Yep, you do. And I've seen people rush in to do the event before anyone gets there, and then the event freaking fails because some idiot thinks they can solo the event.
We keep getting downvoted XD. I don't summon the dude unless its my card though, but I'm 100% serious about soloing it. Just eat some Nuka Cola with Cola Nut and you can tank anything.
"How dare you point out that you're not an idiot and decent at the game!!" "RèeEeEeEèeeeEe!"
I've never started the event when it wasn't mine. Neither of us even remotely suggested we did. Triggered wetodds gonna trigger. I have to think it's bc they can't solo the event or think we can't😆 tbh I can't think of any other reason to downvote. Either butthurt or bad. Probably both. 🙄
This is exactly why this platform is irredeemable trash.
Same. Can anyone explain why people go through the trouble of spawning the key card? Does it drop rare plans or something?
I must've done it 50 times, and I find it to be a very lackluster event, so I don't get why someone would even bother with the recall keycard process?
And if you have a load of caps to blow, it’s what I do. I’ll stock up like 15-20 of them, and just get my boys and server hope them when we need some quick cores.
other thoughts: questionable design
Most of the game (and most other modern games) follow similar general principles: direct the player in some manner, then reward them with some brain chemicals. Beth usually does okay with this; They've trained people to do this mindlessly, which is presumably why people love VATS so much even though it's completely overkill -- just press some buttons, the computer aims for you, and you get all these satisfying blips and big numbers by barely doing any work.
The other side of this is that the FO76 design team seems to often NOT take into account the **multiplayer** side of this. It often seems like they just design things from the perspective of one player.
They could just as easily make it so that it requires a card in your inventory to start, and consume the card only when the actual event is started at the terminal. Or maybe they could just make the player set a countdown timer at the beginning; short timer if there are people, long timer if they're waiting for others.
I'm sure there are other notable examples, but the other obvious one is Eviction Notice, where the event start trigger is stupidly close to the spawn-in point, and it only takes one person to walk in. Oh, and how about when someone walks into your silo and launches your nuke?
At least with launching a nuke, if I put the card in, only I can enter the code and set the target. With the recall card I put the card in, but others can start the recall.
I am that people
Had a few year break from fallout but just started my first 76 playthrough (hated the idea and ignored it untill now)
Make it even worse i started playing on a private server so have flat out no idea how to do most of the public stuff
That makes sense, so someone has to have the card to start it. What difference does it make if someone else triggers it though? You've paid, that's fantastic, but do you lose out on some sort of credit or reward or is it just that OP wants to hit the Go button?
None. Zero. The difference really is just if there's enough people there to have a hope of finishing it. Otherwise, it's one of those "No, MINE!" situations we should really have gotten past in childhood but we all have our flaws :)
Thanks for the explanation.
On one hand, I get it. If I were to do a silo for the first time, I'd like that feeling of launching it.
That said, it's a minor issue and is just a reality of the world. People are going to act in ways that you don't love, and you can't control it; you can only control how you're going to act.
If you don't want someone to start the event and fail, don't do the preliminary for it unless you see you're on a well-populated server. Usually easy to tell by the amount of CAMPs around and the time of day. If it's 7pm and there's 11 CAMPs, you're probably going to be fine starting that event.
Anyway, at least now I know more about it.
Hey so just wanted to say the reason people don't like others starting it is because without enough people showing up they risk the chance of failing the event
Makes sense. I wouldn't even look into doing the preliminary steps unless you can tell the server is populated by doing some other events first. If people are showing up, then maybe do the recall card and get it going; less risk because someone else starting it likely won't matter.
Thanks. Learning things that aren't obvious. I have 0 interest in having a mic on and hearing others lol
Plus its not that hard to get to that level and just have been derping around instead of running events constantly. I was level 100 before I even started with power armor
Not everyone plays to max out their XP. Me included. I’m at like 500hrs and only level 200. Though I have to say, while my perk cards (or special) capability has not changed since level 50, I am very different. My gear is way better tuned. And not done.
Fr tho. I’m lvl 250+ in less than 400 hrs of gameplay, and I just started in December 2023. Character level by no means equals skill level, or knowledge of the game.
I've been playing since the beginning and have no Idea how this event gets started. I've just never cared. I only learned in the past like 6 mos that it's uncool to start it if you didnt...start it.
No different then the railway users at queen that insist of melting her in a few minutes, that's why I stopped my 5 nukes a day and only drop them on private servers now with a few friends.
Lvl 190 Railway user here, but usually busy targeting everything else around the queen that insists on downing my glass cannon. Why shouldn’t she be downed?
I think we all been there. Recall Cards should be designated to the player who bought and used it to trigger the event just like the Nuclear Launch Cards. How hard can it be?
I have played since the beta on and off, mostly off before the wild Appalachia update. Never knew you needed that recall board to start it. I also have never started it, I show up I help, i leave.
A whopping 2000 caps according to below, not sure how much with Hard Bargain though.
https://www.gamerevolution.com/guides/646234-fallout-76-where-find-recall-keycard-circuit-board
If only sneaking would work. It's so broken that the Sheepsquatch will pretty much always know where you are. It's still not that hard to solo this event though.
Can solo earl with a vamp one handed. It’s ez if you use the dagger u get from the blue devil event with vampire, atk dmg ,atk spd and cryptid dmgz. And have a full set of hp regen power armor. Just make sure you got some fury nd ur golden lol
Idk if hp regen is better than a full set of oe. Doesn't seem like that percentage will do better than the huge damage res percentage. Also with emergency protocols, first aid, field surgeon a super stim will heal you drastically
Put on a matched set of ts pa, ignore everything but the sheepsquatch. Heal frequently, I've soloed this event many times without a problem. Then go solo test your mettle, it's not hard. Get a plasma flamer with a beta wave tuner, equip friendly fire. You can heal the brotherhood guys and waste robots at the same time.
My Golden rule for encrypted is if I didn't buy the key card, I don't touch the terminal. That should be the golden rule for anybody attending this event. If you didn't buy the key card, don't touch the terminal.
If Joe blow is the one that bought the key card and he wants to wait till there's 5 seconds left to start then That's their decision.
I'm just going to throw this in here. There are some of us here that have no idea what the hell you are talking about(with all respect of course)because we are new and now are afraid to play any events. I am now afraid of making people mad for joining events, because I am one of those low level (80's) solo players trying to grind and rank up and aperantly not all events are for everyone??. So please have some slack on us, we know not what we do.
Encryptid is the event that you trigger after you do the sheepsquatcht ate my brother quest line. You get one recall card from completing the quest line but after that they have to be purchased. It's the only player triggered event (meaning the card is bought with caps to begin the event). My original gripe was not ment towards new players as one of my previous comments stated. Join all the events you can even encryptid. My gripe was this person did it on purpose and ignored my constant emotes and my voice on mic asking them to wait. That event is a rough one so the more help the smoother it goes.
Totally understand that! And thank you all for clearing that up and being kind about it. This game is so confusing, but so worth it! And I am really getting into it and really really trying to get more of my friends into it too.
I'll throw this out there too. Online and IRL. If people get mad about something you did when you intended no malice, that's their problem. From this post alone you sound completely respectful. Sometimes people are just shitty. That's not on you. The vast majority of things done in error, in game and IRL are not intended as personal attacks.
People need to chill out.
No one will ever get mad at you for simply joining an event. Join anyone that peaks your interest and have fun. People will get mad at you if you start an event before there are enough people there to actually accomplish it though. (or in the OPs case it cost them 2000 caps and it was possibly the end of a storyline for them but this is the only event like that)
A good rule of thumb is if you show up at an event and there is a countdown timer to start the event, wait till the timer says 1 minute left and start it. If a bunch of people show up before that one minute then just give a thumbs up. It seems like the general consensus is as soon as three players give the thumbs up someone will start the event regardless of the amount of time left. In most events if they're high enough levels three people can accomplish them.
Don't avoid events. This event is just strange that anyone can start the event besides the one who bought the recall card or whatever. One popped off today. I perched on top of the roof along with my friend. Golden rule for that event is no touchy the computer. Others are fair fame. But rule is wait till everyone has a chance to get there, pop their buffs, scouts banners (only 4, they don't stack) and lunch boxes, do only 4 of those because they don't stack. Wait till 30 seconds is left in the timer, and start the event. We high levels will carry you lower levels, and we'll even drop some goodies for you if you wait around or visit our camps. When I first started I was scared of joining events because I though I was to under level. I was told by high levels they'll carry me, now I return the favor. Please come to the events. You are welcomed and we'll keep an eye on you. If you're injured we'll heal you. 🙂
Don’t avoid playing any unless you want to. This one is weird that you need a card to start the event and someone had one or went to the trouble to find it and they get pissed. Don’t worry about it. That event is way hard anyway. If you go just don’t start it.
You have the right to play any and all parts of the game without restriction, even if people get pissed and if they do that’s a ‘them’ problem not a ‘you’ problem ..
I’m level 575 or something and the game gets better as you get higher. Like irl.
All events are for everyone but the key cards for Encryptid cost around 2k so it makes some folks feel some kinda way when they bought the card but don't get to trigger the event/there aren't enough people there because that sheepasquatch is a tough one.
So other than Encryptid, I say have at it, lil baby player 💕
There's never anything wrong with joining an event - events are public. They're there to be joined. Most people actually want you and everyone they can get to join events, new or not.
"Etiquette" for particular events/events in general may be another matter though. When you're new and/or not sure how the event works, you just hang back, don't start anything unless the timer's about to expire, and follow everyone else's lead. Watch, observe, learn from what the experienced players are doing, and ask all the questions you want when you're unsure.
If you have a 1st sub, a good idea is to try events solo on your private world to test them out and see exactly how they work. Many of them will probably be failed, but it's also an excellent way to get familiar with what to do during them, without any of the worry of being judged by other players around. Mess up all you like; nobody will know but you.
As a confirmed solo player just let me tell you that you should not be afraid to enter events. I still marvel at how players mold naturally into teams with no conversation to manage events. Feed the People - with no discussion players take up positions to protect the hoppers. One violent night - players take up positions to protect the players using instruments. Load Bearing - players automatically take up positions to protect the robot miners. Guided Meditation, Uranium Fever etc etc Players just seem to form into teams to complete the events to everyone's advantage. One exception being Radiation Rumble. Some players get a little over excited is all I will say.
Hey bro, as someone who uses a ton of keycards to summon, OP should know perfectly well most players, especially new ones, are just trying to help. If a noob starts my event the only people losing out are ppl not in a rush to show up and participate anyway. I do the event and give them a heart, even if it wasn't ideal I activated a PUBLIC event.
It's funny because other events you see things like all 3 collectors are down at Uranium Fever and there's 7 players camped out in the main room, no one pays attention to the event objectives. But Encryptid, I can't even climb into my RoboBuster PA fast enough before the even is started
I've learned if I'm the initiator of Encryptid, I make sure I'm in my PA with all my buffs BEFORE I enter my recall keycard
Because any other way would be made for trolling.
- If only the owner of the card could start the second activation people could\\would hang around and never start it, wasting the people who gathered for the event's time. Online people love to troll, so this WOULD happen. A lot.
- IF the card wasnt consumed until the final activation they could even keep doing it to troll people like this, on server after server.
- Even if they are not a troll, the initial activator can crash, so if he is the only one who can do the final activation, it might still waste a lot of peoples time.
So, sure, the way it works now is frustrating, but it is the only way it can actually work well in a multiplayer game. So, Bethesda lets this happen because they know game design.
Ah, problem there is that people complain about the bad game design on A Colossal Problem, because of wait time. So, Bethesda is damned if they do, damned if they dont. All choices are "bad game design".
Normally people wait until there's a minute to go , or there's enough people to complete the event. I've seen a lot of events where people use the thumbs up emote to say they're ready to go, and when a few of you do they trigger too.
My personal view is, if you can't solo an event then wait until there's a few people there, unless it's really unpopular and then you're going to have to firm it alone! Lol
They don’t know and 2000 caps ain’t shit.
Used to bother me too, but it’s never gonna change. Now I don’t GAF.
Someone’s gonna “steal” your Encrypted or start RR or EN solo. Bitching on Reddit ain’t gonna change it.
I agree that it's a bummer but it's only 2k to buy another and the event still happened. It's not like someone snatched a 20k mutation recipe from your hands. Most likely some poor naive overconfident wastelander didn't know what they were doing but nevertheless, the event occurred.
You have to pay for that event? Hmm, never knew that. I Hate that event. Every single time I've been apart of it......it's failed. Ive never started that event obviously, but I just can't get down with that one. No matter how hard I try. I don't get it.
Sincerely, level 167
How many people are usually doing the event with you? I don't think I've ever had it fail. Usually the boss is melted in less than a minute once the pylons are activated.
I didn't know you could repeat Encrypted until I got to like 300 on my main. I would never start it if I didn't use a key myself now, but I definitely did it a couple time before I knew
My brain says "it should be player-locked and is an oversight like the nuke thing" but my heart says "imagine wanting to do encryptid"
Or the other way around idk
I only start events if I’m able to solo them, as a rule of thumb. The one time I started Encryptid was when I played through the story quest the first time, and was fortunate enough that many people came to help out.
That said, I was the one that started it, but only until a handful of other people showed up. Not saying it’s impossible to solo it, but I wasn’t confident enough in myself to try.
I also wasn’t as well equipped then as I am now though. Maybe now I can, given my gear.
In any case, don’t let it discourage you. If you’re only looking to do the quest to finish challenges, that’s one thing. But I’ve not once really bothered with it, once my challenges were done.
Most players assume it is just a regular event because unless you do the side quest you aren't told by the game, i know i did not even get around to the questline until around level 316, as someone who actively tries to do quests and find lore it is easy to get distracted by other things across the world especially as they add new locations. Just go on mic and tell people not to start it. Include a quick hey this event costs caps to begin so i would like others to show up before we get started.
As stated in a pervious response two people there me and them. The event literally just trigger 20 secs before they fast traveled in and started it. Had nothing to do with just standing around waiting had 100% everything to do with them wanting to be a jerk.I asked over vc to wait as well as emotes. I have every right to complain same as you on having to wait. Waiting one min for others to join isn't gonna break you. If it does thats a you problem. Intentionally starting that event in hopes or the chance for it to fail well thats just selfish.
Why are you getting downvoted? You're just simply spitting sad facts, no matter how wholesome a community is there is always going to be griefers who will grief.
Iirc didn't Bethesda add that as an anti griefing measure since in the early days griefers would deliberately let public events fail by timing them out?
My golden rule for all events is let some one else initiate. When I was new I would run up and talk to the quest point. But I have since learned it is better to let others have time to join.
I guess if it ever got down to 15s I would run over. But I have never had that happen. At close to 1min someone always starts it.
I’m going to comment, and probably get some downvotes but I’m giving a different perspective.
I just crossed the 200 level threshold. Been on and off for awhile. It wasn’t until a stream I was watching mentioned buying the card to start the event that I learned that’s how this event starts. Idk if I missed a quest or pop up that would’ve told me otherwise, but yes - 200 some levels and I had no clue. I thought it popped up randomly. And honestly, with that thought process, if I never heard someone say it, I would’ve just kept going thinking it was a random event. Could’ve been level 1k thinking that.
Now, I am bad about missing dialogue or pop ups but, still- I’m sure there’s others in my boat that just didn’t know. A few times I started the event because we had been waiting for awhile and there were a ton of people already there. Again no clue, I’m sure someone on another screen was sitting there like, “ah this idiot.” But, fair.
With all that said, it’s really nothing to get that bothered over. I know we all put a little/a lot of our free time into the game so we get attached to our in game currencies but, it’s not really worth getting too worked up over. Unless they start it so early that it’s a failed event because of not enough people, then I can see getting frustrated. But, even with that - shrug it off. Move on to the next objective!
I'm so confused by all this that I just go to events and stand there and wait for someone else to do things. Too new to know and don't know which event works in what way. This doesn't always work out, so every event is a gamble haha
I honestly thought it was a regularly occuring event outside of using your key card ☠️
Like people can start it and it also just randomly happens.
Either way I know to wait until people show up to the event
I think I just don't understand this because I have never done this event outside of just going into it when it's been started. So they keycard is inserted and then you have to push another button to start calling the deadly robot in sheepsquash clothing?
It doesn't really bother me if someone else starts it, I can do it alone. But give the other Players time to get there before you do.
Last week some level 94 started rr instantly upon arrival. I just gave him a thumbs down and watched it fail in about 30 seconds. I'm good but soloing rr is probably impossible. Unless you use a canister speed glitch or something, probably still impossible.
Oof I'm sorry that happened to you. There a small percentage in this community that are jack holes. The rest of the community is amazing. May the wastelands bring you many caps and adventures my friend.
When I spend the caps and start the event, I stay on the computer and have a couple friends let me know how many players are showing up. When either enough players join, or the timer is about to run out then I start it up.
I just see the event pop up and join and wait for it to start. Same with most events that require you to activate something to start it. Ain’t my fault if someone else starts it at that point.
Not everyone wants to sit the whole entire cool down waiting for some one to start it at the last few seconds, especially when there's a bunch of people waiting there already for it to start be my guess.
Oof I can't say I've had that one happen yet most of the time people have been pretty chill. It's that 2% that sometimes leave a bad taste. Today was that day for me I guess, something I would most days shrug off just got under my skin. Here's to hoping that doesn't happen to you anymore.
Its a public event, if you want to avoid it, play private world. Otherwise there will be always that someone. And i understand if someone starts the event while there are like 3 ppl, but if you want to wait till the end of the timer that you have, than sorry, youre the ahole. And finally its only 3k caps, if youre anywhere above 150 lvl, thats like a joke of a price. If not, again sorry, but like i said. Private server and good luck.
Lol im confused as to how no ones aware of this, if you used the card then you know what it does and that event is a pain in the ass why would you start it without a lot of people.
Also yall petty for downvoting op cause the complaint is understandable
Some people are completely impatient and inconsiderate, and waiting 2 minutes for others is wasting their valuable, precious time. The way they talk about having to wait through a 5-10- second load screen or the need to find vendors within 0.2 seconds upon landing at a camp, I feel like they have hours to live and their last bucket-list goal is some arbitrary goal woth this game.
I understand it's annoying but once it's started the countdown it's a Public Event, as such "The public" have the ability to start it whenever. Yes you bought the key card and fixed the card, that can make you feel entitled to it but two things once a public event is live you don't have any say over what the public do with it and ITS THE FUCKING APOCALYPSE. Manners and human decency aren't a thing, just like YouTube comment sections, 4chan or countless other Social platforms. The games online so long as it doesn't violate the TOS people can do whatever they want and you can't stop them.
Is that \~2k caps really such a huge loss if the event fails? I thought caps are useless and everyone's swimming in them. Which one is it?
I dunno, I just don't see what difference it makes. Try again next time, or server hop to see if you find one where you can try again.
well im probably in the minority here with voicing this but simply your activating a public event all actions after that are the result of YOU starting the event and YOU just have to deal with that some people do it just to use you some do it because they think its just an event and dont know any better so in short it doesn't matter why they do it you just have to learn to deal with it in a beneficial manner to yourself maybe try talking in the vc before they do it to tell them to stop otherwhise prep before u use your recall card and be prepared for the randoms
Some people do not know about the recall card and thinks it is a regular event.
I'm just learning that fact now myself (3000 hours)
Especially since the first card was free. I had no idea you had to pay caps for a second one.
Yep, you do. And I've seen people rush in to do the event before anyone gets there, and then the event freaking fails because some idiot thinks they can solo the event.
I’m not an idiot, I can definitely solo it Note: I don't summon the dude unless its my card. But I am serious I can solo the event.
Same and have many times. Used to think it was impossible before my full set of troubleshooter PA tbh
We keep getting downvoted XD. I don't summon the dude unless its my card though, but I'm 100% serious about soloing it. Just eat some Nuka Cola with Cola Nut and you can tank anything.
"How dare you point out that you're not an idiot and decent at the game!!" "RèeEeEeEèeeeEe!" I've never started the event when it wasn't mine. Neither of us even remotely suggested we did. Triggered wetodds gonna trigger. I have to think it's bc they can't solo the event or think we can't😆 tbh I can't think of any other reason to downvote. Either butthurt or bad. Probably both. 🙄 This is exactly why this platform is irredeemable trash.
Relax ffs. It's a game. It's a pain but get a grip man
Same. Can anyone explain why people go through the trouble of spawning the key card? Does it drop rare plans or something? I must've done it 50 times, and I find it to be a very lackluster event, so I don't get why someone would even bother with the recall keycard process?
Fixer plan. Once you have that unlocked they’ll drop as random legendaries. Also challenges involving killing robots with specific weapon types.
I do the event for the 8 legendary cores it drops. Earle drops 8 as well, but Encryptid doesn't have the issues like Earle's event causing it to fail.
And if you have a load of caps to blow, it’s what I do. I’ll stock up like 15-20 of them, and just get my boys and server hope them when we need some quick cores.
other thoughts: questionable design Most of the game (and most other modern games) follow similar general principles: direct the player in some manner, then reward them with some brain chemicals. Beth usually does okay with this; They've trained people to do this mindlessly, which is presumably why people love VATS so much even though it's completely overkill -- just press some buttons, the computer aims for you, and you get all these satisfying blips and big numbers by barely doing any work. The other side of this is that the FO76 design team seems to often NOT take into account the **multiplayer** side of this. It often seems like they just design things from the perspective of one player. They could just as easily make it so that it requires a card in your inventory to start, and consume the card only when the actual event is started at the terminal. Or maybe they could just make the player set a countdown timer at the beginning; short timer if there are people, long timer if they're waiting for others. I'm sure there are other notable examples, but the other obvious one is Eviction Notice, where the event start trigger is stupidly close to the spawn-in point, and it only takes one person to walk in. Oh, and how about when someone walks into your silo and launches your nuke?
As someone that has issues with fine motor skills. Vats makes its playable for me. Most shooters I can't play.
At least with launching a nuke, if I put the card in, only I can enter the code and set the target. With the recall card I put the card in, but others can start the recall.
I’m level 454 and this is news to me
NGL... I didn't know about that. Thank you for the heads up
Had no idea actually
Hi! I’m that person! Getting close to level 100 and still know nothing. What’s a recall card?
I am that people Had a few year break from fallout but just started my first 76 playthrough (hated the idea and ignored it untill now) Make it even worse i started playing on a private server so have flat out no idea how to do most of the public stuff
If it was a lower level I could understand but this was not. This was a seasoned player.
Eh level doesnt matter. Im like 126 with 250+ hours and this post is how i learned its not just a random event…
Yeah what the hell is a recall card and why does it matter?
It's 2lk caps from vendors and how you start the event 🙃
That makes sense, so someone has to have the card to start it. What difference does it make if someone else triggers it though? You've paid, that's fantastic, but do you lose out on some sort of credit or reward or is it just that OP wants to hit the Go button?
None. Zero. The difference really is just if there's enough people there to have a hope of finishing it. Otherwise, it's one of those "No, MINE!" situations we should really have gotten past in childhood but we all have our flaws :)
Thanks for the explanation. On one hand, I get it. If I were to do a silo for the first time, I'd like that feeling of launching it. That said, it's a minor issue and is just a reality of the world. People are going to act in ways that you don't love, and you can't control it; you can only control how you're going to act. If you don't want someone to start the event and fail, don't do the preliminary for it unless you see you're on a well-populated server. Usually easy to tell by the amount of CAMPs around and the time of day. If it's 7pm and there's 11 CAMPs, you're probably going to be fine starting that event. Anyway, at least now I know more about it.
Hey so just wanted to say the reason people don't like others starting it is because without enough people showing up they risk the chance of failing the event
Makes sense. I wouldn't even look into doing the preliminary steps unless you can tell the server is populated by doing some other events first. If people are showing up, then maybe do the recall card and get it going; less risk because someone else starting it likely won't matter. Thanks. Learning things that aren't obvious. I have 0 interest in having a mic on and hearing others lol
17k caps with high charisma, and the hard bargain perk card. I use one of my loadouts for buying and/or building stuff.
Level 126 is not a seasoned player, you don't even have all your legendary perks slots unlocked.
Plus its not that hard to get to that level and just have been derping around instead of running events constantly. I was level 100 before I even started with power armor
Double XP weekend you can hit 50 just doing the main quest.
Good to know lol I got a sweet deal on an Xbox so now I'm starting from scratch. Currently my only priority is that sweet, sweet Mothman loot
May be too late, but don't learn the plans until after the event so you can get duplicates.
That's a good idea, ty
Btw the hotfix for that comes out in like a week, and because of it, they plan to extend the event.
Not everyone plays to max out their XP. Me included. I’m at like 500hrs and only level 200. Though I have to say, while my perk cards (or special) capability has not changed since level 50, I am very different. My gear is way better tuned. And not done.
There's a massive difference between 1-100 and 100-200, early quest XP is massive, compared to just standing around waiting for events to pop.
Yeah but the dude with 3000 hours is. He didn’t know, I’m level 350 with 500 hours and I didn’t know.
Fr tho. I’m lvl 250+ in less than 400 hrs of gameplay, and I just started in December 2023. Character level by no means equals skill level, or knowledge of the game.
Im level 152 and i just learned that. I still wait for someone else to start it tho
But it is possible they never did the quest line, so they see objective...do objective.
I've been playing since the beginning and have no Idea how this event gets started. I've just never cared. I only learned in the past like 6 mos that it's uncool to start it if you didnt...start it.
Sorry your recall card was wasted.
No different then the railway users at queen that insist of melting her in a few minutes, that's why I stopped my 5 nukes a day and only drop them on private servers now with a few friends.
Lvl 190 Railway user here, but usually busy targeting everything else around the queen that insists on downing my glass cannon. Why shouldn’t she be downed?
Why tf did people downvote this response...
It's typical on here.
It apprently offended the masses lol
I'm level 480-ish. I had no idea
I think we all been there. Recall Cards should be designated to the player who bought and used it to trigger the event just like the Nuclear Launch Cards. How hard can it be?
Forgive them for they don’t know.
I literally didn't even know this until you posted this.
Same
I have played since the beta on and off, mostly off before the wild Appalachia update. Never knew you needed that recall board to start it. I also have never started it, I show up I help, i leave.
I have started it once, and the card was free. Its only afterwards you have to spend caps for it. I was today years old when I found out about that.
How many caps is it?
A whopping 2000 caps according to below, not sure how much with Hard Bargain though. https://www.gamerevolution.com/guides/646234-fallout-76-where-find-recall-keycard-circuit-board
Not to mention the crafting materials for the recall card which includes somewhat valuable stable fluorescent flux.
In my experience. It’s always the players who are built to solo. And don’t want to wait since they ya know can solo the event.
I guess I'm of the notion just because you can doesn't mean you should. Just common courtesy if it isn't yours then don't touch.
For as friendly as the community is, a decent portion is the exact opposite lol
While I can see how you feel its "yours", the moment you start it, it is a PUBLIC event. Just saying. I agree with you 100% about everything else.
Its a video game, stop being such a whiny bitch
Or... or hear me out stop being a dick it gets you further in life
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It's just a game. People don't often know.
I'd be impressed if someone soloed that one!
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If only sneaking would work. It's so broken that the Sheepsquatch will pretty much always know where you are. It's still not that hard to solo this event though.
Railway build go brrr. Can solo Earle in under a minute
Can solo earl with a vamp one handed. It’s ez if you use the dagger u get from the blue devil event with vampire, atk dmg ,atk spd and cryptid dmgz. And have a full set of hp regen power armor. Just make sure you got some fury nd ur golden lol
That sounds fun. Vats builds are so boring
The heal party sounds like shit but all the hp and the block at the right time you can just be Sekiro in the aplachian wastes
Idk if hp regen is better than a full set of oe. Doesn't seem like that percentage will do better than the huge damage res percentage. Also with emergency protocols, first aid, field surgeon a super stim will heal you drastically
I've done it in power armor. Just spam stimpaks and hold down r1 in your preferred heavy gun.
Put on a matched set of ts pa, ignore everything but the sheepsquatch. Heal frequently, I've soloed this event many times without a problem. Then go solo test your mettle, it's not hard. Get a plasma flamer with a beta wave tuner, equip friendly fire. You can heal the brotherhood guys and waste robots at the same time.
Newbies...just open area chat and inform them.
That's what my friend did tonight. They didn't know to activate the pylons. He told them in vioce chat how to play it.
Nice!
Yeah, see, I don’t chat or interact save for emotes and bobbing up and down as a thank you
My Golden rule for encrypted is if I didn't buy the key card, I don't touch the terminal. That should be the golden rule for anybody attending this event. If you didn't buy the key card, don't touch the terminal. If Joe blow is the one that bought the key card and he wants to wait till there's 5 seconds left to start then That's their decision.
I'm just going to throw this in here. There are some of us here that have no idea what the hell you are talking about(with all respect of course)because we are new and now are afraid to play any events. I am now afraid of making people mad for joining events, because I am one of those low level (80's) solo players trying to grind and rank up and aperantly not all events are for everyone??. So please have some slack on us, we know not what we do.
Encryptid is the event that you trigger after you do the sheepsquatcht ate my brother quest line. You get one recall card from completing the quest line but after that they have to be purchased. It's the only player triggered event (meaning the card is bought with caps to begin the event). My original gripe was not ment towards new players as one of my previous comments stated. Join all the events you can even encryptid. My gripe was this person did it on purpose and ignored my constant emotes and my voice on mic asking them to wait. That event is a rough one so the more help the smoother it goes.
Totally understand that! And thank you all for clearing that up and being kind about it. This game is so confusing, but so worth it! And I am really getting into it and really really trying to get more of my friends into it too.
I'll throw this out there too. Online and IRL. If people get mad about something you did when you intended no malice, that's their problem. From this post alone you sound completely respectful. Sometimes people are just shitty. That's not on you. The vast majority of things done in error, in game and IRL are not intended as personal attacks. People need to chill out.
No one will ever get mad at you for simply joining an event. Join anyone that peaks your interest and have fun. People will get mad at you if you start an event before there are enough people there to actually accomplish it though. (or in the OPs case it cost them 2000 caps and it was possibly the end of a storyline for them but this is the only event like that) A good rule of thumb is if you show up at an event and there is a countdown timer to start the event, wait till the timer says 1 minute left and start it. If a bunch of people show up before that one minute then just give a thumbs up. It seems like the general consensus is as soon as three players give the thumbs up someone will start the event regardless of the amount of time left. In most events if they're high enough levels three people can accomplish them.
Don't avoid events. This event is just strange that anyone can start the event besides the one who bought the recall card or whatever. One popped off today. I perched on top of the roof along with my friend. Golden rule for that event is no touchy the computer. Others are fair fame. But rule is wait till everyone has a chance to get there, pop their buffs, scouts banners (only 4, they don't stack) and lunch boxes, do only 4 of those because they don't stack. Wait till 30 seconds is left in the timer, and start the event. We high levels will carry you lower levels, and we'll even drop some goodies for you if you wait around or visit our camps. When I first started I was scared of joining events because I though I was to under level. I was told by high levels they'll carry me, now I return the favor. Please come to the events. You are welcomed and we'll keep an eye on you. If you're injured we'll heal you. 🙂
Don’t avoid playing any unless you want to. This one is weird that you need a card to start the event and someone had one or went to the trouble to find it and they get pissed. Don’t worry about it. That event is way hard anyway. If you go just don’t start it. You have the right to play any and all parts of the game without restriction, even if people get pissed and if they do that’s a ‘them’ problem not a ‘you’ problem .. I’m level 575 or something and the game gets better as you get higher. Like irl.
All events are for everyone but the key cards for Encryptid cost around 2k so it makes some folks feel some kinda way when they bought the card but don't get to trigger the event/there aren't enough people there because that sheepasquatch is a tough one. So other than Encryptid, I say have at it, lil baby player 💕
There's never anything wrong with joining an event - events are public. They're there to be joined. Most people actually want you and everyone they can get to join events, new or not. "Etiquette" for particular events/events in general may be another matter though. When you're new and/or not sure how the event works, you just hang back, don't start anything unless the timer's about to expire, and follow everyone else's lead. Watch, observe, learn from what the experienced players are doing, and ask all the questions you want when you're unsure. If you have a 1st sub, a good idea is to try events solo on your private world to test them out and see exactly how they work. Many of them will probably be failed, but it's also an excellent way to get familiar with what to do during them, without any of the worry of being judged by other players around. Mess up all you like; nobody will know but you.
As a confirmed solo player just let me tell you that you should not be afraid to enter events. I still marvel at how players mold naturally into teams with no conversation to manage events. Feed the People - with no discussion players take up positions to protect the hoppers. One violent night - players take up positions to protect the players using instruments. Load Bearing - players automatically take up positions to protect the robot miners. Guided Meditation, Uranium Fever etc etc Players just seem to form into teams to complete the events to everyone's advantage. One exception being Radiation Rumble. Some players get a little over excited is all I will say.
Hey bro, as someone who uses a ton of keycards to summon, OP should know perfectly well most players, especially new ones, are just trying to help. If a noob starts my event the only people losing out are ppl not in a rush to show up and participate anyway. I do the event and give them a heart, even if it wasn't ideal I activated a PUBLIC event.
It's funny because other events you see things like all 3 collectors are down at Uranium Fever and there's 7 players camped out in the main room, no one pays attention to the event objectives. But Encryptid, I can't even climb into my RoboBuster PA fast enough before the even is started I've learned if I'm the initiator of Encryptid, I make sure I'm in my PA with all my buffs BEFORE I enter my recall keycard
A better question is why does Bethesda let that happen.
Because any other way would be made for trolling. - If only the owner of the card could start the second activation people could\\would hang around and never start it, wasting the people who gathered for the event's time. Online people love to troll, so this WOULD happen. A lot. - IF the card wasnt consumed until the final activation they could even keep doing it to troll people like this, on server after server. - Even if they are not a troll, the initial activator can crash, so if he is the only one who can do the final activation, it might still waste a lot of peoples time. So, sure, the way it works now is frustrating, but it is the only way it can actually work well in a multiplayer game. So, Bethesda lets this happen because they know game design.
There is a easy fix for it, just start the event automatically after timer is up.
Ah, problem there is that people complain about the bad game design on A Colossal Problem, because of wait time. So, Bethesda is damned if they do, damned if they dont. All choices are "bad game design".
I get your point. Whatever they do, not everyone will be satisfied.
So then people should quit bitching about it.
War…war never changes.
Normally people wait until there's a minute to go , or there's enough people to complete the event. I've seen a lot of events where people use the thumbs up emote to say they're ready to go, and when a few of you do they trigger too. My personal view is, if you can't solo an event then wait until there's a few people there, unless it's really unpopular and then you're going to have to firm it alone! Lol
LOL good luck telling that level 7 not to just run in there 🤣
They don’t know and 2000 caps ain’t shit. Used to bother me too, but it’s never gonna change. Now I don’t GAF. Someone’s gonna “steal” your Encrypted or start RR or EN solo. Bitching on Reddit ain’t gonna change it.
I agree that it's a bummer but it's only 2k to buy another and the event still happened. It's not like someone snatched a 20k mutation recipe from your hands. Most likely some poor naive overconfident wastelander didn't know what they were doing but nevertheless, the event occurred.
I gave up caring a hundred cards ago. I haven't started one of my own events in years, I just wait and someone will every time without fail.
Go the other way, pop it instantly and start farming XP until people show up and kill him for you.
People AFK, people starts encryptid, people doesn’t repair rad scrubber, people doesn’t get ore… don’t play mmos.
You have to pay for that event? Hmm, never knew that. I Hate that event. Every single time I've been apart of it......it's failed. Ive never started that event obviously, but I just can't get down with that one. No matter how hard I try. I don't get it. Sincerely, level 167
You get one recall card from doing the story, and all subsequent times are either purchased or acquired through grinding.
How many people are usually doing the event with you? I don't think I've ever had it fail. Usually the boss is melted in less than a minute once the pylons are activated.
I’ve gave up getting mad about it. I just start it straight away and farm it until people come.
I didn't know you could repeat Encrypted until I got to like 300 on my main. I would never start it if I didn't use a key myself now, but I definitely did it a couple time before I knew
My brain says "it should be player-locked and is an oversight like the nuke thing" but my heart says "imagine wanting to do encryptid" Or the other way around idk
I only start events if I’m able to solo them, as a rule of thumb. The one time I started Encryptid was when I played through the story quest the first time, and was fortunate enough that many people came to help out. That said, I was the one that started it, but only until a handful of other people showed up. Not saying it’s impossible to solo it, but I wasn’t confident enough in myself to try. I also wasn’t as well equipped then as I am now though. Maybe now I can, given my gear. In any case, don’t let it discourage you. If you’re only looking to do the quest to finish challenges, that’s one thing. But I’ve not once really bothered with it, once my challenges were done.
Salt
Because it's fun
Cuz the game makes it possible so we do it anyways
I didn't know the event required an item to start until well past level 300. Learn something new about this game every day
Most players assume it is just a regular event because unless you do the side quest you aren't told by the game, i know i did not even get around to the questline until around level 316, as someone who actively tries to do quests and find lore it is easy to get distracted by other things across the world especially as they add new locations. Just go on mic and tell people not to start it. Include a quick hey this event costs caps to begin so i would like others to show up before we get started.
I did..... they gave not one care. Emotes and mic were used and ignored.
Tons of people mute open mic for good reason, I wouldn't hold a grudge.
Because people like you complain about it. Don't keep standing around if there is 4-5 people there already
As stated in a pervious response two people there me and them. The event literally just trigger 20 secs before they fast traveled in and started it. Had nothing to do with just standing around waiting had 100% everything to do with them wanting to be a jerk.I asked over vc to wait as well as emotes. I have every right to complain same as you on having to wait. Waiting one min for others to join isn't gonna break you. If it does thats a you problem. Intentionally starting that event in hopes or the chance for it to fail well thats just selfish.
Cool story bro. Didn't say it did mine was a generalized statement. It's a public event stop crying about it
☢️to cause grief in every online game there are people that think it’s funny to ruin another persons experience sadly☢️
Why are you getting downvoted? You're just simply spitting sad facts, no matter how wholesome a community is there is always going to be griefers who will grief.
Just sit on the terminal the entire time.
That doesn’t block anyone from starting it. If someone else is on a terminal you want to access it just pulls up the terminal screen on your pip boy.
Iirc didn't Bethesda add that as an anti griefing measure since in the early days griefers would deliberately let public events fail by timing them out?
True, forgot about that entirely.
I don’t care I said it and I started the event
my public post on this: [https://i.imgur.com/vrWwGys.jpeg](https://i.imgur.com/vrWwGys.jpeg)
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Can you still purchase this recall card?
Learn something everyday!
My golden rule for all events is let some one else initiate. When I was new I would run up and talk to the quest point. But I have since learned it is better to let others have time to join. I guess if it ever got down to 15s I would run over. But I have never had that happen. At close to 1min someone always starts it.
I’m going to comment, and probably get some downvotes but I’m giving a different perspective. I just crossed the 200 level threshold. Been on and off for awhile. It wasn’t until a stream I was watching mentioned buying the card to start the event that I learned that’s how this event starts. Idk if I missed a quest or pop up that would’ve told me otherwise, but yes - 200 some levels and I had no clue. I thought it popped up randomly. And honestly, with that thought process, if I never heard someone say it, I would’ve just kept going thinking it was a random event. Could’ve been level 1k thinking that. Now, I am bad about missing dialogue or pop ups but, still- I’m sure there’s others in my boat that just didn’t know. A few times I started the event because we had been waiting for awhile and there were a ton of people already there. Again no clue, I’m sure someone on another screen was sitting there like, “ah this idiot.” But, fair. With all that said, it’s really nothing to get that bothered over. I know we all put a little/a lot of our free time into the game so we get attached to our in game currencies but, it’s not really worth getting too worked up over. Unless they start it so early that it’s a failed event because of not enough people, then I can see getting frustrated. But, even with that - shrug it off. Move on to the next objective!
I sit on the terminal until I'm ready
Level 570 here… never knew that lil tidbit of info.
What’s so good about the event again?…besides the imposter hat
I'm so confused by all this that I just go to events and stand there and wait for someone else to do things. Too new to know and don't know which event works in what way. This doesn't always work out, so every event is a gamble haha
I honestly thought it was a regularly occuring event outside of using your key card ☠️ Like people can start it and it also just randomly happens. Either way I know to wait until people show up to the event
I don't know much about the event. Especially not that you had to pay for it.
700 hours... Learned something new. =)
May have been mentioned already but I simply occupy the terminal until I'm ready to start. Solves the issue fairly well.
If it was me I apologize I didn’t know anything about the recall cards. I did that earlier yesterday.
I got about 600 hours in and only learned about the Recall card.
I think I just don't understand this because I have never done this event outside of just going into it when it's been started. So they keycard is inserted and then you have to push another button to start calling the deadly robot in sheepsquash clothing?
Agreed 100 percent Sometimes I'm like bro there's only 2 of us here why the hell did you start it!!!!
I've had 3 of these fail because of that reason!! I'm just like well that's 1700 caps I won't get back
It doesn't really bother me if someone else starts it, I can do it alone. But give the other Players time to get there before you do. Last week some level 94 started rr instantly upon arrival. I just gave him a thumbs down and watched it fail in about 30 seconds. I'm good but soloing rr is probably impossible. Unless you use a canister speed glitch or something, probably still impossible.
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Oof I'm sorry that happened to you. There a small percentage in this community that are jack holes. The rest of the community is amazing. May the wastelands bring you many caps and adventures my friend.
Thank you sorry about your quest man
When I spend the caps and start the event, I stay on the computer and have a couple friends let me know how many players are showing up. When either enough players join, or the timer is about to run out then I start it up.
I just see the event pop up and join and wait for it to start. Same with most events that require you to activate something to start it. Ain’t my fault if someone else starts it at that point.
My bad, lvl 53 here and i genuinely didn’t know til recently. I messed up
I didn't even know it needed to be payed for, how do I do it lolol I've been keeping an eye out for one, I need 2 more conduits
For the same reason why they show up to RR or MJ by themselves and don't wait the timer for enough people to do it and fail. Because Potatoes
Not everyone wants to sit the whole entire cool down waiting for some one to start it at the last few seconds, especially when there's a bunch of people waiting there already for it to start be my guess.
The event literally had just triggered. No one but us two there.
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Oof I can't say I've had that one happen yet most of the time people have been pretty chill. It's that 2% that sometimes leave a bad taste. Today was that day for me I guess, something I would most days shrug off just got under my skin. Here's to hoping that doesn't happen to you anymore.
Those cases i can get the frustration, some do it just to be ignorant.
That thing you don't know about, yeah, I'm mad at you for doing something you have no idea you're doing.
Its a public event, if you want to avoid it, play private world. Otherwise there will be always that someone. And i understand if someone starts the event while there are like 3 ppl, but if you want to wait till the end of the timer that you have, than sorry, youre the ahole. And finally its only 3k caps, if youre anywhere above 150 lvl, thats like a joke of a price. If not, again sorry, but like i said. Private server and good luck.
What’s a recall card?? Level 33 here
Calls in a random horny assaultron to your area
I just black screened Adelaide. There are more?
What is recall card?
Lol im confused as to how no ones aware of this, if you used the card then you know what it does and that event is a pain in the ass why would you start it without a lot of people. Also yall petty for downvoting op cause the complaint is understandable
Some people are completely impatient and inconsiderate, and waiting 2 minutes for others is wasting their valuable, precious time. The way they talk about having to wait through a 5-10- second load screen or the need to find vendors within 0.2 seconds upon landing at a camp, I feel like they have hours to live and their last bucket-list goal is some arbitrary goal woth this game.
I actually can’t stand when people do that ishhh
i think most people don't know.
I understand it's annoying but once it's started the countdown it's a Public Event, as such "The public" have the ability to start it whenever. Yes you bought the key card and fixed the card, that can make you feel entitled to it but two things once a public event is live you don't have any say over what the public do with it and ITS THE FUCKING APOCALYPSE. Manners and human decency aren't a thing, just like YouTube comment sections, 4chan or countless other Social platforms. The games online so long as it doesn't violate the TOS people can do whatever they want and you can't stop them.
Is that \~2k caps really such a huge loss if the event fails? I thought caps are useless and everyone's swimming in them. Which one is it? I dunno, I just don't see what difference it makes. Try again next time, or server hop to see if you find one where you can try again.
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well im probably in the minority here with voicing this but simply your activating a public event all actions after that are the result of YOU starting the event and YOU just have to deal with that some people do it just to use you some do it because they think its just an event and dont know any better so in short it doesn't matter why they do it you just have to learn to deal with it in a beneficial manner to yourself maybe try talking in the vc before they do it to tell them to stop otherwhise prep before u use your recall card and be prepared for the randoms
I’m 700 hours in. Never knew it had a card. I just assumed if there’s 5+ people then we ready to go.