Hello travelers, I’ve recently fallen in love with No Man’s Sky and after around 30 hours of solo play I wanna dive into some multiplayer missions.

I’m playing on Xbox and as far as I know there’s no way for me to chat in public chat at the Anomaly and a lot of the chat I see is weird undefined characters I cannot read for some reason, so I never know what I’m supposed to do when I join a random group at the Nexus and they all start typing and splitting up into different systems. I don’t know if they’re mad at me for not knowing what to do or if they’re just vibing and talking with each other.

This made me wonder: what is the etiquette for random multiplayer sessions in NMS? Does everyone just go straight for the mission? Can everyone just do what they want? Is it better to split up?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Seeing lots of questions about this, so hoping a single thread will help (maybe get this stickied or something?)

Phase 5 Step 3 of Expedition 2 requires you to get the Myth Beacon from the Quicksilver agent. But Oh No – it seems to be locked! That’s because this portion requires THE ENTIRE NO MAN’S SKY COMMUNITY to work together to progress it.

HOW DO I HELP?

The previous step only asked you to visit 3 ancient artefacts and scan them for Polo and Nada. That’s the minimum requirement. You can help by doing MORE THAN 3. There are two ways to do this efficiently:

1. Go sell all of your Navigation Data for Planetary Charts, and start using them!
2. Unlock the scanner modules for your Exocraft, find a big planet, and start scanning!

Either way, sending this scan data to Polo is what drives the progression, so the more you do, the faster we get to 100%

HOW DO I CHECK THE PERCENTAGE?

If you’re in-game, you can visit the Quicksilver merchant on board the Anomaly. You can also select the related mission in your Primary Log tab to see the status.

But honestly, that’s kind of a pain. It’s much easier to use this site: https://galacticatlas.nomanssky.com/poi/anomalous-research

HOW LONG DO WE HAVE TO GET THIS DONE?

Well, technically, we have 13 days (14 days from Monday, May 17th). HOWEVER, we’re only on Step 3 of 5, so who knows what will be required for Steps 4 and 5. Thus, the faster we can get through this step, the faster we can find out what else might be needed from the community.