How do you get into Abandoned Bunkers?

[ikorotkin]

I tried the following:

• Loot police stations to find a key card. I raided them many times (like 10 times for sure) and used an entire yellow screwdriver and many red ones to open the lockers. No key card!
  
• Loot the airdrop. I did it several times and got a kill box card twice, but I did not get the AB keycard.
  
• Finally, I just travelled to the 5 nearest ABs and noted the time when they will be active. For example, one of the ABs said that it would be active in 90 hours. So, 90-100 hours later, I came there again, but the bunker was still inactive. This time, it didn't say anything, the gates were closed, and there was no option to hack/open, no time shown, nothing (just a hand symbol). Does it mean someone has already been there?

I'm getting very frustrated with this mechanics. I like Abandoned Bunkers, it's such a nice addition to the game. But I, as a lone player on a multiplayer server, feel like I am literally locked out from ABs. I cannot get there for days. That's sad.

Am I doing something wrong, are there any other ways of getting to ABs nowadays?

[thomas_1611]

I was wondering the same. Looking for AB masters to chime in.

[CrankyOldMan]

Are you guys playing on the officials.

We have our pve server on 3x loot and have some peeps doing them almost daily now!

[x8InViSible8X]

Destroy Mech and you will get keycard.

[dbox123]

Originally posted by ikorotkin:

I tried the following:

• Loot police stations to find a key card. I raided them many times (like 10 times for sure) and used an entire yellow screwdriver and many red ones to open the lockers. No key card!
  
• Loot the airdrop. I did it several times and got a kill box card twice, but I did not get the AB keycard.
  
• Finally, I just travelled to the 5 nearest ABs and noted the time when they will be active. For example, one of the ABs said that it would be active in 90 hours. So, 90-100 hours later, I came there again, but the bunker was still inactive. This time, it didn't say anything, the gates were closed, and there was no option to hack/open, no time shown, nothing (just a hand symbol). Does it mean someone has already been there?

I'm getting very frustrated with this mechanics. I like Abandoned Bunkers, it's such a nice addition to the game. But I, as a lone player on a multiplayer server, feel like I am literally locked out from ABs. I cannot get there for days. That's sad.

Am I doing something wrong, are there any other ways of getting to ABs nowadays?

The police station in the radiation zone has a higher chance of spawning a keycard.
The cards in the airdrops are just pot luck, sometimes they are for an AB, sometimes an old one, so you were just unlucky.
The hand symbol is a bug, if you get it displayed just relog. It will then show either its inactive status or Hack open/open, depending on the time of day.

[insettoinfetto]

Don't know. Stopped playing actively with AB rotation.
I just login to refresh stashes.

[ikorotkin]

Originally posted by dbox123:

The police station in the radiation zone has a higher chance of spawning a keycard.
The cards in the airdrops are just pot luck, sometimes they are for an AB, sometimes an old one, so you were just unlucky.
The hand symbol is a bug, if you get it displayed just relog. It will then show either its inactive status or Hack open/open, depending on the time of day.

Thank you for your answer, kind stranger, I didn't know that the police station in the radiation zone is different in terms of loot! I'll give it a go.

I also didn't realise that the hand symbol is just a bug! Ohhh... I've seen it many times, so many opportunities wasted...

Originally posted by x8InViSible8X:

Destroy Mech and you will get keycard.

That's a bit tricky. They cannot be destroyed by normal crafted ammo, as far as I understand. Is there a not very expensive way of destroying a Mech?