It’s true. I survived an expedition on Aura. I faced alien creatures that would make your worst nightmares shudder. And somehow I made it out.
The credit goes to my skilled extraction team. I went down, but they were there to pick me up. Even with only four of us on the field and threats coming at us from every direction, we located the Notari fragments and extracted the core. I even managed to pick off a couple loafers from a competing extraction team. Like they say on the platform, we’re all on the same team until we hit the surface. Then it’s every hunter for himself.
I was keeping watch while Jasper mined the core. I guess I was watching the distant Porcupines too close, dodging their acid-tipped quills so carefully that I didn’t notice the deadliest predator bearing down on me. When a Ravager’s coming at you hard, you don’t have time to run. So I got eaten.
I’d heard plenty of stories about getting swallowed by these monstrosities, but descriptions don’t really do the experience justice if you know what I mean. They swallow their prey whole and alive. The goal is to make it past the teeth without any major gashes. Something on the inside of the Ravager’s belly reacts violently with human blood and makes things even worse.
In the repulsive, vile darkness, your slimy hands tremble as you try to chamber a round. Trapped within the belly of a Ravager, your journey on Aura is drawing to an end. Play now https://t.co/7gibu03Qu2pic.twitter.com/kYrL67ycbV
The Ravager’s belly sack closes around you like a squishy and burning wet blanket. Once you’re in there, the Ravager will buck around like mad, but try to keep your cool. I was only inside that thing for probably 10-15 seconds, but I had time to question an entire lifetime of bad choices. Maybe there’s some kind of psychoactive toxin in its stomach acid to make sure the experience is unimaginably horrible, or maybe it was just my life flashing before my eyes. Who knows, but in that moment I decided I was never coming back to this Godforsaken planet if I got out alive.
Next thing I knew, a big hole was blasted in its side and the Ravager fell down dead in a pile of putrid gore. “You’re welcome,” Jasper said with a grin, holding the core under one arm and his weapon under the other. We took off toward the dropship, and we made it. We came out richer and I learned some valuable lessons about watching out for Ravagers – I just wish I could get the damn thing’s stink off me.
Am I going back for more? You bet your ass I am. I’ll see you on the surface.
Last Expedition Mission Ready
You can never be totally ready for a mission to Aura, but it’ll happen sooner or later. That’s why you’re out here in the outer limits of known space on The Platform.
Get ready for Mission Ready’s first big update, coming in the next couple weeks with a leaderboard competition, node upgrades, special drops and more!
Solve the Mysteries of Aura.
Plunder the most powerful alien tech in the universe.
The hunt has been lucrative for everyone here on the platform. Aura is remote… you know though, word spreads quick about treasure like this.
You haven’t noticed? It’s on everybody’s mind – no one has to say anything. With the riches we’re finding on this planet, a hunter could do a year’s worth of business in a few days. That kind of opportunity doesn’t stay undiscovered for long.
Everybody’s gearing up to get as much as they can as fast as they can. Never mind the parasites and the ravagers… more dangerous things will be here soon.
Prepare for some big updates coming to the planet Aura! This hunt just got serious.
Last Expedition: Mission Ready is a massive update to existing gameplay. Get ready for tons of new content, systems, fixes and much more danger.
The Mission
The hunter grind isn’t the easiest, we get it. That’s why Platform management has graciously agreed to recognize the sacrifices of intrepid hunters with a new performance-based advancement system! Thank you for your continued excavation of Aura in the face of workplace risks such as abandonment, disembowelment or alien ingestion!
Hunters will now gain XP from each play session, which will gradually let them unlock new ranks in Last Expedition.
As you achieve each new rank, you’ll receive rewards in Last Expedition’s new Character Token – LECHAR.
As new hunters rush to the Platform to hunt invaluable resources on Aura, LECHAR can be used to unlock new playable characters, each with a new assortment of abilities and strategic importance for a team of hunters. There may be a new one to unlock very soon… 👀
Modern Style
The Platform is exceedingly remote, so they don’t often get much exposure to the latest fashion trends across the galaxy. With the escalating influx of new hunters eager to plunder aura for big time loot, however, many new styles and trends have inundated the Platform.
Care to freshen up your style and sport some new fashion? Mission Ready will bring 16 new character skins along with nine new weapon skins.
Have you been stocking up on Minerals Core Chunks and Fragment Chunks? With this update, these hoarded resources are how you’ll gain access to these new character skins. Each of the 16 new Character skins has four different rarities – Uncommon, Rare, Epic and Legendary.
Remember though, only one team can keep the resources that they find to spend on new threads. There’s not enough room on this extraction platform for all of us!
More Danger = More Rewards
Higher threat level creatures and servers will have increased loot drops for the Mission Ready release. In tougher matches, you’ll get more XP, more resources and maybe even exclusive loot drops for escaping with the core.
The nine new Mission Ready weapon skins will be dropping from some of the most vicious aliens out there. Get ready to fight for it, because they’re not letting go of it easily!
Prepare for the Last Expedition Mission Ready pre Alpha build—dropping soon! Limited edition weapon fire skins incoming in-game. Collect them all before time's up! 🔥🔥🔥https://t.co/7gibu03Qu2pic.twitter.com/Mz01WwXlgu
Expect to hear more soon from us about all the new content coming up in the Last Expedition: Mission Ready release. Until then, good luck out there… and good hunting!
Gala’s extraction FPS will employ a complex meta-economic system to ensure a truly unique player experience, no matter how you choose to enjoy the game.
The mysteries of Aura run deep. Hunters risk life and limb there to extract priceless resources and bits of tech. But under the terrifying surface, they can tell that nothing on Aura is as simple as it seems. There is more to this story than meets the eye.
Similarly, players of the cutting edge extraction FPS are tempted to get lost in the fight for survival as frightening predatory creatures threaten to rip them to pieces at every turn. They must cooperate with their team on each expedition, knowing that only a single team can escape alive from the hellish yet ore rich alien wasteland. To the survivors go the spoils. If players get the idea that the planet itself is conspiring against them, they may be onto something.
In-Game Currencies
Thanks to the power of GalaChain, many minted in-game currencies with a variety of purposes will be used to ensure a gripping player experience with virtually endless combinations and strategic choices.
With the recently released GalaSwap platform, it will be possible for users to swap various currencies for one another, and even for $GALA. This allows the in-game currencies to act as a system of rewards for the game. Dedicated players will be driven to increase their skills and extraction prowess by sinking their in-game rewards back into upgrades and items like new characters, new weapons and ammo, skills, skins, emotes, and more.
Some currencies are rewarded as seasonal or daily missions are completed and used to make crucial upgrades that will enhance your ability to survive and extract cores in increasingly difficult servers. Others are more important on a meta level, gradually revealing the secrets of Aura in a thrilling Last Expedition narrative that will unfold.
Notarium
In today’s overview we’re focusing on Notarium, the most desirable resource that can be found on Aura. Notarium is named for the Notari, a cryptic race whose unimaginably advanced tech has invaded this previously harmless colony planet, changing the landscape into a fiendish death zone inhabited only by bloodthirsty killers.
The amount of Notarium that can be extracted from any instance of Aura is dependent on the threat level of that server. A threat level is assigned to each server based on the number of Creature Mods used by the server’s OP–Essentially, as the PvE element in a mission grows stronger, more Notarium is available for harvesting.
Using Notarium
Other than trade within GalaChain, the primary use for Notarium is purchasing minted items (NFTs). Its secondary use is for crafting higher level Meta game recipes.
For OPs, this means purchasing new OP Mod NFTs for their server, increasing the threat level and, as a result, increasing the amount of Notarium that can be harvested by players in that server. Types of OP Mods include:
Creature NFTs
PvE Mods
Server Mods
For Hunters, Notarium is used for high level meta game crafting. Look for more information about crafting in an upcoming blog. In the current Early Access build, players enjoy access to a plethora of killer items and supplies, many of which will require crafting when the final live version of the game is released.
Only One Team can Make it Out
When 4 teams take on Aura in an attempt to extract with the Notari Core, only one can make it off the planet alive. This means that while every player can harvest Notarium and other resources during the expedition, only one team gets to keep what was harvested – the team that successfully extracts.
On top of that, if the server’s predators are victorious, no one escapes alive with the precious alien tech gathered. In these cases, the server OP gets to keep the Nortarium, along with the other resources sought by hunters of Aura.
Different Perspectives
Last Expedition looks very different to average players than it does to OPs who manage their own servers. Everyone is equally interested in gathering Notarium, and how you do it depends on your role.
The Player Experience: Grinding for Glory
Remember, the hunter characters looking to get rich on Aura have nothing to lose. They have traveled to a remote mining platform at the furthest reaches of known space in hopes of getting their hands on some of the most valuable tech resources in the known universe. With Aura so full of such precious resources, these brave (or foolish) hunters have looked past the danger to the rewards at the mission’s end.
Players are looking to enhance their ability to emerge from Aura with more resources. Therefore, they will continually enhance their arsenals and collections in order to win more matches.
Many aspects of the player experience will require strategic resource hunts. Weapons, ammo, and even characters will require resource expenditure to unlock as you make your way on Aura.
The OP Experience: Controllers of Aura
A huge focus of the Last Expedition experience is for those who operate Nodes (OPs) and run their own servers in the game. In many ways, operating a server is a game of its own, requiring strategic attention and rewarding those who are most effective.
“Victory” for an OP means that every team was destroyed by Aura’s predators and no one escaped with the Notarium that was harvested. Node operators work for the Notari AI construct that is programmed to terraform the planet of Aura. Therefore, OP’s are direct beneficiaries of failed extraction missions, taking the harvested Notarium for the Notari in their continued mysterious efforts.
When you create an Aura with your server that is enticing but also punishing, you’ll draw the bravest hunters into your trap and clean up everything they manage to harvest. As you collect the Notarium that came from the spilled blood of hunters, you can use it to increase the threat level and difficulty of your Aura.
Next to Come
Over the coming weeks, we will release a series of articles with more information about Last Expedition’s economic nuances, including details on things like crafting, storage and rewards. Look for more details about:
Meta Game recipes (crafting)
Blueprints
The backstory of Aura
StashCoin, CharacterCoin & XP
Minerals (LEMIN), Fragment Chunks (LEFC) & Core Chunks (LECC)
Early Access token holders have been digging into Aura for a couple months now, crafting weapons and ammo, harvesting cores, and occasionally spending time in Ravagers’ bellies (we’ve all been there). They may have set themselves up for an early head start, but now it’s your turn…
That’s right. Anyone can download and play the latest pre-Alpha release now on PC through LastExpedition.game.
There are Notari cores to extract and pressure alien ore to harvest. Get out there and flex your extraction muscles!
Join us for 2 hours of Last Expedition gameplay at 2pm PT on Youtube for a chance to grab an Early Access Token!
With the latest early access build running full throttle for all Hunter’s Early Access Token holders, it’s time to build up those Last Expedition chops. If you don’t start practicing soon, the Ravagers, Snappers and Porcupines will tear you apart–and they’re only the beginning of the horrors that this hostile and mysterious alien planet will throw at you.
The stream starts soon–Set a notification at the link:
Come die– I mean play with us. The challenge will be met by a handful of Gala Games team members, and this is your chance to show them what you’re made of. Don’t be surprised though if you put us to shame. We spend most of our time making games, so there’s not always a lot of time to play them. That’s why we love to come together for Gala Plays streaming events.
Your host will enjoy the game in spectator mode, with extensive audio commentary (talking about players as they die and the predators who kill them) and the ability to toggle between all players in the mission. This mode makes an especially compelling front row seat when players are surrounded, swarmed and eaten.
Watch the stream to find out which server we’ll take on, and once we have filled the first mission to a total of 16 players (from the community and the team) we’ll launch the shuttle and all hell will break loose. Once we get going, make sure you stay in the game, because you’ll probably lose your spot if you exit while we’re streaming.
Download the Game
Once you have a Hunter’s Early Access Token in your GalaChain inventory, you’ll have the ability to download the game via LastExpedition.game. Additionally, you need a free Epic Games account, with which you’ll log into the early access build.
You want a Hunter’s Early Access Token in your wallet.
Win Early Access
During today’s stream, we’re ready to hand out Hunter’s Early Access Tokens to four aspiring hunters who don’t yet have access, but you’ll have to tune in live to be eligible for the giveaway!
We’re also streaming Last Expedition next Friday, so look for additional opportunities (especially in Discord) to unlock early access and get in the game before then.
After today’s stream, drop a shoutout for the hunter that carried the day in the galaxian-shoutouts Discord channel!
Prepare for ExtrACTION
Once the four teams of four drop into their chosen dropzones on the unforgiving planet of Aura, it’s a mad race against predators and players to mine resources, acquire core fragments and extract with the coveted Notari Core. Only one team can get out alive, and sometimes the aliens win.
Your team will have to work together and use every tool available to get the job done. This includes on-the-go crafting of high tech weapons and ammo, constant communication, and coordinated bubbling to locate resources and core fragments.
Once the first team has collected three fragments, the location of the Core is revealed and the final rush is on. Once the Core has been secured, it’s a mad dash to the dropship, upon which all enemies will quickly converge–players and aliens alike. Don’t assume that obtaining the Core means that you’re safe.
Can’t make it today? Join us next Friday for another Gala Plays stream with Last Expedition. But we’ve got to warn you–we’ll be warmed up and hungry for Cores.
If you don’t yet have early access, get in the Discord and hit up your Last Expedition Node operator friends, who still may have some to spare. Otherwise, you can easily purchase the Hunter’s Early Access Pack right now in the Gala Games store, which includes a bonus rare “Ice” Skin for Specialist Hunter Alice Mackeye!
