**** Official Fallout 76 Thread ****
If I had 1000 screws they would still only last me a day. Heard Sugar Grove is the place to go for screws from fans but then I got seriously mauled by a level 42 assualtron dominator in the lower level in my first week of playing.
Adhesive for me, just cant keep up, between weapon modding and repair seem to spend most of my time looking for it. screws not far behind.
I've only really started playing it over the weekend, best £15 i've spent in a good while, yes its full of bugs, but nothing game breaking as yet, just minor annoyances.
Just been soloing so far, and just enjoying the main mission story line, quirky side quests. just hit Lvl 16 and starting to come into the better weapons and getting a bit more adventurous with taking on tougher creatures.
Monday always seems to be the worse day to play for stability 
as server maintenance is tomorrow. Had a lot of hard freezes today which then went away after a few minutes as well as a few badly lagging areas. Game seems to require a constant always on connection even to access the in game inventory.
@ Cyber69 @ steve45 you will always need loads of screws, springs & adhesive stock up on it as well as scrap everything you can carry then break it down at the workbench to reduce weight & split the components. As you reach the higher levels you can reduce the junk weight by 75% when you get the Perk card & put 3 points into it. Even then 600 stash weight is still nowhere near enough my lvl67 also has 350 carry weight which boosts to 450 carry weight 6am-6pm (with perks & buffs) but that is nowhere near enough either!!!!
as server maintenance is tomorrow. Had a lot of hard freezes today which then went away after a few minutes as well as a few badly lagging areas. Game seems to require a constant always on connection even to access the in game inventory.@ Cyber69 @ steve45 you will always need loads of screws, springs & adhesive stock up on it as well as scrap everything you can carry then break it down at the workbench to reduce weight & split the components. As you reach the higher levels you can reduce the junk weight by 75% when you get the Perk card & put 3 points into it. Even then 600 stash weight is still nowhere near enough my lvl67 also has 350 carry weight which boosts to 450 carry weight 6am-6pm (with perks & buffs) but that is nowhere near enough either!!!!
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My camp glitched out so I have over 1000 corn, muttfruit and tatos instock so I can now make endless amounts of vegetable starch to scrap for adhesive. Have 16 bulk adhesives at the moment.
Just been over to pleasant valley cabins looking for board games to scrap for nuclear material and found an auto grenade launcher in one cabin, a gatling gun in another and then a tesla rifle in the last one! I kept the tesla rifle and scrapped the others due to being overweight.
Just got to level 43 and got master rifleman perk today so it stacks with expert and the normal rifleman perks to make a 30% bonus. The other cards in rifleman only add another 5% bonus so you got to be careful when stacking the perk cards together.
You can manufacture adhesive in your camp. It won't be a lot, but it's a reliable extra source.
You need to have tato, corn, mutfruit and purified water (all of which can be farmed in your camp as long as you find one of them in the world and "build" a plant in your camp from it).
In the Utility section of a cooking station, you can use those things to make vegetable starch.
At any other station, you can scrap vegetable starch to produce 2 adhesive.
Your bottleneck on that will probably be purified water. A small water purifier (which is all you can use without a surface water source in your camp) is full after making only 2 purified water. So unless you empty it often, you'll only get 2 purified water each time you return to camp. I generally use boiled water for drinking and purified water for adhesive as boiled water is easy to obtain in any quantity you want. Just go to a river and gather loads of dirty water, then boil it. The plants are much easier once you get one of each because you can harvest from one to "build" another and soon have plenty of plants for each.
Screws are a problem as they can't be manufactured. You'll probably find springs becoming a problem later. I once bulk bought screws from a vendor despite the high price for them (6 caps per screw IIRC).
It becomes a bit less urgent later because you'll be doing less modding and less repairing, especially if you have crafting and repairing perks (which either increase condition or decrease the rate at which condition reduces). I'm leaving Gunsmith 5 in play all the time because it reduces weapon deterioration rate by 50%. Might not be the most efficient use of my limited SPECIAL stats, but I like that very large increase in weapon durability.
Thanks guys for the tips, I really havnt been utilising the camp and base building stuff at all apart from the early story line.
I need to get a nice base set up somewhere convenient.
Really starting to come into some juicy weapons that are unfortunately like twice my level, just hit 19 tonight. I've also started to come across some nasty creatures like lvl50 scorchbeast etc, I'm staying well out of range though!!!
I need to get a nice base set up somewhere convenient.
Really starting to come into some juicy weapons that are unfortunately like twice my level, just hit 19 tonight. I've also started to come across some nasty creatures like lvl50 scorchbeast etc, I'm staying well out of range though!!!
Here are some of the Power Armour Paint Jobs I have managed to gather & earn over around 350 hours + since the 1st minute of the 1st BETA session 
This first one is rare & requires a lengthy treasure hunt to earn it then a lot of searching for all the parts to add to the T51b PA only (does not work on other PA's must be T51b which in itself takes a long time to find a complete set!!). The last location is very hard to locate even if you know where it is roughly its very well concealed & easy to miss so here is a screenshot from inside as many players will probably never see it unless they follow a guide!
Same skin as Fallout 4 
This is the PA paint job reward 
This next one is ultra rare! you have to complete a series of Brotherhood Of Steel data retrieval requests then after doing this 6 maybe 7 times it gives you the T60 PA BOS Initiate Paint Job as a reward. Right now this is the rarest PA Paint Job skin in the entire game
This last one for now is the Excavator PA. Its a reward after you gather the resources, build it & complete a mission. Best carry weight right now 100 more than anything else. Mine is 455 carry weight 6am-6pm then 350 6pm-6am. This is the PA you need to gather a lot of resource is also pretty good in battles especially if you have the perk cards to give +200 repair.
Finally, I am still working on a few more different PA Paint Jobs. I have bought with the Atoms (USA & Camo Paintjobs). About 25% towards buying the Vault Tec Paintjob (these all cost 1800 atoms each. You can easily earn 5000 Atoms over a few weeks regular play then you have to concentrate on earning the remaining Atoms required to buy the 3rd PA Paintjob. You can also use real money to buy Atoms but I would advise against that as the game is so generous with Atoms its a waste of money buying them! Check the daily challenges that is worth 50-60 Atoms per day.
On Solo you will need to be lvl45-50 to get all of these its quite tough in places!
This first one is rare & requires a lengthy treasure hunt to earn it then a lot of searching for all the parts to add to the T51b PA only (does not work on other PA's must be T51b which in itself takes a long time to find a complete set!!). The last location is very hard to locate even if you know where it is roughly its very well concealed & easy to miss so here is a screenshot from inside as many players will probably never see it unless they follow a guide!
This is the PA paint job reward
This next one is ultra rare! you have to complete a series of Brotherhood Of Steel data retrieval requests then after doing this 6 maybe 7 times it gives you the T60 PA BOS Initiate Paint Job as a reward. Right now this is the rarest PA Paint Job skin in the entire game
This last one for now is the Excavator PA. Its a reward after you gather the resources, build it & complete a mission. Best carry weight right now 100 more than anything else. Mine is 455 carry weight 6am-6pm then 350 6pm-6am. This is the PA you need to gather a lot of resource is also pretty good in battles especially if you have the perk cards to give +200 repair.
Finally, I am still working on a few more different PA Paint Jobs. I have bought with the Atoms (USA & Camo Paintjobs). About 25% towards buying the Vault Tec Paintjob (these all cost 1800 atoms each. You can easily earn 5000 Atoms over a few weeks regular play then you have to concentrate on earning the remaining Atoms required to buy the 3rd PA Paintjob. You can also use real money to buy Atoms but I would advise against that as the game is so generous with Atoms its a waste of money buying them! Check the daily challenges that is worth 50-60 Atoms per day.
On Solo you will need to be lvl45-50 to get all of these its quite tough in places!
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Should add to gather a complete set of any PA parts is very time consuming due to players server hopping to take the parts as soon as they spawn. If you cannot find a full set when you go looking for them if you see any signs of a battle nearby that means someone just beat you to the PA part(s) so no point looking for it! Fast travel elsewhere (there are over 30 locations where PA parts will spawn & its totally random what spawns where so a massive time sink I estimate around 20 hours plus as many of these areas have high lvl enemies so be prepared to fight some high lvl (but good XP) enemies!
Fast Travel in game is not server hopping quitting to the main menu is !!
Fast Travel in game is not server hopping quitting to the main menu is !!
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I'm partial to a wide ledge on a cliff. If you're lucky and you look around, you should be able to find one that has only one way onto it. They're not extremely rare. That way, you only need to defend in one direction. It's also unusual for mobs to go onto a ledge. Dozens of punji board traps and a couple of turrets and you should be OK unless there's a spawn point on the ledge or ranged attack mobs spawn close enough to get line of sight on your camp. Rebuilding a damaged camp isn't that expensive, anyway.
I killed my first scorchbeast today, along with half a dozen ~L30 scorched that came with it. Quite trivial - I only used 2 stimpaks and I probably didn't need to. I never went under ~2/3rds health. Hardened combat shotgun with most of the shotgun perks including staggering and crippling ones really does the job if you can survive being in close range. For my troubles I got...1 ultracite scrap from the hide! Meh. I'm L39 now, wearing PA that's mostly T51 with a couple of T45 pieces. 1 more level and I can switch to T60 with a T51 torso piece. Then maybe teleport around looking for a T60 torso piece.
Strangely, I still haven't learned the hardened receiver for combat rifle or the plans to make a combat shotgun. I've scrapped dozens of both. I really want a handmade rifle, but I've only ever seen 1 of those.
If you're often finding L40 weapons at L19, you're probably in an area that's a bit out of level for you. Volume is more important to begin with because with most weapons scrapping lots of them is more important so you can learn to craft and mod them. If you learn to craft a weapon, you can craft one at any stage up to your level, e.g. at L40 you could craft a L20, 30 or 40 combat rifle (if you have learned the combat rifle plan). Same for armour, except for power armour.
T45 PA with standard paintjob. Took me ages to find the last part of this. It also has a Blue Headlamp Mod I found. Not sure its worth buying these PA Mods for credits as you lose them after 1 use so eventually as you can find ingame for nothing but they take a LONG time to spawn!
Nope when was the patch 11th Dec?
Do you have the Super Duper Perk card? If yes could be that! Players have reported a bug & getting double everything in certain circumstances!
@ Semple sorry buddy I am not doing the mysteries quest line againthat takes about 4-6 hours its better Soloing anyway no real combat challenges! Some good rewards at the end of it though but its a lengthy slog
Ah no wasn't expecting you to
had only just finished it not long after teaming up.Just been through what felt like 2 hours plundering the nuke blast site. Jumped from lvl66 to lvl73. The glowing ghouls are insane on XP, you're talking ~500 each. Picked up a stash of legendaries, most I've dropped and a few I've sold.
Do camps genuinely defend themselves? I came across another players camp yesterday, with 4 turrets in place. But it was being attacked by a couple of super mutants, and they weren't firing back.
I took them out for them - whether deliberate or not, the player had put the stash box outside of the locked bit of the camp, meaning I could use it as my own stash box. Seemed only fair to repair that kindness.
Incidentally, my camp does seem to act as a stash box itself, despite being told earlier in this thread that wasn't the case.
I took them out for them - whether deliberate or not, the player had put the stash box outside of the locked bit of the camp, meaning I could use it as my own stash box. Seemed only fair to repair that kindness.
Incidentally, my camp does seem to act as a stash box itself, despite being told earlier in this thread that wasn't the case.