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

Is the Gauss minigun good?
Let me recap the first thought I had while testing it:

"Mommy! I am scared."

Seriously WTF. That thing has the legendary mods "assplosive" AND "furryious" already built in. Enemies splatter apart.. well actually how they should when hit with a minigun. It's pretty frightening at times how easy you go through them.
And ammo isn't as bad as all the whiners constantly say. Sure, 5 lead and 15 steel for a meager 27 shots (which equals to 1 second of fun) is not much, but it does not need gunpowder. Anyone wants to buy 600 acid? I might kinda sorta not need it anymore.

10/10, would cheat grind to get again.

 

Where are you getting all that steel?

 

I have something like 35k steel from scrapping weapons

 

Right, but you implied upthread that you're melee exclusive.

 

The uranium fever event is a good way to get weapons to scrap, btw. There's a weapons bench right outside of the area it happens in to scrap things.

 

'dexi is a professional looter. Strips corpses down in 0.5 seconds flat.
Well, in FO4 she could, including clothes.

But seriously, it's just looting weapons/armor and picking up everything remotely steel-ish, using a silenced 10mm to save the good ammo. Especially low areas you can quickly breeze through, like Camden park.
A quick round around "Top of the world" takes 15 mins or so. 20-30 scorched/molemen, weapons lying around, pencils/weights for lead and ski sticks for aluminium. Some plans from the raider market street as bonus.
If I have another 15 I do a speedrun of West-Tek. After a few times you know exactly where every mutant stands and can do it with your eyes closed.
And if I reallllllly need lead I go to the Lucky Hole mine. Tell the interloper I said "hi".
Also half of my ammo comes from super duper I guess.

Just be a team player and only tag the supervisors and inform the others to do that too. Everyone is there for the extra legendaries to scrip after all.

Funfact: apparently I blew through 15k fiddycal ammo when I played through the DLC. While counting the 2mm EC ammo I noticed 'dexi carries 3 50cals around.. but only 500 shots of ammo. WTF?

 

Someone asked in chat why they didn't nuke whitesprings, someone else said maybe they just missed. It reminded me of my (very old) professor I had in a university mathematics class and a one-off story he talked about during class. He worked for the pentagon at one point during the cold war, we had nukes accidentally aimed directly at norway because the calculations didn't factor in the rotation of the earth

No idea if it was true, but the guy never made anything else up so I'd assume it was.

 

"Accidently". Their flag is red. Them there fkn commies can't fool 'murica.

 

Game's free-to-play until the 18th.

https://www.pcgamer.com/play-fallout-76-for-free-this-weekend/

 

Good time for people to try it out for those that doubted me.

 

I have so many crap legendaries that I have alts with crap legendaries just to get scrip

 

Are people playing this unironically? Did the new expansion really fix a lot?

 

It's free for the weekend so just download it and try it out.

 

Don do it people, protect your braincells they are precious...

 

Yeah, people on the codex tend to prefer to let others tell them if something is good rather than deciding for themselves.

 

It gives the player just enough motivation to play and do something in the world and their world is pretty good actually, the main problem for FO76 (aside from the bugs and technical issues) was that the content, while some of it was fun, felt directionless.

With human NPCs and a more solid grip on the narrative, the game finally feels good to play, if a player comes from playing Fallout 4, FO76 feels way better with its dialogue and choices, its does not reach New Vegas standards but it tries to and i place it well above FO3 and FO4.

I wish that NoClip will some day do a documentary to show the work behind the scenes of Wastelanders, because the amount of work they had to do to try to fix this shit i guess is pretty huge.

 

You need 2 modules to craft a legendary, thats 100 scrip per attempt. Since 3* is not guaranteed, you are looking at 60-95 loss for each nocturnal crap you make. The 150 scrip limit per day does the rest.
'dexi has 3 semi good gauss miniguns I cannot give to others without exploits. Only scripfood. Sad.

 

Oh and I tested the steel situation yesterday, FOR SCIENCE!
Got 600+ from a quick visit to West-Tek, plus lead. Ended up with almost 1000 2mm EC from it, so its still a decent source.
WT, because Soopamootants often use assault rifles, which give 19 or so steel with scrapper.
Do huntersville as well when you are in the area, and the steak house for good measure.
Only problem is hauling it back.

WT has a tinkerbench tho.

 

So the 'main character' of FO76 is

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the overseer

, right?

 

The content and build variety is far superior to either Fallout 3 or 4 but the gameplay is janky and not in a good or fun way, the guns feel like peashooters, the tech is dated about 15 years and the performance is terrible. If it were a little more competent in those respects 76 could've been one of my favorite games because I love wandering around and completing public events in a comfy map like Appalachia.

If they ever do a TES:76 I would be very interested but they really need to drop that shitty engine that's holding everything back.

 

Outside of a couple areas the game runs good for me and I'm not even on windows.

 

Moar DLC:



Oh and guess what, BOS are back!

Well of course they are cos Bethesda is creatively bankrupt.

 

So, what are the top criteria to use when choosing a C.A.M.P. location?

 

The game has no paid DLC.

The BoS were already a major part of the storyline.

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It was blatantly obvious that they would return if you follow the list of names -- a few of them are never accounted for.

 

Choosing a non-popular spot so that you don't have to find a new server when someone else has your spot.