Air drop end game

[micronauta]

why are the aerial supplies already open in the submerged area always empty? was that the same before? shouldn't they respawn the rewards?

[XeRnUno]

You could always reloot them BEFORE the patch and they gave finest gear, tons of highest level flares and nades and best valuables. And ofc highest level weapons.
Gone now. Not sure if it's intended.
The Military Token airdrops are empty now, too. Loot boxes in the Anomaly containers are also empty.
....
At least, the GRE chests at the sunken city are still there and lootable. But they only give clothing gear, no weapons.

An official comment on this would be nice.
Let's see.

[Zarn-man]

Nope... BEFORE this last patch, they would ALL "replenish" and stay open .. except for one that "glitched" back to a closed state, which made it impossible to loot again... So, before this patch, this area WAS the only reliable area to "get lucky" in finding level 9 gold items (gear, weapons, and utility items).......... So, assuming ALL air-drop chests are like this (one-time-only loot sources), as well as noting ALL of the "GRE military Con-X boxes" being one-time-only loot sources (which all have 1-3 lock-picked chests, 1 special med kit, 1 gold weapon, and a top-rank immunity booster .. only on the FIRST loot), that means HALF of the chests in the game become USELESS...... Dying Light 1 only had a SMALL number of chests that you could only loot once, but then they would VANISH so as to not be such a frustration...

This game CAN be hard enough, especially if you keep playing BEYOND the end of the story-line... Considering that, unlike Dying Light 1, NOTHING drops weapons, you can only find them in loot chests or on vendors... The air-drop chests AND certain other chests WERE the only good/reliable sources of getting something better than a "blue" weapon, and have now ALL been rendered USELESS................... It's almost as if the game creators decided, "We got their money, that's all that matters... Now, they can all just 'suck it', and suffer..."

[Zarn-man]

Originally posted by XeRnUno:

You could always reloot them BEFORE the patch and they gave finest gear, tons of highest level flares and nades and best valuables. And ofc highest level weapons.
Gone now. Not sure if it's intended.
The Military Token airdrops are empty now, too. Loot boxes in the Anomaly containers are also empty.
....
At least, the GRE chests at the sunken city are still there and lootable. But they only give clothing gear, no weapons.

An official comment on this would be nice.
Let's see.

I have a feeling it WAS intended to be like this........... My thought is along the lines of, "How NICE of them to screw us on loot availability in such a way as to make post-story gaming more of a waste of time .. if not totally impossible, after a while (after using up the good weapons)..."

[micronauta]

Originally posted by XeRnUno:

You could always reloot them BEFORE the patch and they gave finest gear, tons of highest level flares and nades and best valuables. And ofc highest level weapons.
Gone now. Not sure if it's intended.
The Military Token airdrops are empty now, too. Loot boxes in the Anomaly containers are also empty.
....
At least, the GRE chests at the sunken city are still there and lootable. But they only give clothing gear, no weapons.

An official comment on this would be nice.
Let's see.

what are the gre chests?

[XeRnUno]

Originally posted by micronauta:

what are the gre chests?

The Inhibitor chests with GRE logo. There are 5 of them in the sunken city area.

[Agarillobob]

where do you even get level 9 gear now? most areas only spawn up to level 6

[XeRnUno]

There are special encounters (Renegades at daytime / Infected during night), which drops artifact lvl 9 gear - sometimes.
Those encounters only start spawning AFTER you've finished the game.
Not saying they are rare, but you won't get spammed by them, lol.
Sunken City was way more reliable.

[Agarillobob]

those are like super rare tho and with the korek charm literally gone I need to refarm weapons again and durability mod becomes relevant again so rip extra damage but hey durability mad was nerfed too wtf

[XeRnUno]

AFAIK the durability mod was also reduced from -100% to -50%.
Korek - as we all know - has changed too.
But, to be fair you should also mention, that they changed the stack size of items.
It's now at least x9999, instead of x999.
Already got 3000 Scraps now. ^^

[Agarillobob]

I see those changes making sense and especially for a hard mode or early game but I´m in post post game and just wanna have fun and get some collectibles they took all the end game stuff away with that I dunno I don´t like this
you are basically done with the story once you get to those air drops