Digging through a box of patches earlier, and found... this. No idea where it cane from, Tineye couldn't find it, and Groobul image search dumped an AI response that is suspect, at best, and not matching images.
Any ideas that aren't AI fever dreams?
So, I finished up what Season grind I wanted, turned 1125 tickets into perk coins, yay!
And decided that, since I needed to allocate the bounteous harvest, I may as well clear my backlogged perk-card dupes and selections too.
Uhm.
I had 1300+ cards to take across all five characters.
Plus dupes.
Because admin bullshit isn't as fun as kneecapping Behemoths/Deathclaws/Sheepsquatch/et cetera with my bow and magic arrows.
On the bright side - LOL - now I get to rebuild my saved perk-card loadouts across all five characters. (I'm on PC, so I can use Perk Loadout Manager to change loadouts on the fly.)
What it says on the tin; since the Mothman Hunter and Raider Skinner both were offered without the headware, I want to verify before throwing Atoms at it and having to refund for an incomplete outfit.
(PC, Private world) So, I spawn one if my alts at Nka-World to do administrative stuff - moving items between characters, et cetera - and I hear the officer beeping coming from over towards the Burning Mine. Delete, loot, back to shuffling crap.
Spawn in next alt. Still beeping.Go over to the corpse out of curiosity, and to eat it or arrow it further away because the noise is annoying.
It's beeping because it spawned a random keycard piece.
And it kept feeding me those across all 5 characters.
Pretty near useless, unless you're running silos hardway instead of looking up the weekly codes online, just amusing.
Also, ballistic repositioning only works on the character that does the shooting; the other alts found it still at the original location.
Welp, good news is, my main character's crafting/repair build can survive (and not drag everyone else down) a trip to Earle Williams' FlavorTown.
The bad news is that I took my crafting/repair build down the shaft.
Got into the shaft-head with about 2 minutes to go, swapped build to repair my bow (which was needed), then went right into a feeding frenzy to get some carry-weight headspace. (Also needed.)
12 seconds to go, but I'd already forgotten to switch back to my full-archer build.
I will say, there seem to be a lot more lil' guys if you're not hat-trick oneshotting them all...
So, I'm grinding out all three challenge sets yesterday on private, and end up with just crippling Spooky legs (abd killing Radhogs) when I have to rake a break - 18/30 done, I'll come back in s while and finish out, right?
LOL.
Come back. Start at Crater, head to the hunting lodge for one... huh, didn't get the ping/cound increment. Definite leg hit (my hands are crippled up so VATS is my go-to), definite Spook.
<shrug> Forget it, Jake, it's Bethesdatown. Continue over to Willard's.
Where, as I'm about to enter at the pool area, dumped out of the server. (Is happening at ridiculous frequency since last week's update.) Hop back in - server was still up - and spawn at the front entrance to three Spooks right there.
Prime Ultracrite Laser Rifle says "nice knees you had there"... and no increase in count.
Nine Spooks at Willard's by the time it was cleared. Every one coughed up a Legendary and a Spooky Bag. Every one was legged in VATS.
18/30.
Pissed off to do Seneca Blast, five more.
18/30.
"Maybe I'm killing them too hard?" Switch to Furious lever-action, find one Spook at Bolton, 18/30.
Head to White Powder, Western Revolver. Two down, taking multiple hits to cripple. 18/30.
OK, somethings fucky. Quit to desktop, restart game, new private server.
White Powder reset! One Spook!
18/30.
Keep trying, different weapons (even my Cold Dead Hand cryo bow, which was working fine before I took that break.), public servers (LOL, farmed as fuck but I found a few still), back to private, different locations.
Two hours later, 30+ Spooky Kneecaps. About to say "fuck this" and quit out for the night, but decide to clear the Docks and Dam just for loot. Kill one at the Docks for no increase, and just for the hell of it switched to a Ripper. Saw off a Spooky Leg.
20/30.
The fuck? Did I just reset whatever problem was happening?
Switch to Western Spirit and off to the Dam at ground level for the four spawns below the bridge. Two Spooks, give 'em the good news.
20/30.
Server suffers a fatal heart attack.
Restart game, new private server, Molerat Bat. Another two Spooks under the bridge.
21/30. 22/30.
And so I completed that challenge as Guido the Ninja Loanshark, breaking Spooky legs in full Chameleon armor with a pimped-out baseball bat.
And I still had Radhogs left, I was kinda afraid I'd have to break out a pool cue or something, but they died just fine to the bow and magic arrows.
(Now I have all these Legendaries to transfer to my main for scrapping, plus assorted plans, but do I dare even try? Because since the update on the 21st, private servers (for me) have been horrifically undependable - server dies without notice; server kicks me hard enough to lock game; server kicks me but appears to be live, relog in under one minute but builds new server anyway; and the usual audio-glitch-crash-to-desktop. I've lost 40+ Legendaries, a big wad of plans/treasure maps, Mysterious Quills/Sheepsquatch Shards and High Radiation Fluids transferring to my main because of this bullshit.)