Holiday Expedition redux schedule.

[Lindy Bomber]

https://www.nomanssky.com/2024/11/holiday-2024-expeditions/

Hello Everyone!

2024 has been another impactful year for No Man’s Sky, with the team pouring so much love into every update. OMEGA, ORBITAL, WORLDS PART I and AQUARIUS added breadth and depth to so many areas of the universe - from a complete overhaul of the expedition system, starship customisation, elaborate new space stations, new planetary biomes, incredible rendering improvements to water and clouds, and so much more. A few weeks ago, we even introduced cross-save between our huge number of supported platforms, a massive technical undertaking.

This year has also seen no fewer than five(!) community expeditions, bringing Travellers together in a certain corner of the universe to experience a themed event and work together to complete unique challenges and earn limited-time exclusive rewards.

We know that our players have busy lives, and know more than most that there are other games to play. That’s why, for the last couple of years, it has become customary for the No Man’s Sky team to re-run the expeditions from that year over the holiday period when leisure time is more plentiful, and in a “reduxed” form such that they can be completed and rewards unlocked with relative ease.

We will be re-running this year’s expeditions over two-week intervals from Thanksgiving weekend through December and January.

Omega: 27th Nov - 11th Dec

Answer the call of the universe in the Omega expedition. Explore, build, fight, and more through a diverse set of milestones, and unpick the threads of a mystery involving the past, the present, and what could be.

Adrift: 11th Dec - 25th Dec

Alone in an empty universe, the Adrift Expedition redefines what it means to survive among the stars. Communications from other Travellers are consumed by static, and in a reality devoid of other lifeforms, there are no shops, no trading, no shortcuts and no help, providing a very different survival experience.

Liquidators: 25th Dec - 8th Jan

Engage in a galactic bug hunt in this high-paced combat expedition, full of custom-balanced swarm combat. A vile brood is spreading corruption across the universe – join the Liquidator Vanguard to do your part and purge the rot from the stars!

Aquarius: 8th Jan - 22nd Jan

Go on a quest across the galaxy to catch fish, gather stories, and think about the one that got away. Find your perfect waterside spot and cast off, or venture into the ocean on your deployable Exo-Skiff. Craft specialist bait, establish a fish farm, cook seafood, and more.

The Cursed: 22nd Jan - 5th Feb

Fight to keep a grip on reality while haunted by visions and voices from another dimension. In this twilight realm, straddling the boundary between one reality and the next, there is no access to hyperdrive technology, and interstellar travel can only take place via the ancient portal network. Who do the haunting voices belong to, where are they coming from, and are they to be trusted?

These re-runs present another opportunity not only to experience these community events, but also to earn any missed rewards! Rewards for the 2024 expeditions include exclusive sets of Atlas, deep sea, and bug-themed customisations, the Iron Vulture, Starborn Runner, and Boundary Herald starships, a ghostly frigate, and so much more!

Community Research

Aboard the Space Anomaly, the Quicksilver Synthesis Companion has been compiling the research data from completed Nexus missions to synthesise a range of new collectible items. Most recently, they have synthesised a set of blue, purple and teal fireworks, which burst into wildly spiralling ribbons in the sky.


The Quicksilver Bot is taking a short hiatus from item synthesis, as Travellers shift focus to research for the Omega expedition. Alongside the entire community, document the flora, fauna and mineral formations for each Rendezvous World. Each world represents one tier of research, and each has its own expedition milestone and rewards. Universal progress can be viewed in the Mission Log, at the Quicksilver Bot’s kiosk, or at the Galactic Atlas site.


Development Update

The expedition reduxes begin today, and will run until February 5th, 2025. We hope they are a relaxing way to play No Man's Sky together over the holiday season.

Even as the year winds down, the team are still working enthusiastically on future content for the game - we have much more in store for No Man's Sky!

We've also been nominated in the Best Community Support category in the 2024 Game Awards! If you'd like to vote, you can do so here. The winners will be announced on December 12th.

And finally, we're making great progress on our upcoming fantasy title, Light No Fire. You can wishlist it on Steam here.


Our journey continues.

Sean

[Foxglovez]

Lindy - that sounds like a mod option. Someone should do dat. HG, probably not though it sounds cool but a lot to keep track of.

[Jaggid Edje]

Originally posted by Foxglovez:

Lindy - that sounds like a mod option. Someone should do dat. HG, probably not though it sounds cool but a lot to keep track of.

Not possible via mod options without HG adding the code that allows Galaxy type to be a factor for those specific aspects of procgen. Currently, that's not in the code, and mods for NMS cannot add new 'code' just new data.

[pootisMann]

Kind of wish we had more time than just two weeks per redux- I missed completing two already because my schedule kept me off the computer “just enough “ to miss out- lost two ships that way

[PocketYoda]

Eh i have sadly done all these..

[Lindy Bomber]

Aquarius starts tomorrow.

[intrepidmonkey]

Will you keep doing Redux Expeditions throughout the year?

I've recently picked up the game after a couple of years (3?) of not touching the game. Now my schedule finally clears up a bit and I am able to jump back in. I had to completely "re-learn" most of the game with all the major changes and updates (Amazing work by the way!!!!).

Titan was my first expedition, and it really served as a "crash course" for a lot of the content I've missed over the years, and it was a fun and awesome experience.

I keep learning new stuff every day, and I would really love a chance to play through the prior expeditions as well. Not to mention, there are some sweet ships I would love to add to my collection in those expeditions ;)

[Sentient_Pickle]

Originally posted by intrepidmonkey:

Will you keep doing Redux Expeditions throughout the year?

I've recently picked up the game after a couple of years (3?) of not touching the game. Now my schedule finally clears up a bit and I am able to jump back in. I had to completely "re-learn" most of the game with all the major changes and updates (Amazing work by the way!!!!).

Titan was my first expedition, and it really served as a "crash course" for a lot of the content I've missed over the years, and it was a fun and awesome experience.

I keep learning new stuff every day, and I would really love a chance to play through the prior expeditions as well. Not to mention, there are some sweet ships I would love to add to my collection in those expeditions ;)

nobody that posted in this thread including the original poster/OP, are from Hello Games. They generally only do the Redux stuff at the end of the year after all other expeditions for the year are done. At some point it'd be nice if they unlocked all of the expeditions so they could each be played whenever players want, but I have no clue if that's even possible on their end. We can hope though

[Foxglovez]

There's a mod that you can use to play them when you want. You just have to be off line. Someone will link it that uses it soon I would imagine. Other than that, HG does what it does. We're just here for the ride. And indeed if you have complaints and suggestions, you need to address them to HG Zendesk. They don't come here, just other players.

[Mr. Bufferlow]

You can obtain any of the cross save rewards from prior expeditions- plus any of the Twitch cosmetics using the save game editor. It is a powerful tool so use it wisely and sparingly. Easy to ruin your game if you are not conservative with it.

I mainly use it to change the output of my settlement to something actually useful/helpful. I pick the resources needed to make frigate fuel, which is a PITA to collect on a regular basis.

As noted, we never know exactly when expeditions will be re-run or when a new expedition is going to be offered. There is a reasonable expectation that at some point the expeditions will be offered up on some basis via the console in the Anomaly. No one knows if it will be one at a time, some selection of two or three with time limits like now, or even if they will just allow any and all of them as you want. That last option seems unlikely since they have to do some set up and clean up of the routes and management/bug squashing so it would be a nightmare for them if all of the expeditions were active at the same time.

They are a very small group. Last I looked they have less than 30 employees and some of those are probably administrative and not programmers. It is amazing what they have done with such a small group, but it did take them eight years to get here.

[intrepidmonkey]

Thanks for these answers. Very helpful. It's been a bit overwhelming to try to get back into all the new content at once. Keep on stargazing!