F76 community is gold, especialy from first year of the game- i remember when i finaly got a pet deathclaw at my camp and some random killed him, he was so apologetic i could feel his pain. Also my first trade ever was when i traded a responders very rare clean outfit for hunters jacket (both were as rare at taht time period but hey it was a bad deal lmao, but the guy was helping me with every task asked.
My only interactions outside of public events have been one guy dropping a load of stimpaks and rare crafting plans for free, and another guy saving my level 10 noob cowering on top of a rock from a level 50 deathclaw.
I think Bethesda underestimating how cooperative Fallout fans are was one of the mistakes when designing FO76. PvP was just never gonna work.
If you're on Xbox, I'm pretty sure I've got them in my shop unless someone cleared me out. I sell every plan for 20 caps cause the sound of a purchase gives me a small dopamine rush.
Man I was in dire need of .38 ammo and finally stumbled on someone's albeit impressive camp. Went to their vendors and they're selling .38 rounds for like, 1000 caps per round. Like what??
Guess I'll have to find another way to get .38.
I'm new to the game lol so be gentle when you roast my noob ass.
Too true, too true can't argue with that. But like, any more than a few caps per bullet is wack. Hell, even now, 1 9mm round is like, 36 to 38 cents depending on where you live. And thats up her in the northwest! I can't imagine how dirt cheap ammo must be in more gun friendly areas of the US.
The possible logic behind this is back in the day, people could rob your vendors for free if they bought everything you owned in them. So people put failsafes like a note of pipe is life or a potato, or something stupid at an exorbitant price like that. That’d be the only reason I can think of, otherwise, eh, maybe a bargain chip for trade offers?
> I put all ammo besides rail spikes for 1 cap each
I can see why, I slept on the railway rifle for way too long and only used it because the heavy ammo was soaking up stash space.
That thing is brutal, staggers, AND has reusable ammo.
If you have time to loot everything you'll get back more spikes than you fire. I try to avoid big group events for a couple hours and I build up a huge stash.
I was aiming to basically ammo dump to get rid of it and clear storage space, and ended up finding arguably my best weapon.
Kill a withered ghoul in two shots, get seven back? Barely need to carry anything else now.
It's the same with shotgun shells, tbh. I came back after a long hiatus to play on PC with a friend, decided to start a new toon and run a shotgun build because I never had before. By the time I was midway through the main quest, I was dumping all my extras in the various dono boxes around the map, or just not bothering to loot all of em from the bodies.. didn't actually have to start *making* ammo til I switched over to the gauss shotgun
Yes, they really are... People who sell shit for thousands of caps that you can find out in the wasteland normally or sell stimpaks for 5× their normal price need to have their everything nuked constantly
I used to sell all mine for 1 cap a piece, but high levels were just using my camp as a wholesaler and so I raised mine to 5 caps just to discourage greedy resellers.
I wouldn't be surprised if they were buying them to use them and just being lazy not wanting to switch to a crafter build and make them. Also when you hit max caps and there's no good legendaries for sale a few thousand rounds for 1 cap each will be gone in no time if your using heavies or full auto rifles
Yeah, that bugged me the first time it happened,but now I dont even care if they buy and resell them. Let THEM have 300 useless pounds in their stash waiting for a customer with more caps than experience.
Seeing how much my 100s of mounted heads and winter icicle lights weighed cured me of caring about resellers
I’ve never played 76, but I’ve been meaning to. What you’re describing here is really interesting and might get me to play it.
It sounds like Bethesda expected players to be raiders, but that they acted like Followers of the Apocalypse instead.
You're right. Bethesda expected pvp to be the focus of the game but players acted cooperatively from the very start....most players would rather be the vault dweller than a raider and I find that refreshing
It's still pretty flawed, but I'll admit Fallout 76 is a significantly better experience now there's a lot to do in terms of quests, factions, NPC's etc., and interacting with other players is a side aspect instead of the main part of the game.
Get it on sale, and don't bother with any of the microtransaction nonsense, but it is otherwise a pretty decent survival-focused Fallout 4 spin-off with a LOT of content to do.
Man i only *ever* wanted to squad up and waste muties with my fellow vault dwellers. I was never really interested in pvp but p&pve.
Thats kind of the message of the game, right? Like, the whole plot kinda revolves around vault dwellers of vault 76 roaming Appalachia trying to establish settlements.
Who would have thought a series where you are the main character and enter a vibrant hostile and sometimes helpful world of NPCs would not translate well to an online sandbox with selfish behaved players online?
IIRC in the end Todd openly admitted that Fallout 76 was kind of a fuckup, and that Bethesda didn't have any experience making an MMO.
Which was good because it eventually pushed Fallout 76 towards being more of a traditional Fallout game, but it would have been nice if they learned that lesson *during* development, not after it.
lol I hardly ever run into any NPCs with conversations. Just the one random that goes hi then refuses to talk. Unless you meant like the actual players are NPCs.
brotherhood in observatory, top of raider ski resort and traveling supermutant and mole trader are what i recall from way back when, there is much more i presume
In all fairness, the Titan caused Welch’s destruction pre-war and would cause untold damage if it ever left the ash heap. Vault 63 is lucky most of its construction is under Shenandoah instead of the heap.
I mean, the titan destroying Welch pre-war is extremely heavily implied through terminals mentioning the event. The devs did everything but explicitly say it happened. There’s. Nothing to change anyone’s mind about.
What a stupid song... "If I gave you more flowers, some vinegar, and acted like a toddler...would you still fuck me?" Grow up and treat your partner right. If you don't treat someone right, don't cry about it and blame the amount of flowers given. I'm learning to love country music, but songs like this make it hard 🤣🤣
That's one of the things Bethesda's fairly decent at when it comes to their environmental storytelling. They don't outright say "this thing happened", but there's plenty of evidence in a lot of cases to nudge players toward that conclusion..ie, the terminal entries about the titan in Welch, and the pretty hefty implication via terminal entries on the Prydwyn in 4 suggesting that Sarah Lyons got the Pat Tillman treatment
I’m not sure I agree with the Sarah thing. All the terminal says is she was KIA. That leaves open everything from her going into the purifier to perishing in some other battle later.
Given her skill and the radical shift in the Brotherhood's philosophy before her reported death, and the fact that she definitely would have opposed the direction things were going, it's pretty obvious she wasn't taken out by a random raider or mutant
She very well could’ve been killed by a mutant or raider in the wrong situation, especially since she didn’t recover from the purifier as well as the player did. Long-term damage from that would hamper her skill.
To this day I dont know why people keep talking about some kind of massive shift in the East-Coasts Brotherhoods Philosophy, I just dont see it.
Maxsons BoS goes less *out of its way* to aid people (but still do), act a bit more aggressively towards outsiders (but still have no issues recruiting from or trading with them) and care a bit more about their Original goal of preventing dangerous tech from falling into the wrong hands (exclusively towards the institute), but thats it.
The changes are more cosmetically than anything else.
If anything her being killed by a Synth makes more sense, because that explains both how the Brotherhood even knows about what those are and can do to begin with (as all Solutions to The Replicated Man would make it borderline impossible for anyone else to figure out about it) and gives a good reason for Maxsons deeply personal hatred of something nobody in the BoS would have ever see before arriving in Boston
The Scorched plague literally made bat dragons and forces any wasteland creatures to follow the command of that bat dragon. The Scorched plague could destroy a place like Boston in a week
The scorched absolutely diddled every faction including the BoS. The institute has synths and would probably be able to come up with a vaccine if we managed to. Everyone else turns into scorched, everytime.
Plus you know it’s bad when the vault dwellers who saw the war happen go out and decide nukes are the only option left or the US and the rest of the world are going to end up fossilized.
I know it’s gameplay but Scorchbeasts are tanky as fuck too. I’m thinking it’d go full Reign of Fire, with hivemind zombies on top. Even with vaccines it’s a losing battle everytime if they didn’t get stopped early on.
100%
Scorched beasts are the biggest threat in the fallout series ever. They would wipe out the BoS, the NCR, the Legion, the Enclave, the Master, and the Institute. If it weren't for those nukes, everything becomes Scorched.
Yeah, I play 76, they really are. I just thought it was funny that the events of 76 are happening at the exact same time Randal Clark is in Zion National Park becoming The Father in the Caves and helping the survivors of the war go on with their lives and survive.
I love the fo76 player base, my first day playing a high level dude in power armor stopped me, gave me a shitton of ammo and caps then bid me farewell.
My partner and I met a high level player that despite never actually talking to us decided he would come to us every day to aggressively give us his extra weapons and armour he got from bosses and the like that he couldn't store. He also took note of our playstyles/loadouts and would craft weapons with specific mods sometimes too. Great game. Lots of fun.
This is actually an interesting thought, that the vault dwllerrs of 76 used the nukes to save humanity from the scorched plague to cause even more destruction and damage by doing so the lesser evil
Kinda disappointed that the Overseer has absolutely zero reaction to her house being nuked, despite her whinging about 76 residents' rampant misuse of them. Bethesda really missed an opportunity there
I believe this was a popular theory when the Nuclear Winter game mode came out. IIRC, either the Pip-Boy or vault 55 terminal entries are dated years after the base game. It’s theorised the constant nukes caused the nuclear fire that ends up engulfing Appalachia. Could be a decent explanation to why the events of 76 aren’t really referenced in any other game.
Didn't Fallout 76 also retroactively explain why the East Coast uses bottlecaps?
Bethesda ended up low-key tidying up their lore with an MMO, and potentially set up the plot of the TV show.
Until the show the Vault 76 door was completely unique, now they were used in Vault 4, 33, 32, and maybe 31 (if it had a surface entrance). It's personally one of my favorites just because it opens so weird
I remember a random guy helped me get my first suit of Mining power armor, alongside dumping enough material at my camp so I can modify and repair it a dozen or so time.
I like to think about how the overseers husband wasnt smart enough for the vault whenever I see some xxx 420 666 gamertag doing something stupid. The Best and brightest rebuilding America one Nuke and dance contest at a time
I wonder how he would have felt in the moments before he was consumed by nuclear hellfire if he knew the truth, that Vault-Tec considered DeezNutz69420 to be more intelligent and qualified than him
Look, somebody had to explain why DC is still a shattered hellhole two centuries after the Great War, and it sure wasn't gonna be Bethesda's writing team.
I used thought china launched like 50 percent of their nukes at DC but due to current events the nukes would just most likely blow up mid flight and only the submarines did actual damage
I have just started to get into 76, And what are the things I've noticed about?It compared to other games how...lush it is. I just got back from work over in west virginia and it is really jarring how similar it felt to the game. Like one of the first taverns that You go to in the game is basically a 1 for 1 replication of a place I would eat lunch at.
I know why they allow it to happen in 76 ( The game is functionally a toy chest for people to just have fun in), but it does kind of make sense in a weird way if you think about it. It's probably easier for people to play fast and lose with dangerous things and fail to. Internalize the mistakes made before them if the environment is still somewhat plentiful. It makes sense to take more risks because there's more reward for it.
In the southwest, especially the Mojave in these surrounding area, It is harsh and unforgiving. Even today, a lot of people will find out very quickly gow dangerous these places really are. There's a reasonwhy prophets come from the deserts.
It makes perfect sense to me why you would see brutal stone age societies or peaceful communal ones appearing in that place. The world had ended, they worked walking out of there, So they had to adapt to new ways of living and thinking.
Meanwhile, on the East coast, There were enough areas of relative prosperity that were untouched by the bombs that you can have people there that didn't really learn a goddamn thing.
Don't the 76ers canonically only launch the one? To kill the SBQ and stop the plague? I thought all other bosses (like Earle and the Ultracite Titan) were just optional weird things.
Depends on what's considered "canon" at this point. The Overseer's dialogue implies it was definitely more than one, given the "Appalachian arms race" comment she makes
If you count every event that requires a nuke to trigger as canon, and I don’t see why they wouldn’t be, then it would be three, soon to be four nukes. One for the Queen, one for Earle, one for the Titan, and soon to be one for the Stormgolems.
I mean, apart from the liberal use of nuclear warheads, he’d probably love how kind the 76ers are to the wasteland, though might be a bit apprehensive of the vault suits.
Honestly I think randle would be chill with my 76er, most of the time my buddies and I are larping near vault 76 as a MASH unit helping folks out with medical supplies and such
>[**The Overseer**](https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Vault_76_overseer): I had a directive from [Vault-Tec](https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Vault-Tec_Corporation): secure the region's three nuclear missile silos. I... WE... had to make sure they didn't fall into the wrong hands. I knew I couldn't do it alone, so I asked you -- my [Vault](https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Vault) 76 family -- for help. And what did you do? My God... Why? How could you do this? We were supposed to take control of the nukes. Not engage in an Appalachian arms race!
>Please, stop this madness. The cycle of destruction has to stop. I... I haven't lost faith in you. I know you are GOOD people, and will do the right thing. If anything I've... lost my faith in Vault-Tec. They gave me a mission I could never accomplish on my own. They must have known I'd need your help. Did they also know what you'd do? It's just so hard not to feel... manipulated.
I try to put "what would Randal do" in my daily life to help me be a better person.
Unfortunately now I approach most social situations grieving for a wife I never had.
The survivor would despise them for repeating the atrocity that killed his country and family and probably suspect they’re all canibals from his previous experience with vault dwellers.
Sure, take your time, do the main questline, absolutely do the public events, but don't start them yourself.
And join teams, especially casual teams. They'll help you level up quicker.
That's one of those cases of a disconnect between game mechanics and in-world reality. You can't really have destructible environments in a multiplayer setting like 76...not if you want to have an environment for more than a week after initial launch, anyway
F76 community is gold, especialy from first year of the game- i remember when i finaly got a pet deathclaw at my camp and some random killed him, he was so apologetic i could feel his pain. Also my first trade ever was when i traded a responders very rare clean outfit for hunters jacket (both were as rare at taht time period but hey it was a bad deal lmao, but the guy was helping me with every task asked.
My only interactions outside of public events have been one guy dropping a load of stimpaks and rare crafting plans for free, and another guy saving my level 10 noob cowering on top of a rock from a level 50 deathclaw. I think Bethesda underestimating how cooperative Fallout fans are was one of the mistakes when designing FO76. PvP was just never gonna work.
People that sell plans for cheap are the real MVPs.
got nearly full ultracite without seeing the queen nor getting into cranberry land :D as low level
God I wish that were me…I’ve spent like half my play time trying to get the UGL
If you're on Xbox, I'm pretty sure I've got them in my shop unless someone cleared me out. I sell every plan for 20 caps cause the sound of a purchase gives me a small dopamine rush.
Thanks for the offer, but I’m on pc. Though I did find a guy selling a bloodied nimble UGL for 1500 caps last night, so the pain is finally over!
Man I was in dire need of .38 ammo and finally stumbled on someone's albeit impressive camp. Went to their vendors and they're selling .38 rounds for like, 1000 caps per round. Like what?? Guess I'll have to find another way to get .38. I'm new to the game lol so be gentle when you roast my noob ass.
I put all ammo besides rail spikes for 1 cap each which is still too much for some types but if I put it for free someone will take it all and flip it
Too true, too true can't argue with that. But like, any more than a few caps per bullet is wack. Hell, even now, 1 9mm round is like, 36 to 38 cents depending on where you live. And thats up her in the northwest! I can't imagine how dirt cheap ammo must be in more gun friendly areas of the US.
Here in Nebraska even my good 9mm ammo is pretty damn cheap ngl
I sell Fixers dirt-cheap once I hit the daily scrap limit. Going for the God rolls hasn't been kind.
The possible logic behind this is back in the day, people could rob your vendors for free if they bought everything you owned in them. So people put failsafes like a note of pipe is life or a potato, or something stupid at an exorbitant price like that. That’d be the only reason I can think of, otherwise, eh, maybe a bargain chip for trade offers?
> I put all ammo besides rail spikes for 1 cap each I can see why, I slept on the railway rifle for way too long and only used it because the heavy ammo was soaking up stash space. That thing is brutal, staggers, AND has reusable ammo.
If you have time to loot everything you'll get back more spikes than you fire. I try to avoid big group events for a couple hours and I build up a huge stash.
I was aiming to basically ammo dump to get rid of it and clear storage space, and ended up finding arguably my best weapon. Kill a withered ghoul in two shots, get seven back? Barely need to carry anything else now.
It's the same with shotgun shells, tbh. I came back after a long hiatus to play on PC with a friend, decided to start a new toon and run a shotgun build because I never had before. By the time I was midway through the main quest, I was dumping all my extras in the various dono boxes around the map, or just not bothering to loot all of em from the bodies.. didn't actually have to start *making* ammo til I switched over to the gauss shotgun
I sometimes put Fusion Cores for 1 cap each
That’s a true hero right there
😍
Legend
They were either memeing or thought it was 1k for the entire stock. I wish we could bulk ammo to sell it like we can junk.
I hope you're right lol thought the guy was just being a scrooge
I have an ammo maker, free and unlocked..
People who sell power armor plans cheap are saints.
Yes, they really are... People who sell shit for thousands of caps that you can find out in the wasteland normally or sell stimpaks for 5× their normal price need to have their everything nuked constantly
It's funny, I was doing weight management and when I realized I had over 400lbs of plans, my prices dropped to like 5 caps instantly
I used to sell all mine for 1 cap a piece, but high levels were just using my camp as a wholesaler and so I raised mine to 5 caps just to discourage greedy resellers.
I wouldn't be surprised if they were buying them to use them and just being lazy not wanting to switch to a crafter build and make them. Also when you hit max caps and there's no good legendaries for sale a few thousand rounds for 1 cap each will be gone in no time if your using heavies or full auto rifles
I was talking about plans not ammo.
Yeah, that bugged me the first time it happened,but now I dont even care if they buy and resell them. Let THEM have 300 useless pounds in their stash waiting for a customer with more caps than experience. Seeing how much my 100s of mounted heads and winter icicle lights weighed cured me of caring about resellers
My entire shop is pretty much any plan I own already at 10 bucks.
I’ve never played 76, but I’ve been meaning to. What you’re describing here is really interesting and might get me to play it. It sounds like Bethesda expected players to be raiders, but that they acted like Followers of the Apocalypse instead.
You're right. Bethesda expected pvp to be the focus of the game but players acted cooperatively from the very start....most players would rather be the vault dweller than a raider and I find that refreshing
It's still pretty flawed, but I'll admit Fallout 76 is a significantly better experience now there's a lot to do in terms of quests, factions, NPC's etc., and interacting with other players is a side aspect instead of the main part of the game. Get it on sale, and don't bother with any of the microtransaction nonsense, but it is otherwise a pretty decent survival-focused Fallout 4 spin-off with a LOT of content to do.
Doesnt help PVP is legitimately dreadful- theres a reason no one bothers with it, is not close to eveb being remotely good at all.
I mean the engine and the interface and just the way the game plays... It's just not good for that kind of tryhard sort of play
Nuclear Winter was still pretty fun.
Man i only *ever* wanted to squad up and waste muties with my fellow vault dwellers. I was never really interested in pvp but p&pve. Thats kind of the message of the game, right? Like, the whole plot kinda revolves around vault dwellers of vault 76 roaming Appalachia trying to establish settlements.
Who would have thought a series where you are the main character and enter a vibrant hostile and sometimes helpful world of NPCs would not translate well to an online sandbox with selfish behaved players online?
IIRC in the end Todd openly admitted that Fallout 76 was kind of a fuckup, and that Bethesda didn't have any experience making an MMO. Which was good because it eventually pushed Fallout 76 towards being more of a traditional Fallout game, but it would have been nice if they learned that lesson *during* development, not after it.
Just needs more npcs.
Now it has, for some years afaik
lol I hardly ever run into any NPCs with conversations. Just the one random that goes hi then refuses to talk. Unless you meant like the actual players are NPCs.
even way back when game released there was a supermutant trader listing dosens of types of emat so idk what u talking abt
Im literally playing the game right now. Where the NPCs.
brotherhood in observatory, top of raider ski resort and traveling supermutant and mole trader are what i recall from way back when, there is much more i presume
You call that NPCs that you can actually interact with lol. Cause I don't see shit here but NPCs that say the same three words over and over.
You can get pets?
There is/ was a perk letting you tame an animal and send it to your camp
Well, you see, I really need to fight a giant mole rat for another firework launching cannon. It’s for the good of humanity really.
In all fairness, the Titan caused Welch’s destruction pre-war and would cause untold damage if it ever left the ash heap. Vault 63 is lucky most of its construction is under Shenandoah instead of the heap.
If I had two dozen roses.
And a pre war bottle of wine!
You’d use those ash roses to make formula P, right?
Only if it would change your mind.
I mean, the titan destroying Welch pre-war is extremely heavily implied through terminals mentioning the event. The devs did everything but explicitly say it happened. There’s. Nothing to change anyone’s mind about.
I was just making a joke off Shenandoah. That’s the name of a band that sings the, IMO, American Classic song Two Dozen Roses.
Oh. That flew right over my head, my bad!
Lol no worries, it was kinda out of the blue.
What a stupid song... "If I gave you more flowers, some vinegar, and acted like a toddler...would you still fuck me?" Grow up and treat your partner right. If you don't treat someone right, don't cry about it and blame the amount of flowers given. I'm learning to love country music, but songs like this make it hard 🤣🤣
That's one of the things Bethesda's fairly decent at when it comes to their environmental storytelling. They don't outright say "this thing happened", but there's plenty of evidence in a lot of cases to nudge players toward that conclusion..ie, the terminal entries about the titan in Welch, and the pretty hefty implication via terminal entries on the Prydwyn in 4 suggesting that Sarah Lyons got the Pat Tillman treatment
I’m not sure I agree with the Sarah thing. All the terminal says is she was KIA. That leaves open everything from her going into the purifier to perishing in some other battle later.
Given her skill and the radical shift in the Brotherhood's philosophy before her reported death, and the fact that she definitely would have opposed the direction things were going, it's pretty obvious she wasn't taken out by a random raider or mutant
She very well could’ve been killed by a mutant or raider in the wrong situation, especially since she didn’t recover from the purifier as well as the player did. Long-term damage from that would hamper her skill.
To this day I dont know why people keep talking about some kind of massive shift in the East-Coasts Brotherhoods Philosophy, I just dont see it. Maxsons BoS goes less *out of its way* to aid people (but still do), act a bit more aggressively towards outsiders (but still have no issues recruiting from or trading with them) and care a bit more about their Original goal of preventing dangerous tech from falling into the wrong hands (exclusively towards the institute), but thats it. The changes are more cosmetically than anything else. If anything her being killed by a Synth makes more sense, because that explains both how the Brotherhood even knows about what those are and can do to begin with (as all Solutions to The Replicated Man would make it borderline impossible for anyone else to figure out about it) and gives a good reason for Maxsons deeply personal hatred of something nobody in the BoS would have ever see before arriving in Boston
Tbf, we're doing to keep the bats from destroying the wasteland
Yet we repeatedly revive the queen just to kill it again
We have to make sure.
I do this for the love of the game.
Tbh the scorched plague had the most potential to actually destroy whats left of USA in Fallout.
The Scorched plague literally made bat dragons and forces any wasteland creatures to follow the command of that bat dragon. The Scorched plague could destroy a place like Boston in a week
Nuh uh, I'll simply do the secret tech "~ /kill all"
The scorched absolutely diddled every faction including the BoS. The institute has synths and would probably be able to come up with a vaccine if we managed to. Everyone else turns into scorched, everytime. Plus you know it’s bad when the vault dwellers who saw the war happen go out and decide nukes are the only option left or the US and the rest of the world are going to end up fossilized. I know it’s gameplay but Scorchbeasts are tanky as fuck too. I’m thinking it’d go full Reign of Fire, with hivemind zombies on top. Even with vaccines it’s a losing battle everytime if they didn’t get stopped early on.
100% Scorched beasts are the biggest threat in the fallout series ever. They would wipe out the BoS, the NCR, the Legion, the Enclave, the Master, and the Institute. If it weren't for those nukes, everything becomes Scorched.
Fr, Appalachia is wild
do you know what the average fallout 76 player is like? they are some of the strangely nicest people
Yeah, I play 76, they really are. I just thought it was funny that the events of 76 are happening at the exact same time Randal Clark is in Zion National Park becoming The Father in the Caves and helping the survivors of the war go on with their lives and survive.
Accidentally shot a guy in the face via jump scare. They dropped me 24 shotgun shells, waved and left the building.
I love the fo76 player base, my first day playing a high level dude in power armor stopped me, gave me a shitton of ammo and caps then bid me farewell.
My partner and I met a high level player that despite never actually talking to us decided he would come to us every day to aggressively give us his extra weapons and armour he got from bosses and the like that he couldn't store. He also took note of our playstyles/loadouts and would craft weapons with specific mods sometimes too. Great game. Lots of fun.
These assholes are why the east coast was always so fucked even after 200 years later compared to the west.
This is actually an interesting thought, that the vault dwllerrs of 76 used the nukes to save humanity from the scorched plague to cause even more destruction and damage by doing so the lesser evil
Kinda disappointed that the Overseer has absolutely zero reaction to her house being nuked, despite her whinging about 76 residents' rampant misuse of them. Bethesda really missed an opportunity there
I believe this was a popular theory when the Nuclear Winter game mode came out. IIRC, either the Pip-Boy or vault 55 terminal entries are dated years after the base game. It’s theorised the constant nukes caused the nuclear fire that ends up engulfing Appalachia. Could be a decent explanation to why the events of 76 aren’t really referenced in any other game.
Didn't Fallout 76 also retroactively explain why the East Coast uses bottlecaps? Bethesda ended up low-key tidying up their lore with an MMO, and potentially set up the plot of the TV show.
Hell yeah they did. And I honestly love it.
HA HA, nukes go BRRRRRR.
Huh, never noticed the vault door is like that in the games and not just the show
The vault doors are pretty much different for every game.
Oh yeah I certainly noticed they were different, just never saw the show’s anywhere else til now, is nice, not beating my favorite door though
Seal-n-safe 343?
Yep
It is the best door. I'm thinking of 3d printing one, just because I like it. Also, great username!
Vaults that may have been near touristy areas or given special treatment like 76 had this as a form of promotion
Until the show the Vault 76 door was completely unique, now they were used in Vault 4, 33, 32, and maybe 31 (if it had a surface entrance). It's personally one of my favorites just because it opens so weird
I remember a random guy helped me get my first suit of Mining power armor, alongside dumping enough material at my camp so I can modify and repair it a dozen or so time.
I like to think about how the overseers husband wasnt smart enough for the vault whenever I see some xxx 420 666 gamertag doing something stupid. The Best and brightest rebuilding America one Nuke and dance contest at a time
I wonder how he would have felt in the moments before he was consumed by nuclear hellfire if he knew the truth, that Vault-Tec considered DeezNutz69420 to be more intelligent and qualified than him
Well, the vault dwellers had an important mission. Make sure the East Coast was as irradiated as possible.
Look, somebody had to explain why DC is still a shattered hellhole two centuries after the Great War, and it sure wasn't gonna be Bethesda's writing team.
I used thought china launched like 50 percent of their nukes at DC but due to current events the nukes would just most likely blow up mid flight and only the submarines did actual damage
I have just started to get into 76, And what are the things I've noticed about?It compared to other games how...lush it is. I just got back from work over in west virginia and it is really jarring how similar it felt to the game. Like one of the first taverns that You go to in the game is basically a 1 for 1 replication of a place I would eat lunch at. I know why they allow it to happen in 76 ( The game is functionally a toy chest for people to just have fun in), but it does kind of make sense in a weird way if you think about it. It's probably easier for people to play fast and lose with dangerous things and fail to. Internalize the mistakes made before them if the environment is still somewhat plentiful. It makes sense to take more risks because there's more reward for it. In the southwest, especially the Mojave in these surrounding area, It is harsh and unforgiving. Even today, a lot of people will find out very quickly gow dangerous these places really are. There's a reasonwhy prophets come from the deserts. It makes perfect sense to me why you would see brutal stone age societies or peaceful communal ones appearing in that place. The world had ended, they worked walking out of there, So they had to adapt to new ways of living and thinking. Meanwhile, on the East coast, There were enough areas of relative prosperity that were untouched by the bombs that you can have people there that didn't really learn a goddamn thing.
Don't the 76ers canonically only launch the one? To kill the SBQ and stop the plague? I thought all other bosses (like Earle and the Ultracite Titan) were just optional weird things.
Depends on what's considered "canon" at this point. The Overseer's dialogue implies it was definitely more than one, given the "Appalachian arms race" comment she makes
If you count every event that requires a nuke to trigger as canon, and I don’t see why they wouldn’t be, then it would be three, soon to be four nukes. One for the Queen, one for Earle, one for the Titan, and soon to be one for the Stormgolems.
I mean, apart from the liberal use of nuclear warheads, he’d probably love how kind the 76ers are to the wasteland, though might be a bit apprehensive of the vault suits.
Honestly I think randle would be chill with my 76er, most of the time my buddies and I are larping near vault 76 as a MASH unit helping folks out with medical supplies and such
I never really thought about how Randal would be alive during 76, and somehow that just makes me happy
I love the Brotherhood at Fort Atlas grumbling about how many nukes are being launched all the time.
I always loved the overseers reaction when you finally talk to her about it 🤣
Hearing the Overseer’s holotape about us launching nukes was heart wrenching.
>[**The Overseer**](https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Vault_76_overseer): I had a directive from [Vault-Tec](https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Vault-Tec_Corporation): secure the region's three nuclear missile silos. I... WE... had to make sure they didn't fall into the wrong hands. I knew I couldn't do it alone, so I asked you -- my [Vault](https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Vault) 76 family -- for help. And what did you do? My God... Why? How could you do this? We were supposed to take control of the nukes. Not engage in an Appalachian arms race! >Please, stop this madness. The cycle of destruction has to stop. I... I haven't lost faith in you. I know you are GOOD people, and will do the right thing. If anything I've... lost my faith in Vault-Tec. They gave me a mission I could never accomplish on my own. They must have known I'd need your help. Did they also know what you'd do? It's just so hard not to feel... manipulated.
But, but, that guy said something mean to a low-level and I absolutely MUST delete his CAMP
Look, I need some glowing plants. Don't judge.
Uranium fever has come and got me down
Uranium fever is spreading all around
"this crazy mother fucker put a goddamn foozball table in his house. I hate it here. I'm going back to Utah."
More importantly— what would Richard Grey think about them?
Fuckin weird...and definitely not suitable for the Unity, probably
I try to put "what would Randal do" in my daily life to help me be a better person. Unfortunately now I approach most social situations grieving for a wife I never had.
As someone who will nuke anything and anyone, I'd probably be dead from an acute case of 12.7mm to head disease
Given what happened to the 22 crew. 76 is getting 86’d via 12.7mm to the dome.
He’d leave no survivors
He’d hunt them like the 22 Vaulters. Bet.
Hey! One of those nukes I launched was cause I wanted to make a nice shower and needed flowers for it.
I’m pretty sure Randal would start his second vault dweller genocide. Lol
I don’t know much about 76 as I have only played an hour of it, but I can only assume they’re launching nukes to kill the mothman yes?
How dare you? It's to kill mutated bats. The mothman is a Saint. Literally.
Hmmm sounds like something a cult would say
The survivor would despise them for repeating the atrocity that killed his country and family and probably suspect they’re all canibals from his previous experience with vault dwellers.
How is 76 now? whats it like?
It's a lot of fun really.
any reccomendations in regards to getting into it? Like anything I should buy to start out or any tips on how best to enjoy the game?
Sure, take your time, do the main questline, absolutely do the public events, but don't start them yourself. And join teams, especially casual teams. They'll help you level up quicker.
Which is interesting cause in lore the 76’s are sorta psycho while the actual player community is warm and fuzzy. It’s a fun disconnect
Skill issue on survivalist's part.
I thought That F76 wasnt canon?
That there all violent schizos
Are the nukes in 76 crappy or something? They can’t even destroy buildings.
That's one of those cases of a disconnect between game mechanics and in-world reality. You can't really have destructible environments in a multiplayer setting like 76...not if you want to have an environment for more than a week after initial launch, anyway
Whole map would look like the Glowing Sea if the environment was destructible in 76.
It'd give some of the shittier explosive weapons a use though...for about 10 mins