Fallout 76 has gone through ups and downs since its messy launch in 2018, but Bethesda has officially unveiled the Locked and Loaded which is coming soon.
The Locked and Loaded Fallout 76 update releases next week on April 27th, but Bethesda is doing a new Caps-A-Plenty weekend event, which has already begun. Bethesda continues its content roadmap for Fallout 76, with S.P.E.C.I.A.L. loadouts being prominently featured in Locked and Loaded, allowing players to modify and completely reset their characters' S.P.E.C.I.A.L. attributes.
Characters that are level twenty-five or higher just need to visit a punchcard machine in order to adjust their S.P.E.C.I.A.L. attributes, change perk cards, and save their build in one of two currently available loadout slots. Punchcard stations will be located at various train stations across the open-world Appalachia, but players will also automatically learn the plan to build punchcard stations in their camp when Locked and Loaded releases. Camp Slots will be added to Fallout 76 with Locked and Loaded, allowing players to easily set up a second camp without destroying an existing one.
Secondary camps are stored for safekeeping in the Camp Slot, removing the inactive camp from the Appalachian open-world in place of the initial camp. This will allow players to easily swap between camps they've already made, storing another camp in its Camp Slot. Camp Slots allow players to rename their camp, turn the public map icon on or off, and change the icon of the camp that will be shown on the map.
Fallout 76 players won't have to hop from one vending machine to another with the Locked and Loaded update due to a shared inventory system. This allows players to buy and sell whatever they need to at one machine. These vending machines no longer automatically cause a player's base to appear on the public map when trying to sell items to other players, making things in Appalachia a little safer.
Meanwhile, the Daily Ops expansion coming to Fallout 76 with Locked and Loaded nearly doubles every aspect of the existing Daily Ops system, featuring an all-new game mode, new locations, enemies, mutations, and rewards. Season 4 is introduced with Locked and Loaded which includes a new Scoreboard, 100 ranks to achieve, and lots of additional rewards.
And finally, an aim assist toggle is coming to Fallout 76 with Locked and Loaded, making hunting down enemies a little simpler for players using controllers. A World Activity Menu will now display nuke zones, active events, nearby player vendors, and more, allowing players to easily gauge what's going on in the open-world Appalachia around them.
Fallout 76 is available right now for PC, PS4, and Xbox One