It feels like we're more like mercenaries than scavengers.

[Yonderwolf]

As the title says .

[Baphomeat]

Depends on the missions you take... if you're working for Scavs the jobs are 'contracts' like a merc would get, and the other factions do use scavs like Mercs...


But at the end of the day what is the core loop of the game, including most contracts?

Go into a region, loot some crap, grab important task items, and leave.

The definition of 'scavenger' is:
a person who searches for and collects discarded items.

Most contracts having us do that... SOME instruct you to kill enemies but even most of the ones involving enemies never say to actually kill them.

Get the pilot: Just says to get her, doesn't say to kill her mech.
Get the drone components: doesn't say to kill the drones but just recover the components.

Most of our jobs are literally use exhibiting the definition of the word scavenger...

But no we are mercs in a sense... we're just not 'soldiers of fortune' we're paid grunts to run into an active warzone.