Can't find an image intensifier tube

[LonewolfX17]

Does someone happen to know where I could reliably find/buy an image intensifier tube (component for goggles, gives night vision)? I've been going back and forth between every electronic shop in the game for a couple days now, and no luck so far...

Thanks!

[Qiox]

I don't think it is guaranteed on any one vendor. It is just shows up randomly.

[Greb]

Generally, any vendor that sells random stuff, or goggles themselves. Erza is one, for example, and Blaine is another. Can also hope to find them in the hidden store in Rail Crossing, if you're lucky...maybe. It's random sadly, not reliable, but you could use Cheat Engine speedhack to cut down on the wait time for vendor restocking, if you don't mind those kind of exploits / tricks / whatever.

If you're hunting for a nice pair of NVG's though, I wouldn't bother making them - assuming you have Expedition. If you follow through with Dude's questline, which you can do immediately upon opening up the games map - thus having access to a certain enemy that begs for tools like NVG's at your disposal - and you'll eventually come to a pretty unique part where a certain commonish enemy drops arguably the best set of NVG's in the game (assuming you're looking for detection, and not another goggles type anyway)

[cypherusuh]

I find that Night Vision isn't that necessary unless you played as ultra long ranged sniper build. With high PER and maxed gun/xbow skill, the accuracy is good enough, or just throw molotov for lightning and CC.
That mod is quite rare, even with high mercantile, it rarely showed up on secret shop. Coretech shop usually sells them. Also, rare items showed up more frequently after you finished Oligarch quest, so I guess you could prioritize finishing it, although Arena might be tough for some build while underleveled

Also, spec-ops goggle isn't that strong imo, and it has armor penalty, which might be a bad thing for some build. Also, lightning doesn't really affect detection imo. If you have decent trap / PER, just eat that 15% detection food

[King Fossil]

Originally posted by Greb:

arguably the best set of NVG's in the game (assuming you're looking for detection, and not another goggles type anyway)

Grey army helmet isn't very good for detection. It's equal to like 70 quality motion tracking goggles. Finding >70 quality motion tracking goggles/parts isn't very hard.

[Greb]

Originally posted by King Fossil:

Grey army helmet isn't very good for detection. It's equal to like 70 quality motion tracking goggles. Finding >70 quality motion tracking goggles/parts isn't very hard.

Really? Huh. Whoops.

I coulda swore I made a really good quality set in my first playthrough to try and counter those sneaky bastards, but it only gave like 46% detection, so I kinda assumed for custom made goggles 50% was the cap lol. Gray with the 60% seemed really good. Hmm.

Guess I need to play more before offering advice also I guess I too now can benefit from this thread, I need to find me an image intensifier tube too!

[cypherusuh]

You could make 120%+ goggles, it's strong enough to detect Stalker with 3 PER char on Hard difficulty without night vision

[Greb]

I'm getting giddy just thinking about it bullying stalkers is like the ultimate ambition

[cypherusuh]

18 + 2 PER + paranoia + Q160 night vision motion tracking goggles + 12.7 Smart Scoped Corsair sniper rifle + snipe =

[Greb]

You might not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

I guess at that point even the Black Crawler is on the lookout for you, not the other way around