nms-expedition

[ashen turret]

but you build as a room on the freighter

[hoary rover]

Oh okay for sure

[ashen turret]

which is ... rather a lot of nonsense tbh

[hoary rover]

In that case, there's only one good way, and that's the only way

Dig em up

[ashen turret]

like why is it even a room and not a tech slot item lol

[hoary rover]

Tech costs are x10 for the expedition so good luck

[crimson gust]

and based on the thousands it takes to unlock the schematic...I'm not about to build a base and drop an exocraft platform on every planet I go to for this expedition 😛

[hoary rover]

@ashen turret it makes sense to have to build one, but not as its own room for sure

It doesn't take a thousand tech modules for anything

[crimson gust]

hundreds, then

[ashen turret]

the worst part is you can't even store your exocraft bays on the freighter

[hoary rover]

Yeah hundreds are still bad

@ashen turret yeah it always made me wonder why i jad to have theal materializer and the bays

Excuse the mobile typing

[ashen turret]

virtual keyboards built into phone software always suck in my experience

[kind pilot]

was going to take the eggs 1 at a time but the creatures (forgot name) wont despawn, is this supposed to happen?

[ashen turret]

they will despawn eventually... just takes a while sometimes

[umbral forum]

Do we know already when the contribution cooldown resets?

Or if it's like a flat 24 hours after it reaches 20 contributions?

[kind pilot]

its taken me 30 minutes to get 1 larva :/ anybody have any tips for this mission?

[crimson gust]

stockpile ammo and blast them?

[kind pilot]

id prefer not to fight them, died to them in 2 hits last time i did

[dusty pecan]

might want to check the the space station teleporter

people have been setting up bases for safely collecting the eggs

[crimson gust]

they're the same creatures that pop up on the first grave, aren't they?

[kind pilot]

alright, any specific systems i can find these bases?

[dusty pecan]

I have one settup in the first anchor system

[cerulean fable]

I dont even fight them, I grab the egg, find the larva, and run

[dusty pecan]

seen couple others on the teleporter there too

[kind pilot]

im in the 3rd anchor system

alright il make my way there

ty

what was the systems name?

[dusty pecan]

Cebrac-Eliwyn

[kind pilot]

ty

whats the colony name sorry

[dusty pecan]

Mine is "Safe Whispering Eggs + Mould +Med Refiner"

[kind pilot]

alrighty ty again

[lethal night]

Anyone else had problems with Griefing in the new expedition?

[misty sapphire]

Just turn off multiplayer or turn off pvp

[dusty pecan]

pvp should be off by default

[misty sapphire]

It is best to keep multiplayer off in this expedition

A large amount of glitches happen in multiplayer

[lethal night]

Thanks as I cant get past part 3 without being griefed

[kind pilot]

sorry s1pa but which planet is the base on? im having trouble finding it

[dusty pecan]

it's pretty random what bases will show up

[kind pilot]

if i relog will it show other bases?

[dusty pecan]

often yes

[sinful kestrel]

is it possible to repair my pulse engine in the first iteration?

[dusty pecan]

yeah

you need to die

[kind pilot]

which planet is your base on s1pa?

[unkempt plaza]

Yup 1 specific part unlocks when you yeet yourself of a cliff litterly

[dusty pecan]

Mine is right on the anchor planet "Ennect"

[ashen shore]

One more iteration to go 😩

[kind pilot]

ty

[dusty pecan]

seems to be some issues with discovery services again tho

[woeful prairie]

I can't claim Perpetuity?

guess I'll wait a bit and see if the games solves it itself

[kind pilot]

couldn't find your base s1pa sorry

[dusty pecan]

PM me your friend code and i'll log on my expedition save

[kind pilot]

alright

[dusty pecan]

just shoot one egg in a hut wait for enemy spawns and go get rest starting from other huts

there is walk way on top so don't have to walk on ground

if you need sentinels/crashed freighter or storm crystals got bases for those too

[ashen shore]

Ok so i tested going to the center of the galaxy

As the current save state stands, I only got the Survival Achievement

I didn't get the permadeath reach the centre achievement

so that's kinda disappointing but now we know

@bold umbra

[bold umbra]

Ok thank you for that info!

[ashen shore]

I also finished the expedition when doing this, just for extra info

If you search for the Frigate in the third anchor galaxy you get a really easy one

Useful fact

[serene coral]

Hiya. If we move on to the fourth anchor, are we still contributing to Polo's third until it is finished or are we then starting contributing to the fourth, please?

[desert mesa]

anyone have a base set at one of the sentinel swarmed facilities?

[terse dust]

I think it's Secret maps that get those

Don't forget to use Nav Data for maps! Super helpful!

I accidentally found my Sentinel pillar in the first phase, so no worries on that map

even though you get one through quests

I didn't realize it was a quest, I just wanted to disable the local sentinels

[minor breach]

!Faq-Expglyphs

[topaz dock]

You can co tribute the entire mission and beyond

[wraith venture]

Try it in #bot-spam or check the pins here

[minor breach]

K

Thx

[stray meteor]

for the derilect freighter do i have to explore the whole ship for it to complete

feel like i’m running around in a maze

[shy narwhal]

In believe you have to activate all 3 terminals yes

[ashen turret]

which one in particular lol

I mean, which derelict freighter milestone lol

the one for the story, or the one that's just "explore one"

[junior cloak]

I can confirm that you need to activate all 3 terminals. And it can be any freighter, just notice that it's easier to explore the first you encounter. To find your way in, use your scan to detect missing terminals.

[stray meteor]

lol didn’t even know there was a second one 😩 haven’t read the other ones

[stray meteor]

but thanks

[static willow]

Just died to the milestone pop-up on the whispering eggs.... AYFKM

I'm so frustrated rn

Grabbed the last egg, was at full health and shield, milestone popped up, DEAD

[ashen shore]

anyone got extra salvaged data?

[stray meteor]

yikes that sounds like it’s going to be an issue

[carmine vigil]

This Expidition is so fun, ive never had such a feeling of terror and dread with everty decision i make!

[stray meteor]

those monstrosities from whispering eggs honestly get my heart racing

[static willow]

I had already fought off three full sets

[stray meteor]

this freighter milestone is so confusing i’m pretty sure i’ve gotten all 3 terminals but it keeps telling me to explore

[junior cloak]

The last terminal must be in a big dark room full of packages and 2 or 3 green alien jellyfish only. No robots or any other enemy

Make sure you read all the "tablets"

and get all the crew records

[stray meteor]

yep killed them and activated the teleporters

i must be missing one cuz i feel like i’ve read all of them 100 times

[junior cloak]

And you activated every screen next to the teleporters, right?

[stray meteor]

yup data recorded and everyrhing

[junior cloak]

you know what? maybe it is not a terminal what you're missing, maybe is just a crew record

[stray meteor]

i’m retracing my steps rn

[static willow]

I got the freighter milestone before I had duh everything up last time

It’s buggy for sure

Did you talk to the beacon (enough times)?

[desert mesa]

so I need a conflict or economy scanner for my ship, but how the hell do I get that? a bunch of materials and some luck?

[junior cloak]

or a bunch of nanites and unlock it in the anomally

[desert mesa]

well I did but I don't know what the hell a walker brain is

[junior cloak]

Inside a walker

XD

[desert mesa]

well i've killed plenty to no avail

[junior cloak]

you have to fight sentinels, and, I think in the third wave a big walker appear

its a really big one

[desert mesa]

hell no

[junior cloak]

when you kill it, mine the parts

[stray meteor]

after i get all terminals and log records do i have to go somewhere? sell the logs to someone?

[junior cloak]

The Milestone should unlock at that point. Selling the logs is recommended, but optional

And you can do it in any station

[sick mulch]

Woah!!
Can we get the ||leviathan frigate|| on our normal saves after unlocking?

[junior cloak]

Yep

[sick mulch]

That's sick

[junior cloak]

Just go with the quicksilver dude in the anomally

[stray meteor]

if it doesn’t complete after selling the logs i’m about to just explore another one

[junior cloak]

If you do that, jump to another system before scanning another one, or you'll spawn the same freighter

[stray meteor]

yep sold everything still nothing so i’m about to, thanks for the tip

[desert mesa]

I'm getting hit randomly inside the space station, specifically in the expedition

is there a bug or a cheater problem or something?

[indigo falcon]

go to options->network->multiplayer and turn that off, it's a bug... 😦

[desert mesa]

one more iteration to go

[serene coral]

Thanks, that's what I thought. 🙂

[modern osprey]

Where is a good place to gather storm crystals in this expedition?

[frank galleon]

could start with planets that have activated metals
More likely to find one in a red, blue, or green system though.
If you dont have one of those hyperdrives yet, try snagging a Nexus mission for Activated {metal}, it will warp you to an appropriate system

[ashen shore]

Toxic planet in system with anchor 1 has Storm Crystals

Or the anchor 4 planet itself but it's Hella dangerous due to high temperatures and mountainous terrain

Highly recommended to get the exomech if you plan to visit anchor 4

[static willow]

There’s a good planet in the anchor 2 system

[ashen shore]

Could be, haven't checked personally

[static willow]

Moon iirc

[ashen shore]

After I got most of the non-loop related milestones, I went just for the next anchor points

Haven't paid attention to other stellar bodies

[static willow]

This is my 7th death, so I’ve gotten pretty bad at it 😉

[modern osprey]

Do you remember the name of the system? I've already completed anchor 5 and I can't remember which one is anchor 2

[static willow]

“Isum 11/12” in the “Cebrac-Eliwyn” system

It’s the main anchor 2 system

[ashen shore]

Check the pinned messages for a post with list of all anchor systems

[modern osprey]

Thank you

[modern osprey]

Ok, I've reached this moon and it doesn't seem to have any storm crystals

[wraith badge]

they only appear during a storm

[modern osprey]

But you can usually see them deactivated

[static willow]

Is it storming?

[wraith badge]

does that planet mention its an extreme planet?

[modern osprey]

No

[modern osprey]

No

[wraith badge]

does it have any activated metals on it?

if no to both then pick another planet

[dense basin]

I think there's one in that system, but I didn't think it was that one.

not on that save right now so I can't check

[wraith badge]

I'm loading now I'll check when it finishes loading

[static willow]

My bad, it’s the other one! Mapan VIII

sorry about your launch fuel!

[indigo falcon]

see pinned "mini-faq" on where to find storm crystals

[modern osprey]

Oh, alright, I'll check it out. There is also another planner called Ennect which is a "cold abomination", haven't checked yet

[indigo falcon]

Mapan is the one. Been there, harvested that.

[static willow]

Ennect is the main anchor 2 planet, no crystals

yeah, my bad, 100%, I just looked at the discovery screen real quick

Should’ve paid more attention

[modern osprey]

Np, thank you.

[static willow]

Sorry, that’s the main anchor one planet, second “main’ system you go to

[junior shard]

Lmao I had a nightmare where I died after completing the expedition

And lost all progress after completing

[indigo falcon]

oh man

well apparently I was really stressed about finishing the dang thing because I woke up too early, couldn't get back to sleep, finally sighed and logged in again

[static willow]

I’ve died so many times now. On iteration four and three. Thankfully it gets easier due to ||spoilers||.

[indigo falcon]

so psa: portal glyphs are there for a reason. you want to run th derelict of your choice in phase 5? you can.

[static willow]

I’ve been screen capping the anchor portal glyphs

On that last run, I was going to charge up the first one and go somewhere stupid

[indigo falcon]

this evening I"ll check to make sure the qs vendor has the items for me on my main save.... and that's it

[static willow]

Lol

[indigo falcon]

they are pinned in the channel too

[static willow]

👍

[indigo falcon]

anyways now that done I guess I will sleep a regular night's sleep, oof

[static willow]

Never heard of it

Why is the first distress signal you find with a transmission tower always your own ship in the expedition?

smh

[desert mesa]

game randomly stopped responding

[modern osprey]

@static willow just managed to finish the expedition! =D

[desert mesa]

damn

hope I'm good

[indigo falcon]

here's something interesting, apparently you are dropped on a planet of the system ||where you submit to the Leviathan after that reset|| so if you don't want to get trapped under a base in Sophis, go somewhere else. (I mean sure it's easy enough to report the base but whatever)

[indigo falcon]

welcome to the "survivors of anchor point 4" club!

[modern osprey]

Can confirm, I submitted to the leviathan at the anchor 1 system and I spawned on the storm moon

[indigo falcon]

starter system for me, landed on the nasty predator world but weren't none around, nbd

[modern osprey]

Anchor 4 was nightmare fuel

[marsh haven]

something to look forward to

[modern osprey]

I big shout-out to all players who created bases named "easy egg farm"

[desert mesa]

||the hell should I do once I meet the leviathan? my buddy died, I'm confused||

[modern osprey]

That saved me from a headache for sure.

[foggy cloak]

You should have talked to it

[modern osprey]

Just reload

[desert mesa]

I did

what do I DO

or say perhaps

[indigo falcon]

do what you need to do

don't panic, just... break the loop, traveller!

good luck!!

[foggy cloak]

Then did the death reason was ||atoned for your sins||?

[desert mesa]

didn't even do that part yet man

but my buddy did

[foggy cloak]

||Ah, then he completed it||

[indigo falcon]

this part is better if you don't ask in advance

[indigo falcon]

spoiler that

[zinc forge]

This expedition is fun until you realize that one small mistake means restarting the entire thing

[indigo falcon]

this is really the climax of the whole thing. you have to make the choice, you alone

[desert mesa]

||well the only choice is to atone||

[indigo falcon]

then.... do that....

[zinc forge]

i am very terrified of everything and everything that could potentially hurt me

[desert mesa]

💀

[dense basin]

But once you finish it, you realize it was a rush and then you do it again

(or maybe I'm just weird)

[indigo falcon]

I wouldn't say that exactly!

[desert mesa]

HELL no

[misty quail]

Anyone need help?

[foggy cloak]

Maybe, I did the story again when I realised I Rushed the story

[dense basin]

I have gone back over the story a few times just to pull out pieces of the lore

[indigo falcon]

you can also see if there's anyone needing stuff in #nms-lfg-or-trades

[dense basin]

I am a nerd

[foggy cloak]

I can relate the this

[dense basin]

The overseer said stuff to me in one save but not in two others, which I found really interesting

[zinc forge]

I haven’t finished it, and I don’t want to be anywhere near that thing when I’m done. Permadeath is a entire different form of anxiety. You could lose the entire run just by bumping into the wrong animal, or being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

[indigo falcon]

it took me 22 hours (1 unprogrammed reset), I'm a very slow player, don't think I missed any lore 😆

[foggy cloak]

Can you be sure? Do it again

Death is not the end, ||the loop continues||

[zinc forge]

Personally, I think permadeath is a living (or dead) hell. Although I say this, and my only death was that one milestone.

[indigo falcon]

this isn't quite perma tbh, it's somewhere in between survival and perma I guess

[dense basin]

That is how I feel the first time I do permadeath in any game

Once you lose a save, the worst is over (for me, anyway) and then it's easier to just take what you've learned and keep going.

[static willow]

Nice job!

[zinc forge]

WAIT WHAT

[dense basin]

I always have animal meat with me, for example

[indigo falcon]

got a bunch of other stuff backlogged to do in game, still thinking about whether to build out helpful bases for players coming through now but the odds of mine showing up in the teleporter now (there's some max of 30 I think? visible to any one person)... makes me despair of their use

[zinc forge]

Wait nvm I’m stupid

That says July, not june

[desert mesa]

the game just fuckin crashes when I finish

[static willow]

I just made a base called “EV’s Easy Eggs”. (Uploaded/XBOX). After dying to the milestone pop up trying to pick up the last one I needed, I decided to do the cheesy thing, feel free to use it.

[desert mesa]

and I have to do it again

[indigo falcon]

yeah I didn't have that vibe, instead I was just more stressed as I got closer to the end for fear one misstep would wipe out even more hours. if I were a fast player that might have been different

[desert mesa]

it's done it twice

[indigo falcon]

ok wait wait wait

what exactly did the game do, and at what point

[desert mesa]

||when I die for the final time, it does the death screen and then the game stops responding (on my computer) and I have to close it||

it's pissing me off

[dense basin]

Oh, it got pretty clenchy when I was at the very end, for that reason, and when the thing happened at the veeery end, I about died irl

[indigo falcon]

hmm ok so first q: not sure i fthis will help but maybe?

options->network->multiplayer disabled

[desert mesa]

sure I'll try that

I don't think that's the issue but I'll try

[indigo falcon]

let's see what that does as a first pass

[static willow]

Death is not the end

Loop again, travelers

Not gonna lie, I’m a little frustrated about dying to the monstrosity attacking me before I could cancel the milestone pop up, was trying to do it legitimate without the cheesy farming thing

[indigo falcon]

after that, next might be to try it in anchor system 1 (i.e. be somewhere else, see if that clears out any weird cache things or whatever)

[desert mesa]

crashed still after the multiplayer thing

[indigo falcon]

it's not cheesy. it's a known safe way to farm, you're using game mechanics, nothing wrong with that

[indigo falcon]

#nms-expedition message

[desert mesa]

I saw

[indigo falcon]

ok

what platform are you on, pc?

[static willow]

I had gotten the nine other eggs manually without doing the farming thing

[desert mesa]

yeah pc

[indigo falcon]

I'd wait a full 2 minutes just to make sure it's truly hung

if still no, we need to take this to the help channel and have someone who knows pc/steam and crashes help out

[indigo falcon]

kudos! I've not gotten that to work for me with any success, so walls is the way I go. not at all ashamed of it either 🙂

[dense basin]

as far as I know, the only reason walls isn't necessarily the preferred method is that it can be a little slower than jetpacking back and forth. But in perma, I'd rather be safe.

[desert mesa]

IT'S GOOD

finally

[dense basin]

[static willow]

Scatter blaster is your friend

Also, I often fight them off with the mining beam

Lol

[indigo falcon]

didn't have. I had a neutron cannon 😬

[smoky meadow]

wait you fight them?

thats crazy

[dense basin]

They just come back

[foggy cloak]

Still good

[static willow]

Of course you fight them

[smoky meadow]

for me i just went to the planet with random eggs and picked them up then went away to the next as fast as possible

[static willow]

Well, I was fighting them, now I built the farm

[smoky meadow]

is faster and safer

if its in the structure you can run around it grabbing eggs

[desert mesa]

how do I get the frigate on my main character?

[indigo falcon]

go to the quiclsilver vendor on the space station

[dense basin]

talk to the quicksilver merchant

[foggy cloak]

No, you hug them, and they also get you somewhere safe, statosphere levels of safe

[indigo falcon]

check "claim expediition rewards"

[dense basin]

at the anomaly

[indigo falcon]

if it's not there right awya, give it some time and try again (later in the day let's say)

[marsh haven]

why fight them? find an abandoned building. harvest one egg. fly over the building. harvest an egg on the other side. Back up on the roof. look for a cluster of eggs thats not being monitored. if you do it irght you dont even get the green faces indicating you have been aggro'd

if/when they do aggro you. chill on the roof until the swarm subsides because now they are watching you when you come down. repeat.

i picked up all 10 eggs, got aggro'd twice. And actually attacked just once, and the attack missed.

[wild scaffold]

I just made the boltcaster

because you know the recipe by default

It’s not expensive

[indigo falcon]

I picked up a nice S mt with boltcaster (my fallback would have been to stuff one into the crappy C class)

[wild scaffold]

I purchased the boltcaster upgrade thing with nanites

[dense basin]

I picked up a crappy C class with 24 slots and a scatter blaster on it at a pirate station right beside the starter planet

no regrets

[static willow]

Fly?

Y’all with your fancy jetpack modules

I can fly for about a quarter of a second

[wild scaffold]

I only have 3, not 6

[static willow]

kek gek kek

[wild scaffold]

C class with 24 slots?

[indigo falcon]

oh was that uh Toympiae III first jump after starter system?

[wild scaffold]

That’s a lot

[static willow]

On my fifth death I had some decent movement modules

[smoky meadow]

you gotta do the melee boost thingy, even with no upgrades you can move a big distance

[dense basin]

Nope! The name on it keeps changing so idk what it actually is. Scheherezade?

[indigo falcon]

I would not melee boost on survival-perma, too easy to misjudge that

[wild scaffold]

Don’t use the rocket boots

Easy way to die

they almost killed me when they activated on a mountain

[dense basin]

Those things are heinous

[smoky meadow]

damn i did the expedition like a speedrun without trying

[static willow]

Fr

[wild scaffold]

D class module

It only took me 13 hours

[static willow]

Ask me how I know

Still installed them on this run though

I can’t handle station movement without rocket boots

[wild scaffold]

Sean D class when

like really bad but still an improvement

[near lynx]

Costs 1 nanite to buy

[zinc forge]

No Mans Sky: Foundations

[indigo falcon]

so @summer oyster lessee, expedition ruminations

I like the concept a lot; there's some hidden-not-so-hidden mechanics one can uncover (or which the player base as a whole has now madewidely known) such as

[wild scaffold]

”We’ll pay you to take it”

[indigo falcon]

||bases persist, phase 1, phase 5 and the memory loop points are all you MUST do to break the loop, run the derelict in any system and it's fine, after reset you get better classs ship and mt, not just upgrades, in accordance with the tier||

[foggy cloak]

It brings debuffs

[wild scaffold]

-100% life support capacity

[indigo falcon]

but as a slower than average player, reruns still take a substantial amount of effort; as I got closer to completion I got more stressed, to the point where it wasn't really healthy

[wild scaffold]

reruns make you lose your sanity

[indigo falcon]

I like that HG is trying to find new interesting things to do with these expeditions instead of "let's gather X of these and Y of those", that's just like the weekend qs missions, grindy and tedious to get some collectibles

[summer oyster]

Yeah same, resetting everything upon death was not something I enjoyed too much either.

[indigo falcon]

I'm a little concerned that the part of the player base that prefers a chill experience won't participate much or fully, because they will be put off by the starting level and initial difficulty

if I were a, well, a normal speed player I'd say, then I'd maybe be much more in the target audience. let me explain

[calm flax]

I don't know how rare S class solar ships are. I just found a S 19+6+4 in a T2 economy.

[wild scaffold]

It’s free content

[indigo falcon]

I generally avoid deaths on my normal saves. this doesn't mean avoiding all risk or combat, I am just not one of those players who shrugs it off

[wild scaffold]

I’ll take it

[wild scaffold]

I only died once in my survival save

And that was at the very start

You know when they start you with limited hazard protection

[indigo falcon]

this means a more conservative slow play style, not suited to this expedition really, if a glitch or (in my case) a slip on the side of a cliff does you in

[wild scaffold]

When the ground eats you

[indigo falcon]

the story line was I thought excellent and very moving

[wild scaffold]

better then Blighted

[indigo falcon]

and of course terrifying at the end even if one knew what was coming

[dense basin]

I died in my survival save through sheer stupidity when I thought I'd put toxic protection on my roamer so I wandered off to get a drink. Turns out I had radiation protection.

[wild scaffold]

congratulation

that’s why you install all 4

[dense basin]

Gotta collect all those titles

Oh I was

Just... early game

[wild scaffold]

makes sense

Never go AFK in NMS

unless you are in a very save place

[dense basin]

I don't in perma

otherwise, I'm willing to suffer the consequences

[indigo falcon]

I think one interesting part of the story is that, just as the narrative is about obession, so the player becomes obsessed with completion, as the goal gets ever closer, that was a nice little mirroring I liked 😄

[dense basin]

clever

[wild scaffold]

People do the expeditions for the rewards

but yea, clever

[static willow]

Sitting under anchor 2 watching my launch thrusters charge rn

[indigo falcon]

having said all this: I think they could keep expeditions interesting for players of all levels if there were a mode difficulty select for them. I might suggest that to HG in the future.

[wild scaffold]

but people would choose the easiest setting every time

[summer oyster]

Well I didn't in this one, I wanted the experience

[wild scaffold]

Because of the rewards

[wild scaffold]

It was a good experience if you remove the frustration from death

[indigo falcon]

so my review was a mixed bag, some nice ideas, not something I'd like to repeat as it was implemented... let's see where they go next.

[summer oyster]

Definitely a good suggestion, maybe the next one could use a more creative mode at least if they were going to keep it at one difficulty to tone it down 😂.

[wild scaffold]

10x costs for nanites was a bit terrible

But 10x costs for building

[indigo falcon]

that was hilarious actually

[wild scaffold]

:(

[static willow]

200 salvage data for one item … kek

[wild scaffold]

fun

[marsh haven]

a harder mode would be nice

[static willow]

[indigo falcon]

being able as a player to select difficulty level would make players who are used to survival/perma feel like they're not just coasting through something boring (maybe)

[wild scaffold]

Well this expedition was on the highest difficulty

at the time

[summer oyster]

I eventually noticed why they did that, it's because they were focused more on memory fragment upgrading not your standard progression. They did this to change up the mechanics.

[static willow]

“Harder than perma”

All planet surfaces are at 34° angles

[wild scaffold]

but for building parts though?

[indigo falcon]

yes, building parts too

[wild scaffold]

Sean what have I done to you to deserve this

[ashen shore]

Bonus rewards for folks who finish expedition on higher difficulty?

[indigo falcon]

you aren't expected to easily put up starter helping bases for other people

[wild scaffold]

that wouldn’t work

[wild scaffold]

Otherwise everyone would play on the hardest difficulty

[indigo falcon]

I'd be cautious about this: maybe player titles, not buildables though

[summer oyster]

Oh yeah they shouldn't have done that then on building parts at least :/

[indigo falcon]

so your title might be Worm Lord (Survival) or whatever

[marsh haven]

you only get to access expedition rewards in the hardest game mode corresponding to the game mode you finished the expedition in?

[wild scaffold]

Expedition 8: Sand Worm

[static willow]

Adjustable cloak length

[ashen shore]

TBH seeing how people are going above and beyond to cheat in regular rewards, I don't even consider the uproar caused by extra difficulty rewrds

Those will suffer the same fate

[static willow]

people who do it on easy mode just get a 4” cloak

[summer oyster]

No it's on any save.

[indigo falcon]

honestly the reward for going through on a harder difficulty should mainly be: you enjoy it more, additional bragging rights

[static willow]

I like the community aspects of this expedition though

[marsh haven]

no. as a feature for completing expeditions on harder difficulties

[wild scaffold]

But the content is time gated

[ashen shore]

Regular banner for normal difficulty players, animated banner for extra difficulty players

[summer oyster]

That's the way I put it, I don't even use the Leviathan frigate 😂.

[marsh haven]

i.e. if you want a alpha vector on HC. complete the corresponding expedition in HC

[wild scaffold]

I want animated banners

[static willow]

lots of people chipping in with both the “research” and bases, support, etc

[indigo falcon]

no, I think in general all expd content should be availabl maybe 6 months / 1 year later at qs vendor

[wild scaffold]

It’s a hard balancing act

[wild scaffold]

||1,000,000 Qs||

[summer oyster]

Oh I see you were asking them a question specifically 👍

[ashen shore]

IMO all except the main rewards

[static willow]

There’s legitimately no reason for the other expeditions to not be available

kind of disappointing from them, ngl

[frank galleon]

I would have been totally fine with expeditions on survival difficulty.
Been waiting a long time for it

[marsh haven]

Heres an idea: how about if our selected banner shows on our save slot? Then we could make the save slots look different finally
(not quite ontopic for here, but someone said something about banners which made me think of it)

[wild scaffold]

Nobody likes time gated content

[indigo falcon]

if they aren't going to all be rerun periodically, then it really is a fomo thing

not too into that.

[static willow]

Yeah, I’ve always liked this game because it never had that

Five years strong

[summer oyster]

Why I never touched the other 6 expeditions and this being my first one ⬆️

[indigo falcon]

so anyhoo that's my thoughts on the expedition at this point, interested to see how people just starting now feel about it (A class items at start) and what the next update will be (4.0? switch?)

[ashen shore]

Mate, a fucking name field would have been enough

[static willow]

If you die enough, you get a class stuff 😉

[marsh haven]

ikr
But, without adding anything new. Our banner, and Title are already there. Just show them

[ashen shore]

15 save slots? No problem. Differentiation between them based on a name? Not a chance

Ffs

[static willow]

after the fifth death, I spawned in with a different starship, A class

[indigo falcon]

no. if you are just starting now you get A class, that's what I meant, for people who weren't able to start day 1 of the expd, or didn't even know there is one. people have real lives and stuff 😄

[static willow]

I had a C class ship the first run

I swear

[indigo falcon]

depends on the tier

we all started at C for tier 1

[dense basin]

Yep

[static willow]

Gotcha

[ashen shore]

laughs in 11 hours per day work in factory abroad 5 days a week with only weekends to play

[static willow]

Wow, they change that much?

Just to try and make it easier on people

[dense basin]

That's the optional goals

[static willow]

Doh

[marsh haven]

wait - the ship tier is tied to the loop iteration?

[dense basin]

Ye

[indigo falcon]

well because this is not supposd to be "only hardcore gamers get the rewards", their player base is broader, and

[marsh haven]

i need to reconsider not dying

[indigo falcon]

rouge-like or whatever it's called, is also not that

[summer oyster]

Yes it seems upon reset I think.

[ashen shore]

Sorry but I think with the generous time window HG provides, the only way you can't finish an expedition is when you are physically not capable of accessing your pc / console

[indigo falcon]

and mt too

[static willow]

So the upgrade in ship class had nothing to do with number of deaths, just day/update?

[ashen shore]

Or a general issue on server / HG side

[wild scaffold]

I think community progress with polo research

||Slavery||

[marsh haven]

it should be tied to the community mission progress surely

[static willow]

Some people are literally away for six months. My buddy is a submariner, and he can’t play except when he’s back home or docked somewhere with a good Internet connection

[indigo falcon]

plenty of people who can't really play on the workdays, only a few hours on weekends. if you take 20 hours to complete (me) that's really pushing your luck, I have a lot more free time than most though

[wild scaffold]

It took me only 13 hours

[ashen shore]

That's what I said, physically can't access the game

[indigo falcon]

we all have a habit of seeing the world from where we are and thinking that other people must be able to do what we do... but it ain't that way.

[static willow]

This makes more sense, But also kind of a disincentive because if people knew that they would just start later, maybe outweigh that with an early reward for tier 1 players or something

[indigo falcon]

like I said, I'm a slow conservative player.

[wild scaffold]

I wish expeditions could just be selected from a list

[ashen shore]

Then white names come and cry how they didn't have time to do anything

[static willow]

But then that just strataifies the community even further

[wild scaffold]

always available permanent content

[ashen shore]

With all the guides, videos, bases the community provides

[wild scaffold]

Ah yes, the “white names”

[indigo falcon]

your average player might not even know there is a discord tbh

[marsh haven]

i will take it as a badge of honor that i finished with c class everything except my upgrades that were manual

[indigo falcon]

and it's only in the last year? that I used reddit at all

[static willow]

FWIW, the bot doesn’t work. I’ve been here since the server was using MEE6, and my current level isn’t respected. 😉

[marsh haven]

although,. coff. i might fall off a cliff

[indigo falcon]

again, can't assume everyone does the same things we do.

[dense basin]

It's based on how much you talk

Not how long you're here

[static willow]

check my level 😉

[ashen shore]

True, but the situation isn't as dire as some portrait it to be either

[dense basin]

and?

[static willow]

Ranks don’t work

[dense basin]

I've never seen you say anything before

[wild scaffold]

I just wish that past expeditions would be rerun at some point

or, even better, if all expeditions were permanent content

[indigo falcon]

I don't know about levels working or not but I've watched my own color rchanges with amusement

[marsh haven]

they have been re-run once. that may or may not be used as a hint they may be re-run again

[ashen shore]

Maybe they will for the Switch folks

[dense basin]

One can hope

[indigo falcon]

we'll see

[marsh haven]

i think it would be good for the game if the expeditions were re-run semi frequently on some kind of cycle

[dense basin]

I do as well. I'm not a fan of vaulted content.

[wild scaffold]

hopefully

[indigo falcon]

I don't know how to see your xp; if you give .xp in the bot-spam channel we can at least figure out from that something, maybe

[marsh haven]

but the last time when they re-ran them all in a batch is untennable as we get more

[dense basin]

If you've ever left the server, that would reset you.

[static willow]

kek gek kek

Nope, the bot just borked

[dense basin]

But if you're concerned about it, ping red or gleam

[dense basin]

I'm sure they'd look into it

[static willow]

Meh

Like I said, when then changed over from MEE6 some stuff got wonky

Doesn't really matter

[indigo falcon]

hey Gleam, when you get some time, this seems weird ^^ (see role but then look at level)

[static willow]

If you're judging a user's content by the color of their name, that's a you problem. 😉

[indigo falcon]

eh might ask well ask, you're likely not the only person affected by this sort of thing

[static willow]

Troo

[static willow]

[wild scaffold]

xd

[indigo falcon]

new users are new. we all were once. sooooo back to expedition chatter... 😄

[static willow]

Right o

[dense basin]

Finding the new is the best part of the game

[static willow]

I’m literally just waiting for my lunch dusters to charge because the sentinels are annoying

[indigo falcon]

anyone take a spin through the system in normal mode and see if all these bases and such are visible? I understand they should be

because bases are cross mode visible now

[dense basin]

Oh? I thought it was normal/creative and survival/perma

That would be neat

[static willow]

Oh, my epic save has a base next to a portal, I will check it out

[dense basin]

Let us know

[indigo falcon]

my understanding is that all of that is merged now but it would be great to double check

ty

[dense basin]

I saw someone did the core jump for science for us

[static willow]

Yeah, is it based on difficulty? I can check in my survival one, tho that will take a little bit more work

[wild scaffold]

can some see if they can check out my tower

[indigo falcon]

check in normal first, let's see about that

[wild scaffold]

I believe I have the coords somewhere

[static willow]

Send noords

[indigo falcon]

your particular base might not be visible right? isn't there a limit of 30 or something per planet that anyone gets

[dense basin]

something like

[static willow]

need to mess with me settlement anyway

[indigo falcon]

so let's see if any are there

[dense basin]

absentee landlord ftw

[static willow]

uploaded, of course, right?

[indigo falcon]

yeah

[static willow]

Wait, I’m playing on Console at the moment

🦗

[indigo falcon]

heh

[wild scaffold]

Here

old picture

But coords in the corner

[static willow]

What platform?

[wild scaffold]

Does it matter?

(I play on survival)

[static willow]

based on fov I think you’re on a PC

[wild scaffold]

also I play on Steam

[static willow]

Yeah, us console weenies can’t see the PC bases

[wild scaffold]

damn

[static willow]

I’ll have to check it from my VR game

Which is a bit more work

[indigo falcon]

cross platform, doesn't matter

[wild scaffold]

That’s what I thought

[indigo falcon]

bases all get saved to the same central servers

[wild scaffold]

if you visit my base, you can steal all the crops

All the NipNip

small incentive there I guess

[static willow]

I am maxed out the power limit in my Freighter with nip nip Hydro units

[wild scaffold]

that’s a lot of nip

[static willow]

So, this expedition run, I’m trying to get the most dangerous things that killed me in the previous runs done early

[wild scaffold]

My base only uses 5900kP

[indigo falcon]

"only" 😄

[static willow]

My largest base in normal uses 3800k iirc

[wild scaffold]

only

[static willow]

Whoops

Missed a digit

[indigo falcon]

my larger bases don't use much still

[static willow]

hella mag gens

[wild scaffold]

same here

[dense basin]

how is that even possible

[wild scaffold]

the mag gens

[static willow]

wire glitch + distance glitch

[wild scaffold]

Believe me if there was no placement limit I would have used solar panels

[static willow]

Lots of resources glitched in

updates broke that base a couple times, but I kept repairing it

[dense basin]

do you mean 3.8kp or 3.8 million?

[wild scaffold]

I play on my survival like I’m on creative

[static willow]

I like to try to do shit that breaks the game

[wild scaffold]

kP is what power is measured in

I think

[dense basin]

Yes

I know

[static willow]

It’s got like 30 mag generators

[wild scaffold]

I have like 60

[static willow]

That would be like 8 to 9K

Depending on field strength

[wild scaffold]

C class xd

[static willow]

doh

mag gen distance + wire glitch FTW tho

[dense basin]

I am trying to understand if 3800k means 3,800,000 or 3,800kp

[static willow]

30 generators at some thing like 144

[dense basin]

so you meant kp

okay

I was just confused

Does not take much

[wild scaffold]

what would you even need to build to reach 3,800,000 power consumption

[static willow]

you end up hitting the build limit if you try to go any bigger than that really

I couldn’t even build a three story base out of glass

Because the build limit is a little bit variable based on the complexity of the object

kek

[dense basin]

That's what I was trying to understand 😆

[wild scaffold]

Me and my 24 (12) floor base

[static willow]

Giant tower of nutrient processors reaching the sky!

[wild scaffold]

biodomes

[static willow]

I’ve heard that the higher in elevation you go, the more power the nutrient processor requires

😉

[dense basin]

hmm, those power hungry nutrient processors...

[static willow]

ikr

[indigo falcon]

smh

[static willow]

Niiice

[wild scaffold]

The Survival experience

[static willow]

Back in the day, we got bored and timed the freefall from the highest structure you could build to the height limit

Built all the logic gates

[wild scaffold]

I can fall from the top and not die

[static willow]

bruh

Terminal velocity doesn’t exist in this game

[wild scaffold]

only 50% shield damage

[static willow]

same, lol

Didn’t die, just a little bit of a hard landing

[wild scaffold]

Just a scratch

[static willow]

OK, I haven’t made it past iteration four, any tips

[wild scaffold]

died in iteration 4?

Farm the summoner for sentinel kills

[static willow]

yeah… and three last time

[wild scaffold]

the pyramid thing

It spawns sentinels

farm it

[static willow]

Gotcha

[wild scaffold]

you get the map from Pugneum Dreams

[dense basin]

I used a map to get a sentinel building and fought them there. I was lucky and got a pulse spitter though

[wild scaffold]

Use that to find the pillar

[dense basin]

Never needed the map

[wild scaffold]

Take out the nodes quickly and then interact with the terminal

That’s iteration 4 complete

[static willow]

Can you use the Minotaur?

[dense basin]

You don't need to take out the nodes

You can just interact with the terminal

[wild scaffold]

No

[dense basin]

And then do the nodes

[wild scaffold]

do not

Minotaur is very big

[indigo falcon]

I didn't have to take out the nodes. just waked up to terminal, done

[wild scaffold]

:0

[dense basin]

If you're not on an aggressive planet, there's no need to fight there

You blow up the nodes after for their loot

[wild scaffold]

I guess I am stupid

[static willow]

I don’t know if it’s part of the progress thing but the last two runs, all I had to do was touchdown at the freighter site and I got the milestone.

[indigo falcon]

whatever works!

[dense basin]

lucky

[static willow]

Ikr

Also, so happy that the bases remain

[dense basin]

I did it day 1 though so idk

[static willow]

Jfc

[dense basin]

My base was a useless pos. I used the hell out of my freighter though

[static willow]

Yeah, maybe in the update where they started giving people a class starship stay started logging whether or not you have explored Freighter in the Expedition and don’t make people go through the bullshit again

[wild scaffold]

my wooden shack was used precisely 0 times

[static willow]

I bet you used it to avoid some environmental hazard for a few seconds

[wild scaffold]

I had 100 ion batteries

[static willow]

damn, nice

[dense basin]

They're cheap and they are always the first thing I buy

[static willow]

MegaCorp™️?

[indigo falcon]

I used my starter system base to save and exit game each day, other than that only freighter (a lot, free storage, heh) and today the anchorp oint 3 base (to use portal), nothing else

[static willow]

The first couple runs, I was doing everything legitimately and grinding it out myself…

[wild scaffold]

Very useful indeed

[static willow]

These last couple, I’ve used Megacorp, and a couple of the nip farms

I really wish cross platform was a thing

Especially considering that the Xbox is basically just a windows PC

[wild scaffold]

should I make a biodome tower that exclusively plants NipNip

[indigo falcon]

I have a sentinel pillar near my starter world base, which is near a crashed freighter, lots of luck there

[wild scaffold]

ok

15 floors of nip

[static willow]

This is extremely useful for people getting frustrated through the expedition, helps out in the early stages

[indigo falcon]

and a base near a minor settlement so that's nice for picking fights and ducking inside

[wild scaffold]

20 floors

[static willow]

I just made that easy egg farming location and uploaded it

[indigo falcon]

make it smaller

make the base able to easily render in on any platform

[wild scaffold]

20 floors would only allow 440 items for other things

[static willow]

Hopefully it avoids somebody else having the same milestone pop-up death that I got

[wild scaffold]

Before it exceeds the limit

That includes biodomes

[static willow]

Perfect

[static willow]

F the build limit! @ashen shore

[wild scaffold]

how long do bases last

[indigo falcon]

had a twitch drop for starting units, already had found outlaw system

[static willow]

They don’t go away when you die, if that’s what you mean

[wild scaffold]

in expeditions

[static willow]

I assume they last for the entire expedition

[indigo falcon]

in nms, more recently uploaded bases of other players will supplant yours as far as visibility to visitors, as I undestand it

[static willow]

But maybe they go away once a traveler has completed it?

[indigo falcon]

no

[static willow]

[indigo falcon]

bases are bases. they stay.

[static willow]

Right

[wild scaffold]

I think the biggest obstacle would be the thousands upon thousands of salvaged data I would need

[static willow]

I assumed that, but they’ve changed lots of behaviors for the expedition

Like the transmission towers

[indigo falcon]

not this one, it's fundamental.

[static willow]

and the Atlas interfaces

[indigo falcon]

what do transmission towers do now?

[static willow]

Yeah, that would be kind of game breaking

Lol, they show your own ship as the distress signal call

[indigo falcon]

oh 😄 clever

[foggy cloak]

Transmit

[static willow]

ikr

[wild scaffold]

unreal

[indigo falcon]

stuff like that I found fun about the expedition, the various ways hg tried to plug the holes

like making sure Ares won't give you the time of day

[static willow]

I found a couple other anomalous behaviors

Other than things giving you nanites that would otherwise have different rewards

That’s mostly expected

[foggy cloak]

Yeah, that was rude, I loved those 500 nanites ;(

[static willow]

I was kind of disappointed they didn’t do more with the anomaly NPCs

[marsh haven]

what about my twitch rewards. i didnt even try to claim them. seemed to be in poor form

[dense basin]

You can still feed cronus

If you hate yourself

[indigo falcon]

claimable on each reset

[foggy cloak]

I ain't that down bad for nanites

[indigo falcon]

(I've heard from testers, I only claimed once, ship to scrap for units, second run)

[marsh haven]

saw a couple of alpha vectors in the anomoly. some peeps decided to jump to s class

[indigo falcon]

why not

they enjoy the game better, good for them!

[dense basin]

I fed him food I got from running easy fauna kill missions

[indigo falcon]

you ran missions in the expd? wow

[dense basin]

It was a good source of nanites

[marsh haven]

the usual scan, kill etc missions

[dense basin]

I only ran kill missions

[indigo falcon]

I scanned an easy world's fauna, sold some crap memory upgrades, done

[dense basin]

unless the reward was something I really wanted

[wild scaffold]

Launch Thruster recharger

free 480 nanites

[indigo falcon]

I put two of those in the ship actually

[dense basin]

I wanted an S class cold module for the derelict

[indigo falcon]

tired of waiting around on it

[wild scaffold]

I don’t think they stack

[indigo falcon]

one S one A

whatever they gave me, two different ones anyways

I did get an S cold and an S shield for derelict, no worries there

when you can convert units to nanites by buying the mats for memory fragments and making them

kind of a no brainer

[static willow]

I spent an hour on an outlaw station converting units to nanites

😉

[wild scaffold]

why

[static willow]

Pro tip, milestones reset the seller inventories

[wild scaffold]

Asks the person that spent 2 hours making 70 warp cells that I didn’t even use

[dense basin]

lol

[static willow]

Rather, accepting the milestone reward

[dense basin]

I also shot up every pirate I saw for their X upgrades

[indigo falcon]

I used a few the first time (only made a few), used not even 1 the second time, only warped once? I think?

[wild scaffold]

X upgrades are so good in this exp

[static willow]

After dying a couple times, I decided to go with some strategy, so I got a few million units through various means, went to an outlaw station, and converted them to Nanites by using gamemechanism’s

[indigo falcon]

if it works!

[indigo falcon]

are you seeing consistently S-level upgrades coming out ?

[wild scaffold]

Yes

[dense basin]

I have been lately

They were shite when I did it the first time

also, I have made a killing shooting up freighters in pirate systems. They're full of contraband 💰

[indigo falcon]

I wonder if they have tweaked the probabilities specifically for the expedition (they will ahve had to do some weird procgen stuff for that, hrm)

maybe some sort of bounds checking, dunno

[static willow]

I’m running from the law, the radiation and the sentinels

[wild scaffold]

I originally thought that the phase 4 optional objectives would reduce the quality of the modules

[static willow]

Absolutely they changed some values

[indigo falcon]

run run run! normal mode save? or expd?

[wild scaffold]

and the monstrosities

[static willow]

Just had level two sentinels on my tail for contraband in the expedition

So I anomaly’d it up

[dense basin]

I'm not sure the values were all changed out of the gate - I got some pretty terrible, worse than C class, Xs my first time through

[indigo falcon]

huh

[wild scaffold]

maybe they were changed in the patch

[indigo falcon]

we'll see in a week or so

[wild scaffold]

unlisted change

[indigo falcon]

change for expd mode only if they do it

[dense basin]

totally possible

And it would make sense, since the final community goal is to move from S to X, which would make no sense if X might be trash

[wild scaffold]

ye

S to X would not usually be an upgrade

[static willow]

The power of the RNG

Anyone else do module maxing back in the day?

[dense basin]

people still do

[wild scaffold]

I don’t really do it

[static willow]

Yeah, I heard they did some stuff to try to mitigate it but you really can’t get around the programmatic nature

I have to untrain myself from talking to every NPC in the stations For the expedition

[wild scaffold]

I finished the expedition with a fully upgraded exosuit, excluding the cargo

I did spend all my exosuit storage modules on storage though

[dense basin]

I used all the freebies on cargo

[wild scaffold]

Same

[static willow]

I’m doing the regular thing of buying every slot at both the station and the anomalies

[wild scaffold]

cargo gets expensive

[dense basin]

Immediately, yeah

[wild scaffold]

That’s what I did as well

[indigo falcon]

I think I bought 1 (one) slot second time through

[static willow]

Yeah, much cheaper that way

[indigo falcon]

ok maybe 2. just didn't need what with the free ones

[dense basin]

I still buy slots everywhere I stop

[static willow]

None of this will last!

[dense basin]

Indeed

[mystic garden]

i havent tried expeditions yet, easy to solo it?

[wild scaffold]

Meanwhile in main save:
Buy starship storage for 300,000,000

[static willow]

Do y’all not take background missions?

[wild scaffold]

This one is harder, but still easy

[wild scaffold]

Sometimes

[static willow]

I grab the kill creatures and kill sentinels

[wild scaffold]

I also take those

[indigo falcon]

almost never

[static willow]

Do you even slaughter innocent planetary creatures bro?

Meat, it’s what keeps your exosuit running

[indigo falcon]

I pretty much never kill animals. sentinels? yep. all the time. jellies? sure.

mordite does for meat if I need that 😛

(mordite despoits! mordite root plants!)

[dense basin]

I murderate animals as soon as I spawn

Animal meat is health restoration

Animal meat is also the best early source of units

[static willow]

Yup

[indigo falcon]

(also I know people around here use 'bro' and 'bruh' without thinking that we're not really all dudes in here, but yeah, nonbinary person here. just fyi)

[dense basin]

and by early I mean, first 30 minutes

[static willow]

One of my spawns had a galactic terminal right next to the starship

[indigo falcon]

daaang you should open up your own butcher shop

[static willow]

Another one was right next to a drop pod

[dense basin]

Nice

[static willow]

As if I was going to waste the time with the sodium dioxide

[indigo falcon]

the drop pod is extra sweet

[static willow]

hah

Didn’t even use it

[indigo falcon]

😄

[dense basin]

My first one was nothing special, second by a terminal, third was on the side of a freakin mountain on a tiny plateau that required death-defying jetpack usage to get to

0/10 would not recommend

[wild scaffold]

I actually never used one

Ever

[indigo falcon]

that's how I expand suit slots typically

on my first spawn in I was by a trade terinal, cobalt not far away, mine, sell, mine, sell, got me enough to get started

[dense basin]

I murdered animals for the same result

animal meat sells for more 😄

[marsh haven]

lol. i just re-appropriated freighter cargo pods

[dense basin]

The one good thing about the mountain side spawn was that it was right beside a set of metal fingers, so I started out with a pile of gold and uranium

[indigo falcon]

I did some room deletion on the freighter once I got there so I could build some storge containers

[desert mesa]

a few hour break after finishing this expedition - I am never using that character again other than to grab the rest of the rewards if there are any

[marsh haven]

i have all my prior expedition saves. Just in case they one day let us name our saves. not that they get any play time. But that one has that station pass that was a unique and wierd reward

[dense basin]

I wish

[indigo falcon]

I kept all mine too

[desert mesa]

well this is my first expedition, wish I played earlier cause the rest of the stuff looks very swick

keeping the save of course, not gonna use it

[marsh haven]

i stumbed into the game in time to join the first expedition. my only regret is not understanding the twitch rewards so I only got from the 2nd or 3rd set.

[desert mesa]

what's up with the twitch reward?

I don't see anything on twitch so I'm a little confused

[marsh haven]

its a bit confusing. theres a page on hellogames where you signup during the twitch reward events. clicking on it opens up twitch and takes you right to eligable channels. you watch an eligable channel for the required time and the rewards unlock in twitch. claim them in twich and they then become avialable at the QS vendor under a new menu on all your characters new and existing.

the nice thing is, the space ships frequently dont include a photon cannon. so you can build a ship without a photon cannon in the cycle naturally for once.

[desert mesa]

is there one right now?

[dense basin]

It's pretty sweet, except that hauler that just comes with a rocket launcher.

Nope

[desert mesa]

no twitch rewards currently? damn

[dense basin]

They didn't run them for expedition 5 either

[marsh haven]

the twitch rewards are very rare and have seen no reruns.

[desert mesa]

well that's a little lame

some of the old drops look great, disappointed I missed out

[marsh haven]

https://twitch.nomanssky.com/ is where you sign up. link your NMS account (steam/gamepass/playstation) to twitch, view previous rewards, current progress if theres a twitch event in progress etc.

[indigo falcon]

they had two (?) last year, one so far this year

[desert mesa]

I got all that done already, can't wait for any new ones :)

[dense basin]

Holy guacamole, okay, yeah, they definitely buffed X modules

[indigo falcon]

huh

[desert mesa]

woah excuse me

how

is that vanilla?

[dense basin]

lol, I say this and then the next one I get is

And yes, vanilla

[indigo falcon]

hahahahahaha zing!

[frail nebula]

Yup mines like at 9k almost identical

Definitely vanilla

[desert mesa]

💀

[marsh haven]

its important to note that none of the twitch rewards are unique. you can find/buy everything in game (except for the space ships coming with the non standard weapon configs)

[desert mesa]

wait what? you can get all that normally?

[trail venture]

no way

[trail venture]

yeah but

[trail venture]

jeez

how

[dense basin]

Got lucky with that one I guess

[trail venture]

in expedition mode?

[desert mesa]

?

[dense basin]

Ye

[native bloom]

They might have changed the distribution curve. I'll check when I get home

[trail venture]

oh my

[dense basin]

I was very excited until I saw that second one 🙃

[trail venture]

you'll need to search for it

for glyphs in reddit

or for yourself

[dense basin]

A bunch of it is available for QS on the anomaly

Not the ships, obvs

[trail venture]

yes

[desert mesa]

oh hot damn, but not all of it?

[dense basin]

Some, not all. But a lot of similar stuff is out there

[trail venture]

these twitch rewards are like, a fresh good start at expeditions

[native bloom]

It's all normal procgen or QS stuff. It would just be an issue of finding it

[trail venture]

since you can reclaim in every new save

a hauler ship for exp

now it have a larger storage since the outlaw update

very handy

[dense basin]

That hauler is great (aside from its weapon issue)

[native bloom]

Yeah but unlikely you'll get to that point during the expedition

[trail venture]

but in the start is great

[dense basin]

I love that there's a farmer on this outlaw station

[indigo falcon]

I just stored stuff on freighter

[dense basin]

Me too.

But hauler is a nice tidy pile of starting units

[indigo falcon]

oh sure, can't knock that

[native bloom]

Very good point

[dense basin]

Okay, definitely interested in what happened with the code and X modules. I have popped 3 X pulse spitters and two are amazing. The third is crap.

That's way better than usual

[native bloom]

Yeah I experienced decent results too

I'll let you know within an hour

[dense basin]

A true hero

[trail venture]

me too, I did not want to abandon my Solar sailor they gave me

[static willow]

I’ve had some X modules be awesome and some big garbage

[dense basin]

My first two were beautiful and I loved them. This third one... so ugly I couldn't help but trash it as fast as possible

[marsh haven]

nms co-ordinate exchange will hook you up with portal co-ordinates to systems to find fauna, spaceships and MT that correspond with the visual styles of the twitch rewards. All the cosmetic rewards are available for QS.
So you are not missing any unique content by not having twitch rewards. The only oddity comes about due to the "buggy" stats and equipment loadouts the ships get that does actually make them uniquely interesting.

[indigo falcon]

wonder what the 'X' solar will be... or the X mt too 😄

[dense basin]

I am curious as well

[desert mesa]

thanks for the tip!

[marsh haven]

...

X solar and MT

is this about to become my main save?

[indigo falcon]

hahahahahaha

you'll need to start a new save during that tier and see!

[trail venture]

will be a survivor save?

[dense basin]

I definitely will

Yes

[marsh haven]

a new save? or just die?

[indigo falcon]

but not for me, don't really do survival, even if I got given op gear

I love my normal stack sizes for base building

[dense basin]

Survival is a nice change of pace, makes me appreciate how spoiled I am when I play normal

[marsh haven]

my 420h main save is survival

[trail venture]

I'm so advanced in permadeath that I forgot my normal save

[indigo falcon]

if you die after completion it ain't gonna help much

[trail venture]

only load it for checking the settlement

[marsh haven]

still lingering near anchor 4

[indigo falcon]

pickin' fights with the locals or...? 😄

[desert mesa]

hard agree, I love having infinite stack space for most of my materials

[dense basin]

I'd finish it and then start a new one

[trail venture]

the thing is that people is used to accumulate items

[static willow]

Literally doing this right now

L

[trail venture]

that's why is so comfortable

and you will never use even the half

[indigo falcon]

normal mode = chill mode, my preferred way to play the game

[desert mesa]

I need to set a reminder to message a mod about finishing leviathan

[marsh haven]

i literally want this expedition as a permament game mode. death starts a new iteration. but.. obviously i can rediscover bases ive built before.

[static willow]

Only 709 hours until debt cleared

[trail venture]

in permadeath I re learned how to see the game in other way

[native bloom]

Strange, the distribution curve on X modules hasn't changed

[indigo falcon]

that bodes.... ill 😄

[dense basin]

That feel so unlikely but I can't argue with science

[native bloom]

So either they changed something in the EXE or it's just luck

[indigo falcon]

we'll find out in a week or so

[trail venture]

or bug

[native bloom]

They could have changed what the distribution curve means

[trail venture]

since the price is inflated...

[indigo falcon]

mmm hmm

[native bloom]

Like right now it's MaxIsRare, maybe they made that a less horrible curve

[nova jay]

YES Me too!!!!

[indigo falcon]

I'd still be pissed to die with S and come back with X junk

[static willow]

“Challenging” settlement

[trail venture]

da fack

[indigo falcon]

how much does it produce?

[static willow]

So very little over what it consumes

[indigo falcon]

what's the meter show

[static willow]

turns out

[trail venture]

your settlement is basically my country after the current president leaves

[nova jay]

I like this Expedithions rules and wanted to leave my save data for it. But maybe go back to the regular survival game mode when the season is over?

[marsh haven]

seems to be a common problem right now

[indigo falcon]

if there's a lot of room for productivity to grow or maintenance to shrink, don't worry too much

[marsh haven]

faux democracy means we havnt shot enough leaders recently

[indigo falcon]

expedition save will convert to survival mode at the end of the 6 weeks

[trail venture]

or truly stabbed... if you get me