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News video games 22 April 2020, 20:32

author: Jacob Blazewicz

Fallout 76 Wastelanders Bug Enables NPCs to Pick up Weapons of Dead Players

Fallout 76 players report an interesting error in the Wastelanders update. It turns out that NPCs can search the bodies of fallen players and steal their equipment. Is this revenge for stealing NPC property?

The players robbing NPCs is one thing, but this is in outrage.

When Fallout 76 received the Wastelanders update, some people pointed out that the NPCs introduced in it were quite lenient about stealing their things. NPCs didn't care at all when the players carried off their belongings (via Polygon). However, the same cannot be said of those who noticed another interesting bug. NPCs can search the bodies of killed players and take away their weapons and ammunition. This is the case with special events missions performed together with AI-controlled characters.

Unfortunately (or rather fortunately), this was not the intention of the devs. Bethesda's representatives spoke on the subject on sub-reddit devoted to this bug and promised to look into the matter as soon as possible. As far as the players are concerned, some suspect that this is not a mistake per se as an unaddressed option for artificial intelligence. NPCs in earlier Bethesda games - Fallout 4 and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - had been coded to automatically search nearby bodies. Apparently the developers forgot to reprogram the NPCs. Others claim that this is a completely new mistake

The Wasteladners update launched last week at the same time as the game's Steam release, introducing, in addition to NPCs, a lot of content and fixes. The whole thing was welcomed by most players, although the game is still far from perfect. However, it seems that it's hard for developers to break with the tradition of patches introducing annoying bugs.

Jacob Blazewicz

Jacob Blazewicz

Graduated with a master's degree in Polish Studies from the University of Warsaw with a thesis dedicated to this very subject. Started his adventure with GRYOnline.pl in 2015, writing in the Newsroom and later also in the film and technology sections (also contributed to the Encyclopedia). Interested in video games (and not only video games) for years. He began with platform games and, to this day, remains a big fan of them (including Metroidvania). Also shows interest in card games (including paper), fighting games, soulslikes, and basically everything about games as such. Marvels at pixelated characters from games dating back to the time of the Game Boy (if not older).

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