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Yeah I can't say I was thrilled to be getting killed like that. Reminds me of why I don't play games like Ark, Tarkov, etc.

If you already have it, just flip off friendly fire in the options. It pretty much kills the PK aspect of the game.

I mean, players can grief, but it's pretty limited.

Aside from some "safe" areas on the map, a player can drop a nuke on an area. You don't want to be in an area when one goes, but you have plenty of warning to move. Late-game, nuked areas are mostly desirable, as enemies and plants there have more stuff, and it's the only way to induce certain multiplayer events, but if you can't deal with radiation yet, it can be a pain. Nukes are virtually always used to induce one of several multiplayer events, though, so unless you have a CAMP right in one of those areas, it's rare to encounter nukes.

They can use a vending machine at a train station or city, and only one person can be using one at once. Same thing for player vending machines in CAMPs, where a player can sell off stuff to anyone who wants to buy it.

They could stand in a doorway, but fast travel generally makes that a non-issue.

They can use obnoxious weapons that generate a lot of explosions in a multiplayer event, which makes it hard to see; there was a while when some new weapons were able to do that. I don't think that that's currently an issue.

If they're too powerful, they can kill certain multiplayer event bosses so quickly that other players don't have time to do enough damage to "count" as having killed them. Optimal play is to slightly damage low-level enemies, which gives someone full experience when they die and lets other players have a chance at also damaging them. For a few bosses, there's a minimum amount of damage required; optimal play is to get your damage in and then go off and be doing other things in the event.

I guess maybe someone could manage to drag an aggroed enemy somewhere on the map.

Sometimes people don't bother to try to complete some events, just want to kill enemies for experience. That's not really bad per se, but doesn't help complete the event for people who are interested in that.

Certain game-mechanic-exploiting builds can be affected by other players sharing certain perks. Like, some players use a build where they intentionally suffer almost the maximum amount of radiation damage such that they have a very low cap on their health. This makes them fragile, but with the right perks, can provide enormous benefits. Another player on a team can share a perk that cures radiation damage over time, which cures them but causes the benefits to go away. People doing that tend to get kicked off teams.

Some people try to create "trap CAMPs" that cause a visiting player to die one way or another. Like, maybe they have a door that opens directly off a cliff or something. Bethesda normally fixes mechanisms that people figure out, and the penalty for death is pretty minimal anyway -- just need to go back to pick up any scrap that you were carrying.

I dunno. I really haven't seen much by way of griefing. Most of what people do is use items that give buffs to themselves and nearby players for some time. They usually wait until a multiplayer event and then activate them. That's a positive. People have been pretty nice, in my experience. But, then, I've almost always had friendly fire off.

So, the subscription benefits are pretty limited. I haven't subscribed.

• You can play in a private world, but I haven't found a lot of reason to do that. You generally benefit somewhat from having other players for multiplayer events, and outside of that, they're pretty much a non-factor. IIRC you can tweak some world parameters for those, can't recall what.

• You can slightly accelerate getting some in-game items that you can get anyway.

• You can get a "scrap box" that can hold an unlimited amount of scrap. Some people apparently get this for one month, stuff it with huge amounts of scrap in a month, and then cancel their subscription. They keep the scrapbox, can take stuff out just can't add more to it. There isn't all that much you can do with scrap. Maybe if you're super-into building pretty CAMPs.

• You get a small inflow of "atoms" to use in the store for in-app purchase via playing. A subscription will give you more. Most of the stuff you buy is not all that amazing (to me, at least):

• You can buy some mostly-cosmetic items to decorate your CAMP. Some people...really get into playing SimArchitect or something with their CAMP. Like the Fallout 4 settlement building in a smaller radius, but you can do it almost anywhere and people can show off their CAMP. I don't care about that (though I have seen a handful of other people's CAMPs that are amazing. I remember one that looked like a big ship in the Mire.)

• You can get more SHELTER maps. These are kind of a private building area that you can reach from a hatch in your CAMP on the main world. I don't care about this. The differences between these are basically cosmetic. Some are bigger, but you really aren't space-constrained. I think that they were originally intended to play into a survival aspect, where you had to hide from radstorms underground or something, but most of the game's survival aspects were nerfed after players didn't like them. Radstorms are very weak and very rare.

• You can get alternate weapon skins. This is actually useful, because if you have multiple weapons of a type with different weapon mods, it's nice to be able to distinguish between them.

• You can get some alternate, cosmetic, outfits. Given that I usually have a first person camera and don't play with anyone I know, this does little.

The main reason I would be interested in a single-player environment would be Fallout 4-style modding, which isn't really an option in Fallout 76, even with a private world, or if players were a pain, which I really haven't found them to be (and I'm pretty unenthusiastic about nearly all multiplayer games. I play Wargame in single-player mode. I honestly don't think that a private world is likely to buy most people much.)

From my standpoint, the initial, up-front purchase price gets pretty much everything interesting.

EDIT: Oh, and if your concern is gathering plants and stuff like that, IIRC that's per-player anyway. If someone's gathered plants and they haven't regrown, I don't think that they look gathered to you.