QUALITY OF LIFE
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You can donate items from the map in the projects tab: You can open your map, go to the tab called projects, click any project and you can donate items from anywhere! Hold onto old gear and check to see if different projects need those items before selling or dismantling. You can also donate right from your stash, no need to carry everything around with you, just dump everything into stash after each mission!
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/quit in chat will exit the game without having to log out first! Also -- /leave will leave the group!
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You can change your inventory style to a grid: Push X on PC to access options, it's L3 for PS4 & Xbox (
short example of what the grid looks like)
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How to Accept Requests for Backup - Hold down the button that would be used to open the map, once the map is open look for an exclamation mark with lines coming off of it and hover your cursor over it, then hold the button that you would use to accept an invite for matchmaking!
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Upgrade Crafting Benches: Upgrade crafting benches when you can, all materials are capped and it's way easier to just upgrade your bench when you can rather than dump all your mats into upgrading and not having enough to craft stuff you want. How to upgrade: When you first interact with the crafting table (before you select any pieces you want to craft) one of the options is to upgrade it (there may be level requirements to this).
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Don't skip found footage videos: They can be found in the Progression tab and provide interesting pieces of information on factions and story.
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Activate Ubisoft Challenges through the Ubisoft Club:completing these earns points that can be used to buy cosmetics and other helpful resources.
FAQ Link
COMBAT
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Helpful Weapon Talent Info Graphic Guide (save to your Google Drive so you don't lose it!), Weapon Talents in text form (which may have more than the first link)
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The weapon talent that increases magazine size by 20% ("Extra"?) is factored in AFTER magazine mods: An AR with 30 rounds normal that has the talent will now have 36 rounds. Adding the magazine mod that increases the rounds by 30 doesn't give you a total of 66, it gives a total of 71 [(30 base + 30 extra) *1.2 talent]
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You can take your healing drone or seeker mine back:Double-tap your ability hotkey (Q or E) and the drone will come back to heal you or the seeker mine will come back to you ( you can repeatedly use it to scare off rushers and/or flush enemies out of cover. As
/u/thrwawy_laterdaterexplained, it's like a tiny attack dog.)
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Fixer drone can heal turrets (and anything else with armor): Target it like an ally.
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Corner to Corner arrow speed: You can change corner arrow-movement speed from slow to fast under gameplay settings
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Deconstructing turrets: before duration expires cuts cool down in half ( 2 minutes -> 1 minute base on assault turret )
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All shields repair when stashed or out of combat: Stash it before it dies and it will never go on cool down ( this probably applies with all shields ). All shields repair themselves when stashed or taken out of combat.
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If you are primarily solo: Hive Reviver acts as a self rez on death
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If you kill an enemy engineer before you kill their active turret the turrent will turn on his teammates.
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All skills have all their controls listed once you've unlocked them: It's worth spending time reading it, as they all function slightly differently.
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VERY IMPORTANT (CONSOLE) - aim assist is very strong when first ADSing: Get into cover, put cross hair (not in ADS) over the general area of target (say chest) and then ADS while firing - cross hairs will snap to head, repeat cycle for constant head shots, particularly with single shot rifles. This is a carry over from d1. Getting the hang of this will dramatically improve your success in PVE.
LOOT
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Respawn Rates: Weapon and Armor crates have a 24hour respawn time, Big yellow crate in Control points will respawn each time you capture a control point yourself in World Tier 4, Keyboxes have a 24hour respawn time, Misc. lootables seem to be on a 4 hours respawn timer, not 100% about Misc, lootables but they seem to have a 4 hour respawn.
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Maximum obtainable gear score is tied to your current items, \including* stash. Keep high score items for better loot!:* GearScore for loot drops is based on your max attainable own GearScore from all items owned, including your stash. Just hold on to items with higher GearScore, you don't need to equip them to still get better drops. To elaborate, "max possible" is the
highest ilvl item you have NOT average ilvl of all items. So for instance, if your highest ilvl gun is shit - throw it in your stash and the item still counts as your max ilvl piece of gear (even though you aren't using it). You can have all the low ilvl gear you want in your stash, but the ilvl mechanic only counts towards your
highest ilvl gear.
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Donating supplies gives you the ability to see lootable objects from further away: Donate supplies to one of your settlements before going sewer looting. It will temporarily highlight loot near you, making it easier to see and less likely to miss a cache key.
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Loot Control Points after a bit of time has passed: If you go back to a captured control point after a certain time, the supplies and crates in the supply room are obtainable again except the big chest. No exact time has been confirmed but it does happen from time to time. Helps with getting some free loot! Note: if you go into the map and select a control point, in the info it includes a timer counting down till the supply room loot fills up again. (Might only be during end game).
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Don't overlook DZ & Control Points in your search for loot
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Regarding DZ loot: Even if you hate PvP, but want a nice spike in gear: Go to the Dark Zones. You don't have to hunt other people. Heck, you don't even have to deal with calling for choppers, extracting gear, watching nervously, then get shot by rogues. Just Landmark hop from point to point and clear them out. Enemies there drop loot that you do not have to extract. And they drop nice,
NICE pieces of gear. Hit the landmarks up a few times and you'll have no worries of falling behind with gear while leveling.
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You can find unmarked SHD tech in underground tunnels & loot sewers regularly: Key boxes in the sewers respawn, come back for more faction keys! Sewers are by far the fastest way to farm Rare Crafting resources like Carbonfiber, Titanium and Electornics due to how many different boxes there are in them.
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There is loot in everywhere!
- You can shoot locks on gates / doors
- In main story missions there are loot spawns that are easy to miss
- Side missions often unlock a room with loot (aka. Control Points)
- Sometimes you can see into a room with a weapon case / loot but there's no obvious way in...there IS a way in... there is always a way in (bugs not withstanding). Side note: Follow the red cord to a yellow box and shoot it. Your crosshairs should be red when you aim at the thing that opens the area.
- Don't forget to search for faction keys and key boxes/cabinets on the walls. They look like a fuse box of sorts or a cabinet you would see near a valet office. Faction keys open faction loot boxes.
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Cosmetics are shared across all of your characters:Make new agents to get a few more cosmetic unlocks!
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Claiming armbands: You've likely unlocked
lots of arm badges if you haven't checked the Progression section of your menu. Open up Progression, go to the next tab and you'll see a list of all the challenges you've completed. You have to
manually claim the rewards for each challenge. You can see a list of unclaimed challenges on that screen.
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Figuring out what you have collected: The supply areas, water - tools etc, turn from white to green on the map and minimap when you have collected everything in that area.
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Supply boxes in trees: Orange supply boxes that are stuck in trees, on buildings and other high objects always drops a Dye for your Gear. Faction lockboxes always drops Gear mods.
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Do Bounties! They give great rewards, exp, credits and best of all skill points for your specialistaion.
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Commendations: Under Progression there is a Commendations tab, claiming the rewards there unlock Emblems and at certain points Commendation Caches that give the same loot as a Field Proficiency Cache.
