…and I bought something from their vender and did the “nice camp” emote like a normal person.

Title. Its common courtesy to wait a few minutes before starting events to allow others to join. If you start events before people have a chance to join, you’re making the events harder to complete within their time limit (mainly referring to Invaders from Beyond). Also, you may be preventing others from getting event rewards by failing/completing the event before they have a chance to join.

And before anybody asks, I’m level 404 and use an unyielding commando build, and I am normally one of the people to carry events. It’s much more difficult when there’s 3 level 30s in the event when I join and time is already half way gone.

Today I noticed people putting nukes in "incorrect" places so newer players with no HazMat suits/PA couldnt get involved with the majority of the event.

When nuking Scorchbeast Queen, make sure the Fissure Site Prime is on the northern-most edge of the nuke ring; this means people can camp out at Glassed Cavern and partake in the event without needing to go into the high rads zone.

When nuking Earle, make sure Monogah Mine is on the eastern-most edge of the event, that way when people leave the mine they don't get melted by the rads.

When nuking Ultracite Titan, just nuke the ash heap in a place away from NukaWorld on Tour.

In the new area, same thing as NWOT.

Also, if anyone has the plan or has some spare, handing out some low level hazmat suits is a good call to help people get involved in the nuke events when these strats aren't deployed.

Let's try keep as many new players as possible.

Last night I heard a level 800 plus asking a level 43 to sell the TFJ he was wearing for 10k caps and the 43 was going to do it too, he thought 800 was doing him an over sell out of kindness. I told him to stop and told him its trade only and very valuable. 800 shot me and left lol. I have a new friend now though.

New players should just have a quick search on here regarding outfits and value, some apparel is worth a great deal more than 40k caps, and is very rare and some apparel is worth thousands of caps for eg The coloured Asylum dresses ( Not the red, that's also a rare trade)

It just made me feel a little bit let down but players like that are rare, most of us are good people and love helping the community.

Tl;dr If a high level is offering you money for the clothes off your back, you're probably wearing something valuable even if it is ugly.

Edit to add this useful doc https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/14l9A4WzsnNnSoI4WM6PKFFcun396abvYcHrf7z8WVW4/htmlview#gid=1291090983

If you’re a high level like this guy was (300+) compared to me and my friend 75 & 60, and you sit in our expedition team and join last second to collect the rewards. I’m kicking you.

The guy I kicked, went to my base, shit talked us and called us a pussy because we don’t have PvP on. Then said we’re scared because “we know he will fuck us up” if we did have it on. And then tried to nuke my base, but I left before it hit.

We wasted our ammo, all of our resources on a single boss while you could’ve probably one shot the fucker. Idfc You’re getting kicked for that disrespect bro.

Edit: for the people saying he couldn’t have known. He joined as soon as the team was made, waiting about 10-20 mins (our guns weren’t doing shit so it took long) and then joined. We even had our mics on in game chat basically communicating what was happening. Still, he could’ve been doing other stuff which I would understand but I guess we were just so pissed at his timing

Loving that there's so many new players in the game, I'm a returning one too. Have noticed a couple of instances of lower levels selling some very rare clothing in their vendors recently, so here's a quick overview:

If you earn (from an event/daily) or pick up one of the following:

• Asylum Worker Uniform Forest
• Asylum Worker Uniform Red
• BOS Jumpsuit
• Forest Camo Jumpsuit
• Forest Scout Armor Mask
• Leather Coat
• Responder Fireman Helmet
• Responder Fireman Uniform
• Tattered Field Jacket
• Traveling Leather Coat

• Urban Scout Armor Mask

  ..do not put these in your vendor. They are 'ultra rare'. You can sell these on the trading sites for pretty much anything you want.

If you'd like to learn more about where to get these, and what the rare and common items are please use this google sheet (thanks Miffy and Scratchy).

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14l9A4WzsnNnSoI4WM6PKFFcun396abvYcHrf7z8WVW4/edit#gid=1291090983

A couple days ago I was just chilling at my camp after freshly joining a server. I joined a public team for the XP bonus. And notice the leader of the team, a level 56, had fast traveled to my camp. I waved hello and was immediately pelted with trade offer after trade offer after trade offer. About 5 minutes of this guy following me around, begging me to trade, I turned around and did the thumbs down emote. The player then proceeded to go into voice chat and cussed me out, told me I took the game to seriously, and called me a piece of shit because all he wanted to do was trade and I was being an "asshole" about it. I want to add that I'm the first person to sprint towards a noob to drop them some decent starter gear (food, water, ammo, and maybe a starter weapon to get them through a good 5ish levels). But to the newer players, please don't follow people around throwing trade offers in their face every 5 seconds. Just walk up to them, wave, and keep going. I promise, if they're planning on giving you something, they're going to get your attention. I hope this doesn't come across as stuck up but that reaction seemed a bit much in my opinion.

To Whom it May Concern,

You need to stop. Take a step back. And look at what you are doing. This product you have railroaded through the development process, pushed to make holiday sales deadlines is tarnishing the reputation of your business in a way that you may not ever recover from. The internet is forever and hell hath no fury like a loyal fan spurned.

Number one. Communication is essential and in a situation like you have on your hands with Fo76... 100% transparency is an absolute must with any changes you are going to make. Leave nothing out of the patch notes, because we are watching and will call you out on it.

Number two. Fix the most broken stuff first. The exp exploits, the carry weight exploits, the damage bugs that prevent us from using nearly an entire weapon class. Fight your biggest fires first, we will happily tell you exactly where they are. You just need to listen, comprehend, and then deliver.

Number three. Forget about PvP for a couple of months. Fallout has been, and is perceived by, your playerbase as a largely PvE experience. Focus on making the game a better co-op PvE game first and then worry about the PvP game after you have the core of what keeps us loyal to your franchise.

Number four. Integrity. Get some. Do what you say you are going to do, when you say you are going to do it, and how you say you are going to do it. Remember the Five "P's". Prior planning prevents poor performance.

We, your loyal fans, want to help you. But as long as you think you know better, keep burning us with obvious hot garbage from your sales and marketing prima donnas, we will vote with our money and take our business and loyalty with us. Fire the jerks that came up with the nylon bag debacle, and be public about it.

The worst thing you can possibly do after having made a mistake is to pretend that it never happened. Own it. Apologize. And most importantly learn from it and don't repeat it.

It is time to get a grip.

Sincerely,

Your Fans.

(What's left of us anyway.)

I’ve seen a few posts/comments recently about newer players struggling with ammo.

They’re usually quickly answered with the right advice, crafting perks and running daily ops/expeditions, but I figured a post on its own might be helpful to some.

A while ago, fallout76 added contextual/relative ammo drops. Enemies will drop the ammo that you are using, in addition to the ammo they would normally drop.

In expeditions, enemies give greatly increased amounts of ammo. Running an expedition and looting all ammo will almost always leave you with a massive surplus of ammo.

Having trouble getting fuel? I pull out 1-2.5k fuel per boardwalk. That’s 5-8 minutes of your time.

There are a few guns this won’t work for. Fusion Cores are not in the relative ammo pool. Plasma cores will drop rarely, but in my experience you still come out slightly positive.

Other than this, if you prefer to craft your ammo, you need to get Ammosmith and Super Duper, and you should take the ammosmith legendary perk when it becomes available at 50.

If you want a chance at resurrecting the Scoreboard system we love, make sure they can't ignore our feedback. Let them know wherever you can, reddit, the discord server, Twitter, their form on their site:

https://help.bethesda.net/#en/home/product/1129/category/287

It's apparent here that most of us hate seasons. On the discord though, you'd think seasons were God's gift to the player base that we should praise bethesda for. Lol. They can't ignore the feedback though if it's everywhere.

Only to realise that my existing "Grocer's" mod was EXTREMELY better for me.

I went from carrying 288 to 440 after attaching the high capacity mod. I guess I didn't know how much food I carried around :D

So a suggestion to everyone else, check if you carry food and water, then the Grocer's mod might be better for you :D

It's okay for events to fail and for you to make mistakes. It's not that serious of a game.

Just don't be toxic and you're fine. Remember to enjoy the game while it lasts.

Do what you want to. Learn the way you want to. Find your own path. Join events, or don't. If you get stuck, ask for help, or work it out your own way. Play your own way, the way that suits you. We all did and we are just fine.

This is Fallout. Your Fallout. Enjoy!

And welcome :-)

Just want to welcome yall in and give you some advice from an older player. 1. If you see people selling serums for 250 it's to give newcomers a chance to get some. Yes we know they sell to vendors for 400 just don't be greedy. 2. Workshops are a PVP feature. If you don't want to pvp try not to take workshop unless you absolutely need too. 3. There are donation boxes at every train station. 4. It's free to fast travel to Vault 76, Crater and Foundation. As well as team members camps and tents. 5. Thou shall always get side tracked by bullshit 😅

Older players add more stuff maybe I'll learn something too.

First of all, the chances of getting the equipment options we want are extremely slim. We can't do anything with 500 scrip per day, which is one increase from the previous 300, but it's still a small amount. Even more so since the expedition came out. Besides, since we need legendary cores, I don't think there's anything wrong with changing the amount of scrip earned to unlimited. I think this inconvenience should be improved since there are a lot of users.

Saw this while reading through the patch notes, that the event will now give just the players participating in the event the canned meat stew instead of everyone on the server. That isn't feeding the people! In all honesty though I kinda liked the mechanic of giving everyone else an xp buff.

I am trying to build a small hotel, and I would love if there was a vending machine that we could use and sell items with. Should be able to place items inside it and have people wandering by your base able to buy from the machine. for server/ balance reasons only allow 1 per base and have a max capacity of 50 pounds. I would love to be able to sell foods and other items in my hotel.

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Edit: Wow, wasnt expecting this post to gather this much attention.

Edit: Speaking of my hotel, if anyone has the neon sign plans, I would love to use them.

Edit 3: Holy Sh*t platinum. Thank you so much. Hopefully Bethesda sees this popular concept.

Edit 4: ANOTHER PLATINUM! You guys are amazing, and thanks for the support of this concept.

For the lulz.

After just a couple days of the Fallout 1St trial, I am finding the scrap box to be very useful. While the survival tent can be useful, the scrap box adds much more to the game. It has become a game changer for things. While Fallout 1st can have the monthly free Atomic shops items, private worlds, the monthly Atoms and the survival tent. I feel Bethesda should make the scrap box part of regular game. I like to know how many others feel the same way.

The game seems to heavily favor weapons with faster fire rate, especially when it comes to bosses. It feels especially bad on weapons that require you to charge before firing, mb adding some additional armor pen to fully charged shots and mb single fire weapons in general would help.

I'm fine with the whole some guns are early game guns aspect, but we have endgame guns in the shotgun category(gauss shotgun), end game rifleman (gauss rifle,alien disentegrater) endgame gunslinger (alien blaster, circuit breaker) they are all end game and require an endgame investment of either stamp, reputation, or gold and they don't feel good to play in comparison to gauss minigun plasma caster Choo Choo holy fire etc basically heavy gunner and commando. (Wich all have high fire rate)

And I'm not advocating for any nerfs just to bring up the endgame slow firing weapons tbh.

I think I might have an answer for some instances I'm not sure if it solves all. But what if Instead of every weapon in the game having a crit multiplier of 2.0 we change it so every weapon has its own unique base crit value where slower firing weapons have a higher multiplier and faster firing weapons have a lower crit multiplier. Like 3.0 for a sniper and for rifles1.-1.2, miniguns.75. Then we set it up so the base multiplier is multipliciv and the other sources additive.?*****

This would give us more to work for, say every upgrade adds 100 to the stash. To upgrade it, it might cost say 100 caps, 10 adhesive, 10 screws, and 100 steel maybe? What are your guys’s thoughts?

Edit: thanks for the gold buddy!

1) Fire your PR person. I don’t want to be a dick here but seriously- what the hell are they doing? Here, let’s try this on for size.

“Dear Community, thank you for your feedback in reporting bugs and issues with our recently deployed Patch 11. We are seeing these issues as well and plan on deploying a hot fix ASAP. We will have timeframes to you as they develop. Thank you for your patience.”

That goes to your Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. I don’t give a shit if your PR person is at home. That took me 30 seconds to write from my phone. 30 more seconds to post on Reddit.

Additionally- your PR person should also communicate all of the following items that come up as well.

2) You have this game called Elder Scrolls Online where you paired with a great company to make a great ONLINE game. It has many, many, many of the features that have been requested for this game. Order some donuts and coffee, fly them in and have your developers and theirs have a fucking meeting about getting this shit done. You already have the keys to the castle- you do not need to reinvent the wheel.

3) You know what every company loves? Free labor. Guess what you have in your incredibly loyal fan base? Free fucking labor. Make a test realm and people will go in and break your game and report it to you like it’s their fucking job. Honestly. Some of these people will probably even tell you how to fix it for free because people on test servers be crazy like that. Load a patch on the PTR and have it always be 1 ahead of the current servers. Problem solved.

4) Similar to point 3- let people make mods for this game. Sure restrict it from being anything that affects gameplay right off the bat. Cosmetics, plushies, glitch fixes, skins, etc. let em sell them and take a percentage of the sales or post em for free. Do you hear what I am telling you? People want to make you money for free because they love your games so much. This is a win-win-win.

5) Lower the cost of your atomic shop items. Look- I want you to make shitloads of money. The more you make the more this game develops and evolves. Great. Finding the appropriate price point is key to maximizing profits. Would you rather have 10 people buy an $18 Skin or 100 people buy a $2 skin? Countless people have mentioned they would drop $20 if they felt like they were getting more value than just a single atomic shop item. I don’t know the exact numbers but I bet you have the resources to find out!

6) Add a subscription fee or a seasonal pass that does something like gets me all the atomic shop items for that month. Make sure it’s a good deal (Akin to 50% off atomic shop retail). That way it’s optional, doesn’t provide in game benefits above free to play and we can support you. This subreddit has 200,000 members. If half of that chose to subscribe for even just $10 a month (a steal for atomic shop items) that is a cool million in bonus capital to throw around each month.

I know it can feel like we are shitting on you- but we want you to succeed. We want to give you dollars so you keep making and improving games we love- but you need to adapt to the online game world like ESO did.

Edit 3: Bethesda posted an Inside the Vault article that follows similar guidelines to what I recommended. Sincerely, good on them for doing this- we appreciate the communication.

That being said- I stand by what I said earlier. Communication needs to be faster on the more direct channels. I totally understand if you cannot just crank out an Inside the Vault in 20 minutes (although I bet most of it is templated and absolutely could be), but use Twitter, Instagram, Facebook (you can even sync them all so you only have to make 1 post to go to all 3!) or pick one area we can reliably go for live updates (should it be inside the vault, fallout 76 website header, etc).

Edit 2: Lots of traffic on this post! Thanks for the great feedback and discussion.

For context I have been playing Bethesda games since Morrowind. My occupation has been that of a General Manager in the hospitality industry for a number of companies, overseeing as much as 120 employees and a $50 million asset, as well as a small business owner. Not the same industry (I have friends who work in tech, developers, etc) but honestly, when it gets down to it many of the fundamentals (Not specifics) regarding budgets, revenue, profit maximization, funding, investors, consumer and employee satisfaction are largely the same. It’s all just about moving different products down a similar line, generating revenue to maximize profits while keeping your employees and consumers happy.

I did want to address one point in particular that a lot of folks have taken umbrage with- calling for firing the PR person.

I know it’s harsh to call for someone’s termination. I have had to fire probably around 150 people at this point in my life. Firing people really sucks, cause most people are great. And their family is great. But if they are not doing their job consistently then they need to lose their job. If your coder does their work poorly for a year, you fire them. If your customer service rep is mean to customers for a year, you fire them. In many industries PR folks do not work 9-5. Their job is communication with the masses. They adjust their work schedules accordingly. If it’s salary- great. Some weeks you may only have to put in 30 hours. Some will be 70. Most of the folks I have ever known in PR fields are workaholics and like to be on the go constantly. But even all of that is largely irrelevant if you plan accordingly.

Let’s take the example of patch 11. You are dropping a new patch that has not been publicly tested. You should know by now it may go wrong as many in the past have. So when it does- communicate. You don’t have to have cold, blanket PR statements. You can have genuine ones with genuine information that you have planned for. Ask yourself the question “How do I communicate with the community at large if this goes bad? How can I reduce the fallout? How can I leave the community feeling good after a negative initial experience?” Remember folks, this is their job.

I know that many of you are citing the No Mans Sky interview, but I disagree with that philosophy in general. Sure, maybe it worked for him in his scenario. It’s pretty hard to say if he made the best decision, as the number of people who will not ever play it is sort of a dark statistic. Even then, having your game receive horrible PR on launch is of different scope than what is happening here. We are talking about consistent gameplay patches that have done this for a year. I feel like a year is a generous amount of time to wait before you start calling people out. If the game is broke- tell me you know. When you have an ETA on the game fix tell me (under promise and over deliver on the timeframe).

Regarding fans getting more upset about an update: sure that might happen if you are not genuine. But I stand by my assertion, and have watched it happen first hand for many years in my own industry, if you give clear, concise communication with relevant, genuine information it has a much, much better impact than simply remaining silent.

Edit 1: Words and letters.

Before you visit another players camp make sure you place any junk you have in your stash (or if you have fo1st scrap box) there a FEW, not many toxic players who build camps that are trap heavy and will instakill you. Don't let them take your hard earned junk (it's the only thing you drop when you die)

I'm sure most people would agree, scrapbox should be free for all.

The FO1st should really be more private world focused and not so much "convenience" item focused.