Highlights
- Fallout 76 started testing an indicator of real item weight when interacting with a Stash Box.
- The feature is part of the game’s latest Public Test Server update, thus being expected to roll out to everyone circa late spring 2024.
- Fallout 76 inventory item weight is normally affected by a variety of Perk Cards, making it difficult to gauge how heavy pickups are without stashing every single one of them, which makes C.A.M.P. storage management more difficult than it needs to be.
Fallout 76 has started testing a feature that allows players to see the real weight of items when interacting with a Stash Box. This quality-of-life improvement should help make Fallout 76 inventory management significantly less annoying.
Managing one’s C.A.M.P. storage has been an inherent part of Bethesda’s live-service RPG since its troubled beginnings in 2018. The day-one version of the game restricted players’ stashes to just 400 pounds, with that limit then being raised to 600 pounds in early 2019. Two more revisions followed over the next couple of years, upping the Fallout 76 stash storage limit to 1,200 pounds combined.
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While there’s currently no indication that Bethesda is considering raising this cap for the fourth time, the developer is now testing another feature that would make inventory management easier to handle; following the latest Fallout 76 Public Test Server update, Steam players running the PTS build of the game can now see real item weights when interacting with a Stash Box. Prior to this change, the only way to learn this information was to actually store an item, then see how much that action affected one’s stash limit. That’s because while the inventory screen does show current item weight, the number it displays is affected by many Perk Cards, which can reduce the load of certain pickups on a percentage basis.
This change is bound to be welcome news for all players, as even Fallout 1st subscribers who get infinite scrap and ammo storage in Fallout 76 often find themselves near the limit of their C.A.M.P. storage capacities, making stash management a frequent activity. Although the real item weight indicator requires interacting with a Stash Box, that doesn’t necessarily mean returning to a C.A.M.P. Namely, there are plenty of Stash Boxes to be found across Appalachia at places like train stations, Red Rocket locations, and other players’ home bases. Furthermore, one of the perks of Fallout 1st is the ability to spawn a free camp tent, which comes with its own Stash Box.
As is the case with all of the game’s experimental features, the real item weight indicator will take a while to roll out to everyone. Based on the timing of its open beta release, it is safe to assume that the functionality won’t reach the stable version of the RPG before the Fallout 76 Skyline Valley update, which has been in PTS testing since April 2024. The RPG’s next big expansion is currently targeting an early June 2024 launch, though its exact release date is still pending.
Fallout 76 Public Test Server Update (May 9, 2024) Patch Notes
New Fixes and Improvements
- Hawksbill Weather Station: We’ve made a change to how the blast door functions, which will now only need to be opened once on a server, and will remain open after the first interaction
- Dangerous Pastimes has received several optimization updates in an effort to improve performance of the event
- Various text corrections to subtitles, notes, and terminals for Skyline Valley content
- Added several smaller landmarks in Skyline Valley to further populate the area
- The Trading Post is now a free fast travel location, and no longer shows Appalachia as an option
- When interacting with the Stash Box, each item will now display how much they will weigh when stashed
- This weight reflects the unmodified/without character perk weight
- Adjusted spacing issues that would be seen when changing Notes views, causing pages to be split oddly.
- Adjusted Kevin’s furniture to make it easier to interact with him
Known Issues
- We are aware that some enemies, such as Protectrons, have obtained and activated Stealth Boy Mark III’s and are causing havoc throughout the Wasteland. This is actively being investigated and will be addressed in a later update.