How to get OP Fast | Wasteland 3 Guide

A short walkthrough with tips for how to get overpowered at a very low level -- getting you endgame gear just after leaving Colorado Springs -- with not a ne'er glitch or cheat. The video contains minimal location spoilers with no story details, so is suitable for beginner or veteran rangers. Timestamps:

0:37 Recommended Non-Combat Character Build
1:38 Raise Bartering Skill ASAP in Colorado Springs
2:15 What to do at the Bazaar -- AKA Getting INFINITE MONEY
5:13 Where to buy the best weapons & armor in the game
7:55 Where to find Cheebus -- the best weapon store in the game -- who sells endgame weapons such as the Eliminator sniper rifle, the Jackhammer shotgun, the Man Cannon hand cannon, and more

[lxjoe]

NOTE TO ALL: This has been patched somewhat, antiques appraiser no longer procs on goods you've sold before then bought back. It also no longer procs on scrap

[MrMcFattyfat]

For antique appraisor, instead of going through all the miscelaneous junk, just hold onto all your scrap and trade it back and forth until you get a proc. You dont have to sift through a bunch of different junk items and no save farming is required since its literally impossible to lose money, as it buys and sells for 1$. By proactively looting and field stripping, i was able to have over 10, 000 scrap by the time i finished denver, which nets around $500, 000 per antique collector proc. Obviously this works better the more you have, but it still works well from very early on and its completely risk free. Just buy all your scrap back at the end of each trading session so that you can keep snowballing the money potential.

[Shmooper_Dooper]

The Jackhammer shotgun from Cheebus is amazingly good. Strongest weapon I’ve found in the game so far.

[boriskurik]

This is in patch 1.2 notes:
"Vendors have smartened up and will no longer trigger Antique Appraiser on junk that you’ve repurchased."

There seems to be multiple factors affecting the transactions: Antiques perk, -20% off buying multiple items (for stacks). I have tested Patch 1.4 with a sample of bunch (40-50) of early junk items. I used Barter 10 character with both perks on:

Each loop in the test was as follows: "Sell All Junk" via button. Manually buy all junk back. Record amount of money. Quick save. Quick load. Repeat.
Here are my findings:

Starting Money: $505
After 1st loop: $907
After 2nd loop: $607
After 3rd loop: $1360
After 4th loop: $1294
After 5th loop: $1462

Here are my speculations:
1. It does work.
2. It does not work as it used to: sometimes you will lose money after performing the sell-buy loop. I was surprised to see the dip after 2nd loop, but was able to recreate after 4th loop. This appears to be affected by the change introduced by the patch 1.2 (I guess?)
3. I feel like this method works best when having a lot of stacked items. It's difficult for devs to code around an item in a stack proccing Antiques perk. Also Stacked items buyback gives you solid -20% off the overall cost. Which provides revenue unaffected by Antiques perk

Value of the method in my opinion:
It's somewhat useful. It is however an exploit and can break immersion. I would not recommend for the first playthrough. I would recommend for recurring playthroughs for convenience though


I found that combat is most difficult in the first third of the game. This method can help somewhat. Problem is there's not a lot of good things to buy early on. If you rush Bizaar, you probably would like to complete quests to get -30% discount from Bizaar vendors prior to spending money. Which is a lot of fighting. If you rush map vendors, you will miss out on reputation rewards they provide. This is also unreliable for Tier 6 weapons that your squad actually needs. If you are REALLY struggling and need early gear badly and Bizaar stock can upgrade your whole party, there's a lot of value in this method for you.

If you have a designated vendor character (parked at the base, built for barter and exploration only), then economy is very easy even without this method in the later half of the game. Just sell junk and weapons you don't need and you will not want for money. I use doctor at the HQ as my designated buyer.

I see a lot of value in this method for later game in being able to buy weapons back from the designated buyer. By generating junk revenue you can buy all the weapons you've sold them back and scap them for mod components and scrap items. Linkages are crazy expensive and take 1500-3000 scrap. If you want to play around with elemental damages on different guns, it's one way to do it :D

[StubbsXC]

Love that Castlevania music going in the background

[raversmiracle]

Respect for the Castlevania SotN background music.

[sumdumguy]

on Playstation if you click on a skill book rapidly 3 times i have gotten it to give 2 skills 98% of the time and when the skill was over 6 i have had it just max it out

[NorCalxSoldier]

Been a minute, forgot how awesome and sensual you’re voice is

[aintsam]

Good choice of music in the beginning there. Wandering ghosts by Michiru Yamane

[jasoncampbell]

You dont need to do this in the bizarre specifically right? you can just use the barter trick with scrap/junk at HQ, stack up the cash, and then go adventuring and buy what you need when you get there..?

[dazuk]

I don't bother with barter on lucia i just make a barter toon in base and use it whenever I want to use it.

[mikeburgess]

Last I was playing this game, I remember being at an airport that had some creatures that had over 600 hp iirc. My weapons felt they couldn't deal enough dps before the creatures gotinto melee range. Some of my folks died and I had to walk away from the game. Is there a suggested place that I can reliably grind to level up (and collect loot) for better gear? I don't want God mode, I just want to better hold my own in fights.

[Nyrufa]

Fuck. I just met that merchant earlier this morning, but I was flat broke. Didn't know he was a one time spawn!

[es-edug]

did you give sean bean a strength of 1 so he dies as often as his real life counter part?

[taconinja]

By using the infinite skill point glitch using skill books how much easier will it make a Supreme Jerk playthrough?

[lucasmeohenry]

Still early game (I think), but I tried doing this and it seemed like antique appraiser only fired the first time I sold the junk. Am I missing something?

[AllThings_Gaming-cm]

Hey 👋🏻 league, I know this is a year old, does this method still work ?

[Vagran]

Now that it's been patched, how does scrap selling work?

[teamhebi]

i know this is super old but does this still work i have digital game though

[reversecolin]

i platnumed this game in a week its super easy but relaxing