Fun Glitches to Die for in Expedition 7

[GlitterGek]

I found it easy to die from glitches. ( I had to enjoy them or quit in frustration).

1) Predator comes through several meters of rock to one shot me.
2. I have no idea; one minute standing next to my ship, next minute dead.
3. Died from a short fall at full health. I mean, a short fall.
4. Died from a high speed collision while reading my memory loop @ A 2
5. Died from pirates chasing me into a space station then subsequently killing me
in said space station.
6. Died from a roaming swarm of overpowered pirates in the same system as the previous
death. ( I avoided all freighters like the plague after that, even passing close to them to
get to a station)
7. Died from another high speed collision while on the ground. (Are the devs lobbing asteroids at me or what?)

Add your glitch death experience(s) in Expedition 7: below

[Johnny in the Clouds]

I will if I die again. The compulsory death for the expedition milestone made me laugh. It was a single bite from a large predator on the start planet, literally right after the introduction. The last thing I remember was the little red predator icon and a very large shadow... o.O I had to laugh. I must remember not to stand still too long! It wasn't really a glitch but more like just bad luck. :D (I'm really having a lot of fun with the expedition so far. Bring it on you devilish developers! :D )

[knighttemplar1960]

I died from falling through the geometry of a floating island on planet. The island had a very steep slopped mountain under it and every once in a while sliding down the side I would take a tiny bit of damage. I tried feathering my jet pack but I ran out of fuel and shields before I ran out of mountain.

Most of the rest of your list I've taken damage from but not died due to. I'd like to read the flavor texts from the traveller's grave sites but I discovered in loop 1 that wasn't a good idea. I just click through it as fast as I can and enter my ship that I pre-summoned.

Edit - If pirates are attacking you as you enter the station and you exit your ship there is a bug that will allow you to continue to take damage from the pirates. Since exiting the star ship creates an auto save you should immediately reload that autosave since that will clear the pirate attack.

[Jaggid Edje]

@knighttemplar1960, it's safe to read them. The ambush doesn't go on the attack until you finish and close it, at least it didn't for me. I read them all.

[knighttemplar1960]

I took damage from something (not the horrors) when I was reading the text at grave marker #1. My shield was down when I finished reading and sprinted to my ship immediately. After that I made sure to skip the text as fast as I can and I make sure that I have summoned my ship before reading so that my sprint distance is 0.

[Jaggid Edje]

Originally posted by zkittlez:

My soo-many-deaths-I've-lost-count have been all down to my own carelessness, and being used to having a huge amount of jetpack upgrades on my main (that's my excuse anyway)

I buy that excuse. I made it through the whole expedition with only the required death and the one at the end but almost every one of my close calls in the early part of the expedition were caused by exactly that same thing. That and my tendency to somehow land in hazardous plants any time I use the jetpack to 'escape' other dangers.

[Krash Megiddo]

Rocket Boots. Don't forget the Rocket Boots. Especially if one has never used them before. One does not simply strap on Rocket Boots for the first time in E7 AND avoid the screen of death quotes.

[Xenoverge]

I was parked on the starter planet in my spaceship and I pressed ESC and then went for lumch. When I came back it showed me the load menu..... somehow I died. I have no idea how. Did my life support run out while I was in my spaceship??

I thought using ESC was like a pause?? In single player mode have pressed ESC and gone for breaks without any problems or dying.......

Any comments on what killed me?

[Caramirdan]

A warrior on the starting space station punched me for fun; it took down my shield and almost killed me, left with 1 HP.

[Jaggid Edje]

Originally posted by Xenoverge:

Any comments on what killed me?

Pirates attacking you when parked in your ship on the ground can happen, and they can blow you up.

As for escape, if you have multiplayer enabled in network options it does not pause the game.

[wkitty42]

Originally posted by Jaggid Edje:

As for escape, if you have multiplayer enabled in network options it does not pause the game.

this ^^^ it applies to photo mode, too... for example, if you go into photo mode while flying your ship, it will fly right off from your camera if multiplayer is on... turn off MP and your ship will be stopped in mid-flight as long as you are in photo mode...

[Rexxer]

Stay in your ship. Or dig a tunnel. Or hang out in someone else's palatial base, ...you know the kind: the ones with mines, plants, trade terminal, and tons of refiners. Easiest way not to die is stay out of the planetary environment.

[White T Poison]

i was driving around on an infested paradise planet in a nomad exocraft. just randomly died. still trying to figure out what killed me as i have no idea. kinda of tilted too considering i was literally almost done the entire expedition :/ (literally dropped dead for no reason)

[wkitty42]

i have to pay attention to all the little bings and dings i hear... i've found several of them happen when my cold, heat, radiation, or toxin protections run out of juice... perhaps something like that happened and your life support ran out real quick? not all exocraft protect as well as others...