Hello Fellow PMCs, any reliable way for chips in new patch?

[Catosaurus]

Well seems I'm either unlucky in the shuttle trades in new patch but seems chip farming ain't that reliable nowadays. (Ain't helping with clone deletion upon death )
Just wondering if you have found any new method for chip farm except for rushing missions in hopes to find a chip + rewards. Currently 3 years in and only 3 high tech and a dozen of blue chips though loot ain't such a problem only limiting factor is my tech acquisition.
Tried shuttle trading as with most factions I'm at high rep, so no more random trades either.

[Kaia]

Do more missions. Afaik chips always spawn on the ground, so you can get them through there and as mission rewards, but that seems to be it, so the only way to reliably get them is just to get more missions done.

The ship upgrade that scans floor helps in cherry picking the places you go to, should you at some point inevitably decide not to full clear anymore.

[Catosaurus]

Originally posted by Kaia:

Do more missions. Afaik chips always spawn on the ground, so you can get them through there and as mission rewards, but that seems to be it, so the only way to reliably get them is just to get more missions done.

The ship upgrade that scans floor helps in cherry picking the places you go to, should you at some point inevitably decide not to full clear anymore.

Aye already doin that :P

Just hoped there was some more reliable way.

At 0.7 at some point you would swim in chips from trading, but currently I'm feeling like I'm always in scarce. Spamming missions and skipping them mostly nets a small amount which can help but that wouldn't cut it tbf.

Magnum is already maxed and started having tech7+ armor, let alone swimming in comps/meds from dissasembler.

Just wonder as I still haven't even scratched tinkering items as my luck hasn't blessed me yet (let alone the cost for the high tier weapons :P)

[Kaia]

Originally posted by Catosaurus:

Originally posted by Kaia:

Do more missions. Afaik chips always spawn on the ground, so you can get them through there and as mission rewards, but that seems to be it, so the only way to reliably get them is just to get more missions done.

The ship upgrade that scans floor helps in cherry picking the places you go to, should you at some point inevitably decide not to full clear anymore.

Aye already doin that :P

Just hoped there was some more reliable way.

At 0.7 at some point you would swim in chips from trading, but currently I'm feeling like I'm always in scarce. Spamming missions and skipping them mostly nets a small amount which can help but that wouldn't cut it tbf.

Magnum is already maxed and started having tech7+ armor, let alone swimming in comps/meds from dissasembler.

Just wonder as I still haven't even scratched tinkering items as my luck hasn't blessed me yet (let alone the cost for the high tier weapons :P)

I've had quite a few chips in .8 but i've had a run where i managed to screw myself on classchips as in not prioritize early game missions that reward them, and once the tech level increases, chips as a reward become very rare. And generally speaking yes, class chips i got a bunch less of. but blue chips i've gotten more of in .8 so i'm not too sure.

[Catosaurus]

Originally posted by Kaia:

Originally posted by Catosaurus:

Aye already doin that :P

Just hoped there was some more reliable way.

At 0.7 at some point you would swim in chips from trading, but currently I'm feeling like I'm always in scarce. Spamming missions and skipping them mostly nets a small amount which can help but that wouldn't cut it tbf.

Magnum is already maxed and started having tech7+ armor, let alone swimming in comps/meds from dissasembler.

Just wonder as I still haven't even scratched tinkering items as my luck hasn't blessed me yet (let alone the cost for the high tier weapons :P)

I've had quite a few chips in .8 but i've had a run where i managed to screw myself on classchips as in not prioritize early game missions that reward them, and once the tech level increases, chips as a reward become very rare. And generally speaking yes, class chips i got a bunch less of. but blue chips i've gotten more of in .8 so i'm not too sure.

Hmmm I see.

Well, ill see what can I find to farm them more reliably.

Ill guess next playthrough Ill try to jeopardize my rep to farm random trades to see if they net some profit in that regard. Though high rep is my first prio to rush early high level magnum. Getting the scanner / dissasembler is such a great combo.

[Stealthkibbler]

I use to spam Franche for Blue Chip but their level 1 pool got diluted with more items this update, the new dilthey faction hasa 25% on class chip at the start so i think they are the to go for that.

[Catosaurus]

Originally posted by Stealthkibbler:

I use to spam Franche for Blue Chip but their level 1 pool got diluted with more items this update, the new dilthey faction hasa 25% on class chip at the start so i think they are the to go for that.

Ahh too bad they died off in current playthrough.

Oh well, we work with what we have. So far trading hasn't netted anything of value and rushing missions seems to do the trick, but with how costly crafting is I don't think its gonna be viable except for heavy grind but at that point the solar system will be controlled by a single faction.

[SaltyFrosty]

For now only option is finding chips on mission, from my expirience same mission should always have same loot
You can increase loot difficulty setting up to 300% in save file, that will also increase number of chips
Also, devs mentioned that new trade is not final, and they are planning to make fetching recipes more reliable

[Concerned West Virginia Resident]

the way mission loot seems to work is that there are different 'slots' for things so you'll always get a chip of some sort but just one- i don't get exactly how the percentages play in

magnum upgrades will get you more chips spawning in maps and with the scanning that comes with that you'll b e able to scroll the map to see them and speedrun missions otherwise if you're done needing resources

[Eltoron]

Originally posted by Concerned West Virginia Resident:

you'll always get a chip of some sort but just one- i don't get exactly how the percentages play in

Just finished a mission looting 3 chips.

[Stealthkibbler]

Probably worth a mention but when you get the scavenger and mission loot upgrades on your ship you'll be getting chip quite frequently from mission end loot and you'll pretty much be guaranteed to find a chip of some sort on first floor.

Personally I've found until you get all your ship upgrades you're still trudging around in the early game.

[redy5]

Does anyone understand the difference between missions in regard for drops?
Some missions I replay a few times because for 3 floors I get almost always high tech chip and few common ones, and on other missions I replay them few times and its always 1-2 basic chips and maybe a mind or class chip, and in both cases its pretty consistent. Maybe its dependent on station tech, power, or faction controlling it, but I was unable to understand the correlation, because when mission is already posted I cant see station stats. Btw I play on 300% item drops and fully upgraded ship.