u/ryoko227

• Once you have collected Mother Courage’s head and all of the questions available, Octogirl will have additional quests for you to continue to investigate Mother Courage.

The patch notes state the above regarding the progression to what (from what screenshots show) appears to be collection of the torso. If I am reading the patch notes correctly, I need to complete all 80 (per wiki) of the previous dialogues before being able to progress to the new content? Is that correct?

Assuming no deaths and no mistakes, that's looking at over 240 thermite just for the Mother Courage codex pile we need. If so, as a solo player, being unwilling to use cheats, where the hell do I farm up all that thermite?? Downtown has plenty of military boxes, but even with the drop boosts from the latest patch, I MIGHT get 1-3 per run. I suppose I could run Babel Scav Girl loops, but... suggestions?

They used to spawn all the time in Scortched and Ashen; I've done about 20 runs, forced HKs and the only "special" unit to show up is the Shield Officer (farmed his codex, but I don't need them).

Since the patch, the only place I have even seen an Orga is in the tunnels. Does anyone know a map that the Orga Mechs reliably spawns on in order to farm the 3 codex?

UPDATE - utilized a few different people's suggestions from below.
First, C4'd the Bridge in Ashen (Theater of War effect). Found an Orga at the end of Scrapyard Nexus. Killed him and took a codex, which brought HKs. Ran back and set the extraction and immediately back to see if I ran far enough, I did! He respawned, I killed him again and took his codex. EoD HKs were busy with the Euruskans and the cyborgs that were there. Ran back to extract, then back to the Mech at the end of the scrapyard. Orga #3 had spawned. Killed him and took his codex, then dipped back out the extract. Took 17 minutes to loot, shoot, and scoot. Best part is, I still have some AT-43 ammo left over!

Thank you everyone for your messages and help!