No Man’s Sky latest Update, Expeditions, New Game Mode

No Man’s Sky Expeditions update has been released by Hello Games. The new update has brought a fresh game mode that has its own challenges and rewards.

Overview

No Man’s Sky is a survival game developed and published by Hello Games.

In simple words, it is a space game based around four pillars: exploration, survival, combat and trading. We play as the character known as the Traveller, who suffering from amnesia. Players are free to perform within the entirety of a procedurally generated deterministic open world universe, which includes over 18 quintillion planets. Through the game’s procedural generation system, planets have their own ecosystems with unique forms of flora and fauna, and various sentient alien species may engage the player in combat or trade within planetary systems. Players advance in the game by mining for resources to power and improve their equipment, buying and selling resources using credits earned by documenting flora and fauna, or otherwise seeking out the mystery around the Atlas, an entity at the center of the galaxy which serves the game’s overarching plot.

The game can be played with both first and third person perspective.

No Man’s Sky Expeditions Update

• Expedition Mode is a new game mode, accessed by starting a new game.
• In Expedition Mode there is no tutorial and the Artemis mission path does not automatically begin.
• In Expedition mode players start with a randomised ship, Multi-Tool and character customisation set. Their starting technology is also randomised.
• Every player beginning an expedition starts on the same planet.
• Expeditions are time limited. Players have a fixed period in which to complete a unique set of new challenges. Completing challenges awards a mission patch and unlocks rewards to assist your progress. These challenges, called milestones, can be undertaken in any order.
• The Expedition Page will show all earned mission patches, as well as track key exploration stats.
• Milestones can be pinned as your active mission via the Expedition Page, which offers targeted guidance towards their goal.

• Several milestones require a visit to a Rendezvous Point. These are specific points in the galaxy at which all players are required to check in in order to complete the expedition.
• Milestones are grouped into phases. Completing all the milestones in a phase will unlock exclusive rewards, such as new customisation options.
• The phase rewards for the first expedition include a new style of firework, a new banner, a new title, a new base part, an exclusive golden First Spawn helmet, a new jetpack style and a golden version of the iconic Alpha Vector starship.
• Once unlocked, these rewards can be redeemed on any save by visiting the Quicksilver Synthesis Companion on the Space Anomaly.
• When the time available to complete the expedition is up, no further rewards will be earned. However, the save will convert into a Normal Mode save and can be used to continue playing.
• Some milestones award inventory slots. These can be redeemed immediately or their token brought to the Space Station and applied via the Exosuit Upgrade Terminal.
• On key expedition planets, protections have been put in place so that resource collection is not synchronized across the entire playerbase, preventing exhaustion of the planet.