Tungsten Carbide and Weapon Components
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Best place is probably one of the holiday resort types with two wings of three stories with hotel rooms. Each of them has a few lockers. Good place to farm graphene, too. You will want to get the inventory upgrade on the Maverick for this.
Nice! Thank you. This kind of farming seems a bit more my style.
I hate trying my luck with random spawns of certain valuable items, I'd rather reliably farm lots of things from the same category to trade for them later, even if it means it takes me a little longer.
By holiday resort type things, I will assume you mean tourist-economy settlements, so I will look for those. Thanks again!
Skipped past replies after the first few suggested IND sites. They're OK but if you want to swim in tungsten and components, large EXT bases are your best destination.
These two materials are way more common there. Ext bases seem to have way more things just lying about on the sides.
I've got around 80 to 100 of each just lying about now.
These two materials are way more common there. Ext bases seem to have way more things just lying about on the sides.
I've got around 80 to 100 of each just lying about now.
Yeah, it's often found lying around on trolleys / machinery. Extraction / Ind bases IIRC. Should see it in some lockers, esp. in Ext sites.
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I don't think trading for Weapon Components/Tungsten carbide is a viable solution because they're some of the most expensive stuff in that category and you need A LOT of them for the higher grades.
What I ended up doing was finding a high security large refinery base which had multiple warehouses (STO/EXT i think) and a seperate CMD PWR buildings and looting all the non-maglock lockers in the warehouses as fast as possible; The only ones worth cutting if you are after other engineering materials and not just stuff to sell are in the reactor or proc rooms.
I think the best I was able to get was 7 tungsten carbide and a few weapon components per run there. I think I would still need about a hundred more to upgrade all the kinetic weapons I want.
What I ended up doing was finding a high security large refinery base which had multiple warehouses (STO/EXT i think) and a seperate CMD PWR buildings and looting all the non-maglock lockers in the warehouses as fast as possible; The only ones worth cutting if you are after other engineering materials and not just stuff to sell are in the reactor or proc rooms.
I think the best I was able to get was 7 tungsten carbide and a few weapon components per run there. I think I would still need about a hundred more to upgrade all the kinetic weapons I want.
Urgh. Yes, you're right. Thanks.
They not really rare in theory. They can be found in Extraction/Industrial Settlements usually in Sto / Ind / Ext buildings
But upgrading kinetics takes a ton of them - more precisely 60 Tungsten Carbide and 60 Weapon Compoents to upgrade a kinetic from G3 to G5
Those numbers make them damn rare - especially if one wants to upgrade 2x L-6 a sidearm and a main weapon - then we're talking about 240 Tungsten Carbide and 240 Weapon Components.
But upgrading kinetics takes a ton of them - more precisely 60 Tungsten Carbide and 60 Weapon Compoents to upgrade a kinetic from G3 to G5
Those numbers make them damn rare - especially if one wants to upgrade 2x L-6 a sidearm and a main weapon - then we're talking about 240 Tungsten Carbide and 240 Weapon Components.
Play the game to upgrade the gear
Upgrade the gear to play the game
Sounds good
Grinders hate it because they think they need all the gear to play at all, double win
Upgrade the gear to play the game
Sounds good
Grinders hate it because they think they need all the gear to play at all, double win
I do a LOT of Restore Missions, well mostly those! & I'm continually finding Tungsten Carbide during these Missions.
So many now that I'm limiting my inventory to 25.....rest get either traded or just sold.
Make sure you do different Restore Mission sites & make note of which type they show up most in ie agri sites, mining sites, Industrial sites, military sites etc.
Then keep going back to that site if it shows again in the Mission board.......I find there's a good chance of returning back to the same site time after time on subsequent Missions.
Sorry I can't say which site type exactly, as I'v not been specifically hunting TC's now for ages & I'm just moving from one Civil Unrest System to another, doing 2-3 Restore Missions, then moving on.
So many now that I'm limiting my inventory to 25.....rest get either traded or just sold.
Make sure you do different Restore Mission sites & make note of which type they show up most in ie agri sites, mining sites, Industrial sites, military sites etc.
Then keep going back to that site if it shows again in the Mission board.......I find there's a good chance of returning back to the same site time after time on subsequent Missions.
Sorry I can't say which site type exactly, as I'v not been specifically hunting TC's now for ages & I'm just moving from one Civil Unrest System to another, doing 2-3 Restore Missions, then moving on.
Trading is the easiest way to get tungsten carbide and weapon components. The big tourist sites with the two, three story wings, have lockers in every room, and those lockers contain lots of chips and lenses. 9 chips = 1 weapon component. 20 rooms gives a lot of loot. Plus there are lockers in the access ways and stuff just lying around. You want this base to be powered up though.
Steve 07.
I used to do this and ended up with my inventory being 400 microelectrode and 240 graphene (most expensive assets in circuits/chemicals that I traded for to free up space) and barely any tech.
This might be compounded by the upgrades using less of the other asset types, but I think focusing on finding just the high-end tech items is worth it as they seem to be one of the main bottlenecks.
They are, but they require the right settlement type with the right layout and preferably High Security. Just collecting tons of chips and optic lenses will also eventually get the job done. The biggest bottleneck for me by far are Manufacturing Instructions.
you'll regret that when you'll want to upgrade a kinetic
IMO is best to keep Graphene in Chemicals, Microelectrodes (and maybe Optical Fiber) in circuits, but for Tech things can get complicated, so i'd rather keep Weapon Components / Tungsten Carbide / Titanium Plates / Carbon Fibre Plating (and maybe Optical Lenses) since they're the most expensive
The biggest mis-step in EDO engineering (other than SDP rarity) is the global 1000 storage limit - it's not like fdev didn't already learn that global storage limits were bad
Yep, and they also shot themselves in the foot by not using the same Grade methodology either.The biggest mis-step in EDO engineering (other than SDP rarity) is the global 1000 storage limit - it's not like fdev didn't already learn that global storage limits were bad