nms-expedition

[foggy cloak]

did you select the objective

or else it wont show

[wary pasture]

@calm flax hello again friend, I've made touchdown on that gorgeous purple planet we spoke of the other day. Not seeing any base computers though, thinking we didnt go over what mode your farm is in. 😅

[bold cairn]

I'm clearly dumb... lol. Thanks!

[calm flax]

normal

what platform are you on?

[wary pasture]

PC. However I visited on my expedition save.

It's all cross play btw.

It being on your normal save is why I wont see it. But that's ok I have a good spot to build thanks to you. 😊

[silver mist]

iS exp7 sTILL BUGGEd when zou die tho the Whale__

Or is it safe now

[wary pasture]

I pictured spongebob asking that just now. 🤦‍♂️

I'm not sure I fully understand what bug you speak of, i apologize.

[granite kiln]

polos still broken, i had manually saved and selected said save and it didnt work

i straight up cannot get the hyperdrive

[verbal flame]

Finally back to AP4 after dying on that planet

Found some thank you tho

[sand wigeon]

Great 👍🏼

[indigo falcon]

it should be fine, final reward claimable and all that.

[silver mist]

ok cool

[tranquil axle]

Quick question: for the living freighter, will it replace my current freighter?

[indigo falcon]

if you're still here, can you describe step by step what happened? was this on a first playthrough or after a death or what? which milestones were you able to complete before trying to talk to Polo?

[calm flax]

On my first expedition save I just bought another ship and it had the hyperdrive installed. I did that before I got the hyperdrive unlocked in expeditions. Not sure that's possible now. An update may have changed it.

[granite kiln]

it is technically after a death cause i did the iterate / repeat thing

(it was the first thing i ever did, im not stupid)

((or maybe i am idk))

[indigo falcon]

and presumably you got then "iterate/repeat", "remembrance", "new beginnings", and "observing the cycle" ?

[granite kiln]

yes

[granite kiln]

living freighter?

[tranquil axle]

The whale freighter you get at the end of this expedition

[granite kiln]

its a frigate i believe, not a freighter, i could be wrong

[indigo falcon]

but you cannot get "Bounds Testing", is that right?

[granite kiln]

correct

[indigo falcon]

sorry if you've been asked this before, do you have multiplayer enabled?

[granite kiln]

yes, i know the method, i've seen it before, it did not work

[indigo falcon]

which method, sorry?

[granite kiln]

turning multiplayer off and than somethin else i forgot, it didnt work

[limber scaffold]

My deaths were so dumb lol. Fall damage once, and dying to random predators while trying to correct ancestral thingies 3 times

[granite kiln]

turning it back on didnt work either

[indigo falcon]

and I assume the dialogue you see when talking to Polo has just one option, for you to leave, and the thing Polo says is something unrelated to the expedition?

[ocean hamlet]

!Faq-Expglyphs

..wait where does this go

[indigo falcon]

just look it up in the pins, Ellie, it's right here

[granite kiln]

i talk to him, its just the leave option (even though i have 515 liquid sun and i have the liquid sun quest active), and than he says "you always are, traveler-friend" and nothing else

[indigo falcon]

ok, so that's what you normally see the first time you talk to Polo in this expedition

including after a reset (death)

you're not supposed to turn anything in the first time you talk to Polo, even after a reset when you know what is going on

but you do not have the Bounds Testing milestone claimable?

[granite kiln]

no

when i click it, it forces me to view details

[indigo falcon]

and if you turn multiplayer off, save, exit game, re-enter game, go to the Anomaly, talk to Polo (and hear exactly the same thing still), no milestone then either?

[granite kiln]

yeah

[verbal flame]

AP4 is a nightmare omg

[wary pasture]

Watch out for wind. 😬

[indigo falcon]

and can I ask one more thing, well two more things, what patch version are you on, and are you connected to online discovery services (discovery tab, lower left)?

[granite kiln]

latest and yes

[indigo falcon]

yes it is. the only good thing about it is to leave.

[wary pasture]

The trip out rightt lol

[verbal flame]

Have to soft reset while i was falling off a mountain

[wary pasture]

Good catch I'd say

[indigo falcon]

okay. at this point there's no workaround that I know of to get the milestone some other way. you could get another ship with a hyperdrive in it, but that won't I think clear the milestone and you need it in order to complete the expedition.

[wary pasture]

Sounding like we need a bug report and patience. In the meantime I'd weigh in the option of a reset. Scrap the save and go again, bound to be easier the second time through. Especially you now know there are bugs.

Sucks to read this I'm sure. ⬆️

[verbal flame]

It clears it if you build one rather than using the given one

[indigo falcon]

the last time this happened, there was an issue on hg's end with their servers and a patch had recently dropped. so all I can suggest is:

report it as a bug, wait 12 hours (?), see if it's still screwed up, and if so, try starting with a reset or a new save 😦

you're getting half the right dialogue which is a bit weird, and broken

[wary pasture]

I'd certainly jump off a mtn and get back to polo before just fully scrapping though. Could just be the loop you're in atm. May reset proper upon a death? But ye sadly it seems 2 of us feel the same on the issue.

[indigo falcon]

one thing I don't understand

you got the solar ray plans from Polo this time through

I mean, I guess, since you got liquid sun from someplace 😄

so if that's true... how did you not get the bounds testing milestone at the end of that dialogue?

[granite kiln]

i got the liquid sun, but he wont TAKE it

[indigo falcon]

yeah, not worried about him taking it just yet, that's not part of the milestone. if you remember, the first time through, you don't have anything to give Polo and you do nonetheless get the milestone just for showing up and saying hi, essentially

[granite kiln]

i thought you got it from turning stuff in

[indigo falcon]

nope

would you be willing to post a screenshot of the phase 1 screen? maybe that will help us figure out what's going on... if there's anything we can figure out, that is

[wary pasture]

Would you mind showing your expedition objectives page?

Ye I was typing it wanted to wait and see what you were gonna say. 😅

[indigo falcon]

no worries 🙂

[wary pasture]

Bugs are getting more and more odd between patches it seems atm.

[indigo falcon]

you can say that again

[wary pasture]

Though I suspect something just isnt right with this case. Perhaps that's just my gut.

[indigo falcon]

so what I would do in your report is explain that you got the solar ray blueprints talking to Polo but the milestone did not complete, describe the various things you've tried, show a screenshot of the dialogue you see now when you visit, mention that ods is working, all that

that's not much comfort but it's all I got at this point

yep but that's later

that's not this milestone

this milestone literally just wants you to show up at the Anomaly and go "hey Polo... um." like, nothing more than that

you should see three four options (which the player does not), one of which is "leave", and you should get the solar ray blueprints (which somehow the player has?!) and then the milestone should complete after you exit the dialogue

[wary pasture]

Right that's what I'm reading now. Here in this instance we're never being asked which of the 3 wed like to collect. Ok

Hmm.

Scrap the save my guy, it's not too early.

[random peak]

How many times must I complete expedition to get the items associated with it?

[indigo falcon]

once

[random peak]

Leviathan will be my first

Cool thanks mate

[wary pasture]

First what? Expedition?

[random peak]

Ye

[granite kiln]

oh good, my only way to save it is to restart completely

[indigo falcon]

you can claim the rewards for any complete phase and for the expedition when it is done, once on any save

[wary pasture]

I say it with true pain in my heart traveler. But it seems this is the way.

[wary pasture]

Confused me with the other expedition roles. 😅

[random peak]

Does it save my progress? Or I have to complete all the milestones in one sitting?

[wary pasture]

It saves when you do.

[indigo falcon]

you can manual save and close the game at any time

[random peak]

Nice..I'm excited to start this one...any advantage to co op it?

[granite kiln]

welp, time to die to start this new save off

[indigo falcon]

😦

I really hope you get through it this time with no glitches!

[tranquil axle]

Will it replace the one I have is my question.

[indigo falcon]

you can have up to 30 frigates

if you are maxed out then you will need to dismiss one of them before claiming the new one

[tranquil axle]

Okay. Then I need to dismiss one.

[indigo falcon]

I guess you do 😄

[ocean hamlet]

are there any extreme weather planets in the anchor3 system?

need to get my hands on some storm crystals

[indigo falcon]

don't do it there, I don't know of any in anchor 3

see the pins in this channel "Mini-faq" for info on an earlier one

anchor point 4 also has them but it's a horrid place

[wary pasture]

Lmaooo I was typing anchor 4

Ye dont do that I felt spicy

[ocean hamlet]

ahaha, to anchor 1 system i go

Man, every system we go to is always in war lol

[wary pasture]

Much more calm there comparatively.

[ocean hamlet]

feels like im constantly getting pirated

[wary pasture]

But your statement is very true. Death lurking everywhere..

[indigo falcon]

yep, it's a pretty pirate-happy route it seems

[verbal flame]

I am thankfully done with this system on to do the side missions of 4

I used my ship to track down AP4 and the grave

[indigo falcon]

that's the way. in your ship lies safety

[wary pasture]

There you go, cautious and resourceful.

[verbal flame]

Now only if i can stay alive the rest, i dont have to face that nightmare again

[ocean hamlet]

hmm

do you need to land in a system's space station to get the teleporter registered?

or does it automatically happen

ive always assumed you need to land in it

[indigo falcon]

land in the space station, otherwise you won't have it in the teleporter list

[wary pasture]

You've been assuming correct.

Oooo I gotta snag a pic still but I got a gigantic crab squid pet 😅

[ocean hamlet]

this the planet with the storm crystals?

[limber shard]

So.. is this expedition long to finish?

I never played Permadeath before-

[ocean hamlet]

ive heard they usually have activated copper

[wary pasture]

Depends on you truly. I've heard many different completion times.

[verbal flame]

It should have it

[wary pasture]

Most anything that has "activated whatever" have storms, therefore storm crystals.

So yes through all the ipsofactos you'll find them there. 😊

[verbal flame]

Well im on line my 5thish death with 46hrs on the time card

🙃

[wary pasture]

My time was 3deaths completion at 10.5hrs.

[verbal flame]

Nice

[wary pasture]

There are all kinds of times and deaths.

[verbal flame]

Most of my time goes into resources and organizing

[ocean hamlet]

ughh, the storm ended right when i was gonna grab the crystal 😭

[limber shard]

Hm
Do you truly lose everything after death? Or can you store some stuff in bases or something?

[verbal flame]

Everything is reset

[wary pasture]

See I was soo minimalist. I think I made total 2m units upon completion. Like 3k nanites. I did nothing but objectives.

[indigo falcon]

another will come, I was there earlier today to grab some photos and it was nice and stormy

[ocean hamlet]

for me I've only had one death, and ive been playing for... a good few hours? 7ish

[indigo falcon]

see the pins "persistence after death"

[verbal flame]

But it seems like with each death it gets easier

[smoky meadow]

knowledge is power

[ocean hamlet]

forgot to say because i was distracted by pirates, but I got an Orb friend who can fly, it looks really silly when i ride him

[limber shard]

Damn okay, it's gonna be hard

[verbal flame]

Just watch out of AP4

[wary pasture]

I'm trying to lure this jellyfish flying creature I cant wait til I do.

[smoky meadow]

you learn a lot about what you should be worrying about after you die, then you can plan ahead for next time

[verbal flame]

I learned put save beacons at the downed freighter, abandoned building, storm crystal planet

[smoky meadow]

you can also put bases so you can teleport to them directly

[indigo falcon]

put base computers instead

[granite kiln]

ok so i did it again, bounds testing hasnt been achieved because you get the solar ray plans from observing the cycle

[indigo falcon]

that way you have those points marked if there should be an accidental reset

[granite kiln]

how the hell do you get bounds testing

[indigo falcon]

ah you are right about the solar ray plans, I did not remember the reward correctly

but it's still true that at bounds testing you are not supposed to have to turn in anything

just meet polo and leave

turning stuff in is later, for the "partners in time" objective, and can be done at any time

[verbal flame]

How is AP5?

[indigo falcon]

I recall ap5 being pretty tame compared to 4

[verbal flame]

Thank god

[indigo falcon]

let me verify that one doesn't have to turn in something, maybe I'm not remembering that right either

[calm flax]

To me ap4 is a good example of why I don't like the way combat has been added to the game. I don't even like going to extreme sentinel planets anymore.

[wary pasture]

Yes ap5 was reminiscent of ap4. But in comparison the word calm comes to mind.

[indigo falcon]

I've never been fond of extreme sentinel planets. but now there is an off switch so that's nice.

[random peak]

Are expeditions better to do solo or co op?

[wary pasture]

Solo as to dodge the bugs.

[smoky meadow]

i like they put such a hellish planet in the expedition

[indigo falcon]

imo multiplayer is buggy enough to avoid it and even just turn it off

[calm flax]

I built my activated indium base on an extreme sentinel planet on my survival save. Has around 180k units of storage. I just ignored the sentinels and worked aorund them. Now I can't even hop in my ship to get away from them.

[indigo falcon]

get yourself a sentinel boundary map and find a pillar on that world

[random peak]

Ah copy that..I'll def do that. It's strange, when I first started the game, I had a few freeze screens, but 55hrs in and it's been pretty solid on ps5

[smoky meadow]

pillar is temporary though..

[calm flax]

just what I started to say

[indigo falcon]

yeah but hours if you don't warp around or leave the planet (system?)

[smoky meadow]

i feel like they should fix that and make them actually work permanently or maybe a switch

its a lot of work to go all the way to the pilar no matter how you see it

[indigo falcon]

once you have a base there it's not any work at all: just walk up and punch buttons

[calm flax]

Or just not have the sentinel forces attack you automatically when you hop in the ship while there is a conflict level

[granite kiln]

you are

[smoky meadow]

but if you are making some farm say AI or runaway mold then you cant have it next to the pilar most likely, the spot the pilar is at might just look lame also

[granite kiln]

i checked the wiki

for some reason though, it just wont work

[smoky meadow]

the way i deal with extreme sentinel planets is i dont land on them...

[random peak]

Those hrs have been spent all over the place..including Euclid...if you were asking me

[indigo falcon]

oh, no I was just, I need to do some testing to see if staying in the system but pulsing around keeps them off or not

teleporting, warping, save-reload, these will start things over and you'll have to turn them off again

[calm flax]

I've got a few maps in my expedition saves to find the sentinel pillars. I didn't use any of them.

[indigo falcon]

lot of player bases out there eh 🙂

[ocean hamlet]

I wish the portal stayed marked, I'm looking for it in anchor 1 again and its... difficult

[indigo falcon]

we have planetary coordinates if you get close

[calm flax]

Drop a base computer close to a portal so you can go back easier. I've got a portal base in all the galaxies I've been to.

[indigo falcon]

they're in the pins in fact (pin with all system names, glyphs, etc)

[indigo falcon]

*planetary systems

[calm flax]

I was talking about the game in general not expeditions

[smoky meadow]

using planet coordinates for the anchor point is really helpful, the less you are running around on a planet the better

[indigo falcon]

oic

[verbal flame]

Lol AP4 specifically lol

[smoky meadow]

i always took time just looking for the anchor point on my ship when i didn't have coordinates

[indigo falcon]

I had trouble putting a bc near any portal except for some reason ap3, ods was on the blink then I think so I got lucky

too many claimed bases

[random ridge]

!exptime

[unkempt kraken]

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[calm flax]

On one of the expeditons I had other people place their base computer almost beside my base computer. Someone's base computer was clipped in the wall of my prefab. Another place I had a base on top of a flat mountain. Someone else built a base there. I had to rebuild my base because parts of their base kept me from going throuh parts of my base.

[indigo falcon]

I just got the "can't build here" message, annoying. had to move on

[calm flax]

Sometimes when I get "can't build here" message I can reload and build the base computer. Not always though.

[indigo falcon]

I could probably have reported bases over and over until enough were gone that I could put a bc, but it didn't sit right with me

[calm flax]

I have a feeling a lot of those bases are going to disappear after expeditions ends.

[indigo falcon]

for sure

[calm flax]

I had 7 saves on the last expedition. 3 so far on this one. Deciding on whether to start another expediton save or just go for a permadeath save and play it for a while.

[wary pasture]

Why not just continue on one of the saves?

[indigo falcon]

hey one more question for you @granite kiln when you talked to Polo did you get the Cycle Observed, Perpetuity and Recursion milestones shortly after?

[calm flax]

I've got too many saves already. Don't need more. I even found an S 34+9 freighter on my second save on the first battle. I'll delete it also.

[indigo falcon]

7 saves on one expd! dang. one save for me for each, that's already a lot of clutter

[calm flax]

I've got saves I keep on Xbox and Steam.

[indigo falcon]

oh 2 accounts even

I just have the one

[full salmon]

is there no way to get the exotic wingpack anymore

[indigo falcon]

nope. if they rerun the expeditions again sometime, maybe

otherwise, save editor

[full salmon]

understandable

[granite kiln]

those are the universal memory restoration milestones correct?

[indigo falcon]

they should pop shortly after talking to Polo and leaving (not turning stuff in)

[calm flax]

This is my xbox account.

[ocean hamlet]

My god, Anchor point 4 is a nightmare

I need to get to my memory thing but every time i step out of my hole i get attacked

[wary pasture]

Yes indeed. Do what you gotta and get out.

[indigo falcon]

dig to it 😄

[granite kiln]

than yes

[calm flax]

I dug a hole and dropped a base computer there then built 4 walls and a roof around the grave and didn't have a problem

actually 3 walls and a door

went back in the hole and deleted the base and I was on my way

[verbal flame]

What type of map is the sentinel pillar

[indigo falcon]

the type you can't buy from a cartographer

[calm flax]

I'd describe it as a map you get from fighting sentinels that you can use to locate sentinel pillars. I got my maps shutting down sentinel pillars I found other ways.

Just dont' forget to pick up all the barrels around

[ocean hamlet]

I'm def digging to the grave lol

[calm flax]

When you go back in the hole just close it behind you

I've found out the sentinels will follow you in the holes you dig.

[indigo falcon]

so it does look like the first time you talk to Polo you don't get the milestone, only after you turn something in once, the second time you visit, the dialogue should say "you already know what we require I think?" (same as first time), with the choices to turn in, possibly greyed out if you don't have the item, and the next screen would say "Right on time, traveller-friend!" if you do turn something in...

[calm flax]

I only turned in the ancesteral memories to get my milestone.

[indigo falcon]

so now I want to know what the dialogue screen shows when you go visit the second time with stuff ready to turn in, @granite kiln

screenshot maybe

[calm flax]

This was my 3rd save. I took the ancesteral memories I got and dupped a whole bunch of it and turned a bunch of them in.

[indigo falcon]

that's why there's a max from any account that counts towards the dialy progress 😛

[calm flax]

Do you know what the max is? Apparently I didn't dupe enough to reach it.

[smoky meadow]

the max is 20 and it wont tell you when you reach the max

[indigo falcon]

you can continue to give in but it won't count to the progress

you'll still get memory fragments

still get erbs if you turn in somnal, etc

[smoky meadow]

with no limit someone would probably be able to hack the game to just sent like a million Polo submissions at once or something crazy

just anyone duping would already be a lot too

[ocean hamlet]

hrmmm, can you teleport to outlaw stations from the anomaly

[indigo falcon]

yes

[ocean hamlet]

thank god

[verbal flame]

Well time to fight lol

[calm flax]

Thanks. I didn't turn that many in.

[calm flax]

Check out the teleporter list at the space station. I found a bunch of sentinel pillars in there.

I got the kill sentinels milestone and didn't even have to kill one going to sentinel pillars. I'd shoot the mech to get the level raised then shut them down. I'd get a few more that way.

[verbal flame]

Geology cannon is now my little friend, went through all 5 levels lol

[indigo falcon]

wow, well done!

[ocean hamlet]

farming some ancestral memories

kinda wish i could feed this sentinel dog, hes just hangin out

[indigo falcon]

cute little protogek you got there

[verbal flame]

My bad lol i used a neutron cannon, not geology

[calm flax]

I'm not too good at dupping. I pretty much decided while I was doing it that I could probably do just as good going out and getting the memories from a group of creatures.

[ocean hamlet]

my best friends

[indigo falcon]

got some claws on it though

[calm flax]

I did find out on one of my expediton saves that pets will protect me. I messed up and got my pet before I died the first time. When I tried to get a predator to kill me my pet come up and killed it. Then I had to jump off a mountain to finish the job.

[ocean hamlet]

You only need 200 ancestral memories all the time, right?

that number doesnt increase or anything?

[verbal flame]

Will i need salvage glass for anything?

[ocean hamlet]

meet my best friend for this expedition

their name is Bloody, but I call them Orb

Bloody is a really funny name though, considering it was generated by the game

[verbal flame]

Looks like your on an exercise ball lol

[young flint]

that one's my fav pet

[astral storm]

So, once I find a derelict freighter in a system that spawns S class upgrades I know it is always the same way. The question is, would the same system spawn S class upgrades for all players?

[calm flax]

@astral storm As far as I know it does. That's why people post locations of freighters with S class upgrades or even S class crashed ships for other players to find

[tough crown]

I feel like the game gave me way too many emergency recievers

A full 12 of them for basically nothing

[astral storm]

Well then get salvaged frigate farming. Just be ready for investing one receiver, and then getting like 6 receivers in return from the somnal dust

[meager warren]

2 questions

question the first: do Sentinel Ships count for the 20 Sentinel kills?

question the second: is there smth specific I should do with the Whispering Omelettes I got, like refine them into Nanites?

[verbal flame]

AP5 here I am

[tough crown]

I did the free one near the end and then got 12 from it ;(

I need a base with refiners for all this slime

[dense basin]

No, they do not

[dense basin]

edit: you can't refine omelettes - just sell them

[ocean hamlet]

the one thing from keeping me from beating this is that i cant find cobalt

[dense basin]

Cobalt is in every cave

It's the stalagmites/stalactites

[smoky meadow]

also in any trade terminal

[dense basin]

That is also true

[ocean hamlet]

huh, really? i must be blind

[dense basin]

It's one of the guaranteed items

[smoky meadow]

npcs are not trade terminals btw, some people sometimes confuse them

[meager warren]

@dense basin tyty

[ocean hamlet]

the music that plays after you craft the flute....

bangin

just found these three identical guys marching in the 5th anchor station

wait so

do I get the Leviathan in the base game too?? how does that work

ahhh, I get it from the quicksilver guy

well

that was a neat expedition

t'was my first one

[urban scroll]

it was the first one i completed too

i tried the previous one but i couldent figure out what to do or how to play

[hollow elm]

I’m finally out of permadeath whoop!!

[verbal flame]

Among us?

[dense basin]

looks that way

[ocean hamlet]

Sus!!!???

let's see

huh

finishing this expedition took less time than i thought

5:49

with only one death (which was required and basically just me hurling myself off a cliff on purpose)

[verbal flame]

Finished with 50:19 and 5 deaths

[wary pasture]

Ggs to both of you 🎉

Seems you have some roles to collect, dont forget to do that along with ensuring you've collected all rewards on your expedition pages.

These ofc can be collected on other save files at your local quicksilver hoarder.

[verbal flame]

The mini leviathan is cool

[wary pasture]

I agree, was thinking how to populate a space with a few and make it resemble a natural terrarium leviathan enclosure.

[dense silo]

Seems I lost my self in the shuffle. Does anyone know what system koak is in? It's for the final memory location thing

2nd mission of the final iteration

[wary pasture]

All in the pins thankfully. 😊

[dense silo]

Is it?

[wary pasture]

Mhmm

System name: sophis

Koak 84/04

[dense silo]

Oh thank goodness

I was dumb and jumped a few systems and thought I'd remember to come back it. And here I am... lmao

[wet hawk]

Anyone beaten the expedition leviathan trying to power though for the rewards and alittle lost.

[wary pasture]

Noooo traveler out traveling... dumb?! No sirry bob

But it's good you asked and now you can find the info anytime yes?

[dense silo]

Oh for sure. I should have thought to check the pins

Now I just have my final 3 missions to complete and I'll be done with expedition

Thank youuuuu

[wary pasture]

Best of luck traveler.

[static willow]

Verified you can find a multi tool with scatter blaster pre-installed in the expedition. Sentinel pillar find (Eissentam). @indigo falcon, thought you might to know. 🙂

[indigo falcon]

yep I expected so, thanks for doing the legwork!

[topaz dock]

So will prices chill after expedition ends and game save is survival?

[indigo falcon]

I expect after the 6 weeks and saves convert, that prices will be the normal prices again

[topaz dock]

Copy

[hollow prism]

found a holy grail of sodium, not i need holy grail of oxygen ;v;

[indigo falcon]

starting world? other?

[hollow prism]

starting world

[indigo falcon]

I think you can craft life support gels from the get go, I mean that you already know how, so dihydrogen and carbon would get you for those

I guess you get some of those when you get to your ship anyways

[hollow prism]

ah yes, i remember survival stack limit is at 250

[indigo falcon]

yep but life support gels stack quite nicely still

and batteries of course

[hollow prism]

[brave rain]

It’s called super moon btw and is on YouTube and Apple Music

I beat the expedition, thank you to everyone who built amazing bases, and thank you to everyone on this discord especially @indigo falcon for your help with my questions. I’m not sure how to claim the roll but I beat it

[indigo falcon]

check the pins, there's one on how to claim the role, congrats!!

[brave rain]

Thanks!

<@&590975379678953522>

[wary pasture]

Ayyee ggs🎉

[hollow prism]

is it essential to assist polo?

[summer oyster]

You have to help them 5 times for a milestone and/or if you want to contribute to the community research.

[hollow prism]

alright thanks

[indigo falcon]

you need to help them once for one milestone and 5 for the other, and if you feel the community spirit you may help them more (many people wait until they have completed the expedition for that, for .... safety reaons 🙂 )

[languid breach]

I... spawned in a freighter in an outlaw system... it was AN S CLASS... and i could not afford to get it!!!!

[indigo falcon]

😦 😦

[languid breach]

(This happened right after exped. It was my first spawn after the exped.)

I am. The salt.

It was a pretty black with yellow accents too 😩

Time to farm up 60 mil without access to basic farming equipment 😅

[indigo falcon]

awwww

lessee, in the expedition, you could... set up a trade route, or do smuggling, either of those can be pretty lucrative

I guess if you already know where a few outlaw systems are (and there are at least 3 I know about near the starter system and/or the first anchor point system), that can get you going on the smuggling

[languid breach]

Aye I've started up a smuggling route! Though I've found a system with ancient bones and gravatino balls so that's a spicy addition to my funds when i can play again.

[static willow]

Black and yellow! That’s my jam

[stoic bluff]

Sorry for the late response, on it!

There ya go

[dense basin]

Shooting up the freighters & frigates in outlaw systems is a fun and free way to add to the pile of contraband you can sell as well.

[languid breach]

I.... I always feel too bad to shoot them. I'm a peace, love, and steal everything from the mechanical overlords kinda person

[hushed oyster]

Woah that's what the ui looks like in vr?

[dense basin]

They're pirates, too. That's why their ships are full of contraband! I don't tend to shoot up the ones in regulated space, but pirates get no mercy from me.

[hollow prism]

not sure if someone called rowdy_viper here, thanks for the location of sentinel pillars

[outer path]

I'm a fairly slow player, and rough idea on how long the expedition takes? are there any tasks that are strictly timegated?

[indigo falcon]

nothing is timegated

I am a very slow and cautious player. 21 hours for me, most people won't take nearly that long

[static willow]

6 hours is the slowest (non cheating / duping) speedrun I’ve seen. 12-14 hours at a more reasonable pace. Nothing is time locked except the expedition itself. 🙂

[outer path]

ok, great. thank you for the info

[static willow]

Caveat: Depends on how many times you die! 😉

[wanton raft]

What's the minimum or types of base components you have to create on the infected world to satisfy the "The Anchor" milestone? I'm building on Alecapae Beta which seems to be infected. I've uploaded the base so it has that many parts.

[indigo falcon]

15 pieces besdies the base computer

that's enough parts all right

should complete for you.

if you have the milestone pinned it shuld show you how many pieces you have left.

[ocean hamlet]

I slapped down a tons of 5-sodium lamps

[wanton raft]

Thought I did. Hmmm

[indigo falcon]

I built a 2x1 hut lifted up on short walls to avoid terrain poking through. did that on all the anchor point worlds.

16 pieces exactly for that and it's fast and useful if I need to get back there (for example after death)

[wanton raft]

Got a 1x1 hut with a bio gen (crap) a connected teleporter and four sodiu lamps around the outside = exactly 15.

[indigo falcon]

what's the log say if you pin the milestone, or what's the tip in the lower right say on your regular screen?

[wanton raft]

It said 15 I guess. Just counted the parts including the wire and it's 15.

It worked.

[indigo falcon]

yay!

[wanton raft]

That's enough for a few hours.

This expedition is not going to be a half hour speed run for anyone!

[indigo falcon]

no. I think the record is 53 minutes in game time (no loading screens) right now 😄

take your time, over 2 weeks left

[wanton raft]

Yeah. I've been doing them bith on the PS4 and PC, but I may not get it done on the PC this time. I had a flood and it killed my gaming PC.

[keen mango]

can somebody give me the glyphs for anchor 3 pls?

[indigo falcon]

see the pinned messages in the expedition channel, one has glyphs for all the systems

[keen mango]

ok

[indigo falcon]

oh hey, right in this channel in fact 😄 also check the other pins, lots of good info in there

[wanton raft]

You can speed run this one done in an hour really?

[indigo falcon]

well a few people have, remember that's play time when you look at the save file, it's not wall clock time

but that's after many runs and with a whole strategy planned out etc

[wanton raft]

yep

I'll leave that to the crazy streamers.

[stoic folio]

gottem

thanks to all your help and those who made those bases

[indigo falcon]

hey, claim the role for the server if you like, see the pins for how!

[keen mango]

i told y’all i would do it 😎 <@&590975379678953522>

[hollow prism]

the sentinel pillar map will be useful for one of the iterations

[indigo falcon]

yup!

[hollow prism]

stocked up quite a lot of uranium, that gonna last me for long time

[indigo falcon]

this is just the last phase, no?

[hollow prism]

yea i'm at last phase

[indigo falcon]

may I make a recommendation? (which maybe you have already done but just in case)

[hollow prism]

sure

[indigo falcon]

one decent cold protection and stuff to charge it; ammo for your weapon. then (besides your uranium) you should be good to go

[hollow prism]

ah. cold protection, derelict frigate

._.

[indigo falcon]

yep

[wraith junco]

Should have posted it earlier 😅 <@&590975379678953522>

[keen mango]

i spammed ion batteries

[hollow prism]

yea, i noticed that the last iteration system have various thermal protection

so i gonna farm a bit of nanites by discovery...

at least a B class?

@indigo falcon

[indigo falcon]

B is fine, memory fragments might give a good X though

[hollow prism]

oh i have an S class thermal in my minotaur

[indigo falcon]

oh sitting in inventory? nice!

[hollow prism]

yep

ahh pulse splitter can give seizure, dem flashes

[indigo falcon]

ouch!

you in the derelict now?

[hollow prism]

yea

i have no seizure so i'm alright

done with derelict

luckily its not the one with horrors

[indigo falcon]

woo hoo!

close now

[fringe agate]

Booo

[keen mango]

kinda spoiler ||dude i got so mad when i first did it bc the leviathan killed me and i thought i had to restart but it was part of the story||

[indigo falcon]

(don't click that ECDMDragon, until you complete it)

[keen mango]

yeah

[hollow prism]

@fringe agate

[indigo falcon]

woo hoo!

[keen mango]

W

[fringe agate]

Nice job

[hollow prism]

now i gonna wait for rerun of exobiologist

[indigo falcon]

hope they do it then

[hollow prism]

probably when switch and mac game came out

[fringe agate]

When the Apple Watch version comes out

Are they even called that? No clue

[indigo falcon]

switch is "summer 2022" but mac and ipad, dunno

[hollow prism]

i'm expecting one more expedition before the major patch

[keen mango]

nms mobile

[fringe agate]

I dunno, this one ends in July

[keen mango]

is there a wait gap between expeditions or do they just instantly start back up

with a different expedition

[indigo falcon]

4.0 should be the next update. "should"

which means a bunch of expectations about having major new content etc

[lavish yarrow]

where is anchor point 4? The planet is super hostile and I'm having trouble finding it

[indigo falcon]

are you somewhere near the marker?

[lavish yarrow]

yeah

[keen mango]

i used portals to go to the other anchor points so i recommend going back to ap 2 or 3 and putting in portal codes threw one of them

[indigo falcon]

Lat/Long: -45.66, -157.51 planetary coords (also pinned in here)

try navigating there in your ship

[keen mango]

the pins can show the glyphs of different ape

aps*

[lavish yarrow]

oh, didn't realize. thanks!

[indigo falcon]

if you're already close that should be fast

[keen mango]

but my ship didn’t show cords when going first person in a planet so

[indigo falcon]

first person on the left when you are in planet atmosphere. fly low

low and slow.

[keen mango]

ik

but yeah

[indigo falcon]

let us know when you get there!

[lavish yarrow]

I've fallen into some strange hole 😛

[indigo falcon]

uh oh 😄

[keen mango]

terrain manipulator 😎

[lavish yarrow]

finally located. thanks guys

[indigo falcon]

yay!

[sand wigeon]

Greetings

What’s goin’ on?

Dang, can’t install additional weapon types on bought ship in expedition

Because they are locked on ship weapons seller in Anomaly

Ah well, it’s not a big deal

[fringe agate]

Nah

[indigo falcon]

you get what you get, or die and reroll ... and chance getting the same thing yet again 😄

[midnight ruin]

Does anyone have any tips for completing the expedition faster

[obtuse mirage]

Go straight to the system witch it tells you to and you can do all of the objects for that loop there

[midnight ruin]

Thanks

[obtuse mirage]

Also if you just starting die I immediately as soon as you spawn in for the fist time

[astral storm]

You can actually learn weapon blueprints with stuff like alien monoliths on a planet. From my experience having a certain weapon installed also raises the chance that fragments drop the according upgrades

[granite kiln]

its just the same thing, even with 250 liquid sun and the liquid sun quest active, he says the exact same things

[indigo falcon]

what's the dialogue show? is it um

"You already know what we need I think?" on the first screen

and the choices to deliver the various things are there but greyed out?

or something else entirely?

[granite kiln]

yes

[indigo falcon]

and you have the actual items with you in your suit? in general inventory let's say?

[granite kiln]

250 liquid sun in my exosuit

[indigo falcon]

general inventory?

[granite kiln]

and yes in general

[midnight ruin]

How do I find a predatory creature

[indigo falcon]

go to the starter world

there's a strider and one other there

[midnight ruin]

All the way back!

[indigo falcon]

go via a space station teleporter

[midnight ruin]

Oh

[indigo falcon]

note where you are now before you leave

[midnight ruin]

Got it , thanks

[indigo falcon]

still scratching my head, gonna ask around and see if someone else has a bright idea, since this is stil plaguing you a day later

[fringe agate]

Multiplayer on?

[brave rain]

Yep!

[hushed oyster]

Cool

[indigo falcon]

the player tried turning it off, save exit game load back in ,no diference

[brave rain]

I took the screenshot as soon as I got it finished and didn’t even notice I was pointing at it

[indigo falcon]

if you gather something else, say ancestral memories, selecting that loop quest instead, what happens, same?

[granite kiln]

give me a minute to try it out and I'll update if it works

[indigo falcon]

ok, here's hoping

[verbal flame]

I hope they do another rerelease of some expeditions. I missed the last 2 before this

[foggy cloak]

They did for 1-4 at the end of 2021 so maybe at the end of 2022?

[indigo falcon]

we'll see. there's really no way to know

[indigo falcon]

so uh @granite kiln whatever happened? that was a long minute 😄

[granite kiln]

sorry i was busy, but same thing as liquid sun

polo just doesnt wanna take my stuff 💔

[indigo falcon]

gah ok that sucks 😦 😦

[remote thunder]

going in to test it

[remote thunder]

worked ok for me; i had main loop progression mission selected, when i got to a stack of liquid sun notification popped up, "ready to turn in talk to polo", and talking to him went as expected, got the memory frag as reward as expected.

@granite kiln do you have any mods running?

[indigo falcon]

oooooh mods, I never think to ask that

[remote thunder]

now let's see if i can break it

back up...

[untold harbor]

I havent played since early 2020 long before the expeditions came out.
Are these expeditions no longer playable to returning players? Do they rotate them back in to play?

[ocean hamlet]

I wonder if I should grind out some stuff to submit to polo

I don't really need to because I beat the expedition... but that phase 5 reward.....

[indigo falcon]

the first four last year were rerun once at the end of the year. no idea whether there will be future reruns or of what.

[untold harbor]

any idea why they made expeditions and then removed them? seems likea lot of content wasted

[indigo falcon]

they are timed events

[untold harbor]

like a big issue with teh game was lack of stuff to do.

[indigo falcon]

the entire player community is meant to do them together

in some cases like the current expedition, thousands of players working together unlock certain steps

everyone starts in the same system, has the same goals, players build bases to help each other along

it's hard to reconfigure that sort of thing as an ongoing event

[untold harbor]

do you make new saves for these then? and the rewards are account wide or something

[indigo falcon]

yes

every expedition starts with a new save in "expedition mode"

any end of phase or end of expedition rewards can be claimed once on every save

and the save converts later into a normal mode (or in the current case, survival mode) save which you can continue to play

[remote thunder]

those of us who completed it are really just along for the ride now and assisting with research

[indigo falcon]

I retired the save after making a base usable enough to upload for other players and spend time helping in here, either way it helps I guess

[sand wigeon]

something similar

[split rune]

I finished the expedition and I'm mostly playing Horizon right now, but I try to log in once a day to get a few stacks of Liquid Sun for Polo. Feels like that Phase 5 bonus goal is never going to happen <_<

[indigo falcon]

it's a long way off. probably set so that it will not clear until very near the end

[hollow prism]

The rise of the living frigate

[indigo falcon]

still on the route?

[hollow prism]

hmm? I already done this afternoon xD.

[hollow prism]

this is from a poster

[midnight ruin]

How do I do the befriend an aggressive creature

Mission

[hollow prism]

Feed them with creature pellet. The start planet have a strider that is highly aggressive

[midnight ruin]

I found one that attacked me and adopted it but it did not work

[hollow prism]

?

are you sure you are adopting the correct one?

[midnight ruin]

Yes

100%

[indigo falcon]

get the role! check pins for how!

[hollow prism]

Already have it, just that the content creator overtakes it

[indigo falcon]

oh! I looked at the profile and didn't see it, heh

[hollow prism]

@midnight ruin

[midnight ruin]

What should I do now

Find another one?

[hollow prism]

screenshot of your companion?

[midnight ruin]

I don't have it any longer, I sent it away

[indigo falcon]

abandoned?

[hollow prism]

oh. hmm yea, you try adopt it again

[indigo falcon]

then yeah get another one

[midnight ruin]

What does it say in the analysis visor when a creature is aggressive

[indigo falcon]

it shows a red paw

as soon as it's close enough to make a difference

[remote thunder]

the description text? depends if aggressive towards you or not

[midnight ruin]

Ok

[hollow prism]

I like this poster

[indigo falcon]

it's ok

haven't checked what it says yet though

[hollow prism]

this

[indigo falcon]

oh! heh

I was hoping for a Moby Dick quote tbh

[granite kiln]

2 storage mods and 2 pet mods

[remote thunder]

to be certain, i'd recreate DISABLEMODS.TXT and retry

[granite kiln]

ok

[indigo falcon]

if this turns out to be the issue.... 😡 but also 🥳 because it will mean the blocker is removed~

[remote thunder]

question: when you collect 250 l sun for example, do you get the hud notification saying you can go and turn it in?

[granite kiln]

oh my god

it was my storage expansion mod

[remote thunder]

i had a feeling it might be one of those

well, have fun

[granite kiln]

at least i got the hyperdrive now 👍

[indigo falcon]

holy effing crap

I am sooo glad you were able to resolve it

thanks bk for thinking to ask the question!

[granite kiln]

im assuming for hot pursuit i need to talk to the bounty master? i have no idea

[indigo falcon]

no

you need to buy contraband from the contraband agent (or gather nipnip from some player base, also works)

and sell it in a regulated system (to npc pilot works fine)

until you hit the 500k mark

[granite kiln]

ohh ok

[indigo falcon]

you can accept a mission to smuggle stuff, also fine

and then don't deliver it, just sell it yourself 😄

[granite kiln]

that was surprisingly easy, i just bought 500k worth of contraband since i already did the 1mil credit thing and sold it cause smuggled crap is worth twice than what you bought it for??

also cause there was no chance for cargo probing

[indigo falcon]

there you go

plus now check the rewards, you're not going to hurt for units during the expedition

[swift swan]

I'm doing the expedition and was wondering: how do I identify an 'infested' world from the Galaxy Map?

[indigo falcon]

no need

all the anchor point worlds are infested

just follow the expedition route on the galaxy map to get to them

[swift swan]

so if I reach Anchor 2 I can just put a base there?

[indigo falcon]

if you reach Anchor 1 you can put a base there

actually while we're at it: read the pins and in particular "persistence after death"

might change how you think about placing bases on the route.

[swift swan]

I left the Anchor 1 planet already, I'm in the Anchor 2 planet, I just put down a base but the expedition milestone didn't complete so I don't think it counts as an infested world

[indigo falcon]

it does

you need 15 pieces besides the base computer

pin the milestone and it will tell you how many more pieces you have left

[swift swan]

oh yeah, my bad, I just checked the Log and it updated, my bad man thx for the help 😅

[indigo falcon]

sure thing!

[vague lark]

can I have more than one leviathan on my fleet if I finish the expedition twice ?

[indigo falcon]

no

[vague lark]

😦 I'm sad. I whish my Levi could have a company, you know ?

[indigo falcon]

only one S frigate free (unless you also got the Normandy, then 2 ...)

[vague lark]

Yeah, I got the Normandy. Speaking of which, when I send the leviathan on an expedition, the hologram in the command station is that of the Normandy. I hope Hello fixes this.

[indigo falcon]

yeah I'm pretty sure they know, everyone has noticed and commented on it 😄

[astral storm]

And indeed, thanks to the frequent freighter battle spawns of the expedition mode, that's one small class freighter with completely maxed out slots. I guess any surplus bulkheads I find I'll donate to whoever.

[plain spindle]

Does anyone in here who completed expedition 4 have any sandworm eggs they could trade me?

[indigo falcon]

this is the wrong place to ask, this is expedition 7 stuff. um you might check in #nms-lfg-or-trades though

[wary pasture]

Got home from work short while ago. Been thinking about building this indium farm all day.

[astral storm]

Well, I've got a pretty sizable one and it's not just close to the first system of the expedition, it also has S class derelict freighters

The system is Hezhni-Oarm II, a mere 211 ly away from Chistor Olev XIII
And here's the portal coordinates for anyone that might care:

The planet which someone else named Phendrana also features 2 sentinel pillars. Not sure how common that is

[swift swan]

can the Biological Horrors (the ones that spawn when you pick a Larval Core) harm you inside your starship?

[astral storm]

Nope.

For the most part they can't even hurt you on your starship

[swift swan]

will the swarm go away tho?

[sly pond]

Eventually yes, Larval Cores despawn long before that though, if your thinking you can just crack open a whispering egg and hop in your ship to wait out the swarm.

[swift swan]

yeah I'm doing that, I got 3 so far but the first two I had to run away, I'm on my 3rd larval core and got into the starship, the creatures are attacking the ship (but not damaging it or hurting me) but the 'Swarm Subsiding' isn't poping up, I think they won't go away

it's been like 2 min already so I doubt they'll go away

[astral storm]

Holy mother of glitches. What in the heck? I think I just glitched the game out to an ridiculous degree... I had no idea this was possible.

Decent ship... except that ain't mine. It's a ship I bought to scrap and upgrade my original expedition ship.

[sly pond]

I believe you scrapped 2 ships in a row too quickly. After scrapping the 1st, you didnt wait for the scrap interface to update showing your active ship, and inadvertently scrapped your solar. Doing this glitches the internals onto the next ship in line, that explorer.

[astral storm]

No. Both ships are still standing in the hangar. I overwrote the internals of the explorer, but the solar still exists.
Also since I always have to go and switch to the next ship manually it's not like I even can scrap more than a ship in say a minute.

[daring cape]

I just died after reaching the final rendezvous. Is there any way to recover or do I have to do the whole expedition again?

@wary pasture I take that as a I have to do it all again?

[wary pasture]

Sadly I am not experienced in save duping or editing in any way, I'd guess in one of those ways it would be possible but again, I just dont know.

[daring cape]

I didn't know if the devs had added a way for players later on to recover progress

[wary pasture]

So yes. I am terribly sad to say I think you gotta run it back.

[astral storm]

You do, but it doesn't take all that long. What you should focus on is to finish phase 1, then do the graves of phases 2-4, and finish phase 5. That will ||Break the permadeath loop and convert your save into a survival one||

[daring cape]

But will I get the rewards for the middle stages?

Or the expedition over all

[astral storm]

You can do the middle stages again after you're done with phase 5 and get all the rewards.

[daring cape]

Ok

Thank you so much

[sly pond]

@astral storm Sorry, didnt see your reply til now. The same thing happens when you scrap a ship and then hop into another before your default one spawns in.

[astral storm]

I've investigated the issue in a little more depth myself in the meantime. It isn't quite a ship duplication, it's... weirder than that. The ship actually has no functioning own internals anymore and instead will point towards the internals of another ship. I've used manual and auto save respectively and figured out that the ship can either harmlessly disappear, or actually take over the other ship completely. That means it's possible to transfer ship internals this way... Does anyone know the exact process though? Because as much as my starter expedition ship isn't ugly, being able to splice it's guts into a different ship is... tempting.

[sly pond]

@astral storm There is no way to retain both ships

[astral storm]

Yeah, I figured as much. That's fine, I have no need or interest in duplication anyway.
And actually my starter ship did end up permanently changed it seems... the vesper sail is a deep green now instead of it's previous cyan.

[sly pond]

That is a different matter - for some reason the Expedition starter is flagged to have legacy colours enabled, which results in pure white sails. When you switched the Explorer to that 1st ship slot, the legacy flag was dropped, and it didnt get replaced when you switched back to the Solar, so after you reloaded the game, the Solar showed in its proper modern colours.

[astral storm]

Hm. I see. Not that I mind. Is there a guide to properly switching internals to a ship of my choice though anywhere, if you happen to know?

[sly pond]

Not to my knowledge, sorry.

[astral storm]

Alright. Still, thanks for sharing what you did know

[vague lark]

abouth the freighter during the expedition, for those of us who already finished it and want to keep playing this save, how do we put a hyperdrive on the thing ?

[keen mango]

it already has a hyper drive installed doesn’t it

[vague lark]

mine doesn't

[astral storm]

The answer here is that the start freighter doesn't have a hyperdrive and I'm actually not even sure you can ever install one.
However any subsequent freighter you acquire will have one as normal. Also the start freighter is C class so ideally you should get yourself an S class freighter.
Capital or not doesn't necessarily matter. While a capital freighter is quicker to get to peak slots, because currently expedition saves consistently give you freighter battles after a number of jumps you can even upgrade a smaller S class freighter fairly quickly to full capacity.

[vague lark]

Thanks, @astral storm

I'll start looking for a better one.

[astral storm]

Do that. My personal recommendation would be to take any S class you can find, so likely try to go into it with enough cash to make the purchase, something like 170m

Naturally a small S class will come significantly cheaper at like... 10m or so I think

[final lance]

<@&590975379678953522> alright I completed it finally woo

[ruby swan]

Oh man I just got so lost

First anchor point is somewhere?

[wraith junco]

ennect is the planet name if i remember right

search for it in discoveries tab. or search for player bases in teleport menu

[ashen shore]

<@&590975379678953522>

[swift swan]

the milestone that asks you to 'Shut down a planet's Sentinel forces', do I have to kill sentinels until it is completed or do I have to find one of those Sentinel Pillars to disable them peacefully?

@wraith junco yes to which one?

[vague lark]

@swift swan you can do either.

[wraith junco]

both work 😉

[swift swan]

I see, thank you both

[vague lark]

if you kill 20 sentinels at once, you're gonna get both milestones

[swift swan]

I've killed 20 sentinels already but only one of the milestones was completed

[vague lark]

because you probably killed the 20 in different occasions.

if you keep killing them until they shutdown, you get the 20 kills for one milestone and the shutdown for the other

[swift swan]

no they were all together, that milestone was 0/20 when I decided to start killing

[vague lark]

anyway, if you got the milestone for 20 kills, one of the rewards is a map for the location of a sentinel pilar. go there, deactivate them and get the other

[swift swan]

ah good point, I did get a few charts but didn't check where they lead they are just sitting there in my inventory, thx for the tip

[gilded tiger]

Pins might have a pillar location. I have a pic but can't remember which system

[swift swan]

yeah no problem, @vague lark 's info was accurate, lead me straight to a nearby Sentinel Pillar, I don't know why killing the 20 sentinels before didn't complete both milestones but who knows... the chart worked tho, thx guys

[gilded tiger]

One of those milestones is to shutdown sentinel iirc which is done at pillar. You'd have to go there anyway I think.

[polar mountain]

guys, how to complete loop 5's optional mission?

[vague lark]

I think it's a community thing.

enough ppl has to give stuff to Pollo to complete it

[polar mountain]

oh nice

[swift swan]

so The Leviathan, can it be redeemed (as in: added to fleet) in my main save instead of the expedition save?

[static willow]

Any save

[swift swan]

yeah what I mean is, the final reward asks me if I want to add it to my fleet but how do I claim it in my main save? or do I get it in the Nexus merchant as a claimable or something?

[lavish yarrow]

sorry, any idea what is wrong with my "Another Chance"? It's saying the loop refuses to yield. "A dreadful wailing" required to breach memories

I don't see "A dreadful wailing" in the tasks to do

[gray tulip]

<@&590975379678953522> Leviathan complete

[lavish yarrow]

Nevermind. I just had to accept my reward for visiting anchor point 5 😛

[steel pagoda]

So i just popped back on tonight to work on it again. And I accepted the 3 loops that completed. But my ship won't upgrade past B. I should be able to upgrade it to S now. And it tells me it's out of range on the station. Are they separate bugs?

[lavish yarrow]

any tips for finding aggresive creatures? I'm landing on random planets and have not seen one yet for some reason

[wary pasture]

Go back to spawn world for the aggressive creatures.

Think anchor1 had a few actually.

As far as finding, just freely scan and investigate, they'll likely find you first.

[steel pagoda]

And best way for a crashed freighter is still maps? I'm up to 15 maps used so far. I had better luck with whispering eggs and storm crystals. And I hate the eggs lol.

I might just cheese it soon and use the anomaly teleporter to check for freighter bases.

[wary pasture]

A signal scanner fellow traveler.

They can be obtained by taking polo goods. Or Artemis gives out one weekly. Iirc..

[steel pagoda]

Ah ok

[steel pagoda]

Wait those are in space though. Different milestone.

Unless i'm missreading it. And searching for one like a crashed starship is the wrong type.

[wary pasture]

Erm. Wayment.

I wanna help so I'll read if I gotta

[steel pagoda]

Lol no worries. It's the distressed signal map type on a crashed planet.

I just put the expediton marker on my quest log

[wary pasture]

Oo I hope that works.

[steel pagoda]

My rng is just super crappy with maps

[wary pasture]

Reading up though, these signal scanners work kinda the same as a exocraft scan. How it can show towers and such

[steel pagoda]

Ah. I'll google them

[wary pasture]

So if used in space, derelect, if on planet something else.

Yes def do

[steel pagoda]

Must be a newish update.

[wary pasture]

Sadly I couldnt say I'm a newish player. Bout a month traveling the systems so far.

Anything else though just ask I'll help if I can right

[steel pagoda]

Ah. I've played a few years now. Lol but I sort of checked out with the sentinals update. Combat got too difficult for me.

Been working on this expediton in small batches of time because real life is crazy

[wary pasture]

Ooo okok I cant help but be half envious of the older players. To see and play through the legacy that is nms and its growth, that's really cool.

I get to read up and take my history lessons I suppose. 🤓

And I dont blame you friend, everything in it's own time. I just did and hour or two between work and migraines. It's not horrible.

[steel pagoda]

I missed the first expediton but I bought the game before expeditons existed.

I think by 7 i'm getting burnt out

[wary pasture]

That's too cool. Like I said half envious. Lol

Well I got the game like last week of exp6, and so i just was a scaredy cat. This was my first.

[steel pagoda]

Lol i'm still pretty much a rookie compared to most of the players on this discord.

Ah yea.

I missed the sentinal expedition sadly.

And i missed outlaws.

[wary pasture]

Well the community, they help each other. Such an accessible database has such immense worth.

[steel pagoda]

I've been stuck on a storm crystal planet for 40 minutes lmao. Clearing inventory a bit through the refinery before I use another map

Was using maps as I warp toward the 3rd point

[wary pasture]

Hmm if you wanna wait ik of a guaranteed crashed freighter on anchor5

[steel pagoda]

I have like another 10 minutes of refining slime into mould lol

[wary pasture]

Its one I used. It has a base setup

[steel pagoda]

Good to know

[wary pasture]

Ok spoiler coming. Ima mark it up to you to read.

[steel pagoda]

I tend to do these out of order. Like i scroll ahead and check. I did the whispering eggs before I finished phase 1

[wary pasture]

||if you just go through all anchors and do the find anchor, and memory loop, up to the 5th iteration. Then complete the 5th fully, it takes away perma.||

Up to you.

But ye I did things a bit out of order as well.

[steel pagoda]

Ah good to know. I'm not a fan of it. This is my first experience.

[wary pasture]

No doubt I died several times it was a bit brutal after I think 90hrs on a normal save.

Just they do not show you hazards on normal the same way. 😅

Likely call it my main save though. I think this exp has converted me.

[steel pagoda]

Yea. Thank goodness this tool doesn't hace a plasma launcher. My first few days using it, I blew myself up a lot in combat with sentinals.

I got a main save already I keep going back to.

Few hundred hours on it minimum

[wary pasture]

I still have the normal save, but idk. I enjoy the survival now.

Looking into building farms next few days

[steel pagoda]

After an expedition ends it's converted over to a normal save I believe. Not sure if the permadeath will stick on this one.

[wary pasture]

The survival is said to stick.

Hiya Flandeez. Got me anxious

[summer oyster]

Yeah someone told me a geology cannon was used as "rapid self-murderer" 😂

[steel pagoda]

Yep that would do it also.

[summer oyster]

I did end up killing myself too with those launchers a while ago and I even had upgraded shields before they got nerfed. I couldn't believe it 😆

[steel pagoda]

The pirates just feel excessive. Maybe it's a permadeath thing

[summer oyster]

Yes it's frequent in permadeath/survival even if the system conflict is low.

[steel pagoda]

Ok

[steel pagoda]

I'm so slow at expeditions

[indigo falcon]

Just to clarify about the S gear: anyone who starts a new save or suffers a reset (death) in the expedition now gets an S class ship and multitool. Since you likely want to get through the rest of the expedition with no more deaths, you'll have to make do with that B. Wear it like a badge of honour 😄

[steel pagoda]

Ah didn't know that.

[indigo falcon]

now all memory fragments you get should be X class so you do benefit from the tier completions

[steel pagoda]

And yea i was planning on no more deaths cuz of how far I've gotten since the last one lol.

[indigo falcon]

(X weighted towards the better end of things, from what I hear)

[steel pagoda]

True

Honestly i feel like they over loaded my inventory with random tech.

[indigo falcon]

if there's ones you don't need, sell them off for the nanites

you've got that milestone anyways and maybe you can buy yourself something nice after a while

[steel pagoda]

Once installed you can only discard I believe. But I should check for upgrading the tiers with the unlocks.

[indigo falcon]

yes, before you install but after you see what they are

[steel pagoda]

Yea. I was installing them as I got them and I got oike 7 or 8 for jetpacks now for example lol

[indigo falcon]

yep, lotta dup fragments in this game.

so how far along are you in the milestones now?

[steel pagoda]

Well working towards fhe 3rd arc. But ptherwise been partially completing chapter 3 & 4 as I come to them.

Err 3rd anchor point.

Like I did the storm crystals and hot pursuit tonight.

[indigo falcon]

gotcha

and putting down bases by anything interesting, right?

[steel pagoda]

Nope lol. I'm pretty lazy on bases.

Haven't bothered past the 1st one for the expedition

[indigo falcon]

well it's a good insurance policy in case something goes awry and you get reset

just a bare base computer even

[steel pagoda]

True.

I hadn't thought of that. Never done permadeath

[indigo falcon]

have a look at "persistence after death" pin in here

[steel pagoda]

I can pretty much just bum rush anchor points 3 4 and 5 at this point. I mean stopping for the memory install

[indigo falcon]

this isn't true permadeath and it's not quite survival either, it's a weird mix of the two especially for the expedition

oh that sounds good, yeah do that base computer at each planet)

[steel pagoda]

You can store on your freighter too

[indigo falcon]

yep the freighter free storage is very handy, although the inventory doesn't persist across resets, though the base parts on your freighter do

[sand wigeon]

Greetings

[indigo falcon]

hello hello

[steel pagoda]

Oh i thought the inventory did i heard.

Hey

[indigo falcon]

that's why I ask people to read the pins 😄

no inventory anywhere persists.

[steel pagoda]

Ah you put work into the faqs. Appreciated.

[indigo falcon]

well if it hadn't been me, others would have done it. maybe it will be you next time 🙂

community effort to help each other!

[steel pagoda]

Lol i still consider myself some what of a rookie. I'm best off right now with guidance for the artemis path and some other stuff.

[indigo falcon]

that works too!

hmm maybe I'll edit that one pin to make it super clear that no inventory persists

[sand wigeon]

Interesting. So I just dm screenshot of completed expedition?

[steel pagoda]

Like someone helped me learn to futz around with cooking. But told me to experiment with recipes lol. And I have yet to discover cake or donuts. But I found the stew on my own.

[steel pagoda]

Yep. Pretty much every expedition

[sand wigeon]

ok

[steel pagoda]

But they roll it out eventually after it ends. So the DM is just early access.

[indigo falcon]

you want the role now? do the dm. (Lots of us have.)

you're a lazy sod? wait for self access 😄

[steel pagoda]

Debating if I want to put a base down at the next warp. Or wait until the anchor point. Which I believe is only two warps away. And I'm skipping to it anyways. So i guess i answered my question

[indigo falcon]

wow that's nice! I admit I relied on the wiki for recipes. But I did power through all that didn't require killing creatures. It's a lot!

[indigo falcon]

I wouldn't put bases on in between systems unless there's something interesting there (you found a crashed freighter, you located a sentinel pillar, there's a great mt in the station....)

[steel pagoda]

What I like about expeditions is they kinda force you to try out and learn new aspects of the game you haven't touched yet. Like one kinda introduced me to basics of extractors.

I think that was the worm pet one?

[wary pasture]

Ye, I'm with Apergos. I was the potato dropping a base computer at every anchor. Minimal but wouldve saved alot.

[steel pagoda]

I shoulda

[indigo falcon]

I didn't use extractors on any expedition, so hrm. Maybe you incorporated that on your own 🙂

[steel pagoda]

I'll be risking death when I wanna do the defeat 20 sentinals. But otherwise I only have died twice so far.

Oh mining or whatever.

[steel pagoda]

Unless you used the base of others instead?

[sand wigeon]

There we go!

[steel pagoda]

I specifically remember putting them down on a desert planet for specific minerals or gas or whatever was needed to harvest a certain amount for the expedition

[sand wigeon]

Role obtained 🙂

[steel pagoda]

Gz

[wary pasture]

Ayyyeee 🎉

[indigo falcon]

no, I didn't need extractors for anything. not for emergence or any other.

[indigo falcon]

hmm this one you can take some precautions. be by a building (or build yourself a small shack base), pick a fight with a drone, leave the summoners that show up alone, whack repair drones and the regular drones as they come in, keep the wave at 1-2 stars only, duck in the building if it gets too heated...

and pick up the green barrels only when shields have taken damage

you can get through it that way

(assuming you're not someone who takes on 5 waves of them easily)

[steel pagoda]

Expedition 3. It was. Extract 1000 minerals.

I found the sentinals in space ok on the last frieghter battle. I hopped back into the space atation.

I almost forgot the extract was for pioneer.

[indigo falcon]

yeah the sentinels in space don't count to the milestone here

[steel pagoda]

Oh bummer. Guess I misread it than

They are often enough by an abandoned building honestly. I half expected them to patch hiding in a building when they reworked sentinals

[indigo falcon]

it isn't clear tbh, but yeah it's gotta be the planetside ones

[sand wigeon]

so, bit of a test

Ah, it works 😛

[static willow]

4 stack mag gens, glitched in?

[indigo falcon]

huh I am looking at that expedition 3 milestone and wondering if I did have to put an extractor for that, maybe I did, they gave us the blueprints earlier. oh, memory like a rusty steel sieve...

[indigo falcon]

what's the thing being tested here?

[steel pagoda]

Lol

[sand wigeon]

Why would they be glitched in?

Was just curios if i can already upload pictures

beside in #nms-photomode-gallery

[indigo falcon]

ah! you have the familiar role now, so yes

[sand wigeon]

Yea, this was conformation

[steel pagoda]

Well I made it to the 3rd anchor.

[indigo falcon]

woo hoo!

memory next?

[steel pagoda]

Well plop a base computer next. Once I find a spot not taken lol

[indigo falcon]

oh yeah. sooo many bases by the portal

I guess you could cheese it by reporting bases one at a time until it thinks they are all gone in your area

[sand wigeon]

Usually go for some undiscovered building and build a base near it

[indigo falcon]

it can be handy to have a base by one portal someplace, though it's not required

[steel pagoda]

I had to fly about 30 seconds out for a spot

[indigo falcon]

only 30 seconds? ha! you were lucky 😄

[steel pagoda]

Well also was difficult to land on such uneven terrain. Might of made everyone struggle.

[indigo falcon]

wait until the 4th one, speaking of uneven terrain 🙄

[sand wigeon]

Uh yea, those chasms \ valleys are annoying

[steel pagoda]

I banged out self improvement at well.

[indigo falcon]

oh great

that's a handy one, being able to make memory fragments on demand

there's a station selling pugneum and another with silver so if you are ok for units, you can just crank those out

[steel pagoda]

I'm gonna finish chapter 4 probably also before I find the crashed freighter for chapter 2 lol.

[indigo falcon]

there should be a bunch of player bases at crashed freighters anyways

and you don't have to bother with the cargo pods, just walk up to the distress beacon and check it

[steel pagoda]

I try not to cheese stuff with the anomaly teleporter. But I might this time. I heard about a freighter around ||anchor 5|| also

[indigo falcon]

there are crashed freighters all over the place

in any space station of these anchor systems, just check the teleporter

[steel pagoda]

I've been trying to avoid that as it felt like cheating

[indigo falcon]

definitely up to you, everyone has different constraints

the easy way then for you is to grab nav data from the yellow/blue cubes on all the space stations (found on desks and tables and vendor desks and the back room) and buy the 6 distress signal charts and don't visit the "wrong" sites when a map shows them

you'll find one in no time

[steel pagoda]

I almost died saving a freighter. That one had a lot more pirates than normal

[indigo falcon]

ouch! glad you squeaked through

[steel pagoda]

I've used 18 distress signal maps. And no freighter yet.

[indigo falcon]

then let's revisit how you're using those maps

[steel pagoda]

I had a shield battery to recharge my ship

[indigo falcon]

buy 6

go to a nice planet

pop one. wrong site? don't go there

pop the next. wrong site? don't go there.

repeat until you get the "right" site, there are only 6 types

if a map refuses to give anything, wait a little and then spam it again

that's it.

[steel pagoda]

Thought you always had to clear it first or they can be wasted giving you nothing?

[indigo falcon]

no no do not clear it

maps no longer disappear when they give you nothing

so this is the huge change

[steel pagoda]

All the old advice I remember from 2 years ago is to clear it.

When did that change?

[indigo falcon]

a while back

[steel pagoda]

I'm probably not current on a varienty of info than

[indigo falcon]

no worries

anyways this can sort your freighter and get that done

[steel pagoda]

Eww aggressive sentinal planet.

[indigo falcon]

ah are you on anchor 4?

[steel pagoda]

Yea

I will try that map trick though maybe tomorrow

Cuz it's almost 2am for me lol

[gilded tiger]

What has distress signal maps got to do with freighter?

[indigo falcon]

crashed freighters.

[gilded tiger]

Ohhh 🤦

[indigo falcon]

they are one of the distress signal types

[gilded tiger]

I always think the capital ships for some reason

[indigo falcon]

heh if only. "map to S capital please"

[gilded tiger]

Is every crashed freighter guaranteed a salvage module or is it rng?

[steel pagoda]

Yea
I did that save reaload trick for an S freighter 4 times on xbox. It was super bugged on console for me. I lost 12 hours on it

[indigo falcon]

pure rng

[gilded tiger]

Pffttt, I haven't gotten any from frigates since installing the matter beam

[steel pagoda]

By the time an S popped on me, the captain no longer offered it free. Somehow the game recognizes a load after a save on xbox. So you can't grind for an S. Took me 12 hours and 4 S tier to learn that.

[indigo falcon]

I run a derelict that has easy hostiles and many many loot crates (or I did, I've maxed out since)

[indigo falcon]

the first freighter should always be free until you accept one, regardless of platform. messed up...

[steel pagoda]

Yea but reloading the save fudges it up and he doesn't offer it free anymore. At least on xbox.

To before the battle.

[vale lynx]

What does this means? I don't understand what to do after opening the menu. the only 'Iterate' word that i found is the Expedition Phase.

EDIT: FOUND IT. damn im stupid lol

[gilded tiger]

Before the battle?

[steel pagoda]

Sorry one sec I got sentinal aggro

Stupid anchor 4

[steel pagoda]

There is a guide online somewhere and on youtube. But basically you warp in, see a freighter battle with the ship you want, run to the space station to save. Commence the battle enter it and use your scanner. If it's not an S, reload from the space station. Fly out and do the battle over.

Rinse and repeat until it's an S.

The grind didn't work properly on Xbox for me. As every reload save the captain acted like I declined his freighter already.

So it might be a PC only thing idk

[gilded tiger]

Did you fight each battle before scanning and talking to the captain?

[steel pagoda]

Yea you have to rescue him every reload

[gilded tiger]

That's weird. Worked for me every reload and I'm on console

Playstation though

[steel pagoda]

Not me. He offered to let me buy it on any reload. I was stuck until i did the 5 warp wait 3 hours thing

I lost 4 S tiers before I got frustrated enough to give up

[gilded tiger]

After that you did the hour/warp thing and you were able to claim for free?

[steel pagoda]

Yea. First time.

Only

Not after reloading the save again if it wasnt an S

By the 5th attempt I got lucky on the very first one being A tier and just took it.