As a multiplayer game, Fallout 76 naturally requires challenges for groups. However, these do not consist of classic raids and dungeons. Instead, players can empower their opponents and the world themselves: with an atomic bomb.
If you have already reached a high level in Fallout 76 and still want to improve, you need tougher challenges. In Fallout 76, players must create these challenges themselves by making enemies stronger through radiation and bombs. MeinMMO shows you how it works.
Raids in Fallout 76: Challenges for the Entire Server
The raid activities in Fallout 76 are not only designed for individual groups. When someone starts a raid, it gives the entire server the opportunity to stock up on great loot.
This is how you create a raid
To create a raid in the world, you must drop an atomic bomb on the desired zone. This may sound simple, but it requires considerable time and preparation.
To gain access to an atomic bomb, you need to collect an eight-digit code from ghoul and scorched officers, find an access card from a cargo bot, decrypt the code, and fight your way through a silo. We have a detailed guide for you on how to drop atomic bombs in Fallout 76.
MODUS can help you with all the necessary items, the AI of the Enclave.
MODUS offers to locate officers and cargo bots and mark them on the map. You only need to follow the given quests.
These locations are particularly worthwhile: Once you have everything in place and fought your way through the defenses of the automatic silos, you just need to choose a target. When selecting, you may see a red zone. Any other region of Appalachia can be chosen as a target.
Two specific locations are particularly recommended:
- The Whitespring Resort directly at the Whitespring Bunker
- Rift locations
At the Whitespring Resort, there are particularly many plants available for gathering, and it is swarming with ghouls that become lucrative glowing ones due to an atomic bomb. Rifts, which harbor the dangerous scorchbeasts, bring forth the toughest bosses: scorchbeast queens.
This is what a raid looks like: A location hit by an atomic bomb will be marked with a red circle on the map. The area is heavily irradiated, and all enemies and plants in the vicinity are irradiated and mutated.
When you enter the area, the world is bathed in a red-yellow glow, and everything burns and flickers from radiation. After the impact of an atomic bomb, you have two hours to farm in the area.
Raids are fundamentally open for all players on the server. In regular areas like the Whitespring, it means that PvP is also active if you are not in a group. Whether you cooperate or fight against each other is up to you.
Only an atomic bomb on a rift starts an event to kill the scorchbeast queen. In public events, players are automatically grouped. Here, pure PvE is in the foreground.
This is how to prepare for a raid
Here’s what you need to do before a raid: To prepare for a raid, you first need to gather the necessary materials for the launch. Collecting the codes and cards is like an access quest from classic raids in MMORPGs.
Already this preparation works best in a group, which you will need later to fight your way through the areas. Together, you should also take care of the right equipment. You should bring the following:
- Rad-X or Med-X
- Sufficient RadAway and Stimpaks (this is how you craft Stimpaks yourself)
- Healing items or antibiotics (many enemies are “sick”)
- A lot of ammunition and weapons to evade if yours break (tips for weapons for endgame)
- A hazard suit or power armor
Since the areas are heavily irradiated, you must constantly protect yourself from radiation while hordes of enemies come at you. A power armor is therefore advisable for players who will “tank” and additionally absorb the enemies’ damage.
In general, however, raids are bulletproof. You should always make sure to have enough ammunition so that the weapon is not empty before it breaks. Melee fighters should carry multiple copies of their favorite weapon to switch.
These are the rewards
That’s why a raid in Fallout 76 is worth it: For firing the atomic missile, you do not receive anything directly, unless you have completed the corresponding quest “I am Death” with it. However, very good rewards await you in the zones.
Regular irradiated enemies drop hardened mass, highly radioactive liquids, and glowing mass. You can process these along with the irradiated flora, from which you can gather raw flux, into the rare endgame materials “stabilized flux”.
Additionally, there are significantly more legendary enemies and bosses in the contaminated areas. These reward you with legendary items. The legendary weapons from these areas are mostly generic, stronger versions with special affixes and not the special legendary weapons with their own names.
There are reports that rewards can be quite underwhelming. One of the latest patches was supposed to improve the loot.
Are atomic bombs the only raids?
Is there more to come? So far, there is only the option to make the endgame harder with atomic bombs and farm the best gear. However, it seems that more is to come in the future.
In Appalachia, three more vaults are distributed that you can find but not yet enter:
- Vault 63
- Vault 94
- Vault 96
The vaults resemble vaults from previous Fallout games where experiments were conducted and are now open for special loot. A reddit user has, however, gained access to the beta of Fallout 76.
Particularly in Vault 63, there seems to be a kind of raid or dungeon. A terminal prompts you to gather a group before starting a “mission”. So you can look forward to what Appalachia will offer in the future.
You now have everything you need to plunge into the most dangerous areas of Appalachia. If you need support, look in our Fallout group for allies for your raids. On Facebook you will receive more news and information about Fallout 76.
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