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This has been a great video. It perfectly describes the Fallout 76 system, and its explains why so many people keep returning or just going to the game. Hell its one of the many reasons why I keep returning. The fairness of the game and the complete lack of aggressively pushed Pay to Win systems that other online games have makes it so much better. In addition to the absolutely wonderful community the game has, its incredibly kind and generous to both old and new players alike. Compared to other games, I have only met ONE person in 76 that was horrid. Compared to the dozens I find in others.

Outside of major events you actually need to damage enemies to get loot from the corpses but while in major events you'll get loot from most enemies that spawn during the event even if you don't damage them

Graet video! 2500 hours in and still having fun 😊

Good video essay. IMO Fallout 76 is fair by accident, not by design. From the beginning players have pushed back hard against any pay to win micro transactions. Bethesda makes its live service money by selling skins and camp items. If camp items and skins were not profitable Bethesda might have gone down the pay to win PVP rabbit hole.

Excellent video! Summed up everything I love about the game! Well done!

Good to learn there's a word for it. Been playing since day 1 release, over 3500 hours, and that entire time, in the back of my mind, that concept was rattling around, just couldn't put it into words like you did.

This is the reason I love the game. I’m level 785 or so, but I still enjoy the game. Different strategies in events, camp building and gaining different items for camps and attire keep me interested. Also in my camp I sell everything for 1 credit no matter how rare to help lower level players get good stuff.

Nice video, I appreciate your message. So when I joined Fallout 76 I noticed the Scouts were a big part of it. Knowing the scout movement and what it stands for I was very impressed and hoped the game would share the same values, to me Fallout has a large amount of values similar to the Scout movement and I think the the players I have come across would represent a typical Scout member.

One thing I would semi argue is that technically there are Atom shop items that can be considered pay to win such as camp items that give junk. But at the end of the day it's more of a quality of life thing, and one can get more by actually playing which is one more reason this game is awesome.

Great explanation! I don’t under people blowing everything up or one shotting during radiation rumble, uranium fever, or moonshine jamboree. I get if there’s only a couple of players at the event, then some stronger guns are needed. However, if you see there are a lot of people in an event, pull out a weaker gun and let everyone get there shots in 🤷🏻‍♂️ I use an AA25 handmade and a plasma flamer. I don’t pull out the flamer unless I absolutely need to at an event. The rest of the time I’m taking a shot or two at each enemy with my handmade so everyone gets a hit.

Great video i thought about this before so it’s funny to see a video now talking exactly about this

The 40,000 caps max is another tool that promotes equality. Other games, such as ESO, have uncontrolled inflation, which makes things daunting for new players. By limiting the amount of currency players can accumulate, the game prevents an inflationary economy AND encourages spending, rather than saving.

One of the greatest thing/ or most exciting thing in computer games is to achieve very rare stuff and F76 is the game which constantly do that. The 3 star legendart system is such a great idea and the best is you can play the completly without too. A good build with a good weapon is already very effective so it just can get better and the way to get your perfect weapon is something i enjoy big time

You dont get to full power until 450-500 .. thats when you have been able to max your legendary cards

The only things that the Atom microcurrency can get you in terms of anything close to Pay-2-Win are CAMP items that generate consumables like food or ammo, but simply playing the SCOREBOARDs seasonals gets you those to a degree. And even then, the game rewards you this microcurrency at a rather generous rate in the beginning - so a frugulous player can simply hoard their Atoms for when these CAMP items become available via the in-game ATOM shop. It really is a surprisingly fair system - and def smt I never expected from Bethesda, considering their.... dubious behaviour involving a half dozen Skyrim re-releases...

Bro this is such a good video keep up the work.

Exactly the reason why I enjoyed the game when I got it. Fallout 76 is been filled with a lot of great people compared to other online games I've played plus there's a lot of incentive to work together rather than against each other. PS: Thanks again for that Holy Fire. I'm kinda retired from FO76 right now (played more than 200+ hours) but it was a great experience despite what my friends told me about the game prior to me buying it.

Good points and getting into the story and subtle lessons in Fallout. But things are sometimes only relatively equal depending on how much stuff and how many ethics are bestowed to or from others.

I think the subscription system with the monthly store credit thrown in is what alot of online games should adopt

New characters starts now with higher level. Fun game. Great building.

Why do people still insist on killing the boss by themselves when they can just tag it and get the experience? This happens in the final boss of the Farsnacht event.

the servers are caped at 32 players. What servers are you playing on? overall good video

subbed because of this video - awesome content.

The Fallout76 community is so loving this is why this game is better then others but the game gets so much hate just because it had a bad launch it’s sad because if more people would try this game they would come to love it

Before starting playing FO76 i used to play GTA-Online. Difference is insane. FO gave much more social playerbase. GTA was so toxic sometimes i rage quit.

Toxic atmospheres are why I HATED multiplayer games. Until I discovered Fallout 76. Now I keep going back. I managed to make a nice little place for myself in the game as a discount plan merchant. If you see a camp titled "Fort Weyr" or "Benden Weyr" those are mine. I mark resource shipments down to half and have a lot of ten cap plans and five cap food and aid. I do have a few things marked up to a few hundred caps. But I've yet to sell anything for over a grand. And I'm pretty sure I've never sold any single item for more than 500 caps (a three star quad cryolator I got from fasnact if you're curious what it was.) I've put together a lot of resource objects and carryweight perks, as well as perks like green thumb or butcher's bounty to ensure that food is never an issue, so I can afford to share. The only thing I really go ape over is if I die and someone takes my queen or other end game boss drops. For newbies, there are three end game bosses which drop stabilized flux. The Scorchbeast Queen, the Ultracite Titan and the Wendigo Collosus. They will only appear if you fire a nuclear bomb from one of the silos into a particular area of the map. There's some variation possible, so it doesn't have to be exact. The most dangerous IMO is the collosus, though many will cite the queen. The collosus is more disorienting. Sure the queen can blind you and send her minions after you, sure she's larger than most buildings in the game, but the collosus will force you to turn and run with a debuf attack, which makes fighting it disorienting. And it mostly appears in the Monongah mine, (sometimes there's a spawn point in the bog with a teeny tiny chance of it spawning) so its dark when you fight it. Its very easy to use up all your ammo trying to kill it. I've seen it happen. But it's also not unusual for players to not make it out of the collapsing mine and die (and thus get less loot) because they couldn't find the exit. You need a specific alcoholic beverage to counter the turn and run effect of the collosus; the Liquid Courage. And that is brewed from one of the collosus' drops. Plus, its spawning glowing wendigo spawns everywhere. Easy to spot in the dark. But also easy to get wrekt. The wendigo spawn drop a lot of screws and a lot of acid. So if you see a player being pokey in the collosus fight, its because they're after the drops from the spawns. The stabilized flux and improved repair kits the three bosses drop are extremely useful. Stabilized flux is used to create more advanced armor, weapon and power armor mods. My power armor's calibrated shocks required violet flux. The shielded mod for your vault suit requires cobalt flux. So you can understand why if I die and someone takes my boss drops, I bust out the shotgun or chainsaw and go Resident Evil on their ass. The only other time I truly went psycho over my loot being picked up a guy in a pink brahmin costume picked the loot up after I slipped and fell off one of the watchtowers. We were in the forest. I tracked him clear to the northern end of the Savage Divide near Prickett's fort and had an orbital strike beacon ready to fuck up his camp when he logged out. Another ten seconds and I would have gone biblical on his camp. It just wasn't fair, I was overloaded and not wearing my power armor for the sake of manuverability up the fucking stairs on the watch tower. Lost my loot because of a fucking pratfall. The player seemd to realiize how badly he'd fucked up. So I'll teach you another secret. Two words. Furious. Chainsaw. The chainsaw is a very good way to kill big enemies like the deathclaw or sentry bot. And it's capable of completely THRASHING power armor. I've been on the recieving end a couple times, and each time my power armor broke in SECONDS. Think of it as a tank killer. PS: Pretty sure I passed you at one of those fasnact events. ;)

great video, to be clear a lvl 700 isa not the same of a 2000, if one of them has perk cards place "random" compared to a good build, i have more then 5k hours in fallout 76 from 2018.Another thing a good thing about this game is that if you had a good build character 2 years ago and come back today to play probably you character is still competitive (not for everyone if a player just used legacies, probably now has to look for new weapons)

Fairness and equality works better in the gaming world just as it would if applied in real life. Maybe one day people will become less greedy and realize the benefits.

Another great thing about FO76 is the heaps of premium currency you can earn through normal gameplay. Completing challenges and scoreboards gets you a ton of atoms. I'm sitting at a few thousand saved right now and I've never put a cent into the Atomic Shop.

The Orly thing can make a différence is you can buy God roll with real cash on third party site but nobody see who have do this and the impacte is very reduce beacause laser explosive no longer existe

Great topic, great video. The thing I’ll never get over is trading a ton of rare plans, apparel and grolls for a bloody explosive Tesla to have it just ripped away. All the grinding that led up to obtaining it and then treated like a villain for having it. It’s just jealousy and trolling and Bethesda bows down to the biggest complainers. Most people just go with the flow and adapt. These people feel they have some obligation to the universe to balance what they feel unjust. Just like nuking fasnacht because AFK, but yet inconveniencing so many more innocent players who may be bloody builds, non PA users, etc. I’m level 890 now. Been playing 3 years. Spent so much time grinding and why wouldn’t I be better off than a new player? It gives them something to look forward to

unfortunately, there's players out there that love to stuff up other player fun up. In the real world this is called a bully? fallout community mostly great. mine the spelling. If my computer don't tell me the right spelling I have to go it alone. Aha❤😎

Great video. While the game setup makes it inviting to all levels, it is too easy. Legendaries are not necessary. Food, chems, and ammo are easy to obtain, and this hurts the economy. Caps have a higher inflation than the lore of pre-war money and have become worthless. Role playing as an adhesive farmer has no real reward.

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Being honest 76 is pay to win I used to be huge into trading but the scamming problem just got worse and Bethesda doesn’t care to fix it so all the trade forums and apps like game flip have become just full of people buying and selling god rolls outfits aid items if it’s tradeable there’s a 100% chance it’s being sold for real money and people do buy it

I can't get past the insane jump heights. That will stop me from playing the game. The emphasis in this game seems to be building, which definitely is easier if you pay more. You guys may have ruined Fallout for me. No offence.

You so nailed it bruh.

“Nobody misses out on any loot” ….. unless the game feels like being mean and DC’s/crashes in the last few seconds of an event 🥲

I think its really mosty fair to the lower level guys. Of course they try to get you with the 1st stuff which is like 10 a month which makes having more stash etc easier. I still think its kind of a steal but 10 a month isnt going to break the bank. That basketball game wants you to spend hundreds.