yes true....Maybe a sandbox setting to change the boost %effectiveness of the stats...seems like most gear is upgrading way to fast.
or at least an aerodrome
Yes, please. Higher level mods and higher level workstation upgrades are very hard to come by. I'm on day 16 with 2 hour days and a LOT of looting and I still have level one grills on 2 of my 3 campfires and my "best" campfire is a level 4 pot and level 3 grill. Our two forges only have a single level 2 anvil and all other upgrades are level 1. Most mods I've found for weapons and tools and armor have been level 1-4 with only a couple that were higher. Now, I know this is still mid game (at 2 hour days), but I have a full set of Q6 gear except for my sniper rifle for horde nights since neither of us who are playing have put points into rifles. Almost all of that has been found rather than crafted. Armor is really the only thing running behind and that's normal since I don't put points into armor and so the armor magazines are extremely rare. The point being that if we are finding max level equipment when looting (and I'm not even in the wasteland yet), we should also be finding max level mods regularly instead of constantly finding a bunch of level 1s. Either mods need to be more common, which isn't a great option, or the level needs to be fully tied to game stage and loot stage so that you can't find low level mods if you're far enough into the game and only find better ones, or there needs to be a way to craft and/or upgrade the mods. That last could be in the form of combining any 2 of a mod in the Combiner and getting 1 level higher than the level of the highest mod being combined (2+3 = 4 or 1+1 = 2 or 2 + 2 = 3) or by unlocking higher levels for crafting mods the higher you go in a magazine series or through perks or through reading the same schematic multiple times. But there really needs to be something there because it just feels like a downgrade for mods and workstation upgrades right now.
Unfortunately, Schwanz confirmed they aren't planned to be craftable at higher levels - only purchasable or lootable (ONLY lootable in the case of drone and vehicle mods). I asked this same question last week and was similarly disappointed.
I know. I saw his response. However, I think TFP has little choice but to do something with it even if there are currently plans for it. They just aren't working well in the current iteration and something has to be done or they might as well just get rid of the levels.
We'll see. If I finish the game (everything maxed out, all quest tiers completed, etc.) and still have Q1 grill on one or more campfires or Q1 anvil or bellows on my forge, then it's a good indication that it isn't balanced. As far as you finding those, it seems to be entirely based on RNG right now. You can find a Q6 mod in the early game and continue to get mostly Q1 mods mid to late game. If you have good luck, you might have a lot of higher level mods by the end of your game and if not, you might be stuck with all Q1 and Q2 mods. That isn't how balancing should work.
I mean, the game isn't balanced at all to begin with. Not sure why you'd expect balance now.
I agree that you shouldn't always be able to max everything out, and I push that heavily in my Wasteland mod. But I can say from user comments that there is a pretty decent segment of players that hate that idea and want to be able to max everything out. I make it impossible to be able to max all attributes out and I've had more than a few foaming at the mouth because of it. Same kind of people that think if they loot a weapon they aren't perked into it is useless, as if you magically can't kill things since they didn't increase its damage by 10% through a perk or something.
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Maybe points in Master Chef would increase the likelihood of better Cooking Pots and Grills in loot? And Advanced Engineering for better Anvils, etc.?
