Ion Batteries

[Chapel]

Anyone know of a trick to score more of these? Seems like I have everything else I need, but can not find the batteries. I open all the containers/lockers etc etc and have plenty of processors etc. Just these dang batteries.

For instance, have you run into them more on one map vs another?

[Surreal]

Iv gone entire tours without a single battery then a tour with two, same overall map selections and iv gotten ion batteries off simple small maps, like the one with a road, some dump trucks, usually 1-3 POIs and a lot of trees and ore, and iv gotten ion batteries off the more complex maps like the Xen Lab or the Military Underground Outpost.

An easy way to get whatever you are looking for is to bring 2 THI cards, then on the first map, if you get the locked rooms with lots of lockers, go unlock them, find what you want? Great, send it up with a drone or keep in outpost or inventory then go to recovery day. Didnt get what you want? Dont end the map, instead exit to main menu, go back and try again with your keycards and lockers. Its kinda like save scumming in other games, but considering the drop rates can be so damn finiky it comes down to time/energy vs scruples/morals. As its not a competitive game with PvP elements, not many people will bash you or feel bad if you save scum. Just comes down to how you feel about those types of tactics in games.

Personally, I would do it if I had worse luck than I do. Another tactic thats less save scummy is to just go around and only loot materials you NEED. Mainly Legendary and Heroic (Orange/Red) and nothing else. It reduces the Recovery Day timer and limits issues while also still being quick. And if you use Drones to send back to base or carry on you for the larger items, you dont need to even worry if you fail recovery day.

[Vitamin Vai]

I have found 3 ion batteries on the Gas Station node during tour mood for city ruins 5. Also found 1 in certain military buildings.

[Kanonen-Gerda]

If available you should always pick these "+1 to all materials" cards. for sure you need to find at least one (city 2 & 3 gave me some). Last run on city 3 had 3 and results in 6 for us due to the mentioned +1, since it seems to count per stack and hence for all of them 8not stacked).

[Wmd]

Cirius (City 5 Boss) now drops them

[Caxapok]

Originally posted by Wmd:

Cirius (City 5 Boss) now drops them

You can get up to 4-6 ion batteries from crius if manage to destroy all his rocket launcher weakspots

[Chapel]

Originally posted by Wmd:

Cirius (City 5 Boss) now drops them

I finally had to resort to killing him instead of jumping through the map. My "ship cannon" blew him up on his first pass over. I was trying to see if I could hit the weak points too to see if I could get more. But... he just crashed and burned.

I'll check out the gas station node for sure!

[jey123456]

ive been doing city V in loop, but in all my runs, ive only seen Cirius once. Its always kronos instead annoyingly.

[Duke Fleed]

I am pretty sure most of my ion bats come from safes. The ones that you can either lockpick or spend 5 energy to open.

[BioHazard ™]

Originally posted by jey123456:

ive been doing city V in loop, but in all my runs, ive only seen Cirius once. Its always kronos instead annoyingly.

I've send a complaint about this before. I think they are trying to optimize him better because for me the swarm was crashing my game. I'm actually happy about it. Adding 1 action like going into command mode mode was too much each game. I don't have a super computer but that just shouldn't happen.

[Surreal]

If you want Ion Batteries and can kill Crius, you can just exit to main menu and relaunch the recovery day mission if you get a Kronos spawn, at least thats what iv heard. I cannot confirm nor verify as iv never done it myself. Just saw it as a tactic in another discussion thread.

[kknd]

Originally posted by Chapel:

Originally posted by Wmd:

Cirius (City 5 Boss) now drops them

I finally had to resort to killing him instead of jumping through the map. My "ship cannon" blew him up on his first pass over. I was trying to see if I could hit the weak points too to see if I could get more. But... he just crashed and burned.

I'll check out the gas station node for sure!

You don't even need that at lower city ranks. I've only got a pair of double 105's, and they ate Cirius's health alive in the first pass, from full to 20% or so in one go. Which, sure that's nice, but it does kind of make the idea of 'hit weakpoints for more loot' not viable. Plus it's hard to do anyway given the distances and speeds involved. (unless the later mechs are hugely more powerful or something, I can always just be underprepared.)

[Serpent]

Trick to get more heroic loot is pick material bonus card on map and never bring epic or legendary reagent back.
you can send it back to base by drone using 30 energy ( maybe turn some of them into power )
one tour i get lucky and get 2 nano processor. but when i finish recovery day i end up with 8 from all material card i pick.
emi and absolute defend is great because tank is easy to kill and not impact the difficulty of the map.
some of them will make enemy deal more damage but with enough fire power you should be able to at least evac from the map.

[Mogoroth]

After reading everything here. They could just increase the drop chance...Every other "Heroic" material drops at a decent rate besides Ion Batteries. Just seems like an un-necessary grind to get them for no reason, in what has otherwise been a fun enjoyable progressive game, up until now.

It's a tower def game, let me build my big cannons and turrets without having to grind an additional 100 hours+ to get a material that the devs decided abruptly wasn't going to drop as often for whatever reason. I've done multiple city runs, multiple times, on each difficulty 1 through 5 and only gotten like what 2??? Ion batteries in that entire time, and about 10 - 20 of everything else that is heroic, and that's WITH the risk/reward buffs that increase recovery amounts and value etc. Just seems like a massive bottle neck for no reason.

[HalyconShade]

Originally posted by Surreal:

An easy way to get whatever you are looking for is to bring 2 THI cards, then on the first map, if you get the locked rooms with lots of lockers, go unlock them, find what you want? Great, send it up with a drone or keep in outpost or inventory then go to recovery day. Didnt get what you want? Dont end the map, instead exit to main menu, go back and try again with your keycards and lockers. Its kinda like save scumming in other games, but considering the drop rates can be so damn finiky it comes down to time/energy vs scruples/morals. As its not a competitive game with PvP elements, not many people will bash you or feel bad if you save scum. Just comes down to how you feel about those types of tactics in games.

As I am yet another player who has tons of everything but ion bats, I ran this strat today across city 1 through 5 for 4-5 hours. Results as follows (no multipliers used):

1/ If you return to main screen, map doesn't change.
2/ If you return to main screen, from my experience, I suspect loot doesn't change either - just where it is on the map (including hidden lockers etc) - the exception being keycards. This needs more testing.
3/ City 1 and 2 yielded no reds for me after 25 passes each.
4/ I only did one pass of City 3 and 4, but same.
5/ City 5 yields reds using this method; I was able to farm over a dozen nano processors in c.40 passes. However, it yielded zero ion batteries. I even went to 3 nodes a pass instead of one on occasion, no ions.

TLDNR: Results point to this strategy either does not work for ion batteries (it does for other reds), or the drop chance is so low that it is simply an intentional grind wall. I hope that helps readers somehow and I hope the devs change this soon.

[Isdren]

Ion Batteries?
I had WAY more trouble to get the Nano Prozessors i needet.

Here is a very important tip for "farming" Heroics:

You go into the map, Scan an if there is no RED item you leave.
On the Worldmap "autoloot" the nongolden maps, only visit the ones that are golden.
Dont bother with opening "single" chests/lookers. Only move there if there are at least 4 in a place.

After the map ALWAYS chose the "increase x Valuable".
At the end ONLY (i really mean ONLY) add the Heroics to the extraction point YOU WANT TO DOUBLE.
My best run for Nano prozessors was 3 prozessors and left the xtraction with 12.
Same is possible with Ion Batteries :)

They need to "change" the reward system. It is stupid that a 250second extraction with "only" heroics is MUCH more valuable then a complete full run with 800 second extraction (well if you need Gold then thats a diffrent story)