sneak broken ?!

[Mephisto]

so my sneak character (15 Agi / 3/3 sneak / evasive / 5/5 thorn armor, 1 part chameleon / fixer with silencer) can't sneak any more ... every stupid mob in every event detects you instantly, so you loose the sneak dmg bonus, nice job B.
< well at least since the update (that as we know always breaks everything it can break) >
it's so fun when a character that relies on sneak is completely unplayable (again - not that it doesn't happen every other update)
so back to brut force char

[DocBravo]

Something is wrong.
My main is a stealth sniper with some awesome gear to back the build.
I can sit, invisible, and on a roof or high somewhere and mere moments something sees me and attacks.
Have every Sneak related perk, 3 Star Fixer, and everything. I should be able to shove my gun in it's face and unload several rounds before they remotely react.

[Nono]

Sneak is solo gimmick anyway, unreliable in big open group fights.

[AnonymousGamer79]

Originally posted by Mephisto:

so my sneak character (15 Agi / 3/3 sneak / evasive / 5/5 thorn armor, 1 part chameleon / fixer with silencer) can't sneak any more ... every stupid mob in every event detects you instantly, so you loose the sneak dmg bonus, nice job B.
< well at least since the update (that as we know always breaks everything it can break) >
it's so fun when a character that relies on sneak is completely unplayable (again - not that it doesn't happen every other update)
so back to brut force char

Newer player here but take it for what it is worth. Had a lot of problems with sneak, from reading things online I get the feeling that the autistic devs currently in charge have a hard on hate for stealth and have take action against it, even if they aren't being up front about it. Generally every game will eventually fall prey to the anti-sneak designers at some point. What is funny about this game though is that the other main way to cheese the game is allowed and celebrated, and ofc I speak about studio sanctioned bunny hopping. It doesn't matter if you drink some roo serum or put a magical rocket on your 2 ton mech suit. This makes the game easy mode. See bad man, me jump high, me brap with big gun wall of bullets/lasers/grenades. Throw in B/U and this is the meta of Fallout 76. High jump results in shallow trivialization of almost all content, but we must do something to deal with that weakly armored guy sneaking and shooting one bullet at a time. Vote with your wallet my man.

[Mephisto]

well the last time they broke it, it just resettet certain perks after each fast travel, so you could just unselect and reselect, but this time they really broke it. even the chinese stealth armor is not working any more. it's now only a fancy hazmat suit

[[2]Friendly]

Originally posted by Nono:

Sneak is solo gimmick anyway, unreliable in big open group fights.

This! Nothing more to say - works perfect.

[sideer]

I've got set of Secret Service armor with 3x Secret Agent mods. Update changed armor classifications but I recall Secret Service was heavy armor before (probably not a change here). With all revelant perks I'm getting detected in sneak mode randomly and I'm also not sure why (it might be related to light in area)- ghouls and super mutants seems to be able to detect my character a lot easier now. Anyway stealth build is still ok for solo, just not ranged one- my bloodied sniper is able to take about half of lvl 100 supermutant health from sneak attack, dmg is also like 300-400 lower than before- so You can forget about one-hit-kill from ranged weapon now.
If You read patchnotes there is an info saying damage bonus for hitting vulnerable body part was lowered to 1,5x, hunting rifle damage bonus was boosted a bit but I have doubts even with legendary 4star weapon mod I can one-shot kill 100 supermutant, since that would mean I would have to somehow double my initial hit value.
If You want to run stealth build that can one hit-kill most of the targets only mele is an option here now, since mele weapons can get huge dmg boost from food.
One more thing: steath do not affect weapon sound, change position fast after firing or performing mele attack otherwise You will get detected. Commando stealth build is a lot harder to play now since rapid fire means rapid detection usually.

Edit: Sneaking in events usually ends up for me being detected so instead of it I'm using non-sneak build. You can go for regular armor + rapid fire ranged weapon (enclave plasma rifle- quad, rapid, vats cost reduced) and crit vats build. This will do very well in events. Heavy weapon is also good choice and I like to use quad ultracite gatling laser or quad gatling plasma with power user perk- that means loads of shoots per core and You can forget about reload thing for most of events.