Camps producing random amounts of scrap?

[lily40k]

I was focusing on liberating camps to have passive scrap generation and at first it worked well i could see each camp add their ~20 scrap to generation.

Sometimes this number goes significantly lower, like half or less.
I'm not sure why that happens and i'm not really sure how this mechanic works in the game.

I don't want to scavenge every single location its too boring and repetitive.
Are there any tips how i can solve the scrap problem? even messing with save files is fine by me. I'm here mostly for story.

[lionhart]

I have seen that happen, too. I don't think it is a bug but I don't know what causes it either.

Honestly, you don't need to worry about scrap in this game. There is plenty of scrap even if you don't complete most of the scavenger locations. I finished the game with over 40,000 excess scrap, and that was after having bought and upgraded every possible thing I could.

[lily40k]

thanks

[Playzr 🐵]

You get the camps first, with the cleanup crew as a priority so you don't have to get out of your car to pickup the destroyed cars. If you follow this you'll end up with plenty of scrap that you'll hardly have to explore the many scrap locations. Another way to save on scrap, and to increase the difficulty (because there's no hard mode unfortunately) is to not get any of the damage/armour upgrades for max until you unlock the last one, saving on buying each one. There are other upgrades where you can do this too but some require each are unlocked to get the next one.

[lily40k]

Originally posted by Рlαγζr 🐵:

You get the camps first, with the cleanup crew as a priority so you don't have to get out of your car to pickup the destroyed cars. If you follow this you'll end up with plenty of scrap that you'll hardly have to explore the many scrap locations. Another way to save on scrap, and to increase the difficulty (because there's no hard mode unfortunately) is to not get any of the damage/armour upgrades for max until you unlock the last one, saving on buying each one. There are other upgrades where you can do this too but some require each are unlocked to get the next one.

Yeah at first i was not getting any upgrades thinking ok when i unlock 2-3 levels i'll grab last one, but i can never be sure what requires me to take the previous upgrade and what doesnt...

Either way, i will do fine with scrap, i'm already too overpowered, i dont really want to upgrade too much, there is no challenge at the moment in the game, i'm basically drifting through story.

Probably not gonna clean other locations but just finish story.

[Playzr 🐵]

You can work out which you need others to unlock when you get the next one up, and even though you've unlocked it due to requirements you can't use it. Some are locked because you don't have the required threat level or max's level, others are locked because you need the one before. I think it also tells you, once it's unlockable, that it requires a certain upgrade that comes before it.
Some of the ones I can think of that need previous upgrades to unlock: Engine, exhaust, sniper rifle, Shotgun?, Car Armour?, Harpoon, Thunderpoon, Side burners?
Some that you don't: Rims, Boarder spikes, Paint, Tires, Fists, Max's Armour, Wrist Armour, Wheels, Face
I suppose if someone was in a rush to do the bare minimum, they could go through the story pretty quickly without reducing the threat level or destroying all the camps. I would say that makes up a lot of the gameplay though. If you rush through to complete the story, that just means that there's more to explore on your next playthrough, or if you decide to keep playing after the story is over.

[lily40k]

once you reduce threat level to 0 you can make no scrap from that area
i intentionally dont kill snipers or take down scarecrows so i get constant wave of random gangs heading to get blown up...

so i usually just go to explore the baloon and start taking out camps and things that get me scrap passively, (btw can you just keep game open doing nothing and get passive scrap?)

i only cleared the first camp completely, but that was a mistake. This way game is more fun, you get gangs on your tail constantly and its super fun to blow them up and not worry about collecting scrap.

[Playzr 🐵]

That's some strange logic. If you'd cleared an area and there was no scrap to be made from it you'd simply move on to the next area, right?
There will still be other vehicles in those areas, like road kill, though there won't be that much point in driving around there if there's no scrap there.
Just saying, your strat for making money in this game sounds like it's doing the opposite.
When you destroy camps you will then get regular income from them. Camps should be the first thing you deal with so that you can get a continuous flow of scrap while you play the game. Now that you know this and don't misunderstand the game's systems you might play this game with a new found sense of actual accomplishment and get more fun out of it. Enjoy.