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NEW PIRATE INITIATIVE: ODYSSEY FOOT GUIDE

1. Buy all your grade 1 equipment and grade 3 on Thursdays when it respawns.
2. Use Odyssey Material Helper to plan out what upgrades you want and know what to prioritize keeping vs trading/selling/dropping.
3. Farm material gathering methods that maximize chances of finding your wishlist.
4. Team up with other CMDRs on Discord to do missions and raids together for survival and fun team teamwork!
5. Unlock engineers and engineering gradually and do what you enjoy so you don't burn out.
6. Remember you can trade materials by dropping them and your elusive thing is someone else's been there done that.

• You buy suits and weapons at Frontier Outfitters.
• You pay to upgrade their levels there as well using materials.

• FLIGHT: You start with it but it does nothing useful on foot.
• MAVERICK: It has a cutting tool for breaking into things and the highest inventory capacity for looting. You need one of these to open locked loot containers and break into things.
• DOMINATOR: It has a second primary weapon slot, the best shields and damage resistance, and very little inventory space for loot. You want one of these to handle conflict zones and combat raids.
• ARTEMIS: It has a biological sampling tool for exploring xenobiology on planets. You can safely ignore this one until you get around to wanting to do exploration.

• MAVERICK: TK Aphelion Laser Rifle, Karma PL-15 Kinetic Pistol. Laser and kinetic damage shreds shields and armor respectively with hitscan accuracy while you back up and sidestep to cover to keep range between you and any deadly shotguns or marksmen.
• DOMINATOR: TK Aphelion Laser Rifle, Karma PL-6 Rocket Launcher, Karma PL-15 Kinetic Pistol. Same capabilities as the Maverick but with added rockets to take out whole squads when things get serious.

• The best time to look for these is when they usually restock every Thursday after the Powerplay Cycle and Maintenance Update.
• Each pre-engineered suit or gun is one time purchase only. If you find things you don't need because you have them.
• There's a Caring Is Sharing forum thread where people post gear locations they don't need.
• Join the forums and reply to mark things you get as taken.
• Share stuff you don't need with your friends or on the forum thread too.

• MISSION MATERIAL REWARDS: In a station's disembarked on foot mission computer, filter all missions by material rewards and look for reward materials you need.
• BARTENDER TRADING: You can get a number of staple material types via trading for them. (See Trading below).
• BASE LOOTING: You can get lots of materials loose and in containers in settlements. You can loot bases while you complete missions there or go to settlements just to loot them without any mission. D2A has a list of where each material type is found and list where data is found in particular settlement type lockers.
• SITE SCAVENGING: There are a number of sites on planets that can be scavenged for certain material types. These are explained in Hawkes' "farm everything" video.
• PLAYER TO PLAYER TRADING: You can trade Odyssey materials with other players (See below).

• Prioritize the following items for Maverick/Dominator suits and laser/kinetic weapons: Suit schematics, weapon schematics, manufacturing instructions, tungsten carbide, carbon fiber, graphene, titanium plate.

• You can open your backpack at any time and drop things from it that other players pick up. This allows you to trade things with others based on what you each need most.
• There's no guarantee that they'll hand over their promised end of the bargain after you drop yours.
• There's no safety guarantee that they won't try to kill you or that a third party can't intrude and kill both of you, losing both your backpacks worth of materials.
• Pick trading partners and trading locations that you think are safe and not likely to result in double crossing.

• It includes color coding for which things are used for what.
• It has tooltip info on where things can be farmed.
• This helps you to help sell stuff you don't need and wishlist what you want a bit more efficiently.
• Anything labeled "unused items" in darkest brown can be sold, but they may have uses in future content, especially Vehicle Schematics and Building Schematics, so you might want to hold onto those in case we get SRV upgrades and base building as game data-based leaks have suggested is coming soon.

• Overflowing your maximums of 1000 in each category becomes a problem fast.
• You need to trade at the bartender and unload plentiful items you don't need as much as you find them:
• TECH: Trade memory chips, encrypted memory chips and optical lenses for tungsten carbide, weapon components and carbon fiber.
• ASSETS: Trade for Graphene for Maverick and Aerogel for Artemis suits.
• CHEMS: ?
• There's a spreadsheet list of which items to keep and trade that you should check before trading off or selling items you don't need.

• Laser weapons are best used to take shields down first.
• Kinetic weapons are best used to punch through armor after shields go down.
• Rockets are best used against groups of enemies and vehicles. They take out a shield if they do enough damage but you still need a second shot to take down armor after.
• Plasma has time-of-flight slowness to it, making it hard to hit moving targets. The plasma shotgun is good for PVP up close, but the others should be used PVE only.

1. The safest tactic when clearing PVE settlements is to rely on long-range weapons like the Aphelion laser rifle or the Executioner plasma sniper rifle to take out shields from a distance to give you as much room to take cover and avoid getting surrounded or hit.
2. Once shields are down, shoot a kinetic weapon like the PL-15 kinetic pistol or AR-50 kinetic rifle to finish them off.
3. Use rockets if you run into groups or vehicles.

• Watch out for plasma sniper shots whizzing past your head and always be sidestepping to ensure they never catch you.
• Retreat any time your shields get low or down so that you take as little armor damage as possible.
• Make sure you have medkits and bind it so you can instantly heal when you do take armor health damage.
• Restock meds and energy cells as often as possible.

1. Aphelion Laser Rifle/Intimidator Plasma Shotgun/Kinetic Pistol works well.
2. Laser snipe shielded foes from as far away as possible.
3. Kinetic pistol or AR50 shieldless foes from medium range and try to land headshots.
4. Shotgun blast away from close range.
5. Grenades and RPGs can force enemies to jump, making them predictable targets for hit scan weapons till they land.

• Use cover to your advantage and try to deny them cover.
• Strive to have cover you can move towards while shooting and to expose your enemy far from cover when you start ambushes.
• High ground is an advantage as it gives you ledge-peeking cover and it forces them to jump if they want to reach you, exposing them to predictable paths for hit scan fire.
• Aim where they are going to be and pre-fire corners where you know they're coming around to cut them down before they can react.
• Try to take concealment in dark interiors with a view of the brightly lit door when they enter looking for you.

• The main settlement defense is the alarm system which causes all the defenders to converge on intruders.
• Active alarms eventually summon 1-3 squads of Omnipol police commandos.
• Settlement defenses include anti-infantry and anti-ship turrets.
• The controls for turrets tend to be top floors of command centers or power stations if they don't have command centers.

1. Use profile scanner illegal mode to clone a level 3 access person in a Command Center window.
2. Even if they catch you, hold the scan attempt till they try to radio in the alarm.
3. When they raise alarms, they talk on radio which causes them to stop moving long enough to finish cloning their access.
4. As soon as you have it, alarms may be going off but you need to speed run through the front door of Command Center.
5. Push through the ground floor halls to the SEC security room with the alarm control panel to disable alarms.
6. Shutting it down means you'll be attacked by some security but you won't face waves of squads being dropped in by Omnipol.
7. You can switch to a Maverick as soon as you think you have things under control to finish off the rest as you loot at your own pace.
8. Loot the place till you are done, then shut down the power center and steal the power stabilization core.
9. Short circuit the doors open while you wait for the count down using the energy transfer tool illegal mode so you can get out when power fails.

• Sneaking around to avoid fighting is the hardest way to do missions in that it requires skill but it avoids fighting.
• You can use engineering modules like quiet footsteps, audio masking and noise suppression to aid in stealth.
• Covert missions are failed if alarms are raised, so you can either do the objective directly without getting caught or go for disabling the alarms without being caught and then get away with murder afterwards since there's no alarm to go off.

• There is an Engineer List on Inara that indicates which engineers offer which upgrades.
• There is a Personal Equipment Upgrades & Mods list which gives the necessary materials
• Every upgrade is available from 2 or more engineers, so if you are stuck on unlocking a module you want from one engineer, try the alternative.
• Use EDEngineer to track your wishlists and progress towards finding the materials.

• Maverick 5 with backpack size increase (2x), running stamina, tool energy efficiency, scan range, quiet steps to help with infiltrating and looting efficiently.
• Dominator 5 with ammo capacity, shield regeneration, damage resistance, combat aiming speed.
• Artemis 5 with jump capacity increase, tool energy efficiency, running stamina.

• TK Aphelion Laser Rifle 3-5 (Long Range, Headshot Damage, Mag Capacity, Fast Handling, Fast Reloading)
• Karma P-15 Kinetic Pistol 3-5 (Long Range, Headshot Damage, Mag Capacity, Fast Handling, Fast Reloading)
• Karma PL-6 Rocket Launcher 3-5 (Stowed reloading, fast handling, fast reloading, mag size)
• Manticore Intimidator Shotgun 3-5 (Headshot damage, Mag Capacity, Fast Reloading, Fast Handling, Scope): Good for PVP close range fights. Risky to use PVE. Aiming narrows the blast choke and scope narrows it further.

• Artemis 5 with jump capacity increase, shield regeneration, damage resistance, running stamina.
• Karma PL-6 Rocket Launcher 3-5 (Stowed reloading, fast handling, fast reloading, mag size)
• Pistol of choice with fast handling. Plasma pistol has versatility, laser or kinetic help you unshield or finish off unshielded foes.