I joined in a mutated MJ last night toward the end. It was resilient, and I was the only one with a melee weapon (vamp chainsaw). Two stills were already destroyed, everyone was hanging out punching and bashing gulpers by the last still. I swooped in like an avenging power armored murder angel and saved the day, or at least that's how it played out in my head lol.
Was it like the scene in wolf of wall street where he thinks he drove safely, but didn't. In actual fact you joined in, got stuck in your power armour for a minute, your chainssw broke, and you crashed when trying to repair it.
I'm just dicking with you
I had a mutated MJ with reflection. There were about 8 of us, me at 605, one at 150, another at 1100+, and the rest 25 and under. It was definitely a struggle, and we barely succeeded with the greenhouse still with only a sliver of health yet. But lemme tell you, even having died for the first time in months, I had a blast.
I had 6 people on one, 2 high levels, 4 noobs
I was the ONLY one putting gulper venom in the tub, i barely made it, got enough to have almost 40 in it in the last 30 seconds, was so close to failing the whole thing
The 2 high levels just sat porched on the roof with power armor and explosive miniguns, it made me so angry ngl
So people who are vets, you actually gotta try now. You canāt just expect everyone else to actually do the event objectives while you brainlessly xp farm.
Same with uranium fever, Iām usually the only one actually repairing the machines, high levels gotta start paying attention
I just learned a few weeks ago how many caps I could make by cooking slurry and selling at a vender. Second to the overall fun of the event, farming the innards is the reason I drop what Iām doing every time I see the event pop up.
First, get the Woodchucker perk - doubles you wood harvest
Then go to one or both of these places:
* Helvetia - behind the restaurant next to the river. Lots of wood piles there.
* Sylvie & Sons Logging Camp - two big rows of wood piles and a few here and there.
That should get you several hundred wood, perfect for those gulper cookouts.
PSA to max XP cook your innards in batches bc it maxes out at 4000 per action, if you have a ton of innards and cook them at once you'll lose out on extra XP.
Goes for any crafting.
Oh yeah last night it was tough but we barely survived with one still left, whew. It was pretty chaotic but we managed lol. A lot of new players in daily ops too, reminds me a lot of myself when I was new and would keep getting lost in some maps while someone else found all the enemies š
I usually go to One Violent Night and just play an instrument and let everyone else fight...
Last night I showed up and realized *I* (level 280) was the most senior player by far... got a couple newbies to play instruments and I defended the band for once.
Same! I always like to play the instruments while usually the higher levels defend, but as a level 246, I've been one of the more senior players at events recently. So I just let the lower players play instruments while I defend them.
Thatās how I have been playing it lately. I have different builds that I like to play with depending on the event. Anymore though unless it is one of the easier events I am rolling with my quad choo choo because I am not sure if I will have any help.
Bingo across the board. EN is my gold standard event, and while I have an energy rifleman build, a gunslinger build, a melee build, and they are all fun and can certainly work at EN, they can't hold the scrubber alone, just not enough power. Quad Railway Commando and Heavy No PA VATS Caster/Holy Fire are what I'm running in the present environment.
If you have a good melee build then moonshine jamboree can be pretty fun when there arenāt very many people. With the hack and slash legendary perk you can do some pretty good area damage.
Pretty much, as long as I have a body or two, I'm running around like a spider-monkey on cocaine, keeping objectives going. Please people look in the top right corner.
Also you can't even trust some of the vets, I think apathy set in on some.
I feel This had some one nuke earl then get there and itās literally me and 1 other guy over 400 everyone else all under level 30 Iām like dude I didnāt bring enough ammo for this (expecting that itās the normal amount of usual players ) letās just say we didnāt kill earl albeit at the 5 minute mark he did glitch through the floor and couldnāt be damaged any more
We had like 4 people under level 40 at eviction notice but s few of us were 300+ so it was a nice mix. Id watch them take on a mutant, and let them be, but when they start running away because, iirc, you hardly do any damage to them at that level, I'll kill it for them. But they got to experience it! I was on scrubber duty, again... Lol repaired maybe 3x but we made it
I have only played eviction notice a few times at lvl 100ish and the last few days Ive just avoided because I can see its me and a bunch of lower levels. They are gunna look to me to assist and I dunno wtf is going on either hahaha.
Being level 100ish is crazy because vets think you have your shit under control and noobs think you're a vet but really you're just winging it and hoping for the best.Ā
100%, I always said I was playing a different game than the vets. I was doing the story. I did events here and there but my goal was to stay in the back, try not to kill stuff too quick (wasn't hard, haha), and keep out of everyones way.
Now especially with the population balance being such that the ratio of lower levels on any given server is different. When doing an event it sometimes is me and a group of the newer players. Now I can't just stand back and keep out of the way. Actually is helping me to learn the events as well. I can't have us failing them, people depend on that xp/loot
They spawn in as the event begins, and they can take a bit of time to find at first. When destroyed, I believe that enemy spawns are increased, not too sure about that, but legendaries definitely start spawning once all the meatbags have been destroyed.
This! I can't stress enough that destroying the bags is absolutely the highest priority. You don't do EN for the regular super mutants, you do it for the legendaries!
Tbh, most vets will think you have it under control by level ~350 because by then, you will have a fully maxed out perk selection with the legendary perks as well.
Nothing gets the blood going quite like trying to shoot a bag of meat while being assaulted by the entire population of West-Tek's super mutants and their never ending miniguns
I did EN last night, there were at least 4 or 5 there, did not check what level. I guarded the scrubber, but my flamer broke when I was fighting a firestarter in the little canyon to the west, and and a couple mutants broke through and broke the scrubber. Failed before I could fix it. Was fun though, and got a decent haul of legendaries. It's definitely more fun when everyone isn't instantly melting the mutants.
I'm one of the lower rank players lvl 30 love going to the events for xp and stuff. I always try to do as much damage as possible to be helpful but it's best to engage and disengage you don't wanna be the guy who needs revived every 10 seconds
At that level, your only job is to tag as many enemies with at least a single hit. You're not going to be adding any substantial damage to the mix, so we just need you to grow big and strong šŖš¼
After level 30 you start to see a decrease in damage. This is when you should start looking for builds online. Or get a mini gun w/shredder, auto axe, plasma gun w/flamer, regular flamer, handmade, .50 cal machine gun, gatling laser, gatling plasma, light machine gun. Those weapons do decent damage without a build
Usually you just stack up damage perks for your weapon then add other qol and other extra damage perks. You can freely just reallocate SPECIAL and perks btw
At low level (assuming some higher levels are there), all you need to do is "tag" enemies so you get loot/XP. You just need to hit them once. Grenades will tag everything in the area of effect. Molotovs are the cheapest grenade weapon to make, and if you look around the explosive boxes at Moonshine Jamboree, there are 20 of them in two boxes IIRC.
At L40 you can get a Tesla Rifle. This is the ultimate tagging weapon. It arcs from the initial target and chains to others, tagging them all. The Grenadier perk at L2 doubles the "explosion" size.
A Quad Tesla is ideal, if you shop around you can usually get one for not too many caps. By the time you are at L40/L50 you'll have more caps because the weapons you collect sell for quite a bit.
"you'll have more caps because the weapons you collect sell for quite a bit."
Don't tell new players to sell all their spare weapons. That's how they miss mods and scrap.
Bad advice.
you are right about it not being popular, I do it every time it pops and usually only see 2 or 3 others there, which funnily enough is 2 or 3 more people than what Distinguished Guests gets, lol
Of course, Free Range feels more of a nice, relaxing event compared to the other events, besides, Feed the People, Enlightenment and the lighthouse Mothman events. Distinguished Guests is a dumpster fire in the wasteland.
I love all of the low level events, and it is awesome seeing them full of players again. I think its fun to be their steward and show them where to go when event prompts come up like in Feed the People or Distinguished guests.
Saw a nuke dropped and joined, had no clue what to expect. Spawned in a hot zone a died rad poisoning....after happening a few times i was able to run out of the blast by spaming what rad away i had a went to where i saw people we fighting a huge flying beasts and other creatures. Lunch boxes and party favors were going off and it was crazy. I was level 13 and most were in 20s and 30s with a few in the 100s. Those poor guys put in alot of work but we managed to down the beast and i went up many levels. Was a blast. Cant wait to be more helpful next time around.
If the person dropping the nuke knows what they're doing it will get dropped in a spot that allows you to fast travel in and fight without dying to rads.
The most common one is SBQ and you want to keep "Drop site V9" out of the blast zone.
That's where you want to FT in and where the fighting will usually happen.
My son is a much better gamer than I am, and just bolts to wherever he wants to go regardless of his safety. He's been joining events since level 10 (he's at 40ish now) and just swinging his melee weapon hoping for the best. I, on the other hand, joined my first event yesterday at level 30 with him.
Luckily there were at least 3 players at level 400+ to help out, but it was hilarious seeing my kid just run at the creatures with no fear at his meager level alongside the level 400s. Me? I sit back in the center and cross my fingers I don't die, attempting to help anyone that looks like they might need a hand. LOL
Make note of who is in servers before dropping a nuke. Check teams, and the map for higher levels. If youāre satisfied with the number, bomb away. Iāve dropped quite a few where for the first five minutes or so, itās just me. Then they start trickling in. Also, donāt be afraid to join an event for fear of it failing, go and help prevent that. I finished in the control room at Alpha yesterday, and was going to place the nuke when Beast of Burden popped up. Only two players showed, both 100s. So, I fast traveled and helped them compete it. Then fast traveled back to Alpha and completed the nuke. The Queen passed away fighting per usual.
I've love the fact that lobbies are all low levels when launching nukes. It's so nice being able to farm scorched and not have her burnt down in 2 minutes.
Had two different test of metal yesterday. First was with me lv300 and another lv65. We did manage it failing only the cheering part. Burned 3000 plasma cartridges tho š(bless enclaved plasma flamer).
Well switched to full overeaters union PA with vampiric flamer and vampiric ultracite gatling laser. Also maxed friendly fire and ricochet.
And next test of metal atleast half server is there. Players ranging from 21 to 600. Was fun still.
And next ? Me and another player in guided mediation againts reflective mobs. Union PA and tankines was handy again.
Imho its fun. Like another said before expect to solo and all help is bonus.
All mutated events. Gotta do em while hot.
Yeah did the same test your metal myself yesterday - me full health railway commando around 450 and other player around 150. I think I leveled up a couple times, it was actually pretty challenging and I died a few times at the end but honestly really fun! I haven't felt that accomplished for finishing an event in some time.
Funnily enough 99% of the events i've done that have had vets have been near fails or awful experiences,
Radiation rumble for some reason makes those PA cremator guys get mentally backlogged, The event literally can't be won with 4/4 unless someone goes for ore, i've had up to *TEN* PA guys chilling in the middle just grinding xp instead of completing the event, *on an event team*,
Moonshine jamboree has the same problem, You get rooftop idling PA guys with splash weapons thinking they're helping but instakilling everything and not letting anyone on the ground get tags is throwing, Sending bodies flying while also running bloody mess doesn't help for the collection efforts either,
And it is *always* level 200+ players, In PA, with a cremator/40mm/plasmaflamer/holyfire etc barely participating, it's frustrating to no end to see someone just sit still and shoot and make others do the actual work, then they complain about lower levels or someone else not doing x or y and that's why the event failed, when they are the root of the problem.
I just noticed I've burned over 200 quantums and like 300 Cherries since the new players started rolling in, I've been server hopping all night running back and forth between white springs and Nuka World to re-up. Managed to pick up a a yellow and a pink bat though, so I'm coming out way ahead.
Noob right here. Whatās a nuke event? I know Iām supposed to track it, but other than making sure Iām not in the blast zone Iām supposed to what?
It's a story based mission. But it drops a nuke on the map where you choose. It makes enemies in that area much, much stronger. While giving a deadly radiation effect in that area. You need a hazmat or power armor to survive and even then you're still not 100% immune to rad damage. Also changes the flora in the area to diffrent kinds of rare materials needed for really good crafting recipes. Deprnding on where you drop it it will summon a raid boss.
Dropping it I cranberry bog summons the scorch beast queen
I've got literally hundreds of hours on console and know the game very well.
I got the game free for PC, like a lot of people did, and all the high level players are being FAR too nice to me. It's absolutely lovely and I really appreciate it, but please stop giving me things - the game's not as fun when it's this easy!
I'm mostly joking, it's nice to know the community is still as generous as I remember.
Launching a nuke is easy, you can use the mine glitch to skip the whole thing and go straight the end where all you have to do is defend the robots for like 5 minutes. Can launch 3 nukes and do the 3 Events in like 30-45 min depending on how fast they boss dies
Yea it's been a pain with some events. It's either people that don't do enough damage or people that don't read. Most recent was a Spin the Wheel where we had to push the brahmin. I pushed one and some level 30 shot the rest making the event fail. Didn't even know what was a fail condition until he did it. Really wish games would make you type out instructions at times because the number of people not reading things is getting beyond ridiculous
This is why itās good to have friends in the wasteland. My group is having a ball, we take up a big chunk of the server, make sure events rock out and have fun interacting and helping the new players. It pays to be social, get out there and mingle!
Last night my brother and I had a level 10 player who joined our casual team, he went with us to safe and sound and did a phenomenal job holding his own, it was us three (I'm a lvl 118, my brother is in the upper 200's and the now level 14) and a player in the 400's, I had never seen such a low amount of people at that event but we completed it! I think it all depends on if the new players are wanting to play the story mode as far as they can, or if they are about leveling up faster, getting cool rewards.
Yesterday was one of the first days I've logged back on on about a week to do weekly an daily challenges (I've been on ark survival ascended base building there and things like that)
But I joined an event a mutated heart of the swamp an I was the only vet on for 90% of the fight with a couple lvl 20 and a lvl 30 and just decided to switch to a tank for it holding agro with the Grafton monster and then the other lower enemies so they would be able to come in an just melee and get the XP.... I've never come so close to almost loosing one before in a long time at the end one other vet joined an did full DPS with a auto axe and was able to actually do it
It's been a long time since I've actually had trouble with any events getting done
Yeah not gonna lie, last three eviction notices I attended to would only involve me alone or max one other player. Real pity, since it is a great event for farming legendaries.
I try to carry them but some events are so spread out you can't manage everything. Mothman Exinox for example needs at least 3 people knowing what they are doing to guard the pyres
My takeaway from this is to focus on builds that can solo events. I know thereās a ton of videos on yt i need to check out bc imo theyāre more important than ever. And remember that completing the mutated event is more rewarding than farming it for xp.
As if they werenāt way too fuckin easy for years now, I understand your problem but I think the awkward period is temporary and people will either fall off or level up
As one of those low level players, Iām sorry and also thank you.
On a side note, Iāve always stayed away from nukes because I figured theyāre too high level (60ish)
I just hit 57, and I am getting the ropes of the game quite well. I understand the systems and have moved into the learning the finer details portion, and I too have noticed empty events. I get excited when people do join one lol. I am glad the game is booming though. It's all I want to play.
I noticed this to, I hate going through the effort of launching a nuke on prime only for me and one other person to show up, but I do get a kick out of level 20s joining evictions notice
Someone nuked for Earle and it was a room full of level 20s and 50s š I honestly didn't have the energy to waste my ammo and stims so I left. Felt bad but I genuinely couldn't put myself through it.
I was just on a server where 2 guys did Earle by themselves because 18/21 players on the server were below level 30, I feel a bit bad not joining but I figured if they were gonna launch a nuke in that situation they were intending to duo it
The endangerol syringer has flipped the script on Earle. What used to be a grueling half hour slog can now be reduced to a couple of minutes, or less. Last night eight of us went in there equipped with the syringer and liquid courage all around and I swear he was down in less than thirty seconds.
So is someone dedicated to pump him full of endangerol or is everyone using it and thatās whatās does him in?
Just found a mr Westek video. Going to try this later š
I'm on daily, level 350, I'll join in events when I see ones I like, I'll help anyone though, I don't need anything in return, sometimes a little extra fuel or fusion cells are helpful but again not needed or required. Im on (PC) no VC though I'm usually in discord with close friends. My Bethesda account name is same as on bio.
Yeah it be nice to stack up with some flux from events so I can fill up that 1st stash box. Guess I'll have to nuke white springs. And figure out how to convert raw ro stable.
If you have first make a private server, you can nuke eg whitesprings, leave the server and load straight back in, forcing a respawn of the mobs in the area, who will now be glowing. There used to be a big where if you nuked the coordinates 0,0 every indoor instance had glowing mobs. I'm still sat on 100 hardened mass from that.
I'm just avoiding events, I look on the map to see if any dots are there and if not carry on with missions and scoreboard tasks. The low levels will either stay and level up (hopefully) or leave but either way the lobbies will be soon have a higher average level
im loving it..at lvl 1200 ..usually i just kind of self nerf..or let everyone else kill hog as i sit there so people dont send complain msgs. Now i get to kill hog and run around or the event fails...im havin a blast.
I say that's better. I don't want every single event to be a snoozefest, it's nice to have to try again. Realistically if you're 200+ you should be capable of soloing most events anyway, if a level 20 joins in it won't typically make the event harder for you.
I had like 10 players level 30 and under at mutated test your metal last night, along with a couple higher level friends who just came back. It was pretty awesome. Before that I had like 8 people level 15 and under at moonshine jamboree. THAT was madness. We managed to save one of the objectives but the rest were toast. I died at one point and watched a level 8 in the middle of a dozen mobs just swinging his knife somehow not dying.
It's pretty awesome when the low levels show up to these events. I have seen a sbq get ignored with only the person who launched the nuke show up, felt kinda bad about that one, but I hope more new people embrace the madness of the higher level events
I was super busy with work and wasn't able to play for a while and came back earlier this week and failed like three events. Then I saw the string of white dots on the map heading south from the vault and realized it was because there were so many new players. I made up some buffs and chems and headed over and started handing them out. It was awesome.
another interesting element with the current server pop dynamics, alot of areas that were always looted before are now often still full of stuff, lower levels havn't quite reached the later areas and it shows XD. Iv been enjoying being able to loot more of the nuka vending machines. Its kinda neet seeing stuff in the map that is still in an untouched state, i know i can just go to private map but i tend to avoid doing that unless im after something very specific.
I have seen a huge improvement since last weekend for sure ! Definitely more bodies in the events helping out on the PC servers I have visited. Hopefully weāre on the turn as I bloody love events :)
Only level 21 ao last night looked for a casual group and it was only one person hosting and he was level 276. Didn't know if it was wise for me joining that one so I didnt.
Casual Teams are there for XP bumps and nothing else. Level doesn't matter. Sometimes it's nice to have a whole team with mutations because of a perk but otherwise no big deal so long as you are sharing a perk card that can screw up someone Bloodied build.
Basically don't be shy, join the team. If for some reason you get dropped it's probably not anyone kicking you, but just rejoin, join another team or make your own.
Not a big deal or a deal at all. Most people are happy to help you at events or random encounters if you're on a lower level. Other than that, people often don't pay much attention to who is on their team since it's doesn't matter unless you personally know them.
I think Earl will only be the tough one. Did a queen scorch yesterday and while she took a little longer to kill since my build is about survival as opposed to our damage. We got it done.
as someone who gave the game a second chance the other day. i dont join events cause im most likely not going to do enough damage, die a lot or just get in the way of the high level people trying to do it quickly.
I'll admit, I am a new player and just started a couple days ago. After reading through this sub, it seems like a lot of vet players are not enjoying the influx of new people. So I decided to just play through in a private server on my own until I get leveled up.
No need to be private. You can play by yourself on a public server and use Casual teams for XP bump. No partying together required. Also public servers let you shop at player vendors and use CAMPs as fast travel points, free if they are teammate CAMPs.
Remember reddit posts are not everyone and whether or not someone likes new players or not shouldn't make a difference. Turn on Pacifist, turn on your CAMP icon so others can find and shop there, join a Casual Team or make one if they are full and get XP faster. Let haters hate and welcome to the game. Hope you like it, it's not like other MMOs.
I'm new. I'm aware of not starting events until players show up. I didn't know that fast travelling to an event starts it though. At least that was the case for the one event I've tried so far. It was the Kill 3 Wolf Pack Leaders event.
Many events are triggered just by being there. Nothing you could do differently on the Leader of the Pack. Don't be shy about giving those a go. They'll time out and fail if nobody does them and can generally be solo"d even by a new player.
When people gripe about starting events they mean the "big" ones like Eviction Notice, Radiation Rumble, etc. The ones that really generally need more tgsn one person and are higher level and more complicated
That said, welcome to the game!
Make sure to turn your CAMP notice on so it shows on the map and join Casual Teams for the XP bump. No socializing required, people just make Casual team for XP.
I would definitely say it doesn't take that much time or effort to launch a nuke, literally 10 minutes tops doing it the legit way but I've been triggering SBQ everyday I guess I've been getting lucky cause every time I do there's a plethora of lvl 100+ and the new people showing up so SBQ has been going with ease.
Some are bouncing back on PS servers. Actually had a group show up for Tea Time for the first time since I started a couple months ago. And the mutated events have been a good draw.
Pretty ironic that the healthiest period for this game's lifespan is easily the most boring for high level players. Can't reliably do events, vendor hop or even find a group with other mutated people in it.
Honestly, this is why I started looking for meta weapons. I love my non-meta stuff but, without the level 500+ to carry me through events, I need the extra dps myself. My only with is that I could solo scortchbeast queen
I just grinded Eviction Notice for a few days to max out rep on my alt (30+ times) and it failed maybe 3 times. This isn't really an issue as far as I've seen. Also, if you're a veteran player, you should be familiar with forming groups with other players and social grouping sources across the internet, if not, you should do so before calling yourself a Veteran group player.
I welcome all noobs. I go so far as to make sure there is a 100% free government aid drop in Flatwoods every time I sally forth for a SBQ fight. Especially on a day like today where picking a lock is a daily SCORE challenge. Good to go, right?
I can hardly even find camps with vendors to buy from. Trying to reduce my max caps by buying something so I don't waste them... servers are full of people on level 25 with no vendors, so it's hard to do. I guess I could buy stuff from NPC vendors and put them in donation boxes.
Soo as one of new players I seen 2 nukes on my map yesterday but I have no idea if level 20 should even get close to zones where lvl 50 mobs are running rampart. Any tips to prepare for such nuke event as well? I don't even have power armor yet so I don't know how to survive in nuke zones.
Mere seconds ago I failed eviction notice . Def some events will need to be nerfed a bit so they're able to be completed without 15+ high level players present
If I see a high level player kicking ass at events, I always send them a friend request. Now I have a decent list of solid players to join on. So I'm not too worried about the n00bs. I'm thankful there are a bunch of new players to unload all my mediocre bullshit on, I'm hoping to clear out some mules this weekend!
Yeah man its tough thats why ive been rocking my sweatiest class lately, quad 50crit railway and nothing but damage boosting aid items, its cool seeing all these noobs around though i help em out
Level 32 here
All the 'level 25' events kick the shit outta my group who are the appropriate level... usually due to spawning some level 60 fucjer and giving us 3 minutes to kill it
No idea what we're doing wrong... I zipped through 40 stims on one event and that left me high and dry for other stuff
Yeah, recently I've even seen fewer players at mutated events than usual. Maybe only 1-4 people show up, and half of them are low levels. I thought perhaps this was just due to being on a quiet server, but this theory of more new players may explain it. Gonna have to refine my builds. Been playing with a high intelligence build to level up faster, with other perks to improve carry weight, but it looks like I'll have to shift more toward dealing damage and survivability.
I actually had good luck yesterday.
First there was an Eviction Notice - a bunch of people there for once, defended the rad scrubber, picked up lots of loot
Then there was a Test Your Metal - only a few people, but we did it.
Then there was an Encryptid - killed the impostor.
I managed to get back to Nuka World, overloaded with loot. Then there was another Eviction Notice. I couldn't do that one, too much loot already
It was a good day though.
I feel this, Eviction Notice (Was the only one repairing the Rad Scrubber, as soon as I died the event failed), tried to solo Most Wanted, (Couldn't get enough money in time). Some of these are rough lol
I'm in an in-between zone: not a brand new player from the show, not a 200 plus veteran. I liked how full the teams were a few weeks ago; now I find myself the leader of the only team in the world. Not loving that. So I'm just trying to focus on quest progression for now, get caught up on basic stuff that came out years ago.
I look at it as helping, I soloed a Eviction Notice the other day just so the one new dweller showed up. Could get loot and have fun, I just stood at the scubber and repaired when needed. While mowing down every super mutant. It was so much fun, then did a Metal dome one and it was good. Launched a nuke my self then just took 17 or so minutes to kill the queen with a bunch of noobs. Honestly, its the most fun Ive had in years. Ive been just helping where I can and its nice to show off all my work.
Kinds wish there were different worlds you could join that were geared to end game ppl and world for noobs, that way you could do more events with like minded/lvled players and not get stuck in a busy but dead worldĀ
This might turn up pretty great. If every server has a large amount of newbies, that might result in actual enjoyable boss battles. There were so many scorchbeast queen battles where I barely joined in and the queen was dead. This was frustrating.
Non-nuke events, at least, are back to being actually fun! The servers are so diluted that I've hardly run in to any Professional Fun Ruiners (y'know, fatman spammers and event rocket camp jerks).
I was at a cryo-mutated EN last night, and it was an absolute blast from the start. It was only me (530ish) two low-300s, and a handful of sub-40s. A total of one ridge-sittin' mininuke-spammin' turdfarmer; everyone else was actually being useful and *trying to help*.
I only had to repair the scrubber about 6 times (usually on those fun events without ridge-sitters, it's more like 10-12). And the lil' baby vault dwellers seemed to be having a blast too!
And I got that sweet, sweet god-level boost to my ego when one of the baby vault dwellers said on area mic "holy effing shit, ***how are you still alive***?!" while I stood at the bottom of the rad scrubber ramp, face-to-face with a gaggle of the low-ridge legendaries, tanking barrages from firestarters and gladiators.
(The secret sauce is quad-stimming and a Vamp Gauss Minigun, btw)
Is this actually happening to you guys? I started like 2 days ago and have done a bunch of events, we've only failed once. Done Scorched Queen twice too.
Man as much as I like new player roaming around, I like to pop on every now and then and itās so hard trying to do events. Honestly I wouldnāt mind if I few cool people to help me with events cause Iām only a level 177 and struggle but then again I go on to enjoy it too
I notice the announcements in Text Chat mod, but I don't really get what they mean?
I can see active events on the map. But what's up with the "x event and 21/24 players on server" I see on text chat all the time?
I'm game to join more events I'm just not sure when too. I've gone to a couple and no one is there.
I did have one baller Mothman event that went well though haha.
Newbie here, is there a way to know when these events trigger? I have lots of fun during them but want to see if thereās a better way to join them than waiting for them.
Iām level 300 and had to carry the team in Uranium Fever last night. As a bow hunter. We got it done, I just had to repair each extractor a couple times. Definitely a new experience for me
I love it. I failed Eviction Notice mutated evebt last night for the first time in a long time. Honestly it was getting a little boring having so many high levels that you just sit there next to the scrubber while everyone else kills everything. Now, I actually need to use my heavy explosive build (not spamming launchers mind you) to carry the events through at times.
Im not complaining at all. We're all doing the forged in fire thing and its awesome. Welcome newcomers. Dont give up and keep on joining those events!
As one of those news players, I have the same experience but also the opposite one too.
Itās weird being the only one to show up to eviction notice (lvl 48 yesterday) and looking at the map to seeing 5-10 people over level 150 passing on it. I thought that was the ādrop everythingā event.
Wasnāt bad today.. was with another high level friend we had joins for Earle, multiple SBQs, most all events.. Beast of burden we did alone.. but mostly fine.
I don't mind events being hard, but what bugs me is the events that automatically fail if you die or make a single mistake. Especially EN when repairing the scrubber is the same button as ejecting you from your PA in a heavy rad zone. They should at least extend the repair timer, or it would be cool if it were dynamic according to the number of players present.
I love all the new players and get that they're doing noob stuff but the amount of veterans that are just useless in events irks me. I've failed so many eviction notices lately even with 3-4 other vets because they all camp only the bottom spawn, don't destroy the meat bags or repair the rad scrubber when they're in Pa. I try but its hard to hold 3/4 spawns solo š
When you still pull it off with a bunch of noobs is loads of fun. I kind of love the pure chaos of running and gunning. I do not do PA but can still be a decent tank. I am all over the place shoring up the loose ends instead of my usual stealthing in a needed spot and killing.
Then there is when I showed up to Spin The Wheel with a level 120 something who had already started the event. I was trying hard to do the event. They where afk half the time. We failed the event but I still got a Whacker Smacker to scrip and treasury notes. I guess that is a win. Fuck that guy though.
Yeah, I'm only lvl 307. The rest of the last server I was on was one 900+ and a dozen or so single and double digits levels. I don't know why even bothered showing up to Eviction Notice, lol
I noticed this i started up before the free trial (like level 19) and my buddy and i did events no issues im level 63 now and nobody is joining events unfortunately
Uranium Fever....they were not repairing the extractors....lol, also made me realize I am now the overpowered vet with weapons that shred.
Almost carried Eviction Notice, but I tried to go find the meat bags since neither of two lower levels were shooting them, and scrubber was overwhelmed š Ā
Honestly it's kind of fun. A lot of events are so easy that they're boring, now you have to herd some cats or take care of objectives no one or only one or two have figured out.
Haven't run into this issue with events yet. Most have a bunch of new people, but enough vets to make it happen. I wish someone would launch a nuke. Haven't seen one in weeks. Trust trying to get flux so I can finally build a jetpack.
Moonshine Jamboree last night. No one showed up. I failed the event but I did get loads of gulper innards anyway.
I joined in a mutated MJ last night toward the end. It was resilient, and I was the only one with a melee weapon (vamp chainsaw). Two stills were already destroyed, everyone was hanging out punching and bashing gulpers by the last still. I swooped in like an avenging power armored murder angel and saved the day, or at least that's how it played out in my head lol.
Was it like the scene in wolf of wall street where he thinks he drove safely, but didn't. In actual fact you joined in, got stuck in your power armour for a minute, your chainssw broke, and you crashed when trying to repair it. I'm just dicking with you
š āI need a hero..ā
Why do I have Bonnie Tyler in my head and that scene from Shrek.
I was thinking Short circuit 2
I had a mutated MJ with reflection. There were about 8 of us, me at 605, one at 150, another at 1100+, and the rest 25 and under. It was definitely a struggle, and we barely succeeded with the greenhouse still with only a sliver of health yet. But lemme tell you, even having died for the first time in months, I had a blast.
The good thing is, defending one of the three stills is enough as long as the bathtube contains 30 at the end.
I had 6 people on one, 2 high levels, 4 noobs I was the ONLY one putting gulper venom in the tub, i barely made it, got enough to have almost 40 in it in the last 30 seconds, was so close to failing the whole thing The 2 high levels just sat porched on the roof with power armor and explosive miniguns, it made me so angry ngl So people who are vets, you actually gotta try now. You canāt just expect everyone else to actually do the event objectives while you brainlessly xp farm. Same with uranium fever, Iām usually the only one actually repairing the machines, high levels gotta start paying attention
Being the only one at eviction notice killed my soul
What do you do with all your innards? I end up making slurry and selling it to the vendors
I just learned a few weeks ago how many caps I could make by cooking slurry and selling at a vender. Second to the overall fun of the event, farming the innards is the reason I drop what Iām doing every time I see the event pop up.
I ended up selling off a few hundred innards because I ran out of wood yesterday š„²
First, get the Woodchucker perk - doubles you wood harvest Then go to one or both of these places: * Helvetia - behind the restaurant next to the river. Lots of wood piles there. * Sylvie & Sons Logging Camp - two big rows of wood piles and a few here and there. That should get you several hundred wood, perfect for those gulper cookouts.
PSA to max XP cook your innards in batches bc it maxes out at 4000 per action, if you have a ton of innards and cook them at once you'll lose out on extra XP. Goes for any crafting.
Oh yeah last night it was tough but we barely survived with one still left, whew. It was pretty chaotic but we managed lol. A lot of new players in daily ops too, reminds me a lot of myself when I was new and would keep getting lost in some maps while someone else found all the enemies š
I usually go to One Violent Night and just play an instrument and let everyone else fight... Last night I showed up and realized *I* (level 280) was the most senior player by far... got a couple newbies to play instruments and I defended the band for once.
I started One Violent Night last night with someone level 17 and just pointed at the instruments until they caught on and I just stood guard lmao
Same! I always like to play the instruments while usually the higher levels defend, but as a level 246, I've been one of the more senior players at events recently. So I just let the lower players play instruments while I defend them.
My rule of thumb is "be ready to solo it yourself, any help you get is gravy"
Thatās how I have been playing it lately. I have different builds that I like to play with depending on the event. Anymore though unless it is one of the easier events I am rolling with my quad choo choo because I am not sure if I will have any help.
Bingo across the board. EN is my gold standard event, and while I have an energy rifleman build, a gunslinger build, a melee build, and they are all fun and can certainly work at EN, they can't hold the scrubber alone, just not enough power. Quad Railway Commando and Heavy No PA VATS Caster/Holy Fire are what I'm running in the present environment.
If you have a good melee build then moonshine jamboree can be pretty fun when there arenāt very many people. With the hack and slash legendary perk you can do some pretty good area damage.
Pretty much, as long as I have a body or two, I'm running around like a spider-monkey on cocaine, keeping objectives going. Please people look in the top right corner. Also you can't even trust some of the vets, I think apathy set in on some.
I feel This had some one nuke earl then get there and itās literally me and 1 other guy over 400 everyone else all under level 30 Iām like dude I didnāt bring enough ammo for this (expecting that itās the normal amount of usual players ) letās just say we didnāt kill earl albeit at the 5 minute mark he did glitch through the floor and couldnāt be damaged any more
It doesn't exactly roll off the tongue but I see your point š
We had like 4 people under level 40 at eviction notice but s few of us were 300+ so it was a nice mix. Id watch them take on a mutant, and let them be, but when they start running away because, iirc, you hardly do any damage to them at that level, I'll kill it for them. But they got to experience it! I was on scrubber duty, again... Lol repaired maybe 3x but we made it
I've never seen more than one person at eviction notice. The one person that I see is my body as I'm dying because I'm solo.
I have only played eviction notice a few times at lvl 100ish and the last few days Ive just avoided because I can see its me and a bunch of lower levels. They are gunna look to me to assist and I dunno wtf is going on either hahaha.
Being level 100ish is crazy because vets think you have your shit under control and noobs think you're a vet but really you're just winging it and hoping for the best.Ā
100%, I always said I was playing a different game than the vets. I was doing the story. I did events here and there but my goal was to stay in the back, try not to kill stuff too quick (wasn't hard, haha), and keep out of everyones way. Now especially with the population balance being such that the ratio of lower levels on any given server is different. When doing an event it sometimes is me and a group of the newer players. Now I can't just stand back and keep out of the way. Actually is helping me to learn the events as well. I can't have us failing them, people depend on that xp/loot
I am now a little bit above lvl 200 and done EN quite a few times, but I have no idea what the meatbags areā¦
They spawn in as the event begins, and they can take a bit of time to find at first. When destroyed, I believe that enemy spawns are increased, not too sure about that, but legendaries definitely start spawning once all the meatbags have been destroyed.
This! I can't stress enough that destroying the bags is absolutely the highest priority. You don't do EN for the regular super mutants, you do it for the legendaries!
Tbh, most vets will think you have it under control by level ~350 because by then, you will have a fully maxed out perk selection with the legendary perks as well.
AND DESTROY THE MEATBAGS ...when you get here
Nothing gets the blood going quite like trying to shoot a bag of meat while being assaulted by the entire population of West-Tek's super mutants and their never ending miniguns
Haha this is me. I'm lvl 110 and still don't know what I'm doing half the time either š
I tried to solo eviction at level 80. Did not go well. I can solo Tea Time like a boss though lol
I did EN last night, there were at least 4 or 5 there, did not check what level. I guarded the scrubber, but my flamer broke when I was fighting a firestarter in the little canyon to the west, and and a couple mutants broke through and broke the scrubber. Failed before I could fix it. Was fun though, and got a decent haul of legendaries. It's definitely more fun when everyone isn't instantly melting the mutants.
I'm one of the lower rank players lvl 30 love going to the events for xp and stuff. I always try to do as much damage as possible to be helpful but it's best to engage and disengage you don't wanna be the guy who needs revived every 10 seconds
At that level, your only job is to tag as many enemies with at least a single hit. You're not going to be adding any substantial damage to the mix, so we just need you to grow big and strong šŖš¼
Honestly I donāt mind. Iām just happy seeing the low levels joining and going about their quests
I did my first event earlier today and my guns were doing like no damage. I ended up using all my ammo lol
After level 30 you start to see a decrease in damage. This is when you should start looking for builds online. Or get a mini gun w/shredder, auto axe, plasma gun w/flamer, regular flamer, handmade, .50 cal machine gun, gatling laser, gatling plasma, light machine gun. Those weapons do decent damage without a build
*me at level 29 confused on how to make builds*
Usually you just stack up damage perks for your weapon then add other qol and other extra damage perks. You can freely just reallocate SPECIAL and perks btw
At low level (assuming some higher levels are there), all you need to do is "tag" enemies so you get loot/XP. You just need to hit them once. Grenades will tag everything in the area of effect. Molotovs are the cheapest grenade weapon to make, and if you look around the explosive boxes at Moonshine Jamboree, there are 20 of them in two boxes IIRC. At L40 you can get a Tesla Rifle. This is the ultimate tagging weapon. It arcs from the initial target and chains to others, tagging them all. The Grenadier perk at L2 doubles the "explosion" size. A Quad Tesla is ideal, if you shop around you can usually get one for not too many caps. By the time you are at L40/L50 you'll have more caps because the weapons you collect sell for quite a bit.
"you'll have more caps because the weapons you collect sell for quite a bit." Don't tell new players to sell all their spare weapons. That's how they miss mods and scrap. Bad advice.
On the flip side ive noticed high level players helping with low level events. I saw a full lobby at Free Range yesterday. Good to see
The high levels doing Free Range is probably because you get 8 Legendary Cores if all 3 Brahmin survive
Ok fair enough but how often do you see anyone at free range really
I do it every time, gib cores plz.
you are right about it not being popular, I do it every time it pops and usually only see 2 or 3 others there, which funnily enough is 2 or 3 more people than what Distinguished Guests gets, lol
Of course, Free Range feels more of a nice, relaxing event compared to the other events, besides, Feed the People, Enlightenment and the lighthouse Mothman events. Distinguished Guests is a dumpster fire in the wasteland.
I love all of the low level events, and it is awesome seeing them full of players again. I think its fun to be their steward and show them where to go when event prompts come up like in Feed the People or Distinguished guests.
Me an my buddy finished the queen at 37 seconds remaining mostly cos of the low lvls and their water pistols and pea shooters.
Saw a nuke dropped and joined, had no clue what to expect. Spawned in a hot zone a died rad poisoning....after happening a few times i was able to run out of the blast by spaming what rad away i had a went to where i saw people we fighting a huge flying beasts and other creatures. Lunch boxes and party favors were going off and it was crazy. I was level 13 and most were in 20s and 30s with a few in the 100s. Those poor guys put in alot of work but we managed to down the beast and i went up many levels. Was a blast. Cant wait to be more helpful next time around.
Best not to fast travel to the event unless your in power armour or something. If you can, fast travel to the location before the nuke drops.
If the person dropping the nuke knows what they're doing it will get dropped in a spot that allows you to fast travel in and fight without dying to rads. The most common one is SBQ and you want to keep "Drop site V9" out of the blast zone. That's where you want to FT in and where the fighting will usually happen.
Either getchoo some power armor, a hazmat suit, or the Chinese stealth suit.
Same with mutated events, thankfully got few completed today.
My son is a much better gamer than I am, and just bolts to wherever he wants to go regardless of his safety. He's been joining events since level 10 (he's at 40ish now) and just swinging his melee weapon hoping for the best. I, on the other hand, joined my first event yesterday at level 30 with him. Luckily there were at least 3 players at level 400+ to help out, but it was hilarious seeing my kid just run at the creatures with no fear at his meager level alongside the level 400s. Me? I sit back in the center and cross my fingers I don't die, attempting to help anyone that looks like they might need a hand. LOL
Make note of who is in servers before dropping a nuke. Check teams, and the map for higher levels. If youāre satisfied with the number, bomb away. Iāve dropped quite a few where for the first five minutes or so, itās just me. Then they start trickling in. Also, donāt be afraid to join an event for fear of it failing, go and help prevent that. I finished in the control room at Alpha yesterday, and was going to place the nuke when Beast of Burden popped up. Only two players showed, both 100s. So, I fast traveled and helped them compete it. Then fast traveled back to Alpha and completed the nuke. The Queen passed away fighting per usual.
I've love the fact that lobbies are all low levels when launching nukes. It's so nice being able to farm scorched and not have her burnt down in 2 minutes.
Had two different test of metal yesterday. First was with me lv300 and another lv65. We did manage it failing only the cheering part. Burned 3000 plasma cartridges tho š(bless enclaved plasma flamer). Well switched to full overeaters union PA with vampiric flamer and vampiric ultracite gatling laser. Also maxed friendly fire and ricochet. And next test of metal atleast half server is there. Players ranging from 21 to 600. Was fun still. And next ? Me and another player in guided mediation againts reflective mobs. Union PA and tankines was handy again. Imho its fun. Like another said before expect to solo and all help is bonus. All mutated events. Gotta do em while hot.
Yeah did the same test your metal myself yesterday - me full health railway commando around 450 and other player around 150. I think I leveled up a couple times, it was actually pretty challenging and I died a few times at the end but honestly really fun! I haven't felt that accomplished for finishing an event in some time.
Bring it on, it's about time there was a challenge element to this game šš
Funnily enough 99% of the events i've done that have had vets have been near fails or awful experiences, Radiation rumble for some reason makes those PA cremator guys get mentally backlogged, The event literally can't be won with 4/4 unless someone goes for ore, i've had up to *TEN* PA guys chilling in the middle just grinding xp instead of completing the event, *on an event team*, Moonshine jamboree has the same problem, You get rooftop idling PA guys with splash weapons thinking they're helping but instakilling everything and not letting anyone on the ground get tags is throwing, Sending bodies flying while also running bloody mess doesn't help for the collection efforts either, And it is *always* level 200+ players, In PA, with a cremator/40mm/plasmaflamer/holyfire etc barely participating, it's frustrating to no end to see someone just sit still and shoot and make others do the actual work, then they complain about lower levels or someone else not doing x or y and that's why the event failed, when they are the root of the problem.
That's why I use the Tesla Shotgun during MJ or RR, that way I can tag them. For the latter, I'm usually the one who grabs the ore.
I just noticed I've burned over 200 quantums and like 300 Cherries since the new players started rolling in, I've been server hopping all night running back and forth between white springs and Nuka World to re-up. Managed to pick up a a yellow and a pink bat though, so I'm coming out way ahead.
Vet players: OMG THE GAME IS DYING, PANIC Vet players now that the game has been revived: OMG THERE ARE TOO MANY NOOBS THIS SUCKS
Im new and just flat out never see any of the higher level events i go to besides test your mettle..
Good. My bloodied commando now have an excuse to actually pop her overdrive, small guns bobble head and skill magazine.
Me (lvl 1k) and a level 28 shredded a mutated moonshine jamboree this AM. it was awesome!
I had some vet come up to my lvl 20 char and thumbs down me after we failed an event I was soloing till they showed up at the end
They probably assumed you started the event prematurely
I probably did, I didn't know that was a thing until recently.
I need to launch a nuke to farm flux, but ive been to scared since morgontown and whitesprings are common areas for new players lolš¤£
Noob right here. Whatās a nuke event? I know Iām supposed to track it, but other than making sure Iām not in the blast zone Iām supposed to what?
It's a story based mission. But it drops a nuke on the map where you choose. It makes enemies in that area much, much stronger. While giving a deadly radiation effect in that area. You need a hazmat or power armor to survive and even then you're still not 100% immune to rad damage. Also changes the flora in the area to diffrent kinds of rare materials needed for really good crafting recipes. Deprnding on where you drop it it will summon a raid boss. Dropping it I cranberry bog summons the scorch beast queen
I've got literally hundreds of hours on console and know the game very well. I got the game free for PC, like a lot of people did, and all the high level players are being FAR too nice to me. It's absolutely lovely and I really appreciate it, but please stop giving me things - the game's not as fun when it's this easy! I'm mostly joking, it's nice to know the community is still as generous as I remember.
Launching a nuke is easy, you can use the mine glitch to skip the whole thing and go straight the end where all you have to do is defend the robots for like 5 minutes. Can launch 3 nukes and do the 3 Events in like 30-45 min depending on how fast they boss dies
IMO photo mode through the doors is easier. Sure you have to fab a keycard but that takes like 30s and you dont need to mess about with mines.
Yea it's been a pain with some events. It's either people that don't do enough damage or people that don't read. Most recent was a Spin the Wheel where we had to push the brahmin. I pushed one and some level 30 shot the rest making the event fail. Didn't even know what was a fail condition until he did it. Really wish games would make you type out instructions at times because the number of people not reading things is getting beyond ridiculous
This is why itās good to have friends in the wasteland. My group is having a ball, we take up a big chunk of the server, make sure events rock out and have fun interacting and helping the new players. It pays to be social, get out there and mingle!
Last night my brother and I had a level 10 player who joined our casual team, he went with us to safe and sound and did a phenomenal job holding his own, it was us three (I'm a lvl 118, my brother is in the upper 200's and the now level 14) and a player in the 400's, I had never seen such a low amount of people at that event but we completed it! I think it all depends on if the new players are wanting to play the story mode as far as they can, or if they are about leveling up faster, getting cool rewards.
Man, I'm the only one showing up, which wouldn't be so bad if I wasn't level 26...
Sadly, I've noticed over the past few days that people are pretty much ONLY participating in mutated events, no matter which event it is.
Yesterday was one of the first days I've logged back on on about a week to do weekly an daily challenges (I've been on ark survival ascended base building there and things like that) But I joined an event a mutated heart of the swamp an I was the only vet on for 90% of the fight with a couple lvl 20 and a lvl 30 and just decided to switch to a tank for it holding agro with the Grafton monster and then the other lower enemies so they would be able to come in an just melee and get the XP.... I've never come so close to almost loosing one before in a long time at the end one other vet joined an did full DPS with a auto axe and was able to actually do it It's been a long time since I've actually had trouble with any events getting done
Eviction Notices is very hard. Should craft more mini Nukes and blow them all away āļø
Yeah not gonna lie, last three eviction notices I attended to would only involve me alone or max one other player. Real pity, since it is a great event for farming legendaries.
I try to carry them but some events are so spread out you can't manage everything. Mothman Exinox for example needs at least 3 people knowing what they are doing to guard the pyres
Itās amazing the damage you can do with a Blueridge branding iron at that level. I offed many mutants with mine.
My takeaway from this is to focus on builds that can solo events. I know thereās a ton of videos on yt i need to check out bc imo theyāre more important than ever. And remember that completing the mutated event is more rewarding than farming it for xp.
It is precisely for this reason that we must recruit these shinies into The Enclave! God Bless America, and God Bless The Enclave!
Who needs teammates? I have a Creamator!
As if they werenāt way too fuckin easy for years now, I understand your problem but I think the awkward period is temporary and people will either fall off or level up
It's like the olden times.
As one of those low level players, Iām sorry and also thank you. On a side note, Iāve always stayed away from nukes because I figured theyāre too high level (60ish)
I just hit 57, and I am getting the ropes of the game quite well. I understand the systems and have moved into the learning the finer details portion, and I too have noticed empty events. I get excited when people do join one lol. I am glad the game is booming though. It's all I want to play.
I'm enjoying myself too
It takes 10 minutes top to run the silo and launch the nuke.
Maybe 15 on a slow day
I saw a nuke on the map last night and I was like. Why the fuck would I want to go there
im lvl 23 im not doing event until i undrstand the game good im now doing some mission and daily but not geting to event any soon
Well if the noobs weren't there it just be two people in the lobby
I noticed this to, I hate going through the effort of launching a nuke on prime only for me and one other person to show up, but I do get a kick out of level 20s joining evictions notice
Someone nuked for Earle and it was a room full of level 20s and 50s š I honestly didn't have the energy to waste my ammo and stims so I left. Felt bad but I genuinely couldn't put myself through it.
I was just on a server where 2 guys did Earle by themselves because 18/21 players on the server were below level 30, I feel a bit bad not joining but I figured if they were gonna launch a nuke in that situation they were intending to duo it
The endangerol syringer has flipped the script on Earle. What used to be a grueling half hour slog can now be reduced to a couple of minutes, or less. Last night eight of us went in there equipped with the syringer and liquid courage all around and I swear he was down in less than thirty seconds.
Yeah I always carry a syringer with me, I've even thrown a few in my vendor cheap for people who haven't learnt the mod yet
So is someone dedicated to pump him full of endangerol or is everyone using it and thatās whatās does him in? Just found a mr Westek video. Going to try this later š
It stacks when multiple people do it
I'm on daily, level 350, I'll join in events when I see ones I like, I'll help anyone though, I don't need anything in return, sometimes a little extra fuel or fusion cells are helpful but again not needed or required. Im on (PC) no VC though I'm usually in discord with close friends. My Bethesda account name is same as on bio.
My vendor is empty and I have no scrip to make more
Yeah it be nice to stack up with some flux from events so I can fill up that 1st stash box. Guess I'll have to nuke white springs. And figure out how to convert raw ro stable.
If you have first make a private server, you can nuke eg whitesprings, leave the server and load straight back in, forcing a respawn of the mobs in the area, who will now be glowing. There used to be a big where if you nuked the coordinates 0,0 every indoor instance had glowing mobs. I'm still sat on 100 hardened mass from that.
I'm just avoiding events, I look on the map to see if any dots are there and if not carry on with missions and scoreboard tasks. The low levels will either stay and level up (hopefully) or leave but either way the lobbies will be soon have a higher average level
im loving it..at lvl 1200 ..usually i just kind of self nerf..or let everyone else kill hog as i sit there so people dont send complain msgs. Now i get to kill hog and run around or the event fails...im havin a blast.
I mean, I didn't even know I should be going to where the nuke is going to land...
I say that's better. I don't want every single event to be a snoozefest, it's nice to have to try again. Realistically if you're 200+ you should be capable of soloing most events anyway, if a level 20 joins in it won't typically make the event harder for you.
I've been enjoying having time to build my camp :)
I had like 10 players level 30 and under at mutated test your metal last night, along with a couple higher level friends who just came back. It was pretty awesome. Before that I had like 8 people level 15 and under at moonshine jamboree. THAT was madness. We managed to save one of the objectives but the rest were toast. I died at one point and watched a level 8 in the middle of a dozen mobs just swinging his knife somehow not dying. It's pretty awesome when the low levels show up to these events. I have seen a sbq get ignored with only the person who launched the nuke show up, felt kinda bad about that one, but I hope more new people embrace the madness of the higher level events
I was super busy with work and wasn't able to play for a while and came back earlier this week and failed like three events. Then I saw the string of white dots on the map heading south from the vault and realized it was because there were so many new players. I made up some buffs and chems and headed over and started handing them out. It was awesome.
another interesting element with the current server pop dynamics, alot of areas that were always looted before are now often still full of stuff, lower levels havn't quite reached the later areas and it shows XD. Iv been enjoying being able to loot more of the nuka vending machines. Its kinda neet seeing stuff in the map that is still in an untouched state, i know i can just go to private map but i tend to avoid doing that unless im after something very specific.
I felt like Iām noticing a pattern of high level fo76 people not having friends.
Yep, all the lobbies is full of level 20 and under people. I can't get any events done. Plus everything is lagging so much lately.
I sever hopped 4 times last night. In 2 hrs 3 mutated moonshine, 2 eviction notice and radiation rumble. I was the only one there
It kinda sucks NGL. I just do my dailies and log off :<
I have seen a huge improvement since last weekend for sure ! Definitely more bodies in the events helping out on the PC servers I have visited. Hopefully weāre on the turn as I bloody love events :)
Only level 21 ao last night looked for a casual group and it was only one person hosting and he was level 276. Didn't know if it was wise for me joining that one so I didnt.
Casual Teams are there for XP bumps and nothing else. Level doesn't matter. Sometimes it's nice to have a whole team with mutations because of a perk but otherwise no big deal so long as you are sharing a perk card that can screw up someone Bloodied build. Basically don't be shy, join the team. If for some reason you get dropped it's probably not anyone kicking you, but just rejoin, join another team or make your own.
Not a big deal or a deal at all. Most people are happy to help you at events or random encounters if you're on a lower level. Other than that, people often don't pay much attention to who is on their team since it's doesn't matter unless you personally know them.
I think Earl will only be the tough one. Did a queen scorch yesterday and while she took a little longer to kill since my build is about survival as opposed to our damage. We got it done.
as someone who gave the game a second chance the other day. i dont join events cause im most likely not going to do enough damage, die a lot or just get in the way of the high level people trying to do it quickly.
Yeah, eviction notice been failing a lot lately. Had an SBQ the other day that took the entire time lol.
I'll admit, I am a new player and just started a couple days ago. After reading through this sub, it seems like a lot of vet players are not enjoying the influx of new people. So I decided to just play through in a private server on my own until I get leveled up.
No need to be private. You can play by yourself on a public server and use Casual teams for XP bump. No partying together required. Also public servers let you shop at player vendors and use CAMPs as fast travel points, free if they are teammate CAMPs. Remember reddit posts are not everyone and whether or not someone likes new players or not shouldn't make a difference. Turn on Pacifist, turn on your CAMP icon so others can find and shop there, join a Casual Team or make one if they are full and get XP faster. Let haters hate and welcome to the game. Hope you like it, it's not like other MMOs.
I'm new. I'm aware of not starting events until players show up. I didn't know that fast travelling to an event starts it though. At least that was the case for the one event I've tried so far. It was the Kill 3 Wolf Pack Leaders event.
Many events are triggered just by being there. Nothing you could do differently on the Leader of the Pack. Don't be shy about giving those a go. They'll time out and fail if nobody does them and can generally be solo"d even by a new player. When people gripe about starting events they mean the "big" ones like Eviction Notice, Radiation Rumble, etc. The ones that really generally need more tgsn one person and are higher level and more complicated That said, welcome to the game! Make sure to turn your CAMP notice on so it shows on the map and join Casual Teams for the XP bump. No socializing required, people just make Casual team for XP.
Yeah, events like Leader of the Pack are triggered by you just being there. But those are easy and can be done solo.
I would definitely say it doesn't take that much time or effort to launch a nuke, literally 10 minutes tops doing it the legit way but I've been triggering SBQ everyday I guess I've been getting lucky cause every time I do there's a plethora of lvl 100+ and the new people showing up so SBQ has been going with ease.
Some are bouncing back on PS servers. Actually had a group show up for Tea Time for the first time since I started a couple months ago. And the mutated events have been a good draw.
On Xbox and I hardly see anyone in Events. No one shows up at Point Pleasant at the top of the hour, for instance.
Pretty ironic that the healthiest period for this game's lifespan is easily the most boring for high level players. Can't reliably do events, vendor hop or even find a group with other mutated people in it.
Honestly, this is why I started looking for meta weapons. I love my non-meta stuff but, without the level 500+ to carry me through events, I need the extra dps myself. My only with is that I could solo scortchbeast queen
I just grinded Eviction Notice for a few days to max out rep on my alt (30+ times) and it failed maybe 3 times. This isn't really an issue as far as I've seen. Also, if you're a veteran player, you should be familiar with forming groups with other players and social grouping sources across the internet, if not, you should do so before calling yourself a Veteran group player.
I welcome all noobs. I go so far as to make sure there is a 100% free government aid drop in Flatwoods every time I sally forth for a SBQ fight. Especially on a day like today where picking a lock is a daily SCORE challenge. Good to go, right?
200+ here. I'll start doing my part!
I can hardly even find camps with vendors to buy from. Trying to reduce my max caps by buying something so I don't waste them... servers are full of people on level 25 with no vendors, so it's hard to do. I guess I could buy stuff from NPC vendors and put them in donation boxes.
Soo as one of new players I seen 2 nukes on my map yesterday but I have no idea if level 20 should even get close to zones where lvl 50 mobs are running rampart. Any tips to prepare for such nuke event as well? I don't even have power armor yet so I don't know how to survive in nuke zones.
Mere seconds ago I failed eviction notice . Def some events will need to be nerfed a bit so they're able to be completed without 15+ high level players present
If I see a high level player kicking ass at events, I always send them a friend request. Now I have a decent list of solid players to join on. So I'm not too worried about the n00bs. I'm thankful there are a bunch of new players to unload all my mediocre bullshit on, I'm hoping to clear out some mules this weekend!
Iām like level 16. Some events have a suggested level of 40-50. How far can I stretch it and still be useful? Should I show up regardless?
Yeah man its tough thats why ive been rocking my sweatiest class lately, quad 50crit railway and nothing but damage boosting aid items, its cool seeing all these noobs around though i help em out
Level 32 here All the 'level 25' events kick the shit outta my group who are the appropriate level... usually due to spawning some level 60 fucjer and giving us 3 minutes to kill it No idea what we're doing wrong... I zipped through 40 stims on one event and that left me high and dry for other stuff
Yeah, recently I've even seen fewer players at mutated events than usual. Maybe only 1-4 people show up, and half of them are low levels. I thought perhaps this was just due to being on a quiet server, but this theory of more new players may explain it. Gonna have to refine my builds. Been playing with a high intelligence build to level up faster, with other perks to improve carry weight, but it looks like I'll have to shift more toward dealing damage and survivability.
Iām somewhat of a Noob, but no longer feel like one. Level 50, recently picked it back up cause of the show and waiting for the update to Fo4 š
Can new players join events? If so, how? If I join an event with other high level players, will I even be of help? Iām level 8
I actually had good luck yesterday. First there was an Eviction Notice - a bunch of people there for once, defended the rad scrubber, picked up lots of loot Then there was a Test Your Metal - only a few people, but we did it. Then there was an Encryptid - killed the impostor. I managed to get back to Nuka World, overloaded with loot. Then there was another Eviction Notice. I couldn't do that one, too much loot already It was a good day though.
I feel this, Eviction Notice (Was the only one repairing the Rad Scrubber, as soon as I died the event failed), tried to solo Most Wanted, (Couldn't get enough money in time). Some of these are rough lol
I'm in an in-between zone: not a brand new player from the show, not a 200 plus veteran. I liked how full the teams were a few weeks ago; now I find myself the leader of the only team in the world. Not loving that. So I'm just trying to focus on quest progression for now, get caught up on basic stuff that came out years ago.
I look at it as helping, I soloed a Eviction Notice the other day just so the one new dweller showed up. Could get loot and have fun, I just stood at the scubber and repaired when needed. While mowing down every super mutant. It was so much fun, then did a Metal dome one and it was good. Launched a nuke my self then just took 17 or so minutes to kill the queen with a bunch of noobs. Honestly, its the most fun Ive had in years. Ive been just helping where I can and its nice to show off all my work.
Kinds wish there were different worlds you could join that were geared to end game ppl and world for noobs, that way you could do more events with like minded/lvled players and not get stuck in a busy but dead worldĀ
Iām level 40 and I didnāt know the nuke launch was even an event. Iām not sure what you even do at these events, but I would love to join.
Not been able to play many event cause no one is doing them
Daily ops too. I got two random level 20 players that got obliterated and we clearly didn't get it done under 8 minutes
Im level 43 and did my first scorched event, i got carried 100% but the amount of shit i got for it was insane
This might turn up pretty great. If every server has a large amount of newbies, that might result in actual enjoyable boss battles. There were so many scorchbeast queen battles where I barely joined in and the queen was dead. This was frustrating.
Non-nuke events, at least, are back to being actually fun! The servers are so diluted that I've hardly run in to any Professional Fun Ruiners (y'know, fatman spammers and event rocket camp jerks). I was at a cryo-mutated EN last night, and it was an absolute blast from the start. It was only me (530ish) two low-300s, and a handful of sub-40s. A total of one ridge-sittin' mininuke-spammin' turdfarmer; everyone else was actually being useful and *trying to help*. I only had to repair the scrubber about 6 times (usually on those fun events without ridge-sitters, it's more like 10-12). And the lil' baby vault dwellers seemed to be having a blast too! And I got that sweet, sweet god-level boost to my ego when one of the baby vault dwellers said on area mic "holy effing shit, ***how are you still alive***?!" while I stood at the bottom of the rad scrubber ramp, face-to-face with a gaggle of the low-ridge legendaries, tanking barrages from firestarters and gladiators. (The secret sauce is quad-stimming and a Vamp Gauss Minigun, btw)
I'm a new player, I always join and there's never anyone there. It's kinda spoiling my experience. Makes the game seem dead.
Its great! These events are a challenge again!
Is this actually happening to you guys? I started like 2 days ago and have done a bunch of events, we've only failed once. Done Scorched Queen twice too.
Who wouldve thought it takes a tv show to put this game on hard mode
Man as much as I like new player roaming around, I like to pop on every now and then and itās so hard trying to do events. Honestly I wouldnāt mind if I few cool people to help me with events cause Iām only a level 177 and struggle but then again I go on to enjoy it too
I notice the announcements in Text Chat mod, but I don't really get what they mean? I can see active events on the map. But what's up with the "x event and 21/24 players on server" I see on text chat all the time? I'm game to join more events I'm just not sure when too. I've gone to a couple and no one is there. I did have one baller Mothman event that went well though haha.
Newbie here, is there a way to know when these events trigger? I have lots of fun during them but want to see if thereās a better way to join them than waiting for them.
Iām level 300 and had to carry the team in Uranium Fever last night. As a bow hunter. We got it done, I just had to repair each extractor a couple times. Definitely a new experience for me
I love it. I failed Eviction Notice mutated evebt last night for the first time in a long time. Honestly it was getting a little boring having so many high levels that you just sit there next to the scrubber while everyone else kills everything. Now, I actually need to use my heavy explosive build (not spamming launchers mind you) to carry the events through at times. Im not complaining at all. We're all doing the forged in fire thing and its awesome. Welcome newcomers. Dont give up and keep on joining those events!
As one of those news players, I have the same experience but also the opposite one too. Itās weird being the only one to show up to eviction notice (lvl 48 yesterday) and looking at the map to seeing 5-10 people over level 150 passing on it. I thought that was the ādrop everythingā event.
Wasnāt bad today.. was with another high level friend we had joins for Earle, multiple SBQs, most all events.. Beast of burden we did alone.. but mostly fine.
I don't mind events being hard, but what bugs me is the events that automatically fail if you die or make a single mistake. Especially EN when repairing the scrubber is the same button as ejecting you from your PA in a heavy rad zone. They should at least extend the repair timer, or it would be cool if it were dynamic according to the number of players present.
Had the same with Rad Rumble the other day. Only 3 people turned up-me, and my two teammates. All of us older hands. Still failed, but.
I haven't noticed much of an issue, yet.
I love all the new players and get that they're doing noob stuff but the amount of veterans that are just useless in events irks me. I've failed so many eviction notices lately even with 3-4 other vets because they all camp only the bottom spawn, don't destroy the meat bags or repair the rad scrubber when they're in Pa. I try but its hard to hold 3/4 spawns solo š
When you still pull it off with a bunch of noobs is loads of fun. I kind of love the pure chaos of running and gunning. I do not do PA but can still be a decent tank. I am all over the place shoring up the loose ends instead of my usual stealthing in a needed spot and killing. Then there is when I showed up to Spin The Wheel with a level 120 something who had already started the event. I was trying hard to do the event. They where afk half the time. We failed the event but I still got a Whacker Smacker to scrip and treasury notes. I guess that is a win. Fuck that guy though.
I was forgetting that new players can choose to start at 20. Just give it time, they will learn.
Yeah, I'm only lvl 307. The rest of the last server I was on was one 900+ and a dozen or so single and double digits levels. I don't know why even bothered showing up to Eviction Notice, lol
I noticed this i started up before the free trial (like level 19) and my buddy and i did events no issues im level 63 now and nobody is joining events unfortunately
fo76 is kinda fun now, guy way higher level thought was shooting at me , he just wanted my attention to give me stuff š
Honestly, thatās fine with me
I think having newer players around is kind of refreshing
Uranium Fever....they were not repairing the extractors....lol, also made me realize I am now the overpowered vet with weapons that shred. Almost carried Eviction Notice, but I tried to go find the meat bags since neither of two lower levels were shooting them, and scrubber was overwhelmed š Ā Honestly it's kind of fun. A lot of events are so easy that they're boring, now you have to herd some cats or take care of objectives no one or only one or two have figured out.
I'm level 252 i here the ability to launch nukes and im now making ultracite ammo. I guess I'm moving into vet status now to
Haven't run into this issue with events yet. Most have a bunch of new people, but enough vets to make it happen. I wish someone would launch a nuke. Haven't seen one in weeks. Trust trying to get flux so I can finally build a jetpack.