[umbral forum]

Is this enough to complete the loop tier thing?

[foggy cloak]

No, you reset to square one

[signal halo]

@foggy cloak thank you!

[foggy cloak]

No, its a global event, so you MORE than that

[umbral forum]

Oooh I see.

[runic flower]

so are whales a normal spawning thing now

[foggy cloak]

No, that is one of a kind lifeform I think

[runic flower]

i mean the random ones in atmosphere

[ashen shore]

they are just reskinned frigates

like u can see frigates flying by sometimes

but the leviathans are only on the anchor planets I think

or maybe they are just an expedition thing only but appear on all planets in the expedition

[runic flower]

whale that would suck

[ashen shore]

hehehe

[humble bramble]

Just like the worm planets or the uhhh

Other thing

[ashen shore]

I think so

[hot drum]

aaa im almost done

i think

[indigo falcon]

someone has already recorded a space encounter with a leviathan in normal mode (nothin happens bu t it's pretty)

[ashen shore]

wait it can happen in normal mode?

was it on the exped planets?

[indigo falcon]

just more eye candy basically

[ashen shore]

so it's like normal frigate flying by

but more rare or smth

[cobalt blade]

every anch point is infestet

[hot drum]

what can you do with the rewards btw? tbh im not too sure what those are…

[ashen shore]

cosmetic mostly

the frigate is useful ig

[hushed steeple]

Will sentinels go away eventually if you sit in your ship?

[indigo falcon]

there's a few posters and the living baby calf base decoration (and the decal)

[hot drum]

i can’t get inside my freiger SJNSNSN

rip

[indigo falcon]

summon anomaly?

your freighter will go into "lockdown mode" if there are hostiles around

[hot drum]

i get near the entrance but like it doesn’t

bring me in

u get what i mean

[indigo falcon]

are the entrance lights blue or red?

[hot drum]

there’s no hostiles tho NSNSN

red

[indigo falcon]

it's in lockdown

[hot drum]

JSNMSMS how do i unlockdown it

[indigo falcon]

wait for hostiles in the system to be gone

or go to space station, save, reload I guess

[hot drum]

damn

oh well

imma just collect those memories again

[cobalt blade]

? any news about expd7 fin, but final reward telling me 0/5 - i know its pinned (im ps)

[indigo falcon]

known bug fixed in experimental patch on steam

[alpine zealot]

Beginning of Exped is worrying easy.

[jagged charm]

IF you survive the hostile animals

[tough sluice]

I don’t like perma 🥺

It scares me

[runic flower]

you dont know fear. fear is being neck deep in a derelict freighter with no oxygen and starting to take damage. a short warp and jog away

[hot drum]

last question i swear, if i don’t claim the rewards from the milestone

and call the leviathan

will those rewards be gone also will || i die if i call the leviathan || can’t collect rewards bc i’m packed

[hot drum]

🫂

omg there’s a huge snake

[runic flower]

speaking of which. pro tip: invest in hyperdrive upgrades early on, it will really help. and when you do a derelict freighter, bring all of the life support gel and batteries, and a couple cold prevention upgrades. otherwise youll be burning thru hundreds of oxygen in minutes, and be running to a heater every 20 seconds

[rotund jewel]

is the derelict freighter even neccessary?

[runic flower]

yes

[rotund jewel]

when

[runic flower]

its one of those gibberish milestone things

5th tier area. w/e its called

[rotund jewel]

ohhhhhhhhhhh

[indigo falcon]

ion batteries ftw

[hot drum]

i had to do the freighter thing

so yeah

[rotund jewel]

are the gibberish ones hard? i havent gotten that far

[hot drum]

i found myself not really using the life support gel tbh

more sodium

[alpine zealot]

Spawned 50ft from my ship, no animals nearby lol

[viral yew]

How do I get last reward Leviathan?

[hot drum]

i think it’s bugged rn

[jagged charm]

gotta die once

[indigo falcon]

||"a shattered past" (encrypted) requires derelict||

[jagged charm]

2nd time it spawns you further away

[indigo falcon]

wait for bugfix to go live (currently in experimental patch)

[rotund jewel]

i've been enjoying the looming threat of death for this expedtion although ive only died once at the start so far

[hot drum]

DID I DIE OMG

[alpine zealot]

I have to?

[hot drum]

NO

BSNSNSNS NOOO

[jagged charm]

yes

[hot drum]

no..

😭😭😭

is this a bait omg

[jagged charm]

challenge no 4

[viral yew]

thanks!

[alpine zealot]

Well, I'll throw myself from a cliff now lol

[indigo falcon]

what happened? ☹️ ☹️

[hot drum]

pls be a bit

bait

pls be a bait

😭😭

[jagged charm]

it isnt

[hot drum]

😭😭😭

i should have said i’m not ready or flee

[jagged charm]

first thing you should do in stage 1

die once

[hot drum]

i did

i died again

[indigo falcon]

wait what happened?
stop stop tell me what happened

slowly.

[hot drum]

wait

[indigo falcon]

and don't panic

[hot drum]

i’m alive

[jagged charm]

milk died ranomly

or not

[hot drum]

i met the whale

[alpine zealot]

So do i reload my exped or make another and it carries through?

[indigo falcon]

this is saying you were ready to breeak the loop

[jagged charm]

oh

[indigo falcon]

and you submitted?

[brave jacinth]

that was the last thing, you had to at that point

[hot drum]

yeah

[jagged charm]

just die once and reload the same exp

[indigo falcon]

congrats

you have completed the expedition!

[jagged charm]

after that stay alive

[hot drum]

ITS OVERRE

yay

[jagged charm]

take screenshot and ping mod for the role

[hot drum]

i just wanna say thank you to apergos again

helped me so much today

[runic crescent]

soo hows the expedition going

[indigo falcon]

oh, some deaths and some succeses and some bugs, the usual 😄

[runic crescent]

ah yes

[indigo falcon]

(I've not even started, heh. tomorrow I guess)

[slate mountain]

Fyi if anyone needs storm crystals, I made a base along the expedition path between spots 2 and 3.
"Storm Crystal Base" extreme cold planet. Has a shelter and a minotaur bay for easy harvesting.
System name Nokker along the expedition path between anchors 2 and 3, F3f spectral, no hyperdrive upgrades needed

[runic crescent]

i wont bother doing it

[hot drum]

many scares for me tbh

[indigo falcon]

going to add that to my tips list, thanks. (there's a moon in anchor system1 that has them too)

[noble wagon]

It's crazy. Been giving out dust like candy and we just hit 8%.

[slate mountain]

Hopefully I don't die 😅

[gilded tiger]

The cape is actually bad ass 🤩

[umbral forum]

Interesting. There is an experimental Multitool in the starting system.

[noble wagon]

@gilded tiger the cape isn't bad. I like the outlaw one better.

[hot drum]

where do i post them at??

[noble wagon]

@hot drum dm one.

[indigo falcon]

do you know how far away (LY) that system is from either anchor 2 or anchor 3? also what spectral info (like Fn/Water let's say)

[noble wagon]

With proof of completion.

[jagged charm]

here

[hot drum]

to you?

[jagged charm]

just @ the mod

[hot drum]

i don’t have the perms

[noble wagon]

I'm not a mod yet.

[slate mountain]

Stand by I will get that for you

[jagged charm]

@wraith venture @fringe agate are the ones you can ping

[indigo falcon]

oh also base name if you don't mind!

[ashen shore]

Use #nms-photomode-gallery, ping one of them admins ^^

[jagged charm]

or that

[ashen shore]

!leviathanrole

[unkempt kraken]

Leviathan role is manually assigned, when you DM or ping <@&233305774745583618> with proof of completion: screenshot of the Expedition tab: Final Phase: 5/5 completed. See example »

If you don't have proof, the role will be self-assignable in #roles at a later date.

[hot drum]

thank you! @jagged charm @ashen shore i will post it shortly after i claim the thing

[slate mountain]

@indigo falcon updated the original post

[gilded tiger]

Got an A class freighter after battle but can't inspect. Keeps repeating the dialogue. Bug?

[slate mountain]

Unfortunately it's several jumps between anchor 2 and 3, but since it's along the path it's easy to find

[gilded tiger]

If I go space station and reload, will it be the same ship?

[indigo falcon]

and if you know, LY distance from either anchor 2 or anchor 3 systems? in case someone wants to go via galaxymap

[slate mountain]

Possibly bug. For reload yes will be same ship but probably different class

[indigo falcon]

ah ok.

[slate mountain]

Super easy to cheese the sentinel milestone, hehe

[indigo falcon]

oh? which cheese did you use? 😄

[slate mountain]

Scatter blaster variety

[gilded tiger]

Nuuu but I already finished the battle, it still reloads into different class?

[umbral forum]

Jackpot.

[hot drum]

woahhh

[slate mountain]

Coords?

[indigo falcon]

free? not bad, lotta work but who cares

[slate mountain]

Yes unfortunately, freighter class is always random

[umbral forum]

It's a random NPC event.

All those repair kits will come in handy.

[gilded tiger]

Actually, since this is exp and I already have a freighter, this one won't be free to exchange right?

I'll just take the reward then.

Awesome. Thanks

[umbral forum]

Same place has this guy, but it's C-class.

[slate mountain]

Yeah, I just take the reward, easy units and usually a freighter storage upgrade

[karmic whale]

has anyone found some decent curious deposits along the expedition route?

[indigo falcon]

I assume that's going to be extremely painful to refine into enough nanites to make a difference with the inflated prices and small stack sizes

[karmic whale]

it is. the intent was to build a refinery facility with bunches of refiners available so that the thousands of nanites needed with the inflated prices might make it possible to buy a couple pieces of important tech.

[alpine zealot]

How inflated are we talking?

[indigo falcon]

so harvest into a mostly empty suit, start a pile of refiners one after the other, gotcha

[karmic whale]

10x

[indigo falcon]

10x normal price

wait, we do this, hg boosts the prices to 100x 😄

[alpine zealot]

I thought that was an exaggeration.. Goddamn

[indigo falcon]

nope, it's a little bit of a "use the dang memory fragments" thing

of course we the players don't settle for that, gotta have workarounds

anyways there is at least one mould base but I don't know where, we'll have to see if anyone in the discord has run across it

I'll check the subreddit again too

[unkempt plaza]

just finished the expedition lego xD

[honest shuttle]

yes but then you get crappy memory fragments. And uh. considering time investment, I'm not dying to reroll fragments gained from milestones several hours in.

[unkempt plaza]

now to not touch this save till the fix for final reward comes out 😂

bcuz i dont wanna accidently die and it actaully resetting again LOL

[karmic whale]

you're on PC... take save file backups

[unkempt plaza]

ik lol but i wanted to go back to my actual normal mode save for a bit anyway lol

and the fact i dont rly know how todo backups for no mans sky bcuz ive never rly done it for a steam games 😂

[karmic whale]

https://github.com/weasel-nms/NMS-save-file-backup

[unkempt plaza]

ah ty

[alpine zealot]

I'm sure it's been said, but I've missed it, the optional milestones?

[slate mountain]

Something tells me they are a global unlock once Polo has made enough progress

[unkempt plaza]

they arent needed for the final reward afaik

like they are optional but not needed for the milestone badge type of thing

[honest shuttle]

I really think the "community goals" are kinda...well just fuckin weird. because no one is going to wait for them to be completed before moving onto the next phase, and if people die enough, they aren't going to care if the rewards get better on new lives once the milestones are completed, they're just going to give up.

[unkempt plaza]

ikr

[honest shuttle]

considering that it's already been 3 days and the progress has only just now reached halfway done...

[unkempt plaza]

yup

[slate mountain]

The point of them, I think, is to help late starters to the expedition

[terse dust]

Yeah, that makes sense

Which would be great for people who start like week three, or have busier lives.

I think I'm gonna dip back in a few times to help the bar along

Freighter runs are pretty good for Dust, I just have to find a good freighter along the line.

[honest shuttle]

Right so the early starters get screwed with crappy upgrades while the late starters get all the good stuff.

[terse dust]

"All the good stuff"

You could just start late if you're that torn up over it.

Plus, it's not exactly "screwed." For example, I already finished it.

I'm assuming if you die a bunch of times, ||the end screen doesn't say Iteration #2||

[humble bramble]

True

[modern canyon]

Get the reward early, or have an easier time later. Seems like a fair choice

[terse dust]

Plus, we can't even redeem the frigate yet, so no rush

[honest shuttle]

..ahh yeah actually i guess that does make sense.

[unkempt plaza]

so maybe a bit of a dumb question but for the NMSbackup powerscript file does it need to be in the reg documents folder bcuz its not working for me (like when i double click the actual save back file backup thing)

[terse dust]

I made an easy NMS copier script too

Using python but

[unkempt plaza]

like its not in my
"My games" file in the documents either

[terse dust]

It's in %appdata%\HelloGames

oop wait

Up one from %appdata%

[karmic whale]

the shortcut checks your registry for your official Documents folder - for instance, the default path changes if you use OneDrive. you can certainly use whatever folder you want for the script itself and then change the target path of the shortcut.

[indigo falcon]

or people who find the extra hazards of perma with C class mods a bit too stiff. I don't think hg has the intent "let's make this expedition harder so only a much smaller player base can complete it"... they are usually more inclusive than that

[unkempt plaza]

ah that makes sense how would i go about changing the target path to where its saved? (bcuz i have onedrive but its almost always full so i doubt it can save the nms savedata 😂 )

[terse dust]

@unkempt plaza
Hit Win+R
Run %appdata%\HelloGames\

You can copy the folder in there elsewhere to back up your file

[alpine zealot]

33 percent in launch fuel and that's not enough? Tf

[terse dust]

And that's the location to put them back, too

[karmic whale]

right click the shortcut, go to Properties, and change the Target line.

[terse dust]

I got so lucky with this expedition

I ran into some Stellar Ice in the second rendezvous

[unkempt plaza]

ah i c ty ^^

[terse dust]

I shot it and it dropped over a thousand Uranium

[modern canyon]

Welcome to the worst part of Survival

[terse dust]

I was set for launches for the rest of the run

[alpine zealot]

Survival wasn't that bad lol

This is something else

[modern canyon]

Depends on your ship

[honest shuttle]

Yep

The Golden Vector requires at least 50% launch fuel to launch.

That's some grade S "What the fuck" stuff right there

[modern canyon]

Launch costs are doubled compared to Normal

[karmic whale]

so C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -ep bypass -Command "$env:docs = [Environment]::GetFolderPath('MyDocuments'); invoke-expression -command $env:docs\nmsbackup.ps1"
would then become C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -ep bypass -Command "invoke-expression -command C:\Whatever\Path\You\Want\nmsbackup.ps1"

[unkempt plaza]

ah

[foggy cloak]

Yeah, most ship do

[alpine zealot]

Well that sucks, i guess I'll be waiting in my ship for most of this lol

[foggy cloak]

That's a permadeath mechanic

[slate mountain]

Sounds like every rogue like I've ever played

[obtuse mirage]

For the mission cycle observed do you have to die

[karmic whale]

once in the beginning

[modern canyon]

Survival and Permadeath have the same costs and inventory stacks

[honest shuttle]

If you're like me you'll have melee jumped too far and died within the first 3 minutes of a run and gotten that accidentally pfft

[obtuse mirage]

It just says assist polo in searching loop 1

[alpine zealot]

I was close to that, till i realised i had to xD

[modern canyon]

T hats for giving Polo the items

[obtuse mirage]

I’ve got the memory resonator

[slate mountain]

See that's why I'm sticking to the starter solar, built in solar recharger

[dusty pecan]

You could just pirate a freighter near a space station and get all the uranium you will need

[indigo falcon]

for the mission "iterate/repeat" you need to die, and no other one @obtuse mirage

[slate mountain]

Raiding a freighter in a pirate system also makes it easy to meet the contraband milestone

Freighters are just loaded with contraband

[dusty pecan]

Yeah I raided 4 freighters for the contraband and ended up overshooting the 500k target by 28 mil 😂

[obtuse mirage]

K I’ve done that mission already. The mission I’m currently on just says assist polo do I just get stuff for he

[gilded tiger]

Game crashed as I reach anchor 4 point 🤬

[frank galleon]

I'm surprised anyone's claiming the GV during this.
I'd be worried that dying would cost you the ship since you can only claim it once per save

[slate mountain]

Fortunately that's not the case

When you die all of your QS vendor claims are also reset

[honest shuttle]

really if you're even sorta cautious, claim the golden vector, and scrap twitch drop ships, you'll have units and nanites to get yourself set up with at least basic survival gear.

[humble bramble]

I just didn't die

Easy

[wraith venture]

omg u rite!

[wraith venture]

ooh whew!

[indigo falcon]

it does apparerntly cost, and worse yet, if you start a new expd save it apparently won't let you claimm it again because buggy

[honest shuttle]

Cost?

[indigo falcon]

some people had the opposite experience

[slate mountain]

Hmm

[honest shuttle]

it didn't cost me anything

[hot drum]

there’s a twitch drop for nms? :o

[slate mountain]

Yep

[wraith venture]

past

[merry gazelle]

Saddness

[wraith venture]

couple of past campaigns

[slate mountain]

Lots of A class ships, multi tools, and creatures

[hot drum]

ohhhh

[wraith venture]

very helpful rewards for sure

[hot drum]

i wished they can bring back the old expedition :c didn’t get to try em

[wraith venture]

camp?

[unkempt plaza]

i read that has "Lots of A class ships, A class multitools, and A class creatures" and i was like wot creatures got a class now untill i realized what you actaully meant 😂

[hot drum]

oh i mean expedition NSNNS

[indigo falcon]

I missed the multitools but wow A ships I got a pile

[unkempt plaza]

i was like so confused for a second lol

[slate mountain]

Fortunately there's nothing in the twitch drops that are game breaking

[hot drum]

it’s getting late here and my brain is dead 🤣

[slate mountain]

Some really cool rewards but you can earn pretty much equivalent rewards through the QS vendor and normal play

The expeditions though, I wish they would bring back 3 and 4, I missed those :(

[frank galleon]

The A class ships are pretty good. I'd consider those to be somewhat gamebreaking early on in a new save

The hauler alone comes with a crapload of slots

35+21 iirc

[hot drum]

the past expedition are not on permadeath mode right?

[frank galleon]

the other expeds were on normal mode

[slate mountain]

Eh depends, if it something ship hunting has taught me is that good ships are only a few hundred million units away

[frank galleon]

when you start with zero, a 50 million unit ship is a massive leg up

[slate mountain]

Correct, this expedition is the first that isn't a variant of Normal

[slate mountain]

fair

[hot drum]

tbh i quite enjoy the thrill permadeath, i thought i would bail out early ngl JSNSNS

[indigo falcon]

I will only enjoy it if I don't spend 20 extra hours in it losing progress over and over... we shall see!

[hot drum]

gonna play it safe

tho there were times i almost died bc smth flung me up…

[indigo falcon]

you have no idea what the word "safe" means 😄 😄

[dusty pecan]

rush for anchor point 1 and setup base on the planet asap

[hot drum]

yeah you’re right

[dusty pecan]

getting minotaur and nomad as early as possible make planetary traver so much safer

[hot drum]

minotaur for sentinels are amazing

[slate mountain]

Tbh the three hardest parts of the early expedition are the anchor 2 battle (not hard), whispering eggs (hard if you don't make a base) and storm crystals (easy if you build a minotaur bay). Also not falling to your death

[indigo falcon]

well I'll want some spending money first. and I'd like to knock out the one predator task immediately so if I screw it up, there's not much lost progress

[dusty pecan]

nomad is real nice for the extremely hilly planets later on in the expedition too

[slate mountain]

Tbh the terrain is the real villain of this expedition

[unkempt plaza]

dont forget the anchor point on the hostile sentinal planet

[hot drum]

this!!!

[indigo falcon]

expect to: do storm crystals with the minotaur, build walls around eggs; run away from th hostiles at gravesite 2 😄

[slate mountain]

True

[dusty pecan]

All you really need for money is quick freighter heist around space stations on the way

[inland girder]

this expedition just made me get a hell lot more healing items to deal with anything

[dusty pecan]

make sure you have enough sodium for few shield recharges and just ignore the single sentinel interceptor

[indigo falcon]

mechs let you traverse that terrain without worry. I plan to make max use of mine.

[inland girder]

i bought a full set of 100 ion batteries lol

[hot drum]

damn

[slate mountain]

As soon as you have money, you buy 100 ion batteries and life support packs

[inland girder]

yup

[indigo falcon]

I've got my shopping list already assembled. I overplan all this sh*t 😄

[slate mountain]

Ship launch fuel too, but that is expensive

[hot drum]

i could never get enough fuel tbh

[inland girder]

getting the cloak made things a lot easier to get away from sentinels

[unkempt plaza]

i got pretty lucky and got the launch truster recharger upgrade before the second anchor point 😂

[wraith venture]

it does?

[hot drum]

what cloak

[indigo falcon]

cloaking device maybe

[slate mountain]

Invisibility cloak for your multitool

[hot drum]

ohhh

[indigo falcon]

called it

[wraith venture]

oooh lol

[hot drum]

i got that towards the end and couldn’t install it bc no space 🤣

[normal cove]

I finished the expedition and didnt get the final Badge as well as the leviathan ship did this happen to anyone else?

[inland girder]

common bug

[ashen shore]

Yes

[unkempt plaza]

bug atm just wait for the patch to come out within the next few days

[ashen shore]

Being worked on

[indigo falcon]

known bug fixed in patch in experimental branch on stea, wait a few days for it to be made public

[normal cove]

Ah thanks phew

I got so stressed

[indigo falcon]

relax, the hard work is done, just leave the file alone until the patch arrives 🙂

[opaque pumice]

Fall damage is no joke in this expedition
Fall like half an inch and your entire lower half shatters

[unkempt plaza]

ikr

[indigo falcon]

that's survival/perma, ya gotta be careful

[noble wagon]

@indigo falcon the community milestones won't get completed that way lol.

[opaque pumice]

I legitimately fell like an inch and died

[indigo falcon]

what way?

[unkempt plaza]

and i litterly skyrimmed up the mountain on the 5th anchor point without the minotaur bcuz i didnt have the resources to build it bcuz i forgot to deconstruct it but it worked out in the end :kek:

[noble wagon]

@indigo falcon if people complete the expedition and then don't continue to play it.

[unkempt plaza]

community milestones arent needed for the final reward tho

[indigo falcon]

once the patch goes out it's fine

I guess Monday

[unkempt plaza]

also dat ^

bcuz rn players could risk losing the final reward if they die

[noble wagon]

@unkempt plaza yeah but it helps future people and everybody else. C class turned to b class and so on.

[indigo falcon]

then people can claim the final reward, and keep playing if they like, knowing that they won't have to start over to get the frigate they were entitled to but for game bug

[unkempt plaza]

ik read what i said just now tho

[unkempt plaza]

ye exactly

[indigo falcon]

there are a bunch of people playing now that haven't completed. they'll contribute in the meantime.

[unkempt plaza]

^

[indigo falcon]

(I'll be one of them)

[noble wagon]

I've been giving out dust this whole time.

We've only gone up 1% since 7 this morning. It's 1 pm now. Lol

[indigo falcon]

you figure it's intended to progress over 6 weeks!!

[karmic whale]

and it will progress evenly over that time, every day. how about that. 😑

[jagged charm]

might be goign a bit ham

[teal valley]

What do I have to do for explore a crashed freighter? I'm currently in the middle of one and it hasn't counted

[karmic whale]

interact with the distress beacon

[unkempt plaza]

^

[teal valley]

Thank you

[noble wagon]

@indigo falcon yeah I know but think about it. The optional milestones upgrade the memories. So the faster it goes up the faster it gets easier for everyone still needing to complete it. No point in getting the 5th one done with a week left.

[unkempt plaza]

i mean you cant rly blame people for not wanting to risk losing the final reward if they completed it before it gets patched lol

[indigo falcon]

no, but a two-3 day wait to be safe so people aren't repeating their whole save when they had already legit got the 5 phases done, this makes sense to me

that's hardly any time out of 6 weeks after all

[noble wagon]

@unkempt plaza after dieing a couple times by some bs I've had to redo it. It took me 4 hours to complete it after spending about 4 hour. When you happen to die after you complete certain things they are still active. One being the milestone for dieing. The second is helping polo and that props as soon as you talk to him. The third one that pops is the helping polo 5 times. Which that one pops the 1 mil milestone. This expedition I wouldn't mind running again. I probably will this weekend with my friend.

[unkempt plaza]

i mean ik but thats not the case for everyone lol

like that they would be willing to rerun it

[indigo falcon]

I think there will be a bunch of streamers rerunning this weekend, plus many people startig it up first time on Sat day or Fri evening their timezones

[unkempt plaza]

like im all up for helping with the community goal WHEN the final reward gets patched

[indigo falcon]

there is no wrong way to play the game if you enjoy it and aren't griefing others. that's it and that's all

[unkempt plaza]

ye

[indigo falcon]

some people might play it once and say "whew, that was hard, not doing any more of that!" and that's completely ok too 🙂

[noble wagon]

I've been helping since I've completed it. Like I've mentioned I've been giving dust away like candy in the anomaly.

[indigo falcon]

yep, which is awesome!

[noble wagon]

It allows people to actually get decent upgrades to help them.

[indigo falcon]

I haven't started but I do my bit trying to answer questions in these channels.

[viral yew]

How do you do the "Cycle Observed" quest?
optional milestone

[noble wagon]

@indigo falcon well I'm on ps. If you need help I'm down for whenever you start it.

@viral yew the optional milestones are community ones.

[indigo falcon]

this is a "community mission" like the nexus missions for quiicksilver that unlock as enough people do them

just give materials to polo (5 times minimum) and do more if you like

[karmic whale]

"as people do them"

[viral yew]

Do you mean it's impossible alone?

[noble wagon]

@indigo falcon the only ones I can't help with is giving eggs and storm crystals.

@viral yew I mean go for it.

[indigo falcon]

that's really kind! I'll probably try to slug my way through it the first time round and see where the flaws are in my carefully laid plan 😄

[indigo falcon]

you do your part, and the rest of the community does their part, just like when a quicksilver is partially unlocked at the vendor

you cannot progress either sort of bar to the end alone, nor should you try to!!

[noble wagon]

@viral yew it's a community thing so technically you can't do it alone. But the more you do the more it fills up.

[indigo falcon]

walls around eggs, minotaur for storm crystals, pretty sure that will work out ok. or I'll be a very sad camper sometime tomorrow 😄

[noble wagon]

I have my save stocked up for everything my friends need to complete it quickly. Sentinel maps, ai Valves for money, s class mods for nanites. About to make a base around one of the abandoned things where the eggs are so people don't have to worry about dieing to the horrors. Also storage augments and exosuit upgrades. I have everything covered.

[indigo falcon]

yep a few kind players have done that, it's great to see (the bases around the eggs)

there are some bases besides pillars too, so that's handy

[noble wagon]

I have maps for those. To easily find one on the first planet.

[indigo falcon]

too many predators for me to want to spend much time there tbh

[noble wagon]

With 4 maps you can complete the kill 20 sents.

Once you disable the pillar it counts as 5 sent kills.

[indigo falcon]

yeah, 3 nodes, 2 (?) sentinels. bam

[noble wagon]

Do that in 4 systems and you have both of those done without having to kill any sents.

[indigo falcon]

I'm well aware 😄 like I said, I seriously overplan all this stuff 😄

[noble wagon]

@indigo falcon yeah but to get a map normally in the expedition you have to kill 20 sents. Which gives you 1 map to a pillar.

[indigo falcon]

there's other ways to get maps (and like I said there are bases built by pillars already on the route)

which is not to take anything away from the work you're doing, it's grand

[noble wagon]

After killing over 15 sents when I was working on it I somehow fell through the planet and started falling from the sky. Instant death. That was after spending about 3 hours after my first death by getting to the first space station and falling through the floor and dieing in space lol. After that I had enough. I was making everything easy from that moment on.

[gilded tiger]

Does any of the cartographer charts reveal sentinel pillar?

[noble wagon]

@gilded tiger only sentinel maps reveal a pillar.

[gilded tiger]

Only way is to fight sentinels?

[noble wagon]

@gilded tiger yup

@gilded tiger or get one from me.

[remote thunder]

no, can also get from sus packages (goods), or salvaged glass, or even buried caches

[hot drum]

can you give one away?

managed to get one but i didnt need it bc i managed to get that milestone completed without it

[indigo falcon]

NOTE that in the new patch: During the Leviathan expedition, players who fall into space will no longer die, but instead be placed in a safe location (as in creative or permadeath modes).

[gilded tiger]

I'll try to get it myself, if I can't I'll hit you up 🙏

[gilded tiger]

Thanks. I'll try that first

[noble wagon]

@remote thunder that costs a decent amount of units. Most of which won't have that amount. They also only sell a set amount.

[indigo falcon]

defeated pirates sometimes drop suspicious packets and of course you can buy at outlaw stations too (for possible maps)

[hot drum]

i dont know if it was intended or not but i went to abandoned building with the eggs and there was sentinels. i used my minotaur to kill everything till level 5 and get that done

[remote thunder]

<#nms-expedition message>

[hot drum]

and i got the milestone completed

[gilded tiger]

Oh damn, just be a rare drop then. I've killed so many pirates never got the map

[indigo falcon]

were the sentinels just hovering about? more than one, or....? were you in single or multiplayer?

[hot drum]

i killed one to trigger more to come

[indigo falcon]

don't want to jinx it but I've had decent luck on that front

[unkempt plaza]

i think they meant the pirates can drop the packets which CAN drop the map

[teal valley]

Does anyone know if reaching the center of the Galaxy during this expedition counts for the achievement?

[distant egret]

https://youtu.be/3iwecr7dS7o

[hot drum]

multiplayer i think if i can see other players right?

[willow geyser]

has anyone found scatterblaster blueprint in the expedition?

[indigo falcon]

oh... so probably attentice sentinel, yeah that was just a sentinel doing its job

[distant egret]

How to get optional milestones https://youtu.be/3iwecr7dS7o

[gilded tiger]

How do I get there without glyph?

[willow geyser]

ive been searching for it and the only way i could get it was getting it ready from a warpon

[remote thunder]

from fragments? yes

[remote thunder]

teleport or warp

[indigo falcon]

it would count for survival if it counted for anything I guess

[willow geyser]

but still thats not the blueprint :/

its just the ready package

[teal valley]

@indigo falcon even though it's set to permadeath?

[hot drum]

yeee i just killed that and triggered more to come until level 5. i had my minotaur deal with it until level 4 or 3 i think when the ai mod thing just broke

[noble wagon]

@willow geyser you can't get the blueprint.

It's memory locked.

[hot drum]

then i just get inside it and shoot everything

worked amazingly

[indigo falcon]

it's not really really perma. it will convert to survival at the end

[willow geyser]

u can

[indigo falcon]

woopsie 😄

[willow geyser]

i got some from the destroyed starships

[noble wagon]

@willow geyser you can get the fragment but not the blueprint.

[distant egret]

You can't only can get from ready package after a couple of optional quests are complete

[willow geyser]

1 sec

[distant egret]

Then you can

[hot drum]

i tried the smuggled goods method the one u told me i think or someone else but i didnt get it after many reload T T

[indigo falcon]

the blueprint proper (as in "you can craft this") you can't get as it's timelocked for the expedition.

[willow geyser]

but i got it for the laser gun

i can craft it on any weapon

[hot drum]

wait can you get the storage blueprint in this expedition?

[willow geyser]

let me land somewhere so ican show

[gilded tiger]

Seems hard to find the long/lat manually. I'll keep that as a last resort

[indigo falcon]

uh the storage units on the freighter you could build immediately if you have the mats

[hot drum]

no like i was thinking if i could like build the storage unit on a planet, maybe i can put some eggs there to help out or smth

[indigo falcon]

no, people looking in see only their own things

[noble wagon]

@hot drum players have to steal the eggs.

[river jay]

shiver me timbers it's time for me to do "A Shattered Past" 🥶

[willow geyser]

u can see i got the combat scope for example

[ionic radish]

i can not find storm crystals for the life of me, any tips or trades?

[hot drum]

oh :(

[indigo falcon]

you can't give people things that way, you can gift them in person (at the anomaly let's say) but I believe with theggs, players must get themselves

[willow geyser]

also phase beam

[indigo falcon]

gifts don't count, same for storm crystals

[remote thunder]

anchor 4 planet

[willow geyser]

so i think that if u can get lucky enough u might get the actual vlueprint from crashed ships

[ionic radish]

thank you bk201

[hot drum]

damn, i will try helping out with the loop progress thing later then

[indigo falcon]

also anchor 1 system, toxic (acrid) moon: Mapon VIII has storm crystals

[hot drum]

becareful on the anchor 4 planet, the sentinels ~_~

[gilded tiger]

Use minotaur. Walk in the park 👍

[hot drum]

tried grabbing one storm crystal and they noticed me

[viral yew]

How much resources should I send for optional milestones?

[noble wagon]

@viral yew as many as you want.

[indigo falcon]

can't use the minotaur until theye find a place which has them tho 🙂

[viral yew]

Specifically, to what extent?

[noble wagon]

@viral yew you need to do it 5 times for another milestone.

[indigo falcon]

the minimum is 5 sets of materials to Polo but do as many beyond that as you wish

[viral yew]

What do you mean?

[remote thunder]

5x200 ancestral memories, for example

[indigo falcon]

this is part of the community progress thing

[hot drum]

its a community effort, it will take a long to complete the

optional milestone

[indigo falcon]

so you need to go to Polo who wants 200 (?) ancestral memories or 250 (?) liquid sun or 100 somnal dust each time

so you can do any one of those, or a mixtuer, you need to give 5 times for a milestone for you

but you may repeat it as many more times as you like

5 total times, could be all the same item or a mix

[remote thunder]

select each of these milestones and turn in 200 ancestral memories for each of them, cycle observed (1), perpetuity (2), perpetuity (3), a way out (4) and unbound (5)

[indigo falcon]

yep, that's one way. for example

[remote thunder]

this will complete partners in time

[indigo falcon]

note that you need some somnal dust and some liquid sun (not lots) for a later milestone

[remote thunder]

but not the community research things ofc

[indigo falcon]

so you'll want to accumulate a little of all three for your personal stash.

[remote thunder]

32 of each

[indigo falcon]

I was trying to be suitably vague about it 😄

[remote thunder]

--kzzt--

[indigo falcon]

😄

[hot drum]

[viral yew]

Then is it impossible for one person to do everything?

[indigo falcon]

reposting so it's here: list of milestones and rewards (spoilers for the encryped missions so you have been warned): https://pastebin.com/kq5xepnA

[indigo falcon]

you can do all the milestones for you to complete your xpedition and get your rewards

you cannot by yourself do all the work of all the other players to fill the community progress barm no

[viral yew]

What I'm talking about is 'community research'.

[indigo falcon]

imagine if you said "I'm gonna go do nexus missions enough to unlock the (next item) for quicksilver and move from 10 % to whatever. I mean, you could say it and you could not of course DO it

[viral yew]

oh... thanks...

[indigo falcon]

you just do "some" your part, help more when you want, or chill and help in here, or just chill and chat about nms... as you like!

[jagged charm]

best mod during expedition 😄

[indigo falcon]

oh??

heh

some people already forgot to do that

[spring patio]

I feel like I might be more willing to do the expedition if it wasn't a complete reset

[indigo falcon]

place and pick up immediately, that's how it has to be

[spring patio]

Like, I don't want to finish phase 1, get halfway through phase 2, and lose all of that progress because I accidentally fell

[jagged charm]

do you actually get more liqy=ui sun from AI?

[foggy cloak]

I don't think so

[foggy cloak]

you know you can prevent this by alt f4 right after you die, so you don't get resetted

[indigo falcon]

on pc. on console (ps5) it's a bit slower to quit the game

[foggy cloak]

Not really, just go to home and quit game, on xbox btw

But I'm sure the ps has the same option

[wary pasture]

Everyone knows the hc trick now

[indigo falcon]

go to home. select the nms large image. select the 'other' menu. select 'quit game'

that's 4 actions

[foggy cloak]

Still, your game doesn't progress

Unless you are in multiplayer

[indigo falcon]

I don't know. I'm in single player, but I've not been able to tell if game freezes at the instant I hit the home key

not sure how I can test

[foggy cloak]

I know, throw yourself off a cliff

[wary pasture]

Could just play with multiplayer turned off and press pause aye?

If you're that cautious anyhow.

[indigo falcon]

there isn't a "pause" button per se on the ps5, it's hard to know what's actually going on

[wary pasture]

I'm on pc so idk

All theory talk

[indigo falcon]

also the only platform without backup saves to usb, or save editor 😬

[wary pasture]

Ye steam wins in that contest imo

[trail venture]

waiting for the patch now
<@&233305774745583618>

[remote thunder]

congrats!

[trail venture]

thx

the end was kinda confused lol

[hot drum]

holy the amount of nanites and that money currency thing

a lot

[trail venture]

thought I died for good

[hot drum]

i panicked real hard at that part 🤣

[trail venture]

doing nothing almost

selling stuff that will not be useful for me

[trail venture]

dude

I was like

I just trying to helping you, frkn whale

[terse dust]

Hey, anyone find a good derelict to run?

I tell you, the spawn one is pretty bad. Slimesac derelict.

[viral yew]

Death does not destroy the inventory.
What's the reason?

[terse dust]

Huh?

[trail venture]

I thought it would in this death in the end

[indigo falcon]

yes you did 😄

[honest shuttle]

Oh i didn't know there were roles for the other expeditions..

Damn Pffft

Anyway, also waiting on a patch

[viral yew]

Even if die, the inventory doesn't disappear.

[honest shuttle]

nearly had a heart attack when it said i died.

Thought i was gonna have to go through all that all over again.

[indigo falcon]

the anchor 5 system one?

others ran that one and it was only turrets and drones

[terse dust]

Ah, maybe.

[trail venture]

same

[terse dust]

Jellies would be the dream

[indigo falcon]

oh yeah sorry, turrets, drones, a few jellies.

no bugggggs though

[trail venture]

lucky me I earned a personal shield before

and stocked life support resources

[indigo falcon]

I wonder if you could do a derelict in any other system by warping there, then select the mission and do the pulse, would it trigger

or would it be a "regular" derelict

[honest shuttle]

Do i uh. Ping the mods now or wait till the update so i can grab the final reward?

[indigo falcon]

ping now

[honest shuttle]

<@&233305774745583618> Completed the expedition, just waiting on the patch to claim the frigate.

Wooo

[terse dust]

Woooo

[honest shuttle]

Now i can go back to not playing NMS. PFFFT. Nah I might..i got a permadeath save that i really should get back to playing at some point

[noble wagon]

@indigo falcon if you are talking about the final one yes. It doesn't have to be in the last system.

[indigo falcon]

can it be in any system?

I wonder if hostiles are fixed across normal/survival mode in derelcts, hrm

[ashen shore]

You need a patch to claim the main reward?

[opaque pumice]

The ships from the twitch drops really give a huge advantage at the start
Free A shop with 30+ slots and the extra ships can be scraped for a ton

[ashen shore]

HG what the fuck

[vagrant remnant]

yeah the drops and the golden vector are top-tier for all expeditions honestly

[fair dirge]

@indigo falcon
Nosas XVI
Misty Moon

Zuwagim-Agf System
237 LY away from Anchor Point 2 Romestovot
Runaway Mould possible on planet

[ashen shore]

I know you're dying to pump out great content

[vagrant remnant]

the games machine broke, but at least the fix is on experimental already-!

[ashen shore]

But maybe it'd be better to hit some brakes and double check some stuff

[hot drum]

i was just omg is this a bait in this chat 🤣🤣 i think u can find my messages if u type that out in the search bar

[fair dirge]

by the time you get to anchor point 2, you should have the glyphs as a reward for getting there.

[vagrant remnant]

i reckon someone scouring the starting planet for any damaged machinery that drops free s-class upgrades would be a great boon for all the babbies starting out