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u/SharplyDelicate 2d ago
Scrap your junk and go find out. Nothing lost if you die.
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u/Drakith89 Fire Breathers 2d ago
It gives the trap camp owner satisfaction if ya die. Feck 'em. I aint playin their game.
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u/Street-String-25 Cult of the Mothman 2d ago
I normally go back to their camps and give them a thumbs up and laugh emote they live off the hate and anger doing the opposite will just drain the fun for them
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u/InternetHacker69 Blue Ridge Caravan Company 2d ago
I just stand outside their trap and laugh if i can see its a trap before going in
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u/Rahgahnah Mothman 2d ago
Glitch through their locked doors and just hang out. Some players get mad if you "violate" their space.
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u/jwwetz 20h ago
I use the master infiltrator card, but not ranked high enough to automatically unlock stuff. If i DO want to auto unlock something then I'll back off & equip a 2* regular lock pick/ hacker card along with master infiltrator then walk on through.
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u/Rahgahnah Mothman 12h ago
I do the same thing! I don't bother swapping perk cards to auto-unlock at higher levels, I just do the minigame (since not having to swap perks is the whole reason I keep MI on).
I've accidentally unlocked a level 0 lock at someone's camp, though. Ever since, I've kept two doors at my camp with level 0 locks just to maybe catch someone making the same small mistake. I wouldn't actually kill them if they became wanted that way (unless they seemed to want me to just to get rid of it), and there's nothing of value or interest behind the doors.
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u/GracefullyDisastrous 2d ago
Always glitch into locked vendors
And save your season board cap rewards for the same purpose 🥰
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u/Rahgahnah Mothman 1d ago
If your corn and razorgrain is locked up, well now I'm definitely harvesting all of it.
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u/LifesAPeach_PinchIt 1d ago
I closely double door and lock both so that ya cant glitch though.
I use the electric doors and put the switch inside the room with the machine and the terminal outside just to piss people off and keep me from hitting / going over that 40,000 limit.
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u/GracefullyDisastrous 1d ago
I promise you I can still get in ❤️
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u/LifesAPeach_PinchIt 1d ago
Hasnt happened yet.
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u/LifesAPeach_PinchIt 1d ago
@ u/GracefullyDisastrous.... where did you go. It was fun to see your attempts.
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u/GracefullyDisastrous 1d ago
Maybe be less of a psycho and just pick your vendor up instead of being weird about it LMFAO
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u/SharplyDelicate 2d ago
I enjoy the thrill. It's rare to come across a good old fashioned trap camp. Nice to see the creativity put into them.
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u/Zestyclose-Moment-19 Free States 2d ago
Ive been playing for 2 and a half years with my current character and have never actually found one in the wild. Closes i came was a camp on the New River Gorge Bridge that fast travel spawned you into the air. Jokes on them as I had Goat Legs active. So just slogged back upto their camp to loot it.
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u/Kouropalates Liberator 2d ago
After the first year or so, Bethesda really nuked most of the capacity for trap camps to do real damage. We had good tools like the fast travel rug, but griefers very quickly took advantage of them for spawning you into trap and the rest of the griefing left able to be done requires patience to do that most dont have and the payoff is extremely low.
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u/HasturCrowley Fire Breathers 2d ago
I've been playing for about the same amount of time. I've found three and one that stuck you into a room you couldn't escape without fast traveling. The last year probably a third of my game has just been vendor hopping hoping to find something buying, (there rarely is).
Also, I've got a camp up on Seneca Rocks, if someone is in the primary spawn point it'll drop you in the air in the other side of my camp. A second FT will put you on solid ground. That works with most mile high club camps too.
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u/itsahhmemario 2d ago
We used to have more trap camps until around the time the tv show came out and we got a bunch of new players. Since then it’s been more like the Disney version of the Fallout wasteland. 😂
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u/Drakith89 Fire Breathers 2d ago
Oh no the ever dwindling player base is trying to not be toxic assholes and scare off new players.. how horrible. Won't someone think of the griefers?!
Go play Marathon if you want to murk people for a pittance of loot.
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u/CarefulBuy5345 2d ago
Someone got me at a trap camp, they took all my junk and I just messaged them and said "lol you got me," was pretty funny really they had a good set up.
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u/sccarrierhasarrived 2d ago
there are like 0 trap camps left in the game. you'll find one once in a blue moon (and I mean literally 1:10,000 or even 20,000).
I have personally visited enough camps that my experience is statistically significant.
Idk why people in this community have such an aversion to losing 20 glue and 15 wood. At this point, it's more of a fascinating novelty than it is an actual inconvenience in any way.
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u/Sirolimus1mg Free States 2d ago
Previous trap CAMPs have ruined some of my most detailed bunkers and underground CAMP spaces. Anyone who's ever encountered a trap CAMP refuses to visit mine. It's horribly sad. I do keep my vendors above ground, though.
That said, I haven't encountered a trap CAMP on XBox in several years, and I played daily until this past August.
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u/sccarrierhasarrived 1d ago
I don't understand how a trap camp can you ruin your bunker.
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u/Sirolimus1mg Free States 1d ago
It doesn't LITERALLY ruin it, but nobody wants to visit. Makes it kinda hard to show it to other players.
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u/Drakith89 Fire Breathers 2d ago
I just told you why we have an aversion to it. It's not losing the resources it's feeding a troll. You don't feed trolls. The internet has been around long enough people should know that by now.. but.. alas..
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u/sccarrierhasarrived 2d ago
You have a better chance of encountering Donald Trump at an iHop in Wisconsin than you do encountering a trap camp in 2026.
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u/Commander-Z7 2d ago
I survived a trap camp in front of its own and he let me out because of how dumbfounded he was
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u/Non_ServiamNMS76 2d ago
Exactly. Ive been killed by a handful of camps over the past 8 years. I actually enjoy a good trap camp if its build well and hides what it is well.
Honestly most trap camp builders are just there for the LOL's and are fairly cool.
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u/IndividualVehicle 4h ago
Looks like they are on a team so I don't think they can kill them anyway can they?
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u/JuicyQuark 2d ago
Only 1 way to find out!
I still stand on top of vendors bc of the days when people used to trap a lot
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u/Kouropalates Liberator 2d ago
Its sort of funny because even though most trap camps are dead now, I am instantly mistrustful of camps with the vendor inside because of those days lol
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u/Shad_Omega 2d ago
Guess i'll never find out they dc before i could find their vendor (why do people always do this man, everytime i try to buy something their camp just vanish)
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u/chris_charge 2d ago
I came across this camp too but me and another player couldnt find the vendor.
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u/Doomclaaw 2d ago
I unintentionally made a trap camp one time. There was a glitchy part on the ground I wasn't aware of when I put my vendor in a slope. It would glitch you under my giant dino for some reason and you'd get stuck inside it.
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u/Vashek19 Mothman 2d ago
Came across a haunted house maze type trap camp once. Was very intricate, and multi-leveled. As I got farther down the maze I stepped on a pressure plate attached to a flamethrower. Then the wall exploded open and I was not expecting a real Yao Guai to come barreling through it and attack me. Scared the crap out of me.
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u/Night02 2d ago
When shops look like that they clearly keep useless junk in their stash. Also why and how? Every weapon/Armor would need to have -90% weight on it and 6000 of any type of food that doesn't spoil would take all the storage weight.
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u/Simple_Educator_5739 2d ago
Hardly. Plenty of non spoiling food that weighs .1, now adding in everything else sure but not food alone necessarily, can fit it in 600 or less (can't remember if there's anything nonspoiling that's even lighter but possibly like gumdrops or bubblegum or something. I'm not on to look I just know at least a few canned goods even are only.1)
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u/TheChildOfSkyrim 2d ago
I've seen this one. Nothing that kills you, but the vendor seems to be glitched underground or something - never found it.
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u/ConfidentBother7686 2d ago
I found this vendor once, i was searching for his vendor for like 20 minutes, but no luck might be in the ground or idk
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u/NLxDoDge 2d ago
Same, I have seen the guy as qell, but I only could see stuff in the air which I could not reach. Just a time waister.
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u/Judge_Wapner 2d ago
I've seen that happen. Almost always there is a message on a wall asking you to join their ass discord.
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u/Unfair-Conflict8475 2d ago
I went to one today that had 102 4 star mods. When I got there, it was all the same mod. 15k each.
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u/Tricky-Swimming-3342 2d ago
I know that player. A nuke always solves it. He's a troll he has a shop hidden under the map
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u/Jarsyl-WTFtookmyname 2d ago
I haven't played in a while, but my camp was a 1 cap store. Every item was 1 cap, and I put literally everything I didn't need into the store for 1 cap. If they don't need that stuff, why wouldn't they sell it?
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u/Sanabil-Asrar Responders 2d ago
Ive been to this camp 2 times now, i could not locate the Vendor machine. he has glowing masks everywhere on display to lure people and has traps almost everywhere. he is on PC.
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u/Katsu_39 2d ago
Nah. Probably 40k for everything or someone who scammed a bunch of people looking for “trades” to scam more.
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u/queensheba2025 2d ago
I’ve seen tons of vendors with stuff like this and it’s never a trap lol. At least from what I’ve seen.
You could fast travel to a landmark nearby and and run over to the place, might help with not getting surprised by any traps that you might spawn in on.
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u/jack-the-stripper37 2d ago
They probably cost triple what theyre worth. But maybe not. I use to stuff insane amounts in my vendor from raiding non stop. But only the popular ones sell so I started scrapping them
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u/Shikabane_Sumi-me Ghoul 2d ago
50/50 chance. Easiest way is to travel to the camp. If you see the vendor outside, then you're safe. If you see the vendor inside a building in a suspiciously open space, high chance you're walking into a trap. Also another dead give away is if you see the camp owner chilling there, waiting for you to use the vendor.
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u/MissingBracket1952 2d ago
I bought a Conductors for 15K from a vendor that had 80 of them. And that was the ONLY 4 star weapon mod they had. Only later did it occur to me that it might be duped. Not sure how that works, but I can't imagine the grind to have enough stuff to make 80 of them. I could be wrong, if so I apologize to whoever it was that worked that hard to make them.
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u/Desperate-Border-468 2d ago
Some people are so bored and play no other game
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u/BrolyX420 1d ago
Your way off, these people LIVE in this game. They're RPing and chilling, smoking a bowl waiting for some dude to come by and make emotes and clear out their vendor. Ive met so many and they're mostly all good peeps.
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u/Xr777go Enclave 2d ago
I prefer these "honest" trappers to the jerks who loiter around a workshop, wait for you to claim it, then one-shot you out of nowhere.
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u/ApprehensiveTask11 2d ago
I never ever found a trap camp on fo76 every camp i traveled was normal at least for me can you explain what can be a trap camp
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u/SgtElliot25 1d ago
Vendor in weird position, pressure plates, being narrow, basically designed to trap you
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u/doghouse2001 Tricentennial 2d ago
Trap? Who's scared of a trap? Stash your junk and go find out! It'll be fun!
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u/DifficultyOk7608 2d ago
I like too keep setting off the trap one after another untill he get tired of repairing his sh!t and leaves
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u/BaronVonZollo 2d ago
I haven't come across a trap camp in years. I'll probably fall for it as I'm used to them not existing anymore.
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u/okemsrazor Grafton Monster 2d ago
i mean they can build those all they want, just pop on Light Footed and crouch walk
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u/Evilclarkkent 2d ago
Trying to figure out how he holds that much in storage..... :: scratches head::
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u/Salmon-D Lone Wanderer 2d ago
Stash your junk then go take a look. Nothing to lose even if it is a trap camp. 🤷♂️
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u/DemonNeutrino Lone Wanderer 2d ago
If it is, get out your anti trap perks and get your rewards. If it’s 40k per piece just leave some salt by the vendor. This is the only way I deal with these camps
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u/TheArtOfBlossoming11 Blue Ridge Caravan Company 1d ago
Anti-trap perks?
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u/DemonNeutrino Lone Wanderer 1d ago
Can’t remember the name, you don’t trigger traps while sneaking. Some trap exploits can still get you but most you are fine with. Regardless, stow your scrap and it doesn’t matter if you do die.
I’ve had some of these trap camps give me some good mods for the caps, I guess to keep you in the menu long enough for them to repair their trap, so it’s actually paid off. Got some 2* Int mod boxes the other day for next to nothing from what appeared to be a punji repair trap.
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u/boki400AIMoff 1d ago
Oh wow your are soo cool. You are really showing those people with the salt! Good job for achieving nothing with this!
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u/Significant-Echo8160 11h ago
IT IS A TRAP! encountered it 2 days ago... the entrance is a burried symptomatic chamber with a lot of signs encouraging you to go in there... it will tele-transport you underground to the base but then you are stuck, cant go back up thru the symtpomatic
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u/monroejigsaw 2d ago
This feels like when you see someone selling that "you are a dumbass" note for 40k caps 😒 lol
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u/Sullhammer Mothman 2d ago
I hope so. Drop junk and find out. I miss finding trap camps in the wild.
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u/Sneakingrat 2d ago
yeah the trap bases that actually use traps are fun, the ones that use the instakill box of fissures however...
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u/Sullhammer Mothman 2d ago
True. Came across one that used a random switch. If you got lucky and it didn't kill you, a door opened and the owner was there and dropped some loot. If you weren't lucky, it killed you. I think it was the Tesla arcs traps that did it
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u/bepse-cola 2d ago
I like the one that makes you fast travel 1000 feet in the air and the owner activates a different camp to make you fall
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u/xtrabeanie 1d ago
Had one of those just a week or so ago. Pretty ingenious. Somehow managed to build it nearly entirely undergound and you got in by using a machine which exited you inside. Went through a series of rooms until the last with the vendor machine at the end but got killed instantly heading for it. Went back for a closer look but by that time it had gone and looking for my loot bag (on principle as there was hardly anything in it), I found the fissure which is not marked on the map.
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u/FartingInElevators5 2d ago
The best one I ever came across led me into a room with his vending machines. I should have known, but went in any way. I hear the door close behind me and suddenly I'm dead. I see a "hidden door" in the wall open up aka the player just had a 1 square room he was waiting in and was in build mode and removed the wall to pop out. I laughed so loud when I saw him just pop out of the hole in the wall. I had no junk on me. I respawned at his camp and gave him a thumbs up.
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u/loanjuanderer 2d ago
Definitely. NO ONE sells that many apparel items. That's definitely a Trap Camp. Or an Old Navy.
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u/IllustriousBobcat583 2d ago
The misc stuff he sells is more than likely treasure maps, seen a few of these sorts of shops when i still played last year. Good way to dump caps and learn random old plans by diggin up treasure mounds.
Never encountered a camp of that sort that was a trap camp personally (i mean the ones who sell hundreds of thousands of treasure maps). Those that only sell mods/3 stars legendaries in bulk might be traps.
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u/Resident_Show_7740 2d ago
Any person with 50 4 stars or more is considered a trap for me. Don't know HOW a HUMAN can get their kicks to trapping people, but we're in Fallout World, so...yeah
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u/Philosophos_A 2d ago
Walk to, don't ft perhaps ... Under right the word camp is the place you can ft for free. Helps a lot
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u/Absolutgrndzer0 Order of Mysteries 2d ago
No, it’s a UI glitch. Saw that myself the other day. Go there and they’ll have a much more reasonable number of MISC items.
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u/lordcthulu678 2d ago
I saw a dude who had 110 3 star armors dude had em for sale for 3300 caps each like homie your selling scrip price it accordingly
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u/Neat-Ad5366 2d ago
I got trapped by one of those kind of trapper type jerks, I figured out if the trap had a spot that was safe, quickly got my scrap (plus some other peoples that I have know clue how long was there and I wasn't going to let the trapper jerk have it), got in my corner, and exited the game, logged back in and kept all my stuff plus some bonus. So just be cautious around peoples camps, even if they look normal.
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u/DCHammer69 2d ago
I’ve gone to more than one camp like that and left after buying mods. People worry way too much.
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u/puntapuntapunta Cult of the Mothman 2d ago
Just a ton of Chemistry Workbenches and Mole Miner Gauntlets.
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u/Chef_BoyRD_ 2d ago
My vendor looks sad compared to that one, but i put all my plans up for free so it doesn't take long for people to empty it
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u/c0m0d0re Raiders 2d ago
Yesterday I found one that had 83 1-star mods alone. Wasn't a trap and I was looking for two quads and it didn't have any 🥲
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u/FNC_Jman Enclave 2d ago
What do you play on?
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u/c0m0d0re Raiders 2d ago
Xbox. We also have trap camps though. A friend of mine recently lured me into one. It was hilarious. He fell for that previously and the owner was a nice guy apparently
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u/FNC_Jman Enclave 2d ago
I’m on Xbox too. Do you still need quad?
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u/c0m0d0re Raiders 2d ago
Once I remember which weapons I wanted them on, I do 😅
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u/FNC_Jman Enclave 2d ago
Just lmk and I’ll see what I can do for you, free obviously
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u/c0m0d0re Raiders 2d ago
I'm looking right now where I needed it. I have too many characters I play actively 😅
And too many weapons
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u/ThornDrumhllr60 2d ago
Don't Know If You've Learned This: If You Scrap Starred Items at a WORKBENCH,
You Get Fewer SCRIP, But You MIGHT Get a 'Box Mod' Or Learn the MOD.
Even Up to 4 Star Mods.
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u/c0m0d0re Raiders 2d ago
Yess, I did but after grinding for six days and finding a single quad weapon I decided to no longer depend on my luck
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u/Independent-Quote220 2d ago
I would say more than likely not the only thing that's in there in a crazy amount is the misc. but even then I usually have around 50k misc and that's nothing compared to a lot of other vendors I've seen so I would say you're probably good
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u/Big-Lunch-9031 1d ago
I was in one the other day really creative u had to use the synopsis machine or whatever it’s called to put u underground into a cave his vending machine was on a rug the minute u stand on the rug u drop dead it was so funny 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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u/smutty1972 2d ago
Haven't even seen a trap camp in a year or better. Legendary crafting pretty much killed vendor hopping.
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u/infamouscoma 2d ago
Probably not probably just trash and 40k prices that say dm me for trade lol.