Elite Dangerous Odyssey: Guide on How To Find Pre-Upgraded Suits & Weapons

Another tip that I don't see mentioned often: As the pre-upgraded stuff is gone once a CMDR buys it, the best hunting grounds is where there aren't a lot of CMDR's. This means that Planetary Ports often have upgraded stuff just sitting there, as not a lot of people go through the trouble of making landfall with a planet, but rather with a starport in orbit.

Almost all of my pre-upgraded stuff comes from Planetary Ports, as no one really uses them lol

just starting out and this was not helpful at all. in fact, every store seemed to get worse and worse the more places i wasted time checking.

found a grade 3 artemis suit with NVG's the first few days I started playing, I am sooooo glad i got that as I've never seen anything as good since then and I'm nowhere near levelled with 99% of engineers yet

Hello, everyone talk about what they found , BUT NOT WHERE THEY FOUND IT OR HOW THEY FOUND IT.

Thank you for relaying the thread, Buur! So much unnecessary grind that has not to be done.

Yes i too forget which way a beluga lands xD

useless !!!

I found G3 Maverick and Dom suits pre-moded, like right when Odyssey came out. Weapons shortly after.

I went to a non-specific system in the bubble, in Alliance territory, and saw a grade 2 Maverick suit. So I just bought it. Can't remember the price, but it was nothing expensive. I had been playing Odyssey for 2 days when this happened and it was my second stop at the equipment shop. Not bad eh? :D

I've found several already! I wouldn't have any upgraded suits without doing this... Just haven't had the time to gather the materials. Weapons, I've found a few tier 2 and 3 available and snagged them. Found a tier 2 Manticore Plasma rifle. Not the executioner, the other one. Picked it up anyway! Doesn't hurt to have a full armory cabinet on the ship. 😀. They are expensive, especially for new players. Several million credits. You can have a fully A-module uprated Cobra III for the kind of money you'll spend on one upgraded suit or weapon.

ROFL. That's the best stacking of ships I've seen so far :D

I have a G3 Artemis suit with extra sprint. I have found other pre-engineered suits, but I don't use them often enough to worry about.
Any pre-engineered suits or weapons I'll buy. For the hoard!

A little late feedback, but I thought it might help some folks. I don't really care for the ground combat or sneaking into places to steal things. But, I do like mining and exploring, and I wanted to upgrade my artemis suit. But the only way I could see to do that was steal things and kill folks to get the needed materials. When I saw this vid, I thought, well, why not give it a try. I had a bunch of monazite and musgravite and other things to sell. I always look on Inara for the best offered price and the most recent posted time as well as enough demand quantity. I found one starport that had just posted a decent price and demand within the last 10 minutes and trundled off in my FC to it. I sold my load and then took a walk into the station and guess what? A grade 3 Artemis suit was for sale. Snapped it up and thought, I wonder what else is in this system, which had two other starports. Hit them on the way back to the FC to reload, and got a grade 3 maverick suit, and an engineered grade 3 grenade launcher. Sold all my musgravite and then repeated the process for the monazite. Scored a grade 3 dominator suit, a grade 3 plasma rifle and a grade 3 laser rifle. I figured eventually I am going to have to kill folks and steal things, so I might as well get better suits and weapons to do it, while I can. All in all, I visited 7 ports in two systems. I think, long story to get to the point, that part of the reason these ports were set up to offer good prices on minerals was also because the systems had these suits and weapons. If you like to mine, try this out.

It would be nice if you had the option to pay the bartender for helpful news like if there was a station in 20ly that had some rare kit for sale or had good tips for local markets where the buy sell prices were particularly good.. or talked about other local news like conflicts, or states like outbreaks or famine where a trader might make a good profit.

Personally I'd also love to see these rare kit items also come with a non-standard paint scheme as well.

Got a dominator lvl 3 with night vision alrready on it. ^^

Found a bunch of pre-upgraded gear just on my own. A few highlights were a Dominator with faster shield regen, an Artemis with increased sprint duration, and another Artemis with improved jump assist (which is a huge difference).

I still think all they needed to make was one suit
but for some magical reason
three

already found several suits and weapons with 3. grade, so i now think, im fine...after this video. :)

My best find was Artemis suit with Night Vision. By the way i suggest one Thursday morning, taking Apex Taxis to Surface Starports (the large ones which look like circles abd towers). You can get on with other things while the taxi is flying around and other commanders don't often go down to the surface looking for gear. If you find a system with 5 or so surface ports is be really surprised if you didn't find something. Shhh don't tell too many people though ;)

Yo Cmdr Buur Permit locked systems stations are also a possibility ?

It's also worth noting that stations where upgraded/pre-engineered gear is found are worth noting as I have found many if not most of them respawn gear at the next weekly tick. Appreciate you guys pointing this out as many believe that they have to grind all the way to G5 the hard way

is it sad I'm really excited because thats my conda with the "Hawaiian" shirt on near the start, Death and Gravity shes looking well :D

I found a grade 3 domi(upgraded to 5) suit with jump assist and longer sprint already installed and on the right planet im superman untill i get a boomstick(shotgun) to the face, got a maverick suit with extented battery and the artemis suit with night vision( bit wasted on that).

yes, it is good that they randomly spawn at pioneer supplies, but in no way does it add to good game experience. Far better would be to randomly spawn gear / weapons on bases and when taking out NPCs or settlement looting. Gear drop should be a reward for gaming experience, not a roulette wheel when you land at a station.

I hope this doesn't go away by the time console users can get the game.

Saw this video on 29th, and can attest to the tips given: made three stops (using Apex) in my current home system and found a level 3 Maverick Suit for 3 million and change at the third stop. It was located in a ground settlement, too. There was a level 2 sidearm available at the second location I visited though I didn't purchase it. Many Thanks CMDR Buur, and InvestigateXM for the tips about locations, and passing these on.

Two favs thus far for me have been a grade 3 Mav with reduced tool batt cap and then a grade 2 Arty with night vision. Mav is now a 5 and theArty is a grade 4.

Even through odyssey isnt on consoles yet i always enjoy watching your videos keep up the good work.

Everything you need to upgrade your ship, upgrade your engineers, upgrade everything.. should be by grinding hard, or buying them! we should be able to buy the stuff we need instead of searching it in the galaxie. I really dont like the engineers grind, but we all need the engineers updates on our ship.. those upgrade should be buyable. Even at high price. i'll prefer mining asteroid for millions $$$ instead of searching the materials i need to unlock the upgrade for engineers. Hope frontier will think about it.

Oh yeah! On 2nd day that premium gear was available, I lucked out and found a grade 3 Maverick suit with night vision built in, and it's been invaluable.

I've seen a lot of upgrades, and always check when I'm at a station, but I've never seen anything for sale higher than grade 3.

Laser smg with extended mags at grade 2 was an amazing find

Jaques Station=Nada. Explorers Anchorage=Nada. But why do I need an upgraded explorers suit?

Sitting in pioneer services looking at the buy item screen waiting for team mate to arrive does not stop anyone else buying. Sounds obvious but we gave it a go just to prove it.

I just want an Artemis with jump assist and battery use… not so interested in on-foot combat, just want to be able to go where I want exploring without having to return to my ship/SRV every other time I scan.

I started keeping a spreadsheet of the items I/bought, listing only grade 3 (mod/no-mod) and Grade 2 (mod). Of note, a G-3 Karma L-6 with head shot damage AND a Karma G-3 PK-15 with headshot damage and stowed reload.

Send me a message in-game about what you are looking for and I will check my list. Callsign:ScorpidBlackDragon

me being more interested in what in the name of the holy lord jesus christ is going on in the background then what is being talked about

I found a grade 3 dominator suit engineered with extra battery life, I was just getting ready for a good ruck on a surface site so I couldn't have been any happier, amazing timing.

Great video, but that footage cracked me up XD o7

When experienced people are unaware of a gameplay feature, this speaks volumes about the game design or publisher. When aforementioned game feature makes the game itself 'immediately more accessible' it's like adding insult to injury. Just my opinion, of course, and yes I am still playing ED...just...none of the Odyssey content even though I have Odyssey.

One class 2 maverick suit. I still cant find a rocket launcher

This really isn't new.

Literally the only reason I log into Odyssey from Horizon when I land at a station to check Pioneer stores then straight back to Horizon

This will all be useful information once odyssey is available on PlayStation

Inara started populating this list too. It seems that most spawns are static and reappear on server tick.

I picked up pre engineered Artemis suit with night vision a few grade three weapons

Thanks for still putting out elite content!!

Even as late as a Wednesday, there are still lots of items available, especially in the less travelled places. G3 items often with one or two good modifications. The official Frontier forum is not I believe the only place where information is shared about found items.
Best item found, undoubtedly a Maverick suit with night vision. Worst, found but not bought, a Karma L-6 with noise suppression and longer range.

G3 all my suits this way. Wasn't fortunate enough to find one with pre-engineered modules but that's not to say I won't come across one. Actually my Maverick suit seems to be MIA. Not seen anything higher than G3.