Feb 07, 2020 Fallout 76 will debut on Steam on April 7 alongside the free Wastelanders update, which adds NPCs to the game. Bethesda is stocking the Steam store with the base game and the Wastelanders Deluxe. In the Fallout 76 Wastelanders update, here's how NPCs, companions, and dialogue will work.
Fallout 76 is over a year old now. At launch in November of 2018, Bethesda's first multiplayer game in the Fallout series was plagued by bugs, balance issues, and a major lack of quintessential Fallout personality. Since then, Fallout 76 has had more updates than there have been months since its release, each bringing something new and important to the wasteland. Fallout 76 now has a Battle Royale mode, a ton of additional options for customizing your player C.A.M.P., and private worlds for subscription members.Bethesda has been relentless in releasing updates that give players a reason to return to the wasteland. With any luck, the updates will keep coming, as there's no mention of a singleplayer Fallout any time in the known future and we're unlikely to get any indication of one with Bethesda currently working on both and.Check back here for the details on each update as it happens and information on upcoming patches. Below we've listed all of the changes in Fallout 76's most recent January 2020 update and the larger Patch 16 from December 2019.
Check for previous patch notes from patch 11 onwards. Fallout 76 Wastelanders Update - Upcoming. At E3 2019, Bethesda officially announced which will bring human NPCs back to Appalachia. Seeing human NPCs return to the wasteland for players to interact with has likely been the most-requested feature since launch and easily the most notable feature keeping Fallout 76 from feeling like a real Fallout game.Wastelanders will add a Fallout 3-style dialogue system (meaning no more generic tonal choices like Fallout 4), companion characters that you can pursue romance with, and new gear and activities.Fallout 76's Wastelanders update was originally planned for the fall of 2019 but has been delayed to the first quarter of 2020. Bethesda says that the delay will 'make sure the work we’re doing hits our quality bar, and yours.'
Page Tools.The big new Wastelanders expansion update for Fallout 76 is out for free on PC, Xbox One, and PS4 as of April 14th, 2020 with an aim to dramatically change and overhaul the entire game. Because the update is such a massive change to everything, making sure you’re ready to set foot in the world of Appalachia again (or for the first time) is important.Wastelanders is designed to be organically mixed into the game world rather than existing as a separate piece of content.
This means that new players will, ideally, not even realize the content in Wastelanders didn’t always exist from the very beginning. Tips for Playing Wastelanders As A New Character Starting Wastelanders as a new character makes sense initially because so much of the content is organically threaded throughout the world. Seeing it all from the perspective of someone freshly exiting the vault is likely the best and most authentic way of interacting with the.When you first exit after the initial introduction and tutorial segment, you can speak to two women standing near the exit that will kick off the Wastelanders main quest line. The original main quest and all other content that existed before Wastelanders is still there, so you won’t actually miss out on anything.Think of it as a new main story that happens at the same time alongside everything else.Eventually, you’ll hit a point where you’ll need to be level 20 before you can continue doing the Wastelanders questline. You won’t miss out on anything, but the game will basically tell you to go level up and do other things until you reach level 20. After that point, you can come back and continue working on the Wastelanders questline.
Be sure to also check out our huge list of, and in Fallout 76.Why You Should Play Wastelanders On An Existing Character If you’re brand new to Fallout 76 in general then playing as a new character is your only option and that’s totally fine, but otherwise, we think you’ll be better off playing as an existing higher-level character. There are a few main reasons for that:. You won’t have to pause doing the Wastelanders questline to catch up in levels. Your existing character is probably already over level 20 so you won’t have to go do other stuff to grind and catch up. There are lots of dialogue options and choices with the human NPCs that require certain stats to be high enough (like Intelligence and Charisma) otherwise those dialogue choices can’t be picked.
So if you’re not very high level, you’ll inevitably miss out on some quest results and conversations. You’ve already unlocked fast travel points, collected resources, and have a foothold that will let you get through the content more quickly and efficiently. How to Respec Your Existing Character's SPECIAL Stats Unfortunately, if you have been avoiding Charisma, Intelligence, Strength, or any one of the other S.P.E.C.I.A.L. Stats that may suddenly become more useful now that Wastelanders is out, regardless of your build, you could be sort of out of luck. There isn’t a traditional skill respec system in Fallout 76 that lets you refund and reassign those points.Instead, you have to wait until you hit level 50 and then instead of picking a new perk card at each level up you can instead reallocate a point from one stat to another. And that’s.it.It’s very gradual and incremental.
There is no other method of altering your stats once you’ve made a selection.Instead, the best thing you can realistically do, is just start to focus more on the stats that have specific conversation bonuses in Wastelanders. Often you’ll be able to use a high charisma stat to persuade a non-player character to do or say something or perhaps use Intelligence to uncover an alternate solution to a quest.Picking A New C.A.M.P. Depending on where you’ve settled your C.A.M.P. You may end up needing to move.
If someone from one of the new has claimed the area as their own where your camp used to be then you’ll have an opportunity to relocate completely free of charge.You can see the full map of potentially impacted areas.