Getting an ammo issue, how to farm succesfully to get more ammo?

[Dregora]

Pretty much this. I'm barely getting any bio recycle stuff. I have plenty of the last two, but barely any of the first two.

[Ogami]

Explore everything, pick up everything, recycle everything.
Not more to it. Get the neurmod that gives +20% recycle gain.

At the end of the game i had 300+ ammo for the shotgun and 30 full charges for the Q-Beam and Stun Gun. Plus over a 100 in every material group still. That was after crafting nearly 50 Neuromods during the game.
If you explore every region and pick up everything its really hard to run out of stuff unless you need 20 shot for each enemy.

Also get hacking 3 as early as possible, so many rooms and safes with stuff.

[RasaNova]

Yeah mineral matter is definitely the most short in supply and the hardest to get for me. The recycling neuromod is vital, imo even with the +20% I still run low on minerals. But so far I've always had enough to get by with a decent amount of ammo. A lot of it boils down to saving ammo whenever possible, using enviornment, positioning, turrets etc to offset some of the cost.

[Panic Fire]

Originally posted by Inférnum~:

Pretty much this. I'm barely getting any bio recycle stuff. I have plenty of the last two, but barely any of the first two.

Food = Bio matter.

But in all honesty you can save on ammo by combining weapons and abilities. For instance try using turrets in combination with the stun gun and gloogun. Disable enemies in front of turrets and the turrets deal the dmg.

[RasaNova]

Originally posted by Panic Fire:

Originally posted by Inférnum~:

Pretty much this. I'm barely getting any bio recycle stuff. I have plenty of the last two, but barely any of the first two.

Food = Bio matter.

But in all honesty you can save on ammo by combining weapons and abilities. For instance try using turrets in combination with the stun gun and gloogun. Disable enemies in front of turrets and the turrets deal the dmg.

I really need to start using that tactic. Mainly when I use turrets, I just jump in front of the aliens and shout "Look at me!!" while dodging in and out of cover and getting smacked in the face. Still works, but I need to backtrack to operators a lot.

[Panic Fire]

Originally posted by RasaNova:

Originally posted by Panic Fire:

Food = Bio matter.

But in all honesty you can save on ammo by combining weapons and abilities. For instance try using turrets in combination with the stun gun and gloogun. Disable enemies in front of turrets and the turrets deal the dmg.

I really need to start using that tactic. Mainly when I use turrets, I just jump in front of the aliens and shout "Look at me!!" while dodging in and out of cover and getting smacked in the face. Still works, but I need to backtrack to operators a lot.

Just remember stunned and glooed enemies take extra dmg. So using stuns or gloo with your firearms should decrease the amount of ammo you need to use to kill them. Mimics and Corruped Operators are fairly easy to dispose of via wrench which can save on ammo a lot as well.

Also the bowcaster is great for taking out crsylids and distracting Phantoms.

[Dregora]

Originally posted by Panic Fire:

Originally posted by RasaNova:

I really need to start using that tactic. Mainly when I use turrets, I just jump in front of the aliens and shout "Look at me!!" while dodging in and out of cover and getting smacked in the face. Still works, but I need to backtrack to operators a lot.

Just remember stunned and glooed enemies take extra dmg. So using stuns or gloo with your firearms should decrease the amount of ammo you need to use to kill them. Mimics and Corruped Operators are fairly easy to dispose of via wrench which can save on ammo a lot as well.

Also the bowcaster is great for taking out crsylids and distracting Phantoms.

Bowcaster is actually useful? I seriously thought it was a joke weapon.. lmfao

[Animeye]

Bowcaster is bait for cystoids (they attack motion, so will go after the bolt and blow up on it).
It is also your sequence break weapon. Tons of places you can get into using the bow to shoot panels or buttons.

[RasaNova]

Bowcaster bolts also makes a squuek noise when they hit which attracts typhons attention.

[Baron01]

You should always look for other ways how to destroy/disable enemies before you use your ammo on them. I always used exploding canisters to kill phantoms in early game and used only wrench to kill mimics. Get at least Leverage 2 and Repair 2 to be able to use turrets (Repair 2 is optional since if you are careful with turret placements, you might not need to repair them for a long time). Leverage 2 also allows you to toss large objects at enemies for significant damage. It can be very effective way to dispatch phantoms as long as you dont get jumped by them.

I saw this trick somewhere on Youtube, I dont take credit for it. Follow it for great gains:

1. Find a large room with lots of furniture and crates.
2. Pile everything that can be moved into one big pile.
3. Toss Recycle charge at the pile.
4. Win

General tips: Necropsy and Materials Expert should be taken as soon as possible. You can also get similar talent for spare parts when killing mechanical enemies, which will help with spare parts--you can eventually recycle those later in the game when you have lots of those.

[KRON]

Originally posted by Inférnum~:

Pretty much this. I'm barely getting any bio recycle stuff. I have plenty of the last two, but barely any of the first two.

You should have used bug in recycler which allowed unlimited multiplying of materials. But too late, they fixed it in patch 1.02.

[RasaNova]

Originally posted by KRON:

Originally posted by Inférnum~:

Pretty much this. I'm barely getting any bio recycle stuff. I have plenty of the last two, but barely any of the first two.

You should have used bug in recycler which allowed unlimited multiplying of materials. But too late, they fixed it in patch 1.02.

A lot of people actually prefer to get through without cheating.

But if we're being honest, I've reloaded more than once if I think I played a fight badly, so I'm not one to judge

[ThunderZorb]

Don't forget you can harvest plants too. Smash all of the flower containers open and pinch them!

[KRON]

Originally posted by RasaNova:

Originally posted by KRON:

You should have used bug in recycler which allowed unlimited multiplying of materials. But too late, they fixed it in patch 1.02.

A lot of people actually prefer to get through without cheating.

But if we're being honest, I've reloaded more than once if I think I played a fight badly, so I'm not one to judge

Exploiting a bug is not really cheating. Not in a singleplayer game, at least. But now I don't have to worry about running out of materials(a little over 20000 of each is enough, yes?).

[RasaNova]

Yeah bio matter is easy to get, with food falling out of every opening. Exotic is common enough if you ambush everything and loot the squishies. Minerals though... it's used for almost everything. I've never run out but always seem low, totals currently are something like 60/15/40/50 for bio/min/syn/exo

Are there any less obvious sources for minerals, other than weapons & junk? I've even tried using the recycler chamber in the hardware lab, but filling it with furniture & appliances yields very little.

[Ogami]

Originally posted by RasaNova:

Yeah bio matter is easy to get, with food falling out of every opening. Exotic is common enough if you ambush everything and loot the squishies. Minerals though... it's used for almost everything. I've never run out but always seem low, totals currently are something like 60/15/40/50 for bio/min/syn/exo

Are there any less obvious sources for minerals, other than weapons & junk? I've even tried using the recycler chamber in the hardware lab, but filling it with furniture & appliances yields very little.

I recycled many suit repair and weapon upgrade kits. Those give decent amounts of materials.
Also all the grenades exept Recycler ones. Also try to limit yourself to 2-3 weapons and recycle all the other ones and spare ammo you can find.
I never had any problems with running out of mineral material that way.