nms-expedition

[steel pagoda]

I ran into some problems on a planet when I ran around to take a screenshot . I feel like nothing is as easy as you think on survival mode. But it's my fault for wanting the red crystals

[pulsar rose]

<@&590975379678953522>

[warped haven]

Is there any rewards for completing all the optional milestones

[indigo falcon]

ore memory fragments for the last one I think

[warped haven]

Ok

[pulsar rose]

is new save of leviathan worth making? more rewards or nah?

[glass solstice]

If you have already completed it, I don’t see the point to make a new one tbh

[warped haven]

<@&590975379678953522>

[pulsar rose]

alright

is there any way i can keep ship i got ? 😄

[warped haven]

This was the first expedition I actually finished

[indigo falcon]

only on that save (the solar one right?)

[crude sinew]

After this expedition ends, how long til the next expedition?

I started just yesterday so hoping to finish before its over. Bummed i didn't see it earlier

[pulsar rose]

i got ship with solar panels yea

[wraith venture]

[warped haven]

Thank you

[glass solstice]

[wraith venture]

we don't know. only HG does

[indigo falcon]

yeah your gear (ships, multitools) are specific to a given save

[pulsar rose]

okay then

[wraith venture]

you have plenty of time. a little over a week. can run !ExpTime for a countdown

!ExpTime

[unkempt kraken]

to view, enable Link Preview

Expedition 7: Leviathan
Event ends <t:1657062000:f> (in 1 week 1 day 5 hours)

⚠️ Start new save at least 48 hours before.

▸ Ask for tips or see Pins in #nms-expeditions. Also check #nms-help.
▸ LFG or trade here »
▸ In #bot-spam run !Faq-Expedition & !ExpTime

[crude sinew]

oh they added time to it

[indigo falcon]

it's not too hard to find an S solar on another save though, it just takes patience and sitting in an outlaw system at the space station or a trading post for awhile

[warped haven]

I would guess a week or so after it ends

[crude sinew]

Oh, so they come pretty fast

[pulsar rose]

okay will do that, thanks

[crude sinew]

Expedition happens, then another one starts

[indigo falcon]

I'm gonna say next update Aug 9

[crude sinew]

Are they always perma death / survival mode? I like the difficulty

[indigo falcon]

dunno if an expedition with it though

[glass solstice]

Would be cool if there’s a new expedition on 10th of July lol, thanks my birthday

[indigo falcon]

this is the first expedition not in normal mode

[warped haven]

No I think this was the first in permadeath

[steel pagoda]

Yea they deff aren't a week apart. They're spread out. Maybe one or two a quarter.

This was the second ||frigate type|| of reward though

[steel pagoda]

Oo. I'm the 13th. And I'm usually away for a while at the lakehouse in the woods. So no pc access

[glass solstice]

Oh cool lol

[pulsar rose]

after this exp ends the save will remain?

[wraith venture]

yes. it'll convert to survival mode save

all previous expedition saves converted to Normal. so this one's the exception.

[pulsar rose]

oh okay cool

[wraith venture]

link to the leviathan screenshot btw? did you ping mods?

[pulsar rose]

yea i did

sec

[pulsar rose]

here

[wraith venture]

[pulsar rose]

thanks 😇

[wraith venture]

congrats on the completion! 🥳 sorry i didn't see the ping earlier

[mortal shoal]

how much do we need to progress to tier 5?

[glass solstice]

How much of what exactly?

[wraith venture]

community progress is in the 80%'ish last time i checked in-game

but you can complete the expedition independent from that ofc

[tranquil cosmos]

What does tier 5 do?

[glass solstice]

Would be rather wack if HG tie that with completion of the expedition

[steel pagoda]

I believe beachead required the community goal to unlock phase 5

[indigo falcon]

more memory fragments for the 5th tier iirc

yeah beachhead was a whole different thing

[steel pagoda]

Yep

People rushed it early than had to sit and wait

[wraith venture]

the Atlas doesn't want ppl rushin, spoiling the goods

[steel pagoda]

Lol

I missed expedition 6 as it overlaped my move. And I never finished 5 before it ended. It was ontop of skitrips which I ended up with a bad injury leading to a bone bruise.

I got like 70% done with 5

[indigo falcon]

ouch

well I hope they get rerun so everyone can have access that wants to

[steel pagoda]

I'm hoping 5-8 in december.

[sour belfry]

trying to get my 2k nanites and i’m missing ONE creature but i can’t find it

[steel pagoda]

That last one can be stubbornly underwater or in caves. Or other side of the planet

Easier ways to do nanites

[regal burrow]

do I have to get the exocraft teleporter thingy to teleport my minotaur from system to system in the expedition?

[steel pagoda]

Or craft a base terminal and plop it down

At each location

[regal burrow]

wait I can just put down a minotaur bay and it'll work?

[steel pagoda]

Yea craft a new bay and call it in

[regal burrow]

or is that not what you're talking about

oh cool

thanks

[languid elk]

<@&590975379678953522> could i please get the leviathan role

[sour belfry]

it says underground, and i’ve found lots of caves and it’s never been in it

[languid elk]

i did it 2 days ago

thx modrators

[steel pagoda]

There might be only a couple on the entire planet. Could try the opposide side of the world.

Or an underwater underground cave

I have explored underwater tunnel networks before

[regal burrow]

do i have to sit around and wait for a storm to roll in to get storm crystals?

[sour belfry]

the planet is in the rowland desk system

[steel pagoda]

If you are on the correct planet.

[regal burrow]

i looked at the FAQ and went to the toxic moon that it says

[steel pagoda]

Than yes

[indigo falcon]

then you're in the right place

just chill out

get your minotaur on and get ready

[steel pagoda]

They're covered up and look like rocks. A marker won't pop until the storm hits

[graceful pike]

literally ran to the bathroom for 1 minute and apparently died to a sentinel, now i’m salty

[sour belfry]

bro i just want my nanites

[steel pagoda]

Cook some stew

[indigo falcon]

(image from bk, I think)

[sour belfry]

how much is it

[regal burrow]

and do "toxic rainstorms" make storm crystals available?

[indigo falcon]

I have a similar image and can't keep track of anything any more

[steel pagoda]

Or sell tech. Couple options. If you got a nutrient processor and all the mats delicious stew makes good nanites.

[indigo falcon]

they do on that planet, yes

[regal burrow]

that answered itself lol

[sour belfry]

dunno if i have mats

[steel pagoda]

If you're not familiar with cooking. Than get nanites from machinery and scrapping tech from ships or tech from polo turnins

[regal burrow]

man, would've been nice to know i could pick storm crystals up with the minotaur, i didn't know until 5 seconds ago 🥴

[indigo falcon]

I did say to get your minotaur on

[fiery minnow]

Any tips on getting storm crystals?

[regal burrow]

three words

@indigo falcon would you do the honors? lol

[steel pagoda]

Get it on like Donkey Kong

[steel pagoda]

Check the pins

[indigo falcon]

sorry, was getting my storm crystal image finalized, not looking in here

[steel pagoda]

I'm the backup singer. It's all good

[indigo falcon]

guess what planet it's from 😛

[steel pagoda]

No 🙃

[indigo falcon]

yep. that way I can be extra ironic 😛

[steel pagoda]

Sorry had my second coffee. A large iced mocha

And i spent a half hour telling hospitals on the phone they screwed up my records and shipping them to a doctor who needs them forcing me into a second appointment abd a second copay

So i'm a little stressed.

I left my dude off with sentinal aggro when i went to take a picture today. And I ran and hid in an observatory

[indigo falcon]

that's (one reason why) we love games like this

an excellent escape from the crap of daily life

[steel pagoda]

Yep. I'm extra sick of life right now. Like for 3 more months.

[indigo falcon]

ugh

hope things get better, and sooner than that

[steel pagoda]

I could vent in off topic. But no one needs to hear about shipping delays and logistics of construction in my life

I was having trouble jet packing up to a rock on a mountain. It's weirdly always out and stutters when it recovers.

[indigo falcon]

good you're done with the expd while it's acting up like that

[steel pagoda]

Yea

It was super weird. I made sure to uninstall the sprint jetpack tech. So it's not a super jump attempt

I was working on super hero photos. Being all dramatic like I am

[indigo falcon]

oohh can't wait to see the submission!

[steel pagoda]

I'm not that good at shots for submission yet. So I was running around to different systems trying to get different shots before I submit one

[indigo falcon]

cool. you got time yet

[burnt needle]

Trying to make a base on 2nd infested planet gives me "Universal Archive Search reveals previous base Registration. Construct terminal on a new site." What does this mean?

[steel pagoda]

Well on top of real life, meal planning and preparing to travel for a few days overnight on saturday. Yea a little time.

Having the expediton done already helps my life a lot.

[steel pagoda]

You building too close to your base or another base?

[burnt needle]

I don't have a base anywhere in the expedition yet.

I build the computer to set up a base and get that message.

[indigo falcon]

someone else's base is where you are

move some ways away and try again

[steel pagoda]

Tha's what I tried to say

[burnt needle]

It said that before but wouldn't let me build the computer at all. I'm able to build the computer but when i access it i get that message.

[indigo falcon]

keep moving further away

[burnt needle]

I moved like 2000 units.

[indigo falcon]

I guess you are near the 2nd anchorpoint

further

a lot of people have come through before you

[burnt needle]

But i turned off multiplayer and reloaded my game and suddenly i can build it just fine.

[indigo falcon]

hmm you got an instance with no bases right there, nice

also lucky

[steel pagoda]

Did you try to save and reload?

[ashen shore]

Does anyone know if you can get the permadeath story trophy while doing the expedition?

[distant knot]

I'm almost done but what's the best planet to get storm crystals? Still need that one.

[safe fog]

Seems a lot of the Anchor site planets have Storm Crystals available.

Just stay wherever there's "Extreme" Storms.

[distant knot]

Alright thnx

[steel pagoda]

Not sure on that one, but I haven't seen achievements to turn into Ares during the expedition.

[steel pagoda]

The pins

First system has a toxic moon

[distant knot]

Alright thanks. I got a base on the first planet and all the anchors so I'll try the first

[ashen shore]

This might just be a Playstation thing but theres an achievement for finishing atlas on permadeath. Just not sure expedition character counts.

[steel pagoda]

Ah yea. Atlas isn't the expedition

Different story

I mean the game is open to an expexition save though. So you could do it on the save probably

[ashen shore]

Thats what I was thinking. I actually like the ships I got during the expedition but I finished it a while ago. Thought it might give me a reason to keep playing that save.

[distant knot]

Hmm so I went and found the pin for storm crystals and pinned it and it doesn't do anything. I thought when you did that it told you where to go? Used to work for other resources iirc

[steel pagoda]

!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.

[steel pagoda]

Everyone's different. Some people delete the saves, others keep going.

[steel pagoda]

No. Not for crystals.

[distant knot]

Bummer

[steel pagoda]

I mean in game marks are specific things really. Not resources

[ashen shore]

Is that for gaining discord privileges?

[steel pagoda]

Or you meant in discord you were trying to do fancy stuff with the pins I don't know about? Lol

[steel pagoda]

See my icon next to my name? If you wanted to show off you finished the expedition.

After it's over and saves are converted you can select the role manually. I had beachhead on before this

[regal burrow]

question regarding the fifth phase
can I just do the ancestral memory research quest 5 times to complete loop research for polo?

[steel pagoda]

The optional is community driven. It takes everyone doing polo missons any of them

So 20 turn ins of any items per person per day count towards the community goal

[boreal crag]

alright whoever decided the rendezvous should have hostile sentinels must hate us lol

[steel pagoda]

It's a toughie. With the cliffs, weather and fog

Also

[boreal crag]

pain 3 hours go poof lol

atleast I know now im not missing much when I play normal lol

[steel pagoda]

Ah sorry

You got a base down hopefully.

[boreal crag]

meh its how it is lol

[steel pagoda]

So that anchor point should be doable to land directly at it, if you follow the communication stations people left.

[boreal crag]

atleast now I know what im doing kinda lol

hm not 5 was 3

feels like 5 lol

[ashen shore]

Was that the planet with the windstorms? I got blown into the atmosphere from the safety if a hole I dug.

[boreal crag]

Uh, I don't know

Rendezvous 4 I think?

[ashen shore]

Sounds right

[barren creek]

Yeah anchor point 4 is awful

[boreal crag]

I think this time I'll use the free minotaur for it lol

[ashen shore]

<@&590975379678953522>

[steel pagoda]

Was 4

Only one with agressive

[boreal crag]

Nah I meant my hours hehe

[steel pagoda]

Oh

[boreal crag]

Yeah was 4 tho lol

[steel pagoda]

I died on phase 5. So about 20 hours into for me to clear it

[boreal crag]

That sucks

[steel pagoda]

Yea

Watch out for the ||derelict|| in 5. Can go back to an earlier system

[sour belfry]

i have finished the expedition

[boreal crag]

||what makes it harder than most?||

[boreal crag]

Congrats, do what SID above did for your role

[sour belfry]

what?

[boreal crag]

Ah I figured you were looking to get the leviathan role lol

Either way, gg

[sour belfry]

thanks

but how do i get the role?

[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.

[sour belfry]

oh

ok

i have this

is that a fine screenshot?

[barren creek]

Why not just load your save again?

[sour belfry]

oh

well is that screenshot ok still

[regal burrow]

YEAH BABYYYYYY <@&590975379678953522>

[barren creek]

idk, probably beat for follow the instructions.

[regal burrow]

at long long last

[pulsar rose]

are all the expeditions so short?

[regal burrow]

this seemed short to you?

[pulsar rose]

yea

there was a dude who got it in 1 hour 30 mins

i came back after a year so it took me 10 hours

i was doing side stuff too there

[barren creek]

Took me about 11 hours playing casually

[pulsar rose]

yea same

[sour belfry]

13 hrs for me

anyways

[regal burrow]

i took about 4 from the start, but that's approximate bc the save file counts my deaths

but in total about 8h

[pulsar rose]

previous expeditions were that short too?

[barren creek]

Haven't played them so idk

[pulsar rose]

oh okay

[sour belfry]

<@&590975379678953522>

[regal burrow]

yo where's my role ;-;

[barren creek]

Patience.

[pulsar rose]

yea and also there is second srcreenshot needed my friend

😄

[crystal iris]

Omg.
Can't get any where. Still on just starting. Trying to collect dihydrogen.. The Fauna keeps killing me. I don't even see them coming.

[barren creek]

Hm? Since when?

[crystal iris]

At this rate I'll never complete it. Forget about doing it in a week.

[pulsar rose]

this is in pins so i sent this one as well

[pulsar rose]

its not that bad, i died only at the start and then its chill

just dont use jetpack all the time you might die 😄

[regal burrow]

yeah, don't get cocky with using your jetpack or you die to fall dmg

[steel pagoda]

Well it's random which have what on them ||5 and some other ones have sentinal drones and rapid fire turrets||

[boreal crag]

noted thanks

[steel pagoda]

No. They vary in length. Last october was the shortest.

[pulsar rose]

would like to see some longer expeditions

this one was fun too 😅

[crystal iris]

Ha.
I've died now about 10 times.
And I haven't even repaired the ship.
Can't find all the minerals.

[regal burrow]

wait a minute, quick doubt

oh epic I got my role :DDD

[regal burrow]

where does my levi frigate go? can it be summoned in some way into my normal save or does it only exist in the expedition file?

[sour belfry]

i died once

middle of iteration 3

killing horrors

got too close

[regal burrow]

happened to me too man, just hang in there

[sour belfry]

i finished bruh

just now lol

[regal burrow]

wait then why'd you mention the death lmao

[merry elm]

x class can be worse than s class sometimes right? so should i not claim the optional reward that makes memory fragments x class?

[barren creek]

The X class memory fragments should all be better than S, so it is an upgrade.

[merry elm]

ah ok

[steel pagoda]

X is a bit of a wildcard on stat priority. But yes for this expedition better than S

[hasty moon]

I gave up on yhis expedition cuz i kept dying

This is my first expedition btw😂

[steel pagoda]

The pins do help but it's not beginner friendly

Sorry it's been difficult.

It really helps to have a working knowledge from a normal play first.

[distant knot]

I'm at the last thing. I feel like I might want some more cold protection. What's best way to get that? Don't have a lot of nanites. Do you just keep crafting memories and hope to get lucky?

[steel pagoda]

I don't really do freighters with cold. You can use the heaters.
But probably crafting your own ||memory fragments||

I had one cold shield first time. 2 second run.

[distant knot]

Only way to recharge it is with ion batteries?

I don't want to die I will hate myself 🤣

[barren creek]

You can recharge with sodium too

or wait

I may be thinking of something else

[steel pagoda]

And dioxite

[distant knot]

Oh nice thanks

[steel pagoda]

Yep

Each shield takes it's own mineral from it's planet type. Or battery

[barren creek]

good thing ion batteries are relatively cheap

[steel pagoda]

Fairly easy to make also.

[jagged stratus]

will a livestock unit harvest ancestral memories?

[fringe agate]

No

[jagged stratus]

😄

saves me grinding 100 modules

[steel pagoda]

I have not seen the question asked yet. So kudos on that.

[jagged stratus]

heh, you can't even build an automated feeder. edit: you can, UI bug

[jagged stratus]

yes, that's a big success

[glass cipher]

Anyone mind helping out with Fallen Giants? Cant seem to find a freighter after like 10 maps..

[jagged stratus]

do you have the minotaur yet? and its scanner?

[glass cipher]

I do not

[jagged stratus]

sure, my steam name is moitoius

[glass cipher]

Im playing on games pass

[jagged stratus]

my code is N45C-GAFX-D2XPY

[glass cipher]

But, minotaur and scanner will help?

[jagged stratus]

yeah, you can scan for a freighter with the minotaur

you get it later on in the missions, you can always come back to fallen giants

[glass cipher]

I'm adding :)

Added 😄

Join your game?

[jagged stratus]

i'll come to your planet

[glass cipher]

kk

[jagged stratus]

i'm on the nexus

if you join my game, I don't see you in my friends

or share your friend code

[glass cipher]

sec

NYXZ-VQRZ-CX1J0

[steel pagoda]

Two tricks to that. Read the pins though

Pins explain how to find a crashed freighter in 6 maps max

But if you wait to do it and focus on the anchor points ||several crashed freighters are marked with bases||

[hollow jewel]

Lets go! =D

[jagged stratus]

you show as offline @glass cipher

[glass cipher]

... idk why 🤔

[steel pagoda]

!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.

[jagged stratus]

join my game if you can

[glass cipher]

kk coming

[jagged stratus]

success, I'll come to your system,

[hollow jewel]

<@&590975379678953522>

[glass cipher]

So should I focus on anchor points first I guess?

[jagged stratus]

or come to my system, doesn't matter

finding one now

[steel pagoda]

Well your choice. But... the big spoiler is ||do all of phase 1, than anchor points and graves, than all of phase 5 to stop the permadeath reset. It turns into survival mode||

I did stuff as I came across it. Than ended up dying in phase 5. So the second run I streamlined it first.

[sharp shore]

yeah, beware of the loop collapse in phase 4 after you do the grave marker

it ||spawn 3 living ships that attack you when you leave the planet||

||or sometimes when you warp to another star system||

||they hit quite hard and i actually got my run ended once by them.||

[barren creek]

It does?

[dense basin]

Yeah, but I only had that actually happen on two of my runs

[sharp shore]

yes

the first time i got it was when i left the planet. got rekt because i thought they were as weak as the regular pirate enemies

2nd run i got it was when i came out of warp to another planet, probably because i warped to another star system the moment i left the planet.

[barren creek]

Huh. I didn't notice that.

[sharp shore]

2nd time i just ran

apparently it doesn't happen all the time?

[dense basin]

Nope

[sharp shore]

i just happen to get unlucky and got it on both my runs

[dense basin]

I didn't get that until my third playthrough of the exped

I actually thought it was a bug

[sharp shore]

i thought they were weird egg shaped alien balls or whatever cause i don't own a living ship and have never seen one

[dense basin]

Valid description either way

[boreal crag]

any tips for safely completing the sentinel quests?

[barren creek]

Sentinels don't attack you when you're in a building.

[boreal crag]

hm yea, but how would I take out the mechs?

[dense basin]

You don't need to

Just don't kill the summoners (triangle)

They'll keep spawning drones

[boreal crag]

hmm, itll still give you the pillars coordinates?

[dense basin]

The reward for killing 20 sentinels is a map

So you don't need to do 5 waves

[boreal crag]

oh sweet

then just run out the door i guess?

[dense basin]

The absolute safest way to do it is to go to one of the player bases out there that's marked "pillar." Walk up, turn off the pillar. It counts as 4 sentinel kills. Reload until 20 are dead. Both milestones done. It's less fun, but it's the safest way

[boreal crag]

what planet is this on? 👀

[dense basin]

The starter planet has a bunch of them

They have royal multi-tools as well

[boreal crag]

hm rip lol

well thanks for the tip, should make that way easier lol

[dense basin]

You should be able to teleport back and then back to where you are now

[boreal crag]

yeah I could

[dense basin]

The only wrong way is the way that makes you ded 🙃

Otherwise, do what you like

[boreal crag]

what I was trying to avoid yeah :P

[steel pagoda]

I have not seen that

[steel pagoda]

Bunch of bases have them marked. Was easy

[boreal crag]

<@&590975379678953522> please and thank you

[steel pagoda]

Gz

[boreal crag]

thanks

ending was, best expedition ending imo lol

[dense basin]

I really liked the story generally

[steel pagoda]

😀

Now you can use your expedition save for the screenshot competition. And go explore off the beaten path

[boreal crag]

ngl Im going to play my normal save for a bit 😆

[steel pagoda]

Go for it.

[indigo falcon]

lotta people finished up while I was away. love to see it!

[steel pagoda]

It's ok. I filled in where I could. Always telling people to read the pins. Someone worked hard on them.

[indigo falcon]

hey, everybody helping each other is how we all get it done 🙂

[steel pagoda]

Now that you're up, I can get some sleep. Bk has been slacking tho in here...jk lol

[indigo falcon]

lolol

[boreal crag]

I appreciate it 😆

[steel pagoda]

I have a very early morning unfortunately

[indigo falcon]

better get some rest then! off with you!

[boreal crag]

[glass solstice]

[tight bluff]

I'm always late, I missed NMS so yesterday I started the expedition.

Mmm ok, I defended a settlement and game says I can become the ruler, but actually I can't. Probably someone else claimed it, right? 😅

Damn, I'll never complete this expedition, 7 days are not a lot

[indigo falcon]

7 days are not a lot

but there's a ton of useful info in the pins here to help you make it faster

[tight bluff]

Good 😅

[indigo falcon]

I'm going to tell you one thing that's in the pins but really emphasize it

everywhere you go, every rendevous planet, every point of interet you searched for, put down a base computer at least.

don't skimp on that. just do it. thank me later.

and other than that... enjoy!

[steady kestrel]

does anyone have the coords of the portal in Uffanymo III?

[indigo falcon]

yes: please check the pinned messages in here, one has glyphs and names of all systems and the anchor worlds, plus the actual planetary coordinates of the portals on each anchor world

also please have a look generally at all the pins, some of them may be very useful

and finally, good luck and break the loop 🙂

[steady kestrel]

ight thanks

[indigo falcon]

you bet!

[warm junco]

I finished the expedition a while ago; what's the significance of Uffanymo III?

[indigo falcon]

it's one of the anchor worlds, no particular thing beyond that

[sand wigeon]

Does anyone have a clue if expeditions are repeated?

[indigo falcon]

well here's all we know

expeditions started for the first time last year

there were four run

most about 6 weeks long each

near the end of the year they reran them all, compressing the timeline and changing the milestones a little to make them all two weeks long each

this year, they could do the same for some or all or none... no way to know

[sand wigeon]

Thnx

[indigo falcon]

sorry it's not more helpful

[sand wigeon]

It’s all right, there is a tad of hope

[indigo falcon]

one thing we can do is players is ask for reruns

!hg

[unkempt kraken]

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

[indigo falcon]

right? I mean ideally, there is always one expedition in rerun at any given time

so that if you miss any one, eventually it will come back around

but feel free to suggest anything you think is workable

[median ember]

I got this from sentinal node .... should i buy it

[indigo falcon]

do you like how it looks?

[median ember]

I just dont care about looks... function is what i go after

And sentinal turned off

[indigo falcon]

oh. well it's a C class. so to get it to S you'd be committed to 85k nanites I guess. mid or late game that's not too bad. it's functionally the same as an experimental type mt. so if you have one of those that's C or better, you may not want to bother

[median ember]

Ok...if i have sentinal maps i can turn them off again yes?!

My game crashed 😑

[indigo falcon]

if you put a base down by a pillar you can go back at any time and disable sentinels on that world

[tight bluff]

ah yes, good point! 😄

[median ember]

Was doing exactly that...moment i put down my base comp....poof 😑

[indigo falcon]

ugh

[median ember]

Now i have to go somewhere...so will do that when i get back.

[indigo falcon]

ok, good luck!

[median ember]

Yeah 4th loop is almost done...only need to get to portal and the grave.

[indigo falcon]

nice!!

[median ember]

All in just 20 mins.

[indigo falcon]

that's hella fast

[lament ice]

I like how people call their base "portal base" but when you go there there isnt one

[median ember]

I made three bases...one is on a moon where there is not much problem.... occasionally heat storm....two are on abondoned trading post

So i have a place to land and wont run out of rss

Made a teleport on my freighter so no power use..it runs by default

[sly pond]

@lament ice I don't know the current state, but in the past bases uploaded closer than 300u or so from Portals often got removed from the server, it's possible the bases you teleported to were simply a bit farther from the Portal than you expected.

[lament ice]

Does the scanner show portals when they are near?

[sly pond]

@lament ice If you're close enough, yes, but it could read as Unknown Building - the limit for those seen in visor is 500u iirc.

[lament ice]

Nah, sadly the dude just called it portal base without there being one

And all the other planets full with markers on bases, so you also cant find the portal the normal way

wohoooo

Because base markers arent enough nowadays anymore

[indigo falcon]

note that the planetary coords for every portal are pinned here in the channel

so if push comes to shove you can navigate there that way

[lament ice]

thanks

[sharp shore]

i think they clear out comms balls too?

during the first couple of days, there's a lot of comms balls at the portal structure

then suddenly they vanished

[indigo falcon]

dunno about that, every time I went to one of the portals there were piles of comm balls

even a week later

[sharp shore]

for me it was a couple of weeks later

i tried to make a new save

anchor 3 was completely devoid of comms balls.

[indigo falcon]

weird

sounds like something buggy

[sharp shore]

was hoping to use them to do it ez

i did 1 to 5 on week 1 and 2 easy though

[remote thunder]

often when i portal somewhere,it takes a save and a reload for the game to populate other player objects/markers

[sharp shore]

just fly directly to the comms ball pile

[indigo falcon]

here I think we're just talking about flying in

[remote thunder]

oh, sorry, i saw "portal" - unrelated then, possibly, save+reload helps in a lot of situations

[sharp shore]

i dont know what those structures that make up the anchor point are.

[remote thunder]

portals

[sly pond]

It's also possible HG decided comm balls were making things too easy for folks and removed them. I'm pretty sure they disabled the Nexus slingshot exploit specifically for the Expedition 3 rerun, because I was able to use it in the original, but couldnt get it to work for the life of me the 2nd time around.

[remote thunder]

yeah, that probably is within their reach

the comm balls thing i mean

[sharp shore]

yeah i was pretty confused when i started a new save a couple of weeks later and there wasn't many comms balls on the 1st 2 anchors

[remote thunder]

the nexus slingshot/warp calibration on exit, oh totally

[sharp shore]

and the 3rd anchor was completely devoid of them.

[remote thunder]

it could also just be ODS

no ODS connection, no comm balls

[sharp shore]

maybe

but i could see other people's bases elsewhere though

[indigo falcon]

I was able to build a base at anchor 3 when I went through and you know how unlikely it is that there were no bases

but ods was having issues then too

I mean, "unlikely", 100% there were many other bases 😄

[remote thunder]

had you saved+exited game in that system before that?

[sharp shore]

no

[remote thunder]

or did you experience it after a warp in

[sharp shore]

dropped that save, got bored of doing the whole thing again a 2nd time

[remote thunder]

mhmm

well

downloading other player bases requires ODS active/stable connection or being in a mp instance with at least another player afaik

perhaps it was able to download the bases, probably prio'd, and it got disconnected before grabbing the comm balls?

not sure/it's a bit strange indeed

[glass solstice]

I do the expedition again to write my entry to #expedition-logs lol

[lament ice]

I have a bug with the portal where the console wont open, any advice?

[fringe agate]

Are you on the correct side?

[lament ice]

Yes

[fringe agate]

Is this a portal you used in the story?

[lament ice]

Nope its from a expedition planet

[fringe agate]

Multiplayer on?

[lament ice]

It worked fine when I used it 2 times before

when I returned it wouldnt work

yep mutliplayer is on

[fringe agate]

Try turning that off, save and reload

[lament ice]

I cant turn it off without the console, can I?

[fringe agate]

Yes, in your network settings

Oh the portal?

No

[lament ice]

I tried to do what you said, it didnt work sadly

the pillars wont even fully open, only partially

[fringe agate]

Messed up

I would just go to another portal

[lament ice]

tedious

[indigo falcon]

you cna also try

go (warp, use space station teleporter) to another system

save game, exit, reload

go back to portal, try again

(put a save beacon first before you go so you can fly right there, if you've not got a base)

[mild jungle]

anyone have tip to do the 4th anchor ? i cant stand because thats way too hot and sentinels are attacking me 2 secs after i land 😦

[indigo falcon]

ok lessee

first, minotaur for heat

[slender harness]

You can also farm memory fragments to get something for the heat

[indigo falcon]

so you would instantly put a geobay down and pick it up, then get into the minotaur

second, use a player base from the space station to go to a sentinel pillar and turn them off

you could do that first

then go out of the base, fly a bit away and put a base (might as well, that's how we roll in case of death)

put the geobay down, leave it there, get in the minotaur, then do whatever you need to

i.e. storm crystals or whatever

[slender harness]

Is there any way ti stop the bug where the ship lifts off, but never gives you back control, and just stays hovering? It seems to happen near tall objects, like trees, or other structures

[indigo falcon]

I don't know of a workaround for that one. maybe ask in -help, it's not just expedition but a general bug

[slender harness]

Ah, thought this was help :p

[indigo falcon]

😄

[steel pagoda]

Best thing is to wait to land until you find communication stations. That anchor has been marked by players. There are 3 groups of stations in the area. 1 is the portal.

The grave is another matter entirely.

Biggest thing is to give the gravitino balls a wide birth to avoid aggro. Scan for them on the way to the portal/grave

[supple radish]

I jumped ahead to the Kill 20 Sentinels goal and did that. The reward is a sentinel pillar map which you can use to easily turn off the sentinels on Anchor 4 planet (once you get there).

[steel pagoda]

I had not thought of that.

[minor laurel]

How can I find black holes on the current expedition save given that Polo only cares about the stuff you're supposed to collect for them?

[steel pagoda]

Not sure until the expedition save rolls over. I don't believe you can mark or trigger polo during expeditions. Sometimes the artemis path is diabled also.

[minor laurel]

I'm trying to get to the centre without using a portal. So far I've still got 692,000 LY to go, and I can jump a max of 1000 LY in my ship because I can't get any upgrades due to the inflated price of everything

[remote thunder]

grab the glyph coords on any system, then replace the 3rd first glyphs for :portal (where in the heck is the spider glyph) , portal to it

[steel pagoda]

Good idea

[barren creek]

buuut he's trying to do it without a portal :P

[remote thunder]

without a portal?

why?

oh i see, sorry

well

[barren creek]

@minor laurel nice wine64-preloader. Linux?

[remote thunder]

there's one black hole in every region

if you won't make use of portals to portal to the black hole system of the region..

just warp to every yellow star system in your current region

but then what?

1 black hole isn't going to be enough

[barren creek]

That would almost take longer than just warping straight to the core.

[remote thunder]

so i suggest trying to plan a route with DARC

[minor laurel]

Yep, Steam on Linux, no special wizardry required to make the game run

[barren creek]

Nice. I'd still be playing nms on it if it weren't for the wifi issue I keeping running into...

[minor laurel]

DARC?

[barren creek]

Having a dual boot is convenient when linux decides to be flaky.

[minor laurel]

The only computer in my possession that boots Windows is my work laptop, because it's a company-supplied machine

[frank galleon]

If you complete the ||Atlas Path|| you gain ||the ability to see all black holes in the galaxy map||

[remote thunder]

oh yeah

forgot it can be run in the exp

ofc

[indigo falcon]

but can't get that first set of coords from Polo

there is the magic beacon...

[frank galleon]

Using an explorer with 2400 range, it still took me like 5.5 hrs to reach the center using black holes.

[slender harness]

I wasn't aware it was possible to get that kind of drive range o:

[remote thunder]

(even higher)

[frank galleon]

Those red beacons arent super hard to find actually. If you use a signal booster on an exotic planet, youre bound to find one pretty quickly

(It was actually the first thing i found yesterday when i was on an exotic planet lol)

[lunar ice]

It's fine to post our Expedition screenshot in here and <@&590975379678953522> some red ppl for the Expedition role, right? 👀

[remote thunder]

i could have sworn atlas path started automatically for me after my first visit to the anomaly

[slender harness]

oh nice, you mapped a system o:

[steel pagoda]

Maigic beacon....lol. been smoking shrooms again I think

[slender harness]

First atlas station

[lunar ice]

Haha, just the one 😛

[frank galleon]

That was on an A class explorer. An S class could be way higher than that. Like 3000-3900 depending on how dedicated you are

[slender harness]

Huh

I thought 1000 LY was a lot 😛

[steel pagoda]

Well atlas keeps forcing my galaxy map to focus on it every time I go into hyperdrive mode for a system warp towards the anchor points.

[lunar ice]

It d definitely is 😄

[remote thunder]

not ime this time around, but i've seen it happen

[slender harness]

You can change the path focus

(up and down)

or left and right

can't remember which

[frank galleon]

It starts automatically once you activate the red beacon at the start of the game. Not sure on Expeditions mode tho

[slender harness]

Just set it to free explore, or current mission instead

[steel pagoda]

I know. I do

[slender harness]

expedition mode, it starts when you enter an atlas station near the first system

[steel pagoda]

It's just annoying it fights me every single warp

I wish I could get it to defualt to free mode.

We should have something in settings for that.

[slender harness]

Yeah, but setting the mission is the closest thing

[steel pagoda]

Yep

[supple radish]

If you buy and scrap A and S class ships, you will eventually get some nice hyperdrive upgrades.

[steel pagoda]

I found some hyperdrive tech from fragments after I finished the expedition. Those things are random

[indigo falcon]

they sure are

[slender harness]

oh, those don't stop existing after the expedition ends?

[glass solstice]

[indigo falcon]

if you've installed the module it's just an upgrade

memory fragments that have not been opened? no idea what those will be or do after the 6 weeks

[steel pagoda]

No one wants a geo cannon if I get a 4th right?

[indigo falcon]

lolol

[slender harness]

Sentinels might

[steel pagoda]

Just checking

[lunar ice]

Hey @fringe agate so I realized putting in the @ mods in an edit, might make it not trigger, so hope it's OK to poke you again ^_^

And sorry if it ended up being a double poke!

Thank you! ❤️

[fringe agate]

Np, nice job

[lunar ice]

I was SO stressed, but I've got my purgill! 😄

[slender harness]

Is that what you've named it? :p

[merry elm]

do i still need to turn stuff into polo if i already did but died and started again

[wraith venture]

you will eventually for one of milestones in phase 5. but other than that, it's optional. also note you get nice tech rewards from turning stuff in iirc, so it could be worthwhile to get exosuit upgrades especially, to make your character stronger (altho obvz upgrades are rng)

[steel pagoda]

Yea all the almost milestones reset when you die. Check the pins

[wraith venture]

pons = pins

def check pins* for tips

[steel pagoda]

Pong the pins and ping the pongs

[steel pagoda]

Just pining for pins aren't we?

[wraith venture]

phone typing typos

[steel pagoda]

Same. I'm in the car

[tight bluff]

I think that a game NEVER offended my more than this...
I died trying to reach first Anchor point, due to a long list of mistakes (like, being out of fuel for the ship).

So, I restarted.
It's ok. Death is not the end, after all.

This time, when I left the planet I've been intercepted by pirates and... they DISENGAGED because I was worthless. 😕

I feel offended. 😕

😄

[wraith venture]

I've seen that message before and found it hilarious

[steel pagoda]

Lucky they disnegaged. The second i took off from a colony i had a pirate scan

[tight bluff]

uh!

[ocean hamlet]

I wonder if we're gonna hit phase 5

or not

[indigo falcon]

I spent the entire expedition having no cargo the pie rats wanted (stashed on freighter). they left me the eff alone

every 'worthless cargo' scan I snickered. joke's on them!

[tight bluff]

yeah, I think that in this second life I'll be travelling light! 😄

even if I get modules from them, MMMMM

[indigo falcon]

lolol

[steel pagoda]

I got scanned by pirates every time I took off in my ship the entire expedition.

[indigo falcon]

eh do what works for you

[tight bluff]

in my first life, same! 😄

[steel pagoda]

Now that it's over I get scanned every couple of flights. And a freighter battle every couple of jumps.

[indigo falcon]

should be every 3 warps, yep

[wraith venture]

oh yea, speaking of, i need to farm me a gorgeous s-class red venator* in this save

[indigo falcon]

er

what is a red senator? you? 🙂

[glass solstice]

What is a senator?

[indigo falcon]

yessss autocorrect strikes again 😄

[wraith venture]

gosh darnit! phone typing typos strike again

[glass solstice]

Oof

Btw Red, nice contest entry you’ve got there

[wraith venture]

ty Aurel!

[steel pagoda]

They change it from 3 hours?

Guessing that is a survival thing

[topaz magnet]

@wraith venture Would you please be so kind as to provide me with the Leviathan role

[barren creek]

You sure? Last I heard it was 5 starship warps after 3 hours.

[glass solstice]

Nicely done lol

[steel pagoda]

Might be difference between normal and survival

[indigo falcon]

expedition mode, it's different. every 3 warps, no timer

[barren creek]

Ah. Interesting.

[indigo falcon]

previous expeditions too

[steel pagoda]

That explains it. I never noticed that

[median ember]

I see living ships as enemies

Do i attack em or run away

[glass solstice]

[median ember]

I ran away... 🤔

Anyone?

[indigo falcon]

uh

I ran and it was ok

[median ember]

Yeah me too

🤣

Ok....now what to snuggle

It says snuggle contraband

[indigo falcon]

you can avoid engaging most of the time. of course there's the 20 sentinels but you can do them where you want as many as you want

[median ember]

THEY ARE ATTACKING SPACE STATION....WTF

[indigo falcon]

yeah, see what goodies the contraband agent has

[median ember]

Whole thing is shaking

Crap....my game crashed

[indigo falcon]

ugh

!hg

[unkempt kraken]

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

[indigo falcon]

that would be a bug. 😠

[median ember]

Where to find the guy

[indigo falcon]

oh uh

as you look towards the back, on your right side, closest to the back I guess

[median ember]

Got it...so i have to buy stuff from outlaw sell it on normal

[indigo falcon]

yeah

[median ember]

I could have done it....i had nip nips to smuggle

[glass solstice]

You have what?

[median ember]

Stupid correction

[indigo falcon]

contraband getting nsfw these days

[median ember]

Nvm

[indigo falcon]

anyways

yeah 500k units worth I think and sell it off, ought to do it

[glass solstice]

That’s why they’re contrabands aren’t they?

[median ember]

I buy stuff from guy with shipping and receiving yes?! 🤔

[indigo falcon]

uh

give me an example of a couple items

top of the list

[median ember]

Banned weapons

Bloody salt

[indigo falcon]

yeah

might have grahgrah or nips too

[median ember]

I bought banned weapons 180k

[indigo falcon]

lessee what the markup is in the regulated system

[steel pagoda]

Run to the hills!!! Run for your lives!

My rock band days are showing...

[median ember]

I can sell these at trading post yes?

[indigo falcon]

part of the storyline here is the traveller (the player) learning to atone for the horrible deed(s) they have done, one reason I specifically chose not to engage the living frigates/ships/whatever they are

[fierce salmon]

thats the best place to do it

interloper

[indigo falcon]

yes, you can,, sell to pilots as they come in

(so you don't impact the price at all. then if you need to make another run you're good)

[glass solstice]

I don’t fight them simply because they look cool lol

[wraith venture]

wait whaaaa? that last bit. i need further explanation. you could engage those?

[indigo falcon]

yes

there's one stage where you may be attacked or approached by them as hostiles

[glass solstice]

Hold up you can shoot and damage leviathan frigates?

[indigo falcon]

well in these encounters yes

a little group of 3 irrc

[glass solstice]

Weird, don’t think I’ve gone through that stage

And I’ve completed the expedition already

[wraith venture]

oh i never was. weird. i did see 3 of them but bey just chilled up in the air.

[indigo falcon]

three chased me, I headed to the anomaly

[wraith venture]

yeah, i saw 3. and they were just chillin

interesting. i was never chased by them. how fun

[glass solstice]

Oof, I saw 3 flying and chilling in the air too

[indigo falcon]

it could be random roll, replace a pirate encounter or not

[glass solstice]

Maybe they got hit by a stray shot?

[wraith venture]

very insightful

[indigo falcon]

no, I wasn't shooting at anything, just on my way to freighter or space station or something

called in the anomaly and that was that

[median ember]

Loop 5.....ohhhhhh yeah.......

[wraith venture]

did you look at them weird tho?

[rough hatch]

can i move technology from 1 multi-tool to another one?

[wraith venture]

no

[rough hatch]

then i wont replace my given multi tool

thanks

[wraith venture]

can dismantle tech for materials tho. if they help

[glass solstice]

You can do it lol

[median ember]

It says another chance.... construct a memory resonator

I already have it 🤔

[indigo falcon]

I looked weird to them, no doubt 😛 I mean check this face

[wraith venture]

omg you look a lot like @fringe agate u two related?

[indigo falcon]

wrong color 😛

game kept giving me that for expedition character, I finally gave up and accepted fate

[wraith venture]

you can borrow his hoodie

[indigo falcon]

nopenopenope

[wraith venture]

[glass solstice]

Lmao what

[indigo falcon]

every expedition I got that character, without fail. all 7 so far.

[wraith venture]

Gleam got a custom hoodie for his character #no-mans-art channel reference

[glass solstice]

Alright anyway, good night you two, I got uni tomorrow

[indigo falcon]

see ya!

[median ember]

You have WYYYYYDE angle view

[glass solstice]

[median ember]

🤣

[indigo falcon]

and way too many facial tentacles, but that's a separate issue

[wraith venture]

omg trust me, you still have a better character than mine. have i shown you my cursed McGek? walking McDonalds advertisement i swear 🍟 (i've had the curse since expo 2 tho)

[indigo falcon]

hmm not much of a curse if it let up after just two instances! but sure, let's see it

[wraith venture]

buenos nachos Aurel sweet dreams

[indigo falcon]

nachos... hungry...

[indigo falcon]

only two, I got 4

[pure elm]

Hey can I still get pre-packaged weapons from plain memory fragments? I've gone through many but so far I've only seen stuff like pre-packaged cloaking devices and I've been wanting to get another neutron cannon and/or blaze javelin on my new multitool

Or do I specifically need the weapon/armament fragment?

I ask because I'm unable to learn the weapon blueprints in the anomaly (which I thought would've been undone by completing the expedition) and there's still some time left before the expedition ends lol

[indigo falcon]

you can't and won't I think, gotta wait for it to convert

[pure elm]

Damn

I guess unless I get another weapon/armament fragment or something

[indigo falcon]

I don't think you do, I would guess the game allocates you one only

[pure elm]

It does

[median ember]

Wth is wrong with game mid fights its carshing.... more i am getting closer more its crashing

[pure elm]

Well I can save edit it in (or better yet just put in the wanted weapons directly and deduct the nanites to keep it fair), although I've kind of wanted to do it anyway with each of the types I can't get again for personal collection purposes

[indigo falcon]

what milestone are you at now, InterloperG?

[median ember]

Anchor point 5

[indigo falcon]

ooooooohhh

getting there!

[pure elm]

You can do it!

[median ember]

My mouse gets stuck

[wraith venture]

We believe in you Interloper

[median ember]

😑

Its not like m lying

[indigo falcon]

nope

it's more like you have a fan club cheering you on! go go go!

[steel pagoda]

Wait till you guys have a pirate warp 15 minutes after you began walking the planet and their rockets are blasting the ground around you causing it to burst in flames. My shield took a hit from a few incoming blasts.

It was not my shadow I saw, but I burrowed underground anyways.

[indigo falcon]

how long before they left off, after you went underground?

[steel pagoda]

Oh i was wandering the planet for a good while doing sun for polo. Had no pirate notification on landing. Walking around a battle in space started out of the blue. But the ship was targeting me on the ground ignoring the green one firing upon him. Every time I came out of the hole I dug I got blasted at. You could see blue pulses coming at me from outer space.
Took like 4 or 5 more tries to exit the hole before it stopped. I took off in my ship and found him as the alert for the station bounty ship and nailed him for profit.

[indigo falcon]

oic

persistent little bugger

[magic elbow]

alr so i gave up last time after dying in the dumbest way (smh imagine dying to falldmg from a melee-boost)

1week left

can i do the entire expedition in a week lmao

let's find out ig

[keen musk]

good luck!!!

[steel pagoda]

Was one of weirdest experiences yet. I wish I had it on candid camera.

[indigo falcon]

yes you can (depends on free time of course but yes absolutely doable)

good luck!

[magic elbow]

i have nothing to do with my life, ofc i have the free time lmao

and thx uWu

[indigo falcon]

sweet!

recommendation

read all the pins in here

there's a lot of useful info.

[steel pagoda]

Just shout up the basement stairs "Mom!!! More hotpockets!!!". You should be good

[indigo falcon]

just googled that and was sorry

[steel pagoda]

Lmao. First thought I had was that episode when I read the comment.

[magic elbow]

lmao

[steel pagoda]

I'm old.

[magic elbow]

~36 kinda old? (sorry)

[indigo falcon]

no you don't get it

I googled the item. and was sorry to learn what it was

[steel pagoda]

Lol

Oh I see

[indigo falcon]

not actually food...

[steel pagoda]

Yea. They were a 90s thing for us

[magic elbow]

what no, hotpockets are food wdym

confused

[indigo falcon]

sandwiches do not get microwaved, full stop

oh

we are very off topic

soooooo

[steel pagoda]

Lol yea

[indigo falcon]

cooking in nms

[steel pagoda]

I was gonna #off-topic-bond-james-bond

[indigo falcon]

anyone use the whispering omelettes for anything?

I sold mine off

[steel pagoda]

I never figured out the recipe. I will eventually. My nutrient processor has been trial and error.

[magic elbow]

wait you can make whispering onlettes? lmaoo

[steel pagoda]

Oh on the expedition I sold them

[indigo falcon]

they are a reward from one of the milestones

[steel pagoda]

They whispered too loudly

[magic elbow]

ooooh

[steel pagoda]

I couldn't nap in my ship

[indigo falcon]

friends don't let friend-entities pilot asleep.

see those crashed freighters littering the landscape? well...

[wooden hawk]

I'm on the final expedition step, ||speaking to the leviathan. I've not completed a few things. Is the leviathan about to kill me? Should I flee, finish the rest, than come back, or can I safely talk to it?||

[indigo falcon]

Deeked

I am not goign to tell you what happens, that would be a spoiler

and you shuold just experience this

but I will say

just do it

[steel pagoda]

Use the spoiler buttons for some of that though || the double bars

[indigo falcon]

here you are, just... take a chance

[steel pagoda]

Thank you professor nike.

[indigo falcon]

lolol

[wooden hawk]

lovely, nevermind than. I'm still on my second life, I've not gotten this far by being stupid. If ya don't wanna tell me, I'ma just assume it'll "reset me". I fled, I'ma finish my last few other things than come back to it

[indigo falcon]

it is up to you

but..

[steel pagoda]

Again you might wanna ask with the spoiler tag in the future. As others haven't gotten that far yet

[indigo falcon]

if it resets you now, it will reset you then. why do you think there is any escape?

[median ember]

M also on last legs ...m gonna fry this squid if it tries to reset me...

[wooden hawk]

I've literally already edited the post pal

[wooden hawk]

The difference is that now, I'm almost done. ||If I get reset, I'll have to re-do a few things, and be down all the resources and upgrades I've collected. If the leviathan is gonna reset me, let it be as the final thing I need to do, so there's no backtracking||

[indigo falcon]

again, up to you. good luck whatever you do, and break the loop!

[steel pagoda]

Sorry I missed it. Multi tasking

[steel pagoda]

Have you finished the base story before? This is different. I mean whenever you're not sure how a story will end, my default has been to just store everything in my inventory.

But I went into the artemis path with a plan

[wooden hawk]

Yeah, not risking it. I've died only a single time thus far, and even that was only because I HAD to die once for a milestone. I've gotten too close to the end to risk what's essentially been a flawless run. Thanks anyways

[wooden hawk]

I've not finished the main story, no. NMS is a real fun game, but with nobody to play it WITH, I just kinda come and go. No fun playing alone. I come by for the expeditions, and I'll come on if somebody wants to play it WITH me, but otherwise I do other things that I can do with folks

[steel pagoda]

Ah I understand that.

So best advice for any story ending in NMS is to take precautions. Like empty inventory into freighter cargo or base storage.

Expect the retro unexpected.

[wooden hawk]

Keep in mind that the expedition is perma-death. I'd not be risking my inventory, I'd be risking my entire character. All my suit upgrades, my ships, my ship upgrades, multi-tool upgrades, credits, nanites, everything. It's a complete wipe. Even stuff in my freighter gets deleted, and while your bases don't go away, all storage in a base get's wiped as well

T'is why I was asking. If the only thing at risk was my inventory, I'd not have bothered coming here, I'd have just dumped my crap and seen what happened, lolz

[steel pagoda]

It's part of the story so ||permadeath won't apply|| all I can say. And probably too much.

[magic elbow]

mmmmmmmm i sure love it when the game crashes while loading me in twice lol

[wooden hawk]

I like how I just got a warning message for "posting content blocked by this community" and told that the community owners will be reviewing the message I tried to send when all it was, was a gif of elmo shrugging

lolz

guessing gifs are a no-no than

[steel pagoda]

Read the rules. The gif meme stuff clutters fast in the channels.

[ashen shore]

Something similar happened to me when I tried to post a sci-fi album cover.

[steel pagoda]

Believe it all falls under #memes🤡 channel

Not sure if there is a channel for actual links.

But this one is for the expedition specifically

[wooden hawk]

Gifs count as spam here. Huh. Now, typically I'd think that spamming is what classifies as spam, but hey, what do I know

[ashen shore]

Hehe, I would have plead my case. It had an Astro night on a strange planet with a symbol on his helmet that looked suspiciously like the Hello Games insignia.

[steel pagoda]

Yea any general channel pretty much. An old policy

[keen musk]

i mean when a lot of people post reaction gifs it tends to feel like spamming

[steel pagoda]

Like I had a channel for finding a gpu to build a new pc which I left promptly when they threw a hundred gifs per 5 seconds spamming the channel for several hours with them.

Can always pm a mod for clarification

[wooden hawk]

Aight, I'll leave you lovely people be, I got stuff I gotta do. You lot have fun, and good luck. Only a few days left on the expedition, make it count!

[steel pagoda]

But we have a large population

Good luck with the expedition

And whatever you decide to do with the story.

[indigo falcon]

good luck!

[ashen shore]

Do they typically launch new expeditions right away or is it like a bi-seasonal thing

[indigo falcon]

(and yeah no memes or gifs in these channels, otherwise stuff quickly devolves into reactions to reactions, mods have been there and done that)

there were 4 last year

that was the first year of them

we don't know what they will do this year.

[magic elbow]

apperently last time i died my game also crashed, so my death didnt save and I'm about 300 units away from finishing the first set of missions lol

[steel pagoda]

Oof

Lucky break

[indigo falcon]

oh my

crossig fingers your luck stays good

[steel pagoda]

Another cheater. Must be hanging out with .Red

[magic elbow]

thx x3

.Red?

[indigo falcon]

"cheater" lol as if

you get through alive and you had fun, that's appropriate gameplay, them's the rules

one of our admins

[steel pagoda]

Lol

[magic elbow]

i c lol

[median ember]

Almost there ...last loop progress 4/6

[indigo falcon]

woo hoo!

[median ember]

15-18 hours if you are smart about it... could be less though.

[indigo falcon]

I am hearing that the average for someone who knows the game is 10-12 hours? maybe less, 8?

but some of it is the luck of prng too

[median ember]

Yeah that's why i said 15-18... like normal play...no speed runs

If i exclude the stupid part of my play it is also around 10-12 hours.

[median ember]

I knew game but this was my first expedition.

[ashen shore]

I think it took me 7 hrs but I had just done my first play through.

[median ember]

😑

[median ember]

You just had to rub it in.

[ashen shore]

Hehe, sorry. I read it walking. Thought it was a question.

[steel pagoda]

Don't worry took me 20 hours. I died 2 milestones away from the end.

[ashen shore]

I came so close to dying on milestone 5 I think. It was on that planet with the huge chasms. A gust launched me into a pit out in the storm.

[median ember]

32 hours.....22 times dead 😑

[indigo falcon]

doesn't matter at all if you live to tell the tale at the end

[steel pagoda]

Sorry

[steel pagoda]

I hit chasms for the grave at 4. Nearly reset me for a 3rd run

[median ember]

A stupid tornado sucked me in... then another one took me for a sky ride...i was litrelly trying to get out but couldn't....finally it was over and i was in orbit. 😑

[ashen shore]

I had dug a hole thinking I was safe 😂

[indigo falcon]

the wind will pick you right up out of that opening, yeah

[ashen shore]

I landed at the bottom of a pit with nothing to recharge my gear and my ship was outta launch fuel.

[median ember]

Actual physics dont work in nms

[steel pagoda]

You spin my head right tound right round

[indigo falcon]

so InterloperG which milestone now?

[median ember]

Loop 5 ...4/6

[ashen shore]

Ive kind of gotten used to it. I bought a settlement on a sultry planet without actually knowing the definition of that word. It aint sexy Ill tell ya that.

[median ember]

The WAILING FLUTE

[indigo falcon]

and yeah we need a t-shirt in the hg shop "nms physics", that's all it has to say

[median ember]

2 more to go....and one optional one

[indigo falcon]

the optional you don't get to do

the community does it together

so it's just the 2, that's it

[ashen shore]

Ohhhhhhhhh I did not get that. I thought I was finishing those. 😂

[steel pagoda]

#computersciencehappens

#NMShappens

[indigo falcon]

no, it's like the quicksilver missions when there's a new item at the vendor, tier1 etc

as a pile of players do the missions, there's progress

[steel pagoda]

If you want to do all the work turning items into polo so I can have a day off, knock yourself out.

[ashen shore]

I think I already posted this but it still makes me laugh. Wind.

[indigo falcon]

wow

might be worthy of the 'superhero' category in the rainbow sky screenshot contest!

[steel pagoda]

Nice

Esp if you got a cape on

[median ember]

I bet this goes for super zero 😑

[indigo falcon]

love it!

[ashen shore]

😂

[median ember]

Ok good night.....i need to sleep 2.30am

[indigo falcon]

sleep well!

[remote thunder]

not anchor 4

[ashen shore]

Its funny how epic shots like that look but you're probably like sorting your inventory and the wind snuck up on ya. I was trying to find where I left my ship.

[steel pagoda]

Night

[magic elbow]

what is derelict freighter and how do i approach it without dying? (just finished the first set of missions)

also can i re-use the broadcast reciever if i don't land on the derelict rn?

welp, i landed on it anyway

I'm totally not ready for this, let's hope cloaking can maybe be useful ig lol

[ashen shore]

Make sure you have cold protection.

[magic elbow]

plenty

[steel pagoda]

In space. For phase 5 have the mission highlighted. Won't need a scanner. But you should have a scanner from earlier.

Just pulse

[magic elbow]

so much loot i cânt use till i leave alive smh

[magic elbow]

i already did that... i didnt know it was a phase 5 mission but i already unsealed the freighter so too late now

[steel pagoda]

The crashed freighter mileston is different. It's on a planet from distress maps.

[magic elbow]

ik lol

i just had the emergebcy broadcast reciever in my inv and said fck it

huh, neutron canon kinda nukes everything in here tho, hardly taken any dmg so fsr

[steel pagoda]

I would wait on the derelict until 5. Those unlock in a specific order.

You'll have the tech to handle it anyways.

[magic elbow]

well it's too late now anyway

[steel pagoda]

Np

[ashen shore]

That sounds ballzy on permadeath.

[steel pagoda]

Throw in a couple geo cannon's for good measure.

[magic elbow]

except I'm like 5 rooms in with tons of loot and hitless cuz neutron canon does massive dmg

[ashen shore]

Im all for it! What Would John Wick Do.

[steel pagoda]

Keep some of the somnal dust. You'll need ||32||

I screwed that up on my derelict

[magic elbow]

oh yeah i got a bunch of that, i was gonna trade most of it to polo lol

[steel pagoda]

Dumped it on polo.