How do I start Expedition 1 and 2?

[RatherBeHere]

Hello, I bought the game a couple of weeks ago and would like to unlock some rewards via Expedition... I seen that the Expeditions 1 and 2 are already completed. So new players who bought the game after those dates are just unlucky and missed out the Expedition part of the game or is a way to start it? When I click on it the mouse cursor ring gets smaller and doesn't allow me to start a new Expedition mode game.

[Dirak2012]

Other than using some file editing, or fooling the game into thinking that the expeditions are still going, there is no way to play them.

[RatherBeHere]

So did I miss all the rewards from the 1 and 2? Like I will never unlock those because I bought the game after the events? This really makes me sad :( I really wanted that cool looking gold starship :(

[Cerberus Shepard]

Originally posted by Asp1re:

So did I miss all the rewards from the 1 and 2? Like I will never could unlock those? only people who bought the game before the event and did the Expedition? This really makes me sad :(

yep no expedition rewards can be earned once the event ends

there is a way to get the items by editing a file there's instruction on how to do it here on steam and on reddit

[Kobs]

It's rather easy to have them with file editing it's copy paste at the right place nothing more

[RatherBeHere]

I don't get... why would NMS do such a thing? Like people who got the game after that date will never have the opportunity to unlock the Golden Vector Starship? Thats a real bummer for me! I don't want to hack the game... I want to get it the right way and sadly it looks like there is no "right" way anymore.

[Kobs]

Then you can always ask them why here

https://hellogames.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

Edit:
But in case you want to do it this is what you have to paste in (do not duplicate lines that are already there)

<Property name="UnlockedSeasonRewards">
<Property name="UnlockedSeasonRewards" value="EXPD_FIREPACK01" />
<Property name="UnlockedSeasonRewards" value="BLD_EXPD_BASE01" />
<Property name="UnlockedSeasonRewards" value="EXPD_DECAL01" />
<Property name="UnlockedSeasonRewards" value="EXPD_TITLE02B" />
<Property name="UnlockedSeasonRewards" value="EXPD_HELMET01" />
<Property name="UnlockedSeasonRewards" value="EXPD_BACKPACK01" />
<Property name="UnlockedSeasonRewards" value="EXPD_TITLE01" />
<Property name="UnlockedSeasonRewards" value="EXPD_SHIP01" />
<Property name="UnlockedSeasonRewards" value="EXPD_BANNER01" />
<Property name="UnlockedSeasonRewards" value="MYSTERY_TRACKER" />
<Property name="UnlockedSeasonRewards" value="EXPD_DECAL02" />
<Property name="UnlockedSeasonRewards" value="EXPD_BANNER02" />
<Property name="UnlockedSeasonRewards" value="EXPD_SPEC02" />
<Property name="UnlockedSeasonRewards" value="EXPD_TITLE02A" />
</Property>

and it goes in this PC > (C) > Steam > steamapps > common > no man's sky > binaries > settings and it's all the way down... you will probably see the first and last line there

[RatherBeHere]

ok thanks for the info!

[Lindy Bomber]

Originally posted by Asp1re:

I don't get... why would NMS do such a thing? Like people who got the game after that date will never have the opportunity to unlock the Golden Vector Starship? Thats a real bummer for me! I don't want to hack the game... I want to get it the right way and sadly it looks like there is no "right" way anymore.

Cheap marketing ploy. Create a "fear of missing out".

I agree, time locking content is a bad idea and have typed their Zendesk about it already.

https://hellogames.zendesk.com/hc/en-us?mobile_site=true

[Skywalker]

Strange to time lock these expeditions..is it a technical issue ?
I did not make it for expeditions 1 , although i was not far from the rewards.
Luckily i succeed in Expeditions 2

Don't have the motivation to do again expedition 1 (did it twice), if it was possible :-)

[Dirak2012]

Originally posted by John Skywalker:

Strange to time lock these expeditions..is it a technical issue ?

No, it's a very common practice in games-as-service and it's meant to keep players engaged with the game.

[tkwoods]

Originally posted by Asp1re:

I don't get... why would NMS do such a thing? Like people who got the game after that date will never have the opportunity to unlock the Golden Vector Starship? Thats a real bummer for me! I don't want to hack the game... I want to get it the right way and sadly it looks like there is no "right" way anymore.

So what, the next expeditions will bring other special items. AND who's to say that they won't add ways to earn those items in the future.

Why is no one happy with that they have, only always wanting the things they don't?

The Star ship is meh.. Anyway. I scrapped mine and used the materials to beef up the better looking ship.

[Xilo The Odd]

best we cna hope for is they get enough negative feedback about it, they'll hopefully put them on rotation so those that missed the first run can catch it on the next go around.

some games like Monster Hunter world did this with their event quests and while it wasn't favored by the community, it was tolerable, or modded so all events are always up on the client side.

[Metal_Bard]

Originally posted by Asp1re:

I don't get... why would NMS do such a thing? Like people who got the game after that date will never have the opportunity to unlock the Golden Vector Starship? Thats a real bummer for me! I don't want to hack the game... I want to get it the right way and sadly it looks like there is no "right" way anymore.

Work took a toll on me, and I missed out (sucks to be me). I have only started playing stuff again to some degree. But, I have heard rumors that expeditions were planned to rotate. There seems to be complications with the 3rd expedition, and so it has been delayed. I would like to play the other two, or at least the first one sometime soon in the future. The second expedition and it's reward may not be a possibility. They could swap out the Normandy, and they probably would have to because EA probably doesn't like outsiders getting handsy with their copyrights. This is rumored to be the reason why EX 2 was so short, and perhaps why we are not seeing a rotation yet.

I feel uncomfortable seeing the Normandy in this game, if any anomaly should be removed it should be that one. I do not like the feelings that the idea of EA getting their claws around Hello Games conjures. If they had ever made the mistake of merging with the abomination that is Electronic arts, I guess I would feel the level of betrayal people who pre-ordered this game did. And we all know what happens to franchises under EA.

If NMS was an EA title, it is likely it's story would have been significantly different than it is now, and there would be no redemption ark.

[davidb11]

THe fact was EA gave them permission to put the Normandy into Expedition 2, so, any paranoia about EA is unfounded here.

Do people not even read information about the Expeditions? And only come to bizarre conclusions based on incorrect information?

That being said, the content in the expedition is cosmetic only, so there is no real fear of missing out.
Which shouldn't even be a real thing, but somehow is.

Also, the expeditions were interesting, and no one can be upset at Hello Games for doing them. Period.

[Metal_Bard]

I am always paranoid when a big publisher (especially EA) starts "working" with a smaller and well-known developer. In EA's case there are certain uncomfortable real-life allegories to that previous statement.

Money is a very functional language of the present world we live in. That said, nothing is ever truly free. Sometimes we don't see the strings that are attached until it is too late.

Originally posted by Idaho Infidel:

I wouldn't be surprised if they make the expeditions seasonal, eventually.

Other than that, yes, I concur with the above statement. It has been a strong rumor that expeditions are supposed to start cycling and recycling. And this rumor has been around for a while, My guess is technical hiccups. And hopefully it is no more than that.

Still, even if I did get the Normandy, as much as I like the first 2 mass effects, and perhaps a chunk of the third minus the ending, I still feel a sense of wrongness seeing EA property in this game.

That is just me though. What's that you say? Andromeda? What's that? Some kind of unpleasant skin disease?