Expedition 2 (Redux 2) - Beachhead: FAQ and Tips and Hints

[smurfy]

1. Read ahead.

As with any Expedition, milestones are allowed to be completed in any order. This is specifically stated as you start.
Every milestone (except the 5th phase hidden ones) is described, some clearer than others. If you find something on the starter system that can fulfil a requirement in a later phase, you can complete it and claim the reward early.
e.g. It is possible to have virtually all the known Milestones in Phase 3 & 4 completed before leaving the 2nd Rendezvous system.
That said, some milestones will require collection of a prior milestone reward to complete.
e.g. You will need to unlock the fishing rig plans by walking 2,500u before being allowed to catch the fish in Phase 2.

2. No, really, read ahead.

Pay attention to the milestone rewards. Many provide hints for subsequent requirements and suggest you will probably need them later.

3. What equipment do I need to bring from my main save?

Nothing. Really. Expeditions are still designed to be fully completed "standalone" from a new save. Everything you need to complete the Expedition is provided either on the initial loadout or as a milestone reward. Bringing in better items, buying additional tech from the Anomaly (or from trade terminals and NPC merchants) or claiming prior unlocks from the QS vendor can make things easier/faster, but they are not required.
Handy Items to speed up this expedition

• A supply of 250 Indium will allow installation of the Temporal Warp Computer in the Freighter.
  
• Ionised cobalt & magnetised ferrite (for Magnetic Resonators)
  
• Wiring Looms
  
• Chromatic Metal
  
• Repair Kits
  
• Faecium (for Freighter Cultivation room construction)
  
• Amino Chamber (for Freighter Teleport construction)
  
• Ancient Ruin/relic charts from the Space Station Cartographer

4. Where's my Starship Hyperdrive?

Starship Hyperdrive is unlocked after your 1st freighter warp in Phase 1. However, you do not need to use your Starship to do any warping, all warps can be done in your Freighter.

Specific milestone hints

Phase 1

• Milestone 1 - All Hands on Deck: You need to repair the damaged Atmospheric Control Unit found in the tech slots of your freighter. You will have Chromatic Metal and Gold, but no wiring looms. You get 1 repair kit, but do not use it here. Disassemble an Exosuit jetpack tech or Multi-tool mining beam tech to get a Wiring Loom (you get many more of these as you progress, you won't miss them).
  It is better to use the repair kit on the Matter Beam which needs 5 Wiring Looms.
  
• Milestone 5 - Engage Warp: You need to repair the Freighter Hyperdrive. Focus on gathering the materials when you land on a planet and scan the 3 fauna and 13 flora. After warping once, you'll be able to summon the Anomaly and collect your goodies.

Phase 2

• Milestone 2 - Interstellar Rescue & Milestone 5 - Fallen Giants: You get 5 planetary distress charts for creating the scanner room. Use these to locate the Distress Beacon varieties. Fly over the 1st one, if it is a normal claimable wreck, do not land, just keep triggering another map, until you get one with a NPC, and keep triggering to also get a Freighter crash site. Then you can land at them all to tick off these two milestones together.
  
• Milestone 6 - Icy Veins: This one is a bit tricky, there is no valid Ice planet in the starter or Rendezvous 1 systems, you need to warp to the 2nd Rendezvous system to find the water ice planet. Then just fish with Mealworm bait. You need to catch Ice-biome specific uncommon (or rarer) fish, so it is normal for over half the fish you catch to not count toward the objective. It should only take 10-15 minutes to use up 30 Mealworms.

Phase 3

• Milestone 2 - Grand Tour: Activate this milestone before you leave the first system. There are 2 planets that count there (1 hot and 1 airless) and then you can get the third icy one when you are fishing in Phase 2.
  
• Milestone 5 - Called by the Stars: This one is subject to a glitch/exploit. Construct a Fleet Command room and interact with it after your 1st warp. You'll get the free Frigate Fuel. Talk to the navigator and send your default frigate on the shortest Expedition you can. Don't worry if it is the wrong type for the frigate. Then go to your command room and recall the Expedition and debrief the frigate. Rinse and repeat x 3.

Phase 4

• Milestone 1 - Linguaphile: There are at least 6 NPCs in every space station you can talk to and get language progress. Do this in the starter system to get the product blueprints to help with the later Freighter room construction tasks.
  
• Milestone 3 - Nameless History: Buy at least 4 Alien Ruin charts from a Space Station Cartographer (you'll need the other 3 in Phase 5). Do not buy the diggable site charts. Use one. It should direct to a valid site.
  
• Milestone 4 - One Man's Treasure: Can be Buried Caches or Buried Mineral or Subterranean Organics.
  
• Milestone 5 - Uncharted: Probably the hardest milestone the longer the Expedition runs. There are multiple ways to achieve this. The Exploit - Just play with Steam set to Offline for the duration of this milestone. Every system you warp to will be undiscovered. Otherwise, the hard way, warp away from the "normal" paths, i.e. not along the Expedition path nor the galactic core path. Warp as far away as you can using free look in the Galactic Map and hope to find an unpopulated region. If you have upgraded your hyperdrive in the Freighter (you get the blueprint for the Temporal Warp Computer to get to all stellar colour systems) then you should target blue and green stellar class systems as they will be less likely to be discovered than yellow or red. Another method is to use portals. Start system, Rv 1 and Rv 3 space stations all have a Traveller you can talk to and visit their grave and get the first 3 glyphs. Each Rendezvous is at a Portal. Activate a portal and use a random selection of your known glyphs to move yourself to a random sector of the galaxy away from all the other Expedition players to improve your chances of finding unexplored regions.

Phase 5 (spoilers!)

• Milestone 2 - [Hidden]: Use your leftover Alien Ruin maps from Phase 4 M3 to find the three sites.
  
• Milestone 3 - [Hidden]: The Instructions indicate this is a "wait for the community milestone" task, but you can go to the Quicksilver Merchant in the Anomaly immediately and buy the item for 80 QS.

[poppetshadow]

Here's another tip (unless you don't like using items collected from previous expeditions)
If you completed the Adrift expedition, than as soon as you get 1400 nanites, go get your Iron Vulture from the QS merchant. The hyperdrive on it will save you SO much time and fuel!

[exotrax]

Hello I'm stuck at Phase 5 Milestone 3.

Anomalous Research step 2 ask me to get planetary charts, I bought 2 and nothing happens.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3362623203

Any help ?

[Jaggid Edje]

@exotrax, what it is telling you to do in the log is misleading, from the previous run of the expedition. Ignore that and do what it is telling you to do in the notification in the lower right of your screen (and also what @smurfy says in the spoiler for that milestone in this thread, above).

[exotrax]

Originally posted by Jaggid Edje:

@exotrax, what it is telling you to do in the log is misleading, from the previous run of the expedition. Ignore that and do what it is telling you to do in the notification in the lower right of your screen (and also what @smurfy says in the spoiler for that milestone in this thread, above).

thanks

[owenevans00]

Another tip for the Uncharted mission - go to the Anomaly and get black hole coordinates from Polo. That way you can go immediately to a random part of the galaxy and you'll almost certainly be within a jump or two of uncharted space. Once you're done, just teleport back to your freighter and carry on

[theicewind]

These are great hints. Here are my observations so far on what to take to the expedition:
500-1000 ferrite dust
500-1000 Condensed carbon
10-15 warp cells
5-10 antimatters,
a couple of antimatter housings
500 or so gold
a 10-15 ion batteries
1 amino chamber
1 movement module with improved sprinting
200-300 ionized cobalt
300-400 sodium nitrate\500-600 sodium
5-10 wiring looms
500-1000 chromatic metal
5 or so repair kits(recommended, not necessary)

[xlopcheg]

Dear friends, hi !
Have someone encountered problem when there is no expedition ? Only old one, Cursed, on Anomaly, and if I try to start new game\save community expedition option also don't have this new expedition. What could went wrong? Please help ! :-) I want Normandy very much

[kissakias]

UNCHARTED mission.....
problem is that all planets that i dont have info at all not even race, cant warp there coz game telling me that need TEMPORAL WARP COMPUTER REQUIRED.
cant remember any like it to add to my Freighter.
and the starships cant go that far (only 1 system at atime can)....

[Anga Hakuna]

Originally posted by xlopcheg:

Dear friends, hi !
Have someone encountered problem when there is no expedition ? Only old one, Cursed, on Anomaly, and if I try to start new game\save community expedition option also don't have this new expedition. What could went wrong? Please help ! :-) I want Normandy very much

I had the same problem. Your cause and the solution may not fit my case, but ...

My updated antivirus software had decided it needed to "protect" No Man's Sky files from changes. (They were showing as "Controlled folders.") Once I allowed changes to files in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\No Man’s Sky\Binaries, all was OK. You the expedition option when you choose to start a new save.

[theicewind]

Originally posted by xlopcheg:

Dear friends, hi !
Have someone encountered problem when there is no expedition ? Only old one, Cursed, on Anomaly, and if I try to start new game\save community expedition option also don't have this new expedition. What could went wrong? Please help ! :-) I want Normandy very much

please report this to Hello Games immediately:
https://hellogames.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

[smurfy]

Originally posted by kissakias:

UNCHARTED mission.....
problem is that all planets that i dont have info at all not even race, cant warp there coz game telling me that need TEMPORAL WARP COMPUTER REQUIRED.
cant remember any like it to add to my Freighter.
and the starships cant go that far (only 1 system at atime can)....

The Temporal Warp Computer is an unlocked tech blueprint for the freighter from the start of the Expedition, however it requires 250 Indium to build.

Handy Items to speed up this expedition
A supply of 250 Indium will allow installation of the Temporal Warp Computer in the Freighter.

You can try digging up lots of Buried Caches and hope for Indium results. I luckily got 2 on my current (3rd) run through the Expedition which gave me enough Indium to do the build. Or you can upgrade your starship hyperdrive with blueprints from the Anomaly and upgrades from Space Station vendors.

Or try this method instead to get away from the Expedition regions:

Originally posted by owenevans00:

Another tip for the Uncharted mission - go to the Anomaly and get black hole coordinates from Polo. That way you can go immediately to a random part of the galaxy and you'll almost certainly be within a jump or two of uncharted space. Once you're done, just teleport back to your freighter and carry on

[$corp]

Originally posted by exotrax:

Hello I'm stuck at Phase 5 Milestone 3.

Anomalous Research step 2 ask me to get planetary charts, I bought 2 and nothing happens.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3362623203

Any help ?

I have this problem too.

I am stuck. No way forward. I just played NMS and I do not have the previous luxury of the quicksilver merchant. I did check him and he did not have the mythic item.

It is extremely annoying. I guess its time to junk this buggy game.

[smurfy]

Originally posted by $corp:

Originally posted by exotrax:

Hello I'm stuck at Phase 5 Milestone 3.

Anomalous Research step 2 ask me to get planetary charts, I bought 2 and nothing happens.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3362623203

Any help ?

I have this problem too.

I am stuck. No way forward. I just played NMS and I do not have the previous luxury of the quicksilver merchant. I did check him and he did not have the mythic item.

It is extremely annoying. I guess its time to junk this buggy game.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3361878019

[$corp]

Originally posted by smurfy:

Originally posted by $corp:

I have this problem too.

I am stuck. No way forward. I just played NMS and I do not have the previous luxury of the quicksilver merchant. I did check him and he did not have the mythic item.

It is extremely annoying. I guess its time to junk this buggy game.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3361878019

I logged again.

And toggled it under "other curiosities" and the beacon came out.

Thank you!

[ScorpidAngel]

is it worth doing this expedition if you are doing it for the rewards that have already been acquired from previously played expeditions? Thank you!