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.

[Voin]

Unfortunately I already done this Expedition and cann't tell you exactly where to see that, But 100% sure at Teleport had that cause I saw it by my eyes.

[Jaggid Edje]

If you visited the space station in any of the expedition systems, they indicate in the teleporter list that they are "Rendezvous x" systems. Makes it quite easy to pick out the correct system to teleport to in order to return to expedition space.

[70PercentAlpaca]

voindnm lähetti viestin:

70PercentAlpaca lähetti viestin:

It is not in my previous systems, it looks like the previous system only goes back about 20 systems and I am way past that. I've been warping for a few hours trying to get back.

Ok as I said there have all Systems u've been when Look for last 5 Mil at Each Phase, Just Teleport to 1-st One and then call your Frighter, hope he been back somehow!
I used my Main Ship cause there all 3 Kind of Warp-engine and Freighter have only one from the begining so to me was a best option just Jumping by my main guard ship.

Unfortunately that's not the case. The teleporter at the anomaly only goes back so much and not everything.

[70PercentAlpaca]

Jaggid Edje lähetti viestin:

If you visited the space station in any of the expedition systems, they indicate in the teleporter list that they are "Rendezvous x" systems. Makes it quite easy to pick out the correct system to teleport to in order to return to expedition space.

The trick is, how to get back to the expedition system ^^;

[70PercentAlpaca]

Someone had added me in a group in the anomaly and let me teleport to them. I am rescued!

[Voin]

70PercentAlpaca lähetti viestin:

Jaggid Edje lähetti viestin:

If you visited the space station in any of the expedition systems, they indicate in the teleporter list that they are "Rendezvous x" systems. Makes it quite easy to pick out the correct system to teleport to in order to return to expedition space.

The trick is, how to get back to the expedition system ^^;

All Expedition System opened by Hello Games as a Developer of this GAme. U can use that mark as well.

[Voin]

70PercentAlpaca lähetti viestin:

Someone had added me in a group in the anomaly and let me teleport to them. I am rescued!

Cause you Paniced a bit, good to know someone helped to ya.

[smurfy]

Warning others not to make your mistake is valid but the black hole method is 100% safe if you used your brain. There is no reason to visit the station in every pre-discovered system you find. There actually is no need to visit the station in every undiscovered system either, but at worst, you should have only added 8 to your teleport list.

That said, summon the Anomaly and look for another player's Expedition base in the teleport list, assuming you never dropped a base computer back there yourself.

[70PercentAlpaca]

voindnm lähetti viestin:

70PercentAlpaca lähetti viestin:

Someone had added me in a group in the anomaly and let me teleport to them. I am rescued!

Cause you Paniced a bit, good to know someone helped to ya.

Thank goodness for kind people, there was no way I could've get back on my own.

[Voin]

70PercentAlpaca lähetti viestin:

voindnm lähetti viestin:

Cause you Paniced a bit, good to know someone helped to ya.

Thank goodness for kind people, there was no way I could've get back on my own.

u r welcome

[Jaggid Edje]

70PercentAlpaca lähetti viestin:

Thank goodness for kind people, there was no way I could've get back on my own.

You could have just looked at "other bases" on the anomaly. Because you're on an expedition everyone else that is in the anomaly with you is also on the same expedition, which means "Other bases" will mostly all be in expedition space.

Additionally, I don't believe you were correct that space stations on the teleporter list no longer showed you the expedition stations that you visited. It takes a LOT of visited stations before they start dropping off. My guess is you just didn't page through them.

[70PercentAlpaca]

smurfy lähetti viestin:

Warning others not to make your mistake is valid but the black hole method is 100% safe if you used your brain. There is no reason to visit the station in every pre-discovered system you find. There actually is no need to visit the station in every undiscovered system either, but at worst, you should have only added 8 to your teleport list.

That said, summon the Anomaly and look for another player's Expedition base in the teleport list, assuming you never dropped a base computer back there yourself.

Bit rude. You misunderstood, I was warping afterwards trying to get back hence the teleporter in the anomaly was useless to me. Looking for other player's expedition is random so not really a solution.

You can still risk using the blackhole but is quicker and safer to just do the offline method.

[70PercentAlpaca]

Jaggid Edje lähetti viestin:

70PercentAlpaca lähetti viestin:

Thank goodness for kind people, there was no way I could've get back on my own.

You could have just looked at "other bases" on the anomaly. Because you're on an expedition everyone else that is in the anomaly with you is also on the same expedition, which means "Other bases" will mostly all be in expedition space.

Additionally, I don't believe you were correct that space stations on the teleporter list no longer showed you the expedition stations that you visited. It takes a LOT of visited stations before they start dropping off. My guess is you just didn't page through them.

Bruh, I literally said I was warping for a few hours...

[Jaggid Edje]

70PercentAlpaca lähetti viestin:

Bruh, I literally said I was warping for a few hours...

a few hours isn't enough for stations to be dropping out of the list even if you visited every single space station in systems you jumped to.

[Voin]

70PercentAlpaca lähetti viestin:

Jaggid Edje lähetti viestin:

You could have just looked at "other bases" on the anomaly. Because you're on an expedition everyone else that is in the anomaly with you is also on the same expedition, which means "Other bases" will mostly all be in expedition space.

Additionally, I don't believe you were correct that space stations on the teleporter list no longer showed you the expedition stations that you visited. It takes a LOT of visited stations before they start dropping off. My guess is you just didn't page through them.

Bruh, I literally said I was warping for a few hours...

Maybe you a Frog in previous life? If you like jumping so long and far! ahhahhhahaa Joke.