Summary
- Bethesda has released the first update of 2024 for Fallout 76, focusing on bug fixes and improvements.
- The update coincides with the Burning Love event, where players can earn rewards by completing incineration challenges.
- Fallout 76 has a busy year ahead, with expansions, seasonal events, and the release of the Fallout TV show in April.
Bethesda’s online action role-playing game, Fallout 76, has received a new update bringing bug fixes and resolutions, marking the first update of 2024 for the rejuvenated game. Fallout 76 Patch 1.7.9.7 is available on all playable platforms and can be installed now.
Fallout 76 is the latest installment in Bethesda’s popular Fallout series, having launched in October 2018. Although the game was initially derided by players for a slew of bugs and a lack of quest-giving NPCs, Bethesda has put in work releasing updates and improvements. Its third major update, Wastelanders, added NPCs and major new storylines, and as a result of these and other changes, Fallout 76 reached 13.5 million players by December 2022. Further improvements and upgrades saw the player count reach 17 million by the end of 2023.
Bethesda’s most recent patch, 1.7.9.7, for Fallout 76 coincides with the launch of the Burning Love event but doesn't otherwise release new content. It does bring a lot of bug fixes and improvements aimed at enhancing the gaming experience. Some issues with challenges have been fixed so that, for example, plastic gas canisters now count towards the daily challenge of collecting fuel tanks or gas canisters. There have also been fixes to crafting, and players can once again craft communist militant outfits and other communist clothing and armor items. And there has been a whole raft of fixes to expeditions.
Fallout 76 Burning Love Event Launches
Fallout 76’s Burning Love event also launched on January 30 and runs until February 13 at 12 PM ET. Players can claim a free Hot Rod Pink Flamer skin from the Atomic Shop and use the newly skinned Flamer to complete weekly incineration challenges. Rewards for completing the challenges include Fallout 76 Perk Cards, Legendary Modules, and Repair Kits, as well as a Pink Mechanic Jumpsuit and Rose Tinted Glasses for completing four of five weekly challenges. Players that complete four challenges in both weeks will receive a Pink Fireplace. When the Burning Love event ends, Bethesda is ready to launch the Fasnacht special event.
Fallout 76 has a busy 2024 with further expansion of Atlantic City, as well as the introduction of the woods of Shenandoah to the south of the current map. Bethesda has also promised more frequent seasonal events. And, away from video games, the new Fallout TV show is due to air in April, so fans of the franchise have a lot to look forward to.
Fallout 77 Update Version 1.7.9.7
Check the download sizes below for today's patch on your platform of choice:
- PC (Steam): 7.2 GB
- PC (Microsoft Store): 11.5 GB
- PlayStation: 7.8 GB
- Xbox: 1.6 GB
Bug Fixes & Improvements
C.A.M.P. & Workshop
- Slot Machines: The West Virginia Slot Machine now correctly states it requires 25 caps to use, and addressed an issue where players would receive Perfectly Preserved Pies more often than intended.
- Building: Players can now once again build the following C.A.M.P. Objects; Jewelry Flair display, Flamer Napalm Tank, Mounted Wendigo, Beer Sein Display case, Communist Bunker, Communist Fence
- Switches: Reduced the Random Switch Budget cost to be consistent with other switches.
Challenges
- Daily: Birthday Cake now counts towards the Daily Challenge to "Eat Cake, Pie, or Candy."
- Daily: Addressed an issue where Feral Ghouls would not count towards the Daily Challenge to defeat them.
- Daily: Updated the Daily Challenge to Collect Fuel Tanks or gas Canisters to include Plastic Gas Canisters.
Crafting
- Items: Spooky Treat Bags, Holiday Gifts, and Mole Miner Pails now grant contextual ammo.
- Items: Players can once again craft the following items; Vault Tec Jumpsuit, Communist Militant Outfit, Communist Militant Hat, Communist Spy Ski Hat, Communist Spy Ski Outfit, Communist Threat Combat Rifle Paint, Communist Style Handmade Rifle Skin, Communist Red Secret Service Underarmor, Communist Spacesuit
- Scout Armor Masks: Covert, Forest, and Urban Scout Armor Masks can now properly be painted and returned to their original paint jobs. The Urban Scout Armor no longer has a duplicate "No Paint" option.
- Plans: Star Light now has the correct and visible display name on Acquisition, Learning, and Crafting.
- Plans: Fixed a bug where the Slot Machine Podiums recipe was still available for purchase from Giuseppe when players knew the recipe.
- Weapons: Modifying Ultracite Lasers with the Beam Focused mod no longer removes the visual effects.
- Legendary Mods: Addressed an issue where the Furious Legendary Mod would give a maximum 45% damage bonus after consecutive hits instead of the intended 90%.
Expeditions
- The Pitt: Players who jump inside the Toxic Vat in The Pitt will now instantly die.
- Atlantic City: Adjusted the contextual ammo drops to be consistent with The Pitt.
- Atlantic City: Addressed an issue on PlayStation where the Expeditions Reward screen displayed an incorrect prompt.
- Atlantic City: Addressed an issue where Atlantic City Weekly Rewards for completing all option objectives would not display on the Rewards Summary screen if the player earned too many rewards.
- Expeditions: Alien Blaster Weapons now award proper contextual ammo when completing an Expedition.
- Expeditions: Fixed a bug when attempting to resume an Expedition while selecting the location that your current Expedition is NOT in, the UI would show the selected location rather than your current Expeditions.
- Expeditions: Addressed an issue where players could not access the Expedition UI by selecting the Vertibird Icon on the paper map.
- Expeditions: Addressed an issue where players could not travel back to Appalachia through the Expeditions Menu.
- Expeditions: Addressed an issue where the Expedition Icon would not appear on the paper map.
- Overgrown: Addressed a location where Overgrown could get stuck near Quentino's Night Club.
- Tax Evasion: The objective to return to Sal with the unlucky gambler's winnings will now complete if the player resumes the mission after having already completed the objective.
- Tax Evasion: Fix an issue where slot machines would sometimes float after reentering the Neapolitan Casino.
- The Most Sensational Game: Fixed an infinite loading screen that would occur when resuming an expedition after failing the timer objective.
- The Most Sensational Game: Showmen's Flag is no longer present unless the relevant objective is active.
- The Most Sensational Game: Fixed an issue where Naughty Showmen could leave the pillory prematurely if attacked.
- The Most Sensational Game: Tatos thrown at Naughty Showmen now correctly explode on impact.
- The Most Sensational Game: Removed take or equip prompt from fireworks in Most Sensational Game.
- The Most Sensational Game: Addressed a crash for Expedition host.
- The Most Sensational Game: Addressed an issue where the objective to "Approach the Play Area" would appear too early.
Perks
- Collateral Damage: The Legendary Perk Collateral Damage now works with all melee weapons and not just unarmed weapons.
- Cola-Nut: Updated the Cola-Nut perk description to specifically state it applies to Nuka-Cola drinks.
- Disease: Contracting the Lock Joint disease now correctly increases the AP cost of Melee Power Attacks by 50%.
- Fire in The Hole: Fire in the Hole perk now properly shows trajectory on unique grenades.
Power Armor
- Jet Pack: The Deep Space Alien Invader Jet Pack is no longer incorrectly labeled as an Atomic Shop Item and can be applied to all Power Armor Variants. (Note: This item is a Daily Ops reward.)
- Paints: Fixed various clipping issues with Power Armor paints.
- Power Armor: Fixed an issue where various Power Armors did not have radiation resistance.
- Union Power Armor: Union Power Armor pieces now only drop once a player knows how to make the armor pieces.
Quests
- A Knights Penance: Tension trigger trap on chests now trigger an explosion when activated.
- Quest Tracking: Fixed issue where certain side quests would not display the Quest Available fanfare.
World
- Atlantic City: Addressed various missing textures inside the Aquarium of the Atlantic.
- Feral Ghouls: Addressed an issue where Feral Ghoul attacks dealt AP damage to players.
- General: Fixed various areas in Atlantic City where players could see out of world.
- Localization: Various localization fixes.
- Mirelurks: Addressed an issue where Mirelurks in Appalachia only spawn as friendly glowing variants.
- Player Character: Fixes scenario where Pipboy can be invisible when creating a new character on the same server.
- Robco Research Center: Removed a train car that blocked players from entering other train cars.
Fallout 76
- Released
- November 14, 2018
WHERE TO PLAY
Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of Skyrim and Fallout 4, welcome you to Fallout 76. Twenty-five years after the bombs fell, you and your fellow Vault Dwellers—chosen from the nation’s best and brightest – emerge into post-nuclear America on Reclamation Day, 2102. Play solo or join together as you explore, quest, build, and triumph against the wasteland’s greatest threats. Explore a vast wasteland, devastated by nuclear war, in this open-world multiplayer addition to the Fallout story. Experience the largest, most dynamic world ever created in the legendary Fallout universe. Expand southward to Skyline Valley – a brand-new region of Appalachia. Investigate the cause of the electric storm circling overhead and unveil the mystery around Vault 63 and its dwellers, including a shocking new Ghoul type – The Lost.
