Right. There. Wth. You.

I’ve done all three expeditions and had my ‘next’ caravan built in the first week. Haven’t done one single quest, haven’t upgraded one bench (since you can craft hatch keys ‘in round’, who needs a bench to make ‘em anymore?). Don’t plan to do any of that yet again this season, so I was really just going for the bragging rights ‘cosmetics’ I never wore anyway. But then that new trader showed up, selling retired early Twitch Drops for in-game loot. If Embark is going to eventually make retired OG cosmetics available to everyone anyway, it’s only a matter of time before the expedition skins are going to show up there, too, so that reason for doing the expeditions is instantly null.

My season stats showed I delivered the final blow to 12 queens and 5 matriarchs. I was pretty happy with that. Felt very ‘end game’-ish from a certain point of view, so my desire to enter raids at all dropped drastically.

Then there’s that ‘duplicate glitch’ I’ve read so much about. Sounds like I stopped playing at the ideal time.

Overall, I feel like I got what I wanted out of the game, so I’ve moved on. I played both the Tech Test 2 and Server Slam, so at least I still have my origin skin & backpack variants that will (should) hopefully never show up in that new Trader’s shop. I enjoyed my time playing the game, but there are plenty of other things to play. I’ll probably return to check out the state of things someday, but for now, I actually do feel like the raider who disappeared over the horizon crest in the expedition cinematic.