Yup agreed as well. Especially when you are starting from level 1 again and dont have much resources, you will need to deconstruct to get the resources for an upgrade. There was once I forgot, went ahead and deconstructed a bunch of other armor and couldnt swap it out, man that was frustrating... Constructed another suit that I didnt want, wore it, deconstruct the current one, made the new one then swap out and deconstruct the temp one. So annoying.
Perhaps bioware have a construction mechanism that give the option of using your previous armor as a base to add on for the improvement. So for example if you need 100 units of platinum for construction, the previous one will have 80 if deconstructed, all you need now is the excess 20. Augs will automatically go back to the inventory. Since you cant construct weapons or armor for your squad, it just doesnt make sense to keep the lower version.
I'll admit this crafting system is a bit of a mystery to me still. I wondered if there was a way to retrieve augments or even just deconstruct crafted items at all cause so far I hadn't run into it and the game doesn't really explain these things very clearly or I missed something.
Since I've only played on normal difficulty I haven't really been in trouble because of it, so it's more that it's an annoyance for me.
Anyone have any suggestions about a good source of info about this stuff?
@EgoMania wrote:
I'll admit this crafting system is a bit of a mystery to me still. I wondered if there was a way to retrieve augments or even just deconstruct crafted items at all cause so far I hadn't run into it and the game doesn't really explain these things very clearly or I missed something.
Since I've only played on normal difficulty I haven't really been in trouble because of it, so it's more that it's an annoyance for me.
Anyone have any suggestions about a good source of info about this stuff?
Yup if you deconstruct your weapons and armor, all your augs and mods will be back in your inventory, DONT sell them though, if you sell your weapon, you sell all attached augs.
@VladVonCastein wrote:
@EgoMania wrote:
I'll admit this crafting system is a bit of a mystery to me still. I wondered if there was a way to retrieve augments or even just deconstruct crafted items at all cause so far I hadn't run into it and the game doesn't really explain these things very clearly or I missed something.
Since I've only played on normal difficulty I haven't really been in trouble because of it, so it's more that it's an annoyance for me.
Anyone have any suggestions about a good source of info about this stuff?
Yup if you deconstruct your weapons and armor, all your augs and mods will be back in your inventory, DONT sell them though, if you sell your weapon, you sell all attached augs.
It's worse than you think. I don't even know how to deconstruct something beyond the option you get when picking up loot. (Hides in shame)
I could have sworn that you can unequip your helmet, as the gameplay setting for helmets has "as equipped" as an option. So you only *need* an extra chest option. And it's easy to craft a basic Tier 1 item. I think you have to have a melee weapon and one weapon, but that's it. My current loadout is a machinegun pistol, two rifles and a shotgun. Because that N7 shotgun is brutal.
