Where to find Marvel's Spider-Man 2 Tech Crates

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How to locate Tech Crates and Rare Tech Crates in Spider-Man 2 for extra Tech Parts

Spider-Man 2 Tech Crates
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Spider-Man 2 Tech Crates are all over New York City, and each will provide some additional Tech Parts or Rare Tech Parts to help unlock new Spider-Man 2 suits and Spider-Man 2 skills, abilities, gadgets and suit tech to your arsenal. Because of this you will want to find them to earn parts and unlock upgrades while you work through the Marvel's Spider-Man 2 storyline. To learn the best ways of tracking down these essential Tech Parts, here's how and where to find Tech Crates in Spider-Man 2.

Spider-Man 2 Tech Crates and Rare Tech Crates locations

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The map above shows a selection of Spider-Man 2 Tech Crates locations in each area of New York City. This isn't exhaustive listing because there are a lot of crates, but it will be more than enough to boost your Tech Parts balance to unlock all of the items available in the earlier parts of the game. If you want to find more Tech Crates for yourself, then I have pointers below for how to track them down.

How to find Tech Crates in Spider-Man 2

Scanning Spider-Man 2 Tech Crates through walls

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A good method to find Tech Crates in Spider-Man 2 is to swing or glide above the rooftops and look for a tell-tale blue or yellow glow. You can usually spot this from a distance with blue crates containing Tech Parts and yellow crates Rare Tech Parts. You can also listen out for a repeating 'ping' sound they make, and if you hear this while exploring you'll know there's a crate on a rooftop or in an alleyway nearby - if you click the right stick to scan the area you should see the Tech Crate glowing through walls.

Unlocking the All Seeing Suit Tech upgrade to find Spider-Man 2 Tech Crates

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Finally, once you've made enough progress in the story you'll get access to Suit Tech upgrades, which will let you craft the All Seeing upgrade under Traversal. This is unlocked at Level 21 and will require a lot of Tech Parts and Hero Tokens to craft the preceding upgrades, but once you have All Seeing equipped you'll reveal all Tech Crate locations as icons on your minimap. Then it's simply a case of swinging around the city and grabbing those you see.

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Iain Wilson
Iain Wilson
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Iain originally joined Future in 2012 to write guides for CVG, PSM3, and Xbox World, before moving on to join GamesRadar in 2013 as Guides Editor. His words have also appeared in OPM, OXM, PC Gamer, GamesMaster, and SFX. He is better known to many as ‘Mr Trophy’, due to his slightly unhealthy obsession with amassing intangible PlayStation silverware, and he now has well over 900 Platinum pots weighing down the shelves of his virtual award cabinet. He does not care for Xbox Achievements.