Bethesda teased Fallout 76 players not long ago with some under-the-hood changes added to the game’s test servers, but at the time, Bethesda said it wouldn’t be telling players what, exactly, those changes did. It was clear from players’ findings, however, that the changes were geared towards new players, and now that the patch notes for that PTS update are out, we know for sure that the new player experience has essentially been overhauled. The update itself is still only on the test servers, however, and won’t be released on live servers until later in the summer.
When the update first landed on the test servers and Bethesda played coy about what’d changed, players pooled their info together and found a couple of neat differences between the live version of Fallout 76 and the test server content. For one, players found that new characters were able to skip straight to Level 20 if they wanted to with those who did gaining a basic loadout to help them along. Some new perks were also correctly identified, but the full patch notes for the test server update expanded greatly on what’s new.
You can check out those patch notes below. To experience them for yourselves to see how they feel, you’ll have to head to the test servers to check them out.
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Workbench Changes
