Crafting and upgrading in The Surge The Surge Guide
Last update: 09 May 2019
In this chapter of The Surge guide provides useful information and hints on crafting and upgrading of the gear in The Surge.
General information
At the beginning of the game, you only have limited resources. As the game progresses, you can obtain weapons from the human enemies you defeat and bosses, as well as find them in specific locations. In the case of armors, apart from the basic gear, all elements if individual sets have to be won on enemies.
Things are simple in the case of weapons. When you obtain a given blueprint for the first time, the weapon is crafted and it is ready to use. Armor blueprints do not do that and you have craft individual elements of sets yourself.
All in all, weapons can only be upgraded, whereas armors have to be crafted first, before they can be upgraded.
You cannot reset the already-crafted items to salvage resources spent on them. Changes are irreversible.
Crafting
After you have obtained a blueprint, you have to go to Med Bay and use the assembly station there. The armor piece will be broken down into individual components and you can use the blueprint only after you have obtained all of the components.
Remember that, later in the game, you do not have to return to the first location to obtain level one components. At any point, you can craft the armor set using any components of any of the four levels, as long as you have sufficient number of that component.
Note that, apart from components, the assembly station will require enough scrap to craft gear. As you can guess, the higher the level of the element to craft, the higher the scrap cost.
Also, it should be noted that from the perspective of scrap, it pays off much better to craft high-level gear than to upgrade it later on. This way, you can spend the saved scrap on crafting other elements, or developing your character.
Element | Components |
Head | Core processor |
Arm | Power regulator |
Chest | RIG armor |
Leg | Pneumatic cylinder |
Upgrading
You can upgrade both armors and weapons. You can upgrade gear only in a single direction that increases the key statistic and does not affect the remaining statistics. During the game, you can upgrade gear by special characteristics.
Remember that you will require the same components to craft and upgrade gear. In the case of weapons, you are also going to need a tungsten alloy that you obtain by cutting off gun hands off corpses of enemies.
The level of gear depends on the level of components that you use to upgrade it. If you have enough higher-tier components, you can upgrade your gear by 2 levels in a single take. This involves costs, but it is more profitable in the long run.
Gear upgraded to the fourth level can additionally by upgraded with Nanocores. This both goes for weapons and armors of level four. At the same time, it is expensive and requires Nanocores that you find around the game world. Access to individual components has character-level restrictions. In each of the eight caches, there are two Nanocores, at most, whereas the top required level for a single cache is 85. Whereabouts of these caches can be found in the dedicated chapter.