8 Quick Tips To Start Fallout 76

Fallout 76 is a persistent title, and Bethesda Game Studios constantly pours updates and all-new content drops into the game, working relatively hard to keep it fresh. As they keep the game alive, there’s a steady stream of new players entering the wide world of Fallout 76, intent on exploring Appalachia. However, this is not the easiest game to figure out, so here we have compiled a quick list of tips to help beginners know what to watch out for.

1. Only Carry What You Need

In Fallout 76, you can find junk items worldwide that can be broken down into base components - but that stuff, combined with your weapons, armor, food, and even ammo, can really start to weigh you down! Drop it, sell it, trade it, just get rid of it. Besides that, you need to use perk cards to help you carry more useful things and get backpack upgrades that allow you to carry more. The inventory management in this game is horrific, and you’ll constantly be frustrated if you’re a hoarder, so just embrace the fact that you simply can’t carry the world in your backpack.

2. Legendary’s for Scrip

Scrip has become a crucial currency in Fallout 76. As a Legendary item, Scrip is a chip used to fuse Legendary Effects into weapons and armors or re-roll their current Effects. But what gives this item more value is its rarity: At best, players can earn only 300 Scrip before their daily quota is reached. At the Rusty Pick in the Ash Heap, you can actually trade your Legendary Scrip for either random legendary weapons and armor or get Legendary Modules and Steel Scrip to craft things that require it, so you might as well save your garbage legendary’s for Scrip!

3. Figure Out Which Weapons Are For You

In Fallout 76, you’ll need good weapons to defend yourself: melee weapons, ranged weapons, maybe an explosive or two. Perhaps the only way to get an enemy off your back for good is to make them eat a Fat Man nuke. So, focus on your favorites. If you’re Heavy Gunner/Melee/Shotgun, go into Strength. Perception is the way to go if you like Non-Auto/Fully-Auto/Bow weapons. Finally, if you like Automatic and Single Fire Pistols, you’ll want Agility. Find what weapons you like, and try to build your character around that specifically.

4. Talk To All NPC

This is a whole lot more than you might realize. There are TONS of NPC roaming around the Wasteland, many of which will just give a quick line of dialogue, but many that will also give you some dialogue options for loot, xp, and faction reputation! So many people just run by the roaming NPCs, but you should give them a quick click to see if they’ll interact with you.

5. Make Friends In The Game

In Fallout 76, you can use the Social Menu to add friends and create teams. Playing in a group will benefit you in a bunch of different ways; the bigger the group, the more the benefits will be. Not only can they help you out in different public events or content, BUT whenever they complete a quest, you get caps from THEM completing it! On top of that, there are numerous perk cards that benefit you from working in a group, such as Inspirational for more XP.

6. Making EASY Caps

Although you might not be quite at the point of making thousands of Fallout 76 Bottle Caps in an instant selling sought-after Legendary, you can STILL break into your economic future by selling a bunch of garbage to vendors every single day. Also, if you ask around to some high-level players, they can bring you to higher-level grinding locations, in which you can kill and loot end-game enemies to sell their weapons for a lot more. Besides selling weapons to the Vendors, boiled and purified water can fetch a high price, so grinding and selling that can be beneficial.

7. Explore the Map and Place Camp

Fallout 76 has a huge map that has tons of dangerous enemies roaming across it. Not only that, there are other players as well who will not hesitate to take a shot at you. To save yourself from all these threats, you must have a base of your own where you can not only save yourself but also store your equipment safely. If you explore the map, find a lot of locations where everything is, and then place your camp according to where you’re mainly focused on in the game. In addition, since you can fast travel to your camp, you’ll save yourself a LOT of caps in traveling fees.

8. Don’t Spend Perk Points immediately

What a lot of people don’t realize is that the more you level, the more you unlock new and BETTER perk cards. Everyone thinks that you should just grab new perk cards every time you level up, and that isn’t the case. Remember: Every 5 levels, you unlocked a Perk PACK, which is essentially 4 free perk cards to utilize. Trust me, this is all you need for the majority of your grind from level 1-50, which is the point of which you will have unlocked all of the best perk cards in the game. Doing this will prevent you from wasting perk points on absolutely USELESS perk cards that you’ll more than likely get duplicates of later on in your grind from Perk Packs and get you spending them points on more essential perks later on in the game.