Fallout 4 Machinery is Broken

Описание: In New Vegas the workbenches are very strong, specifically the Ammo Bench which lets you breakdown and handload ammo. With the right skills/perks/materials you can make some specialist ammo that overperforms other types and convert junk rounds into match grade. While quite powerful, it works exactly as intended.

In FO4 they added a DLC that lets you build factory presses to build and recycle weapons/armor/ammo/etc. This just does not work and was clearly untested. In this video I demonstrate just how jank and busted this mess really is.

In NV when you Breakdown ammo you get the exact ingredients needed to make said ammo, and you need those specific ingredients to make the ammo (You can't make 5.56 rounds without 5.56 cases and primers). In FO4 you use generic scrap to make scores of ammo, 2 steel and 1 fertilizer makes 10 5mm rounds. This means once you get a press made you are SWIMMING in ammo (As if you aren't already though to be fair).

However it gets really broken when you use the Recyclers. Unlike in NV when you Recycle something you do not get what it takes to build it. In this video I demonstrate the weapon+mod recyclers give you more than you get just scrapping it at a workbench, and I show that the Ammo Recycler is even more absurd as it not only doesn't give you exactly what you put in it gives you MORE than what you put in (Including materials not used in any ammo production).