Restaurant drop boosts not functioning

[Valk]

Unsure if this is intentional. It could be a case of all non-super rare drops stop dropping entirely, but I've noticed that when theres 1-3 of the battle drop boosts active, drops function as normal but give you more valuable things. The moment I use a 4x food boost though, the drops cease to exist entirely. Is this intentional to patch out the cheat item farming from the console release, or is it just bugging out.

[Air Raider]

Bumping this because I just came across this same thing. Finally found a 4 boost, ate all 4 items, not a single item dropped.
The second the boost wore off? Paper plates and carbons again for days.
Would be a really sad waste of 90k SP if the boosts don'r work at all.

The only thing I can think of is I read the random city mook 'level up' after Chapter 5, so it might be that these low level guys don't have any 4 star tier items to drop. I guess I'll know when I get there.

[Valk]

Yeah it might have just been nerfed I think in the end. Pretty sure the cheat items were also cheaper to buy from onodera too originally on PS4. In the end at least, you don't really need the cheat items anyway it seems. Just the one for each game from their normal reward location is enough, cause no need to use them for money. Just from doing 100% in vr, you get more money than you could ever need.

[Air Raider]

Originally posted by Valk:

Yeah it might have just been nerfed I think in the end. Pretty sure the cheat items were also cheaper to buy from onodera too originally on PS4. In the end at least, you don't really need the cheat items anyway it seems. Just the one for each game from their normal reward location is enough, cause no need to use them for money. Just from doing 100% in vr, you get more money than you could ever need.

So I did some Google-fu and people reported the same on console so it's not a new thing. I saw three different folks on Reddit say that when they hit Chapter 5, the bonus works as expected. So here's hoping.

[NiceToYeetYou]

Yes, the Level 4 Item bonus will start working when you start seeing packs of 4 enemies show up. This is about end Chapter 4 / early Chapter 5, around the time you are supposed to visit a certain person's apartment. It seemed to work earlier in Kamurocho then Yokohama for me.

Unfortunately money is nerfed pretty hard in Lost, because higher level hug bombs are now limited in stock, and spamming the lowest tier one is meaningless. Best way to farm SP is to get Level 4 SP bonus and go to town along restaurant row.

[Valk]

Originally posted by NiceToYeetYou:

Yes, the Level 4 Item bonus will start working when you start seeing packs of 4 enemies show up. This is about end Chapter 4 / early Chapter 5, around the time you are supposed to visit a certain person's apartment. It seemed to work earlier in Kamurocho then Yokohama for me.

Unfortunately money is nerfed pretty hard in Lost, because higher level hug bombs are now limited in stock, and spamming the lowest tier one is meaningless. Best way to farm SP is to get Level 4 SP bonus and go to town along restaurant row.

Its not meaningless. Its just slow. In terms of yen per SP, its only like 10% less efficient than the omegas, just takes far longer.