Apparently, we might as well save edit expedition rewards into our game.

[u2020bullet]

Haven't played in a while (since the last expedition), logged in and did this one, was surprised at how i wasn't allowed to use old expedition rewards in this one.
Finished this expedition, went back to my normal save and suddenly all my old expedition rewards have relocked, all apart from a couple other expeditions (Utopia and another one).
Went searching online to see if anyone else has encountered this, and apparently, quite a few people did.
So do yourself a favor and don't rush to complete expeditions as they arrive, unless you enjoy doing them of course, since the rewards can apparently bug away at any moment.

Sorry for the minor rant, but i did my best to take the time to complete every single expedition as they were released so i can always have the rewards available on every save, so i'm a bit ticked off that this has happened.

[Mr. Bufferlow]

I am sorry things did not work for you. I was able to pick up the two frigates and the golden vector when I played the expedition. As usual, you can't call in the Anomaly until the 2nd system (AFAIK).

Based on my experience, I would wonder if somehow the area where that info gets stored was written over somehow on your rig. It is not stored with the save files and not uncommon that gamers update Windows from 10 to 11 and experience this problem. Also, just re-installing Windows can have the same effect. For example, changing out the harddrive to an SSD for performance increase.

You are correct that you can recover your lost cross save rewards (and more if you want) using the Save Game Editor. Not sure if it has been updated for the E10 cross save rewards...but they are kind of meh.

The only thing I noted that is different is now you have to pay nanites if you want the Speeder ship. The golden vector is still free.

[u2020bullet]

Originally posted by Mr. Bufferlow:

I am sorry things did not work for you. I was able to pick up the two frigates and the golden vector when I played the expedition. As usual, you can't call in the Anomaly until the 2nd system (AFAIK).

Based on my experience, I would wonder if somehow the area where that info gets stored was written over somehow on your rig. It is not stored with the save files and not uncommon that gamers update Windows from 10 to 11 and experience this problem. Also, just re-installing Windows can have the same effect. For example, changing out the harddrive to an SSD for performance increase.

You are correct that you can recover your lost cross save rewards (and more if you want) using the Save Game Editor. Not sure if it has been updated for the E10 cross save rewards...but they are kind of meh.

The only thing I noted that is different is now you have to pay nanites if you want the Speeder ship. The golden vector is still free.

The thing is, absolutely nothing has changed on my rig, nothing, still running the same old SSD, the same old hardware and everything else, even still running the same old Windows 10 (haven't upgraded to 11 yet). Everything was claimable on the previous expedition, but since this one released, it's all gone for whatever reason. I did Tweet at Hello Games but i doubt that's gonna do anything.
So far it seems the only way to permanently restore my rewards to my account is to finish all the expeditions offline again, which i doubt i'll be doing since the rewards can just poof out of existence in the future.

[Mr. Bufferlow]

Originally posted by u2020bullet:

The thing is, absolutely nothing has changed on my rig, nothing, still running the same old SSD, the same old hardware and everything else, even still running the same old Windows 10 (haven't upgraded to 11 yet). Everything was claimable on the previous expedition, but since this one released, it's all gone for whatever reason. I did Tweet at Hello Games but i doubt that's gonna do anything.
So far it seems the only way to permanently restore my rewards to my account is to finish all the expeditions offline again, which i doubt i'll be doing since the rewards can just poof out of existence in the future.

Strange. I would definitely recommend the Save Game Editor to get back the lost cross save rewards.

Including installing it, it will probably take you 20 minutes or less versus playing all the older expeditions in offline mode which could take several days and you will need to mess with your settings for dates.

I guess to back up a step, I would first verify my game files, just in case something is corrupted- obviously remove mods as well. Those would be the likely culprits or maybe I truly live a charmed life. HG loves me, they really love me.

[Geldric™]

I was doing some testing on the Expedition rewards & actually deleted both “accountdata” files (that’s where your Quicksilver & Expedition rewards are saved) and found the NMS database (ffs don’t call it a server, you’ll trigger some folks here) copied my up to date file back to my PC and that is with Steam Cloud sync disabled.

So it is surprising that you lost your old expedition rewards :(

[Krash Megiddo]

I always enjoy the expeditions. Not sure why you couldn't claim cross save rewards because I did that after my first warp in this one.

[u2020bullet]

Originally posted by Mr. Bufferlow:

Strange. I would definitely recommend the Save Game Editor to get back the lost cross save rewards.

Including installing it, it will probably take you 20 minutes or less versus playing all the older expeditions in offline mode which could take several days and you will need to mess with your settings for dates.

I guess to back up a step, I would first verify my game files, just in case something is corrupted- obviously remove mods as well. Those would be the likely culprits or maybe I truly live a charmed life. HG loves me, they really love me.:emberfriends:

I'd do the save editor thing, but that only unlocks it for the current save, redoing offline would account-unlock it.

[Jaggid Edje]

Originally posted by u2020bullet:

I'd do the save editor thing, but that only unlocks it for the current save, redoing offline would account-unlock it.

That is incorrect. The save editor is editing the account data file, not an individual save. If you use it to unlock expedition rewards, they are unlocked for ALL of your saves, just as they would be if you did the expeditions.

[u2020bullet]

Originally posted by Jaggid Edje:

Originally posted by u2020bullet:

I'd do the save editor thing, but that only unlocks it for the current save, redoing offline would account-unlock it.

That is incorrect. The save editor is editing the account data file, not an individual save. If you use it to unlock expedition rewards, they are unlocked for ALL of your saves, just as they would be if you did the expeditions.

Ahhhh, i remember when the expeditions originally started it only used to do all saves. Didn't know it works this way now. Thanks.

[taniwhat]

I didn't hit this problem. (Linux). That's just FYI, as it may be platform specific.

[Guyver8]

there is nothing like a weekly manual backup of the NMS save folder (which is where everything is stored)
'zip' the entire folder then name and store the .zip/7z file on another drive (less than 2mins work)

[Geldric™]

Originally posted by Geldric:

I was doing some testing on the Expedition rewards & actually deleted both “accountdata” files (that’s where your Quicksilver & Expedition rewards are saved) and found the NMS database (ffs don’t call it a server, you’ll trigger some folks here) copied my up to date file back to my PC and that is with Steam Cloud sync disabled.

So it is surprising that you lost your old expedition rewards :(

WOW - a BLAST from the PAST (you only earned 386 Necro points for this resurrection)

My post and testing stand as I just tried it again yesterday and I got my correct file back. From my perspective you actually have to work at messing the files up, but that's just me.

Oh and DISABLE Steam Cloud sync