Hmmmm...

What level are you? Nomads will rarely drop weapons for anyone under lvl 35 (or 30?). If you are higher than that, well then I just don't know.

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You do have to kill nomads.

My suggestion is to grab a mate and you both kill them, for some odd reason they seem to drop more when me and a mate (or two) are beating them up.

im only lvl 32 so il do a few missions and get above 35

They didn't start dropping them for me until I was level 36. Now they drop at least 1 every time i fight a group of them.

paks

ok that is all nice and dandy about the level crap. where do you find them.

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is there a specific hole where they drop blasters? cos i only seem able to pick up the cannons.

Personally i found they seem to drop roughly equal numbers of both blasters/cannons.

However i have seen people talking about hitting them on the back/front/side to try and not destroy whatever weapons they want to loot. Not sure if this makes any difference tho.

I find that cannons are better than blasters anyways, but they can b found in omicron sector in the unknow sector check the nav section on this site for more info on that...
With regards to needing a level to get them to drop weps, i dont think it matters because i was only level 20 when i got my first nomad energy blaster...
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@Razor

What mods are you using? The reason nomad weapons dont drop before a certain level is the same reason you cant get corsairs to drop TDC's when ur below level 30 (or whatever ) - in order for a weapon to drop you must satisfy 2 criteria :

1 ) You must have a hardpoint capable of mount that weapon.

2 ) You must be above the level required to buy that weapon.

What this boils down to is that if you cant buy a weapon at a dealer its never gonna drop for you. Nomad weapons are no exception, the only reason they appear different is 'cause you never see them for sale so you never see the 'You must be at least level XX to buy this...' bit. The only exception to this rule seems to be the other class 10's (diamondback, blueblaze etc) which anyone can loot. There was a 'lowest lvl to get a nomad gun' post ages ago but it got lost in the void.

Were you using an Opengate mod? Or one of the mods that removes the level requirements 4 buying ships etc?

What happened to me while Nomad-weapon-hunting was that I was destroying the weapons too.

When you get their hulls very low, fire only one gun at a tile (use the keyboard number keys).