horridfuture3835: So basically most are now effectively useless without hitting the extreme requirements? They just need to chill with the constant “balance” changes.

KimAdams-h5i: So much is broken or stupid in game. Do these devs fix that? No. They rather spend time breaking our armor and builds. These devs hate the player base. Why do we bother supporting this company anymore?

Pontisunli: bro what the hell is that vanguards change that is the dumbest balance change ever

12point131: Weeeeee, more tweaks! Im sure killing the same enemies for the 10,000th time will be more fulfilling after this round?!?!?! Right gang?

filidhdeklend893: What's with all of the "up to depending on scaled requirement" changes? It's tedious making nearly EVERY legendary effect do this now, even if it's "effectively" a buff when you meet the extreme end of the requirement. Most players very obviously didn't want those sorts of conditions, which is why all the survival mechanics the game originally had were phased out.

LightCyrus: I don't mind the occasional rebalance, but am I the only one who's getting sick of the constant nerfs??

gamerelated3887: Newer players are screwed... I just can't understand what they're thinking. I came to this game from ESO so I'm not used to this kind of insanity. I thought the ESO team was bad. This is just flat out crazy. I've just crested level 300 so i'm playing with a build now and everything that i've done so far is trash now. Just more ESO bullshit, but even worse.

hughejasse1: So for those of us that play full health non ghoul, if these changes go live, it's get to $39k, pull your vendor and switch to a full set of Aristocrats since Overeaters will no longer offer damage reduction. That's of course until the devs realize that players are mainly using the same build and nerf it again like they're doing to Overeaters. I just don't understand why they don't fix the bugs and instead keep nerfing our gear; this isn't going to keep the new players.

McG_NJ: Completely unnecessary. Don't like any of them. The aristocrats change evaluates to you can have money or you can spend money but you can't do both. And I get enough of that shit in the real world

arm_v7: You can hotkey a backpack with a different mod if you want to quick toggle Heavyweight's on and off. Run Chemist or Grocers backpack for example for day-to-day use, and have an Armor Plated backpack on your quickwheel.

TheTwoTwoForReal: I'm tired boss. Should I just make a lot of duplicate gear that have all the effects at this point?

FatherElijah: If they touch the unyielding affect that's the day i quit the game.

bryang6675: I'm done with this game.

FwamTom: I was just about to craft a full set of Vanguard's for my Thorn set for Unarmed Ghoul. Not sure what 1* to use now...

traviscable5306: There is a bunch of stuff missing in the camp build menu, weather stations, shelters, pre fabs, and some clutter, resources collector's they need to quit " fixing stuff"

ViolantElon: Jesus fuck can these devs stop fucking with the perks/mods/weapons every single PTS how bout using some of that time and resources to fix bugs maybe make some new content so we don’t have these tiny drip feeds

vinyl_plz: The vanguard's and bolstering curves feel completely bugged wth

shalimar_ch5501: I think I will NOT use Aristocrats because I want tu buy wanted posters

clugzo: I picked the wrong day to quit methamphetamines

KenRobertson-x9w: I am getting very tired of the constant changes they keep throwing at us. For those of us who are way less than level 2400 we just cannot get more perks without grinding levels which I refuse to do. At lower levels you need to scrap useless (at the time) perk cards to get perk coins to upgrade the legendary perk cards. This means you don't have a surplus of perk cards just sitting around waiting for the next update in a few months. Same for armor and weapons. Unless you grind public events you don't have infinite modules to craft new armor and weapons. Plus with the abysmally low chance of learning an effect from scrapping, you can't craft it anyway. They are making this game extremely frustrating for casual or lower level players. I'm just about done with this game.

victorsos100: So damn annoying with some of these stupid changes

danieldawson4841: I would be curious to see if you have the "Adrenal Reaction" mutation that reduces your max HP. Maybe that is causing the legendary effect to not be at 100%

windwardbirds6741: Those are some bad changes. I feel bad for newer players too, why are they making everything so complicated?

The new aristocratic is good, but I don't like that it only applies if your caps are over 30k and the cap should be at 35k to give people some wiggle room.

The Vanguard requirement is crazy and I'd argue that if your HP is above 1k you probably don't need damage reduction on top of that. Same for Bloodied: if your HP is below 5%, you're just gonna die regardless.

Heavyweight requires you to be overencumbered? that really sucks (I guess you could hotkey your backpack, kill the boss or whatever and then go back, but I'd hate having to constantly deal with inventory management).

Aegethir: It really looks like the usual “continuous improvement” behavior of some of the suits at Bethesda so they can justify their existence and salaries to their bosses. So they go to the poor intern guy and make him/her do ANYTHING at all so “we prove we’re active” in this game.

And this is what we get. It doesn’t matter there are real issues in this game which haven’t been fixed for years, we’re getting this, the low hanging fruit for them, but such an issue for normal players in the game. Looking at these “changes” it seems 1* will become pretty worthless no matter what we use.

As usual, good job, Bethesda.

deuscheems: Bro who wants this? What person was like "hm this is a great decision! Our players certainly want to do this stupid mnmax garbage to play the game!"

TheTwoTwoForReal: So Lucid for Ghouls is how Overeater's was for humans before the nerf? I guess they want people to buy the Ghoul transformation.

TheDailyCheeseRTS: So with overeaters being changed will hellcat power armor be the better option over union?

Feb 03 2026

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