Found a way to quickly farm red-tier mods

[brown29knight]

in the acidic yeast mission (where you use a research building to scan the root of the super fast growing yeast), AFTER you have scanned the yeast, IT becomes invincible, but every other yeast root can be destroyed. They count as bosses, so the game will drop 2-4 mods when one is destroyed, with one mod often being red quality.

Once there are only 2 killable roots on the map, the game will show where they are with objective pings on the map.

Also, the game will make sure that there is always at least 2 killable roots on the map at all times, adding another one every time you kill one.

As they show up on the map, and do not fight, you can put up warp portals all over the map, then warp to root, kill it, loot mods, repeat as often as desired, getting just less than one red mod per kill, and often taking less than a minute to warp-move-kill-loot.

[goatfish]

and here i am keeping that base because i like the sound of artillery fire

[Stimpacker]

Hmm, interesting idea. Just tried it out. Got many grey and blue mods, a couple pink. No reds.

[brown29knight]

Originally posted by Stimpacker:

Hmm, interesting idea. Just tried it out. Got many grey and blue mods, a couple pink. No reds.

Odd, I got a red mod from almost every one. I DO have a large mod drop rate bonus from multiple energy sensors, but I wouldn't think that does much for rarity, only amount.

Originally posted by goatfish:

and here i am keeping that base because i like the sound of artillery fire

Wow, that must make the farming even quicker.

[goatfish]

i didn't even know you could farm them. i just like clearing out the spores

[Stimpacker]

Originally posted by brown29knight:

Odd, I got a red mod from almost every one. I DO have a large mod drop rate bonus from multiple energy sensors, but I wouldn't think that does much for rarity, only amount.

Hmm ok, loaded up with 4x Extreme quality energy sensors for a total of 300% mod drop rate. So instead of 1-2 mod drops per boss, there's always 3. Rarity went up too. There's always 1 purple. No red. Brutal difficulty. Did about 20 bosses. Still good. Thanks for the tip.

[brown29knight]

welcome. Sorry that you're not getting the results I'm getting, but also glad it is helping you.

[Porked!]

Rarity of the dropped mods increase with familiarity level. Just scan a crap ton of them to get red mod pinata. This also applies to everything that can drop a mod.

[Stimpacker]

Originally posted by Pokie!:

Rarity of the dropped mods increase with familiarity level. Just scan a crap ton of them to get red mod pinata. This also applies to everything that can drop a mod.

Thank you very much! That worked. Getting red mods now after familiarity level 4 with acidic yeast. Wow, and here I thought I knew the game well.

[brown29knight]

Thank you from me as well! I didn't know that, and it is quite helpful!

[YT.thebuffshaman]

I assume this is patched since I am there now and using 4x energy sensor advanced and have yet to see a single drop from the roots.