Would you ever consider a method of learning how to reverse engineer a blueprint from dismantling? If you dismantled 500 of the exact same gun, you'd probably have figured out how to make it at this point.
Rick PorterDesign Director
There's no plan for that, but part of the upgrading, like learning the next tier of a blueprint, could include missions where you needed to do something like that. We definitely have been talking about that kind of thing. It's one of the two or three main ways of learning how to upgrade your blueprints that we've talked about.
Thorsten LeimannDesigner
We called it research in the CitizenCon presentation, where we also have other steps that you need to take to be able to figure out how to reach the next tier of the item that you own.
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