The GoG version of the game seems to be the absolute bottom of priority for recieving updates..
3.63 apparently out everywhere, except GoG for example.

Yes, however it's not unusual for us to be last to receive updates, GOG have to create an installer, and unfortunately NMS release this morning coincided with a small update to Cyberpunk so I'm guessing GOG focussed on their baby today.

At time of writing the GOG build depot for NMS has not been updated for 3.63 :
https://www.gogdb.org/product/1446213994#builds

.. Meanwhile .. steam is onto its next experimental update after 3.63

Which we dont get to participate in anymore for some reason, even if you have GOG Galaxy password entered plus experimental beta channel enabled (See attached screenshot).

I wonder if this is a GOG Galaxy 2 issue?

The speed of the previous two updates was pretty good. I'm slightly wondering what went wrong this time.

Unlikely for the previous two ones, which were just a nice surprise, I was eagerly waiting for this 3.63 patch from the very minute when I saw it mentioned on the NMS web page. Probably that is the reason for almost 2 days of delay now. Oh, you cruel world! :(((

A few months ago I sent in a support ticket to GOG about not receiving Experimental updates and after a week or so was informed that they are not making Experimental available. Automated responses came through almost daily saying that due to the pandemic they are slower to respond to support requests. So not a Galaxy 2 issue. The response also stated that GOG will only support main releases.

It definitely seems to be a decision that we are not worthy just like with some of the special promotions like Twitch drops.

Have also submitted support requests to Hello Games on these issues but no action taken. Hello Games does not reply to support requests other than the automated receipt acknowledgement so we either find something has been fixed or it has not been fixed.

I missed the "Expeditions" the first time around, and came in to the second one with just a day to go.
Having missed the start of them, I don't know - is the Expedition content unlocked by a patch?

I guess if it does (hope it doesn't) then we'll be hoping to get the patch at the same time, or risk falling behind.

NGL if NMS was on a bigger discount over on Steam I'd probably buy it again just to get away from the patch delay. Probably wouldn't be as much of an irritant if this game didn't get patches so frequently.

No, the expeditions content is not tied to a patch and the first two expeditions are no longer available.

There is an option to obtain the missing items by editing some files if you are up to that. Note that if you have saves using online servers these may, without warning, overwrite the local files that you edited, or so some have reported elsewhere. You definitely will need manual backups of those files both before editing should something go wrong and after editing.

This is also the way for GOG users to obtain the Twitch drops since GOG users are not allowed to link accounts to obtain these items.

If you chose to edit the files, Good Luck.

That's something, thanks for the confirmation.

I resorted to the edit trick after missing the first expedition, did manage to scrape through the 2nd one (though knowing the edit was available, that wasn't too dramatic) in time though.

I got pretty much the same answer from GoG when I asked about the experimental patch.
The response I got however eluded to Hello Games not providing the experimental.

I did complain about Hello Games/GoG not keeping up with current versions and
immediately after that the speed of updates was much quicker. I have not been keeping
up with it lately so I do not know if they slacked off again or not.

I also run steam experimental and I noticed pretty quick the version differences :)

Damn, I like taking part in those so that the game devs get bug reports fast before they go into hybernation again making the next big update (and dont let previously fixed, now broken parts of the game slip past them and go onto the very long term zendesk pile) I guess then it depends on who fielded the question for GOG, and staff not singing from the same hymn sheet .. Or maybe fobbing us off with a send them to bug someone else reply, sigh! ..
But then I have a feeling whoever you talked to may be correct, last time we had an 3xperimental beta update for NMS, I was following the steam sticky topic which regularly adds another bunch of fixes, followed by another period of time for testing. We had the first round of fixes beta, but then there were a couple more updates to the same beta which us GOG participants did not receive .. The next update we received was the final public release. So I have a feeling Hellogames can control which platforms are switched on to receive specific beta updates.
Maybe HG did not feel our platform needed to test the fixes, or maybe comparatively they dont get enough beta participants from GOG player pool to be bothered about switching it on.
I guess we will never get a straight answer.

Well at least we did eventually get v3.63, surprisingly it was released simultaneously with v3.64, they both went up on the GOG Build depots within minutes of each other.

Over the last two years I have submitted several tickets to both Hello Games and GOG about the lack of availability of Experimental although this was more when GOG simply was not keeping up.
1. Hello Games does not respond but that is how they are and have been.
2. GOG typically responded after they had gotten caught up, often skipping some, and it was basically that they are current at the time.
3. It was only in the last few months when GOG decided to stop. They didn't blame Hello Games but simply said that they want users to use the most current main version.

Same thing with 3.71. One of the best patches so far (in case you love base building at least) and it's nowhere to be seen on GOG more than 5 days after release.

I reckon its going to be sometime today. Discounting the weekend, and also discounting Monday (apparently November the 1st is a national holiday in Poland), today will be the second working day GOG will have had to make the offline installers (Thursday Hellogames announced release for all platforms, Friday maybe GOG went weekend early, and today is the first full working day).

<Shrugs> tiswotitis