The itemization is terrible in this game. CDPR obviously didn't learn any lessons from TW3. I think it's even worse here. There's way too much loot everywhere, and it's no challenge whatsoever to acquire tons of weapons and ammo.
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Loot systems have never been a strong point for CDPR, but it's sad that they don't seem to be getting better at them.
How about no.
Use the crafting route.
When you hit the overburden state:
1. Keep only the best items on you, the rest of them sell till you get two perks in the next step, but always store equipment with purple or gold mods in your apartment
2. Make sure to unlock same quality while disassembling and automatic junk dissasembling perks as soon as posible
3. Continue selling white and green equipment but destroy others for parts
4. Remember step #1 purple/gold mods on equipment you stored? Well, you'll disassemble those when you get the perk that allows you keeping those mods.
Stop hoarding. This is not Skyrim.
On a question isn't it better to sell then buy mats, maybe it is, I don't know. But your craftsmanship levels up not only on crafting new weapons but also on disassembling.
You say ammo? What ammo? I'm melee most of the time.
Grenades? I have yet to use any. Those can't help when I'm stealthing a mission.
In other words I had no gripes with TW3 loot, and I don't have any here either.
Why? Because I want something different from cliches in RPGs and I got it.
Adapt to it if you can, if you can't the problem is not with the game.
reducing crowd density gets me 10-20 fps depending on the scene
This has no effect on my performance. Could help xbox users though…
However, seems that it's not applied on vehicles, but vehicles use the minimum setting. I see many cars on a street in distance, but they vanish when I get closer. Check yourself in badlands where you can see distant streets (daytime).
every enemy actually drops a gun so it doesn't magically disappear somewhere as in most games.
No. Some drop melee weapons, some drop parts and grenades only (robots), some drop nothing as they didn't have a weapon but would use fists or mantis blades.
But in general this is true, weapons don't disappear magically.