As you explore the world of Daemon X Machina: Titanic Scion, you’ll find Broken Beacons in chests and dropped from enemies. These don’t do anything on their own, but you can repair them at the Factory when you return to base. Doing so lets you home in on the long-forgotten Arsenals of fallen soldiers, and reclaim their powerful equipment if you can find them.
Your first Broken Beacon might prove tricky to use, as there are several small things that can get in the way if you don’t know about them ahead of time. This guide is here to help.
Fixing Broken Beacons
Once you’ve found a Broken Beacon, you can restore it using the Factory at the base. Each Beacon requires 1000 credits plus some number of Flat Cables and Storage Chips to fix, typically between one and three of each. The more resources a Broken Beacon needs, the better quality the rewards will generally be.
Flat Cables are a fairly common drop from enemies. Storage Chips aren’t exactly rare, but you’ll see them much less frequently than Flat Cables.
When a Beacon is repaired, it will provide a garbled section of the map to indicate where you should look for its associated Arsenal. You can make the map easier to decipher by upgrading the base’s Restoration capabilities with Civetta.
Beacon And Arsenal Locations
Beacons and the locations of their caches are procedurally generated; there isn’t a specific set of coordinates that you can go straight to. Additionally, a Beacon’s associated Arsenal won’t appear until the Beacon has been repaired, so you can’t expect to stumble upon a buried Arsenal while wandering around the map.
The upside of this is that there will always be Broken Beacons to repair and more loot to find!
How To Use A Repaired Beacon
Once a Beacon is repaired, look for the area of the map that matches the section it shows. If you haven’t explored that area yet, it will be blank, but you may be able to figure out where to go based on region borders. You can do this either from the Beacon screen of the Factory, or from the Map Menu while in the field.
Look for easy-to-match landmarks like roads and blacked-out inaccessible areas.
You can only track one Beacon at a time; pick the one that you want to search for from the Beacons List and set it as your Exploration Area. When you arrive at the spot indicated on the map, your minimap will start to respond with green pings. The more frequent the pings, the closer you are to the hidden Arsenal.
The minimap will only ping for the Beacon that you currently have “equipped” by setting the Exploration Area. If you’re near the location of a different Beacon, you won’t get a signal unless you switch to that Beacon!
Where Is The Loot?
The hidden Arsenal is usually very hard to spot; it’s a single arm sticking out of a patch of dirt in the ground. When you get to the area where you get the best signal, activate Search Mode to scan the surrounding area. The arm will now be highlighted in your vision, making it much easier to find and excavate.
Like any other loot cache, you can only pick one item from the buried Arsenal. There will often be several good choices, so make your decision wisely! Once the Arsenal has been looted, the Beacon will be removed from your inventory – it no longer serves any purpose.
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