Summary
Fallout 76has 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 makeFallout 76inventory 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 theFallout 76stash storage limitto 1,200 pounds combined.
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 latestFallout 76Public 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.
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 theFallout 76Skyline 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
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Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of Skyrim and Fallout 4, welcome you to Fallout 76. Twenty-five years after the bombs fell, you and your fellow Vault Dwellers—chosen from the nation’s best and brightest – emerge into post-nuclear America on Reclamation Day, 2102. Play solo or join together as you explore, quest, build, and triumph against the wasteland’s greatest threats. Explore a vast wasteland, devastated by nuclear war, in this open-world multiplayer addition to the Fallout story. Experience the largest, most dynamic world ever created in the legendary Fallout universe. Expand southward to Skyline Valley – a brand-new region of Appalachia. Investigate the cause of the electric storm circling overhead and unveil the mystery around Vault 63 and its dwellers, including a shocking new Ghoul type – The Lost.
