Is it still impossible to get lost Iconic weapons back?

[SteelSirokos]

Nowhere does the game tell you that you can only get these once. I saw that I received crafting specs for them, assumed I could craft better versions later, and sold two iconic pistols. Everything I've read online points to me being SOL, since for some reason CDPR decided not to tell the player upfront that these items will be lost forever if you sell them.

[Leon]

they are iconic cause you can only obtain them once, and if they are lost, load a previous saved file, or else gg.

[Bogmore]

You can spawn them with a mod.

I always thought the selling warning ingame was enough. Then there is the weapons background when you look at it.

[charly4711]

Would be cool, if you could randomly find them again in the landfill

[SteelSirokos]

Originally posted by error:

learn 2 read

I admit I didn't do as much research as I should have before selling the weapon, but it's still an incredibly unintuitive and frustrating system, especially since NG+ doesn't exist yet.

[orcaa]

Originally posted by Bringe Generator:

Originally posted by error:

learn 2 read

I admit I didn't do as much research as I should have before selling the weapon, but it's still an incredibly unintuitive and frustrating system, especially since NG+ doesn't exist yet.

Blaming the game for a gamer's mistake ( impatience or whatever ) is silly to be honest. Reload a previous save and/or carry on and learn from your mistake.

[Graf Erik]

I never tried to sell iconic weapons, you earn so much money in this game...
But when I accidentaly try to dissasable one you get fat warning saying "Are you sure? Are you really, really sure? Cause you won't get this here ever back if you do that"

[popsicle]

There is nothing special about iconic weapons other than it may look/play a little different. Just stick to the legendary weapons that are all more practical.

[bba525]

Originally posted by popsicle:

There is nothing special about iconic weapons other than it may look/play a little different. Just stick to the legendary weapons that are all more practical.

That answers a question I hadn't gotten around to asking yet.

[thufirhawat333]

Originally posted by bba525:

That answers a question I hadn't gotten around to asking yet.

Actually, there are some differences.
Legendary weapons are not necessarily more practical - as long as you invest in engineering, you can upgrade your iconic weapons to legendary eventually (as long as you have the previous tier in the inventory, you can't just craft them if they were not originated from a recipe), as well as keep upgrading their level.

It's more about the special effects they got. Psalm for example sets enemies on fire. Is that something you are interested enough in to keep crafting and upgranding the weapon?
Up to you.

[Graf Erik]

There are quite a lot of iconic weapon that have special abilities.

Overwatch e.g. is the only silenced long range weapon in game.
The Headsman fires essentially two rounds at the same time.
Comrades Hammer is an increadibly powerfull one-shot weapon.

Moron Labe, Widowmaker, Fenrir, Crash, iconics are simply better than reugal weapons.

Also you can uprade iconics to your current level which allowes you to keep them almost indefinetly (if you have high enough tech skill).

[charly4711]

Well, you can upgrade other weapons, too.
And you can even just recraft regular legendaries again at a later level to get an upgraded version without having to spend all the components on upgrading.
So, I'd say there are pros and cons to everything.

[Graf Erik]

Originally posted by charly4711:

Well, you can upgrade other weapons, too.

Sure. The difference is that you can upgrade iconics to a higher rarety, which automatically raises it to your current level AND resets the upgrade costs.

[charly4711]

Originally posted by Graf Erik:

Originally posted by charly4711:

Well, you can upgrade other weapons, too.

Sure. The difference is that you can upgrade iconics to a higher rarety, which automatically raises it to your current level AND resets the upgrade costs.

Uhhh ... no? ... that only works for the bonus gear you get for registering your GOG account, like the Wolf Jacket, etc.
Other iconic weapons bring a crafting recipe along and you actually have to craft a new iconic weapon using up the old item, but maybe that's what you mean by upgrading iconics to a new rarity, though it's not actually _upgrading_ ... I usually call it re-crafting.

The thing is: once you hit a regular legendary weapon recipe, you can just craft that at level 20 and then again at level 40. You can craft that item as many times as you want and each time it will be your level without you having to upgrade it 20 times.
I've played a build that got crafting up very late in the game and I kept upgrading the GOG bonus items, and it was very, very expensive. Recrafting items felt a lot less so. Early to mid-game it's cool that you can re-craft an iconic weapon to a new rarity. _late_ in the game it becomes a bit of a disadvantage that you can craft a legendary version of an iconic item exactly once. That means, I usually end up recrafting my iconics to legendary status after maxing out levels, so I don't need to upgrade them. With regular legendaries, you can just craft them several times. Pros and cons, like I said.

[Nite69]

You get a warning if you accidentally try to disassemble one, the warning was added in later patches, I guess selling doesn't have the warning?

[V]

Originally posted by charly4711:

Would be cool, if you could randomly find them again in the landfill

lol you would actually do that? randomly search the entire landfill for lost iconics XD ..I love the game but i think id have to draw the line at that, Then again ive never destroyed a iconic ..soooo i guess its all good :P