When rng goes wrong in Od.

[GeorjCostanza]

Ah well the Liquor Mission has only popped up for me once without any joy, however I began looking more closely at the SHIP mission board to see if there may be any more of these type of missions.

"Wartime Surface Recovery of 2 Hostages"
From Sivas system, Cavalieri Hub.

2 crashed skimmers present and the following dropped for me.

Ballistic Data
Maintenance Logs
Manufacturing Instructions
Operation Manuals
Patrol Routes
Settlement Defence Plans*
Surveillance Logs

Unused Drops

Blacklist Data
Conflict History

Finally making some progress with this pitiful rng loot system.

Source: https://youtu.be/ol0p5X0SzgY

Congrats, you finally found your farm!

I notice in your video it's a 6 day mission, and I think that's a key detail for finding crashed skimmers. All 3 of my successful bootleg / crashed skimmer missions were 5 or 6 days, and the red herring ones (no skimmers) were shorter duration at around 2 to 4 days. That's not to say every 5 or 6 day mission will be a crashed skimmer, but I think it's more likely

Good work on reporting the other mission type as well, I'm sure it will help others as they start searching for SDPs

o7

 

[avow555]

Congrats, you finally found your farm!

I notice in your video it's a 6 day mission, and I think that's a key detail for finding crashed skimmers. All 3 of my successful bootleg / crashed skimmer missions were 5 or 6 days, and the red herring ones (no skimmers) were shorter duration at around 2 to 4 days. That's not to say every 5 or 6 day mission will be a crashed skimmer, but I think it's more likely

Good work on reporting the other mission type as well, I'm sure it will help others as they start searching for SDPs

o7

Many thanks.
It's been a very grindy couple of weeks which is not my usual style but I wanted to have a closer look at the ground engineers, warts and all.
From a gameplay point of view I have found it to be almost abusive with the heavily stacked rng drops and once again total lack of information ingame as to where to aquire materials.
The only positive was finding a new mission type.
Anyway after all that grind I'll probably take a break for a while.

 

[Treya]

Many thanks.
It's been a very grindy couple of weeks which is not my usual style but I wanted to have a closer look at the ground engineers, warts and all.
From a gameplay point of view I have found it to be almost abusive with the heavily stacked rng drops and once again total lack of information ingame as to where to aquire materials.
The only positive was finding a new mission type.
Anyway after all that grind I'll probably take a break for a while.

You could've had fun instead but chose to ignore the advice given so this one is entirely on you.

 

[danteuk]

The good news is if you don't enjoy the grind and relog and lowering graphics settings to speed up relog and watching a netflix show while you do it ( because, let's face it, there are lot of things vastly more interesting to do than 'grind' ED:O ) - then the good news is - you don't have to - upgrading 'ground' suits and weapons is pointless unless you actually want to grind ground missions. You don't need upgraded suits or weapons to see all the exciting and interesting ground bases ( there are only about 12? ) - once you've seen them all - that's it. Nothing new to see or do.

Odyssey's amazing game play ( assuming you have a PC capable of getting playable frame rates ) can all done in about 5-6 hours, that would be enough time to try out each mission type once, then do a quick fly down to each 'slightly' different layout ground base. Done. Go back to Horizons and enjoy better frame rates and more colourful space and a few less bugs.

 

[avow555]

You could've had fun instead but chose to ignore the advice given so this one is entirely on you.

Read everyone's advice and applied it as I saw fit.
I did say I didn't like the grind, however I never mentioned anything about not having fun.
Suffice as to say I completed my objective and I appreciate all those who contributed in a positive way.

 

[MATTW69]

I could find the missions, I had 2 day ones, high threat ones, 6 day ones, ones for 1,2,3 cannisters, never got anything but artificial structures and canisters sitting on the ground :-( I wish we knew what the secret is.

 

[Screemonster]

The core problem remains though - finding SDPs organically just doesn't happen often enough. Simply increasing the spawn rate isn't a good solution because one only needs 15 of them, anything after that is just cluttering up the loot table.

Personally if I were coding the game I'd give them a massively increased spawn rate in settlements where the owners are pending war or civil war. That way it'd provide an intuitive means of finding places to get them without cluttering up the loot table for people that already have them.

edit: you could probably make them a guaranteed drop at sec or command data ports at active CZs without it being too much of an issue, given the extra effort that cmdrs would have to go to with regards to powering the settlement up.

 

[Schmack]

I could find the missions, I had 2 day ones, high threat ones, 6 day ones, ones for 1,2,3 cannisters, never got anything but artificial structures and canisters sitting on the ground :-( I wish we knew what the secret is.

I realize this is a necro but if you know someone who has a FC, you can sell to the bartender there and then just buy back from the FC (or if you have a FC, transfer them back to yourself). Do that until the unlock.

 

[metatheurgist]

15 is still a ridiculous number. 5 would be more reasonable.

 

[Jack Winter]

FWIW, I do find SDPs in the procurement section of the mission board. Digital espionage - download SDP, I'll just take the mission when I find it, then go download the SDP and finally abort the mission. I'll find them every few hours so it doesn't take all that long to pick up the 15 required. Note that you have to provide the SDPs to Hero Ferrari so the usual trick of selling to your own carrier repeatedly won't work for this unlock.

 

[MVBanks]

I have many SDPs to sell when someone needs them, I just need to give an order to my bartender to sell.

 

[Jack Winter]

I've got 8 SDPs that I could sell on the carrier, picked them up doing normal on foot missions. Sold the last batch just a few days ago.

 

[Pville_Piper]

Read everyone's advice and applied it as I saw fit.
I did say I didn't like the grind, however I never mentioned anything about not having fun.
Suffice as to say I completed my objective and I appreciate all those who contributed in a positive way.

I know the feeling, a few weeks back I decided to finish unlocking the foot-based engineers and ground it out. When I got done, I was like "Now what do I do?" I was so focused on getting it done!

The only one I lack requires that I get unfriendly with the Sirus corp... At some point I needed to get friendly with them and now I need to trash that? It's like grinding for Guardian stuff and then the goids can disable it... Just who thought that was a good idea anyways?!!!