Scavenging Dead Titans for Drives and Loot

[aRJay]

I have the titan drive component, my bottleneck is getting 16 DATAMINED WAKE EXCEPTIONS

What are your best ways of obtaining lots of these? (I assume they're rare enough during wake-scanning that that's a poor way to get them in this kind of quantity)

I initially got enough for a drive from evacuating refugees from Sol during the war, but now I need more because I am greedy and want more drives for my other ships
Datamined Wake Exceptions are sometimes (but rarely) a payment for passenger missions, so I'm currently hopping between stations looking for the right mission, but if you know a better way to find these puppies, please share!

I haven’t started acquiring these drives yet so I don’t know how many DWE I have in hand, they were turning up in those rescue rewards but I don’t remember if I could still accept them at the end.
If I do run short I will probably just trade up/down/across for them and scan or visit EEs to fill any data bins that have room.

 

[anShpan]

16 DATAMINED WAKE EXCEPTIONS

What are your best ways of obtaining lots of these?

Jameson Crash Site -> Material Trader (Encoded). That's how I got mine couple of days ago.

 

[Brieus]

Jameson Crash Site -> Material Trader (Encoded). That's how I got mine couple of days ago.

Yeah, that's what I've been doing. Seven (ish?) trips had gotten me 300 of all level 1, 100 of all level 2 & 3, and 25 level 4.

 

[Valorin]

Unfortunately, the best way I know for obtaining the wake exceptions is the above method of scanning the data points at said crashsite, relogging and and do it again (which works via ship, by the way. No need for an srv).

I'd really love for that to change. First because this is actually a lore location known as a cheap farming ground (part of the 11 INRA locations), and because it's not a farming method that should be in a game. Frontier could as put a beacon somewhere just dispensing endless amounts of data without relogging. Same effect without the forced respawn..

 

[Valorin]

I have the titan drive component, my bottleneck is getting 16 DATAMINED WAKE EXCEPTIONS

What are your best ways of obtaining lots of these? (I assume they're rare enough during wake-scanning that that's a poor way to get them in this kind of quantity)

I initially got enough for a drive from evacuating refugees from Sol during the war, but now I need more because I am greedy and want more drives for my other ships
Datamined Wake Exceptions are sometimes (but rarely) a payment for passenger missions, so I'm currently hopping between stations looking for the right mission, but if you know a better way to find these puppies, please share!

I sincerely hope you either have a fleet carrier for storage or an anti corrosion cargo hold.

 

[anShpan]

Yeah, that's what I've been doing. Seven (ish?) trips had gotten me 300 of all level 1, 100 of all level 2 & 3, and 25 level 4.

Something is wrong... for me it was exactly as described on reddit , 9(?) data points pack 150 G4 and 100 G5 with max one re-log, which gives as at least 20 (100/6 + 150/36 ) G5 material of choice at trader.

 

[Happy Daze]

I have VoiceAttack & HCS Voices (not required for this). I created a voice command “Restart Game” that exits to the main menu & restarts the game in Solo mode. Much faster than manually restarting it.
I think I can share the code but timing is probably different for each computer.
LMK if interested.

I was just there and created a video showing where to park the SRV to get 5 scans, and the method used to restart the game.

 

[Happy Daze]

Something is wrong... for me it was exactly as described on reddit , 9(?) data points pack 150 G4 and 100 G5 with max one re-log, which gives as at least 20 (100/6 + 150/36 ) G5 material of choice at trader.

I was just there, EDDiscovery shows up to 18 items in one scan. Filled up very quickly!

 

[SteveWW57]

Find a system in the famine state, sit outside the station with a long range scanner and scan everything. Even the less wanted mats can be traded.

I am sat on 75 DWE, no relogging required.

 

[Neilski]

Find a system in the famine state

I'm fuzzy on this stuff. Is "Famine" a system state as well as being a faction state, or just the latter? If hunting for scans, what's the best way to find a suitable system? There are so many ways to tweak a search in Inara...

sit outside the station with a long range scanner and scan everything

I just modded a wake scanner for fast-ish scans (5 seconds) yesterday, so I can whizz around and scan stuff (worked nicely in a test run at my local station, even though not very busy, got maybe a dozen DWEs in total, i.e. 4 scans).
I hadn't considered going long range instead. I have no idea which would be faster overall, but probably the LR... I guess fast scan is less boring though
(LR: 10 seconds, 8800 m; standard: 10 seconds, 4000 m; G3 fast: 5 seconds, 3400 m.)

Saying all that, do you mean long range for the main sensors or the wake scanner or both?

 

[Brieus]

Something is wrong... for me it was exactly as described on reddit , 9(?) data points pack 150 G4 and 100 G5 with max one re-log, which gives as at least 20 (100/6 + 150/36 ) G5 material of choice at trader.

Like I said, I filled up all of the G1, G2 & G3. I had at most a couple dozen of any of them before I started.

 

[Archvillain]

FWIW, really fast way is to just grab that sensor and fly to a thargoid structure in the Pleiades.

Go in...4 chambers, each with 3 links. Each link drops 2 fragments, each fragment gives 3 parts.

3x2x3x4 = 72 fragments, no relogs. Just in case people need them for the engineers still.

I needed fragments for engineers, so I followed your advice. Reading the (possibly out-of-date) wiki it sounded like you need a thargoid sensor, a thargoid probe, and a thargoid link. The link can be obtained at the site but you have to bring the probe and sensor. So, armed with a thargoid sensor scavenged from the wreck of the titan, I set off for the Pleiades.

Finding a probe turned out to be quite difficult. Before the war they were easy enough to find, but not any more. In my search for a probe, I found enough sensors and sensor fragments that I just went ahead and unlocked the engineer without ever setting foot in a thargoid structure.

But just now (after spending an hour dropping into signal sources while looking for a probe) I dropped into Non-Human Signal Source [Threat 5] in my puny exploration-outfitted Mandalay. Among the wreckage of ships just destroyed by a thargoid was a probe! As well as the thargoid that just destroyed that ship for carrying the probe! And I am NOT in an AX ship, nor a sub-20 cold ship. So I saw the probe and said "YISS!", the thargoid saw me (carrying a thargoid sensor) and said "BLOOOOOOORRRRRR!" and started intercepting. I don't know my goid ships, so I don't know what its weapons are but it was big (most of them are). I put full power to shields and tried to scoop the probe before destruction. The goid closed the gap too fast and was between me and the probe, charging its weapons, so I had to run, leaving the precious probe behind. It gave chase. After running a while I turned around, reversed course and shot past it, so that now the probe was ahead of me and the thargoid was behind me. I raced towards the probe, the problem was that if I went too slow, the thargoid would get me, but if I went too fast, the probe would be destroyed instead of collected by the cargo scoop.

A few seconds of ace piloting later, there was a probe in my cargo and a thargoid losing distance in the rear-view holo!

Next step: is there a good in-game way to find a thargoid structure? Eg. a listening post somewhere that starts you on a breadcrumb trail of clues to follow?
Having gone to this much trouble, I think I'd like to maximise the adventure rather than look up a location online

 

[anShpan]

Like I said, I filled up all of the G1, G2 & G3.

Sorry, I've misunderstood you. I've missed keyword "all".

 

[Jmanis]

I needed fragments for engineers, so I followed your advice. Reading the (possibly out-of-date) wiki it sounded like you need a thargoid sensor, a thargoid probe, and a thargoid link. The link can be obtained at the site but you have to bring the probe and sensor. So, armed with a thargoid sensor scavenged from the wreck of the titan, I set off for the Pleiades.

Finding a probe turned out to be quite difficult. Before the war they were easy enough to find, but not any more. In my search for a probe, I found enough sensors and sensor fragments that I just went ahead and unlocked the engineer without ever setting foot in a thargoid structure.

But just now (after spending an hour dropping into signal sources while looking for a probe) I dropped into Non-Human Signal Source [Threat 5] in my puny exploration-outfitted Mandalay. Among the wreckage of ships just destroyed by a thargoid was a probe! As well as the thargoid that just destroyed that ship for carrying the probe! And I am NOT in an AX ship, nor a sub-20 cold ship. So I saw the probe and said "YIS!", the thargoid saw me and said "BLOOOOOOORRRRRR!" and started intercepting. I don't know my goid ships, so I don't know what its weapons are but it was big (most of them are). I put full power to shields and tried to scoop the probe before destruction. The goid closed the gap too fast and was between me and the probe, charging its weapons, so I had to run, leaving the probe behind. It gave chase, I turned around, reversed course and shot past it, so that now the probe was ahead of me and the thargoid was behind me. I raced towards the probe, the problem was that if I went too slow, the thargoid would get me, but if I went too fast, the probe would be destroyed instead of collected by the cargo scoop.

A few seconds of ace piloting later, there was a probe in my cargo and a thargoid losing distance in the rear!

Next step: is there a good in-game way to find a thargoid structure? Eg. a listening post somewhere that starts you on a breadcrumb trail of clues to follow?
Having gone to this much trouble, I think I'd like to maximise the adventure rather than look up a location online

OK, so:

• You don't need all three of a link, sensor, probe. Just one will do to access the structure. You only need all three to activate it (which you don't need to do just for sensor fragments from the links)
• As far as finding a structure goes, head down the Pleiades. Any system marked as "Thargoid" under the civilisation filter will have a structure in it... just DSS the planets... usually it's a landable planet orbiting an ammonia world/ammonia gas giant.
• Note 1: There are Thargoid structures in systems that aren't marked as "Thargoid"... ones that are marked as "Thargoid" will definitely have one in them though.
• Note 2: Some Thargoid structures are damaged. You can enter them, but one or more rooms/entrances may be damaged, as will the central chamber. This just means you'll find less links, but if you really want you can relog for more.

 

[Scienti5t]

A wee bit off topic but can you still find Hardened Surface Fragments anywhere?

 

[Afterglow [SecB]]

A wee bit off topic but can you still find Hardened Surface Fragments anywhere?

As far as I know, they only exist in living titans.

 

[Scienti5t]

Thanks.

I guess there's no need now - unless a new titan arrives in which case they will be available again.

 

[Hugh Jardon]

I haven’t started acquiring these drives yet so I don’t know how many DWE I have in hand, they were turning up in those rescue rewards but I don’t remember if I could still accept them at the end.
If I do run short I will probably just trade up/down/across for them and scan or visit EEs to fill any data bins that have room.

Get those Titan drives today or tomorrow at Cocijo because there are no enemies there at the moment. All you need is a fast ship with a 16T corrosion resistant cargo rack and three or 4 caustic sinks. Just keep boosting around the wreck. I get between 2 and 5 TDCs every trip (30 minutes). You also get the necessary propulsion elements. Worry about the datamined wake exceptions another time because you can get them anywhere. Next week and thereafter, there might be Thargoids and Scouts around, so you'd need to run cool to hide from them.

 

[aRJay]

Get those Titan drives today or tomorrow at Cocijo because there are no enemies there at the moment. All you need is a fast ship with a 16T corrosion resistant cargo rack and three or 4 caustic sinks. Just keep boosting around the wreck. I get between 2 and 5 TDCs every trip (30 minutes). You also get the necessary propulsion elements. Worry about the datamined wake exceptions another time because you can get them anywhere. Next week and thereafter, there might be Thargoids and Scouts around, so you'd need to run cool to hide from them.

I am full of propulsion elements and was before Cocijo, I have yet to see Titan Drive Components there but have a couple from earlier. I will be back looking again later today.

 

[Valorin]

I still hear people say how rare those Titan Drive Components are, but I still keep finding one each time I go looking.
I don't look specifically for that one component though, but collect a lot of other things too, and in the process I think I am covering a lot more ground than others might. Not sure, but I keep finding those parts pretty easily.

Just now I also went to a debris field with another Commander who needed one, and he found his Titan Drive Component right after dropping into the field. I mean, that was obviously luck, but those things are not as rare as people think they are.

Also: There was an NPC pirate who was after the Titan part today. Never happened before actually. He sent a hatchbreaker after me actually.