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The starburst ones? No, only the magnifying glass ones.
 
Ok as i have restarted the game about 30 times brought in enough just to unlock and scan every magnify glass anomaly and can never get the extractors one maybe its just bad luck aha
 
There are 55 of them in vanilla. ;)
 
Ok as i have restarted the game about 30 times brought in enough just to unlock and scan every magnify glass anomaly and can never get the extractors one maybe its just bad luck aha

got that tech once, really gamechanging. But yeah, totally random with 55 of them.

But don´t use button RESTART THE GAME, if you want to remake the breaktroughs go for newgame and use the custom location.

This make sure you keep the map but change all the anomalies on the map.
 
are you sure you are trying all 13 breaktrough techs?

Extractor AI is very hard to get as one of the first ones.

Im asking because that demand deep scans and this does take sometime to get into the game.
 
To your question yes I have gotten it via Magnifying glass as a third one in my 2nd ever play through.

My only real beef playing this game is how breakthroughs are handled I really hate the Rng aspect and it takes so long in the game to get an idea on what it is you re actually stuck with.

My third play through first 4 breakthroughs killed it for me. Solar panel power output upgrade which was sort of helpful but not really game changing. Soylant green which was worthless as I was overflowing in food already, Printed Electronics which made building drones cost metal instead of electronics however I had self sufficient electronic production and would rather hord the metal for machine parts and building. Then Inspiring Architecture which gives a dome with a spire a boost to morel biiiiig whoop. Those where my first 4 and the rest where just as pointless for me.... killed that game for me rather then making it interesting.

I would like a little more control on breakthroughs as it is now it is just a giant pain. Nice idea badly implemented. Rng implementation can be fun as a mystery but for interesting game changing tech we have no control or idea what we are going to get or how any of it is weighted.
 
Yeah i can get deep scans and scan every sector in 30 mins then i drop down 2 rockets with 2 rc explorer on and annalize every mag glass anom and ive done that literally about 40 times now keep starting new games but never get it i get diff ones each time though just not the one i want