Topic: How are people expected to get Silver/Golden mech/Hmech kernals now?
In the old system golden mech/heavy mech kernals were obtainable by farming the few spawn points that had these npcs in them. The new system has no such spawns.
I've farmed various high end spawns, on beta and alpha 2's, and mech or Hmech sized industrial npcs do not spawn in any of them.
Some industrial beacons can spawn industrial mechs, these are only obtained through artifacts? I've killed tons of industrial npcs and never seen one drop.
I've had a level 1 star industrial beacon drop from an elite, but that's 1 industrial out of 50+ tier 5 elite mech/Hmech kills. This beacon only spawned light industrial bots also. Chance of getting the mech sized star beacon from a combat bot is too slim to be considered a valid way to do this.
This leaves two whole ways to get industrial mech/Hmech npcs for industrial mech kernals? Rarely from artifacts, and super rare from elite npcs.
Am I missing a better way to obtain these or did they just turn the obtaining of industrial mech kernals into a huge *** lottery.