Inside the Vault – Adventuring in Appalachia PTS Update - January 16

Armor Updates

Thank you all for your feedback since we reopened the Public Test Server back in December! There have been a lot of great conversations around the Armor changes that we’ve made which is the exact type of feedback we were looking for.General

• Made numerous changes to reduce the weight of armor and power armor.

• Some armor resistances have been slightly adjusted as part of some data changes under the hood to provide more headroom for higher resistances as needed in potential future updates.

• Adjustments to T-51 armor to lean more towards Cryo Resistance.

• Adjustments to underarmor resistances (mostly increases).

• Increased Radiation Resistance for Hamzat Suits and Chinese Stealth Armor.

• Updated the Cave Diving Suit resistances to be similar to Hazmat Suits.

• Removed the extra Radiation Damage reduction from Hazmat Suits - this is meant to be replaced by the much-higher Radiation Resistance on these items.

Updated Road Kill – Trapper Left Arm Default Legendary Mods

• NEW: Default Legendary Mods: Overeater’s, Glutton, Thru-Hikers

  • OLD: Overeater’s, Glutton, Pack Rat’s

• Unique Effect: Eat animal corpses to restore life.

• Drops from Meat Week

• Power Armor Jetpack mod durability: -15 -> -15%

• Power Armor Jetpack mod weight: +25% -> +20%

• Power Armor Calibrated shocks mod durability: -15 -> -15%

• Power Armor Calibrated Shocks mod weight: +20% -> +15%

• Power Armor Tesla Coils mod durability: -15 -> -10%

• Power Armor Stealth Boy mod durability: -15 -> -10%

• Power Armor Gimbal Bracers mod durability: -20 -> -15%

• Power Armor Reactive Plates mod durability: -15 -> -10%

• Power Armor Targeting HUD mod durability: -15 -> -10%

• Power Armor Elastic Servos mod weight: +17.5% -> +10%

• Power Armor Elastic Servos mod durability: -10 -> -10%

• Armor Custom Fitted mod durability: -15 -> -7.5%

• Armor Custom Fitted mod weight: +15% -> +10%

• Armor Muffled mod durability: -10 -> -10%

• Armor Muffled mod weight: +15% -> +10%

• Armor Cushioned mod durability: -10 -> -10%

• Armor Cushioned mod weight: +15% -> +10%

• Armor Aerodynamic mod durability: -6 -> -5%

• Armor Aerodynamic mod weight: +15% -> +10%

• Armor Pocketed mod durability: -10 -> -5%

• Armor Pocketed mod weight: +10% -> +5%

• Armor Deep Pocketed mod durability: -15 -> -15%

• Armor Deep Pocketed mod weight: +15% -> +10%

• Armor Jetpack mod durability: -15 -> -15%

• Armor Jetpack mod weight: +25% -> +20%

• Armor Pneumatic mod durability: -4 -> -5%

• Armor Pneumatic mod weight: +20% -> +15%

• Armor Braced mod durability: -6 -> -5%

• Armor Braced mod weight: +25% -> +15%

• Armor Stabilized mod durability: -10 -> -7.5%

• Armor Stabilized mod weight: +25% -> +10%

• Armor Stabilized mod Scope Stability effect: +10% -> +15%

• Armor Sleek mod durability: -15 -> -7.5%

• Armor Brawling mod durability: -4 -> -10%

• Armor Brawling mod weight: +25% -> +20%

• Armor BioCommMesh mod durability: -6 -> -10%

• Armor BioCommMesh mod weight: +30% -> +15%

• Armor BioCommMesh mod durability: -6 -> -10%

• Armor BioCommMesh mod weight: +30% -> +15%

• Armor Padded mod durability: -4 -> -5%

• Armor Padded mod weight: +15% -> +10%

• Armor Dense mod durability: -8 -> -10%

• Armor Dense mod weight: +30% -> +20%

• Armor Asbestos Lining mod weight: +30% -> +15%

• Armor Lead Lined mod weight: +30% -> +20%

• Armor Weighted mod durability: -8 -> -12.5%

• Armor Weighted mod weight: +40% -> +25%

• Armor Strengthened mod durability: -10 -> -15%

• Armor Strengthened mod weight: +30% -> +20%

• Armor Lighter Build mod durability: -4 -> -5%

• Armor Ultra-Light Build mod durability: -8 -> -12.5%

• Wood Armor Shrouded mod weight: -75% -> +10%

• Wood Armor Shrouded mod durability: +0% -> -10%

• Backpack Armor-Plated Mod Physical Resist (Level 50): 123 -> 126

  • Dev Note: This is a side effect of changing some data under the hood.

• Armor Lead-Lined mod Radiation Resistance (Level 50): 38 -> 42

  • Dev Note: This is a side effect of changing some data under the hood.

Gameplay

• Players have 90% damage reduction against their own attacks.

• Greatly decreased the condition damage weapons take from blocking.

Gleaming Depths

• Addressed an issue where the EN06 Guardian's shield generator could be targeted from the front in VATS.

Perks

• Portable Power

  • Now increases movement speed while in Power Armor by 10% per rank.

• Sturdy Frame

  • Now reduces the amount of stagger taken per rank.

Pip-Boy Performance

It has been great seeing all of your feedback on the changes made to the Pip-Boy UI. The team is still working away on addressing a lot of your reports, but we wanted to give you a quick update on some other topics they’re working on fixing.

• Daily Quests may not populate when switching from Leads to Daily.

• Pip‑Boy may not reopen to the previously viewed tab.

• Missing information panels on the Collections screen within the Stats tab.

• Partial stack drops may incorrectly consume item effects.

• Comparison indicators may be missing for weapons and armor.

• Resistance preview does not update when removing armor/apparel.

• Rendering issues may occur in the Items tab when switching main tabs with Component View open.

• Raid Quest may not appear in the Pip‑Boy.

• “E” (Activate) may fail to confirm/select.

• Hotkeys may not navigate to the correct Pip‑Boy tabs

Public Events

Public Events (All)

• Recommended Level has been removed from the description of all Public Events

Enclave Activities (All)

• Gatling Plasma Mods have been added as a possible reward for Enclave Members.

Battle Bot

• The main door should now reset correctly at the start of the Activity.

Distinguished Guests

• Players should no longer count as Undesirables.

• Known Issue: We're still investigating why the Wait Staff contribute to this value.

• Increased odds of Legendary Creatures appearing.

Lucky Strike

• Fixed a mismatch between the object area displayed on the compass and the one displayed on the paper map.

• Maps should no longer be usable if the player is already on this quest.

Moonshine Jamboree

• Reduced total time of different stages.

Dropped Connection

• Increased odds of Legendary Creatures appearing.

It's a Trap

• Scorchbeast should now always spawn as a 3 * Legendary.

Monster Mash

• Nuclear Surprise should now properly appear as an option.

Weapons

• Gauss Minigun overheat time-to-full: 10s -> 15s

• Gauss Minigun overheat time-to-empty: 10s -> 6.6s

• Gauss Minigun base damage: 59 -> 42

• Fixed an issue where Gauss Minigun overheat curve was incorrectly configured and set to peak at 2.0x instead of 1.6x damage.

• Cursed mods now increase damage by 35% (up from 15%) and attack speed by 15% (down from 20%)

UI

• Underarmor is now shown under the Armor tab in the Pip-Boy

• Armor and clothing not equipable by the player is now sorted under MISC