Looting is fun or boring for you?

[Smokie]

I find looting to be so boring, unrewarding, more of a job/chore but also absolutely necessary to progress. Loot is not very useful, repeated same loot over and over and over and over, lacks food and water and med supplies, no clothing loot just cloth and more cloth and more cloth.
Looting is suppose to be rewarding and fun.

[Azael Ijima δ]

I'd say it's more fun and rewarding than farming materials for hours for the sole purprose of selling then buying.
But everyone has a different approach to the game.
The early game loot is definitely not all that exciting i agree, especially if you stay in the pine forest, but later on, both loot and quest rewards get better.
It's all about the perks you invest in, your various bonus and the "lootstage".

[JimmyIowa]

Looting for getting loot is fun for the first couple of weeks when you have almost nothing. Getting better stuff in a survival is fun.

Later on, clearing POI missions are fun with melee weapons on very high difficulty settings, for the challenge of seeing if I can avoid taking too much damage and how fast I can do it. And I ignore most of the lootable stuff. I don't do tier 5,6 missions because I need some food or water.

[gabgab01]

in my experience, looting is fun if you have one or two friends, when you have become self sufficient.
all you really need to be self sufficient is a potato farm and a water filter mod for your helmet, or dew collectors. surviving in 1.0 is easier if you know what you're doing, but early game do be a grind.

anyways, looting usually goes like this: you pick up a clearing quest at the trader, go there with your friends, adn then one dude goes first, killing every zombie while getting occasional fire support from friends, while the friends loot everything that is not nailed down, and then you make sure that the loot is divided up equally for transport.

since every house is designed as a linear dungeon, looting like that is fairly straightforward, and you usually get tons of stuff which will become materials for your base and gear, or you just store it for later.
storing stuff is also made easier since they improved how storage boxes work. you can now write on them by default, for example, or upgrade them with iron ingots.

and honestly, there is nothing else to do in this game besides to just keep looting the places you get a quest for.

[Azael Ijima δ]

Originally posted by JimmyIowa:

Looting for getting loot is fun for the first couple of weeks when you have almost nothing. Getting better stuff in a survival is fun.

Later on, clearing POI missions are fun with melee weapons on very high difficulty settings, for the challenge of seeing if I can avoid taking too much damage and how fast I can do it. And I ignore most of the lootable stuff. I don't do tier 5,6 missions because I need some food or water.

I agree, i didn't get to the "very late" game where you won't get anything better than what you already have in loot but i can understand the problem. And yeah i guess there some credit to give to early loot, it can sometimes decide where your character and base will be going in the first couple weeks.

[Dreaming Prince]

yea its ok when u have nothing, but it quickly becomes a chore. garbage picking simulator. theres very little variety and dont seem to be much interesting things to b found in the game. hundreds of magazines and trash.

im at day 24 atm wtih looting perks and mabye once or twice in the game i found something that i was excited to find.. once you have a certain mod u dont need 10, u can just use it forever, same with armour and weapons. i made a t1 iron spear, then a t1 steel then a t6 steel, and thats it for the weapons i used(ant they are all butt ugly, no satisfact of having a legendary spear).. same with other gear, u just make one and forget about it until u can make the best one and its just the same as what u had, except slightly bigger numbers..

[Serious]

Lotting just for the sake of looting won't be fun or interestin for me.
For me it's the exploration and atmosphere why i "loot" POIs and i try to get most out of every single POI available. Not for the loot but for the general experience. The loot is just a bonus.

[MoistGamer]

I enjoy it until I find a level 3 or 4 ish shotgun, automatic 7.62 weapon, and 9mm weapon. so long as those are 3 or 4 level, thats basically it for looting. The magazines dont do it for me.

[CatPerson]

I like the looting process, at least early-mid game. I mean, once you have storage containers full of materials/food and T5 or T6 gear and most of the magazines you care about to high levels etc, there's not much point left, but I like it up to then.

I like loot hunt games tho - Diablo's, Borderlands, etc. It's not just about how uber/awesome the loot you find always is. It's also about wanting to keep going further out, and since I'm doing that, I just open/salvage everything in sight that I come across. :D

[Alucard †]

I'm a total loot goblin in games.
So yes .. yes it is.

The amount of junk i carry and hoard in games like this under the notion "i might need it later / i can probably sell this"

[gabgab01]

i don't really understand the sentiment of "the magazines don't do it for me". those allow you to CRAFT a variety of stuff, even legenedary grade gear, and are the only reason you're even pulled to looting in the first place.
you can mine just about anything else, except for brass, and you can farm food at the base. no need to find a good weapon when you can simply craft one.

and you need 100 magazines to max out a crafting skill, too, so it takes a while to get everything, and excess magazines can be sold to the trader or scrapped

[MiSFiT77]

Looting new buildings fun. Looting buildings I'm fairly familiar with a little bit fun. Looting building I've looted many many times before easy. very easy. not so much fun.

[Midas]

Depends on the loot. I consider opening every container and auto-taking its contents to be a reflex at this point, not something I even consciously do anymore, but I don't consider it 'rewarding' necessarily unless I find something rare and lucky. Usually the reward/fun loot part is the cluster of special containers at the end of a POI.

[Sr Humungus]

Is another feature in the game, like all the others, and if you know how each POI works then you dont need to limit yourself into following a progression, if you have the resources and minimal weapons/tools, can loot nearly every POI you may find.

Why? going for example at day 1 a 4 skulls POI and looting a nice pipe machinegun with some bullets is handsome (like one time i did), no more arrows wasted for a few days into hunting fleeing rabbits.

[Maviba]

Originally posted by Smokie:

I find looting to be so boring, unrewarding, more of a job/chore but also absolutely necessary to progress. Loot is not very useful, repeated same loot over and over and over and over, lacks food and water and med supplies, no clothing loot just cloth and more cloth and more cloth.
Looting is suppose to be rewarding and fun.

I like looting, but it gets annoying once it turns out becoming some sort of grind that's apparently supposed to artificially slow down your progress (I'm looking at you, Valheim).

I also don't like when gamnes make looting 'obsessive' like you'll experience in games like Fallout, were you find the same items over ander over again, turning you into a hoarder.
so i became a bit picky, which makes like much easier.

as for 7D2D it's ok. Some loot is pretty nice, and you get some valuable items pretty soon.

[Corsin]

Looting is fun early game while youre establishing yourself by getting things you need, either to advance or improve or to sell to start the savings.

Later in the game its fun in that on some quests, I am searching for particular things like brass or pipes or whatever so it can be fun to set a goal to look for particular stuff.

I dont do T5 or 6 quests like others have said, POIs too big, use too much ammo and loot/rewards not worth it to me.