How to build new Ship weapons?

[handofbobb]

Anyone got a clue how to unlock the new ship weapon options in Pathfinder? It seems one of the upgrades my Armorer taught me has been removed (the burst-autofire one), and I can buy upgrades for the various new weapons from the Gek vendor on my local station, but nothing indicating how to unlock the new weapons, they aren't showing in my 'Build Technology' window on my ship inventory...

[Holy Athena]

Buy them with nanites at a blueprint store is my guess.

Edit: This update did mess up saves a bit, where not everything was marked correctly as learned, or not learned. So some people lost stuff they originally had.

[bcatrek]

This is my issue as well... the vendor at space stations only sells upgrades to tech, not blueprints for the tech itself. I'm not spending money on upgrade X sigma or tau, if I don't have X first. How do we get these new weapon blueprints?

[Holy Athena]

Originally posted by bcatrek:

This is my issue as well... the vendor at space stations only sells upgrades to tech, not blueprints for the tech itself. I'm not spending money on upgrade X sigma or tau, if I don't have X first. How do we get these new weapon blueprints?

The upgrades are randomized, sometimes you can buy the weapons, sometimes upgrades, sometimes both.

YOu can however find blueprints the same old way, its just more rare, by finding manufacturing facilities, or abandoned buildings. The manufacturing facilities (the buildings you gotta blow the doors open on), still give blueprints to random tech, sometimes nanites.

[bcatrek]

Ok thanks.. I'll make sure to break into some manufacturing facilities then :-)

[Anelyn]

You do the quests your weaponsmith (armorer) sends you on, and you unlock all 3. I personally am very dissappointed with the new weapons compared to existing ones.

You never want anything else than maxed Phase Beam for defending freighters due to accuracy issues (is not that you miss your target, but you have all the chances to hit defenders or the freighter / cargo itself which will turn everyone hostile as well as bringing sentinels reinforcements). Upgraded Photon Cannons are a beast on their own and can be safely used in most combat situations as well, with cautious near freighters / other ships that are not enemies.

[X-SR71]

Gek stations

[handofbobb]

Ive been checking Gek stations, but so far all I've seen are the upgrades for the new weapons, not the weapons themselves, I just finally broke down last night and bought all the upgrades, so now I'll see if anything new turns up.

Anelyn, Ive already completed all the tasks from my Armorer after the Foundation update, he has no new missions for me. Also, like I said, I had one of the upgrades he'd taught me installed on my ship but it disappeared after the Pathfinder update. I guess pulse-autofire was too OP?

[X-SR71]

I got the Cyclotron Ballista from a gek station. It was horrible though. Fires like once each 2s, and is a slow, dumb fire type of weapon.

[Anelyn]

I got all 3 new weapons from my armourer as blueprint rewards. The traders on stations have only the upgrades (at least in my experience) like higher rate of fire, more dmg, cooldown etc.