How to get the PRE-ENGINEERED FSD - Still BEST for Console and Legacy | Elite Dangerous Guide 2024 

HI! Nice vid! Can you make tutorial for FAST Odyssey mats farming?

I am not sure this is a glitch. I have just picked up this FSD and when I went to the engineer to add the Experimental Effect, it says that it is already installed and it cannot be modified. From what I have read on the official forums, this FSD was never intended to be modified in any way. Perhaps they changed it to already fitted after Update 18?

Thanks for pinning this comment, the mass manager issue is why I came to the comment section. I went to both Palin and Felicity and this version says: "Can't modify, pre-engineered". It's weird though, this message made me think this is intended or was intended at some point and maybe it was accidentally switched on with the latest update.

Yeah, I should have read that comment before spending hours on the mat gathering. I already had a V1 and it didn't worked so I thought this was an old module from the day we could not add an Experimental... Thank you anyway. I will have a good G5 for the next upcoming ship. Maybe if we all go put some positive pressure on the forum they will listen? o7

A couple of years ago, there were some CGs with similarly pre-engineered class 3, 4 and 6 FSDs as rewards. At the time, there was a huge kerfuffle in the forums about not being able to apply experimental effects like we'd already been able to with these class 5 drives. Eventually, they changed the button to say "Options Restricted, Pre-Engineered", which is what we've had until update 18 and still allowed experimentals. Also, it's been argued that experimentals can't be applied to a module anyway unless it IS engineered, so we should be able to do it. Apparently the same problem is also affecting some pre-engineered weapons that could previously have experimental affects applied. So it's a bit annoying, and I hope they won't just sweep it under the rug!

Your right it's easy to scan wakes there but after an hour I didn't get one determined wake exception. 😢

@@WoodTreesAndRope you wont, you have to fill up on others and go trade at a broker

true, sadly - I'll have to change the vid. Still the best option for console crowd though

Hey I’m glad you just said that! I’m new to the game and was just about to embark on the grind!

This is known because in the Odyssey Alpha, the DSS map WAS a heatmap, and frontier disabled it during the alpha due to bugs as well as it being confusing for players. It's replacement has been the purely blue surface filter that only shows whether it is capable of spawning or not. Fdev have never reimplemented the heatmap since the Odyssey Alpha.

I have done this in the past, and it’s great! Not too grindy either, if you take it slowly and enjoy the area. Didn’t recommend it for just getting 26, as it’s a decent way out if I recall, and a little overkill, but it might get it’s own video one day 🫡

For a new account, the max you can hold is 100 of each G4 raw until you fill them and relog. Then it magically changes to 150 max and you can do the rest.

If you're in Live I recommend using limpets and rockets/mines/flechettes, much faster that way

Where is this place?

Where are the Crystiline Spires?

I got 2.3 billion in credits my first week long exploration where I was playing like every day during the pandemic. Was definitely worth it

Yess! I couldn’t think of a way to fit this in the script organically, but I really hope people do this!!! 🫡

wow this is awesome, can you do a vid around this outlining it a bit and where to start?

@@danieldavis2292 It's 10 locations for the INRA sites alone. Start with: HIP 16824 A 2 f If you google for "Canonn INRA sites" you'll find the rest. There's also a lot more concerning the Thargoids and the whole story behind it.

The pre-engineered FSD is the way to go. My Phantom has close to 70ly jump out fitted for exploration. My Asp does 69.8 (I know because I took it out this morning) and my DBX has 70.7 outfitted. All three have surface scanners and SRVs along with a few other goodies that if stripped would add 4-8ly depending on the ship. The pre-eng FSD gives about 3ly over a grade 5 engineered.

@@wstavis3135 yeah. Got about 5ly from it!

Do you think they'll allow playstation transfers?? I had to start from scratch again :(

@im_a_spooon i'd check their website. I think its all consoles if i remember right

@im_a_spooon i think so. Id check their website cos that's where you make the transfer. i had to start from scratch on pc too, when i transferred my xbox save over to pc i had to delete my pc profile with the same name, but it was worth it for me since id only toyed around with odyssey a bit, and on xbox i had billions of credits and a fair amount of engineering progress

I wonder how man of us from the 80's are still playing. I had the comador 64.

​@@judeg.8101Me too! Back in the Wire-Frame Universe…

were you able to do it? when i went to Felicity Farseer it wouldnt let me add the exp affect

You can't now 😢

I have aspx with a 65 ly range i think and im on my route to super massive Black hole and i also map everything i encounter

i did colonia in 4 days going using the colonia bridge.... arrived with so much data took hrs when i handed in... when i need to return to the bubble ... god bless the neutron highway took me 6 hrs back 😂 (in my asp explorer 39 ly jump was painful)

Modified Consumer Firmware is an encoded material offered as a reward for many different mission types, from mining to passengers to anti-xeno. I just gather it that way and trade it. Biotech Conductors and Refined Focus Crystals are offered the same way. Same deal. Not addressing this at you, but anyone who repeatedly relogs at various known sites and then complains about the grind for materials only has themselves to blame.

I wish there was a way to access those now

@@christopherjohnston6343 missing the 6 killed the game for me, it may be a small thing, but I had played that game for 5 years, the 6 came out unknowingly while I was away on a holiday break. I was right into exploration and I'd been hanging out for more range for my Condas. When I missed that, I just lost enthusiasm and I've struggled to stay back in the game ever since. It felt like I'd completely missed out on a well deserved reward.

Thanks mate! Haven’t told people this yet, but that’s what I’m working on for Monday’s video, so stay tuned! 🫡

Got odyssey for my steam deck after doing a console port years ago and had to restart btw, if you go on fdev site and sign up your account you can do a console commander transfer and port your whole commander and ships and progress so you don’t have to start from 0 just don’t be a dummy like me and do it but then continue to progress on console. (I didn’t have a computer to run odyssey and had to use nvidia GeForce to stream on an old laptop and the quality was terrible so I went back to console but I got a steam deck in December and switched to odyssey but way further behind.) Hope this helps alleviate your grind commander

​@@kickflipking06You also get a free copy of ED:O when you transfer to pc.

All very impressive and whatnot, but I’d dispute the term tourist. I may set out toward a destination, but that doesn’t mean I’m just mindlessly jumping. The vast majority of my time being a ‘tourist’ is spent scanning undiscovered systems and landing on/ surveying new bodies. I’ve even got a few undiscovered ELWs and Black holes to my name, which I’m super happy with. Again, massive respect to you and those like you, but just because I’m not mapping out star clusters doesn’t mean I’m not exploring. Going to undiscovered space and researching it is the DEFINITION of exploring! 🫡

Glad they’re handy! It’s on my list, but I haven’t done much of it myself tbh. I’ll get on it once I’m a little more experienced 🫡

I was considering putting this in, but I was worried it might make the ‘what is it’ a little too confusing. Still, you’re bang on 🫡

Or for a combat ship. You can turn the FSD off (to save energy), and it will turn back on fast if needed, without sacrifasing jumprange.

I used to have a mining laser on there, but in the end I just wasn’t using it much, so I took it off. I put point defence on there as and when I need it, for guardian stuff. The anticorrosion rack is purely because I have it unlocked, and it’s occasionally handy. I do have another little AFMU on there, I just forgot to add it to the build 🤦🏻‍♂️ Still, whatever floats your boat, I just find my build best after much trial and error 🫡

@@DiturisElite yes its nice. i uses the anaconda for exploration. its ok to get from A to B but its just a flying brick and has no turnrate. Landing on planets is also difficult. So i guess i will be trying a Krait next

I tried to do this method for hours earlier in the week, but I couldn’t find a single distribution centre in any of the famine systems I went to. No idea if I was doing something wrong, but it just didn’t seem to work for me. Still, it sounds like a great method if you can get it to work 🫡

That's it "Distribution Centre". They do not appear straight away idkw. I have to wonder around the system for a bit before I find them. Getting close rto the planet they orbit usually spawns them. Scanning the Nav becon does not always bring them up. :( @@DiturisElite

No, just the new Pre-engineered FSD; Don't know if you need to gather mats for another FSD, i'd say yes...

Along with this, don't go in a straight line and move a bit up or down from the galactic plane. Going in a straight line between the biggest landmarks in the galaxy is very explored, do something *different* between landmarks and you'll find so many unexplored systems.

The exit the game and start again sounds horrible.

I think you missed the point of this channel

@@Neo-vz8nh It isn't great but it is works great. You can get 100 Grade 5 Mats in under 30 mins. That's a win in my book. It is what I show my new players.

@@clockwork6966 Not sure how.

@@williamvorkosigan5151 but it goes straight against the spirit of this channal: dont hard grind. I done many high grade hunting, scan and go for it. Slower, but less frustrating. Reloging is one thing, but exit and restart is another. Of course it is a good thing you shared the knowledge.

SCO has made these pre-engineered obsolete.

It’s a just in case. Doesn’t have any mass when empty so no reason not to 🫡

I find the whole "insufferable engineering grind" to be blown way out of proportion. I came back to the game after years, never done any engineering prior to that and I find it actually engaging. Unlocking different engineers often requires you to change your routine, do things that you didn't quite expect or plan and generally it seems like the whole process is designed to introduce a lot of different gameplay elements to players who might not even tried those before. I treat is as my personal "storyline" at the moment and enjoying it quite a bit. As for materials themselves, they are non issue to me, even without logging off/on meta. Just like Dituri said about manufactured mats - there's more than one way to tackle those and each way has it's merits. Raw material gathering in far-away systems for example was one of the most chill experiences in the game for me and allowed me to see things I would probably never see outside of youtube videos. My personal opinion is that engineering is only a chore to people who don't want to be inconvenienced by doing something that they do on repeat, be it trading, bounty hunting, mining or whatever else. Because yes, you have to spend a couple of evenings doing something else, sometimes re-fitting your ship with different components and going places you normally wouldn't. But patience is often rewarded in more ways than just getting the upgrades themselves (which really make your personal build to another level btw). You call it hoop jumping, I call it gameplay diversity. Something broader to do outside of taking down pirate #9865 or a trip to Colonia.

I’ll have to check that method out! As far as I can see experimental effect depends largely on the size of fsd rather than ship, but I’m in no way an expert on the inner workings of engineering. I could well do guardian booster video soon - I have thought of it in the past, but other ideas keep beating it to production! Thanks mate, stay dangerous 🫡

Nice! I'll tag along no matter what topic you select! Thanks for your continuous efforts! o7

There is a non-grindy way to engineer - do missions and always pick the material rewards. Missions cover just about every type of gameplay, so if you can't find a mission you enjoy then I'm not sure what else to tell you.

Deep charge better for FSDs smaller then C5.