There’s good news for No Man’s Sky players still miffed at missing their chance to add Mass Effect’s Normandy SR1 to their mighty frigate armada earlier this year; Hello Games is bringing back all four of the exploratory space sim’s Expedition events starting tomorrow, 24th November, meaning players will have another opportunity to earn all their associated rewards.
Expeditions, if you’re unfamiliar, are effectively No Man’s Sky’s stab at live-service-style seasonal content, offering limited-time, curated experiences that condense and reshuffle the game’s ever-expanding systems into a series of progression-based challenges – with various cosmetic rewards served up as different milestones are reached.
No Man’s Sky’s first Expedition, Pioneers, launched in March and was followed by Beachhead, which concluded with that delightfully unexpected Normandy reveal. The really very excellent Cartographers was up next – providing a wonderful re-entry point for lapsed players – and the year’s Expeditions concluded with Emergence, a deliciously dark adventure for those that can’t get enough of No Man’s Sky’s giant sand worms, and would very much like one of their own.
All four Expeditions will be cycled back into No Man’s Sky in chronological order, with players having two weeks to complete each one before it makes way for the next. Expedition 1 (Pioneers) will be available from tomorrow, 24th November, until 7th December, and the Normandy is up for grabs again as part of Expedition 2, returning from 8th-21st December. Expedition 3 (Cartographers) is back between 22nd December and 4th January, and Expedition 4 (Emergence) makes a big, noisy entrance from 5th-19th January.