MavericK
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That would be accurate.
I just haven't found any need for them.
I wish they had built them in as more necessary parts of the game. Outposts seem to have little to no purpose. The only reason for them to exist being to get resources to build more outposts.
I did do some basic research levels in the lodge from my lodge safe storage (which annoyingly enough does not auto-transfer materials, so I had to go back and forth and get what I needed) but only the first level of like three categories, and then I've barely used the output in any modding.
The game is balanced wrong to make modding/research relevant. I can get all the good weapons I need by just looting, so why waste time modding? I can get all the money I need by just looting, selling loot and rewards for completing missions. At this point I have like $875k in the bank in game and nothing I want to do with it, because I already have all the ship parts, weapons and armor I need.
If they had made the game harder, making health supplies rare (so you have to craft to get them) or making good weapons and space suits rare (so you have to craft to get them) I probably would have done it, but as it is, even playing on "very hard" as I am, this has been completely unnecessary.
It's kind of a waste actually. They should have balanced the game better in order to make this stuff necessary for success, because just doing it for the sake of doing it is no fun. That's just going through the motions, and is not why I play games.
Somewhat true, although with some of the mods you can change/add different traits to the weapons to make them fit your skill points better. For instance, adding or removing scopes for Scoped Weapons skills, changing weapons to Semi-auto instead of automatic for the non-automatic skills, etc.
But I agree, even without modding weapons you become overpowered fairly quickly, and with them you just become ridiculous. I ended up boosting the difficulty up to Hard because it was too easy to just one-shot everything.