A R&D Station a.k.a. R&D Workstation is a device with which Exobyte related research and development can be carried out.
It provides a couple of functionalities such as assembly and salvaging.
R&D Stations can be found in each of the headquarters' wings and the central safehouses in Gotham and Metropolis. A portable workstation is available as DLC from the marketplace and there is also a model for player bases available.
Assembly[]
The assembly tab of a R&D Station lists all R&D plans the player has in possession. For each plan the necessary number of R&D parts and R&D components for construction is shown and once collected Exo-Materials. Supply items in the form of consumables can be built.
Archives[]
The Archives is effectively a second Assembly tab. Use the "Archive" function in the Assembly tab on any plan to move them to the Archives. This is useful to sort out which plans you often need to quickly reach, as plans can accumulate into a very long list on the Assembly tab.
Salvaging[]
Items which can be salvaged will be listed under this tab. Salvaging destroys the item to yield R&D components, such as Exobytes from salvaging superfluous gear and weapons, or Core Elements from salvaging Generator Mods.
Items marked as important with the * in the Inventory screen do not appear on the Salvaging tab.
Gear and weapons with an item level lower than 30 are usually not salvageable.
Locations[]
- House of Legends, northwest corner of main observation deck
- Heroes only
- Magic Wing (Watchtower), left side corner
- Meta Wing (Watchtower), left side corner
- Tech Wing (Watchtower), left side corner
- Diamond District Police Station in Gotham, first right room
- Midtown Police Station in Metropolis, first right room
- Villains only
- Magic Wing (Hall of Doom), basement
- Meta Wing (Hall of Doom), basement
- Tech Wing (Hall of Doom), basement
- Burnley Nightclub in Gotham, first right room
- Midtown Night Club in Metropolis, first right room
- Amenity: R&D Station
- Portable Workstation
Trivia[]
- Game update 25 introduced a back then third functionality for R&D stations, exobyte recovery. Recovery allowed to extract a certain amount of exobytes from gear modded with Equipment Mods, leaving the gear intact, but unmodded again. Plans for recovery kits could be bought from R&D vendors, kits then be built at R&D stations. This functionality was obsoleted with the introduction of the Augment system.