I claim to be the first person to know how much metal you can scrap from the Alyamar and give a relatively definitive answer,
Its about 10,820 pieces of metal, with my 10% of margin of error I given myself. This does not include floor tiles, which can add another few extra thousand tiles easily. I am not counting that shit by hand, I already did it for everything else
There is so, so much scavenging to be done for the utterly motivated man or woman of the USCM accessible by even a Rifleman that itās insane. I recall a Henry Marshall QM round where he had me as CT click somewhere between 1-2 thousand times to create like 300 metal out of spare guns and empty magazines.
Absolutely fucking deranged. Iām never doing it again. I loved every second. Every sheet was glee like I was a naughty kid whoād stuck her hand in the fucking cookie jar and gotten away with it. A lot of scavenging is like that- tearing up a stack of metal from a building and having not even gotten into the weeds with it is so good.
Shit like going to LV, or Trijent, knowing Iāll have rods from fences to weld into steel and even occasionally an autolathe to grant me that big boost of around 1.3x yield⦠itās deeply rewarding to know each trick of the trade to wring metal from stone. I adore it. Iāll miss it.
I did include chairs and tables, racks and some barrels actually!
Although I didnāt include lockers too, I forgot you can even scrap those! Floor tiles I am not fucking counting lmao but I did acknowledge in the sheet.
The closer, more accurate answer is around 15,000 pieces of metal to be fair which was reflected in the sheet, but 10,820 was the amount I counted personally with a 10% margin of error.
The amount of metal you can scavenge groundside is absurd as well (Especially on certain maps, cough cough, Hybrisa and Varadero)
I donāt even bother scrapping barrels at roundstart on the Almayer; I donāt need to anymore.
Machine frames are worth five metal, every door is worth five metal, every window frame is worth two, even those stupid fucking railings that keep killing people? Two metal. I donāt even need to use fences anymore.
SECRET SCAVENGING TIP
You can shoot the windows. You donāt need the glass intact to wrench the frames. Its faster. Its what I do. You may run the risk of friendly-fire, but Iād argue everything does.. just do make sure there isnāt a fuel tank on the otherside- A hazard diamond that looks like this doesnāt mix well with anything in the Colonial Marine Corps arsenal.
I keep getting gifted metal by synthetics because they see me building fortifications that would give Fort Knox a run for its money, but I donāt even need the supplies! I feel like Iām playing on easy mode or something. Sure, its slightly tedious but Iāve long since learnt to turn off my brain and listen to The Myth of Sisyphus audiobook by Albert Camus.. The struggle to build a good FOB is enough to fill a Combat Technicians heart.. One must imagine a Combat Technician happy..
I canāt even say I want the FOB rework, in all honesty. Give me thirty minutes and a Bravo Squad that doesnāt wonder off into the great darkness, and Iāll rework the FOB for you, damnit!
P.S. I despise you, XM51 user! That airlock was worth FIVE metal!!! That reinforced wall was worth 2.25 metal! Youāre decimating, no, OBLITERATING the cargo budget, damnit!!!
if marines like dismantling the ship for more cadehugging supplies they should ram it into the colony to make extraction easier - saves on dropship fuel
Funny enough Dafoe had this idea that a CO / XO can delta alert and either crash Almayer onto the planet or dropships as a do or die scenario; you either win on ground or you lose regardless. No evac.
It doesnāt make sense from a broader IC perspective (what kinda commander would cut off their retreat back to Chinook this desperately?) but the rule of cool means why the fuck not.
I still find it so incredible NRP to deconstruct your own ship, for FOB defences. To build a makeshift barricade on some god forsaken colony. Imagine the USS Wisconsin had people welding off floors, walls and other shit to build more defences at the north korean border. It is absurd.
Except there has been nobody mad enough to do said thing. Nobody in their right mind would sacrefise ship stability, to hold 50 square meters of land. The only time it has āhappenedā, is if the ship is already crashed or similar.
It is litterary a pure gameplay mechanic, which will hopefully be removed through the FOB and cade update. Making two different metals or so.
This fluctuates when accounting for onsite crates and auto lathe conversion of tools and other metallic based materials. Also ive had a round where basically the whole lower deck was almost completely salvaged save for engineering, and medbay. Heck you could walk straight too the ob and aa guns without obstacle