I'm level 408 and only realised last week, if you have multiple of the same treasure map you can click the same spot multiple times to claim them all in one go.
I also discovered how quickly you can reach max weight from digging treasure maps. I had 100 and probably wasted 10-15 of them because my inventory was maxed. Then the slow walk to the train station… Now what I do is dig 10, drop weapons and armor, dig another 10, etc.
Temp camp is smart. It took me about 5 trips back and forth from the closest train station to clear the loot bag I left on the ground. Luckily I was digging in a spot near a train station.
Not always but Google the locations to make it easier. You can sometimes uncover plans that are only within the treasure maps but other than that occasional legendary, standard plans and junk
I learned this when I wandered into a CAMP and chatted with the owner a bit, and then he dropped 300 (duped) of the same map on me and told me to follow him. He plopped down a tent and we spent forever digging up treasure. Then two newish players joined our team and we convinced them to come over to stand around and join in on the loot.
I learned from this Reddit sub just a couple months ago, and I had been giving all my extra ones away thinking that I needed one through 10 or whatever to make it to a final location.
Go to whitespring golf club. Turn your back to the club and run to your character left. You will see a circular thing with dome roof and columns. There it is.
It's all good, apologies if I came across as snarky or anything I really was trying to help hah. I also would never have known it's your second language - your English is great! Better than many English people, to be honest...
2 corn + 2 tatos + 2 mutfruit = 1 vegetable starch at a cooking station....
1 vegetable starch scrapped = 2 excess adhesive
Edited to add where to make the starch.
You can also harvest pitcher plants around Cranberry Bog for it. With green thumb they give you two digested goo. One gives you four excess adhesive, so you have eight with this perk.
Which magazine? I only collect them but not use them. If you want to gather it you need to be careful, because it’s like with firecracker berry, if you are not careful you’ll lose what was in that plant.
Level 700+ someone shared with me last week holding x while in build mode let's you move things closer or farther from you
EDIT: Shout out to Kitten 😻for sharing that tip. I feel a little better knowing I'm not the only one who's mind was blown.
this comment has changed so many lives including mine good god
for clarity's sake because I can't log on right now, is that x on xbox or ps5 controllers?
I’m a newer player only 37 just figuring out how vats and crits work. I’ve just been headshotting enemies with my hunting rifle and that seems to work lol. For crits - do you just have to hit the space bar once if you get one? And do you have to crit in vats?
You can *only* crit in vats. Once your crit meter is filled you hit space bar or y. But if you hold it down it will auto crit every time the bar is filled instead of having to hit it multiple times.
My brother and I play on console. He did this and I did not. So sometimes when I login under him to do dallies/weeklies for him it always throws me for a loop cause he swapped those buttons 😂
You can "upgrade" your backpack by crafting a higher level version every ten levels, going up to 30 inventory space. If you complete the first three Tadpole badges for Pioneer Scouts and reach Possum rank, you get a backpack with twice as much space per level, up to 60. And the extended backpack mod from Possum Tokens doesn't just add +5 space, it doubles whatever your current backpack has. When looking at the preview for that mod, it told me that my backpack goes from +5 to +10, which seemed like not much reward for all that work, so I put it off for ages. Turns out I would actually have gone from +5 to +120.
Some of them would definitely be made a lot easier with a player willingly killing themselves in a convenient spot, and/or a guide telling you exactly where the objectives are. And then there's the one that tells you to launch a nuke. What the hell kind of summer camp is this!?
Still, since you only need three (as opposed to the eight you need for the tougher Possum challenges), it might be worth finding the most reasonable ones and making completing them a priority. Especially since it lets you start the Possum ones, which you might be completing objectives for without getting credit as we speak. I really wish they'd change that...
You can put the rest in your stash and repeat the quest immediately by taking them out one by one (at least when the brotherhood storyline came out you could, not sure about now)
You should always give two technical data. From two you have the chance to win a legendary weapon. This is especially nice for low level characters while leveling.
Bought a duplicate full set of secret service armor from Minerva hoping to give it to my brother, then realized afterward purchasing that gold bullion plans aren’t tradable.
You are right it was a lesson learned. It ended up being ok after the initial sting. Even opened a ticket with Bethesda afterward for allowing the option to rebuy plans with no trade/drop value.
Fortunately, I had a lot of treasury notes to redeem and was capped at 10k billion during that Minerva sale. Felt bad because my brother doesn’t have as time to play lately so when we finally got together in game in front of Minerva I was excited had hyped up using the jet pack then slowly realized my error when attempting to drop the plans for him. All is well now because he let me log into his account so I could get him last seasons cremator and mod rewards and I had grinded enough bullion to get him the chest and jetpack from Minerva during the previous sale so he can finally fly around with me in the wasteland :)
I think he is saying he bought the plans twice. Probably allowed him to do that because he had not learned it yet. Once he did I believe it would stop him from buying it again.
I was lvl 100+ before realizing you can be on a casual team without having to actually play with or talk to your teammates. I also didn't realize how good the cremator was (ignored it the season I got it due to my build) until everyone was already sick of it lol so now I just use it when I'm solo so no one else is blinded but me.
I wish that changing loadouts wouldn't stop you from sharing your chosen perk. I had assumed that if the loadout you switched to had the same perk card in it, that it'd stay shared, but it strips it away regardless.
Okay yes BUT it needs to be a container, like a locker. I use Sutton station's locker for this purpose.
Don't be like Saul and lose a bunch of valuable plans because you assumed loot bags on the ground will last until you're done shuffling gear.
My eye still twitches thinking about the caps value of the plans I lost.
It wasn't until I was like 800 or something that I learned that you could pull up your pipboy on screen and make is transparent rather than have to look down at your wrist
Definite quality of life improvement for if you're trying on different apparel. Go 3rd person - turn your camera around - if the pip boy is transparent, you can still see your character while you try on whatever outfit combos you fancy.
I gotta say that after playing hundreds of hours I still experience huge lack of inventory space; however, I use many space saving perks and mods, excavation power armor, and strength is maxed. Stash space is also permanently full with all kinds of exotic weapons that drop rarely. Bethesda, give me a huge bag to fit all the crap I pick up as soon as I see it.
Honestly the main reason for Fallout 1st - the scrapbox. You can even just get it for a month, dump your scrap in there, then cancel the subscription if you're so inclined. The scrap doesn't go anywhere once you're not Fallout 1st, you just can't add more. Same goes for the Ammo box. Absolute lifesavers.
That I didn't have to leave the cave after the Earl fight.
Just collect screws and get teleported to the front when the timer runs down.
That if I'm overweight I can travel to op or expedition and then exit to White spring and do inventory management there.
That the spring at the golf course removes diseases.
There's a chat mod that's pretty awesome, and makes the game feel more 'alive'.
That the camp module spawn area is approximately one block east and six blocks north.
Edited to word better.
Enter expedition, I tested with both AC and the pitt. Then fast travel to White springs from map, choose refuge.
Pretty sure it has to be to one of the free destinations to work.
I just logged on and over weighted myself to test it.
Immediately upon spawning in, walk down the stairs to the mall, take a right down the hall. The ammo/stash/scrap box will be closer to the end of the hall, on the left across from the shop with the green walls.
Hope this helps!
Just a warning: you will get used to doing this efficiently essentially negating any overburdened problems. I routinely pick up like 20 miniguns getting my weight to the 750/300, then fast travel to AC, then to whitespring, quick fat walk and end of story.
There's a tent near the platform with all of the benches, it has a lot of games in it. There's a machine on the left that you can buy stuff from. If you buy the game blueprints from the machine you can build them in your camp and play them for points.
The bottom left menu on the map that people use to quick jump to Daily Ops, or a Public Event, or to check a Nuke, has a secondary menu you can toggle to that lists everything, including visible player camps and regular events that are currently active, and fast Travel to each using that menu. (no hunting through the map)
Dogs are useless at keeping themselves alive once they realise that you will do it for them, kids are the same....
Oh in the game?... Events still work at lower levels, don't be afraid to join in even if it says "recommend 50"
There are bullion merchants in Foundation, the Crater, Vault 79 and one traveling merchant. You trade in treasury notes at machines around the wasteland for bullion. You get the notes by completing certain quest or the in game events. I did a ton of events leveling up and never realized I was being rewarded with them. Each merchants has their own blueprints ranging from utility items, resources, armor, power armor, weapons, buff items or cosmetics.
Edit: you can spawn in the Crater interior and talk to Mortimer. The Crater vendor is easy to find and definitely has different blueprints than the Foundation vendor. The treasury note machines do have shared loot pools so you only need one.
Just to add to the other guy's comment - the easiest to find machine that you trade in your treasury notes to is (in my opinion) in the Whitespring Mall crafting area. It's the first machine to your right as you enter the crafting room. Can't miss it.
Daily challenges for score and the scoreboard. I kept seeing people talk about doing the "dailies" and thought they meant the quests marked "daily".
I was over level 50 before I even knew about claiming my scoreboard items.
I play for fun and didn't care about the "scoreboard" which I assumed was a leaderboard of sorts showing the rankings of top players. Turns out, I was missing all the rewards!
Same! I was like doing all the mission dailies sounds boring when there’s other activities to do. Then someone made a post on here about spending the seasonal tickets and I was like wait what?
I’m level 154, been away from the game for a few years and only just realised I never downloaded the schematics for the X01 despite doing all of that years ago. Only realised when I was helping out a level 53 and asked if they wanted anything else and they asked for that.
In fairness I do ‘t think the game ever properly directs you to that and quite a few guides in the early days said you had to buy the initial plans. Confusing them with the mods.
Start at the Wayward and head west along the river. Then go north along the shore when you get to the end. It's a nice pretty walk and you get a nice amount of Snaptails
Been playing since launch and only found out last week after my partner told me that left on the d pad switches between your two most recently equipped weapons.
When I first started playing I would always hit the stim button while fighting, kept wasting my stims and this was before wastelanders so it was impossible to find anything lol
Launching nukes is pretty easy. I tried once when I was like lvl 60 and got torn apart. I just got to lvl 200 and decided to try again. I launched 3 last night and it was so fun! Its cool to trigger events that everyone comes to. Every silo is the same, and if you solo it, it doesnt spawn a lot of enemies. If you havent tried in a awhile and have better gear now, give it another shot!
Even easier if you carry mainframe cores that are already repaired and photo mode glitch your way past the reactor. Last nuke I launched took me about 10 or 15 minutes. Having two screens on my PC helps too, I have the nuka crypt website pulled up with the current launch codes for each silo.
When overencumbered, go to any expedition location and “travel to district.”
Once loaded in, pull up map and go to the east Whitesprings location and select the refuge.
BOOM. You’re basically at the mall.
Note: The other Whitespring locations will not allow you to travel, it must be the refuge one.
Haha, played for a year before I learned how to get a “crit”. Was astounded how quick my discord buddy was downing Scorchbeasts, time after time.
Would take me 12-15 head shots with my best Fixer and he’d blast one out of the air in half as many shots. “WTF dude, how do you do that?”
“I get crits”
“What’s a crit???”
You're only level 50? Yeah the game probably didn't give you the prompt until this point. No one expects you to know something you don't know. I'm level 590+ and only yesterday did I learn your legendary perk cards are not only swappable they also retain any upgrades you applied indefinitely. I thought they reset every time you removed the legendary card. I've used the same legendary cards the entire 1300+ hours I've played. That's learning something later than expected. You're just playing the game. Legendary weapons before level 50 are pointless.
I still think changing legendary card cost one perkpoint is bullshit tho... they already give us a card loudout system, why try to loosely restrict us like that? One perk point is not much, but whats the point is what im trying to understand.
The more weapon and armor plans you know, the more diluted your loot pool becomes. Try to resist the urge to learn every single plan you come across unless you actually want the weapon/armor.
Almost every weapon and armor piece that was in the game at launch is part of the loot pool whether you know the plans or not. The "don't learn plans" tip only applies to things that have been added since then.
I've played here and there since launch but I've just started really loving the game and this is so true. I'm gonna go through and make a proper build but unsure if I want rifleman, heavy, commando, or melee
I thought I could scrap the cremator to get mods for it. Ended up making about 20 or so. I had just started playing and didn’t know the mods were in the rest of the season pass.
I regrettably did the same with scrapping flamers to try to get more mods for the holy fire.
Ultracite calibrated shocks are extremely rare, and at one point I had 4 of them for sale for 15 caps. Dude was nice enough to inform me they were extremely rare via Xbox messages without buying any, gave him 2 for free for the heads up. (I have since learned they are great for trades instead of junk in the vendor)
You may mark a Perk in your build for sharing in the Perk menu ("T" for PC), that is then given to everyone else on your team.
The requirement to do so is to have at least 3 points of Charisma for each rank the Perk has. (A rank 1 Perk needs 3 points, rank 2 needs 6, rank 3 needs 9, etc.)
Do be careful about which Perk you choose to share; I have seen posts about people who realized that their highly irradiated teammates had in fact chosen that lifestyle!
Not sure if anybodys commented about this yet. But almost lv800 and just learned yesterday off reddit you could have a full set of animated perk cards versus the static plain jane perk cards. Every 5 levels the last card in your booster pack is animated supposedly lol.
If you die in a fissure site and can’t reach your loot you can place your power armor at the bottom then enter it. You can run around the fissure and jump out, but if you jump and land in it again you’ll die.
I can do without "Action boy/girl" perk card if I have the AP replenish effect on all the armor pieces and get room for other useful Agility perks, especially on my Pistol build!
The Fasnacht event that many players post about is a real celebration that has been occurring for over 50 years in Helvetia, West Virginia. The festival symbolizes the end of winter and culminates with a night parade and then burning of Old Man Winter.
The attention to detail between how the town is represented in FO 76 vs. How the town looks IRL is just crazy.
Steins in the windows of Honey Haus, with those checkerboard windows... That's how it literally looks irl.
I played that event for 4 years before finding out.
Pre-level 30 I didn't know you could repair weapons at a workbench. Thought you needed repair kits, so I just picked up a new gun when one of mine broke
You don't have to go to all the circles in the hoard events, just the area the enemy you have to find is, so if it's super mutant hoard just travel to the same or steakhouse and you've completed the event easy 3 star legendary guaranteed
550 hour on PS, 150 on PC, last month I realized you don't only get Treasury notes from Foundation/Crater dailies. This information, of course comes AFTER I grind/wait for weeks and months to buy power armour plans from regs.
Also yesterday I ran into Minerva for the first time, and she sells things at a discount! Didn't know that, feel dumb
(on PC) Holding Ctrl+ Uo/Down allows you to page through your inventory instead of slowly scrolling one by one. I wasted *so* much time scrolling through to find things.
This has been a big game changer for me when i first discovered not too long ago. Scrolling through food as a carnivore was painful. There also a mod on PC that let you cycle through Food/Water/Cooked Food/Boiled Water, hope Bethesda can officially implement this.
Spotlights have a purpose, and make your turrets *far* more useful. Like, they actually hit enemies. Any target within the shared line of sight of a spotlight and another one of your turrets gets the boom.
Also, one spotlight = one flamingo unit!
That going to the top of lookout towers and looking out gives you the opportunity to “observe” or “examine” or something like that which puts grayed out markers of locations to discover in the general area. Makes it a little easier to discover new locations that way.
Somewhere around level 220 I discovered my survival tent (Enclave APC) can be plopped down almost anywhere for free whenever I want - I was always under the impression that the tent replaced my CAMP (I now know it does not replace the CAMP).
This in turn led to further discovery of being able to scrap and repair whenever, instead of trying to lug my over encumbered ass 100 miles at a snails pace to a Red Rocket or train station or hope to find a wild workbench or other player's CAMP.
That logic gates are possible. It was a feature in Fallout 4 in the form of buildable objects, which is missing from 76, but I (and others) have discovered workarounds. Why does this matter? It doesn't, it's just fun.
How is it useful? If you've tried connecting two switches to a garage door, then you must switch both off to shut it, meaning you have to be on the side you just exited from. With an XOR gate, you may switch the switches whichever way you wish - it will toggle the door exactly as you'd want it to: https://youtu.be/f0c8VL9wgXw?si=ww-j2vAzxy6Qr9Qs
If you break a weapon in your hotwheel and repair it from the wheel with a kit, you can re-equip it faster by reselecting it out of the wheel rather than changing weapons.
The little plus sign when you’re adding/removing ammo or other items from your stash let’s you input the exact amount you want.
Looting all nearby corpses at once instead of looting every single one individually, took me around 300 levels to figure this out lol
to not scrap 3 star weapons until you know more about them... I got a holy fire around level 30 and didn't have any interest in flamethrower weapons. Now, the regular flamer is one of my top3 most used guns. Learned it's the best one and my favorite color blue at that.
I'm level 140 now and come across them in vendors, but they're always 1-2k more caps than I have, or 20k+. Before the recent update, I came across 5 being sold for 5k caps each. I had 4k, and then the game crashed before I could sell anything 😢
Level 159 when I realized I can use the S.P.E.C.I.A.L Stand to create a secondary perk build and use that for a full on CAMP build for green thumb, super duper, etc, instead of swapping cards constantly.
That X01 armor was wayyyy more easily obtainable then the Ultracite armor
I actually farmed my ultracite from fission sites at low level took about a month to obtain all the parts
Just to find out that the hell cat and X01 were both way more easier to obtain.
I'm level 408 and only realised last week, if you have multiple of the same treasure map you can click the same spot multiple times to claim them all in one go.
I did not know that. Lol holy shit. Thanks
Oops, so that's why some level 300 guy came and bought all my extras that I had selling at 0 caps.....lol
Oh god. Thanks for reminding me. I’ve got some in my vendor!! Lol
I bought 500 maps of the same site for 1500 caps. I discovered Bethesda made you unable to do anything when you have a certain level of weight...
I also discovered how quickly you can reach max weight from digging treasure maps. I had 100 and probably wasted 10-15 of them because my inventory was maxed. Then the slow walk to the train station… Now what I do is dig 10, drop weapons and armor, dig another 10, etc.
I kind of anticipated it so I made a temporary camp nearby to avoid that. But I also had to destroy some of the stuff, yeah.
Temp camp is smart. It took me about 5 trips back and forth from the closest train station to clear the loot bag I left on the ground. Luckily I was digging in a spot near a train station.
Why don’t you just build some craft tables in a shelter, then walk around moving your camp using your shelter as a survival tent?
Psssst get the survival tent this season. It lets you fully take care of everything you get from treasure maps.
You can fast travel to whitesprings overencumbered if you start a expedition and immediately fast travel back.
A great tip, if you are over encumbered, you can ALWAYS travel to any of the expedition locations, and after that fast travel to whitespring resort.
You have to select Whitespring Refuge. Can't fast travel to the other resort locations
I’m 317 and have no idea what to do with the treasure maps tbh, never bothered with them 🤣 is it worth it?
Not always but Google the locations to make it easier. You can sometimes uncover plans that are only within the treasure maps but other than that occasional legendary, standard plans and junk
I learned this when I wandered into a CAMP and chatted with the owner a bit, and then he dropped 300 (duped) of the same map on me and told me to follow him. He plopped down a tent and we spent forever digging up treasure. Then two newish players joined our team and we convinced them to come over to stand around and join in on the loot.
Well fudge! I've been selling my extras all this time. Gonna have to grab those out of the vendor bot tonight...
Someone sold 100 of the same map for 7 caps. Easiest 700 I ever spent.
Wait you can click treasure maps?
You have to carry them to the location and then click the dig spot as many times as you have maps on your person.
Huh, well I’m level 100 something and just learned how treasure maps work. Lol
I learned from this Reddit sub just a couple months ago, and I had been giving all my extra ones away thinking that I needed one through 10 or whatever to make it to a final location.
I’ve been selling mine lol.
I also did not know this! I’ve been hopping servers lol
Drinking from the sulphur fountain at the Whitesprings clears your diseases ❤️
Sulphur fountain? Where's that?
Go to whitespring golf club. Turn your back to the club and run to your character left. You will see a circular thing with dome roof and columns. There it is.
The circular thing is a gazebo. :)
Right. English is my second language and I forgot the word for a minute. Damn I even forgot it in my language or I would jsut have used a translator.
It's all good, apologies if I came across as snarky or anything I really was trying to help hah. I also would never have known it's your second language - your English is great! Better than many English people, to be honest...
By the tennis courts at that back near golf club. Turn around from where you spawn 🎾
[it's a real thing!](https://youtu.be/FvDvE5KNVWs?si=kQQqBHXNIanOq6hi)
Holy crap, nice
2 corn + 2 tatos + 2 mutfruit = 1 vegetable starch at a cooking station.... 1 vegetable starch scrapped = 2 excess adhesive Edited to add where to make the starch.
You can also harvest pitcher plants around Cranberry Bog for it. With green thumb they give you two digested goo. One gives you four excess adhesive, so you have eight with this perk.
Ohh this I didn't know. And I like this. Toss in the magazine for more yield also and now your cooking with crisco
Which magazine? I only collect them but not use them. If you want to gather it you need to be careful, because it’s like with firecracker berry, if you are not careful you’ll lose what was in that plant.
I don't remember it's name but I help onto one that said it give double harvesting yield. I never used it but assumed it stacked with green thumb.
Level 700+ someone shared with me last week holding x while in build mode let's you move things closer or farther from you EDIT: Shout out to Kitten 😻for sharing that tip. I feel a little better knowing I'm not the only one who's mind was blown.
Shift on PC, then scroll the wheel
My god, I’ve built over 4000 camp items and am at lvl 354 and did not know this, thank you 🙏
Also the bumper buttons move things up and down while holding x
You can WHAT
this comment has changed so many lives including mine good god for clarity's sake because I can't log on right now, is that x on xbox or ps5 controllers?
My brain just popped. Thanks for this. - level 430...
Holding space bar to crit repeatedly.
I’m a newer player only 37 just figuring out how vats and crits work. I’ve just been headshotting enemies with my hunting rifle and that seems to work lol. For crits - do you just have to hit the space bar once if you get one? And do you have to crit in vats?
You can *only* crit in vats. Once your crit meter is filled you hit space bar or y. But if you hold it down it will auto crit every time the bar is filled instead of having to hit it multiple times.
I have been jumping like an idiot since the beta. Just found this out 2 weeks ago.
I’m in the same damn boat. Still a little annoyed it took me 5+ years to find out. Edit: I had just woken up and was writing nonsense
I have no clue why I thought it was some kind of rhythm game to land a crit.
Also remap jump.
My brother and I play on console. He did this and I did not. So sometimes when I login under him to do dallies/weeklies for him it always throws me for a loop cause he swapped those buttons 😂
After 20 years of playing videogames with space bar as default jump key? No thank you.
Didn't find this out until lvl 500... could have saved my thumb so much spamming
You can "upgrade" your backpack by crafting a higher level version every ten levels, going up to 30 inventory space. If you complete the first three Tadpole badges for Pioneer Scouts and reach Possum rank, you get a backpack with twice as much space per level, up to 60. And the extended backpack mod from Possum Tokens doesn't just add +5 space, it doubles whatever your current backpack has. When looking at the preview for that mod, it told me that my backpack goes from +5 to +10, which seemed like not much reward for all that work, so I put it off for ages. Turns out I would actually have gone from +5 to +120.
I need 6 more possum badges!! I'll get there eventually, I think lol
You got this! Scoutmaster daily quests and Campfire Tales event. You'll have it in no time!
I want the scout backpack but I find the tadpole challenges so baffling, ahh.
Some of them would definitely be made a lot easier with a player willingly killing themselves in a convenient spot, and/or a guide telling you exactly where the objectives are. And then there's the one that tells you to launch a nuke. What the hell kind of summer camp is this!? Still, since you only need three (as opposed to the eight you need for the tougher Possum challenges), it might be worth finding the most reasonable ones and making completing them a priority. Especially since it lets you start the Possum ones, which you might be completing objectives for without getting credit as we speak. I really wish they'd change that...
That giving bulk technical data only gives you one reward rather than turning it one by one to get multiple rewards
You can put the rest in your stash and repeat the quest immediately by taking them out one by one (at least when the brotherhood storyline came out you could, not sure about now)
You should always give two technical data. From two you have the chance to win a legendary weapon. This is especially nice for low level characters while leveling.
Didn’t know that thanks
Dang it!!
Bought a duplicate full set of secret service armor from Minerva hoping to give it to my brother, then realized afterward purchasing that gold bullion plans aren’t tradable.
That one takes the cake for the most brutal lesson learned. 5000+ bullion down the drain. I think you win this thread cous
You are right it was a lesson learned. It ended up being ok after the initial sting. Even opened a ticket with Bethesda afterward for allowing the option to rebuy plans with no trade/drop value. Fortunately, I had a lot of treasury notes to redeem and was capped at 10k billion during that Minerva sale. Felt bad because my brother doesn’t have as time to play lately so when we finally got together in game in front of Minerva I was excited had hyped up using the jet pack then slowly realized my error when attempting to drop the plans for him. All is well now because he let me log into his account so I could get him last seasons cremator and mod rewards and I had grinded enough bullion to get him the chest and jetpack from Minerva during the previous sale so he can finally fly around with me in the wasteland :)
They let you buy repeated untradeble plans? Thats low.
Yeah I was gonna say shame on them for even having the option there
I think he is saying he bought the plans twice. Probably allowed him to do that because he had not learned it yet. Once he did I believe it would stop him from buying it again.
It didn't stop me from misclicking on a known plan last year.
Big oof
Thank you for this, I was just considering buying my partner the set of plans since they don't play as much as I do.
I was lvl 100+ before realizing you can be on a casual team without having to actually play with or talk to your teammates. I also didn't realize how good the cremator was (ignored it the season I got it due to my build) until everyone was already sick of it lol so now I just use it when I'm solo so no one else is blinded but me.
Yeah no joining a casual team like as soon as you log in is the move
Pickup the Friendly Fire perk and be the hero no one wants
Cremator makes for a good solo Tea Time if no one else on your server appreciates the finer things in life.
I wish that changing loadouts wouldn't stop you from sharing your chosen perk. I had assumed that if the loadout you switched to had the same perk card in it, that it'd stay shared, but it strips it away regardless.
You can store items in a container on a private server and pick them up with a different character
Okay yes BUT it needs to be a container, like a locker. I use Sutton station's locker for this purpose. Don't be like Saul and lose a bunch of valuable plans because you assumed loot bags on the ground will last until you're done shuffling gear. My eye still twitches thinking about the caps value of the plans I lost.
Yes, a container. NOT one inside the Whitesprings Refuge, though. Or any other instanced interior. Ask me how I know this.
I lost like 4 power armor sets this way. That HURT. Had to trade to get new ones.
It wasn't until I was like 800 or something that I learned that you could pull up your pipboy on screen and make is transparent rather than have to look down at your wrist
Underrated for those who like having situational awareness
Definite quality of life improvement for if you're trying on different apparel. Go 3rd person - turn your camera around - if the pip boy is transparent, you can still see your character while you try on whatever outfit combos you fancy.
I should have stored scrap rather then selling it for cheap.
It takes a looot of space, so at least you didn't inflict yourself a pain in inventory management.
I gotta say that after playing hundreds of hours I still experience huge lack of inventory space; however, I use many space saving perks and mods, excavation power armor, and strength is maxed. Stash space is also permanently full with all kinds of exotic weapons that drop rarely. Bethesda, give me a huge bag to fit all the crap I pick up as soon as I see it.
Also perk cards and armor perks don’t work in stash or scrap/ammo boxes only while you’re carrying the items
Honestly the main reason for Fallout 1st - the scrapbox. You can even just get it for a month, dump your scrap in there, then cancel the subscription if you're so inclined. The scrap doesn't go anywhere once you're not Fallout 1st, you just can't add more. Same goes for the Ammo box. Absolute lifesavers.
That I didn't have to leave the cave after the Earl fight. Just collect screws and get teleported to the front when the timer runs down. That if I'm overweight I can travel to op or expedition and then exit to White spring and do inventory management there. That the spring at the golf course removes diseases. There's a chat mod that's pretty awesome, and makes the game feel more 'alive'. That the camp module spawn area is approximately one block east and six blocks north. Edited to word better.
How does the over weight to Whitesprings work? I tried it and it just said I was was OW and couldn’t fast travel from the expedition screen
Enter expedition, I tested with both AC and the pitt. Then fast travel to White springs from map, choose refuge. Pretty sure it has to be to one of the free destinations to work. I just logged on and over weighted myself to test it. Immediately upon spawning in, walk down the stairs to the mall, take a right down the hall. The ammo/stash/scrap box will be closer to the end of the hall, on the left across from the shop with the green walls. Hope this helps!
Just a warning: you will get used to doing this efficiently essentially negating any overburdened problems. I routinely pick up like 20 miniguns getting my weight to the 750/300, then fast travel to AC, then to whitespring, quick fat walk and end of story.
You can only fast travel to the main whitesprings entrance. Not the north entrance or the mall.
That the charisma legendary perk card doesn't count towards the level of perk card you can share
Wait, seriously? So let say i have 1 charisma and max rank legendary charisma, total would be 6, i cant share rank 2 card?
I'm level 200 something and I just learned the Nuka-World events gives me points that I can turn in for rewards.
Please elaborate!
You get nuka points that you can trade in at the terminal at the tent for special plans and other stuff.
Go to the terminals in the main tent, there are levels of prizes. Every Nuka event gives out nukapoints
There's a tent near the platform with all of the benches, it has a lot of games in it. There's a machine on the left that you can buy stuff from. If you buy the game blueprints from the machine you can build them in your camp and play them for points.
The bottom left menu on the map that people use to quick jump to Daily Ops, or a Public Event, or to check a Nuke, has a secondary menu you can toggle to that lists everything, including visible player camps and regular events that are currently active, and fast Travel to each using that menu. (no hunting through the map)
Dogs are useless at keeping themselves alive once they realise that you will do it for them, kids are the same.... Oh in the game?... Events still work at lower levels, don't be afraid to join in even if it says "recommend 50"
For a second I thought...What dogs? Then I read the kids part 🤣🤣🤣
Gold bullion, I didn’t even know what it was. I want to say I had like 600 tickets before I realized where people were getting these cool blue prints.
Where?
There are bullion merchants in Foundation, the Crater, Vault 79 and one traveling merchant. You trade in treasury notes at machines around the wasteland for bullion. You get the notes by completing certain quest or the in game events. I did a ton of events leveling up and never realized I was being rewarded with them. Each merchants has their own blueprints ranging from utility items, resources, armor, power armor, weapons, buff items or cosmetics. Edit: you can spawn in the Crater interior and talk to Mortimer. The Crater vendor is easy to find and definitely has different blueprints than the Foundation vendor. The treasury note machines do have shared loot pools so you only need one.
Just to add to the other guy's comment - the easiest to find machine that you trade in your treasury notes to is (in my opinion) in the Whitespring Mall crafting area. It's the first machine to your right as you enter the crafting room. Can't miss it.
Crucial to know this, it should be visited every day and redeemed.
Daily challenges for score and the scoreboard. I kept seeing people talk about doing the "dailies" and thought they meant the quests marked "daily". I was over level 50 before I even knew about claiming my scoreboard items. I play for fun and didn't care about the "scoreboard" which I assumed was a leaderboard of sorts showing the rankings of top players. Turns out, I was missing all the rewards!
Same! I was like doing all the mission dailies sounds boring when there’s other activities to do. Then someone made a post on here about spending the seasonal tickets and I was like wait what?
I’m level 154, been away from the game for a few years and only just realised I never downloaded the schematics for the X01 despite doing all of that years ago. Only realised when I was helping out a level 53 and asked if they wanted anything else and they asked for that.
In fairness I do ‘t think the game ever properly directs you to that and quite a few guides in the early days said you had to buy the initial plans. Confusing them with the mods.
That with the concentrated fire perk you can scroll your mouse wheel to select which part to target in VATS ...
This perk alone makes the pistol worth playing. Just leave VATS targeted on the head, chuge a cup of coffee, and poof you can John Wick a whole room.
I’m Xbox it’s the right stick. Tap it left or right I believe.
Sugar is craftable.
OMFG
Yes...Snaptail reed found along the river and some large bodies of water. Gather that and cook it. Makes sugar 🙂
Start at the Wayward and head west along the river. Then go north along the shore when you get to the end. It's a nice pretty walk and you get a nice amount of Snaptails
Been playing since launch and only found out last week after my partner told me that left on the d pad switches between your two most recently equipped weapons.
Left- Weapon Up - Favorites Right - Stimpak Down - Emotes
When I first started playing I would always hit the stim button while fighting, kept wasting my stims and this was before wastelanders so it was impossible to find anything lol
Launching nukes is pretty easy. I tried once when I was like lvl 60 and got torn apart. I just got to lvl 200 and decided to try again. I launched 3 last night and it was so fun! Its cool to trigger events that everyone comes to. Every silo is the same, and if you solo it, it doesnt spawn a lot of enemies. If you havent tried in a awhile and have better gear now, give it another shot!
Even easier if you carry mainframe cores that are already repaired and photo mode glitch your way past the reactor. Last nuke I launched took me about 10 or 15 minutes. Having two screens on my PC helps too, I have the nuka crypt website pulled up with the current launch codes for each silo.
When overencumbered, go to any expedition location and “travel to district.” Once loaded in, pull up map and go to the east Whitesprings location and select the refuge. BOOM. You’re basically at the mall. Note: The other Whitespring locations will not allow you to travel, it must be the refuge one.
that I need to actually pick a legendary perk and put it in slot
Haha, played for a year before I learned how to get a “crit”. Was astounded how quick my discord buddy was downing Scorchbeasts, time after time. Would take me 12-15 head shots with my best Fixer and he’d blast one out of the air in half as many shots. “WTF dude, how do you do that?” “I get crits” “What’s a crit???”
You're only level 50? Yeah the game probably didn't give you the prompt until this point. No one expects you to know something you don't know. I'm level 590+ and only yesterday did I learn your legendary perk cards are not only swappable they also retain any upgrades you applied indefinitely. I thought they reset every time you removed the legendary card. I've used the same legendary cards the entire 1300+ hours I've played. That's learning something later than expected. You're just playing the game. Legendary weapons before level 50 are pointless.
I still think changing legendary card cost one perkpoint is bullshit tho... they already give us a card loudout system, why try to loosely restrict us like that? One perk point is not much, but whats the point is what im trying to understand.
The more weapon and armor plans you know, the more diluted your loot pool becomes. Try to resist the urge to learn every single plan you come across unless you actually want the weapon/armor.
But I NEED to know them all....
You are indeed your worst enemy ;)
😱 Being a loot goblin just became more painful than usual! I thought I only had to worry about regular inventory management!
Well. Shit.
I wish I knew this a while ago :/
Precisely why I stay away from plans like death tambo and other useless melee weapons
On the plus side, the death tambo is a lightweight 3 star legendary that can sit in your vendor forever at 1k cap. Great for attracting people.
Almost every weapon and armor piece that was in the game at launch is part of the loot pool whether you know the plans or not. The "don't learn plans" tip only applies to things that have been added since then.
At level 50 years ago, DO NOT MAKE AN ALL AROUNDER BUILD.
I've played here and there since launch but I've just started really loving the game and this is so true. I'm gonna go through and make a proper build but unsure if I want rifleman, heavy, commando, or melee
Daily cap limit farming. Easy way to build caps.
What’s the limit? And farming what
You can only get 1400 a day from vendors. Grab the apocalypse hat from the stamp guy. Craft 88 at 2 cloth each and sell them daily.
Where’s the stamp guy?
You can only get 1400 a day from vendors. Grab the apocalypse hat from the stamp guy. Craft 88 at 2 cloth each and sell them daily.
You can only get 1400 a day from vendors. Grab the apocalypse hat from the stamp guy. Craft 88 at 2 cloth each and sell them daily.
I thought I could scrap the cremator to get mods for it. Ended up making about 20 or so. I had just started playing and didn’t know the mods were in the rest of the season pass. I regrettably did the same with scrapping flamers to try to get more mods for the holy fire.
Ultracite calibrated shocks are extremely rare, and at one point I had 4 of them for sale for 15 caps. Dude was nice enough to inform me they were extremely rare via Xbox messages without buying any, gave him 2 for free for the heads up. (I have since learned they are great for trades instead of junk in the vendor)
You can buy up to 300 gold at the Wayward each week with caps.
Didn’t know about the “loot nearby corpses” option till around lvl 60
Only just found out last week that if it’s grayed out, looking away from the corpse and looking back at it should make it available.
How? That option pops up when you hover over a corpse right?
To upgrade to a new crafted backpack every 5 levels up to 50. Which seems to be one many people miss I don’t feel so bad
You may mark a Perk in your build for sharing in the Perk menu ("T" for PC), that is then given to everyone else on your team. The requirement to do so is to have at least 3 points of Charisma for each rank the Perk has. (A rank 1 Perk needs 3 points, rank 2 needs 6, rank 3 needs 9, etc.) Do be careful about which Perk you choose to share; I have seen posts about people who realized that their highly irradiated teammates had in fact chosen that lifestyle!
Not sure if anybodys commented about this yet. But almost lv800 and just learned yesterday off reddit you could have a full set of animated perk cards versus the static plain jane perk cards. Every 5 levels the last card in your booster pack is animated supposedly lol.
I had to use a terminal in the bunker to unlock X-01. I’m level 475, been playing on and off since launch.
I just got into the Whitesprings bunker last night, so I’m going to be looking for this terminal as soon as I log in today! Thanks!
If you die in a fissure site and can’t reach your loot you can place your power armor at the bottom then enter it. You can run around the fissure and jump out, but if you jump and land in it again you’ll die.
Alternatively, you could drop something nearby at the top of the fissure and hope it pulls all your loot together
I sold my hardened and glowing masses to an npc vendor because I didn’t know what they were for and they sold for a lot
Thought mutations would be a bad thing until around level 60. Started reading Reddit and watching YouTube on the game around then.
I can do without "Action boy/girl" perk card if I have the AP replenish effect on all the armor pieces and get room for other useful Agility perks, especially on my Pistol build!
I dropped it shortly after getting the company tea machine. Just running around non stop with my pinkie out now.
The Fasnacht event that many players post about is a real celebration that has been occurring for over 50 years in Helvetia, West Virginia. The festival symbolizes the end of winter and culminates with a night parade and then burning of Old Man Winter. The attention to detail between how the town is represented in FO 76 vs. How the town looks IRL is just crazy. Steins in the windows of Honey Haus, with those checkerboard windows... That's how it literally looks irl. I played that event for 4 years before finding out.
Pre-level 30 I didn't know you could repair weapons at a workbench. Thought you needed repair kits, so I just picked up a new gun when one of mine broke
You can???
That the special stats can be increased past 10. I'm level 55 with 90ish hours and just found this out when I was leveling up my second load out.
How to level up perk cards. I was around level 70 when I noticed you shouldn't just immediately scrap your extras.
This https://www.reddit.com/r/fo76/s/30oESV4N7h Animated perk cards?! Fml
At lvl 200+ I learned that when your digging up treasure, any players standing nearby also get caps, drugs, and junk. (They don;t get plans though.)
You don't have to go to all the circles in the hoard events, just the area the enemy you have to find is, so if it's super mutant hoard just travel to the same or steakhouse and you've completed the event easy 3 star legendary guaranteed
550 hour on PS, 150 on PC, last month I realized you don't only get Treasury notes from Foundation/Crater dailies. This information, of course comes AFTER I grind/wait for weeks and months to buy power armour plans from regs. Also yesterday I ran into Minerva for the first time, and she sells things at a discount! Didn't know that, feel dumb
Remapping the location of eject from power armor so I don’t accidentally hit it each time I’m charged by a legendary deathclaw.
Hold up, where is that in the game settings because that’s the worst offender for me
The treasure maps are an actual thing and not just a cool thing they added, and that probably the last time I treasure hunted I was probably way off
(on PC) Holding Ctrl+ Uo/Down allows you to page through your inventory instead of slowly scrolling one by one. I wasted *so* much time scrolling through to find things.
This has been a big game changer for me when i first discovered not too long ago. Scrolling through food as a carnivore was painful. There also a mod on PC that let you cycle through Food/Water/Cooked Food/Boiled Water, hope Bethesda can officially implement this.
Spotlights have a purpose, and make your turrets *far* more useful. Like, they actually hit enemies. Any target within the shared line of sight of a spotlight and another one of your turrets gets the boom. Also, one spotlight = one flamingo unit!
I was level 15 when I learned how to use VATS.
I’m level 43 and just found out the same thing. Was wondering how you got scrip. But I’ve been selling mine for cheap at my camp :(
That u can eliminate words or refresh trys from hacking computer terminals by clicking on non word strings. Player since just after beta
The toy cars have screws
Hold down the critical button while in vats using automatic weapons. Especially if you just spawn in.
That you need to re-craft your backpack as you level up to 50 to increase carry weight.
That going to the top of lookout towers and looking out gives you the opportunity to “observe” or “examine” or something like that which puts grayed out markers of locations to discover in the general area. Makes it a little easier to discover new locations that way.
Somewhere around level 220 I discovered my survival tent (Enclave APC) can be plopped down almost anywhere for free whenever I want - I was always under the impression that the tent replaced my CAMP (I now know it does not replace the CAMP). This in turn led to further discovery of being able to scrap and repair whenever, instead of trying to lug my over encumbered ass 100 miles at a snails pace to a Red Rocket or train station or hope to find a wild workbench or other player's CAMP.
Lvl 358 here. Never knew you could craft bulk materials and scrap them for dailys until I joined this group 3 months ago.
I learned that when leveling up, you don’t have to choose a perk card from the same SPECIAL you leveled up
That logic gates are possible. It was a feature in Fallout 4 in the form of buildable objects, which is missing from 76, but I (and others) have discovered workarounds. Why does this matter? It doesn't, it's just fun. How is it useful? If you've tried connecting two switches to a garage door, then you must switch both off to shut it, meaning you have to be on the side you just exited from. With an XOR gate, you may switch the switches whichever way you wish - it will toggle the door exactly as you'd want it to: https://youtu.be/f0c8VL9wgXw?si=ww-j2vAzxy6Qr9Qs
At level 100 I figured out you need to press a button to fire a crit. My build is a semi auto crit build.
If you break a weapon in your hotwheel and repair it from the wheel with a kit, you can re-equip it faster by reselecting it out of the wheel rather than changing weapons.
That you can access the repair menu for items from your quick wheel.
The little plus sign when you’re adding/removing ammo or other items from your stash let’s you input the exact amount you want. Looting all nearby corpses at once instead of looting every single one individually, took me around 300 levels to figure this out lol
to not scrap 3 star weapons until you know more about them... I got a holy fire around level 30 and didn't have any interest in flamethrower weapons. Now, the regular flamer is one of my top3 most used guns. Learned it's the best one and my favorite color blue at that. I'm level 140 now and come across them in vendors, but they're always 1-2k more caps than I have, or 20k+. Before the recent update, I came across 5 being sold for 5k caps each. I had 4k, and then the game crashed before I could sell anything 😢
Level 159 when I realized I can use the S.P.E.C.I.A.L Stand to create a secondary perk build and use that for a full on CAMP build for green thumb, super duper, etc, instead of swapping cards constantly.
I still don't know how to use grenades. I'm LV 304.....
That X01 armor was wayyyy more easily obtainable then the Ultracite armor I actually farmed my ultracite from fission sites at low level took about a month to obtain all the parts Just to find out that the hell cat and X01 were both way more easier to obtain.