Fallout 76: Skyline Valley - A Storm In A Teacup 

Lol @ 2:37 Jon, you have 368 perk points on deck, put those points into Legendary Perks. Everything is a bullet sponge at your level because you barely have any perks that boost damage.

Hey Jon, I haven’t finished the video yet, but you often mention how enemies feel like tanks in Fallout 76. While it is true enemies can often feel like damage sponges, I believe your lack of specialization is also to blame. At 00:02:36 you mention how you are very good with shotguns and handguns. You only have rank one of each of the damage perk cards equipped though. You essentially have the equivalent of a single max ranked card. A level four character could easily have the same amount of damage boosting perks as you. The enemies are being scaled to you with the expectation that you have also invested in these areas to match them. Since you have not invested into combat, everything will be far more tank-like than they are designed to be. My goal is not to be critical of your playstyle and claim everything you are doing is wrong. I simply wanted to expand upon something you frequently comment on. If you are interested in gameplay suggestions though, then I would recommend swapping out some of the perk cards you have for crafting with damage perks and simply put the crafting perks back on when you need them. I believe they have made the system much easier to do this with loadouts and movable special points since your main time in the game.

Oh Jon... So many things to say, but other people have said most of them. I'll just point out that of *course* the water fountain was irradiated. The vault is full of ghouls! That's refreshing for them! XD

2:00 "when it came out several years ago".....hmmm I wonder how long its been since Fallout 76 actually came out. OH GOD ITS BEEN 6 YEARS ALMOST!!!

I mean with your build, you are not really good at shotguns or pistols Jon. You have two shotgun perks Master Shotgunner & Enforcer, but they are not maxed out (Plus each gun type perk has 3 different cards for damage multipliers, and it looks like you only took one rank of one of them). You have a lot of perks like Traveling Pharmacy, Slow Metabolizer, Ammo Smith, Mister Sandman and DEFINITELY Awareness that are just weighing your build down.

Jon, it's been a long while since you've played. I don't think you availed yourself of any of the extras that have been added to the perk card menu. (More strength, intelligence, etc and greater damage cards) You're coming in as a fairly high player without any of the things that fairly high players use to stay competitive with the NPCs. Not even multi-legendary effects.

It seems like your progress is of a lvl 30 not 100

You really need to loot the bodies more. "Oh, I've run out of shotgun ammo"... not if you loot the bodies. And you can choose to loot like all the bodies within an area at once, it's amazing. The amount of ammo drops is huge now.

That space ship you saw was a player camp.

2:37 you literally only specced into level 1 of most of your weapon-based perk cards. of course you're not doing any damage! get rid of awareness, gunslinger, mister sandman and gunrunner to free up the perk points to invest more in the cards that up your damage with specific weapon types and rank each card all the way up to max level. level 1 master shotgunner isn't good enough without more points in that and expert and master shotgunner. the cards stack, so level3 shotgunner + level3 expert shotgunner + level3 master shotgunner gives you +60% shotgun damage, which would go a long way to helping your build. you'd be better served focusing on either single shot rifles with rifleman or auto rifles with commando as a secondary for your endgame build, rather than pistols, imo.

>the enemies are too tanky >uses a pipe pistol >refuses to elaborate there's a reason we love you jon

In case you weren't aware Jon, corpses will now drop teh type of ammo you used to kill them or are holding at the time of mousing over an ammo box.

They aren't tanky, Jon, your build is just atrocious and your guns are bloody terrible.

That "build" is.... it's something😂😂

Also, just want to point at that around the 15 minute mark, I'm looking around the room thinking my cat has gotten into something.

Yeah, the enemies aren't tanky, your build is just really not good. Your perks are all over the place and you aren't focused on one type of weapon. I'm running a simple shotgun build and having no issues at all.

Your not picking up the loot!! You would have never run out of ammo if you picked them up!

Dear lord jon that build is... certainly something. Enemies are bullet hoses cos to put it mildy Jon, ur build is shit. Pick either pistols or shotguns and spec into one not both. Also combine ur perk cards, u have so many low level ones. Instead of having 3 that give 10% each or whatever max the 3 out so u do 90% or whatever the stat is. Also ditch the pipe pistol lmao

Every time Jon visits Craig there's a cat meowing in the background and he doesn't *immediately* go look for the kitty to pet...

The key to any good mystery is keeping the audience guessing, and that requires drip feeding information at a particular rate. Too much information spoils the reveal, too little information removes any desire to investigate, both of which lead to the audience giving up. Based on this video, it looks like Skyline Valley will provide the same experience I had with Assassin's Creed Origins: blindly following waypoints for three hours, only to be rewarded with information that should've been used to kick things off, learn that most of what I'd just done was unnecessary filler, be provided with another blind waypoint, and get told to do it all again.

Fix the build. Perks, legendary guns, legendary armour, specialize into a weapon category. Youll have a much better time with killimg things. Unfortunately, game isn't like other fallouts and you need to specialize and grind gear to do well.

I will say that, like the other games, the creature designs are fun. Turkey devolving into raptor is fun.

Leave it to Jon to spec out for the worst weapons in the game, and be surprised that they don't hit hard enough... There's stuff out there, but shotguns, pistols, and gauss rifles AREN'T it! Anything else would be doing you better at this point, including pipe guns! LOVE your stuff, give Claire and Teddy loves!

45:28 john your build isn't focused, its like playing fallout 4 but never putting more than one level up into any damage perk

As others have said, choose better perk cards, loot corpses, use legendary guns and perks

I am one of the few, less vocal people who actually loved this at launch and do jump back into it every so often. The game has certainly come a long way since launch though. I actually miss the NPC free environment a bit, but there is lots of other ways the game has improved too. EDIT: Jon, while the game does need some more balancing and some things can be a bit tanky such as the end game bosses, those enemies only "felt" tanky to you because your build just is not that good. Those events you avoided are great places for legendaries to drop and on top of that, there just isnt any way you can build your character to do good damage with a basic shotgun, a bloodied (more damage at low health) revolver, and a basic energy rifle. All three are very different builds in this game. Dont get me wrong, I would love some more balancing done on the game, but I have cleared those same areas you did with very little issue or ammo spent all while using a couple non meta builds. So, I understand that you are only playing long enough to make these videos, but it is not really on the game if you are actively ignoring a bunch of it, especially as high level as you are. I say all this with the highest respect for you and your content.

As a few other's have pointed out your build is crap that's why you can't kill anything lol. You want more damage? Use rank 3 of the shotgun/pistol perks that alone is 30% more damage want more? Get a legendary weapon that's not complete trash they're not hard to acquire. You're also using a Chinese stealth suit and have a few sneak perk card's for extra damage while in stealth but you don't use a suppressor on any of your gun's, you have crit perks but don't use them either. The tldr - it's not the game that's the problem it's you which is also know as a skill issue.... dislike the story etc that's fine but don't try to tell people that the enemies are tanky or hard because they're not you can litterly kill 90% of thing's with one bullet if you don't have a skill issue like yourself that is....

Love you Jon but; "Jon makes worst Fallout 76 build, asked to leave appalachia"

Just went back to start of the video for the build and no wonder he can't kill anything.... Want to use a shotgun, has almost no shotgun perks, lots of critical stuff, doesn't seem to use many crits, almost no handgun perks.... I genuinely feel like if he redid his build to the point he could actually progress anything he might have a better time.

9:45 Crafting ammo shouldn't be _that_ much of an issue if you have a secondary "crafting" set of cards that you swap to when crafting stuff... on second thought, I just checked and shotgun ammo is insanely expensive - I can make 540 Ultracite .50 ammo for the same(-ish) amount of resource as 320 shotgun shells and even _more_ .45 and 5.56 Ultracite ammo with the Ammosmith card. Yay for rifle-centric builds?

To be fair, your weapons are kinda underpowered. Most people are using legendary 3 star weapons that can eliminate basic enemies in one or two shots. That would cut down on ammo usage. If you enjoy the Bethesda jank, grinding for weapons/armor/junk and group activities, then Fallout 76 works for those people.

ok the fireworks gong off when you took out a enemy was from someone using a scout banner at the event that you wandered in to

Jon I really like your content, but think you was a little harsh. Your build worked when enemies were set levels, but for past 4 years enemies level to you, mean very few weapons will get through enemy damage resistance, without some damage cards. A livestream where people could help you out would definitely give you a different opinion on enemies not being that tanky, also area loot would fix lot of ammo issues.

They are not tanky Jon, your damage is low ;d get weps with good legendary effects and tweak the perk cards. it will be a different game experience for sure

Jon, all of the problems you have with combat are your own doing. Your build is, frankly, a bit shit. It's really funny that you claim to be "very, very good" with handguns and shotguns. Focusing on two weapon types is bad enough, but you didn't even max out your cards and you have some that are kind of worthless. It's honestly quite easy to make a viable build in this game considering you can get some pretty good legendary weapons from some quests. And ammo is easy to come by thanks to the contextual ammo system. The easiest build to make is probably a power armor heavy gunner with a gatling gun. It'd be great if you made a proper build and then came back to 76 to cover all of the quests that came out since Wastelanders.

Aside from the combat issues which stems from your character's poor perk layout, most of what you said about the dialogue in the new area is pretty valid.

Your homebrew build is why everything is so tanky. Try a more focused build and you will feel better. Until very recently I was a full time shotgun build. Now, I am a heavy gunner. The shotgun build had a higher dps but ONLY when I was in their face. A quad double barrel with armor piercing is my primary shotty. With a shotgun focus build that is more then enough to crush most enemies.

Sorry Jon, I sincerely disagree with your sentiments @ 45:00. The enemies are not spongey, your build is milk toast, especially for the level you are at. You're a pro at optimizing FO4 builds, you should definitely give your perks a look over. Also, I don't understand it when you say "I just want to engage with the story". I'd hardly call doing a couple light quests and exploring 5% of the new area "engaging." There's a reason these quest givers are cagey and with-holding.

I think you mightve been a bit harsh on the game, Jon. If you focus soley on one weapon youll have a much better time with the combat im sure, your build needs some review in my opinion. There are gems hidden in 76, including in skyline valley, enough to warrant another gander. Maybe a livestream?

I've got a fair few criticisms against the expansion, but the gameplay balancing isn't really one of them. It's intended for endgame characters, definitely, but you never really graduated from your mid-game stealth shotgunner build. I could tell it was holding you back as early as wastelanders, and that was over 4 years ago at this point and the game now has multiple loadout slots and legendary perk cards to encourage players to invest in more powerful builds. I can't really fault the game if the player never utilizes its features.

I'm slowly realizing Jon plays every game the exact same way...

You need to get yourself a cold shoulder shotgun. Pipe pistols are trash. Unfortunately, you'll struggle to kill anything with them.

You're guns and build are terrible jon.

I'll be honest enemies seeming tanky might mean your build isn't the greatest. Aside from the obvious enemies like deathclaws there are very few things that take more than 5 shots to kill with a decent build

This update has been great. It feels so good to have story quests to do again. I've been taking my time with them because we probably won't get more for another loooong time. Prior to this I had all but stopped playing, as there was essentially nothing left to do but grind seasonal reward tracks.

Jon: "Enemies are too tanky in Fallout 76!" Me: *Readies Instigating Gauss Rifle on my stealth sniper build* The "Problem" with Fallout 76 is it requires you to at least somewhat properly build your character, and the way 76 does it is different than how other Fallout games do it. TL;DR: Jon doesn't actually have a good build, so enemies take much longer to kill than they normally would.

I think the best summary is that Jon is having trouble with 76 because he's playing it like an action RPG. So the answer is... no.

John I would also play the brotherhood of steel questline, it has some really good story beats.

VATs headshots and crits are theway to kill things...

I hate to say this, but you are frankly not playing the game right. This game is about builds.

Robots take the least amount of damage from a head shot. 😅

So your build...is pretty weak and outdated. You need to do some card shuffling and look into mutations as well as getting better armor/weapons. I'm a glass cannon build using a ton of bloodied/bolstering/unyelding stuff. My main weapon is a blooded explosive shotgun that can usually take down most stuff in 1-2 shots to the head if I'm sneaking. Yes I am sneaking with an explosive shotgun...it's Fallout lol. My secondary is a bloodied explosive minigun...which eats through bullets but I use it for really tanky shit/bosses. It doesn't exactly melt them but it does more then the shotgun! But I will agree there are a LOT of tanky enemies and it just gets boring.

Jon, the enemies aren't that tanky, your build is just really really bad. You're using literally the worst type of guns in the game lol.

No one from Vault Tec with a German accent could be evil!

No disrespect but you should get some better guns I get that you don’t play a lot but there is some very good guns you can get quickly from the events

Weirdly I didn't think the enemies were all that tanky outside of the final boss & some enemies in events - but explosive rifles are OP so Edit: also, lets be real Jon, ammo crafting is super easy in FO76 if you even slightly loot components or scrap weapons. And there's perks that drastically increase your ammo count, they're really not hard to get lol

Jon you're finding the enemies tanky and the combat tedious because you never got the hang of making a character build in fallout 76. This game is more focused on character perks than fallout 4, what weapons you're using aren't as important as your perks are, and it trips up people trying to apply Fallout 4 style thinking to this game. Your perk loadout is... not good. This is why your character is having a hard time with combat. For a point of reference, I have a shotgun character. Those Lost that you're having to shoot 15-20 times to kill? Hand me the exact same weapon you're using and I'll probably two-shot those guys. You mentioned at least twice in this video that the tanky enemies and combat is a big part of the reason this game isn't working for you. It's not the game, it's your misunderstanding of the character build mechanics. The vast majority of enemies in this game are almost laughably flimsy once you have a strong character. I could send you a basic shotgun perk build if you're interested in finally giving Fallout 76 a fair shake after all this time. Shotguns are kind of my specialty in this game, I have many videos if you want to check that I'm legit. Videos like this don't feel fair to those of us that know this game, and I'd love for you to see how the game actually plays. Imagine if someone put together a nonsense character in Fallout 4 or New Vegas and then said they didn't like those games because combat was too tedious, that they had to use too much ammo and time to kill anything - would you feel like that was a good representation of those games? What you're doing here is kind of the equivalent of trying to run through all of New Vegas with nothing but a Caravan Shotgun and a Varmint Rifle and no Guns skill.

You mentioned at the end what bothered you about repairing guns and armor, but honestly New Vegas was alot worse. Either you find the same weapon/ armor to repair or spend caps at some NPC's which can be very expensive. If you have a unique weapon or armor can be very annoying. 76 is not that annoying. Material cost isn't much, and besides your camp there are couple places were you can go The new Nuka World on tour has all crafting stations, stash boxes and it's free to fast travel there.

I feel you're going about the combat wrong with 76. It is an entirely different beast from the single player games where you can be a generalist and do fine. 76 is more akin to an MMO, where you NEED to specialize to be able to keep up. I'm not saying it is a good thing, but that is just the nature of the beast with how this game is set up. It is designed around you having different loadouts for different scenarios that you switch between with the punch card machine. You also need to loot what you kill more. They added the effect of "contextual ammo" so whatever you kill will drop some of the ammo you used to kill them with. Helps with the flow of combat a lot more.

you may want to update your gear a bit if you're having trouble with level 100... there are craftable legendaries that are pretty decent these days and I'm sure the community can help you out with that...

It’s funny to me that MATM is such an expert at FO4 but finds 76 difficult. I found what I’ve done of the new quests pretty easy and dropped ammo. The new bosses are legitimately bullet sponges, though.

"Come, let me reassure you: I'm not just a ghoul; but a prewar corpo and high-level Vault-Tec." I think someone doesn't realize how much relied on his PR team before they were all horribly incinerated; because that's about as threatening as you could get. At least raiders will keep it simple in killing you for laughs. And you never say 'consultant' with heavy air quotes without it meaning something dire. Roughly 80% of the time it means 'freelance murderer', 20% of the time it's 'expendable patsy'; but it's never good.

When dealing with Vault Tec just smile and nod ....and then leg it at the first opportunity 😁

Why does crieg sound like jake from sim settlements 2

"A storm in a Teacup" Fitting name for Jon's perk loadout

Let’s be real John, it’s completely on brand for Fallout 76 for the frogurt to still be cursed.

The spaceship was someone's camp. There's a way to make "floating" camps

To be fair a stopped playing for a few months. Came back to explore this and wow. Just such a fun game still. Holds up so well. Just wish it was easier to swap out character builds. I don’t have time to just start a new character so I can do a gunslinger non-power armor build. The weight limits and stuff is so annoying. Makes it hard for me to just play it like a regular fallout game when I’m just exploring and having fun. Feels like I have to always use my tanky sweaty building to one shot everything. Hard to explain but easy to feel when you hit like lvl 300+

Jon, can we take a look at your special andnperk cards? Shotguns already have a harder time than heavy pr automatic weapons. Thats also why the gauss rifle wasnt doing much, if youre gonna go from a shotgun to a rifle or any other weapon without switching your build, youre gonna have a bad time. I run a decent qol pqck rat build, im not fully invested in killing enemies but i still have an easy time taking most enemies out.

Skyline Valley is interesting, the plot is much more compelling than the last expansion but there aren't any fun decision moments like the circus in Atlantic City And then of course...the scams

That is exactly how lightning works.

The enemies were exploding into confetti because of the "Confetti Mess" Lunchbox effect you still had on your character from the last time you played. The countdown for those effects to expire gets paused while you're not playing.

Spoilers! So I was looking up the creatures in this DLC and there's communists (with commanders that wear brotherhood armour), a new kinda-cool robot called the Storm Goliaths (Looks like a beefy Protectron with a Robobrain... brain), and the wanamingos from Fallout 2. Only a dead one and it looks terrible 😂

I don't think that's how lightning works.

Though "Contextual Ammo drops" (ammo dropping based on your gun) is helpful, you still need specific builds to deal with the economy. Gatling is probably the best in that regard because ammo drops like it would for a minigun, but gatlings use far less, meaning you're always gaining more.

Completely unprepared, terrible build, awful gun, little understanding of the game world as it stands, no idea about player camp designs and build limits, doesn't understand lunchbox effects, doesn't get "search all", wandering about like a slightly drunk tourist... the most frustrating entertainment I've seen for a while. Thanks John!

Complaining about tanky enemies while running a build equal in efficiency to charging down all the cazadores in Vegas with the 9mm you get from Doc Mitchell while specced into unarmed is some peak Jon. I mean he can play the game however he likes, but that criticism just rings so hollow.

I'm sorry to say this Jon, but the main reason that you have problems with enemies, is not that they're too tanky - it's just your build that is just not good for anything. You have literally no defense, and way to little firepower, unless you're not detected - which works quite fine in Fallout 4, but in 76 is pretty much useless. In your case: way too much luck, way too less strength. And don't even get me started about that .45 revolver piss shooter 😉I tried once build my character for long range suppressed sniping. Around level 100-150 if i remember correctly, that plan went straight in the bin. Now I have secret service armor (arguably the best non-power armor), and lot more strength, to make shotguns actually efective. I'm able to run all guns blazing, one shot kill those ghouls you've encountered at 5:00, and two-three shot the Lost.

"What's that in the sky? Is that a bug?" You dingus, that's the Enterprise.

Pro this update: new area not an expedition, interesting story, niicely acted characters. Contra update: looks to much like the pitt (I get headaches from this dark red lightning stuff), railroad story telling, I ran this area of the map for 30 hours by now... Exploration light to similar to Starfield, enemies are annoying, no cool side missions, 90% percent of this area doesn't allows camp building, only one trading post that can be found and it's trader moves around pulling enemies inside, also the stash box is hidden in plain sight still hard to find a dark blue box in a dark red area, thats muddy and stormy, all cool exploration parts turned out to be a dead end or quest related, new events dont tie into the story, while doing them you get the expression they would be somehow tied to it but nope... oh and Bethesda changed the land around the are that was formerly the boarder and bulldozed my camp with half an mountain now stuck inside my camp...

Dear Lord, can someone in the UK PLEASE hook up Jon with Angry Turtle. Jon, I promise his help would make the game so much more enjoyable for you! I do appreciate your honesty in the opening remarks: you like everything about Fallout 76 not having to do with the online multiplayer mechanics and you want a single-player experience. But if you're going to play/showcase the game, you're going to have to face that you need to play it with a different mindset than if it were single-player - because you're not going to get that. You may not like all of the cards 76 deals to you, but you can choose to learn how to play those cards. Because to be frank, right now it's you who's being played. Love, -A level 770 player

I agree with your answer to the opening question, tho I would take it a bit further - 76 is just not really a Fallout game, and people should not expect it to work like one, despite the name and setting. It's like a spinoff using a popular brand name to get more money. And I think it's not a bad game at all (currently), when treated this way. Just a bad Fallout I'm a new player to 76, only started a bit after the show aired (although I did try playing it at least once in the past, but this broken mess of code just refused to work on my pc and support could not help). I also watched pretty much all of your videos from it. This game now is very different to what it was back when you started (and even Wastelanders). Many people speak about meta, but it's absolutely not necessary - you don't have to be op strong and melt everything in miliseconds, this game is easy and all weapon classes are valid, even if some objectively much stronger than others. But your build is simply bad - very "falloutish", which doesn't work in this nonFallout-Fallout game. You need to specialise into specific weapons, get some solid legendary gear (a lot of your viewers would happily give you some), get more mutations, use legendary perks and your 350 perk points to upgrade them, create a specific crafting and playing builds (now you can freely change SPECIAL and have two build slots unlocked by default) to not waste points having perks like ammosmith constantly equipped. This might sound like a lot, but it really isn't - making a meta build involves a lot of grind, but optimising a casual build over level 50 is super easy. I myself changed a playstyle a few times, still didn't even try bloodied (feels like too much of a hassle), and currently running my own pve build in power armor with .50 cal machinegun. Maybe I don't destroy enemies as fast as I could, but I'm definitely not struggling like you did here. Also, ammo crafting is super easy, just loot what you need and then scrap and craft with proper perks

Says they take shotgun blasts to the face all day but doesn't shoot them on in the face. With the right build everything dies so easy in this game.

I had to go and play this to see why Jon was having so much trouble. As someone who's not crazy high level (205) but has played more consistently, I had no trouble 3 shotting the lost with a sniper, or melting them with a flamer. I think, apart from his perks being badly set up as other people have pointed out, the main problem is that Jon is playing 76 like it's 4 survival. You can't come back to an online multiplayer after years away and expect everything to work just as well as it did when you left. At this point I have pretty much every mutation for example, I regen health out of combat, I regen rads, and you can take a perk that makes the downsides barely noticable. Plus Legendar Perks of course, meaning I have higher special and can churn out ammo if I need to for much cheaper. I'm not really defending Fallout 76 here as such, it's far from my favourite, I just feel like Jon would struggle less if he took a bit of time to work on the different mechanics and balance. Also a very small amount of daily questing has left me with more junk and ammo than I can use up, it's not really a grind to get them if you're even a little bit active. All that said, I can definitely agree with some of his complaints, there isn't that much to do a lot of the time, and the previous expeditions really were grind fests, I think the proper story updates like this are much better in that regard. I still think he would enjoy the BoS story if he gave it a chance though.

John you gave up way too soon, there is a lot more to it. The ex-military guy has several fetch quests. Also you do get more dialogue from some of the other people in the vault. The main issue basically is your lack of patiences Though I have to say at levels 20-25 and onward they are not very tanky. My character is geared towards stealth(I didn't even have a stealth suit or stealth boy at the time I did this dlc) and I have no perk cards in any weapons. I mainly used cold shoulder and a standard .50 cal sniper rifle with suppressor. With a basic lvl 20 combat knife for melee. While a low level raider power armor for use during heavier combat. So I don't know why someone like you with better gear than me was having such a hard time. You should try to stick with it, maybe get a group of friends to help you out?

I'd love to see a full playthrough of the story of 76 if it's even possible.

Honestly Jon, a lot of your frustrations with the game are simply due to not having invested enough time in learning the basic mechanics specific to this Fallout game. I think if you sat down with a seasoned player for, like, an hour to get filled in you'd find the overall experience much more enjoyable.

This is why I don't bother with MMO's, way too much of a time sink, they can be fun at first but then it's just tanky enemies, ridiculous grind, meta chasing nonsense and repetitive bore fests just for marginally better "loot" on a scale with no end. They have their fans and more power to them but God that just sounds miserable to me.

Plastic isn't all that hard to get. It's basically everywhere. I didn't even have stealth armor. I found the lost went down quickly even the one in power aemor to a level 15 cold shoulder and lvl 10 raider armor.

i think john has the single worst 76 build possible.

Booo what about the a sams lol

Jon are they tanky, or are you missing shots? Because it really looks like you keep missing shots.

Day 1 of requesting that Jon play Scarlet Hollow.... I'm.. I'm not actually gonna continue this - I'm just saying that he should play it because it ALSO takes place in a dying mining town in the northeast of America, just like Fallout 76. :)

the fallout 76 fan in me is crying right from the start. this is the problem the game has is people give up before experiencing the good bits and don't understand the perks so have a harder time than they need. there's been so much content added and much to explore and experience but it's not thrown in your face as much as the other games do, I've known many people with hundreds of hours that haven't heard of something, and with my almost 2k hours I'm still finding areas in the base game that i haven't been to

Interesting, might get me to fire up 76 again, we'll see. Hilda sounds just like Rose, I assumed it was Rose at first. Not the same voice actor, but sure sounded similar.

Oy, the combat is easy. You're just insistenting on using the worse weapons and build from launch, dammit.

I played this myself and it wasn't really difficult as I started it at 20 and finished at level 30 and a bunch of fun items.

Hm. What are the odds the first proper expansion just happens to coincide with the show's release and when they significanlty gimped the Season Pass?

John hits the issue on the head on Twitter. It's just too grindy. I jumped back in after years to a level 138 character and I couldn't do anything because I had to grind to make enough Ammo

It's real spooky to suddenly see someone else rocking the stealth armor and owl mask combo on the same screen that you usually play on lol