A few Breakpoint noob questions.

[Bubba Fett]

I played a lot of Wildlands, but am pretty new to Breakpoint and I'm a bit confused about a couple of things.

First is weapon unlocks and loadouts. In Wildlands, finding a weapon crate would unlock that weapon and you could equip it at any loadout box while picking up a weapon from a fallen enemy would let you use that weapon, but you couldn't get it back if you equipped something else. You also couldn't mod found weapons.

In Breakpoint, it seems like finding a gun on a dead enemy or in a crate where you get the take/disassemble choice are treated like dropped weapons in Wildlands. You can mod the weapon, but equipping something else means you lose it.
It seems like blueprints are the way to unlock stuff that can be used at any later time.
Is that correct?

I did buy a scope for my (found) assault rifle and equip it to the gun.
Did I purchase one copy of that scope that will be lost if I lose the gun, or did I unlock it to use on any gun it will fit on? (or as many guns as I have that it will fit?)

A lot of the gear in the store is quite expensive. I've raided a few bases and found some cash boxes, and done a couple of missions, but I don't recall seeing if the missions paid cash.
(I'm sort of in the information overload stage of the game)
Where do you earn the money to buy these guns for 15k or attack choppers for 60k?
Do missions pay more than I think, or do you just have to search every box in every base?

The other thing that's a bit annoying is all the civilians that are highlighted on my hud as circles. Wildlands would only tag cartel and Unidad. Is there a setting in Breakpoint to only tag combatants to reduce the clutter?

[Zamber]

Once buyed gun or attachments is binded to your profile from what i know.
The attachments are mostly not for certain weapon but class of it and You can use it in every other weapon of that class if its possible.
Don't buy weapons couse You will find them quite a lot; buy only attachments.
From what i understand from blueprints, once You obtain one u have from now ability to craft such weapon at first tier of quality.

Game is hell of grind, couse if You have look closer there is a "premium shop" where You can buy "game money" for real one. ;)

[Kuma]

It depends on what gamemode you are playing:

-On immersive mode it is exactly like wildlands, you can only switch between blueprints once you are in your loadout zone and any other weapon you pick is temporary.

-Now when playing with gear mode blueprints are less important because any weapon that drops can be kept on your inventory indefinitely or sold for extra cash, blueprints become entirely optional and only relevant in case you want to pay and craft another specific weapon to your current gearlevel.

All attachments and MK Upgrades are saved, once you grab another copy of the same weapon those things will be there even if you were using temporary weapons.

And about the store, yes some things can be quite expensive mainly because they were rewards from past events, and since you can't play those events anymore those items have just been put into the store for high prices. But don't worry about it, most weapons that Maria sells have a variant you can find for free, so just buy what you really want once you have extra cash.

And about your markers, I'm not sure you can remove civilian only markers but in the 'interface menu' you can at least fine tune them to reduce the clutter a bit by making the markers smaller or similar.

[Bubba Fett]

Thanks for all the info.
I managed to turn off tagging of allies in the settings and i'll consider trying the gear mode to let me keep and sell weapons. Was playing coop with a coworker and he must have had that on since he was talking about having lots of found weapons and selling them for cash.

There is a lot of settings to play with that I've mostly been leaving alone to try the game. I'll have to do a bit of a deep dive into the options.

[Bubba Fett]

One final question occured to me. Are there binoculars in Breakpoint?
Wildlands had them, but also had drone jammers and I thought I saw them mentioned in one of the setup options, but the controller map doesn't list them.

[Zamber]

Binoculars are in item wheel but i think You need first get them from somwhere.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3094091043

[Bubba Fett]

That seems weird to have to switch away from your current gadget and activate them using LB on the controller.
Anyways, thanks for that info. That's pretty much the last place I'd have thought to check for them.