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Expedition 8, Polestar

 This is a companion to the Endurance update, so it's all about freighters. That's the good news. The (depending on how you see it) bad news is that it is so short that I didn't even get to take a single screen grab. There is NOTHING wrong with it, it's just that after the emotional abuse that was Leviathan, this is basically a cake walk. More good news: you don't have to wait until the last day of the expedition to convert your save, instead it is done as soon as you finish it.  Looking back, everything was easy except for the optional Hospitality milestone. The easiest way to score this is to hang out at the Anomaly until somebody shows up asking to join, then you can visit each other's freighter bases. I got mine without even talking to the other person, I just picked them up at the anomaly, flew outside until I realized that there was a second freighter marked in gold, I landed and boom, done.  In my opinion the real purpose of this expedition was to show pe...

Endurance Update: First Impressions

 Captures are from a creative save with about 80 hours of play time.  There are some reports of freighter layouts getting corrupted, in my case I had no real trouble. I did lose my teleporter and the trade terminal, everything else was pretty much the same. The only glitching was in areas with stickers if a particular room changed to the new style with faceted walls.  It *was* confusing as hell to walk around the first few minutes. After an hour or so it feels completely natural. The biggest change of course is that they basically re-invented freighter construction. There are also a lot of quality-of-life tweaks. For example you can now teleport back to a freighter. And you can teleport from your freighter to a frigate to inspect or fix it. You can also recruit additional living frigates like Leviathan, you will need to build a Dream Aerial, which is a reward from a frigate expedition. I got mine the next time a frigate expedition ended, and it took just a few minutes to ...

Expedition #7: Leviathan is over

 Well, at least for me. The Iteration Five community milestone was met just a few minutes ago, if you haven't finished yet you have less than two days to get the rest done. The Leviathan frigate is buggy, in the freighter holograms it's displaying as the Normandy.