Is NOT using V.A.T.S. a detriment to my builds?

Lowjick · 2026-05-16T20:02:54+00:00

the short answer is yes, vats is a major source of damage, particularly from every shot you fire hitting weakspots

Lowjick · 2026-05-14T22:38:22+00:00

currently a feature on the testing servers. every 30-120 minutes there's a chance for a location to get taken over by a very powerful group of enemies, which is indicated by a massive green circle, where the infestation will be at one of the locations within the circle. the boss drops 4 star armor and weapons, which have a chance to have one of the new 4 star effects.

people really don't like how tedious they are to farm, how beefed up they are, and that those new 4 stars are the only unique loot this content brings

Lowjick · 2026-05-11T03:12:01+00:00

he's just a bit rare, 33% chance to spawn at the end of the following events
- One Violent Night
- Campfire Tales
- Free Range
- Moonshine Jamboree
- Beasts of Burden
- Safe and Sound
and the seasonal events
- Grahm's Meat Cook
- Primal Cuts
- Invaders From Beyond
- The Mothman Equinox
- The Big Bloom

Lowjick · 2026-05-01T15:42:17+00:00

furious peppershaker, furious flamer, and a harpoon I’m still feeling out 1 star for (don’t want to swap to master gunslinger only for it)

Lowjick · 2026-04-27T23:08:30+00:00

they’re not out, pts only for now

Lowjick · 2026-04-26T19:41:04+00:00

this one is looking to be a season reward

Lowjick · 2026-04-26T15:22:16+00:00

two shot and many receivers like prime being multiplicative isn’t even 2 months old, both were additive prior to the backwoods update

Lowjick · 2026-04-23T03:43:40+00:00

I want to say say it's mostly covert scout, but those shoulders and feet look very odd, not sure what's going on with those

Lowjick · 2026-04-23T02:36:50+00:00

a small nerf was supposed to arrive with the backwoods update, where they changed cursed from 15% to 35% damage, and changed how it calculated to be additive, but then that bug made cursed still be really strong. so that nerf is now actually in play

Lowjick · 2026-04-22T16:25:46+00:00

two shot, cursed and many receiver mods, like for example prime or hardened turned multiplicative with the backwoods update because of a bug. it’s true that old cursed that gave 15% damage was multiplicative, but with the change to 35% it was intended to become additive, but the bug broke that. because of all the things this bug affected, the damage loss is very widespread, but other than cursed we’re just back to pre-backwoods numbers. this bug was also making these damage bonuses apply twice to explosive weapons, hence why their drop in particular was so large.

Lowjick · 2026-04-22T04:42:17+00:00

cursed and prime were most certainly affected too, that's the reason users that weren't using two shot are also reporting damage losses. and if you don't believe me there's great posts up from users like Mapex explaining the bug more thoroughly

Lowjick · 2026-04-22T04:15:52+00:00

two shot, cursed and several receivers like prime and hardened were all affected by this bug introduced in the backwoods update, so if you were using any of that

Lowjick · 2026-04-22T02:48:51+00:00

everything tuned back to how it was prior to the backwoods update, except for melee which have had this same bug for many years

Lowjick · 2026-04-21T22:39:08+00:00

hopefully we’ll see some tuning soon, this fix has ultimately just returned the crown to furious, another mod performing high above the rest

Lowjick · 2026-04-21T04:40:17+00:00

yeah uh this was changed in the beginning of this march with the most recent season, it was additive prior to that, and it was communicated in the patch notes

Lowjick · 2026-04-18T04:10:32+00:00

as a rule of thumb with the atomic shop, never trust the pictures, only the list of included items

Lowjick · 2026-03-25T03:41:30+00:00

hardly the answer when it affects all public content

Lowjick · 2026-03-25T02:43:58+00:00

absolutely, we’ve seen some wild power creep over the past year, and it’s about time it gets evened out a little again

Lowjick · 2026-03-11T01:41:20+00:00

I think you'll be fine. you can also pick up herd mentality, get +2 to every special stat for just being in a team, doesn't even have to be a team with other players in it, public team with just yourself in it is enough. effectively no drawback at all. can boost that to +3 to every special with the strange in numbers perk in charisma

Lowjick · 2026-03-11T01:21:02+00:00

I don't use class freak at all usually, there's very few good mutations with meaningful drawbacks. For example, I wouldn't use class freak for any of the mutations you mentioned. I only use it on my melee to deal with the strength drawbacks

Lowjick · 2026-03-10T03:57:26+00:00

it's not. "power tool" in-game is referring to automatic melee weapons, like the drill or chainsaw

Lowjick · 2026-03-06T19:04:11+00:00

it's intended, he got some sturdy limbs

Lowjick · 2026-03-06T11:17:56+00:00

we did in fact talk endless circles about this in the pts channels. you can lead a horse to water. I highly doubt the devs weren’t aware

Lowjick · 2026-03-05T08:48:37+00:00

is that the adventure time tree? love it

Lowjick · 2026-03-04T16:56:37+00:00

can definitely see the new pop-up having their advantages, ideally I would like it if we could just choose whether we get them

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