With the top of the 12 months looming, Hiya Video games’ exploratory area sim No Man’s Sky is – in an prevalence that is quickly turning into a little bit of a convention – revisiting all its limited-time Expedition occasions from 2024 over the subsequent ten weeks. Meaning you have acquired one other probability to whizz via and earn their numerous rewards in the event you missed them the primary time round.
And I do imply whizz. Whereas Expeditions ordinarily final round six weeks, No Man’s Sky’s newest Redux occasion is racing via this 12 months’s choices at a tempo of 1 a fortnight. Moreover, issues are already underway with Omega – which kicked off 2024’s Expeditions again in February – now stay and operating till eleventh December.
Omega (as is the case for all future Expeditions) will be accessed by way of the terminal in No Man’s Sky’s communal House Anomaly, and – amongst its many rewards – provides gamers the chance to earn the quite flashy Starborn starship. Earlier than we cowl the highlights of every Expedition, although, here is the upcoming Redux schedule in full:
- Omega: twenty seventh November – eleventh December
- Adrift: eleventh December – twenty fifth December
- Liquidators: twenty fifth December – eighth January
- Aquarius: eighth January – twenty second January
- The Cursed: twenty second January – fifth February
Rewards for Adrift, which sees gamers stranded alone in an empty universe, embody a haunted frigate referred to as the Ship of the Damned. Liquidators, in the meantime, options natural chitlin armour to earn as gamers embark on a Starship Troopers-style bug hunt throughout the celebrities.
As for Aquarius, it is a pretty leisurely Expedition primarily involved with introducing No Man’s Sky’s new fishing system, and rewards right here embody the Misplaced Angler’s fishing tools and a octopus-inspired bobblhead on your starship’s dashboard. As lastly, there’s The Cursed – a horror-themed Expedition set in a collapsing actuality populated by spectral entities. Rewards listed below are fairly nifty, together with the Cthulhu-esque Horror Exosuit customisation, bioluminescent pets, and the UFO-like Boundary Herald starship.
Hiya Video games’ Expedition Redux occasion is now underway on all platforms, and it follows yesterday’s information that No Man’s Sky has lastly – eight years after its rocky launch – managed to hit the “Very Optimistic” opinions threshold on Steam. Reaching the coveted “Overwhelmingly Optimistic” rating shall be a little bit of a problem given the best way Steam rankings are calculated, however who is aware of – Hiya Video games has confirmed it nonetheless has “way more in retailer” for No Man’s Sky.