My game on pc says there is a new expidetion but when I goto the starting place it’s at 17. I thought expidetions started on Mondays.
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Expedition 17 is still running for another four weeks I believe, it might be down to 3 now.
There is no scheduled date for the next expedition. They’re never necessarily all back to back, the usual pattern is update with an expedition, then an update without one, rinse and repeat.
Last year was a little unusual in that it had 5 expeditions throughout the year, but then exp16 was followed by a redux of expedition 2 before the usual Christmas repeats of that years expeditions and then we went straight from that into expedition 17.
I think this has been the longest streak of constant expeditions, usually theres 2-3 month gap between new expeditions (which there was between 16-17 give or take a month if you don’t count the redux)
I get the feeling expedition 18 will be maybe April, if not towards the end of march.
Expedition 17 was also delayed for a week due to bugs preventing some people from completing the redux of 16 and to give those folk more time.
So 17 could run closer to 18s release due to the delays.
To give you a better idea here’s a breakdown of the expeditions by month and year
2021 - expedition 1-4
March, may, September, November.
2022 - expedition 5-8
February, April, may, July
2023 - expedition 9-11
February, June, August
2023 was the odd one out due to it only having three. It’s also the year they announced LNF so they were clearly busy trying to get that to a presentable point. It also marked the first lore heavy expedition with Singularity which probably took a lot longer to craft than the usual expeditions, which may also account for only three
2024 - Expedition 12-16
February, may, July, september, October
We got five last year (6 counting the beachhead redux) which made up for 2023’s 3 expeditions.
So while the pattern is not exact, you can expect them every few months and 4 a year seems to be the target.
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