Fallout 76 update FREE for the biggest new releases, reviews and tech hacks SUBSCRIBE Invalid email Sign up forfor the biggest new releases, reviews and tech hacks When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they'll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. Our Privacy Notice explains more about how we use your data, and your rights. You can unsubscribe at any time. Fallout 76 gets a huge new update today, as well as some downtime server maintenance on PS4, Xbox One and PC. Weighing in at around 6GB on consoles, the Fallout 76 Patch 8 adds new Wild Appalachia content to the online multiplayer game. This includes a brand new questline, balance changes and the usual array of bug fixes, as well as new features like item renaming and an in-game news feed. The news was confirmed in a new post on Twitter: "Patch 8 arrives today, bringing a host of new Wild Appalachia content to Fallout 76, including a new questline, features, balance adjustments, and a ton of bug fixes." According to the patch notes - a selection of which can be seen below - the update makes a ton of changes to the Survival beta. The update is also accompanied by some offline server downtime. There's no word on how long the servers will be down for, although Express Online will update this piece when there's more information. Check out the Fallout 76 patch notes below... Patch 8 arrives today, bringing a host of new Wild Appalachia content to Fallout 76, including a new questline, features, balance adjustments, and a ton of bug fixes. Read on to catch the full patch notes for today’s update: https://t.co/UAMOBedUhG pic.twitter.com/GIuLk1teaM — Fallout (@Fallout) April 9, 2019 NEW WILD APPALACHIA CONTENT NEW QUESTLINE – LYING LOWE • The Lying Lowe questline is now available! Begin your investigation into this mysterious case by finding and reading one of the “Sheepsquatch Ate My Brother” posters in Lewisburg or at Train Stations around Appalachia. • “Sheepsquatch Ate My Brother” posters are also available for free in the Atomic Shop until 9:00 a.m. EDT on May 7. Once claimed, you can place the poster in your C.A.M.P. and read it to start the quest. DESIGN AND BALANCE SURVIVAL MODE BETA • Death Mechanics: The amount of Aid dropped on death has been significantly reduced. • Death Mechanics: The number of Caps lost when killed by another player has been reduced from double to 25% of that character’s level. • For example, A level 60 character who is killed in Survival will now lose 15 Caps, rather than 120. The killer in this case will earn 15 Caps. • Scoreboards: Map highlights for the top 3 ranked players are now based on the Players Killed Scoreboard rather than Longest Life. • Temporary Invulnerability: In a recent hotfix, we addressed an issue that could prevent the temporary invulnerability effect from being applied correctly to players after Fast Traveling or Respawning. VENDOR FACTION UPDATES • A Vendor from each faction except the Enclave can now be found downstairs in the shops at The Whitespring Resort. • This should help reduce the need to Fast Travel in order to visit multiple Vendor Factions when buying and selling items. • The pool of 200 Caps that was previously allocated to each Vendor Faction has been merged into one combined pool of 1,400 Caps that is shared across all Factions. • This means that buying items from, or selling items to, a Vendor will update the pool of available Caps across all Vendor Factions. • This change should offer more flexibility when buying and selling higher-priced items, or when attempting to trade many items at once. • The Vendor Cap pool still resets after 20 real-time hours. TURRET ATTACK DAMAGE AND RANGE TUNING • Player-built Turrets are now affected by player PvP damage rules, which feature damage scaling, as well as an increase in base damage for all types of Turrets, ranging from +15% to +100% damage depending the Turret. • Additionally, Turret attack ranges have been increased to match players’ weapon ranges. • The Shotgun Turret’s projectile spread has been reduced to better match the Combat Shotgun. • These changes should help Turrets in C.A.M.P.s and Workshops pose a bigger and more consistent threat against attackers. Fallout 76: Bethesda announces ‘Wild Appalachia’ free content<doc-sep>There’s a new patch out today for Fallout 76, and along with the usual bug fixes and adjustments comes a brand-new questline. Called "Lying Lowe," the quest sends players hunting for clues to help determine the fate of a pre-war brother and sister, who may have crossed paths with a legendary West Virginia cryptid called the Sheepsquatch. The adventure begins in Lewisburg, where players can find posters put up by someone named Shelley van Lowe. It seems Shelley was in search of her brother Calvin, and believed that he may have met a gruesome fate at the hands of the Sheepsquatch—the "fabled wooly terror" of West Virginia, according to Bethesda. As it turns out, the Sheepsquatch is a genuine local legend in certain counties of West Virginia, with a smattering of sightings reported in the mid-1990s. The Lying Lowe questline is structured like a pulp mystery, so you’ll be digging up clues and following leads just like in the good old (future) days with Nick Valentine. You can start the quest by finding one of the "Sheepsquatch Ate My Brother" posters scattered around Lewisburg, and available free in the Atomic Shop. The other big ticket addition with Patch 8 is a new high-level dungeon called The Burrows, which will be available starting April 16. Bethesda says this is a "challenging experience for even the toughest of Wasteland adventurers," and is set beneath Harper’s Ferry. From the sounds of things, this will be one to do with a team. The official patch notes have all the details on the balance changes and other adjustments made in Patch 8. Bethesda has addressed quite a few minor bugs and added a few nice interface features, such as the ability to rename items. Now you’ll be able to hunt the Sheepsquatch armed with a "baseball baaaaaat."<doc-sep>The second big update of Fallout 76's Wild Appalachia expansion is now live. Bethesda has rolled out patch 7.5 across PS4, Xbox One, and PC, bringing the long-awaited Survival PvP mode--along with some other gameplay changes--to the online RPG. As previously detailed, Survival is a more competitive PvP experience, removing all the restrictions that typically govern PvP encounters in Fallout 76. Now when you boot up the game, you'll be presented with the option to dive into either it or Adventure mode (the standard Fallout 76 experience). Regardless of which you choose, the story and content will remain the same, and your progress will carry over between modes, but the stakes in Survival will be much higher. In particular, PvP encounters have a lot more on the line in Survival mode. You'll be able to attack other players freely, and you'll earn twice as many Caps for killing someone else as you would in Adventure. If you're on the receiving end, however, you'll drop all of your junk and a random assortment of the aid items you were carrying. Bethesda has also removed the "Seek Revenge" respawn option, although you will be able to spend your Caps to place a bounty on your killer, which will make them appear as "wanted" to other players. To go along with this increased emphasis on PvP, Bethesda has tweaked some gameplay elements. Most notably, you'll only be able to respawn at your CAMP, or at Fallout 76 or train stations. The developer says it has also adjusted PvP damage "to make weapons feel even more deadly in your hands, while also limiting the likelihood that another dweller can drop you in one hit." You can read the full patch notes for the 7.5 update on Bethesda's website. The developer has many more updates planned for Fallout 76. Next month, it will introduce player vending and the Shear Terror questline, while May will bring the Legendary vendor. You can read more about Fallout 76's roadmap here.<doc-sep>
Fallout 76’s Patch 8, which brings a new chunk of content that is part of the Wild Appalachia expansion, is out today. There’s a new questline focused around Calvin van Lowe, a brother who was lost in the pursuit of the mysterious Sheepsquatch. The Sheepsquatch is a West Virginia legend, and we can likely expect him to be as rude as the other beasties roaming Appalachia. The Lying Lowe questline can be started by finding and reading a “Sheepsquatch Ate My Brother” poster, which is located in train stations around Appalachia or in Lewisburg. The poster can also be claimed for free in the Atomic Store until May 7, and players can put the posters in their CAMP, which can also be used to start the quest. A new dungeon, The Burrows, will be added on April 16, which will see players delving beneath Harper’s Ferry following a doomed Brotherhood of Steel expedition. The Burrows is described as a challenging experience that is best done in a squad with powerful gear equipped. The other big change is to vendors. Vendors from each faction will be in the shops at Whitespring, meaning that you can go to one place for all of your buying and selling. All vendors now have a shared pool of 1,400 caps. Previously, each vendor from each faction had 200 caps, which meant players had to hunt around to sell their things to someone with caps to trade. Player vending has been delayed until Patch 9, at which point players will be able to set up their own shops with cap pools and transactions. The full patch notes can be found on Bethesda’s website; there are additional changes like the ability to name weapon and armor, player turret damage changes in PvP, and a reduction of caps lost in Survival PvP.