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

[AWPC]

You're welcome to keep the holotape so you can play the game. It has plenty of nostalgia appeal, but no replay value. Rather like FO76 itself

I'll take you up on your plans offer too. Even if I don't use them, there's the "must collect everything" thing that's common in Fallout players

Ok thanks. Yeah I must collect everything as well especially power armour When we meet up I need to go to a stash box as I do not carry the plans about with me but your welcome to them some are pretty expensive now since the x10 price increase so you will save a LOT of Caps!

 

[Angilion]

Ok thanks. Yeah I must collect everything as well especially power armour When we meet up I need to go to a stash box as I do not carry the plans about with me but your welcome to them some are pretty expensive now since the x10 price increase so you will save a LOT of Caps!

Thanks for the exchange! I took the plans I didn't already know (and added a couple of duplicates I realised I was carrying to what was left in your bag of plans). Have fun playing Wastelad!

I had no idea why I was following you with other players following us, so I left.

EDIT: That reminds me...have you found the Pied Piper random event? It's quite funny - an eyebot playing music is leading a string of radrat pups around.

Another cultural reference I enjoyed was that the story (and an event) at the Sons of Dane compound is a very clear reference to Beowulf.

 

[AWPC]

Thanks for the exchange! I took the plans I didn't already know (and added a couple of duplicates I realised I was carrying to what was left in your bag of plans). Have fun playing Wastelad!

I had no idea why I was following you with other players following us, so I left.

Ok no problem I was not sure if someone was going to steal the plans so I took them back sharpish Thanks for the Wastelad as you have probably guessed already it did not register as I found it so I have to keep looking but I hope you enjoy the Plans

 

[Angilion]

Ok no problem I was not sure if someone was going to steal the plans so I took them back sharpish Thanks for the Wastelad as you have probably guessed already it did not register as I found it so I have to keep looking but I hope you enjoy the Plans

It's fine, I took the plans even sharpisher than you took them back I knew most of them already, so that's why there were still a lot left afterwards. I've spent tens of thousands on plans and I've scoured the world for ~120 hours for plans and recipes, so there aren't very many I don't know.

Since the latest patch, my challenge count of learned recipes has move from 4 to 10...although I've learned dozens. Maybe the challenge is actually to learn 76 recipes involving bugs, since Bethesda is so fond of bugs

Shame about the holotape not registering as you finding it, but I suppose that's not a bug. Have you tried playing it? Maybe that will work and if not you might find it a bit of nostalgic fun. You can quit Wastelad and return to the same place, so you don't have to do it all in one go. I had to do that a few times to eat and drink, especially drink.

 

[AWPC]

It's fine, I took the plans even sharpisher than you took them back I knew most of them already, so that's why there were still a lot left afterwards. I've spent tens of thousands on plans and I've scoured the world for ~120 hours for plans and recipes, so there aren't very many I don't know.

Since the latest patch, my challenge count of learned recipes has move from 4 to 10...although I've learned dozens. Maybe the challenge is actually to learn 76 recipes involving bugs, since Bethesda is so fond of bugs

Shame about the holotape not registering as you finding it, but I suppose that's not a bug. Have you tried playing it? Maybe that will work and if not you might find it a bit of nostalgic fun. You can quit Wastelad and return to the same place, so you don't have to do it all in one go. I had to do that a few times to eat and drink, especially drink.

Yeah tried playing & dropping it will not register yet another bug I guess! Same here spent tens of thousands on plans dug up all 30 treasure maps for another big batch of plans & other goodies as well. Now I have 47 of 76 weapons plans learned & 36 of 76 armour plans learned when I got all 76 of those that is another 160 easy Atoms!

Some plans only become visible when your lvl 50 or higher & are carrying a certain perk card apparently another dumb design choice by Bethesda. Also that Handmade plan you wanted I have seen it for sale at many vendors now its about 1571 Caps with the Grape Mentat & had Bargain 3 Perk enabled.

Your welcome to join me anytime you see me online I know a few runs which yield high XP

 

[Angilion]

Tonight has been a ****show for me.

Loads.
Cannot place camp.
Get at most 5 minutes of playtime.
Server not responding.
Disconnected from server.
Cant find a world.
Close 76 completely.
Reopen 76.
Restart the above again...

When that's happened to me, I've found that logging out of the Bethesda launcher as well as closing 76 completely does the trick. It seems that if you remain logged into the launcher it tries to place you back into the same world. I tested that when I couldn't place my camp - 4 times and each time the same person had a camp at the same place I have mine. When I logged out of the launcher, logged back in and loaded 76, everything was fine. Might be a coincidence, but I think it's worth trying.

It definitely gets worse during the week, which is presumably why Bethesda has to take it down once a week for unspecified maintainence.

I was thinking about getting this as it's only 8 quid, but posts like this and the ones on the fo76 forum on Reddit are putting me off.

Oh well, I'm still plugging away at FO4 for my fix.

It's definitely a bit of a struggle, but I think it's worth a punt at £8.

 

[Angilion]

Yeah tried playing & dropping it will not register yet another bug I guess! Same here spent tens of thousands on plans dug up all 30 treasure maps for another big batch of plans & other goodies as well. Now I have 47 of 76 weapons plans learned & 36 of 76 armour plans learned when I got all 76 of those that is another 160 easy Atoms!

Ah, treasure maps! I have I don't know how many of them in my inventory. Something to do when I've finished the quests. I dug one up ages ago, when I was low level, and got some junk.

Some plans only become visible when your lvl 50 or higher & are carrying a certain perk card apparently another dumb design choice by Bethesda.

Carrying a certain perk card...I'd ask why they did that but trying to understand Bethesda's design choices is bad for your health

Also that Handmade plan you wanted I have seen it for sale at many vendors now its about 1571 Caps with the Grape Mentat & had Bargain 3 Perk enabled.

It's ~4800 with 4 charisma, no chems and no bargaining perk. It's also no good to me now because I found a L45 handmade rifle with a slightly useful legendary effect (extra damage to robots). So one I crafted from the plan would be less useful than the one I already have.

Your welcome to join me anytime you see me online I know a few runs which yield high XP

I'm strictly solo, hence my game name. I don't like the game enough to grind for XP which is irrelevant anyway. There isn't much to gain from levelling higher than I already am except for completely your deck of perk cards.

Talking of perk cards, here's another "fun" bug. If you fully rank a perk card from the levelling up process, i.e. pick a card you already have an accept the option to rank it up, that doesn't count for the "fully rank 7 perk cards" challenge. It only counts if you refuse the option, quit your pip-boy menu, go back in, scroll through your hand and rank it up that way.

 

[AWPC]

Finally bought the Excavator Calibrated Shocks earlier after saving for almost a week! Absolute bargain (NOT!!) @ 5820 Caps found some lovely player as well earlier sold some stuff to one person then they stole some plans from me that I left in the bag for a moment & quit to the menu & blocked me after I gave them 4 times more expensive Plans than they gave me Caps

 

[cyber69]

Anyone got or even seen one of the tattered field jackets yet? I believe it drops from doing one of the events in the mire section. Trouble is they are quite hard solo unless you have TSE weapons. I did the event where you escort the Mr Handy around collecting honey and it started off ok and I took out some of those honey beasts but then two 60+ bears showed up and chased me around in circles for 5 minutes until I managed to take them out. I got the reward, pompadoor wig and then the server disconnected and when I relogged back on it was as if I had never done the event so lost all the rewards but did not get back my stimpacks and ammo that I had used!

 

[AWPC]

Anyone got or even seen one of the tattered field jackets yet? I believe it drops from doing one of the events in the mire section. Trouble is they are quite hard solo unless you have TSE weapons. I did the event where you escort the Mr Handy around collecting honey and it started off ok and I took out some of those honey beasts but then two 60+ bears showed up and chased me around in circles for 5 minutes until I managed to take them out. I got the reward, pompadoor wig and then the server disconnected and when I relogged back on it was as if I had never done the event so lost all the rewards but did not get back my stimpacks and ammo that I had used!

That is one of the rarest drops you have about a 1 in 35 chance of getting it after doing events in the Mire. You will either have to get extremely lucky or play for a very long time otherwise find someone to trade they got for between 10-15K Caps!

Spoiler

https://www.reddit.com/r/fo76/comments/a9wogg/event_related_cosmetics_reward_list_full/

The rarest outfit is the Mr Fuzzy Costume & Mr Fuzzy Head you can only obtain in Camden Park by doing approx 450 Mr Fuzzy Events there to earn enough Tokens to buy it with along with another 9000 Caps that will take months to earn legit few players have it unless they entered the developers room or bought from someone else who entered the developers room!

 

[nashathedog]

Not random FPS drops but constant crashing especially fast travelling they take your caps it just loads forever so you lose your caps & have not fast travelled anywhere! Game is very unstable some of it is the dupers who cause the server to crash as it cannot track the items they are carrying but I reckon most of it is Bethesda are not allowing the right dev team into fixing as they have moved onto Starfield & Fallout 5.

Has Fallout 5 been announced then?

 

[AWPC]

Has Fallout 5 been announced then?

Unofficially yes Todd Howard mentioned a while ago they are doing Starfield & Fallout 5 next both as Solo only experiences.

 

[nashathedog]

Unofficially yes Todd Howard mentioned a while ago they are doing Starfield & Fallout 5 next both as Solo only experiences.

Good news & that last bit about it being single player is music to my ears.

 

[cyber69]

That is one of the rarest drops you have about a 1 in 35 chance of getting it after doing events in the Mire. You will either have to get extremely lucky or play for a very long time otherwise find someone to trade they got for between 10-15K Caps!

Spoiler

https://www.reddit.com/r/fo76/comments/a9wogg/event_related_cosmetics_reward_list_full/

The rarest outfit is the Mr Fuzzy Costume & Mr Fuzzy Head you can only obtain in Camden Park by doing approx 450 Mr Fuzzy Events there to earn enough Tokens to buy it with along with another 9000 Caps that will take months to earn legit few players have it unless they entered the developers room or bought from someone else who entered the developers room!

I've got about 140 tokens so far saved up, almost enough to get one piece. I'm surprised it's not been duped and widely distributed?

 

[Flibster]

My evening was full of joy and juices...

Most common enemy I came across was a level 68 ghoul... At the time, I was level 22. I followed the example set by brave Sir Robin. I ran away and changed my armour.
Server hopping time... Still more Level 68's. This time Ghouls and Super Mutants. See Sir Robin again.
Ok, one more try at server hopping.

Oh good... I find that I'm remarkably close to a load of Level 40ish scorched and a level 50 scorchbeast.

I can't say that it was huge fun per se... but it was eventful...

 

[Angilion]

I can't find the recipe for stable crimson flux. I found the others in the armory of the bunker (repeatedly) aand I've read that the crimson flux recipe should be there too, but I've been at least 6 times on different logins and can't find it.

I've also found some recipes for creature growth and a few other things, but can't find a use for them. They're not in the aid section with other recipes - just notes?

I've finally run out of ammunition entirely. I'm reduced to melee only and scavenging in the forest zone for enough lead to make enough ammunition to finish exploring the cranberry bog and doing the belly of the beast quest. I simply don't do enough damage per shot (206 with shotgun, 93 with hand made rifle). The railway rifle looked appealing...until I realised that the ammunition weighs ~100 times as much as normal ballistic ammo.

 

[Angilion]

My evening was full of joy and juices...

Most common enemy I came across was a level 68 ghoul... At the time, I was level 22. I followed the example set by brave Sir Robin. I ran away and changed my armour.
Server hopping time... Still more Level 68's. This time Ghouls and Super Mutants. See Sir Robin again.
Ok, one more try at server hopping.

Oh good... I find that I'm remarkably close to a load of Level 40ish scorched and a level 50 scorchbeast.

I can't say that it was huge fun per se... but it was eventful...

If you stay in the forest area that won't happen because the enemies don't scale in that area. Explore all of that and you'll be higher level and better equipped. ~L30 in T-45 power armour and decent weapons and L68 ghouls and super mutants are doable.

 

[AWPC]

I've got about 140 tokens so far saved up, almost enough to get one piece. I'm surprised it's not been duped and widely distributed?

The overall cost for one thing I think it cost 9000 Caps or 10-15k Caps if you go to the reddit trading section! You get no benefit from wearing it so its not really worth the time investment afaic

 

[AWPC]

My evening was full of joy and juices...

Most common enemy I came across was a level 68 ghoul... At the time, I was level 22. I followed the example set by brave Sir Robin. I ran away and changed my armour.
Server hopping time... Still more Level 68's. This time Ghouls and Super Mutants. See Sir Robin again.
Ok, one more try at server hopping.

Oh good... I find that I'm remarkably close to a load of Level 40ish scorched and a level 50 scorchbeast.

I can't say that it was huge fun per se... but it was eventful...

If you get higher lvl than your spawns its usually because high lvl players have recently swept through your server in that area. I am getting the exact opposite issues lowest lvl spawns which are worthless XP wise! Even if your only lvl 20 or so its easy to take lvl 68 out with a melee build anyway

 

[AWPC]

I can't find the recipe for stable crimson flux. I found the others in the armory of the bunker (repeatedly) aand I've read that the crimson flux recipe should be there too, but I've been at least 6 times on different logins and can't find it.

I've also found some recipes for creature growth and a few other things, but can't find a use for them. They're not in the aid section with other recipes - just notes?

I've finally run out of ammunition entirely. I'm reduced to melee only and scavenging in the forest zone for enough lead to make enough ammunition to finish exploring the cranberry bog and doing the belly of the beast quest. I simply don't do enough damage per shot (206 with shotgun, 93 with hand made rifle). The railway rifle looked appealing...until I realised that the ammunition weighs ~100 times as much as normal ballistic ammo.

This is why I went melee months ago saves a lot on ammo. I was getting up to 520 DMG per hit until the patch last week nerfed the Melee bobblehead even though it was not mentioned it would!

Now I cannot find a single Melee Bobblehead (someone is emptying the game worlds out constantly!) so without that 20% DMG boost I am down to just under 390 DMG per hit on my Grognaks (they break too easily no matter what so not great weapons) or slightly higher with a Heated Super Sledgehammer which lasts virtually forever with my other perks enabled. This is enough to take down any lvl 68 Mutant with 2 hits or lvl 48 with a single hit. I also have the perks to ignore 75% armour & add 60% DMG after the 3rd strike. If I used Buffs on top I could get another 20-25% DMG per hit.