Field Stripping

[sn4cksONsn4cks]

Is there a way to field strip multiple things at once?

[Radiac]

Not that I know of.

Field Stripping used to be "not worth it", before the 1.4 patch, and I'm not sure if the patch really changed anything. Before, the scrap you got was basically just a different form of money, and you got less of it than what you'd get in cash for selling the gun. Scrap can now be used to make stuff, but the amounts you get from field stripping aren't that great, even with the Perks. Also, the mods you got were meh then and they're meh now. At this point, you'd ostensibly want to strip a gun to try to get a mod that you can upgrade into a better one, but those mods are not terribly hard to find otherwise. Probably the most desirable gun mod to get would be a 21, 32, or 38mm Mag Scope, but those don't drop from field stripping at all, from what I can tell (they didn't before the patch and still don't, AFAIK). Also, there are items which USED to be $22 Junk items, and as such might have gotten you $880 from an Antiques Appraiser hits. Those items are now classified as "Crafting Components" and not "Junk", so I assume that you cannot get Antiques Appraiser to proc on those anymore, but I don't know (didn't test it). Since you presumably don't get that money from those items anymore, selling old guns for cash is now that much more appealing.

Is there, anywhere in the game, a recipe for making a 21mm Mag Scope out of just scrap and other stuff? What about a Shortened Barrel, Quickfire Mag, or Farsight Scope? I haven't found any. There is a recipe for making a Wide Spectrum Light, and for the various Linkages. Plus there are some new things since before the patch.

[rhony2]

Originally posted by Radiac:

Is there, anywhere in the game, a recipe for making a 21mm Mag Scope out of just scrap and other stuff? What about a Shortened Barrel, Quickfire Mag, or Farsight Scope? I haven't found any. There is a recipe for making a Wide Spectrum Light, and for the various Linkages. Plus there are some new things since before the patch.

There are recipes for the Shortened Barrel (Snowed Inn), Quickfire Mag (Yuma after Liberty so real late) and Farsight Scope (Scar Collectors Mine) according to a post on the inXile forums.

https://forums.inxile-entertainment.com/viewtopic.php?f=75&t=22849&p=215833#p215833

Based on the post, it looks like a lot of what used to be unique items now have recipes. But a 21mm Mag Scope isn't unique even though it doesn't seem to drop as a random item like pretty much all the other weapon mods. I assume the end result is you want more 38mm scopes. I just finished Denver and did all the side missions not just at the main sites but also at the optional sites and after upgrading everything to 38mm, I have managed to get 6. It would be nice to have more.