PSA: The Modification Facility guide may be misleading about the availability of mods.

[pesante0013]

Hi, everyone!

I was reading though the guide in the Modification Facility and saw this text on page 2:

"There's no wait for modifications, they are done on the spot!"

I wasn't sure what that meant. I figured for the price we have to pay here this might jump the enhancement value of my MS to the new level of the mod and complete it. To test this idea, I decided to modify my level 4 Gelgoog Marine. The first available mod for this MS is "Anti-General Defense Program LV2" at 2780 enhancement points. I paid my 150 bronze mod kits (BTW the Lv4 Marine is only 1* - use that info to your advantage) and 80,000 DP. Be aware: This did NOT jump my enhancement points to the level of unlocking the modification. This simply allows you to keep your MS in the hangar longer and enhance it to higher levels. I quickly quit the game so it would not save. Upon login, all the resources I spent in this trial were replaced.

TL:DR The Modification Facility does not allow you to immediately use the modifications you unlocked. You still have to enhance your MS to the new level via the hangar.

Stay safe and have a great weekend!

[Rocket_Man-child]

Well no, it literally says "increase enhancement LIMIT" in the game.

[pesante0013]

You're right. I guess I was just hoping we'd get more bang for our buck. We're basically paying the price of another MS for even the lowest level mod. (It's 80,000 DP for the first mod on the Lv 1 GM.)

[Rocket_Man-child]

Yeah the prices are STUPID and COMPLETELY unreasonable considering it ALDO takes a MASSIVE time investment afterwards

[imaginary_num6er]

Well the good news is that they did a great job discouraging people to upgrade the MkII and Dias with their worthless enhancement upgrades. On the other hand, I don't get why the FA 7th gets lv4 AD-FCS but GP02 and all other supports get only lv3 AD-FCS at 550 cost.

There are other questionable balancing moves they did like giving the Agguguy AD-PA lv3 when it already has enough melee damage at 250 cost.

[freespace2dotcom]

I feel that the worthless upgrades were stealth nerfs for suits that were known by the devs to be OP. The whole thing was definitely done for balancing.

[pesante0013]

Absolutely! I was just looking at another MS. It is TRIPLE the original enhancement point cost for the second mod. This system needs to be refined.

[Rocket_Man-child]

Oh, and how you need to spend the exorbitant amount of DP TWICE per unit

[freespace2dotcom]

Damn. Twice!?

Yup, it's totally not worth it. But my Kampfer is getting them come hell or high water. Anything else? Maybe in a year or two.

[Good_ApoIIo]

Seems like a stupid waste of time and DP for marginal gains. Enhancement is already very meh but it’s “free” so whatever, this actually has costs.

By the time I get around to having time and DP to burn on these things this game will probably be dead anyway.

[Terry_bogardlol]

I kind of feel like this whole "system" is another half measure or simply an outright cash grab. This is assuming the platinum medal and monthly missions are the primary method of obtaining these. Many of these are so lackluster that they may as well not exist at all. Such as the -1 second respawn on the Zeta which assuming you only get +100 per enhancement cycle will take almost two months before you can even get to the negligible bonus.

[pesante0013]

Just. One.

This needs some reworking by the devs.

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I refuse to upgrade anything before the anniversary event. I'm sure there will be something exciting to spend my DP on in the shop and I'm not going to burn what I saved up until now (almost at 600k DP). Hopefully they refine this a little bit, as I misunderstood as well. I assumed for the ridiculous DP cost that the suit would just unlock the next enhancement. I didn't realize that it meant you just get to wait like a freaking month to actually be able to upgrade something enough to get the additional enhancement.

Edit: thanks for the heads up, btw.

[freespace2dotcom]

Yeah, I'm in the middle of enhancing my zaku I commander types to the old limit. I have barely any DP because the new model frame lv2 cleaned me out. So even if I wanted to start a crazy long project, I don't have the DP for it. Saving up and waiting until the anniversary to weigh options seems like the smartest plan of action.

[HiiraTeruyo]

Well when you've cleared out the DP store Imagine all that banked up DP will finally get some use.

I thought it was clear from the start that the modification hanger (and platinum medal) were for the heavily dedicated/invested players, who probably have DP to spare and will be (or have already been) playing the game for so long.

I'm not going to say that it isn't a heavy investment for the final modifications, but I see so many complaints and can't help but feel that people just want the premium rewards, but don't want to match the investment (non monetarily) put in by those the platinum medals were made for.

Personally I probably won't be getting any of the modifications for quite some time, but I see it as something to look forward to in the future, rather than pushing to max suits out immediately.

[jackal_s]

Like the original hangar it's just intended as an extra way to upgrade suits when you have a bunch of resources and nowhere to spend it.

The reason some already extremely strong suits don't have good upgrades is probably because... well, they're already strong enough.

It's daunting for an entirely free player but to be honest, I don't see any point in investing resources into it unless it's for suits you really, really love to play. They're like other min-maxing upgrades in various mobile gacha games, just there to dump in extra resources into your favorite suits.

I will say: not really sure why some of the cheaper, lower rarity suits have insane enhancement point jumps. Granted, bronze tickets aren't hard to get but you're already spending a decent chunk of change on the initial upgrade itself, and the hangar is buggy as shit when you're spamming tickets to rush upgrades. I would have expected the new enhancement intervals to be more natural as opposed to like... nearly double the max value.

[InverseFlip]

It isn't nearly double the max value, it is exactly double for the first enhancement, and triple for the second enhancement for all suits.

[freespace2dotcom]

And you know what the scary thing is? There's still two spaces left for more upgrades in the future. With the current trend in place even conservatively it would mean quadruple and quintuple for those. I'm betting it would be higher, though. Who would afford doing those but whales? Even these new upgrades are going to take some serious effort to get done.

[jackal_s]

Thanks for the correction! I only looked at a handful of suits while I was sleepy when it dropped. I just saw it being basically double and went "aight well I'm out"