Cephalon fragments?

[76561198331794579]

I want to go to phobos to get plastrid for Rhino but i can't find any of these fragments and i've been searching for hours (and i already have thief's wit), any tips?

[Handoiron]

Thief's Wit mod, Loot Detector Aura and Animal Instinct pet/sentinel mod all help. Also, using the full sized map overlay instead of the minimap helps me. Max loot find range far exceeds the minimap size.

Loot finder mods don't have great vertical range increase though so you occasionally have to watch the map while you jump straight up to move your vertical range a bit. They like to hide them in high spots sometimes.

Other than that, make sure you're looking in the right mission types because they don't show up in small map missions like defense or intercept.

It should be faster now than in the past since they finally relented and allowed all types of scanners to spawn in the same mission. Before this change, you could only get 1 per mission, and if it was a somachord tome you weren't going to get the fragment that run. Now, you can get the somachords, fragments AND frame fighter scans all in the same mission sometimes.

[christopherbailey1967]

They just pop up random, so you have to check everywhere. But I found this one on my first phobos run today. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10213566719382166&set=a.4365646099157&type=3&theater

[TheTool]

I got my plastids and crafted Rhino long before getting to Phobos by running lvl 1 and 2 bounties on Cetus Earth.
The rewards change every few hours. You can get plastids, control modules, and neural sensors early game by running these bounties.

[76561198331794579]

Originally posted by TheTool:

I got my plastids and crafted Rhino long before getting to Phobos by running lvl 1 and 2 bounties on Cetus Earth.
The rewards change every few hours. You can get plastids, control modules, and neural sensors early game by running these bounties.

I was wondering why i have 100 plastrids before going there

[Kyrus86]

Best mission type for cephalon fragment or somachord tune hunt is "capture". They tend to have fewer enemies after you got the target.
In my experience the fragments and tunes are always near the main route to target or to the extraction point so you can see them on your map when you get your loot radar up. So no need to explore every corner of the map.

[Aras Windaril | repeat.gg]

Yeah, just what Kyrus said. You just run the Mars capture node, get the objective fast, and then explore the map until u find the fragment. They appear once per mission. Remember to equip your scanners.