It consolidates essential information about chip cost and efficiency, and the combination of chips that provide the greatest effect for the lowest storage cost. Any chip matching the storage cost and level in the chart can either be used with a diamond chip to produce a higher level diamond or it can be used with another regular chip to climb the levels eventually fusing with a later diamond chip. FIRST POST - List and Locations of Plug-in Chips, Part 1 SECOND POST - List and Locations of Plug-in Chips, Part 2 THIRD POST-- Chip Combination Guide FOURTH POST-- General chip caveats & tricks, Part 1 FIFTH POST-- General chip caveats & tricks, Part 2 Also avoid crafting chips which exceed the maximum storage cost (regular) as listed since these chips are of no help towards fusing diamond chips and should be discarded or sold as your chip inventory begins to fill up. Central System. In this case where the chip level is even it's better to just merge chips of the same storage cost (so merge diamonds with diamonds) in order to avoid an unnecessary increase or losing diamond status from the chip. A diamond chip can either be leveled up into another diamond chip or it can be leveled up into a regular chip if the resulting storage cost from fusing is too high. OS Chip The final storage cost will be shown in-game before fusing so you can check that against the chart to see whether the fuse will result in a diamond chip or a regular chip that can be used at a later point for fusing with a diamond. Note that this technique of during odd levels fusing together two chips with a difference in storage cost of only a single unit works just as well on regular chips as it does on diamonds. So, here goes. OS Chip is a Plug-in Chip in NieR:Automata. With a cap of 90%, picking two level 3s (2 * 40%) and a level 0 (10%) would result in hitting the cap at 18 slots, much cheaper and much earlier than a level 8. oooor you can just use a 3 and a 4 for 16 slots of usage. If you were to go for max efficiency, you would probably go insane in the process. LED chips can be either high-powered or low-powered, color green, red or blue, square or wafer, and 8mil, 9mil, 12mil, 14mil, etc. This is the maximum cost of a regular chip at that level which is still of use for leveling diamond chips either directly or by leveling other chips which will eventually level diamond chips. The guide also provides additional information about most efficiently upgrading your chips, and where to farm certain chips. Since we’re on an odd level (3) the average storage cost of [7.5] will round down to [7]. Note: Credit for this guide goes to /u/AnimaOnline from the Nier Automata Reddit. Plug-in Chips are items that you can equip to acquire or customize Skills in Nier: Automata. Not all of them are directly fused into diamonds. (Also assuming diamond slots). Always save before fusing chips so you can revert if you make a mistake. Maximum chip storage is 128 once fully upgraded. After a battle, can often be like 20 items, mostly junk...lol. A community for fans of the Square Enix series which includes; Nier/Nier: Automata and Drakengard Trilogy. For whatever reason the message often doesn't display after placing a chip that puts you over though despite this the cap is still there. Odd indicates that at this level a diamond chip can be fused with regular chip 1 storage cost higher and still retain diamond status at the next level. We'd receive an average cost of [9.5] which would round up to [10] due to the chip level of 4 being even. Creating three level 2s (3 * 30% at 18 cost) is more efficient in terms of upgrade and component cost. Removal results in death. Apperances: In-game it is listed after the chip name as +X. To do this it’s easier and quicker if you find and level other regular chips to fuse with diamond chips during odd levels (indicated by odd on the chart) rather than solely relying on finding and fusing together diamond chips which is both slow and wasteful. A diamond chip is a chip that is at the absolute lowest attainable storage cost for a chip at that level. Diamond chips are marked with a black diamond to the right of the chip name. There are five Types of Plug-in Chips: Attack, Defense, Support, Hacking, and System. Creation of a diamond 3 requires two diamond level 2s, where as level 1s and 2s can be made with single starting diamond. This means the efficiency sweet spot is only level 3. A Level 3 and level 4 hit cap with the fewest slots. So lets take out Weapon Attack Up +4 ♦ [9] and merge it with a Weapon Attack Up +4 [10]. A regular chip is any chip that isn’t a diamond chip. System tl;dr Three level 2 Item Drop Rate chips hit the cap of 90%. If anyone has reached higher levels and found the values don't follow the chart, please share! However, I noticed that you start the game with less than what seems to be half of the maximum capacity. What is a regular chip and a diamond chip? NieR:Automata OS Chip is a Plug-in Chip in NieR:Automata. These are lists of all the storage costs for that level which are useful for fusing and should be kept. Information If we add the new average to the natural storage cost increase for a level 4 which is +2 then the chip produced would be Weapon Attack Up +5 [12] which is one storage cost above diamond.