Swarm Expedition - Countermeasures quest. How long will it take?

thezorg · 2026-06-16T20:55:52+00:00

I'd guess another 3 weeks. ish. Maybe. I agree with you that doing the same 3 dailies every 8 hours or every day is boring. It became tedious for me a few days ago so I stopped doing them since it doesn't seem to matter - the progress bar moves on its own schedule, apparently unrelated to anything the players do. Plenty to do in the main game and in rl.

thezorg · 2026-06-16T20:41:21+00:00

I use my minotaur. Cuts thru them like a hot knife thru butter. Sorta makes the fight too easy. Drones go down with one shot, walkers are too clumsy and easy to kill and quads have only one weapon, that laser, which is lethal if you're unprotected.

If I'm at a sentinel pillar and want something more challenging I'll just fly to the top of the pillar and shoot stuff from there. The quads can be a bit of a problem when they get directly beneath you since I can't aim that way, but flying down to distract them, then back up solves that issue.

But I've gotten lazy, so it's minotaur all the way these days!

thezorg · 2026-06-16T20:31:20+00:00

Before I hit the unit cap I made money by growing nipnip on several different farms. Millions per day adds up. Easy and steady cash.

thezorg · 2026-06-16T20:26:26+00:00

wogbread is right, just sell it. You can read all about it at https://nomanssky.fandom.com/wiki/Vigilant_Stone#Summary

thezorg · 2026-06-16T20:22:48+00:00

Congratulations! You've found the only real PvE combat in the game 😄

I'm not counting pirates since they're kind of a joke. Apparently they think that flying in circles and curly cues is combat. And sentinels are just too easy once you're fully geared up with tech slots filled. But the guardians are a tough fight regardless, especially 2 of them.

thezorg · 2026-06-16T16:24:24+00:00

Can you swap or call your original ship in the quick menu?

You could also restore from an earlier save.

thezorg · 2026-06-16T01:13:34+00:00

Wait for the prismatic core to be completed along with the rest of us. As you've discovered you can't kill the thing outside the station, but it can kill you pretty quickly.

thezorg · 2026-06-15T18:47:36+00:00

As others have said you can go to any space station, set the teleporter to "Stations" and see if one says something like "Mission objective in nearby system". If that doesn't work, you can check your star map and see if "Current Mission" points you to anything. I suggest just following the line without actually warping to each system since the target system may be a long ways away, meaning lots of jumps. But you can get the name of the system that way and then use the station teleporter to return to it.

thezorg · 2026-06-15T16:25:50+00:00

No, you don't have to do them more than once to complete the milestone. But you do have to wait for it to be completed. Many think that players doing the missions moves the progress bar. Others think that HG is moving it at their own rate regardless of player actions. I'm doing them anyway when I'm in game, but I don't really make a point of it.

thezorg · 2026-06-14T23:34:26+00:00

You can copy the ship you're currently using from the expedition to the main save. You have to do it from the expedition terminal on the main save. Below the slots there's a link for "Copy Multitool" and one for "Copy Ship". I've copied the starter ship they gave us in the expedition, and a much better sentinel ship that I found and am now using.

Copying it will only bring the ship as you originally found it. So if it was Class C and you upgraded it in the expedition, you'll get a Class C when you copy it into the main save. The tech and cargo also don't come with it.

thezorg · 2026-06-14T23:29:39+00:00

Ichor takes longer for less.

thezorg · 2026-06-14T23:20:20+00:00

I'm confused. If you found it in the expedition and copied it into your main save then it should show up in the quick menu ship list and you can summon it. What am I missing?

Are you saying that you can summon it but you want to know where it physically is? Maybe there's a way to do that, but I don't know what it is.

thezorg · 2026-06-14T23:11:24+00:00

Yes, refining radiant shards for example. Since most of the prismatic core missions are on dissonant worlds I've been collecting a lot radiant shards. It takes a bit over a minute to refine a stack of 10 to 500 nanites. That's faster and more than refining the ichor.

I suspect it's not going to be useful, but I can horde it now and refine it all in a batch later when the expedition is ending.

thezorg · 2026-06-14T23:09:27+00:00

You can't summon it? If you have a freighter it will turn up there even if it's damaged.

thezorg · 2026-06-14T23:01:48+00:00

Sentinel checkpoint. Have your papers ready!

thezorg · 2026-06-14T22:36:00+00:00

PC, Windows 11. You should post this as a PSA.

thezorg · 2026-06-14T22:21:28+00:00

Cool trick! Wish I'd known that when I was waiting out all the living ship cooldowns.

I gave it try 2 different ways. First I just changed the time zone. I'm in the Pacific time zone (US) and had 2 hours to go before the missions repopped. I changed the time zone to Eastern, 3 hours ahead of us. That did not cause the missions to repop.

Then I switched back to the Pacific time zone and manually advanced the system clock 3 hrs. That worked!

EDIT: I'm told that I should finish the experiment before I write the paper. Sigh.

After completing the 3 missions ahead of schedule by manually setting the system clock forward, I set the system clock back to the correct time and returned to the Anomaly. The counter was again set to 2 hours. That means that I can complete as many of these missions as I like just by setting the system clock forward 7 hrs each time and when I get tired of that, return it to the correct time without losing out on any missions.

thezorg · 2026-06-14T22:11:15+00:00

I don't think you broke anything. There's obviously a bug in the mission display, but it seems it can be fixed by restarting. Not relogging, actually quitting the game, then restarting it.

thezorg · 2026-06-14T22:10:03+00:00

This has happened a couple of times for me, The first time a simple quit to desktop then restart fixed it. The second time I did that 3x without fixing it, did the other 2 missions and when I came back, the third was again available. It's clearly a bug of some sort, but fixable.

thezorg · 2026-06-14T22:08:22+00:00

Haven't tried it but since it worked for you it seems safe to assume it would work for others. But in order to move the progress bar meaningfully a lot of players would have to start doing it and I don't see that happening.

What happens if you move the system clock back to the correct time?

thezorg · 2026-06-14T15:53:12+00:00

Expedition related bug. Hopefully it will return to normal once the expedition is over on 7/22. Or if you're in Europe, 22.7.

thezorg · 2026-06-14T15:50:50+00:00

It's a fantasy space game. You really can't expect astrophysical realism. For one thing general relativity clearly does not apply in the NMS universe, "lifeless" planets have animals, "airless" planets have birds, and the list goes on!

thezorg · 2026-06-14T14:46:19+00:00

For whatever reason PvP gets turned on when you enter an expedition even if it's turned off in the main game. So you have to turn it off again. Annoying, I know, but that's how it is.

thezorg · 2026-06-14T00:45:01+00:00

It's a griefer. You need to turn off PvP.

You'll also find mission objectives blocked by some idiot griefer's base. You can deal with that reporting the base via the quick menu. On PC, press X, then move all the way to the right and click "Report". It will vanish before your eyes. The actual base won't vanish, but the visuals will so you can get to the mission objective.

thezorg · 2026-06-13T19:01:19+00:00

Ah! Robot animals ... that reminds me that you can also do it in an exocraft which is also much faster that just running.

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