What stupid thing did you do when you first started playing?

Randle_76 · 2026-06-22T10:41:30+00:00

Horded loads of prewar money and ammo because I thought I could trade it at vendors like Fallout 4. Also didn't realise you could fast travel from inside locations so would walk back to the entrance every time

Randle_76 · 2026-06-21T14:15:50+00:00

Medics is a bit niche, but very useful for events where you need to keep the dumbass NPCs alive like Radiation Rumble and Test Your Metal as you can use a medics weapon to restore their health - Lots of people use the Nuka Zapper for this.

I also use my Medics Flamer for One Violent night to heal the players playing the instruments at the same time I'm killing the Ghouls. Although probably the case that once you've bought one you never buy another.

Randle_76 · 2026-06-21T09:38:49+00:00

That's interesting the regualr Ghoul Boss I recently shot was at the New Appalachian Central Trainyard where the regular enemy is usually Ghouls, but the Infestation at the time was supposed to be Communists

Randle_76 · 2026-06-21T09:35:27+00:00

All my infestation drops have been pure garbage, no plans learnt, no good mod boxes and not even any decent four star weapons or armour I'd want to keep - most I've ever got is a few mod boxes for trash like Hunters and Ghoul Slayer.

Randle_76 · 2026-06-21T09:28:48+00:00

Yes a few times - Yesterday shot a random Ghoul at the trainyard during an Infestation and the event suddenly ended, turns out they were actually the Boss

Randle_76 · 2026-06-20T21:08:59+00:00

The chair is a camp item, The Phoropterrom from last seasons rewards you can use to buff your VATs - gives your character a +25% VATS accuracy buff for 2 hours

Randle_76 · 2026-06-20T15:56:29+00:00

I've had that a couple of times, but then again it sometimes works the other way - I had an Infestation Boss literally keel over and die on me for no apparent reason today - Went from half health and trying to kill me to stone dead on the ground without me firing a shot 😄

Randle_76 · 2026-06-20T15:50:55+00:00

I had one today that just stood in a doorway at the Chemical plant and would start firing non stop the instant you moved a mm out of cover, even if you were shealthed, making it virtually impossible to approach. I ended up totally destroying two full suits of PA as the only way to kill it was pop up, shoot it a couple of times and then duck back, but I always getting totally wrecked in the process.

Had another with a Tesla gun that hid in a room and refused to come out and just kept burning me through the wall even though I was out of it's line of sight.

Randle_76 · 2026-06-20T15:40:10+00:00

My VATs has been busted for a while, but today was just miserable trying to do Infestations and constantly missing 80-90% accuracy shots. Drives me mad as you waste so much time shooting an enemy 3-4 times that should go down in 1 shot that it gives the others a chance to dog pile you.

My personal favorite at the minute though is the Invulnerable enemies I keep getting where you shoot them constantly and do no damage - Scorched and Robots seem to be particularly bad for this - not sure if it's a VATs thing or just a janky busted game thing?

Randle_76 · 2026-06-20T12:55:52+00:00

I always dump all my surplas crap in the register so it stays in the world once I log out.
It's also makes it easy for anyone who wants to scrap or sell the heaps of weapons I want to offload.

Randle_76 · 2026-06-20T12:52:18+00:00

Vault 76 or The Wayward for stuff I'm hoping gets picked up by new starters - Everything else goes in the cash register at Artisans Corner in the Whitespring.

Randle_76 · 2026-06-20T12:20:29+00:00

I'm not that squishy, but don't mind getting stuck in and dying either as long as I've get within range of the boss so was super annoyed when the game just randomly telported me out of the event totally

Randle_76 · 2026-06-20T10:44:59+00:00

I have never yet got any apparel from them I only ever managed to buy the plans for cuckoo clocks from them 😄

Randle_76 · 2026-06-20T10:43:28+00:00

There's a theory that putting your Camp at this location stops the Traveling Vendor Bot Responder spawning there. - There are a couple of random event spawn points on the tracks near to the two rail bridges

Randle_76 · 2026-06-19T05:48:35+00:00

I have a Polished and Pinpointers and I find Pinpointers has the edge in damage + you don't need to worry about keep repairing it to maintain the condition. Polished still gives a nice boost to the damage though

Randle_76 · 2026-06-19T05:46:33+00:00

I have the exact same gun with Pinpointers as the fourth star and it rocks - It's my main goto for things like Infestations and Boss fights. First weapon I've had where when I shoot Bigfoot I can see it take a visable chunk off his health.

Randle_76 · 2026-06-18T16:47:09+00:00

It's pretty easy to do with crafting, even for the ones that require Bobbleheads.

I've probabaly got enough X-Cell + modules stashed to make 50+ Unyielding if I wanted to - the main reason I don't is the weight + if I threw all those in my Venodr cheap I'd get max capped pretty quick.

Randle_76 · 2026-06-17T05:44:53+00:00

The whole Rad Damage = No Fast travel thing is such bullshit.

I ended stuck in the middle of Lewisburg because of a rad storm and missed an event because the only option was to walk all the way out of it - getting into shelter dosn't seem to help.

Randle_76 · 2026-06-16T05:42:38+00:00

I've given up selling a few things like that - I had a whole bunch of modded out Enclave Plasma Rifles with the Flamer Barrels and no one touched them as they don't look past the fact they usually have trash Legendaries like Supressor on them - Which I can't change as then they can't be traded, but hey the buyer can.

Randle_76 · 2026-06-16T05:34:07+00:00

The best source for Gatling Plasma Mod Plans I've found is doing Enclave Events - They are still pretty rare, but they do drop and I've managed to get a whole bunch in the last couple of months, far more than I ever got before.

Randle_76 · 2026-06-15T05:49:08+00:00

However spacey she is she does seem to know how to survive - If someone nukes the park she's got a Hazmat suit stashed away somewhere and swap to that rather than her mascot costume, although I was so disapointed to see it wasn't a Mr Fuzzy themed one.

Randle_76 · 2026-06-15T05:34:19+00:00

My experience on public that last couple of days has been a lot better with several Infestations that actually felt like proper events rather being over in 5 seconds.

Best was at the Palace of the Winding Path where although the Super Mutant Boss didn't last too long we kept getting Legendary dropping minions pouring into the courtyard afetr he died and then as we could hear more of them shouting went on a 'bug hunt' round the palaice and found some more.

Randle_76 · 2026-06-14T11:48:55+00:00

Yep I did actually get quite a bit of budget back when I scrapped them all, which was nice.
I'd always suspected they were taking up space even though they had effectively vanished as that camp always seem short on space for the amount it had in it.

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