How to get Artificer tier weapons in Space Marine 2

If you want to succeed in the Operations mode in Space Marine 2, you must upgrade your weapons to the Artificer tier and upward. These are much more powerful and provide more perks than the base versions.

Here’s what you need to know how to get to that tier and above.

How to get Artificer tier weapons in Space Marine 2

To upgrade your weapon tier from Standard or Master-Crafted up to Artificer (purple), you will need to start playing Operations at difficulty Threat: Substantial. As you progress through new tiers of weapons in their respective trees, you need the same matching Armoury Data chip.

For example, we consider the Power Sword to be one of the better weapons in the game. Upgrading it from Standard to Master-Crafted will require a green Armoury Data chip, which can be earned from defeating bosses or finding them in a “Threat: Average” difficulty mission. You’ll also need the weapon’s XP to be at max.

You’ll know when you’re ready to upgrade your weapon to the next tier when the tab reads “Unlock for 1 (Armoury Data) or higher”. Now apply this by upgrading from green (Master-Crafted) to purple (Artificer).

The Substantial difficulty in Operations mode is going to be a lot tougher but will help unlock new weapon tiers once you find the Armoury Data chips.  

Why aren’t the Artificer tier weapons unlocking?

Another common problem you may run into is that the XP bar isn’t full despite having mastered all the weapon variations in your current tier. This may happen simply because you paid to master a variant of a weapon to skip the XP grind. 

What you still need to do is make up for the XP you did not gain when you skipped that mastery. As long as you’re using weapons within the previous tier (Master-Crafted), you’re building up that bar to unlock Artificer. 

Once you hit that tier, you should finally see a prompt to unlock that tier, but as previously mentioned, you will have to start playing on the Substantial difficulty. All you need is one chip and you now have access to the third tier of weapon upgrades (as long as you have the credits for them).