Scavenging

[RasaNova]

I'm a little confused about how scavenging works, including the bonuses and double scavenge chance.

I know scavenging is used for the loot piles around the camp, and it also speeds up unlocking/searching cages or crates on the world map. Is that it? Is there any point for it once the camp piles have been cleared, or does it also affect the rewards from clearing locations away from home? If so, is it automatic or only if a specific person performs the loot action on a crate? (I've just been clearing enemies.)

[listless]

The ritual and research bonuses for scavenging work for any taskforce during autoresolve, but I'm not sure if a survivor's personal double scavenging chance applies to the whole taskforce, or if he/she has to personally open a crate - do six survivors with a double scavenge chance increase the probability by 30% in an autoresolved battle?

A high scavenging bonus is also very helpful in the final mission depending on which objective you choose. And it's useful for trying to scavenge rare items and resources from difficult locations when you can't fight for them.

The double bonus works for any item or resource scavenged at any location - giving you a chance at twice as many rare resources or two rare weapons instead of one.

[Suncrash]

I can't say for sure if a survivors extra scavenge chance is taken into account when auto resolving, but if I recall correctly, it does use the one with the highest chance. Bonuses from different survivors definitely don't stack.

As for scavenging skill, it's useful for both scavenging boxes (how long it takes) and rescuing survivors, but of course only if the survivor with the skill is performing the action. Faster rescuing can reduce the amount of enemies encountered in later rescue missions significantly and can make rescuing survivors much easier and less risky. Warmly recommended in any rescue mission.

[Mastermind]

I haven't plauyed much yet, but so far, I don't think this work for autoresolve or if you "win" the fight without scavenging the boxes.

For example, I never, ever had a 2x Olympic bow/arquebuse/Leather jacket or even Research Material by clearing the enemies/autoresolve. But I've got plenty of those by manually scavenging. Actually, I thought those were excluded from the 2x scavenging bonus until I tried to manually scavenge boxes.

So yeah... it definitely reduce the value of the 2x scavenging bonus... But now I do try to loot boxes manually when it has a "?" or rare items (Research material, Research kits, etc) on a map

[Blinkicide]

Can confirm, you can get double loot with the 5% chance from rank 4 gathering when auto resolving. Took a lot of save scumming to test, but got it to fire without any other buffs (e.g. no luck ritual or scavenging researched). Can also confirm it can fire on rare items like research books.