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Bethesda did not intentionally limit the rewards on the final page of the latestFallout 76Scoreboard, a company representative said. While this clarification offers some good news forFallout 76fans who criticized the apparently unintentional changes, the newly identified bug isn’t fixed just yet.
June 12 marked thestart ofFallout 76Season 17, Skyline Valley. Apart from expanding the game’s map of Appalachia for the first time ever, the game’s latest update also introduced a new Scoreboard, the second one sinceFallout 76transitioned to a battle pass-like seasonal progression system. But as one player who opted to rush through the new battle pass by buying ranks quickly discovered, 30% of the rewards on the final page of the Season 17 Scoreboard are only claimable once. Their finding resulted in the fandom offering some harsh criticism of Bethesda, especially since the non-repeatable nature of the rewards wasn’t communicated in advance, but only became apparent after reaching the bonus page at rank 150.
Bethesda ‘Looking Into’ Fixing the Bonus Page of Fallout 76 Season 17 Scoreboard
As it turns out, this state of affairs isn’t an issue of transparency, but implementation. That’s according to LunarNeko, one of the moderators of Bethesda Game Studios' official Discord server. Responding to one fan complaint over thisFallout 76Season 17 Scoreboard controversy, LunarNeko described it as a “known issue” that the developers started looking into on the morning of June 13, ET. The company representative did not provide a timeline for when players can expect a fix.
The bonus bundles containing Legendary Modules, Legendary Cores, and Perk Coins are hence each only claimable once for the time being. This ostensibly still isn’t a problem for the vast majority of players, as there simply wasn’t enough time tocomplete theFallout 76Season 17 Scoreboardjust yet, at least not through regular play. On the contrary, the only way to reach its final page right now, four days since Skyline Valley’s release, is to buy ranks.
Starting from this season, it’s possible to purchase ranks beyond 100, up to the 150th one required for unlocking the last page of the Scoreboard. This particular change appears to have been intentional, especially since someFallout 76players have been asking for it since the battle pass-like system first launched back in March 2024. At the same time, some other fans characterized the raised rank purchase limit as further evidence that the new Scoreboard was intentionally made grindy to incentivize spending. Bethesda, for its part, previously said that reaching rank 100—which is the final stage that includes new cosmetics—takes the same amount of time as it always did, S.C.O.R.E.-wise. The bonus page merely offers currency and other types of farmable resources.
Aside from these apparently unintentional Scoreboard changes, the June 12 update also elicited some other player complaints. Among other things,Fallout 76fans have recently criticized the new Season 17 event, Dangerous Pastimes, describing it as equal parts unrewarding and uneventful.
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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.
