Inside the Vault – Pspsps-TS Update - July 2, 2026

We’re entering the final week of testing for the World Pets feature! Thank you all so much for your feedback. It has been immensely helpful to help guide our future development plans.

For this final week we want to test how the addition of pets affects our seasonal events. We’re going to activate one of our seasonal events every day until July 9 so you can let us know how it feels to be playing alongside all of your pets.Rotation Schedule

• 7/2: Fasnacht

• 7/3: Invaders

• 7/4: Mothman

• 7/5: Big Bloom

• 7/6: Mischief Night

• 7/7: Meat Week

• 7/8: Fasnacht

• 7/9: Invaders

Pets

• Made a minor tweak to cat combat speed.

• Fixed an issue with the Deathclaw’s third attack.

• Gave all Pets a confidence boost (Fixed an issue where Pets wouldn’t fight against Bigfoot).

• Fixed an edge case crash that could appear when taking grenade damage.

Quests

• The following quests now have a small chance to reward Brotherhood of Steel unique items (The Fact Finder, Oathbreaker, Last Stand).

  • Event: Line in the Sand

  • Activity: Distant Thunder

  • Daily: Heart of the Enemy

Infestations

Today’s PTS update reactivates the Infestations feature. We have a collection of changes that are direct responses to community feedback.Please note that some of the changes are scheduled to be released in our July update, while other changes are scheduled to arrive in the Fall update.Scheduled to Release in July:

• Bosses have been rebalanced to make them more challenging for groups of players to fight.

• All players on a server will now see a Server Message when an Infestation has spawned and when one has been cleared.

• The initial search area for where an Infestation could be located has been reduced.

Tentatively Scheduled to Arrive in the Fall:

• New meta objective has been added to Infestations. Players must find and kill the Infestation enemies to summon the Infestation Boss.

  • This is an attempt to help slow the event down and give more players a chance to join in on the fun.

• The boss corpse will now be highlighted after it is killed to make it easier to find.

  • Please note the visuals of this are still a work in progress.

• A new smoke visual has been added to the Paper Map to indicate where an Infestation is.

• An option to turn off/on Infestation notifications and visual overlays has been added to the game.

• Fast traveling to teammates already in an Infestation is now free!

• Morgantown location has been removed from the rotation.

Unique Items

• Kingfisher now also scales with seasonal Local Legends.

• Salt of the Earth now correctly doubles base damage and AP cost. The fire rate and reload speed have been lowered.

• Boomstick now grants Fires 2 Additional Missiles.

• Ogua Gauntlet now grants “+30% More Damage Blocked”.

• Red Terror and Perfect Storm now deal more fire damage.

• Luca’s Switchblade now grants “+50% Explosive Damage”.

• Cultist Piercer now grants “+50% Armor Penetrations vs Cryptids”.

• Meadow Breeze Sprayer now deals poison damage instead of fire.

• The Prototype ABX03 still deals fire damage.

• Unstoppable Monster now grants “Reduce Damage Taken by 5%” and an “Additional 1% per Killstreak (Max 10)”.

• Crowd Control now deals extra bleed damage.

• Molerat Bat now include Mole Miners in its effect.

• Lovetap now grants “Bashing Grants You and Teammates +30% Damage for 30 Seconds”.

• The Fact Finder now grants “+15% Weak Point Damage while Aiming”.

• Medical Malpractice now grants “Bonuses to Stimpak Healing Also Increase Damage”.

• Camden Whacker now grants a random elemental stat instead of a random perk card effect.

• Pyrolyzer now grants “Burning Enemies Burst into a Firey Mess Based on Luck”.

• V.A.T.S. Unknown now grants “V.A.T.S. Criticals Deal Between 20% to 200% Damage”.

Weapons

• 10mm SMG

  • The basic reflex sight can now be learned via scrapping.