Are "caps" obsolete?

[mwhenry16]

Without even using mods, during the first or 2nd play through for example, I noticed, bright girl that I are, that I really had no use for bottlecaps for the most part. There was so much to sell, so many vendors, and so much to make what I needed from scraps, I rarely had to use caps, I was/am always getting them instead. Are they obsolete? Will there be a bottle cap gun, ala Junkjet? Will there be an economic survival mode making them valuable again? (Disclosure: I have not played survival).

[Bisaflor]

yes but no

 

u need some to build ur own trade posts and ... and ... dunno

i buy ammo and loads of junk from vendors thats all

 

so they arent that "usefull"

[Fatalmasterpiece]

In Survival I find caps very useful mostly to buy junk and shipments of parts since you cannot carry nearly as much salvage on your back. Also I haven't taken the Scrounger perk, so I often need to buy ammo. Scrounger does essentially make caps a lot less useful though.

[TeamBacon]

I pretty much just use ammo as a currency.

[TheOriginalEvilD]

I almost never "buy" anything, I trade the loot I picked up on the way there for whatever I need, and usually leave the transaction with more caps than I started with. But, you do need caps for some building, like vendor stalls.

[Boombro]

I pretty much just use ammo as a currency.

Happy to see another metro 2033 player.

[minngarm]

You only need them to purchase the high end gear and weapons from vendors, the legendaries that cost 20k+

[padraigsh]

If a person has nearly all settlements, all connected, bottlecaps will just fill gaps (like I have this fusion core vanishing thing when I have had around 100 of them), but for upgrading stores, they're needed.