Silent
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Are you running on PC? Mods are an option to get a no cost launch.
Thanks for everyone trying to dig me out of this hole - I just did it the hard way and hoofed it in a direction until I could find copper then managed to hoof it back to the ship. I had to keep running from the sentinels the entire time. Probably one of the least enjoyable experiences I’ve had but at least that’s over with!
This was Phase 3 with the angry sentinels unfortunately. Basically sentinels everywhere, they attack you on sight and they are in endless supply.
So you had to set up a new base computer once you’d dodged the sentinels, then you could finally craft some launch fuel? Wow, you are more dedicated than I am. Props.
Actually, it’s all the support from the responses that I got here that encouraged me to try to figure something out. Ultimately I just went at it the hardest way! Now I make sure I’m swimming in launch fuel.
Shards
6345
I’ve just flown back from the third planet (Sentinel hell) to the second planet just so I can go and mine some copper in peace… I’m down to my last launch fuel container, so thanks for the warning… I’ll schlep off back to my old base!
I also found a save beacon with a cool base on Planet 2, the person who’d made that base has a much finer sense of base design than me :D (2x2 stone hovel is enough for me!)
Thorne
6346
If it looks remarkably like something that would take ages, has stuff at odd angles and curves that require dozens of parts aligned in perfect harmony…
Totally legit. Kiss my shiny metal…
…it’s most likely been done with an external editor. I dimly recall there was a plugin for blender that would translate whatever you wanted to sculpt into base parts, and given the game doesn’t exactly check for validity of uploads…well.
Don’t fret, I prefer coming across bases that are actually usable and don’t tank the frame rate over stuff that looks blatantly out of place.
I mean, if it’s “totally legit” then they’ll be happy to share the coordinates, right?
Thorne
6348
It’s legit in the sense that the game accepts the base and renders whatever someone put in on the other side.
It’s pretty clear that it wasn’t done with the base building interface, though.
Keep an eye out for those metal finger patches though; they yield lots.
Is there any point for the expedition to simply just finish it? I only mine just enough to complete the Phase and move on - is there something past the end where the additional resources would be helpful?
NI1
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After the expedition ends, the expedition save converts to a normal save. So you can continue playing it in normal mode.
Which phase, what are you mining? The short answer is what @NI1 said, more or less no.
Once you complete the expedition it just becomes a regular save game, so if you want to keep playing it you can, but there’s no expedition-specific benefit to having a pile of resources left over when you’re done.
Now it’s still a good idea to load up on copper (to refine to chromatic metal) on the first planet where it’s easier to find and mine unmolested than most of the later planets in the expedition, but there’s no bonus or reward for it.
Thanks - I guess I might consider starting a save from here, given that the expedition ends with a whole stack of S-class upgrades for the exosuit and multitool.
No kidding. If your “regular” save isn’t 100 hours in or something I think it’s worth it. Mine is, and I’m even considering it, although I do have lots of units and a number of ships, plus a freighter and all that.
Speaking of freighters, regarding the one you get for free for saving it from pirates, I gather it’s best not to accept it unless it’s an A class at least. You’ll get other chances, supposedly. I didn’t know that when I accepted mine.
Yes, I haven’t actually picked up a freighter yet because I knew picking one was a thing. I did come across a destroyed freighter in space - that was a first for me.
I did a little googling on this after someone mentioned it upthread, and what I gathered from YouTube and Reddit was an unclear; maybe someone here can help.
After for playing at least three hours, on your fifth jump to a new system you’ll run into the pirates attacking a freighter which you can then get for free if you rescue it. Unclear if that means that I’d you’ve already made more than five jumps to new systems before you’ve played 3 hours it will show up on the next one after you hit 3 hours, or is that’s when it starts counting your five jumps.
It sounds like this pattern repeats, according to some YouTube guy, that every fifth system (and maybe another three hours of gameplay?) you get another freighter under attack, but it seemed like the implication was it was only free the first time? This sounds weird either way, seems odd the freighter under attack would happen exactly every five system jumps, free or not. Not sure if this info was legit.
You should research and install the economy scanner on your ship and try to plan your fifth jump into a wealthy system, better chances of A or S class freighters. You can save your game at the station in the fourth system, and every time you reload that save you’ll have a chance at a different freighter in the fifth system, but it will always be crewed by the same race as that system (which matters to some people, hadn’t occurred to me to care).
Now the YouTube guy was dead set on getting a specific style of S-class freighter, and said he spent like 37 hours in total before he got the combination he wanted. That’s bananas. Not for me, thanks.
So I don’t know exactly what I’m supposed to be doing, but I’m going to try to get the economy scanner, try to reach a good economy on my fifth system, and I might reload until I get an A class, but I doubt I’m going to be more picky than that for my first one. And even that I may abandon if it’s slow going, this all seems like a dangerously easy way to burn out on the game trying to prioritize some min-max pro strats.
Here’s the NMS Discord freighter “farm” faq:
Also:
Shards
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So, I’m up to the fourth planet in the Expedition, which I’m enjoying as a sort of accelerated tutorial.
I think I’d still prefer to go back to my “story” game though. Is there any sort of carry over between what I’m unlocking in this expedition and the other save, or are they just separate save games?
They’re separate games, but the big ship reward and the end of stage rewards from the expedition are accessible in all your saves, per my understanding.
Yeah, I think that’s some posters (blueprints for constructing them) for completing phase one, “holographic friend” plans for phase two, “fearsome visor” cosmetic helmet option for phase three, “Robo-warden companion egg” for phase four, Utopia Title, Decal, and Banner for phase five, and the speeder starship for the all phase competed reward.
You can claim these (once per save) from the Anamoly in any other game, new or existing saves.
