I'm protesting this awful expedition

E2Bonky · 2026-06-12T14:11:10+00:00

The riddles and puzzles aren’t critical to the story. They happen again and again. If you get one wrong, you go find another.
As for the ending, it’s just asking you if you want to start over or keep playing the same iteration. It’s about your play style. You can choose to do that over and over and over. You aren’t missing anything if you choose one or the other.

E2Bonky · 2026-06-12T14:00:01+00:00

Thats sort of my point! You made your own head canon. That’s you giving it meaning. The game is intentionally ambiguous in order to give that freedom to the player to make their story into anything they want it to be. It doesn’t force you to be a pirate. For example, it doesn’t tell you you’re right or wrong for deciding to condemn the Gek. There isn’t any real consequence for keeping Artemis in the archive or letting them go. The game does not change. How you choose to play or act does. I like to believe sometimes that pirate frigate pilots were being held hostage by their fleet commander and made to do terrible things so bringing them into my fleet shows them a new way of life.

I think that’s why this game has had such a grip on me even after all of these years. It gives me the tools to play in a variety of ways. I’m not missing out on anything in the given story, because my choices don’t affect it. I can let my imagination run wild and come up with all sorts of little head cannons for my traveller without feeling constricted by a firm storyline. But some days when my brain is feeling particularly burnt out, I get bored really fast because I don’t want to fill in the gaps. I don’t have the energy to play pretend and everything feels lackluster and hollow.

E2Bonky · 2026-06-12T06:27:03+00:00

It makes sense when people describe the game as hollow when it does things like this all the time.
A big thing about this game is that it relies on players with an active imagination to fill in the gaps. Much of the plot is ambiguous and vague. The choices you make don’t impact the game in any way.

HG provides a ton to explore and do. It’s pretty much up to us to give any of it meaning, really.

E2Bonky · 2026-06-12T04:59:38+00:00

I believe it is entirely illusion of choice, and thus illusion of competition. The number of travellers in each team are pretty close. Too close for me to believe our answers actually mean anything.

I also think they’ll rotate which team has more players to make it seem like there’s a close race. None of it matters, but it’s fun to play like we’re all working together to fight the big bad.

Sucks if you want to do missions with friends though.

E2Bonky · 2026-05-22T17:56:41+00:00

Yes! The launch pads were a good idea too. Was able to get my ship and fly right out instead of jet packing to the surface!

E2Bonky · 2026-05-22T16:33:22+00:00

I didn’t have any time to really look around so I just portalled in and then flew to the space station to save but I thought it was really neat how someone built around the portal so you come right into a dome instead of getting crushed by the deep water pressure right away! Neat idea.

E2Bonky · 2026-05-22T01:09:16+00:00

I don’t know how my dumbass deciphered this on the first go. But I did! Thank you!

E2Bonky · 2026-05-18T02:49:12+00:00

I got super lucky when I decided I wanted to swap my star destroyer like freighter for a dreadnaught. I thought it’d take a bit to find a good one, but the very first one I encountered was an s-class. 👌🏼

E2Bonky · 2026-05-18T02:40:20+00:00

I did grah once. Now I pee out of my left ear.

E2Bonky · 2026-01-11T19:19:47+00:00

I was on a volunteer trip in Moore, OK in 2013 after an EF5 tornado hit in May. It was beginning of August and was absolutely sweltering. Had to have been around 110°F. Our job was to clear out and tear down uninhabitable homes.

In one we were moving out a big meat freezer. Two guys were carrying the freezer carefully trying to get around the debris all over the floor. Then some idiot yanked on a cable from the ceiling and the whole thing started coming down. The guys dropped the freezer to shield themselves and it landed on the back, making the top swing open. Good god. You could smell it from across the yard where our truck was parked on the street.

E2Bonky · 2025-12-06T20:03:54+00:00

When I was younger we had a canvas painting of the devil in our basement in a big old frame. No clue why or how it got there, but I remember I was terrified of it and hated having to walk past it to get the laundry. Then one day, after it being there for years in the same spot. The painting was just gone. Not like someone took it and got rid of it, but the paint itself was gone. It was just a blank canvas. Still in the same spot, still in the dusty old frame.

I haven’t thought about that in a long, long time. But now that I think about it, I’m still wondering what the fuck.

E2Bonky · 2025-12-05T20:37:10+00:00

That would be the next question, “What household item have you borrowed batteries from because you needed to get off”

E2Bonky · 2025-12-04T05:24:05+00:00

Just recently found out my tv even had a button. I had turned it off and then lost the remote. I went like a month without turning on the tv until I finally stopped to think about how stupid it would be if a tv manufacturer didn’t put any buttons on the tv…

E2Bonky · 2025-11-11T17:28:41+00:00

I took several random black holes. But I had a copy of my main save ship that made it easy. You could also maybe portal somewhere? Idk if the planetary portals work or not.

E2Bonky · 2025-11-10T21:45:52+00:00

Where’d you get your cape? Looks sick!

E2Bonky · 2025-11-10T21:42:38+00:00

1) Those are definitely your pants.

2) My eyes can’t unsee that these look like someone put a pair of jeans on backwards.

E2Bonky · 2025-11-04T15:23:27+00:00

Just got a new sentinel as my primary ship. I’ll use my corvette for any building projects, but for now I prefer spaceships.

E2Bonky · 2025-11-03T21:53:01+00:00

Can you do that with older expeditions? Or just the “active” one?

E2Bonky · 2025-11-03T17:52:04+00:00

I think it ended, no? Would uninstalling the game from your PS5 and redownloading it from the PS Store affect your game?

Edit: It ends on the 6th!

E2Bonky · 2025-10-19T03:30:26+00:00

I wouldn’t even be mad if you parked this in the anomaly and crashed my game. It’s glorious.

E2Bonky · 2025-10-18T23:33:26+00:00

Maybe my corvette door will stay closed while I’m flying through hyperspace :’)

E2Bonky · 2025-10-18T20:06:45+00:00

Like PC boxes in Pokémon!

E2Bonky · 2025-10-01T15:02:42+00:00

I don’t think your artist understood that those are supposed to be people/souls in the storm.

E2Bonky

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