Fallout 76 NPCs are stealing players’ weapons

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Fallout 76’s newly-arrived NPCs have been spotted doing some unusual things.

Now that Fallout 76‘s Wastelanders update is here, NPCs have returned to the world.

That, of course, brings with it all the obvious benefits from new story content to NPC companions, but it appears to have also introduced a new problem.

Players on the Fallout 76 subreddit have been reporting an unusual problem: NPCs stealing their weapons. According to players, this seems to happen during events.

Some of the examples mentioned were Riding Shotgun, and Radiation Rumble. When a player dies, they came back to find that companion NPCs have picked up their equipped weapon. NPCs also pick up all the ammo the dead player had on them, too.



This is a major problem if you happened to bring a rare weapon into an event, to say nothing of the loss in time/money spent creating the ammo. It’s not clear what triggers this, as others have died and came back to find their stash intact.

In response, a Bethesda community manager confirmed that the developer is looking into the problem.

If you’re enjoying Wastelanders yourself, our faction reward guide can help you decide between the Chinese Stealth Armor and Gauss Minigun. If you’ve yet to kick off faction questlines, we also have some helpful guides for Hunter for Hire and Strength in Numbers.

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Source: https://www.vg247.com/2020/04/22/fallout-76-wastelanders-npcs-stealing-weapons/

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GossipPosted:

They shouldn't have even made this game. How do you make an amazing game and then completely bomb the next one.

IntPosted:

Ninja This game has been all downhill since release, always been a fan of fallout but never bought this one. Kinda glad after the backlash over the last year or less.
Yeah this is so bad compared to the rest man, it's a shame, it was probably rushed.

CentPosted:

9nty Oh god that's not good at all NPC's stealing players weapons, not a very good game to be honest.


That's just stupid in my opinion. I don't play the game so I'm not sure if it's supposed to be that way or they have to fix it but regardless they should hop on that quickly.

9ntyPosted:

Oh god that's not good at all NPC's stealing players weapons, not a very good game to be honest.

CentPosted:

Very bad game all around. I have watched gameplay and it looks boring and just hearing from my friends and brother it sounds awful. I tried it out on my brothers account and it just wasn't enjoyable at all. Hopefully whatever game they come out with next is better.

GhostPosted:

This game has been all downhill since release, always been a fan of fallout but never bought this one. Kinda glad after the backlash over the last year or less.

IntPosted:

I don't know how they'd fix the problem because even if they patch it, the people that have already lost their weapons wont be able to get it back?