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Hi! I know we usually post new Inside the Vaults on Thursdays, but this one is coming tomorrow. Sorry for the extra wait!

Sent you and /u/clarke_bobby PMs requesting more details! Thanks for the reports.

Hi /u/Jack_Cassis, sent you a PM asking for more information!

Thank you for the report! This one was intended to be included in this patch, and we're looking into why it doesn't seem to have made it into the game today.

Enter Build mode in your CAMP, and then switch to Modify mode. Next, highlight the container attached to your Santatron Station, and then choose the "Lock" option to select what level of lock you want to add. You'll need to use a few crafting materials to create the lock. Hope that helps!

Great to hear! During maintenance today, we increased the chances that Santatron will find Holiday Gifts during the Holiday Scorched event. So through the end of the month, you should get at least 1 gift per hour on average, if not more. It's still possible to have a bad string of luck, but Santatron should be much more generous overall now.

The Gift Wraps are crafting materials that will be added to the MISC tab in your Pip-Boy. Gift Wrap is required to make a Handmade Holiday Gift using the "GIFTS" section in the Tinker's bench. Based on the ones I made you'll also need a little adhesive.

You can open it yourself (which I definitely did not do...) or give it to someone else!

Yep! Holiday Scorched should now start appearing. Also, the presents they drop will be called Small, Medium, or Large Holiday Gift, and they will appear in the Aid section of your Pip-Boy once you loot them.

Yes in addition to replacing the difficult/confusing dailies and weeklies with simpler more direct Challenges, we're also working on bug fixes for others like Kill tough enemies, collect magazines, etc.

If you find bugs with dailies, weeklies, or longer term challenges in the new year, please continue to report them to us and we'll investigate for fixes. Thank you!

We're fixing bugs with some of our existing permanent challenges, like Kill Huge Creatures, and others. We're also removing dailies and weeklies that were difficult or confusing, and replacing them with simpler ones.

We are not changing the amounts of Atoms that these challenges award or the amount of dailies/weeklies you normally get. They are worth the same amount but should be easier to complete.

I think the wording on that section of the patch notes needs to be adjusted to be a little clearer. Sorry about that!

Glad you're happy about this, and we hope our changes will help Challenges feel a bit better going forward. Some specific ones that I know we are removing are "Take a Picture of Grahm in a Workshop" and "Take a picture of someone in a Nuke Zone while naked", and others like that.

I want to just double down on the note that these changes won't be reflected until the start of 2020, so you may see them pop up still for the next couple of weeks. If you continue to run into Challenges after that which are too hard to complete or are confusing, please let us know!

If you have unlocked both a Santatron and a Scavenger Collectron, you'll be able to have one at a time in your C.A.M.P.

But because you own them both, you can switch your Santatron to hunt for the things the Scavenger bot normally finds, or vice versa.

Thank you for the continued reports on the Strangler Heart issue. I know this is one that many of you are eager to have fixed right away. We are looking into ways we can address it as soon as we can. However, this is not a simple or fast fix, and it may not arrive until Wastelanders or a patch following that one. Once I hear an update on the status of this bug I'll be sure to let you know.

We're looking into a couple of bugs affecting Fast Travel for a future update. I've encountered the one with the countdown timer mentioned by OP and agree it's definitely frustrating! I've passed reports of this to the dev team, and as soon as I hear an update I will let you know.

Hello! We're investigating bugs affecting Fast Travel right now. One of them, which can prevent you from Fast Traveling to your CAMP (or other players' CAMPS) is planned to be fixed with the upcoming Wastelanders update. There are a couple others fixes being looked into as well, but I don't have additional details to share on those right now. Will let you know as soon as I hear an update.

I commented on this here, but wanted to drop by this thread to let you know that we're hearing your feedback on this. Please keep it coming!

Hi everyone! We're hearing your feedback on Nuclear Winter maps, and we know that being able to play on both Flatwoods and Morgantown is important to many of you. While I don't have many details to share on this right now, we are definitely planning to give you increased opportunities to play on both maps in the future. Keep an eye out for more info on this in a future update!

Thank you for the feedback on this. We've been discussing some of the thoughts that you all shared in this thread. We agree that the timing on some of these rewards could have been better, which would have given you more opportunity to rock them both leading up to and on Halloween.

We have some improvements in the works for these types of challenges and rewards, and we're looking to roll out a more refined version of the system the next time we have a Nuclear Winter event like this. We'll have more details to share on that as we get closer to the next event. Thanks again!

Thank you for your report about this! We've looked into it and found that some of these reward plan names are incorrect in languages other than English and we are investigating a fix for a future update.

The Whitespring is being prepared for Mischief Night as we speak and you should see spooky Halloween decor now. The Mischief Night event itself will start about 35 minutes from this comment and then every hour after that (as OP mentioned in another comment).