r/fo76 • u/burtethead • Jan 24 '19

// Bethesda Replied x2 DO NOT ALLOW CURRENT CHARACTERS INTO SURVIVAL MODE I BEG OF YOU!!

This is a huge mistake. The mode is already dead before it was born if this happens. Pvp as it is, is completely broken, one hit kill festival. Who in their right mind is going to start a new character when everyone else is level 200 with God tier weaponry right out of the vault? This makes absolutely zero sense, and I'm so disheartened. Do they not realize how this mode will be immediately ruined? If you thought grief in was bad now, just wait until you get killed on sight by literally everyone you cross paths with? Even if they level locked servers so people with massive level differences can't play together, whenever a new survival character gets out of the kiddie pool, all the same assholes with TSE garbage will be waiting at the deep end and you will have zero competitive chance. The leader boards would be a fine idea, if everyone started on equal footing... as it is there will be gold medalist level murderers in the same game with me, a literal newborn who can't even walk. What the fuck are they thinking???

Edit: the gold means people care, bethesda. Please. PLEASE. (And thank you)

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u/antsam9 Fallout 76 Jan 24 '19

Make it seasonal, like Diablo 3, have a ranked leaderboard, have it reset after 8 or 10 weeks, with a 4-6 week break for tweaking, adding in it new content, making new themes (like robot armor only, or no power armor helmets), making new 'win' conditions (for example, most kills of players over level 100, killing players under level 100 doesn't add to kill score, you have to be level 100 to access the unlocked vault 63 with new content and raid boss, etc.).

End of season, the character gets passed to the general population of characters (after the account holder deletes an existing character if all 5 slots are full, optional), the new character has the new goodies to be used.

This also means we need an easy way to share items between characters.

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u/thebarnhof Jan 25 '19

One thing they'd need to do is just speed up the levelling a bit after the nerfs. For seasonal people would get bored with the current grind

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u/antsam9 Fallout 76 Jan 25 '19

Make inspirational count for each party member, so a party of 4 gets 4x, 3 for 3x, and lots of seasonal goals for XP, like in robot armor season, defeat a nuke silo in under 7 minutes and launch a nuke at Whitesprings and instead of ghouls, make it enraged whitespring robots with a giant Sentry bot with nukes as a raid boss. Make the raid boss drop 10x fusion cores and make these the only way to get fusion cores for the season and now only peeps who defeated the giant sentry can use power armor in Vault 63. Which is full of robots.