How to grab electric boxes?

[Skorj]

This is driving me nuts, especially with this contract needing 80 of them. Is there actually any way to grab these things? I've only ever gotten them by grabbing something nearby and getting them in the pickup radius, which misses most of them.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3290188795

Are they just bugged, or is there a trick I'm missing? They just vanish if you knock down the wall they're on, or cut them.

[Pesky]

They don't actually exist. You can stop them gleaming if you use the circular saw on them. But you can't pick one up and put it in a crate. Don't worry about them.

[Skorj]

Thanks. So where do the 80 electric boxes I need for this contract come from? Translation error? I seem to be slowly accumulating them, but no idea what the devs mean by "electric box".

[Ryuukaze]

Originally posted by Skorj:

Thanks. So where do the 80 electric boxes I need for this contract come from? Translation error? I seem to be slowly accumulating them, but no idea what the devs mean by "electric box".

They're small white/grey boxes, usually mixed in with random other boxes on the wall.

[Skorj]

Originally posted by Ryuukaze:

They're small white/grey boxes, usually mixed in with random other boxes on the wall.

I guess any box powered by electricity is technically an electric box. 🙄

[Bobby]

If you are using a game pad, press right on the D-pad to turn on ‘scan’. Then it will tell you what you are looking at and what value it is, if any.