slow progression

[Bummer6]

Okay, so I'm cutting this game a lot of slack. The gameplay itself is janky and monotonous, but I kinda expected that due to the focus obviously being on customization, but I'm kinda getting bored with the customization since I'm not unlocking enough parts to keep me interested, nor am I getting enough materials to upgrade my current build very fast.

I want to build more complex and fun stuff, but the game's not letting me, which is very frustrating.

[Seb]

You're not wrong. Especially with M and L parts simply not existing on Normal. All you can do is crank up the difficulty and hope for the best.

[Bummer6]

Originally posted by Seb:

You're not wrong. Especially with M and L parts simply not existing on Normal. All you can do is crank up the difficulty and hope for the best.

I've done every mission on hard so far. I haven't even tried normal yet. I still haven't found a single M or L part. Also, I've S-ranked every mission on the first try so far, so that's also kinda messed up

[RX-3DR]

You only unlock M and L parts on Very Hard and Nightmare which require you to complete the main story.

I think the main issue with getting more parts is the arbitrary drop rate reduction as the mission goes on longer. The game gives you a ton of boxes near the start of the mission but that drop rate goes to 0 after a set number of boxes. It messes up the part farming progress because as the mission gets longer, you get a lot less parts for your time. You have to go out of your way to find a short mission and just repeatedly blitz though it in order to farm for parts and even then, you're still run into the point where nothing drops halfway through the mission.

[HezaK]

yeah they should have started dropping M parts after the half way point on hard if you ask me. or heck. make M parts naturally drop from hard up. then L parts on very hard. then Nightmare thats where you find all the 5 star variants or something. locking entire size classes to post game was a bad call. maybe even make the Medium size mech the default so you could naturally battle the Small and Large mechs through the story. forcing the player through the game as a glass cannon speedy light mech. instead of offering variety just seems so weird. The game really opens up a ton after you beat it. with the EDF missions pretty much having double the resource drop rate of any base game mission helps too. the EDF missions are definitely the best compared to base game even fun and challenge wise in my opinion.

[ksen]

You can get M parts on EDF Hard sidestory.
But yea, if you don't have that, you stuck with S until you beat the game. That's a bit rough, if you came in for pure customization right out of the window.

[Seb]

Can you get bigger parts on Hard if you steal a mech? That might be worth a try.

[Rhiawhyn Zerinth]

Originally posted by Seb:

Can you get bigger parts on Hard if you steal a mech? That might be worth a try.

Yes and no. You are still limited by the difficulty setting for what you get. Capturing a mech assures you get a part from that mech but it doesn't make that part specifically tied to the mech size itself. If you are on easy, you won't get any M parts at all. Hard has a chance for them but it's very low.

If you want M or L parts, you have to play on very hard or nightmare. That's the short of it. Yes you can grind M parts in hard but it's an abysmally low chance where as nightmare doesn't drop S parts at all barring the rare components. You only get M and L parts there.

So yes you can make a medium sized mech in the game from playing a lot on hard, or you can just jump into a MP match on nightmare and get a ton of them that way. In a small mech you already avoid 90% of the fire so the additional damage isn't a big deal. Even if your damage is low, mobs shooting at you means mobs aren't shooting at your team so they can mop up easily anyway.

[Dystopia]

You can steal mechs?