Official News
Published July 5, 2024.
Today the next major patch for Fallout 76 is hitting the Public Test Server (PTS). We’re excited for you to dive into the next update.
Kicking things off with some mischief, you can experience the return of Mischief Night at its new location in Rapidan Camp. On top of that, we’ve added Legendary Crafting to go along with some combat rebalance we can’t wait to get your thoughts on.
And this is just the beginning! Later this month, we’ll be adding the opportunity to build your own Caravan Company as part of Milepost Zero. We’ll have more news on what you can expect to see in that adventure soon.
The PTS is available for testing right now and as always, you can provide feedback on your experience in our Discord.
Table of Contents
- “A Bump in the Road” – Starting off your own Caravan Company
- Mischief Night
- Legendary Crafting
- Best Builds
- Combat Rebalance
- General
- Player Weapons
- Creature Balance
- Creature Weapons
- Perk Changes
- Region Bosses
- Public Event + Daily Ops Testing Schedule
- Known Issues
- How to Participate in the PTS
“A Bump in the Road” – Starting off your own Caravan Company
Coming soon to the PTS!
Mischief Night
Mischief Night returns. The event has been revamped and is now located in Rapidan Camp. You should still feel the fun and chaotic nature of Mischief Night while enjoying its new Halloween themed rewards. This Public Event will be on rotation with our new Daily Ops maps, so make sure to read on for our full Public Event + Daily Ops testing schedule.
Legendary Crafting
We have been exploring a new approach to Legendary Crafting and we wanted to give you an opportunity to get your hands on it to provide some early feedback. Our intention with the changes mentioned below is to give you a way to have more direct control over the Legendary Mods that are on your Legendary items. We believe this system will require time and iteration to get it right. So, while we’re providing this to you to test now, it won’t be released to the Live game until we believe that it’s ready.
Your feedback during this PTS period will be critical to how this develops. Please share your thoughts in our Discord server or on the Fallout 76 subreddit.
Before we dive into how this version of Legendary Crafting works let’s introduce you to Legendary Particles, our new crafting component. In this new system, you’ll use Legendary Particles to craft Legendary Mods and spend Legendary Modules to swap them onto Legendary items.
Legendary Particles can be obtained by scrapping Legendary items at your workbench or trading with players. These Legendary Particles can also be stored in your Scrap Stash.
We’re still evaluating how we want to manage Legendary Cores moving forward.
Now let us explain how this system works.
Before you can start swapping Legendary Mods onto your items, you’ll need to obtain your desired mod in one of two ways:
- Trading for the mod with another player;
- Scrapping Legendary items with your desired mod on it.
Every time you scrap a Legendary item you will obtain Legendary Particles as well as have a chance to learn one of the Legendary mods on that item. After obtaining a mod plan from an item, you can head over to your Tinker Bench to craft it by spending Legendary Particles.
Once crafted, you can either trade that mod with another player or head over to your Workbench to swap it onto a Legendary item.
Please Note When you swap a Legendary Mod onto an item that item becomes character-bound which makes it untradeable and not droppable in the world. Each time you replace a mod on an item, the cost will increase.
As a result of this update, we’re also relaxing the Legendary Mod restrictions on weapons. We’re excited to see you explore this system and find new, exciting mod combinations.
We appreciate that this is a large change to how you interact with Legendary items, but we’re eager for you to test this system and share your feedback. Tell us what you think about the UI/UX or how does it feel to obtain and craft Legendary Mods. We want your thoughts on all aspects of this so join us in our Discord and share your thoughts!
Best Builds
Milepost Zero will also be introducing a new social update called Best Builds. Best Builds is a system that allows players to submit, visit, and rate submitted C.A.M.P.s. Best Builds will be shared and populated thought out wasteland for all players across all Adventure Mode servers to see. You will be able to visit these amazing creations and enjoy the comforts, design, and unique tastes the builder has in store for its visitors. While visiting, if you happen to appreciate the builders C.A.M.P., you can show your support by leaving a ‘Like’. We hope this allows our dedicated player builders an opportunity to show off their creations as well as inspire other players to create and submit their own Best Builds.
Submitting Your Camp
Once you have a C.A.M.P. that you would like to show off to the wasteland, you can submit your C.A.M.P. though the Best Builds Submission option. This is found by opening the ‘C.A.M.P. Slots’ list on the Paper Map and selecting the C.A.M.P. you wish to submit. Once you’ve entered the submission window, you’ll be able to take a few photos and tag your C.A.M.P. with the appropriate identifiers, to help make it stand out from the crowd. Once you’re happy with how your C.A.M.P. is represented, you can submit your Best Build. The Best Build will be added to list of other player created Best Builds and be populated throughout the Adventure Mode servers.
Once populated players will be able to visit and Like your Best Build. If you happen to make changes to your Best Build, you can easily resubmit the newly remodeled C.A.M.P. without losing any Likes previously earned. You can resubmit you Best Build by going to the ‘Manage Best Builds’ option also found activated ‘C.A.M.P. Slots’ list on the paper map.
Visit
Upon your travels in the wasteland, you will notice a few new locations with a blue ribbon on the paper map and on the compass. These are our player created Best Builds. You will be able to fast travel to these C.A.M.P.s the same as you would any other C.A.M.P.. While visiting, please take time to sit down, relax, and enjoy the experience the builder has instore for you. Don’t delay on checking out a C.A.M.P. that piques your interest. Best Builds rotate in and out every hour.
Rate
If you happen to find a Best Builds that you fancy, feel free to show your support to the builder by giving them a Like. You can ‘Like’ a Best Build by going to the Best Build icon on the paper map and selecting ‘Like’. Giving the builder a Like will help show other players that this C.A.M.P. is indeed a Best Build.
Combat Rebalance
The Milepost Zero update continues the work set out in Skyline Valley to update our combat systems. This patch includes changes to sources of Fire and Poison damage as well as how the damage over time (DoT) effect works.
Fire and Poison damage will typically include a DoT effect, with Fire damage trending towards shorter durations and higher Damage Per Second (DPS), with Poison trending towards longer durations and higher overall damage.
General
- Made an adjustment to damage modifiers for creature weak points. This will result in additional damage dealt to creatures when weapons with lower damage per hit are used.
- Damage Over Time effects now scale with bonuses to weapon damage.
- Addressed a series of inconsistencies with how certain damage effects (primarily Damage Over Time) were dealing incorrect damage types or were un-typed damage without a corresponding resistance.
- Addressed an issue where Damage Over Time effects dealt by players would not scale to match the creature’s level.
- Fixed an issue where certain effects such as Damage Over Time and the Vampire’s legendary mod could stack when applied multiple times simultaneously on a single target. This most commonly occurred with Shotguns, but could also occur when using the Two Shot legendary mod or the Mulit-Shot Cremator mod in V.A.T.S.
Player Weapons
Fire/Poison Weapons and Mods
The following weapons and weapon mods have been updated in accordance with the Fire and Poison DoT adjustments mentioned above.
- Flamer
- Holy Fire
- Flamer Compression Nozzle
- Flamer Vaporization Nozzle
- Flamer Napalm Tank
- Burning Sheepsquatch Club
- Burning Barbed Sheepsquatch Club
- Burning Sheepsquatch Staff
- Burning Barbed Sheepsquatch Staff
- Pitchfork Flamer
- Baseball Bat Heated Coil
- Sledgehammer Heavy Searing Sharp Rocket
- Paddleball Fire Ball
- Power Fist Heating Coil
- Super Sledge Heating Coil
- Floater Flamer Grenade
- Hellstorm Missile Launcher Napalm Payload
- Molotov co*cktail
- Crusader Pistol Pyro Receiver
- Chainsaw Flamer
- Compound Bow Flaming Arrows
- Crossbow Flaming Frame
- Autoaxe Burning
- Plasma Cutter Flaming Blade
- Shishkebab Extra Flame Jets
- War Glaive Flaming Blade
- Bow Flaming Arrows
- Shishkebab
- Floater Gnasher Grenade
- Alien Blaster Poison Mag
- Alien Disintegrator Poison Receiver
- Compound Bow Poison Arrows
- Crossbow Poison Frame
- Auto Axe Poisoned
- Electro Enforcer Poisoned
- Bow Poison Arrows
- Poisoned Sheepsquatch Club
- Poisoned Sheepsquatch Staff
- Gulper Smacker Acidic Gulper Hand
- Toothed Shepherd’s Crook
- Bug Grenade
- The Kabloom
- Sheepsquatch Shard
- Pumpkin Grenade
- Syringer Radscorpion Venom Syringe Barrel
Additional Weapon Updates
- Headhunter Scythe’s damage type has been changed to Bleed. Dev Note Please give us feedback on how this weapon’s bleed damage feels.
Creature Balance
Balance adjustments have been made for the following creatures:
- Deathclaw
- Snallygaster
- Scorchbeast
- Honeybeast
- Bee Swarm
- Mega Sloth
- Tick
- Wolf
- Yao Guai
- Alien
- Alien Invader
- Stingwing
- Vicious Dog
- Robobrain
- Eyebot
- Attack Dog
- Fog Crawler
- Bloatfly
- Radrat
Creature Weapons
Weapons used by the following creatures have also been updated:
- Competitor Blazer: Flamer
- Assaultron: Shishkebab
- Sentry Bot: Flamer
- Angler: Spit Attack
- Fanatic Warden: Flamer
- Fanatic: Shishkebab
- Blood Eagle: Flamer
- Cultist: Flamer
- Municipal Auditor: Flamer
- Harvestron (Test Your Metal): Flamer
- Showman: Flamer
- Juchi Batsuuri: Flamer
- Scorched Exterminator: Plasma Launcher
- Mirelurk Hunter: Spit Attack
- Trog Superior: Acid Reflix
- Wendigo Colossus/Earle: Poison Spit
- Mirelurk King Melee Attack
- Floater Gnasher Bite
- Floater Flamer Fireball
- Floater Flamer Flamethrower
Perk Changes
- Vaccinated: Increases Disease Resistance from all sources, based on your END stat.
- Thirst Quencher: Increases Action Points while not diseased, based on your END stat.
- Iron Stomach: Increases Damage Reduction while not diseased, based on your END stat.
- Natural Resistance: Increases your Energy, Fire, Cryo, and Poison Resistances while not diseased, based on your END stat.
Region Bosses
The following creatures have had an adjustment to how incoming damage is reduced. This primarily affects cases where V.A.T.S. Critical Attacks and Damage over Time effects would bypass a portion of the intended damage reduction.
- Scorchbeast Queen
- Wendigo Colossus and Earle
- Ultracite Titan
Public Event + Daily Ops Testing Schedule
Along with the return of Mischief Night, we have two new locations for Daily Ops arriving with this update. You’ll find our testing schedule for Public Events and Daily Ops below.
These events will rotate out at the top of each hour:
- Daily Ops – Glassed Caverns
- Mischief Night
- Daily Ops – Atlantic City Community Center
- Mischief Night
Known Issues
Mischief Night
- Run Time – The event currently runs longer than our average events (22 minutes). We are looking to address this in the next update to PTS.
- Tagging – Players may not be able to tag one of the walls to create more mischief in Rapidan Camp as part of Mischief Night.
- Event Fly-Out on Fail – If players fail the event, there will not be a fly-out visual or event information present on screen.
- Enemy Behavior – Rapidan Protectrons and Rapidan Mr. Gutsys may not become hostile until the player attacks them.
Daily Ops
- SNR Error with Certain Mutations – Players may encounter SNR server crashes when playing through the new maps with the following mutations set: Freezing Touch or Swift Footed.
Best Builds
- Tags – Remove Tags in Best Builds Submission modal will not update without reordering the Tags.
- Localization – Missing localization symbols in the Report Best Builds menu.
Combat Rebalance
- Mobs – Mobs with damage reduction on certain body parts, such as Assaultrons Heads or Mirelurk Shells, have significantly higher damage reduction than expected. In some cases, this causes various weapons to display negative damage numbers.
How to Participate in the PTS
All players who own a copy of Fallout 76 on Steam can participate in our PTS. Please note that progress from the PTS does not carry over into the live game. The Atomic Shop is also disabled during this testing period.
To install the PTS, open your Steam library, and install “Fallout 76 Public Test Server”.
