That is a sick living frigate! I went on a tear when they came out, I have at least a dozen, but most of mine are the super-long tail and tentacle types. You got yourself a roughed up barnacled Pirate Queen there...
I still have mine, still wish it would have had some in-game use.
The Waking Titan ARG was THE MOST bonkers game launch thing I have ever seen and when I try to explain parts of it ("We had to collaboratively solve puzzles to unlock a fuzzy image on a web page that revealed another inscrutable clue", "We sent an actual human to a random physical location to collect the next clue by hand"), I get gobsmacked stares.
Kinda in awe of HG strategy this year. Release a moderate sized patch (Omega), kinda meh for long time users TBH, with a free-to-play-on-every-platform expedition, rope in lots of new users. < 3 months later, huge visual and gameplay update with the single most requested feature (since launch) from the existing userbase. This is the way.
Looked like just expedition rewards. But QS was never a reward in the past so this was a pleasant surprise. Two days of expedition grinding to collect the equivalent of 6 weekend missions? Sign me up!
[Sorry for the duplicate thread, y'all, I'm cross-posting from kbin.social and all this software is still new and buggy AF. Deleted the other one, since it had no comments. Farewell, nine upvotes, I hardly knew ye...]
Sure! You can claim it from the Quicksilver Synthesis Companion, to the right of the Nexus in the Anomaly. Interact with them and you will see "Collect Expedition rewards" as the bottom option. The Atlas Sceptre and Starborn Runner and all the other rewards will be there to claim from any save you have including any new save you start in the future.
The Expedition desk in the Anomaly is pretty slick, but if you collect stuff with wild abandon during an expedition (don't we all?) you will have some interesting questions to answer at the end!
The mechanism is: You claim all the rewards, including the new ship for completing all 5 phases, which, you have to be outside of your ship to claim, so proooooooobably you will do this in the Anomaly. Then head for the Expedition desk, where you can click and confirm that you want to end the expedition (it will warn you that you have incomplete optional tasks). That will open up the "transfer back to main save" storage. Which is interesting because: it isn't any larger than when you started. So if you started Omega from your main save and brought a bunch of stuff over, and you didn't use that stuff (I brought 40 repair kits, for example), then you have to decide if restoring those items to your main save is more important than bringing back any new stuff you collected (memories. hyaline brains, anomaly detectors, storage augmentation, lots of expedition related items with way more value than another 5000 carbon).
Once you've made all of those decisions, you again click to "finalize expedition". At this point, it will convert anything you aren't transferring back into units, nanites, or quicksilver! There is a nice display that lists a bunch of statistics, see screenshot (assuming I've attached it correctly). This is a good reason to max out your expedition suit and ship storage and Do all The Things.
One curiosity: Since I've got thousands of hours in this game, I am always running close to MAXINT units in the bank, so the calculation of how many units I earned bailed out when it hit the threshold, and just says -1. HOPEFULLY when I click this here button, I will still have my billions...if it actually resets my units to negative 4B...uh that's a bug.
On the other hand: 20k nanites and 9k quicksilver?! Hell yes!
Verdict: It's not perfect but I really like the new expedition desk and the whole "bring your ship and MT and a handful of stuff with you" capability.
Ah, packaging up Golden Vector modules to sell doesn't work, they are nerfed to only be worth 16 nanites :/ but having the GV was worth it anyway.
I think you made the right call. I DID use the Anomaly expedition feature and loaded up with elements and tech I thought might be useful, but none of that was available when the expedition started; even when I got off planet, calling the Anomaly wasn't immediately an option. I'm only a few milestones in, I'm sure I'll see it any minute now, but if I'd thought it through I might have stored more mid-game materials! I'll update when I get there; very curious about what else I can bring over from my main save.
Whew, with the low traffic I was getting worried that Lemmy wouldn't even cover the basics of what the old NMS reddits used to provide. Thanks for restoring my faith!
Illegal upgrades are a bit of a crap shoot. The best ones are a little bit better than the best S-class mods, but they have a lower floor, so the odds of rolling a max mod are lower overall. If you are willing to grind, buying out Pirate systems and ditching the duds can leave you with some pretty boss mods. For example, the one you got there, can spawn at something like 10-8-6-9% increases (I'm not sure you can get 10% for all 4?) Illegal mods can also get you 250LY hyperdrive mods, 20% Agility, 15% damage for ship weapons...
I love that they modeled in lensing effects SO MUCH.