do same chips stack?

[Muh macht die Kuh]

for example:
i have two chips which send out a weak shockwave. do they stack if i rquip both? or is it wasted place?

[『teokboki』]

That's a hard one since there is no numerical stats so it's hard to determine the most efficient load. I would just stick with one shock wave chip and upgrade it

[Exarch_Alpha]

It is exactly as the game shows you. If you put 2 chips that give +5% melee, you will have 10% melee.

Worth it? No. It´s stupid. Ideally you want to merge chips to get +6 ones. Extra credits if you had the luck of finding diamond chips, as you can have +6 chips smaller than 15 slots.

[Muh macht die Kuh]

how do i combine chips?

[Exarch_Alpha]

With anyone that sells chips.

[『teokboki』]

Originally posted by Exarch_Alpha:

It is exactly as the game shows you. If you put 2 chips that give +5% melee, you will have 10% melee.

Worth it? No. It´s stupid. Ideally you want to merge chips to get +6 ones. Extra credits if you had the luck of finding diamond chips, as you can have +6 chips smaller than 15 slots.

OP was asking about the shock wave chip

[Exarch_Alpha]

And? It´s implied by all other chips bonus´ scaling that you should aim for the + version instead of having several crappy small chips. You do know the difference between a +5 chip and a + 6, don´t you...?

Bottom line: like the effect? Merge chips always.

[stres]

Originally posted by Exarch_Alpha:

And? It´s implied by all other chips bonus´ scaling that you should aim for the + version instead of having several crappy small chips. You do know the difference between a +5 chip and a + 6, don´t you...?

Bottom line: like the effect? Merge chips always.

well, not always, in case of movement speed and drop rate up, you'd better stack 2 +3<> and +3<> +4<> for lower cost and maximum effect

[『teokboki』]

I believe the OP was talking if the effect stack. If you equip a +1 and +2 weapons up then their effects stack (10%+15%=25% bonus for example). But because shock wave effect don't have a numeric value like the others, there really no way to tell if the effect stack. And yes you should merge chips always

[Yinan]

Regarding shockwave specifically, I have no idea wether they stack or not. There is no real way to tell other than by testing it out a lot.

But generally the effects of the same type do stack.

And no, you should NOT always merge chips. I would even dare say that you should never merge chips unless you have at least a basic understand of what you're doing.
Rule of thump: Only combine Chips which have the Diamond mark on them. Those are "optimal" chips (=> minimum amount of capacity used for the chip of that level).
There are some excetions (like a lvl 0 4 Chip can be merged with a lvl 0 5 chip which will result in a lvl 1 5 chip which is the same as when you merged two lvl 0 4 Chips. But that is not always the case).

[shoopy]

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fNMz4foJEWZpbbZH3GcdwucftESNYNffEOobdCyRO4E/pubhtml

[Yorgo]

Just in case someone comes now a days looking for this..... Yes, shockwave stacks, tested by hitting a Machíne with only 1 chip, checked damage of wave and then add a second chip and hitting again to compare,damage does increase

[Kaldaien]

Only Pringles stack.

[Csenky]

Originally posted by Yorgo:

Just in case someone comes now a days looking for this..... Yes, shockwave stacks, tested by hitting a Machíne with only 1 chip, checked damage of wave and then add a second chip and hitting again to compare,damage does increase

I just checked, a little math:
71-73 shockwave dmg (1x +3chip) more than doubled to 165-170 by adding 2x +1 chips.
It actually seems pretty decent on 2B so far.

[xenos]

yes, they stack and some even work well. if you have diamond chips, don't waste them. here's how best to upgrate them:

in the first column is the base chip, in the second the one you can merge it with to achieve the optimum result

Rombo	Normale	Risultato
+0◆[3]	+0◆[3]/+0[4]	+1◆[4]
+1◆[4]	+1◆[4]/+1[5]	+2◆[5]
+2◆[5]	+2◆[5]	+3◆[6]
+3◆[6]	+3◆[6]/+3[7]	+4◆[7]
+4◆[7]	+4◆[7]	+5◆[8]
+5◆[8]	+5◆[8]/+5[9]	+6◆[9]
+6◆[9]	+6◆[9]	+7◆[10]
+7◆[10]	+7◆[10]/+7[11]	+8◆[11]