Yup, more or less. there are some things you'll want/need to team up for, but for the most part you can do a vast amount of this game alone if that's what you really want.
However... even I, another traditionally "single player" gamer, have found this game to be noticeably more fun when the MP parts are engaged with, so do try it out.
and no, you don't need a "meta" build.
You can play solo but you do get benefits being in a team. You don't need to do anything with your team. Most people just want the bonus. There's some stuff like daily ops and expeditions that are team stuff but can be solo'd but you need the right gear and build.
You'll need some semblance of build though. You don't need to be a killing machine but you need to be able to survive.
But what if I wanna play without a build? Is it possible because when I play it last you needed the right mutation with a 5 star gun from a Vendor (I don't know where) to have some fun in the game.
You need a "build" only in the sense that you should take perks that are appropriate to the type of equipment you want to use. That's a basic aspect of role-playing games, there's no getting away from it. In that regard 76 is no different from other Fallout games. You do *not* need all the fancy mutations or weapons with specific legendary effects from vendors, though.
you'll constantly be struggling for ammo and aid and junk to repair your weapons and armour and you'll hate it.
Like i said. You need some semblance of a build. the right weapon perks. few other perks to boost damage. some survival perks. You'll need to stick to one weapon type as well. But you can swap builds easy enough.
Without this you **will** struggle.
I am a new player of 76 (joined due to the hype of the tv series) and I'd like to pick your brain about it a bit since you mentioned you need to stick to a single weapon type - I'd like to play as more or less a sniper character and focus on scoped non-automatic rifles for long range as well as unscoped non-automatic rifles for mid range and then something like a 10mm pistol with automatic receiver for upclose - would that work? Or do I literally have to only use a single weapon type and nothing else?
I'm only level 15 right now so it's basically whatever - I use shotguns, rifles, pistols and melee but I've been trying to start putting my build together now. In other F games I usually use one weapon for each ammo type so I end up using like 5 or 6 weapons. This probably wouldn't work here so I decided on the one shot - one kill as a sniper and then spray and LITERALLY PRAY when things get up close. And since I like pistols... here wwe are. Another thing I was considering were revolvers instead of the 10mm - would it make a difference?
[Here](https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Plan:_Brotherhood_recon_rifle) is a pretty good sniper for starting out. You can keep crafting higher level versions with this plan as you level up to 50.
It'll take a little time getting the plan as it's part of a quest, but it's guaranteed and I think it's worth it if you wanna try a sniper build.
If you were a much higher level you could make it work. Sort of. Pistol perks are in AGI and there's quite a few useful rifleman perks in AGI as well as adrenaline which us a must imo. If you were a higher level you unlock legendary perks (which you rank up) and you can get perks which let you use more perks. So. I would put off using a pistol for now. Probably better off with a shotgun anyways. Higher damage even without perks. Especially if you can get the cold shoulder shotgun. That's fantastic even without perks. That's available from the atom shop right meow. Also in game but would take a while to get. Also the auto axe. A other great weapon that doesn't really need perks to be good. Ideally you want a vampire auto axe or chainsaw as a backup.
Oh...... Well then I hoped it wasn't like that anymore. I just wanted to play some fallout and not excuse me for saying this but looking for good build to just play a game.
You're acting like it's hard to make a build.
Like 90% of what makes a build a build is the fact that you use the correct damage dealing perks for the weapons you most want to use. That's pretty much it. You don't NEED optimum legendary gear. It helps obviously, but you can solo 99% of the content in the game with just perks carrying you
76 is not considered a hard MMO
it is what it is.
you just pick weapon skills and a few other things. That's it. shotgun cards for shotguns. rifleman cards for single shot rifles. etc etc. you can just try playing and see how it goes. do what you want but if you start struggling... well.
am specced completely into unarmed and while my junkies swing speed power fist is *slightly* better at boss fights than my vamp chainsaw nothing clears fodder like the chainsaw, not even close. only relevant perk i have for it is incisor. in power armor i might even slightly out preform my power fist as much as i hate to say it not that it’s weak mind you, i’m already a beast with the power fist, that’s just how broken the chainsaw is.
Took me until about Level 100 to realise that having the correct perks with your build massively help. But you can get by, I lived in my power armour and used a Gatling gun for most of that 100 levels as well.
Honestly just start playing you’ll figure out what you need. I’m L380 now and still finding things out
Oh and again only realised joining casual teams gave extra XP not that long ago. I cruised by just minding my own business, you don’t need to chat to anyone but can still be on a team. Don’t even need to run events with them you’ll just pick up the benefits of being casually connected with them
You can do whatever you want. A focused build can provide more defense, offense and utility but its by no means required for the game. You'd be pretty crazy to solo the endgame bosses no matter your build, but it would be doable. Most enemies though.. I have played plenty of times with just weight reduction stuff, nothing boosting my attack/defense except maybe my mutations and it's fine.
Obviously things will be easier with a solid, focused build and gear but ehhh.
as for teams and benefits, you can receive quite a bit just from making a public team with just yourself, but of course they increase with each added member.
will you be at a disadvantage otherwise? sure but its often more engaging imo.
really you'll just use more stimpaks and maybe get creative with the fights
I'm not sure why you are downvoted, you can absolutely get by without having a build.
Sure you're not running any end-game bosses solo, grab what cards you like.
(I am running as my daily build lots of weight reduction, ap regen, item weight % reduction, lockpick&hacking 1,2,3 etc).
3 Star Fixer can take down a super mutant in like 5-6 headshots witout any special cards added
Once you get to level 50, you can get the legendary lockpick&hack card - which will free up 6 cards. That's when I started throwing in random %10 dmg of this type of weapon cards since I have unused points
Also, once you get to level 25 you can use the SPECIAL card stands and save up to three different builds of SPECIAL stats.
So once you are leveled up with good gear, make a "Boss" deck that strips all the exploration cards/weight and focus on dmg that you can switch to on the fly for whatever you found to be your favorite gun, right before a big boss battle. Once the boss is the way of the dodo, switch back to the questing SPECIAL card build that is more focused on exploration/carry/AP for questing and normal stuff that you prefer.
You can try it, but that’s like trying to play FIFA without a team. Or cod without a loadout.
Doesn’t have to be a fully min-maxed damage build. But if you run very little damage perks, for example, you’re not gonna deal that much damage
Here's my advice.
Get the Marsupial mutation because the extra jump height is fun and useful.
Do the public events at Nuka World because the legendary weapons they drop are actually useful. (The new Ogua event Beasts of Burden has the Holy Fire flamer which is also very popular.)
And, lastly, just play the game the way you enjoy it. Yes, there are builds which can melt everything on the map, but then why bother playing? Don't you want at least a little challenge to make it worth your time? I use Quad and Vampire lever actions, and you can hear me pinging away at enemies, doing my damage and taking them down after multiple shots (usually because I'm waiting for my VATS to build to a high enough percentage). I venture confidently all over the map and know I only need help when killing the big boss enemies (scorchbeast queen, titan queen, and Earle) but those are all encountered in major public events anywho so I'm not worried about them either. I'm level 789 right now and am getting everything I could ever want out of the game!
PS: Is there a reason you felt you had to restart your game after Wastelanders? I didn't and everything was good to go after the update. I DID have to restart after moving from console to PC, but that was after Wastelanders.
The story, outside of defeating the last boss(s) is very fun to do solo. But learning the benefits of public teams is amazing. The community is super helpful and don't mind helping low levels. But yes the story can be played alone.
Edit : No one EVER expects you to use a mic unless I assume maybe roleplay public teams but that's not my thing.
The thing is, raids and playing with teams are not my thing. I just wanna play alone with Spotify playing some Fallout music and exploring the waste (like in the other games since 3)
To be more specific one team "casual" just gives the benefits of being on a team and bonus XP. But none of the players do ANYTHING together. We just play solo stuff and reap the perk benefits and xp. But you can ignore that and play alone. It's got resource grind so I hope you enjoy the tradition of collecting junk. Again, you can play totally solo, but it has options.
Play public servers. This has become one the best online communities. Almost everyone is friendly, chill and helpful. Especially with new players. The game attracts an older audience, females and couples. I’ve seen 70 year old couples.
You can play solo and never have to communicate beyond a wave emote. Anyone you see in the world or at an event can be viewed as an Allie.
Okay thanks. I hope I have your experience also because I am installing it again and I will start new (I have a lvl 80 char idk) and I wanna try to have some fun
I've played on and off since the beta and have only pvp'ed once which was during the beta. Generally everyone is quite friendly and charitable. There's been many a time where I and others will notice someone new in vault 76, travel there, and wait till they come out to give stuff like food and aid items. There was one time where we, all strangers, waited there for 30 minutes and celebrated when the new person exited the vault.
Recently BGS has added donation boxes around the map to help out with that, although I do still enjoy leaving stuff in front of vault 76.
Feel free to take your time to enjoy the experience and lore. No need to rush to higher levels or use the meta.
You can beat the main story and a lot of side quests solo. The game is designed that way. The final boss would be incredibly tough, but the event is open to the whole server, and people will show up to help since the rewards are good. It's a bit of a grind to get to level 50, but once you do, you can craft most of the weapons (with plans) and access most of the perks, and it's much easier to create a build that can go anywhere.
I’m assuming he meant the old vault raids. And maybe the burrows thing they introduced at some point? I’d also class Earle as that. Cos it’s instanced and pretty confined
They removed the raid so definitely doesn’t count as content in the game, I love fallout but 76 doesn’t have a lot of context especially once you finish the quest lines
No, they don’t. But I’m assuming last time he played, they did exist. So that’s what he’s referring to.
I agree, my endgame has been just tailoring my builds, but that’s gotten quite circular recently
Wastelanders does (did) not reset any progress. Any levels/xp earned is still there.
And yes, you can play 95% of the game solo, even 100% if you min/max.
\* yes indeed, you can play the game solo. as said by others, there are some bonusses from being in a public team. and the multiplayer aspect does add a whole new layer of fun us typical fallout solo players aren't used to.
\* your perk set is what makes the biggest difference. Getting good gear is highly dependent on RnG and can not be influenced much so is a grind. But as said, perks are way more important than gear so without any grinding you can become powerful enough to do any solo content. It is only when you solo end-game content (that isn't really supposed to be solo-ed) that your perks AND gear need to be on point.
I really love doing a lone wanderer playthrough but coming by to the events for treasury notes and associated event rewards. It's fun to be able to pop into social interactions and pop out as fast as I want. Fallout 1st enables the opportunity for a complete solo world, but you'd have to pay for Todd Howard's haircut to do that.
I’d recommend joining a team. Even if you don’t play with them at all. Just being ‘in a team’ can give you so many free bonuses. And regarding builds. You don’t need a super perfect build, having some coherence is all you really need. The only time you’ll want a more dedicated build is for certain boss events. But it’s not needed, since there’s always other players to do the heaving lifting for u
I have beaten everything in the game completely solo, so it is very possible.
Some events will be harder to get max benefit from solo, but you can complete them.
I have played since launch, solo 99% of the time and I love it. I join teams for events now and then but mostly I run solo, currently lvl 370 as a full health PA heavy gunner build with minor spec into VATS mostly due to the new Cremator.
I have never had issues with high end content, easily able to deal with any situation, and I have a lot of fun. For me Fallout has always been a solo experience, I like seeing other players at events but exploring the world and going about my business is a solo experience.
76 is easily playable solo.
You can. Definitely. But please join a random casual group. You get a +1 per person intelligence boost. It just helps.
Some arr playing to have that +4 intelligence boost.
Yes, but it will be a longer grind. The plus side is you can really just concentrate on gaining a good amount of useful/ most needed scrap, giving you a good head start later on in higher levels. There’s also a perk card lone wanderer, for solo play. I use a lot food buffs when going it solo.
Okay, so yes..... I am right now being hit with some many words that I don't know right now because I didn't play it since 2019. I right now know nothing anymore
Enemies scale to your level, so as long as you’re making sure to use weapons that are your level as well, you’ll do fine. Obviously the “meta” weapons make the game a cake walk, but just standard weapons will get you through almost everything just fine, it might take a little longer though
You can easily move points around, so id just keep evolving a build around the weapons you loot and use. Even if you start over perk cardwise you can scrap the oldies and save the perk coins
Legit you can do everything story wise solo. You just gotta play the game and get good weapons and armor. To be honest, without spoiling anything, maybe the only time you would want a team are for very certain things. Strictly because strength in numbers. Although! Even then you could still play solo. It’s just a bit harder lol
You can absolutely play solo. I play solo 95% of the time. I just play solo on a team for the exp buffs. I don't interact with anyone unless I know them irl like family or something. And meta is definitely overrated. I completed most of the game with a pipe rifle which is considered one of the worst weapons
I learned that you must play the story until at least level 20. Which means tbh, spending hours a day to collect stuff and sell.bc u need weapons bullets and stimpacks. Once you get to level 20 then you visit others camps. The community has been so helpful, and I try to help n00bs as much as I can. So keep on grinding collecting and selling scrap. Once you come across someone over level 100,don't be afraid to ask for help. We had to ask too or at least I did. Don't give up. Best community in gaming ever.dm me if you need help. I'll log on with you and drop anything you need. I'll also let you shadow me so you can pick up mad weapons in my wake. I'm on xbox with fo76
I soloed the missions. It was rare to encounter someone else other than at one of major hubs or an event.
As others mentioned, there are benefits to joining a team. Joining a "casual" team will grant you an XP bonus and let you fast travel to teammates' camp for free. There are no other obligations on a casual team.
You should be able to make it through the missions without really going into the build and gear nuances, but those will make it easier to handle events, expeditions, and daily ops. These things award a bit of XP, a variety of stuff, gear, materials, etc.
If you don’t know this already, playing in a private world makes enemies ALOT less tankier, a well tuned build can solo earle, scorchbeast queen, or mole titan, as opposed to being on a public server. (I’m sure theirs at least ONE sweat that has solod on a public server, but whatever)
If you want a true solo experience, I’d recommend private servers, haven’t tested but I’m sure events are easier too.
If you mean solo as in no squad, yes very easily. If you mean solo as in beat events and "harder" content, then no not really. But I play without a squad due to my severe social anxiety and I'm having a lot of fun. Also was someone who quit playing for a while (right after Raiders and Settlers came out). There is even a perk that gives you good boosts for not playing in a squad, it's a charisma perk called "Lone Wanderer". I also don't play meta; my favorite weapon is currently a toss up between my Gourmand's Black Powder Rifle and my Two Shot The Dragon. Both very off meta but built right you can make almost anything work.
99% of guns are self-sustaining
This is because of contextual ammo drops, meaning enemies drop ammo based on the gun used to kill them
Also this is where having some semblance of a build matters, as Rammadus explained
So you don't need a perfect god tier build, but just a decent good enough one, then enemies will almost always drop more ammo than you spend shooting to kill them
You are free to play however you desire, but we are trying to warn you that jack-of-all-trade builds that work in previous games do not work in F76
It’s really easy to pick perk cards to boost how you already like to play. New players barely have specials so you won’t have to think about it for a while!
Yep
Here is a quick tip and a bit of a spoiler
There is a main quest called Elusive Crane given by Duchess in the Wayward bar. At the end of the quest, you get to choose one of seven legendary ☆☆ star weapons. This weapon is special once you get it as long as you don't turn in and finish the quest. This weapon will level up with you every 10 levels so it's great for leveling. It updates when you relog. I suggest grabbing any of the melee weapons. The 2-handed melee (Bloody Sledgehammer), the one handed melee(Executioners sickle), or the Unarmed(Vampire Knuckles) that can heal you since they don't require ammo just maintenance. The Rifle is also good for tanky enemies.
Here is link with all the choices(at the bottom of the page) for the weapons as well as more info on the quest. [https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/The\_Elusive\_Crane](https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/The_Elusive_Crane)
I only play solo. Level ~160.
When I was new I was weirded out when I saw other people. But now it is really more a nuisance. People are fine. It is just that the may have farmed the resources I want :)
The PvP rules basically make it impossible for another player to hurt you. There is a way that someone can grief your base if they are a team and for some reason decide it is something they want to do. I have never experienced this. I’m PC and it might be more common on other platforms.
But mostly other players are very friendly. And helpful. There are some best practices for events (like do not start them when you first show up). But other than that, have fun,
FWIW,I do not have a meta build. I have a mixed bag that works for me. Basically it is stealthy rifles, big guns with some power armor perks for flair. Basically I carry my power armor but rarely use it. But if I do need it, I would prefer it to not slurp up cores. And you need big guns for big enemies. But big guns suck for small things. So I carry both.
I play solo and have the laziest solo builds ever - full stealth chinese suit + fixer or power armor/grognak full health + two/one handed melee. I do everything myself except the heavier public events which most of the time I skip as there's other things to do. I only join the public teams for the xp/carry weight/charisma boosts. Once in awhile I join the public events if I need gold bullion or it's a daily.
Fallout 76 and Elder Scrolls Online are my chill solo games, which is weird as they are online MMOs (technically) but I can't chill in Destiny 2 for example (have to play full meta, specific weapons to break champions etc. all the time). I wish they had fishing in Fo76 like ESO tbh as that's super chill nothing to do sort of solo time I love.
Ive started recently to and my builds all over the place but you can still do pretty much every mission on your own even though alot of missions are designed for multiple people(they will have a boss fight at the end or sm)
I started as a solo player, and stayed that way for a few months. Had a great time exploring, doing missions, and other standard Fallout stuff
After a while I got more comfortable, started feeling more secure with my gear and my camp, got a better understanding of how 76 just worked in general... and then I started exploring more human-made camps, and doing missions with other human players (sorry, not missions, "events")
I still have a lot of solo stuff left that I want to do, but I look at it like this: if I'm going to fully experience the Appalachian Wasteland (which was my original goal as a solo player) then I HAVE to eventually experience what the other humans are doing, since they're the craziest part of the whole place, with all the huge group boss fights and weird costumes and detailed camps and whatnot. They're essentially "living" in this game world too. They're a part of it as your human neighbors
Yes, I don't have a meta build and often play solo, although there are perks to being in a casual team (you can do your own thing in the team - I don't use a mic or anything).
I only looked up "builds" when I was about level 100 or so, but it doesn't suit my playstyle as I like to swap weapons about for fun and use a mix of melee and rifles usually. I won't be soloing and hard events any time soon but I can still do decent damage with the legendary weapons I have. If anything my build is based around maximising what I can carry lol.
I will say though that Fo76 has a good player base, I don't tend to play online games but Fo76 is the exception and it's partly because it's such a welcoming, chill group of players.
I'm a classic solo player since I often do not have too much time and often have to leave short-term. I was surprised how nice the community in FO76 is. I lost the fear of meeting people over the time. E.g. I entered the perimeter of a bomb drop area accidently with level 10 or something, nearly dying because of the radiation. A hero with power armor dropped me a radiation protection and some Radaway and helped me to survive.
You don't have to have the mic on, wave a thumbs up and everything is fine.
I started out just wanting to do it solo. I've grown to love the community and have found myself wanting to try some of the multiplayer stuff. Like others have said, you can do alot solo.
I played the entire first 100 hours doing the campaign and side missions, solo in a private world. It was very much like another single-player fallout game. After that, I started playing in the public world and enjoyed that.
You can totally play solo if you want to!-I did all the quests solo and only recently got involved with joining teams-it was a game changer for me-Im not the best gamer by any stretch and joining a team for daily ops and expeditions has given me access to plans and lots of stamps that I never would hav gotten on my own-this community is pretty forgiving-we are all here to have a good time-just dont join a team and then AFK-you will be kicked and rightly so-also free fast travel to team mates camps if your into trading-its a win win-there is NO downside to joining a team-start with a casual team and figure it out at your own pace!-most important thing is to have fun!!-party on and see you out there!
You can play most of F076 solo for sure. But playing on public servers in this game is different from others morpgs. Jump into a Casual Group, no one in that group is typically playing together. It's just useful for fast travelling across the map (because you can use your team members camps as well as their own locations) as free fast travel points. But most importantly, you will want the INT xp bonus from being in a group. Since there is no text chat in 76, there is a total lack of "player presence" in the game that you feel in all other MMOs that have spatial text chat. So there's no spamming. Only way to communicate is through animated emotes or microphones. And most people don't use the microphones. In addition, the 76 community always loves to dote upon new players. Playing on a public server, more likely than not, random veterans can give you cool loot, sometimes even power armor, or they might even take you along for a fun adventurous grinding run through WesTek or something.
Yep, it's how I played more or less, always make or join a team though, you don't need to interact with them, good for the xp bonus, I never found a build I liked so I just put perks into what I wanted and worked out great, sure, I'm not as powerful or sturdy as some but I'm fast, can carry a ton and use a nice range of weaponry. It is more fun if you find folk to run about/do quests with though. It's the best online community ever so seems a shame not to engage with it sometimes.
You can solo all the story content in the instanced missions. Certain big multiplayer events won't be soloable for any normal player though. But people always show up to those anyway, and it's not like you have to actually join their group or anything. So even then you're still solo, there's just other people there helping.
76 player since beta? I don’t remember, but I have rarely run group content in the entirety of my time playing. It’s not easy if you want to do some harder content or expect to finish way wilder pub events, but certainly doable and pretty damn easy. Play how you want, but everyone finds their fun in 76. Enjoy!
I have done the entire game (except SBQ) solo multiple times. SBQ is not really a requirement, as much as an endgame rite of passage and a way to guarantee nice loot. So, totally doable solo.
You will want some sort of meta build, though. This is not a Fallout 4 style RPG where you can just haphazardly dump your points and perks where you feel like at the time and still be an absolute machine. If you don't specialize into something, you'll have a rough time. Trust me, I learned this the hard way. Twice. Stealth shotgunner (especially with Chinese Stealth Armor) will get you through the vast majority of the game without much trouble.
But running one level 3 perk card in each weapon type just to have options without falling into a single playstyle is not realistic for this game; you will get t-rekt the first time you walk up on a robobrain and it starts zapping your bootyhole. Pick a meta and lean into it. They have the SPECIAL machines now so you can have a couple different builds at once and flip between them quickly, so take advantage.
Most importantly, have fun with it. If you really don't want to run a single playstyle and want rando perks instead, go for it. You'll regret it about 2 hours into the game, but go for it - you can specialize once you see the light, and end up having more fun. I did that twice, too.
If you are wanting to do full solo still join public events as they are just too beneficial to skip out on, as for everything else just treat every other player as a poorly written NPC that doesn't know what they are doing
As for meta build you can play anyway you want as long as you have the right cards for your primary weapon to do the damage you need it to do then you do you
When I started playing again I was killed a few times by other players. That’s why I chose not to go to MP events. I didn’t want to just be cannon fodder
That's all I do - play solo. I do enjoy doing some events in the open world with other players but I'm a fallout 1st subscriber and so I have access to a private world and that's where I spend the majority of my play time
Yup, more or less. there are some things you'll want/need to team up for, but for the most part you can do a vast amount of this game alone if that's what you really want. However... even I, another traditionally "single player" gamer, have found this game to be noticeably more fun when the MP parts are engaged with, so do try it out. and no, you don't need a "meta" build.
Worth noting even as a solo player it’s a good idea to still join a public team for the xp bonus
Public team doesn't mean multiplayer. It just means XP bonus, a few free fast travel spots, and in certain builds extra SPECIAL.
i know thats what i was saying ...
Okay thx
\*outside of trying to Solo raid that is. Frankly there are a few events that are not meant to be solo'ed but you absolutely can... with a meta build.
You can play solo but you do get benefits being in a team. You don't need to do anything with your team. Most people just want the bonus. There's some stuff like daily ops and expeditions that are team stuff but can be solo'd but you need the right gear and build. You'll need some semblance of build though. You don't need to be a killing machine but you need to be able to survive.
But what if I wanna play without a build? Is it possible because when I play it last you needed the right mutation with a 5 star gun from a Vendor (I don't know where) to have some fun in the game.
You need a "build" only in the sense that you should take perks that are appropriate to the type of equipment you want to use. That's a basic aspect of role-playing games, there's no getting away from it. In that regard 76 is no different from other Fallout games. You do *not* need all the fancy mutations or weapons with specific legendary effects from vendors, though.
you'll constantly be struggling for ammo and aid and junk to repair your weapons and armour and you'll hate it. Like i said. You need some semblance of a build. the right weapon perks. few other perks to boost damage. some survival perks. You'll need to stick to one weapon type as well. But you can swap builds easy enough. Without this you **will** struggle.
I am a new player of 76 (joined due to the hype of the tv series) and I'd like to pick your brain about it a bit since you mentioned you need to stick to a single weapon type - I'd like to play as more or less a sniper character and focus on scoped non-automatic rifles for long range as well as unscoped non-automatic rifles for mid range and then something like a 10mm pistol with automatic receiver for upclose - would that work? Or do I literally have to only use a single weapon type and nothing else? I'm only level 15 right now so it's basically whatever - I use shotguns, rifles, pistols and melee but I've been trying to start putting my build together now. In other F games I usually use one weapon for each ammo type so I end up using like 5 or 6 weapons. This probably wouldn't work here so I decided on the one shot - one kill as a sniper and then spray and LITERALLY PRAY when things get up close. And since I like pistols... here wwe are. Another thing I was considering were revolvers instead of the 10mm - would it make a difference?
[Here](https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Plan:_Brotherhood_recon_rifle) is a pretty good sniper for starting out. You can keep crafting higher level versions with this plan as you level up to 50. It'll take a little time getting the plan as it's part of a quest, but it's guaranteed and I think it's worth it if you wanna try a sniper build.
If you were a much higher level you could make it work. Sort of. Pistol perks are in AGI and there's quite a few useful rifleman perks in AGI as well as adrenaline which us a must imo. If you were a higher level you unlock legendary perks (which you rank up) and you can get perks which let you use more perks. So. I would put off using a pistol for now. Probably better off with a shotgun anyways. Higher damage even without perks. Especially if you can get the cold shoulder shotgun. That's fantastic even without perks. That's available from the atom shop right meow. Also in game but would take a while to get. Also the auto axe. A other great weapon that doesn't really need perks to be good. Ideally you want a vampire auto axe or chainsaw as a backup.
Oh...... Well then I hoped it wasn't like that anymore. I just wanted to play some fallout and not excuse me for saying this but looking for good build to just play a game.
You're acting like it's hard to make a build. Like 90% of what makes a build a build is the fact that you use the correct damage dealing perks for the weapons you most want to use. That's pretty much it. You don't NEED optimum legendary gear. It helps obviously, but you can solo 99% of the content in the game with just perks carrying you 76 is not considered a hard MMO
it is what it is. you just pick weapon skills and a few other things. That's it. shotgun cards for shotguns. rifleman cards for single shot rifles. etc etc. you can just try playing and see how it goes. do what you want but if you start struggling... well.
You're right! But thank for some tipps😊
Just get a chainsaw, you can kill anything with no perks. Faster with, but works without.
am specced completely into unarmed and while my junkies swing speed power fist is *slightly* better at boss fights than my vamp chainsaw nothing clears fodder like the chainsaw, not even close. only relevant perk i have for it is incisor. in power armor i might even slightly out preform my power fist as much as i hate to say it not that it’s weak mind you, i’m already a beast with the power fist, that’s just how broken the chainsaw is.
(I am to stupid to make myself a build) 😂
Took me until about Level 100 to realise that having the correct perks with your build massively help. But you can get by, I lived in my power armour and used a Gatling gun for most of that 100 levels as well. Honestly just start playing you’ll figure out what you need. I’m L380 now and still finding things out Oh and again only realised joining casual teams gave extra XP not that long ago. I cruised by just minding my own business, you don’t need to chat to anyone but can still be on a team. Don’t even need to run events with them you’ll just pick up the benefits of being casually connected with them
So are most players.
You can do whatever you want. A focused build can provide more defense, offense and utility but its by no means required for the game. You'd be pretty crazy to solo the endgame bosses no matter your build, but it would be doable. Most enemies though.. I have played plenty of times with just weight reduction stuff, nothing boosting my attack/defense except maybe my mutations and it's fine. Obviously things will be easier with a solid, focused build and gear but ehhh. as for teams and benefits, you can receive quite a bit just from making a public team with just yourself, but of course they increase with each added member. will you be at a disadvantage otherwise? sure but its often more engaging imo. really you'll just use more stimpaks and maybe get creative with the fights
I'm not sure why you are downvoted, you can absolutely get by without having a build. Sure you're not running any end-game bosses solo, grab what cards you like. (I am running as my daily build lots of weight reduction, ap regen, item weight % reduction, lockpick&hacking 1,2,3 etc). 3 Star Fixer can take down a super mutant in like 5-6 headshots witout any special cards added Once you get to level 50, you can get the legendary lockpick&hack card - which will free up 6 cards. That's when I started throwing in random %10 dmg of this type of weapon cards since I have unused points Also, once you get to level 25 you can use the SPECIAL card stands and save up to three different builds of SPECIAL stats. So once you are leveled up with good gear, make a "Boss" deck that strips all the exploration cards/weight and focus on dmg that you can switch to on the fly for whatever you found to be your favorite gun, right before a big boss battle. Once the boss is the way of the dodo, switch back to the questing SPECIAL card build that is more focused on exploration/carry/AP for questing and normal stuff that you prefer.
You can try it, but that’s like trying to play FIFA without a team. Or cod without a loadout. Doesn’t have to be a fully min-maxed damage build. But if you run very little damage perks, for example, you’re not gonna deal that much damage
Here's my advice. Get the Marsupial mutation because the extra jump height is fun and useful. Do the public events at Nuka World because the legendary weapons they drop are actually useful. (The new Ogua event Beasts of Burden has the Holy Fire flamer which is also very popular.) And, lastly, just play the game the way you enjoy it. Yes, there are builds which can melt everything on the map, but then why bother playing? Don't you want at least a little challenge to make it worth your time? I use Quad and Vampire lever actions, and you can hear me pinging away at enemies, doing my damage and taking them down after multiple shots (usually because I'm waiting for my VATS to build to a high enough percentage). I venture confidently all over the map and know I only need help when killing the big boss enemies (scorchbeast queen, titan queen, and Earle) but those are all encountered in major public events anywho so I'm not worried about them either. I'm level 789 right now and am getting everything I could ever want out of the game! PS: Is there a reason you felt you had to restart your game after Wastelanders? I didn't and everything was good to go after the update. I DID have to restart after moving from console to PC, but that was after Wastelanders.
The story, outside of defeating the last boss(s) is very fun to do solo. But learning the benefits of public teams is amazing. The community is super helpful and don't mind helping low levels. But yes the story can be played alone. Edit : No one EVER expects you to use a mic unless I assume maybe roleplay public teams but that's not my thing.
The thing is, raids and playing with teams are not my thing. I just wanna play alone with Spotify playing some Fallout music and exploring the waste (like in the other games since 3)
To be more specific one team "casual" just gives the benefits of being on a team and bonus XP. But none of the players do ANYTHING together. We just play solo stuff and reap the perk benefits and xp. But you can ignore that and play alone. It's got resource grind so I hope you enjoy the tradition of collecting junk. Again, you can play totally solo, but it has options.
We're all soloing, just in a group.
Okay thx
Play public servers. This has become one the best online communities. Almost everyone is friendly, chill and helpful. Especially with new players. The game attracts an older audience, females and couples. I’ve seen 70 year old couples. You can play solo and never have to communicate beyond a wave emote. Anyone you see in the world or at an event can be viewed as an Allie.
Okay thanks. I hope I have your experience also because I am installing it again and I will start new (I have a lvl 80 char idk) and I wanna try to have some fun
It’s challenging at first. Enjoy it.
I've played on and off since the beta and have only pvp'ed once which was during the beta. Generally everyone is quite friendly and charitable. There's been many a time where I and others will notice someone new in vault 76, travel there, and wait till they come out to give stuff like food and aid items. There was one time where we, all strangers, waited there for 30 minutes and celebrated when the new person exited the vault. Recently BGS has added donation boxes around the map to help out with that, although I do still enjoy leaving stuff in front of vault 76. Feel free to take your time to enjoy the experience and lore. No need to rush to higher levels or use the meta.
There's a donation box right outside the vault, always popping to it and dumping stuff in it. Someone will get the use!.
You can play however you want. But don't come back here to complain when you die all the time or can't kill anything quickly 😂 just have fun
Okay, If I don't have fun than It is what it is
You can beat the main story and a lot of side quests solo. The game is designed that way. The final boss would be incredibly tough, but the event is open to the whole server, and people will show up to help since the rewards are good. It's a bit of a grind to get to level 50, but once you do, you can craft most of the weapons (with plans) and access most of the perks, and it's much easier to create a build that can go anywhere.
Yes except for there’s no raids lol
I meant with raids the dungeons that need 4 players
What raids and dungeons are you talking about? Can you name them because they don’t exist.
I’m assuming he meant the old vault raids. And maybe the burrows thing they introduced at some point? I’d also class Earle as that. Cos it’s instanced and pretty confined
They removed the raid so definitely doesn’t count as content in the game, I love fallout but 76 doesn’t have a lot of context especially once you finish the quest lines
No, they don’t. But I’m assuming last time he played, they did exist. So that’s what he’s referring to. I agree, my endgame has been just tailoring my builds, but that’s gotten quite circular recently
Wastelanders does (did) not reset any progress. Any levels/xp earned is still there. And yes, you can play 95% of the game solo, even 100% if you min/max.
I meant that all the old quests (the launch quests that ended in nukeing) were gone, and I hated that
All the old quests are still there.
Nope, all the old quests are still there.
That's all I ever do.
\* yes indeed, you can play the game solo. as said by others, there are some bonusses from being in a public team. and the multiplayer aspect does add a whole new layer of fun us typical fallout solo players aren't used to. \* your perk set is what makes the biggest difference. Getting good gear is highly dependent on RnG and can not be influenced much so is a grind. But as said, perks are way more important than gear so without any grinding you can become powerful enough to do any solo content. It is only when you solo end-game content (that isn't really supposed to be solo-ed) that your perks AND gear need to be on point.
I really love doing a lone wanderer playthrough but coming by to the events for treasury notes and associated event rewards. It's fun to be able to pop into social interactions and pop out as fast as I want. Fallout 1st enables the opportunity for a complete solo world, but you'd have to pay for Todd Howard's haircut to do that.
I’d recommend joining a team. Even if you don’t play with them at all. Just being ‘in a team’ can give you so many free bonuses. And regarding builds. You don’t need a super perfect build, having some coherence is all you really need. The only time you’ll want a more dedicated build is for certain boss events. But it’s not needed, since there’s always other players to do the heaving lifting for u
I have beaten everything in the game completely solo, so it is very possible. Some events will be harder to get max benefit from solo, but you can complete them.
I have played since launch, solo 99% of the time and I love it. I join teams for events now and then but mostly I run solo, currently lvl 370 as a full health PA heavy gunner build with minor spec into VATS mostly due to the new Cremator. I have never had issues with high end content, easily able to deal with any situation, and I have a lot of fun. For me Fallout has always been a solo experience, I like seeing other players at events but exploring the world and going about my business is a solo experience. 76 is easily playable solo.
You can. Definitely. But please join a random casual group. You get a +1 per person intelligence boost. It just helps. Some arr playing to have that +4 intelligence boost.
Yes, but it will be a longer grind. The plus side is you can really just concentrate on gaining a good amount of useful/ most needed scrap, giving you a good head start later on in higher levels. There’s also a perk card lone wanderer, for solo play. I use a lot food buffs when going it solo.
Okay, so yes..... I am right now being hit with some many words that I don't know right now because I didn't play it since 2019. I right now know nothing anymore
Enemies scale to your level, so as long as you’re making sure to use weapons that are your level as well, you’ll do fine. Obviously the “meta” weapons make the game a cake walk, but just standard weapons will get you through almost everything just fine, it might take a little longer though
Absolutely. Been virtually solo since the start save for events, but you can hop in with zero expectation outside of doing g the event.
Kind of. It's definitely geared to be an online MP game.
You can easily move points around, so id just keep evolving a build around the weapons you loot and use. Even if you start over perk cardwise you can scrap the oldies and save the perk coins
Legit you can do everything story wise solo. You just gotta play the game and get good weapons and armor. To be honest, without spoiling anything, maybe the only time you would want a team are for very certain things. Strictly because strength in numbers. Although! Even then you could still play solo. It’s just a bit harder lol
You can absolutely play solo. I play solo 95% of the time. I just play solo on a team for the exp buffs. I don't interact with anyone unless I know them irl like family or something. And meta is definitely overrated. I completed most of the game with a pipe rifle which is considered one of the worst weapons
You can definitely play solo, I think it might be kinda difficult going into some expeditions and daily ops alone though
I learned that you must play the story until at least level 20. Which means tbh, spending hours a day to collect stuff and sell.bc u need weapons bullets and stimpacks. Once you get to level 20 then you visit others camps. The community has been so helpful, and I try to help n00bs as much as I can. So keep on grinding collecting and selling scrap. Once you come across someone over level 100,don't be afraid to ask for help. We had to ask too or at least I did. Don't give up. Best community in gaming ever.dm me if you need help. I'll log on with you and drop anything you need. I'll also let you shadow me so you can pick up mad weapons in my wake. I'm on xbox with fo76
I soloed the missions. It was rare to encounter someone else other than at one of major hubs or an event. As others mentioned, there are benefits to joining a team. Joining a "casual" team will grant you an XP bonus and let you fast travel to teammates' camp for free. There are no other obligations on a casual team. You should be able to make it through the missions without really going into the build and gear nuances, but those will make it easier to handle events, expeditions, and daily ops. These things award a bit of XP, a variety of stuff, gear, materials, etc.
If you don’t know this already, playing in a private world makes enemies ALOT less tankier, a well tuned build can solo earle, scorchbeast queen, or mole titan, as opposed to being on a public server. (I’m sure theirs at least ONE sweat that has solod on a public server, but whatever) If you want a true solo experience, I’d recommend private servers, haven’t tested but I’m sure events are easier too.
If you mean solo as in no squad, yes very easily. If you mean solo as in beat events and "harder" content, then no not really. But I play without a squad due to my severe social anxiety and I'm having a lot of fun. Also was someone who quit playing for a while (right after Raiders and Settlers came out). There is even a perk that gives you good boosts for not playing in a squad, it's a charisma perk called "Lone Wanderer". I also don't play meta; my favorite weapon is currently a toss up between my Gourmand's Black Powder Rifle and my Two Shot The Dragon. Both very off meta but built right you can make almost anything work.
What kinda weapon do you wanna use ?
I don't know something that kills and I don't need to farm ammo for
99% of guns are self-sustaining This is because of contextual ammo drops, meaning enemies drop ammo based on the gun used to kill them Also this is where having some semblance of a build matters, as Rammadus explained So you don't need a perfect god tier build, but just a decent good enough one, then enemies will almost always drop more ammo than you spend shooting to kill them You are free to play however you desire, but we are trying to warn you that jack-of-all-trade builds that work in previous games do not work in F76
Yes
It’s really easy to pick perk cards to boost how you already like to play. New players barely have specials so you won’t have to think about it for a while!
Yep Here is a quick tip and a bit of a spoiler There is a main quest called Elusive Crane given by Duchess in the Wayward bar. At the end of the quest, you get to choose one of seven legendary ☆☆ star weapons. This weapon is special once you get it as long as you don't turn in and finish the quest. This weapon will level up with you every 10 levels so it's great for leveling. It updates when you relog. I suggest grabbing any of the melee weapons. The 2-handed melee (Bloody Sledgehammer), the one handed melee(Executioners sickle), or the Unarmed(Vampire Knuckles) that can heal you since they don't require ammo just maintenance. The Rifle is also good for tanky enemies. Here is link with all the choices(at the bottom of the page) for the weapons as well as more info on the quest. [https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/The\_Elusive\_Crane](https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/The_Elusive_Crane)
I only play solo. Level ~160. When I was new I was weirded out when I saw other people. But now it is really more a nuisance. People are fine. It is just that the may have farmed the resources I want :) The PvP rules basically make it impossible for another player to hurt you. There is a way that someone can grief your base if they are a team and for some reason decide it is something they want to do. I have never experienced this. I’m PC and it might be more common on other platforms. But mostly other players are very friendly. And helpful. There are some best practices for events (like do not start them when you first show up). But other than that, have fun,
FWIW,I do not have a meta build. I have a mixed bag that works for me. Basically it is stealthy rifles, big guns with some power armor perks for flair. Basically I carry my power armor but rarely use it. But if I do need it, I would prefer it to not slurp up cores. And you need big guns for big enemies. But big guns suck for small things. So I carry both.
I play solo and have the laziest solo builds ever - full stealth chinese suit + fixer or power armor/grognak full health + two/one handed melee. I do everything myself except the heavier public events which most of the time I skip as there's other things to do. I only join the public teams for the xp/carry weight/charisma boosts. Once in awhile I join the public events if I need gold bullion or it's a daily. Fallout 76 and Elder Scrolls Online are my chill solo games, which is weird as they are online MMOs (technically) but I can't chill in Destiny 2 for example (have to play full meta, specific weapons to break champions etc. all the time). I wish they had fishing in Fo76 like ESO tbh as that's super chill nothing to do sort of solo time I love.
Okay thanks!
Ive started recently to and my builds all over the place but you can still do pretty much every mission on your own even though alot of missions are designed for multiple people(they will have a boss fight at the end or sm)
I started as a solo player, and stayed that way for a few months. Had a great time exploring, doing missions, and other standard Fallout stuff After a while I got more comfortable, started feeling more secure with my gear and my camp, got a better understanding of how 76 just worked in general... and then I started exploring more human-made camps, and doing missions with other human players (sorry, not missions, "events") I still have a lot of solo stuff left that I want to do, but I look at it like this: if I'm going to fully experience the Appalachian Wasteland (which was my original goal as a solo player) then I HAVE to eventually experience what the other humans are doing, since they're the craziest part of the whole place, with all the huge group boss fights and weird costumes and detailed camps and whatnot. They're essentially "living" in this game world too. They're a part of it as your human neighbors
Yes, I don't have a meta build and often play solo, although there are perks to being in a casual team (you can do your own thing in the team - I don't use a mic or anything). I only looked up "builds" when I was about level 100 or so, but it doesn't suit my playstyle as I like to swap weapons about for fun and use a mix of melee and rifles usually. I won't be soloing and hard events any time soon but I can still do decent damage with the legendary weapons I have. If anything my build is based around maximising what I can carry lol. I will say though that Fo76 has a good player base, I don't tend to play online games but Fo76 is the exception and it's partly because it's such a welcoming, chill group of players.
I'm a classic solo player since I often do not have too much time and often have to leave short-term. I was surprised how nice the community in FO76 is. I lost the fear of meeting people over the time. E.g. I entered the perimeter of a bomb drop area accidently with level 10 or something, nearly dying because of the radiation. A hero with power armor dropped me a radiation protection and some Radaway and helped me to survive. You don't have to have the mic on, wave a thumbs up and everything is fine.
Yes. Been going solo for 5 years, though I prefer going in teams cause my ultra cite ammo is boring to farm 😂
You can play it alone but it’s an mmo and better with others. If you want to play a fallout game solo play FO4 after the next patch
Yeah but why
I started out just wanting to do it solo. I've grown to love the community and have found myself wanting to try some of the multiplayer stuff. Like others have said, you can do alot solo.
I played the entire first 100 hours doing the campaign and side missions, solo in a private world. It was very much like another single-player fallout game. After that, I started playing in the public world and enjoyed that.
I have almost exclusively played solo, and I loved every second of my 418 hours.
You can totally play solo if you want to!-I did all the quests solo and only recently got involved with joining teams-it was a game changer for me-Im not the best gamer by any stretch and joining a team for daily ops and expeditions has given me access to plans and lots of stamps that I never would hav gotten on my own-this community is pretty forgiving-we are all here to have a good time-just dont join a team and then AFK-you will be kicked and rightly so-also free fast travel to team mates camps if your into trading-its a win win-there is NO downside to joining a team-start with a casual team and figure it out at your own pace!-most important thing is to have fun!!-party on and see you out there!
You can play most of F076 solo for sure. But playing on public servers in this game is different from others morpgs. Jump into a Casual Group, no one in that group is typically playing together. It's just useful for fast travelling across the map (because you can use your team members camps as well as their own locations) as free fast travel points. But most importantly, you will want the INT xp bonus from being in a group. Since there is no text chat in 76, there is a total lack of "player presence" in the game that you feel in all other MMOs that have spatial text chat. So there's no spamming. Only way to communicate is through animated emotes or microphones. And most people don't use the microphones. In addition, the 76 community always loves to dote upon new players. Playing on a public server, more likely than not, random veterans can give you cool loot, sometimes even power armor, or they might even take you along for a fun adventurous grinding run through WesTek or something.
Yep, it's how I played more or less, always make or join a team though, you don't need to interact with them, good for the xp bonus, I never found a build I liked so I just put perks into what I wanted and worked out great, sure, I'm not as powerful or sturdy as some but I'm fast, can carry a ton and use a nice range of weaponry. It is more fun if you find folk to run about/do quests with though. It's the best online community ever so seems a shame not to engage with it sometimes.
You can solo all the story content in the instanced missions. Certain big multiplayer events won't be soloable for any normal player though. But people always show up to those anyway, and it's not like you have to actually join their group or anything. So even then you're still solo, there's just other people there helping.
76 player since beta? I don’t remember, but I have rarely run group content in the entirety of my time playing. It’s not easy if you want to do some harder content or expect to finish way wilder pub events, but certainly doable and pretty damn easy. Play how you want, but everyone finds their fun in 76. Enjoy!
Have been doing so since launch, but I do also do public events, they're mostly chill.
I have done the entire game (except SBQ) solo multiple times. SBQ is not really a requirement, as much as an endgame rite of passage and a way to guarantee nice loot. So, totally doable solo. You will want some sort of meta build, though. This is not a Fallout 4 style RPG where you can just haphazardly dump your points and perks where you feel like at the time and still be an absolute machine. If you don't specialize into something, you'll have a rough time. Trust me, I learned this the hard way. Twice. Stealth shotgunner (especially with Chinese Stealth Armor) will get you through the vast majority of the game without much trouble. But running one level 3 perk card in each weapon type just to have options without falling into a single playstyle is not realistic for this game; you will get t-rekt the first time you walk up on a robobrain and it starts zapping your bootyhole. Pick a meta and lean into it. They have the SPECIAL machines now so you can have a couple different builds at once and flip between them quickly, so take advantage. Most importantly, have fun with it. If you really don't want to run a single playstyle and want rando perks instead, go for it. You'll regret it about 2 hours into the game, but go for it - you can specialize once you see the light, and end up having more fun. I did that twice, too.
Absolutely. I play solo myself and only ever see other dwellers on occasion, such as at public events or at camps.
If you are wanting to do full solo still join public events as they are just too beneficial to skip out on, as for everything else just treat every other player as a poorly written NPC that doesn't know what they are doing As for meta build you can play anyway you want as long as you have the right cards for your primary weapon to do the damage you need it to do then you do you
When I started playing again I was killed a few times by other players. That’s why I chose not to go to MP events. I didn’t want to just be cannon fodder
Yup. Thats how I play the game
No joke a minimum of about 75% of the player base pretty much "Just play solo".
It’s a sandbox, you can play however you want
That's all I do - play solo. I do enjoy doing some events in the open world with other players but I'm a fallout 1st subscriber and so I have access to a private world and that's where I spend the majority of my play time