NOTE ABOUT LANDING: There is a reason I suggest taking the DBX or Asp X (and went in a DBX myself) - the terrain is VERY rough and you'll basically be unable to land an Anaconda or large class ship here. It's *never* a good idea to bring a large ship when doing planetary stuff, especially Guardian or Thargoid sites - leave the big pig at home and take a small ship for this.
I did it a few minutes ago. At first I'd like to thank you for this tutorial. Second thing is: There is no problem with my anaconda, just landed about 300 meter away on a hill. Took a little bit of time to search but it's fine.
I just started playing ED after buying it on steam sale. Holy smockes this game wants you to go through all kinds of grind... your guides help a lot, thank you :)
Worth mentioning though, out of my lessons learned, for anyone who never used an SRV before, when following this trip: Personally I'd recommend to take your time testdriving your SRV on the various resourcespots on the same moon, where the guardian site is based collecting material, which will come handy when doing the site. At least collect sulfur and phosphorous and get familliar with refining ammo, fuel and repairs for the SRV out of your collected mats and get used to the handling of the SRV, its thrusters and turret. This will help you a lot on the guardian site, where (especially, when you're new to the SRV) you will need to reload the weapon, and maybe refuel the SRV, at least once. For repairs, it should still work to board your ship, but it'd be handy to repair the SRV on the fly with the mats you gathered before. Anyways, thx for this guide.
Thanks man, awesome clear instructions! Important notes to this that make it easier: - Take a small ship so you can park really really close (preferably inside the ruins) - The sentinels are much more of a pain as the video above describes. - Take point 2 or 3 defenses with you and make sure they are located on top of your ship not on its bottom. The point defense on your ship will take out the inbound missiles from the sentinels. point defense modules located on the bottom of your ship won't be able to get a clear shot to the sentinel missiles. Relog if you want everything, you can only activate the site once
The sentinels are piece of cake... All you need to do is repair your SRV with premium, load your repeater with premium ammo and dont be scared... When they appear, just put 3 pips in weapons and in 15 seconds they explode in a beautiful blast... When they fire missiles, just quickly put 4 pips to shields, when missiles hit you, nothing much happens, then pips to weapons and continue...
OMG I just made the trip. Scanned every thing on the way there, taking 4 hours and when I got there realized my SRV bay is empty. LOLOLOL What a moron.
Great walk through! It was tough. Made the HUGE mistake of going first with my Anaconda. Had to drive several Kms to get there. Only to have my vehicle destroyed. Came back in my Asp Explorer and landed at the site and the Point Defense works great. Still ended up losing both of my vehicles, mainly panicking and driving to fast. Luckily there was a massive ship-station a mere 262 lys away and I restocked. Third time knocked it out. So fun! Could not have done it without this. I watched several of these and yours was easily the best. Thanks again!!
Thanks for the tip. Anaconda landing site, head to location 40.8394 by -106.5824 , you should be able to land or recall your ship to land here. It's around 1.85km from the site.
Just got there in my Conda and didn't realize how terrible the terrain was. Spent a good 10 minuites looking for a landing spot before giving up and looking to the comments section. Thank you CMDR!
I'm getting my focus crystals first but I read the comments luckily before I set off for the guardian site. I'm in my anaconda but will be switching. Whew...
Is it possible that coordinates change? Im at the exact coordinates. Its 27.3km away fromt he site and a like..iudk.. VERY steep angled slope. idk how steep but very steep. 70 or 80°
simply find an ancient relic, I'll do a cut scene so you have to find them all yourself whilst being bombarded mby missiles and plasma guns. here's a dark map you can't see to help you.
@@MrZega000 Definitely do the "park ship with point defense nearby" trick. Too bad nobody mentioned the very real possibility you will run out of ammo before you get an artifact and therefore can't unlock the data terminal. Ran out of ammo during the last wave of enemies after I energized the towers.... . Didn't have the needed synthesis materials. Had to completely scrub the mission.
@@dozergames2395 yes but if you are new to be aware that one thing he glosses over in this is that there are enemy automated drones that will attack you as you progress through the puzzle. Bring materials to automatically prepare your Rover on the fly as needed.
In addition to everyone else's compliments, I appreciate that this guide gave enough direction so that I didn't go in blind, but left out enough for me to figure out and be surprised on my own.
And... subbed. It's absolutely refreshing to see such a high quality tutorial that tells you exactly what you need, shows ingame footage of what it is you're looking for and sums it all up in a succinct manner that is engaging (i.e. doesn't put me to sleep). Also providing a number of extra resources for additional information if necessary is definitely a nice touch. Time to go digging through the archives at your other tutorials :D
Thanks for the kind words, glad you're enjoying the videos. Only started 3 months ago so still have a ton of content lined up and yes, I take requests (well I add them to the list) :D
Couple other things worth mentioning: 1. There is a time limit to activate all the pylons. 2. Make sure you have materials to synthesize SRV ammo/fuel before heading out. 3. Sentinels will attack you but they are easy to focus fire. 4. If you park your ship close and it is equipped with point defense, then the point defense from the ship will destroy any Sentinel launched missiles, protecting you in your SRV.
I think you saved me a bit of frustration friend. I didn’t realize I only had to do this one time to unlock the Guardian Booster (the only piece of guardian tech I care about right now). I think it’s time to kit up the DBX and get back out into the stars for this
Great video. One tip about fighting the sentinels ... use your SRV brake. Make sure you have your brake on so when they hit you with missiles it doesn't flip you over.
If you fly the DBX or ASPX put a Point Defense on the utility mount above the cockpit and when you land point the nose of your ship into the site. When missiles fire your PTD will shoot them down even when you're in your SRV.
Bit late, but if you look in the codex, it tells you which system the first guardian ruins were discovered in. I imagine the trail of breadcrumbs starts there.
@@theacidtonguedconservative3865 The codex is fairly new. There is a research group of players called "Canonn". They found out about a LOT of Thargoid and Guardian related things. Basically everything.
Ok Commanders let me start by saying that after all of the ship building and travel, about an hour total, the 3 sentinels that you encounter right away are tough to deal with. Hilly, low gravity planet makes fighting them 100% more difficult. Bring 2 srv's because the closes station is 200 ly away. You are not going to just drive up and casually knock off 2 sentinels and collect your materials. If you are a trader or explorer brush up on srv combat because you will need it. Exigeous's gift of understatement will make you think that it is, 'Just a walk in the park Kijansky'. Going back in!
Learned this the hard way last night and I brought 3 SRVS. AND STILL BLEW UP ALL 3. It was aggravating. Went 200 ly away. Came back started in the morning today and left few hours ago. Got enough mats for 5 ships. Fck that place. Dont want to go back for awhile now
as of now, there appear to be a large number of fleet carriers in system. also i recommend doing this as a wing and having an actual ship hover overhead for CAS
Thanks for the tut. I flew on a conda and managed to land relatively easily, by watching my ship on the radar, to see when it'd turn into light colour. It's like a 1-foot wide spot on the side of the hill :))
Sorry for the lengthy post, but I wanted to share my experiences here. I went to the site yesterday and was lucky enough to arrive there at daylight. Even so, when sitting in the SRV it is easy to lose your orientation and I had to use my camera several times in the beginning to get my bearings back. I did find a landing spot for my ASP Explorer very close to the site (5 o'clock if you consider the terminal at 12 o'clock). In fact it was so close to the one pylon there that I almost had trouble charging it since you have to have some distance from the ship to use your turret. But good of course for the Point of Defences (I had two on the top) to shoot down the missiles from the sentinels. I still got toppled a few times from their attacks, but it was manageable. The pylons come out when you drive by closely, so you may want to raise them all before you start charging them (that way you can also get rid of most sentinels already). In any case your guide was extremely helpful and I got the blueprint on my second try. I ran out of time charging because I did not find the next pylon in time, but fortunately the pylons stay up, you just need to re-start the charging with the ones at the terminal. As it turned out the "hardest" part was in fact to get enough technology components. I had to re-log twice only to get those components. As somebody pointed out below, their spawn rate is much lower than for the power cells. When logging out the game warned me about "dangerous zone" and "respawn in a safe distance", so I boarded my SRV to be on the safe side, but after logging back in my ship was in fact still at its parking spot, which made the grind a lot easier. Final Note: I went to the neighbour system after it, because the megaship The Gnosis was incidentally in the area. When I scanned the system I found there is another Guardian Site there as well. After some googling I found out it is a site for weapon blueprints (e.g. Cannon site has a list of all Guardian Sites and their status). So if you are after both types of blueprints it could save you some travelling around (I did not check it out myself though). Again thanks for the video, great work. And also some good additional advice from the comments here, thanks to those commanders as well.
i parked mine just after 6 o clock from the primary pylon. worked great to shoot down all missiles with point defense. do it 2-3 times you'll get the feel for where the pylons all are. i drive around in turret mode with the scoop down really slow so i can target the things i want to scoop up. this also helps visibility as you can look around while driving.
Some additional notes that others may find helpful: When shooting the Energy Pylons, you have to KEEP shooting until the Info panel says that the pylon is charged. At first, I only plinked at the first two pylons a few times and then couldn't understand why the other pylons weren't showing up. A Diamondback Explorer has a more options for landing near the site than a Krait Mark 2, but it's still tricky. The other four pylons only rise up out of the ground once an SRV gets close. But, once they are sticking up out of the ground, any energy weapon will charge them, including ship-mounted. If you've got a friend with you flying a ship, then a fixed beam laser will charge the pylon. ...or you can just drive around, get all of the pylons to stick up out of the ground, and then get back in your ship and use your ship-mounted weapons (if you'd like to charge the pylons without worrying about being ambushed by Guardian Sentinels /while/ shooting the pylons). Whoever is flying needs to know that the pylons face outwards AWAY from the center of the site. This same flying friend can also help kill the Guardian Sentinels. They can be hit with fixed beam lasers. I didn't always feel like fighting those Sentinels in my SRV, so I sometimes drove back to my ship, took off, and used my fixed beam laser to kill the Sentinels, landed, got in my SRV again, and looted the parts. The Sentinels barely move at all, so aiming shouldn't be an issue. Sentinels don't show up on ship's sensors, unless the Sentinel is explicitly attacking the ship. If whoever is flying can't see the Sentinels, the SRV may need to shoot the Sentinels first so that the flying friend can see where the shots are going. If you're alone, it helps a lot to do this during the "day" when you can see the terrain. The moon has an orbital period of 1.2 Earth Days. If it's nighttime at the site, log out 20 kilometers away and come back in a few hours to see if it's day, yet. If you've got a flying friend to help you, then the ship-mounted lights might be able to substitute for day.
I'll add here, I went by myself and fought all the sentinels in my SRV as well as doing the event, because of that I ran out of ammo in my SRV with no materials to synthesise any more so I couldn't collect all the Guardian Power Cells and Guardian Technology Components. Either use your ship weapons but with the time it takes to land it's tricky, stuff disappears or make sure to have some materials for ammo. Don't be like me forced to fly back to the bubble.
If you park your ship in the right place, the headlings should light up a good portion of the site as well. Even if they're some of the narrower beams like the Conda.
Great video, thank you. Might be worth stressing that you can ONLY get one blueprint (either weapon or module as relevant) at a time from any of these Guardian sites. Even though there are several towers with Relics, the data terminal machine only gives out one blueprint & to get more a relog to start screen is necessary. I found out the hard way!
Managed to finish this thing today. Fighting the drones was easy, then during the "light the beacons" part, it got slightly harder with 3 drones attacking at the same time, fortunately, they aren't much of a challenge when using tactics and taking them out one by one. But when they topple you over all you can do is to sit and watch as you spin around, hopefully not heading down the hill... annoying. The most difficult thing was to get the damn ship to land so you can board with the SRV. I found a good landingspot in the actual base (Using a diamondback explorer) but from cause of habit i pressed depart and thought "Crap!!!" I had to try 7-8 times to recall the ship before it landed on a somewhat flat part and i could reenter, all other times it just hovered 10 meters over the ground, once it got to a good spot, but i flipped over and my jet was disabled (thank you for that dumb limitation). Whoever who thought that the mission would be a good idea to have on a non-flat planet should get slapped in the face by Braben.
The way a tutorial should be done. Nice work! Got frustrated a bit looking for a landing spot close to the site, but once the dust cleared those point defenses made my day. Now, my Corvette jumps 32 ly and I'm already starting working on the Exploration Anaconda. Colonia, here I come!
Thank you for this, I'll go try. Somehow I have a feeling that "...destroy the Sentinels that appear..." is going to be a learning objective of its own!
For the Focus Crystals, you can also sometimes find them at Points Of Interest marked as Encoded Emissions. This is an alternative if you want to avoid combat. Just check that the Threat level is 0, and you are good to go.
Did the HD63154 several times yesterday (damn the drop rate on guardian tech modules) and its still pretty much good. Couple things should be said though (adding to the point you already made): 1. There are more types of the destructible panels than those pillars. Before mode switching/reloading check those as well, you don't have to do the whole site over if you need just a couple of pieces 2. There is more scans/materials that can be collected on this site, but I understand the focus was on obtaining FSD booster.
points to note: Bring a friend, synthesis fuel and ammo while there, use a small ship and use point defence towers and aim your ship lights at the place if its dark.
Fantastic tutorial, I had to make 2 trips due to running out of ammo and to get enough of the tech components, but otherwise it was a breeze. Might want to add a note in the description to put point defenses on the ship, it'll take care of any missiles the sentinels launch for the most part unless you're super far away.
Definitely take 2x scarabs! I _just_ about survived in 1, and that's because I was able to keep repairing the hull. If I lost that, I'd have been pissed. The sentinals are not as easy as skimmers. Had a lot of problems finding where to park with a Krait Phantom, but 2km away in the valley was fine. Someone should build a pay and display car park out there. And thanks Exegious, love these bite size vids. Went to the Astronomy guy, and sheesh, that dude can waffle.
Adam Nelson omg that’s a long way away, especially on that pebble of a planet. I parked my dbx in the structure, or on the edge, worked wonderfully...love the dbx
CMDR Exigeous the asp has spoiled me. I named her the bubble jumper (Stargate Atlantis) I basically use it for mat grabbing. It's got more junk on it than it should, but I love it. I still need to re engineer a few parts because it still has some legacy parts that I could get striped down, but I don't believe I'd be getting too many more lyrs out of it. Id rather spend my mats getting my cutter tuned for piracy.. since that's the only job I can think of that suits it. I wanted to use it for PVP, but the Krait and anaconda fill that role for me
Just did this on Krait Phantom. Here are few things I found useful to know: - Phantom is probably largest vessel you can park within the site. It is VERY mountaneous. The landing position was so tight I was literally tapping on controls ever so slightly to catch it. Do not be lazy and outfit smaller ship. For phantom owners: try parking at 40.8028, -106.4980 heading 215, it may take a few minutes to find blue spot. - Point defence works like charm. Put two of these on side slots of your Phantom and not a single rocket will hit you. Make sure they are stocked with ammo. Make sure they are not offline. - Consider doing this solo. I arrived at the place in Open Play and 3 more commanders arrived while I was searching for a landing spot. Some pilots are not very attentive while doing landing maneuvers and could damage your ship. Even if your partner lands further away (and will rely on your ship's PDD to protect him) it can still bug the pylon event. We activated all pylons but terminal just wont accept the relic. Other commander bailed out after few unsuccessful attempts to fix it and then terminal magically worked. - Make sure that you have SRV ammo and fuel, bring materials for one recharge for each SRV. Unless you cleared a lot of guardian ruins before and can do it reasonably fast. - Manage your energy. Sentinels will not be able to damage your SRV shields much if you put 2-3 pips on SYS (unless you facetank it). Terminal is positioned in such a way that you would need to boost SRV up. Do not let your capacitors deplete or you risk falling or facing enemies without shields. - Explore facility carefully before activating pylons. This will likely activate most hiding sentinels thus allowing you to deal with them one by one. They have quite a lot of health, so I would not recommend driving around and poking pylons randomly - you very easily get swarmed. - Be mindful of terrain. The facility is on plato with canyons on either side. It is not improbable that you will lose your SRV by falling there. You could consider bringing two of these just in case. - Daylight helps. I know it is not something we can control, but Night Vision is useless in terms of giving you terrain awareness compared to shadows from a star and ship manufacturers refuse to put auxiliary lights around/below their ships, so you will only properly see a small cone forward. I arrived right at the end of night and morning hit when we were trying to fix Terminal, quite unlucky.
I feel you on the Phantom, I took mine out as well and must have spent about 35 minutes just looking for a spot to park : / Can't imagine what people go through when they show up in a Conda x_X
I just want to get my Vette over 20 light years... *Edit:* If I could, I'd shake your hand, Commander. Never would have gotten my Vette up to 31.93ly without your guide. Thank you, and keep up the amazing work!
mikezbr the fsd booster fits in an optional module slot. It does not modify the fsd booster itself. So yes, it can be used with a engineered fsd drive.
When I went to one, there were so many hills, I had to land 100km away from the area! When I finally got there, I was so careless I had 44% Hull left and tried my best not to get destroyed by the sentinels. After I was done and got all the stuff for the blueprint, I had an insane 10% left (good job me) and so I called in my ship but it wouldn’t land so I kept driving for hours trying to find a good landing area, but I was really cautious because I had 1% left. Finally my Asp landing and got in. That would be like the most intense moment I ever had playing Elite and I had quite a lot.
If you call your ship and there is no where convenient to land, it will hover and you can board it without it actually being touched down. This certainly works with an ASPX. A 'conda may have more trouble.
Warning - anyone reading this as of release of odyssey (21st may) the orb scanned does not give a blueprint as it seems there's some kind of bugs with guardian sites. In any case, i don't recommend doing this on odyssey client as it seems it doesnt work. Wasted so much time on this today without realizing the scans were not actually giving me anything.
Nice video, just a quick tip in galaxy map you can filter to show technology brokers near you, don't have to use a 3rd party tool for it altho Inara is a great website to use overall when playing Elite.
I’d never had managed to work out how to get the Guardian FSD Booster if it wasn’t for your clear and easy to follow guide and help. Thank you so very much. Have subscribed to your channel.
Exigeous, loving the videos man. Precise easily understood information delivered in a warm, hospitable southern voice. Its just perfect. Thanks a bunch for helping out us new players. (Never would have gotten that Guardian FSD module without you). Kudos from Denmark
Damn it that you picked up on the southern accent, I try *very* hard to break it but having grown up here and just moved back about a year ago (after 20 years in Colorado) it's so hard to shake as it's all around me.
Here are some more tips: get used to your SRV getting stuck on every random piece of detritus strewn around the site. I mean stuck: you'll have to rock the SRV back and forth with thrusters/switching between forward and backward, etc. I don't know if the site is ever in sunlight, but the place is DARK, and the pylons are nearly impossible to find. Even a map is useless, because it's impossible to tell where you are at any given time. I tried to fly the free camera up to get the layout, but it's too dark to see anything except what's lit by my SRV lights. So far, I've been driving around this place for 2 hours and I've managed to turn on 3 pylons, none of which I can find again after they have powered down. Edited: No idea how long a day is on that rock, but I went back a day later and the site was in sunlight. It is oriented east-west, with the machine you're trying to energize at the far west. You don't have to shoot a pylon to make others come out of the ground; whenever you get near a pylon, it rises up out of the ground. You can use this to find all six before you start powering them up.
Great vid! I went specifically to get the FSD boost but ended up getting all 6 modules. I did land an Anaconda but as pointed out multiple times it's very difficult to land near the site without being inside the danger zone. I was able to land a bit outside and didn't mind the relatively short SRV drive to the site as it kept my ship safe from attack.
Things you DO NOT mention in your video that people will CERTAINLY need to know. 1) How nearly impossible it is to land unless you know the EXACT coordinates. Even if you are in an Asp X. The coordinates you need are 40.7918 -106.4928 285 degrees Also, you will need to make sure you know your STRAFE keybinds as the normal turning thrusters will cause your ship to wander while turning. You must be at that EXACT coordinate to land, not one iota off. Other spots may work but nobody will be able to find them without help or spending hours. 2) You MIGHT run out of SRV FUEL. You MUST bring SULPHUR and PHOSPHOROUS. If you are new and want to explore the site first you will use a lot of SRV fuel. If you want to reset and do again, you'll use even more. Many of us have never used our SRV long enough to run it out of fuel. It can't be refueled while on the mission without using Synthesis of Sulphur and Phosphorous. While experienced players may have this in their stock, many newer players DO NOT. 3) You run a HIGH chance of RUNNING OUT OF AMMUNITION in the SRV. In my case, I ran out of Ammo right as the last set of guardians spawned after I unlocked the data terminal. Because of this I was completely unable to access the data terminal as I could not get an artifact (no ammo) and was being swarmed by Guardians. Again, you MUST bring SULPHUR and PHOSPHOROUS. If you run out of ammo before getting the blueprint (as I did) and do not have the materials to synthesize more, your mission is a complete waste of time. You have to fly to the nearest dock, repair/refuel, and then go find somewhere to farm sulphur and phosphorous to restock your SRV. Or you just sell your empty SRV and buy a restocked one at the dock (wtf?). Then go gather those mats so next time when you run out of ammo (because you're a noob and don't land 100% of your shots), you won't have to scrub the mission. It seems Frontier Dev made this mission not difficult but ANNOYING and needlessly time wasteful. Why in 3306 we can't just store some extra SRV fuel and Ammo in a cargo hold is effin beyond me. I just wasted my entire evening because neither you nor any of the other videos I watched mentioned any of these things. Please, no offense, but when you do a "tutorial video" please do not leave out important information just because you as an experienced player assume everyone already knows.
Preach!! Also, "It seems Frontier Dev made this mission not difficult but ANNOYING and needlessly time wasteful. Why in 3306 we can't just store some extra SRV fuel and Ammo in a cargo hold is effin beyond me. " -- because 'mUh dIfFiCuLtY'.
@@aitoluxd no need. Once you get close to the planet (almost in orbital cruise) it’ll show up for targeting like any other object in the system. You can just find it and press T and you’re good to go. If you can’t see anything try honking the system when nearby.
Krait Phantom owner here. Impossible to land at least 2-3km from the site so you wont be able to point defense your SRV from the sentinels missiles, if you're lucky/well positioned you'll get a good angle to shoot the missiles down though. DO BRING REPAIR/REARM supplies for your SRV. You can get the focus cristals on the way back. CMDR Exigeous, thank you very much for this tutorial o7
No sponsor messages, no intro that is half as long as the video, no-nonsense and digressions. Everything explained in under 5 min. Probably recorded and uploaded to RU-vid by the Guardians themselves. Sub and 👍 it is.
I was a backer to ED in the very early stages, but only played the game very briefly on release (even bought a X55 HOTAS at the same time), but since watching your videos i have got back in to the game and just unlocked the Guardian FSD - thanks for the guide, very useful.
Great guide, and just what I need as I've gotta get some of these Boosters. So glad Frontier dropped the number of blueprints needed, I'd unlocked the Plasma Charger and Gauss in the old system and it drove me to the point of stopping playing for a couple of months. They DO listen (occasionally!) o7!!!
CMDR Exigeous 64 times??? Jesus, after I think 12 i just gave up so you're a better man than me. I wanted to unlock it all but damn, I couldn't take it anymore. I tried doing more but I picked up this little twitch above my right eye. After that just hearing the Elite intro music was enough to get cold sweats and both hands would ball into fists, which makes using a HOTAS somewhat unfeasible , that and the explosive diarrhoea!!! My doctor diagnosed clinical Grind Fatigue (it affected a lot of Commanders in those dark, dark days)
Well I sorta had to do it that many times so I could make all the various videos - trying to grind so others don't have to or can at least do it more efficiently...
CMDR Exigeous and for that we're grateful. I keep forgetting you poor RU-vidrs have to do all this over and over again for your loyal following. Thanks a lot mate, you make things a lot easier for us o7!!!
Yeah, it's okay - when it pisses me off I just think "at least I should get some views for this'. What is genuinely frustrating is that in the past I've asked support if they would be willing to get me the materials so I could shoot the video for the unlock - then when I'm done just remove it (the materials and unlock) from my account. You'll be shocked at the answer...….. nope.....
Just unlocked FSD booster ! The hardest part was finding somewhere to land...4 km from the structure. But I got my ASP Explorer jump range up to 65ly. And I can now buy boosters for any ship I have as it's unlocked. I'm happy. I thought it was well worth the trip and I enjoyed the structure site...creepy. Take 2 SRVs and plenty of mats to repair and rearm the space buggy. I didn't die...but it was close. Sentinels are annoying but manageable. Don't panic. Fly safe. o7
Just dont go there with an Anaconda... its a REALLY pain to land. And IF you land, and dismiss, then the computer wont be able to land again so easy....
That is incorrect. I already tested this twice. Your ship does not need to land in order to board. It's just a bit harder to line up as there is no ground marker. Brute forcing an Anaconda to land is just part of the fun. :)
The only question not answered here is: how did you know? I.e., how am I supposed to figure this out in-game? As near as I can tell, the procedure for getting a Guardian FSD booster can be written down in about 7 simple steps, half of which involve google (e.g., google to find what planets have the guardian bases on them and their coordinates). With something like 0.015% of the galaxy discovered so far, it seems unlikely that someone would stumble on these answers, so it stands to reason that there should be an in-game way of finding them...
I knew because I'm connected to the game, forums, etc. and it was in the patch notes (and actually made an appearance months ago and was, shockingly bugged). But your point is 100% valid - there is essentially no in-game way to know, other than to go to a technology broker and see what they offer.
I recently discovered you can bind shortcuts for Galnet, the galactic news radio. Most of the news are galactic gossip (still a nice way to have some kind of presence during long travels) but once in a while there is valuable intel, like weird signals detected in this on that sector. You should tune it, it helps. And if some info interests you, you can check out the galnet website for more details.
I find it odd that in order to play a particular game well, one must seek out and reference third-party developed materials that must be stumbled across, and then immerse yourself in all that just to become curious enough to seek out things like what this video is about. Unless ... the whole point is to force players into third-party information sources and forums! Odd game design to say the least, and not noob friendly.
@@bruced9786 When Niantic released Ingress in 2012, you could play it, but in order to play Ingress effectively, you had to consume out-of-game materials and link up to a local community and become part of a group. The game is heavily biased to organized player action. Now look at edsm, eddb, inara, the fuel rats organisation, the iridium wing and the likes. In a way, E:D is very similar: You can play it alone and the game alone, but in order to play it effectively, you need to join a group of people, and connect yourself to out-of-game tooling. And for the same reason: Ingress is played on the whole of planet earth, and requires physical outdoor action, E:D is played on the whole (virtual) galaxy. These are vast places, and cooperation pays big time, because it saves so much time.
@@bruced9786 This game is 100% unplayable without 3rd party support really, it is the good and bad thing about, a great dedicated community...but without it the game would fail massively.
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Thanks for this guide. There are several problems there: 1. You cannot land close to the guardian structure. To find a suitable landing place is PAIN, even for a small ship. 2. When you activate first of the 2 main pylons, there is a COUNTDOWN like 6 mints, which you must manage to activate the rest pylons. Prepare for sentinel attacks too. There is a small time bonus for each pylons 3-6, though. You can easily miss them, because they are hidden in the ground. Watch the ground and listen to the emerge sound. 3. To collect necessary materials is second pain, the SRV has cargo for 2t only. 4. Thanks to the several carriers nearby (aka Aisling's Valhalla), there you can repair and refuel! 5. I hate those type of missions. What about you? :-)
He also does not tell you that it is essential you have cargo holds on your ship. I originally took my explorer which has no cargo holds to maximize LY per jump. Woops. Lots of other key info he leaves out. Yes, I MF'ing loathe and despise lengthy, tedious, "gather till you drop" "hope you don't die/screw up or you have to start all over" type missions. I read a blog years ago that called that kind of gameplay "do it again stupid" design.
Great video! Straight to the point, easy to follow. I took a Conda, not knowing what the terrain was like, but I found a parking space just 3km away, so it's all fine.
Thanks Cmdr Exigeous! Super helpful, I completed the fsd booster this week, man that module kicks a@#! I salute you sir! thank you for taking the time to edit and share your vids! Ahoy!
WORST CASE scenario: (Somewhat new player) I fly 1K+ LY out here in a Krait Phantom, bad idea. Had to park far away because I can’t find a landing spot. Forgot where the base was relative to the ship. Drove around lost for 15 mins. FINALLY find the base. Took out 2 sentinels while driving around confused for another 10 mins. At last, I find the pillars that rise out of the ground. I’m jacked by 2 more sentinels. A couple of missiles flip me over and I land wedged between a stupid little rock and a pillar. Unable to move I route power to shields and try and inch/trust my way out. Too bad for me because the sentinels actually kill me. I respawn (at least I don’t have a rebuy screen) 20Km above the planet. Find a parking spot in only 5 mins. Go to deploy SRV....My SRV is gone. FUUUUUUUKKK!!!!
Thank You Commander. I finally got my Guardian Booster yesterday. This video, and the one for Davs Hope, not only helped me get all the materials I needed to unlock the Guardian Booster, but enough Engineering material to max out my Conda’s FSD at Grade 5. Now my Conda jumps 67Ly at a time. Your tutorials are a lifesaver!
@@sbibbity_bobbity_bup yup, didn't find a single thing about it till I got there. I spent half an hour trying to land my anaconda in the dark before giving up
Have managed to get the unlock on the FSD booster. Took my time and held my composure in dealing with those bloody sentinels and got the job done. The hardest thing was trying to find a place to park the Krait Phantom as the planet is very hilly. Note the comment below. Many thanks for this excellent video tutorial.
Warning - anyone reading this as of release of odyssey (21st may) the orb scanned does not give a blueprint. Either it is now Inactive or Odyssey has a bug that makes it impossible to get the blueprint. tried 3 times and still no blueprint.
Hi Pwnyraimbow I have tried to get myself a FSD booster as well after the new DLC(Odyssey) was launched. After trying at several sites, reading tons of guides and info online I reached that conclusion that this is bugged and it is impossible to get this while playing in Odyssey. The good news is that you can change over to Horizons in the launcher, and everything seems to work as intended. (Check out the bug tracker and search for fragment, you will see tons of reports regarding the issue).
@@fredrikdm yep sorry forgot to edit but it works with Horizon 100% I just had to learn it the hard way it seems and prob lots of peeps will have this problem before they find out for themselves.
So I did this in Odyssey and just assumed I had gotten it. I'm kind of new so I have no idea where I can see if I got it or not. Does it show up in your inventory? I got a bit confused because things seem to have many names... blueprint segment, blueprint fragment, encoded material or encoded data or just data I am not sure if those are same thing, or different things...
I did this on horizon 2 days ago, scanned the orb, went all the way back to the bubble, check with techbroker, no guardian fragment….. i hope this gets sorted
I literally checked through your video library yesterday to see if this was featured previously, good thing I checked again. Cheers for the information on how to unlock the FSD Booster. Great content and keep up the good work!!! Regards CMDR Hanz Brix .....o7......
Great tutorial......i side note i had to visit twice to get enough GTC's.....all GPC the first visit......but got the blueprint and Sentinals were no problem....great vid
Nope, not really - there are some additional sites you can use to find things but everything in this is still 100% valid. For the future so you'll know I keep on top of all my old videos and will plaster a big, fat "NERFED" on the thumbnail and in the title if things ever change. Actually the one thing that did change - and the description and my first comment say, is the requirements went DOWN since making the video ;-)
I just unlocked this. I Installed it on my Diamondback Explorer with it's grade 5 engineered FSD. 61 Ly jump range now. I love it! Power management is now a little tricky however.
Glad you enjoyed it and it was helpful. While Frontier and some other channels might waste your time my goal is not to - I know you'd rather play than listen to videos on how to play so I make them as short and to the point as is possible.
Nothing special really, super duper A class FSD with increased range & mass manager, and essentially nothing else no hardpoints and just one heatsink, 3D overcharged powerplant, 5D engine focused distributor . 5D DD thrusters and all the possible weight saving mods you can find, lightweight sensors being the biggest distance gain. Then I slapped a scoop, scanners and a srv bay on it and called it a day. I can maybe squeeze another LY out of her before im done. Btw you can probably make a better build I dont really know what i'm doing lol
Rich S Iv got a conda to she’s at 53 ly Just done my fsd maxed thank you for your edit I wasn’t sure what to roll on my modules my ship integrity has gone down a lot did you find the same problem
Tip to everyone: use nightvision on the SRV... You will see everything, I was becoming mad because I couldn't see sh*t... also, Focus Crystals are a damn problem to get, even more if you dont have a combat ship/or just dont want to do combat, i have left to get the Crystals and i might do it tomorrow... (i think the shock mounts are buyable so i will not worry about them)
Update from today: Focus crystals are easy as f** to get, just go to Dav's Hope and do the little route to get materials, in maybe 50 minutes i got 24 + a lot of other materials... last to get: 8 shock mounts.
Using your codex and pilot handbook are great tools for learning about what's possible in the game. You can look up guardians and their structures and that would get you on the right track. This game is extremely complex, but it actually does provide you with more information than most people realize. Especially since the April update it's easier than ever to find things to do.
What a massive over-sight in game design to have a game where in the future spaceships are built to explore the galaxy but can’t land anywhere or hover long enough to drop/pickup a vehicle. Sure my ship can take off and land on its own but god forbid we be able to land anywhere near a site we’re other species clearly landed at as well. I hope whoever designed this location jams their toe on something for every minute a player spends trying to park at this site.
oh my god man.. i love your work in videos but what you show to us in this video is that we see a destination and then you say you go to another...... thank god the correct destination is near the wrong one..
at 00:57 you are creating a trip to the system we see on screen but in the next 4 secs you say you go to another one !! its ok but when i arrived there, there was no such planet named B3A and i had a little sweat rush in case the video was wrong but when i saw the rest of the video i heard to what system you went at the end
