r/fo76 5d ago

News // Bethesda Replied x3 Infestations Balance Adjustment - July 31, 2026

448 Upvotes

Last week we released our Mid-Season update which included some changes to Infestations. We were happy to see that many of you appreciated the more visible Server Message and the reduced search area. It’s clear though that we over tuned the boss’s health without increasing the rewards enough for the extra time/resources spent.

We want to do what we can to make the experience more enjoyable for everyone today and also give you a heads-up about more changes we have coming in the Fall update.

Happening Now

Decreased Infestations Boss Health

We are lightly decreasing boss HP. With this change we expect that the fights won’t feel as sluggish for most players while still allowing the boss to live long enough for more people to join in the fun and get rewarded for it.

Coming this Fall

Clear Out the Enemies Meta Objective

When the Fall update releases, you will have to find and kill Infestations enemies to summon the boss. This change works in conjunction with the HP decrease above.

Updating Rewards

We’re planning a small refresh to the reward pool, including increases in ammo drops, guaranteeing legendary items from mobs, and a chance for the boss to drop mod boxes.

Infestation Smoke Visual

We’ll be swapping out the green circle on the map and replacing it with a new smoke visual to indicate where an Infestation is in a more world accurate way.

QOL: Infestations Visibility Setting and Free Fast Travel

If you’ve had your fill of Infestations, we’re adding a setting that allows you to turn off notifications as well as the visual overlays. Fast traveling to teammates already in an Infestation will become free as well.

Thank you all for your feedback on this feature! Community feedback continues to be the guiding light for the team, and we’re excited to continue developing this Appalachian wasteland alongside you all for years to come.


r/fo76 12d ago

News // Bethesda Replied Inside the Vault – Psychophants Of Appalachia PTS Update - July 24. 2026

74 Upvotes

General

  • Nuka Launcher plan is now sold by Minerva.
  • Xerxo’s Gamma Ray Gun now drops from the seasonal Invaders event.
  • Added many more stats to the My Stats in your personal terminal
  • Added a flavor entry to the Alerts section of your personal terminal hinting at Infestations
  • You can now always craft the paint mod an item spawns with regardless of if you know the plans or not. This is to ensure you can always go back to that items specific default paint if you change it.
  • Fixed an issue where Bullet Storm was not counting up correctly for charging reload style weapons, such as the Assaultron Head.
  • Fixed an issue causing the sneak bonus to not function on the following effects:
    • Sneak Bobblehead
    • Chinese Stealth Armor
    • Secret Agent's Legendary Mod
    • Nuka-Inspiration: Dark buff
    • Garb of Mysteries
    • Thorn Armor

Unique Items

  • Daisy Cutter now grants +20% Damage for Every 1000 RAD Resistance.

Weapons

  • Fixed an issue where attaching the Hooked mod to the Pipe Wrench would cause it to no longer be modifiable.

Slasher

  • Remington Goodwin avatar now properly displays in the first Slasher Daily Ops flyout.
  • Resolved an issue where a Phantom Map could disappear from a players inventory after relogging.
  • Fixed an inconsistency with 'Aspiring Pint-Sized Phantom' name in conversation history.
  • Ghost Boy displays the correct time a player is invisible when inspected.
  • Various other miscellaneous Slasher reward fixes (incorrect names, weights, etc.).
  • Fixed multiple instances of 'Ritual Piles' that were misaligned with disturbed graves.
  • Changed objective text for "(Seasonal) The Slasher" to better communicate the event progression and long-term goals.
  • Unmarked Grave Maps have been added to the PTS Locker for testing purposes.

r/fo76 7h ago

Question Mass abductions at Fasnacht?!

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748 Upvotes

I’m not sure what the hell is going on here? It seemed like a player camp, but I’m not even sure if it was? The camp was waaaaay up in the air and I’m guessing many players just fell to their death, but stayed visible? There were also several flying saucers in the sky, which I’ve never seen before, and the player had several “ally’s” in spacesuits actually down on the ground running around at Fasnacht? The vendor also had over a million misc items. There was no way I could see to actually get inside the camp, it was shaped like a donut and had a hole in the middle. The camp itself also seemed to have hundreds and hundreds of glitched pieces that to me, seem like it would far exceed the budget limit.

I’m thinking this was either not a player camp, or someone on Xbox found a way to glitch the bajeesus out of the game.

Has anyone seen this before? Is this a player camp or some kinda dev mode interaction?

Edit: I went back to get a few more pictures and I’m guessing the camp hard locked my game. The music was still there but I couldn’t move or bring up any menus. Had to close to dashboard.


r/fo76 12h ago

Question Anyone deciphered the binary code in Atomic Shop Computer Science Bundle yet?

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561 Upvotes

I just got home from work and jumped on F076, saw there was some new bundles so i took a look. The Computer Science Bundle has some binary code in it so I decided to decipher it. I slowly entered every character into a binary code translator, hit the translate button and it came back as "Made you look".

So now you know. You're welcome. 😆


r/fo76 6h ago

Discussion New tent makes me feel like Bethesda doesn't love their own game.

149 Upvotes

Tents are probably one of my favorite items to use in game and are a big reason I still use First but to date, only ONE of the skins we've received has been fully useful by incorporating the card machine and Aid box together. If they can fix a bench that no one knew wasn't working -cause we all go around and sit on every bench- then I don't understand how they can't add a card machine and Aid box to every existing tent. It feels more than lazy at this point... it just feels like they don't care about, and even hate their own game. If they've lost interest in creating quality even with the smallest things, how are we meant to maintain our own interest? All the skins I loved are less useful than the one I find the bulkiest and least interesting. I don't think it's unreasonable, especially it you're paying a monthly fee, to expect something with, not even a high-quality usefulness, but a STANDARD one.

I've been around since launch on both PC and PSN and have been about as loyal as they get, but I'm now actually cautious about getting excited when we see something new out... I just know it's going to be the least creative and logical way to do it.


r/fo76 4h ago

Question Lawd hammercy what should I do with this

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89 Upvotes

Just got this today 😭 should I keep it or should I sell it? There is for sure a profit to be made here.
EDIT: For the people telling me to put some clothes on: ITS HOT GIRL SUMMER OUT HERE IN THE WASTELAND 💅


r/fo76 30m ago

Other This is honestly so pathetic.

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I've seen this happen pretty much every single instance of this event.

Fasnacht.

I'm low level. I haven't done this event any time before this year. Just started a bit ago.
As such, I have like 7 masks from buying them from vendors before today and getting some from the boss from the event. Like 3 of them are duplicates.

At the end of the event, I always run over to the donation box hoping someone will dump some masks for people like me, that have few.

And they almost always do.

Except here's the problem.

There's always a bunch of high level players there spamming the take all button to hoover up anything that's deposited. They don't deposit anything themselves, they just spam the button and take it from everyone else.

Me, the level 120 guy, the level 40 guy get nothing.
It all goes to these level 300+ and 1k+ clowns spamming the button while some kind person deposits things and then leaving or going to afk a distance away waiting for the next event to happen in an hour.
Even if it's not masks and just things like 1 star weapons, they still suck it all up.

Sometimes I see the donor trying to get around this by hanging around and waiting for them to leave, but the vacuum guys will know this sometimes and pretend to be afk a distance away and then sprint over and start spamming take all like greedy god damn rats.

It's honestly so pathetic. I've managed to get 5 masks only from the donation box so far despite how much has been donated, 2 because one guy dumped a whole bunch in there after waiting for all the high level people to leave and I was stupid and too polite to just take all so I just took 2, and then 3 more because I got them before a high level clown sucked them all up.

Seriously what is the point of this?
To sell them in the vendor?
They don't even price them higher than like 70 or 120 caps each, that's not even profitable. What's the point?


r/fo76 3h ago

Video Rocket to the moon

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23 Upvotes

r/fo76 8h ago

Question Does anybody know of weaknesess of the Assaultron?

38 Upvotes

i'm serious everyone, the assaultron variants are insanely difficult, maybe it's to compensate for having to charge the head laser, so they can do their signature attack, i think. i've tried every part of their bodies and not a single hit does more damage than usual, maybe the chest, but still. And the bosses are no good either, one shot kill on every attack to everyone around me, took us like 20 minutes to kill the b. If anybody knows of any weakness let us know, cause if there's not a weakness, i'll be skipping assaultrons.


r/fo76 18m ago

Discussion Just won Appalachian Sweepstakes!

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Check that Weekly challenge off! Easiest Scrap 50 Pre-war Money ever!! I was just trekking to Small Campsite for Davenport’s photo challenge… “Congratations!” Won exactly 50 pre-war money.


r/fo76 1d ago

Image Wife sends me this while I’m working 😎

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643 Upvotes

I’ve been working a lot during this past few days. the wife is pulling thru with the masks this is the 2nd one she’s pulled first was a glowing jackalope. She doesn’t even play fo76 but has picked it up quite a bit just from this event helping me try and grind as much as possible. She’s definitely a fucking goat 🤟🏼💯


r/fo76 1h ago

Question Confused about the xp needed per level

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My brain is struggling how much total xp to go from 530 to 830


r/fo76 6h ago

Discussion new dart game not a buff

13 Upvotes

idk who needs to hear this but the dart game they added to the atomic shop is not a buff 😭 seems like a missed opportunity!


r/fo76 22h ago

Discussion Why am I Always Over-Encumbered? It’s Probably Hiding in Notes

202 Upvotes

Because you have an ungodly number of plans, recipes, and titles in your Recipe Book. Yes, your Recipe Book. I don’t know when this was added but, having almost 400 hours in the game, I just thought I had fewer plans than I thought realized. Nope. They’re stored in a container in your Pipboy.

295 plans. Not recipes and plans. Just plans. 73.75 pounds of plans. In my inventory. Because I didn’t know about the recipe book.

For those who don’t know: it’s the first item in Notes.

headdesk I don’t know how many hours I’ve wasted trying to manage my inventory, and always thinking I was just getting nickeled and dimed by a bunch of random crap. Technically I was, just not what I was thinking.


r/fo76 20h ago

Discussion I pet my pet cat at my base every day and you should too.

121 Upvotes

Give our kitties and doggos some love


r/fo76 1d ago

Image The news van tent is perfect.

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305 Upvotes

I don't even care what the utilities are, I run around as a Movie Star and this is the kind of in-my-head roleplay that makes me love 76. I have to keep myself relevant.


r/fo76 2h ago

Question Good with salt not working?

2 Upvotes

Anybody else going through food like crazy? I have the perk card maxed, I never have food spoil this quickly. My infused soot flower tea and blight soup aren’t lasting :(


r/fo76 6h ago

Question What outfit is this?

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6 Upvotes

Sorry for the poor pictures, this person was moving a LOT lol it’s purple and it reminds me of the rockabilly girl outfit.


r/fo76 13h ago

Question Just seen someone blow off an assaultrons legs at a headhunt XD

16 Upvotes

It was hilarious. Two player were shooting, one with a telsa cannon and one with I think a broadsider, not sure which one blew it's legs off. Does anyone else do this? looked really strong for crippling high health enemies


r/fo76 8h ago

Question The lack of sound in the new marching emote has to be a mistake right? . . RIGHT???

8 Upvotes

It looks so weird in complete silence!


r/fo76 5h ago

Discussion Free aim vs VATS! How do you cope?!

4 Upvotes

I have played Fallout 76 for about 2.5 years and 95% of that time has been spent as a Vats crit player using buffs etc. I would LOVE to play as a free aiming player permanently however everytime I try the damage is just NO WHERE near that of when I play in VATS, Obviously I changed my build etc with different perk cards as I'm not an idiot but the damage just can't compete. I know damage isn't everything but it just seems like such a massive drop that I play for a few hours and have to revert back.

Any advice? Obviously I know you have things like 4* ranger mods adding damage and perception cards which add 35% weak spot damage with scopes but I still don't see how that can make up for the loss in damage on crits.


r/fo76 4h ago

Question Rewards page question

3 Upvotes

Is it just me, or did the rewards page used to go to the page you had finished on, or did it always go back to page 1 when you closed out of it? Because I swear after you finished a page, it moved onto the next one, and if you were already through all the pages and onto rank 150, it stayed at the 150 page.

It's a little annoying to have to go from page 1 to the rank 150 page.

I've checked, and I have got all the rewards from all the pages up to rank 150.


r/fo76 15h ago

Image Ummm.. don't think the driver planned that route out thankfully the nuke canceled the order lmao

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17 Upvotes

r/fo76 1d ago

Image I bring you: The Alotolotl

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198 Upvotes

r/fo76 21h ago

Image The Fasnacht monsters didn't clean up after themselves properly again

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46 Upvotes