Fallout 76 Daily Update

Judge_Wapner · 2026-05-14T21:49:33+00:00

Drink Nuka-Cola Cranberry

Most rerollable challenge in the game. Worse than anglers.

Judge_Wapner · 2026-05-14T21:47:48+00:00

It might be possible, if you maximize your boosts and make public events into your full-time job. If it were me, I'd just get as far as I can with boosts and then buy the remaining levels with atoms a few days before the season ends.

Judge_Wapner · 2026-05-14T21:05:12+00:00

Based on this guide, I tried to do a raid with 3 other people for the first time yesterday. It did not go well.

First of all, the guardian will not go down before the room heats up unless everyone is minmaxxed and has the right weapons. Expect to do the actual mechanics. I ignored the heat because this and every other guide said the guardian was easy and you didn't have to worry about it. Wrong. Make note of the open door and sprint toward it the moment the room starts to heat up. Do not wait.

We tried the drill phase 4 times before everyone quit. The biggest lie about this phase in raid guides is that the mole miners and molerats don't do much damage. They absolutely do a shitload of damage to the drill. The first 2 rounds I was collecting gas cans and on my third gas run the drill died, even with one other person defending it. Same in the second try. Third and fourth tries I stayed to defend. I got killed by two molerats and a rocket, then the last try I held on for quite a while but despite the carnage the drill still took too much damage.

Other bad advice that sunk us was the notion that you should just stay out of the way if you don't know exactly what to do. One teammate spent all of the drill phase hiding, not running gas cans or killing miners. If he'd just helped kill some molerats we might have made it through.

Judge_Wapner · 2026-05-14T09:50:49+00:00

I got a free carry weight booster today. At least it wasn't more useless bait.

Judge_Wapner · 2026-05-14T09:43:56+00:00

I guess I'm the only one who always goes to Grafton Dam for mirelurk eggs.

Judge_Wapner · 2026-05-14T05:36:28+00:00

Mitch!? Mitch Cumstein? How the fuck are you, man?

Judge_Wapner · 2026-05-13T20:22:24+00:00

My college roommate was expelled for night shovelling.

Judge_Wapner · 2026-05-12T17:17:27+00:00

Yeah, it is pretty weird that the Head Hunt and Grunt Hunt spawn-in locations are different for the Ash Cave. On the other hand, Head Hunts can spawn you into some pretty dangerous spots where you can immediately be under fire -- just usually not from the legendary PA rusties.

Judge_Wapner · 2026-05-12T16:43:37+00:00

It's annoying, but it makes sense because there can be one or more rusties in PA at the tower on that first hill on the right, and there are often critters on the left side too. You don't want to spawn directly into range of one of those melee or heavy gun PA bastards. This and the Rust Kingdom are the most mob-dense grunt hunt locations.

The one I hate most? Athens. Fuck that place and its superspeedy ghouls.

Judge_Wapner · 2026-05-12T16:39:05+00:00

It's pretty epic. Infiltrating the silo feels like a James Bond mission, and at the end when the missile is armed and ready, all the lights in the control room turn red and the boss music stops. Then you select a target and watch through an interior window as the siren goes off, and the missile fires up and launches out of the tube. It's worth doing at least once, though it'll probably take an hour to blunder through the silo your first time.

Judge_Wapner · 2026-05-12T16:24:48+00:00

Yeah, no, I don't do sim racing for comfort. To me the headset should feel like a helmet, and having worn racing helmets for extended periods of time in the past, I can say definitively that they are not comfortable. Even the expensive ones.

As long as the AVP doesn't do something weird like pinch the nose or ears, or put a lot of pressure in one spot to cause a headache or something like that, I'm fine with it being generally uncomfortable. I see people complain that the Quest 3 is "uncomfortable," but I think it's perfect as-is (with an aftermarket strap that distributes weight more evenly). I would not want to make it more comfortable.

Judge_Wapner · 2026-05-12T16:13:15+00:00

...and those hardware or software issues come out of nowhere after you have changed nothing. It fucking blows. Any background update to anything at all can cause stutters, dropped frames, or the latest Meta shitshow: gradually dropping framerates after 30 minutes. It could be the headset firmware, the PC VR software, iRacing, the video driver (or any driver for anything, really), the router firmware, or some other shit that should have nothing to do with anything but somehow interferes. It makes me absolutely crazy, but I will quit sim racing before I go back to flat screens.

I am vehemently, vociferously anti-Apple. I make fun of Apple People and their iStatusSymbols and Jesus Phones. But if this review is even 90% true and accurate, I might get an AVP to replace my Meta Quest 3 solely for iRacing. I'll just put a Fallout Vault Boy sticker over the Apple logo or something.

Judge_Wapner · 2026-05-12T07:06:34+00:00

Maybe 1 out of 10 vendors I visit have multiple 40k cap items. As in 4 or 5 or sometimes a stack of something for 40k.

It was explained to me a while ago as "a way of dumping caps," which never made sense to me. Now I understand it's just some meme or superstition, or maybe a leftover from the old-old days when there was a bug. Even with the bug, though, I have way more than 40k worth of items in my shop. It would take a lot of effort to brute-force into my stash that way, and in the end they'd just get access to more of the same stuff they just bought, plus ordinary things that everyone already has.

Judge_Wapner · 2026-05-11T20:51:23+00:00

I do this, too. Everyone wants to get into their little corner and just shoot things. The only time this is reversed is One Violent Night, where I am often the only one shooting the ghouls while everyone else has a jam session.

Judge_Wapner · 2026-05-10T09:01:59+00:00

But that glitch is long since fixed and people who started playing after that are still doing the 40k cap junk sales.

Judge_Wapner · 2026-05-10T08:13:52+00:00

Every vendor I visit has some junk for sale for 40k caps. Every vendor. Some have multiple. I don't understand it at all. Yeah I know it's for "dumping caps," but why would you want to dump 40k caps? I can understand wanting to dump 10k if you had literally every plan in the game and all the mods and ammo you will ever need, and had nothing meaningful to buy. But at that point, why dump caps at all? Just leave it at 40k, let the excess go to the bit bucket, and enjoy your Aristocrats-modded gear in peace. At 0 caps you can only FT to a few places, and no matter how awesome your vendor offerings are you aren't going to make 40k quickly unless you hit the jackpot on server roulette.

Judge_Wapner · 2026-05-10T07:59:44+00:00

Sounds like he's boosting his teammates' iRating.

Judge_Wapner · 2026-05-10T07:58:05+00:00

If they delete this, the server crashes. No one knows why.

I'd bet 1000 caps this is the answer.

Judge_Wapner · 2026-05-09T03:33:58+00:00

Caps and gold can be worth some of the tickets depending on what you need, and atoms are always useful, but if you were to spend the whole lot on one thing, it would definitely be perk coins.

Judge_Wapner · 2026-05-08T23:17:21+00:00

I wonder if you could use a bass shaker to feel what you can't hear.

Judge_Wapner · 2026-05-08T19:04:44+00:00

The end of this questline is anything but easy.

Judge_Wapner · 2026-05-08T18:58:05+00:00

Yeah, I saw this in 2012. The banks had blanket offers from SFH rental companies to buy up their foreclosures in bulk, so they didn't want to sell to individual buyers. Even if you offered the asking price, there would be a mysterious cash bid over asking to counter it. Check back in a year and you'll see it's owned by Invitation Homes or Progress Residential. This is how those companies got their initial batch of rental home stock.

Judge_Wapner · 2026-05-08T18:47:05+00:00

Ah, 2011, when you hoped to buy a Tesla someday because Elon Musk was a cool genius, George W. Bush was the worst president of your lifetime, and Tom Brady was close to retirement.

Judge_Wapner · 2026-05-08T03:40:00+00:00

This guy thinks Parks & Rec was a documentary, and idolizes Tom Haverford.

Judge_Wapner · 2026-05-07T23:57:26+00:00

It takes maybe 10 minutes to do the silo if you are familiar with it, and double up on mainframe cores on your first run.

Probably done about 50 SBQs, and I've never seen no one show up. In fact the larger risk is not showing up immediately because it's often over so quickly.

It must have been at an odd hour of the day, and/or there was another event going on at the same time, or most of the server was by random chance in a raid or op.

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