the perma death in expedition is the stupidest idea since the release of the game

[o-trushin]

can i, you know, play the game the way i like? i just got out of the hospital and figured out that i have 4 days to complete the expedition. this far i was
3 times fell through textures and got one shoted by the fall damage
4 times oneshot by pirates like 30 seconds i got out of the ship
2 times got killed by the predator while browsing inventory.
plus various other deaths
like, i got it, the idea is cool, and there are people who like difficulty in nms. But i don't

[tkwoods]

Then play normal.

I have not had any of your issues, sure you can fall and predators attack, that is why you need to prepare.

[Mr.Kotter]

You can still play the way you like. No one is making you play it. All you get from expeditions are cosmetics. I don't play perma death, but i liked the challenge of this last expedition. also, i never ran into your first 2 issues, and if you get killed while browsing your inventory, well, that's on you

[Dirak2012]

It's not like the rewards are terribly useful.

[Mr. Bufferlow]

Play a normal save. There is no requirement to pick Expedition mode. There are ways to get the cross save rewards without doing the expeditions so no need to panic that you only have one shot.

Very likely it will repeat again by the end of this year or early next. It kind of depends when they start recycling the Expeditions. My best guess would be August since it will be around a Steam sale and allow the HG staff to take some vacations during the holiday season. Given this is the most recent, likely will be last in the line up of the 7.

[o-trushin]

Originally posted by Dirak2012:

It's not like the rewards are terribly useful.

yes, but i like to collect everything

[tkwoods]

Only thing hard about the Expedition is the reduced inventory in the start section of the game.

[Know Won]

Do you see how so many ignore bugs/glitches or say they are meaningless? Save editor is how many survived to finish that expedition.
You know ... hiding a copy of every save in permadeath so its not really permadeath,
makes me wonder why they bothered other then to insult those that refuse to use save editor ...

[Nostromo]

Originally posted by o-trushin:

Originally posted by Dirak2012:

It's not like the rewards are terribly useful.

yes, but i like to collect everything

So your pain is self-inflicted.

Seems like you should write a diatribe against yourself, not against the game.

/shrug

[tkwoods]

Originally posted by Orisit:

Do you see how so many ignore bugs/glitches or say they are meaningless? Save editor is how many survived to finish that expedition.
You know ... hiding a copy of every save in permadeath so its not really permadeath,
makes me wonder why they bothered other then to insult those that refuse to use save editor ...

Please stop it already, the norm is not a game full of glitches. Did the Expedition 5 times + and never once needed a save editor. As do many others.

[luther84695]

If you have a problem with this game, then don't play it. No one is forcing you to play this game. There are many other games to play besides this game. There are many hobbies besides video gaming. If you don't play, then there are no problems.

[dharvey7]

Originally posted by luther84695:

If you have a problem with this game, then don't play it. No one is forcing you to play this game. There are many other games to play besides this game. There are many hobbies besides video gaming. If you don't play, then there are no problems.

...And there are many other forums that don't need white knights spitting their nonsense.

[knighttemplar1960]

Originally posted by tkwoods:

Originally posted by Orisit:

Do you see how so many ignore bugs/glitches or say they are meaningless? Save editor is how many survived to finish that expedition.
You know ... hiding a copy of every save in permadeath so its not really permadeath,
makes me wonder why they bothered other then to insult those that refuse to use save editor ...

Please stop it already, the norm is not a game full of glitches. Did the Expedition 5 times + and never once needed a save editor. As do many others.

I didn't need the editor but I did have to take quite a bit of time to get enough materials (buried tech modules and nanites) to comfortably advance.

[Rexxer]

Yet another glowing review of Expedition 7. There really should be an in-game way of backing up and restoring the paired auto-manual saves, as there are many other useful ways in which a backup of an instance of a game can come in handy. The knowledge of how to save backups is the answer to so many other complaint comments.

[Liralen]

Originally posted by o-trushin:

Originally posted by Dirak2012:

It's not like the rewards are terribly useful.

yes, but i like to collect everything

They've repeated Expeditions before, so maybe they will do so again.

[Guyver8]

Originally posted by o-trushin:

can i, you know, play the game the way i like? i just got out of the hospital and figured out that i have 4 days to complete the expedition. this far i was
3 times fell through textures and got one shoted by the fall damage
4 times oneshot by pirates like 30 seconds i got out of the ship
2 times got killed by the predator while browsing inventory.
plus various other deaths
like, i got it, the idea is cool, and there are people who like difficulty in nms. But i don't

i'm struggling to see the problem .OP...you ARE playing your way!!!

SPOILER ALERT: i'm going to be taking the mick a bit...
every expedition so far has used different aspects of the game to make a 'unique' challenge, how the player approaches them is up to them.
this expedition uses a combination of survival and PD modes (that woz the first clue that this was gonna be a bit more dangerous than past expeditions)

let's take a look at (some) of OPs deaths
1) falling thru textures: used to happen to me when i had my graphic settings too high for my rig (which is admittedly at the low end), dialling back the settings solved this for me
2) killed by pirates on the ground: why not kill them BEFORE landing?
...but if you really don't want to face them once you've got out of the ship...just reload the autosave that just got created
3) killed by predators while menu browsing (TWICE): Lol....this is my favourite 'nuff said

apart from the textures issue (which can be fixed by adjusting settings) all of the deaths resulted from OP not taking the difficulty of this expedition seriously...treat your toon like glass until the loop is broken and the 'word of the day' for this expedition is 'SHIELDS'

end of mickey taking...OP if you still want to get the expedition done use this guide made by xaine (it's geared to getting it done in as safe a way as possible in 2hr or less)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o04BaETAY1M

safe (no pun intended) journey