Is it worth it to loot everything

[FreshPrinceOfPine]

By that I mean the little crates and lockers scattered around the maps. I'm the type of player to go left when the objective says go right. But I hardly get anything special from exploring, basically just credits and an overabundance of ammo. A mission that should take like 5 minutes turns into 15. I like looting, it's fun to rack up materials, but is it even worth it? Do higher level players do this too?

[Xengre]

No. It is worth it to open any lockers/boxes at the very start spawn if they are fairly close to you as there seems to be a high chance of an Ayatan Star dropping but that is all. Unless you are hunting for Coords don't bother. There are mods for companion/sentinel to assist with this, but I have never needed to bother with it.

You can also use a weapon with large reach (Atterax, Orthos Prime, etc.) and Reach (preferably Primed Reach by far tho) to AoE crates as you pass by with slide/quick attacks and have your Sentinel Vacuum up the stuff unless its star/sculp to pick up.

[jonnin]

depends. Not generally at higher levels. I bust everything on my loot radar in faction missions so I can find the tokens. I open all the lockers in big locker rooms. You can pull between 10 and 20k credits from going nuts looting, but you can make that faster at higher levels without. At lower levels, those credits can get you a few of the bought recipes etc and get you started though. I am kind of weird in that I enjoy the game and actually playing it as opposed to zerk to objective and done in 2 min flat, so I loot more than I should, even if not really worth it.

Also void missions have mods in the containers. Until you have a set of those, it is worth it there.

[Bike Knight]

If you like the extras sure. The best way to loot is to avoid the ♥♥♥♥♥♥ lockers and crates and instead scan around for sculptures and rare resource caches like neurode masses and gallium deposits. The credits don't matter, you make more in the same time by doing the mission twice than actively opening all the lockers.

[Gralzeim]

Generally only if you need ammo, health, or energy orbs, and generally only while solo.

Materials breakables on the other hand, if you need those materials, yeah, it's worth smashing 'em. Not generally worth hunting all over the entire map though, unless you're desperate for the last few of something for a foundry item.

Also when hunting Argon I tend to hit up locker rooms near objectives since I tend to get Argon from those.

[DIhlo]

Well there are things like Ayatan Scupltures, and Rare Resource nodes (Neural Sensors,Neurodes,Orokin Cells, Argon Crystalls) that spawn in off the beaten track corners. But their spawn chances aren't that consistent.

So i generally break every crate/loot every locker only in Syndicate Missions (where you're searching for medallions anyway) or in survival missions (where you have plenty of time and you don't need to babysit the objective)