PC I Finally Tried the Drone

You know how when you are on your way somewhere and you see a deer off the side of the road and you stop and postpone what you had in mind in order to get that deer because who just lets a deer go?

Quest spamming will get you truly random samples of magazines as a reward. It is a bundle so you can't even see what magazines you will get until after you choose the reward and open the bundle. So, the interesting thing is that you will be on your way to a quest and see a POI that is related to what you are specifically trying to progress in and much like that deer you will feel compelled to postpone that quest and clean out that POI since it is a better source of what you want than the quest location is bound to be. Then you see another one...

I find that I am scavenging non-quest destination POIs more than I ever have before since quests were introduced. That being said, I am not one who spams quests anyway. But even if someone does spam quests and always chooses magazine bundles as their reward this just means they will be even more likely to be able to craft better than what they've found.

In my current playthrough I am focusing on archery. I crafted a brown bow and then found an orange bow. Then I ended up crafting my own yellow and green and then blue bow. I have found bow parts and primitive bows that were lower than what I could craft. I haven't found a single pipe machine gun but can craft a yellow one although I haven't gotten to doing it yet but will before my next hordenight.

 
RipClaw said:
From what I have read, the magazines are not only found on bookshelves. Basically everywhere you can find a schematic now, you can also find the magazines. That also includes broken workstations and crates like Pass-N-Gas crates or Working Stiff crates. And they seem also be part of the quest rewards. So quest spamming will probably increase significantly in A21.
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It depends on your goals/desires each playthrough.  If you are close to unlocking something you would really like to craft, you may forgoe doing another quest and instead go raiding a POI that has a higher chance of dropping the magazine your after.

RipClaw said:
Yes, it is a sad truth that many players no longer craft anything but play the game as a kind of lootshooter.

Personally, I have crafted most of my equipment. For me crafting is an important part of the game and I had hoped that the changes in A21 would strengthen crafting.

If the Fun Pimps rebalance the trader and the quests they could, for example, replace the weapons and tools with parts and magazines. Then the players would have to either make or find their equipment. They would no longer get it from the quests.
 
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Crafting is improved imo.  At the very least I'm not selling all of my unperked parts anymore and holding onto some in hopes to craft something better then I'm rocking.

 
It is easy to make crafting more important if you want to mod the game a bit.

  • Reduce probability drops of equipment better than Q2 to 0.05
  • Remove all Q5 and lower equipment from traders and price gouge the Q6 items
  • Remove quest rewards (just leave the dukes)
  • Remove the ability to repair any of the equipment (but keep vehicles and traps as repairable)
  • Add the ability to craft Q6 items
I am still making changes and playtesting mine, but it has significantly changed how I play the game.  Now crafting a Q4 iron pickaxe is a priority unless I want to use that half damaged Q2 one instead I found in loot.  I am even found myself using non-spec melee weapons because it was all I had at the time.

You still find loot, but crafting becomes much more important.  That Q6 iron shovel you find in loot is great until it breaks, then you have to replace it with that Q4 you can only craft.

 
I like that the drone calls me "master". She is like a female K-9. That can fly. And doesn't look like a dog.

Just make it a robo-dog, pls&thx. :]

 
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