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Expedition is a three-player matchmade activity from Season of Plunder. It can only be played through the Expedition playlist, not launched as an individual mission. Its three missions were added weekly as the Sails of the Shipstealer quest progressed: Expedition: Europa first, then Expedition: Cosmodrome, then Expedition: Nessus.

Overview

Fireteams escort a Treasure Haul cart through areas, fight pirate crews and excavate buried treasure. They collect the treasure, escort it, then defend it until the evacuation point. Each mission ends with a regular chest and a bonus chest, and the bonus chest can be opened with a Treasure Map.

Phases

  1. Drilling: A drill periodically unearths engrams. Players pick them up and throw them at the treasure haul device before they vanish. Drilling ends once enough treasure is collected. Champions such as Unstoppable Ruffians try to steal treasure during this phase.
  2. Jammer interruption: A Jammer may spawn behind a shielded barrier. Players bring the barrier down by killing nearby enemies, destroy the jammer, and return to the drill site.
  3. Escort: The treasure haul is escorted to a second drill site, with players staying next to the payload as it moves.
  4. Final escort and boss: The haul is escorted to the last location, where enemies and a boss appear. Defeating all enemies completes the mission. An Overload Saboteur can halt the payload until it is defeated.

Treasure Maps

A Treasure Map is restored in the Captain's Atlas, either before entering or at any point before the fireteam is forced to leave. A restored map lets the fireteam dig up one extra chest from an Eliksni-symbol mound, and digging it consumes the map. Rewards vary by map but always include Plundered Umbral Energy. Maps are made with Map Fragments from Ketchcrash and Treasure Coordinates from various activities. Upgrades such as Precise Cartography increase the energy found, and Rumored Treasure Map allows one rumored map per week.

Rewards

The end-of-mission chest grants Glimmer, gear and Savvy reputation, which raises rank with the Star Chart vendor.

Patch notes

  • 6.2.0.2: Fixed a treasure-duplication bug.
  • 6.2.5: Ruffians no longer despawn when drill phases end, and their spawn rate rose by 7%.

See also Expedition: Europa.