Patch 8 arrives today, bringing a host of new Wild Appalachia content to Fallout 76, including a new questline, features, balance adjustments, and a ton of bug fixes.

Read on to catch the full patch notes for today’s update.

Patch Highlights

• Lying Lowe Questline: Separate fact from fiction as you investigate the mysterious disappearance of Calvin van Lowe.
• Design and Balance Adjustments: Vendors, Turrets, Glowing Mass, V.A.T.S. and more have received design and balance updates.
• Item Renaming: Add a personal touch to your Apparel, Armor, Power Armor, and Weapons by giving them custom names.
• News Screen: A splash screen will now automatically appear upon logging into Fallout 76 to notify you of the latest game news and announcements.
• The Burrows (Coming April 16): Explore The Burrows, a new subterranean dungeon that offers a challenging experience for even the toughest of Wasteland adventurers.

Patch Version

Download sizes for today’s patch will be approximately 6 GB for cons...

Skuure

I wonder if you can team up in survival mode or will it be a free for all thing

Yes! You can join teams in Survival.

ZanthirEAS

Excited for all of the new Wild Appalachia stuff to come!

For now though, it's bug list time!

For anyone interested, here is list number 1/2/3/4/5/6

Bugs

• As of 3/13 Patch, can no longer 'inspect' items in the vendor trade menu, this makes it difficult to tell what legendary effects a 2-3 star item has

• As of 3/13 Patch, legendary robots and sentry bots will instantly explode when killed, rather than after a brief delay

• As of 3/13 Patch, events on the map can be displaced relative to their actual location (for example, a defend event for Monongah Power Plant appeared on top of Helvetia)

• If you track the 'Destroy 1100 Robots with X weapon' challenges, killing a robot will display the message with the 4th digit cut off, like "540/110" instead of "540/1100"

• There are Liberators in the sky at Tygart Water Treatment

• If a book (not a magazine) spawns in the Big Al's Tattoo Parlor magazine rack, it cannot be reached due to the collision of the magazine rack

• Brewing Station - The bottle used in the animation for this station moves/shakes through the air beneath the player, even during parts of the animation that the object isn't in use

• The Legendary Megasloth at the end of the Fasnacht Day event sometimes doesn't ragdoll, making it unable to be looted unless it is dismemebered or becomes a meatpile

• Greek Letters Set - Pi and Omicron seem to have incorrect positions, they will be displaced very far to the left/right of your cursor and, once placed, cannot be selected by directly looking at them, you must look at them from the side to select them correctly

• Technical data can show up among alcohol as an item option to place in a fermenter, trying to do so does nothing

• Cryolator and Flamer do not benefit from any kind of damage boost that increases energy weapon damage (such as High Voltage Hefe or Energy Weapons Bobbleheads), despite both being energy weapons

• Ballistic Bock does not increase ballistic Heavy Weapon damage, such as .50cal Machine Gun, Minigun or LMG

• The daily repeatable quest, Wasted on X (the new brewing dailies), does not remove the specified type of alcohol from your inventory when you turn it in to Biv, despite him (presumably) drinking it

• Event - Powering Up Thunder Mountain - The description lists "Thunder Mountain Power Plant has failed. Repair its systems and get the power back"; it cuts off the last part of the sentence, 'on.', that is seen in the other power plant descriptions

• Quest - Forbidden Knowledge - The quest objective is spelled incorrectly, 'techncial' should be 'technical'

• With the flechette mod on a Harpoon Gun, you can yield more harpoons than you expended on an enemy because each of the 7 projectiles can individually proc a 'recovered' harpoon, yielding between 0 and 7 harpoons for every 1 harpoon fired

• Your addictions can randomly disappear over time, unclear what causes this

Quality of Life Wishlist

• Make big masks into "outfits" for power armor helmets (so you can wear both at the same time), would make the Vaultboy/girl heads and Fasnacht masks have fun application in power armor

• Would love timers for items on your debuff bar so that you don't need to open pipboy to check things like disease duration, Rad-X duration, chem/booze duration

• Challenge tracking needs a different sound, it is hard to tell when you have completed a challenge due to the 2 sounds being very similar

• Challenge tracking needs to process faster if there are multiple stacked notifications, or only display the most recent iteration of each challenge, otherwise there is a very long backlog to go through (Super Duper procs also have this problem)

• Let us build the Nuka Cherry Lamp and Speakeasy Nuka Cola Door in our camps!

• Give us a way to play Big Al's Tattoo Parlor music in our camps

• A marker/rug we can build in CAMPs for our tamed pets to stand on/near

Gameplay/Balance Wishlist

• The mixed drink versions of alcohol seem pointless; you use the best version of a drink to create an inferior version. Would make more sense if they were simply lower resource versions, but currently you just intentionally create a worse item

• Increase brahmin spawn rate, they are very uncommon outside of Flatwoods

• Ability to dismiss tamed animals, please my sloth won't stop roaring I can't take it anymore

• Percepti-bobble perk for plans and recipes

Cheers!

Thank you as always for these lists! We're tracking many of these thanks to reports from players here and on the forums, and will parse through this list to catch any that we aren't already investigating.

Patch 7.5 releases today, and introduces the Survival Mode Beta to Fallout 76, which is a new game mode featuring fewer restrictions and higher-stakes for Player vs. Player (PVP) combat, Scoreboards for tracking your stats, a bonus on all XP you earn, and Legendary item rewards for new Weekly Challenges. We’ve also renamed the standard Fallout 76 experience “Adventure Mode” and have removed incoming damage from players you are not hostile against.

Read on to catch the full patch notes for today’s update.

Patch Version

Download sizes for today’s patch will be approximately 4 GB for consoles and 2 GB for PC.

• PC: 1.1.1.2
• PS4: 1.1.1.1
• Xbox: 1.1.1.1

New “Play” Options

The standard Fallout 76 experience has been renamed “Adventure”, and “Survival Beta” has been added as a new game mode.

• Upon selecting “Play” from the Main Menu, players can now choose whether to join an Adventure Mode world, or a Survival Mode Beta world.
  • New characters can enter Survival Mode Beta worlds i...

You are encouraged to keep any Legendary you have if you want to trade them. We will have more information on the Legendary Vendor and Scrapping closer to that release. Most likely in an Inside the Vault.

This is currently planned to be fixed in an update scheduled for early April.

The rare Fasnacht masks are attainable, they are just very rare. Thanks to your feedback, we’re looking into improvements we can make to the drop rates in the future for rare item rewards associated with time limited events.

We are looking into addressing this issue with an upcoming hotfix. As soon as we have all the timing we will update this thread.

Arhen_Dante

While it is good to take initiative in fighting against certain things, you should always ask yourself "How could this be abused?" and "Could/would anyone abuse it?".

While Implemeting the ability to report players seems like a good idea, with the number of genuine griefers and given how petty some people can be, the ability to report players without imediate proof of the claim will only lead to abuse.

The reporting system is not an automated system. Reports will be looked into and evaluated by our Customer Support team.

victrhugochavez

I'm hoping the reports aren't going to be automated and people who could be falsely reported will have some recourse in appealing. I've killed plenty of wanted players and others in PvP who weren't too happy with me

Yes, the reporting system is not an automated system. Reports will be looked into and evaluated by our Customer Support team.

Welcome to Wild Appalachia! Patch 7 introduces the first of many new content updates to come, including a questline, a pair of daily quests, and a crafting system. Additionally, this patch contains a variety of balance and gameplay adjustments, new features, another large wave of bug fixes, and much more. Check out a few patch highlights below, and then read on to catch the full patch notes.

Patch Highlights

• New Questline – Wasted on Nukashine: Complete this questline to uncover the secrets of the notorious and illicit Nukashine and unlock the new Brewing and Distilling crafting system.
• New Crafting System – Brewing and Distilling: Become the Wasteland’s premiere bartender by learning to craft a wide variety of new drinks using the new Brewing Workbench and the Fermenter.
• New Seasonal Event Quest – Fasnacht Parade: Aid the dutiful bots of Helvetia with their Fasnacht preparations and parade to banish Old Man Winter, claim some sweet loot, and have a chance to claim fantastic Fas...

Hi u/spectral000,

The feedback we receive on Reddit, and forums, and social continue to be the most valued and helpful in determining what gets fixed and implemented when and where. Patch 6 is currently scheduled for next week and should address several issues we’ve been seeing people post about (and more) including:

• Scorchbeast scream frequency
• Dead tamed creatures causing C.A.M.P. budget to increase and never decrease
• Rad worms increasing all player effects by 50%
• Accidental damage to another player’s C.A.M.P. causing a WANTED status
• Items accidentally being lost in the hopper during “Feed the People”

That’s to name a few. Beyond that, we are working on getting the roadmap up so everyone knows what we’re planning through 2019. We are aiming to get that posted by end of the month at the very latest.

re-bobber

I'm curious as to when they are going to buff energy weapons. I have 2 or 3 cool weapons in my stash that I have been holding onto.

We are working on a larger comprehensive balance patch that includes fixes to durability and utility of Energy Weapons. We expect this patch to be available in March, but will be able to provide specific timing a little later.

AnAussiebum

Please have a lazer weapon fix soon!

Just answered a similar question here: https://www.reddit.com/r/fo76/comments/aqlcu2/inside_the_vault_february_14_2019/eggzcy9

TL;DR being a balance patch for Energy Weapons is coming. We're aiming for this patch for March but will have the specific timing a little later.

NoctD

I don't see any plans to fix CAMP griefing for Pacifist players unfortunately. So Bethesda is not really listening to our feedback regarding CAMPs. Please add the slap damage to non PvP CAMPs, its badly needed.

We are looking into possible solutions for this, including making it so Pacifist mode carries over to your CAMP and it cannot be damaged.

We have updated the list to include further additions coming in Patch 6 (and beyond) based on your comments and feedback. Thank you for continuing to let us know what you're experiencing and what you'd like to see. Keep your feedback coming.

As others have mentioned, we are planning a large balance patch the will address durability and utility of Energy Weapons. We have also updated our Known Issues list to reflect this is coming.

MistaJ42c

Cough cough

Railway rifles to please. They have no cards that effect them at all

We're looking into this issue.

Hello,

Players who receive the “Login failed. This Account is not Authorized. [4:8:2000]” message when attempting to log into Fallout 76 are using an account that may have been suspended by our Customer Support team, and should check the email address associated with that account for a message from us.

Those who have been suspended this way were identified as having acquired over 100,000 of one or more rare in-game items within 30 days of play through duplication exploits. These accounts have been suspended from Fallout 76 until this issue is fixed in a future patch. Once a fix is live, we will reactivate these accounts and notify the owners that they can access the game again, but any further violations of the Terms of Service or Code of Conduct will result in a permanent account closure.

The items that resulted in these account actions were designed to be rare in-game, and we’re confident that players who acquired them in these massive quantities did not obtain them using legi...

Hello,

We posted a response in this thread on the same topic. Essentially, accounts that are receiving this login message have been identified by our Customer Support team as having acquired over 100,000 of one or more rare items in-game through duplication. These accounts have been suspended until this issue is fixed in a future patch, and those players will be notified once their Fallout 76 access has been restored.

Thank you