The June 2021 universe introduced some changes to how DG loot works.
The patch notes at the time did not go into particular detail on what the changes were or how they would affect the loot quality from DGs.
Now that the dust has settled from the reset, we put together this Dev Diary to clear up any confusion about the new system.
First, we’ll look at how DGs used to work.
Previously
DG bosses would get one guaranteed item drop and two rolls (at 30% and 15%) at an extra item from our dungeon items list.
This was a global dungeon item drop list that featured every single item you could get from a boss in a DG.
We also often reuse this list for generic loot from non-DG bosses across the game.
Now
The global dungeon drop list itself has remained unchanged, however, a lot of DG bosses no longer roll on this list (just seven do). Instead, we now have multiple lists split into categories;
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Commodities & Neurotweak crates
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Weapons
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Shields
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Engines
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Energies
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Equipment (anything you could find in the “Item” tab of the trade bay) and Scoops
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Tractors
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Station
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Radars
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Drones
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Augmenters
There is also an additional list of generic gear, similar to the old global list, but with fewer items in it.
Blueprints for gear are included in the category for the type of item they build (e.g., the Fine Tuned engine blueprints come from the engines list, not the station one).
The augmenters list consist of Class, Ship Mastery, Spacey, and Speedy augmenters.
Each DG boss has been assigned one of these lists to drop 100% of the time. They then have a second list with a 50% drop rate on which may be the same, or another list, and finally typically a 40% chance at the commodity list.
For example, a Vulture boss will always drop from the engine list, has a 50% chance to drop from the radar list, and a 40% chance to drop from the commodity list.
A Big Green will always drop from the weapon list, with 50% chance at another item from the weapon list and 40% chance from the commodity list.
Not all bosses completely follow this new pattern, and some bosses will always grant a commodity drop in addition to their gear drop.
Bosses which were special before and granted unique or extra loot, such as Red Wattages, Stellations, the named bosses, still give their extra loot.
The result of these changes will be that you’ll get loot of certain types at a more consistent rate than before, and if you need something in particular you’ll be able to target that item better by fighting bosses which are known to drop that type of gear.
While we’re not going to just give away which bosses drop from which lists, the assignment is on the boss type and will be consistent from universe to universe.