Summary
ManyFallout 76veterans have recently been taking to social media to urge new players not to start events too quickly. Their ongoing pleas emerged in reaction toFallout 76blowing up in popularity thanks to Amazon’s critically acclaimedFallouttelevision series.
The hit TV show has boosted the popularity of pretty much every entry in the franchise bar the 2004Fallout:Brotherhood of Steelspin-off, which is not available on modern platforms. But the West Virgina-set live service game has been one of the biggest beneficiaries of the newly renewed public interest in the series, as underlined by the fact thatFallout 76broke a handful of all-time concurrent Steam player recordswithin days of the TV show’s premiere.
Fallout 76 Vets Want Newcomers to Know Starting Events Late Is In Everyone’s Interest
But the resulting influx of newcomers has also led to some frustrations among the player base now that the open-world RPG is regularly peaking at around 50,000 concurrent players on Steam alone. E.g., dozens of veterans have been taking to the game’s largest subreddit since mid-April to plead with new players not to startFallout 76public world eventstoo early. The reasons for that are multifold, with the most obvious one being that rushing into an event may rob other people on the server of the opportunity to participate.
Server etiquette aside, another important incentive to wait before starting activities is that a lot of the game’s multiplayer content is simply too difficult for newcomers to clear, whether alone or even in teams. Since all events have a time limit, newbies may find themselves failing their requirements if they don’t have veterans to carry them. Thenewly returned Invaders from BeyondFallout 76eventis a great example of that; it comes with some highly sought-after rewards that make it well-worth completing, but there is virtually no chance that a low-level team can clear it within the 10-minute time limit. Even high-level players will struggle without backup unless they are running DPS-oriented meta builds.
While veterans can obviously join a world event that is already in progress, the more time they miss in the beginning, the higher the chances of the server failing to complete it and everyone walking away from the activity with absolutely nothing to show for it. It is hence in everyone’s best interest to wait until at least a few high-level players have joined the effort before initiating the event, which usually requires interacting with an NPC or object, so it can’t be done by accident.
How Long to Wait Before Starting Fallout 76 Events?
The higher the recommended level of any given activity, the more important it is not to rush into it. Waiting until the event countdown reaches the one-minute mark is always the safest option, as that gives up to 23 of the remaining people on the server plenty of time to join in. However, newcomers keen on following server etiquette without worrying too much may be best served by simply waiting formore experiencedFallout 76playersto start events for them, as they’ll know best whether the current attendants can handle them.
Fallout 76
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Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of Skyrim and Fallout 4, welcome you to Fallout 76. Twenty-five years after the bombs fell, you and your fellow Vault Dwellers—chosen from the nation’s best and brightest – emerge into post-nuclear America on Reclamation Day, 2102. Play solo or join together as you explore, quest, build, and triumph against the wasteland’s greatest threats. Explore a vast wasteland, devastated by nuclear war, in this open-world multiplayer addition to the Fallout story. Experience the largest, most dynamic world ever created in the legendary Fallout universe. Expand southward to Skyline Valley – a brand-new region of Appalachia. Investigate the cause of the electric storm circling overhead and unveil the mystery around Vault 63 and its dwellers, including a shocking new Ghoul type – The Lost.
