Fallout 76 version 1.99 is available to download on PS4, PC, and Xbox One. According to Fallout 76 update 1.99 patch notes, the latest season 19 comes with Gleaming Depths update, focusing on the Enclave and its mission of scientific revitalization. Apart from this, Fallout 76 patch 1.99 also includes gameplay performance and stability fixes.
Recently, Fallout 76 patch 1.91 added new areas, uncover Vault 63’s secrets, and enjoy summer camp-themed activities and rewards with Season 17. Unfortunately, since the last patch, players are reporting several issues while playing the game online. Today’s Fallout 76 version 1.99 will resolve a few of these issues.
Fallout 76 1.99 Patch Notes (FO76 update 1.99) – December 3, 2024
Summary of Key Changes
- Season 19 Begins December 3: Launches alongside the Gleaming Depths update, focusing on the Enclave and its mission of scientific revitalization.
- New Rewards Introduced: Enclave-themed outfits, C.A.M.P. items, and pets like the Bombay Cat and White German Shepherd.
- Tesla Cannon Weapon: A new shoulder-mounted energy weapon to dominate your enemies.
- Exclusive Fallout 1st Rewards: Includes M.O.D.U.S. Terminal Vending Machine, Plasma Core Recharger, and more.
Season 19 Overview: The Scientific Forge
- Theme: Based on the Enclave, featuring patriotic and high-tech designs.
- Season Calendar: Check the community calendar for scheduled events and activities.
New Rewards
General Rewards
- Enclave-Themed Items:
- Paints, outfits, and C.A.M.P. items with an Enclave aesthetic.
- Enclave Lab Coat for a stylish, faction-aligned look.
- Tesla Cannon: A powerful, shoulder-mounted energy weapon.
- New Pets:
- Bombay Cat and White German Shepherd added as companions for your C.A.M.P.
Fallout 1st Member-Exclusive Rewards
- M.O.D.U.S. Terminal Vending Machine: A futuristic AI vending station for C.A.M.P. setups.
- Enclave Grill Cooking Station: A themed cooking area for your C.A.M.P.
- Enclave Hazmat Paint: Stylish protection with faction pride.
- Plasma Core Recharger: Recharge plasma cores directly at your C.A.M.P.
Additional Notes
- Season 19 introduces a plethora of patriotic and science-focused items, enriching gameplay and customization.
- Non-members can purchase a Season Pass to access exclusive Fallout 1st rewards.
Detailed Perk Card Changes
Adamantium Skeleton
- Ranks reduced from 3 to 1.
- New Effect: Limb Damage Reduction now scales with Endurance.
All Night Long
- Ranks reduced from 3 to 1.
- Rank 1 Perk Point cost increased from 1 to 2.
- New Effect: Positive effects of pre-war alcohol last twice as long.
Batteries Included
- Ranks reduced from 3 to 2.
- Rank 1: 45% weight reduction for energy ammo.
- Rank 2: 90% weight reduction for energy ammo.
Bloodsucker
- Ranks reduced from 3 to 1.
- Moved from Charisma to Endurance.
- Rank 1 Effect: Gains the previous Rank 3 effects, with healing increased from 150% to 200%.
- Additional Effect: Benefits also apply to Cannibal.
Bullet Shield
- Moved from Strength to Endurance.
- Added a 4th rank.
- New Effect: 5% chance per rank to deflect ranged attacks for 6 seconds when firing a heavy weapon.
Cannibal
- Ranks reduced from 3 to 1.
- Increased healing and hunger restoration at Rank 1.
Cap Collector
- Ranks reduced from 3 to 1.
- Now applies to containers and corpses, not just Cap Stashes.
- New Effect: Caps found scale with Luck.
Evasive
- Ranks reduced from 3 to 1.
- New Effect: Increases Evade Chance based on Agility.
First Aid
- Ranks reduced from 3 to 1.
- Now affects Stimpak Diffuser.
- New Effect: Stimpak healing scales with Intelligence.
Four Leaf Clover
- Ranks reduced from 3 to 1.
- New Effect: Misses in VATS contribute to the Critical Meter based on Luck.
Hard Bargain
- Ranks reduced from 3 to 1.
- Rank 1 Effect: Grants +7 Charisma while bartering with NPCs.
Iron Stomach
- Now also increases Energy Resistance.
Junk Shield
- Ranks reduced from 3 to 1.
- Now works in Power Armor.
- Additional Effect: Scales with Luck.
Lifegiver
- Ranks reduced from 3 to 1.
- New Effect: Improves HP gained from Endurance.
Lone Wanderer
- Ranks reduced from 3 to 1.
- New Effect: AP Regen and defense bonus based on Charisma.
Natural Resistance
- No longer increases Energy Resistance.
Night Eyes
- Removed the time-of-day requirement.
Ordnance Express
- Ranks reduced from 3 to 2.
- Rank 1: 45% weight reduction for explosive ammo.
- Rank 2: 90% weight reduction for explosive ammo.
Pharmacist
- Ranks reduced from 3 to 1.
- New Effect: Radiation healing scales with Intelligence.
- No longer required for crafting Disease Cures or Water Filters.
Professional Drinker
- Ranks reduced from 3 to 2.
Ricochet
- Ranks reduced from 3 to 1.
- New Effect: Increases Deflect chance based on Luck. While in Heavy or Power Armor:
- Deflect Chance receives a +50% multiplier.
- Reflected damage doubles (200%) in Power Armor.
Serendipity
- Ranks reduced from 3 to 1.
- New Effect: Increases Evade Chance under 30% HP, based on Luck.
- Cooldown Adjustments: Evade cooldown increased by armor type:
- Light Armor: +0.1 seconds per piece.
- Medium Armor: +0.2 seconds per piece.
- Heavy Armor: +0.4 seconds per piece.
- Evade cannot occur when over encumbered or in Power Armor.
Starched Genes
- Ranks reduced from 2 to 1.
- Moved from Luck to Endurance.
- Rank 1 Effect: Now includes former Rank 2 benefits.
Thru-Hiker
- Ranks reduced from 3 to 2.
- Moved from Agility to Endurance.
- Rank 1: 45% weight reduction for food and drink.
- Rank 2: 90% weight reduction for food and drink.
Summary of Major Updates
- The Gleaming Depths Raid: A new challenging raid for endgame players featuring unique mechanics, 4-Star Legendary rewards, and a new Ping system for team communication.
- C.A.M.P. Pets: Introduced customizable Cat and Dog companions for your C.A.M.P., complete with interactive features and item retrieval.
- 4-Star Legendary Items: Enhanced customization options for weapons and armor, obtainable through raids and new 4-Star Legendary Creatures.
- Perk Card Rebalance: Streamlined perks, scaling effects, and updated ranks to improve accessibility and build diversity.
- Weapon and Combat Balance: Adjusted weapon damage, AP costs, and creature resistances for a smoother gameplay experience.
The Gleaming Depths raid is a new endgame activity designed to be faced by a party of four highly leveled and geared players. Each encounter will require your party to work together to overcome unique coop mechanics to overcome the bosses within. These bosses may also punish some types of character builds and we’re sure you’ll figure out which builds are more advantageous for each fight.
Unlike Daily Ops and Expeditions, which can be cleared solo if you have the correct build, the Gleaming Depths will require you and your squad to take on unique roles during the encounters and communicate with each other. To help facilitate communication, we’re also introducing a contextual Ping system to allow those who may not feel comfortable with being on voice comms to assist the team. When pointed towards a target, the ping system will mark hostile and friendly targets, points of interest, and containers.
When designing this activity, the team laid out five core features that will make raids different than other repeatable content:
- Require Teamwork
- Challenge Endgame Builds
- Unique Boss Fights
- No Time Gating
- High Value Rewards
We’ve covered the first three bullet points in the opening paragraphs so now let’s cover the last two.
No time gating. Raids can be completed back-to-back without having to wait for a reset timer. If you complete the raid, you get rewards. This is important because completing raid encounters will be your primary source of 4-Star Legendary Mods/Items as well as other raid related rewards (such as the new Player Titles!).
A reminder before you go: The Gleaming Depths is intended to be challenging. A part of that challenge will be staying alive because your team will not be able to revive you until the encounter is finished (in success we hope). Don’t worry though! You can use your downtime to view the fight from your teammates perspective which will hopefully allow you to devise a new strategy. Also, make sure you utilize the new Raid Public Team before entering the raid. This will give your team a Weapon Durability buff that will only work in the Gleaming Depths.
4-Star Legendary Items
With the release of the Gleaming Depths, we are expanding the current legendary system to take your 3-Star items and allow you turn them into 4-Star items. Opening a whole new avenue for you to modify your weapons and armor in ways that amplify your playstyle.
These 4-Star Legendary items will be obtainable as drops during the raid and they also have a chance to drop from the new 4-Star Legendary Creatures that will spawn around Appalachia.
To give you an idea of the new mods that await you, here’s a 4-Star Legendary mod from the Weapon, Power Armor, and Armors category:
- 4-Star Legendary Weapon Effect: Critical Hits Restore 5% of Health & Action Points for Player and Teammates Within a 50ft Radius
- 4-Star Legendary Power Armor Effect: Action Point Cost of V.A.T.S. Attacks Reduced by -5% (up to -25% on Full Stack)
- 4-Star Legendary Armor Effect: Melee Weapons Deal +5% Bonus Damage (up to +25% on Full Stack)
This all ties into the Legendary Crafting system that was introduced in Milepost Zero. If you have 4-Star Legendary Weapons and Armor, you’ll have a chance at obtaining a loose mod or learning the recipe when you scrap the item. Like 3-Star Mods, loose 4-Star Mods can be traded with other players. But the second you craft it on an item that item becomes untradeable and you cannot drop it.
C.A.M.P. Pets
Say hello to two new fuzzy friends who will help bring your C.A.M.P. to life! We’re excited to bring C.A.M.P. Pets to Fallout 76 starting with a Cat and a Dog. And yes, you can pet them.
You can find your C.A.M.P. Pet in the newly updated DWELLERS workshop tab and spawn them by placing the corresponding spawning furniture for the cat or dog – a cat bed and a doghouse.
Once placed, the animals will follow you around your C.A.M.P., idly walk, sit in their furniture and use their own cat scratcher or dig in their doggy bone mound (aka dirt pile). The latter furniture items must be placed before they will use them, and currently are found in the MISC workshop tab.
C.A.M.P. Pets will not follow you in the world – they are just that – a C.A.M.P. pet! You cannot have more than one at a time, but you can have one pet and one ally in your C.A.M.P.. They will not, however, be available in your Shelter.
To interact with your new friend, walk up to them and press the interaction buttons that you see when they are close. “Interact” for Pet Commands, “Customize” for Dress Up, and “Edit Name” to call them what you’d like (other players will NOT see your pet’s name).
Through Pet Commands you can have them sit, speak, and of course, pet them through an emote style window.
Dress up your pet by crafting their collars at the Armor Workbench in the Pet Clothing section, then use the “Customize” interaction to place them on your friend.
As well as being a cute dweller in your C.A.M.P., they will also bring you an item every so often! This Pet Treasure system allows your fuzzy friend to show their love for you by bringing you a little treat!
We hope you enjoy the C.A.M.P. Pet feature as much as we did creating it!
Keep an eye out for more pets in the future!
Keep an eye out for more pets in the future!
Player Titles
Player Titles are a new way to express what’s unique about your Vault Dweller. Through your Pip-Boy, you can combine different prefixes and suffixes to come up with a nickname that suits you! Earnable from participating in Public Events, Limited Time Events, completing Main Quests, and Seasons, these unique titles will help you stand out from the crowd. The Gleaming Depths raid will also have its own set of titles that will be tied to Challenges.
For long-time players, any titles that are associated to content that you’ve already completed will be automatically granted to your account.
Season 19 – The Scientific Forge
The release of The Gleaming Depths update marks the start of Season 19 – The Scientific Forge. Themed around the paramilitary organization the Enclave, once known as a deep-state faction of the United States government, comprised mostly of our favorite artificially intelligent supercomputer, M.O.D.U.S. The Enclave’s mission? The revitalization of America through the power of science!
Mutated Public Events Update
We have added five public events to the Mutated Public Events playlist.
These events are:
- Campfire Tales: Volatile and Toxic Blood Mutations
- Free Range: Resilient and Swift-Footed Mutations
- Project Paradise: Active Camouflage and Resilient Mutations
- Beasts of Burden: Freezing Touch and Reflective Mutations
- Safe and Sound: Swift-Focused and Danger Cloud Mutations
Perk Cards Balancing Update
The Gleaming Depths update releases with some substantial balancing changes to a handful of Perk Cards.
Our goal was to take generally underperforming perks and make them more interesting and easier to incorporate into your builds by removing some extra ranks, lowering the cost, and changing their effect to scale with the related primary stat.
Adamantium Skeleton
- Ranks reduced from 3 to 1
- New effect: Limb Damage Reduction effect now scales with Endurance
All Night Long
- Ranks reduced from 3 to 1
- Rank 1 Perk Point cost increased from 1 to 2
- New effect: The positive effects of pre-war alcohol last twice as long
Batteries Included
- Ranks reduced from 3 to 2
- Rank 1 now offers 45% weight reduction
- Rank 2 now offers 90% weight reduction
Bloodsucker
- Ranks reduced from 3 to 1
- Moved from Charisma to Endurance
- Rank 1 gains the effects of the former Rank 3 effect
- Healing bonus increased from 150% to 200%
- Additional effect: Benefits now also apply to Cannibal
Bullet Shield
- Moved from Strength to Endurance
- Added a 4th rank.
- New effect: 5% chance per rank to Deflect ranged attacks for 6 seconds when firing a heavy weapon.
Cannibal
- Ranks reduced from 3 to 1
- Increased the healing received and hunger restored at Rank 1
Cap Collector
- Ranks reduced from 3 to 1
- Now applies to containers and corpses, not just Cap Stashes
- New effect: The amount of Caps found scales with Luck
Evasive
- Ranks reduced from 3 to 1
- New effect: Now increases Evade Chance based on Agility
First Aid
- Ranks reduced from 3 to 1
- Now affects Stimpak Diffuser
- New effect: Stimpak healing scales with Intelligence
Four Leaf Clover
- Ranks reduced from 3 to 1
- New effect: Misses in VATS contribute to the Critical Meter based on Luck
Hard Bargain
- Ranks reduced from 3 to 1
- Rank 1 now grants +7 Charisma while bartering with NPCs
Iron Stomach
- Now also increases Energy Resistance
Junk Shield
- Ranks reduced from 3 to 1
- Now works while in Power Armor
- Additional effect: Now also scales with Luck
Lifegiver
- Ranks reduced from 3 to 1
- New effect: Improves HP gained from Endurance
Lone Wanderer
- Ranks reduced from 3 to 1
- New effect: AP Regen and defense bonus based on Charisma
Natural Resistance
- No longer increases Energy Resistance
Night Eyes
- Removed requirement for the time of day
Ordnance Express
- Ranks reduced from 3 to 2
- Rank 1 now offers 45% weight reduction
- Rank 2 now offers 90% weight reduction
Pharmacist
- Ranks reduced from 3 to 1
- New effect: Radiation healing scales with Intelligence
- No longer required to craft Disease Cures or Water Filters
Professional Drinker
- Ranks reduced from 3 to 2
Ricochet
- Ranks reduced from 3 to 1
- New effect: Now increases Deflect chance based on Luck. Deflect grants a chance to reflect 100% of the damage of ranged attacks back to the attacker and reduces the damage you take from the attack by 50%. Deflect chance receives a bonus while wearing Heavy Armor or Power Armor (+50% multiplier). While in Power Armor, the amount of damage reflected is doubled (200%).
Serendipity
- Ranks reduced from 3 to 1
- New effect: Now increases Evade Chance while under 30% life, based on Luck. Evade provides a chance to avoid all incoming damage from direct attacks. Evade can happen once every second and the cooldown is now increased by armor. Please note, Evade cannot happen when over encumbered or while in Power Armor.
- Armor increases Evade cooldown at the following rates:
- Light Armor: +0.1 second per piece
- Medium Armor: +0.2 seconds per piece
- Heavy Armor: +0.4 seconds per piece
Starched Genes
- Ranks reduced from 2 to 1
- Moved from Luck to Endurance
- Rank 1 now provides the benefits of the former Rank 2
Thru-Hiker
- Ranks reduced from 3 to 2
- Moved from Agility to Endurance
- Rank 1 now offers 45% weight reduction
- Rank 2 now offers 90% weight reduction
Adjustments to Explosion VFX
We’ve reduced the radius in which screen flash effects appear for a multitude of explosions throughout the game. This is purely a visual change and does not impact the radius in which damage is dealt.
A few of these have had sizeable reductions (especially Fatman and Fatman MIRV explosions). Please be sure to provide feedback on whether these changes are sufficient in reducing unwanted screen flashing, if there’s any additional explosions that we should adjust, or if some explosions no-longer feel impactful and satisfying to use.
Player Weapons
- Artillery Piece (Workshop)
- Auto Grenade Launcher / M79
- Baseball Grenade
- Broadsider
- Bug Grenade
- Cryo Arrow
- Cryo Grenade
- Cryo Mine
- Explosions (all types) from weapons using the Explosive legendary mod
- Fatman
- Fatman MIRV (from individual projectiles)
- Flaming Arrow
- Floater Flamer Grenade
- Floater Freezer Grenade
- Frag Grenade
- Grand Finale (Broadsider)
- Hack and Slash (Legendary Perk)
- Hellstorm Missile Launcher
- Hellstorm Missile Launcher Cryo Payload
- Hellstorm Missile Launcher Napalm Payload
- Hellstorm Missile Launcher Plasma Payload
- Missile Launcher
- Missile Turret
- Orbital Strike Beacon
- Plasma Grenade
- Pulse Grenade
- Troglocide
NPC Weapons and Environmental Effects
NPCs’ use of player weapons listed above will also be affected.
- Exploding Cars & other Civilian Vehicles
- Explosive Rounds from Turrets
- Floater Freezer Death
- Fusion Core Meltdown (Robots)
- Gas Canisters
- Invaders from Beyond UFO Missile Strikes
- Mole Rat Landminer
- Robot Death Explosion
- Scorched Exterminator Plasma Launcher
- Super Mutant Suicider Mini-Nuke
- Turret Death Explosion
- Various destructible objects such as machinery in Grafton Steel and The Foundry (The Pitt)
- Vertibird Death Explosion
- Vertibot Death Explosion
Combat Balance
The notes you see below are a continuation of the combat rebalancing work that we began during the Skyline Valley patch. This is an ongoing process we will continue to do combat rebalancing work into next year.
- The cooldown of evade effects now scales based on how much damage was avoided
- The durability of armor has been increased
- Slightly increased the chance to learn to craft weapon mods via scrapping
- Slightly increased the amount of Steel and Ballistic fiber that weapon-using enemies can drop
- Balance adjustments for Communist and Liberators
- Added additional information about Damage Types and Damage over Time effects to the Help menu
- Reduced the damage of the Auto Axe: 31 –> 24
- Adjusted the damage of the V63 Zweihaender: 85/45 –> 64/64
Armor
- Brotherhood Recon and Secret Service are now classified as Heavy Armor
- Civil Engineer, Arctic Marine, Marine Armor, and Trapper Armors are now classified as Medium Armor
- Covert Scout Armor, Solar Armor, Thorn Armor, Urban Scout Armor, Forest Scout Armor, and Wood Armors are now classified as Light Armor
- Botsmith armor is now classified as Heavy Armor
Weapons
We have made changes to Damage and AP Costs for many weapons which primarily focuses on improving cases where weapons don’t perform well enough to meet players’ expectations.
Damage Buffs
These values represent the weapon at its maximum level (45 or 50, depending on the weapon). Lower-level values have similar increases in damage. Damage for the following weapons has been increased:
- 10mm Pistol: 28 -> 31
- 44 [revolver]: 60 -> 72
- Black Powder Pistol: 176 -> 216
- Black Powder Rifle: 180 -> 217
- Bow: 90 -> 95
- Cold Shoulder: 115/75 -> 91/91
- Combat Shotgun: 90 -> 97
- Compound Bow: 100 -> 112
- Crossbow: 70 -> 111
- Double Barrel Shotgun: 115 -> 140
- Gauss Rifle: 140 -> 146
- Gauss Shotgun: 140 -> 187
- Harpoon Gun: 175 -> 195
- Hunting Rifle: 70 -> 100
- Lever Action Rifle: 75 -> 88
- Pepper Shaker: 60 -> 75
- Pipe Bolt-Action: 70 -> 94
- Pipe Gun: 26 -> 28
- Pipe Revolver 55 -> 70
- Pump Action Shotgun 95 -> 102
- Salvaged Assaultron Head: 50 -> 62
- Single Action Revolver 62 -> 82
- The Dragon: 225 -> 255
- Western Revolver: 65 -> 84
- Assaultron Blade: 40 –> 51
- Baseball Bat: 55 –> 69
- Baton: 40 –> 47
- Bear Arm: 50 –> 70
- Blade of Bastet: 52 –> 61
- Board: 50 –> 68
- Bone Club: 51 –> 60
- Bone Hammer: 80 –> 94
- Bowie Knife: 30 –> 35
- Boxing Glove: 34 –> 40
- Cattle Prod: 86 –> 113
- Chinese Officer Sword: 36 –> 42
- Combat Knife: 33 –> 44
- Cultist Blade: 41 –> 52
- Cultist Dagger: 32 –> 38
- Death Tambo: 45 –> 53
- Deathclaw Gauntlet: 55 –> 77
- Electro Enforcer: 35 –> 44
- Fire Axe: 72 –> 84
- Gauntlet: 50 –> 81
- Golf Club: 45 –> 57
- Grognak Axe: 85 –> 107
- Guitar Sword: 50 –> 59
- Hatchet: 40 –> 51
- Knuckles: 35 –> 50
- Lead Pipe: 39 –> 49
- Machete: 40 –> 51
- Meat Hook: 34 –> 40
- Mole Miner Gauntlet: 45 –> 64
- Multi-Purpose Axe: 69 –> 87
- Pickaxe: 60 –> 76
- Pitchfork: 47 –> 59
- Pipe Wrench: 30 –> 38
- Plasma Cutter: 26/68 –> 30/86
- Pole Hook: 71 –> 90
- Pool Cue: 46 –> 58
- Power Fist: 58 –> 81
- Revolutionary Sword: 44 –> 56
- Rolling pin: 28 –> 35
- Sheepsquatch Club: 60 –> 76
- Sheepsquatch Staff: 75 –> 95
- Shepherd’s Crook: 50 –> 63
- Shishkebab: 27 –> 34
- Shovel: 40 –> 54
- Sickle: 36 –> 45
- Ski Sword: 50 –> 63
- Sledgehammer: 71 –> 90
- Spear: 58 –> 68
- Super Sledge: 85 –> 107
- Switchblade: 30 –> 38
- Tenderizer: 75 –> 95
- Tire Iron: 29 –> 37
- Walking Cane: 42 –> 53
- War Drum: 78 –> 99
- War Glaive: 82 –> 104
Hellstorm Missile Launcher:– Projectile damage (all barrels): 120 -> 178 – (Hex Barrel damage is based on this and also will be increased proportionally) – Standard Barrel explosion damage: 80 -> 178 – Cryo Payload explosion cryo damage: 78 -> 107 – Napalm Payload explosion fire damage: 78 -> 107 – Fire Damage Over Time is unchanged. – Plasma Payload explosion energy damage: 78 -> 178
AP Cost Reductions
AP costs for the following weapons have been reduced:
- 10mm SMG: 28 -> 14
- Dev Note: The Anchorage Ace no-longer gains an additional AP cost benefit beyond the Reflex Sight’s 15% reduction.
- .50 Cal Machine Gun: 30 -> 12
- Auto Grenade Launcher: 30 -> 18
- Broadsider: 40 -> 18
- Cremator: 30 -> 20
- Cryolator: 20 -> 10
- Fat Man: 60-> 40
- Flamer: 30 -> 10
- Gatling Gun: 30 -> 14
- Gatling Laser: 30 -> 8
- Gatling Plasma: 30 -> 14
- Gauss Minigun: 30 -> 14
- Harpoon Gun: 40 -> 18
- Hellstorm Missile Launcher: 45 -> 20
- Light Machine Gun: 32 -> 10
- M79 Grenade Launcher: 30 -> 16
- Minigun: 30 -> 8
- Missile Launcher: 45 -> 25
- Pepper Shaker: 30 -> 14
- Plasma Caster: 30 -> 18
- Ultracite Gatling Laser: 30 -> 10
Weapon Mod Adjustments
Adjusted the damage for the following Beta/Gamma laser mods:
- Laser Gun
- Reduced DoT damage
- Reduced fire damage
- Ultracite Laser Gun
- Reduced DoT damage
- Reduced fire damage
- Gatling Laser
- Increased DoT damage
- Reduced fire damage
- Ultracite Gatling Laser
- Reduced DoT damage at level 35
- Reduced fire damage
- Plasma Gun
- Reduced DoT damage
While these weapons are still being evaluated for overall balance, these particular mods over-shot the current target for fire damage mods (especially when taking into account the recent adjustments to creature health and resistances) and are being brought in line with similar mods for other weapons. This allows for more consistency among weapons and mods when making future changes.
Human(ish) Creature & Weapon Balance
Creatures that previously used player weapons (Blood Eagles, Cultists, Lost, Mole Miners, Raiders, Scorched, and Super Mutants) will now use NPC versions of their weapons with balance adjustments to account for this change (see notes below).
When defeated these enemies will have a chance to drop the base version of their weapon alongside some junk items. When a weapon isn’t dropped, the enemy will instead drop more junk items that players can scrap to make up for the loss components you would receive from scrapping these weapons. Increases have also been made to the components earned from scrapping many junk items in the world, so now you will also have more components at your disposal.
We have also increased the rate at which you learn mods from scrapping weapons by 10% to account for the lower number of weapons you’ll find from these NPCs. This increase will not affect your chance to learn Legendary weapon mods.
- All creatures previously using player weapons (Blood Eagles, Cultists, Lost, Mole Miners, Raiders, Scorched, Super Mutants):
- Weapon damage now scales to level 100.
- Dev Note: This brings these enemy types in line with other creatures whose attacks already could scale to level 100.
- Thrown grenades now scale with level.
- Dev Note: This currently only applies to enemies using grenades. Damage from player grenades is unchanged.
- Health, resistances, and damage now scale more smoothly from level 1 to level 100.
- Dev Note: These creatures will generally be less threatening at mid-level (especially 35-75) but should be a bit tougher towards level 100. In some cases, at lower level, these creatures may be slightly weaker or stronger in order to ensure that they’re appropriately engaging even when first met.
- Power Armor variants’ resistances now scale more appropriately at differing levels.
- Dev Note: These creatures previously would gain a flat bonus from Power Armor at all levels and thus could be unexpectedly tough at low-to-mid level.
- Resistances differentiated between Blood Eagles, Cultists, and Raiders.
- Now rely more on health as the primary driver of survivability rather than resistances.
- Dev Note: Resistances are being used to differentiate damage types rather than as a substitute for health. This has the side benefit of showing higher damage numbers when attacking these creatures which more closely match the weapons being used.
- No-longer gains a variable amount of resistances based on randomized armor.
- Weapon damage now scales to level 100.
Creature Balance
The types of health, damage, and resistance adjustments mentioned in the creatures below have also been applied to other creatures as part of earlier updates:
- Floater Freezer
- Slightly lowered the duration of the slow effect on the freezing breath attack.
- Reduced the rate at which the slow effect accumulates for the freezing breath attack.
- Reduced damage for the freezing breath attack.
- Reduced the cryo damage for the blast/stare/shockwave attack (the one which also deals fusion core damage).
- Floater Flamer
- Reduced damage for the fire breath attack.
- Floater gnasher
- Reduced damage for the bite attack.
- Alien Invader
- Reduced health
- Reduced damage in Daily Ops.
- Lesser Devil
- Increased damage.
- Bloodbug
- Reduced radiation damage at lower levels.
- Thrasher
- Increased melee attack damage especially at higher levels.
- Decreased Sonic Gobble attack damage at lower levels.
- Now weakest to fire damage and resistant to radiation, energy, and poison damage
- Reduced the bonus damage on most creatures’ weak points from 2.0x to 1.5x.
- Health for body parts generally associated with benefits for crippling limbs has been reduced. In many cases, it should be much easier to cripple a creature’s limb before dealing enough damage to kill the creature.
- Damage to combat inhibitors for robots and turrets will result in less overall health damage to the robot, but the combat inhibitor can now be destroyed much earlier, before the robot/turret has lost most of its health.
Accessibility
When you enter the game for the first time, you’ll be presented with the Accessibility Menu that includes the new settings you see below. This will only appear once and if you need to change any of these settings in the future, go to Settings > Accessibility.
Speech-to-Text
- Turning Speech-to-Text ON will add a new message window to the UI that will transcribe all voice communication from other players in the area.
- Message Window Fade Time – Changes how long the message window stays on screen after the last message has been received.
- Message Window Visibility – Changes the transparency of the message window.
Screen Narration
- When the setting is ON, you’ll hear the audible description of emotes from other players in the area. For example: “[Player] wants to team up!”
UI Navigation
- Digital Input
- Several screens relied completely on analog stick input and that has been addressed to allow keyboard control on PCs and d-pad control on consoles. This includes the Challenges, Scoreboard, Map, and Character Creation screens.
- Analog Input
- Several screens didn’t support analog inputs to navigate the UI, so that analog functionality has been added to the Favorites Wheel and Social Panel.
- Single Key Presses
- Fast Travel Countdown Cancel – Now allows a single button command to cancel the fast travel instead of clicking both the left and right analog sticks.
- Social Menu – Allows a single button command to enter the Social Menu instead of having to hold CTRL-TAB on PC.
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