System Shock Remake: What is the Scrap for? System Shock Remake guide, tips
Do you have a lot of scrap metal lying around in your inventory? On this site you will learn how to use it, how to use the Recycling Station, how to recycle junk.
Last update: 31 May 2023
While traveling through the corridors of the Citadel space station, you will surely come across many items that are not useful to you. This seemingly useless junk can be turned into scrap. This, in turn, will come in handy when you come across a Recycle Station.
How to identify and recycle junk into scrap?
Some of the items you will pick up will be categorized as junk.
These items, in their present form, have no functional use and they can quickly fill up the inventory.
To get rid of unnecessary items from your equipment, you can turn them into scrap. To do this, in the inventory window, select the junk you are interested in, and then right-click.
In the context menu, select Vaporize. The item will then disappear from the inventory, and in return you will receive a certain amount of scrap units. You can learn about the amount of scrap you receive by dismantling a specific junk by selecting the item, and then looking at the table on the right side of the screen.
The scrap occupies only 1 slot in the inventory and can be stacked. This means that vaporizing the collected junk on a regular basis can help you avoid a problem of overloading the inventory.
How to use a Recycle Station?
Recycle Stations are special places where the collected scrap can be converted into Tri-Credits. You can spend them on, e.g. healing items in vending machines scattered around the station.
It is worth noting here that the Stations process not only the scrap itself, but also junk-items. While most of them are worthless (the value of the" recycled " item is visible in the table on the right side of the equipment), elements such as electronics or medical materials can be recycled for a significant amount of credits.
This type of junk is therefore worth processing individually, because the amount of credits you get for processing them at the Recycle Stations far outweighs their value after turning them into scrap.
To use the Recycle Station:
- click on it with right-click,
- on the screen, choose the items you are interested in and the scrap,
- drag them to the fields on the left side the inventory (pressing the SHIFT key and clicking the left mouse button on the selected item will automatically move it to the station).
After depositing all items, you can safely leave the inventory screen, and then right-click the pulsing green button at the top of the station.
The process takes a few seconds, after which you will receive credits from the tank on the right side of the device. Credits are physical objects in the game world and, like scrap, stack up and occupy only 1 slot in the inventory.
Processed scrap is worth 1 credit for every 10 units. What's important - a Recycle Station doesn't give any change. This means more or less that they round the payment down and deposit the incomplete stack of 10 scrap units. Since the collected scrap cannot be divided into smaller stacks in the equipment, scrap in the station is processed when you collect an equal number of scrap units.