This expo isn't a good one to start with. It's not a good one for anything, to be honest.

I have over 2000 hours in this game & I absolutely hated that expo every single second from start to finish. It's not fun. It's a long tedious slog. It's a cluster ♥♥♥♥ for new players who don't have game mechanics down. On the bright side, all of the "rewards" are pretty ♥♥♥♥♥♥, so there's not much you'd miss by just starting a normal save & learning the game through that basic tutorial.

This isn't a hand-holding game, they expect you to read all the prompts & use basic problem solving skills to play. It's not a 'chase a checkpoint' type of game.

The Cursed expedition is one of the more challenging ones. A few tips.

You can turn down the difficulty in the settings to make it easier.
The squid things have a weak spot where the tentacles and body join
Initially keeping your boundary defence topped up is your number one priority
The defence drops faster at night.
Once you are in space you are safe and the protection recharges.
One of the expedition rewards will be for an item that generates a stable area for a short distance. You are completely safe from the squid inside that.

Expeditions aren't compulsory, just a different way of playing with, occasionally, nice rewards. They also usually showcase new features. Though I have no idea where the squid fit in unless it is an awful pun.

I'm going to be honest... I just completely ignore expeditions, personally. I have never, ever liked the idea of, "Here's this new limited time thing you need to engage with or else you just miss it," in games. So since this game gives me the option not to engage with them, I literally just don't. I play the game the same way I did at launch when it came out - which I thought was already awesome back then, on day one, and did not require a "redemption arc" - which is just to go through the normal tutorial and enjoy exploring the universe solo with online turned off, and totally ignoring expeditions.

Skip this expedition. It's just not fun.

cogvos thank you for the tips.

I wholeheartedly agree!

But don't let it deter you from the rest of the game, I started playing in Oct with the original Expedition, LITERALLY had no idea what I was doing & didn't read A damn thing.

Just jumped in & said ahead full speed into that brickwall!

But the experience is something I'll treasure, it frustrated me & I almost just wrote it off as another $15 loss on A game.

I would have lost out on so much more if I had, Base Building, the New World's, the Community with this Game & the hope that in my offline playtime I can keep sharing the rewards for my mental deviations in Crazy Bases like A working Plinko Game from the Price is right, to A Pilgrim Skeeball game on A Gravity Planet.

There's plenty of good stuff in this game, but there's annoying stuff to, hope there's enough for ya!

Originally posted by Merlin69:

To even start these new 'expeditions' they've got harder and harder and puts you off playing the game altogether. Thought it was supposed to be a fun game? Died twice in this expedition, not doing it again.

I wouldn't start with an expo. Start a normal or caual or even a custom game. (wehere you can set all things to your own liking.) Then you also will have your tutorial. If you realy play the first time, follow the main story-missions. They will lead you through the game. Start building a base (this mission is within the tutorial) and you will also get additoinal base-missikons. DON'T buy. the exocrafts and different weapons for it, except the minotaur. The story and base-missions will get you that eventually. You will also get several multi-tool weapons and other tools with those missions.

When you completed the terminal-missions. you can buy the rest at the anomaly. You can also buy base-blueprints there. In comparison to all other things, you need salavaged data for that. (all other things cost nanites.)


You will get 5 terminals eventually: construction (the first) science, weapons, farmer and exocraft. In this order. And for every terminal, there is an emplyee, which has several missons for you. These missions will get you new blueprints. You can unlock those blueprints at the anomaly for nanites and slavaged data, but the missions will give them to you for free, including some upgrade-moduls. These are moslty of c or b-quality, however.

If you don't like those missions, you can just buy almost all things for nanites and slavaged data at the anomaly. I recomment to play the story at least until you are ordered to summon that. This is the MP-hub, and you can summon it literally everywhere, even in the middle of a big combat in space. (you can flee there, then, if things don't go well.)

Expeditions are special Multiplayer-campaigns, with significant different starting conditions. You won't get a freighter that easily, depending on expedition and even the anomaly can be different...

And cursed isn't easy. I didn't like it, and ceased it after 2 hours, not even nearly completing stage one...

A tip to make easy money: Buy s-class scanner-moduls at the space-stations and equip them in turbo-slots on your Multitool. You can have more than one multitoo, and I recommend to exchange your starting one as soon as possible, even if you find a damaged one. If you get a free Multitool, regardless of the circumstance EVERY time accept it. DON'T exchange it!. You can salvage not needed multitools at the anomaly.

The same is true for shipwracks. ALWAYS claim them and NEVER exchange or refuse them. If it is a weak c-class ship, just repair the shield, starting thrusters and impulse-drive. You can salvage that then at any space-station. (I'm not sure about pirate-ones, however. and you probably won't be ablet to salvage them at abandoned stations...) You can either slavage it for money, or keep special ship-parts, which make you possible to create your own custom ship eventually.
If you aren't able to repair the claimed ship at once, you need a freighter to get them to a space-station-then, however. (freithers automatically load your claeimed shipwracks on board, so you can repair them there.)

at the beginning, I recommend to check the custom-settings. There are some things, which makes it much easier and less annoying to get around space: One setting is, to enable you to get to any star sytem-type, regardless fo hyperdrive-system. I don't recommend that, however. But I recommend to unlock the according drives on your freighter for free (and only there and only this) because they cost an exorbitant amount of frigate-moduls And those modules are very hard to get imho. You will still need to build them on your freighter, then. The drives for your normal ship can be unlocked at the anomaly. (there is no other way to get them. afaik. so it's safe to buy them.) But don't forget to change the "free"-setting for buys back to standard or another setting of your liking first., if you want that.

BTW: after jumping a few times, you will get to an encounter, where a freighter is attacked. Help it! If you can safe the frighter you will get the option to claim it for free. You can refuse it, however. And some times later you will get another opportunity. So wahtever you do: DON'T buy a freighter, as long as you don't have one! Even if you have the money. (which I doubt...)

there is another combat-scene, where a dreadnought attacks a civilian freighter. If you can manage to safe it, either by destroying the dreadnought or by making it flee, it seems, you wil get the opportunity to exchange your existing feighter with the attacked one. You might need the exchange-money, however. But to my experience, although the price is listed and you need to have this money, the exchange is for free. I once did that. The price was 29 Mill. and I just could afford it. But after exchanging I didn't have a single cent less...

If only HG warned new users about Expeditions.... oh wait they DO (but only if you try and create an expedition as your very first save <- yeah, dumb I agree)
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