With the Redux expeditions at the ending of every year we can assume that old expeditions can be re-introduce at any moment in NMS and with no time limit.

Most expedtions bring some new lore to NMS, which is very cool, but them being time-limited makes them useless after they end.

Making time-limited content on a game with no micro-transactions and no sort of Battle/Season-pass makes no sense because that means that the devs are not making more money with this and also means they are wasting they development time on time-limited content instead of focusing on making the game itself better with more content and updates inside the main game, and also the rewards are not really exclusive since all players on all platforms can just use save editor to get the rewards, I have all the expedition’s rewards unlocked and never did a single expedition thanks to the save editor.

Most of FOMO of expeditions are towards already existing players, new players probably just think expeditions are the same thing as normal update but we all know they are not, most of new players have no idea that expedition’s are time limited so the FOMO tactics are kinda useless.

There is no logical reason or benefit to the developers to make expeditions time-limited because like I said before most of people that are new don’t even know about the time limit and so the expedition’s bring the same amount of new players as an update would bring, if they make the expedition’s permanent it wouldn’t change how many new players but the game, and to old players they would still go back to do the expedition but without the FOMO feeling and that would be better to everyone.

Making them time-limited only means that they are wasting they development time to make something that isn’t even a real change to the base game, so after they are gone the only thing that remains are the rewards, and like everyone knows all the rewards can be enable with a save editor on Playstation, PC an Xbox so the rewards are not really unique or exclusive.

They could make expedition mode a permanent mode, so that way ever new expedition they make would be added to a list of already existing ones for us to choose and complete, that way new players instead of just using save editor could just actually play the expedition. Also making Expeditions permanent would be a way to preserve the lore on them, without us needing to go to a wiki to actually learn the lore in them.

Also that way we would actually have more content in the game and new challenges, and their development time expended on expeditions wouldn’t be simply wasted by making them time-limited.

According to the wiki:

Forbidden Exosuit Modules grant at least two to a maximum of four of the following six bonuses:

• 📷Shield Strength: increases the durability of the Exosuit’s shield.
• 📷Core Health: adds 1 health square (the player initially has 3 health squares).
• 📷Life Support Tanks: increases Life Support capacity
• 📷Solar Panel Power: during the day, reduces the Life Support drain of all movement functions
• 📷Sprint Distance: Sprint bonus: increases maximum sprint duration
• 📷Fuel Efficiency: Jetpack bonus: decreases Jetpack’s drain on Life Support

My thoughts on these are:

• More shield/health is always good as a buffer
• Bigger tanks increase the time between recharges but then again fuel is cheap and plentiful
• Does the drain reduction from solar panels really help?
• I use the jetpack to gain distance and only rely on sprinting when the jetpack is recharging
• I’m not sure I should bother with fuel efficiency as a) I have bigger tanks from the above bonus and b) ultimately, fuel is cheap and plentiful

What do you prioritise when choosing upgrades and what is your reasoning?

Whenever I post a new staff or Atlantid find on NMSCE there are inevitably a few people who reply that they can’t find the console or don’t know what to do.

Staffs and Atlantid multi-tools are new types of multi-tool added to the game with the Echoes update. The wiki refers to the new staff as a Voltaic Staff. To acquire these new tools you need to first complete the new quest line which will unlock new multi-tool upgrades that let you scan to reveal these new hidden Autophage NPCs and their camps. The reason you can’t see them is that they are literally invisible to you if you haven’t done the questline.

The new staff is acquired via either a terminal in one of these new camps, or the terminal in a Harmonic Camp. You first need to buy the components – head, core and pole – but the class of the staff is determined by the head section, of which there are currently 7 variations: Havoc, Runic, Radiant, Concentric [?], Salvaged Head, Salvaged Claw and Salvaged Aerator. Once you know which head is required for the S-Class version, you can pick and choose your own design using the other two parts, and the colours and installed modules may change as well.

The Atlantid multi-tool is acquired from Alien monolith POIs on planets in Korvax systems only – btw these are the same monoliths where you go to activate the “brains” of a newly acquired Interceptor ship. Once you have completed the Autophage questline, a new terminals will appear at these monolith sites that lets you choose a new multi-tool.

EDIT: Also, I should add that if you see a multi-tool or ship that you want to acquire in a post here on Reddit, you need to turn off multiplayer in your game’s Network Settings before you use a portal to get to the target system. I have seen many players enter a system I’m currently scouting after reading one of my posts. If you do this, the item in question may not be there as I have already taken it! (Not sure how staffs are affected as they are created from scratch by the player, but best to be on the safe side)

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You might include stuff like experience level, game platform & times you’re available. Anything else people need to add just post a comment below.

I’ll be writing a bot command to add and remove these so it’ll copy it to the wiki for more permanent storage.