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Fallout 76

This week (and next?) is Fasnacht is running, they seem to throw this in during the summer even though they run this event in February.

Anyways this seems to be quite a divisive event, where the AFKers outnumber the active players, and generally it generates a lot of complaints. I don't care about the rewards, so I largely ignore the event. I did do one yesterday and there were something like 16 AFKers, and for the beginning portion of the event, I was soloing it. Eventually a couple of others joined in.

I'm not sure why Bethesda doesn't change the event, to force participation to get rewards, but its been an issue since they introduced this event. This being a game, if its not fun, I'll stop doing it, so I don't let that thing impact me - I largely stay in a private world.
 
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This week (and next?) is Fasnacht is running, they seem to throw this in during the summer even though they run this event in February.

Anyways this seems to be quite a divisive event, where the AFKers outnumber the active players, and generally it generates a lot of complaints. I don't care about the rewards, so I largely ignore the event. I did do one yesterday and there were something like 16 AFKers, and for the beginning portion of the event, I was soloing it. Eventually a couple of others joined in.

I'm not sure why Bethesda doesn't change the event, to force participation to get rewards, but its been an issue since they introduced this event. This being a game, if its not fun, I'll stop doing it, so I don't let that thing impact me - I largely stay in a private world.
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I wonder how many of the AFKers are bots ?
 
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I wonder how many of the AFKers are bots ?
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You think the players in the game are bots?
The game doesn't have bots in that sense, and its players wanting the rewards but not willing to invest in doing the events. This event runs hourly, and so if you are able to keep the character in the game, you'll have 24 sets of rewards (provided each hour the event is successfully completed)
 
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The current fishing season ends on 09/02, and I can safely say I did not go fishing a single time. I have no idea if you'll be able to fish after the season, I suspect you can but it won't be part of the rewards.
 
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maflynn said:
The current fishing season ends on 09/02, and I can safely say I did not go fishing a single time. I have no idea if you'll be able to fish after the season, I suspect you can but it won't be part of the rewards.
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I just see players drawn to this environment viewing fishing as a not fun way to spend time…

…sorry typo, I edited this to the opposite. 🙃
 
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I just see players drawn to this environment viewing fishing as a fun way to spend time…
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I don't think this season had a huge impact on player volumes. This season which had the fishing ability started in June and will end tomorrow. While June numbers do nudge up higher, july and Augusts numbers are not terribly different then prior months

If you go to the fallout 76 reddit sub, it seems quite popular as people discussing the good/bad/ugly of fishing, it was a topic that seemed to show a lot of people engaged. I've previously mentioned my disdain for fishing, in real life and virtually, so I won't beat a dead horse. I think I was probably an outlier in not doing the fishing.


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maflynn said:
I don't think this season had a huge impact on player volumes. This season which had the fishing ability started in June and will end tomorrow. While June numbers do nudge up higher, july and Augusts numbers are not terribly different then prior months

If you go to the fallout 76 reddit sub, it seems quite popular as people discussing the good/bad/ugly of fishing, it was a topic that seemed to show a lot of people engaged. I've previously mentioned my disdain for fishing, in real life and virtually, so I won't beat a dead horse. I think I was probably an outlier in not doing the fishing.


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Edited my previous post. First shot was the ever persistent not paying attention. I don’t think fishing is a fun thing to do in a game like fallout 76, but there are probably some players who do like it.
 
The system is coming down today, I ran some benchmarks on my main heavy weapon, so I know what the damages are as a before snapshot, this afternoon when the game comes back up, I'll see how bad it is. Bethesda has continued to monkey with the perk cards, this time its VATs and the heavy gunner perks.

There's no longer weapon type perk cards, prior to all of this stuff, the perk cards mimicked Bethesda's other fallout games, where commando was for automatic weapons, riflemen for rifles and heavy gunners for, you guessed it heavy guns. My question is with Fallout 5 in development, will the SPECIAL fall its predecessors or copy Fallout 76. I wonder, because tbh, I don't like these changes.
 
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So testing Fallout 76 post update I'm seeing a general nerf towards slow firing heavy weapons. The heavy gunner perk cards changed so you get instead of increasing damage of heavy gunners you get a stacked effect for faster firing weapons, that is the more bullets you fire you start getting more damage. The plasma caster is a slow firing weapon, so per shot its impact is less effective. Where as I was able to one shoot a super mutant, it now takes 2 or 3

I'm sort of disappointed but not surprised. I started reworking my SPECIAL to be more of rifleman build moving forward.
 
I will say they completely revamped the build menu, and its a lot more logically laid out and efficiently setup. Muscle memory is such that I'm having a bit of trouble navigating but it looks a lot better, with some collision rules being relaxed and more freedom to build stuff then before.
 
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Ah, the good ole days…

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Sanctuary Hot Springs (mod settlement) with Cait, located on the lake by Santuary. You just can’t swim in it…

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Overlooking Boston from the Prydwen.
 
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I just learned that Bethesda is removing Milepost Zero from the game - its a rarity that they take something away instead of just keeping it. Nuclear Winter (the pvp focused part of the game was another).

I can't say that I'm surprised for a number of reasons.
first there's a public event called free range where you have to escort three brahim from point A to point B, keeping them safe. Its a boring event that people rarely fully participate.

They took that and said, can we make it even worse, so now its a progressive process, where each time you escort brahim, you get points/tickets/something that you can cash in for some rewards that are not all that exciting.

The event was not exciting this was not exciting, but wait, there's more. The bugs prevented people from completing the missions. This new feature came out last year and I think the latest update - a year later finally fixed the issues.

At first people gravitated towards the missions, because it was new, but they largely ignored them and thanks to the bugs the few people wanting to do them, couldn't.

Now they're pulling it from the game, for what is being billed as the largest update in the game ever.

About that update, they're adding Walton Goggins - the ghoul from the tv series into the game. I'm unsure how much, though I suspect as someone who hands out missions for you, so the involvement will be limited, but people seemed to be excited.
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maflynn said:
I just learned that Bethesda is removing Milepost Zero from the game - its a rarity that they take something away instead of just keeping it. Nuclear Winter (the pvp focused part of the game was another).

I can't say that I'm surprised for a number of reasons.
first there's a public event called free range where you have to escort three brahim from point A to point B, keeping them safe. Its a boring event that people rarely fully participate.

They took that and said, can we make it even worse, so now its a progressive process, where each time you escort brahim, you get points/tickets/something that you can cash in for some rewards that are not all that exciting.

The event was not exciting this was not exciting, but wait, there's more. The bugs prevented people from completing the missions. This new feature came out last year and I think the latest update - a year later finally fixed the issues.

At first people gravitated towards the missions, because it was new, but they largely ignored them and thanks to the bugs the few people wanting to do them, couldn't.

Now they're pulling it from the game, for what is being billed as the largest update in the game ever.

About that update, they're adding Walton Goggins - the ghoul from the tv series into the game. I'm unsure how much, though I suspect as someone who hands out missions for you, so the involvement will be limited, but people seemed to be excited.
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As long as you can still fish :) :) :).
 
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Fallout is getting updated today, I believe they said its the largest update of the game.
They added a new biome to the left of the river, before we were unable to cross the river fully. I'm unsure about the southwest desert theme, but I guess they wanted a completely different biome then what the game already has. This includes new NPCs including the Walton Goggins portraying his ghoul character.

Being so large, I expect the game to have more then its usual compliment of patch bugs, and issue. Plus the update may be an all day affair. Some updates have taken 6 hours to apply, this may be one of them.

The new season is going to be starting as well.
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I was wrong, the servers are not up, or staying up. I was able to get into the game this morning but now I cannot.

reddit is going off on bethesda, this is completely embarrassing. They were touting this as the largest update and the servers cannot stay online.

I'm now on the clock, so there's no game playing until lunch hour - hopefully they get things squared away by then
 
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maflynn said:
Fallout is getting updated today, I believe they said its the largest update of the game.
They added a new biome to the left of the river, before we were unable to cross the river fully. I'm unsure about the southwest desert theme, but I guess they wanted a completely different biome then what the game already has. This includes new NPCs including the Walton Goggins portraying his ghoul character.

Being so large, I expect the game to have more then its usual compliment of patch bugs, and issue. Plus the update may be an all day affair. Some updates have taken 6 hours to apply, this may be one of them.

The new season is going to be starting as well.
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How do you get from West Virginia to the Southwest? Is that a nuclear consequence thing like the Glowing Sea?
 
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How do you get from West Virginia to the Southwest? Is that a nuclear consequence thing like the Glowing Sea?
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That's a good question and I don't know yet - this may be part of the lore that I need to explore. Its something called "rust" that is effecting people but of course that doesn't account for the western motif.

The designers did this on purpose, simply because the tv show is going to be centered around New Vegas and they wanted to tap into that market.
 
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This was double XP weekend and in a rare move, double SCORE. So you had to choose to do the daily challenges or focus on XP grinding (or try both).

I opted for grinding, as I was around level 1430 this past thursday and I thought it would be useful to make some ground to level 1500. I not only got close to 1500 I hit it. I didn't do some crazing grinding for 72 hours, but I did put in a few hours in the afternoon - something I don't normally do

I've largely stopped caring too much about my level - mostly once I got to 1,000 but whenever I get close to the next 100 mark, I do put in some extra effort. This time around, the 1,500 mark has a symetry that I like. I'll not be caring too much about level beyond this. Like the 1,000 it has a nice look to it :)

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