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How does multiplayer work in Fallout 76Everything you need to know about PvP and teaming up with friends
Everything you need to know about PvP and teaming up with friends
How does multiplayer work in Fallout 76?Fallout 76’s unique selling point is that this is a multiplayerFalloutgame, though really it’s more than that. You have plenty of stuff that you can do on your own, but there are a few tasks that may be a ton easier with other people. It can be a case of jolly cooperation or end up in a fight to the death.
If you’re thinking of joining forces with other players, ourFallout 76 multiplayerguide will show you how to connect to your friends, the things you can do, and how to be a team player. Alternatively, if you’re only just getting into the Fallout games after watching theTV show, then ourFallout 76 guidefor beginners has plenty of tips and tricks to help you get started.
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Teaming up with friends
Once you have teamed up with other players, you can also trade items with them. It can be a little fiddly as the game uses a sort of bartering system to trade items, requiring you to specify how many caps or which other items you need to trade over. You can always set this to nothing to ensure that you’re just giving items directly to that player, rather than dropping them on the ground where anyone can snag them up.
Being a team player
Fast Travelling in Fallout 76 normally requires caps, but there is an intended workaround where you can join friends from anywhere in the map for the cost of nothing. So if a friend has the caps, they can bring along buddies for free. If you want to get thrifty with how many caps each player spends, you can have one player fast travel most of the way, bring their friends with them, then have a second player travel the rest of the way.
Friends can also help with the hostile takeover of workshops. You can find out more about how they work in ourFallout 76 CAMPguide, but since you all share the same resource pool after taking over a workshop, the team can quickly build up the defences, start mining for resources, and much more. In addition to fighting over workshops, you can also team up with other players to tackle events. These are essentially quests where you need to either kill enemies or meet certain objectives in a timed limit in order to earn rewards. It’s entirely possible to do them solo, but you’ll have a far easier time with other players at your side.
How PVP works
When you begin Fallout 76, Pacifist mode will be automatically enabled. You won’t be able to participate in PVP events or even shoot another player and damage them until you reach level 5. Upon reaching this threshold though, you will still take reduced damage if someone shoots you. But if you fire back, damage will be their regular figures. Should you not wish to engage with PVP activities, Pacifist mode can be re-enabled via the options menu.
If PVP is enabled, should you kill anyone who doesn’t fight back, you will have a bounty placed upon your head. You’ll therefore not be able to see anyone else’s location, meaning that anyone can come for your head and a decently sized bounty for their troubles. Other players can see where you are on the map, your level, and the amount of perks they’ll obtain for killing you, so watch out.
That’s all we have on multiplayer, but there’s plenty of stuff that you can do without it. In the meantime, you may wish to know more about other changes, such as how certain valuable collectable items work in ourFallout 76 Bobbleheadsguide. Otherwise you can look at ourFallout 76 treasure mapsguide for the locations of the various treasure in Appalachia that can yield valuable plans.
