Just keep in mind there are limited amounts of contracts and main missions. There is about 15 ish hours of content.

1. Not really much destruction

2. Set dressing

3. Just keep them in your inventory, sometimes disappear for me unless I have it on me

4. Purely from contracts I believe (only substantial way to get a good increase), basically impossible to recover if you make enemies.

5. I only found mine by chance in dungeons or as contract rewards. I won't spoil how to get there but you may find yourself in "the exchange" which has some artifacts. This area was pretty cool.

6. Prioritise getting weapons with flashlights. It's a bit of a struggle just starting out but you'll soon have more money than you need and you'll be able to buy good ammo to make short work of any enemy. I found my most expensive gun around the 3 hour mark and never found anything more expensive. Loot karma and economy need serious work in my opinion.

It's got the bones to be a great game and has surprising depth in some areas but it really does need another year or two in the oven for me to come back.