Locking Black Starship paint behind expedition

[bedhead]

This has to be one of the most ridiculous FOMO expeditions yet. In the trailer of the starship customization, there was black paint. Why is that now unavailable to everyone else, and only available to those who've completed the expedition? I've waited after the release of Orbital and held off from creating my perfect ship because I was hoping for an update where they brought black paint back. We'll I got my wish, but now I can't have a black starship, because it's exclusive only to those who have completed the expedition linked to it. Unreal.

Expeditions as a whole, should be available at all times. Locking content behind them is scummy, for a game that I paid full price for. You're punished as a player for missing parts of the game for a limited time.

FOMO needs to go.

[momopovich]

You can easily unlock them by editing a save, there is no control associated to that.

But yes the whole purpose of expeditions is to inject a bit of FOMO to ultimately boost sales periodically

[It's Mankind]

Tada! https://github.com/leodium/leodium-ReLive-NoMansSky-Expeditions-Offline/tree/main

I play on GOG, works well.

And yes, its a little lame they lock rewards behind them.

[K9zz]

OMG...
-you should play more, there is nothing scummy about expeditions, it's just you and the rest who miss out on them, they generally take about 5-7 hours to complete

[It's Mankind]

Originally posted by K9zz:

OMG...
-you should play more, there is nothing scummy about expeditions, it's just you and the rest who miss out on them

You must be fun a parties

[K9zz]

-have you ever finished an expedition?
seems like you haven't lol

[momopovich]

Originally posted by K9zz:

OMG...
-you should play more, there is nothing scummy about expeditions, it's just you and the rest who miss out on them, they generally take about 5-7 hours to complete

No, I shouldnt play that game for 5 hours if I don't have the time for games at the time of the event or if I am not interested about picking up the game at the time of the event.

Expeditions are a very artificial way of raising the player numbers to generate attention (also they completely suck in terms of "content") - they incitate players to pick the game out of FOMO, not because there's anything particular going on (the missions and milestones are terribly generic tasks).

[bedhead]

Originally posted by momopovich:

You can easily unlock them by editing a save, there is no control associated to that.

But yes the whole purpose of expeditions is to inject a bit of FOMO to ultimately boost sales periodically

That entirely defeats the purpose of playing the game. I just want a way to unlock them without being time-walled. Editing saves comes with other issues that are better off just not editing your save at all.

[bedhead]

Originally posted by It's Mankind:

Tada! https://github.com/leodium/leodium-ReLive-NoMansSky-Expeditions-Offline/tree/main

I play on GOG, works well.

And yes, its a little lame they lock rewards behind them.

That's a good solution, but again, it's still scummy how they're locking content behind a timed wall that some people don't have time, or if they do are putting their time else-ware where it matters more.

[momopovich]

Originally posted by ✩𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐢✩:

Originally posted by momopovich:

You can easily unlock them by editing a save, there is no control associated to that.

But yes the whole purpose of expeditions is to inject a bit of FOMO to ultimately boost sales periodically

That entirely defeats the purpose of playing the game. I just want a way to unlock them without being time-walled. Editing saves comes with other issues that are better off just not editing your save at all.

The method linked few posts above does that too.
https://github.com/leodium/leodium-ReLive-NoMansSky-Expeditions-Offline/tree/main

you don't have to edit your actual gameplay save, rewards are unlocked account wide.

For the record my wife got all my expedition rewards unlocked just by playing NMS on my PC (with her own account).

[Awesome Possum]

Originally posted by It's Mankind:

Originally posted by K9zz:

OMG...
-you should play more, there is nothing scummy about expeditions, it's just you and the rest who miss out on them

You must be fun a parties

i bet someone who enjoys expeditions is more fun at parties than someone who ignores them then whines about missing out on their exclusive rewards.

[bedhead]

Originally posted by Awesome Possum:

Originally posted by It's Mankind:

You must be fun a parties

i bet someone who enjoys expeditions is more fun at parties than someone who ignores them then whines about missing out on their exclusive rewards.

Enjoying expeditions is one thing, nothing wrong with that, but having them time-locked is the problem here. The exclusivity is unforgiving.

[Autumn]

If you wanna just cheat the stuff in, I'd recommend using the No Man's Sky save editor, of which I specifically mean the one on GitHub. The expedition stuff should be under "account" and I'm pretty sure there would be an unlock all button. You should wait for it to be updated for Worlds Part 1 though, there are some genuine issues you can encounter. I lost my Iron Vulture, until it updated, and I was able to get it back.

Here's a link since I know you're probably too lazy to look it up yourself, despite it being one of the first things that show up:
https://github.com/goatfungus/NMSSaveEditor

[bedhead]

Originally posted by momopovich:

Originally posted by ✩𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐢✩:

That entirely defeats the purpose of playing the game. I just want a way to unlock them without being time-walled. Editing saves comes with other issues that are better off just not editing your save at all.

The method linked few posts above does that too.
https://github.com/leodium/leodium-ReLive-NoMansSky-Expeditions-Offline/tree/main

you don't have to edit your actual gameplay save, rewards are unlocked account wide.

For the record my wife got all my expedition rewards unlocked just by playing NMS on my PC (with her own account).

That link just brings me to the community hub.

[momopovich]

Originally posted by ✩𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐢✩:

Originally posted by momopovich:

The method linked few posts above does that too.
https://github.com/leodium/leodium-ReLive-NoMansSky-Expeditions-Offline/tree/main

you don't have to edit your actual gameplay save, rewards are unlocked account wide.

For the record my wife got all my expedition rewards unlocked just by playing NMS on my PC (with her own account).

That link just brings me to the community hub.

try again, it's bugged sometimes. It's a github page.

There is a file for each expedition. You just replace the corresponding file in (IE for steam/PC) %APPDATA%\HelloGames\NMS\cache and what it does is simply enabling the expedition again if you play the game offline.

No save editing is involved. Once you've done the expedition all rewards are unlocked permanently. You can just play online again (it will update the cache and the old expedition will be locked again).

You can also unlock every reward directly without any save editor mod
https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/comments/1507txf/pc_how_to_unlock_all_expedition_rewards/

[Thane_Ragnar]

Or just install this Mod and buy everything with Quicksilver, you have options .. use one.

https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/2062