The newest patch for Fallout 76 launched at present contains some shiny new additions Bethesda revealed earlier this month: cameras and merchandise restore kits. The latter can solely be bought with meta-currency, a departure from the in-game storefront’s deal with solely providing beauty gadgets.
According to the Wild Appalachia patch 8.5 notes, the kits are available in two varieties, neither of which might be crafted, dropped, offered, or traded. Basic Repair Kits restore any merchandise again to 100% situation and are offered in Fallout 76’s Atomic Shop for Atoms, which might be earned by finishing challenges or spending real-world munies. Improved Repair Kits go the additional mile and buff any merchandise to 150% situation, however not often seem. Currently, solely the game’s nastiest baddie, the Scorchbeast Queen, drops them, however sooner or later they might be rewarded for different quests and battles.
Bethesda’s resolution so as to add an merchandise that impacts gameplay to its Atomic Shop could strike some as troubling provided that when the shop was initially unveiled again in November, they promised solely cosmetics and emotes can be out there by way of microtransactions.
“It doesn’t offer anything with a competitive advantage, and more so, it aims to bring joy not just to you, but the other dwellers around you,” Bethesda mentioned within the unique Atomic Shop announcement.
According to the patch notes, restore kits represent a “convenient option” quite than an in-game benefit. I’m positive gamers will rapidly determine whether or not that holds true or not as soon as the bullets begin flying. While I agree with Bethesda that these kits will in all probability most frequently be used as a shortcut to keep away from stopping off at a workbench, there’s additionally little doubt a behemoth just like the Gauss Rifle or M2 Browning going from almost zero % situation again to full energy has the capability to show the tide of a combat. So yeah, you will not be throwing cash on the game to win, however you’re throwing cash on the game to make sure your weapons received’t break in essential moments, which sounds an terrible lot like a bonus to me. Cue the Kermit “But that’s none of my business” tea-drinking meme.
As for the obnoxiously named ProSnap Deluxe digicam, you intention and snap images precisely the way you intention and shoot a gun. Workbenches now embrace digicam mods and movie when you unlock their crafting recipes, and the viewfinder even handily labels any close by areas or creatures. For actually channelling your interior annoying vacationer, the patch provides new challenges and an extra quest, Bucket List, unlocked within the macabre style of pilfering a digicam off a corpse.
As somebody who fell in love with Fallout 76’s West Virginia countryside – regardless that I’m nonetheless lukewarm in regards to the game itself – the brand new digicam quests might very nicely give me the excuse to choose it up once more. After all, I would like one other excuse to proceed ignoring the backlog gathering digital mud on my pc.
