‘Fallout 76’ 30 GB Patch Goes Live for Next B.E.T.A Period

We’re nearing the end of the road for the Fallout 76 B.E.T.A as Bethesda continues to make player-requested changes and tweaks to make the online game overall more enjoyable. With a 30 GB patch pushed live ahead of the next session’s start time, the latest update bring quite a few balance changes and overall stability to the game.

Here’s what’s new before the next wave of testing:

General

• Stability: The Fallout 76 game client and servers have received significant stability improvements.
• Performance: Several issues have been addressed to resolve hitches during gameplay and other performance issues.

Balance Changes

Many mid and high-level enemies have received additional balance adjustments. Some notable changes include:

• Scorched: Health and Damage Resistance have been increased for mid- and high-level Scorched.
• Super Mutants: Health and Damage Resistance have been slightly decreased for mid- and high-level Super Mutants.
• Melee Damage: Melee damage has been increased across many mid- and high-level enemies, particularly Mirelurks and Mirelurk Hunters.

C.A.M.P, Workshops, and Crafting

• Crafting: Material requirements to craft Throwing Knives and Tomahawks have been increased. Additionally, Throwing Knives and Tomahawks can no longer be sold to vendors.

Quests

• Event Quests: The time required to restart a previously completed Event Quest has been increased from 45 minutes to 1 hour and 12 minutes.

Bug Fixes

Art and graphics

• Enemies: Fixed an issue that could cause enemies to stop playing animations and instead enter a default “T-Pose”.
• Graphics: Fixed an issue that could cause artifacting to display on the character’s hands and weapons while inside the Whitespring and playing in first-person.
• Water: Water no longer flickers or flashes white in building interiors.
• Workshops: Powered objects placed at Workshops will now correctly play animations and sound effects.

Audio

• Voice Chat: Selecting “Play with Team” from the Main Menu no longer causes voice chat to stop functioning for non-leader teammates.

Camp, workshops, and crafting

• Workshops: Successfully defending a Workshop no longer awards more Aid items than intended.

Quests

• I Am Become Death: Launching a Nuke will now complete the “I Am Become Death” Quest for all teammates.
• Rewards: Completing the “First Contact” and “Thirst Thing’s First” quests no longer award more Aid items than intended.

User Interface

• Languages: Improvements have been made to better support text display across several languages, including: Japanese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese.
• Languages: Blueprints now accept names that utilize Japanese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese characters.
• Languages: Running Fallout 76 with language options set to Traditional or Simplified Chinese no longer causes the game to launch in English.
• Login [PC]: Fixed an issue that could prevent players from logging into Fallout 76 on PC.
• Resolution [PC]: Adjusting Windows Display Scaling settings no longer causes the game to launch in lower or higher resolutions than expected.
• Map: Map markers no longer disappear when attempting to respawn after dying while overencumbered and possessing no Caps.
• Settings [PC]: The Lighting Quality setting can now correctly be changed to High.
• Social: Players will no longer encounter a “Failed to reconnect to team.” error message at the Main Menu screen.
• Social: Fixed an issue that could prevent players from seeing one another in the Social Menu after adding each other as friends.
• Trading: Attempting to trade with a player who is entering Power Armor no longer causes the game client to become unresponsive.

As far as the B.E.T.A dates, November 6th’s goes live at 1 PM until 3 PM ET, while November 8th’s will run from 2 PM until 8 PM ET. Don’t miss out, because these are the last two testing periods before the game fully launches for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC on November 14th.