Fallout 76 patch balances perks and weapons, makes modifications to weight capability, cap stashes, extra

30.01.2019

Games

Fallout 76 replace 5 – patch notes

Patch Version

Download sizes for at this time’s patch shall be roughly 3.5 GB for consoles, and round 500 MB for PC.

PC: 1.0.5.10
PS4: 1.0.5.9
Xbox: 1.0.5.7

General

Performance: Several extra enhancements have been made to in-game efficiency.
Stability: The Fallout 76 game shopper and servers have obtained extra stability enhancements.

Balance Changes

Perks: The injury bonuses supplied by every rank of the Demolition Expert perk have been lowered from +20%/40%/60%/80%/100% to +20%/30%/40%/50%/60% to match different weapon perk injury bonuses.
Perks: The situation loss bonuses supplied by every rank of the White Knight and Licensed Plumber perks have been lowered from 30%/60%/90% to 20%/40%/60%, and their restore bonuses have additionally been lowered, to match the Power Patcher perk.
- Dev Note: In trying on the Demolition Expert, White Knight, and Licensed Plumber perks, we felt they’ve up to now been overperforming of their present roles, and we needed to deliver them extra according to related perks to assist forestall them from feeling like necessary picks.
Weapons: The Explosive legendary mod’s injury bonus has been lowered from +100% to +20% of base weapon injury, with explosive radius injury.
Weapons: The Two Shot legendary impact’s injury bonus has been lowered from +100% to +25% of base weapon injury.
- Dev Note: As talked about in a earlier Inside the Vault article, each the explosive mod and two shot weapons might end in dealing very excessive quantities of injury, and this was compounded if two shot and explosive had been mixed. We’ve determined to tone each of those injury bonuses again.
Weapons: Flamers, Cryolators, plasma weapons, and laser weapons can now not spawn with the Explosive legendary mod.
- Dev Note: The explosive mod causes weapons to fireplace bullets which are . . . explosive. The weapons listed above don’t fireplace bullets, so we’ve quickly eliminated the power for them to spawn with that mod utilized so we are able to make changes.

C.A.M.P., Crafting, and Workshops

Scrapping: Loose weapon and armor mods are actually protected against autoscrapping when crafting. However, they will nonetheless be scrapped manually if a participant desires to interrupt them down into scrap elements.
Turrets: An “(Owned)” tag will now seem subsequent to the names of Turrets a participant has constructed of their C.A.M.P. or a workshop.

Design and Gameplay

Carry Weight: Is now capped to an absolute restrict of 1,500 kilos over the character’s present most carry weight.
- For instance: If your carry weight restrict is 210 kilos, then your most restrict is 1,710 kilos.
- Characters shall be unable to exceed this new weight restrict shifting ahead.
- Characters who already exceed this restrict shall be unable so as to add any extra gadgets or caps to their inventories till they’ve lowered their carry weight beneath the cap.
- Dev Note: These limits exist primarily to maintain servers from performing poorly, which might occur when we now have too many gadgets within the game world. They additionally play function in serving to to manage the in-game economic system. We do acknowledge the will to have the ability to personal extra of the cool gadgets that we now have within the game, and we’re trying into quite a lot of options, together with rising the stash measurement. We will you should definitely speak extra about this when they’re prepared.
Cap Stashes: To assist handle cap exploits, caps stashes have been became containers, which permits them to correctly reset and supply gamers with instanced loot.
Plans and Recipes: When viewing a plan or recipe in a menu, a “(Known)” tag will now seem subsequent to the names of recipes and plans the participant has already discovered.
Vendors: Recipes and Plans in Vendor inventories are now not randomized and might now be reliably sourced from these Vendors, aside from some minor Workshop and C.A.M.P. Plans.
- The look of many Plans and Recipes in Vendor inventories relies on participant stage and they’ll present up as soon as the right stage has been reached.
- Additional structural Plans for wall units, energy connectors, doorways, mills, and water purifiers have additionally been added to some Vendors.

PvP

Hunter/Hunted: A server-wide message will now seem when a participant joins the Hunter/Hunted queue.
- This message will solely be displayed as soon as per participant to keep away from spam.
- An extra server-wide message shall be displayed when Hunter/Hunted is able to start so as to give different gamers a closing likelihood to affix.

Quests and Events

Belly of the Beast: A brand new “Ultracite Power Armor” entry has been added to Taggerdy’s Terminal on the highest flooring of Fort Defiance, providing Ultracite Power Armor plans to those that learn it.
First Contact: A brand new miscellaneous goal will now seem upon reaching the Overseer’s C.A.M.P. for the primary time, prompting the participant to put a C.A.M.P. of their very own.
Gauley Mine: A brand new miscellaneous goal will now seem at Gauley Mine to introduce gamers to Ore Deposits.
Monster Mash: The quantity of XP awarded per spherical throughout this occasion has been lowered from 350 to 100.

Bug Fixes

Art and Graphics

Lighting: Lighting now not glints all through Arktos Pharma.
Apparel: Fixed a problem that might trigger a personality’s legs to point out by means of the Rose Dress whereas it’s outfitted.

C.A.M.P., Crafting and Workshops

Artillery: Fixed a problem that might forestall Artillery from being positioned in legitimate areas.
Blueprints: Addressed a problem stopping gamers from inserting a saved blueprint containing posts that had been positioned partially underground when the blueprint was initially saved.
Budget: Scrapping a saved blueprint that contained wires will now accurately take away these wires from the C.A.M.P. funds.
Exploit: Addressed an exploit that might permit gamers to duplicate their saved blueprints.
Exploit: Addressed an exploit that might permit gamers to cut back their carry weight to a adverse worth.
Foundations: Fixed a problem that might trigger a “Cannot place item: Needs support” message to show when modifying {a partially} floating basis.
Power Armor Station: Players can now not view energy armor they don’t personal when trying to entry an influence armor station that’s occupied by one other participant.
Scrapping: Ignition Cores crafted for the Earth Mover occasion are now not robotically scrapped when utilizing the Scrap All Junk choice at a Workbench.
Scrapping: Junk gadgets that should be manually scrapped are now not robotically scrapped for elements when trying to craft.
Stored Objects: Repeatedly trying to put an Atomic Shop variant of an object the participant had saved however doesn’t personal now not prevents them from inserting different variants.
Structures: Fixed a problem that might forestall a C.A.M.P. or workshop construction from being edited when constructing ranges had been merged or break up a number of instances. This repair isn’t retroactive and won’t apply to buildings constructed previous to at this time’s patch.
Terminals: Powered terminals contained inside a saved blueprint now work accurately when the blueprint is positioned in a brand new location

Challenges

Collect Holotape Games: Nuka Tapper sub-challenge can now be accomplished by taking part in the Nuka-Tapper holotape game.
Formal Wear Challenges: Pantsuits and Shortsuits now accurately rely as formal put on when finishing challenges.
Gather Building Supplies: The “Scrap items to produce fertilizer” situation has been up to date to “Collect Fertilizer” and could be accomplished by salvaging or crafting it utilizing spoiled fruits, greens, and meat.
Learn Cooking Recipes: This problem will now acknowledge many extra cooking recipes when they’re discovered for the primary time. Retroactive credit score is not going to be awarded for recipes discovered previous to at this time’s patch, however that’s deliberate for a future replace.

Enemies

A.I.: Fixed a problem by which some enemies might chase the participant farther than meant and turn into frozen in place.
Exploit: Addressed a number of XP exploits by including a restrict to the utmost quantity of XP granted by a single kill.
Looting: Fixed a problem that might forestall gamers from looting goo and ash piles after killing an enemy with a laser or plasma weapon.

General

Loading: Fixed a number of points that might trigger characters’ physique components, outfitted attire, or armor to turn into quickly invisible to different close by gamers or teammates after loading right into a world.
Monorail Elevator: Fixed a problem that prevented the Monorail Elevator close to the sting of Cranberry Bog from taking gamers to the highest flooring.
Performance: The Scorched Earth occasion has obtained optimization enhancements.
Performance: On laptops with a couple of graphics card, Fallout 76 will now default to utilizing the devoted graphics card quite than an built-in card.
Performance: Launching the Traditional or Simplified Chinese game shoppers on Xbox One now not causes a 6 second hitch when the launch video begins to play.

Items

Bobbleheads: Using a number of Explosive Bobbleheads now not causes their results to stack.
Exploit: Addressed an exploit that might permit gamers to duplicate gadgets utilizing MODUS Vendors.
Exploit: Addressed an exploit by which the Vampire legendary impact might restore well being by means of unintended means.
Magazines: Removed magazines from a number of areas the place they had been unintentionally assured to spawn.
Tomahawks: No longer turn into caught in mid-air after placing a hostile creature or participant.
Magazines: Guns and Bullets #5 now accurately offers bonus elements when scrapping weapons, however now not specifies a 50% enhance.
Magazines: Tesla Science #6 now accurately grants bonus Rad Resistance.
Rad-X: Consuming a number of Rad-X or Diluted Rad-X now not causes their results to stack.
Health Bonuses: A participant with very low well being who unequips an merchandise that gives bonus well being will now not be immediately killed if eradicating that merchandise that will trigger their well being to drop to or beneath 0.
Paper Bags: Fixed a number of points by which transferring gadgets into an empty paper bag because the bag was despawning brought on these gadgets to turn into misplaced.
Pip-Boy: Fixed a uncommon problem that might trigger a personality’s Pip-Boy to go lacking.
Power Armor: Entering a swimsuit of energy armor now not sometimes causes it to turn into invisible to close by gamers.

Perks

Butcher’s Bounty: Searching a useless Tick with the Butcher’s Bounty perk outfitted can now accurately produce extra Tick Blood.
Cap Collector: Now requires gamers to go looking caps stashes, very like different perks that grant a search choice for containers.
Exploit: Addressed an exploit affecting the Curator perk.
Fireproof: Flame assault injury discount supplied by the Fireproof perk now accurately applies to Molotov fireplace injury.
Serendipity: A notification will now seem on-screen and sound results will play every time the Serendipity perk’s results are triggered.
Super Duper: Can now not set off when crafting quest gadgets.
Traveling Pharmacy: Now accurately applies its weight discount impact to Radaway, Diluted Radaway, Stimpaks, Diluted Stimpaks, Bloodpacks, Glowing Bloodpacks, Disease Cures, and Antibiotics.

PvP

Respawn: Fixed a problem that might forestall a participant who was killed in water from accurately ending PVP upon respawning.
Stealth: Addressed a problem by which stealth injury bonuses might nonetheless be utilized by a sneaking participant’s assaults throughout PVP even that participant was inside their goal’s direct line of sight.
Wanted: Fixed a problem that might trigger the bounty quantity for a Wanted participant to look halved on the map when approaching that participant within the game world.

Quests and Events

Breach and Clear: The Meteoric Sword now accurately has a slim likelihood to spawn in containers throughout the Breach and Clear occasion.
Early Warnings: Quest progress will now not turn into caught when crafting Upgraded Motors and logging out after crafting Upgraded Motors will now not reset the search tracker to 0/5.
Events: Fixed a problem that might permit a participant to concurrently be a part of two completely different occasions.
Events: Fast touring after becoming a member of an occasion will now accurately take away the participant from that occasion and can now not forestall them from becoming a member of proximity occasion at their quick journey vacation spot.
Flavors of Mayhem: Rose will now not sometimes play unrelated voiceover traces when trying to show in Flavors of Mayhem, and the participant is now not prevented from accurately finishing the search.
Signal Strength: Fixed a problem that might forestall Rose’s introductory voiceover traces from taking part in when the participant approaches Top of the World.
Second Helpings: An space marker will now seem for the “Find Delbert Winters in Flatwoods” goal to higher inform gamers about their choices for continuing by means of the search.

Survival

Diseases: The Rad Worms illness now accurately will increase rad injury taken by 50%.

Sound

Weapons: Breath sound results will now play accurately when activating the Hold Breath choice whereas zoomed.

UI

Display: Fallout 76 will now higher autodetect AMD 7900/8900 collection and AMD Radeon R9 200 Series graphics playing cards.
Field of View: Addressed a problem inflicting digital camera clipping close to partitions when utilizing a really excessive Field of View setting.
Hotkeys: Fallout 76 now higher helps French AZERTY keyboard layouts and the game’s controls will modify accordingly.
Hotkeys: While utilizing a French AZERTY keyboard, the “/” key can now be correctly rebound within the controls menu.
Loading Screens: Fixed a problem that might trigger loading screens to look minimize off or black at completely different resolutions when getting into a constructing’s inside.
Map: Character ranges now not seem truncated on the map for gamers over stage 100.
Nameplates: Fixed a problem that prevented participant nameplates from showing whereas contained in the nuke zone throughout the Scorched Earth occasion.
Nameplates: Fixed a problem that prevented the crown icon from displaying subsequent to legendary enemy nameplates.
Social: On Xbox, after sending a pal request to a different participant a notification will now show to substantiate {that a} pal request has been despatched.
Social: The “Invite to Team” choice now not seems for gamers who’ve already joined the group.
Social: If an try to quick journey to a pal or teammate utilizing the Social Menu fails because of close by enemies the participant will now be notified by an error message that states “You cannot fast travel when enemies are nearby”.
Trading: Decreased the wait time required between trades when making a number of trades with one other participant. If gamers try to make a number of trades too shortly, a brand new “Trade failed due to frequency, wait a moment and try again.” error message will now show quite than the earlier “Trade Failed on Server” message.
Trading: Fixed a problem on PC that might trigger the participant’s cursor to look on either side of a commerce menu on the identical time.
Tutorials: New gamers will now obtain a tutorial message informing them of the Change Appearance choice within the Main Menu.
VATS: Now selects targets extra constantly throughout completely different subject of view (FOV) values. For instance, VATS will now not goal enemies which are seen in peripheral imaginative and prescient at excessive FOV values, however can be off-screen at default FOV values. This repair will assist forestall VATS from offering a bonus to gamers who use excessive FOV settings.
VATS: Fixed a problem that might trigger the VATS interface to quickly flicker on and off.
Voice Chat: Fixed a problem stopping the speaker icon from showing to others whereas a participant is talking over voice chat.
Workshop Previews: The participant’s present Atom steadiness now not seems truncated when viewing an Atomic Shop merchandise within the workshop preview at 16:10 and 21:9 resolutions.