how to get more lenses and chips?

[Aurite]

Any good spots to get more lenses and computer chips for weapon modding?
Thanks!

[Poddy]

They are in modded weapons you find from enemys. Deconstruct them, there are often this things in.

[LArc7thHeaven]

The loot is random so it's RNG based. Save in satelite map before you enter to try and getting some, rinse and repeat. Or if you have enough money the weapon smuggler in sector under diamond red sells modified M-14 with quick prism already attached, so you can buy it, save, and scrap it and hopefully you get lens, pipe and some material, same with dragunov from poacher camp is loaded with thermal scope, small chance for chips when deconstructing

[Lightning]

Very rng, can get alot per run or very few I've had more in my Ironman run than i did with First Blood

[Aurite]

thanks for the reply any ideas on chips?

[stretch]

Originally posted by Aurite:

thanks for the reply any ideas on chips?

Chips are from scrapping higher tier weapons. Also very RNG and I do not really recall any specific place they could be found just as a chip. If you start on MI difficulty you will find them much earlier in the game but in the basic difficulty you wont regularly start finding them till mid to late in the game. I don't usually find many in containers even with a very high wisdom merc so I do not think anyone is reliably going to be able to tell you an exact location you can find them.
Maybe you could camp the few locations that sell modded weapons. Flea Town market? There is one place I cannot recall that sells a modded Dragunov sniper rifle that I suspect (No real idea but it's a higher tier weapon so...) might have a better chance of having them. If someone can recall where exactly that is you might be able to get there fairly early in the game and save scum yourself a few.

[Dorok]

Originally posted by stretch:

If someone can recall where exactly that is you might be able to get there fairly early in the game and save scum yourself a few.

I tested about 10 times or a bit less than 10 times the area with the manor and the ghost, there's 3 corpse with loot, it seems it's RNG among a limited set. like getting a weapon with exact same 4 mods, or a weapon with ammo added if not in same amount of ammo, then similar amount of ammo.

But for sure tests many areas and list the possibilities is ultra annoying, did it in this case because I was wondering on a type of ammo I was needing, but I never get it in this sector, that said 10 tries isn't a lot.

[Poddy]

Originally posted by Aurite:

Flea Town market? There is one place I cannot recall that sells a modded Dragunov sniper rifle that I suspect (No real idea but it's a higher tier weapon so...)

Yes, it is Flea Town market. But they all sell only 1 item per day. If you buy one thing, the buy hand goes away for ONE DAY.
Come back next day, the hand is back to buy the next stuff.
And it is the right sector near the water where you must go.

[[NcK]MasterShake|CM]

I have yet to receive a chip from a scrapped weapon and I'm only talking about weapons scrapped that would have contained a chip. Few lenses and many, many... many... many barrels. Don't know if mec matters for scrapping, but the party skill would be 95. Definitely don't use them on a gun you're not keeping around for a while.

[maethlin]

I wish they would have upped the chip drop vs barrels. Had a million barrels but even after finishing game only still a handful of chips so I never even tried some of the attachments due to scarcity. Lens drop rate seemed fine.

[Dorok]

Originally posted by Poddy:

Originally posted by Aurite:

Flea Town market? There is one place I cannot recall that sells a modded Dragunov sniper rifle that I suspect (No real idea but it's a higher tier weapon so...)

Yes, it is Flea Town market. But they all sell only 1 item per day. If you buy one thing, the buy hand goes away for ONE DAY.
Come back next day, the hand is back to buy the next stuff.
And it is the right sector near the water where you must go.

Huu? For me Flea Town market always sell some weapons, but always the same and it's not Dragunov.

[Dorok]

Originally posted by maethlin:

I wish they would have upped the chip drop vs barrels. Had a million barrels but even after finishing game only still a handful of chips so I never even tried some of the attachments due to scarcity. Lens drop rate seemed fine.

The design goal is clear, but it's a bit countered by showing all possible mods for any weapon you find, this not allowing test and can create a small frustration. But make widely available best mods for all weapons of all mercs isn't either a better design goal.

[Korgz]

Originally posted by stretch:

Originally posted by Aurite:

thanks for the reply any ideas on chips?

Chips are from scrapping higher tier weapons.

They are not from higher tier weapons. They are from any weapon that has a chip mod on it i.e. quick prism, uv dot etc. The chance of getting a weapon with one of these is low (excluding thermal mod druganovs from poachers) and even when you get one the chance for it to drop a chip on scrapping is very low as well. Lens and barrel mods are far more common hence you will end up with too many barrels and lens and not enough chips by endgame.

[Poddy]

Originally posted by Dorok:

Huu? For me Flea Town market always sell some weapons, but always the same and it's not Dragunov.

I never write that flea town has it. But i think i've seen today who sells it. A camp with wild hunters. Can't remeber C or D somewhere in 4,5 or 6.

[SirRantsAlot]

Or you find at least 5 and then use a sw like Artmoney and find the position and then raise it via Artmoney ;)

[Dorok]

Originally posted by Poddy:

Originally posted by Dorok:

Huu? For me Flea Town market always sell some weapons, but always the same and it's not Dragunov.

I never write that flea town has it. But i think i've seen today who sells it. A camp with wild hunters. Can't remeber C or D somewhere in 4,5 or 6.

Yes you did write it by quoting Flea market to a question about shop with Dragunov.

Yeah some other posts in the thread already quoted the Dragunov shop location but not the coordinates.