Fallout 76 - online Fallout spinoff from Bethesda - now on Steam with Wastelanders NPC expansion

I may or may not have abused Bethesda's abysmal coding skills to check the daily rep gain FOR SCIENCE, and... DAFUQ is Bethesda seriously expecting people to do the same dailies for the next 6 months? That bar is barely moving each time.

 

Also little funfact to show how far ahead Bethesda plans. Or not.

Remember that legendary mask you could get from the early quest? Making it, and only that thing, a 6th armor piece? Bethesda realized that it is now the "best in slot" item for player's heads. And since they swore to only sell cosmetic items without stats in the cash shop... nobody will ever buy any headwear anymore!
Solution: mask gets retroactively downgraded to a clothing item without stats for everyone.

 

Yay, I didn't get that mask !

 

I'm enjoying the whining of retards who thought the only non-power armor headpiece in the game with stats or legendary effects wasn't a bug and wouldn't be fixed. Apparently retards actually spent irl money on this shit.

 

Don't take my word for it, since I don't really own consoles, but:


https://www.vg247.com/2019/04/12/skyrim-best-mods-ps4-xbox-one/

https://www.windowscentral.com/best-xbox-one-fallout-4-mods


It seems that you are not just limited to creation club useless shit.

Ah! If we are talking about purely about their "raw" state, then I can't say much, Skyrim was my last attempt at playing a "raw" Bethesda game, after not being able to finish multiple quests, including the main one due shitty ass bugs I just said... fuck it.

 

Isn't (wasn't) there even a size limitation for a single mod on consoles? I remember yuge drama back then, because popular modders bloated their mods beyond that threshold on purpose, just so it could not be run on consoles.

 

I'm running out of steel from blasting shit with high ROF weapons. (.50 cal)

Is there an easy way to farm steel at lvl 51?

 

So which is it? A stupidly dumb bug or a change made after the fact with money in mind?

 

You seriously think Bethesda would bother to fix a "stupidly dumb bug" after several weeks?

The only bugs Beth ever fixes are "achievments on consoles not working properly, microsoft/sony is writing angry letters again" and anything related to the cash shop.

 

high ROF weapons. (.50 cal)
high ROF weapons. (.50 cal)
high ROF weapons. (.50 cal)


You have seen nothing yet son. The fiddycal has the bestest ammo efficiency out of the automatic weapons. Gatling does not count, it's a fucking hipster weapon used by exploiters.

Do the classic ammo grind (TM).
Scrap weapons with scrapper perk for steel. Popular spots are West-Tek or the steak house. XP and legendaries are a bawnus.
Since you also need lead, I would recommend trying the "Lucky Hole" mine first. IIRC it's now populated by cultists (with guns), so you get kill two birds with one stone. Don't forget to wear the Excavator to get 4 times the lead per vein.

Also slot Ammo smith AND super duper when making the bullets.

 

This one could count as related to the cash shop, if people ended up buying less cosmetics because of it.

 

Both.
It's an obvious bug, anyone who has used the creation kit to create items knows that it was simply a misclick.

 

Yeah, it was most likely a typical bug they didn't give 0.5 fucks about... but then realized people won't buy nice hats anymore. And when the "atom shop sense" tingles, no effort is spared to fix it.

Because... seriously, they "fix" it RETROACTIVELY. They claimed for whatnotlong they could not "fix" the duped arsenal of explosive energy weapons.. but as soon as they might make less money they suddently can? Okaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay...

 

To be fair, fixing the hat is just ticking a button and updating the esm.

 

When you have 10 mins to spare, log in and Wanda slaps weeks worth of unused RNGesus credit in your face.

 

How do you guys keep track of when stuff like the following resets?

1. Legendary Exchange Machines
2. Faction Daily Quests
3. Farmable locations with plans
4. Can chimes

 

I just check them the first time I login for a day.
The reset counter for things like caps or scrip starts the moment you sell anything, so if you don't have anything on you just sell a 1 cap item or something to get the timer started

 

20-24 hours is always a safe bet for everything. Wanda (any ally I guess) is wonky tho, one day I could cycle through 3 allies and got 3, some other day I got nuzzink even after over 30 hours....

1. Caps and Legendary resets 20 hours after you sold anything.
2. Faction "dailies" are considered "repeatables" and reset at 8 AM EST. And it's buggy, the servers do not sync the settler daily during the first 20 mins it seems. So you could hop servers and do it several times it seems. Only FOR SCIENCE of course.
Normal dailies reset after 22 hours apparently, because... coding in random numbers makes it seem you thought about it I guess?

3. Server plans only have chance to spawn if a new player enter the area, always switch servers to be sure.
4. Also a public loot spawn, hop server to check

Containers are a special case, you have to fill your internal "recently opened" list before they respawn. It's something like 60 containers and 180 "picked up items" for world items. To prevent server hopping.

 

Is FO76 worth 15 eurobucks by now?
On one hand I kinda want to get it to go dick around in the world, but on the other hand any time I open up any thread on any forum about FO76, people are always talking about grinding. How bad is it?

 

Yes.

There is no grind except the daily reputation they put in with Wastelanders. And that only if you want a gauss minigun.
The plasma caster is cheaper and available without reputation. Hint: it's crap. Sad.
You can trade in 20 of the new currency per day, getting 9 from the dailies. 2-3 from events. "Grind"..

Aside from that people call "grind" their hunt for "mY mEtA bEsT iN sLoT wEaPoN/aRmOr!"
And since only hackers play PvP, there is nothing you need that for except jerking off to numbers.

 

If you are not interested in super high end game builds you really dont need to grind anything.

The only time i felt like if i was grinding was when i reached level 10~15 and ended the Wastelanders content "part 1", to start "part 2" you need to be level 20. I had to play though the vanilla content of FO76 and while it wasn't that bad, it feels like you have a moment of "where do i go what do i do" and if you grab a quest that doesn't hook you up, then you will feel it like a grind.

 

That's when I just started traveling around doing my own thing and visiting random locations tbh. Felt like the beginner Wastelanders quest prepared me to be able to survive on my own in appalachia.

 

Slowly went through the entirety of Morgantown to find every holotape and note. Took hours, found 28 in total. Did my typical trick of dropping cheap items(I bring corn/tatos grown from my camp) to remind myself if I've cleared a location or not.

One thing FO76 is sorely missing is a local map feature. No idea why they removed it.

 

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"You're talking ABOUT A GAME in a thread about said game?! How dare you!"
just fucking ignore the thread