Inside the Vault – Combat Balancing Public Test Server Update

Today, we’re updating the Public Test Server (PTS) with some changes that are focused on the creatures of Appalachia. The list of enemies you see below have had their health, resistances, and damage updated as we work to smooth out their difficulty from low to high level play.

Be sure to jump into the PTS and confront them in combat! Just make sure you join our Discord to let us know how the battle went.

Please Note: These changes are for an update that will arrive AFTER Milepost Zero which is arriving on September 3. Please do not expect these changes to be reflected in the Milepost Zero update.

Bugfixes & Miscellaneous Adjustments

• Damage adjustment for the Toxic Blood mutation.
• Addressed an issue where the Live and Love #3 magazine would provide an unintended increase to most bonuses from Fruits and Vegetables rather than only boosting healing effects.
• Fixed placement of various items in the world
• Addressed various text issues
• Straw Goat is now properly craftable for players who learned the recipe previously
• All players in possession of "Plan: Herdsman's Bell - Basic" can now craft the Bell at the Tinker's Workbench
• Fixed a crash when approaching a Caravan in Power Armor
• Addressed an issue where the Tenderizer perk could result in more damage than intended.
• Dev Note: We've addressed an inconsistency in the way that the Tenderizer perk applied to DoT effects. Prior to this fix, the perk could cause DoT effects to deal unexpectedly high damage against hostile creatures that were scaled up to the player's level, or unexpectedly low damage to hostile creatures that were scaled down to the player's level.

Creatures

Balance adjustments have been made for the following creatures:

• Alien Detonator Drone
• Alien Drone
• Alien Elite Drone
• Alien Inquisitor (Daily Ops boss)
• Assaultron
• Assaultron Intimidator (Daily Ops boss)
• Auditor faction
• Automated Surface to Air Missile
• Blood Eagle Destroyer (Daily Ops boss)
• Blue Devil
• Brahmin
• Captain Alpha and Captain Omega
• Chicken
• Communist Commissar (Daily Ops boss)
• Competitor Crusher
• Competitor faction
• Cultist Prophet (Daily Ops boss)
• Fanatic Conqueror (Daily Ops boss)
• Fanatic faction
• Feral Ghoul
• Flamethrower Trap (C.A.M.P./Workshop)
• Flatwoods Monster
• General Zeta
• Glowing One
• Grafton Monster
• Gun Emplacement (workshop)
• Heavy Laser Turret (C.A.M.P./Workshop)
• Heavy Machine Gun Turret (C.A.M.P./Workshop)
• Hellcat Mercenary
• Hermit Crab
• Imposter Sheepsquatch/Sheepsquatch Imposterling
• Jersey Devil
• Laser Turret (C.A.M.P./Workshop)
• Lesser Devil
• Lieutenant Kappa
• Machine Gun Turret (ceiling-mounted laser turret)
• Machine Gun Turret (regular)
• Machine Gun Turret (C.A.M.P./Workshop)
• Mirelurk
• Mirelurk Hunter
• Mirelurk King
• Mirelurk Queen
• Mirelurk Spawn
• Missile Turret (C.A.M.P./Workshop)
• Mobster faction
• Mole Miner Juggernaut (Daily Ops boss)
• Mole Rat
• Mothman
• Mr. Handy/Gutsy/etc.
• Ogua
• Opossum
• Overgrown Elder
• Overgrown Elderwood
• Overgrown Elderwood (Daily Ops boss)
• Overgrown Pollinator
• Overgrown Thorn
• Rad Ant
• Radroach
• Radscorpion
• Radstag
• Radtoad
• Scorchbeast Queen
• Scorched Exterminator (Daily Ops boss)
• Sentry Bot
• Settlers faction
• Sheepsquatch
• Shin, Rahmani, Kit, Initiate Norland, Initiate Hewson, etc.
• Shotgun Turret (C.A.M.P./Workshop)
• Showmen faction
• Spotlight/Wall-Mounted Spotlight (C.A.M.P./Workshop)
• Squirrel
• Super Mutant Behemoth/Dr. Blackburn
• Super Mutant Firestarter (Daily Ops boss)
• Trog Devourer
• Trog Fledgling
• Trog Superior
• Ultracite Titan
• Union faction
• Vertibird
• Vertibot
• Wendigo
• Wendigo Colossus/Earle