Expedition 11 Isn't My Favorite... | No Man's Sky VOYAGERS REVIEW
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- Опубликовано: 16 сен 2023
- No Man's Sky Expedition 11, VOYAGERS, is available for a limited time, but it is worth checking out? Does it hold up to the excellent 2023 summer update, ECHOES, which it accompanies? From milestones that beg you to use portal coordinates to rewards that don't fit the theme, Voyagers is an odd expedition. Luckily it's not too difficult to obtain the Electric Jetpack Trail, the Ragged Tent built part, or the Construct 'Egg' if you go about it the right way. This is my review, and impressions, of the NMS Voyagers Expedition.
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Chapters of this Review:
00:00:38 - Overview of Expedition 11
00:01:49 - Comparing Expeditions
00:04:23 - Recontextualizing Milestones
00:07:30 - Duplicate Milestones
00:10:13 - Recycled Content
00:11:23 - The Problem With RNG-based Milestones
00:14:18 - Voyagers Milestone Coordinates Guide
00:14:37 - Intended Way to Play?
00:15:45 - The Positives!
00:17:13 - Voyagers Expedition Rewards
00:17:54 - Reflecting on The Pioneers Expedition
00:18:58 - Possible Improvements
00:23:54 - Review Verdicts and Conclusions
00:24:20 - Outro
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I think what saved this expedition for me was the community really banded together. Bless anyone who named planets "Hostile enviro" or named their bases "hot blooded creature" etc. Made it so much less painful. This was only my third expedition and I really wish I could do the earlier ones to get the better prizes like base parts/decorations. I get that they're trying to get us to play around with new features like the catalogue, but yeah, that could have been mixed in with oh, I don't know, a narrative about the explorer's guild and helping them with some sort of larger goal.
like the narrative we got with the utopia expedition wasnt very involved but i liked its presence
that kind of happens with every expedition, even if you play it solo like i often do, people create bases and leave markers for you to check out. not that it doesn't deserve any recognition, cheers for that.
I had a "hostile planet" base, the teleporter lit up quite quickly. It was fun mucking around with the players as they moved in and out.
That’s a great idea. I don’t know why no one at Hello Games thought of that.
I hated expedition 11, it had no story, no fun, nothing, it just felt like task after task
not only that, i would say the rewards isnt as exciting to earn for unlike all previous expeditions.
@@DerpyVenom i just want the Tent and it is no fun to get to lv4. It is work. Tedious, unfun work.
@@DerpyVenom "isnt exciting" cmon. Isnt exiting isnt hitting the nail. IT IS A middlefinger in the face of every player who plays this game. The Expedition was made from a trainee or simular. All the rewards look like some sticker shit from a fortnite battlepass, It everything is under 5 min created,the quest,the rewards,everything, Worst expedition they ever did. You can say its almost a fail like the release of the game........ So fokking sad and now we have to see this brainless loveless shit for weeks xD
@@MrMirco003 or you could just play the game? I enjoyed the expdition, it rewarded me for playing the game the way I like to play it: exploring and discovering stuff.
As for putting together an expedition that would reinvigorate the game, imagine you start in space but your ship is heavily damaged, and you have to EJECT before you land (otherwise you die), and your ship is completely destroyed -- unrepairable -- and now you have to scour the planet you're on to find a new ship, and then you have to go through several adventures with hostile creatures etc. to find the parts to fix it. The reward at the end is a bespoke ship that you take off in, unique to YOU.
This is the quality I'm talking about when I say there should be less expeditions. If they made less exoeditions per year, they'd have more time to work on each one and implement the features like the one you mentioned.
@@TabalugaDragon i also dont why you can't reply older ones, they sound really cool. Sorry that I played the game in 2022 and not 4 years ago and cannot get these rewards or experience the stuff they created.
@@R-SXX yep. I don't think they will though. The Mass Effect frigate is under copyright protection, Hello Games doesn't own it and most likely it was a one-time deal, which really sucks.
I spent 60+ hours on this expedition. Most of those hours were spent on 3 of the goals for finding specific creatures (blood temp, ph level) and finding a high hostility planet. After all of that, then I had to get to Rendevous 4 - that was nearly 3-4 hours of straight warping. This was partly compounded because I tried a black hole and then found a warp gate anomaly (first time I found one of those and didn't decided to be an explorer). Both of those seemed to put me further away from R4.
Then mix in the "recommended" path in the galaxy map only giving you 1/3 to maybe 1/2 (if lucky) of the distance my ship was capable of jumping made it non-stop map-warp-map-dodge sentinels-map-warp-map-warp-run away from dreadnought-map-warp..... (and refuel in intermittently). It was an ok expedition largely undone by RNGeezus.
i like the concept of encouraging exploration and all, but some of the tasks just feel tedious and like you just gotta get lucky to find the correct thing, plus the rewards dont even feel that worth it this time around especially for the work required
i will say tho that this expedition had me finding cool planets and unique sights i otherwise wouldnt have, which is probably my favorite part of it
What bothers me is that HG could have just written on every milestone you are doing this as a way to show the new race things they aren't familiar with since they are existing on a different layer and they are mechanical beings, instead we got barebones expedition and a very tedious one as you say.
Yeah, I saw a couple planet types i hadn't seen in a while (which is cool), which showed up in the footage. But overall I think it was more tedious than it needed to be. And yeah, the rewards could have been better. Thanks for watching!
@@Kanaju found a double crashed freighter site (and apparently another guy knows of a planet covered in crashed freighters, unrelated, but cool) and this beautiful stormy super mountainous swamp planet
I have 234 hours on the game and have never done an expadition but I saw this and now im stuck scanning plants.
I highly recommend doing them whenever they pop-up, HG will also re run some previous Expeditions near the end of the year but for only about a two-week window. You get account bound rewards from completing them :)
@@celticfox Or, much easier, use a save editor to get past rewards unlocked.
@@killakannon3038 true, true, why even play the game lol
@@celticfox dude past expeditions are gone forever and the rewards are all cosmetics, it's not like i'm cheating on some op shit. Fucking hate elitism.
@@killakannon3038 >past expeditions are gone forever
Except when they came back for a second run? And also considering it seems they WILL be coming back yet again?
Like with Holiday 2021 and Holiday 2022...
So much for "gone forever" when they already came back.
I am happy they gave us another expedition but I agree it was underwhelming to say the least. I didnt even get the point of the expedition or the goal of it. Wasnt really lore driven, in fact it was pretty much what I do in NMS anyway: Find a planet, land, scan, maybe make a base, and leave to the next. I also loved how the community came together on this one. If it wasnt for my fellow travelers I would have never found the creature with the highest internal temperature.
This was basically the “leave your freighter/base and get some stellar radiation for once” expedition.
Essentially it feels HG just threw a bunch of stuff together and tossed it at us, telling us to actually go out and explore the game properly for the first time in the last five something months. Almost like it was due to some kind of yearly expedition quota they needed to meet.
Honesty, if they’d have just tossed a redux of the first set of expeditions at us, that literally would have had me over the freaking Anomaly, and so much more engaged, considering I missed those and the redux ones last year.
Sadly, this basically felt like playing a normal file, just with some extra steps.
I much prefer the story-driven expeditions and gave this one a miss.
me too i just save edited the base pieces and called it after a solid 10 hours spent chipping away. i wasnt having fun so i just stopped and went back to playing the base game
I would have liked the expedition to be a continuation of the Atlantid/Void Mother storyline, which is their most compelling yet, but I still enjoyed it.
I was a bit disapointed with this expedition. It was the same as Pioneers, pretty much. Just a list of chores.
Here is some positivity though...
1. Its stuff a late-gamer never does anymore, and it forces more exploration and time on the ground. You see some cool stuff you wouldn't have otherwise. I almost never visit toxic planets or attempt to scan every creature anymore. I actually named everything on planets I found all of them on. I havent done that in ages.
2. For new new players, it taught them how to do a bunch of stuff in the game they might not have ran into for a while. They might have never gone in a cave or bothered with extreme environment planets yet. I know it was a long time for me before I discovered storm crystals, bothered with an extreme sentinel planet, used the submarine or checked out a derelict freighter. It taught them what to expect from certain environments and where to look for specific things. It set new people up pretty well with stuff and knowledge for when it becomes a normal save. And it got them to Eisentam... a huge portion of the player base never leaves Euclid. And it taught noobs about portals and taking advantage of them to find things. It gave them a dream ariel, which forced an Organic freighter encounter, and atlas passes.
And in defense of the expedition... we did get a ton of new content and story with the Echoes update. There is plenty to do. And its limited to players who have completed the Artemis story.
So all those new players are set up and in a really kind galaxy to be working on the story content so they can get at the new Echoes content.
It would have been nice to play the game in Eisentam with all the paradise planets my first playthrough. 😂
I personally was bored out of my mind, cheesed a lot of stuff and spent more time hunting for sweet planets to use as future building sites while I chipped away at the milestones. I always take my time with expeditions. I take the time to set myself up with good equipment and resources like its a new save.
I much prefer the story driven expos. The pirate treasure hunt in galay 89 was my favorite. I had a really really good time with that one.
I really think this expedition was aimed at new players and rushed out to run concurrent with Starfield's release. They gave us so much content with Echoes and had little time to deal with bugs so they made expedition 11 a basic nothing expo that is little different than fooling around in normal mode... how much can go wrong 😂. All the effort went into the update, and I bet it took more time than expected and Hello Games' NMS skeleton crew didn't have the time to make a relvant, story driven expedition.
I wonder if Voyagers was Hello Games trying to gauge how people felt about exploration in general.
I love your summaries.
First, thanks for doing your videos, they are definitely my favorites. I like to do expeditions slowly and not get any help from others unless I just get stuck. I got stuck - I was one that could not get a reward due to some technical glitch and had to wait for an update to fix it. I ended up doing what you did and just find where to go to find certain things rather than just randomly wander from planet to planet. This, of course, did not work until the fix was done - took me about 20 hours to do. I have only been able to do expeditions this year as I am a new player, but would love to have access to all expeditions. Thanks again.
I considered it an intro/examination/appreciation for the new and improved Wonders catalogue that was revamped a couplep-few updates ago. I didn't mind it. I figured a lot of people would be disappointed, but I was fine with it. I would have LIKED a more story-driven expedition, but considering how busy my life is right now, this was a quick one on that I completed on both PC and PS5 on the first weekend. No complaints. Hello Games has been knocking it out of the park on updates, and Echoes had it's own mini expedition as part of it. I don't blame them for taking it easy on this Expedition. I'm glad they did.
Edit to add: I am never ashamed of using bases other people freely advertise to find certain milestones. I never used a portal, but I did use the teleporter to find bases for the planets/creatures I couldn't find on my own. That's what makes the NMS community awesome.
Problem with making an entire expedition around the wonder catalog is, said catalog is useless in helping you accomplish your objectives, as the stuff only shows up once you've scanned and discovered it already .. And by that point , you don't need the information anymore. Now if the Wonders and Discoveries tab allowed you to click on let's say "most toxic blood" and it would allow you to track nearby galaxies that have planets that correspond, it would be a good system , kinda like you can click on paraffinium in your collectiion and it will take you somewhere in the starchart where you can find some, but currently it's essentially useless besides from sharing glyphs with strangers on the internet.
I need an expedition that is based on anomalous planets. These planets are almost always unsettling with giant mega structures and they do nothing with them. there's a huge opportunity for storytelling there, and genuinely interesting exploration.
I found hot blooded animal on a desert planet by chance, after searching for days. Was lucky to find Walker Brain as frigate expedition reward(if I remember right), to craft economy scanner, but still even with that it took many days to finally find the dangerous planet!
They’ve been getting a ton of new and returning from launch players lately. So I think the purpose was to introduce all the new features in a safe way. Like how they introduce combat through the easiest form; predators. So I liked it for what it was, and I think the rewards were just meant to be cool stuff.
I like your idea about making us meet the plants identified milestone on the same planet to really boost exploration. I saw several planets in the milestone systems that had over 20 plants. One can also check the total and track their progress through the automatic discovery mission that’s always situated at side mission #1.
What might be better is to just have one discover every plant, mineral, and animal on a single planet (as 3 separate milestones). So that it’s doable on any planet (save for ones with 0 of something), but more or less equally hard in terms of exploration. Because even on barren planets with like 5 plants they might only be found in rare cave holes and lakes, or require exploring great distances to find a region with the different plants. At least that’s usually my experience when trying to complete those side missions.
Although it is a little buggy sometimes, as the side mission sometimes underestimates the number of plants and/or minerals on a planet. Which might make the challenge easier than it should be for those favored by RNGesus. It used to be that way with species too, but they fixed it with species when they added the nanite reward for discovering all species on a planet. I wish they’d do the same thing for minerals and plants, and make a super reward for discovering all of all 3…
You actually did more work than I did to get The Hills Have Eyes milestone btw. I just used the space station portal to go to a base named after the milestone, and the base was actually just a high raised platform at the top of a massive staircase. It didn’t even have to be an actual mountain 🤣 They could fix it by making it max miles climbed instead.
If one is really cheesy there’s r/NMSCoordinateExchange to get the planet address for all the rendezvouses and creature milestones too. One can unlock all the stargate symbols with the digging milestone. Which can be done immediately from any planet. One can usually find a base at one of the stargates (e.g. “Portal Base”), but otherwise one could just (spoiler warning) skip to the one at rendezvous 3.
Lmao, I got the mountain climb milestone done randomly by making a weird spiderly companion and trying to get it to run. It literally scrambled up a steep cliff faster than an enhanced jetpack jump.
I kind of like the expedition overall. I haven't played this game since 2017 and, as a returning player, the expedition is well-paced enough for me to explore the new additions to the game, gather resources/upgrade tech, and reimmerse myself in the exploration, tech upgrade/expansion, and resource collection that I liked so much the first time around. I've sunk around 80 hours into the expedition so far and am yet to finish the second phase because I am just enjoying taking my time with it. I can see, though, why it could be not as fulfilling for players with established saves.
Personally, I feel like Hello Games very smartly timed this in line with the Starfield launch for returning/new players that would flock to No Man's Sky once Todd Howard's Skyrim in Spaaaaaace lets them down. It seems to be working, too.
Yeah animals are incredibly derpy when it comes to terrain, I swear their AI isn't aware the vertical axis exists and they maintain a constant horizontal speed even if they're heading towards huge wall.. they're climb it in an instant because all they care about is preserving their forward speed lol
This was my first expedition and I loved it. I am looking forward to the next one.
With a little help from the community i found my last 2 milestones for the expedition. tnks
I think the expedition would’ve been better if, alongside discovering the milestone objetive of “Find the X planet/animal” the mission also required that you’ll expose said planets and animals using the new holo projector that the new update introduced in order to make your own little museum of your most impressive discoveries.
That way it would have had a much defined identity while also showcasing the new decorations that this expedition is supposed to focus on.
Edit: Aaaand you pretty much already said something similar, that’s what happens when you comment before ending the video Lmao
As someone who had expedition 11 be their first one. You have no idea how relieved I am that this one is an anomaly and that they are usually way more enjoyable
Aye, I did not find it the most exciting, but for a couple of my friends who was brand new to NMS. I mean their expedition 11 characters IS their first character ever to step into the game. I found it was a good expedition for those who are new. Taught them how to use portals, trying to locate creatures, showing how inter connected the community was with portal locations. Bases named upon what they needed. Learned they had a freighter and touching the gravitino ball on their runs was a bad idea, despite my warnings to them o_o Dear god LOL! (Course that was not on the expedition list, but I tell you. It should have with how fascinated new players are too them things HAHA!) But over all, as an older player, playing through entire story line, sure was not very amazing as the others, but new players? It was actually not too bad! Showed the unique aspects of the game that the current tutorial did not show! Granted this will not be there forever for new folk, but while this expedition is around, this is the best time to be a new player I think!
The strangely specific scans of creatures of this or higher was a bit rough for new ones, but yet again, them showing their was a supportive community, it showed they are in a really special game!
You're so right, as a returning player (from launch) this expedition really got me familiar with the new game mechanics. And got me into playing on my survival save again. Having a blast!
Switch Players: we want to play the expeditions we missed!
Hello Games: here’s Voyagers, have fun!
Hi, I'm a French iteration 1 player and I recently tried NMS again because I saw that there were Echoes and expeditions which I had never tried.
Well even if the stages of this expedition were not fun, I was able to see several magnificent planets and they are among the most beautiful I have ever seen since August 2016.
For this, I have great memories of it and in fact I took care to take photos of the glyphs of the planets to go there later with my main save.
Besides, as you said, using the portals with glyphs was part of a stage of this expedition and they gave us all 16 glyphs at once so it was good for a reason. Share our discoveries.
On the other hand, for players who stopped playing and recently came back, it would be nice to offer old expeditions.
I would love to do Leviathan and Expedition 2 to see the Normandy🤩.
The order you do things matters. Jump in the blackhole early and then you find more extreme exotic planets pretty quickly to knock out some of the tougher ones. At least that was my experience anyway. I just needed to warp back on the trail to pick up the points and last few rendezvous locations.
I feel like the biggest thing missing was the context for Voyagers, which was "It's an expedition you've seen before, but this time your extremes are marked as WONDERS", which was new with Echoes (as well as the method of displaying them). So it felt more like "do Pioneers, but 'more extreme' so it shows up on your Wonders tab".
I doesn't make it any weaker than it was, but that definitely seems to be the focus.
I will be breaking my 5 year streak of never missing a new weekend event/community event/nexus event/expedition ever since they came out in 2018. I have everything I could want in-game, these rewards are of no interest to me, and I don't have to time to waste doing something so incredibly tedious. Hopefully the next expedition will have better rewards and is actually fun to do. For extra context, I pre-ordered the game and have over 1000 hours in my legacy save.
This was my first expedition, and it felt very tick-box. The one which took me longest was the 7m tall creature. Hot creature, hot planet, etc... but tall planets don't exist. Glad I did it (and without looking things up, because I'm a stubborn old man), but it made me question whether or not I missed out on previous expeditions.
Expeditions are hit or miss but when they hit they are fun.
Thank you !!
I think you're 100 % when you say this might have been intentional by hello games as they locked the portal glyphs behind the easiest milestone in the whole expedition. This was probably done to sort of band the community together in the most lush galaxy to build bases cause I saw so many cool bases along these rendezvous points & even tho I used the guide for portal glyphs, the community made stuff become the highlight for me as I was zipping through system tryna complete a chore list by the god Sean Murray himself. 😂
This event did influence multiplayer elements. I play on the switch and still see plenty of player explored planets that are usefully named that help the RnG. It’s what they advertised expeditions to be in the first place so that’s cool. This game doesn’t have very many moments where it pays to be attuned with the community.
I am not a fan either. I don't even plan of finishing it. It doesn't offer some new experience, it just pushes you through what you would normally do anyway, but now you don't "complete the catalog" spontaneously, you force yourself to do it and it kinda kills the mood😅 at least for me.
Exactly. I already skipped it. Only one I had to do myself was find a frozen planet, because NomNom save editor doesn't recognize negative values, so you can't edit that.
Hopefully the next expedition is better. This was almost as bad for me as the rogue-like expedition which felt like hitting the wall over and over (I've never really liked rogue-likes, I hate resetting progress), but at least that one didn't have a bug where mining continually damaged you. That was *not* fun.
The reason for me why the expedition felt so tedious and UNFAIR, is, that everytime I started a milestone that required a certain level of hostility, coldness or height for example... I was always extremely near the requirement. My "Thunder Hooves" thingy was 6 meters, 7 were required. My coldest planet was like 2 celsius below what was needed! And I explored soo much, that these tiny little difference added up so much that it just felt unfair.
The expedition felt unrelated to the update and very disjointed, like HG just uploaded the basic template for an expedition
I loved Expedition 11. It was the very first expedition I ever took in nms so I needed it to be kind of simple
Me too. I’ve returned to the game after not hating it in 2016. I really enjoyed that this was just playing the game.
Glad you guys enjoyed it.
Be assured that this was the worst expedition they've made in a while and you're in for a treat when they rerun the previous expeditions that actually were enjoyable :>
Have they really just re-used Pioneeers expedition, but without the awesome Golden Vector reward?
I've been saying this for a while now - I wish they made less expeditions per year(2 or 3) but higher quality. Quality over quantity as they say.
And of course - I wish we could replay the first 4 expeditions, as, like many other people missed those :(
I think Expeditions are a really cool way to get a good start for the new player!
When it comes to which Expedition is the best or the worst, i would say Voyagers is the worst one.
From a content standpoint, the newest updates are really really cool! I am full on Hunting mode now!
Thank you very much Kanaju
Wow the perma death one sounds epic. I want that one again or what like it
Huh. Well, I just started a week ago. I figured I’d try the expedition and it’s good to know that this expedition is good for me.
Kinda bummed this was my first expedition ngl. I went on the wiki to read up on the others and they all sounded so cool, with time loops or big events and they rewarded a unique ship or frigate or customisation effect, but all I got was a crummy pet that I have to manually summon every time I land on a planet, or if I run too far away. At least the sentinel companion teleports directly to me all the time.
I generally don't like expeditions, I REALLY didn't like this expedition. Gave up and decided to just look up portal coordinates for where the get what I needed to finish the expedition.
What really confuses me is they made witnessing unpredictable events into objectives.. it's not something you can track down or do anything to pin point where something is, you just have to land on planets and literally hope for the best. You're frustrated if nothing happens and you're confused if it does.
However, I think *maybe* this is HG's way of experimenting with making the community work with each other, since I feel like it's almost impossible to do this one on your own like I tried.
It's obvious what happened here: Hello Games were clearly worried they had a competitor in Bethesda's starfield, so knew they needed to release an update & expedition to keep current players interested and prevent them bleeding their playerbase to a separate game. Hence an expedition that takes more time than normal to complete.
Also: having released two VERY big updates prior to this one, I wouldn't be surprised if the dev team were working flat out on these and didn't have as much time to dedicate to a narrative-driven expedition or building in new mechanics. Re-using existing milestones and assets from other expeditions makes sense in this context.
this was my first expedition and didn't know there was better ones
This expedition was my first. I had played NMS for about 10 hours at launch but was unsatisfied and shelved it. After hearing a lot of good things about the game this fall I reinstalled the game about a month ago and have been enjoying my time so far. This expedition was my first. I don't think it was a bad experience and I enjoyed myself a fair bit but, I didn't like some of the milestones. Like the body temp one and the hostility quotient one. It took me 22 hours to complete the expedition on easily 18 of that was spent on completing those 2 milestones. I finally gave up on the hostility one and looked up the coords to complete the rewards. The "Use a Portal" milestone was a bit jarring as well since I hadn't used one yet in my main save. I am looking forward to the next one as well.
Another trenchant review, and I agree with what you've said about this one compared to the others. I guess it shows how hard it is to continually come up with new ideas & content at the rate Hello Games deliver them. I think I'd rather more, with the odd dud, than less, as I do enjoy them, particularly for the rewards. I think this expo was more like a normal experience of playing NMS, i.e. lots of planetary exploration and discoveries. I think it would reward patience and taking your time over it. The problem for me was that I'd just purchased Starfield and was itching to crack on with that, so I also did the same, looking up glyphs for the hard to find ones. NMS is going to have to take a back seat now that Starfield has taken over my life and I'm interested to see what your take on it will be.
I would love to be able to have the ability to go back and fire up any of the old expeditions that I missed out on. however, the rules of doing that to make it fair and make sure it isn't exploited in some way is you would only be allowed to start one old one after you completed the current one within the allotted expedition time, you would also only have the remaining time left in the current expedition to complete the old one. and you could only do one old one per current expidition.
Hard agree. Especially with the bug that meant I couldn't complete toxic blood for ages
Like you said. It felt very random. I had the same feeling. Finally just got som coordinates for the hostile world and the boiling blood creature.
Thanks to the community for making this a really quick trip overall, I enjoyed it but yeah it definitely wasn't my favorite. Liking the little robo-companion though haha
it was the first one i did sad i didn't do the others now if they do more reduxs I'll definitely do tgem
I think this was a perfect mission for me...starting from the beginning doing all the stuff NMS was made for...exploration, scanning, technique hunting...so after finishing I decided to rake this save as a rerun in VR. And named it : NO cheating at all!!!😂😂
I had to cheat and look up portal coordinates for Unwelcome and Hot Blooded. Tried to do it on my own and became too tedious. I already knew how rare an Unwelcome planet is too.
The previous expedition was so broken at launch that i waited until now to try voyagers so they could fix it if it was broken. Hearing this i think i'll do the rerun in december so i can shorten the grind?
My first expo was Leviathan. I had an amazing time, I never finished it because I was gravity glitched in a wrecked freighter and fell out of the world :(
For the base task in the first part i made a 4x4 floor with 20 lamps. Try and find it. Base is just called lamps
yeah, i was avoiding but ended up using the portal for 2 or 3 milestones
I haven't played since before Echoes, but Expeditions have never been a thing I enjoy. I really hope the flora and fauna gets an update soon as exploring is my favourite aspect of the game, but all the next species/ vehicles/ building options/ etc doesn't help with that at all
I'm not even going to complete the expedition. Took one look at the challenges and thought "well, I can't be asked to do that." The rewards aren't brilliant either, it looks like a re-skin of the robot companion we got with Utopia. I loved the rest of the update tho.
Kind of sucks for newer players to see all the rewards they cant get for expeditions they missed.
BUT some guy did give me eggs from companions that you can only get from expeditions the other day, so never know what you're gonna get when you go to the Anomaly
Too many "find this specific type of animal/planet" objectives and the expedition was bugged so mining could kill you.
No other save had this problem, it was specifically the expedition and it was annoying. I skipped it and just used a save editor like I did with the rogue-like expedition before. Some things are just not for me.
I started the expedition hour one, so I didi not have the glyphs to help me, but I did leave help behind for those that followed with bases and markers, hopefully some people got help from them. But yeah this one was just a grinding chore, the lowest one so far IMO
I wanted the flying droid pet but I do have to say I still haven't found the animals I need for the milestones. I am not enjoying this one at all considering there is no story. I feel no reason to keep going as I have been playing this game for years and already discovered all these things before.
I started expeditions with Expedition 11, I must say I'm kind of disappointed. I don't have a lot to do, and you said it, it feels like a list of chores, with nothing outstanding.
I'd love to be able to do past expeditions :(
I was disappointed that nothing in the expedition had anything to do with the new content added. I was thinking I was doing something wrong when nothing of the new content was coming up. I REALLY hope the next expedition has a story line about the autophages and those pirate frigates and such.
I don't normally disagree with your assessments of the game, but this time I feel I must take an issue or two...
I will say that I ended up running it twice due to a couple of BAD issues with finding one particular criter that didn't allow the completion to occur. Once that was fixed it ran smoothly the second time, so my view is based on the second run.
Although I tell myself to read ALL the tasks before starting, I did not do that either time - the result, I did not get the 16 tiles to use the portal until near the end and as a result had to search the planets/moons for the criters instead of jumping to the points given out by several frustrated people due to the bug that occurred in the first run - that turned out to be fun in itself.
I liked the fact that the runs to each exposition point was shorter than in the past - that was nice.
I don't speed through the game, any game, so my time is not relevant to anyone except me, but I thought it went not too fast, not too slow. I thought there was a little story there and that is OK with me - I see these expeditions as a way for new people to get into the game with a good start and an easy training cycle. I especially liked that in order to run everything in the release, you had to have done at least two of the main story lines in order to understand the history of the lore involved.
One major issue - "NMS... Don't give any more hints - you never got them right and caused a lot of confusion".
I still will stay with my 7.5 out of 10 for the Expedition and a little higher for the entire release.
I did not like it the first time through, it was frustrating and I searched dozens of systems looking for the hostile planet. Then I thought to do some research with my other saves. I found a proper planet Glyph address in my old save and portaled to the planet. So one time down. I then started and completed it a second time and really enjoyed it the second time. So, I suggest you try it again, you may like it. I am off to do it a third time. I guess I like grinding. (That's what she said.) :)
I am enjoying the expedition. I understood what it was going to be intuitively, It was going to 7 years of updates and changes. All the expeditions always have repeats. I looked over the phases and knew man this is going to be some exploration. The whole point is it is a walkthrough of what they have done over 7 years. That it is a repeat was the whole point. They made it harder by adding hot blood, and poison blood, I deliberately didn't use the findings of others I found them myself. I thought I would never find 80u underwater, I hit 60 and 50 over and over. You bet I made a base for those who would rather do it the easy way. I actually enjoyed the grind. I am still looking for the hateful planet and I finally just found the hottest animal one. I have managed to do all the expeditions and caught what I didn't have in Redux, I only need Expedition 1. I hope they do Expedition 1-6 this time if they do a Redux. I actually have 3 expeditions going on at the same time with friends. doing them the way they want to. 1 is using the work of others, the other is a new player, 1 is for me, wandering and exporting.
I loved waking up in the freighter, but the rng of the creature scans got me to ditch the rest of the expedition.
Wait did your companion packs just shoot lazers
im not fan of this expedition but maybe this is more for showcase things and mechanics to those who haven't touched the game since 2016 like you said in 16:58... maybe to capitalize over the starfield release with the minimum effort required? I dont mind that, Im just greatful of what has been already given in all this years. Great constructive critisism though!
IS ANYONE ELSE having this bug....
The game no longer recognizes the completion of past expeditions nor all my quicksilver purchases.
The saves that have everything already still have it... but I am not able to claim anything in the expedition. Its not recognizing my progress across saves. Everything in the quicksilver shop has a price by it now, like I never bought it. All my expedition rewards are locked and it says the expeditions havent been completed. Same with the Freighter Salvage guy's stuff. Its as though I never claimed any of it.
I have sent a few messages to the Zendesk but I haven't heard anyone else talking about this particular issue.
I want my fancy armor and jet pack. 😂
I was incredibly salty when they announced the expedition redos, and I wasn’t able to redo nothing because some glitch prevented me from generating a new save. The earlier expeditions had good rewards and milestones that are not CONFUSING. What are the rewards for Voyager? Robot hands! Robot heads! But anyway, these are just my feelings.
Getting back into the game yet again (haven't played since Outlaws) and as my first expidition, this was just lame. It had a little bit of everything but over half of the things were aggravating to find. Glad this community is the best.
agreed
I started playing a week ago on xbox, and wanna know if there's anyway to get the golden vector without cheating
Same thing with the Normandy
I havnt played NMS since just after Derelicts were introduced way back in the days we were still refiining Chlorine but Starfield just made me want to play NMS again but this being my first expedition hasnt been a positive one.
My biggest disappointment about this video is that there were no cats involved😅 it was fun seeing the videos of the other expeditions. I took lots of photos, but I never took any videos. Cartographers was definitely my favorite and I think the rewards for that one were 100% my favorite! Voyagers? I found it to be pretty boring. But since it’s really close to the way that I normally would play, without the searching for certain wonders, it was fine. But I usually tend to have a bit more of a gameplay role in my head
I don’t know the game well and I’m not very creative so I wouldn’t comment on how difficult it is or isn’t to create new experiences within open world games.
But I’m used to doing repetitive tasks in every open world game and as long as I’m loving the gameplay and going for rewards or experience or loot then I’d play all day if I could.
I wonder if, when creators get sick of repeating tasks if they’re just sick of the gameplay and need a break.
When the wine has no taste and the food has no flavour you need a change of scene.
I’ve just rediscovered the game because I’ve stumped up for a PSVR2 and boy, if you’re not already playing it in VR then that might put the steam back in your stride! Doing anything is thrilling in NMS through PSVR2! Just “looking over there” is a thrill ride. 10/10 would recommend 🤓
I'm not sick of repeating tasks; I do that all the time on my main save. I was disappointed to see that the quality of the expedition was lower than the last 5 we've received. I love playing No Man's Sky. This expedition didn't feel like it was worth leaving my main save for 10 hours though. Most expeditions feel not only worth it, but more than worth the time. I even mention that just about the only positive of this expedition is that the milestones aren't grindy. The negatives are the random nature of success and the lack of unique elements. Most expeditions have something new that I wish I could see in the base game; this expedition, though, doesn't have anything that isn't already on my main save.
Truth be told, I don't play enough video games on a weekly basis to need a break from any game. If anything, the expedition was frustrating because it used up my limited No Man's Sky time on something underwhelming. If you saw my review of NMS Echoes, you'd know I'm perfectly happy with the state of the game. It's just this expedition felt poorly-themed and undercooked. Nothing wrong with enjoying it yourself though. I did go out of my way in the video to state that it isn't *bad*, just underwhelming to me.
I do agree though that No Man's Sky was made for VR. The experience is enhanced in every way by the tech. Thanks for watching and commenting!
@@Kanaju Fair enough and I would only suggest. I would never tell someone what their experience is. I was just being an armchair psychologist and trying to intuit. And I guess that’s why I’m not a detective😁
When I first played this game at release I could never have even imagined the 2023 VR version. It’s just
I dont ever keep expedition files and this one in particular is just tedious.
This might be the first one I delete since I'll need a slot for the next one.
i gave up on this expedition because of the corrosive blood milestone. it was the only milestone i had missing and my pb keeps going up not down for some reason too. I didnt like voyagers they need to step up on expedition 12
At least the robot pet is cool.
I really picked the worst time to finally try expeditions huh
I am just so over making bases for every Expedition now
After 4 years of playing, they ask me for a specific blood or a planet at a certain percentage and I said, "Is that a thing?".
First Expedition that is so buggy that it still dosen't work for me.. Guess I have to save editor this one
For me, there was a bit too much rng involved.
13:31 I had to get an animal with blood 140 hot I found a hot planet I scanned some animals and I Kidd u not I found an animal with 139 F blood…… I proceeded to make a controller sized hole in my wall
Glad I finished this as redux. The tasks were much easier
I don't see why they don't just let you play old expeditions. You could have them last a month, almost a full year of old content giving them time to perfect their next update.
This update is the first one that left me feeling disinterested. Having been a NMS enthusiast from day one, I feel a bit sad about losing interest, and it makes me wonder if Hello Games is starting to finally wind NMS down, as Sean has been hinting that they're working on something new that is even bigger and better. After this many years, maybe it is time to move on to something else?
Imagine expedition 1 Pioneers to be your first one played, then you leave the game, come back to play and you try expedition 5 Exobiology, you leave the game and then come back and you play expedition 11 Voyagers 💀
This is the first expadition i've played and got stuck so many times because a lot of the tasks were RNG based, which on a game the scale of the universe, ain't that pretty imo
I like the game and all, recently started automine and stuff, but still, this expedition for me was possible only because of other's help , too tedious
I think it's stupid the quicksilver guy shows you rewards of past expeditions because there isn't a way you can actually get them (as I'm aware, I'm fairly new to expeditions)
Like why show us something we cannot unlock if like myself i played this game too late?
in all the time I've played NMS, this is actually the first time that I've bothered to do an expedition... I reckon this isn't the best expedition to have as my first :/
I’m going to take yet another opportunity to state that I hate expeditions. They feel like a drag, a list of to do items and fetch quests in a game that’s otherwise, completely open. Can’t stand them and wish there was another way to get new, unique items. And quite frankly, they should be replayable in case I’m too busy when it’s originally available.
It's a let down, but they added a new story and a bunch of other new stuff, so the expedition was probably not a priority during development.
I used save editor for 2 of the achivmentes. One was the inhospitable planet. On my main save I visited one with 96% index, yet after 50 warps, I cound't find one. Corrosive blood was bugged for me, so I had to cheese it or wait for patch. Since I didn't want to explore on non-PD save, I cheesed it.
Same here. Only did it for completeness. Hated every minute of it and have already deleted the “save”.
I wonder how many others will bother saving it.
I know HG have been really good with updates etc but for me this seemed just lazy!
Sorry HG. Not impressed.