In the survival MMO Fallout 76 the long-awaited patch 11 unfortunately caused more harm than good. It is full of bugs and issues. Therefore, the fans are now pleading with Bethesda to allow them to participate in quality control through a test server.
What happened in patch 11? The latest patch 11 for Fallout 76 unfortunately did not bring much joy to the fans. Numerous bugs plague the update, which was supposed to make the game more accessible and remove many bugs in Power Armor.
Instead, fans are complaining about the following issues:
- Legendary enemies do not drop legendary loot
- Various old bugs that were already fixed came back
- Some items from the Atom Shop no longer work
- Valuable Power Armor was completely removed from some players and vanished without a trace.
Additionally, there were controversial “features,” such as nerfs on crafted bags or questionable items from the real-money shop, which some players see as pay-to-win.
In this case, it concerns scrap kits that automatically transport junk items into your storage. This makes dying in the wild much less dangerous, as you can conveniently secure the collected stuff.
All these aspects of the patch are angering the Fallout 76 community. However, the Fallout fanbase would not be the Fallout fanbase if they did not also show a great deal of helpful constructiveness in this regard.
Players plead with Bethesda: “Please let us help you!”
This is what players want: Many comments on Reddit convey the sentiment “Please, Bethesda, we love your game, but please, please, please do not make it harder for us than it is.” They wish that more attention was paid to community feedback and that no patches are released that take one step forward but then two steps back:
- “Bethesda, please, you cannot ignore your player base, we want to help!”
- “This time they have no modders to solve their problems.”
- “We constantly send bug reports, sometimes even detailed monthly reports since the beta, and they only respond with silence.”
- “I would prefer to wait a month or longer for a well-tested, bug-free update.”
A good idea, according to the fans on Reddit, would be a public test server. There, they could then look at the update in peace and send direct feedback to Bethesda.
This is what the developers say: The idea of a test server is well received by fans. Therefore, we immediately contacted Bethesda and requested a statement. Unfortunately, there was no concrete statement on the topic from the developers at this time.
But they assured us that the respective community managers in each region carefully collect player feedback and regularly send it to the developers in the USA. Therefore, it is quite conceivable that the devs will eventually add a test server after all.
Additionally, a hotfix for some of the worst bugs from patch 11 is supposed to come soon.
