**** Official Fallout 76 Thread ****

VincentHanna said:
As somebody whose least favourite thing from Fallout 4 is building camps, is there any other reason to enjoy this? I know this could change once the wastelanders update is out.
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Building camps is mostly irrelevant in FO76. If it was your least favourite thing in FO4, that aspect of FO76 will suit you.

It's true that some players do manage to make some nice small camps in FO76 despite the building system being worse than vanilla FO4 and the building budget being so small that a small shed with lighting and signage will fill the building budget. People improvise parts of the gameworld as camp structure to eke out the ludicrously small budget.

If you want to make camp building as small a part of your game as possible, my suggestion for the very early game would be to make a "camp on a stick" sort of thing because while it's utterly unrealistic it simplifies things.

1) Pick any vaguely flat area in the forest zone (the zone where you start) that isn't close to a location that routinely spawns mobs. Just not being near any marked, named location will do well enough. Having a river nearby will be of some use so you can conveniently fetch water to boil and use to drink or make soups.
2) Plop your camp building down to claim that bit of land. Place one "floor" section (which is actually a foundation).
3) Place a stair section on one edge of the foundation piece, pointing away from it. Or maybe 2 or more stair sections, depending on my much height you need/want.
4) Go up the stairway and place some actual floor pieces in mid-air, "anchored" to the top of the stairway.
5) Place a stash box and workstations on those floor pieces.
6) Go back down and build some stuff around the foundation piece. Concrete barrier sections from the defences submenu are best, but many things will do. The idea is just to make it necessary to jump in order to get to the bottom of the stairs. You can jump. Mobs can't.
7) Plop a couple of turrets down on the foundation piece. Or the barrier around it. Anywhere around there will do. Maybe at the corners of your miraculously floating floor as well, if you like.

Job done, no need to bother with anything more. The barrier sections will stop any mobs getting to your camp. The turrets will probably kill any mobs that come near or which use ranged attacks. You'll have workstations conveniently available to you in one place for crafting, repairing and cooking in safety and you'll have a fast travel location you can use for free.

Once you level enough to be able to safely gain access to the Whitespring resort, you no longer need a camp at all for anything other than a free fast travel point (which will probably be mostly irrelevant by then anyway - fast travel isn't that expensive). Inside the main building on the ground floor shopping area is a big room called "Artisan's Corner" which contains all the workstations and which is absolutely safe unless you attack the Whitespring robots (and then only dangerous until you hop server).
 
Servers are now down for maintenance. Looks like they're expecting them to be back around 1-2pm.
Via the Bethesda launcher, the update is available for download. A cool 48GB, just kicked mine off.
 
Yep 48GB if you already have the Bethesda.net version installed as some of the data files are re-used & they also recompressed the texture packs. Launch time is expected to be around 1PM so about 3 hours away whether or not the servers are online & available then is another matter as Bethesda typically underpay for their AWS cloud which means expect a lot of server disconnects :rolleyes:
 
Launch time is 12 hours away for me :(

The status bar on the launcher currently reads "Downloading 432.15 MB/48.21 GB @1.15 MB/sec 11 hrs 44 min remaining"

It started at 11 hours 56 minutes. That download rate is maxxed out on my connection here in the wretched hive of scum and villainy where I live. The tin cans and pieces of string that connect my home to the internet won't allow any faster. So it's almost 12 hours if I don't use the net for anything else in the meantime. I was intending to switch to Virgin, who can supply my house with much faster internet access, but that's not an option at the moment. I'd got around to buying proper email addresses (with Protonmail) so I could shift away from my TalkTalk email addresses, but no further.

Videos and offline games also have an issue for me today because I always use headphones out of consideration for my neighbour. Amazon usefully informed me that it will be delivering the rest of my order in 3 seperate deliveries at various unspecified points in time before 2100 today. So that's a 12 hour window in which I need to be able to hear the outside world.
 
Just to check other than extra launcher no real.nesgatives of buying now and being stuck with B launcher instead of steam is there please ?

Annoyed as was 5.99 and now 9.99 but still cheap
 
AWPC said:
@Angilion
Lots of reading for you here then in that time ;) almost 1000 fixes & many other pieces of info. Just waiting for the launch in about 2.5 hours now!
https://fallout.bethesda.net/en/art...ut-76-wastelanders-update-notes-april-14-2020
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I read those earlier.

While I was showering, the update autopaused because the launcher stopped connecting to the server. Sometimes when I'm using a UK server with my VPN, internet connection stops. Rarely and only when I'm using a UK server, but it happens sometimes. So I switched servers on my VPN...which of course temporarily dropped the VPN connection...which activated the kill switch and immediately closed the Bethesda launcher. Which, when reloaded, started again from zero bytes downloaded. It took me a couple of minutes to notice that the total to be downloaded was lower, so it had effectively resumed rather than restarting. Phew!

Buckster said:
Just to check other than extra launcher no real.nesgatives of buying now and being stuck with B launcher instead of steam is there please ?

Annoyed as was 5.99 and now 9.99 but still cheap
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Presumably Bethesda will be spying on you through their launcher since that's part of the purpose of most launchers. But it does work properly. I much prefer Steam's launcher UI, but maybe that's just because I'm used to it. Bethesda's launcher UI is certainly fine for at least a few games. If you've just got FO76 through it, no problem on that score.
 
I booted up with a 3600 and nav 5700xt and.... I get a total of 11 frames... a second. What kind of launch is this? lol

Finally got it working, I have to use fullscreen to get 55fps...

Game looks like its running 1080p when its set to 1440p.

FPS drops to like 20fps random places.

Really don't see me playing this ever sadly

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Best thing about Wastelanders so far is the changes made to the game engine. Specifically day cycle is much longer & the overall world lighting FX & global illumination are vastly improved giving the game a much better look graphically than ever before. Not had a chance to even try the new content yet due to how long its taking me to rebuild my camp in a new location!!
 
Thoroughly enjoying what I've played so far. Not really too far in but have already ventured away from the main quest and found a couple of nice new locations that I did not expect as well as an NPC at my camp who I've started questing for.

The game engine improvements are very significant, especially the lighting system. All in all so far its a thumbs up from me.
 
Well it finally downloaded for me, an hour after I wanted to go to bed. I popped on for a quick go and things went a little pear-shaped. My camp couldn't be placed for no apparent reason. No other camp there but I got the "try another world?" prompt. Well, things happen. I had a dozen quests pop up, pretty much all the misc ones and another one to gather honey for some reason. I fast travelled to vault 76 and they all disappeared bar the new overseer quest and the meet the people outside vault 76 quest. Good. I talked with those people (very nice to have NPCs and dialogue back and better dialogue than vanilla FO4) and then fast travelled to the overseer's camp to go to the Wayward...and couldn't get in. No interaction option with the door. Hmm...that's a problem. So I fast travelled to Sutton to go to the overseer's home...and the same problem. The door isn't a door.

My guess it's caused by one of the mods I'm using. Now I have to remember what mods I am using and where in the various config files I put them :) Better inventory, better PA lamp and a mod to show the building budget as the integer it really is rather than a vague bar. Oh, and perk loadout manager and SFE because perk loadout manager requires that. It's probably one of those that's causing the problem, one that's not compatible with the new version. Something for me to look at tomorrow. The Magic Roundabout has popped into my head - "Time for bed", said Zebedee.
 
Columbo said:
Thoroughly enjoying what I've played so far. Not really too far in but have already ventured away from the main quest and found a couple of nice new locations that I did not expect as well as an NPC at my camp who I've started questing for.

The game engine improvements are very significant, especially the lighting system. All in all so far its a thumbs up from me.
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Lighting system is great & the extended day cycle means more daylight. Big overall improvement shame no HDR on PC still though as that makes the skyboxes look even better on Xbox1X version!
 
AWPC said:
Lighting system is great & the extended day cycle means more daylight. Big overall improvement shame no HDR on PC still though as that makes the skyboxes look even better on Xbox1X version!
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Yeah indeed, I am proceeding slowly through and as my wife bought me 1 yr sub to Fallout 1st as surprise (don’t get me started) I’ve been doing it in Private servers so far so as to not get griefed or distracted. And as I have literally no in game friends...(I’ve never once played on a team yet in over 300 hours) you guys are free to join me if I’m ever on in my private world now. @angillion @AWPC or anyone here really. kurtz207 is my Bethesda username.

I don’t want to join as a team or anything, or even do anything social you are free to join and just go about the DLC freely without even speaking...as you would in single player which is basically how I’m playing currently. I will say though it was nice to do some of the more rewarding events like Uranium fever last night without some moron 1 shotting everything nobody getting any loot....still wouldn’t have bought it myself though...
 
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