Just got mine a week ago, followed this same path. Operation tidy, stings and things, tea time, and campfire tales. To heck with all those silly possum badge challenges, whoever devised that torture needs to be forced to repeatedly accomplish all those tasks for the rest of their life.
It's not clickbait. The tadpole part is necessary, but the opossum challenges are so annoying, so this is actually a great tip that he gives by the end of the video
I had recently gotten the backpack and gave up on the idea of grinding for the 60 extra capacity mod, until I saw your “smart way” suggestion at the end. Thank you so much!! :)
Nice, that's exactly why I made it! Yeah, you'll eventually get a lot of the requirements ofr the possum challenges as you play but when you're trying to go for them specifically it's just a pain in the arse.
@@Lordoftheapes79 i'm 100 hours in, in dire need of better backpacks, had a few photos taken, a few meals cooked, towns discovered, but no a good 75% of it wasn't done. Hard isn't the word i see getting used that much really.. it's annoying, time consuming, its a fkn boring thing to have to do, oh hang on day or two of public events and fun, i gotta go INCREASE MY CARRY WEIGHT.. like that's what this is, its fkn stupid. like who tf wants to spend 8 hours changing a fkn attribute.
Am I the only person that actually liked doing these? Only one that kinda made me sigh and gave me trouble was the revive a player in water one cuz I play without friends mostly. But I got lucky during a swarm of suitors event and a low level got gangbanged to death by some land-sushi aka Mirelurks, I chose to sit back and watch until the person died (ik I'm terrible) I revived him, took care of the mob, dropped the him some loot for their troubles helped him finish the rest of the event and left happy af. I forget the players name but damn it death by sushi person if your out there I love you and I wanna have your babies. Hope you're leveling up well.
The revive are the worst because they're not predictable but the other ones will usually come as you play .. it's just that it takes a while if you're deliberately going for them. And yeah, mirelurk meat, best meat!
They’re ok…it becomes insufferable when it involves rng, or to mow down an excessive amount of the same enemy with a weak weapon. It’s fun pastime if much of the activities were cut in half.
I started playing right around the time you released this video, and it helped me understand a lot about the game. Sometimes, the "chance" rewards from the daily events are more reliable than the dedicated badge/quest rewards.
This is actually super helpful. I just finished getting the tadpole backpack, had no idea there was a chance to get possum badges from doing pioneer dailys!
I made an alt around the time of Nuka World On Tour update and grinded him up to lvl 500 FAST af, got all the plans i needed to build the Nuka-Cade. Got a vid up on it. 3 things i didn't bother to redo. The settlers v raiders questline for gold, the brotherhood of steel questline (not because it's a pita just didn't get around to it yet) and the scout stuff... because holy crap i hated doing it the first time! I usually go with the refridgerated backpack mod so my brainbombs and cran relish remain fresh for longer. But after JUST getting back since Nuka World it's insane the amount of things i need to catch up on lol. Game went from boring been there, and done that to overwhelmingly awesome. Just pissed off they changed the seasons and ditched the scoreboard. Whoever came up with that should be terminated immediately just... wtf!? But yeah the rest is solid so far. Even like the caravan, as grindy as it is atm.
To kill enemies with the weak syringe to get the challenge just shoot the enemies with any gun until they are almost dead then finish them off with the syringe Same with the knife or any other specific weapon kill challenge
Also, just like how certain challenge runners do things, it counts gun bashing as killing with the weapon you are bashing with, so if the gun is so shit that you are better off killing your foe with the gun itself instead of it’s bullets you should just do that. I would recommend equipping the gun bash perks, but that’s recommending using something that only people who have obtained the perks in the perk packs and didn’t immediately scrap that crap would be able to use so yeah its kinda a mute point.
Because of the laggy nature of 76 you can kill with any weapon and quickly switch weapons to get the points, it doesn't work all the time but it works enough of the time.
@@SequentialGamerFallout as i believe you said, holding the weapon is enough, literally it. anything can happen after that. the discussion was over before it started i dont even get this thread lol i was holding the syringer and someone came along and killed the guai on me, i was pissed for all of a split second til i realised that, unlike the last one that i shot with the syringer first, and finished with another gun, this one counted. like you said, gun equipped.
The dailies and events will only drop Possum badges. The tadpole badge isn't referenced from the reward lists at all. And they will only start dropping possum badges after you've achieved the rank of possum. The only way to get tadpole badges is through the challenges (or that one season long ago that gave some on the scoreboard). Source: datamining the game's files.
@@Tyler-f00k1n To clarify, it's only the Pioneer Scout dailies (Operation Tidy and Stings and Things) and the Campfire Tales event that reward badges. But yes, do those after you get the backpack. And sadly, there are no new ways of earning badges in the latest update, despite there being a Pioneer Scouts tie-in (at least based on the latest PTS data).
Ahhh, time to go back and actually complete this on... well, any of my characters, lol. Even the one still around since beta. Thank you for helping make this not so painfully slow! (The photos one was what got me... some weren't counting and I never went back after the 2nd try lol) Also, props to KATAPAN for repping the positive FO76 community. You don't see that kind of interaction/behaviour in other games, and it's a nice thing to know some gamers are still considerate, caring people, rather than just toxic nightmares online. 🙂
Glad that helped you! Yeah, you normally get the goals as you play but when you want the backpack it just get tedious. And yes, well done to Katapan :D
@@troublemakerbros4267it’s +10 per back pack level. So if you have a lvl 60 back pack then it’s +60 carry weight. IMO so worth it but grinding for badges sucks ass. Just server hop and find someone selling the mods at their camp. You’ll get them much sooner that way then trying earn them yourself lol
Yup except the chance has to be pretty low, through my experience and others posting videos I would think the chance is about 5% not the 25% I always hear.
@@svgkaos7826 I've had one badge drop from campfire tales in 4 years, doing about 70+ Campfire events over the 4 years. Before that I was getting 4 badges from there every month till they nerfed it in 2020
I've gotten more bug parts from super mutant gore piles than I have from actual living insects. I have yet to receive a single Possum badge from the daily challenges.
Really great guide 👍 I recently went thru these challenge's again on a alt and the only difference was I got lucky and found the camera early on and did the Mammalogist photo taking one instead of the Athlete/obstacle course. Joining public teams is a awesome tip to get around the map!!
@SequentialGamerFallout you can place a terminal in your camp, and u can search for it. I forgot the option, but it will place the yellow circle for you where the person holding the camera is. Sorry for not remembering the option, but that's a easy sure way of finding the camera earlier.
DONT CHASE +120 backpack. Get this basic +60 from main scout missions and then buy CHEM plan from Minerva. Its 260 bullion and you will get -90% weight on all chems. That is worth a lot more than additional +60 carry + you will save 3 strenght perk points to use on something else.
i have done these quests 13 times now, in my experience if you have a single friend in the game or just find a nice high level player who understands what you're trying to get just doing stings and things, operation tidy, swimmer, athlete and archer are in my experience the fastest, my best time to date on getting the big backpack is like 150 minutes.
6/8 for that big backpack just from doing dailies. I've been kinda putting off really focusing on actually doing any of the actual challenges to get any. Gotten the rare campfire tale reward one as well too.
I did stings and things and operation tidy daily for a week and got 5 possum badges in that 1 week. If you just start doing those 2 dailies i guarantee you'll have the backpack mod in 2 weeks or less. They have a "small" chance at giving a possum badge on completion and i swear it feels like a good 25% chance or so.
If you get the backpack plus the right 3 star legendary mods on your armor pieces, you can be walking out with tooons of food and aid items and still have plenty of carry weight left for rando stuff
I really enjoyed getting the backpack! I'm almosy lvl 100 finally and it'd already a MASSIVE boon, now I just need to get the carry weight mod from the scout vending machine to make it +120 carry weight instead of the base 60 😅🙏💛
I followed another guide originally but they didn't continue at the end like you do!!!! Thank you for showing how to get badges and the other mods from the factions!!!! 💛💛💛💛💛
Fun fact with the crossbow and getting kills. Throw a grenade at a group of enemies than vats your grenade than shoot with your crossbow…grenade does more damage than your crossbow and any kills you get should count as crossbow kills. This worked for me and made the slog of crossbow kills much easier.
The best way to be holding a crap weapon and kill something is the Pile of Mines trick. Sneak up, set 22 plasma mines on the same spot, poke the target with your terrible weapon to make it angry at you, and watch it charge directly over your pile of boom and due in bloody chunks. I used this on Swan in FO4 and it worked pretty well. Took me a few piles of mines, but he dutifully charged right over them.
Cheers, glad that helped you! Just FYI, I'm noting that people are saying that they're not getting as many as they might expect so it could be that the devs silently reduced the drop rate. It still happens though.
I permanently roleplay as a pioneer scout. Clean the toxic waste has 4 locations you can get. The town right beside the npc. The other town south of the lake. Hemlock holes golf course and finally the lake itself. Tadpole badges. There are only 9 badges required to buy all the tadpole items. Hat and suit and the plans for tadpole stuff. There are 10 tadpole challenges so dont be wasting too much time as a tadpole. The challenges for badges can seem tough but they arent so bad. So maybe only stay as a tadpole until you collect just a few extra badges so you dont have to complete all the challenges. Once you are possum scout you will need to grind for badges if you want all the possum stuff. Do all the challenges doesnt get you far for possum stuff. Maybe run high luck build to get badges easier from the dailies and event if that even works. The challenges overall are fun and will kind of take you everywhere. Do these alongside the other camera challenges like taking pics in zones or the tourist camera quest to double up on getting things done. Im 700 hours in and still dont have all the possum stuff unlocked so be ready to grind. Ever Upwards campers!
You too can obtain a big backpack using these 347 simple steps! I’m just kidding, it’s a very clear and well made guide but I see why people might be tempted to pay for storage space
"Sprinting past enemies" the ghouls catch up to me while I have speed demon/squad maneuvers. It's mentally stunted on Bethesda's part to allow every single ghoul to be a cross country LEGEND
I've done that Campfire Tales hundreds of time and don't recall ever getting a Possum badge for it, although I know you are supposed to have a chance at getting one.
With perks and stuff it's really not a safe bet speaking on someone else's experience, i mean do you find that ghouls take 15 headshots with a fkn shotgun before droppin.. cuz at level 115 that's what its become for someone like myself that hasn't focused much beyond carry reduction. and it's kinda shit.
made a new acct, came back to this video after hitting lvl 50. probably couldve did it sooner while leveling up but graveyard shift doesnt help your quick thinking
Scout quests are acutally a good way for new players to learn a lot about the game. I would recommend doing them. Also going the easy way will just end up in those quests sitting there uncompleted and bugging you while you have done everything else and you will do them anyways for completion.
Yeah, I have no problem with scout quests per se. It's more the fact that they gatekeep the backpack, which is one of the most important QoL upgrades you can get. I would love more scout challenges, apparently there's uncompleted squirrel items in the game that never got released.
@@SequentialGamerFallout Gatekeep? It´s the same for everyone. And they aren´t that hard to do. At least that way not everything is just shoot a lot to get it.
Yeah, if you can't afford the perk points then that's the break even point. If you carry more than 60 food or chems then the gold mods start to be better than high capacity.
@@capelech9032 Basically, use the chem bp mod so you can drop chem weight redux perk in strength and use those 3 perk points on damage mod for heavy weapon or shotgun, something like that. Yeah, there are some ways to shift things around that a lot of players aren't aware of.
For me the easiest I think is archer - athlete - mammalogist. I did codebreaker instead of archer before but it requires to have access to nukes which is annoying for mule characters.
it's a huge help, even after watching videos on it it took me a week, i didn't focus hard on it, did the dolly sods area and then kinda moved onto grinding events and shit, but i think it would have taken me months had i not had this guide.
I'm level 175, most of the quests done, but I've completely ignored the scout quests, I find it annoying, so I still have a small backpack. But I'm using the Excavator armor to carry stuff, so I'll probably ignore these quests going forward.
Only change I made was to do codebreaking instead of hunter, but that is because I started it at like level 50, so I had lockpicking and hacking maxed.
Almost a week of doing the dailies and still 0 possum badges. Yes I have the Standard (+60) backpack. Not sure if just really unlucky or I'm missing something else.
It definitely isn't a 25% drop rate as everyone seems to report. I've done both of the two dailies on eight days over the course of the last month since I started playing, and I haven't gotten a single badge from either. I also do Campfire Tales each time it pops up, and I've gotten nothing from it either. If it were a 25% drop rate, then I should have gotten four from the dailies alone, or at least one by now lol
@thelastlostcause4148 so funny enough, I just got my first badge off the goo clean up daily Makes it like 1 outta 15 ish if I count the camp events. 😅
I know I'm generally pretty unlucky, but I call bullshit on the 25% chance to get a badge from those two Dailies. My rate was probably closer to 10%. I ended up doing a combination of Possum challenges and picking up badges from the Dailies, and maybe one or two from Campfire Tales (always seems to pop up when I'm in the middle of something else) to get the High Capacity mod. Now I'm slowly working my way through all of the Possum and Tadpole badges just for my own sick completionist satisfaction.
Nice vid man! Can I ask if you've changed your FOV settings, as your setup is displaying nicely - unlike the "scope takes up the entire screen" usual Beth Ui lol
So regarding that roach in the locked closet? No roof. So if you, say, have a power armor with jetpack, which you can get reasonably easy, just check the boxes and suitcases around watoga after queen fights, and someone who's gotten a hundred of the things will drop a plan. Or just get someone to make you one. Also, you should be able to jump right over with marsupial.
We can allways run Traveling Farmacy and Thru Hiker, and then we can use the high capacity mod after completing lots of tadpole challenges. But that steals space to other perks, Im happy with the normal tadpole backpack with the chemist mod and only run Thru Hiker. Or I could run grocers mod and Traveling Farmacy. Either way, One of those mods and one of those perk cards is all you need...
I completed 3 tadpole and 8 possum challenges and actually had fun. You explore a lot of stuff in the game while doing so. It felt like I was getting 100% achievements in some openworld exploration game after completed story. But I can see that a lot of people will see it as a slog
Yeah, they're not bad in themselves. It's more of a question of having the backpack and the high capacity mod behind them. I wish there were more with the scout theme in the new update, just not gatekeeping essential items.
Yeah, you do have to think about them a bit more. They're not super-difficult, but you do have to plan and look up things to find where you can find things what the challenges require. That's why I recommend doing the events and daily quests to get pioneer badges.
6:27 That's a reference to Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, a children's show from the mid to late 20th century. Also you didn't say which daily quest "Helpfulness" is. I have 15 active ones currently. UPDATE: I did them all and none of them had anything to do with gathering any sort of refuse. (well, all except that broken Miss Nanny one). Had to google "toxic mutagenic waste daily" and found the daily is called Operation Tidy.
already finding the "repair crossbow" is quite obnoxious since I cant craft one without it spawning 200% durability and wont let you repair without it being under 100%. Yeah this takes forever.....
@@SequentialGamerFallout no, but they're going full on with the scouts in the next season, so I wouldn't be surprised to find it on the horizon. It would also be an interesting way of adding some of the post season rewards rather than being Stamps or Bullion.
im bloodie commando and kinda like to carry lot things in my back, 120 isnt enough..lol, i only have trick to get possum badge who really pain in ass for their badge, do daily boy scout everywhere dan do event mirelurk switor...in one week i got the mod for backpack
25% to get a possum badge.... dose that activate after you finish the tadpole quest ? I've never looted a badge from the event, but I just did the quest 2 days ago ?
And yes, before you become a possum only Operation Tidy (the nuclear clean up quest) gives you badges .. but only tadpole badges. After you become a possum you'll start to get possum badges from the dailies and events I talked about.
@@SequentialGamerFallout thank you . I was about to waste 35k on the plan from a guy u found . Now I will just wait till I get 8 badges from events and quests 😂
@@MrStoqn4o It might still be faster to drop that 35k on the plan. RNG is RNG, after all, and you can count on the 1400 daily cap limit on vendors as well as always being able to find things laying on the ground that you can sell. 35k is pretty steep for this, but I'm guessing the seller is counting on someone out there being very desperate to stop being encumbered all the time, while also thinking about how much of a PITA it was for them to get the 8 badges just to sell the plan.
@Kevlin0069 nah i have a lot of rare plans to sell so caps are never an issue but now that I know they drop from the daily quests and event there is no way I'm paying that much 😂 I already have 2 badges so 6 more .
The backpack itself gives you 60, but if you apply the high-capacity mod that increases it by another 60 to a total of 120. But some people prefer the chemists or other mods you get for gold, so think on what you want first.
@@SequentialGamerFallout not sure I get stuck at the cabin robot not sure right now like I said I kinda gave up on it did the tests on the computer too I think I passed them, I don't have badges or anything you can add me if you want my name is the same here as in-game I'm on pc version
Me, sitting at Level 450+ with the small backpack: "Interesting"
Well worth getting the standard backpack even if you don't bother with the mods.
Definitely worth it lol
If you’re lucky, you could find people selling the plan for anywhere between 10 to 40,000 caps
😂 lvl450 with a 20 carry weight backpack. Lmao
im lvl 705 with a small backpack 🤣
Brother i got my big backpack at 496 lmfao
Just got mine a week ago, followed this same path. Operation tidy, stings and things, tea time, and campfire tales. To heck with all those silly possum badge challenges, whoever devised that torture needs to be forced to repeatedly accomplish all those tasks for the rest of their life.
This is the way, super easy.
But the Acheivos!!!
Yeah. I don't know what I was thinking when I put that one in there 8p
Fuck scout badges, proceeds to get scout badges
Touche!
Click bait
Lol
Fuck click baits,air?
It's not clickbait. The tadpole part is necessary, but the opossum challenges are so annoying, so this is actually a great tip that he gives by the end of the video
I had recently gotten the backpack and gave up on the idea of grinding for the 60 extra capacity mod, until I saw your “smart way” suggestion at the end. Thank you so much!! :)
Nice, that's exactly why I made it! Yeah, you'll eventually get a lot of the requirements ofr the possum challenges as you play but when you're trying to go for them specifically it's just a pain in the arse.
It's really not as hard as people make it out to be. A lot of challenges are going to be mostly completed just by playing.
@@Lordoftheapes79 i'm 100 hours in, in dire need of better backpacks, had a few photos taken, a few meals cooked, towns discovered, but no a good 75% of it wasn't done. Hard isn't the word i see getting used that much really.. it's annoying, time consuming, its a fkn boring thing to have to do, oh hang on day or two of public events and fun, i gotta go INCREASE MY CARRY WEIGHT.. like that's what this is, its fkn stupid. like who tf wants to spend 8 hours changing a fkn attribute.
@@CyPhaSaRin sounds like you're carrying around a ton of shit you don't need. Use it or lose it.
Am I the only person that actually liked doing these? Only one that kinda made me sigh and gave me trouble was the revive a player in water one cuz I play without friends mostly. But I got lucky during a swarm of suitors event and a low level got gangbanged to death by some land-sushi aka Mirelurks, I chose to sit back and watch until the person died (ik I'm terrible) I revived him, took care of the mob, dropped the him some loot for their troubles helped him finish the rest of the event and left happy af. I forget the players name but damn it death by sushi person if your out there I love you and I wanna have your babies. Hope you're leveling up well.
I think we've all been there... Or certainly will at some point 🤔
Land sushi I'm ☠
The revive are the worst because they're not predictable but the other ones will usually come as you play .. it's just that it takes a while if you're deliberately going for them.
And yeah, mirelurk meat, best meat!
They’re ok…it becomes insufferable when it involves rng, or to mow down an excessive amount of the same enemy with a weak weapon.
It’s fun pastime if much of the activities were cut in half.
I started playing right around the time you released this video, and it helped me understand a lot about the game.
Sometimes, the "chance" rewards from the daily events are more reliable than the dedicated badge/quest rewards.
Nice, glad you're having fun! And yeah, the dailies will eventually get you there, even if it takes a little while.
This is actually super helpful. I just finished getting the tadpole backpack, had no idea there was a chance to get possum badges from doing pioneer dailys!
That's exactly why I made it. Hope you get your mods soon.
I did not know that those dailies and events had a chance to drop badges good to know
I always get the chemist mod it frees up a card slot and it greatly reduces my weight since a good amount of it is stimpacks and radaway.
You can bash with the syringer and it counts as a syringer death. Ussually more damage than the syringer itself
tips for the Athlete track.... Go up in reverse and disarm/trigger the traps before starting the quest :D (but it's more fun with them on!)
Or just set them off in the normal direction without starting it at the intercom, that's what I did
I made an alt around the time of Nuka World On Tour update and grinded him up to lvl 500 FAST af, got all the plans i needed to build the Nuka-Cade. Got a vid up on it. 3 things i didn't bother to redo. The settlers v raiders questline for gold, the brotherhood of steel questline (not because it's a pita just didn't get around to it yet) and the scout stuff... because holy crap i hated doing it the first time!
I usually go with the refridgerated backpack mod so my brainbombs and cran relish remain fresh for longer. But after JUST getting back since Nuka World it's insane the amount of things i need to catch up on lol. Game went from boring been there, and done that to overwhelmingly awesome. Just pissed off they changed the seasons and ditched the scoreboard. Whoever came up with that should be terminated immediately just... wtf!? But yeah the rest is solid so far. Even like the caravan, as grindy as it is atm.
To kill enemies with the weak syringe to get the challenge just shoot the enemies with any gun until they are almost dead then finish them off with the syringe
Same with the knife or any other specific weapon kill challenge
Yeah, the game only counts the last bit of damage against challenges and throwables count as your main weapon doing the killing.
Also, just like how certain challenge runners do things, it counts gun bashing as killing with the weapon you are bashing with, so if the gun is so shit that you are better off killing your foe with the gun itself instead of it’s bullets you should just do that.
I would recommend equipping the gun bash perks, but that’s recommending using something that only people who have obtained the perks in the perk packs and didn’t immediately scrap that crap would be able to use so yeah its kinda a mute point.
@@GoodlyData86596I wonder if grenades thrown with the weapon equipped would count
Because of the laggy nature of 76 you can kill with any weapon and quickly switch weapons to get the points, it doesn't work all the time but it works enough of the time.
@@SequentialGamerFallout as i believe you said, holding the weapon is enough, literally it. anything can happen after that. the discussion was over before it started i dont even get this thread lol
i was holding the syringer and someone came along and killed the guai on me, i was pissed for all of a split second til i realised that, unlike the last one that i shot with the syringer first, and finished with another gun, this one counted. like you said, gun equipped.
The dailies and events will only drop Possum badges. The tadpole badge isn't referenced from the reward lists at all. And they will only start dropping possum badges after you've achieved the rank of possum. The only way to get tadpole badges is through the challenges (or that one season long ago that gave some on the scoreboard). Source: datamining the game's files.
So farm dailies and events after I got my backpack/possum rank?
@@Tyler-f00k1n To clarify, it's only the Pioneer Scout dailies (Operation Tidy and Stings and Things) and the Campfire Tales event that reward badges. But yes, do those after you get the backpack. And sadly, there are no new ways of earning badges in the latest update, despite there being a Pioneer Scouts tie-in (at least based on the latest PTS data).
Ahhh, time to go back and actually complete this on... well, any of my characters, lol. Even the one still around since beta. Thank you for helping make this not so painfully slow! (The photos one was what got me... some weren't counting and I never went back after the 2nd try lol)
Also, props to KATAPAN for repping the positive FO76 community. You don't see that kind of interaction/behaviour in other games, and it's a nice thing to know some gamers are still considerate, caring people, rather than just toxic nightmares online. 🙂
Glad that helped you! Yeah, you normally get the goals as you play but when you want the backpack it just get tedious.
And yes, well done to Katapan :D
This is perfect timing cause I just started yesterday but stopped cause it’s so long
Its only +10 on mod
@@troublemakerbros4267it’s +10 per back pack level. So if you have a lvl 60 back pack then it’s +60 carry weight. IMO so worth it but grinding for badges sucks ass. Just server hop and find someone selling the mods at their camp. You’ll get them much sooner that way then trying earn them yourself lol
There is also roaches in the bunkers just north of the cabin for quick meat
Yeah for stings and things I just have 20 of each item in the ol stash lmao
I ain't eating a damn roach. Nice try tho.
U can get possum medals in campfire take event
Yup except the chance has to be pretty low, through my experience and others posting videos I would think the chance is about 5% not the 25% I always hear.
Ive probably gotten 2 badges in like 15 of that event
I been playing since launch and i knly recently got one possum badge from an tales event they really rarely drop
say what lol, i've done heaps of those campfire stories if thats what you mean, aint got shit.
I've done the scout daily tasks for 2 months on 2 characters. I've never got a single opossum badge to drop on either character.
I just do dolly sods every day when I play.
I have 13 on my main
They do drop it's just not often I'm at 5 rn and 4 of them are from campfire tales
Really? It should eventually drop once or twice if you’re consistently doing it everyday. Maybe you’re not paying attention?
@@svgkaos7826 I've had one badge drop from campfire tales in 4 years, doing about 70+ Campfire events over the 4 years.
Before that I was getting 4 badges from there every month till they nerfed it in 2020
I've gotten more bug parts from super mutant gore piles than I have from actual living insects. I have yet to receive a single Possum badge from the daily challenges.
4 out of my 5 are from campfire tales lmao I just server hop until I get the event I want
Really great guide 👍 I recently went thru these challenge's again on a alt and the only difference was I got lucky and found the camera early on and did the Mammalogist photo taking one instead of the Athlete/obstacle course. Joining public teams is a awesome tip to get around the map!!
Yeah, the photo challenges aren't difficult if it wasn't for the need to get a camera.
@SequentialGamerFallout you can place a terminal in your camp, and u can search for it. I forgot the option, but it will place the yellow circle for you where the person holding the camera is. Sorry for not remembering the option, but that's a easy sure way of finding the camera earlier.
DONT CHASE +120 backpack. Get this basic +60 from main scout missions and then buy CHEM plan from Minerva. Its 260 bullion and you will get -90% weight on all chems. That is worth a lot more than additional +60 carry + you will save 3 strenght perk points to use on something else.
Ran the quest a few days ago and now I'm trying to get the double capacity mod. I hadn't thought about Campfire Tales being part of that!
Good luck, may RNGsus be with ye!
i have done these quests 13 times now, in my experience if you have a single friend in the game or just find a nice high level player who understands what you're trying to get just doing stings and things, operation tidy, swimmer, athlete and archer are in my experience the fastest, my best time to date on getting the big backpack is like 150 minutes.
You can also get possum badges from campfire tales
Just a tip from someone who made the crossbow mistake😅, don't use an improved repair kit to fix😅😅 takes forever, i did out of habit..
I did this exact thing and it took so long to get it in need of repair I went and found a new crossbow 🤣🤣
Correct me if I’m wrong but I play solo and I’m 99% positive I did the player revives on myself using the mysterious savior card. Hope this helps.
That sounds like a nice little tip. I've never used the mysterious saviour but that could work.
thanks a lot.. I was getting crazy with those challengers
I'm level 178 and I still use the standard backpack.
I'm level 232 and still use the standard as well.😂😂😂
@JediZomB Those badge missions are just so unappealing to play.
@boswelldoddler5235 oh I'm not doing it, I've gone this far with what I have.
I use std backpack with grocers mod. Carry weight isn't everything
Wow...
6/8 for that big backpack just from doing dailies. I've been kinda putting off really focusing on actually doing any of the actual challenges to get any. Gotten the rare campfire tale reward one as well too.
After stalking multiple low levels i finally got it!
Congrats!
I did stings and things and operation tidy daily for a week and got 5 possum badges in that 1 week. If you just start doing those 2 dailies i guarantee you'll have the backpack mod in 2 weeks or less. They have a "small" chance at giving a possum badge on completion and i swear it feels like a good 25% chance or so.
If you get the backpack plus the right 3 star legendary mods on your armor pieces, you can be walking out with tooons of food and aid items and still have plenty of carry weight left for rando stuff
Yup, I usually have a capacity of 590+. But I'm still overencumbered after every event LOL.
@@SequentialGamerFallout weird how it piles on every time
I really enjoyed getting the backpack! I'm almosy lvl 100 finally and it'd already a MASSIVE boon, now I just need to get the carry weight mod from the scout vending machine to make it +120 carry weight instead of the base 60 😅🙏💛
I followed another guide originally but they didn't continue at the end like you do!!!! Thank you for showing how to get badges and the other mods from the factions!!!! 💛💛💛💛💛
@@NyxSunspot You're welcome! Enjoy the extra loot
Fun fact with the crossbow and getting kills. Throw a grenade at a group of enemies than vats your grenade than shoot with your crossbow…grenade does more damage than your crossbow and any kills you get should count as crossbow kills. This worked for me and made the slog of crossbow kills much easier.
i went to a lot of places with radroaches since they are a 1 shot deal
The best way to be holding a crap weapon and kill something is the Pile of Mines trick.
Sneak up, set 22 plasma mines on the same spot, poke the target with your terrible weapon to make it angry at you, and watch it charge directly over your pile of boom and due in bloody chunks.
I used this on Swan in FO4 and it worked pretty well. Took me a few piles of mines, but he dutifully charged right over them.
Kill enemies with X weapon (and 22 mines). Hey, if it works LOL
Never realized you got badges from those two events. Thanks for the info. Great content.
Cheers, glad that helped you!
Just FYI, I'm noting that people are saying that they're not getting as many as they might expect so it could be that the devs silently reduced the drop rate. It still happens though.
"F*ck Scout Badges"
2 minutes later
"You need 3 scout badges or this doesn't work"
How are you supposed to f*ck scout badges if you haven't got any?? LOL
@@SequentialGamerFallout touche.
I always rush getting the standard backpack and mod it with chemist so I can free up space in strength for more heavy weapons perks.
seeing this two days after doing the tadpole challenges and getting my big backpack.
Hey, the important thing is to get the your backpack and you've got that.
I permanently roleplay as a pioneer scout.
Clean the toxic waste has 4 locations you can get. The town right beside the npc. The other town south of the lake. Hemlock holes golf course and finally the lake itself.
Tadpole badges. There are only 9 badges required to buy all the tadpole items. Hat and suit and the plans for tadpole stuff. There are 10 tadpole challenges so dont be wasting too much time as a tadpole. The challenges for badges can seem tough but they arent so bad. So maybe only stay as a tadpole until you collect just a few extra badges so you dont have to complete all the challenges.
Once you are possum scout you will need to grind for badges if you want all the possum stuff. Do all the challenges doesnt get you far for possum stuff. Maybe run high luck build to get badges easier from the dailies and event if that even works.
The challenges overall are fun and will kind of take you everywhere. Do these alongside the other camera challenges like taking pics in zones or the tourist camera quest to double up on getting things done.
Im 700 hours in and still dont have all the possum stuff unlocked so be ready to grind.
Ever Upwards campers!
Ever upwards baby!
You too can obtain a big backpack using these 347 simple steps!
I’m just kidding, it’s a very clear and well made guide but I see why people might be tempted to pay for storage space
23 minutes to explain how to get a backpack "easily"
I also struggle in the face of adversity
Do you find reading hard? It says the “easiest” not that it will be easy
@Nicsmithsa "fuck scout badges" proceeds to get scout badges. The whole video could be summarized to "you need to do the thing you don't want to do."
@@Nicsmithsaexactly. It's is the easiest way.
@@EnkelMiamido less of the thing you don't want to do. By the time you get the backpack you will exclaim "f**k scout badges!"
"Sprinting past enemies" the ghouls catch up to me while I have speed demon/squad maneuvers. It's mentally stunted on Bethesda's part to allow every single ghoul to be a cross country LEGEND
I've done that Campfire Tales hundreds of time and don't recall ever getting a Possum badge for it, although I know you are supposed to have a chance at getting one.
That sounds bizzare. I wodder if they silently changed the chances?
Its alot easier than many think just time consuming, the main ones that will hold you up are ones that require an item to be crafted.
With perks and stuff it's really not a safe bet speaking on someone else's experience, i mean do you find that ghouls take 15 headshots with a fkn shotgun before droppin.. cuz at level 115 that's what its become for someone like myself that hasn't focused much beyond carry reduction. and it's kinda shit.
@@CyPhaSaRin I don't use vats with shotguns so yea it probably does, could be perks to buff damage outside of vats just imo
made a new acct, came back to this video after hitting lvl 50. probably couldve did it sooner while leveling up but graveyard shift doesnt help your quick thinking
Scout quests are acutally a good way for new players to learn a lot about the game. I would recommend doing them. Also going the easy way will just end up in those quests sitting there uncompleted and bugging you while you have done everything else and you will do them anyways for completion.
Yeah, I have no problem with scout quests per se. It's more the fact that they gatekeep the backpack, which is one of the most important QoL upgrades you can get.
I would love more scout challenges, apparently there's uncompleted squirrel items in the game that never got released.
@@SequentialGamerFallout Gatekeep? It´s the same for everyone. And they aren´t that hard to do. At least that way not everything is just shoot a lot to get it.
Little trick you can infinitely do the athletic challenge early on to get lots of purified water caps grenades and xp.
Saw the challenges; groaned. Went to YT, found this to bypass it and get the badges, we are so back.
Nice! Good luck with the backpack!
Depending on have much chems u carry or collect to sell u end up getting more with chemist and the regular +60
Yeah, if you can't afford the perk points then that's the break even point. If you carry more than 60 food or chems then the gold mods start to be better than high capacity.
@@SequentialGamerFallout it's not about being able to afford the perk points, its so you open a spot for other perk cards.
@@capelech9032 Basically, use the chem bp mod so you can drop chem weight redux perk in strength and use those 3 perk points on damage mod for heavy weapon or shotgun, something like that. Yeah, there are some ways to shift things around that a lot of players aren't aware of.
@@Kevlin0069 ya then there's even armor that can effect all that haha
@@capelech9032 yep, i have a civ eng vest with reduction of food water and either junk or chems
If you have the Excavator Power Armor, you should be fine modding your backpack for chems or food instead of using up perk points.
Bro failed to mention crossbow is a level 45 item 😭😭😭 and here I was level 27 trying so hard to get a bigger backpack this way
10:06 you can also just go knock the skeleton off the target before the test to make it easier if you need to.
Hmm, never tried that, those are usually not moveable so I never bothered to try. Nice tip if it works.
For me the easiest I think is archer - athlete - mammalogist. I did codebreaker instead of archer before but it requires to have access to nukes which is annoying for mule characters.
there's also a radroach usually on the 2nd floor of the building by dolly sods
I've definitely got a possum badge from Tea Time before. It also has a 25% chance to give one as a reward.
Hmm, that's not supposed to be a scout activity so it shouldn't but if it does then so much the better!
@@SequentialGamerFallout I had three when I started the event. When it was finished I had four.
I got lucky and found someone selling the high capacity mod at their camp
Fastest way to get to the scout camp is to wait for the Swarm of suitors event (I was lucky and I got it to get there myself).
Ah yeah, that's very true. It literally takes place at the scout camp in the toxic valley.
I spent about an hour grinding a single badge then i got bored and looked this up. Its good to know
it's a huge help, even after watching videos on it it took me a week, i didn't focus hard on it, did the dolly sods area and then kinda moved onto grinding events and shit, but i think it would have taken me months had i not had this guide.
I'm level 175, most of the quests done, but I've completely ignored the scout quests, I find it annoying, so I still have a small backpack. But I'm using the Excavator armor to carry stuff, so I'll probably ignore these quests going forward.
Only change I made was to do codebreaking instead of hunter, but that is because I started it at like level 50, so I had lockpicking and hacking maxed.
Yeah, that's pretty easy if you have the perks.
Awesome vid thanks for the info
that is a great guide dude
Appreciate the kind words!
Thumbnail: F*** Scout Badges! 100% of the Video: You getting scout badges.
Yeah, and in the easiest possible way. You can do it the hard way if you want.
Almost a week of doing the dailies and still 0 possum badges. Yes I have the Standard (+60) backpack. Not sure if just really unlucky or I'm missing something else.
It definitely isn't a 25% drop rate as everyone seems to report. I've done both of the two dailies on eight days over the course of the last month since I started playing, and I haven't gotten a single badge from either. I also do Campfire Tales each time it pops up, and I've gotten nothing from it either. If it were a 25% drop rate, then I should have gotten four from the dailies alone, or at least one by now lol
@thelastlostcause4148 so funny enough, I just got my first badge off the goo clean up daily Makes it like 1 outta 15 ish if I count the camp events. 😅
I just got the scout badges I’ve had nothing but time over the years
3:18 mark: should be 'counts toward (or for) the objective', not 'counts against the objective'.
for clarity
thanks for the vid!
Thx so much for this guide.
Thanks and Good luck!
So I'm confused? This is the normal way to get it. What did you do special? I have it on two characters and this is the same way I've always done it.
I know I'm generally pretty unlucky, but I call bullshit on the 25% chance to get a badge from those two Dailies. My rate was probably closer to 10%. I ended up doing a combination of Possum challenges and picking up badges from the Dailies, and maybe one or two from Campfire Tales (always seems to pop up when I'm in the middle of something else) to get the High Capacity mod. Now I'm slowly working my way through all of the Possum and Tadpole badges just for my own sick completionist satisfaction.
Thank you. I need a better option
I'm a pioneer scout but for some reason i don't get the daily quest you were talking about they never pop up
You do have to speak to the robots to start them and you may have to manually click on them in the quest list to have them show up in the UI.
Nice vid man! Can I ask if you've changed your FOV settings, as your setup is displaying nicely - unlike the "scope takes up the entire screen" usual Beth Ui lol
So regarding that roach in the locked closet? No roof. So if you, say, have a power armor with jetpack, which you can get reasonably easy, just check the boxes and suitcases around watoga after queen fights, and someone who's gotten a hundred of the things will drop a plan. Or just get someone to make you one. Also, you should be able to jump right over with marsupial.
Yeah, marsupial or a jetpack should be good enough. I didn't have it when I was getting the backpack but I think that works.
@@SequentialGamerFallout went and pulled off my jetpack torso, no problem.
I love these guides for how to do things as fast as possible because I am always looking for ways to play the game less
We can allways run Traveling Farmacy and Thru Hiker, and then we can use the high capacity mod after completing lots of tadpole challenges. But that steals space to other perks, Im happy with the normal tadpole backpack with the chemist mod and only run Thru Hiker. Or I could run grocers mod and Traveling Farmacy. Either way, One of those mods and one of those perk cards is all you need...
He walked into his own nade😂😂
The gameplay commentary is funny lmao
:D
So basically just do the quest for it gottcha 😂
I use large backpack with chemist mod works just as good and I carry so much chems to sell
How did you do that?
I completed 3 tadpole and 8 possum challenges and actually had fun. You explore a lot of stuff in the game while doing so. It felt like I was getting 100% achievements in some openworld exploration game after completed story. But I can see that a lot of people will see it as a slog
Yeah, they're not bad in themselves. It's more of a question of having the backpack and the high capacity mod behind them. I wish there were more with the scout theme in the new update, just not gatekeeping essential items.
@@SequentialGamerFallout I agree with that. 120 carry capacity is too good to be hidden behind such challenges
I love my Acheivos!!
Lol ive been using the crocodile backpack the whole time. Pushing lvl 300
For summary go to Get Badges time stamp 😊 21:06. Still helpful stuff in video!
I cant even figure out what im supposed to do to accomplish the pioneer tasks. Its not like it shows up maps or anything.
Yeah, you do have to think about them a bit more. They're not super-difficult, but you do have to plan and look up things to find where you can find things what the challenges require.
That's why I recommend doing the events and daily quests to get pioneer badges.
6:27 That's a reference to Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, a children's show from the mid to late 20th century.
Also you didn't say which daily quest "Helpfulness" is. I have 15 active ones currently.
UPDATE: I did them all and none of them had anything to do with gathering any sort of refuse. (well, all except that broken Miss Nanny one). Had to google "toxic mutagenic waste daily" and found the daily is called Operation Tidy.
Pita = small backpack is fine, don’t be the fat mouse in Cinderella
I think the hardest one to pull off is arriving somebody while in water
nice video dude!! and new subscriber ❤
Cheers!
Great Video!
Cheers!
Maniacs... Maniacs never change. OR Maniacs gonna maniac.
Yup, Vault 76's .. Vault 76's never change.
already finding the "repair crossbow" is quite obnoxious since I cant craft one without it spawning 200% durability and wont let you repair without it being under 100%. Yeah this takes forever.....
The best solution to that is to buy one, pretty cheap, or pick up the one from the world. They usually come as less than 100% condition.
The hacker badge is also easy to get if you launch nukes. Also, the entomologist badge is easy.
I hope they add Squirrel challenges in the Shenandoah Valley.
From what I've seen there's no indication of that but that's a pretty neat idea.
@@SequentialGamerFallout no, but they're going full on with the scouts in the next season, so I wouldn't be surprised to find it on the horizon. It would also be an interesting way of adding some of the post season rewards rather than being Stamps or Bullion.
I do the daily challenges since 3 weeks now, and only have 5 possum badges.
The game is so unfair....
Based on other comments like yours, I'm getting the feeling that they may have adjusted the drop rate without announcing it.
im bloodie commando and kinda like to carry lot things in my back, 120 isnt enough..lol, i only have trick to get possum badge who really pain in ass for their badge, do daily boy scout everywhere dan do event mirelurk switor...in one week i got the mod for backpack
Got mine in three days after they were first added.
25% to get a possum badge.... dose that activate after you finish the tadpole quest ? I've never looted a badge from the event, but I just did the quest 2 days ago ?
Yeah, if you get the badge it'll show up as part of the rewards when you complete the dailies or the events.
And yes, before you become a possum only Operation Tidy (the nuclear clean up quest) gives you badges .. but only tadpole badges.
After you become a possum you'll start to get possum badges from the dailies and events I talked about.
@@SequentialGamerFallout thank you . I was about to waste 35k on the plan from a guy u found . Now I will just wait till I get 8 badges from events and quests 😂
@@MrStoqn4o It might still be faster to drop that 35k on the plan. RNG is RNG, after all, and you can count on the 1400 daily cap limit on vendors as well as always being able to find things laying on the ground that you can sell. 35k is pretty steep for this, but I'm guessing the seller is counting on someone out there being very desperate to stop being encumbered all the time, while also thinking about how much of a PITA it was for them to get the 8 badges just to sell the plan.
@Kevlin0069 nah i have a lot of rare plans to sell so caps are never an issue but now that I know they drop from the daily quests and event there is no way I'm paying that much 😂 I already have 2 badges so 6 more .
I thought the scout backpack was only +60
The backpack itself gives you 60, but if you apply the high-capacity mod that increases it by another 60 to a total of 120. But some people prefer the chemists or other mods you get for gold, so think on what you want first.
This is kinda hard i tried but im not sure if the game is glitching out, hard to do all this but ill try again
Which part?
@@SequentialGamerFallout not sure I get stuck at the cabin robot not sure right now like I said I kinda gave up on it did the tests on the computer too I think I passed them, I don't have badges or anything you can add me if you want my name is the same here as in-game I'm on pc version