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
Why are you disclosing MT secrets? MT cord has been alerted.
Nerf incoming in 5
I always cry inside when I see a marine UBS a door, that’s 5 metal → a cade with barbs
Shit I forgot about doors, thanks for that reminder ill put it as a addendum.
There’s like 130+ doors? A lot of extra metal.
nerf incoming in 5 indeed, but that is preplaned as part of fob rework for months
I am not sure if i am impressed or worri- You even calculated in the ammo?! U-unused attachments? What level of MT are you?
I just wish for one round,you call the MT squad up. Tie the entire mp staff to the chairs and go operation clean sweep.
I want to observe the conversation bravo have when crate after crate get send down.
How many crates would it even be?
Would it lag the server?
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 it’s 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. I’m never doing it again. I loved every second. Every sheet was glee like I was a naughty kid who’d 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 I’ll have rods from fences to weld into steel and even occasionally an autolathe to grant me that big boost of around 1.3x yield… it’s deeply rewarding to know each trick of the trade to wring metal from stone. I adore it. I’ll miss it.
weak effort… you didnt include:
maints barrels etc
chairs & tables
lockers (can be welded while open for 1 metal)
racks
floor tiles
i reckon another few thousand
I did include chairs and tables, racks and some barrels actually!
Although I didn’t 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.
so this is what the MTs have been doing when we call to fix a broken window
The amount of metal you can scavenge groundside is absurd as well (Especially on certain maps, cough cough, Hybrisa and Varadero)
I don’t even bother scrapping barrels at roundstart on the Almayer; I don’t 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 don’t even need to use fences anymore.
You can shoot the windows. You don’t need the glass intact to wrench the frames. Its faster. Its what I do. You may run the risk of friendly-fire, but I’d argue everything does.. just do make sure there isn’t a fuel tank on the otherside- A hazard diamond that looks like this doesn’t 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 don’t even need the supplies! I feel like I’m playing on easy mode or something. Sure, its slightly tedious but I’ve 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 can’t even say I want the FOB rework, in all honesty. Give me thirty minutes and a Bravo Squad that doesn’t wonder off into the great darkness, and I’ll 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! You’re 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 doesn’t 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.
whoever that dafoe guy was has always had fire & banger ideas makes u think huh
wonder what happened to him?
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.
In the horrors of war, you make do.
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 “happened”, 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
Just you wait.