Comment on No Man's Sky The Cursed Expedition

OBXDadLife@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If you want a VERY light “elite game” with a much bigger emphasis on space legs with mild to medium amounts of resource grinding? Yeah

  I personally can’t tell if the Expeditions system either ruins or makes the game. For those unaware, Expeditions are timed (usually a month or two, right now two weeks) seasonal content with structured progression and a light narrative. Basically a very condensed version of the “campaign” in the base game. So you start a new character bascially every time you play which is fun but also means that there is little to no point in building out a base.

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  • bcgm3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is a great summary of the game, I just wanted to add on that you don’t necessarily have to start a new character for expeditions. They added the “Expedition Terminus” in the Space Anomaly a few updates back, which lets you start the expedition from an existing save.

    That said, I always start a new character, because those first couple hours where I’m trying to get on my feet are always the most challenging for me, and that keeps the game fresh by pushing me outside my usual style of engaging with the game.

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    • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Huh. I had heard people were bringing resources in but never really followed through on how. Might be worth keeping a long term game.

      And yeah. I like the grind and progression of the expedition. I just would want to bring a couple dozen hyperdrive fuels and a launch drive fuel regen mod into any expedition since that is always where I lose interest. In the base game it is fine to grind as you go. In an expedition it is genuinely frustrating to realize I needed to jump to the OTHER system along the way if I wanted to get the radioactive fish or whatever the hell or I landed too far away from the resource I need for a goal. It just results in me playing something else after having had five or six hours of fun that expedition.

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• False@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I want to like it but every time I try it I bounce off it.

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  • Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Same, I find the start especially jarring and hard to get going.

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  • _Lory98_@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Same. I generally like exploration but it didn’t feel rewarding in NMS.

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• pubertthefat@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s great if you like exploration, resource management, and base building.

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• chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s great.

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