Expected Changes in Skyline Valley Map Expansion (Patch 52) on 25th June 2024 (tbc) | Fallout 76 Articles | Nuka Knights (2024)

Lots of new things are awaiting you in the Skyline Valley Update (June 2024) with the map expansion to southern Appalachia into Shenandoah National Park. In this post you will find a summary of all the details that you will see in Skyline Valley. This update is one of the biggest until now, it contains about 3x the amount of new files than most previous updates.

We currently do not have an official date for the update, but due to the double score weekend on June 20th and the necessary update before the next Fasnacht event (to activate the changes), the update can currently be expected on June 25th. As soon as the exact date is known, this post will be updated. (tbc = to be confirmed)

• New Skyline Valley Area with new Locations
• New Skyline Valley Quest Series in Vault 63
• New Enemies
• New Weapons
• New Events
• New Daily Ops
• New Outfits
• New Season 17
• New Atomic Shop Items
• New Fasnacht Rewards
• New Minerva Offers
• New Gold Plans
• New Holiday Scorched Rewards
• Melee Changes
• Union Power Armor Bugfix
• Tesla Lobber
• New Random Encounter / Storm Encounters
• Treasure Maps Weight
• Weight in Stash Info
• Official PTS Patchnotes

New Skyline Valley Area with new Locations

The new Skyline Valley area begins in the mountains south of the existing map. You can go south from Dent & Sons Construction, Vault 96 or Johnson's Acre and end up in the new area. At these places on the edge of Skyline Valley you can already see the storm in the sky that is spreading across the entire Skyline Valley area.

You can set up your camp throughout the area, of course not in fixed locations, like on the rest of the map. This opens up many new possibilities. And you can also play with the weather. In your camp you can of course adopt the Skyline Valley weather, but you can also set up a clear sky weather control station, for example.

Here you will find a map with all the new places for your orientation in Skyline Valley.

Tip: First go to lookout towers and unlock surrounding places.

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New Skyline Valley Quest Series in Vault 63

The new Skyline Valley quest series includes 11 new quests that will familiarize you with Vault 63 and its inhabitants. There are numerous places to discover, interesting weapons and outfits as rewards, as well as secrets and abysses to explore.

Here are the quests in chronological order with a YouTube walkthrough (warning: spoilers):

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New Enemies

The Lost

The Lost are present in many places in Skyline Valley and in the Dangerous Pastimes event. They also play a central role in the quest line whose secret you will uncover. The Lost are basically a type of electrically charged ghouls.

Thrasher

Threshers are mutated turkeys that have become larger than humans and are quite aggressive. In most cases they attack, but sometimes they run away.

Pheasants

The Skyline Valley pheasants are still basically recognizable as such, just with fewer feathers than pheasants are known to have. Although they are usually marked in hostile red, they are nevertheless peaceful.

Storm Goliath

In the new event "Neurological Warfare" you will encounter 3 gigantic robots, the Storm Goliath. The robots can only be found there. See also: [PTS] Event: Neurological Warfare (All Rewards and Infos)

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New Weapons

Railway Rifle: Ticket to Revenge

• Reward from the Quest: Seeking Shelter
• Double Ammo Capacity
• Unique Paint
• No legendary Crafting
• * Bloodied
• ** +50% VATS Hit Chance
• *** 15% VATS Bonus Critical Charge

V63 Shock Baton

• Reward from the Quest: Housekeeping for Hire
• Unique Sound and Skin
• No legendary crafting
• * Anti Armor
• ** +50% Limb Damage
• *** Weapons break 50% slower

Handmade: Shattered Grounds

• Reward from the Quest: Double-Crossed Wires
• No legendary Crafting
• Unique Paint
• * Junkies
• ** Bullets explode with 20% Weapon Damage
• *** 90% reduced Weight

Gatling Laser: V63-Gatling-Laser (former V63-HELGA)

• Reward from Event: Neurological Warfare
• No legendary Crafting
• Unique Paint
• * Anti Armor
• ** +25% Damage while Aiming
• *** 90% reduced Weight

V63 Zweihaender

• No Re-Skin from old Weapon, it's actually new. The base weapon is called: Stormcutter
• Reward of the Quest: The Eye of the Storm
• No legendary Crafting
• Unique Paint
• * Executioners
• ** +40% Power Attack Damage
• *** -40% Damage Taken while Power Attacking

LMG: Red Terror

• Reward from Event: Dangerous Pastimes
• No legendary Crafting
• Unique Paint
• Double Ammo Capacity
• * Furious
• * +25% Damage while Aiming (was changed after the screenshot)
• *** +15% faster reload

Tesla Rifle: V63-BERTHA

• Reward from Event: Dangerous Pastimes
• No legendary Crafting
• Unique Paint
• Double Ammo Capacity
• * Two Shot
• * +25% faster weapon speed
• *** +15% faster reload

10mm Submachine Gun: Anchorage Ace

• * Executioners
• ** +50% VATS Hit Chance
• *** +1 Agility
• Unique Paint
• No legendary Crafting
• Reflex Sight (Only on this 10mm SMG)
• Suppressor (Only on this 10mm SMG)

V63 Laser Rifle

• * Anti Armor
• ** +25% Damage while Aiming
• *** +15% faster Reload
• Unique Paint
• No legendary crafting

NOT PUBLISHED: The Meltdown

The Meltdown appeared in some early datamining, and it was an energy rifle based on the 10mm submachine gun. The Meltdown is still only tied to a "test cell" on the PTS and is not included in any quests or other drops. Overall, the weapon seems to still be in development. It may come into the game with a later update. But not in this update.

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New Events

Neurological Warfare

In this new endgame event you will face 3 gigantic Storm Goliaths in the robot test arena of the Hawksbill Weather Station. This event is also triggered by a nuke. See article:

Dangerous Pastimes

The new event Dangerous Pastimes takes place at Thunder Mountain Substation TM-03. There we help some settlers to carry out dangerous experiments with the lightning harvesters at the substation. See article:

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New Daily Ops

New Enemies & Locations

• Fanatics
  in the Foundry of the The P.I.T.T.
• Overgrown
  in the Aquarium of the Atlantic

New Rewards for the Daily Ops

Rare:

• Plan: Steel Bust
• Plan: Foundry Smelter

"Uncommon" (more common actually)

• Plan: Long Aquarium Signs
• Plan: Atlantic Emblem
• Plan: Aquarium Signs

See also:

Youtube Video:

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New Outfits

The Vault-63-Riot-Control-Outfit is a possible Reward Event Neurological Warfare and available in 3 similar (light to heavy armored) variations.

The Burnt Vault 63 Suit is a reward from the Quest "The Calm before".

The Pipboy 2000 Burnt Paint is the reward of the first Quest "An unlikely Invitation".

The Cultist Monarch Outfit and Cultist Monarch Mask are a Reward of the Quest "The oldest Trick in the Book".

The Vault 63 Hazmat Suit is a reward from the Quest "Gathering Clouds".

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New Season 17

The new season 17 has a scout theme. The exact name has not yet been released. The rewards include numerous scout items, and even quivers as backpack skins for the archers among you.

Here are some examples:

The Vintage Camper Survival Tent is a Fallout 1st Tent. And you honestly have to say, its perfect. The best Survival Tent yet:

• Punchcard Machine (for your Loadouts)
• Instrument
• Cooking Station
• Bed
• Tinker Workbench
• Stashbox
• Ammobox
• Scrapbox

See also: Datamining: PTS Season 17 Preview Patch 52 (Skyline Valley) SCORE 2nd May 2024 Datamine

Youtube Video:

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New Atomic Shop Items

There are also a number of new items waiting for you in the Atom Shop. Here you can find the PTS datamining posts with the new items:

Youtube Video:

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New Fasnacht Rewards

6 new rare Masks (new Drop Chances 0.238% per Mask):

• Fasnacht Glowing Pig Mask
• Fasnacht Glowing Unicorn Mask
• Fasnacht Glowing Minotaur Mask
• Fasnacht Glowing Alien Mask
• Fasnacht Glowing Turkey Mask
• Fasnacht Glowing Robot Mask

6 new common Masks:

• Fasnacht Pig Mask
• Fasnacht Unicorn Mask
• Fasnacht Minotaur Mask
• Fasnacht Alien Mask
• Fasnacht Turkey Mask
• Fasnacht Robot Mask

6 new Plans:

• Plan: Motorized Butter Churn
• Plan: Beeswax Candle
• Plan: Herdsman's Fasnacht Arcimboldo Bell
• Plan: Herdsman's Fasnacht Lincoln Bell
• Plan: Fasnacht Arcimboldo Beer Stein
• Plan: Helvetian Flower Display

Youtube Video:

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New Minerva Offers

List 1:

• Plan: Face Breaker

List 2:

• Plan: Auto Grenade Launcher Blood Eagle Paint

List 7:

• Plan: Kids Truck Bed
• Plan: Umbrella Hat

List 9:

• Plan: Ghoul Chair
• Plan: Gorilla Chair

List 10:

• Plan: Cowboy Chaps
• Plan: Cowboy Duster
• Plan: Cowboy Hat

List 13:

• Plan: Steel Bust
• Plan: Foundry Smelter

List 14:

• Plan: Flatwoods Monster Tube

List 19:

• Plan: Long Aquarium Signs
• Plan: Atlantic Emblem
• Plan: Aquarium Signs

List 21:

• Plan: Intergalactic Handmade Skin

List 22:

• Plan: Hot Rod Flames Handmade Skin

List 23:

• Plan: Alien Backpack

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New Gold Plans

Samuel (Settlers / Foundation)

Cautious

• Plan: Cowboy Chaps
• Plan: Cowboy Duster

Cooperative

• Plan: Kids Truck Bed

Friendly

• Plan: Umbrella Hat
• Plan: Scrap Rat Backpack Mod

Neighborly

• Plan: Cowboy Hat

Ally

• Plan: Adelaide

Mortimer (Raider / Crater)

Cautious

• Plan: Brahmin Couch
• Plan: Ghoul Chair
• Plan: Water Boiler

Cooperative

• Plan: Gorilla Chair

Friendly

• Plan: Auto Grenade Launcher Blood Eagle Paint

Neighborly

• Plan: Face Breaker

Ally

• Plan: Cremator
• Plan: Cremator Chemical Color Mods
• Plan: Cremator Double Shot and Multi Shot Barrels
• Plan: Cremator Heavy Barrel Mod
• Plan: Cremator Napalmer Mod
• Plan: Cremator Slowburner Mod

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New Holiday Scorched Rewards

Also in the Holiday Scorched Rewards, there are new entries:

• Plan: Jitterbug Judy Outfit
• Plan: Plastiform Vaultboy Elf
• Plan: Plastiform Snowman
• Plan: Peppermint Backpack Flair
• Plan: Snowman Head Backpack Flair
• Plan: Atomicset Ltd. Handbag Backpack
• Plan: Giant Red Brontosaurus
• Plan: Laser Chainsaw Paint

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Melee Changes

There are now interesting changes for melee weapons with electrified mods. This affects the baton, V63 shock baton, sheepsquatch staff, auto axe and also the chainsaw. The physical damage has been reduced and the energy damage increased. At the same time, an internal 50% restriction for automatic melee weapons has been removed, so that the two-handed automatic melee weapons in particular now benefit from this in the form of a buff.

Mapex (Fallout 76 Datamining Discord) explained this in this post:

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Union Power Armor Bugfix

Union Power Armor was fixed on the PTS on 16th May 2024 and is now craftable again.

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Tesla Lobber

Here is the current status of the Tesla Lobber again, to prevent rumors. The plan for the Tesla Lobber Mod has been existing in the files since the first Atlantic City update. However, there are still no references to the plan, which means you can neither get it as a reward, nor find it or buy it. So it is currently still not available.

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New Random Encounter / Storm Encounters

As in the well-known Appalachia, random encounters are of course a must in Skyline Valley. These so-called random encounters, or in Skyline Valley also called storm encounters, are interresting here too and provide some funny and exciting moments. You can come across various situations, e.g. a horde of thrashers, a fight between Yao Guai and super mutants, a horde of ants overrunning a picnic, Moe the killer-mole or much more.

Here you can find a map with the known spawn points for random encounters in Skyline Valley:

Source for the Random Encounter Locations: Mappalachia

And there is also a Youtube Video with several examples:

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Treasure Maps Weight

There was a rumor that the weight of treasure maps would be increased. This is not true. The treasure maps still weigh nothing on the PTS.

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Weight in Stash Info

Now, whenever you put something in your storage box, you will be shown the actual weight as info that will be used in the stash box when you put it in.

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Official PTS Patchnotes

16th May 2024

COMBAT BALANCE CHANGES

• Removed a hidden -50% damage debuff from all two-handed automatic melee weapons
• The following mods now add 60% elemental damage and reduces physical damage by 40%:

Electrified
- Auto Axe
- Mr. Handy Buzz Blade
- Chinese Officer Sword
- Shepherds Crook
- Sheep Squatch Staff
- Sheep Squatch Club
- Hatchet
- Assaultron Blade
- Revolutionary Sword
- Baton
- Vault 63 Shock Baton

Burning
- Auto Axe
- Chainsaw

Poisoned
- Auto Axe

• Chainsaw Dual Bar mod damage bonus reduced from 100% to 50%
• Minigun Shredder mod damage bonus reduced from 100% to 50%
• Increase the unmodded damage of the auto axe by 20%
• Cattle Prod now does a split of physical and energy damage and does 20% more damage in total

FIXES AND IMPROVEMENTS

• Union Power Armor should now be craftable by players who have the recipe

Dev Note: PTS Players, we would like your assistance in testing our latest fix for the Union Power Armor crafting topic.

The armor should now be craftable for those who have bought and learned the recipe from Giuseppe. Please note that due to technical limitations, players who earned the armor plans from Season 10 will not be able to craft it on PTS.

When in the test server, you should see the recipes available from Giuseppe if you have not already learned them. After they are purchased, they will no longer be available. Additionally, the armor will no longer drop as loot, but they can be found via the random Power Armor Purchases from Murmrgh at The Rusty Pick. You should expect to only see Union Power Armor Pieces that you know how to craft drop from Purveyor’s Mystery Picks.

Union Power Armor pieces will still have the Atomic Symbol on them and cannot be traded or dropped by players once they have been obtained.

• Powerhouse of the Cell: Players are now notified the serums cannot be injected while in Power Armor
• Powerhouse of the Cell: Fixed an issue where the serums could not be injected in certain conditions
• Powerhouse of the Cell: Hallucinations now vanish correctly when the effect ends
• Oldest Trick in the Book: The "Kill Cultists Standing Guard" objective has been removed
• An Unlikely Invitation: Minimum level requirement has been changed from 20 to 25, so newly emerging dwellers are not presented with the quest immediately
• An Unlikely Invitation: Quest stages are no longer skipped if a player joins a team where the leader has made further progress
• Seeking Shelter: Fixed timing issues with Audrey's dialogue
• Double-Crossed Wires & Oldest Trick in the Book: Fixed an issue where Hugo could be hard to find if partial progress was made on both quests.
• Dangerous Pastimes: [Start Event] has been added to the dialogue interaction
• Eye of the Storm: Fixed an issue where the boss battle could become soft locked
• Neurological Warfare: Storm Goliath no longer spawns parts on the ground
• Neurological Warfare: Fixed an issue where the Storm Goliath attacks were not triggering certain perks correctly
• Fixed an issue where Margaret's voice could be heard in various areas

PTS UPDATE - MAY 9, 2024

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.

PTS UPDATE - APRIL 26, 2024

DAILY OPS TESTING

New Daily Ops locations and encounter groups will be rotating every 2 hours. You can expect to see Fanatics at the Foundry location and Overgrown at the Aquarium location.

FIXES AND IMPROVEMENTS

• Fixed an issue where trees around Dark Hollow Manor were not visible from a distance
• Removed some plans intended for Seasons from event rewards
• Fixed an issue where Cultists could not be looted
• Several new rewards have had their names updated
• Additional Ore Veins have been added to Skyline Valley
• Some subtitles have been updated to properly match VO
• Fixed an issue with some doors in Hawksbill Weather Station having unintended interaction options
• Dangerous Pastimes: Removed the Legendary Exchange Machine audio that played when picking up Harvester Parts
• Removed unintended “Hidden Crevice” interaction option near Camp Liberty
• Static note seen on a bench between Slumber Mill and Camp Liberty has been removed

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