“You majored in aggressive cauterization”
Friendly Fire is a Charisma-based perk in Fallout 76.
Effects[]
Striking teammates and friendly NPCs with fire-based weapons (excluding Molotovs) will restore a portion of their maximum HP.
Ranks[]
| Effects | ||
|---|---|---|
| Rank | Description | Form ID |
| 1 | Teammates hit by your flame weapons regenerate health briefly (no Molotovs). | 003E956A |
| 2 | Teammates hit by your flame weapons regenerate more health briefly (no Molotovs). | 0051ABC2 |
| 3 | Teammates hit by your flame weapons regenerate even more health briefly (no Molotovs). | 0051ABC4 |
Interactions[]
- Healing
- Rank 1: 4% HP for 2 seconds (8% HP total)
- Rank 2: 8% HP for 2 seconds (16% HP total)
- Rank 3: 12% HP for 2 seconds (24% HP total)
- Behavior
- Attacking allied teammates with fire damage via melee or ranged attacks will activate the heal effect.
- Allied NPCs and players outside of a team can also receive the effect.
- Affected weapons
Friendly Fire only activates for equipped melee and ranged weapons with the WeaponTypeFireDamage keyword:[1]
- Perfect Storm
- Flamer
- Shishkebab
- Baseball bat with heated coil, heated rocket, or searing rocket mods.
- Bow and compound bow with flaming arrow mod.
- Chainsaw with flamer mod.
- Crossbow with flaming frame mod.
- Crusader pistol with pyro receiver mod.
- Enclave plasma guns with a gamma wave emitter, refined beta wave tuner or severe beta wave tuner mod.
- Hellstorm missile launcher with napalm payload mod.
- Laser guns with gamma or beta wave tuner mods.
- Paddle ball with fire ball mod.
- Pitchfork with flamer or barbed flaming mods.
- Plasma cutter and war glaive with flaming blade mod.
- Plasma guns with a gamma wave emitter, refined beta wave tuner or calibrated beta wave tuner mod.
- Power fist and super sledge with heating coil mod.
- Sheepsquatch club and staff with burning or burning barbed mods.
- Sledgehammer with heavy searing sharp rocket mod.
- Ultracite laser guns with gamma or beta wave tuner mods.
Notes[]
- The heal effect can also restore limb condition.[verified]
- Per the perk's description, thrown explosives, such as floater flamer grenades or Molotovs, are not intended to activate the heal effect.
- As of update 33, turrets that are owned by NPCs can no longer be healed by Friendly Fire.
Behind the scenes[]
Prior to update 25, Friendly Fire could only be activated by swinging a shishkebab or bashing with a flamer.
Bugs[]
Friendly Fire is supposed to have a HUD notification Vault Boy popup, but it is flagged to be hidden.[verified]
The Hellstorm missile launcher with napalm payload mod will not activate the effect, despite dealing fire damage.[patched]
- Fixed in update 33.
- Molotov cocktails are currently the only weapon which may apply the heal effect to NPCs. The thrown item must strike them prior to exploding; the fire hazard or explosion will not proc the effect.[patched]
- The friendly brahmin in Free Range were not affected by this perk.[patched]