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THERE IS NO REASON for there to not be an expedition and EVERY. SINGLE. other video game runs their events back to back.
What? The game has FOMO content?
Blatantly
That sucks.
Anyway, as a first time player, should I got Normal or Survival?
Normal. And pay attention to the damned tutorial, which starts right away and bleeds into the main "story"/quest.
As for the expedition rewards, they are almost all cosmetic stuff. If you really want the stuff, you can use a save editor to give them to yourself. No harm, no foul, and absolutely no one will care.
I was more interested in the content.
You startup Steam, go into offline mode, then make a backup of your save files just in case of course, then you just put those cache files in place.
When you run NMS again, all it does is see that an expedition is sitting in the cache - so the menu option is presented to you on the main screen, and in the Nexus terminal.
You can play through it like normal (for the most part. The editing they do is for any multiplayer required items, since you have to play offline) Just enjoy the expedition all the way to the end, claim everything, then go online and it will automatically save out to a normal save. Start the game again and viola! You got to play the event, and you've got all the stuffs with it.
Or, like others said, if you just want the stuff you can always use a save editor.
What content? The expeditions are limited-time scenarios, and they are basically extended and more elaborate Nexus missions, which are missions that are a bit more complicated and meant to be played by up to four players but can easily be completed by yourself, as can expeditions. I've never played one because I don't like directed play, but as far as I know, they add to the "story"/lore of the game, but there is no content in them that is not also part of the regular game. The only thing you get out them in terms of content that isn't otherwise available are the rewards for completing them, and those are mostly cosmetic items, like decorative objects for bases or items to change the appearance of your avatar. Occasionally there will be a special ship that you get which as far as I know don't have any special abilities that other ships of their type don't have. They just look kind of cool.
As I said, if those things are important to you and you've missed the expeditions, you can use a save editor to give them to yourself or there are ways to play the expeditions offline. Or the devs usually rerun a selection of them at the end of the year.
There is not much content. Expeditions consist of a series of generic tasks ("milestones") that unlock generic rewards and the cosmetic account wide rewards.
The only difference with a regular save is the early game progression, the expedition milestones generally make you progress a lot faster than the regular tutorial quests.
The "story" content is close to non-existent.
You're not really missing out on anything.
I guess we call it that because it's what the devs call it. There's the Artemis path and the Atlas path, which are the game's main "stories." The others were added as a means to introduce players to the content added by updates. All of the "quests" are, at heart, tutorials with a smattering of lore. The real game begins when you put together your own play style from the things that the quests introduce you to and then do your own things. At least, that's how I see it. I dislike directed play, so I don't generally do the "stories." In 2000 hours I still haven't finished the Artemis path. I'll get around to it one day. Maybe.