I was grinding for the US weapons pack 2 level 5 weapons, hunting down any and all machines from the marshlands, north coast, forest and then Himfjall island. That included all my rivals that are several months old, some since the reaper. All the old level 4 rivals I destroyed had very little loot, about the same or less than a standard non rival machine. It was a total of somewhere around 26-28 level 4 rivals and only a few weapons from them, non of the part 2 weapons, never resupplied the ammo used to take them down and only one adv health kit if any on a few of them.
The rivals will carry a bigger loot pool on the RNG roulette, so for specific weapons - it’s possible but the odds are less than a regular machine of your designated class. Having done around 20 hours on the US MK2 Weapons, drops have been lot better than rivals. And that includes other peoples maps as well.
Central North Coast, then South Along the East coast into central Forest, then once thats mopped up I went anti-clockwise starting North East Farmlands.
Age wise of machines, plays no part - it’s all RNG. Only time based limitation of loot, is the loot available itself at the time ( i.e special event )
and of course Himfjall. Lots and lots of Himfjall.
I have ALWAYS had really good luck at the 5* and 6* stuff here too. But nada this go around, I did get a level 4 S21 off one of the machines. Yesterday I destroyed 27-28 old rivals and untold number of std machines and looked into what loot they had. In the past when farming machines for weapons I would clean up with ten to dozen 5* and 6* weapons. I have plenty of both but lack the new US P2 weapons and attachments.
Since purchasing the weapon pack I also have close to 20 hours farming for the weapons. Since the DLC releases I have been fairly lucky on getting the weapons quickly and a lot of repeats of them.
Since my luck has changed I was hoping I could blame it on old machines that have been in many battles and lost a lot of their loot. Since the loots from them all were very low with none of them having a standard payout. Not talking just not having weapons but also not having to much ammo, resources or anything that would be expected from a level 4 rival.
But since I have wiped out half my map I will try with new, younger rivals in the next few days.
Same here. I’ve been grinding any and all machines for days with zero weapon pack 2 drops.
Rival drops are worse than non-rival. Pointless spending so much time with no results.
It used to be a lot of fun getting experimental weapons, but now this game is becoming an endless
grind for nothing. Boring. I’m pretty much done with it.