gameplay and solo

[oz Helix oz]

i played fallout 3, new vegas and 4. This game can only be played alone? I'm not interested in building or creating my base by the way. I saw that to sell or make money, you have a limit? I didn't understand this very well

[BizarreMan]

This is an online only game. Unless you purchase an additional subscription to Fallout 1st. You will ALWAYS be on a server with other human players. This is not a bad thing. Human players are cool and will help you out.

Your base is what you want it to be. It can be extensive. It can be minimalistic, it can be nothing at all.

There are daily limits to how many caps you can get by selling items to the in game vendors. But you can get caps from doing quests, doing events, selling things to other human players.

[oz Helix oz]

Originally posted by BizarreMan:

This is an online only game. Unless you purchase an additional subscription to Fallout 1st. You will ALWAYS be on a server with other human players. This is not a bad thing. Human players are cool and will help you out.

Your base is what you want it to be. It can be extensive. It can be minimalistic, it can be nothing at all.

There are daily limits to how many caps you can get by selling items to the in game vendors. But you can get caps from doing quests, doing events, selling things to other human players.

i really dont like the base building in fallout, if i dont touch this part, do i get less gameplay? This game focus exploration like every other fallout game or no?

[BizarreMan]

There are a few quests that require a camp and camp building as in (build a specific item and trigger someone to come and advance a quest line). So you have to touch it briefly. But it can be as simple as place a camp, build an item and power if required. If it takes more than 5 minutes it’s because you are trying to build in a restricted location.

You can use other peoples camps for many things as well as public locations that have all of the workbenches you need.

[lucg]

No worries, once the basic needs are builded, it's done (5 minutes). After that, if you develop interest in ameliorations, it's timeless ... !!!

There's a "Responder's quest" to learn the CAMP basics.

For the exploration side, you're free to do whatever you want to do in Fallout 76 ... !

But remember, it's a complex game with mechanics, so playing/following quest lines is a good thing.

[EJR]

Originally posted by oz Helix oz:

Originally posted by BizarreMan:

This is an online only game. Unless you purchase an additional subscription to Fallout 1st. You will ALWAYS be on a server with other human players. This is not a bad thing. Human players are cool and will help you out.

Your base is what you want it to be. It can be extensive. It can be minimalistic, it can be nothing at all.

There are daily limits to how many caps you can get by selling items to the in game vendors. But you can get caps from doing quests, doing events, selling things to other human players.

i really dont like the base building in fallout, if i dont touch this part, do i get less gameplay? This game focus exploration like every other fallout game or no?

You can go through the whole game and what it offers without building a base. Personally I'd build one and just put down the necessities ie crafting benches and a bed. But even then you should be fine, considering that the train stations have a stashbox (Your own personal storage), and the Whitesprings resort has a wide range of services in the lower floor (You'll see what I mean if you go there). The only real gameplay feature you lose out on is the player vending machines, which basically serve as the only real way to trade between players nowadays. But this obstacle is overcome if you are part of other forms of 76 communities ie Discord and make trades there, or prefer to not engage in multiplayer stuff and just do things yourself.

As for exploration, it is pretty much the same as other Fallout titles just with less in-game changes to accommodate the player's choices since this is an online game.

[oz Helix oz]

Originally posted by EJR:

Originally posted by oz Helix oz:

i really dont like the base building in fallout, if i dont touch this part, do i get less gameplay? This game focus exploration like every other fallout game or no?

You can go through the whole game and what it offers without building a base. Personally I'd build one and just put down the necessities ie crafting benches and a bed. But even then you should be fine, considering that the train stations have a stashbox (Your own personal storage), and the Whitesprings resort has a wide range of services in the lower floor (You'll see what I mean if you go there). The only real gameplay feature you lose out on is the player vending machines, which basically serve as the only real way to trade between players nowadays. But this obstacle is overcome if you are part of other forms of 76 communities ie Discord and make trades there, or prefer to not engage in multiplayer stuff and just do things yourself.

As for exploration, it is pretty much the same as other Fallout titles just with less in-game changes to accommodate the player's choices since this is an online game.

76 or fallout 4?

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Build Baby Build--Please let the Moles out of the Generators.

[nordmeyerx]

There are some daily or weekly scoreboard tasks that require you to have a CAMP or Shelter to complete them. Completing them, however, is not mandatory.

It's funny, the OP says they want nothing to do with Base Building and I just spent 1.5 hours re-doing my CAMP. :)

For what it's worth I did absolutely 0% base building in Fallout 4, but am spending a lot of time with it in this game.

[Nyota Mwuaji]

A basic camp in a specific area can let you get a lot of resources you need to get around, but you can play solo.
Also if you put your camp in a decent location, it'll cut down on Fast Travel costs.

[Whiterabbit-uk]

I consider myself a solo player; however, this game is almost like playing a single player game. Apart from a few idiots I've come across in the almost 1500 hours I've spent playing it since November last year, most players are very friendly.

When I first played the game on a free weekend, I was a little dubious as i'd heard that the game was a little toxic (and is the reason I didn't start playing the game in it's first year); however, with the dev' team constantly updating the game and having added some massive updates, that part of the game is virtually extinct and even as a solo player you can get hundreds of hours out of the game. That said I would advise you play the events that usually require several players to complete successfully. Those events usually earn lots of decent stuff.

I play cooperatively with three friends a couple of times a week, the rest of the time I play solo, apart from when I join an event (that usually last from a few minutes to several), at which point i'll join a team as you get more pick ups and more XP. At the end of the event, I leave the team, as do most others. It's just advantageous to play in a team when you do those events.

As for building a CAMP, if you are into earning more consumables for free, you complete daily challenges that give you score points, when you've earned a specific number of points you unlock a section of the scoreboard, which may include a consumable, an in game currency such as CAP's, Stamps, Legendary Script, Gold Bullion and others as well as CAMP items, for example near the end of last seasons scoreboard we got a hunters lodge that looks great in your camp and very useful.

Anyway, you often get challenges that require you to build various items in your CAMP or shelter. If you didn't bother with those, you'd be losing out on some decent freebies over time. Plus, you can sell stuff via the vending machine that you've picked up from events, that you find in the wasteland and the enemies you've dispatched; {e.g. legendary weapons, plans, mods etc}, which can only be build once you've set up your CAMP. Also, building a CAMP allows you to fast travel back to it for free, as well as several other places on the map once you've visited them (Foundation, Whitesprings, Rusty Pick, The Crater, Fort Atlas, Vault 76, players in your team and their CAMP's.

I have four CAMP's at the moment (the first two come free, further CAMPs cost 1000 Atoms) each CAMP placed strategically so that I spent as few caps as possible moving around the map. There are several in game currencies that can be confusing initially; but it doesn't take long to sus things out, especially as the various wiki sites cover almost every aspect of the game. Personally I purchased a second hand copy of Bethesda's survival guide, but the wiki's cover all of what's in the guide.

'You may be able to find a copy via the internet archive. I've found a few hundred strategy and survival guides for loads of games I have in my Steam account, all downloadable as PDF's as well as several other document types.



Despite having played all those hours, I'm still discovering places and things to do, and have yet play the expeditions side of the game.