Best Changes Added to Fallout 76 With the Backwoods Update

Fallout 76 has received numerous updates since it was released in 2018. Eight years later, the game is still going strong, with many players jumping in all these years later.

In March, Bethesda released the 26th major update for Fallout 76 called The Backwoods. This massive update proceeded the Burning Springs update, which added parts of Ohio to the map. Some notable additions include Bigfoot, and new public event modifiers.

What more could Bethesda do with Fallout 76 to make it better? Well, let's break down the additions to the game added with The Backwoods update to see which additions have contributed the most to the game.

7 Time-Based Activities

Changing Public Events

Public events are one of the major things to do in Fallout 76 when you have exhausted all the game's major and side quests. Bethesda has not shied away from adding numerous events to the game over the years, but now, some have been changed and relabeled.

Some public events are now considered activities. This rebrand isn't just a new name. Almost any event that is now labeled as an activity has now been placed on a rotation timer.

This means that these activities will continuously spawn at random every 10 minutes, making them appear more often, and making it so you don't need to specifically activate them. One of the big exceptions to this is the Riding Shotgun activity, which you can repeat every 20 minutes.

6 No More Ammo Rewards

Less Bloat

A big part of any build in Fallout 76 is what type of weapon you are using, and most of the time, that weapon uses ammo. A while back, Bethesda made it so enemies drop ammo for your weapon frequently. Along with this, public events would drop random ammo types.

This meant you often had extra ammo that you didn't need filling up your inventory. Along with this, scrap would be placed into your inventory, filling it up even more. Before you knew it, you were overburdened.

Now, public events don't reward random ammo. Instead, they only reward Caps, legendary items, Legendary Modules, Treasury Notes, and experience. There is less bloat, and less to worry about after spending hours in the wasteland.

5 Legendary Perk Cost

And Changes

As time goes on, Legendary Perks receive changes, and ultimately get better as Bethesda figures out what works and what doesn't. When you get a Legendary Perk, it gets added to the list you have unlocked.

You can then choose to spend Perk Coins to upgrade your Legendary Perks. The annoying aspect of this came when you wanted to change perks because you switched your build or just simply wanted to try something new.

Previously, you had to spend Perk Coins to remove a Legendary Perk. This made it so players were less likely to switch their perks because they didn't want to spend the coins required to do it.

Now, you can switch perks free of charge, giving you an incentive to try out new builds with different Legendary Perks.

4 Lightweight Power Armor

No Lugging Heavy Metal

Whether you use Power Armor or not, we can all admit that it weighs a ton. Every piece of a suit of Power Armor puts a strain on your inventory, requiring you to manage what items you have or make extra trips to your camp when running public events.

Power Armor has officially received a change that makes it way significantly less. Many of the Power Armor pieces now weigh around 1.5 pounds, making them much easier to carry around the wasteland.

Of course, this change also means that the weight of Power Armor now matters when wearing it, but that is a small price to pay since each piece weighs a fraction of what it once did.

3 Pip-Boy Changes

Streamlined and Organized

The Pip-Boy in Fallout 76 has always been a bit clunky. Navigate too quickly through it, and you will see it lag and freeze up. Along with this, the whole system has been a bit of an inconvenience.

Luckily, Bethesda has made some great changes to the Pip-Boy, making it operate more quickly, preventing it from lagging behind your input. The team also made some changes to the layout of the Pip-Boy, adding a perks screen that shows you every buff that you currently have applied.

Along with this, you have a recipe book in your inventory that houses all the recipes and plans you have picked up. This way they won't clog up your inventory. There's also changes to the quest section, giving you a section that shows areas that will lead to quests.

2 Uninvited Guests

You Weren't Invited

Whenever you completed an event before this update, it would end, and your team would each go their separate ways until the next event popped up. Now, things are a bit different, and it is thanks to the uninvited guests.

Whenever you complete an event now, there is a chance for one of six different "uninvited guests" to appear. These are strong creatures that suddenly appear to wreck your progress, and they mean business.

You have a Mirelurk Queen, the Storm Goliath, the Wendigo Colossus, and more that can appear, giving a much needed change to public events that makes them more interesting and more worthwhile to participate in.

Big and Mean

Most of the cryptids in Fallout 76 are one-hit wonders. They appear, have an interesting mechanic, you take them out, and wait for another to make an appearance. However, Bigfoot changes the game.

Bigfoot is a 4-star legendary cryptid similar to Sheepsquatch. He takes a long time to take down, and he can be an absolute menace. He throws ticks, he presses you and your allies. He is just a great enemy overall.

It is about time Bethesda added another cryptid to the game that makes you feel pressured to react instead of just mindlessly walking past them. We need more enemies like this.