[2.0.11] Locked advanced qualities confusion

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[2.0.11] Locked advanced qualities confusion

Post by pyte »

I have base quality unlocked, but not epic or legendary. I didn't realize epic and legendary were not unlocked with all the rest, so I just spent a bunch of time trying to assemble epic/legendary stuff. Only after staring at my setup for ages wondering why I wasn't getting anything but blue did I stumble upon a web search talking about the advanced quality tech tree stuff I didn't have.

I get why you are allowed to select high quality recipes and filters ahead of the unlock, but the game is currently far too silent on the issue. I nearly put this in the suggestions forum, except how hard I ran face first into this feels like it's tipping into bug territory.

Suggestions:
  • Advanced quality tech gating should be mentioned in more places. The only place I see in the game currently are the advanced tech nodes. It definitely should be mentioned in the quality tutorial.
  • The table in the "Quality" -> "Quality probabilities" Tips and Tricks should not imply you can get epic and legendary rolls unconditionally.
  • Quality filters/recipes should have some sort of warning in the UI when you're using a filter/recipe for a quality you haven't unlocked.
  • Perhaps entirely hide locked qualities by default, with a setting akin to the "Show all items in the selection lists" setting. Actually... maybe that setting should also just govern this?
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Re: [2.0.11] Locked advanced qualities confusion

Post by myridium »

Agreed. This confused me as well. It's a very minor thing in my opinion, but it would improve the game to clarify in tooltips etc. that those higher quality levels are locked off.
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Re: [2.0.11] Locked advanced qualities confusion

Post by NOiZE »

Also agreed, i was tying so hard to get an EPIC item haha.

I would suggest that when choosing the quality filter, the epic/legendary ones are greyed out, until you have unlocked them.
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Re: [2.0.11] Locked advanced qualities confusion

Post by cellularmitosis »

waaaaait wait wait wait.

You have to… unlock epic?

I am suddenly flooded with emotions, and not the good kind :o
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Re: [2.0.11] Locked advanced qualities confusion

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Try my mod, Quality Assurance! It moves all the qualities to the Quality Module 1 Technology by default, including modded ones.
Creator of multiple mods, including Quality Assurance - My most popular one.
Go check them out with the first and second links!
I'll probably be wanting or giving help with modding most of the time I spend here on the forum.
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Re: [2.0.11] Locked advanced qualities confusion

Post by Hares »

+1 on that. I read articles & studied research tree, so it was not surprise for me, but there are people for whom it was. See "not a bug reports", like 123961: [2.0.23] Quality Production
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