Dismantling Reactors - Quantum Crystals and Nano Compound Excess

[dirtnap]

So I'm currently sitting on 1,237,189 Nano Compound and 1,354,175 Quantum Crystals from dismantling Reactors. There are a few issues I have with this in that it's sad in revealing how much time I've spent dismantling garbage reactors and has a "die in your computer chair" dismantling reactors feel to it.

I have a couple of suggestions that I'm sure have already been discussed but would like to add my own two cents:
1: Reduce Reactor drop rates so that less time is being spent scrolling through the thousands of trash reactors
2: Put some time into forcing reactors to roll appropriately in that reactors should have parameters to them where toxic can't roll with fire, chill can't roll with electric, etc.
3: Allow Reactors to be modified and sub stats rolled for like weapons. Allowing these sub stats to be rolled for feels more like spinning the roulette wheel and winning in the casino.
4: Create recipes for ultimate reactors in the research lab that coincide with ultimate weapons. In doing this, you can force open world reactors to drop as purples like weapon drops, and can be quickly dismantled to continue quickly with the fun part of the game in killing mobs and farming content.

Reactors are like this tedious and frustrating mini game within the game and for a lack of better words are an ENDLESS CHORE.

[VagabondSkies]

Atleast your getting nano compound, Ive broken down atleast 500 reactors and have gotten 0.

[Madds]

The whole reactor thing is completely ridiculous. I tried farming reactors on weeks where useful ones dropped from big farming spots (ambush point, env zone) and with several hours I've spent farming reactors I've never seen a decent one drop, and I've dismantled thousands of trash reactors.

Most of the sub-stats are just trash, or wrong for the reactor (chill on fire, singular on dimension) or wrong for the descendant / build that would use them, the mountings are mostly trash because most of the weapons are trash, and often you need a specific weapon. Getting a reactor with the correct mounting and 2 vaguely useful sub-stats just seems impossible.

Simply not being able to get a reactor for any of your builds sucks. constantly dismantling hundreds of reactors possibly sucks even more. Drastic changes are desperately needed.

[Mepho]

Originally posted by dirtnap:

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2: Put some time into forcing reactors to roll appropriately in that reactors should have parameters to them where toxic can't roll with fire, chill can't roll with electric, etc.
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This I furiously second.

It's beyond silly having boosters with different elements as stats, utterly retarded when you get two (like electric reactor boosting toxic and fire).

I understand the need to make "bis" drops extremely rare, but this in particular is plain stupid. There's a ton of stats already, no reason to bloat with self-evidently worthless stats no matter the roll.

[Avy]

Yea my Frozen Mixture Reactor has Electric & Fire Power Boost Ratio
I gave up on this ♥♥♥♥.

[[UNQL]Tango]

Originally posted by Madds:

The whole reactor thing is completely ridiculous. I tried farming reactors on weeks where useful ones dropped from big farming spots (ambush point, env zone) and with several hours I've spent farming reactors I've never seen a decent one drop, and I've dismantled thousands of trash reactors.

Most of the sub-stats are just trash, or wrong for the reactor (chill on fire, singular on dimension) or wrong for the descendant / build that would use them, the mountings are mostly trash because most of the weapons are trash, and often you need a specific weapon. Getting a reactor with the correct mounting and 2 vaguely useful sub-stats just seems impossible.

Simply not being able to get a reactor for any of your builds sucks. constantly dismantling hundreds of reactors possibly sucks even more. Drastic changes are desperately needed.

If you pull up the map in Hard mode there is an option on the bottom, which leads you to a new page. There you can set up the desired reactor settings and the game will tell you where those drop (if they drop on that week).

You need to farm that area only to get them. If you just farmed randomly, no wonder you didn't get what you wanted. Even at these areas you need to be lucky to get the ones with the desired weapon and good random rolls.

There are only 2 things guaranteed:
- the element type (Electric, Chill, etc) and the power type (Dimension, etc)
- weapon main category (Normal ammo, High power ammo, etc)