TETRADEV: So we got basically 0 new content, catch you all in September

ThatBugBehindYou: Wtf, I LOVE spending all my ammo on a boss as I hide behind a structure for 99% of the fight because they one shot every build. What's that you say the 4 star drop is ALSO random chance? AMAZING I love it!

BoS_Knight-Sigma: Infestations are just head hunts with raid rewards. Basically a reskinned event. Minimum effort from Bethseda again.

jimmorine9214: My immediate thought is what are they going to break in the game when they release this update.

Darthcamper: Developers need to learn that one shot mechanics are never fun for the players

billyhunnicutt5116: I’m a long term player and to be fair I haven’t played these yet, but based on what I’ve seen about this the hype was overrated. They could have achieved this by updating the bounty hunts and head hunts to the rest of the map. Expand what you have and give it more depth instead of reworking an existing game function and calling it an update.

joechakalis5310: My concern is that Bethesda has a sort of blind spot. They are quick to notice the people who like things and slower than a glacier to notice when people don't. My concern is that to new and midlevel players, these will feel like the game intentionally punishing you for exploring and completing the story. I feel like those folks will then complain - and when Bethesda ignores them, they will leave. That sounds like a staggeringly easy way to lose new playerbase.

davebrozowski3509: I'm level 2200 I not gonna lie anything new in 76 is good

babylonpaladin: Long story short: if you main a melee build, don't bother with Infestations.

billyhunnicutt5116: Feels like they have been dropping the ball a lot here lately. The new stuff is cool for a week or two. Heck I would be happier if they would update some of the existing stuff that we do over and over and over again every day trying to get rare stuff.

shymigrain9338: Infestations are hot garbage. I'd rather have another raid with some story lore and depth to it. This is lazy work.

MichaelsExplorations: Nobody wants this ,if I ever come across this I’m traveling away

xfatboy35x29: Personally, I feel infestations should have been a buff to expeditions.

Every week, an expedition becomes infested, increasing the difficulty and greatly enhancing the reward with legendary mods as rewards, including 4 stars.

It would give an alternative to the raid to farm for just pure legendary mods instead of weapons you have to break down for a chance at one.

nickroberts7669: This looks just frustrating as for me F076 has the following reasons to keep on playing - quests, exploration, base building, build tweaks. I'm pretty much done with the first two, and we all know that they are sub standard compared to the other games. So if I cannot work out how to tweak my build to tackle these harder enemies and I just get one shotted I'll be spending my very limmitted free time playing a better game.

tombtdrmm: I found one at Bolton green. Communist version. Nothing showed up as an event or to alert team. I waved them. Everyone one shot me over and over even in power armor. Won't be doing this if it stays like this

High_Bread: They need to fix numerous things still. I just grabbed a holotape and it froze my pipboy in place with a black screen. Had to let someone kill me lol

potatopells: They don't know how to execute new Ideas. Bring in a bunch of enclave or just helicopters. Drop off a crap load of hardcore enemies and call it an infestation. Hundred or hundreds of enemies not what they did. So many ways to execute a good infestation. And fast traveling everywhere isn't it.

Thatsmolbunni: I’m sure they’ll be more changes as the pts continues to be live. If not, very disappointing of Bethesda. “heads will explode” my ass

maddest_lad2: this should have been in the game since launch and they're not even adding anything new really?

aestevalis0: It's another in a long line of good ideas ruined by poor implementation.

leehelck4606: absolute trash. the minute this interferes with my dailies/weeklies by getting one-shotted out of the blue is when i cancel my FO1st subscription and uninstall the game. new/low level players are going to be turned away from this game as well as soon as they get flatlined out of nowhere just for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. this should be a public event, not some bullet-sponge masochist fest that isn't even worth the ammo and equipment resource upkeep. yet another boneheaded move from the devs. mark my words: if this goes live they will lose players over it.

nice-but-dim: They should let players run their own factions, maybe server based but an idea for the developers watching this video

nicoledeibert1150: I play solo (join casual teams, but not with intention to play with them). If I would encounter these bosses by myself, and if they were too difficult for me, then I would just avoid those areas. Especially if the reward isn't worth it. If I was a new player and ended up in these areas, then I would be probably really confused about it as some story content ends up in those places and it would seem very unbalanced. Maybe they're trying to do something like "Elder's Mark" where you start the game and instantly die. It appeals to some players, but not to others.

LuggageStardate: They should make a new raid, a custom world for players wanting to do raids so they find a team and a custom world that is hard mode. Before they do any of that they need to fix unobtainium RNG by selling crap a vendors, even 4stars.

aestevalis0: Everybody's comparing it to bounty hunts but I think it's more like the alpha hordes.

lceFeathers: Is it what I wanted? No. But there's a lot of things in the game I could've done without. And I don't engage with those things hardly ever, if at all. It's just one more little thing for people to do if they feel like it. And that's a good thing!

I don't like the thought of wandering around and randomly getting one-shotted. Though it does add a sense of danger I haven't felt on the game in literal years now.

Nigredo1974: I think it would be cool if it spawned enemies that are not in the game yet.

Apr 16 2026

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