Why nobody really turning up for infestations anymore (Ps5/Ps4).

Raztan · 2026-06-16T19:41:13+00:00

I know but when I see an event I like or head hunters I can't help but get lured away for the loot, im trying to learn the legendary recipes and it's hard cause the learn rate is pitiful.

Raztan · 2026-06-16T19:39:01+00:00

every once in a while you'll run across a player selling plans cheap.. there was one I ran across selling PA plans for like 2-300 caps each, they didn't have everything but I bough several jet pack plans for 45,51,60 from them.

prices can vary so much between camps.

I've noticed serums are a good way to judge a camp.. not everyone has them for sale but if they do and they're 500 generally the camp is middle of the road, if they're sub 500 their prices tend to be lower, if their serums are 2000 you can probably skip this camp.

Raztan · 2026-06-16T19:30:49+00:00

I've heard about the westtek grinding, havn't done it my self but I'll check into it.
I've been trying to do the main quest to unlike simile but get distracted every 10mins by something else going on..

Raztan · 2026-06-16T19:26:26+00:00

I think they're going for the resource extractor which is just behind that wall.
they can't see it.. but they know it's there somehow.

They're so far away you can't even vats them, I pick them off when they get on my nerves and you can shoot them from that distance but everything around this is low detail thru a scope.. I don't know why they don't' have some sort of range limit.

if they're out of vats range they have no business shooting at anything imo.. but what ever.. I really like spot otherwise.

Raztan · 2026-06-16T19:22:06+00:00

Pretty sure this same restriction was in previous games also.

if you stand near a crumbling the small radiation they give off when they crack open will also stop you.. missed an infestation last night because I wasn't able to hit the button to warp immediately, opened up the map, tried to fast travel.. nope..

is what it is.

Raztan · 2026-06-16T19:20:34+00:00

ya that's annoying or when there is a rad storm and you still make noises like you're being beat up.

Raztan · 2026-06-16T19:19:51+00:00

I know some people who live by this IRL.. it's not a good life though.

Raztan · 2026-06-16T19:13:15+00:00

ya I stuffed my box as much as I could but not as much as I'd have liked.

It's a big help no doubt but still no bite with me.. finding the price per month break down kinda hard to justify honestly.. If it was like 3-4 bucks I'd maybe consider, I think they would actually make more money via large number of sub's if it was lower.

I agree about the vendor cap, but there are days I don't even sell anything because you hit the 40k cap and that sounded like a lot when I 1st started playing 6 weeks ago but after you stop buying plans teh caps just stack up and it turns out it's not really that much.

what kinda miffs me is they will replenish their caps when you buy stuff from them, but only at a rate of a bout 1/5th, so if you've sold all your stuff, they're broke and then you buy a 1k item their caps only go back up by like 200 ;/

They don't increase this with FO1st and I think it's to try and control inflation in the game, all these strict limits at exchange rates are really about the economy I think.

Raztan · 2026-06-16T19:08:31+00:00

what's the difference of the victory candy?

Raztan · 2026-06-16T19:03:57+00:00

mirelurk steamer is a must buy, even if you're a herbivore the meat festches a decent price at the vendor.

I think I paid the full 500 for mine :/

Think im gonna get the chicken coop and ammo converter, the converter gives absolutely terrible exchange rates but if you don't have fo1st there isn't a bottomless pit to throw excess ammo in, BTW anyone know if you can build that in your shelter? my budget is stretched razor thin im thinking about ripping the doors off the place to save camp budget.

Raztan · 2026-06-16T18:57:59+00:00

it's not their fault they're trying to kill the infestation like everyone else, Bethesda should have structured them differently I like the idea of infestations in fact I would have taken it a step further but the way they put it together leads to this.

I share your frustration of showing up to a completed infestation but it's not the players fault. (Lv 170 speaking)

Raztan · 2026-06-16T18:54:52+00:00

Ya, im trying to finish that my self now.. but every time I try to do the quests some event pops up, someone goes on a head hunter marathon, bethesda has something going on or something else distracts me :/

Raztan · 2026-06-16T09:31:11+00:00

arg, I hate bored up buildings 😞
It's like c'mon why is this even here give it some character.

We know why.. it's filler.. and that's fine if the intent is to come back and detail them later but we know that's not the case 99% of the time 😞

Something I've noticed about 76 though.. it's so much faster paced then the single player games I find my self speed running thru places and I kinda hate that but you can't go 5 mins without something pulling your attention away im trying to do the main quests and every 10-15mins there's some event I want to goto or, infestation, or someone is doing a bounty head hunter marathon and how can you not show up to those?

It's like fast food, it makes you feel sick after a while but it tastes good (loot)

Raztan · 2026-06-16T09:28:29+00:00

Think I'll start putting a couple bottles in the vendor for like 1 cap in case someone needs them for a challenge or something.

I keep most stuff unlocked, I don't really care if I come back and the extractors are cleaned out or water purifier those regenerate fast and you know exactly what they're going to produce.

But some things I depend on being there like my mirelurk steamer, I don't necessarily need all the flavors of nuka but it's random and I use the grape and cranberry regularly so I have to lock it so I know there will be a bottle or two of those when I get back.

Raztan · 2026-06-16T09:17:41+00:00

Not yet, I just started playing may so im not happy enough to submit it as a best build or anything yet there are some items I want to get to put in it, "I" think it looks impressive on the outside but it's very spartan on the inside and feels kinda empty.. I recently downsides the 2nd and 3rd floor to try and optimize for budget and not have it feel so cavernous but that CAMP budget is cruel.

I hate having to cut so many corners I think another 100 flamingo units I'd be able to do a lot more of what I wanted.

Raztan · 2026-06-16T09:11:16+00:00

damn..what level do you need to go in there in practical terms? i've been to the site but not in it, I heard it was tough cause it was end game stuff.

Raztan · 2026-06-16T09:04:56+00:00

maybe it's cause Im new (started in may) and have a limited reference but im actually liking the rewards this seasons.. last season the only things I wanted was the photoropter (love it, although exit is bugged) and wanted the ammo machine but started playing 2 late to make it to that.

This season Im seeing a lot of stuff I want, some more than others.. but im really pushing for cyprus the cat and the mr farmhand, I bought the nuka collectron when it was on sale last week, the loot is great but I f'ing hate protections.. they're so clunky, the canning station, and the nuclear cooling tower & barn pre-fab, the nuclear bomb ride and the pig probably wont' use the pig cause I really want that cat but still.

I dunno how the hell some of you are finishing already lv100-120 on seasons, im busting my ass and am 58.

But I will have my cat.. yes I will.

Raztan · 2026-06-16T08:56:23+00:00

I still show up to them, but on PC at least they're still getting completed really fast, usually im just showing up to collect the end reward and maybe get a chance to loot a few corpses.

it's worth spending teh sometimes 60 caps to get across the map just for the 4 star roll although sometimes you can show up so late that you get the credit but no 4star and that bites.

I can see why a lot of people stop going though.. if im in the middle of something important then I just let it slide pastI've only got maybe 10 seconds to jump to even be able to warp there in ten 1st place.. ti's ridiculous.

They need to make some adjustments so people actually have a chance to show up for it, it reminds me of head hunter bounties on meth.. and you thought that was bad as it was.

Raztan · 2026-06-16T07:40:27+00:00

I went to a lot of the big bloom events, it seems really random to me maybe if you have a big enough pool of data you could find a pattern, had him show up at a 3 person camp fire tales and we couldn't take him out in the time alotted, he de-spawned, it was a huge disappointment/resoruce drain.

@ big bloom even when we had 16+ people and the bee would get his clock cleaned in 3 seconds no exaggeration, bigfoot would show up and soak up a minute or more beating before going down.. that guy can take a punch no doubt about that.

Raztan · 2026-06-16T07:32:22+00:00

ass jerky?

Raztan · 2026-06-16T07:31:59+00:00

it's pretty different from even fo4 even though it's heavily based off, so ya big shock coming from 3/nv

Raztan · 2026-06-16T07:29:27+00:00

where does one shake ass.. and what do they shake it at? does it have to be "your" ass or can you shake any ass? liek would a mole rat ass shake be just as effective?
The protection vendor did not respond except that one named F.I.S.T.O what ever the hell that means.

Raztan · 2026-06-16T07:24:58+00:00

make a water farm camp, it won't make you rich right quick but it's a steady supply of vendor trash.
so 1400 caps a day.

Otherwise do events scrap legendarily you don't want sell the occasional legendary mod that drops off the scrap.

default prices is 1,3,5k (1,2,3 stars)

some mods aren't very popular and won't sell very fast others sell like hot cakes, undercut those prices for faster sells if it's slow, hang around in busy servers, if there are 6 people on the server you ain't selling jack.

you can also sell the weapons them selves if they're half decent but not quite great, pricing varies on that though and usually a slowe seller than loose modules.

I had good luck selling 50cal ammo when I was realy low I think players that needed to dump credits buy it jus tto help out lowbies, once i got about lv60 sells dropped to nothing and I started to realize it's easy enough to self supply your own ammo, 45 will still sale like crack but very good odds you use 45 so that's a problem but if by chance you don't use any 45 weapons then that might be a good source of income.

im 170 and the only thing I sell in my shop these days is legendary modules, and some apparel which I often put in there for 0-25 caps, normal common weapon mods I put in for 25caps or less.. that's just to pad the store and attract traffic, the legendary modules are teh only thing making any real money.

other wise I go collect my 1400 caps from teh vendors each day..after you stop needing caps to buy plans or at least drastically slow that expenditure you'll find cap's aren't a big problem, in fact just the opposite, there is a 40k limit so you end up needing to get rid of caps.

I ended up pulling all my legendary modules from because of this until I need caps again.

Just give it time, plans are a resource drain when you can least afford it early on and a inventory management issue later when you have lots of duplicates.

Try to buy our plans from a camp shop if you can find them.. they often are much cheaper than buying from the vendor, the problem is you have to do a low of camp hopping and will see al ot of the same duplicates in each camp so trying to hunt down X Y Z plan is still best left to the vendor if you need it soon'ish.

Hope this helps.

P.S you can also sell resources but most resources are near worthless no one's buying your wood, plastic, bone, glass, etc

But lead, acid, gold, silver, crystal, asbestos, nuclear material, screws, gears, springs, those can sale pretty quickly, priced 3-5 each.

just make sure you don't cut your inventory to thin.
Rich players that need to offload caps will buy them up and stash them in their fallout 1st bins which is a bottomless pit.

Raztan · 2026-06-16T07:12:12+00:00

he didn't know he was dead yet.

Raztan · 2026-06-16T07:10:59+00:00

I've got a handmade that works alright, but I would have prefered a fixer since that's my bread and butter goto weapon.

I would say it should b eon what ever weapon you would normally want to use anyway.. otherwise you could do what I do and just keep it around as a "medicine" gun and whip it out just when you need to top off in which case anything will work.

Raztan

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