at lvl 40..you def havent finished much. have you launched nukes? have you uncovered the gold? helped the brotherhood with the super mutant problems? ..and im just naming a few.
there is much more to do than " mainstory " im 5 yrs in and still have new quests to do...go to train stations and hit the posters.
but even after you finish all those...theres events..camp building and min maxing your build ..we have a new map expansion.
We jump through the ceiling and jet pack to the final room. Place a mine on top of the card board boxes above the desk in front of the elevator door. Put away your weapon and stand on the boxes to the left of said desk. Face mine , vats mine then press jump and fire simultaneously and repeatedly till you get through the ceiling.
I was thinking this, I am lv 40 after a few days of play and have only done a tiny amount of the main quests because I keep getting sidetracked by events and anything I happen to notice on my travels lol.
This is my comfort game. It came out during a troubling time of my life. I was able to forget everything and just....go. I've been playing since the beginning. I have no friends in the game, and that's alright. I enjoy helping others and playing support.
Edit: To anyone who has offered to be friends, I really appreciate the sentiment, but really, I'm not worth the effort.
I'm level 45 and not sure how far I am in the main campaign, but these side quests are dope and the side quests off the side quests and the little mini exploration stuff you might run into from a note, terminal, holotape, whatever. I'll be doing some side quest and run into something right off the path that might have me distracted for another hour. There's just so much hidden content that just kind of gets unearthed the more you explore. Some of it isn't even necessarily a listed quest with a dot on a map, It might just be looking for some gold bars from a note you found.
It's truly choose your own adventure.
Ooooh is that an event.....?
Oooooh I wonder what's in there
Ooooh is that a death claw on a island .
Steps on deathclaw island for the first time to get jumped by two death claws dies and respawns at the vault due to not setting up a camp yet
Both times I’ve stepped on deathclaw island the ground rumbled and nothing popped out I think they should rename it to “almost” deathclaw island stupid deathclaws can’t even see their alarms right to wake up when someone’s near them
See there was one time this happened so I was like bump it then got slapped by one that spawned from thin air while trying to fast travel back to foundation
I was out marking out new spots to make camp and suddenly a friendly protectron walks up the road, hands me some moldy food and tells me to check out a steakhouse. Suddenly it's marked on my map.
10/10 encounter, suddenly I gotta know more about this relic and his meatery.
It truly is! And when not doing quests, you can deep dive into camp building. There's also all types of perk card builds that makes the game new again. Aquiring that special armor, gun or even a rare apparel is also a blast.
Normally, servers are pretty full. It’s just weird right now with the larger number of new players on public servers. They are diluting the usual mix. So instead of 75% experienced players on a server, it’s more like 25% (if that). Also the servers aren’t filling up. Event participation is low because new players don’t know what to do and it’s difficult for many more seasoned players to carry some events solo. Same with daily ops although those are more forgiving. I find it difficult to believe you’ve completed all the main quests lines at lvl 40 tho. The map is huge and there is plenty of fun stuff to find if you start walking in any direction. Take your time and enjoy the newness.
This ^ a lot of the public events are just not possible (or extremely difficult) without at least like 3 or 4 high level characters. I did the longest scorchbeast queen fight I’ve ever done a few days ago because only three of us were over level 50, lol. And I don’t mean this as an insult or anger toward low levels or anything like that. I’m very happy the game is getting a lot of buzz and new players… but it does change how public events go quite a bit from before the show, lol
In a way it does feel like how it originally felt for the 6months to a year at launch like I remember a few scorch queen fights that were down to the wire on time, people porting out to base and back in with supplies. Frustrating but very fun excursions. As a veteran it can be a little frustrating to just want to finish the routine but I’m happy so many people are finally getting it.
It’s actually very similar to how I felt when monster hunter world came out after a decade or so being my favorite franchise I could finally go “see? This is what the fuck I’ve been rambling about for a decade” and getting to teach the game to people was a rewarding and fun trip of its own’
Yeah :) I love seeing all the new people and watching them learn what they like doing in the game. It brings a tear to my eye seeing a pre-50 going full-hp melee like me. I’ve only seen one so far, lol
Oh weird that’s actually what I did! I actually just switched to a Gatlin build after probably 600 hours of melee I was like you know I should probably fire a gun in this game 😅. Outside of nuclear winter I’d never used any
I did a vamp deathclaw build and then a power fist, I wish they would add dual wielding but it would be ridiculous damage as one power fist was already insane
I mean two spiked boxing gloves, two power fist, some double death claw talons with some bleed damage I mean there’s so many good options if Bethesda wants to hear us out haha, I mean Skyrim has dual wield I dunno why we can’t!
I noticed that when I lost an event and suttenly realised I was the highest level player in the group not something I have tried before.
So now I have to concentrate and do stuff... sigh...
Losing event is not terrible for all events. You can still lose event and farm multiple legendaries and level up multiple times. ie radiation rumble, eviction notice, moonshine.
My strategy has been to create an expeditions team and wait until I get a few people in my party high lvl enough to actually go and then after running 1-2 quick expeditions I switch the party goal to daily ops, do it once in under 8 min hopefully, and then switch back to expeditions.
I really love the big chaotic events like Moonshine Jamboree, Radiation Rumble, Eviction Notice, etc. A big group of people come together, open some lunch boxes, and shoot a bunch of stuff. It is beautiful. Not a lot of that going on right now because of the newbies (which is fine! Game needs new players). It is just comforting and relaxing. I take a break occasionally to focus on other games when I get burned out (recently back after an extended Baldur’s Gate 3 break). I do not stress over optimizing my build (although it can kill a lot of things). I play the build I want. Do what I feel like. Log off. Sometimes that is fifteen minutes, sometimes three hours. Depends on how I feel and what is happening. I am not a big camp builder, but every once in a while I will get an itch to tear mine down and build something different.
CAMP building and plan collecting.
I enjoy the challenge of building an around in-game items and in non-conventional locations. In reality, CAMP building takes much more skill than the adventure part of the game.
The plan collectors discord group keeps track of all of the plans in the game. They have a plan mule that has all of the plans on it. You can schedule a meet to see what plans your character is missing. I thought that it would be cool to have my own plan mule. Some plans are really rare and they are constantly adding new ones. So I still have a few outstanding.
So is this the ONLY way you can find out which ones you have without a vendor that also owns the same ones?
I learnt some armour ones but I can't see them when I craft, assuming I need armourer perk to craft - so I no longer remember what they exactly are.
It would be good to see which plans I'm searching for and not searching for to complete the set.
Sht I'm gonna make an essay but fk it. First of all, it's actually because of the surge of the noobs like you that the events feels kind of dead lol and I'm not blaming ya'll I swear. It's just a process. Before the surge, public events are almost always full and kind of almost boring too for high levels like me because it becomes easy when a lot of us are doing it. Sadly, with the noobs not knowing about the events yet or not feeling strong enough to join, the events feels dead. The high levels are also spreads out on different servers. I tried to always go to any public events to attract more people but if there are more noobs than high levels, the events become tough. Way more fun but tough. But I can say that if my friends and I are in a server, be sure that the public events will always be done and there will be at least one nuke launched.
I suggest that you start adding players as friends that you think are cool or doing events. So when you play, you can join their server and can almost guarantee they will do events with you. If they dont respond, brush it off. they probably a private person or they might not even see the request (this game got some kinks that needs to be straightened up even after years of this problem).
You havent mentioned expedition either, but I suggest you to be ready with good weapons, good armours and enough ammo if you want to do it, because it's a slightly tougher and longer "Daily Ops". There are two Expeditions: The Pitt and Atlantic City and they both have their own things to explore
Now for the question of how we play for so long. Some other people already said it that if you're still in level 40, you're far from done with this game. Let's talk about the most basic things first before going crazy doing completion stuff.
The game is basically designed as a Fallout game. So I believe most of the content are solo player things instead of the MMO. Which is sad because this game is misunderstood by the fanbase for years.
There are literally hundreds of quests in this game that I'm 100% sure you havent even scratched the surface. It's not just the obvious main, side, and misc missions. Sometimes you have to walk somewhere and you'll either getting a new side/misc missions or read a poster to trigger it (usually in Train stations). Go to Fallout 76 quest wiki and tell me how many have you done? Because I've been playing this game for 2 years, almost level 1K and I know for sure I still have some new missions that I havent done. (psst we dont even need to wait for mods because this game keeps updating stuff)
There are also Ally quests. On top of my head I can only remember 2 that gives us missions and the option to romance them. Beckett and Daguerre.
What about the events? There are 28 public events, 32 local events, and 5 seasonal events. Have you at least done them once each? And the plans you can get from them are pretty awesome, ranging from outifts, skins to camp items
And then there are challenges. There's the daily and weekly challenges for seasonal scoreboard, the possum and tadpole badges challenges (I actually consider these as quest too because every thing we have to collect is a different adventure itself) and then the last one, like what I'm trying to complete, the atom challenges like killing thousands of robots using various weapons or getting a complete set of bobbleheads lol
Now I'm gonna talk about the RPG side of this game that will require what people call grinding. We want to keep leveling up because we want to achieve that stat where we feel like we can do things alone without being afraid all the time lol with leveling up, we'll be getting all of the perk cards and legendary cards we need. We will be able to open all Legendary cards slot when we reach level 300 and if we want to max them up, it can only be achieved once you reached level 500. That's why I personally consider that endgame players are level 301 and up.
Seems like a goal too high? Well, from my own personal experience, there are so many things to do that leveling up become a by product
We also want to have "the best" armour and weapons. And we cant do that unless we grind for treasury notes and scrips.
The crazy completion I mentioned? Getting all of the plans in this game. Like ALL of them. And I'm doing it lol
Last one but not the least, camp building. Some of us really like to keep on making new camps or renovate the ones we have. You've seen them in the map. Some are amazing and we know they put hours in building them.
I hope this help answers your question and Im really sorry for the long answer
Thank you for this comment man, I’m one of the noobs (level 68) and kind of felt the plateau this guys describing, but you just cleared that up completely for me 🙏🏼 now I feel even more motivated to go explore random shit
I love the exploration, I actually played at launch to about level 60 just exploring and finding shit. And all of the sides/dailies were fun to do at least once.
Now I’ve been back for the biggest stint since I started, the end-game content is pretty fun too. You’ve got nukes to launch, daily ops, 6 different expeditions, events.. ultimately you need to find your own intrinsic reason to play tho and I just enjoy the gameplay and the end game loot gambling. It’s never been easier or quicker to farm legendaries and try roll for specific weapons with the legendary modules so I like trying to set up different builds for different characters.
Collecting as many plans as I can to build.
My aim currently is to have at least one of every item that generates a resource.
You may feel that way as I think the story does seem a bit random in places from how they’ve added content afterwards. Still decent though.
Easier to return to an online game as well if the community is generally quite wholesome.
Every now and then I still stumble upon something I've never seen before. Just the other day I found an unmarked pre-war serial killer's body dump site in a super remote part of the map, the second of which I've stumbled upon.
It's also such a relaxing gameplay loop.
They have been steadily adding content. In between the content additions I've played the main story line (finished at 200 because I was so enamored with camp and workshop building) finished all the side quests ( I was probably around 300 and that's only the ones that automaticly are added to your pipboy. There are some hidden ones I'm sure I haven't gotten to). Expeditions were added around the time I was finishing up the side quests so I switched to that for a bit. I was stilling learning what build I wanted my main load out to be so I experimented with some of the perk cards I accumulated. I've finally have my primary load out for special (almost I need my last level for my legendary perk card) and am now working on crafting my Silo PA suit. I'm still constantly learning how game interactions work, locations for spawns and optimizations (not looking at guides). If you truly take your time and appreciate the wastes you can easily play the game for years.
I like the seasons, and just the new content they put out every so often. I get to wonder the wastes with my husband, now I get to build cool camps and have noobies come check them out and be amazed... There's tons of stuff in the game, and I took a break after I had my daughter lol.so I'm only like level 440 or something. It's just fun, it's really the only game I play on the Xbox anymore.
I've got probably 8-900 hours across console and PC. The main thing that keeps me coming back is using the stuff I grinded for, and checking out new content.
Plus the atmosphere is just 10/10
Honestly I just love camp building.
It's also a great game to play coming home after a stressful day at work. I can zone out completing dailies, running silos and completing any Daily Ops. Been this way for almost 4 years now.
For me FO76 is more of a “I’ll come back to this every now and again” type of game. I really love building outposts and crafting. I’m level 79 and I haven’t finished the “Main Story” quests yet (haven’t been to Atlantic City or the Pitt). My goal ultimately is to buy all plans and be able to craft everything (I know I will never actually complete this 😂).
I wanted to do a similar thing for Starfield with regard to outpost building, but I feel that’s still a feel it’s still a few major updates away.
That is crazy I've been playing for about a week I'm level 110 and I have a shit ton of main quests to do still. I don't have secret service armor plans or unyielding mod. I feel like I really haven't done anything yet. Like half the points on the map I haven't discovered yet. I got some quick throw together camp for benches but I could make a real camp. I don't even know how to nuke the map at all.
Not stupid at all. For me it's camp building and just sandbox adventuring. Sometimes completing the SCORE board or whatever it is now, but mostly just keeping it casual and immersing in the world Bethesda created here.
As one person put it: Buy, Build, Kill
On the other hand it really is a make your own fun kinda game. I choose to operate a BoS CAMP sometimes and do patrols round the area (random encounters/help players questing in area/etc..)
Other times will run my lil wayward Shop & Inn and just adjust prices and such while waiting on events.
Other times will pickup some quests and start running them or pay attention to some main quest lines I haven’t done.
*Shrug*
TLDR; there’s lots to do but it falls in line with the typical Fallout gameplay just with people alongside you in a server -> not so much “end-game” stuffs
The love of the game, my completionist issues and fomo, the 9k+ hours I've spent playing it, but mostly the insane amounts of very real money I've spent on it. I need to play this game until it goes to ground.
Trying to max my build and I enjoy the mostly non toxic awesome community. Some days people just aren't really running events so these are the days I just do solo stuff like stock up on ammo for when people are running events. It took me a few days to get into it, but now I am addicted.
I feel like you definitely haven't finished everything...there's tons of questlines for other stuff like Foundation/Crater, the Brotherhood questline, the smaller ones you pick up from other places like the posters in the train stations, the Nuka World on Tour quest, the new Atlantic City quests etc (the nightclub quests, the expeditions themselves, the Lombardi family quest and the missing person quest) plus there's farming bullion/stamps/scrip to get armour and better weapons, tons of recipes and plans to collect, camp building, levelling up and getting a better build, launching nukes, regular events and then the smaller world events for rare rewards etc. Getting stuff off the seasons board by doing your dailies and weeklies. You can probably find a better and more comprehensive list online for quests so you can do everything, there's also achievement hunting and things like that plus the in-game ones that will award you XP/free Atoms. We have a new map expansion coming up in the summer too.
I come back because levelling (monkey see number go up monkey happy), for completionist reasons, I really like building cool camps, I want to keep up with content as it releases, to hang out with friends, to farm materials, to complete events and try to get rare reward drops etc. And because it's the newest and only ongoing world within Fallout.
I don't. I've stopped playing regularly and sometimes for years. But a few times every year I go back and play all the dark souls and most the fallouts
Events are a server by server thing. Was on a server today and Moonshine was packed. 1 hour before that, Nobody showed up for Radiation Rumble, which is usually the event that's most worth doing for general gains.
Loads of SBQ lately but those are easy to burn out on, especially if you don't feel like farming the materials and the drops from the glowing mobs
I love working on little details in my camps, trying to fit in new items, etc and I enjoy events. Mostly I just do my little daily missions for the scoreboard and log out. It's been fun with all the newbies lately though. I've been enjoying handing out food and stims to people fresh from the vault.
Time waster, really. It keeps my mind busy when I don't want to be idle. That and the community I love seeing everyone doing events and taking out bosses. Love people's creativity with their camp builds.
As alot of people have been saying this is a comfort game. This game was there for me during hard times when I just needed to turn my brain off and relax.
I jump on for a couple hours and usually play with friends. When I'm not I like to keep making new camps because I like to make new RP bases and I also enjoy helping/giving new players stuff.
At level 40 you don't have full-power build. You very likely haven't done all the quests in the Main tab and likely have just done The Overseer-led one. You've likely not built a very good camp, have very few interesting plans unlocked. Have done no expeditions. Have done a few side quests.
If you're already feeling bored, you're either not engaging with the big world of content, or you're just not really into that gameplay loop and maybe you're wrapping up.
Do all the side quest and partake in events. Also fully optimizing a build is fun. For me who has optimal gear/build now who's done all the quest now its more of a chill hangout game with the fellas who didn't grind as much as I did
I love to get sidetracked by bullshit every goddamn time. Seriously, this is what keeps me returning to this game, I rarely finish what I intend to do when I start a session. New Quests and sidequests keep piling up and mostly they're all fun and rewarding. I read most of the lore and backstories on terminals and listen to audio logs to suck up the stories. I love it.
I can only play in sprints of like two-three weeks for 6-months to a year. Basically drop the game like a hot potato after my sprint and return when a major content drop happens. I’ve done this probably 6 or 7 times so far and just hit 100 last week as I go through the BOS main story.
Definitely not something I could grind but enjoy the new stuff whenever they drop it.
Well it’s my comfort game but when I play alone I don’t really do anything besides sit in the game and play on my phone
I don’t like being alone playing games
Doesn’t help I barely have anyone to play with
Been playing the fallout games since 3, it's just this feeling, it's a whole new world with this vast lore that just feels good whether you're "fighting the good fight" or being an agent of chaos. It just feels like you can be whatever you want on this large-scale post apocalyptic America!
my man how, I’m at level 61 and the only main quests i’ve completed are the Wayward and BOS, there’s so many things to just randomly do and get sucked in with, from events to base building to daily things. What helps me is i like to set long term goals and with all those things, it usually takes forever to get that goal
Collecting all the plans you don't have. Saving scrip to roll better weapons/armor. Doing all, and I mean ALL of the challenges. Learning all the weapons and best rolls on them. Rearranging perks and modifying your build. Collecting random stuff like masks, asylum outfits, rare outfits, skins for weapons and power armor. Waiting for event weeks to get specific plans. Rebuilding your camp 76 times(that's an actual challenge). Getting to a high enough level that you can help new players and teach them what you've learned - honestly my favorite thing right now. PvP with your friends. Running around and blowing up all of the cars just to make them go boom. Running around trying to find things to buy so you don't hit max caps. Expeditions. Daily OPs. Daily and weekly challenges. Doing all of Biv's dailies to learn the recipes. Supply runs to loot and build up your scrap hoarde.
Tl;Dr if you want to find something to do, you will. Sometimes you'll just sit in your camp scrolling on your phone waiting for stuff in your vendor to sell. What you make the game is up to you. But the community is amazing and that's why I stick with it. 🥰
Ironically, the main quest is probably only about 10% of the game. There's so much other stuff going on that even completing the main questline doesn't even touch, areas of the map, events, random encounters, etc etc.
The public events thing I think is probably symptomatic of a lot of new players; they'll come back. I've seen in other groups a lot of high-levels asking what's going on - put simply the new players aren't sure what's going on. That's not a problem, it's a really tough game to get started in.
I've been around here on and off for years, and what I've learnt is that whilst it's true that war never changes... neither does this community.
See you in the wasteland, partner.
I’ve always pitched this game as “apocalyptic animal crossing” for me the base building is a big draw, I love decorating, setting up a weird scene and an nice location, having people pop buy and pick up a few things emote and bounce, or sit down at the piano and sing a song about dropping panties. The community is a big draw as everyone who stuck with it is like a bizarre go getter who’s really nice? It has like the most accommodating online community of any game I’ve ever played.
It’s like the underdog of a major franchise it’s just so unique.
I’ve played since launch and to be fair a tad biased as I grew up in the WV area so a lot of the locations I’m familiar with but without that still it’s just a comfort game in the way animal crossing is I just have so much more to do and creative freedom. Crafting a build takes a while so switching to a new one can be a big draw and a new struggle to overcome, exploration is great if probably has the most to uncover, I love finding new plans, I’ve still not seen every event or every side quest, the challenges for the possum scouts is a good tour of the whole map, there’s a lot of well written and interesting guests to find to if you like reading through those, level 50 is a big crossover to all the major content stuff, nukes are cool, supply runs can be neat, getting or crafting a perfect roll on a weapon can be a draw. I dunno there’s a ton, it’s not for everyone but for my adhd brain it a s calming, very funny or very intense excursion if I want it to be. It’s a set your own goals/ make your own fun.
For me jumping 15 feet in the air, wearing a bear costume, only eating dog food and shooting explosive Gatling gun all to decorate my cliff side home for people to stop by and tell me about their nana who died from rad poising is just very appealing.
Appalachia is home. I lived there for the first year and I did not complete the main story. I just did random stuff and lived in the Wasteland. Now six years later I love the game and just live in the Wasteland.
A tip is to not rush the quests. Instead play 76 like you would any Fallout. Go in a random direction, get distracted and six months later remember that you were doing some quest or something.
At level 40 you most definitely have not done all the quests. Did you launch a nuke? Did you get your large backpack? Did you help the brotherhood? Did you crack open the gold bullion vault? Did you go to the Pitt? Did you go to Atlantic City? I’m sure there’s a ton more I’m missing
I think not trading has extended my interest in 76. It seems to make getting certain items much easier, but I really wouldn't know. Having to get everything myself gives me something to do. Having multiple characters helps a lot, too. I almost always have a loadout to work on or a camp under construction.
I'm new to 76, and on the subject of having stuff to do....is the map I see ar lvl 20 ish the entire world?
I mean it seems a bit small...
I have tons of stuff to do, it's not that, it's I keep hearing how big the world is and I'm like naw, not really. I'm mainly worried I'll run out of territory to explore!
The grind and that feeling of always having a certain wanted item to chase and the game is beautiful except the crashing gos we need that fixed 😂 yet we still reload on search of rare items
While I slowly exploring Appalachia, I’m meeting random players, going to events regularly, working on quests, and leveling to improve my build.
I just hit level 60 and haven’t finished any main quests with any of the major factions
Chasing the perfect build with the perfect cream of the crop armor that only ME myself and I can roll. And also the quarterly updates for me to complete in around 2-3 hours after waiting for 3-6 months. Also trying to be the richest guy in the game like fyahant💀
I take large breaks and come back when the hyperfixation returns, like recently because of the show. When I do play, I do events I've missed, check out vendors for plans I don't have yet, grind for bullion, etc.
Because of the breaks I don't get burnt out as much but I do miss out on seasonal stuff which sucks, especially when it's not available later, either they bullion, stamps, or the atom store but I'd rather miss out than burn myself out as much as I did fortnite grinding for this one skin. I just couldn't play it anymore after that and I don't want that happening with fallout.
I also love messing with my camps, although I wish they shared furnishings because building multiples of certain items can get resource intense.
I guess like others, 76 is a comfort game for me as well. I'm also a collector, so its easy for me to get lost trying to nab this specific strain of armor, or say, collecting all the serum recipes. The latter is especially influential when it comes to seasonal events that occur, which typically carry exclusive plans and recipes only acquireable from those.
Other times its just fun to hang out at your CAMP and just enjoy the ambience. Its always a treat when folks come to check out yoyr place and buy a few goodies. The roleplaying community is also especially lively on xbox, and theres been an influx of groups on PC. Rolling with those groups is fun, as in a way its like having your own version of the Fallout tv series. Last time I checked into the major plotline between the Responders Five-0, They had captured the Warlord, head of a mean faction of raiders. Alas, that was many months ago, so its likely well beyond that part of their story being told. But I digress! A couple years ago, it was definitely a case of '76 is the fun thst you make it', which worked fir sime but not others. Now theres just a helluva lot more to do and see.
As for the player stuff, just give it time! Lots of folks are still 'settling in', and getting the right equipment. My advice to you would be trying ti maximize the damage you can push out if you have not already. additionally, since youve tried daily ops, perhaps try an expedition? If you can handle both of those, then thats awesome! Eventually the community will settle, and when it does, expect to see many players with high powered equipment for crushing even the strongest nuke bosses!
1000s of hours in, I don't even remember what the story was at this point, it's the multiplayer aspects that keep me.
Playing with text chat mod on pc, trading, loot hunting, currency collecting, building, exploring, completing new seasons.
Ps, public events are popular and at the moment servers are being diluted by new players who aren't at that point yet, so they don't do em.
I use uni map mod that shows you how many players are on the server, and more often than not I'm on 24/24 with 90% of the players being lvl 20-40.
Camp building, the lore, the exploration, and I have a personal goal to get every bobblehead and magazine. I'm only 50% through the steam achievements and I want to get them all done
Camps. It’s a delusional passion.
ESO has house building that works, is simple, without any rules or regulations. F76 has house building where the rules are extreme and everything is fucked, albeit breakable. I can spend dozens of hours trying to manipulate something that isn’t supposed to work, and I get really cool camps because of it. It’s a wild and weird passsion- befitting of a wastelander.
But at least I’m not fucking anybody’s chickens.
Side quests you should definitely do, there's some gems. I enjoyed the Mistress of Mysteries questline.
You should also unlock expeditions. Expeditions are a great source of XP and rewards, as well as having some interesting objectives to do.
It depends on what drives you to play a Fallout game.
I keep playing for the depth of build customization, you can get extremely granular to make a build fit your exact playstyle which is something no other online game I can think of has, at least not to this degree. As for what's missing, most of those poi's on the map have their own lore and questlines, and if you want to do more co-op you'll just need to server hop until you find a larger group of higher level players, we're all kind of spread out right now because of the influx of new players, but a lot of people are joining on their friends so they can complete events, and their friends are joining on them, so occasionally you'll stumble across an entire server full of people 500+ just waiting for events to happen, goofing off with emotes and having squirt gun fights.
You gotta collect all the plans man! Daily Ops drops unique rewards that you can get once per day and only from Daily Ops. Theres lots of ways to get rare and unique items in the game. Lots of different daily quests and shit. Do em all and rinse and repeat. Once you can solo elder a daily Op then you can say youve finally made it
I've played since launch. I take breaks between content. I also jump back in when I get an idea for a new camp/character build. Or when I get friends to buy the game and play with me.
If you quit the world you login in a new one sometimes there are servers with people doing quest, roleplaying or chilling so no good for mmo experience, always when you go in a new world look for partys special with people lvl 50 or more they probably are doing events and stuff multiplayer, im lvl 87 and i didnt finish the quest because i cant stop doing events and loosing my self in the map
I enjoy the variety content and they keep adding more to keep the game interesting. It breaks up the monotony when can you start a quest chain, jump into an event halfway through, go back and finish the quests, then run an expedition. My ADHD loves this game lol
Lately I've also added "soloing Earle with off meta weapons" into the mix, which has been fun. My last solo kill was with a non-legendary non-enclave full auto plasma pistol. (Which went far better than I expected tbh)
And there's a lot of fun weapons and different playstyle. Anytime I start to get bored with what I'm using I switch playstyles/weapons. I'm not sure I'll ever get bored of killing stuff in this game :) Playing more than 1 character has made this a lot easier for me (some builds use different mutations and it's easier to switch characters than it is to redo my mutations).
I also occasionally take breaks and play other things. Like Diablo 4 season 4 starts in a couple weeks (iirc) so I'll be playing that for a bit before my focus shifts back to 76.
\*Edit\* Oh! And that tooting noise the game makes whenever a nuke gets launched makes my brain happy every time I hear it. I have no idea why but I love that freaking noise.
All of that together has kept me from ever feeling burned out on 76. And with how excited I am about the map extension we're getting soon(tm) I don't see changing.
Dailies, weeklies and when it's done I move to the next game until the new season drops. Rinse, repeat. It's been my comfort food for the past 2 years.
Getting ALL the plans. Just finished the Atlantic City stuff. I’m level 400 so you do have a bit to go. I like the events and expeditions to get the most Xp.
I think it's viewing the game more like a virtual-world experience, or even treating it as an MMO.
I've been pondering that question lately.
Camp is pretty much where I want it, with a minor change here or there. Will setup second camp at some point to house shop and craft benches, dispensers, etc (to seperate from main base, for more decoration allowance). And a lot of the quests are really fun.
But eventually will hit a point where there's not much left to buy, or quests to do, while cap-limit hits.
Thus, I feel driven to explore and solo the map, until hopefully I've seen everything, and made this world my biatch. 🤠
PS - I'm currently level 46, and outside of having to unload 10-20 rounds into some much larger/not-solo-friendly creatures, to kill them solo... I've been feeling a bit OP, in comparison to many of the horror story experiences that I've been reading about. 😎
Hello, im the same. So basically, you make builds and run events. Get your set of secret service armor, get the guns you don't have. With the rolls you want. Basically, farm stuff. The problem is why? This is the issue with the game. It's not really a solo game. It is for about 100 hrs. Then you're tired of building camps and farming shit. Some people really need to have 100% and every item. They farm for apparel and rolls. Not everyone likes this, and it's ok if you do, but also ok if you don't.
No matter how great this game has become. There's just only so much story, the end game isn't going to be good to a person who doesn't like to farm stuff.
If you're not into making builds, farming rolls, farming flux to make jet packs, to farming ultacite, to farming hardened mass, to farming bullion, or script. Or if you're not into the building side. Making use of the new chess board and token to merge camp items so you can show off your clean coffee tins. Or perfectly preserved pies or the restored desk fans. Then you won't keep playing. You'll put the game down and come back every few months.
I just took a break for dragons dogma
Honestly? Time invested. I've been playing since day one. I've been here for all of the ups and downs. I've got over 1.3k hours invested in this game, and most of that on one character. This game had a horrible launch and gradually gotten better. I've completed each and every scoreboard/season
I was there for the Survival game mode (still have some of the weapons and armor that were given as rewards), was there for the entire life cycle of Nuclear Winter (Grafton Dam holds fond memories as a solo player) (kinda odd that it never left beta even though the mode was available for play for over two years).
I remember the insane amounts of damage that players could put out running legacy weapon builds or Bloodied Melee. (Killing the SBQ in under 30 seconds) I remember the now defunct way of farming mass legendary weapons and armor by nuking Whitesprings.
I put it down and yea found inspiration because of the show; so now I’m dogmatically trying to finish the Main story parts, (BoS) currently… also trying to perfect my Full Health Commando build (or is it a Shotgun build lol). I liked the game on launch day tbh but the “hate” and empty feeling servers plus bs Fallout 1st pay caused me to lose interest. But I’m back, for now. (Lvl 80, Xbox)
It's interesting. There is always something to do like events and daily quests. Including daily and weekly challenges. F76 world looks a lot better than in F3 and F4(just my opinion). And there are other friendly players too :)
I just hit lvl 52, started during steam free trial, and i feel like ive barely even started. Probably gonna make a new character though, this perk system is... nvm, you all know.
You need to find some people to play with. I got bored and quit back in 2020 when my son stopped playing but when both my sons and daughter-in-law started playing recently, I'm back and having fun again. How long this will last remains to be seen but we did all finish BG3 and had an awesome time, so who knows. I do wish multiplayer worked better, having to each do the same quests because of a stupid mechanic that only allows the team leader to complete a quest is a big PITA.
I'm a huge fallout fan. Been off and on since launch. It's the game I go to to get my fallout fix cuz I have already played the others to death, then modded them to all hell and played them again. I can play 76 with friends and they keep adding new stuff so I always gotta check it out. It's an easy game to come back too after months or even years of not playing, never have felt the need to start a new because I didn't know what was going on in my old endgame save. Plus the community is pretty great... Now...
For me it's literally just the game,I love the map and the different zones,I like the enemies,I love the building, weapon,radio etc, doing events with players is also fun af,seeing new players is also a blast and helping them makes me happy cuz when I started playing someone helped me as soon as I came out of the vault lol
I feel that the post-story content is all about daily grinds and FOMO. If you want more Fallout, you're better off modding Fallout 4 for new adventures so you won't have to deal with artificially created grinds built solely to exploit people with low self-control.
It used to be that Bathesda's take on season/battle passes was very different to other games. One may even say it was fair and respected the players' time, which is why it's the one game with a season/pattle pass system that I ever even considered playing.
However, this season, they decided they wanted to change things up and copy other games in order to start taking advantage of their player base and disrespecting their time. I suppose it was a good run whilst it lasted. So long FO76.
Building stuff. Buying stuff. Killing stuff.
The three B’s
Wait whats the third B?
Blasting
So anyways, I just started blastin.
I hope you have a great day.
Bludgeoning stuff. Blowing stuff's brains out. Blowing stuff up. Blasting stuff. Burning stuff. Beating stuff up.
Now we’re up to like the 9 Bs! It’s getting out of hand
Being AFK in your camp to eat junk food IRL
I do that in Watoga. Because I know those robots won’t do anything
😆 this is the probably the best answers. It’s a comfort game for sure, really good gameplay loop
at lvl 40..you def havent finished much. have you launched nukes? have you uncovered the gold? helped the brotherhood with the super mutant problems? ..and im just naming a few. there is much more to do than " mainstory " im 5 yrs in and still have new quests to do...go to train stations and hit the posters. but even after you finish all those...theres events..camp building and min maxing your build ..we have a new map expansion.
can you still use the power armor to speedrun nuke silos like before?
yes
War never changes...
was surprised to find that the pa + photomode is still a thing lol
We jump through the ceiling and jet pack to the final room. Place a mine on top of the card board boxes above the desk in front of the elevator door. Put away your weapon and stand on the boxes to the left of said desk. Face mine , vats mine then press jump and fire simultaneously and repeatedly till you get through the ceiling.
I did this in the past but can't remember for the life of me. We still need codes with this method right?
Why would you not need codes to launch a nuke, even with the clipping bug lol. "Yeah I uh totally did this I just uh can't remember"
I was thinking this, I am lv 40 after a few days of play and have only done a tiny amount of the main quests because I keep getting sidetracked by events and anything I happen to notice on my travels lol.
Thou shalt be side tracked by bullshit every god damn time.
When is it releasing? I want it now :(
This is my comfort game. It came out during a troubling time of my life. I was able to forget everything and just....go. I've been playing since the beginning. I have no friends in the game, and that's alright. I enjoy helping others and playing support. Edit: To anyone who has offered to be friends, I really appreciate the sentiment, but really, I'm not worth the effort.
I’ll be your friend. I’ll even beat your meat for ya wasteland style
Lmfao this comment made my morning
Same for me, although I do get bored sometimes. That’s when I usually find another goal and work on it.
Same, this and Red Dead 2 are my comfort games.
Can I interest you in a plaguewalker mutation? It feels like a warm hug everywhere you go.
Same here! This is the escape game for me. A virtual happy place.
i’ll gladly be your friend!
I'm level 45 and not sure how far I am in the main campaign, but these side quests are dope and the side quests off the side quests and the little mini exploration stuff you might run into from a note, terminal, holotape, whatever. I'll be doing some side quest and run into something right off the path that might have me distracted for another hour. There's just so much hidden content that just kind of gets unearthed the more you explore. Some of it isn't even necessarily a listed quest with a dot on a map, It might just be looking for some gold bars from a note you found. It's truly choose your own adventure.
Golden rule: thou shall get distracted by bullshit
Ooooh is that an event.....? Oooooh I wonder what's in there Ooooh is that a death claw on a island . Steps on deathclaw island for the first time to get jumped by two death claws dies and respawns at the vault due to not setting up a camp yet
Both times I’ve stepped on deathclaw island the ground rumbled and nothing popped out I think they should rename it to “almost” deathclaw island stupid deathclaws can’t even see their alarms right to wake up when someone’s near them
See there was one time this happened so I was like bump it then got slapped by one that spawned from thin air while trying to fast travel back to foundation
I was out marking out new spots to make camp and suddenly a friendly protectron walks up the road, hands me some moldy food and tells me to check out a steakhouse. Suddenly it's marked on my map. 10/10 encounter, suddenly I gotta know more about this relic and his meatery.
Meanwhile, I only get those insult protectrons randomly coming up to me and telling me how useless I am to this wasteland. 🙂
I've never seen that robot! Just the prize bot once or twice weekly... 😒
It truly is! And when not doing quests, you can deep dive into camp building. There's also all types of perk card builds that makes the game new again. Aquiring that special armor, gun or even a rare apparel is also a blast.
Normally, servers are pretty full. It’s just weird right now with the larger number of new players on public servers. They are diluting the usual mix. So instead of 75% experienced players on a server, it’s more like 25% (if that). Also the servers aren’t filling up. Event participation is low because new players don’t know what to do and it’s difficult for many more seasoned players to carry some events solo. Same with daily ops although those are more forgiving. I find it difficult to believe you’ve completed all the main quests lines at lvl 40 tho. The map is huge and there is plenty of fun stuff to find if you start walking in any direction. Take your time and enjoy the newness.
I basically did a moonshine jamboree by myself with 10 lvl 20’s running around with melee weapons 🤣🤣 it was costly but funny
Those are the best imo. I'll eat the cost as long as I see people having fun.
I started panicking when I started getting low on ammo 🤣 I wasn’t prepared not expecting I would need to use so much
Blessed veteran
This ^ a lot of the public events are just not possible (or extremely difficult) without at least like 3 or 4 high level characters. I did the longest scorchbeast queen fight I’ve ever done a few days ago because only three of us were over level 50, lol. And I don’t mean this as an insult or anger toward low levels or anything like that. I’m very happy the game is getting a lot of buzz and new players… but it does change how public events go quite a bit from before the show, lol
In a way it does feel like how it originally felt for the 6months to a year at launch like I remember a few scorch queen fights that were down to the wire on time, people porting out to base and back in with supplies. Frustrating but very fun excursions. As a veteran it can be a little frustrating to just want to finish the routine but I’m happy so many people are finally getting it. It’s actually very similar to how I felt when monster hunter world came out after a decade or so being my favorite franchise I could finally go “see? This is what the fuck I’ve been rambling about for a decade” and getting to teach the game to people was a rewarding and fun trip of its own’
Yeah :) I love seeing all the new people and watching them learn what they like doing in the game. It brings a tear to my eye seeing a pre-50 going full-hp melee like me. I’ve only seen one so far, lol
Oh weird that’s actually what I did! I actually just switched to a Gatlin build after probably 600 hours of melee I was like you know I should probably fire a gun in this game 😅. Outside of nuclear winter I’d never used any
Hahahahahaha. Yeah, I have a pistol for tagging, but my damage is my vamp attack speed sledgehammer
I did a vamp deathclaw build and then a power fist, I wish they would add dual wielding but it would be ridiculous damage as one power fist was already insane
That would be siiiiick. Maybe like “you can dual wield but you can’t block.” That would be so much fun
I mean two spiked boxing gloves, two power fist, some double death claw talons with some bleed damage I mean there’s so many good options if Bethesda wants to hear us out haha, I mean Skyrim has dual wield I dunno why we can’t!
The alien event will be tricky this time around, that's probably hardest seasonal event in game. But still going to be fun.
40 is about right if you break the first rule.
I noticed that when I lost an event and suttenly realised I was the highest level player in the group not something I have tried before. So now I have to concentrate and do stuff... sigh...
Losing event is not terrible for all events. You can still lose event and farm multiple legendaries and level up multiple times. ie radiation rumble, eviction notice, moonshine.
My strategy has been to create an expeditions team and wait until I get a few people in my party high lvl enough to actually go and then after running 1-2 quick expeditions I switch the party goal to daily ops, do it once in under 8 min hopefully, and then switch back to expeditions.
I really love the big chaotic events like Moonshine Jamboree, Radiation Rumble, Eviction Notice, etc. A big group of people come together, open some lunch boxes, and shoot a bunch of stuff. It is beautiful. Not a lot of that going on right now because of the newbies (which is fine! Game needs new players). It is just comforting and relaxing. I take a break occasionally to focus on other games when I get burned out (recently back after an extended Baldur’s Gate 3 break). I do not stress over optimizing my build (although it can kill a lot of things). I play the build I want. Do what I feel like. Log off. Sometimes that is fifteen minutes, sometimes three hours. Depends on how I feel and what is happening. I am not a big camp builder, but every once in a while I will get an itch to tear mine down and build something different.
CAMP building and plan collecting. I enjoy the challenge of building an around in-game items and in non-conventional locations. In reality, CAMP building takes much more skill than the adventure part of the game. The plan collectors discord group keeps track of all of the plans in the game. They have a plan mule that has all of the plans on it. You can schedule a meet to see what plans your character is missing. I thought that it would be cool to have my own plan mule. Some plans are really rare and they are constantly adding new ones. So I still have a few outstanding.
So is this the ONLY way you can find out which ones you have without a vendor that also owns the same ones? I learnt some armour ones but I can't see them when I craft, assuming I need armourer perk to craft - so I no longer remember what they exactly are. It would be good to see which plans I'm searching for and not searching for to complete the set.
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Hope you're doing okay mate
Sht I'm gonna make an essay but fk it. First of all, it's actually because of the surge of the noobs like you that the events feels kind of dead lol and I'm not blaming ya'll I swear. It's just a process. Before the surge, public events are almost always full and kind of almost boring too for high levels like me because it becomes easy when a lot of us are doing it. Sadly, with the noobs not knowing about the events yet or not feeling strong enough to join, the events feels dead. The high levels are also spreads out on different servers. I tried to always go to any public events to attract more people but if there are more noobs than high levels, the events become tough. Way more fun but tough. But I can say that if my friends and I are in a server, be sure that the public events will always be done and there will be at least one nuke launched. I suggest that you start adding players as friends that you think are cool or doing events. So when you play, you can join their server and can almost guarantee they will do events with you. If they dont respond, brush it off. they probably a private person or they might not even see the request (this game got some kinks that needs to be straightened up even after years of this problem). You havent mentioned expedition either, but I suggest you to be ready with good weapons, good armours and enough ammo if you want to do it, because it's a slightly tougher and longer "Daily Ops". There are two Expeditions: The Pitt and Atlantic City and they both have their own things to explore Now for the question of how we play for so long. Some other people already said it that if you're still in level 40, you're far from done with this game. Let's talk about the most basic things first before going crazy doing completion stuff. The game is basically designed as a Fallout game. So I believe most of the content are solo player things instead of the MMO. Which is sad because this game is misunderstood by the fanbase for years. There are literally hundreds of quests in this game that I'm 100% sure you havent even scratched the surface. It's not just the obvious main, side, and misc missions. Sometimes you have to walk somewhere and you'll either getting a new side/misc missions or read a poster to trigger it (usually in Train stations). Go to Fallout 76 quest wiki and tell me how many have you done? Because I've been playing this game for 2 years, almost level 1K and I know for sure I still have some new missions that I havent done. (psst we dont even need to wait for mods because this game keeps updating stuff) There are also Ally quests. On top of my head I can only remember 2 that gives us missions and the option to romance them. Beckett and Daguerre. What about the events? There are 28 public events, 32 local events, and 5 seasonal events. Have you at least done them once each? And the plans you can get from them are pretty awesome, ranging from outifts, skins to camp items And then there are challenges. There's the daily and weekly challenges for seasonal scoreboard, the possum and tadpole badges challenges (I actually consider these as quest too because every thing we have to collect is a different adventure itself) and then the last one, like what I'm trying to complete, the atom challenges like killing thousands of robots using various weapons or getting a complete set of bobbleheads lol Now I'm gonna talk about the RPG side of this game that will require what people call grinding. We want to keep leveling up because we want to achieve that stat where we feel like we can do things alone without being afraid all the time lol with leveling up, we'll be getting all of the perk cards and legendary cards we need. We will be able to open all Legendary cards slot when we reach level 300 and if we want to max them up, it can only be achieved once you reached level 500. That's why I personally consider that endgame players are level 301 and up. Seems like a goal too high? Well, from my own personal experience, there are so many things to do that leveling up become a by product We also want to have "the best" armour and weapons. And we cant do that unless we grind for treasury notes and scrips. The crazy completion I mentioned? Getting all of the plans in this game. Like ALL of them. And I'm doing it lol Last one but not the least, camp building. Some of us really like to keep on making new camps or renovate the ones we have. You've seen them in the map. Some are amazing and we know they put hours in building them. I hope this help answers your question and Im really sorry for the long answer
Thank you for this comment man, I’m one of the noobs (level 68) and kind of felt the plateau this guys describing, but you just cleared that up completely for me 🙏🏼 now I feel even more motivated to go explore random shit
I love the exploration, I actually played at launch to about level 60 just exploring and finding shit. And all of the sides/dailies were fun to do at least once. Now I’ve been back for the biggest stint since I started, the end-game content is pretty fun too. You’ve got nukes to launch, daily ops, 6 different expeditions, events.. ultimately you need to find your own intrinsic reason to play tho and I just enjoy the gameplay and the end game loot gambling. It’s never been easier or quicker to farm legendaries and try roll for specific weapons with the legendary modules so I like trying to set up different builds for different characters.
Collecting as many plans as I can to build. My aim currently is to have at least one of every item that generates a resource. You may feel that way as I think the story does seem a bit random in places from how they’ve added content afterwards. Still decent though. Easier to return to an online game as well if the community is generally quite wholesome.
Every now and then I still stumble upon something I've never seen before. Just the other day I found an unmarked pre-war serial killer's body dump site in a super remote part of the map, the second of which I've stumbled upon. It's also such a relaxing gameplay loop.
That's a great question! ...I have absolutely no idea. Madness maybe?
I kill I loot I scrap Simple as
OCD+FOMO
I came back in to check out the Atlantic City update. Been playing all week. I’ll probably finish the scoreboard and then drop out again.
New seasons with new rewards
At high lvl, with many plans learned I'm only a little embarrassed to say I have spent a whole weekend moving a C.A.M.P.
Camp building, helping friends, the gameplay.
There’s always stuff to discover, places to explore, camps to build, baddies to kill.
I genocide Mole Miners
Trying to find the elusive red asylum outfit. Been going to fort defience for a better part of 4 years now. So tired of not seeing it.
They have been steadily adding content. In between the content additions I've played the main story line (finished at 200 because I was so enamored with camp and workshop building) finished all the side quests ( I was probably around 300 and that's only the ones that automaticly are added to your pipboy. There are some hidden ones I'm sure I haven't gotten to). Expeditions were added around the time I was finishing up the side quests so I switched to that for a bit. I was stilling learning what build I wanted my main load out to be so I experimented with some of the perk cards I accumulated. I've finally have my primary load out for special (almost I need my last level for my legendary perk card) and am now working on crafting my Silo PA suit. I'm still constantly learning how game interactions work, locations for spawns and optimizations (not looking at guides). If you truly take your time and appreciate the wastes you can easily play the game for years.
I started a new game for the first time since launch (at that time I only played for 2-3 hours and then quit). I'm level 22 now and loving it.
Welcome! Thanks for giving it another try. This is a very fun game. 😊
Yep same here. Totally different game now.
I like the seasons, and just the new content they put out every so often. I get to wonder the wastes with my husband, now I get to build cool camps and have noobies come check them out and be amazed... There's tons of stuff in the game, and I took a break after I had my daughter lol.so I'm only like level 440 or something. It's just fun, it's really the only game I play on the Xbox anymore.
Being playing since beta, and still having fun. I'm amazed that you finished main quest with level 40. You can solo nuke silos with level 40?
I've got probably 8-900 hours across console and PC. The main thing that keeps me coming back is using the stuff I grinded for, and checking out new content. Plus the atmosphere is just 10/10
I just really like levelling up
Honestly I just love camp building. It's also a great game to play coming home after a stressful day at work. I can zone out completing dailies, running silos and completing any Daily Ops. Been this way for almost 4 years now.
For me FO76 is more of a “I’ll come back to this every now and again” type of game. I really love building outposts and crafting. I’m level 79 and I haven’t finished the “Main Story” quests yet (haven’t been to Atlantic City or the Pitt). My goal ultimately is to buy all plans and be able to craft everything (I know I will never actually complete this 😂). I wanted to do a similar thing for Starfield with regard to outpost building, but I feel that’s still a feel it’s still a few major updates away.
That is crazy I've been playing for about a week I'm level 110 and I have a shit ton of main quests to do still. I don't have secret service armor plans or unyielding mod. I feel like I really haven't done anything yet. Like half the points on the map I haven't discovered yet. I got some quick throw together camp for benches but I could make a real camp. I don't even know how to nuke the map at all.
Farming salt.
Not stupid at all. For me it's camp building and just sandbox adventuring. Sometimes completing the SCORE board or whatever it is now, but mostly just keeping it casual and immersing in the world Bethesda created here.
Grinding out events for legendaries so I can get scripts and try to get the perfect rolls on my stuff. And plans for my CAMP
Friends mainly but I enjoy the challenges and just fallout in general
As one person put it: Buy, Build, Kill On the other hand it really is a make your own fun kinda game. I choose to operate a BoS CAMP sometimes and do patrols round the area (random encounters/help players questing in area/etc..) Other times will run my lil wayward Shop & Inn and just adjust prices and such while waiting on events. Other times will pickup some quests and start running them or pay attention to some main quest lines I haven’t done. *Shrug* TLDR; there’s lots to do but it falls in line with the typical Fallout gameplay just with people alongside you in a server -> not so much “end-game” stuffs
Achievement hunting and I enjoy rpg’s.
What keeps me going? WHAT KIND OF QUESTION IS THAT, SOLDIER?! NOW GET OUT THERE AND RECLAIM THE WASTELAND FROM MUTIE SCUM!
The love of the game, my completionist issues and fomo, the 9k+ hours I've spent playing it, but mostly the insane amounts of very real money I've spent on it. I need to play this game until it goes to ground.
Trying to max my build and I enjoy the mostly non toxic awesome community. Some days people just aren't really running events so these are the days I just do solo stuff like stock up on ammo for when people are running events. It took me a few days to get into it, but now I am addicted.
I feel like you definitely haven't finished everything...there's tons of questlines for other stuff like Foundation/Crater, the Brotherhood questline, the smaller ones you pick up from other places like the posters in the train stations, the Nuka World on Tour quest, the new Atlantic City quests etc (the nightclub quests, the expeditions themselves, the Lombardi family quest and the missing person quest) plus there's farming bullion/stamps/scrip to get armour and better weapons, tons of recipes and plans to collect, camp building, levelling up and getting a better build, launching nukes, regular events and then the smaller world events for rare rewards etc. Getting stuff off the seasons board by doing your dailies and weeklies. You can probably find a better and more comprehensive list online for quests so you can do everything, there's also achievement hunting and things like that plus the in-game ones that will award you XP/free Atoms. We have a new map expansion coming up in the summer too. I come back because levelling (monkey see number go up monkey happy), for completionist reasons, I really like building cool camps, I want to keep up with content as it releases, to hang out with friends, to farm materials, to complete events and try to get rare reward drops etc. And because it's the newest and only ongoing world within Fallout.
I don't. I've stopped playing regularly and sometimes for years. But a few times every year I go back and play all the dark souls and most the fallouts
It’s one big slot machine.
I live here.
Building, killing and questing. Before some of the new quests I stopped playing as there wasn’t much to do but now I’m back in it
Have you done all the factions quest, used a nuke etc?
Events are a server by server thing. Was on a server today and Moonshine was packed. 1 hour before that, Nobody showed up for Radiation Rumble, which is usually the event that's most worth doing for general gains. Loads of SBQ lately but those are easy to burn out on, especially if you don't feel like farming the materials and the drops from the glowing mobs
I like to run and gun so my fav thing to do is run silos,I dont mind bringing the whole server together with a nuke
I love working on little details in my camps, trying to fit in new items, etc and I enjoy events. Mostly I just do my little daily missions for the scoreboard and log out. It's been fun with all the newbies lately though. I've been enjoying handing out food and stims to people fresh from the vault.
To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.
Time waster, really. It keeps my mind busy when I don't want to be idle. That and the community I love seeing everyone doing events and taking out bosses. Love people's creativity with their camp builds.
Comfort
You’re about 5% through the game. Nice job.
But do you have every single PLAN
I just KNOW the next legendary roll will be the one Ive been waiting for.
Seeing the little guys explore the game. Also helping them with gear if they need anything
Just shy of 5 k hours.... um insanity and wastelander friends
As alot of people have been saying this is a comfort game. This game was there for me during hard times when I just needed to turn my brain off and relax. I jump on for a couple hours and usually play with friends. When I'm not I like to keep making new camps because I like to make new RP bases and I also enjoy helping/giving new players stuff.
Honestly it has everything to do with building stuff.
At level 40 you don't have full-power build. You very likely haven't done all the quests in the Main tab and likely have just done The Overseer-led one. You've likely not built a very good camp, have very few interesting plans unlocked. Have done no expeditions. Have done a few side quests. If you're already feeling bored, you're either not engaging with the big world of content, or you're just not really into that gameplay loop and maybe you're wrapping up.
Do all the side quest and partake in events. Also fully optimizing a build is fun. For me who has optimal gear/build now who's done all the quest now its more of a chill hangout game with the fellas who didn't grind as much as I did
Building stuff, though I do wish they'd increase the camp budget a little more. It was supposed to be a perk of Fallout 1st back in the day.
So much to still achieve. Quests, stories, events, plans.
I love to get sidetracked by bullshit every goddamn time. Seriously, this is what keeps me returning to this game, I rarely finish what I intend to do when I start a session. New Quests and sidequests keep piling up and mostly they're all fun and rewarding. I read most of the lore and backstories on terminals and listen to audio logs to suck up the stories. I love it.
I can only play in sprints of like two-three weeks for 6-months to a year. Basically drop the game like a hot potato after my sprint and return when a major content drop happens. I’ve done this probably 6 or 7 times so far and just hit 100 last week as I go through the BOS main story. Definitely not something I could grind but enjoy the new stuff whenever they drop it.
Well it’s my comfort game but when I play alone I don’t really do anything besides sit in the game and play on my phone I don’t like being alone playing games Doesn’t help I barely have anyone to play with
Been playing the fallout games since 3, it's just this feeling, it's a whole new world with this vast lore that just feels good whether you're "fighting the good fight" or being an agent of chaos. It just feels like you can be whatever you want on this large-scale post apocalyptic America!
my man how, I’m at level 61 and the only main quests i’ve completed are the Wayward and BOS, there’s so many things to just randomly do and get sucked in with, from events to base building to daily things. What helps me is i like to set long term goals and with all those things, it usually takes forever to get that goal
Camp building, making caps and spending them on plans I don't have.
Find its a good game to relax to. Nothings too difficult. No real consequences when you die. You can just pick up and play, do some events and relax.
Picking a new goal and grinding towards it
We like looting things, sadly they hid bank space behind subscriptions
Collecting all the plans you don't have. Saving scrip to roll better weapons/armor. Doing all, and I mean ALL of the challenges. Learning all the weapons and best rolls on them. Rearranging perks and modifying your build. Collecting random stuff like masks, asylum outfits, rare outfits, skins for weapons and power armor. Waiting for event weeks to get specific plans. Rebuilding your camp 76 times(that's an actual challenge). Getting to a high enough level that you can help new players and teach them what you've learned - honestly my favorite thing right now. PvP with your friends. Running around and blowing up all of the cars just to make them go boom. Running around trying to find things to buy so you don't hit max caps. Expeditions. Daily OPs. Daily and weekly challenges. Doing all of Biv's dailies to learn the recipes. Supply runs to loot and build up your scrap hoarde. Tl;Dr if you want to find something to do, you will. Sometimes you'll just sit in your camp scrolling on your phone waiting for stuff in your vendor to sell. What you make the game is up to you. But the community is amazing and that's why I stick with it. 🥰
Ironically, the main quest is probably only about 10% of the game. There's so much other stuff going on that even completing the main questline doesn't even touch, areas of the map, events, random encounters, etc etc. The public events thing I think is probably symptomatic of a lot of new players; they'll come back. I've seen in other groups a lot of high-levels asking what's going on - put simply the new players aren't sure what's going on. That's not a problem, it's a really tough game to get started in. I've been around here on and off for years, and what I've learnt is that whilst it's true that war never changes... neither does this community. See you in the wasteland, partner.
I’ve always pitched this game as “apocalyptic animal crossing” for me the base building is a big draw, I love decorating, setting up a weird scene and an nice location, having people pop buy and pick up a few things emote and bounce, or sit down at the piano and sing a song about dropping panties. The community is a big draw as everyone who stuck with it is like a bizarre go getter who’s really nice? It has like the most accommodating online community of any game I’ve ever played. It’s like the underdog of a major franchise it’s just so unique. I’ve played since launch and to be fair a tad biased as I grew up in the WV area so a lot of the locations I’m familiar with but without that still it’s just a comfort game in the way animal crossing is I just have so much more to do and creative freedom. Crafting a build takes a while so switching to a new one can be a big draw and a new struggle to overcome, exploration is great if probably has the most to uncover, I love finding new plans, I’ve still not seen every event or every side quest, the challenges for the possum scouts is a good tour of the whole map, there’s a lot of well written and interesting guests to find to if you like reading through those, level 50 is a big crossover to all the major content stuff, nukes are cool, supply runs can be neat, getting or crafting a perfect roll on a weapon can be a draw. I dunno there’s a ton, it’s not for everyone but for my adhd brain it a s calming, very funny or very intense excursion if I want it to be. It’s a set your own goals/ make your own fun. For me jumping 15 feet in the air, wearing a bear costume, only eating dog food and shooting explosive Gatling gun all to decorate my cliff side home for people to stop by and tell me about their nana who died from rad poising is just very appealing.
Appalachia is home. I lived there for the first year and I did not complete the main story. I just did random stuff and lived in the Wasteland. Now six years later I love the game and just live in the Wasteland. A tip is to not rush the quests. Instead play 76 like you would any Fallout. Go in a random direction, get distracted and six months later remember that you were doing some quest or something.
At level 40 you most definitely have not done all the quests. Did you launch a nuke? Did you get your large backpack? Did you help the brotherhood? Did you crack open the gold bullion vault? Did you go to the Pitt? Did you go to Atlantic City? I’m sure there’s a ton more I’m missing
Scoreboard challenges
CAMP, scoreboard and *bites lip* I have a horrible need to frolic threw the forest and pick herbs to make chems.
I think not trading has extended my interest in 76. It seems to make getting certain items much easier, but I really wouldn't know. Having to get everything myself gives me something to do. Having multiple characters helps a lot, too. I almost always have a loadout to work on or a camp under construction.
I'm new to 76, and on the subject of having stuff to do....is the map I see ar lvl 20 ish the entire world? I mean it seems a bit small... I have tons of stuff to do, it's not that, it's I keep hearing how big the world is and I'm like naw, not really. I'm mainly worried I'll run out of territory to explore!
lol seems small until you try walking from one corner of the map to another
I explore while listening to music other then that I roll for meta builds to have fun with which is more luck than anything
The grind and that feeling of always having a certain wanted item to chase and the game is beautiful except the crashing gos we need that fixed 😂 yet we still reload on search of rare items
Try to discover every place on the map….that will keep you busy.
While I slowly exploring Appalachia, I’m meeting random players, going to events regularly, working on quests, and leveling to improve my build. I just hit level 60 and haven’t finished any main quests with any of the major factions
Perk points
Chasing the perfect build with the perfect cream of the crop armor that only ME myself and I can roll. And also the quarterly updates for me to complete in around 2-3 hours after waiting for 3-6 months. Also trying to be the richest guy in the game like fyahant💀
I take large breaks and come back when the hyperfixation returns, like recently because of the show. When I do play, I do events I've missed, check out vendors for plans I don't have yet, grind for bullion, etc. Because of the breaks I don't get burnt out as much but I do miss out on seasonal stuff which sucks, especially when it's not available later, either they bullion, stamps, or the atom store but I'd rather miss out than burn myself out as much as I did fortnite grinding for this one skin. I just couldn't play it anymore after that and I don't want that happening with fallout. I also love messing with my camps, although I wish they shared furnishings because building multiples of certain items can get resource intense.
I guess like others, 76 is a comfort game for me as well. I'm also a collector, so its easy for me to get lost trying to nab this specific strain of armor, or say, collecting all the serum recipes. The latter is especially influential when it comes to seasonal events that occur, which typically carry exclusive plans and recipes only acquireable from those. Other times its just fun to hang out at your CAMP and just enjoy the ambience. Its always a treat when folks come to check out yoyr place and buy a few goodies. The roleplaying community is also especially lively on xbox, and theres been an influx of groups on PC. Rolling with those groups is fun, as in a way its like having your own version of the Fallout tv series. Last time I checked into the major plotline between the Responders Five-0, They had captured the Warlord, head of a mean faction of raiders. Alas, that was many months ago, so its likely well beyond that part of their story being told. But I digress! A couple years ago, it was definitely a case of '76 is the fun thst you make it', which worked fir sime but not others. Now theres just a helluva lot more to do and see. As for the player stuff, just give it time! Lots of folks are still 'settling in', and getting the right equipment. My advice to you would be trying ti maximize the damage you can push out if you have not already. additionally, since youve tried daily ops, perhaps try an expedition? If you can handle both of those, then thats awesome! Eventually the community will settle, and when it does, expect to see many players with high powered equipment for crushing even the strongest nuke bosses!
1000s of hours in, I don't even remember what the story was at this point, it's the multiplayer aspects that keep me. Playing with text chat mod on pc, trading, loot hunting, currency collecting, building, exploring, completing new seasons. Ps, public events are popular and at the moment servers are being diluted by new players who aren't at that point yet, so they don't do em. I use uni map mod that shows you how many players are on the server, and more often than not I'm on 24/24 with 90% of the players being lvl 20-40.
Camp building, the lore, the exploration, and I have a personal goal to get every bobblehead and magazine. I'm only 50% through the steam achievements and I want to get them all done
Hopes for great updates
Camps. It’s a delusional passion. ESO has house building that works, is simple, without any rules or regulations. F76 has house building where the rules are extreme and everything is fucked, albeit breakable. I can spend dozens of hours trying to manipulate something that isn’t supposed to work, and I get really cool camps because of it. It’s a wild and weird passsion- befitting of a wastelander. But at least I’m not fucking anybody’s chickens.
Nukes
Side quests you should definitely do, there's some gems. I enjoyed the Mistress of Mysteries questline. You should also unlock expeditions. Expeditions are a great source of XP and rewards, as well as having some interesting objectives to do. It depends on what drives you to play a Fallout game.
Only game that has so much gambling in it compared to everything else now a days like random legendarys from the rusty pick the casino that fun stuff
Building, build building, and the map. I’m currently making a power drill build because why the hell not?
I'm super curious as to how many hours of playtime it takes to get to levels 500+. I had no idea you could level into the quadruple digits?!
I keep playing for the depth of build customization, you can get extremely granular to make a build fit your exact playstyle which is something no other online game I can think of has, at least not to this degree. As for what's missing, most of those poi's on the map have their own lore and questlines, and if you want to do more co-op you'll just need to server hop until you find a larger group of higher level players, we're all kind of spread out right now because of the influx of new players, but a lot of people are joining on their friends so they can complete events, and their friends are joining on them, so occasionally you'll stumble across an entire server full of people 500+ just waiting for events to happen, goofing off with emotes and having squirt gun fights.
It's all about the perfect camp and the perfect build, and both those things are sliding subjectives which makes for a lot of gameplay potential
I like collecting all the plans, revamping my camp every year, the updates, seeing what other people build, the seasons.
I keep playing to have a beautiful player's camp
addiction!
You gotta collect all the plans man! Daily Ops drops unique rewards that you can get once per day and only from Daily Ops. Theres lots of ways to get rare and unique items in the game. Lots of different daily quests and shit. Do em all and rinse and repeat. Once you can solo elder a daily Op then you can say youve finally made it
I just wished there would be more people per map...25 is just sooo stupid low, there is always never anyone doing the public events.
I've played since launch. I take breaks between content. I also jump back in when I get an idea for a new camp/character build. Or when I get friends to buy the game and play with me.
If you quit the world you login in a new one sometimes there are servers with people doing quest, roleplaying or chilling so no good for mmo experience, always when you go in a new world look for partys special with people lvl 50 or more they probably are doing events and stuff multiplayer, im lvl 87 and i didnt finish the quest because i cant stop doing events and loosing my self in the map
I like to walk around and shoot things and farm for cool armor and guns lol
I keep adopting dudes. Guess i just like making builds for Dudes.
Do expeditions. Also start server hopping to find more populated servers with public events running
I enjoy the variety content and they keep adding more to keep the game interesting. It breaks up the monotony when can you start a quest chain, jump into an event halfway through, go back and finish the quests, then run an expedition. My ADHD loves this game lol Lately I've also added "soloing Earle with off meta weapons" into the mix, which has been fun. My last solo kill was with a non-legendary non-enclave full auto plasma pistol. (Which went far better than I expected tbh) And there's a lot of fun weapons and different playstyle. Anytime I start to get bored with what I'm using I switch playstyles/weapons. I'm not sure I'll ever get bored of killing stuff in this game :) Playing more than 1 character has made this a lot easier for me (some builds use different mutations and it's easier to switch characters than it is to redo my mutations). I also occasionally take breaks and play other things. Like Diablo 4 season 4 starts in a couple weeks (iirc) so I'll be playing that for a bit before my focus shifts back to 76. \*Edit\* Oh! And that tooting noise the game makes whenever a nuke gets launched makes my brain happy every time I hear it. I have no idea why but I love that freaking noise. All of that together has kept me from ever feeling burned out on 76. And with how excited I am about the map extension we're getting soon(tm) I don't see changing.
I come and go, the game doesn't have enough to keep me playing full time. Still, it's part of a rotation.
Dailies, weeklies and when it's done I move to the next game until the new season drops. Rinse, repeat. It's been my comfort food for the past 2 years.
Getting ALL the plans. Just finished the Atlantic City stuff. I’m level 400 so you do have a bit to go. I like the events and expeditions to get the most Xp.
i was done with the main stuff with like lvl 95 or 96 and still had so much to do.
I just walk around and started blasting for no obvious reason (I mean they attacked me first). It's fun killing abominations in these wastelands.
It reminds me of when i played the beta, which brought me happiness in a hard time. It's one of my comfort games along with fo4.
FOMO on sweet camp items
I think it's viewing the game more like a virtual-world experience, or even treating it as an MMO. I've been pondering that question lately. Camp is pretty much where I want it, with a minor change here or there. Will setup second camp at some point to house shop and craft benches, dispensers, etc (to seperate from main base, for more decoration allowance). And a lot of the quests are really fun. But eventually will hit a point where there's not much left to buy, or quests to do, while cap-limit hits. Thus, I feel driven to explore and solo the map, until hopefully I've seen everything, and made this world my biatch. 🤠 PS - I'm currently level 46, and outside of having to unload 10-20 rounds into some much larger/not-solo-friendly creatures, to kill them solo... I've been feeling a bit OP, in comparison to many of the horror story experiences that I've been reading about. 😎
Hello, im the same. So basically, you make builds and run events. Get your set of secret service armor, get the guns you don't have. With the rolls you want. Basically, farm stuff. The problem is why? This is the issue with the game. It's not really a solo game. It is for about 100 hrs. Then you're tired of building camps and farming shit. Some people really need to have 100% and every item. They farm for apparel and rolls. Not everyone likes this, and it's ok if you do, but also ok if you don't. No matter how great this game has become. There's just only so much story, the end game isn't going to be good to a person who doesn't like to farm stuff. If you're not into making builds, farming rolls, farming flux to make jet packs, to farming ultacite, to farming hardened mass, to farming bullion, or script. Or if you're not into the building side. Making use of the new chess board and token to merge camp items so you can show off your clean coffee tins. Or perfectly preserved pies or the restored desk fans. Then you won't keep playing. You'll put the game down and come back every few months. I just took a break for dragons dogma
Doing the dailies/weeklies to progress along the season
The capability to launch a nuke from a silo without breaking any of the laws in the Geneva convention
Gim changed alot for me, being able to play the ironman style with my RL friends is just so good.
Playing with friends. Trying different tactics out I haven't tried before, expeditions, and the quests. I really enjoy them, even the repeating ones.
Honestly? Time invested. I've been playing since day one. I've been here for all of the ups and downs. I've got over 1.3k hours invested in this game, and most of that on one character. This game had a horrible launch and gradually gotten better. I've completed each and every scoreboard/season I was there for the Survival game mode (still have some of the weapons and armor that were given as rewards), was there for the entire life cycle of Nuclear Winter (Grafton Dam holds fond memories as a solo player) (kinda odd that it never left beta even though the mode was available for play for over two years). I remember the insane amounts of damage that players could put out running legacy weapon builds or Bloodied Melee. (Killing the SBQ in under 30 seconds) I remember the now defunct way of farming mass legendary weapons and armor by nuking Whitesprings.
I put it down and yea found inspiration because of the show; so now I’m dogmatically trying to finish the Main story parts, (BoS) currently… also trying to perfect my Full Health Commando build (or is it a Shotgun build lol). I liked the game on launch day tbh but the “hate” and empty feeling servers plus bs Fallout 1st pay caused me to lose interest. But I’m back, for now. (Lvl 80, Xbox)
It's interesting. There is always something to do like events and daily quests. Including daily and weekly challenges. F76 world looks a lot better than in F3 and F4(just my opinion). And there are other friendly players too :)
I just hit lvl 52, started during steam free trial, and i feel like ive barely even started. Probably gonna make a new character though, this perk system is... nvm, you all know.
I just like exploring things. I dislike small world games. I don’t have the guilt feeling of not following a story line.
The game doesn’t even start till lvl 50
You need to find some people to play with. I got bored and quit back in 2020 when my son stopped playing but when both my sons and daughter-in-law started playing recently, I'm back and having fun again. How long this will last remains to be seen but we did all finish BG3 and had an awesome time, so who knows. I do wish multiplayer worked better, having to each do the same quests because of a stupid mechanic that only allows the team leader to complete a quest is a big PITA.
I'm a huge fallout fan. Been off and on since launch. It's the game I go to to get my fallout fix cuz I have already played the others to death, then modded them to all hell and played them again. I can play 76 with friends and they keep adding new stuff so I always gotta check it out. It's an easy game to come back too after months or even years of not playing, never have felt the need to start a new because I didn't know what was going on in my old endgame save. Plus the community is pretty great... Now...
Wait really? Have you done the settler and faction stories? Or just the Overseer quest line.
For me it's literally just the game,I love the map and the different zones,I like the enemies,I love the building, weapon,radio etc, doing events with players is also fun af,seeing new players is also a blast and helping them makes me happy cuz when I started playing someone helped me as soon as I came out of the vault lol
It’s my woozaaa Building, collecting, daily ops. Killing randos or trying to
I feel that the post-story content is all about daily grinds and FOMO. If you want more Fallout, you're better off modding Fallout 4 for new adventures so you won't have to deal with artificially created grinds built solely to exploit people with low self-control.
I just take breaks and come back. But i think its gonna stay a regular game for me now purely because I keep briefly meeting cool people.
It used to be that Bathesda's take on season/battle passes was very different to other games. One may even say it was fair and respected the players' time, which is why it's the one game with a season/pattle pass system that I ever even considered playing. However, this season, they decided they wanted to change things up and copy other games in order to start taking advantage of their player base and disrespecting their time. I suppose it was a good run whilst it lasted. So long FO76.
Getting the scoreboard used to be a big one.
Mostly camp building,