December 4, 2018
Next week's update will bring an increase to the Stash limit, as well as a variety of performance and stability improvements, balance changes, and multiple bug fixes to the game. We'll have full patch notes available later this week ahead of Tuesday's update. Some notable issues being addressed in this update include:
- Stash Limit Increased: We know many of you have been asking for an adjustment to the Stash storage limit, and we're happy to share that we're increasing it from 400 to 600. While this is somewhat conservative, we plan to increase the storage cap further once we verify that this change will not negatively impact the stability of the game.
- Boss Loot: Players should correctly receive two to three items after taking down a boss, depending on the creature's difficulty and level.
- Cryolator Effects: Players hit with the Cryolator are now Chilled, Frosted, or Frozen depending on how many times they are hit. The duration of movement speed reductions applied by these effects have also been decreased from 2 hours to 30 seconds.
- Respawning When Overencumbered: We've resolved an issue affecting players who die while overencumbered that only allowed them to Respawn at Vault 76. Now, overencumbered players will be able to respawn at the nearest discovered Map Marker.
- Stuck in Power Armor: We've addressed an issue in this patch that could cause players to become stuck inside Power Armor. We're also aware that there are some additional cases where this can occur, and we are actively investigating them.
- Performance: PC framerates are once again uncapped. However, reaching very high framerates will no longer cause movement speed to increase. This was originally fixed in the November 19 patch.
- Stability: The Fallout 76 game client and servers have received additional stability improvements.
- (Added Dec 6) Ballistic Fiber: Can now appear in Train Station Vendor and Ammo Vending Machine inventories and can be purchased for Caps.
- (Added Dec 6) Vendors: Added guaranteed bulk repair components to Train Station Vendors.
- (Added Dec 6) Workshops: Higher-level Resource Collectors now generate Ore instead of Scrap. Ore can be smelted into varying amounts of the related type of Scrap using some Acid at a Chemistry Station.
- (Added Dec 6) Workshops: Resource Collector accrual rates and carrying capacities have been reduced for each resource, including Ammo and Fusion Core Collectors.
- Stash: Maximum stash storage has been increased by 50%, to 600 pounds. This is a conservative adjustment, and we plan to increase the storage cap further in the future once we've verified this change does not impact the stability of the game.
- (Added Dec 6) Scorchbeast Queen: Encounters with the Scorchbeast Queen have been rebalanced to better accommodate 8 high-level players, and her damage mitigation has been reduced from 50% to 30%.
- (Updated Dec 6) Weapons: Automatic weapon damage has been increased by approximately 20% across the board. Additionally, weapons that have been modded to become automatic have received a 5% damage increase.
- Bosses: Fixed an issue affecting instanced Boss loot. Players should now correctly receive 2-4 items per boss, depending on the creature's difficulty and level.
- Enemies: XP rewards for killing high-level creatures have been reduced.
- Weapon Effects: Hitting another player with a Cryolator now applies a Chilled, Frosted, or Frozen status based on how many times they are hit. The duration of movement speed reductions applied by these effects have been significantly decreased.
- (Added Dec 6) PS4: Addressed an issue that could cause reductions in performance on PS4.
- Console: Fixed an issue that could cause the player to encounter an infinite loading screen when signing out of their console account while playing Fallout 76.
- Xbox: Addressed a crash that could occur when sending multiple team invites immediately after exiting Vault 76 to a player who is not a friend.
- (Added Dec 6) Caps: Addressed an exploit that could allow players to gain Caps at a faster rate than intended.
- Power Armor: Fixed an issue affecting Power Armor frames that could prevent the player from exiting their Power Armor.
- Nuke Silos: Flipboards inside Nuke Silos no longer display portions of launch codes too soon after the codes were reset for the week.
- Traps: Players can no longer continuously disarm the same grenade trap.
- (Added Dec 6) Workshops: Addressed an issue that could prevent enemies from attacking a Workshop that has been claimed by a player.
- C.A.M.P.: Moving C.A.M.P. locations will now correctly move standalone items built by the player into the build menu's Stored tab.
- Turrets: Will no longer become invisible if the player is not present at their C.A.M.P. when their turrets are destroyed.
- Workshops: On PS4, wires will no longer appear to float in mid-air when attempting connect two or more objects.
- (Added Dec 6) Robobrains: Now use their own loot list instead of the Sentry Bot loot list, and have a chance after level 40 to drop the Tesla Gun plan.
- Perk Cards: Ranking up a Perk Card will no longer cause a duplicate card to appear.
- (Added Dec 6) Damage Scaling: Addressed an issue that could cause players above level 50 to deal less PVP damage than intended while using high-level weapons.
- (Added Dec 6) Battle Bots: Fixed an issue that could prevent this event quest from resuming correctly if the player leaves and then returns to the area.
- (Added Dec 6) Cold Case: Fixed an issue that could prevent the quest from progressing to the next step despite repairing Freddy's ID.
- (Added Dec 6) Death from Above: The Scorchbeast Queen will now correctly flee the area if the timer expires and the quest is failed.
- Teams: Fixed an issue that could prevent a team from being correctly formed in a game world after creating the team on the Main Menu when both players are using new characters.
- Teams: Display durations for social notification have been reduced when many notifications are pending. This should help address an issue in which players did not see that they successfully joined a team.
- Mutations: The Electrically Charged and Unstable Isotope Mutations no longer provide the player with bonus Health.
- (Added Dec 6) Photomode: Characters no longer use incorrect poses while certain weapons were equipped in Photomode.
- AFK: Players will now be disconnected from a game world after 10 minutes of inactivity and will be prompted with a timer 1 minute before being kicked.
- Atomic Shop: On PC, cursor position will no longer be disjointed from clicks in the Atomic Shop while using 16:10 resolutions.
- Enemies: Red crosshairs and enemy health bars will no longer persist on-screen when an enemy is no longer in view.
- Localization: Subtitles will now appear correctly, and English voiceover will play for game clients in languages that do not have their own localized voiceover when listening to a Holotape or interacting with robots.
- Pip-Boy: Fixed an issue that could cause duplicate data to appear in the Pip-Boy's Stat and Effects interfaces.
- Respawn: Dying while severely overencumbered will no longer remove all map markers when attempting to respawn. Instead, the player can now respawn at the nearest discovered Map Marker.
- Quest Tracker: Quest objective notifications will no longer appear for inactive Quests immediately upon connecting to a world.
Copper: reduced from 2.0 to 1.0 Aluminum: reduced from 2.0 to 1.5 Gold: reduced from 2.0 to 1.5 Lead: reduced from 2.0 to 1.5 Nuclear: reduced from 2.0 to 1.0 Coal: reduced from 2.0 to 1.0 Silver: reduced from 2.0 to 1.5 Titanium: reduced from 2.0 to 1.0 Acid: reduced from 2.0 to 0.5 Oil: reduced from 2.0 to 0.5 Fertilizer: reduced from 2.0 to 1.5
Ammunition Factory: reduced from 2.0 to 1.0 Fusion Core Processor: reduced from 14.0 to 9.0
Default: reduced from 25/h to 20/h Scrap: reduced from 12.5/h to 8.33/h Ammo: reduced from 125/h to 83.33/h Fusion Core: reduced from ~12/h to ~0.8/h
- Workshops produce their respective ore instead of scrap.
Edit: The above affects the Aluminum, Nuclear, Gold, Copper, Crystal, Coal and Titanium extractors. I was not careful enough yesterday to notice that it does not affect all extractors.
- Capacity increased from 400.0 to 600.0
- Automatic Receiver damage multiplier increased from -15% to -10% from base
- Scorchbeast Queen has new combat style.
- Scorchbeast Queen Damage Mitigation increased from 50% to 70%
- New leveled legendary drop system.
- Added guaranteed Bulk scrap to vendors
- Special weapon, armor, perk effect, and encounters added in preparation for the holidays
changed: Cryo Slow added: Chilled, Frosted, Frozen
- Fixed texture for Red Flight Helmet
- Photomode "Ready Pose" support for Unarmed and Binoculars
unknown changes:
Core Assembly
,Welded Rebar
,Bleed, Fire Damage
,Radiation Damage
,Spit
,Scorchbeast Strafe Attack
,Molotov Fire Damage
,EnchPlasmaGrenadeEnergyDmg
,EnchPulseGrenadeEnergyDmg
,Grenade_Pumpkin_PoisonEffect
,Scorchbeast Queen Strafe Attack
,Blast Mine Fire Damage
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unknown changes to DATA:
- "Event: Fertile Soil"
- "Event: Distinguished Guests"
- "Lost and Found"
- "Back to Basic"
- "Event: Leader of the Pack"
- "Daily: Cop a Squatter"
- "Daily: Pass the Buck"
- "Lost and Found"
- "Mama Bear"
- "Event: The Glowing Swamp"
- "Nuke Master Quest"
- "Event: It's a Trap"
- "Valley Galleria Eyebot"
- "Prickett's Fort Union Defense"
- "BoSr02_Master"
- "Template Questline Restart Quest"
- "Robot Defenders"
- "Sentry Bot patrol"
- "Custom Item / Reward Definitions"
- "Overseer's Mission"
- "HolotapeQuest_CMB"
- "MTRz05_Lucky Quest Restart"
- "Clear Watoga Civic Center"
- "EN06 Seal Questline Restart Quest"
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changed:
- "Cold Case"
- "Event: Battle Bot"
- "Event: Scorched Earth"
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"Key To the Past" quest: "Left Arm Reward. We used to place the Raider armor reward in a chest to players, but that was duplicating itself because of how we did it. Now, we just give the player a one-time reward of a set of Raider Armor, spread across the quest."
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unknown changes:
- LGT_WTK_SpotSS_Kicker_cool
- LGT_WTK_SpotSS_02K_warm
- LGT_WTK_SpotSS_02K_green
- LGT_WTK_SpotSS_01K_green
- LGT_WTK_SpotSS_05K_blue_flicker
- LGT_WTK_SpotSS_01K_cool_electric
- LGT_WTK_SpotSS_05K_warm
- LGT_WTK_SpotSS_SUN
- LGT_WTK_SpotSS_01K_cool
- LGT_WTK_SpotSS_01K_cool_fixture
- LGT_WTK_SpotSS_01K_green_chamber
- LGT_WTK_SpotSS_04K_cool_electric
- LGT_WTK_SpotSS_04K_cool_fixture
- LGT_WTK_SpotSS_500_green_chamber
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added: LGT_WTK_SpotSS_05K_cool
- ATLAS Observatory: 5 cap stashes removed
- Eastern Regional Penitentiary: 9 cap stashes removed, 1 Chems_Prewar added, 1 Chems_Stimpak added, 1 Chems_Psycho added
- West Tek Research Center: 5 cap stashes removed, 11 light spots tweaked, 1 light spot removed
- Poseidon Energy Plant WV-06: 10 cap stashes removed, 1 bobblehead position fixed, 1 ammo box position fixed, 2 Chems_Any added
- Vault-Tec Ag Research Center: 4 cap stashes removed
- Sugar Grove: 9 cap stashes removed
- Whitespring Resort: 2 cap stashes removed
- Riverside Manor: 3 cap stashes removed
- GeneralsSteakhouseExt03: 3 cap stashes removed
- DyerChemicalExt07: 2 cap stashes removed
- Cell <42, 13>: 1 cap stash removed
- Cell <40, 49>: 6 cap stashes removed, 1 skeleton removed
- WhitespringGateExt: 1 cap stash removed
- WhitespringExt29: 2 cap stashes removed
- WhitespringExt13: 1 cap stash removed
- WhitespringExt19: 1 cap stash removed, 1 note position fixed
- WhitespringExt17: 2 cap stashes removed, 1 cap removed
- WhitespringExt03: 1 cap stash removed
- WhitespringExt27: 1 cap stash removed
- WhitespringServiceEntranceExt: 1 cap stash removed
- WhitespringGolfCourse46: 1 cap stash removed
- WhitespringExt15: 1 cap stash removed
- WhitespringExt10: 1 cap stash removed
- WhitespringExt20: 1 cap stash removed
- WhitespringExt09: 1 cap stash removed
- WhitespringExt21: 1 cap stash removed
- WhitespringGolfExt: 2 cap stashes removed, 1 "Clothes Hanger" position fixed
- PortsidePubExt: 2 cap stashes removed
- EasternRegionalPenExt05: 3 cap stashes removed
- EasternRegionalPenExt02: 1 cap stash removed
- EasternRegionalPenExt04: 2 cap stashes removed
- MorgantownTrainyardExt05: 4 cap stashes removed
- MorgantownTrainyardExt02: 1 cap stash removed
- RiversideManorExt04: 1 cap stash removed
- RiversideManorExt05: 1 cap stash removed, 1 Chem_DayTripper added
LLD_Creature_BaseItem_SuperMutant_Melee
removed from Leveled list ofLLD_Creature_Supermutant
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LLS_Creature_Boss_Small_Dynamic_Lvl1
LVMG - Max
changed fromContainer_MaxCount_Low_Tier
toContainer_MaxCount_High_Tier
- Epic Loot chance now based on
LL_EpicChance_Boss_Dynamic_Lvl10_ECON
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LLS_Creature_Boss_Medium_Dynamic_Lvl1
LLS_Extra_Item_Boss_Lvl10
added- Epic Loot chance now based on
LL_EpicChance_Boss_Dynamic_Lvl10_ECON
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LLS_Creature_Boss_Large_Dynamic_Lvl1
LVMG - Max
changed fromContainer_MaxCount_Medium_Tier
toContainer_MaxCount_High_Tier
LLS_Extra_Item_Boss_Lvl10
added- Epic Loot chance now based on
LL_EpicChance_Boss_Dynamic_Lvl10_ECON
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LS_Creature_Boss_Small_Dynamic_Lvl20
- Epic Loot chance now based on
LL_EpicChance_Boss_Dynamic_Lvl20_ECON
- Epic Loot chance now based on
-
LLS_Creature_Boss_Medium_Dynamic_Lvl20
LVMG - Max
changed fromContainer_MaxCount_Medium_Tier
toContainer_MaxCount_High_Tier
- Epic Loot chance now based on
LL_EpicChance_Boss_Dynamic_Lvl20_ECON
-
LLS_Creature_Boss_Large_Dynamic_Lvl20
- Epic Loot chance now based on
LL_EpicChance_Boss_Dynamic_Lvl20_ECON
- Epic Loot chance now based on
-
LLS_Creature_Boss_Small_Dynamic_Lvl30
LVMG - Max
changed fromContainer_MaxCount_Medium_Tier
toContainer_MaxCount_High_Tier
LLS_Extra_Item_Boss_Lvl10
added- Epic Loot chance now based on
LL_EpicChance_Boss_Dynamic_Lvl30_ECON
-
LLS_Creature_Boss_Medium_Dynamic_Lvl30
LLS_Extra_Item_Boss_Lvl10
added- Epic Loot chance now based on
LL_EpicChance_Boss_Dynamic_Lvl30_ECON
-
LLS_Creature_Boss_Large_Dynamic_Lvl30
LLS_Extra_Item_Boss_Lvl10
added- Epic Loot chance now based on
LL_EpicChance_Boss_Dynamic_Lvl30_ECON
-
LLS_Creature_Boss_Small_Dynamic_Lvl40
LVMG - Max
changed fromContainer_MaxCount_Medium_Tier
toContainer_MaxCount_High_Tier
LLS_Extra_Item_Boss_Lvl10
removedLLS_Extra_Item_Boss_Lvl20
added- Epic Loot chance now based on
LL_EpicChance_Boss_Dynamic_Lvl40_ECON
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LLS_Creature_Boss_Medium_Dynamic_Lvl40
LVMG - Max
changed fromContainer_MaxCount_High_Tier
toContainer_MaxCount_VeryHigh_Tier
LLS_Extra_Item_Boss_Lvl10
added- Epic Loot chance now based on
LL_EpicChance_Boss_Dynamic_Lvl40_ECON
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LLS_Creature_Boss_Large_Dynamic_Lvl40
LLS_Extra_Item_Boss_Lvl10
added- Epic Loot chance now based on
LL_EpicChance_Boss_Dynamic_Lvl40_ECON
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LLS_Creature_Boss_Small_Dynamic_Lvl50
LLS_Extra_Item_Boss_Lvl10
added- Epic Loot chance now based on
LL_EpicChance_Boss_Dynamic_Lvl50_ECON
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LLS_Creature_Boss_Medium_Dynamic_Lvl50
LLS_Extra_Item_Boss_Lvl10
added- Epic Loot chance now based on
LL_EpicChance_Boss_Dynamic_Lvl50_ECON
-
LLS_Creature_Boss_Large_Dynamic_Lvl50
LLS_Extra_Item_Boss_Lvl10
added- Epic Loot chance now based on
LL_EpicChance_Boss_Dynamic_Lvl50_ECON
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LLS_Extra_Item_Boss_Lvl10
LL_TreasureMap
removed from listLLS_SuperStim_StealthboyIII
removed from list
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LLS_Extra_Item_Boss_Lvl20
LLS_Scrap_Uncommon_All
removed from list
LL_EpicChance_Boss_Dynamic_Lvl10_ECON value = 10.000000
LL_EpicChance_Boss_Dynamic_Lvl20_ECON value = 20.000000
LL_EpicChance_Boss_Dynamic_Lvl30_ECON value = 25.000000
LL_EpicChance_Boss_Dynamic_Lvl40_ECON value = 30.000000
LL_EpicChance_Boss_Dynamic_Lvl50_ECON value = 33.000000
/u/despotak notes on legendaries: This is my understanding of the new legendary drop system. LL_EpicChance_Boss_ECON was 100%. Now it is based on level and it maxes at 33%. So legendary mobs DO NOT a guaranteed legendary drop any more. Our best chance is 33%. They did tweak the maximum tier legendaries you can get from some lower level bosses and a few additional normal loot, but that's it. In general, this look like a 66% reduction for the legendary drop at best. I may be reading those totally wrong, so please, anyone that has some experience with xEdit, take a look and report back.
Edit: I was informed that Epic chance in Fallout 4 had to do with what modifications a drop would have, not with the chance of being legendary or not. I will investigate more.
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