I bought NMS on PS4, pre-ordered actually. I was playing it the moment the game became available and I loved it. I unfortunately ran out of things to do completed whatever you consider the main quest of the game at the time. I put it down promising to go back to it when it got better.

I believe I returned to the game around a year or so later. They had just implemented the ability to buy freighters and had the base building implemented. I ended up becoming a father shortly after and didn’t have much time for the game unfortunately.

Jump a little over 2 years in time and I decided now that I have a Series X that I would get back into the game. Boy was I excited to see all the new features and the beautiful updates. After exploring the first 4 out of 5 planets in my starting System, they were all quite hazardous in one way or another with basic flora and fauna of little interest. So I proceed to shoot over to the 5th and last planet in the system. I land and find that the planet has no real environmental hazards. I start to do a little exploring and scanning the various fauna on the planet. Out of nowhere the ground begins to shake violently and a snake the size of a skyscraper comes bursting out of the ground right in front of me. Now keep in mind that I was excited for this game before it’s actual release. That trailer they showed off before the game released, the one with the giant snake like creature, had me so excited to play the game and see such sights. I was very disappointed to find out that they did not exist in the game at the time. so seeing this massive creature leaping out of the ground in front of me had me literally screaming in excitement like a child.

Thank you Hello Games for sticking with your game and keeping the promises. That moment made my excitement for the game originally feel finally completely justified.

I apologize if my flair choice isn’t appropriate. I wasn’t sure which this really fell under.

If you can get by in the expedition without using the expansion slots for multitools, your exosuit, and your starship that you are awarded during the different phases of the expedition, you can take them back with you to your main save when the expedition is over, and use them on your main save.

Keep in mind that you can buy one exosuit expansion at the space station and one in the Anomaly in each system you visit during the expedition as well.

Also, despite the end-of-expedition bug that I managed to get around with the photo-mode fix, I really liked how I could take things back to my main save. It was also very satisfying to get a ton of units and nanites to carry over to your main save, not only for the other stuff in your inventories, but also your in-expedition accomplishments, even those not directly related to the expedition itself.

I sometimes feel that the HG devs don’t respect the players’ time with some of their design decisions, but this was the first time I felt like my time was well worth playing the expedition because it advanced my main save as well, and not just with cosmetics and cool building parts.