Is it me or do upgrade blueprints just STOP dropping after getting the grenade launcher?

[Vahnkiljoy]

I haven't seen ANY blueprint drops from any chests in so many dives regardless of time that it seems like the game just forgot they even exist.

[Reid75]

At what part of the game are you at exactly?

The last 2 guns don't show up until you're close to endgame.

Specifically, they drop at the Glacial Area. They are the Sticky Bomb Gun and the Ice Gun. The Glacial Area not Glacial Passage.

[Vahnkiljoy]

Not the guns, the drops that level your guns up in a dive.

[Myth]

They seem to drop more often from weapons chests when a boss fight is close at hand (e.g. when the Klaus's vortex is active). Other than that I think it's just RNG.

Edit: By they I mean the orange and yellow weapon level up cards.

[Reid75]

Originally posted by Vahnkiljoy:

Not the guns, the drops that level your guns up in a dive.

Gotcha. I never really had any problems getting the full blueprints for any of the weapons, you just gotta keep diving and opening up those weapon crates and building up those percentages until you fully unlock the weapon you want.

[Reid75]

Just to be sure, the weapon is the blueprint. You know that, right?

[Army of Optimists]

He's not talking about the unlock blueprints, but the single-use Weapon Upgrade Kits.

I'm guessing they start dropping less because the loot table gets more crowded as you unlock more guns. At the start, I think only the Tranq Pistol and Triple Axel will drop, plus the harpoon tip (and I don't think flame, tranq, or lightning shows up at the start), so there's about a 15-20% chance of an upgrade kit rolling. At the end of the game, you have six different harpoon tips plus eight guns. That means the upgrade kit only has a 6.6% chance of dropping.

Assuming all items are weighted equally, of course.

[Reid75]

Originally posted by Army of Optimists:

He's not talking about the unlock blueprints, but the single-use Weapon Upgrade Kits.

Oh he meant the Gun Enhancement Kits, now that's entirely different. The word blueprint stuck out to me way too much.

Yeah you just gotta pray to RNGsus every time you open a weapon crate for those and hope you get lucky.