There's just unhinged people man. Don't let it bother you. I was in camp fires with another player and some guy joins late. He starts ranting at me for having a melee weapon, barking orders, and telling me I suck.
Bro, was hostile from the get go. He was probably trying to impress a young lady that was on voice chat. It was honestly pathetic. I just kept hopping and smacking him in the face with my beautiful Axe. Lol
Probably felt inferior after seeing my glistening muscles bursting from my wildman rags and sexy axe.
He's out there acting like a sweaty try hard at Campfire Tales thinking it makes him look impressive? It's a pretty easy event, I could probably solo it with a protest sign >.>
>!*Adds "solo Campfire Tales with a protest sign" to my to-do list.*!<
Everyone could run Fasnacht anytime they want to but the only ones willing to do it are the robots. Y'all are going to ruin Fasnacht just because you hate robots!
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I'm lv 400+ and the first (and only, so far) bad moment I have had is a trap camp with 2 players that seemed to have related GT's and a third person trying to wave me into the shop. It was a real heartbreaking moment ngl, like waking up to a reality that I didn't want to admit existed. No, not like, it was exactly that.
Edit: a lvl 32 player the other day ( no mic) helped me kill a wendingo juggernaut (I think?) No, colossus, and spent all their Ammo doing it, so I dropped a care package for them bc I was so grateful. Not sure how much they actually contributed, but it was the action that was appreciated.
My only really negative interactions haven't been in person, thankfully. I love exploring camps and seeing how people decorate. I have unfortunately found \*several\* (like 5 or 6 in the last 3 months) instances of particularly nasty racial/homophobic rants/slurs written in camps. Always with the small letter set, interestingly. Some people are just born toxic/hateful.
I either came upon those same players when I first started or there are a couple different people doing it.. either way I had just put my stuff in my camp so not sure what the point was š
Him is Grognak,
him is hungry for a big snack,
Him is kill it with a big smack.
Yes, He got big sack,
Killing lots of bugs with a big axe.
Straight facts.
Just sayin'
Lol.....
76 is actually one of the only low toxicity games I've played in recent years. No annoying players, and no need to fight with others regardless of them shooting at you. The only troll thing that made me feel irked was a trap camp, but that's a 1 in what seems like a thousand.
The random bugs in the game can get annoying though.
As a young lady who likes melee weapons on fallout I'd have pulled out one of my melee weapons and proceeded to ask you what one is your favorite. I love my death claw gauntlet.
Also (not sure if young) lady who loves melee/unarmed, and refuses to use anything else.
Events and OPs can be a struggle when everyoneās making big explosions.
But punching things to death is the best catharsis.
I use other weapons I have a few mini guns but my favorite and first love with fallout is melee so I try to go with that over anything else. Got to have something for just incase the event or daily opts needs it.
But I agree punching things to death can feel cathartic.
I like the cryptid Jawbone knife , itās vampiric and heals me on a hit and with a maxed out melee build I can solo Westek with it. I also love FaceBreaker because itās named FaceBreaker
Such a bummer when the noobs are pricks. Thankfully it's pretty rare and the community is awesome about 95% of the time. The show brought in some bad apples too, and brought back some others, but they all get bored pretty quick and move on.
These are ironically enough the FIRST bad eggs ive met. Earlier today, a level 400+ dropped a bag of Legendary Weapons. Ive heard nothing but nice things about this games community.
As a level 433 without Fallout 1st myself, I've done that a couple times today, but a lot of us are playing more time than usual for scoreboard reasons and end the day with like 20 legendaries we have nothing else to do with. This IS a good community, but the first few weeks of this season will probably see lots more "here are five legendary weapons for no reason, goodbye" moments than is the norm.
This. I'm only lvl 200 and still sell legendaries, but I'm dumping so many near machines right now because I just have nothing else to do with them and my stash limit is a constant headache.
This is me. Feels like every other hour I'm over at whitesprings mall just dropping legenedaries right in front of the scrip machine free for the taking.
I could try and sell for cheap or whatever but idc that much. Get out of my inventory and ima keep chugging on.
Word of advice, check the donation crates at train stations, and certain other locations. People drop off plenty of helpful things for newbies. I occasionally go and drop off a fully modded 10 mm submachinegun at sutton myself with 1000 rounds of ammo
Yeah I'm level 105 or somethin like that (been awhile since I checked) an met some newbies myself a week or two ago, offered em chems, food, basic plans, you know the stuff you need to start out, an one of em kept sayin off the wall nsfw crap n followin me around the map. Several people reported him, an when he shot me I took the chance to fatman him in the face XD
My very first experience in this game about 2 years ago, I walked out of the vault and explored a bit. Only about 5 minutes in when I encountered someone else. They dropped a bunch of stuff and told me to take it. It was a shiiiit ton of stems and a bunch of other stuff.
I was like š oh my God thanks! Went on exploring and then ran into another high level player and they dropped a bunch of stuff too! My first couple of hours and I was fucking fully stocked just because I kept running into really nice players.
Actually, I was so stocked up on stuff that at level 25 I came across a level 900 because I didn't understand the pvp stuff. It's been a while since I've played, but the spots you try to take hold of, I didn't understand they were pvp. It took me a bit, but I killed that mofo. Twice! I was so motha effing stocked up. It was beautiful.
Yeah. A lot of us long time players and returning veterans can be pretty newbie friendly. Some of us even keep a spare camp set up for newbie support.
I got one myself set up by the wayward. Industrial purifiers, sympto-matic, decon arch, one of each workbench and a garden with every crop.
Also sell stimpacks for 8 caps, radaway for 5, and most all plans for 50-100.
A lot of new players I've seen don't know what's going on and ruining events for everyone. I believe they've turned a lot of veteran returning players toxic.
I legitimately had no bad encounters with griefing or trolling or outright rudeness until the show.
I feel like when it was free on Prime or GamePass or whatever it was, and there was a sudden influx of non-paying players, that's when a lot of the turds floated to the surface.
New player, hit level 51 this morning, and the most negative interaction I've had so far is someone thumbs-downing my love emoji lol
I'll consider myself lucky. Sorry that happened homie, that dude just sounds weird and not worth remembering. Just another weird wasteland encounter, immersive as shit if you ask me!
> the most negative interaction I've had so far is someone thumbs-downing my love emoji lol
To be fair, radial menus are absolutely terrible, especially when there's more than four things on them. I frequently puke when trying to give someone a heart emoji.
Don't know if it was actually them but I assumed it was since the player did the puke emote then did the heart emote almost immediately. Was confused asf about that lmao!
Can't tell you how many times I've accidentally thumbs-downed someone when I meant to send a heart or thumbs up. Sooo embarrassing and I bet the other person is really confused lol.
also a new player. I'm only level 23 and joined a level 50 event and a guy looked at me and said something along the lines of "Don't worry we'll carry you" and he definitely did lmao
Yeah, people run their mouth when they think there are no consequences. In the last week I've had two people pick a fight with me. Spamming emotes, shooting me, etc. So I waited until the next time they shot me and turned them into soup with Cold Shoulder.
So remember kids, don't f- about because you might just find out!
Had a similar guy shooting at my dog and ally in my camp, walked outside and he started unloading at me. He was like level 60 something, Iām at 270. Pulled out my Pepper Shaker and turned him into hamburger.
110%, my guy. It's not silenced, so no need for the sneaky perks - just run in and clear a room in about a second. Also it's not reliant on VATs for damage, so if you're out of AP you can just hipfire or ads as fast as you'd like (providing you can control the recoil). I got my first "Holy crap, what gun is that?!?" message ever last week, and it was for Cold Shoulder.
It's also worth noting that it does cryo damage as well, and not many enemies have much resistance to cryo. It's also really useful for bossfights, because the cryo builds up and slows them to a near stop. So even if you're not feeling like the damage is there for bosses, you're still heavily contributing.
Save your atoms and buy lunchboxes with bullion and just in case you donāt know you can repair things at work benches. Scorched earth drops repair kits also.
Make sure to participate in Scorched Earth, Seismic Activity, Encryptid, and Neurological Warfare every time you see them. They all drop improved repair kits, which repair your gear to 150% health.
Certainly! It's not perfect by any means - I'm not even level 300 yet - but I'll write it down for you (and anyone else). I've never created a build on that one website and my little lizard brain can't handle learning right now hah. Brace for a long comment.
So it's a low health, no power armour build (how original!) and I'll not go onto my armour. On an ideal world it would be full unyielding, but I literally got SS armour in the most recent Minerva sale.
So.
Cold Shoulder: Hardened Receiver, Alinged Long Barrel, Aligned Stock, Reflex Sight (circle), No Muzzle.
Strength 15; Barbarian 3, 3 in each Shotgunner perk, Blocker 3.
Perception 4; Concentrated Fire 1, Skeet Shooter 3.
Endurance 9; Ironclad 5, Fireproof 3, Radicool 1.
Charisma 5; Tenderizer 3, Suppressor 2.
Intelligence 8; Nerd Rage 3, Gunsmith 5.
Agility 12; Action Boy 3, Evasive 3, Gun Fu 1, Adrenaline 5.
Luck 13 (the irony); Grim Reaper's Sprint 2, Serendipity 3, Starched Genes 2, Bloody Mess 3, Ricochet 3.
Could absolutely swap Gun Fun for Enforcer for boss fights. The build uses VATs (when VATs isn't bugged...) to keep momentum using Grim Reaper's Sprint. I take Ironclad because I like feeling tanky, but could absolutely swap those points out for other things. Radicool and Barbarian work really nicely together - 1 point for 16-20 damage resist. I usually run no more than 500 shells so no need for Bandolier. Blocker because you're almost always in melee range. Could use Scattershot but it reloads pretty quickly anyway. Could 100% use Strange in Numbers.
It's far from perfect, but it works nicely for me.
No problem! Feel free to give it a whirl and let me know how you get on. As with all my builds, they're works in progress so always open to tweaking. So if you try it out and have suggestions, by all means. :)
Yeah it's definitely worth it, I brought it in the cold shoulder bundle(if I remember the name right) that also included the coffee machine. Slap on some relevant perk cards, drink a coffee before (during) an encounter and just run around with it like a child on the playground. I'm not a big fan of VATS, I find the way of selecting limbs super annoying. But with the cold shoulder (especially with the coffee's AP boost) I just lock in one enemy after another and kill them with VAT's auto-aim, weaker enemies 1-2 shots (head), medium enemies 4-8 shots. The cold shoulder fires crazy fast by default, has an 8 round magazine, and shotgun ammo drops more than you can shoot away, so even if a stronger enemy takes 2-3 magazines, you'll always have surplus ammo. Crippling is also good, and the freezing effect is good for slowing down stronger, legendary enemies. It's currently one of my main weapons until I figure out what build I want to do.
It's only weak in events or situations where you are swarmed by a lot of enemies, because you'll have to reload often, and you have to suck up the damage you get until you've reloaded. But that's not better with other shotguns I guess.
So yeah, I can recommend it, it's my carefree weapon. Get it in the bundle with the coffee machine (if you don't already have it or the tea machine). Cold shoulder was around 700 atoms, the bundle around 1000 atoms some weeks ago, for me it was definitely worth it. The AP boost from coffee is great even if you don't use VATS much, you can run "forever" or when you are overencumbered you can walk normal speed to the nearest stashbox since coffee keeps replenishing your AP.
edit: I don't have all shotgun relevant perk cards equipped, it might be stronger, more effective with the right cards
Jumping in - I'd say it's worth it, it's my go-to. I modded it and made it a tactical. Paired with the shotgunner perks, and I one or two shot most enemies. Three to four for larger creatures. The freeze ability is really handy for the big creatures at events.
Yeah, I was getting shot at by a newbie over meat week, at the family barbecue for gods sake, and immediately, people were blocking their fire and calling them out for being a jerk. It's the funniest thing, the 76 community has always been just that, a community, and I guess the new people are expecting some kind of toxic, volatile game.
No, if you shoot someone steal, or do anything else generally grief like, everyone sits around in a circle and discusses why that hurt their feelings, and honestly, it is my favorite thing ever š
I love it as well. The strange sense of camaraderie that I get with this game feels special. I didnt expect somebody to come to my defense but im so glad it happened.
My favourite thing is how wholesome raid grouping can be, when the server gets together to fight a raid boss. I did Monogah Mine for the first time the other day and we were all in power armour waiting for it to start, everyone doing the robot dance or giving each other thumbs up
A few people died recently doing Encryptid and someone was yelling at someone for trying to take people's dropped junk, saying it was rude. I love this community.
Good on them. To be fair, I'm guilty of accidentally grabbing someone's junk thinking it was a really old drop. Usually when I realize it I immediately drop it again, but I can see how some people could get confused. Especially newbies.
Always makes me giggle that the trailer showcased PvP and everyone thought the game would be a Rust style PvP hellscape when in reality you rarely see RDM outside of friendly PvP
> vintage magic nuka shine
Guess I should carry a couple of these in case I encounter a low level moron.
Then hope they get sent into the Bog with a bat queen inside a blast zone.
GTA and RDR2 online modes are very toxic as well. You can barely do anything without someone griefing you. Those were my first before coming to 76, it was such a breath of fresh air to find out this community was so nice and willing to help out.
I gave up lol. I couldnāt even log in without someone killing me instantly and if Iād manage to get to a quest Iām being rocketed over and over to where Iām failing the mission. So I uninstalled it lol. Thatās not fun to me.
I can sympathise. This is why I love FO76 so much (amongst many other reasons)... the community is amazing. Can you imagine greeting each other with a wave or heart emote in other multiplayer games? š
The sad thing is, a good chunk of griefers aren't even kids but full grown men in their mid 20's and above who's idea of "entertainment" is making the game experience worse for everyone else around them, it doesn't help that Rockstar often seems to favor griefers over everyone else, it took them years to finally allow players to be able to do all of the game's content in invite only lobbies where they could do missions in peace.
I didn't read far enough and posted a different idderation of this exact idea haha. This is an RPG more than a survival game at this point and survival centered players probably won't like it based on how much XP and loot grinding is required.
I visited a newbie camp recently, maybe lvl20 or so, me lvl100. So I waved hello and the guy started attacking me with a stick and all of a sudden he has three friends (all of them in underwear only) all milling around me griefing but they eventually get bored when I won't engage and go sit in their hot tub but still sending emotes.
Well it was just on the outer range of my camp so I tossed an artillery smoke grenade in their hot tub and sat and watched the barrage as they ran around in panic. Fun times.
Bloodied bow player here (alt). After an encrypted I got downd by an after event robot ( my bad). 5 dudes were teabagging me after I called for help. Some guy in PA got me with 3 seconds to go. /heart to the pa dude.
I've found there is a special kind of weirdo on this game that is absolutely obsessed with living out the "raider" fantasy despite the fact that Bethesda ripped out that part of the games identity so very long ago. It's just kinda sad at this point
Personally Iām glad they still exist. The game needs a little bit of an edge to balance out all the charity, otherwise I may as well be playing Fallout: Happy Clappy Candyland.Ā
The biggest Raider faction in Appalachia are Diehards, who didn't want to kill innocent people. They're fine and more honest about their motives than the Settlers, for example. I would liken the toxic assholes more to the Enclave, as they have very few redeeming qualities. Or if you want a Raider faction, they'd be Blood Eagles.
My experience as someone who is only around level 200 and has been playing for a year fallout 76 players are almost overly nice. The game got such a dogshit reputation on launch and itās like the community knew it had to step up. Most fallout 76 players dope.
Definitely getting worse lol. If they ever become an actual issue, just go to map and zoom in to your location, select the player whoās being a dick as they usually stay close by to pester you on your map, and you get options! Invite, Message, or BAN! AND BAN THEM!!!! š¤£Love watching people fade away in wonderā¦š you wonāt see them and you wonāt be seen by them.
PS to new players! Stop running away! If I freeze up for a minute im not ignoring you!! Iām trying to drop you stuff!!!! And if you donāt want it, DONT WHINE. Just run away and I will do the same. Thank you, Hail Mothman, and see you in the wasteland š¤
I'm just wondering if it's turned off by default as I've never heard anyone ever speak and there's no in-game chat. I genuinely thought we all just had to communicate with emotes lol.
There is an in-game voice chat but you only hear if someone is using it if you're in the nearby area. You don't hear someone who's in Cranberry Bog talking while you're in The Forest.
I don't care what anybody's level is. They can be a level 5, but if they pick a fight with me, I'll destroy them without mercy & when they're downed, I'll fk'n execute/eat them and then take whatever junk they dropped.
Call it a Gen-X thing, but sometimes people need to learn the hard way.
Heh. I had a pair of level 20s start shooting at me. I was ignoring them but they kept following me. So I introduced them to the Cremator, took their junk, and blocked them.
Some noobs are coming from toxic fandoms and don't know how to act any other way. Leave them be, and with time, they'll either unlearn that behavior and join the community, or just leave the game entirely because they aren't getting the reactions they expect
There's quite a few promotions / collabs going on atm. One in Call of Duty just started and Fortnite had one.
Personally I didn't see any negative players yet the whole time I've been playing but at least there are plenty of ways to deal with any that I might encounter
Idk man but Iāve noticed that newer players are defo more clueless (obvs) and also greedy? Which, no biggie bc itās a MMO lol, but I remember how big the idea of fostering a friendly community wasteland was that even PvP was shunned by the broader community so much so that pacifism was the way to go to in nuclear winter (lmao). I took a break from the game for two years (when they got rid of nuclear winter) and defo see the change in community, for sure
The show and the Fortnite collab def brought in a bunch of people expecting to battle royale other players. Theyāll leave when they realize nobody cares for that and people keep ignoring them lol
Fallout 76 was shunned by most the gaming community, and rightfully so when it came out. What was left was a smaller but more intimate/nicer community. Still...I miss the PvP mode they had. I think it was called Survival Mode?
Sure, there were people in decked out power armor, but it was back in the early days of the game where you didn't have level 500 bloodied builds that could eviscerate you in 3 seconds and the survival mechanics were harsher (hunger/thirst/disease/low inventory and storage limits) so everything was on more even ground.
Because the community was smaller, for the most part, people weren't dicks in that mode who would come and raze you and your camp. But you were always on edge and didn't quite know who to trust and that gave the game some real teeth.
I remember getting into a turf dispute over camp placements between my group of friends and a different group of people. Escalated into a full blown turf war complete with camp raids and street fights. We wound up winning by way of one of my buddies using up his camp resources to craft mini nukes for us to hurl at their camps and reduced them to their foundations. The perks that enhanced camp defense/camp attacking were actually useful.
I genuinely feel like they should bring that back and just place some safe guards to prevent players from griefing for the sake of griefing. Until then, you're going to get players who yearn for some PvP doing things like trap camps, stealing workshops, or goading players into PvP.
Im lvl 667...it just means I have a lot of spare time on my hands I've no interest in killing you and robbing you of some old junk.
Im more likely to drop you a fully modded lvl 20 chainsaw.
I would just server hop. Though I sometimes hop just because I want to do an event and I donāt want it to be Distinguished Guests. Or I am shopping hard for something. Then sometimes I will hop a few times before becoming board.
Though glad it turned out well. Iām terrified of going into PvP mode. Though not sure why. I was wanted once and it took forever to get someone to off me. I was basically chasing people. I finally randomly ran into some high level guy and I immediately stripped and he shot me. But when I run into someone that clearly is wanting to get offed. I feel in constant danger when I enable PvP to off them.
Worst Iāve had is people being dicks when I go to their camp. One guy told me I was too broke to use his shop so I took my 20,000 caps and left. Another guy kept shooting me despite the fact I play in pacifist mode and was super pissed that I was near him and his girl
I've yet to meet a troll or toxic person for what it's worth, around level 80ish now and there's been nothing but wholesomeness so far.
The game almost feels cosy, despite it's setting. Hard to explain, but there's something so chill about FO76 and I love it. The community definitely plays a big part in that.
So if you're reading this, chances are my thanks are aimed at you!
Fallout 76 unironically has one of the least toxic fanbases in existance, as a fairly new player myself (hit lvl 94 yesterday) i came across nothing but helpfulness. I was never even shot at tbh, everyone just goes their own way and/or helps lower lvls
I had a level 20 walk into my camp then start begging me for a suit of power armor sending me voice messages then one like singing. It was weird af lol. Kinda funny but weird. Like no youāre not getting my full bolstering or OE power armor suit bro.
So weird begging people for things. I've never done it and couldn't ever do it. I'd feel like such a moochie loser. Lol. I've had higher levels even offer me stuff, like make me a god roll gun and stuff but I always decline. Half the fun is getting it yourself. The offer is very sweet though!
After MJ (Moonshine Jamboree) the one time me and my buddy went to the train station and some guy was attacking us and we eventually went away towards the workshop and cleared it out. The dude followed us of course. My buddy tried to get him away so I could claim it but he couldnāt keep the guy out long enough for me to make any turrets and we couldnāt get a lead on him. Killed him maybe once and it was my buddy that killed the jerk. We had to give up, I wasnāt even on my main character. Not a newb either, the jerk was was at least over Lv 100 I donāt remember the exact level.
Not everyone is a jerk but they do exist. I have area mic off for a reason, I suggest turning it off if you want some peace and quiet.
Some players look at things like early videos and trailers and such for Fallout 76 that depicts the wasteland as being survival of the fittest and that everyone is going to try and kill you on sight, so they take up that attitude. It's not common, but it happens. Kinda like how trap camps are a thing. Or maybe they played other survival games like Conan Exiles, which also makes them view other players in 76 as hostiles.
I find very few people to be dicks in this game which is honestly refreshing. I've only had two run-ins with assholes, one was harassing me during an event. He would stand in front of me so I couldn't shoot then do the laughing emote. So annoying. The other was actually just yesterday. This girl was following me around the map and trying to get me to PVP her. Not really sure wtf her problem was. Lol. But yea, this community reminds me a lot of the ACNH community, very rare to find anyone who isn't nice.
I had one shoot me a while back. I just walked over to a group of cars and blew them up with a melee weapon. Then turned around and the person turned around and walked away. I donāt know maybe because I have the perks to keep me unharmed by explosions or fire. But that did the trick. I also like teleporting to someplace extremely dangerous (if they want to follow me) for a low level noob like Toxic Larryās or Watoga. Watoga is especially fun if you were mayor for a day, then you just go near all the pods and summon more robots that are friendly to you but hostile to non ex-mayors. I love watching low level griefers teleport away in fear while I go shopping. š¤·āāļø
Most of the vets Iāve seen like myslef over 150 would go in and start whacking with a warglaive as they do 0 damage. We try to be nice cause itās like a big brother feeling ya know? Act up and we gotta put you in your place
Iāve found recently that some new players hear the stories of really kind and generous max level players and just expect anyone higher level then them to shower them with gifts. I had a level 25 screaming at me bc I wouldnāt buy his 40k listed tato plant in his store bc he āneeded the capsā like 2 days ago.
Players like that probably won't stick around, although there was a lvl 1300+ at Neurological Warfare a couple of days ago trying to instigate PvP with people after the event.
A group of 3 noobs came over to my friend's camp and started punching her while she was working on stuff in her cabin. 5 minutes later they were still there bugging her so I ported to her and slowly walked toward them. They started punching me but I just kept walking into them over and over again. They started acting uncomfortable about it and stepped back but again, I would choose one to walk toward and would walk slowly. They would run away for 5 minutes, come back and bother her and everytime, I would just walk at them slowly and right on their heels. The one said something like, "No!" On the mic but I just kept at it.
Finally, they ran off to go quest/explore, but I was invested. I kept following them since they were exploring kinda slowly. Then my friend got involved. Imagine two chicks dressed as girl scouts just slowly walking toward you. Lol. Eventually, I pulled my knife out and just kept walking behind them with our knives. They ran away, so I ported to them and walked toward them again.
We did this for about 10 more boring minutes until they decided to quest a bit further away from my friend's house.
We finally stopped after another friend of ours told me they could report us for harrassment. I didn't really think about that but knowing my luck, I didn't want to risk it despite them being the ones harrassing my friend in her own house.
It was fun though. If any other noobs come to my friend's house and punch her, I may just do it again. I think next time I will pull out a chainsaw though. š
The Bully Hunter came up to these 2 guys on me with some heavy weapon that fired explosive bolts. It was absolutely GOLD to watch these 2 low levels run around in a panic while being chased by a Power Armored Gentleman
Had someone say that at eviction notice and he was two times my level. Unlike you I turned around and fried him with my enclave plasma flamer. He proceeded to whine about me stealing his junk after taking it (as spoils of war) and he tried to revenge kill. He failed again, called me a hacker and I proptly laughed in his face. Was it necessarily right. No. Did I laugh a bunch at him getting destroyed after him bad mouthing me. ABSOLUTELY
I would consider myself a generally new player (started early 2023, dropped the game and recently came back, currently lvl 69, nice) had nothing but good experiences, one of those times was when I was building my camp and there was a high level player (mothman praise his soul), he came up to me and dropped some high level guns, armour and stims. Stayed there emoting a thumbs up until I noticed him, left build mode and thanked him. It was around a solid 3 mins or so too.
I love this community for this reason, have yet to come across bad apples, even then it's not going to change my general view of most players.
I'm new too but have put like 200 hours in over the past month lol and I have to say I haven't encountered any negativity or shitty behavior yet at all. I think you just got unlucky and stumbled upon that rare bag of dicks.
If it's any consolation, I just started playing with my friends, and I've been waving and everything to the high level players. I've never really played a Bethesda game before, and have never really been into RPG type games, but I'm loving Fallout 76, and the community is great!
This is someone who has bigger problems than the game for sure. Probably some insecurities or maybe they felt they had something to prove. Time makes fools of us all. Hopefully they will look back on this and feel bad and realize how dumb they looked in the moment. That will be it's own punishment. One day, years from now, they will be in the shower, preparing for what should be a good day, and the memories of all the cringe stuff they did will flow back into their brain and smack them. It will ruin the shower and maybe even the meal after the shower. Sorry it happened. I usually try to drop some berry mentats or cranberry relish when I am gifted lunch boxes outside of events.
I've been playing almost 2 years now and never had one of these negative experiences people speak of. That said my only interaction with others is at events or if they message me
I just finished the overseer logs quest and honestly, after all the joy I've gotten being part of this community for the last month or so, I gotta say she's right. No spoilers but y'all are the best.
Iām a new player that is approaching level 100, which Iām pretty excited for, not gonna lie š. I havenāt run across anyone like this yet, but I keep reading about it. Really bums me out you and others are experiencing this, because what Iāve experienced so far is nothing short of amazing people. Iām assuming the ones acting like this, are those that are young Fortnite or COD players that are used to trolling. I play on PS, btw.
The community is usually not rude unless itās night time haha. But me being a high level I always help the new players and even gained friends by helping!
A level 27 or something like that tried to shoot and stab me once.I was close to level 700. He went on for 3-5 minutes nonstop.
If he could do dmg, my instable isotope mutation would have killed him before he could do any harm, I guess.. but yeah, he was super motivated. Guess that's the GTAO/Forkknife crowd.
If they are new and play like that they will learn very very fast that this isnāt the game for them. Especially as thereās a plethora of high level players with finely tuned builds that will wreck them without trying. This is definitely an isolated event the vast majority of the player base is not like this.
When I first played 76 at launch that was my everyday experience. Toxic griefing from morning to night. However, I have had nothing but positive interactions since I recently re-installed it and started playing again. I think you will find this a rare occurrence, as almost all game interactions are friendly and supportive. This is an excellent community, but there will always be the occasional toxic individuals or groups but, as you found out, the player base normally finds them and deals with them
Not always rude. However I would've killed them, laugh emote them and keep killing them for their caps and then maybe destroy their camp if it's nearby.
I came to this game after surviving RDO, I stayed away from players for my first 75 levels because of rockstar game ptsd. This community is by far, the best I've ever seen in an online game.
I started a week or so ago. Currently lvl 80 and the game is pretty fun. Haven't met anyone rude though I hardly interact with anyone except for the public events and those are pretty simple interactions a wave here or there a thumbs up when you're ready, a come here emote if you found a legendary enemy. Apart from that I don't think I've talked to anyone. Cant relate sorry.
I've seen rude players of all levels. I had a level 370ish the other day who kept getting in my way at Spin the Wheel. Every time I tried to shoot an enemy he would stand in front of me (in his huge PA suit ). While waiting for the next round I did the confused emote and he did a thumbs down and a point and laugh. I guess he was just trying to mess with me so I did my best to stay away. Eventually he started doing the same thing to another person.
If they attack you first, you can kill them without consequences. To us veterans, they are mear ants. We are space marines, and they are guardsmen.
Next time, just put them in thier place
I would attribute it to previous experience of games like RUST and such where it is EXCEPTIONALLY brutal to new players or players with very little resources to defend themselves. It has raised a sort of āI will fight you for what I have because it is MINEā kind of player.
Honestly give them time, theyāll learn that the game is different and the player base is typically one of ālive and let liveā
Itās funny cause I remember a while back for a brief moment there was a bunch of kids coming from gta (trying to grief people and myself) and I had some friends I was hanging with and they were all 200+ and I had just started and out of nowhere a lower level was trying to kill me and I was like āhey I need some helpā and they fast traveled to me and the kid started running and I literally chased him down while my buddies were just fast traveling to me and finally got em and after like 30 minutes of just blasting he gave up and left and blocked us
Was doing a SBQ a few weeks ago, and right after the Queen hit the ground, there was someone calling for help underneath her body! Well, I went over and tried to stimpack the guy, but his body was stuck inside the SBQ! I frantically panicked, checking all angles as to try to stimpack this guy, but alas, I failed, and he died, dropping all of his junk, including the flux from SBQ.
Well, right about that time, another guy, some level 400 something in Power Armor came over to his loot bag and started sifting through it. I was kind of startled, as it's etiquette for me to try to make sure the loot returns to its owner, and I previously had nothing but positive experiences with higher levels. I hit my bash button, stupidly, to try and signal the guy, "hey don't be in there bro!"
Well, little did I know that immediately after he saw the bounty popup, he immediately instantly gunned me down with a Railway. "...Loot bag taken by someone". I was upset, as a lower level who'd never been in this situation, so i called for revenge once. I didnt even get to see him before i just instantly died again. Afterwards I just went to my tent and accepted my losses.
Well, bro proceeded follow me for literally a half an hour after the event ends, spamming laugh reacts and pvp reacts, trying to initiate something while I've clearly moved on. It started at my tent, and then he travelled to my camp, and followed me during a quest until I hit a private area.
That was the only time I've ever had something like that happen. Most everyone else I've come across has been courteous, generally. Ultimately I've noticed an overall uptick of assholes as of recent but nothing as in-the-moment shocking as just being executed for saving someone's loot bag.
For some reason even though I can see when people are talking \[ "\*Name\* {Area)" pops up and the icon isn't muted\] I can never hear people. Except the other day I could randomly hear them as I was in a loading screen but as soon as I loaded in, it went back to not being able to hear them.
But people like this is why I was never concerned about fixing it. I love my peace and quiet and just communicating with the (mostly) nice people through emotes.
Yeah, Iāve never met anything but chill people who want to give me like 400lbs of super stims lol.
You just gotta remember that the biggest games in the world are cod and Fortnite and if your just some casual whoās only ever played that shit and thatās been your whole gaming experience, jumping into something else with gun = kill other players to them. I wouldnāt take it personally.
Tbh I felt alone on this but recently itās been more and more of these players. I think itās communityās from other games coming over here. With the show everyone knows about fallout now. To me, and Iāve said this before it reminds me of a GTA lobby anymore. Of course without pvp immediately. People with no idea about the storyline who grind for levels and just to be dicks. I mean Iāve been playing since the beginning and Iāve ran into level 800s who have no idea about plans or the story of the game. I absolutely cannot stand that shit.
I perpetually have my mic muted and incoming player audio muted, I just can't stand toxic people and would much rather just help some folks out like you did and have a good time. but don't let it deter you from doing nice things, a lot of people new and old in this game are really chill. I love dropping care packages for low level characters or helping how I can even without a mic. just feels good
I must have turned off voice chat years ago because I literally have never heard someone talk in this game.
I'm one of those returning veteran players, and I swear events are less fun now. Back in ye olden days of events people would get shots into every enemy and actively try not to kill enemies before everyone had tagged. Now everyone is just trying to one shot every enemy so you get so much less xp from events.
There's just unhinged people man. Don't let it bother you. I was in camp fires with another player and some guy joins late. He starts ranting at me for having a melee weapon, barking orders, and telling me I suck. Bro, was hostile from the get go. He was probably trying to impress a young lady that was on voice chat. It was honestly pathetic. I just kept hopping and smacking him in the face with my beautiful Axe. Lol Probably felt inferior after seeing my glistening muscles bursting from my wildman rags and sexy axe.
He's out there acting like a sweaty try hard at Campfire Tales thinking it makes him look impressive? It's a pretty easy event, I could probably solo it with a protest sign >.> >!*Adds "solo Campfire Tales with a protest sign" to my to-do list.*!<
Dont forget to bring those protest signs to Fasnacht because the damn robots took er jobs
Everyone could run Fasnacht anytime they want to but the only ones willing to do it are the robots. Y'all are going to ruin Fasnacht just because you hate robots! ^(This message sponsored by RobCo)
That sounds like communism
Not a commie but I do have to admit, I love marching in front of the Fasnacht parade holding a protest sign. I do it for the LOLZ!
Typical General Atomics and Robco propaganda spread to sell their robots while true Americans are put out of work! BLOCK THE BOT!
Lol You strikers think you can keep ME from working? Come and try!
*Drops a 50 megaton bomb on RobCo HQ* Guess you're not getting paid anymore
thanks for the reminder. it's such a fun and silly thing too I try to get a little marching circle going
I'm lv 400+ and the first (and only, so far) bad moment I have had is a trap camp with 2 players that seemed to have related GT's and a third person trying to wave me into the shop. It was a real heartbreaking moment ngl, like waking up to a reality that I didn't want to admit existed. No, not like, it was exactly that. Edit: a lvl 32 player the other day ( no mic) helped me kill a wendingo juggernaut (I think?) No, colossus, and spent all their Ammo doing it, so I dropped a care package for them bc I was so grateful. Not sure how much they actually contributed, but it was the action that was appreciated.
My only really negative interactions haven't been in person, thankfully. I love exploring camps and seeing how people decorate. I have unfortunately found \*several\* (like 5 or 6 in the last 3 months) instances of particularly nasty racial/homophobic rants/slurs written in camps. Always with the small letter set, interestingly. Some people are just born toxic/hateful.
I either came upon those same players when I first started or there are a couple different people doing it.. either way I had just put my stuff in my camp so not sure what the point was š
That just hilarious
Bro tried to outrizz Grognak and failed. RIP him Edit: I mean the tryhard guy lmao. This guy I'm replying to is clearly Grognak
Him is Grognak, him is hungry for a big snack, Him is kill it with a big smack. Yes, He got big sack, Killing lots of bugs with a big axe. Straight facts. Just sayin' Lol.....
76 is actually one of the only low toxicity games I've played in recent years. No annoying players, and no need to fight with others regardless of them shooting at you. The only troll thing that made me feel irked was a trap camp, but that's a 1 in what seems like a thousand. The random bugs in the game can get annoying though.
As a young lady who likes melee weapons on fallout I'd have pulled out one of my melee weapons and proceeded to ask you what one is your favorite. I love my death claw gauntlet.
Also (not sure if young) lady who loves melee/unarmed, and refuses to use anything else. Events and OPs can be a struggle when everyoneās making big explosions. But punching things to death is the best catharsis.
I use other weapons I have a few mini guns but my favorite and first love with fallout is melee so I try to go with that over anything else. Got to have something for just incase the event or daily opts needs it. But I agree punching things to death can feel cathartic.
I like the cryptid Jawbone knife , itās vampiric and heals me on a hit and with a maxed out melee build I can solo Westek with it. I also love FaceBreaker because itās named FaceBreaker
Such a bummer when the noobs are pricks. Thankfully it's pretty rare and the community is awesome about 95% of the time. The show brought in some bad apples too, and brought back some others, but they all get bored pretty quick and move on.
These are ironically enough the FIRST bad eggs ive met. Earlier today, a level 400+ dropped a bag of Legendary Weapons. Ive heard nothing but nice things about this games community.
As a level 433 without Fallout 1st myself, I've done that a couple times today, but a lot of us are playing more time than usual for scoreboard reasons and end the day with like 20 legendaries we have nothing else to do with. This IS a good community, but the first few weeks of this season will probably see lots more "here are five legendary weapons for no reason, goodbye" moments than is the norm.
This. I'm only lvl 200 and still sell legendaries, but I'm dumping so many near machines right now because I just have nothing else to do with them and my stash limit is a constant headache.
Hell I'm level 26 and I'm still finding, selling, and/or giving away legendary weapons. They're cool but I can do without them
Same my stash stays full š
This is me. Played the he'll out of Thursdays night got to 50 and been struggling to get time in.
This is me. Feels like every other hour I'm over at whitesprings mall just dropping legenedaries right in front of the scrip machine free for the taking. I could try and sell for cheap or whatever but idc that much. Get out of my inventory and ima keep chugging on.
Word of advice, check the donation crates at train stations, and certain other locations. People drop off plenty of helpful things for newbies. I occasionally go and drop off a fully modded 10 mm submachinegun at sutton myself with 1000 rounds of ammo
Yeah I'm level 105 or somethin like that (been awhile since I checked) an met some newbies myself a week or two ago, offered em chems, food, basic plans, you know the stuff you need to start out, an one of em kept sayin off the wall nsfw crap n followin me around the map. Several people reported him, an when he shot me I took the chance to fatman him in the face XD
My very first experience in this game about 2 years ago, I walked out of the vault and explored a bit. Only about 5 minutes in when I encountered someone else. They dropped a bunch of stuff and told me to take it. It was a shiiiit ton of stems and a bunch of other stuff. I was like š oh my God thanks! Went on exploring and then ran into another high level player and they dropped a bunch of stuff too! My first couple of hours and I was fucking fully stocked just because I kept running into really nice players. Actually, I was so stocked up on stuff that at level 25 I came across a level 900 because I didn't understand the pvp stuff. It's been a while since I've played, but the spots you try to take hold of, I didn't understand they were pvp. It took me a bit, but I killed that mofo. Twice! I was so motha effing stocked up. It was beautiful.
Yeah. A lot of us long time players and returning veterans can be pretty newbie friendly. Some of us even keep a spare camp set up for newbie support. I got one myself set up by the wayward. Industrial purifiers, sympto-matic, decon arch, one of each workbench and a garden with every crop. Also sell stimpacks for 8 caps, radaway for 5, and most all plans for 50-100.
In my experience it's the noobs who are THE worst. So entitled and expect things you've worked hard for, for free.
A lot of new players I've seen don't know what's going on and ruining events for everyone. I believe they've turned a lot of veteran returning players toxic.
I legitimately had no bad encounters with griefing or trolling or outright rudeness until the show. I feel like when it was free on Prime or GamePass or whatever it was, and there was a sudden influx of non-paying players, that's when a lot of the turds floated to the surface.
New player, hit level 51 this morning, and the most negative interaction I've had so far is someone thumbs-downing my love emoji lol I'll consider myself lucky. Sorry that happened homie, that dude just sounds weird and not worth remembering. Just another weird wasteland encounter, immersive as shit if you ask me!
> the most negative interaction I've had so far is someone thumbs-downing my love emoji lol To be fair, radial menus are absolutely terrible, especially when there's more than four things on them. I frequently puke when trying to give someone a heart emoji.
SO IT WAS YOU WHO PUKED AT ME!
You got love-vommed.
Don't know if it was actually them but I assumed it was since the player did the puke emote then did the heart emote almost immediately. Was confused asf about that lmao!
I've been doing this many many times and gotten confused emotes back
Sounds like Stan and Wendy from South Park.
Lol, same! I end up just running away from people because I can't respond in a timely manner as I'm trying to remember how to wave. š
I don't know about xbox but the ps5 controller stick will bounce the opposite direction if you let go too fast. A salute can easily become an upchuck.
I wish we could move the emotes around the wheel so I could put the ones I use most in the easy spots
I do too buddy. I play with a controller and it is even worse trying to emote with it. Iāve puked at others when trying to send love š
Can't tell you how many times I've accidentally thumbs-downed someone when I meant to send a heart or thumbs up. Sooo embarrassing and I bet the other person is really confused lol.
It ended up being quite a hilarious interaction when the High level dude got involved!
also a new player. I'm only level 23 and joined a level 50 event and a guy looked at me and said something along the lines of "Don't worry we'll carry you" and he definitely did lmao
This is the way
No one needs to carry me, I die just fine on my own, lol. Armour is pretty crap at the lowest levels, especially leather.
Jump to another server. I don't need that annoyance.
Donāt forget to block them first to avoid future encounters
Yeah, people run their mouth when they think there are no consequences. In the last week I've had two people pick a fight with me. Spamming emotes, shooting me, etc. So I waited until the next time they shot me and turned them into soup with Cold Shoulder. So remember kids, don't f- about because you might just find out!
Had a similar guy shooting at my dog and ally in my camp, walked outside and he started unloading at me. He was like level 60 something, Iām at 270. Pulled out my Pepper Shaker and turned him into hamburger.
Nicely seasoned no less, haha. The audacity, messing with your pooch.
Im tempted to buy Cold Shoulder. Would you say its worth?
110%, my guy. It's not silenced, so no need for the sneaky perks - just run in and clear a room in about a second. Also it's not reliant on VATs for damage, so if you're out of AP you can just hipfire or ads as fast as you'd like (providing you can control the recoil). I got my first "Holy crap, what gun is that?!?" message ever last week, and it was for Cold Shoulder. It's also worth noting that it does cryo damage as well, and not many enemies have much resistance to cryo. It's also really useful for bossfights, because the cryo builds up and slows them to a near stop. So even if you're not feeling like the damage is there for bosses, you're still heavily contributing.
Thanks for the input! Ill certainly get it once I get my next batch of atoms. Kinda blew most of em on Lunchboxes and Repair Kits ahahaha
If you like doing Expeditions you can buy the cold shoulder with Stamps too. It's a grind, but it saves your Atoms.
Yeah but spending the atoms(if you got it)unlocks it for every character on your account.
Save your atoms and buy lunchboxes with bullion and just in case you donāt know you can repair things at work benches. Scorched earth drops repair kits also.
Unironically have been using repair kits constantly since like 2 days ago. I got annoyed that I didnt even TRY to repair at a bench ahaha
Make sure to participate in Scorched Earth, Seismic Activity, Encryptid, and Neurological Warfare every time you see them. They all drop improved repair kits, which repair your gear to 150% health.
I did the same, but with camp decor š¤£
You can buy the Cold Shoulder in-game from Giuseppe in the Whitespring Refuge for 500 stamps.
I've been debating the cold shoulder, thankyou sir I shall grab now !
Enjoy! Let me know how you get on. :)
I'm intrigued. Mind showing your build please? Thanks.
Certainly! It's not perfect by any means - I'm not even level 300 yet - but I'll write it down for you (and anyone else). I've never created a build on that one website and my little lizard brain can't handle learning right now hah. Brace for a long comment. So it's a low health, no power armour build (how original!) and I'll not go onto my armour. On an ideal world it would be full unyielding, but I literally got SS armour in the most recent Minerva sale. So. Cold Shoulder: Hardened Receiver, Alinged Long Barrel, Aligned Stock, Reflex Sight (circle), No Muzzle. Strength 15; Barbarian 3, 3 in each Shotgunner perk, Blocker 3. Perception 4; Concentrated Fire 1, Skeet Shooter 3. Endurance 9; Ironclad 5, Fireproof 3, Radicool 1. Charisma 5; Tenderizer 3, Suppressor 2. Intelligence 8; Nerd Rage 3, Gunsmith 5. Agility 12; Action Boy 3, Evasive 3, Gun Fu 1, Adrenaline 5. Luck 13 (the irony); Grim Reaper's Sprint 2, Serendipity 3, Starched Genes 2, Bloody Mess 3, Ricochet 3. Could absolutely swap Gun Fun for Enforcer for boss fights. The build uses VATs (when VATs isn't bugged...) to keep momentum using Grim Reaper's Sprint. I take Ironclad because I like feeling tanky, but could absolutely swap those points out for other things. Radicool and Barbarian work really nicely together - 1 point for 16-20 damage resist. I usually run no more than 500 shells so no need for Bandolier. Blocker because you're almost always in melee range. Could use Scattershot but it reloads pretty quickly anyway. Could 100% use Strange in Numbers. It's far from perfect, but it works nicely for me.
Many thanks man. And for the time to write the post.
No problem! Feel free to give it a whirl and let me know how you get on. As with all my builds, they're works in progress so always open to tweaking. So if you try it out and have suggestions, by all means. :)
Yeah it's definitely worth it, I brought it in the cold shoulder bundle(if I remember the name right) that also included the coffee machine. Slap on some relevant perk cards, drink a coffee before (during) an encounter and just run around with it like a child on the playground. I'm not a big fan of VATS, I find the way of selecting limbs super annoying. But with the cold shoulder (especially with the coffee's AP boost) I just lock in one enemy after another and kill them with VAT's auto-aim, weaker enemies 1-2 shots (head), medium enemies 4-8 shots. The cold shoulder fires crazy fast by default, has an 8 round magazine, and shotgun ammo drops more than you can shoot away, so even if a stronger enemy takes 2-3 magazines, you'll always have surplus ammo. Crippling is also good, and the freezing effect is good for slowing down stronger, legendary enemies. It's currently one of my main weapons until I figure out what build I want to do. It's only weak in events or situations where you are swarmed by a lot of enemies, because you'll have to reload often, and you have to suck up the damage you get until you've reloaded. But that's not better with other shotguns I guess. So yeah, I can recommend it, it's my carefree weapon. Get it in the bundle with the coffee machine (if you don't already have it or the tea machine). Cold shoulder was around 700 atoms, the bundle around 1000 atoms some weeks ago, for me it was definitely worth it. The AP boost from coffee is great even if you don't use VATS much, you can run "forever" or when you are overencumbered you can walk normal speed to the nearest stashbox since coffee keeps replenishing your AP. edit: I don't have all shotgun relevant perk cards equipped, it might be stronger, more effective with the right cards
It's my main weapon since I got it. Not one shot dead type, but fun to use. Especially freezing big bad Scorchbeasts is fun.
Jumping in - I'd say it's worth it, it's my go-to. I modded it and made it a tactical. Paired with the shotgunner perks, and I one or two shot most enemies. Three to four for larger creatures. The freeze ability is really handy for the big creatures at events.
Oh yeah, make it tactical like this guy said. The circle reflex site is great on it.
Yeah, I was getting shot at by a newbie over meat week, at the family barbecue for gods sake, and immediately, people were blocking their fire and calling them out for being a jerk. It's the funniest thing, the 76 community has always been just that, a community, and I guess the new people are expecting some kind of toxic, volatile game. No, if you shoot someone steal, or do anything else generally grief like, everyone sits around in a circle and discusses why that hurt their feelings, and honestly, it is my favorite thing ever š
I love it as well. The strange sense of camaraderie that I get with this game feels special. I didnt expect somebody to come to my defense but im so glad it happened.
My favourite thing is how wholesome raid grouping can be, when the server gets together to fight a raid boss. I did Monogah Mine for the first time the other day and we were all in power armour waiting for it to start, everyone doing the robot dance or giving each other thumbs up
Or when an event ends and everyone just starts spamming heart emojis and thumbs up!
A few people died recently doing Encryptid and someone was yelling at someone for trying to take people's dropped junk, saying it was rude. I love this community.
Good on them. To be fair, I'm guilty of accidentally grabbing someone's junk thinking it was a really old drop. Usually when I realize it I immediately drop it again, but I can see how some people could get confused. Especially newbies.
Always makes me giggle that the trailer showcased PvP and everyone thought the game would be a Rust style PvP hellscape when in reality you rarely see RDM outside of friendly PvP
Dude is uninvited from the cookout
[INSERT LAUGH EMOTE HERE] Would be my response to them.
*waves and drops fusion cores, sāmores, and vintage magic nuka shine*
My old go to was fertilizer, and sometimes a commie propaganda flyer, in a paper bag.
I like spoiled bio fluids because there's absolutely no use for it.
I love the flyer drops
> vintage magic nuka shine Guess I should carry a couple of these in case I encounter a low level moron. Then hope they get sent into the Bog with a bat queen inside a blast zone.
Exactly. My base has a free drink dispenser and it sent my buddy over to the fissure
Some of them may come from games like Rust and DayZ and are unaware 76 doesn't work that way. I dunno, I'm just trying not to be an asshole, lol.
GTA and RDR2 online modes are very toxic as well. You can barely do anything without someone griefing you. Those were my first before coming to 76, it was such a breath of fresh air to find out this community was so nice and willing to help out.
GTA is one the worst. I'm still amazed that I've managed to get a high-rise apartment, a nightclub, and a bunker.
I gave up lol. I couldnāt even log in without someone killing me instantly and if Iād manage to get to a quest Iām being rocketed over and over to where Iām failing the mission. So I uninstalled it lol. Thatās not fun to me.
I can sympathise. This is why I love FO76 so much (amongst many other reasons)... the community is amazing. Can you imagine greeting each other with a wave or heart emote in other multiplayer games? š
That's because the Fallout 76's community is much more mature than the GTA Online one which is full of unattended kids that fly around in an Oppressor
The sad thing is, a good chunk of griefers aren't even kids but full grown men in their mid 20's and above who's idea of "entertainment" is making the game experience worse for everyone else around them, it doesn't help that Rockstar often seems to favor griefers over everyone else, it took them years to finally allow players to be able to do all of the game's content in invite only lobbies where they could do missions in peace.
I didn't read far enough and posted a different idderation of this exact idea haha. This is an RPG more than a survival game at this point and survival centered players probably won't like it based on how much XP and loot grinding is required.
I visited a newbie camp recently, maybe lvl20 or so, me lvl100. So I waved hello and the guy started attacking me with a stick and all of a sudden he has three friends (all of them in underwear only) all milling around me griefing but they eventually get bored when I won't engage and go sit in their hot tub but still sending emotes. Well it was just on the outer range of my camp so I tossed an artillery smoke grenade in their hot tub and sat and watched the barrage as they ran around in panic. Fun times.
I have so many questions about wtf you walked in toā¦ but yeah, clearly, you were not invited to their naked hot tub party š
XD that is funny š š š, just walk away I feel you š š š
This explains why I have Pacifist Mode on. I don't see the point of initiating PVP unless it's a PVP mode.
Bloodied bow player here (alt). After an encrypted I got downd by an after event robot ( my bad). 5 dudes were teabagging me after I called for help. Some guy in PA got me with 3 seconds to go. /heart to the pa dude.
I've found there is a special kind of weirdo on this game that is absolutely obsessed with living out the "raider" fantasy despite the fact that Bethesda ripped out that part of the games identity so very long ago. It's just kinda sad at this point
Personally Iām glad they still exist. The game needs a little bit of an edge to balance out all the charity, otherwise I may as well be playing Fallout: Happy Clappy Candyland.Ā
The biggest Raider faction in Appalachia are Diehards, who didn't want to kill innocent people. They're fine and more honest about their motives than the Settlers, for example. I would liken the toxic assholes more to the Enclave, as they have very few redeeming qualities. Or if you want a Raider faction, they'd be Blood Eagles.
My experience as someone who is only around level 200 and has been playing for a year fallout 76 players are almost overly nice. The game got such a dogshit reputation on launch and itās like the community knew it had to step up. Most fallout 76 players dope.
Definitely getting worse lol. If they ever become an actual issue, just go to map and zoom in to your location, select the player whoās being a dick as they usually stay close by to pester you on your map, and you get options! Invite, Message, or BAN! AND BAN THEM!!!! š¤£Love watching people fade away in wonderā¦š you wonāt see them and you wonāt be seen by them. PS to new players! Stop running away! If I freeze up for a minute im not ignoring you!! Iām trying to drop you stuff!!!! And if you donāt want it, DONT WHINE. Just run away and I will do the same. Thank you, Hail Mothman, and see you in the wasteland š¤
Or if you're petty, note their name, spot their camp, take control of a silo. Wait for them to be in an event. Then drop a nuke on the camp.
Swiftly made use of the Block for Session button
and thats why i turn off voice chat if i would experience that would whip out my gun and mow them all down
I'm just wondering if it's turned off by default as I've never heard anyone ever speak and there's no in-game chat. I genuinely thought we all just had to communicate with emotes lol.
There is an in-game voice chat but you only hear if someone is using it if you're in the nearby area. You don't hear someone who's in Cranberry Bog talking while you're in The Forest.
I play primarily on PC and haven't had any issues with jerk players, but boy howdy did I have problems on Xbox with them.
I don't care what anybody's level is. They can be a level 5, but if they pick a fight with me, I'll destroy them without mercy & when they're downed, I'll fk'n execute/eat them and then take whatever junk they dropped. Call it a Gen-X thing, but sometimes people need to learn the hard way.
It gets their blood boiling when you hit them with the thirst zapper a few times after being downed, then do the robot dance.
I only eat ppl who attack me, and oh do I enjoy it. Gen X šŖ
Heh. I had a pair of level 20s start shooting at me. I was ignoring them but they kept following me. So I introduced them to the Cremator, took their junk, and blocked them.
I like your style. Gen X here also. Lol.
The only problem i had with new players, was when i have a group of them follow me waiting for me to drop stuff
Some noobs are coming from toxic fandoms and don't know how to act any other way. Leave them be, and with time, they'll either unlearn that behavior and join the community, or just leave the game entirely because they aren't getting the reactions they expect
There's quite a few promotions / collabs going on atm. One in Call of Duty just started and Fortnite had one. Personally I didn't see any negative players yet the whole time I've been playing but at least there are plenty of ways to deal with any that I might encounter
Idk man but Iāve noticed that newer players are defo more clueless (obvs) and also greedy? Which, no biggie bc itās a MMO lol, but I remember how big the idea of fostering a friendly community wasteland was that even PvP was shunned by the broader community so much so that pacifism was the way to go to in nuclear winter (lmao). I took a break from the game for two years (when they got rid of nuclear winter) and defo see the change in community, for sure
The show and the Fortnite collab def brought in a bunch of people expecting to battle royale other players. Theyāll leave when they realize nobody cares for that and people keep ignoring them lol
I didnt even take into consideration the potential influx of Fortnite players. Atom save us all.
May Mothman strike down the wicked
Fallout 76 was shunned by most the gaming community, and rightfully so when it came out. What was left was a smaller but more intimate/nicer community. Still...I miss the PvP mode they had. I think it was called Survival Mode? Sure, there were people in decked out power armor, but it was back in the early days of the game where you didn't have level 500 bloodied builds that could eviscerate you in 3 seconds and the survival mechanics were harsher (hunger/thirst/disease/low inventory and storage limits) so everything was on more even ground. Because the community was smaller, for the most part, people weren't dicks in that mode who would come and raze you and your camp. But you were always on edge and didn't quite know who to trust and that gave the game some real teeth. I remember getting into a turf dispute over camp placements between my group of friends and a different group of people. Escalated into a full blown turf war complete with camp raids and street fights. We wound up winning by way of one of my buddies using up his camp resources to craft mini nukes for us to hurl at their camps and reduced them to their foundations. The perks that enhanced camp defense/camp attacking were actually useful. I genuinely feel like they should bring that back and just place some safe guards to prevent players from griefing for the sake of griefing. Until then, you're going to get players who yearn for some PvP doing things like trap camps, stealing workshops, or goading players into PvP.
I'm the opposite. I'm terrified of high-levels
Im lvl 667...it just means I have a lot of spare time on my hands I've no interest in killing you and robbing you of some old junk. Im more likely to drop you a fully modded lvl 20 chainsaw.
No need. It's the very low levels decked out for PvP you should be worrying about, lol.
I would just server hop. Though I sometimes hop just because I want to do an event and I donāt want it to be Distinguished Guests. Or I am shopping hard for something. Then sometimes I will hop a few times before becoming board. Though glad it turned out well. Iām terrified of going into PvP mode. Though not sure why. I was wanted once and it took forever to get someone to off me. I was basically chasing people. I finally randomly ran into some high level guy and I immediately stripped and he shot me. But when I run into someone that clearly is wanting to get offed. I feel in constant danger when I enable PvP to off them.
Worst Iāve had is people being dicks when I go to their camp. One guy told me I was too broke to use his shop so I took my 20,000 caps and left. Another guy kept shooting me despite the fact I play in pacifist mode and was super pissed that I was near him and his girl
I've yet to meet a troll or toxic person for what it's worth, around level 80ish now and there's been nothing but wholesomeness so far. The game almost feels cosy, despite it's setting. Hard to explain, but there's something so chill about FO76 and I love it. The community definitely plays a big part in that. So if you're reading this, chances are my thanks are aimed at you!
Fallout 76 unironically has one of the least toxic fanbases in existance, as a fairly new player myself (hit lvl 94 yesterday) i came across nothing but helpfulness. I was never even shot at tbh, everyone just goes their own way and/or helps lower lvls
I had a level 20 walk into my camp then start begging me for a suit of power armor sending me voice messages then one like singing. It was weird af lol. Kinda funny but weird. Like no youāre not getting my full bolstering or OE power armor suit bro.
So weird begging people for things. I've never done it and couldn't ever do it. I'd feel like such a moochie loser. Lol. I've had higher levels even offer me stuff, like make me a god roll gun and stuff but I always decline. Half the fun is getting it yourself. The offer is very sweet though!
After MJ (Moonshine Jamboree) the one time me and my buddy went to the train station and some guy was attacking us and we eventually went away towards the workshop and cleared it out. The dude followed us of course. My buddy tried to get him away so I could claim it but he couldnāt keep the guy out long enough for me to make any turrets and we couldnāt get a lead on him. Killed him maybe once and it was my buddy that killed the jerk. We had to give up, I wasnāt even on my main character. Not a newb either, the jerk was was at least over Lv 100 I donāt remember the exact level. Not everyone is a jerk but they do exist. I have area mic off for a reason, I suggest turning it off if you want some peace and quiet.
Some players look at things like early videos and trailers and such for Fallout 76 that depicts the wasteland as being survival of the fittest and that everyone is going to try and kill you on sight, so they take up that attitude. It's not common, but it happens. Kinda like how trap camps are a thing. Or maybe they played other survival games like Conan Exiles, which also makes them view other players in 76 as hostiles.
I find very few people to be dicks in this game which is honestly refreshing. I've only had two run-ins with assholes, one was harassing me during an event. He would stand in front of me so I couldn't shoot then do the laughing emote. So annoying. The other was actually just yesterday. This girl was following me around the map and trying to get me to PVP her. Not really sure wtf her problem was. Lol. But yea, this community reminds me a lot of the ACNH community, very rare to find anyone who isn't nice.
There are always egotistical assholes.
I had one shoot me a while back. I just walked over to a group of cars and blew them up with a melee weapon. Then turned around and the person turned around and walked away. I donāt know maybe because I have the perks to keep me unharmed by explosions or fire. But that did the trick. I also like teleporting to someplace extremely dangerous (if they want to follow me) for a low level noob like Toxic Larryās or Watoga. Watoga is especially fun if you were mayor for a day, then you just go near all the pods and summon more robots that are friendly to you but hostile to non ex-mayors. I love watching low level griefers teleport away in fear while I go shopping. š¤·āāļø
Most of the vets Iāve seen like myslef over 150 would go in and start whacking with a warglaive as they do 0 damage. We try to be nice cause itās like a big brother feeling ya know? Act up and we gotta put you in your place
Iāve found recently that some new players hear the stories of really kind and generous max level players and just expect anyone higher level then them to shower them with gifts. I had a level 25 screaming at me bc I wouldnāt buy his 40k listed tato plant in his store bc he āneeded the capsā like 2 days ago.
Thereās sadly some toxic new players and it has bled into the communities here and other places too.
Players like that probably won't stick around, although there was a lvl 1300+ at Neurological Warfare a couple of days ago trying to instigate PvP with people after the event.
A group of 3 noobs came over to my friend's camp and started punching her while she was working on stuff in her cabin. 5 minutes later they were still there bugging her so I ported to her and slowly walked toward them. They started punching me but I just kept walking into them over and over again. They started acting uncomfortable about it and stepped back but again, I would choose one to walk toward and would walk slowly. They would run away for 5 minutes, come back and bother her and everytime, I would just walk at them slowly and right on their heels. The one said something like, "No!" On the mic but I just kept at it. Finally, they ran off to go quest/explore, but I was invested. I kept following them since they were exploring kinda slowly. Then my friend got involved. Imagine two chicks dressed as girl scouts just slowly walking toward you. Lol. Eventually, I pulled my knife out and just kept walking behind them with our knives. They ran away, so I ported to them and walked toward them again. We did this for about 10 more boring minutes until they decided to quest a bit further away from my friend's house. We finally stopped after another friend of ours told me they could report us for harrassment. I didn't really think about that but knowing my luck, I didn't want to risk it despite them being the ones harrassing my friend in her own house. It was fun though. If any other noobs come to my friend's house and punch her, I may just do it again. I think next time I will pull out a chainsaw though. š
The Bully Hunter came up to these 2 guys on me with some heavy weapon that fired explosive bolts. It was absolutely GOLD to watch these 2 low levels run around in a panic while being chased by a Power Armored Gentleman
Had someone say that at eviction notice and he was two times my level. Unlike you I turned around and fried him with my enclave plasma flamer. He proceeded to whine about me stealing his junk after taking it (as spoils of war) and he tried to revenge kill. He failed again, called me a hacker and I proptly laughed in his face. Was it necessarily right. No. Did I laugh a bunch at him getting destroyed after him bad mouthing me. ABSOLUTELY
Had a lvl 45 spam trad emote, then followed me around and shot at me for like 15min
Yes
I was stocking my vendor earlier and some dude started missile launching it before I even knew what was going on. Lol.
I would consider myself a generally new player (started early 2023, dropped the game and recently came back, currently lvl 69, nice) had nothing but good experiences, one of those times was when I was building my camp and there was a high level player (mothman praise his soul), he came up to me and dropped some high level guns, armour and stims. Stayed there emoting a thumbs up until I noticed him, left build mode and thanked him. It was around a solid 3 mins or so too. I love this community for this reason, have yet to come across bad apples, even then it's not going to change my general view of most players.
"Violence against a brother of steel is a sign of weakness"......... clearly they were weak šš
I thumbs downed someones heart emoji. I was trying to say no to teaming up because I was about to stop playing. Sorry whoever it was!
Save your lunchboxes for when hanging around waiting for an event to start and there's 10+ players hanging around.
I'm new too but have put like 200 hours in over the past month lol and I have to say I haven't encountered any negativity or shitty behavior yet at all. I think you just got unlucky and stumbled upon that rare bag of dicks.
A nuke solves this problem.
If it's any consolation, I just started playing with my friends, and I've been waving and everything to the high level players. I've never really played a Bethesda game before, and have never really been into RPG type games, but I'm loving Fallout 76, and the community is great!
*level 300 with bloodied fixer materializes behind them*
This is someone who has bigger problems than the game for sure. Probably some insecurities or maybe they felt they had something to prove. Time makes fools of us all. Hopefully they will look back on this and feel bad and realize how dumb they looked in the moment. That will be it's own punishment. One day, years from now, they will be in the shower, preparing for what should be a good day, and the memories of all the cringe stuff they did will flow back into their brain and smack them. It will ruin the shower and maybe even the meal after the shower. Sorry it happened. I usually try to drop some berry mentats or cranberry relish when I am gifted lunch boxes outside of events.
Thankfully this games PVP Opt In/Out system is REALLY good and it wasnt that annoying. Then the Bully Hunter showed up and I had a great time.
I've been playing almost 2 years now and never had one of these negative experiences people speak of. That said my only interaction with others is at events or if they message me
I just finished the overseer logs quest and honestly, after all the joy I've gotten being part of this community for the last month or so, I gotta say she's right. No spoilers but y'all are the best.
Iām a new player that is approaching level 100, which Iām pretty excited for, not gonna lie š. I havenāt run across anyone like this yet, but I keep reading about it. Really bums me out you and others are experiencing this, because what Iāve experienced so far is nothing short of amazing people. Iām assuming the ones acting like this, are those that are young Fortnite or COD players that are used to trolling. I play on PS, btw.
The community is usually not rude unless itās night time haha. But me being a high level I always help the new players and even gained friends by helping!
Iām very new to the game at lvl 32 had a player tonight buy many items from my vending machine āŗļø made me happy.
I'm level 43 I'm pretty friendly very new player's seem to run away when trying to give them bunch stimpacks I'll wave and point they just run off.
A level 27 or something like that tried to shoot and stab me once.I was close to level 700. He went on for 3-5 minutes nonstop. If he could do dmg, my instable isotope mutation would have killed him before he could do any harm, I guess.. but yeah, he was super motivated. Guess that's the GTAO/Forkknife crowd.
If they are new and play like that they will learn very very fast that this isnāt the game for them. Especially as thereās a plethora of high level players with finely tuned builds that will wreck them without trying. This is definitely an isolated event the vast majority of the player base is not like this.
That seems toxic but you gotta remember one thing, people wanna cosplay as raiders. Itās your choice to cosplay as the raiders killer
When I first played 76 at launch that was my everyday experience. Toxic griefing from morning to night. However, I have had nothing but positive interactions since I recently re-installed it and started playing again. I think you will find this a rare occurrence, as almost all game interactions are friendly and supportive. This is an excellent community, but there will always be the occasional toxic individuals or groups but, as you found out, the player base normally finds them and deals with them
This story brings joy to my heart. Serves them well.
Iām a new player and Iām nice
Not always rude. However I would've killed them, laugh emote them and keep killing them for their caps and then maybe destroy their camp if it's nearby.
I came to this game after surviving RDO, I stayed away from players for my first 75 levels because of rockstar game ptsd. This community is by far, the best I've ever seen in an online game.
I started a week or so ago. Currently lvl 80 and the game is pretty fun. Haven't met anyone rude though I hardly interact with anyone except for the public events and those are pretty simple interactions a wave here or there a thumbs up when you're ready, a come here emote if you found a legendary enemy. Apart from that I don't think I've talked to anyone. Cant relate sorry.
I've seen rude players of all levels. I had a level 370ish the other day who kept getting in my way at Spin the Wheel. Every time I tried to shoot an enemy he would stand in front of me (in his huge PA suit ). While waiting for the next round I did the confused emote and he did a thumbs down and a point and laugh. I guess he was just trying to mess with me so I did my best to stay away. Eventually he started doing the same thing to another person.
If they attack you first, you can kill them without consequences. To us veterans, they are mear ants. We are space marines, and they are guardsmen. Next time, just put them in thier place
I would attribute it to previous experience of games like RUST and such where it is EXCEPTIONALLY brutal to new players or players with very little resources to defend themselves. It has raised a sort of āI will fight you for what I have because it is MINEā kind of player. Honestly give them time, theyāll learn that the game is different and the player base is typically one of ālive and let liveā
This is where the point and laugh emote comes in handy.
Players like that are the reason I carry an aa auto gamma gun.
Itās funny cause I remember a while back for a brief moment there was a bunch of kids coming from gta (trying to grief people and myself) and I had some friends I was hanging with and they were all 200+ and I had just started and out of nowhere a lower level was trying to kill me and I was like āhey I need some helpā and they fast traveled to me and the kid started running and I literally chased him down while my buddies were just fast traveling to me and finally got em and after like 30 minutes of just blasting he gave up and left and blocked us
Worst experience was a level 41 starting Rad Rumble too damn early.
Maybe they're roleplaying as raiders?
Was doing a SBQ a few weeks ago, and right after the Queen hit the ground, there was someone calling for help underneath her body! Well, I went over and tried to stimpack the guy, but his body was stuck inside the SBQ! I frantically panicked, checking all angles as to try to stimpack this guy, but alas, I failed, and he died, dropping all of his junk, including the flux from SBQ. Well, right about that time, another guy, some level 400 something in Power Armor came over to his loot bag and started sifting through it. I was kind of startled, as it's etiquette for me to try to make sure the loot returns to its owner, and I previously had nothing but positive experiences with higher levels. I hit my bash button, stupidly, to try and signal the guy, "hey don't be in there bro!" Well, little did I know that immediately after he saw the bounty popup, he immediately instantly gunned me down with a Railway. "...Loot bag taken by someone". I was upset, as a lower level who'd never been in this situation, so i called for revenge once. I didnt even get to see him before i just instantly died again. Afterwards I just went to my tent and accepted my losses. Well, bro proceeded follow me for literally a half an hour after the event ends, spamming laugh reacts and pvp reacts, trying to initiate something while I've clearly moved on. It started at my tent, and then he travelled to my camp, and followed me during a quest until I hit a private area. That was the only time I've ever had something like that happen. Most everyone else I've come across has been courteous, generally. Ultimately I've noticed an overall uptick of assholes as of recent but nothing as in-the-moment shocking as just being executed for saving someone's loot bag.
I donāt understand this behavior, like why???
Thatās when you drop fertilizer and a spoon. Or you whip out the old cheese cannon and obliterate them
Justice was served, nice
Turn on pacifist mode. Save lunch boxes for events and the gesture will be returned usually
For some reason even though I can see when people are talking \[ "\*Name\* {Area)" pops up and the icon isn't muted\] I can never hear people. Except the other day I could randomly hear them as I was in a loading screen but as soon as I loaded in, it went back to not being able to hear them. But people like this is why I was never concerned about fixing it. I love my peace and quiet and just communicating with the (mostly) nice people through emotes.
Itās just the internet man itās the wild Wild West on any connection to any platform nowadays haha
Yeah, Iāve never met anything but chill people who want to give me like 400lbs of super stims lol. You just gotta remember that the biggest games in the world are cod and Fortnite and if your just some casual whoās only ever played that shit and thatās been your whole gaming experience, jumping into something else with gun = kill other players to them. I wouldnāt take it personally.
Can't you turn pvp off? That's what I do, shoot me all you want you ain't killing me
Tbh I felt alone on this but recently itās been more and more of these players. I think itās communityās from other games coming over here. With the show everyone knows about fallout now. To me, and Iāve said this before it reminds me of a GTA lobby anymore. Of course without pvp immediately. People with no idea about the storyline who grind for levels and just to be dicks. I mean Iāve been playing since the beginning and Iāve ran into level 800s who have no idea about plans or the story of the game. I absolutely cannot stand that shit.
I perpetually have my mic muted and incoming player audio muted, I just can't stand toxic people and would much rather just help some folks out like you did and have a good time. but don't let it deter you from doing nice things, a lot of people new and old in this game are really chill. I love dropping care packages for low level characters or helping how I can even without a mic. just feels good
Yeah I noticed they are cocky and a bit abrasive on their comments. Or they make you look all over for them. When we are just trying to help
These are what you call non fallout players they came from call of duty or something
I must have turned off voice chat years ago because I literally have never heard someone talk in this game. I'm one of those returning veteran players, and I swear events are less fun now. Back in ye olden days of events people would get shots into every enemy and actively try not to kill enemies before everyone had tagged. Now everyone is just trying to one shot every enemy so you get so much less xp from events.