Suite & Weapon Enginering Help.

[N3MEAN]

So I am trying really hard to get my weapons & Suits Enginered. But I don't seem to be able to find the items I need. Does anyone know how to find the following?

Suit Schematics.
Weapon Schematics.

I have tried and tried and I can not find any. Starting to drive me mad now & I do not know what else to do! Currently in the bubble & In a powerplay area.

Location of anything so I know where to start?

o7 cmdr

 

[CMDR Kasanna]

The easist way is to check the mission boards, you can directly do missions for the items you need.

 

[Cmdr Sylveste]

Check the station concourse mission board. Since the mission reward buff you can get up to 15 schematics as a mission reward.
You can also pick up weapon schematics from the crates inside the containers you cut into doing larceny missions.

 

[SlickPBW]

Also lockers in CMD & PWR buildings can (rng) contain suit & weap schematics

 

[metatheurgist]

Dunno if anything's been changed by PP 2.0 but irregular markers used to have heaps of weapon schematics. Suit schematics come from settlement loot, not all settlements are equal for that. Supposedly missions are more generous now.

 

[N3MEAN]

Thank you all for your reply!

Check the missions board:
Which systems & What type of mission?

I am not sure exactly where or what missions I need to collect? Hopefully I can start this at some point and make progress.

 

[Cmdr Sylveste]

Larceny missions are in the "procurement" section. You fly to the designated body, look for the irregular marker signal, and land next to the containers.
The mission objective will be inside a crate in one of the three containers. Look inside all of the crates and there will usually be one or more weapon schematics.
Any mission on the board can offer schematics as a mission reward. Choose a salvage mission, as they are generally quicker. You fly to the body, look for the POI (crash site, wreckage, distress beacon as examples), land, kill scavs if required (there may be more than one wave) and find the crate with the mission objective.
As always, RNG comes into play. There may be no larceny missions available, and not many others with the correct rewards.
I have no idea whether system state has any effect.

 

[SlickPBW]

For gathering ody mats, I like the murder missions to anarchy settlements. Although any mission to an anarchy settlement will let you take out everyone without getting a bounty, and then loot everything. Note that you need to make sure you don’t take out the NPC with the item for delivery/retrival missions, and also read the fine print so you don’t take missions that have to be done with no casualties.

Tips:

• gain rep with all pmf’s in your system. Their mission givers give more missions with better payouts and higher rep lets you more successfully bargain for more mats and space bucks.
• I much prefer stealth tactics with a Mav suit. My favorite has: backpack, night vision, quiet footsteps, and extra battery; but literally any Mav with extra backpack can Hoover everything at all except the largest settlements. Equip a silent executioner and tormentor and you will be full of mats in no time.
• I usually take out everyone, starting with people outside of buildings, getting level 1 or 2 access from them, then I hit the building with the settlement alarm, then the remainder. Extra tip: if you take an apex shuttle, your target will never run away like they sometimes do if you take your ship; apex can’t be sent to the poi where they try to hide, so you will always be able to loot the settlement.
• use the rooftops with the silent executioner outside, silent tormentor inside.
• take everything you can carry. Use inara for crafting lists. When you get full, trade “up” for the highest value items in each category. Graphene, microelectrodes, weapon components, but also titanium, carbon fiber, and tungsten are good to stockpile. This allows you to store the most “value “ for your limited inventory. Later you can trade back “down “ for any materials you need for a specific upgrade.
• scan all expired targets for bounties. This and taking everyone out will also increase combat, mercenary, and soldier (inara) ranks.
• as you gain experience, learn all the positions and patrol routes of all the npc’s. Each settlement layout has mostly the same routes, there are minor variations. Learn the best sniping locations where you can take out npc’s when they stop walking in an area where they won’t be observed by other npc’s. After a while you will develop optimized sequences for taking out all settlements in a quick and efficient manner.

Hope this helps

 

[DjVortex]

I was struggling with this very problem myself, as I had no idea how to even find suit schematics, much less how to get them. The internet is full of various suggestions, many of them confusing. Finally I understood what some people meant.

To make it crystal clear: Go to the concourse of any space port and look for the terminals inside, like these:

They contain odyssey-specific missions that are different from the ones that you get when in your ship. Browse through them and there's a very good chance that one or more of them will have what you need as mission reward, including suit and weapon schematics, and others.

 

[PilotB]

I was struggling with this very problem myself, as I had no idea how to even find suit schematics, much less how to get them.

Your SRV can scan through walls for materials so you know which zones have containers you want to break open. If looking for specific things deploy a SRV at the site drive around checking the contacts for what you need.

They spawn randomly in locked cupboards in high security areas but you can check for them before you need to break in.

 

[Aashenfox]

Thank you all for your reply!

Check the missions board:
Which systems & What type of mission?

I am not sure exactly where or what missions I need to collect? Hopefully I can start this at some point and make progress.

Disembark from ship, go to station concourse, open a monitor there, hit the mission board, select the All mission types tab, click the reward dropdown and select 'Materials only'. The material rewards will be displayed under the mission title.

As for where, you should go to a place where you have spent time in the game and are allied with as many factions as possible. Your relevant elite rank in exploration, combat and trade respectively, as well as your reputation with the factions determines the quantity of a material that you can receive as a reward.

Good luck!

 

[Aashenfox]

I was struggling with this very problem myself, as I had no idea how to even find suit schematics, much less how to get them. The internet is full of various suggestions, many of them confusing. Finally I understood what some people meant.

To make it crystal clear: Go to the concourse of any space port and look for the terminals inside, like these:

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They contain odyssey-specific missions that are different from the ones that you get when in your ship. Browse through them and there's a very good chance that one or more of them will have what you need as mission reward, including suit and weapon schematics, and others.

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8 month old thread, ya got me.

 

[DjVortex]

Man, does it make a big difference when you know where to get those materials...

 

[SlickPBW]

I was struggling with this very problem myself, as I had no idea how to even find suit schematics, much less how to get them. The internet is full of various suggestions, many of them confusing. Finally I understood what some people meant.

To make it crystal clear: Go to the concourse of any space port and look for the terminals inside, like these:

View attachment 433932

They contain odyssey-specific missions that are different from the ones that you get when in your ship. Browse through them and there's a very good chance that one or more of them will have what you need as mission reward, including suit and weapon schematics, and others.

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The mission givers standing around inside the stations also usually give pretty good rewards that get better with your higher rep with their faction, and you can bargain with them for even higher rewards, which also is more likely to succeed with higher rep.

 

[Ned Flandalorian]

The mission givers standing around inside the stations also usually give pretty good rewards that get better with your higher rep with their faction, and you can bargain with them for even higher rewards, which also is more likely to succeed with higher rep.

If you happen to find one offering something you really need as a reward, it's not a good idea to bargain with them as chances are you'll get hit with the bug that makes that particular reward transform into something else when you come back to claim it.

 

[SlickPBW]

If you happen to find one offering something you really need as a reward, it's not a good idea to bargain with them as chances are you'll get hit with the bug that makes that particular reward transform into something else when you come back to claim it.

Is this (still) a thing? I routinely bargain with these guys and have not ever seen it.

 

[metatheurgist]

Always loved the one that bargained the option you wanted out of existence. Quality work.

 

[DjVortex]

The mission givers standing around inside the stations also usually give pretty good rewards that get better with your higher rep with their faction, and you can bargain with them for even higher rewards, which also is more likely to succeed with higher rep.

Not only have I not seen the important stuff as rewards (such as suit and weapon schematics), but the rewards tend to be very minimal, such as just 1 single item (that I assume can be bartered to be a few), while the missions from the terminals typically give you at least 10 (very rarely well below that).

By the way, this is the first time I have been doing these Odyssey missions from the concourse terminals. They are rather different from the typical missions you get from the station's mission menu (which you access from your ship). I didn't know that these missions existed. (Or, perhaps more precisely, I was aware of Odyssey-specific missions being not just on-foot, but different from in-ship missions, but I didn't know much about the details.)

It's actually a nice change of pace. I'm not very fond on killing security guards who aren't criminals/wanted, but eh... I suppose I can do those only if I'm desperate for a particular material and there are no other options. It's more fun to do the fetch missions where you need to stealthily get a sample from inside one of the buildings, or from a crashed ship. Or, sometimes, you need to track and hunt down a wanted criminal. (Sure, these missions could be much more involved and longer, but I suppose this is better than nothing. As mentioned, a nice change of pace compared to the CGs and colonization hauling.)

 

[SlickPBW]

Getting your reputation to allied will definitely increase the mission payouts for the mission board and individual mission givers. I routinely get high value engineering materials I the range from 10 -20, and rarely slightly over 20 with asking for, and receiving the max increase. Suit/weapon schematics, all sorts of data needed for engineering, etc. I have long ago engineered a multitude of suits and weapons in many different configurations just for the heck of it. Nowadays I sell massive amounts of odyssey engineering and unlock materials from my FC. I’ll fill the bartender up to 1000 and in less than a week, he’s below 500 and I will fill him up again. I have made 30B+ on my FC in the last year or so without too much work. This is from selling literally many hundreds of high value engineering materials. Maybe 5-6 missions every couple of days where I can clean out a settlement and collect good paying missions simultaneously. So it’s definitely possible for a solo player to obtain enough materials to fully engineer several suits & weapons in less than a month with casual play, or in less than a week with dedicated longer play sessions.

The key is finding a good system with good settlements surrounded by other similarly good systems. Then you get allied to all the factions so that they give you good missions and payouts. It doesn’t hurt to find systems which have anarchy factions that own a lot of settlements, if having notoriety bothers you.

I do try to take missions as evenly as possible among local factions so that I don’t skew the BGS too much for/against any player factions that might be around.

 

[SlickPBW]

Not only have I not seen the important stuff as rewards (such as suit and weapon schematics), but the rewards tend to be very minimal, such as just 1 single item (that I assume can be bartered to be a few), while the missions from the terminals typically give you at least 10 (very rarely well below that).

By the way, this is the first time I have been doing these Odyssey missions from the concourse terminals. They are rather different from the typical missions you get from the station's mission menu (which you access from your ship). I didn't know that these missions existed. (Or, perhaps more precisely, I was aware of Odyssey-specific missions being not just on-foot, but different from in-ship missions, but I didn't know much about the details.)

It's actually a nice change of pace. I'm not very fond on killing security guards who aren't criminals/wanted, but eh... I suppose I can do those only if I'm desperate for a particular material and there are no other options. It's more fun to do the fetch missions where you need to stealthily get a sample from inside one of the buildings, or from a crashed ship. Or, sometimes, you need to track and hunt down a wanted criminal. (Sure, these missions could be much more involved and longer, but I suppose this is better than nothing. As mentioned, a nice change of pace compared to the CGs and colonization hauling.)

If you are interested, send me a friend request in game and we can do some missions and settlement raids.