Read this carefully before you respond with a nasty comment

I have been reading post after post on reddit regarding people raging, complaining and having tantrums over this expedition. Despite the fact that this particular expedition is not for me, I still get annoyed at some of the complaints on here.

Look folks, HG can’t be everything and every game to every person. Over the the years they have certainly tried to include something for everyone.

I am not an expedition enthusiast. I have done a few but I don’t lay awake at night regretting the ones I skip.

It’s a totally seperate game mode so it’s not required material to play No Man’s Sky.

I think it’s totally fair for HG to add an expedition for hardcore players. How many Hardcore expeditions have we had in the past? The answer is none (to my knowledge) so I applaud HG for including that player base.

Regarding people that complain that special rewards are tied to expeditions, Yes they are. Why shouldn’t an expedition player get some awesome, unique rewards for completing a special event?

Special events reap special rewards.

Bottom line is, there are players who want a trophy for non participation. That’s not how it works.

If you want the darn whale cape and can’t live a quality life without it then play the expedition.

Expedition 7 is not for me, I admit and I’m ok for deciding not to continue with it. I don’t hate it, I’m not angry, disappointed or anything of the sort. It just doesn’t resonate with my style of play and the way in which I enjoy playing.

I am no less of a person for skipping /quitting. I have been playing NMS since release in 2016 on two platforms. I don’t know everything about the game and still ask questions but I’m not at all clueless either.

I have played every mode and the one I personally enjoy most is normal mode. I game to remove myself from my real world, hectic life. I want chill exploration and adventure. That’s me, it doesn’t have to be you. I respect everyone’s style of playing.

Now one last point before wrapping this up.

I suspect the majority of the players IMO, that are raging are new – newish players to the game.

For those players I have some friendly advice. You really should play through the missions the regular mode game has. It will guide you through most everything you need to know and reward you with items you will need later on.

Play in “Normal Mode” your first time.

If you have questions along your journey don’t hesitate to come on reddit and ask the No Man’s Sky Community. The vast majority of members are very helpful, patient, knowledgeable and friendly people. I personally love to help people when I can. Yes, you’ll run into a few nasty people but that’s life on or off line – Que Sera Sera, don’t sweat it.

There will be other expeditions. Don’t rage over one particular expedition. Especially because I’m sure this won’t be the last Perma-death style expedition. I suspect HG will cycle the expeditions through various modes and everyone will get their own slice of the happiness pie.

Again, I’m thrilled that players who do enjoy this mode of play are having great fun and getting some awesome rewards.

Get out there and crush it you hardcore animals! 😁👍

Peace and safe travels to you all. Sincerely, eE.

I can see they have put a huge amount of effort into this expedition.

My favorite expedition so far was the titan worm expedition, it had really nice mechanics of killing giant worms and it was awesome, the storyline was also very cool.

Every expeditions so far has a storyline, some better then others but all of them have some lore like in-game story missions.

It doesn’t make sense to put so much effort into something that will never be available again, I understand doing things like that for MMOs, but NMS is a single-player game with multiplayer features, so it doesn’t make sense to have time limited events.

This causes FOMO and makes a lot of people not wanting to play the game because of how much cool things they have missed.

We don’t have much comestic items for no man’s sky, and now most of them are locked behind expedition’s that have already been finished.

For example, we have 4 jetpacks, but only 2 of them are unlockable through the game, the other 2 are gone forever and forgotten with the expeditions. Capes suffers the same problem, we have 3 right now but only 1 can be unlocked through the normal game.

I wouldn’t mind expedition’s being time gated if we could get the rewards in-game, but that’s not the case. We have few cosmetics and most of them are locked behind finished expeditions.

A possible new player may not want to buy the game because they will never have those cosmetics or items that they missed, and we have very few customization items in NMS so lock part of them is just not smart.

Also, we have some very nice features in expedition’s that we will never see on the game again, like those giant sand worms that we could kill on that old titan worm expedition, the time loop from now and other features that just exist in certain expeditions.

Also, not everyone likes to have to create a new save for them, they could be convert into missions inside the core game, with the option of creating a new save or using your existing save to play them.

“Oh but the idea is having limited-time items”

That’s just not a good idea, we don’t have much cosmetics items in first place, and putting the new ones into time limited missions is just bad game design.

We can see that the devs put a lot of effort into the expeditions, making new game mechanics and storylines, and they just disappear and are forgotten after the expedition ends.

If you guys don’t want to make the itens or expeditions available on the core game with normal game saves, at least don’t make the expeditions be time-limited.

Please take out this time gate for expeditions, let us play them whenever we want. You can just maintain the expedition game mode with the option to choose which expedition to play, without any time gates.

And it’s not like we can’t get the item, who uses PC or Xbox can just get it thought save editor, but it’s not nice to have to use this tool to get the items, just make them available on the core game, it will not hurt the game it will actually improve it.

I am day one player and have more than 1000 hours in NMS, I have the game on all platforms and it’s my favorite game of all time, but this time gated content it’s not nice for no man’s sky, actually it isn’t nice for any game, it works for MMOs but NMS isn’t a MMO…