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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?

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.

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.

waaaaait wait wait wait.

You have to… unlock epic?

I am suddenly flooded with emotions, and not the good kind

Try my mod, Quality Assurance! It moves all the qualities to the Quality Module 1 Technology by default, including modded ones.