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How can I purchase an Omega autocarbine when the Borg neural processors are so hard to come by?

At first glance it looks easy. The Omega Marks aren't very hard to get; but the only PvE missions
that grant neural processors are pretty much dead. Every time I've qued for those missions I'm just
waiting endlessly. It really seems like no one is playing those any more. Is there any quicker way to
to get those?
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  • spiritbornspiritborn Member Posts: 4,435 Arc User
    Odd since I've had no issue what so ever getting to advanced borg queues, unless this is something very recent or involves the console versions there shouldn't be any issues getting those processors.
  • tom61stotom61sto Member Posts: 3,711 Arc User
    Did you try the Space queues instead? Infected: The Conduit (Advanced) usually doesn't take long to pop, on PC at least. Pending there aren't other grind events on like Crytaline Catastrophy, Elachi Red Alert or possibly Arene of Sompek, but it'll usually still pop during US evenings prime even then.

    There is another way than using the TFOs, though slower: You can trade 100 Omega Marks once per day for one neural processor.
  • toddjohnson100toddjohnson100 Member Posts: 168 Arc User
    Yeah, maybe it's because I play frequently late at night (after midnight). But thank you for the tip about 100 Omega marks. I think I'll use that.
  • seaofsorrowsseaofsorrows Member Posts: 10,919 Arc User
    Just run Infected Conduit Advanced, it's probably the most populated queue in the game.

    Borg Neural Processors are incredibly easy to get. Between ISA, KSA, and CSA you can just chain them over and over again.
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  • tyler002tyler002 Member Posts: 1,586 Arc User
    edited August 2019
    I think the "100 mark conversion" requires you be at Tier 5 in a given Reputation.
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  • seaofsorrowsseaofsorrows Member Posts: 10,919 Arc User
    tyler002 wrote: »
    I think the "100 mark conversion" requires you be at Tier 5 in a given Reputation.

    You are correct.
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  • ltminnsltminns Member Posts: 12,573 Arc User
    There is also Defara Hard Missions which could net you up to four a day. Getting onto a three person team may be a problem, but when there is a call out it usually be for the lot.
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  • ilithynilithyn Member Posts: 903 Arc User
    At first glance it looks easy. The Omega Marks aren't very hard to get; but the only PvE missions
    that grant neural processors are pretty much dead. Every time I've qued for those missions I'm just
    waiting endlessly. It really seems like no one is playing those any more. Is there any quicker way to
    to get those?

    This.
    You don't say which platform you're on, but on PC there are two channels specifically for getting Defera team together. FEDDefera for Fed side and KDFDefera for KDFs. And of course there's always zone chat.
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  • tigerariestigeraries Member Posts: 3,492 Arc User
    borg elites are easiest ones to get, 3 of the 4 space ques pop often, only hive is a tad more rare but you can get that to pop as well... ground ques thou... I avoid. you can also do the BZ Red Missions if you like ground grouping, need 3 players to trigger.
  • crm14916crm14916 Member Posts: 1,545 Arc User
    edited August 2019
    I didn't read thru, so this may have been mentioned, but if you really need them, hit me up in game and we'll run a set of Defera Hards for a few days and you'll have more than you need... 15 minutes will give you 4 of them each day, and it's always easier to get a group (3 required only, instead of 5 like other queues) for the Defera Hards...

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  • lianthelialianthelia Member Posts: 7,921 Arc User
    azrael605 wrote: »
    I get a fair number of Borg TFOs in RTFO, space and ground.

    Really? All I seem to ever get most of the time is the Discovery mark ones in RTFOs...it's easier just to straight up queue for the Borg ones.
  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    Heh, you can usually get in on a team just by asking in Defera zone chat.
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  • stark2kstark2k Member Posts: 1,467 Arc User
    Just run Infected Conduit Advanced, it's probably the most populated queue in the game.

    Borg Neural Processors are incredibly easy to get. Between ISA, KSA, and CSA you can just chain them over and over again.

    I agree - many meta-gamers measure their dps via infected - Though rumors have it they are holding back some due to the new connie and their overpowered pets, which gives a false dps read

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  • seaofsorrowsseaofsorrows Member Posts: 10,919 Arc User
    edited August 2019
    stark2k wrote: »
    Though rumors have it they are holding back some due to the new connie and their overpowered pets, which gives a false dps read

    That would be inaccurate.

    First, the Connie isn't 'overpowered,' it just seems that way because it's a beam ship that doesn't fully suck.

    As far as parsing goes, if a power or ability causes huge discrepancies in parsing then the league just doesn't accept those parses. People can still run them all they want and parse for their own records and analysis, they just don't upload them. I haven't heard anything about that being in effect for the Discoprise, but I am far from the authority on things like that.
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  • salazarrazesalazarraze Member Posts: 3,794 Arc User
    edited August 2019
    Borg Neural Processors are ludicrously easy to come by. I earned 60 or so over a 4 day period last week to buy every omega rep ground set for one of my newer characters. Just queue up any of the space or ground omega queues and it'll pop in less than a minute on average.
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  • paladinrja#5247 paladinrja Member Posts: 155 Arc User
    edited August 2019
    If you join Random TFO's on Advanced, you get a secondary mark's package choice. Often your primary will be multi-choice. That one will drop it's associated rep material. -- So if it's a Borg map, you can get double the marks, and at least one processor.

    Also, around 1:7 Omega crates will drop a processor. You get a crate per daily & hourly RP req.

    I was 3 short myself today. Took a couple of hours to get them, with about 330 marks I needed. -- Personally, I feel the Lobi Phaser auto is better, more versatile. -- kinda hard to tell with these devs affliction for Mass Effect 1 style, stun-locking. Every-step-of,the-way.
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  • darkbladejkdarkbladejk Member Posts: 3,883 Community Moderator
    At first glance it looks easy. The Omega Marks aren't very hard to get; but the only PvE missions
    that grant neural processors are pretty much dead. Every time I've qued for those missions I'm just
    waiting endlessly. It really seems like no one is playing those any more. Is there any quicker way to
    to get those?

    U sure you don't mean the Competitive rep? the borg space queues are always popping on advanced, and even a few on elite. for that matter the ground ones do good as well
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  • paladinrja#5247 paladinrja Member Posts: 155 Arc User
    Just a heads up: Got the shield with it just a few hours ago and been playing around. -- in all honesty the Phaser Full auto (Dsc) in the Lobi store (for only 40 LC) is by far better.

    The one that dropped for me is CritDx2 with Dot3 and it just stun locks everything downrange. I ended up giving the Omega 2pc to my Alien boff and she's amazing with it though. My Klingon boff just mows everything down while we CC and strip shields for him, lol!
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  • seaofsorrowsseaofsorrows Member Posts: 10,919 Arc User
    Just a heads up: Got the shield with it just a few hours ago and been playing around. -- in all honesty the Phaser Full auto (Dsc) in the Lobi store (for only 40 LC) is by far better.

    The Discovery Lobi weapon is not a good weapon. It's basically just a normal full auto, it's equivalent to other easier to obtain weapons like the Omega Auto Carbine, but the other options are cheaper. If you like that gun, then great.. that makes it worth it, but to most people they will feel they wasted lobi to get it. You can actually get an Ultra Rare Phaser Full Auto with the Discovery Visual for free in the mission 'The Plausibility of the Possible' which makes this weapon an even worse buy.
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  • jslynjslyn Member Posts: 1,791 Arc User
    At first glance it looks easy. The Omega Marks aren't very hard to get; but the only PvE missions
    that grant neural processors are pretty much dead. Every time I've qued for those missions I'm just
    waiting endlessly. It really seems like no one is playing those any more. Is there any quicker way to
    to get those?


    You are trying to queue for Advanced difficulty, right? Elite will take forever to pop, but you get a guaranteed Processor from Advanced, as well. I use Cure Found (Advanced), myself. It always pops in under five minutes, often in under one.
  • seaofsorrowsseaofsorrows Member Posts: 10,919 Arc User
    You can’t queue for Borg Elites because they don’t exist. Normal and Advanced both pop quickly.
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  • spiritbornspiritborn Member Posts: 4,435 Arc User
    coldnapalm wrote: »
    You can’t queue for Borg Elites because they don’t exist. Normal and Advanced both pop quickly.

    Not quite. There is Hive Space elite. Pretty sure there are ground elites as well.
    there's 3 elite borg queues IIRC, Hive Space, Hive Ground and Borg Disconnected.
    I can't remember any other Borg queue having an elite version and no the competive queues don't count as they don't give Omega marks.
  • seaofsorrowsseaofsorrows Member Posts: 10,919 Arc User
    Sorry, I should have clarified. I was advising the OP to run the standard Borg Queues which don’t have Elites. Bug Hunt Elite (Ground) is easy marks if you like ground combat.
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  • spiritbornspiritborn Member Posts: 4,435 Arc User
    Sorry, I should have clarified. I was advising the OP to run the standard Borg Queues which don’t have Elites. Bug Hunt Elite (Ground) is easy marks if you like ground combat.

    True but it doesn't give Borg marks if you need those (only Delta and Ico marks)
  • paladinrja#5247 paladinrja Member Posts: 155 Arc User
    edited August 2019
    Just a heads up: Got the shield with it just a few hours ago and been playing around. -- in all honesty the Phaser Full auto (Dsc) in the Lobi store (for only 40 LC) is by far better.

    The Discovery Lobi weapon is not a good weapon. It's basically just a normal full auto, it's equivalent to other easier to obtain weapons like the Omega Auto Carbine, but the other options are cheaper. If you like that gun, then great.. that makes it worth it, but to most people they will feel they wasted lobi to get it. You can actually get an Ultra Rare Phaser Full Auto with the Discovery Visual for free in the mission 'The Plausibility of the Possible' which makes this weapon an even worse buy.
    Orly? -- Pray tell, which other full auto does a naked 97 dmg, per single shot (this is energy damage as physical damage, btw). -- even against adapted Borg. There's no falloff at range, is super accurate, and subsequently *is* the single, best, flanker on the ground. Works great on my SOp Tac build (whoms offhand is actually a snoopy).

    I've got some other mythbusters if ya like? -- Y'see, unconventional warfare is my thing and that's why I prefer the right tool for the job. That autocarbine works 'nothing at all like a carbine'; and is actually more like a reskinned (Ap) AR you mention.

    I dunno how it is on PC, but ground combat on XBOX is about being stun locked by your own abilities, while enemies have a full (3D), range of movement and exploit you. You need to be a little creative, and you need to have the right tools for the job. -- and 'of course', everything is about "the way you play". If we all did things the same way, life would be pretty disingenuous.

    But: that's not really the Ops problem here. Their problem is acquiring the matts to see for themselves. I'm just saying "don't sweat it".
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  • seaofsorrowsseaofsorrows Member Posts: 10,919 Arc User
    edited August 2019
    spiritborn wrote: »
    Sorry, I should have clarified. I was advising the OP to run the standard Borg Queues which don’t have Elites. Bug Hunt Elite (Ground) is easy marks if you like ground combat.

    True but it doesn't give Borg marks if you need those (only Delta and Ico marks)

    lol.. yeah, not sure why I pointed out Bug Hunt when we're talking about Borg Marks, guess I had a temporary stroke. :lol:

    For Neural Processors.. the standard 'run of the mill' advanced Borg Space Ques are quick and easy. Getting them by running Elite Borg Ground Maps is easy with the right team, but I don't recommend it in a public queue.
    Orly? -- Pray tell, which other full auto does a naked 97 dmg, per single shot (this is energy damage as physical damage, btw). -- even against adapted Borg. There's no falloff at range, is super accurate, and subsequently *is* the single, best, flanker on the ground. Works great on my SOp Tac build (whoms offhand is actually a snoopy).

    You're talking about the Omega Rifle which I never said was bad. I have issue with the Lobi Discovery Auto rifle which is just a run of the mill, unremarkable rile that gives you nothing over a standard mission reward rifle and drains you of 40 lobi. I probably should not have compared the DISCO Lobi Gun to the Omega because you're right.. the Omega is miles better. If anything though, that only further illustrates the point I was trying to make against the DISCO Rifle. :smile:

    I am a fan of the Omega Carbine, it's a very cool weapon. Personally, I prefer the Replica Thompson these days, but I have no issue with the Omega Rifle and I frequently equip my away teams with them. I don't consider it the 'best flanker,' that honor goes to the Thompson hands down.. but the Omega Carbine is an excellent weapon.

    I don't know if they have the Thompson on console (im a PC guy) but if they do, check it out.. it's an amazing weapon and great against Borg (and everything else.) Use it with something like Deadly Intent so you can spam that AOE and it's just fantastic. Word of warning though.. it's range kinda sucks.
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  • paladinrja#5247 paladinrja Member Posts: 155 Arc User
    edited August 2019
    Orly? -- Pray tell, which other full auto does a naked 97 dmg, per single shot (this is energy damage as physical damage, btw). -- even against adapted Borg. There's no falloff at range, is super accurate, and subsequently *is* the single, best, flanker on the ground. Works great on my SOp Tac build (whoms offhand is actually a snoopy).

    You're talking about the Omega Rifle which I never said was bad.

    Nah mate, I'm talking about the Dsc Auto, which you did. -- It's not at all.

    Lobi stuff fills a niche that the rep sets just don't cater to. More lego's is good right?-- on top of being generically awesome for general play. -- I mean, it's Lobi, it's there for a reason.

    The Omega carbine, however, doesn't work anything like a carbine and is only really useful against Borg (which they can adapt to and nerf the whole platform). That's why the Omega 2pc is now on my away boff, whom seems to be doing well with it (as I initially said).

    Being that no gun is good in all situations. I prefer the versatility of the Lobi Dsc. it *always* does naked 97 dmg. (before mods or buffs).

    I know yer playing this on PC. I'm not (with this game anyway), that's the point; if it is one at all. On XBOX it would be a lot better if the devs removed the stun locking on ability use. The NPC AI exploits it way too much. -- and seriously, whom stops dead in their tracks, *exposed*, just to run by and drop a 'nade? (from cover, to cover) -- it's ridiculous.

    People are complaining, in games, thinking it's rubber-banding. I'm saying it's not, it's the game mechanics, and they're crying a big foul! (which it is, it's cheating). -- Or some caster NPC hit scans you with DoT AoE and you can't combat roll out of it? It just drags you back because at that exact moment your toon decides to cast a 4 sec animation.. it's either turn based or action, the devs need to decide because you can't mix the two. It don't flow.

    Bioware learnt that, and fixed it for ME2.
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