Hidden Cache locations

[paleale]

X-220 - 5 and a half spaces west of the x203 gate is an asteroid.
I looted a wyvern mk2 Asmodeus x 2, m-82 dago and m150 tetabo x 2 post precursor mission.

Tarrot - asteroid in the SW quadrant. Lots of pirates. It had some decent stuff. I don't think you can get this unless you go the Ino co route which is bugged for me.

Precursor missions - 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.

[Vaynark]

Do we have to acquire info about the locations of the hidden caches first to make them appear in the game or we can freely explore and find the caches at any time of the game and without any knowledge of its location first?

[Ruinous]

Apart from the heretic mission all the others can be freely gained without having to have paid the 5k for the info beforehand.

There is a cargo container in the bottom left corner of Prien. Shooting this spawns an ungodly number of MSF ships... haven't managed to survive that to loot the stash though I'm playing on hard this time round

[flashy]

not a hidden cache per say but in fronn if u look at the map theres an armory marked in the far north of the system

if u head up there and kill the transport ships hanging around the station u will think xmas has come early this will piss off triada but they dont send much in the way of baddies your way the transports all shoot u and i had 4 fighters i think attack me but i netted me

3 gen 2 fighters
3 gen 3 fighters
a whole host of differnt guns/systems and missles and quite abit of cargo which should sell nicely

theres other locations like this ive killed 1 before think it was another triada 1 as they disliked me anyway on a pervious game but that was a supply depo or something certainly worth hitting up though the armory was much larger quanitiy than the supply depo from what i remember, was scooping for 5min at x4 speed lol

[Ruinous]

About the heretic mission, playing on hard I didn't get either the kali or tungsten just a selection of fighter guns and a topaz (50% laser damage mitigation for motherships). One thing I did get though is there actually *is* a pirate stash near where it gets marked. Had to comb that asteroid field several times but got a gunslinger and several other bits & pieces out of it So you get the stash loot & convoy loots which wasn't too shabby hehe.

Also on this run through the traders have sold me info that Pandora contains a station which supposedly can fix your faction standings, excepting the pirates. Also that Ergelan USS station has low prices for equipment. Not stash info, but worth knowing anyway.

[flashy]

theres a few stations that fix standings cant remember any off the top of my head but they do charge 850k for 1 faction fix so if there all angery at u, thats gonna add up lol

[vistarnh]

Originally Posted by Ruinous

About the heretic mission, playing on hard I didn't get either the kali or tungsten just a selection of fighter guns and a topaz (50% laser damage mitigation for motherships). One thing I did get though is there actually *is* a pirate stash near where it gets marked. Had to comb that asteroid field several times but got a gunslinger and several other bits & pieces out of it So you get the stash loot & convoy loots which wasn't too shabby hehe.

Also on this run through the traders have sold me info that Pandora contains a station which supposedly can fix your faction standings, excepting the pirates. Also that Ergelan USS station has low prices for equipment. Not stash info, but worth knowing anyway.

man I looked all over that field for an actual stash, guess I'll look again. Also I usually save right before I wax the transports so I make sure I get either a kali or tungsten. The loot seems to be on a semi random table where the game basically rolls to see how many items you get and which items of each time (like you get 0-3 heavy guns and each can be vindicator, helios, or rage). These tables seem to vary a bit from game to game and I'm not sure if difficulty has any effect.

[flashy]

any 1 catch the name of the system where the pirate stash mission is so i can go belt combing

[superd]

Originally Posted by flashy

not a hidden cache per say but in fronn if u look at the map theres an armory marked in the far north of the system

if u head up there and kill the transport ships hanging around the station u will think xmas has come early this will piss off triada but they dont send much in the way of baddies your way the transports all shoot u and i had 4 fighters i think attack me but i netted me

3 gen 2 fighters
3 gen 3 fighters
a whole host of differnt guns/systems and missles and quite abit of cargo which should sell nicely

theres other locations like this ive killed 1 before think it was another triada 1 as they disliked me anyway on a pervious game but that was a supply depo or something certainly worth hitting up though the armory was much larger quanitiy than the supply depo from what i remember, was scooping for 5min at x4 speed lol

Maybe it is too early for me to say. but flashy has probably found a bug of this game. Why? because 1, once you have FTU access all top quality stuff can be bought with cash and 2. After blowing up all tansporters in Fronn and one cargo bay, I retreated to have a rest. And I paid Fronn another visit and WOW another 5 transporters show up. Also you won't trigger spawns of Triada if you do not attack cargo bay. I don't know if the transporters will come back if you completely destroy the station. But I will save this cash cow for future withdrawal.

After knowing this, I am now shopping like a maniac. Only buying the most expensive stuff. And I instantly lose the interest in any other caches.

[Codrus]

Confirming that going back to Aurora (alex) is necessary first before going to Heph for the caches.