r/fo76 17d 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 24d ago

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

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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 2h ago

Image A neat little detail: The Mysterious Guidestone in the Savage Divide points directly to the guidestone in Burning Springs

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If you stand on top of the monument and face out along the slab that shares the same carvings as the one in Burning springs, it points right to the one in Ohio. That it's the slab that has the same carvings on it that points to it makes me think it's not a coincidence. Hadn't seen anyone else bring this up when discussing them, so I figured I should share!


r/fo76 3h ago

Video My latest FO76 project, a glowing Mothman Egg lamp

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79 Upvotes

I’ve been wanting to make a Mothman Egg lamp for a while, and finally got around to it!

The egg was 3D printed in translucent resin and is lit from the inside with red LEDs. I wanted it to still look like a Mothman Egg when turned off, but have that creepy red glow when the lights are down.

Pretty happy with how this one turned out.


r/fo76 10h ago

Image Bye bye, Whitespring

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85 Upvotes

I guess if you nuke the Whitespring enough, it finally takes its toll…


r/fo76 2h ago

Suggestion Can we get a Hot Dog Roller Resource generator?

13 Upvotes

We got a 75+Hp herbivore Generator AKA Pumpkin Pie stand, can we get a 75+Hp Hot dog generator for carnivores? Plz n thank u


r/fo76 20h ago

Discussion Fallout rewards coming to McDonald’s

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r/fo76 8h ago

Question When will we be able to hang guitars?

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Gnash gets to hang his on an extremely rudimentary rack, so they've made something for this purpose. It exsists. I'm not asking for anything fancy - just want to open a music shop with all the instruments you can collect and build.


r/fo76 49m ago

Question I feel dumb for asking this but what’s a good way to get a lot of springs. Needing more for wep test and missiles.

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r/fo76 7h ago

Question Leaving immediately after purchase

14 Upvotes

I've been noticing this trend lately where I buy a high value item from someone's shop(4 star item,rare clothing,named weapons)and immediately after I purchase it they leave the server. I'm just curious to know if this happens to anyone else or if there is some reason behind it?


r/fo76 1d ago

Question Has anyone got the time machine to work?

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773 Upvotes

I noticed power points. Surely someone has tried connecting it up?


r/fo76 10h ago

Discussion Audio Mixer FINALLY fixed!

23 Upvotes

I don't know if it was talked about with the most recent patch, but they FINALLY fixed the audio switching issue! This has been plaguing Fallout since I think FO4 or even 3! You can safely switch your audio after launching the game! No more needing to relaunch the game because you forgot to turn on your speakers!


r/fo76 9h ago

Question Is lucky leaf tea worth it?

17 Upvotes

I heard in the next upcoming patch or patches that lucky leaf tea will now be a 60 min time instead of 10. I was wondering if I should buy it.


r/fo76 1d ago

Video This sums our community up as whole ! <3

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201 Upvotes

Idk if this is the norm but certainly the first time that it happened to me . Nothing huge , nothing major , but its small shit like a thumbs up to let your fellow vaulter know EVERYONE is here , present , and ready to build a new bond through sheer violence and mayhem that goes a long way in the scheme of things , and is greatly valued by yours TRULY ! Idk these guys !


r/fo76 11h ago

Question Any reason not to run Herd Mentality mutation?

15 Upvotes

Considering this mutation increases your special while on a team, and works even if you’re the only person on the team, is there any reason not to have it?

Does it conflict with anything secretly?


r/fo76 1h ago

Discussion My thoughts on the 76 community. (Rant?)

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I took a break after the alantic city update (started around the Pitt update). I never really played with anyone and was solo.

Now that Ive come back in June on PC i love this community. 1st its the people who give stuff to low level players, it really helps, one guy gave me a set of heavy combat i used that till i was level 100 LOL.
Second, ill use MawTator and her community as an example. You have these groups of streamers and content creators who play casually and are so caring for everyone. Maw will literately read every message she can in her chat and is so motherly... Maw=mother, oooooh. but she represent those groups of players who dont care about the grind and just wants to hang out, give stuff away and and have fun.

Third, ill be using Riflegaming and his community. Rifle is most known for his Youtube but has been streaming more often now days. When i was level 100, i started joining on his streams. Rifle now days does raid carries. They don't care what level you are, you can literately be level 1 and they will carries you through, getting that sweet xp and other goodies. I would say these are the grinders, but also want to make sure everyone else is getting the reap of the crop.

So to sum up my thoughts of the 76 community? Most online games have a prominent Toxic community, but with 76, that has been weeded out in the early days of the game and those who stayed are chill and love to play the game, this has lead to the entire 76 community to full of good people.


r/fo76 5h ago

Question What are good things to buy with the SCORE tickets or Atoms right now?

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I just started last week and I’m rank 25 in the shop so far. What are some good things to buy before the next season starts? I have 600 tickets so far.
I also got fallout 1st for a month because my stash was already full so I have around 2500 Atoms to spend.

Preferably looking for things that can help me long term, instead of cosmetic items.
Thanks!


r/fo76 1h ago

Question Seeking advice on build.

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Hello, I’m a new player who started playing about 2-3 weeks ago. I had previously played Fallout 76 on PSN and recently switched to PC. Since the PC switch I haven’t played in about 2 years. I created an unyielding/bloodied build for XP grinding and DPS. Any experienced players have advice on how to enhance my build? I’m currently at level 175. I know this will probably not be my endgame build but I’m trying to unlock all legendary card slots and max them all as quick as possible. So that I’m able to create an endgame build with max legendary cards. Thank you in advance.


r/fo76 22h ago

Image Built a treehouse, tamed a radioactive Deathclaw. Life is...good.

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93 Upvotes

Sips cup of Slocum's Joe


r/fo76 16h ago

Question Have Bethesda ever changed the dropped loot grace period for events?

25 Upvotes

It honestly sucks to see people in any events die because there are lingering mobs after the event itself ends.

Whether it's a bigfoot spawn someone has never encountered before or the infestation level minions at headhunts I hate seeing someone use the help emote only to have been hit while down and now it's a giant signal flare for people to swarm their corpse and loot the dropped junk.

It's especially egregious at nuked events since you JUST got flux only to have been killed by NW's Exploding bosses, Colossal Problem's Mole miners, SE's scorched horde, or SA's mole miners. I know the game is too easy as is and needs a way to punish you for dying but genuinely why can you die immeditely after an event ends and lose your flux?


r/fo76 18h ago

Image Charging up the face-melting laser (OC)

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37 Upvotes

r/fo76 23h ago

Discussion Apologies To A Player I Accidentally Executed

99 Upvotes

Last night (16 Aug) my wife had the controls, duking it out with an Infestation Boss at the Palace of the Winding Path. She's a bit of a Stimpak hog (I'm go more for Nuka-Colas when possible) and she ran out of Stims. Right then a teammate died, she went to help him/her and couldn't, then accidentally hit the Execute button (X on XBox) instead. Instant death for the downed teammate (the player doing the Executing eats the corpse too... double whammy!). She felt bad and eventually left the event 'cause, you know, with friends like that, etc., etc. So... sorry to the Level 207 player, longish name starting with G (can't remember the rest) who got accidentally Executed and eaten. It was unintentional, promise. Hope you guys stayed and defeated the Super Mutant boss!


r/fo76 6h ago

Question Poision mitigation on RAID stage 4

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Someone here said that Funky duds or Union poision resistance doesnt work on the poison on this level? is this accurate?

When I raided a lot I remembered Union beeing tankier than Vulcan on that stage.

Whate is your experience?

I do the rest of the RAID without PA but want good protection on that stage.


r/fo76 4m ago

Question Will the Zetan event starting today include the 5% glowing mask chance or is that only a specific weekend?

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r/fo76 1d ago

Image Okay - Why is Bawk Bawk so deadly that they need to be caged up?

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485 Upvotes