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A Fallout 76 player nuked Phil Spencer's camp

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Fallout 76's radioactive wasteland is full of mutated beasts, but the biggest threat players can face comes from nuclear bombs, cheekily fired by other players, that can destroy your entire camp if you're logged into the game. Launching nukes at others requires you to go through the pretty arduous steps of gathering silo code pieces and then shooting through said silos in an MMO raid-like fashion.

But that's seemingly what at least one Fallout 76 player endured to nuke the Xbox executive's camp, according to an off-screen image that Sam_Snydes tweeted. The image below shows a nuclear blast surrounding P3's camp, which is Phil Spencer's Xbox gamertag, right next to the Whitesprings.
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View: https://twitter.com/Sam_Snydes/status/1788414778253123985
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Fallout 76 players appear to protest Xbox's studio closures by directing nukes at Phil Spencer's MMO camp

The Microsoft Gaming CEO hasn't yet made a statement about the closures
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Azerth

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pretty sure the player that nuked it said that it had nothing to do with the studio closing was something hes wanted to to do for awhile
 
Common Knowledge

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What exactly does this mean gameplay wise? Like does it actually fuck over his progress in the game?
 
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Common Knowledge said:
What exactly does this mean gameplay wise? Like does it actually fuck over his progress in the game?
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Camps can be destroyed by nukes in Fallout 76, but... That means very little for a millionaire who is the director of the company that owns the game lol

There's in-game footage of his camp after the blast. There's no way to know how much damage was done because there's no before to compare.


View: https://twitter.com/real1090jake/status/1788424371825975360
 
ABK281

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Common Knowledge said:
What exactly does this mean gameplay wise? Like does it actually fuck over his progress in the game?
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Yeah it destroys it but there's a repair all option assuming you have the resources. And assuming you're active when it's happening you can very easily just disable your camp, though you only have a few minutes to do it.

Also, the article is making it sound harder than it is to launch the nuke. A modestly leveled player can very easily and quickly get through the area to launch a nuke, and you can just look up the codes to launch them for the week, no need to gather the silo codes.
 
HylianSeven

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Common Knowledge said:
What exactly does this mean gameplay wise? Like does it actually fuck over his progress in the game?
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It destroys his camp instantly, and while it's possible he has it's design as a saved build, he has to spend all the materials to rebuild it. If it killed his character, it's not a huge deal. You just drop the junk you're carrying (which will be a bag on the ground you can recover), keeping weapons, armor, aid, etc. If he had the build saved, it's more of an annoyance, because you have the spend the resources again, but often they shouldn't be too hard to come by depending on what he built.

I'm all for annoying Phil anyway though. He should not have piece in games either after the bullshit they pulled this week.
 
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ABK281 said:
Yeah it destroys it but there's a repair all option assuming you have the resources. And assuming you're active when it's happening you can very easily just disable your camp, though you only have a few minutes to do it.

Also, the article is making it sound harder than it is to launch the nuke. A modestly leveled player can very easily and quickly get through the area to launch a nuke, and you can just look up the codes to launch them for the week, no need to gather the silo codes.
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That reminds I STILL can't believe they just have the codes so easily discoverable in the games files after six years where a site just pulls them and updates them every week.
 
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If anything this works better as a publicity to FO76 than an standing against microsoft because honestly the idea of nuking someone elses camp sounds cool

But I read someone saying that they planned doing this before the studio closures, so it checks out
 
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HylianSeven said:
That reminds I STILL can't believe they just have the codes so easily discoverable in the games files after six years where a site just pulls them and updates them every week.
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LMAO at this point they could probably reverse engineer the RNG if that's how the codes are generated.
 
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Okay, I gotta know; could theoretically every player at once fire a nuke at a single camp at the same time?

The fucking server would effectively be nuked in real life with how much chaos that would unleash. Surely only one is fired/shown at once in that case? Otherwise it'd be like rain if every raindrop was a nuke! LOL
 
Clippy

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Every single executive I worked under absolutely had the time to put as much time as Phil does into gaming and more. They just golf and drink instead, or waste your time by telling you inspirational story about the 2-week trip to Monaco they just got back from even though you felt you couldn't take time off for a year because of that very same boss (actual story).
 
Jinroh

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I checked on Reddit and apparently he's accessible in online games and voice chats as well, so it may be him after all. But yeah it's weird to be able to invest so much time gaming for someone in his position.
 
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Maybe he's really just the kid from the movie Big and doesn't actually have executive powers.
 
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Phil's gaming hours are only weird if you bought into the myth of the workaholic CEO that's personally looking at every facet of what all departments under them are doing. That doesn't exist. Phil has been doing shit that sucks, but if your interpretation of that is "well, he's the bad CEO who sucks, instead of those other hardworking CEOs that are personally responsible for every good thing their companies do through their individual effort, sweat, and tears" well you've just been uncritically buying into a story that's as real as dragons and fairies. The only reason that myth exists is to justify executive compensation.
 
EagleClaw

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People should stop hurting Phil.
His friends testified that he was already hurt because of the layoffs and now his Fallout camp got nuked.
He must feel like on an emotional downward spiral.

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Clippy said:
Phil's gaming hours are only weird if you bought into the myth of the workaholic CEO that's personally looking at every facet of what all departments under them are doing. That doesn't exist. Phil has been doing shit that sucks, but if your interpretation of that is "well, he's the bad CEO who sucks, instead of those other hardworking CEOs that are personally responsible for every good thing their companies do through their individual effort, sweat, and tears" well you've just been uncritically buying into a story that's as real as dragons and fairies. The only reason that myth exists is to justify executive compensation.
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I mean even for a normal 40 hour job he has some insane hours in various games. 240 hours in Diablo, 100 in Fallout 76, 100 in Starfield.
 
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