nms-expedition

[static willow]

Only matters if they are yellow or red

ironically “sparse“ is the same as “require obedience“ or “attentive“

Wait, my bad

require obedience should only show up in high sentinel activity or yellow names 😉

and of course there are winged dinosaur predators here… kek

[indigo falcon]

oh dang

[static willow]

I’m confused though, because it doesn’t say high sentinel activity or have the yellow name from space so “require obedience” shouldn’t show up

Balmy 68°F evening

unless they changed the levels of sentinel activity, but all of the white names used to be the same, similar to biome names.

[indigo falcon]

you see this in survival mode generally: supposed "low" sentinel worlds have the standard "don't touch the plants" sentinels everywhere

[static willow]

Check that, the Dino’s have green paws… but it says “vegetarian”

[indigo falcon]

oh, so maybe the dinos are just fine, heh

not all dinos are predators, lots aren't in the game tbh

[static willow]

So do they even have the yellow “high Sentinel activity“ warning from space?

or is it basically just the supposedly low level, and aggressive?

[dense basin]

You just just assume every planet has sentinels

I have never encountered one that didn't in survival or perma

[static willow]

So there aren’t three levels like in normal mode?

[dense basin]

Nope

Two

[static willow]

out of the few thousand hours I have in the game, I only had about 80 hours in survival before this expedition. Though I did lose 83 hours to perma once

Thx!

[dense basin]

Well, one person said they had one planet with normal level 1 sentinels, but I've never seen anything like it myself

[static willow]

i’m just so used to assuming that all of the white names mean low activity and you would see yellow name for high and red for aggressive of course

[dense basin]

Any mention of sentinels means high activity, alas 😦

I totally built my Eissentam base on a planet with 2 predators on it. I figured, well, easy for me to polish off those predator missions

[static willow]

two birds

i’ll have to dig and see if I can find out what the modifiers are for there to be a chance of “none“ in survival

I think the title is “absent” IIRC

[dense basin]

There's a whole list of synonyms for low activity & that's one of them

Could ask one of our peeps who peeps the files themselves

[static willow]

I have the game on both steam and Xbox. kek

About to also co-install the PC game pass version so I can sync and play my Xbox saves on the PC

it’s very cool that you can play on either and have the saves sync

[magic elbow]

(yesterday)

just finished first phase
afks for 10s
dies 🤡
cant keep playing cuz of wrist pain 😔

[static willow]

I was just about to ask how your wrist was doing

Sorry to hear that

Take it easy, you’ve got almost 4 weeks!

[magic elbow]

bit better in general but they're still un-usable 😔

[magic elbow]

yeah I'm p sure I have enough time x3 just a bit bored n frustrated 's all

[static willow]

Yeah, this expedition makes you want to play!

dang, there’s another lush biome planet in the system, mountainous, also with “Beautiful” weather

[dense basin]

See, Eissentam is just full of stuff like that

I got there and saw so many paradise planets with perfect weather that I got all picky and wouldn't settle down until I found one with green grass, blue water & sky, flora I liked, and fauna I found amusing

[burnt karma]

Will the Leviathan only ever be available to those who completed the expedition on time? or do you folks think it will be available again in the future?

[obtuse mirage]

Probably

[burnt karma]

I like the leviathan idea, but honestly the expeditions are not fun for me.

[obtuse mirage]

Like the capes it’s limited

[static willow]

Yeah, now I’m on the hunt. Haha

[obtuse mirage]

Honestly you’ll feel better if you get it done and you can have a fancy badge

[dense basin]

It's weird - I keep saying I liked the last one better, but this is the one I've one 5x

[burnt karma]

Any advice for the expedition then?

Other than don't die. lol

[halcyon stirrup]

Well, die once, and early on. Lol

[burnt karma]

Done and done. lol

The perma-death feels like a very frustrating way to play a time-limited event, but I suppose it's just how I'm looking at it

[dense basin]

There are a lot of helpful bases out there now that will get you through almost all the difficult things

The most helpful things for people who don't usually play survival or perma are the bases that say "easy eggs" or "easy sentinels" or "sentinel pillar"

[burnt karma]

Okay. Many thanks 🙂

[dense basin]

Many of the anchors now have bases pretty much on the anchor, so you can target a base with an appropriate-sounding name if it shows up right beside the anchor marker. Takes a lot of the guesswork out of it.

Make sure you choose one that's on the marker though, because there are a bunch with names that sound right but are on the wrong side of the planet.

[burnt karma]

heh, sounds about right

[dense basin]

The other thing is that you need a lot of sodium while you're doing the liquid sun thing, so keep a stack or two.

Otherwise, ask questions here and we'll help

[obtuse mirage]

Avoid hills

[burnt karma]

Awesome, thanks!

[burnt karma]

Oh, you mean this hi- falls

[obtuse mirage]

And don’t run out of resource like oxygen and sodium

[dense basin]

The Nomad will drive up 90 degrees lol

That thing is wild

[burnt karma]

I was just thinking I should get some salvage data for that.

[dense basin]

I'd recommend carrying batteries and life support gels

You don't need to

[burnt karma]

no?

[dense basin]

Two reasons

One: nanite and salvaged data costs are 10x higher in the expedition so you wouldn't be able to farm it without going mad

[burnt karma]

yowch

[dense basin]

Two: You get blueprints free as a milestone reward

You also get a free minotaur, not just the blueprint

[burnt karma]

Oooooh

[dense basin]

Minotaur is a god in this expedition

[burnt karma]

I bet

[dense basin]

But if you're a fool like me and get stuck in a giant bowl

Nomad

[burnt karma]

lol

[dense basin]

Mino is great but can't jump straight up

[burnt karma]

Some good tunes are helping too

[dense basin]

Always do

[indigo falcon]

tip number one for this expedition;

on your first playthrough, die immediately. no joke

that should be your first act.

after that, play careful, avoid melee boost and don't jetpack downhill (fall damage will kill you)

[dense basin]

My personal fave is to run and melee boost to a hilltop and then jetpack straight up

[indigo falcon]

read the pins in here, lots of good info in them. safe journeys, traveller, and break the loop!

[dense basin]

Usually takes two drops

[torn iron]

Does perma death still apply after getting the living frigate?

[indigo falcon]

||No, once you've gone through all of phase 5, death acts like a regular death in survival mode.||

[dense basin]

Has there been about whether ||completing iteration 5 removes the permadeath component even if you haven't finished the rest||?

[indigo falcon]

yes there has and the answer is: do ||phase 1 complete, phase 5 complete, phase 2,3,4 memory only, done||

[dense basin]

||So you could do all the bugs and crystals and sentinels without any actual danger? wow!||

[marsh haven]

theres danger anyway?

[viscid prairie]

I am having trouble finding and downed freighter, anyone else with same issue?

[dense basin]

||I didn't find any of it particularly terrible but I am used to playing surv/perma. And the point isn't that there's no danger at all, it's that there's no danger of starting from the start once you knock out 5.||

[marsh haven]

have at least 5 nav data. buy 5 distress charts. land on a suitable planet. use all 5. go to the freighter.

[indigo falcon]

the trick is: do not go to any of the "wrong" sites, wait 10-15 seconds between each map, if it refuses to show any site, wait and try it again

[dusty pecan]

don't think you need to even wait I just spam use key on the map till it work

never taken even 10s

[indigo falcon]

gtk, had others report they needed to wait

[woeful ore]

I'm kind of half with you there. As a busy Dad, I need to heavily control my 'danger'. Thirteen restarts (some due to distractions from my idiot kids) have so far eaten up about 30 hours of my time. Also I am a grinder. Loving every minute of it and I think I've tackled most of the challenges head on with "danger" attached, but the whispering eggs are just not worth it. One wrong wonky physics hit from an alien could wipe out my last 30 hours of progress, which would have been awesome for me 20 years ago, but for now is such a huge timesink that I'm not sure I could stomach going back to square 1

(as it stands, completed nearly all objectives in first 4 phases and about to go to memory point for phase 3. Getting very close to that completion!)

Maybe I'm being naive here, but I'm not sure why the storm crystals are giving people a hard time. I just found a planet and tunnelled to all the storm crystal pockets and then as soon as the storm hit, jumped into my tunnel and popped up to grab them 🙂

[dense basin]

I think a lot of people were trying to do them on Anchor 4

And that's... not a friendly place

As for the shenanigans mentioned above, I haven't used that but I thought I might suggest it to my brother, who is also a busy dad 🙃

[woeful ore]

Early on I found a system that's not on the expedition route from a random base in a space station teleport gate. It's a few hops away from the route. It has a planet FULL of buried tech and a planet FULL of storm crystals right next to each other with limited sentinel activity. I have glyphs if anyone would find them useful (if I dig into my screenshots). But I did a lot of the collect challenges on those two planets.

[dense basin]

There's also a moon in the Anchor 1 system like that, so we've been sending people there of late

[woeful ore]

👍

[indigo falcon]

there's a storm crystal world in the first anchor system, in the pinned faq right here...

folks gotta learn to check the pins.

[woeful ore]

tbh though, as soon as cycle 4 is complete, the memories will be so OP it should be possible to go from start to finish in an hour or so using pre-built bases, no?

[woeful ore]

I try to, but there's just so many with no indication that what I am looking for will be addressed there!

[indigo falcon]

right now all memories are S so you can get it done "relatively" easily if there are no game glitches and no bad prng

[indigo falcon]

hmm one strategy might be to skim the titles and just glance at the content so you know that for example, 'ok here's all the glyphs and names, great" and "ok here's a faq with some stuff, good", etc

[dense basin]

I would imagine there are some god-tier players who might be able to do that, but it would be tough just based on time lost to load screens and mandatory running. I'd say 2 for a super speed run

[fringe agate]

Got the orange right anyways

[indigo falcon]

speed runners tend to count in game time only (so loading time across platforms doesn't impact the final ranking)

[pure elm]

I'm gonna try to get some whispering eggs at an abandoned building. I built a big box around it and wanted to see if it's good enough? I'll post in screenshots shortly

[dense basin]

by load time I meant warps

[indigo falcon]

yep, same

[pure elm]

#nms-photomode-gallery message

I was pushed out and yeeted into the air last time so I tried to make a big one this time

[fringe agate]

Someone has already done it in an hour

[indigo falcon]

that's not how it's done

you need "boxes" around each group of eggs and walkways from one set to the next, at roof level

stand in the center, not the edge, when you shoot

[dense basin]

well, I don't speedrun so I didn't know you just ... don't count warps & loadscreens 😄

[indigo falcon]

otherwise a ps4 speedrunner will always have a longer time than a ps5 one for the same in game minutes

[pure elm]

The thing is I had one like that around a nest and I'm pretty sure I went to the center to grab an egg only for a horror to push me out

[indigo falcon]

recommend: 1) do that task last (you can!)

[dense basin]

Sure, but like I said, I don't speedrun 🙃

[indigo falcon]

2. boxes anyways, that sort of glitch is extremely rare

[indigo falcon]

me neither, I just watch 😄

[pure elm]

So I was really unlucky that time then? And should I tear down the big box also?

[dense basin]

Honestly, there are a ton of bases called "easy eggs" or something like it - just use one of those instead of breaking your brain

[indigo falcon]

I would, it doesn't add protection.

get the materials back.

but literally, do that task after everything else, if it's the one with the most risk for you. do phase 5 and come back to this

[pure elm]

I made it mostly to reduce the chances of getting glitched out like I did last time, as well as making sure it would register as being inside a base so that the horrors can't see me

[indigo falcon]

in your base usually means indoors (the boxes are a bit... different, heh)

short walls around doesn't do that in any case

I appreaciate the thinking that went into it, it just won't have the desired effect.

[pure elm]

No problem. Just a little annoyed that I wasted some time lol

That being said suppose I'll go do some somnal dust gathering

[woeful ore]

Well, y'know - us mere mortals as opposed to professional NMS badasses 😅

[woeful ore]

When I do the box method, I stand on top of the box and shoot down to the first egg. When all the aliens have spawned, I then drop down into the box and harvest. You can then jetpack to the remaining three

[pure elm]

On that note, are derelict freighters dangerous? I've previously been able to breeze through them with a neutron cannon, but that was on a normal save

I was thinking of possibly running through one

[indigo falcon]

go ahead. if it gets too tough, just leave partway through

bring cold prot and batteries, and be cautious, all damage is worse

[smoky meadow]

i have had more luck running in the derelict freighter than fighting anything at least on the one at anchor point 5 with drones and turrets

the time i stopped too much to grab stuff i ended up receiving a lot of damage

[indigo falcon]

also you have the portal glyphs from some phase 2 milestone

so you can go to known "easy" derelicts to farm

jellies only, etc

you think they give you the glyphs just to sit on your @ss? 😄

[dense basin]

er, yes?

😄

[pure elm]

Phew. I just about gathered 6 stacks of dust

Should be enough for 30 fragments

Okay apparently if I give Polo somnal dust, he has a chance to give me broadcast receivers instead

[indigo falcon]

aiui for every 100 you turn in you get a free erb

6 stacks? 6 erbs.

[pure elm]

That doesn't sound right though, because I've got 15 erbs and I am not done turning the dust in yet

[indigo falcon]

you had 600 dust?

[pure elm]

I said 6 stacks

[indigo falcon]

oh

[pure elm]

It does not stack to 100

[indigo falcon]

well it's for each 100 you turn in!

so if you turned in 1500...

[pure elm]

Except it always has me turn in 100 by default lol

So that means I always get an erb

[indigo falcon]

arithmetic is hard, um 250 *6

[pure elm]

Oh right

I forgot to elaborate that I put the dust in the high capacity inv

[indigo falcon]

heh

[pure elm]

So each stack is 500

[indigo falcon]

well... enjoy all the free erbs!

[pure elm]

I got 6 stacks so that's 3000 dust lol

Thanks haha, idk what I'm gonna do with all of them xD

[indigo falcon]

save some in case you play this save later

that's a lot of freighter upgrades!

[pure elm]

Yeah

I mean it's actually possible to reuse an erb, but I can hang onto them since the method of reusing erbs probably isn't intended and may be patched later

[dusty pecan]

Well even it does get fixed freighter piracy in outlaw systems is another very good method for getting frigate modules

and douples as way to easily stack of load of frigate fuel too

[urban scroll]

how do i get the completed role for the leviathan expedition?

oh wait

nvm im dumb

i thoughtit would be that you would have to have proof or something

whait you cant get it from #roles like the others

help

[fringe agate]

!leviathanrole

[unkempt kraken]

Leviathan role is manually assigned, when you DM or ping <@&590975379678953522> in #nms-expedition 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.

[urban scroll]

ahh

thx

not on pc rn so cant do

but thanks

[dense basin]

phone screenshot will do

[urban scroll]

...

i dont have nms on phone

[dense basin]

I mean take a picture of your screen and post it here

[indigo falcon]

no one does... yet 😄

[urban scroll]

... im am not on pc rn

[indigo falcon]

(10 years from now "remember when ps5s were next gen consoles? now I've got a smartphone faster than those!" 😛 )

[urban scroll]

so i cant take anypicture

[dense basin]

Do you have a smart phone?

[indigo falcon]

no worries, when you get to your pc and can fire up the game, just drop the pic and a ping.

[urban scroll]

how is that usefull to me if i did?

[dense basin]

You use the camera

On the phone

Take a picture of your TV

[sturdy creek]

dont make me imagine NMS made by a company who would take colony management and make it a gatekept timesink eXclUSiVELy On AnDrOiD aNd iOs

[dense basin]

post that picture in here

[indigo falcon]

Brendel, I think they are saying they aren't near the tv or screen or whatever device has the game

[urban scroll]

or just Win+shift+S

[urban scroll]

that

[dense basin]

sorry, I thought you were saying you weren't playing on PC

[urban scroll]

oh, no

[dense basin]

console players have more issues with screenshots 🙂

That makes more sense.

[sturdy creek]

thats why you make a twitter account exclusively for bragging rights 😔

[fringe agate]

Easy now for both, the apps let you download

[dense basin]

Oh I know, but there have been people who don't want to do that

[indigo falcon]

apps. meh. no data on phone.

[dense basin]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[fringe agate]

Selfish!

Go buy unlimited and share your shots with me

Lol

[indigo falcon]

data on phone here is extremely expensive (and there is no such thing as unlimited. LOL.)

[dense basin]

How dare you not give us your scenery

[fringe agate]

Yes, my enjoyment is worth the money out of your pocket

[indigo falcon]

so: exit game, copy to usb, sleep console, yank usb, copy to laptop, process..

[fringe agate]

Yeah

[indigo falcon]

good because I've been submitting regularly to the

!contest

[unkempt kraken]

to view, enable Link Preview

<@&849987987265421342> Active Categories

🌞 Double the Sun - We have many systems out there with two suns. Locate one and take a screenshot from anywhere - making sure to include the two suns. Closes June 9th.

🌌 Shifting Lights - Nebulas are simply beautiful, take a picture of them from anywhere you like and share the lovely colors with us. Closes June 10th.

Black Holes - These space bridges are found in every region and make for wonderful screenshots. Ask Polo if you can't find one, then highlight its beauty. Closes June 11th.

🏴‍☠️ Outlaw Hideouts - Pirate stations have terrific ambiance, grab your best eyepatch and showcase these dens of iniquity. Closes June 12th.

Always Watching - The Atlas sees you. Let's return the favor and take a screenshot of your favorite Atlas iteration. Closes June 13th.

⛵ Solar Winds - The new solar ship models are taking the community by storm! Get in your favorite, launch into space and show off those lovely sails! Closes June 14th.

[See Pins](#contest-rules message) in #contest-rules or type !ContestRules in #bot-spam for more details!

[fringe agate]

I'm going to post this a lot, because it offended me so much

[sturdy creek]

what do you get from these ?

titles ?

[indigo falcon]

a nice role

[dense basin]

what in the actual

[indigo falcon]

got the rainbow heart in it 🙂

[sturdy creek]

uh yes, I meant roles lmfao

[fringe agate]

Role, featured on Twitter for a day, put in the #the-louvre and #rainbow-sky

[indigo falcon]

speaking of which, how's the expedition going?

[fringe agate]

And fun

[sturdy creek]

you guys right a cool ship here.

[fringe agate]

I went to meet Polo at the end of yesterdays session

[dense basin]

I love Polo

[indigo falcon]

all set to farm some memories and such then

[fringe agate]

Probably, I didn't even look at the next phases yet so no prep besides the stuff I picked up here - grabbed a predator on the first planet

[dense basin]

There are only 5 fauna there and they aren't bad to find - good source of nanites if you don't mind taking an extra 5 or 10 minutes

[gilded tiger]

@indigo falcon you can download your screenshots from ps app, do you have that?

[indigo falcon]

I don't have any apps on my phone. I don't have data on my phone. It's pretty expensive here.

[dense basin]

I download all my apps over wifi

[gilded tiger]

I was using Twitter this entire time till I found out the app allows download. For PS4 the button was practically invisible

[indigo falcon]

well in the glorious future I'll have a steam account (maybe) and just upload directly from the laptop or desktop 😛

[gilded tiger]

When we meet at hub I'll take pictures for us

It's criminal how good taking photos is in this game

I played spider-man recently and took all of 1 photo

[indigo falcon]

awwww

[gilded tiger]

Meanwhile in NMS...

[indigo falcon]

you'd think that swinging from buildings would give lots of good photo ops

but yeah nms

every wallpaper procedural

[sturdy creek]

all games should have a photomode at least with the same quality as NMS

[gilded tiger]

I thought so too but i wasn't feeling it. Same with ghost of Tsushima

My current desktop wallpaper is a picture I took of NMS. Just too bad it's not full HD

[indigo falcon]

huh never did that. wonder why

[gilded tiger]

You're on ps5. How dare you not! 😠

[indigo falcon]

well I mean background for my laptop

I pull all those images back here, so why did I never set one as wallpaper?

[gilded tiger]

You never have to Google wallpaper again

[indigo falcon]

currently been using thisfor a couple years https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/File:F33_wallpaper_dusk.jpg so it's not like I hate space themed wallpapers 😛

[gilded tiger]

You dare compare this to NMS quality pictures!?

Here's the one I'm using. Just wish it was HD

[indigo falcon]

wonder what I would put, if I were going to. hmm

[gilded tiger]

New contest! Vote for 700 apergos screenshots

[indigo falcon]

ouch 😄 😄

[gilded tiger]

If they fit on phone I would 🤤

Dimensions are off, too bad

[pure elm]

Decided to settle on a highly radioactive planet as my storm crystal milestone helper lol

I wanted a really hot planet but this is what I found, and it was in a system no one else before me discovered too

[indigo falcon]

enjoy! and enjoy those storm crystals too

[pure elm]

Thanks! Normally I would collect storm crystals on foot in my normal save thanks to 3 radiation shields, but I guess I'll have to try it with the minotaur this time haha

I have no shielding against radiation besides the 21% protection upgrade

But at the very least I avoided getting destroyed by digging a hole and establishing a base then working from there

[crimson dove]

when we convert the expedition saves, will all of the bases/planets still be there?

[fringe agate]

The planets are there now, in all modes

[crimson dove]

oh ok cool

thank you

[indigo falcon]

can confirm: visited anchor point 4 in creative, just to shake my fist at it

[void spruce]

Did the community tracker finally reach s-class upgrades for the expedition?

[indigo falcon]

few days ago yeah

plus s ship and mt if you're just starting or you die

[barren creek]

lol yeah anchor point 4 sucks

[foggy cloak]

I wish the Death Star was real in nms just to blow up Anchor 4

[fringe agate]

I keep hearing that, looking forward to it

[indigo falcon]

you would 😛

looking forward to the log entry 😛

[fringe agate]

If I get inspired I'll give it a go, I did a couple before

Not good, but I did them anyways

[indigo falcon]

we don't have to be able to write the great american novel (or any other nationality's novel) to write log entries other people will enjoy. I mean look at the crap we write in this discord chat 😄 and yet... most of us are still here!

[wraith badge]

of the 3 goes I had at the expedition only the 2nd go was a problem at the AP4 site the other 2 goes were no bother at all ... arrived found the place I needed to be at landed and got the milestone and then triggered the hunt for the grave and found that easy enough landed and intereacted with it and no sign of a sentinel in either location

[sly pond]

The planets are all there in all modes, but weather/sentinels/fauna can vary mode to mode

[indigo falcon]

I disabled sentinels first and even then it sucked.

[barren creek]

Oof
This expedition helped me master digging myself in a hole while my launch thrusters recharged.

[jagged charm]

But why?

Just buy urainium

[pure elm]

That's assuming they have a radiation upgrade that gives them a protective shield

[indigo falcon]

I think it was about "waiting for launch thrusters"

[pure elm]

Otherwise they must spend sodium to recharge and/or dig into terrain

[indigo falcon]

if you charge before you leave, with uranium, then you can call ship to you right away, no hidey-hole needed or not for long anyways

[barren creek]

Launch thrusters were already out by the time I was out of range.

I would wait for them to charge to I could call my ship and then use some launch fuel.

[pure elm]

Looks like I just accidetnally destroyed a storm crystal with the minotaur somehow

[barren creek]

Yep, they can do that...

[wraith badge]

that's where getting in to the habit of checking the launch thrusters after landing should be a thing you do naturally and if they need topping up then do so with Uranium, a good place to store this is a place where you can store lots of it like the ship cargo slots

[pure elm]

Quick question, can the minotaur be fitted with anything that allows scanning?

I like to rely on my scanner to find the storm crystals

[ashen shore]

You don't need to install anything on minotaur to perform the same scans as with exosuit

The scanner upgrade lets you scan for certain type of buildings / sctructures

Resource Silos, Manufacturing Facilities, crash sites and Trading Outposts

[pure elm]

No I mean the scanner that you access when you hold F

[ashen shore]

You mean the Visor? There is no such thing for minotaur

[pure elm]

Damn that sucks

[ashen shore]

But in case of Storm Crystals, those will have an icon when you perform the normal scan (C key)

[pure elm]

Oh they will? Nice

That being said I'm now stuck waiting in one spot for the next storm because it ended just as I reached a crystal lol

[ashen shore]

Yes, they will get a yellow diamond icon with white thunder in it

Also, Storm Crystals emit some light, so you can see them from far even during a storm

[pure elm]

Yeah ik the one

[ashen shore]

Don't really need the visor or scanner for that

[pure elm]

I just had no idea the scanner would make them show too

Yeah they're visible, it's the terrain and other objects that kinda get in the way

Which is why I wanted to see if there was a way to see the storm crystal icons while using the minotaur

[indigo falcon]

I admit to hopping out, tagging icon, hopping baack in, hazard isn't enough to hurt in the 2-3 seconds out of the mech

[spice spoke]

has the devs mentioned anything about another re play old expeditions event?

[fringe agate]

No

[spice spoke]

ok thanks

[pure elm]

Heading to anchor 3 now

[indigo falcon]

good luck, may all go well!

[pure elm]

Thanks! I'll check the pins again just in case, but other than that any personal tips for anchor 3?

[indigo falcon]

lemme look at my handy dandy list

not really, you can always put off the eggs and the storm crystals for later (like after phase 5 even), and there are player bases for the eggs

otherwise, you know, get to the grave, get ship nearby, interact, run to ship (with launch fuel in it just in case), the same old thing

[pure elm]

I got storm crystals sorted thankfully but I'm glad I can do the same thing for anchor 3 again, thanks :)

[indigo falcon]

let us know how it goes!

[pure elm]

Will do!

I've also got uranium handy and the launch thruster is pretty charged already

[indigo falcon]

good, check it any time you walk away 🙂

[foggy steppe]

What are considered checkpoints in expeditions

[indigo falcon]

I don't know what you mean by that term

[ashen shore]

Almost all progress is lost upon death and you start from scratch if that's what you want to know

There's a pinned message made by the ultra chad @indigo falcon here with more details on that matter

[pure elm]

Got the memory fragment recipe \o/

[indigo falcon]

yay!

[pure elm]

Okay so what I've got left are the two anchors, most of phase 5, and call of the void

Ngl I'm tempted to do the void one right away, but I'll probably wait a bit and I'll also take a break anyway

[indigo falcon]

don't

oh

you did the memory ones

but not the actual 'visit these portal' ones?

[pure elm]

I have

[indigo falcon]

ok. then yeah

phase 5 first, then any other cruft

[pure elm]

I've always visited the portal first and then used the resonator

[indigo falcon]

and no rush, do when you want

um not clear, sorry I gotta ask another question then

[pure elm]

The main reason I wanted to try the eggs now is because I feel I'm better equipped this time

[indigo falcon]

when you say you have two anchors left, which milestones exactly?

[pure elm]

What I meant was I still need to visit the fourth and fifth anchor and complete each pair of the milestones tied to them

The one that requires you to find the portal, and then the one after activating the resonator

For each of those anchors

[indigo falcon]

you don't have to get to the portal before getting the memory

you do need to get all the memories before you can complete phase 5.

but take them in whatever order you feel comfortable with.

[pure elm]

What activates the first of the two milestones then?

[indigo falcon]

well you do when you go back there ;-D

I mean, you can choose to go visit those portals selecting those milestones later

[pure elm]

So I do need to visit the portal to complete the milestone then lol

[indigo falcon]

so there are two milestones right

there is 'anchor point n'

[pure elm]

I choose to do the anchors in order btw

[indigo falcon]

and then there is some related memory loop thing that is the next milestone

on each of these 5 systems

you can do the memory loop thing by getting to the planet, sitting in your ship there, punching the memory resonator, and going to the grave

[pure elm]

Yeah that's what I mean

[indigo falcon]

you can visit the portal later

whenever you want, to complete that separate anchor point n milestone

[pure elm]

Again as I said I choose to do the anchors in order :)

[indigo falcon]

no problem, whatever works for you!

[pure elm]

It just makes more sense to me haha

Although admittedly I didn't truly realize I could do the loop memory milestone first, but I don't really mind either way

[ashen shore]

As long as you don't go like that Russian player here who went babushka knows where and ended up on the other side of galaxy, claiming the game is broken cause they can't warp back to anchor 1, you're all good

[pure elm]

Hmm what is it that they did exactly that landed them in that situation (no pun intended)?

Because I didn't hear about it 😂

So I want to know what to avoid

Although chances are I won't do it by accident anyway

I haven't strayed too far away from the anchors

[ashen shore]

Prolly they found a black hole along the way and it yeeted them to the other side of galaxy

They completed few milestones and wanted to go to anchor 1 for it's milestone

And they warped 1 system at a time

I bring that up not because I want you to laugh at them, at their mistake

But whatever you do, do not proclaim the game is broken just because you can't do something

If hundreds of people managed to pull it off without a problem, the oopsie is on your side, not in the game

[indigo falcon]

(assuming you didn't hit a game glitch)

[pure elm]

Don't worry I'm not that kind of person to be frank

Even if I do get frustrated, it's not real rage or anything just me getting a bit upset

I can typically figure out on my own whether it was my mistake, a glitch or (in multiplayer settings) someone being better than me that caused whatever bad thing to happen

I don't blame the game unless there's something to convince me that it was probably the game's fault, like yesterday's pirate intercept spam

[ripe pond]

how long is the trip to anchor point three because I've been at it for almost 3 hours now of just crafting warp cells and warping to new systems and it's not visible on the galaxy map yet

[indigo falcon]

it's not that long, you must be off track

I would go back to anchor point 2's space station via any space station teleporter, and start again

4 warps? 6? no more

[ashen shore]

Make sure you have the milestone for anchor point selected as current objective

[indigo falcon]

Romestovot is the space station you want.

[ashen shore]

And that you're following the expedition route in galaxy map

[ripe pond]

I've been following the right path I'm pretty sure

I found the issue

[indigo falcon]

still. go back to Romestovot in any space station teleporter and start again.

[ashen turret]

Any number of four letter words can describe that place ... not all of which are suitable for this server...
hole hell hill heat ... and other less mentionable ones

[ripe pond]

I was messing about with the portal at anchor two and I teleported to some random part of space, saved and went to work, then when I came back I forgot to go back to anchor two before I started going towards three

thanks

[indigo falcon]

that would be it

safe journeys, traveller!

[ripe pond]

yep, finally found it

[teal jetty]

wich thing give you hyperdrive?

[indigo falcon]

the "Bounds Testing" milestone in phase 1

[pure elm]

Okay so I'm planning to do anchor 4 next (but not necessarily right away) since I'm doing the anchors in order, is there something I should know

Because I just caught a glimpse of y'all commenting about how terrible it is lol

[barren creek]

What is it?

[pure elm]

I know that for anchor 3 I had to climb something, which for me wasn't terrible just took a bit of effort

[barren creek]

Lol yep

[indigo falcon]

ok lemme consult my cheat sheet

[pure elm]

If possible try and be spoiler free or ig light spoilers

[indigo falcon]

no extra notes there so

[barren creek]

From that, I learned to always land on top of a mountain instead of next to it

[pure elm]

Suppose whatever general danger will do

[indigo falcon]

should I tell you about weather or stuff like that?

[pure elm]

Weather is fine, I can prepare for that

Is it like a radio world?

[indigo falcon]

ok. extreme weather, extreme storms, including "extreme wind events" (cyclones)

these will pick you up and toss you around. hard.

[pure elm]

Wait what

Seriously??

[indigo falcon]

uh huh

[pure elm]

I had no idea tornados were a thing in nms

[indigo falcon]

should I say anything about sentinel presence or leave it?

[pure elm]

Is it like exp exclusive?

[indigo falcon]

nope

[pure elm]

Lemme guess, aggresive sentinels that attack on sight?

[indigo falcon]

I guess it's ok to say

[pure elm]

Instant high waves?

[indigo falcon]

yep aggro.

if they see you they will come for you.

[pure elm]

Hoo boy

[indigo falcon]

yep

[pure elm]

I guess it's time to go underground

[indigo falcon]

should I say anything about terrain?

[pure elm]

Yeah sure

[indigo falcon]

lol

[pure elm]

That doesn't sound good lol

[indigo falcon]

high mountainous peaks, vertical inclines, extremely treacherous.

easy to fall to your death on foot

[pure elm]

So

Literal hell is up next

[indigo falcon]

there you go. make plans!

[pure elm]

Is there any way to prepare for the cyclones at least?

I'm tempted to just go underground but it sounds as though that wouldn't work

[indigo falcon]

get in your ship instantly or

don't be above ground when such an event is announced in the first place or

wait until you are near the ground and the cyclone is going to drop you before using jet pack, you might survive that

some people have. it's tricky

that's the three things I got, other people may have better ideas

being in your exocraft will not help you btw

[pure elm]

Wasn't planning on bringing one anyway

[indigo falcon]

you won't get launched then but you will as soon as you exit it, I am told.

[pure elm]

I only decided to get the minotaur on the extreme radio world for the crystals

[indigo falcon]

I don't know what being on a companion for any of this might do or not do

might not help at all

[pure elm]

Also what type of hazard is on the planet? Radio, cold, toxic, heat?

[indigo falcon]

heat iirc, lemme check the pins

[pure elm]

Ok at least I'm mostly prepared for that one

I don't know how I'm gonna deal with cyclones so I'll look it up

[indigo falcon]

yeah heat it is (solanium)

[pure elm]

Aggressive sentinels make me scared lol

[indigo falcon]

mnimize your on planet travel

[pure elm]

That being said, what is anchor 5 like?

[indigo falcon]

try to get right to each point by ship, or hop out, scan, get back in

bring lots of launch fuel

[pure elm]

Can do, I can harvest as much uranium as I like

Same for phosphorus to replenish shields

I'm also gonna see how to deal with aggro sentinels because I tend to avoid those types of planets

[indigo falcon]

you could if you don't mind using a player base, get to a base by a sentinel pillar (check that it's on the right planet: weather "Self-Igniting Storms") and then just disable them outright

you don't need to shoot anything, literally interact with the terminal and choose shut down

[pure elm]

Hmm not a bad idea, that made me think of using my boundary map so I could have my own pillar but I'd rather use it on another world where it would probably be beneficial than somewhere I'll probably only visit once

[indigo falcon]

yup yup

[pure elm]

Assuming that the "sentinels patrol all planets" deal stays in effect post exp

Though tbf I probably won't remember to use the chart to begin with lol

Also apparently my last message just levelled me up to Familiar

[indigo falcon]

woo hoo!

[pure elm]

So I might as well use it while I can

[indigo falcon]

in survival mode sentinels are pretty much on all worlds, yes

and this save will convert to survival mode when the 6 weeks are up

[pure elm]

So the pillar will still be useful

[indigo falcon]

oh yes

[pure elm]

Well either way, since now I know that the next anchor is super dangerous, I'll take the time to do some setting up just in case I die

Which means putting down all the necessary stuff to reduce the grind

I can place down some standing planters for example so I'll have a source of carbon without having to dance around sentinels or aggressive creatures on the starting planet before I can use the teleporter to disable the former

[indigo falcon]

100%. good bases in case you have to repeat. always.

[pure elm]

Yep

I could also work on unlocking the electricity generators and mineral miners to allow for easier access to certain resources I may need

At least though I hope anchor 5 is not as horrible in comparison lol

[indigo falcon]

it is not.

[pure elm]

Good

[pure elm]

Okay so I'm trying to use the sentinel boundary map, but it tells me that there's a "locational interference" and that my inventory is full even though I have open slots

I'm gonna save and reload

[indigo falcon]

ok

[pure elm]

Huh it still doesn't work

Lemme see what the error means then

[indigo falcon]

are you in multiplayer enabled?

if so turn it off, reload, try again

[pure elm]

Yeah it's enabled

[indigo falcon]

turn off, maybe someone in your instance did this

[pure elm]

No dice, same thing

[indigo falcon]

what that is supposed to mean is you already have one indicated on the planet (or in the system)

wait 10 15 seconds and try again

otherwise warp out and warp back and again try...

and after that, really out of ideas

[pure elm]

Hmm thing is I was actually the first one to visit this system so I don't think anyone else is here

[indigo falcon]

if these maps work like the rest, you should be able to overcome the location interference with repeated spamming of the map

[pure elm]

Just checked the error and apparently it means that the chart can't find anything

[indigo falcon]

pure b.s.

[pure elm]

I just tried my distress signal one and it gives me the same error, but without "Inventory full" after

[indigo falcon]

what world are you on

give me: weather, hazard, resources

[pure elm]

Planet Nenuscar in Aejudia-Kele XIII

Also I just checked the system and this is one of the uncharted ones

Which possibly explains why the chart didn't work

[indigo falcon]

un charted, ok so no npcs

[pure elm]

Because there are no buildings

[indigo falcon]

but there should still be pillars

anyways move on nthen

[pure elm]

Which... doesn't really explain the absence of pillars

[indigo falcon]

find an inhabited system to be in and try it there

we know there will be buildings there!

[pure elm]

I specifically wanted it on this planet since it has stuff I want

[indigo falcon]

oh 😦

and there are sentinels I guess

[pure elm]

Yeah there are sentinels on every planet

[indigo falcon]

then there ought to be a dang pillar

for distress signals it makes sense you don't get anything

[pure elm]

Yeah that makes sense

But given that there's a difference of the boundary map telling me "inventory full" after, then there's gotta be something else at play here

[indigo falcon]

uh huh

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/comments/svpkbj/got_a_new_sentinel_boundary_map_but_having_an/

well I claim that's a bug to have sentinels and no off switch

report to hg and move on

!hg

[unkempt kraken]

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

[pure elm]

Okay so apparently the inventory full text is a bug

Aaaand that was the exact page I just so happened to open up

The reddit one

[indigo falcon]

lolol

can you set up shop there and ignore the sentinels??

[pure elm]

I've already set up so I can mine from the inside of my base

But I'd also like to be able to go out and mine anywhere I like at my leisure

Especially during storms since the yield gets increased

[indigo falcon]

guess you may need a base on another world for that

[pure elm]

I mean since I've already set up here, I don't feel like having to do it again lol

But I might as well

[indigo falcon]

leave the base you have, it's good

just set up a small one on another world next to a pillar for the outside mining bit

[frosty pine]

Will the expedition save file convert to normal or survival after it ends? 🤔

[indigo falcon]

survival

[frosty pine]

Can you play on survival with a friend with a normal save? Or you need to be on the same difficulty?

I was wondering if this save file will be of any use to play with all my normal friends 😂

[barren creek]

Need to be on the same difficulty.

[turbid cedar]

HG ought to have named this expedition "hostile scan detected"

[frosty pine]

I've only seen a few hostile sentinel planets tbh 👀

The rest are normal ones

[pure elm]

Just sent in a report for the missing sentinel pillar

[frosty pine]

Did you try beating all the waves instead of using the planetary chart?

[pure elm]

No, and I don't want to do that at present

Especially since the chart doesn't work, meaning that there probably isn't a pillar to begin with

[frosty pine]

You can just build a tiny shack and kill the sentinels from inside you know 👀

[pure elm]

I'd also not take any unnecessary risks

Yeah I know

[indigo falcon]

the point was to have a convenient off switch at will

but ain't none

[pure elm]

It was how I defeated them on my last loop before I died in the stupidest way

I hid in a facility and came out and in to reduce my chances of getting hit

[frosty pine]

I did this

The quad sentinels can't get in or hit you with the laser that way

[indigo falcon]

shot them through the door? 😄

[frosty pine]

Yep

My first time doing the waves i did it with a cave tho

[indigo falcon]

when you wanted to get out, what did you do?

[frosty pine]

Why would you go out? 👀

You can kill all the waves from inside

[indigo falcon]

when you're done, don't you want to go pick up all the barrels?

[frosty pine]

When you are done you just remove the barricade 😂

[indigo falcon]

oh, you didn't have some other exit. ok

I might check out for the night. late here. good luck Eggy, let us know what happens!

[pure elm]

Good night! I'm gonna check out too

I just found another extreme radio planet which is in a gek system

But in the meantime I'll head off to bed

[woeful ore]

Weirdly it appears that I've lost all my emergency broadcast receivers. Was sure I had a stack stashed away. How do I get another in expedition? Are they at the anomaly?

[past current]

Is there a way of finding pirate systems without the economy/conflict scanner?

I dont want to endlessly grind the nanites

[dense basin]

There are a couple known outlaw systems near the start

[frosty pine]

You should get one free per week at Helios i think 🤔

Or buy them at the scrap vendor on any station

[dense basin]

Look for the Diplo Where? right beside the first system

[past current]

Is there a list or names somewhere?

[woeful ore]

Is that the 5 million units option

[frosty pine]

Yea

[past current]

Ooo thanks

[woeful ore]

Oof

[frosty pine]

But Helios gives one for free

And once you have one, you can just multiply them doing the expedition thing

[past current]

@dense basin Can i ask you a followup? Is it better to sell suspicious goods before or after opening?

[dense basin]

I open them

Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose

[past current]

But either or it counts for the expedition?

[dense basin]

If what you're after from there is nanites, I would suggest buying the hadal cores and larval eggs and refining them. You can also buy the suspicious tech & weapon packages, which almost always give you an X module that you can sell for nanites

[past current]

Shoot no i dont think so

I just tried it

Im on the smuggling milestone

[dense basin]

OH

[past current]

I think you have to sell them before opening

[dense basin]

For that, you buy one of the contraband items, not suspicious packages

Like first spawn relics

One of the first three in the list, anyway

You buy those, leave the station, call the anomaly, then teleport to a regulated station and sell them there

That way you avoid scans

[past current]

Thank you thank you

Also i think i cant get back to the first system lol

Wasnt it called Rowland Deck or something

[dense basin]

Rowland Desk

[past current]

I dont think i went to the space station in this iteration

[sleek sinew]

If you don't mind the loss in rep you can also just shoot up a freighter cargo pod in an outlaw system to get contreband to sell. sentinels won't react to that in outlaw systems

[dense basin]

There are a lot of outlaw systems in the area. You could teleport back to Cebrac-Eliwyn (anchor 1) and look from there, or you could just jump around looking for systems

[dense basin]

If you shoot the freighters and not the pods you won't lose rep

But if you're already on the station, it's fast to spend a few units and buy some 😄

[sleek sinew]

Still a good tip to know if you have the impulse control of a weasel and buy anything cool you see leaving you broke as -kzzt-

no i'm not projecting shut up--

[dense basin]

lmao

I admit it's one of my favourite early game strats

And I used it in my third playthrough of this expedition

[past current]

I am at somehow i found Rowland Desk

[dense basin]

Diplo Where? will be kinda to the right of there, insofar as you can call it that on a 3D map

There's another one called Scheherazade that's up

[woeful ore]

Looks like Helios doesn't want to give me any. That's annoying

[past current]

Man i cant find either of those

Jk i found scheherazade

Thanks so much!

[frosty pine]

Then just buy the 5m one

[woeful ore]

I'm smuggling my ass off as we speak 🙂

[final lance]

I just don't like this expedition man

[barren creek]

What about it?

[final lance]

It's just not as fun or interesting as the last

[strange ivy]

It's aa interesting concept but it really hits down once yiu realize that nothing really saves. You still have to get all your milestones back and what not

If the milestones saved that would be much better i think

Cause at this point it may ad well just be a pernadeath run

Also anyone mind helping me with the expidition? It's my 5th run and in getting kinds tired of it all

Voice chat will be required

[woeful ore]

FINALLY

[cunning rain]

good job man

[woeful ore]

👍

[cunning rain]

im just starting iteration 5

[woeful ore]

If I ever see that 4th anchor point world again, it'll be a lifetime too soon. Seriously F that planet

[frosty pine]

You can use your minotaur there and totally forget about the storms 👀

Actually you can use your minotaur everywhere and totally forget about hazards 😂

[cunning rain]

that minotaur saved my life more times than i can count

[frosty pine]

Also you can build the minotaur bay, call the minotaur and then retrieve the bay

[cunning rain]

i did

[frosty pine]

Once the minotaur spawned on the planet you can call it from anywhere on that planet even without a bay present

Same with all the other exocrafts

Whenever i get into a hazardous planet i just pop this, summon all the exocraft, and then retrieve it

[cunning rain]

in my main save i use the carrier summing station

[frosty pine]

Yea, that works but here it's a late game thing considering the blueprint prices 😂

But you get gifted the minotaur one so...

[cunning rain]

the controls for it suck in vr

[barren creek]

!leviathanrole

[unkempt kraken]

Leviathan role is manually assigned, when you DM or ping <@&590975379678953522> in #nms-expedition 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.

[weak hinge]

anyone else run into an issue where saving crashed yo u

[sour moth]

^ my expedition game crashed every time i saved.

2/2 now so demotivated 🥲

[idle pewter]

anyone know what to do for storm crystal mission ive been wandering for like an hour and havent found anything

been checking during storms and what not

[sour moth]

they are on extreme planets only iirc

[idle pewter]

ah

[dense basin]

There's a moon in the anchor 1 system, Mapon VIII, that has storm crystals

[weak hinge]

@whole glen I just let it sit on the black screen and don't click anything

[whole glen]

@weak hinge Wrong Nano lul

[sour moth]

oof ^ ok it gives windows crash alert tho 🥲

[dense basin]

Don't click the screen while you wait

Just let it chill

[sour moth]

Okay^ i read some stuff about how multiplayer might cause crash. but i never had issues before.

I'll try next time

[dense basin]

I have had the hang in both MP and non, but it's more common for me in MP. Either way, if you just wait and don't click, it should resolve on its own. Might take a little bit

But if you click you will definitely get windows up in your grill

[stray gale]

All right. Third try for this expedition.

[dense basin]

Good luck!

[stray gale]

I did the eggs early. So I wouldn't lose too much if they killed me again.

[silver vessel]

God, this expedition is going to be a pain. Reminds me of the first one with the vector ship

Hope the leviathan is worth it

[soft shadow]

I'd say it is

[halcyon stirrup]

Today I left my freighter in my main save and did a flyby of the leviathan. Zero regrets.

[soft shadow]

At least if you do a lot with your fleet and frigate expeditions

[halcyon stirrup]

I didn't notice, but does the Leviathan use frigate fuel?

[soft shadow]

I think so

Idk how much, you could probably look it up tho

[silver vessel]

I guess it would look neat in formation with the normandy

[halcyon stirrup]

I'll just check it the next time I send it out on an expedition.

[silver vessel]

I like the expeditions where you get something significant. Ships, frigates, etc. Not a fan of the companion ones

[dense basin]

This expedition required more effort (or at least more stress!) for much of the player base, so I'm glad they gave us something big as a reward.

[weak hinge]

soo, i have the loop research :liquid sun quest, but where do i get ther ecipe

nm, apparently i had to click the reward

[ember bloom]

I FINALLY DID IT

I shed a tear at the end thank GOD my work paid off

[halcyon stirrup]

Finished it? Nice work!

[astral storm]

Meanwhile I had 2 glitch assassination attempts on my life and the 2nd one... worked flawlessly.
So... I guess that's it? Gotta redo all of that I take it?

[indigo falcon]

what?

what assassination attempts?

[dense basin]

rip

[astral storm]

First time after exiting my ship on a planet I was walking on thin air, had to recall my ship since it despawned, then immediately had 3 pirates spawn and blast me from the skies while I waited to get my ship back.
I actually survived that one.

Second time I tried to collect larval cores... and got yeeted 500m into the air during a storm. Did not survive that glitch.

[indigo falcon]

😦 😦

I can give you a spoiler about minimizing the risk, if you want it.

[dense basin]

I didn't think it was a spoiler to say "use a base that says easy eggs in the name" 😄

[indigo falcon]

no, I was thinking of something broader

[astral storm]

Like smashing Alt+F4 like no one's business the femtosecond the game goes janky?

[indigo falcon]

nope

[dense basin]

That's always an option. Or a reload if you have the time and it hasn't gone straight to hell already

[indigo falcon]

it goes to the nature of the deathloop. but I don't want to go into details unless you want them.

[dense basin]

Oh that one

But you still have to deal with the dreaded anchor 4!

[astral storm]

Well go ahead. I did finish the permadeath galactic core finish though... at least had 0 glitch assassination attempts that one

[indigo falcon]

ok I'll spoiler mark it all

||you avoid losing milestones on death, if you finish the following: phase 1, memory loop only on phase 2,3,4; phase 5. the rest can be put off until after||

the next thing I'll say is about pirates: you can avoid being attacked on the planet's surface if you don't have valuables, <10k worth of any item on you in inventory (combined ship and suit I think)

that's my experience at any rate

I did a lot of running to the anomaly, or dropping things off in my freighter

[astral storm]

Well, the pirates aren't an issue, save for maybe ifI have 7+ on my humble hindquarters at once

[indigo falcon]

it was much slower but the only space scans I got resulted in "worthless cargo"

and not one single pirate ttack on my person on a planet.

this means warp cells: don't have on you, refuel on the freighter. slower for sure.

[astral storm]

So basically I should ||get some jumpdrive range upgrades, and then grab the anchor points until 5||

[indigo falcon]

anyways that's up to you whether to use or not

[indigo falcon]

yes, that would work well. also put bases evrywhere useful. as soon as you get to a space station pick up 30 chrom metal and then drop a base on whatever the anchor world is

for anchor 4 there are special considerations of course

anyways this would mean that if you do get reset before getting through, you can save on all that warping by just going to your bases

for anchor 4 I would recommmend finding a user base that is at a sentinel pillar (plenty in the teleporter) and going there to disable, that's one hazard less to worry about

[dense basin]

At this point all the anchors have bases by them so you can just go direct now

[indigo falcon]

and bear in mind ||you're not doing the anchor point milestones on 2,3,4 but only the ones related to using the memory resonator, i.e. the second milestone in each ||

[indigo falcon]

you can't though, until you get to the space station of the system usually. but if you put a base on the world, from the starter world space station you'll be able to go to all of your bases direct.

[dense basin]

I meant fly your ship to them.

[indigo falcon]

also one more thing as a kindness to others, don't upload any of these bases unless they are actually helpful to someone else. no need to upload for them to persist after death.

I hope that will help some.

[astral storm]

Welp, I got some awesome guy stuffing me with some resources, so it'll be easier to bounce back at least. But I'll definitely work on my ALT+F4 skills. Guess I'll focus on locking in the milestones now

[indigo falcon]

ok!

oh one more rthing that may be useful when you get there

you'll need to run a derelict freighter in phase 5

it doesn't have to be that one in thta system, it can be ANY derelict anywhere. there are known easy ones with only jellies. you will have learned all the portal glyphs. 🙂

[astral storm]

Well... I got the 20 sentinel kills way, way ahead of time. So long as I get a usable weapon again I'll be good. I am way, way more afraid of glitches than anything else

Especially now that it really came down to it

[indigo falcon]

you might consider ||phase 1, then the phase 4 memory loop milestone right away|| so that if you fail, you fail fast and lose a lot less time. as that's the worst of those

and you can always reset if you get a junk weapon. just reroll right away

[primal wren]

Finished the expedition last night!

Kinda glad to get it over with tbh, but it was neat kinda having to worry about being somewhat cautious

Bases really helped towards the end, completing some of the leftover milestones I had

[indigo falcon]

congrats! now you can get the role for that in this server, see pinned messages on how to do so 🙂

[primal wren]

I'll try when I'm at my pc

It was a little confusing at first, but it helped be learn some new aspects of the game, bought it when it was on sale in steam a few weeks ago. Having so much fun with this.

[indigo falcon]

that's great to hear!

[fair dirge]

another day, another truckload of liquid sun to drop on polo for optional milestone progress

doing my part

[indigo falcon]

we salute you, good traveller!

[craggy laurel]

is minotaur ai unit useful for E7?

[indigo falcon]

some people have used it in killing off 20 sentinels. up to you really

[gilded tiger]

It saved me after a tornado flung me far from my ship

[frosty pine]

It also works for killing aberrations

[craggy laurel]

oh like the whisper egg stuff?

[frosty pine]

Yea

[craggy laurel]

awesome. I guess I’ll keep it. I hate those monstrosities

And i have to collect 10 whispering eggs as well…

[ashen shore]

Note that biological horrors can still damage the player while in exomech

[frosty pine]

We are talking about the AI pilot tho

But yea, i think you can get damaged in any exocraft

[craggy laurel]

hm. What about sentinels? Do they damage u directly while you’re in the minotaur?

[indigo falcon]

exocrafts don't protect against creature/sentinel/hazardous flora attacks

[craggy laurel]

Oh i see, interesting

thx

[urban scroll]

sentinals seem to break though, they dont attack you while your in the minotour

well, the flying ones

the others do

[indigo falcon]

any sentinel can attack you and cause damage while you are in any exocraft

[nimble raptor]

Does anyone have the coords for the Sophis system? I can't travel there for some reason

[indigo falcon]

there was a bug where sentinels (drones) would not pay attention to you in the minotaur, it's been fixed iirc

[indigo falcon]

check the pinned messages, one has all the glyphs for all the systems

[nimble raptor]

Thanks

[dark sky]

I need to double check cause I don’t think my game has multiplayer on but everytime I try to do the first death it crashes

[indigo falcon]

try letting the game sit for a full two minutes and see if it recovers (multiplayer disabled of course)

[dark sky]

I tried that and it didn’t work so I decided to just restart since I was at the very beginning and it worked so hopefully it’s good from here

[indigo falcon]

I really hope so, let us know what happens though

[dark sky]

Spoke too soon lol I got the first death thing done but I got to my ship, went to get out and it crashed

[indigo falcon]

how long did you let the game sit at the crash (frozen screen) this time?

[dark sky]

About 3 minutes

I’ll give it a another go and just go do something in the meanwhile

[smoky meadow]

same thing happened to me, sometimes i had to wait a very long time for it to go back to working again

[indigo falcon]

what's the longest you had to wait, @smoky meadow ?

[smoky meadow]

i didnt check the time sadly

[dark sky]

I miss having my second monitor lol

At least I have my switch to play in the meanwhile

Apparently shift tabbing helped? I’ll test it again

[ashen shore]

Sorry to bump this again, but you mean shift tabbing as in brining the Steam overlay?

Cause that's the default key combo for that

Dunno about other overlays / launchers

[dark sky]

Sorry I meant alt tabbing to switch applications

I hit it a few times while it was freezing on me and it unfroze me pretty quickly

[pure elm]

Hey so I'm not gonna do this right away, just prepping for later, but is this a better typw of structure for harvesting eggs?

I remember someone bringing up making a box around some eggs and some walkways etc

Okay I've finished making something, hopefully this setup will work when I go to harvest the eggs

[indigo falcon]

you shoot the first egg, from up top if you like. wait for the greenies to all get glitched outside the walls

you might miss that first larval core, maybe not

anyways hop down in then, grab itif stillthere, shoot the others one at a time, grab cores

up to roof, walk to next, etc

you want one covered area up there you can wait out a storm if one shows up

or get away from sentinels if they show up. that's all! looks good

[pure elm]

Nice! I kinda left it uncovered just in case but I can add a roof too

Also gotta love it when this happens

Especially when you need a lot of modules lol

[indigo falcon]

no need to add a roof, I just mean at the roof level walkway, that's where you add a separate storey there, a little shack to hide in if needed

ah the unburied tech, yes 😄

[pure elm]

Oh wow

I just found a curious deposit cluster

The one time I'm not looking for it lol

I'll set down a base anyway

[indigo falcon]

why yes you will. might be useful for later, at the worst you can come back in another mode and put something real there

[pure elm]

Whoa holy crap what a hole

Set myself another place to go to so I can look for buried tech and it seems I just started descending a crater

Complete with a deposit at the bottom of it

Dude what the hell kind of terrain is this lol, it's like a really steep valley here

[indigo falcon]

huh, sounds photo worthy at a minimum

[pure elm]

I've taken a picture of the giant hole

[indigo falcon]

ok wow that is one deep hole, huh

[supple radish]

This expedition was the first time I attempted harvesting whispering eggs. I just summon my ship next to the eggs, shoot open one or two, pick them up, jump on my ship and fly away, go mine something, come back in two or three minutes and repeat. Just sharing another approach.

[pure elm]

Ooh nooo whyyyy

I just teleported back to one of my bases and the terrain regenerated inside of it

It was fine for days

[indigo falcon]

terrain edits revert eventually

build above or with the terrain always...

[barren creek]

If you need a lot, the npcs at minor settlements tend to sell salvaged data.

[burnt karma]

That just gave me a heart attack. fell through my freighter into space!

Managed to quit in time, I think

yay, didn't die

Did lose a few years though.

[marsh haven]

not just me

[pure elm]

Huh they do?

[barren creek]

Most of them do

[pure elm]

I'm fairly sure I ended up going to a settlement but didn't really decide to stay with it

It needs a terminal for it to sell the stuff?

[marsh haven]

minor settlements have trade terminals

[barren creek]

Hm? The npc behind the counter sells the data.

They also have trade terminals, but those don't sell it iirc

[marsh haven]

but the npc behind the counter sells the interesting things. drop pod data, salvage data.

[pure elm]

I'll have to get that checked

If I can find something that sells salvaged data, that would cut down on the data grind

[marsh haven]

should be the same in your settlement as you get the same kind of vendor in your marketplace

[barren creek]

Yeah. Get enough units and maps and you can find plenty.

[pure elm]

Awesome

[barren creek]

Well... maybe not plenty. I think it tends to be around 4 per settlement, maybe more than that. Maybe 4 is the minimum.

[pure elm]

Selected the Harsh Frontiers quest as I had claimed a settlement, and it led me to one that looks like it belongs to another player (there are no NPCs either) so I'm guessing my settlement is in another system

But now the quest is gone for some reason

Doesn't seem like I can teleport to it either so I guess it's off to buy another map

Oooh I see now, I got a bit confused

I thought you meant settlements but I forgot there were minor settlements

What I did find though is that 4 is not the minimum - this one sells only 3 data at most

[fringe agate]

It can be 1

[indigo falcon]

always the optimist 😄

I mean.. it can be 0 ....

[pure elm]

Oh yeah one more question

Minor settlements restock the data... right?

[dusty pecan]

yeah on save load or leaving the system

[barren creek]

Maybe it's the maximum then. My memory sucks.

[dusty pecan]

there was a store with 5 data on 2 weeks back quicksilver mission system

so 4 is not max

[barren creek]

Alright.

[pure elm]

Ok cool, thanks

[frosty pine]

Also remember to check you settlement bazar if you built one

It can have salvage data too

[finite wind]

Nearing the end of this expedition and I just wanted to thank everyone nice enough to help when I was confused 💜 this has been super fun, im really excited to be into this game again.

Will a new expedition start as soon as this one ends, or will it be a bit after like with the next content patch or something like that?

I'm excited to all the vase building and other stuff too I wanted to wait until after I finished this though so it wouldn't be permadeath 😅

[indigo falcon]

we never know when the next expedition will start

gotta stay tuned to nms-announcements or sean's twitter

[frosty pine]

Yea, i think at some point they released 2 expeditions with less than a month between them

But it can also be a few months

[indigo falcon]

and once the expedition ends, base blueprint prices should return to normal, which will help if you plan to continue the expd save

[finite wind]

Sweet. Good to know. Yeah I planned to use it as a normal game save once I finished I like the ship i got and stuff lol

[ashen shore]

This expedition will convert to survival mode save

I mean, it will be normal, as in not-time-gated, you can follow the main story like and other quests

But the difficulty mode will be survival

[finite wind]

Omg the Normandy is in the game!? Are you able to get that outside of the expedition reward!? 😫

[quaint turret]

How much liquid sun do i need to bring polo? I forgot

[finite wind]

Also ty for the heads up 💜

[indigo falcon]

250 liquid sun I think

[ashen shore]

Outside of cheating or using mod - nope

But Im not 100% sure on the mod part

[finite wind]

Aw, F. Maybe I'll get lucky and that expedition will come back someday again

[ashen shore]

Sadly HG shares no info about their plans for updates, expeditions included

There's only hoping that with the release on Switch and Macs HG will be kind enough to bring previous expeditions back

So all new players have a chance to get these rewards

But like I said, it's just hoping

[hidden mesa]

||If you have finished the expedition and die, do you get reset again?||

[indigo falcon]

spoiler question, please mark as such

ty

[indigo falcon]

when you ||break the loop then your progress is normal survival mode progress after that||

[quaint turret]

U don't have to do missions from each iteration in order right? Like can i do missions from iteration 2 before finishing the first one?

[unkempt plaza]

ye

[quaint turret]

Aigh ty

[unkempt plaza]

altho for the final big reward you need to do all missions from each iteration apart of the optional ones

[indigo falcon]

yes, with a few exceptions; phase 5 last few require phase 5 earlier ones to be complete.

[unkempt plaza]

^

[strange zinc]

hey, just to be clear, the expedition save will become a regular/survival/permadeath save after the event is over, right?

[lucid kayak]

||to confirm, breaking the loop means when you have the living freighter, right? I don't have to wait for the group missions to complete||

[indigo falcon]

it means when ||you break the loop||. I'm using that specific language for a reason. it's a clue. and no ||you don't have to wait for those missions||

[quaint turret]

To adopt a predatory companion is it the sam thing as other pets? Do u just walk up to it and feed it?

[indigo falcon]

feed or drop pellet, interact, don't die before it eats the pellet!

[quaint turret]

So i guess dropping the pallet would be the best way to avoid getting smacked?

[indigo falcon]

well I did that from a short distance and then backed up too

[final ivy]

Ohhhh yeah.... You can throw pellets from a distance....

I also totally did the smart thing, definitely didn't run in circles trying not to die while hand-feeding predators

[ashen shore]

In general I recommend spending 5 minutes to look through Quick Menu and noting what options are there

[quaint turret]

Bruh what even am i supposed to do to these pirate ships with this teribble expedition ship? Like if i don't hit them for 2 sec they recharge their ship meanwhile they kill me in a few hits

[indigo falcon]

what class ship are you in?

[quaint turret]

Idk it's the ship they give u when u start expedition 7

[indigo falcon]

yes but depending on when you started, the class varies

anyways if you are really underpowered, store all valuables on the frieghter and just don't engage

don't keep 10k or more worth of any item on you (combined inv ship and suti), you should be ok then

[quaint turret]

Too late lol... If i reload and autosave before i die can that work?

[indigo falcon]

yes

mmm check what save slots you have

make sure there is both an autosave and a manual save slot

this is pd-lite so I'm not sure.

[quaint turret]

Ye there's both

[indigo falcon]

ok! then yes reload of a save before death should get you out of hot water if you can do so fast enough

[frosty pine]

Hold S, it will auto follow the enemy ship with your aim

Also get a shield drain upgrade for your phase laser so you don't need to worry about getting hit

[indigo falcon]

it's hard to control what upgrades you get in the expd

[frosty pine]

The drain upgrade is unlocked to be learnt and built

[indigo falcon]

but you don't know that you have the phase beam in the first place

[frosty pine]

Isn't the phase beam also unlocked?

[frosty pine]

Ahh the delimiter isnt

I got so many of those that i may have think that i was able to build them 😂

[indigo falcon]

the person must have had it on that save (this is a borrowed image)

I never got it on my save, meh

[frosty pine]

i got mine on my first memory 😂

[indigo falcon]

extremely fortunate! a good roll 🙂

[quaint turret]

Wait holding s follows enemies?

[frosty pine]

Yea

[indigo falcon]

there's a button or key for autofollow

[frosty pine]

And pairs your speed to it

[indigo falcon]

it's the same as for reverse I think

[quaint turret]

Oh damn that's better, i thought the ship fighting is kinda wanky

[frosty pine]

Dog fighting has never been so easy

If you have the delimiter as i said before, you just change to phase laser whenever the enemy has shield and you need shield

Otherwise you set your best weapon and shoot

Photon cannon works pretty well with the auto target

Phase beam not so good

[lunar mesa]

question with the minotaur, do later expedition goals unlock any kind of weapon for it or should i consider it just a sturdier exosuit?

[frosty pine]

Not expedition based

Settlement quest line does give you stuff for minotaur

[lunar mesa]

as production?

[ashen shore]

You can get Memory Fragments for exocraft and those can result in minotaur upgrades

[lunar mesa]

yea i got a scanner but no weapons atm

[ashen shore]

But I think it's random so you are not guaranteed

[frosty pine]

No, the sentinel quest line

[ashen shore]

IIRC you don't get any tech dedicated to minotaur as a milestone reward

[lunar mesa]

it's there in the expedition too?

[ashen shore]

No, but one of the rewards in minotaur blueprint

Helluva useful

[frosty pine]

Yes. You just need to defend your settlement to get the broken sentinel as drop and start the quest line

[lunar mesa]

do you recommend it tho? i mean, is it worth it considering it's permadeath?

[indigo falcon]

you don't need it for this

you can use the mech as protection from the elements, that's enough

[lunar mesa]

nice