Insane luck or buggy loot-table?

[Wyrm]

I just looted two cars on a lot.
The first gave me a lvl6 iron shovel. The other a lvl6 iron pickaxe. This feels highly unlikely, albeit I admit, not impossible. But it feels odd since I just learned to craft lvl5 iron tools (and thankfully only crafted an axe so far)

But I feel that you find so much more stuff than you craft. By the time you unlock an item and gather all the materials for it, you have already found something better in loot or as a quest reward.
I mean, I looted a lvl5 steel club yesterday. I'm at day 11 (200% day length) with 100% loot abundance and game stage 49. I feel that when A21 leaves experimental, I will go back to 50% loot that I mostly play with. Still, the problem is not new. I rarely crafted much in A20 either, often finding stuff or getting them as quest rewards.

[Wyrm]

Three cars later I looted another lvl6 iron shovel.... something must be off here.

[God Bless The Dead]

How is finding 1 single level better quality item better than you can craft odd? you put points into that, so guess what? that's what you get, amazing right?

And quest rewards are meant to be that way, so you go out and loot and not stay in your base crafting level 6 items, also harder biomes increase the quality of loot.

[Wyrm]

Now lvl6 wrench... still in the same POI

[rincewind]

I'm going with my crafted Steel Spear T5, and before that I used a T3, and iron spears T5 and T3 and never found or was given any better one.
On the other hand I got a T4 lever action rifle that just only recently changed by a crafted T5.
And for armor I'm using crafted T5 iron armor. The only steel ones that I saw in the trader are T1 and T2.

I'm at day 50ish. I don't remember my level.

Give me some of that luck... and I gonna buy a lottery ticket, not gonna waste it in the game!

[Wyrm]

What I find most odd here is that I found 4 lvl6 tools in a single POI (Carls Cars). All of them in cars.
I mostly wonder if there is something up with the loot table, because at least to me, that is an anomaly.

[rincewind]

Maybe that POI is bugged? I don't think that I looted that place in A21 yet.

[Wyrm]

Originally posted by rincewind:

Maybe that POI is bugged? I don't think that I looted that place in A21 yet.

Try it if you find one and see what you get :)

[God Bless The Dead]

facepalm, jeez... these minecraft players

[rincewind]

Originally posted by God Bless The Dead:

facepalm, jeez... these minecraft players

What's wrong with Minecraft? I like Minecraft too.

[Wyrm]

Originally posted by God Bless The Dead:

facepalm, jeez... these minecraft players

What did that have to do with anything here?

[God Bless The Dead]

Originally posted by Wyrm:

Originally posted by God Bless The Dead:

facepalm, jeez... these minecraft players

What did that have to do with anything here?

Go learn the game, then you will know why you can find 1 quality better than you craft

[Brevan]

When you put points in a perk, it makes you more likely to find not just the related crafting magazines, but also items. It sounds like you've got points in Mining and maybe Salvaging. I know when I quickly maxed Salvage, I found 2-4 lvl 6 wrenches before I found even one Iron Pick (I had no points in Mining). Luckily for me the wrench is great for mining Iron and Lead.

[comet_65cali]

Where was the Carl's Cars POI Located? Pine Forest? Desert? Snow? Wasteland?

[Winetoo]

That's what we get when TFP enforces RNG on players .... i have 2 points in Automatic weapons, 0 in fist weapons, yet, i can craft lvl 2 iron knuckles, but only lvl 1 AK..... Don't be surprised at ♥♥♥♥, nonsensical drops, that is just a part of the normal game now.

RNG FOR THE WIN

[BaconBaconBaconBaconBacon]

Not really sure what you're seeing as a problem, but I can think of two things right off the bat. One is past a certain lootstage you will only find quality 6 items the other is you are searching high value loot containers and going surprised Pikachu face when you get good stuff. Also Iron pick is only tier 1 metal shovels are a waste regardless, and the wrench is tier 0 or tier 1 I don't remember off the top of my head. So really it sounds like you are getting the good stuff of tier 1 so you might want to save some aloe cream for when the loot table rolling over into tier 2 decides to f**k you.

Side note don't be one of the 3 guys that think the game is too easy because RNJesus decided to cut you a break. TFP keeps doing dumb bullsh*t to the game because of stuff like this.