Fallout 76 has been through some rough water, but it looks like Bethesda is about to finally make some changes and fix up their game.
The servers were offline this week as they went in to finally take care of the duplication problem, where players could dupe pretty much any piece of gear and destroy the game’s economy. This has been a widespread problem since the beginning and was fixed in a patch only temporarily.
They went in and removed all the copied junk from the game. High-tier gear would easily flood the servers and make them worthless, as some players started selling them for real cash online. This was the week that they finally did something about it and removed a lot of the items that were ID’ed to be created wrongly.
According to a post from the game’s community manager, over 400 pieces of gear were determined to be dupe targets. But less than 1% of all Fallout 76 accounts across all 3 platforms neede to have these pieces removed:
“Players who had multiple copies of any of these duped items, whether they obtained them using an exploit or by acquiring them from another player, will find that all but one of each of those items have been removed from their characters,”
“Power Armor was exempt from item removals, but we are actively discussing another wave of action to target these items in the future.
“Additionally, if a player had multiple copies of duped items removed as part of today’s actions, we also performed a follow-up search of their account for very large amounts of Nuka-Cola and removed those, as well.”
In other news, the new PvP Survival Mode will launch and new PvE content updates- both of which will be bundled into the Wild Appalachia update. Patch 7 will span in the next few months with new quests, events, and challenges. New CAMP gear, crafting, and a lot more will also be available.
There’s going to be a roadmap for Fallout 76 this month so you can get a good grasp of what’s going to be in store for players.
Patch 6 will be launching next week which will launch at the same time for all platforms and will be the last update before Patch 7 takes place- AKA Wild Appalachia.
Here’s a patch preview from Bethesda:
Fallout 76 – Patch 6 Preview
- Stash Limit Increase to 800 – We know this continues to be a big one. Next week, we are raising the Stash limit from 600 to 800 pounds. Like last time, we are constantly evaluating storage space and discussing ways we can make improvements, but not at the expense of server stability. We hope this additional increase to 800 pounds will help you store even more of the awesome item’s you’ve found in the Wasteland.
- The M79 Grenade Launcher and the Auto Grenade Launcher are now classified as Heavy Weapons – A fix is being made to properly label the M79 Grenade Launcher and Auto Grenade Launcher as Heavy Weapons. They will also now correctly benefit from all Heavy Weapons perks except for Heavy Gunner, as we believe it makes more sense for these weapons to benefit from the Demolitions Expert perk.
- Accidentally Damaging another player’s C.A.M.P. will no longer tag you as WANTED – From our Known Issues list, players who accidentally shoot, hit, or disturb another player’s C.A.M.P. will no longer become WANTED and viewed as engaging in PvP. Instead you must actively work to be malicious to another player and DESTROY their C.A.M.P. objects for it to be considered a PvP action and become marked as WANTED. We will closely monitor player feedback to this change.
- Player Icons now display in more areas throughout the game – Once Patch 6 arrives, hovering over a player on the map will now display their player icon, and Workshops will display their owners’ player icons, too. Additionally, when viewing a turret created by another player, you’ll now be able to see the owner’s name and player icon in the turret’s nameplate.
- Quest containers during the Feed the People and Path to Enlightenment events now only accept quest items – With this fix, players can no longer accidentally transfer items from their inventories into these quest containers. As a result, you should now be able to complete these events without fear of losing non-quest items.
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