At the moment the mechs are completely out of synch with the rest of the game in terms of their tiering, resulting in players collecting end-tier salvage parts at the same time they're collecting the middle-tier ores for their mech upgrades. In my current game I accidentally skipped over middle-tier space encounters entirely because I had to rush violium/aegisalt/ferozium to build the same mech parts that required salvaged proton limiters, which are only available in space encounters around radioactive stars (as far as I can tell). Fix please?
yeah, tungsten should really be the initial mech material, not titanium. having the mechs start as titanium just fucks progression sideways.