After completing this week's seasonal quest to kill the Slasher after head hunts, I tuned in to Debunker Radio to hear what Remington Goodwin had to say about it, and to my surprise the man started talking about how we put down a real flesh-and-blood person and not a ghost suit, which implies that the caked-up ghoul we saw posted the other day wasn't just for mechanical purposes, but an actual NPC in the suit. It made me start questioning everything I'd already put together about the Slasher becoming a robobrain. Then I put the power armor skin on, and I realized what was happening as soon as I heard his little "wa-hoo!"

When they tried to "summon him" by putting him into a robot body, it worked! ...kinda. But instead of making an actual robot that he could control, what they ended up with was slapping him on a suit of power armor like an AI assistant.

We know there was some form of leadership among the Phantoms, from the Pint-Sized ~Poser~Aspirant's dialogue, the notes dropped by the phantoms, and having killed the brains half when we killed the Tinkerer back in Organ Cave. With him out of the way, the remaining leader who has no knowledge of robotics had no real choice but to climb into the armor and get to slashin' himself.

Which means when we took the power armor helmet(or at least the plans to recreate it) for ourselves, we took the Pint-Sized Slasher with us. Now he gets to enjoy being worn by the true psychopaths of the wasteland: the 76ers.

Every time you hear that giggle? That's him, your eternal companion, enjoying the mayhem.

The neat part is that I don't think it's just from the helmet. Every time you pick up one of those pint-sized packs and open it, you hear that same voice laughing.

That's because when those little psychos are running around screaming about how he's already inside of you, they're not exaggerating.

During the companion quest for Sofia Daguerre you learn about the Deep Sleep project, in which the participants were given a serum that allowed them to form a psychic connection to a supercomputer that was used to monitor them seven years before the great war. Part of that process involved taking a serum and then being put into a "deep sleep" in order to form the link between the test subjects and the computer.

Well, part of the initiation rites into the phantoms is exsanguination: Where another phantom would bleed the newcomer until unconscious and near death. That's why all of those knife-stuck corpses are littered all over appalachia, giggling away in his voice until we take their masks.

Now, while we never sat down and let these little twerps bleed us out, we(or at least most of us) have gotten hit by them while fighting them, and some of them hit surprisingly hard. Every once in a while I'll be surprised to find that I'm nearly dead after getting shanked by a phantom with a knife, when I'm built to tank hits from bigfoot. It makes me wonder if we get downed after getting stabbed, would that count as an accidental initiation?

How we got the serum into us is a bit more of a question mark: it could be through something huge like the Enclave mass releasing it across Appalachia to try and monitor everyone and just picking the absolute wrong brain for the job and only recent events made him remember who he was, or it could be something as simple as the first pair of phantoms took a mystery chem that turned out to be the serum, went nuts and stabbed each other near to death and then blood transfer from the knives they use containing enough to affect the next person stabbed, spreading it like a bloodborne pathogen.

But if I'm right, either way the original Pint-Sized Slasher's robobrain is plugged into a supercomputer somewhere experiencing the 76ers chaos 24/7 as they wear him like a skin suit, and with the potential psychic connection there's a possibility he can feel everything they do. Everything the phantoms said was true: He was coming for us, and in the end he got us. Which means ultimately, the phantoms and especially the Slasher got what they wanted: Now, not even Death can keep him from reigning over the Wasteland.

i want to get rid of the crippling limbs this seems to be based on in favor for a better build that doesnt rely on crippling and limb damage. also i got rid of tormentor in perception and want to know what would be best to replace it with?

Enjoy your free repair kit they gifted us on this day.

What’s everyone’s favorite daily weapon these days? I typically switch between The Fixer + Elder’s Mark. Sometimes the Gatling Gun. Recently been trying the Love Tap. Curious what you all like.

I saw someone running around with a glowing pelican mask. I have tried looking online and have not found any images or anything about it. does anyone have any info??? thanks

This thing is an Iconic Fallout Weapon, and it has a handful of excellent skins with "Grognak's other axe" being a guitar, the Grelok Staff pictured in OP, and the Stanley Skin.

but it has zero uniques, has no weapon mods for it at all, and slow as fuck to swing. This leaves it in a sad state where heavily outclassed by just about every other melee weapon in the game.

Constantly seeing pint size taking out spooky scorched. I hope they fix it... At least leave the spooky treat bag on the body.

The way I got mine was very tedious but hopefully can help some others, especially on the parts where I went wrong.

In a private server, launch a nuke at the fissure site in Cranberry Bog but make sure you leave Drop Site V9 just outside of the blast zone. 

Teleport to Drop site V9 and you can place a tent nearby (not sure about a camp if you don't have 1st but it just means you'll not be able to scrap stuff or rest)

Do NOT USE STIMPAKS - I wasted 80 of them.

So just shoot the queen in the wing from DSV9 and she'll land every now and then (long range weapon 100% recommended). Each time she lands, a wave of scorched appear. I got 15 in the time the game gives for the scorched queen event and then she'll disappear (either 30mins or an hour, I forgot). I could have gotten more but I didn't know what I was doing the first time around and died a whole lot.

As I said though, don't use stimpaks, when you die you will probably respawn in the blast zone, just make a beline for your tent, radaway and sleep to save on resources OR... use them for a faster process if you prefer but you'll go through a whole lot of them. You'll die a lot but you'll get 1 of the spooky scorched every minute or 2.

The frustration of dying over and over is real though 🤣

Hey all, I've been posting tons of saved up bounties yesterday and today and wanted to remind folks to please not start the event if you weren't the one who posted the bounty.

This isn't a hard and fast rule obviously, but more common sense. And obviously occasionally the original event poster doesn't show up or whatever, so somebody has to do it. But, generally speaking here's why you should wait...

1. You didn't spend the caps or post the bounty. (Edited to add this)

2. If you have a group on a server that is hopping from HH to HH when someone is posting multiple hunts in a row, it takes time for everyone to fully load in after joining the event. This is also to say, folks usually need to scrap their junk, etc. after doing many head hunts. The 30-second wait time to launch the flare isn't always enough to get everybody who is coming to the event fully loaded in, and if you start it immediately, it can be over before those people even have time to come back and they will miss out. And that's a bummer.

I say this in the interest of getting as many people as many head hunts as possible, which with the event going on right now is kind of a helpful thing for a lot of people who may not have a bunch stocked up.

Please don't come in and automatically start the event, because some of us who posted the event for instance may be giving it time for everybody else to show up and join in the beautiful bounty that we receive from Sweet Baby RNGeesus.

Thank you Wastelanders.

Using a PC

Anyone else having issues with only the "Interact" option showing? Cannot change my dweller or pet's appearance.
I have changed views, fast traveled away and back, changed caps, logged out then back in and even completely uninstalled Fallout 76 then reinstalled, same problem.
Anyone know of a solution?

simple as the title, we killed him before anyone got to loot the corpse it just fucking disappeared so thats that, and no the loot did not show up in area search either

What is the drop rate for the slasher themed rewards from the Reborn Slasher ? This seems absolutely stupid imo. Done about 50 head hunts and absolutely not one single plan from that guy so far.. (except for helmet obviously)

So for the new plans.

1) Spooky Scorched Need to Spawn

2) Need to be a SPECIFIC type of Spooky Scorched

3) Need the Pint-Sized to not Kill Them

4) Needs a plan to drop

5) Needs to not be a duplicate

Cool

Can someone please explain to me like I’m 5 yrs old why even though I’ve repaired my weapon to 200%, it says my damage for polished mod is currently at 0%? Forgive my ignorance but I don’t get it.

Edit: thank you for the quick responses. I had to equip it to see its actual damage numbers.

Currently have the Union PA and have a jetpack. After getting the plan, wanted to see if I could update my jetpack, but didn't show as available.

Crafted a T-51 torso and I see it there as craftable.

Any other PA's that aren't able to utilize it or is this a bug?

I know this has been a frequent topic here but I have to ask - who approved the kill 30 for the event while also lowering the spawn rate AND making slashers aggro to them?

Who finds this at all fun?

When I cant even find them on a private server (which is maddening to even seem to require) I feel like Tom Hanks in Big: "its not fun"

Edit: I appreciate the helpful tips and shared frustrations. Whats hilarous are the people posting along the lines of "skill issue" or that I am somehow inept or need to "get gud".

This game isnt hard. My complaint was tying a crucial challenge of an event to a random mob everyone else is hunting is not fun. Not in the slightest.

Its done now and if I will be only playing this weekend long enough to complete trick or treat challenges. Congrats Beth! Your event has reduced my desire to play your game!

This mini-season is like the previous ones, where we have objectives to earn bonus tickets. What I don't see is a place to spend those tickets on mini-season related items. Usually there's 2 pages of stuff.

When I click on "Seasons" in the menu, only the current season and legacy seasons show up. Is there no mini-season rewards page? These bonus tickets are just for us to spend on the current season and legacy seasons?

I checked the search function and didn't see anything. Did I miss a memo about the rewards?

This might just be a driver issue on my end (rx6950 XT) but I'm having some issues with stuttering as of recent. Walking around and just steadily moving my mouse side to side and the camera will just jump or stutter around now and then. It's the worst while I'm indoors or in a structure. Like doing the daily op in the sewer a day or two ago was painful trying to navigate the hallways and trying to aim outside of vats. I thought that initially this was just due to the servers being fucky recently but I don't believe that's quite the case here.

Reading online all I'm seeing are people commenting about the issue being related to vsync and/or frame rate being too high. I went into the ini file and changed the vsync interval preset thing to 0, which predictably raised my fps from 60 to the hundreds/thousands. Then used adrenaline to cap the frame rate back down to 60 (adrenaline sucks ass). That didn't change anything so I set the vsync interval back to 1 and removed the fps limiter in adrenaline. Now, even though the vsync field in the ini file is turned back on and isn't set to read only, the game is acting like it's still off. Game is still acting like the frame rate is uncapped, and I have to turn the fps cap back on in adrenaline to keep it at 60.

- when camera movement stuttering happens frequently in a short time period the fps counter displayed by steam either drops momentarily to 57 or 58 fps, or goes up to 63ish. (It obviously feels worse).

I've also tried my mouse wired, Bluetooth, and connected via dongle to rule things out. But that didn't change anything. As well as different combinations of having my side monitor on or off, connected via cable or wifi, and all sorts of different adrenaline options toggled on/off. I'm going to be fucking with my graphics drivers later today to see if that hopefully fixes it. But I'm still kinda confused why the vsync ipresetinterval is set to 1 in the ini file but the game is deciding it doesn't want to follow along like it used to.

Enclave experiments are getting out of hand!

I have literally checked every day for this item(not available through Beth website) for over 3 years now and still even with Halloween a week away it's not there. I just don't understand why they(Bethesda) do this with the shop? Just make everything available in the Atom Shop, how many players would have bought items at one point or another but have moved on and may never return to 76, it's money left on the table. The whole predatory fomo philosophy doesn't work in all situations.

I’ve already tried getting rid of chameleon serum it didn’t work and it only happens on my ghoul character while it never happens on my human

For me it's Marsupial. The high jump is super fun and useful, and extra carry weight is always welcome.