Fallout 76 NPC’s Are Stealing Player Weapons

<p>The Fallout 76 Wastelanders update <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;fallout-76-wastelanders-launch-trailer-released&sol;">launched earlier this month<&sol;a>&comma; with the promise of adding NPC&&num;8217&semi;s to Appalachia&period; Though as with many things from Bethesda&comma; it didn&&num;8217&semi;t quite work out as you might imagine&period; Because as it turns out&comma; those &&num;8220&semi;friendly&&num;8221&semi; NPC&&num;8217&semi;s are thieving bastards&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to redditor <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;reddit&period;com&sol;r&sol;fo76&sol;comments&sol;g5b57t&sol;a&lowbar;warning&lowbar;for&lowbar;everyone&lowbar;doing&lowbar;any&lowbar;eventquest&lowbar;with&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">Lizardinosaurus<&sol;a>&comma; during a PVE event&comma; he lost a Gatling Gun and 2000 units of 5mm ammo&period; Where did it go&quest; Apparently into the hands of a NPC&comma; who was more than happy to loot the gun off his corpse and use it himself&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Obviously this is not supposed to happen in Fallout 76&period; At least&comma; it didn&&num;8217&semi;t use to before the Wastelanders update was added to the game&period; Upon dying&comma; you would respawn close to where you died&period; And you could pick up any junk you lost from a brown paper bag&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>However&comma; this NPC had somehow looted his corpse in the tiny window before he respawned&period; Which somehow removed the gun and ammo from his inventory&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;watch&quest;v&equals;P6gKivqVPdA<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center">Not Unexpected From Fallout 76<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Given Fallout 76&&num;8217&semi;s rocky first year&comma; this is not entirely unexpected&period; Bethesda has proven that with each update they add&comma; there is a high likelihood something will break&period; Earlier&comma; they&&num;8217&semi;ve had issues with hackers stealing inventories from other players&comma; an issue that was addressed far too late&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A representative from Bethesda did respond to the thread&comma; saying the issue would be investigated&period; Although how soon we can expect an investigation to be done remains to be seen&period; Bethesda has yet to publicly address this issue&comma; which seems like a fairly serious issue for players&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I mean&comma; imagine if you went into a fight with some of your best gear&comma; only to have it stolen by the NPC&&num;8217&semi;s that are supposed to support you&period; And the worst part of all of this is that this had to be specifically programmed into the game&period; This is more than just a bug or glitch&comma; this seems like intentional behavior put in there&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The game&&num;8217&semi;s already had issues with the new update&period; Coming across broken NPC&&num;8217&semi;s seems as much a common occurrence as the game breaking in general&period; So as much as we may have hoped the Wastelanders update would fix a lot of the issues we&&num;8217&semi;ve had&comma; it seems unlikely&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>So until Bethesda has given us confirmation the problem is fixed&comma; then you might wanna avoid using your best weapons in PVE events&period; Cause it seems you never know when Bethesda&&num;8217&semi;s amazing AI decides to pinch it from you&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Source&colon; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;eurogamer&period;net&sol;articles&sol;2020-04-22-fallout-76-npcs-are-looting-player-corpses-stealing-their-weapons-and-refusing-to-give-them-back" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">Eurogamer<&sol;a><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;