guardian fsd or engineer?

[Dee]

o7 commanders

i am preparing my krait phantom to depart into deep black and whilst i hate grind from the deepest sulphuric depths of my soul, i'm thinking ah, to hell with it, might as well if it means i'll get more-than-decent jump range.

therefore i ask, which one is the less stupid grind, getting the guardian fsd booster or have the drive engineered? and which is best bang for the buck in your opinion?

cheers in advance!

[256MB of SPAM]

Do both, if you can. There’s also a way to get an engineered FSD drive from a human tech broker. Which is an alternative to doing up a Lvl5 FSD.

There’s a guide on the FDEV forums on how to get a particular guardian blueprint at a Guardian site which has an incredibly boring puzzle to complete.

[atom heart]

This guide on the official forums is the best out there, imho:

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/walkthrough-guardian-module-blueprints.438289/#post7165580

There is also one for the weapon blueprints, inked in there.

[256MB of SPAM]

Originally posted by atom heart:

This guide on the official forums is the best out there, imho:

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/walkthrough-guardian-module-blueprints.438289/#post7165580

There is also one for the weapon blueprints, inked in there.

Yep. This is the exact one I was on about. That worked for me and made getting the Guardian blueprint very straight forward.

[Dee]

thanks, although 'incredibly boring' doesn't sound like my cup of coffee :)

that drive one can grab from a tech broker... what sort of grind is it locked behind? i mean, this is elite we're talking about, there's got to be a grind in there somewhere?

[Dolphin Bottlenose]

And don't forget that you can get a specially pre-engineered FSD, that you can put a special effect at Felicity's engineering place in Deciat, assuming that you have her unlocked at least at Grade-1. This one will be better than any regularly G-5 engineered FSD. It does require some mats to be bought, but not as many as for a regular engineering.

[Dee]

Originally posted by Dolphin Bottlenose:

And don't forget that you can get a specially pre-engineered FSD, that you can put a special effect at Felicity's engineering place in Deciat, assuming that you have her unlocked at least at Grade-1. This one will be better than any regularly G-5 engineered FSD. It does require some mats to be bought, but not as many as for a regular engineering.

'tis the fsd other commanders were talking about, the one from a tech broker, right? and a bunch of materials is all it takes?

[Dolphin Bottlenose]

Originally posted by Dee:

'tis the fsd other commanders were talking about, the one from a tech broker, right? and a bunch of materials is all it takes?

Oh, yes. Somehow I have missed that post, sorry. :) I got distracted with Guardians.

And yes, it's very much worth it, as long as you have a ship with a size-5 FSD. Which many good deep black exploration ships happen to have. :)

[Dee]

Originally posted by Dolphin Bottlenose:

Originally posted by Dee:

'tis the fsd other commanders were talking about, the one from a tech broker, right? and a bunch of materials is all it takes?

Oh, yes. Somehow I have missed that post, sorry. :) I got distracted with Guardians.

And yes, it's very much worth it, as long as you have a ship with a size-5 FSD. Which many good deep black exploration ships happen to have. :)

sounds perfect for my little phantom then.

many thanks all, appreciate the answers!

o7

[AJ24]

Originally posted by Dolphin Bottlenose:

Originally posted by Dee:

'tis the fsd other commanders were talking about, the one from a tech broker, right? and a bunch of materials is all it takes?

Oh, yes. Somehow I have missed that post, sorry. :) I got distracted with Guardians.

And yes, it's very much worth it, as long as you have a ship with a size-5 FSD. Which many good deep black exploration ships happen to have. :)

Yep, to get it is just getting the right materials, and it fits a Krait Phantom perfectly :)

[bad coffee]

The tech broker drive requires you to collect:
18 Datamined Wake Exceptions
26 Tellurium
26 Electrochemical Arrays
28 Chemical Processors

After which you go to a station with a human tech broker and "unlock" it. This adds one copy of the drive to your storage and you'd equip it in outfitting. If you want another one for another ship you'd need to do this again.

The tech broker drive has better jump range than a normal A rate drive engineered for range, which will also require collecting a sizable amount of materials of more different kinds - and there's RNG involved in how many rolls it takes to finish G5 or get far enough on the lower grades to enable the next.
The tech broker one there's a fixed cost and you're done.

As for what kind of range, I don't know what your build is. But an off the shelf Krait with D rated modules and A rated FSD would be 28LY. Broker FSD raises that to 47.

The Guardian FSD booster adds a flat 10.5 LY onto your jump range with the largest version of it, but getting it requires you to go out to guardian space 1000 LY outside the bubble, so... you know the rest.

[Mr Robert House]

Do both, but a G5 fsd with 2 good effects will give you more bang for your buck.

[256MB of SPAM]

As another poster mentioned, it’s quite a trip to that Guardian site. I’d recommend getting your FSD sorted before you get the Guardian FSD booster.

Enjoy the padding.

[Dee]

Originally posted by 256MB of SPAM:

As another poster mentioned, it’s quite a trip to that Guardian site. I’d recommend getting your FSD sorted before you get the Guardian FSD booster.

Enjoy the padding.

well, the guardian thing was called 'incredibly boring' here, i gave the guide a read and to me it sounds like full-on lobotomy :D then again, i've done a fair share of stupid stuff in this game so why not.

[256MB of SPAM]

Originally posted by Dee:

Originally posted by 256MB of SPAM:

As another poster mentioned, it’s quite a trip to that Guardian site. I’d recommend getting your FSD sorted before you get the Guardian FSD booster.

Enjoy the padding.

well, the guardian thing was called 'incredibly boring' here, i gave the guide a read and to me it sounds like full-on lobotomy :D then again, i've done a fair share of stupid stuff in this game so why not.

Sure it was me that said that. ;)

I brought two buddies of mine out to that site to get the Guardian blueprints. Their excitement lasted up until the moment they landed and discovered what they actually needed to do.

I even asked them if they would like to try and figure it out themselves. Akin to the idea of watching a bad film, they just said let’s get it over with. But they were very deflated when they realised how boring of a set piece it actually was.

[Dee]

Originally posted by 256MB of SPAM:

Originally posted by Dee:

well, the guardian thing was called 'incredibly boring' here, i gave the guide a read and to me it sounds like full-on lobotomy :D then again, i've done a fair share of stupid stuff in this game so why not.

Sure it was me that said that. ;)

I brought two buddies of mine out to that site to get the Guardian blueprints. Their excitement lasted up until the moment they landed and discovered what they actually needed to do.

I even asked them if they would like to try and figure it out themselves. Akin to the idea of watching a bad film, they just said let’s get it over with. But they were very deflated when they realised how boring of a set piece it actually was.

that's a pretty good story right there :) kind of reflects my feelings for elite perfectly. i love it, but hell will have to freeze over for me to go recommending it :D