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Fallout 76’s Premium Private Servers Are Not Private, Its Scrap Box Is Deleting Scrap

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There are a few issues cropping up here. Fallout 1st players are finding that a "newly created" world they might be heading into is not actually new at all. Players are reporting dead NPCs and looted areas when they get there, implying that these are not actually new instances, but instead re-used old instances masquerading as brand new private worlds.


If you were looking forward to the unlimited storage of scrap in Fallout 76 with the new Scrap Box perk of Fallout 1st, you definitely don't want to be using it just yet.

Multiple players are reporting that they have deposited hundreds of units of scrap in these new boxes, only to find that the box has eaten it. The scrap disappears from the instance, and can't be found again from re-logging or anything. It's just gone. Players are not amused at the fact that they have now paid for the privilege of losing all of their materials, and so far, there does not seem to be any way to recover any of this. So do not use these boxes until there's a clear fix for this. Not that more than like, two of you reading this are going to subscribe to Fallout 1st, but still.

 

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How does Bethesda keep fucking up on such a fundamental level with this game, over and over and over again?
 
piratepwnsninja

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Hobbes said:
There are a few issues cropping up here. Fallout 1st players are finding that a "newly created" world they might be heading into is not actually new at all. Players are reporting dead NPCs and looted areas when they get there, implying that these are not actually new instances, but instead re-used old instances masquerading as brand new private worlds.


If you were looking forward to the unlimited storage of scrap in Fallout 76 with the new Scrap Box perk of Fallout 1st, you definitely don't want to be using it just yet.

Multiple players are reporting that they have deposited hundreds of units of scrap in these new boxes, only to find that the box has eaten it. The scrap disappears from the instance, and can't be found again from re-logging or anything. It's just gone. Players are not amused at the fact that they have now paid for the privilege of losing all of their materials, and so far, there does not seem to be any way to recover any of this. So do not use these boxes until there's a clear fix for this. Not that more than like, two of you reading this are going to subscribe to Fallout 1st, but still.

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Yeah, uh, hmm...that's something.
 
Kilgore

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danowat

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Amazes me that people would admit to spending $100 on this shower of shit, but there you are.
 
Jessie

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The servers are so dead that they could probably sell their existing product as "private worlds" and no one would be able to tell the difference.
 
ZangBa

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Lmao that is kind of expected honestly. Anyone that still plays the game should know not to do anything after a new feature or patch releases, there are always some horrible bugs going around. There is a guy on Reddit that complies a list of bugs since beta for the devs to see and fix and almost none of them ever do.
 
GranddadFreeman

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Ah so what the meant by private was, "a world that's been looted but with just your friends". Worth every penny imo tbh
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The "private" aspect is up for debate too. Players with big friends lists, ie. merchants who sell players goods in the game, are finding that they can't prevent people from joining their private servers where they just want to relax and play by themselves or with a few friends. Without some sort of "invisible" mode, other players can see your instance and join it.
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Hamster Plugin

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Should have called it Bottomless Box like in Dark Souls

Because the box has no bottom, the items just keep dropping and you can't reach in to get them back
 
N7_Kovalski

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So much about this game makes me sad but the real kicker is I think they created a pretty awesome world to explore and it's going to waste with such a mess of a game.
 
tuxfool

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Jessie said:
The servers are so dead that they could probably sell their existing product as "private worlds" and no one would be able to tell the difference.
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I has already figured that this is what they were doing. None of that "dedicated hardware" people were going on about in that other thread.

If the instance is entirely dependent on the single user paying for it, they might as well just spin up instances from their existing infrastructure.
 
Vash

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Well, this just seals it. I had a hunch that this was pushed to try to overshadow The Outer Worlds release. And with gamebreaking bugs (oh wait "features") like this, it's clear that they pushed this out without any QA.

I'm sorry (not sorry), but
 

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How do they fuck up something as seemingly simple as a fresh server instance? When they're selling it as a premium feature?

I barely played 2 hours of Fallout 76 but it's gonna make me wary of buying Bethesda games for years.
 
Kuro

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The sad thing is reviewers will still give the mainline Fallout and Elder Scrolls a pass when they'll undoubtedly be full of bugs and stupid monetization and the games will still sell like hotcakes.

New Vegas and Morrowind are the only games I've enjoyed in those franchises and that was still with plenty of mods on PC.
 
Vault Boy

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Are they still planning to add human NPCs and a bevy of related quests at some point? That will be fun to watch when it hits. They can't even get simple stuff right, a major overhaul is going to be like nothing ever seen before.
 
Sheev

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Remember the people in the last thread defending this as though it would work?

Good times.
 

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imagine paying $100 for this and having it not even work right

i assumed there was gonna be a testing period or something but i should have known better
 
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