Do stores only sell crap?

[BionicDance]

Every store I go to has only Uncommon items, and with no mod slots.
And it doesn't even seem to be a Street Cred thing; nothing is locked.

The only time I've gotten items worth keeping is when I take them off of dead bodies. And since that's such a random crap-shoot, that's hardly practical; how am I supposed to achieve my goals of getting decent items that kinda match (rather than looking like I dressed in the dark)...?

[ZEbani]

my biggest problem with this game!
I can give you one trick
If you are looking for armor, craft the common level, when you keep crafting it stocks them and you can have legendary level armor mods. this works for every common item you can craft. with this method I have 4000+ resistance

But if you are looking for crit change, good luck. You have to find them. I think I was lucky and now I have 70% crit chance now.

Also I cannot find weapons mods either except common ones, I better try to stock them thou and see if it works.

I understand that engineer should excell at this and and easy for him to craft earlier and obtain nice weapons and mods but other classes deserve to get a little better mods

[Hellsmoke]

Only reason I even go into stores is to buy materials for crafting, maybe a mod or two. Stores are complete trash, especially the food vendors as food and alcohol are completely useless. Junk vendors the same, why would anyone buy any of that lol. Why would I buy a BD when I can't watch them?

Seems like nothing they sell is worth the effort really and what's sad is that these stores are pretty much the only thing you can even interact with on the map.

[Ka-mai19]

They are bugged right now, for sure. You only get one shot at getting legendary crafting specs from a store, and if you pass it up the store won't sell any legendery recipes anymore.

Something they should definitely fix.

[stingray87]

Originally posted by hellsmoke77:

Only reason I even go into stores is to buy materials for crafting, maybe a mod or two. Stores are complete trash, especially the food vendors as food and alcohol are completely useless. Junk vendors the same, why would anyone buy any of that lol. Why would I buy a BD when I can't watch them?

Seems like nothing they sell is worth the effort really and what's sad is that these stores are pretty much the only thing you can even interact with on the map.

sadly true. early in the game there were a few shops that sold pretty decent weapons though. also why are there shops that sell food? who actually buys food and eats it ?

[Wisp Cat]

Originally posted by BionicDance:

Every store I go to has only Uncommon items, and with no mod slots.
And it doesn't even seem to be a Street Cred thing; nothing is locked.

The only time I've gotten items worth keeping is when I take them off of dead bodies. And since that's such a random crap-shoot, that's hardly practical; how am I supposed to achieve my goals of getting decent items that kinda match (rather than looking like I dressed in the dark)...?

I've seen a variety of two slot clothing items for sale. But three and four slot clothing seem to be mostly found items. (But I am currently in a later part of the game, I do not know if that's relevant, but it might be?)

[Ka-mai19]

Originally posted by ZEbani:

my biggest problem with this game!
I can give you one trick
If you are looking for armor, craft the common level, when you keep crafting it stocks them and you can have legendary level armor mods. this works for every common item you can craft. with this method I have 4000+ resistance

But if you are looking for crit change, good luck. You have to find them. I think I was lucky and now I have 70% crit chance now.

Also I cannot find weapons mods either except common ones, I better try to stock them thou and see if it works.

I understand that engineer should excell at this and and easy for him to craft earlier and obtain nice weapons and mods but other classes deserve to get a little better mods

One other good workaround is getting the perk in engineering that lets you keep mods from gear when you disassemble it. I was able to stock up on legendary crit chance and crit damage by doing so. You just need to make sure to save all gear that has any desired mods that you might want until you finally get the perk.

[Thite]

Originally posted by stingray87:

Originally posted by hellsmoke77:

Only reason I even go into stores is to buy materials for crafting, maybe a mod or two. Stores are complete trash, especially the food vendors as food and alcohol are completely useless. Junk vendors the same, why would anyone buy any of that lol. Why would I buy a BD when I can't watch them?

Seems like nothing they sell is worth the effort really and what's sad is that these stores are pretty much the only thing you can even interact with on the map.

sadly true. early in the game there were a few shops that sold pretty decent weapons though. also why are there shops that sell food? who actually buys food and eats it ?

Food works really well with the cold blood health regen perks.
Food + cold blood + sword regen-on-kill means you never have to stop and take a puff.

[STS]

Better clothing in stores is linked to the street cred level.

Edit: But it's still pretty crap most of the time.

[BionicDance]

Originally posted by ZEbani:

I can give you one trick
If you are looking for armor, craft the common level, when you keep crafting it stocks them and you can have legendary level armor mods.

Okay, ya lost me.

How does stocking common armor lead to legendary armor mods? It seems like there are a few steps missing in that process.

But if you are looking for crit change, good luck.

Honestly? More than anything else, I want to be able to add mod slots onto armor and weapons.

Like, I found some gear that I like, visually; I wanna mod it to be the armor I want, functionally.

Not sure how.
Or if it's even possible.
The game doesn't really explain crafting at all, and the few times I've tried to experiment, it always blows up in my face.

[BionicDance]

Originally posted by STS:

Better clothing in stores is linked to the street cred level.

Not that I've seen.

If something requires more street cred, it's usually there, but you can't buy it.

[STS]

Originally posted by BionicDance:

Originally posted by STS:

Better clothing in stores is linked to the street cred level.

Not that I've seen.

If something requires more street cred, it's usually there, but you can't buy it.

It's true what you say, but in addition you do get better and new offers once you hit certain street cred levels. In your inventory under stats, I believe, there is the skill advancement for street cred in the lower left corner. That's where I got my info from.