Question: Mining exotics....................

[Bloodwolff]

Once completed mission "Deep Vein........." I thought you could find exotic mining nodes in the world while on missions, however I see nothing where they're supposed to be, do I need a scanner to discover them or something?

[Pach]

"Deep Vein: Extraction" opens the ability to find mineable nodes in caves (like the ones you found on that mission). Once you have done it, start looking in caves.

The mission to open the drillable nodes is "Payday: Extraction". When you do this (very long, very grindy) mission, you will be walked through the steps to making what you need to find and then mine the drillable nodes (it's kind of a training session as well as opening up the ability). You will need to have some blueprint points available, as you will need to learn the blueprints to make the radar and the extractor (and possibly other blueprints needed to make those, if you don't already have them).

The radar and extractor blueprints are ONLY available on this mission, so you cannot learn them elsewhere.

[Bloodwolff]

Originally posted by Pach:

"Deep Vein: Extraction" opens the ability to find mineable nodes in caves (like the ones you found on that mission). Once you have done it, start looking in caves.

The mission to open the drillable nodes is "Payday: Extraction". When you do this (very long, very grindy) mission, you will be walked through the steps to making what you need to find and then mine the drillable nodes (it's kind of a training session as well as opening up the ability). You will need to have some blueprint points available, as you will need to learn the blueprints to make the radar and the extractor (and possibly other blueprints needed to make those, if you don't already have them).

The radar and extractor blueprints are ONLY available on this mission, so you cannot learn them elsewhere.

Can you find exotics in the outpost maps?

[Bloodwolff]

Originally posted by Bloodwolff:

Originally posted by Pach:

"Deep Vein: Extraction" opens the ability to find mineable nodes in caves (like the ones you found on that mission). Once you have done it, start looking in caves.

The mission to open the drillable nodes is "Payday: Extraction". When you do this (very long, very grindy) mission, you will be walked through the steps to making what you need to find and then mine the drillable nodes (it's kind of a training session as well as opening up the ability). You will need to have some blueprint points available, as you will need to learn the blueprints to make the radar and the extractor (and possibly other blueprints needed to make those, if you don't already have them).

The radar and extractor blueprints are ONLY available on this mission, so you cannot learn them elsewhere.

Can you find exotics in the outpost maps?

Also, are the exotics in random caves or same caves all the time, as I've found 0 out of 5 caves.

[Pach]

No idea on outposts. I don't play them.

They are in random caves.

Edit: the chance to find them is really low, like 1% of nodes, or something like that. You have to check a lot of caves to get one or two nodes, and you only get 16 or so exotics per node.

As awful as the Payday: Extraction mission is, once you have the radar/extractor, that's the MUCH better way to get exotics...

[Bloodwolff]

Originally posted by Pach:

No idea on outposts. I don't play them.

They are in random caves.

Edit: the chance to find them is really low, like 1% of nodes, or something like that. You have to check a lot of caves to get one or two nodes, and you only get 16 or so exotics per node.

As awful as the Payday: Extraction mission is, once you have the radar/extractor, that's the MUCH better way to get exotics...

Ok, thank you for this help, I play offline as time only passes in-game when playing though if you wanted I believe friends can still join my game if you'd like to help?

[Pach]

Nope, offline/online are completely separate (at least, right now).

Time only passes in-game while playing on Online missions, too, but there is a 90 day limit on the save. This is so RocketWerkz doesn't have to keep the save indefinately on their server if someone quits mid-mission (they purge them after 90 days).

Which is usually ample time to complete it.

[Shockwave]

My group has not completed Payday: Extraction.. but we have mined 8 drillable exotic nodes with the biofuel exractor so far after completing just deep vein extraction, and actually our first drillable node was in deep vein extraction when we did it. right under the first ledge in the snow region.

None of us have ever completed Payday Extraction.