No Man's Sky Exobiology Expedition Is Now Live

thegamer.com:

As promised soon after the Sentinel update went live last week, the first No Man’s Sky expedition of 2022 has just gone live. Exobiology will task Travelers with leaving a lonely star system devoid of life to journey to the stars beyond in search of strange new lifeforms.

Exobiology seems to be all about the cute and cuddly critters you’ll find on alien planets. You start your journey with a "towering bipedal creature companion” before meeting “majestic diplos” at expedition route locations. Exobiology will task Travelers with discovering new species, befriending them, and then nurturing them as new companions. This will involve extracting their delicious milk to turn into delectable cuisine for Iteration Cronus. If No Man’s Sky has taught me anything, it’s that almost anything can be milked.

Related: No Man's Sky: Expeditions Guide

The Exobiology expedition will last approximately five weeks from today. You'll need to start a new save file to take part in the expedition and that save file will convert to a normal save after the expedition concludes.

And now the best part: the loot. Exobiology brings several new exclusive limited-time rewards, including the Reality Glitch jetpack trail, creature-themed posters, Exotic companion armor, an Exotic Wingpack jetpack, and the Sentinel Quad companion, which will hatch out of an egg. Why a Sentinel robot hatches out of an egg is best answered by completing the Sentinel questline from last week’s update.

No Man’s Sky has some pretty awful timing with this one as Exobiology arrives the day before Elden Ring, which is apparently the best game ever made. If you just can’t spare the hours to cuddle alien tentacle monsters, just know that Hello Games brought back all four previous