BRUTALLY HONEST ADRIFT REVIEW | NO MAN'S SKY 

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They are clearly putting more effort into their big patches and don't have that much time to work on the small ones. They literally said that a small patch balooned into a expedition. This patch has one job. To give you something to do while you wait for the next Big patch. I enjoyed the the tasks they gave. The problem is, people want to Speedrun through content and then complain how they get through it in five hours. They gave us 2 months to explore this weird old version of NMS to explore. No need to rush it.

Just finished my 1st run in about 5:30 hours of playtime and i really enjoyed it. Yes, the tasks are pretty familiar to previous expeditions and you have to do a lot of walking around, searching, grinding, crafting and some fighting. Does this slow you down ? Well yes, because that's the f*cking point of the game and especially this expedition. The game is an experience you shouldn't simply run through, but just let yourself go. And you can even go for a second time and do it totally differently, once you know what you really need. But again, don't rush, take your time and be happy for every milestone you get. Would i love some new and fresh experiences and tasks to complete in an expedition ? Yes, of course i do. But at this point i don't expect NMS to get new core game mechanic additions. I am just happy for anything Hello Games will give us, because that will end someday, eventually.

Cynical reviewing the expedition, meanwhile me who's still waiting for switch release:

The reason Hello Games keeps leaving in the early game tutorial- style "time wasters" into the Expeditions is that NEW players buy the game on sale and jump into the Expeditions. Enjoy the new stories. Personally, I love exploring and gathering so I am in heaven. I'm afraid you may be getting too cynical for me, professor.

You know, it seemed like your experience was nice. That spawned world looked amazing. Mine was a mountain world, and I had people immediately shooting me with mining lazers. I wish I had friends.

They changed a few elements to make it varied a bit but at the end of the day we are still running around doing achievements we have always done in Expeditions. They do not make a story line expedition that is in play with the rewards, they give us stuff but make us do the same things again and again to get them. There is 0 effort when it comes to the actual substance of the expedition, it is just throwing into the mix repetitive achievements.

Imports ship, imports MT "walking 9ku is diluting the expedition" 😅 I think you may have missed the point of this one in your excitement to finish all the tasks as quickly as possible, as I understand it it's supposed to be more of a strugglebus run.

The start & such aren't as much for active players but new and returnees. I have thousands of hours in but haven't played the game in a year. I came back to try out this new "adventure" and there are problems you don't even notice nor mention because you don't see them. Example: To fix your starting ship, you need Deuterium. The only recipe for that "long ago" was Di-Hydrogen and Tritium. They added a recipe that uses Silicate Powder vs Tritium but you won't know that unless you look it up. You see even the in-game catalog tells you you need Tritium and Di-Hydrogen, it doesn't mention Silicate Powder as an option and you cannot normally get Tritium on a planet vs asteroid mining. Example 2: Mining the rocks, again, they made changes to what drops while mining but, again, you don't see that nor mention that at all, just comment on "same thing".

With Ariadne been a spy/clone would have been nice if she was still there.... and just wondering around... if you speak to her may be she could just use the Void Mother audio files that sound like torture... that may have given me nightmares....lol

I went to the anomoly and it was completey dead and empty, with absolutely nothing happening, less than usual actually. It was incredible.

I don't play NMS much anymore. I enjoy the expeditions. Yes, they contain a lot of time wasting activities but overall I like the structure. Expeditions let me jump back into the game for a week or two.

The most annoying one for me was when I had to warp like 5 times to find a planet with robot animals, and then I ended up on a planet with only 2 species when the quest needed 3, so I had to go and find ANOTHER one.

Perhaps input some of your own ideas, so we know how you wouldn't 'cheapen' or 'dilute' the experience...? That would've helped

As someone who literally played the whole Expedition, i really enjoyed it, it was a great experience in my opinion. I agree with everything in this video. Some objectives felt out of pocket, the 2 biggest Milestones that put me off was Mine 3 Radiant Shards & Find a Sunken Freighter. These 2 were so off track that it doesn’t even feel like it should be in the expedition

Prof the walking 9000u i literally completed in phase 1 automatically 😂

Bro said it’s a review and instead just spoiled the whole expedition

Asking a company to turn Pac-Man into Space Invaders 6 years after its release is expecting a bit much. Especially when it's free.

Wait... How by Atlas did you start the Expedition using a Staff AND the Starborne Runner?!?

I thought this expeditions you would be alone completely, yet we see him running around with someone else tagging along? Also he didn't repair the ship, just summoned the previous expedition reward out of nowhere? And the multitool with all supercharged slots... hmm.

I'm always seeing fans of No Man's Sky theorizing about the void mother and all this stuff, it sounds like they are playing another game entirely. I see the things they are using as reasons, but i never see Hello Games do anything with it. This expedition could have been the perfect opportunity to have more lore added. All the traveler graves could have gave you more lore, but the only one in the expedition didn't even say anything and in my screenshot i took didn't look like it did in the trailer. I didn't see any of those cool starship wreck decorations around like in the trailer, so i guess its only a prize you use on your own bases. I was half expecting a graveyard planet for ships, wanted some place i could put a base computer i would want to come back to after the expedition ends. The only thing different besides the emptiness of this expedition is the frigate with that storm around it, is nice prize to have that around a freighter to enjoy when your on top of your freighter base looking around. I just was hoping could actually land on it like the other frigates, could have put a gek hologram on the deck that tells you sad stories of how are having to endlessly travel the cosmos, was a missed opportunity. I like where they were going with this, it just fell flat, I i wanted to drag this one out to really enjoy it, but by the time i got past phase 3 I just speed through the rest so i could get the Iron Vulture ship, because i was already tired of the expedition. On the positive side when i had to go through the mission on the derelict freighter it at least was one with the rogue drones and not the hive ones that are way to common to see.

"tricks to slow the game down" or "teaching opportunities" so new players can learn how to play the game depends on your point of view i guess... my guess is that long term players blast through the expeditions to earn the unique rewards not any unique game playing.

I would like to see some arena style combat. maybe at pirate stations. that would be awesome!

To me most expeditions are for the newer players w rewards for current players. It shows you the basics and stuff to do with the update. It’s not for the people who’ve played for years it’s getting new players engaged. That’s why it’s on sale every update/ expedition. There’s been worse expeditions there’s been better expeditions. I’m just glad they’re still updating it 🤷‍♂️

Hello games, every new expedition: "This is your periodic reminder that the game has a submarine."

Its an arbitrary expedition. To keep players playing. Until their next update. In 2 months. All this can be done in arbitration while playing. But is the reward worth it. The reward has to equal the grind.

"This survival crafting, resource gathering game has boring mechanisms and gameplay such as survival, crafting, and resource gathering" Silly biscuit. 😂

I've been completing most of all the gathering, walking, getting stuff and so on from the very first system. I spent alot of time on the first planet. Part of this in my mind is primarily devoted to exploration. That is essentially what an expedition is. If they didn't give you something to fetch or get or scan then what are you going to do? It's part complain, but not offer any suggestion on what they could do. Just complain. You've modded everything up to avoid the mundane things because you view them as a hindrance rather than a function of what space is. I've been enjoying it so far but I am not using any mods or trying to do things to lessen the experience. I mean everyone here should play the game the way they want to. Maybe one day HG will allow us to create user made expeditions via the annomaly uploaded like in the form of a memory fragment or something. How would you get players to go from point A to B to complete it without doing mundane things in between? I know you're creative as you were one of the leaders in the Light No Sky series. I started this expedition as a new save, no pass thru stuff nothing because I wanted the experience of being adrift with no help, no cheats and so on. This isn't to suggest I have never cheated the game like duping and such. But those saves I use for different purposes and play the game differently. This comment is just to counter balance and offer perspective. NMS is a game meant to be played. How you play it is up to you.

Four minutes in and i forgot this was a Cynical video... I thought it switched over to Just Jim 😳

Thanks for warning me. Like the reset and the center of the galaxy gotta prepare to minimize loss and damage. Was completely unprepared when doing the reset. Lost a lot of resources and took a lot of damage. Gonna hold off on this adrift for another month at least. In the center of the Euclid galaxy at the moment through glyph coordinates. Gonna prepare to go through the core when ready. Peace. Sounds Bad the different aspects of thisgame.

I completely agree. These reasons are exactly why I can’t stand expeditions. They’re such a slog.

What’s next I want better combat,nps , and hostiles

The high mountain achievement you can get on the same planet for the rendezvous 1

Wandering around , collecting stuff for a prize ? , could have literally put it all on 1 planet , ,,, start at your camp , go east 30 steps , go west 10 steps , go east again 5 steps , go north 7 steps,

okay i noticed the SC Slot layout, I Got lots to say about that but i won’t

I tried it and quit after dieing 3 times when climbing the mountain. I might try again but with a few upgrades .

My dude, you don't have to complete each step one by one. You can easily swith between tasks on your way to milestons and let shit like "walk some steps" or "scan some animals" complete itself. The only thing that need to be active in order to be completed is "climb" task. Others will be done in background

A bit harsh... i got a tingle at one point and they have shut down sneaky advantages... Am still playing it and I think this one I might do twice.. dont forget this is generalised for all players both new and old adventure, difficult path to follow... These are what keeps us keen and excited after so long... I wish there were more.. maybe quarterly... well done Hello Games!

Nada wasnt even in my game.

I can't receive rewards for phase 4 Fathoms Below. It says my inventory is full. But my inventory is not full. I wish they'd get their shit together and stop pushing out buggy and glitchy content for once FFS

I'm enjoying it so far . I'm almost done about phase 4 .

I started it yesterday, used the terminal from an existing save, and in the middle of the opening sequence where the camera pans around and you arent yet in control I got a random green screen hard crash (only happens with my RX 6950, never with any other GPU), reset and it played fine for a couple of hours. Some of the quest tasks are repetitive, but honestly, I am enjoying the expedition so far. I have never really paid attention to abandoned systems. It does create a bit of a creepy vibe, may have been a good expedition for October.

just have to take breaks from this game to continue enjoying the new content

How did you get the speeder without the quick silver guy?

why do you even play if all your going to do is complain, and maybe turn off all them mods

Wud u recommend doing it from ya main save?

This one felt like it was rushed, it was more like a beginners tutorial than an actual expedition. I did not like it and I finished it way too fast.

worst expedition-.-

Update is mid. So much stuff they could had added instead.

I don’t think it’s a catastrophe. It’s a filler expedition. It’s meh. They’re obviously more focused on Light No Fire and No Man’s Sky feels like a lesser priority because it is. And that’s okay.

how do u have supercharge slots on everything?

I thank the expeditions are grate there are some Grindy parts but it’s apart of the game.

Its free 👍

Its kinda plain for me

This is just a lazy expansion. To have it empty.

The busy work makes me and my wife not excited for expeditions. Tired of the same old sh*t. Often for rewards that a mid or sad.

I'm in two minds to run this at all not sure how much I want an exclusive ship and it shouldn't be behind an expedition, none of them should. The grind puts me off every time a new one comes along

Screw light no fire, no man’s sky is the only game that I need. All though the only thing I’m waiting for is gas giants,better stars and ships that I can explore.(I’m not hating on light no fire btw)

Stop playing if you are gonna complain .. the expidition is awesome

worse exp so far so drawn out

Updates weak af 😩

Ye really love the word "Dilute" don't ye?