Hidden Cache locations

[flashy]

ill see if i can find a reload and double check for u about the stash's and report back

right found a save that was useable, 1 stash top left corner far square its above the plane u enter on so gonna have to look up abit its near the edge of the squares ajoin it

down by the pirate station, first load i destoryed 10 and got nothing second time 2nd blinky rock i shot i got a wyvren mk2 so guess its pure luck if u get any drops or not


edit
just did a restart on the game where i took the route that got me the stash location info and reloaded 3 or 4 times and the southern roids aint dropping anything so im woundering if u accept the stash mission that when u kill quater his ships have that loot so are left empty as a trigger

[Uniq]

I have been searching xb19 for like an hour and I cant find the cache, Found one of the fakes but nothing else. It was by the junkyard.
This is making me nuts, been drigving between them like 20 times and nothing,

[Nanaki]

This one drove me nuts too, the dense dust clouds made it very difficult to see anything.

Try looking by the wrecked pirate base, close to the edge of the map...

[superd]

Flashy,

Are we talking about Pegasys. There is no pirate station? I did not accept the mission. Never even heard of it before I found this forum.

[superd]

Interestingly,

I finally got my Wvyern in Charon, which is contradictory to what was described in the hidden cache post. Now I begin to think the loots in cache are predetermined once you begin a new game, but different in every game.

I gave up in Pegasys. Like I said before, I almost left no single roid in that system, but after blowing up 10+ fakes, I could not even find a blinking one. But it took me 3 minutes to find my loot in Charon. Thanks flashy.

[Kurgan]

Originally Posted by vistarnh

Hidden Cache locations

Vaudille - North asteroids, there are TWO caches here and it's easy to run to right after getting the Mastiff. Look for a blinking cache asteroid somewhere in the west of the cluster and a Ship hull (battleship?) with a blinking white light towards the center/east of the northern field. There are many false caches just blow them all up till you find them. You should get a couple of nice prototype main guns and maybe a fighter or 2 as well as some top tier equipment. You can save/reload to get better stuff.

I've got some more specific directions:

9 squares from the left
4 down

on the line between 13 and 14 from the left
on the line between 2 and 3 from the top (blow up the ship)

[vahadar]

Originally Posted by vistarnh

Precursor system - If you go east of the 1st waypoint that has all the artifacts, you'll find a Starhammer memorial in side a giant sphere. It dropped a precursor ship artifact and a precursor gun for me. I also got ambushed by 8 aliens. The precursor ship can sell for almost $120,000. Side note: I don't always get the ship or gun, it's pretty random, but aliens will keep spawning in waves until you actually destroy the Starhammer. If you are tough enough (and save enough) you can gain quite a bit of XP here (I got ~600 my last game before the missile boats got to be too much).

*SPOILER*
a good tip to permanantly tank aliens in Precursor system is to use the following setup on your Astarte :
kali * 2 (+3000 shield hp and +10 hp regen/s each)
tungsten *1 (+20 armor hp regen/s)
helios * 3
system firmware mk 3 (for the 250% armor/shield regen boost)

You can get those modules at normal cost in Charon at the Styx station, if no access to FTU warehouse or dont wanna pay for smugglers fee. Make the money for them in XB-19 and get the firmware easily.

With the IA pilot you regen 50 shield and 50 armor per second, you are generally at 90-100% armor because of aliens missile and shield generally drop at 10-20% when they are all on you at same time, but by the time a wave is destroyed, shield is back to 50-80% enough to protect from next wave. If you want to use your fighters the trick is to redock them all when there are 4-5 aliens left on the field before next wave pop so they dont get hurt by missiles and let the Astarte fnish them (had a triden with a phoenix repair system, but wasnt enough to prevent damage from missiles over time)

The tungsten is mandatory because even if they (almost) never get past throu your shield with their guns, their missiles blast in a green cloud that harm your armor over time preventing you to stay there indefinitly. This way you can leave the game running without watching at your ship.

I even left the game running for 1h in 4x time mode without getting killed, with fighters docked. Made a few thousands stat points ^^ well that's a bit of a cheating i admit, that was purelly for testing purpose, i reversed my save after obsiously

Beside this fit, i'm using all the time a similar fit using 2 kalis and an emerald on the astarte with system firmware mk3, this setup tank almost every huge ennemy pack fleets at this stage of the game (managed to beat all ships in InoCo system multiple times before the precursor mission and cleaned Beta Larethia with the mothership as tank when entering system). Only non laser user weapon are a real threat to this setup (like kinetics on gunslinger ships, they melt this fit but you can tank 30 tiers 4-5 laser user fighters easily). No need of Smog unit with such fit.
*SPOILER*

[craven42]

*spoiler* That tip with starhammer memorial was amazing. Since I had a good mothership I managed to easily and continuosly kill waves of aliens that were spawning and gained 2000 exp points for each of the characters. But the memorial is not the only secret in the system. Right in the middle of the sector at the border of dust field there is a ship hull that will drop an artifact. It doesnt have a value or any use but if you want to see what message did game creators leave on it in a form of poem you might wanna check it out since you will have to go to the middle of the sector at some point any ways. *spoiler*

[vahadar]

Originally Posted by craven42

*spoiler* Right in the middle of the sector at the border of dust field there is a ship hull that will drop an artifact. It doesnt have a value or any use but if you want to see what message did game creators leave on it in a form of poem you might wanna check it out since you will have to go to the middle of the sector at some point any ways. *spoiler*

I found that artifact too, its the only one Aliens dont take back when you leave Precursor sector.

I'm really wondering if the op of this thread was very lucky or not but i never got any artifacts (gun or anything) from the Star Hammer memorial or from the Artifact contener close to it.

Any confirmation of drop? i reloaded over 50 times an old save there to check for that precursor gun but no luck at all (i guess there are more guns later in the game from precursor since Joseph has the skill for them)

[Nanaki]

Just unlucky, you might have to reload before you enter the system.

I found something very interesting, apparently the patrol station in Argon occasoinally offers missions for you to kill some pirates for 10,000 credits. This mission is apparently repeatable, since I am now doing it my second time (been going to the Argon station to offload pirate pods).