With the approaching of Expedition 20 I figured I used to be going to be intelligent! I had realized about expeditions with 19, so now was my probability to use these classes realized.
No Man’s Sky – Breach
Final time round I didn’t know what I must carry with me on an expedition. This time round I figured I might at the least refill on objects wanted for gas and associated utility objects so I might spend a bit much less time scrounging for issues to make my ship go.
Some goodies for the journey
It wasn’t a lot, however these had been all objects I missed having the primary time round.
Having finished that I hopped proper into the expedition which, as earlier than, dropped me… and plenty of different vacationers… onto a planet with directions to go discover my ship. On the way in which I handed by a phosphorous node, which I promptly mined out.
Some shiny pink phosphorous… is it truly pink IRL?
I figured that may come in useful… and it truly did afterward.
Then I pushed on to my ship, scanning issues every so often to earn some credit… solely to be dismayed at how little the payout was with no scanner upgrades. Nicely, some money was higher than none and my ship was proper there quickly sufficient.
Step one within the journey full
This time it wasn’t the Radiant Pillar help group, however a wide range of exploration hulls. That put me into the primary section of the expedition.
Expedition 20 – Part 1
There have been the anticipated milestones… all of which required some provides. I needed to restore the launch thrusters and the hyperdrive, however that was fantastic as a result of I had packed all these provides and… wait, the place are the provides?
Oh, yeah, it’s important to get to the anomaly to say the stuff in your expedition save… and the expedition was not simply going to allow you to try this very first thing. I managed to assemble stuff to repair the launch thrusters, however the hyperdrive wanted chromatic steel, which the software tip within the decrease proper of the display screen stored stridently reminding me requires copper, cadmium, emeril, or indium.
Elements record for the hyperdrive
So I obtained off planet and scanned the opposite planets… and none of these got here up as out there.
How was I going to make chromatic steel? Definitely Sean Murray wouldn’t depart us stranded within the very first system with no supply of chromatic steel. After double checking each planet I went to the wiki to see if there was every other method to get chromatic steel.
And, positive sufficient, there’s a fifth ingredient… not Leeloo… from which you’ll refine chromatic steel. It may be finished with quartzite, which was on each planet within the system. The software tip simply failed to say that.
So it was again right down to a planet to search out a few of that.
Some shiny purple quartzite… is it truly purple IRL?
After processing that into chromatic I used to be in a position to get into house and begin leaping to the primary rendezvous level.
Headed onward eventually in my little ship
Not like expedition 19, this time across the test in factors had been on planets in that “approximate location” form of manner that NMS has with instructions some occasions. It can get you within the neighborhood, however then it’s important to go searching to search out the precise location. Not that discovering it was troublesome. There are sufficient different gamers out with you that there’s at all times anyone within the location you’re searching for, so you may simply mosey on over to them.
Heading to the primary check-in level
From there I used to be clear to get again into house and test in on the anomaly and accumulate my provides. Then it was time to undock and use a brand new tracker to search out an corvette wreck from which one can salvage. Cool stuff, and one thing new.
Simply use your mining laser
Whereas on the market I did expertise the bounce bug, since mounted, the place you would possibly get thrown distant out of your ship. I didn’t find yourself too far I suppose and simply motored my manner again from my spacewalk.
Free falling again to the corvette
After which issues type of fell right into a routine of not a lot related occasions as a tour of “what’s new” objects for the final yr or so, protecting Voyagers and Worlds Elements I and II. And that’s fantastic, exhibiting off some options individuals could not have expertise earlier than.
There have been some annoying bits, like after I was purported to go off and remove hungering tendrils the UI, withholding info but once more, stored telling me that there have been no infested planets in any system I checked. Ultimately I checked Reddit and discovered a put up about the issue. There have been hungering tendrils to be eradicated far and wide.
Me eliminating a hungering tendril
However even after I had demonstrated that, the UI wouldn’t break cowl and stored repeating that there have been no infested planets within the present system.
They’re actually on this planet, I simply eradicated two of them simply now!
Then there was the beneath sea journey the place, amongst different issues, you needed to descend 1,000 items deep, which meant discovering some very deep water in your Nautilon, thge beneath water exocraft launched after we obtained all these deep water places, as a result of under 200 items there are extra environmental hazards from the strain. That was, in truth, new for me, however type of a quick occasion.
That was adopted by a little bit of an beneath water scavenger hunt which first meant gathering some assets in order that I might use the Nautilon to assemble some extra assets.
My new life beneath the ocean
Then it was off to a system with a fuel large, and imagine me it’s odd to be strolling round on the floor of a fuel large, one thing my school astronomy class urged was an especially unlikely situation to outlive… however that hazard swimsuit is one thing I suppose.
It is extremely Arrakis like down right here on the fuel large
Then there have been moons of the fuel large to land on and extra issues to search out and it was very a lot a scavenger hunt on the finish when, all of the sudden, I used to be finished.
Oh, and I jumped right into a black gap. That was a activity. I neglect after I did that… earlier than the fuel large. You find yourself in a distant system with a damaged house station (they had been all damaged throughout the expedition) however all of them nonetheless have the portal so you may simply telewarp or no matter again to the station the place you got here from. So there was that as effectively.
The payout was first rate. I obtained some cool objects, a stack of money, and a few extra nanites. Well worth the effort.
Summaries of my haul
It did really feel prefer it lacked the sting of Expedition 19 that got here in after Voyagers. However that additionally began when corvettes had been contemporary and new and it did a whole lot of corvette issues, so maybe it was a bit extra thrilling within the second, however possibly would really feel much less so now as effectively, a pair months after Voyagers landed.
It took me just a few evenings to get by, operating a couple of section a night, with just a few delays when the UI was yanking my chain as famous above. You possibly can, in case you optimize, end the entire thing in three hours in response to one Reddit put up with all the main points. I used to be already on section 5 earlier than I discovered that.
Expedition 20 Full
It stored me busy for just a few days and typically it’s good to have just a few particular duties to perform… even when the UI retains mendacity to you from time to time.
Subsequent time will probably be again to the bottom constructing story.
