Fallout 76: Gleaming Depths Raid Guide

Raids are the newest game mode introduced to Fallout 76 with the Gleaming Depths update. Raids are by far the most difficult thing a player can do in the game. Even if you are part of a team, completing a raid is quite a challenge. This mode is geared toward teams of high-level players who are well armed and well protected.

With it being such a difficult series of missions to complete, the rewards are top tier. Not only do players get a hefty amount of XP, Scrip, and other standard items, but they’ll also receive some new and unique rewards. This guide will go through all there is to know about completing raids in Fallout 76.

How To Start A Raid In Fallout 76

Unlike other missions such as Daily Ops and Expeditions, there isn’t a special menu for completing raids. To start a raid, you’ll need to make your way to Gleaming Depths. Thankfully, this location is easy to reach. Open up your map and scroll toward the bottom. It’s hard to miss because it has its own unique triangle icon with a skull on it. Once you are there, simply head inside to start a raid.

While you can go straight in, it’s best to go in as part of a team. There is a new team option that is dedicated to raids. If it’s your first raid, then it’s best to join someone else’s team instead of leading one yourself. Raids are incredibly challenging. If you repeatedly die and have to start over again and again, then some of your teammates might leave and join another team. To prevent this from happening, it’s best to participate as a party member rather than a team leader until you feel confident enough to lead a group through a raid.

How To Complete A Raid In Fallout 76

Once you’ve entered Gleaming Depths, the raid will automatically begin. Nothing will happen straight away, as you’ll need to make your way to the first area. Completing the raid from start to finish involves you completing five stages. Each stage is designed to get progressively more challenging. If you die during a raid segment, unless your teammates can finish it without you, that part of the mission will fail, and you’ll need to try again. To help boost the odds of successfully completing a raid, be sure to bring plenty of bullets, and lots of Stimpaks, and use your best weapons and armor set. Each of the five sections you will need to complete has been broken down below.

Stage 1 – Defeat The EN06 Guardian

Once the team leader/you have pressed the red button in the first open chamber, the EN06 Guardian will activate. This is a tanky robot turret with plenty of health and incredibly powerful attacks. Players who don’t have lots of damage resistance will die pretty quickly. To increase your odds against this enemy, do whatever you can to boost your damage resistance. Ideally, a full set of quality Power Armor with good legendary effects is what you should wear.

Defeating the EN06 Guardian isn’t easy. The center of the room will periodically fill with a blue electric water source that will cause extra damage to the player. It’s best to stay behind the pillars and use them for cover. However, the EN06 Guardian can damage the pillars, and some of its explosive damage can still get to you while you are in cover.

You can’t use melee attacks against the EN06 Guardian, so you’ll need to use a ranged weapon. To take out the Guardian, you’ll need to first destroy its shield generator. This is attached to its back. Once you have destroyed that, the EN06 Guardian will be vulnerable to attack for a limited time. After a while, the room itself will become engulfed in flames. Thankfully, one of the three blast doors will open. Once a blast door opens, head to it. From here, fire at the EN06 Guardian.

Try to damage the robot as much as possible. Make sure that you are on the outside of the door to prevent being stuck inside when the door closes and the interior room is engulfed in flames. After this, repeat the process until the EN06 Guardian has been destroyed. It’s important to note that each of the three blast doors will only open once, so you’ll only be able to destroy its shield and attack it three times before the mission fails.

Stage 2 – Fill And Defend The Drill

The next stage isn’t as reliant on damage output as the first entry. This stage is all about speed and protection. You’ll need to defend the drill from an endless onslaught of Mole Miners. While you are doing this, you’ll also need to find fuel canisters and fill the drill up with fuel. However, things aren’t that simple. The room that contains the drill is a ‘safe room.’ While Mole Miners will enter this room to attempt to destroy the drill, Ultragenetic Mole Miners can’t gain access.

Ultragenetic Mole Miners can’t be killed. Not only that, but they can kill you in just a single hit.

• These special Mole Miners patrol the hallways around the drill room.
• These hallways are where the fuel is located.
• The fuel is spread across a fairly large area.
• Each player can only carry one fuel canister at a time.

To complete this, the team should split up. A couple of players should stay in the drill room, fending off the Mole Miners, and the remaining two players should make runs and leave the ‘safe room’ to search for fuel canisters. Just be sure to avoid getting hit by Ultragenetic Mole Miners, as they will hunt you down as soon as you leave the ‘safe zone.’

As time goes on, the Mole Miners that can enter the ‘safe room’ will get more powerful. So, this mission is all about speed. Filling the drill requires you and your team to deliver a total of 15 fuel canisters. Once the drill has been fully fueled, provided it hasn’t been destroyed, you’ll get some rewards and move on to the next stage.

Stage 3 – Defeat Enclave Squad Epsilon

Stage three involves you and your team taking on Enclave Squad Epsilon. This squad is made up of three powerful super soldiers. Each one is equipped with a different type of weapon:

• Bloodhound has a laser chainsaw
• Lynx uses a Cryogenic Grenade Launcher
• Vulture uses a Gauss Rifle

They are all incredibly powerful, and they have lots of health. Unfortunately, you can’t deal any damage to Enclave Squad Epsilon until you have destroyed each of their Ultragenetic Shield Generators. There is a generator located in a room behind each of the soldier’s pods. Once you have taken down the generators, Bloodhound, Lynx, and Vulture become vulnerable.

However, to throw even more mayhem into the mission, repairing Eyebots will start spawning. These robots will try to repair the generators. Be sure to keep an eye out for these, and take them out immediately — they can repair a generator incredibly quickly.

The order in which you take down the soldiers doesn’t matter in terms of completing the mission. However, many players try to take down Lynx first. This is because Lynx’s slow-down effect makes players very vulnerable. Once he’s out of the way, the rest of the mission becomes slightly easier. Simply kill the remaining two soldiers to move on to the next stage.

Stage 4 – Survive The Ultragenetic Horde

Stage four takes you and your team into a room filled with green crystals. You’ll be tasked with lifting the security lockdown. To accomplish this, you’ll need to take down an Ultragenetic Horde. One Ultragenetic Mole Miner will spawn. Similar to the second stage, this Mole Miner can’t be damaged by the player’s weapon. The only way to damage the Mole Miner is by shooting the green crystals. The explosion released from the crystals will hurt the Mole Miner. It will also release a poisonous gas cloud that harms the player, so don’t get too close.

Not only does an Ultragenetic Mole Miner spawn, but lots of other Ultragentic enemies spawn too. These other enemies can’t kill the player in one shot like the Mole Miner can. However, like the Mole Miner, you can only kill them by exploding the crystals when they are nearby. There are only so many crystals in the area, so use them wisely. Try to get a large group of enemies to get close to a crystal before you shoot it. If you run out of crystals, you won’t be able to complete this stage.

All of the crystals on the ground are similar in size. However, there are two very large crystals suspended above the ground. These deliver a much more powerful punch to all nearby enemies. Try to use it only when needed. It’s not worth wasting a large crystal on just one or two enemies.

Stage 5 – Kill The Ultracite Terror

The final stage is the simplest stage. However, it’s also incredibly difficult. You and your team will need to kill the Ultracite Terror. This enormous snake-like creature is strong, fast, and hard-hitting.

It does have two weak points that you can target for extra damage; its head and eyes. Its eyes are by far the most effective part to hit. There aren’t any places to hide, so you and your team will need to work fast to kill the Ultracite Terror before it kills you. You and your team will be trapped on a small island, surrounded by a toxic lake that will kill you instantly if you accidentally touch it. So, stay on the island.

The Ultracite Terror will periodically spit out and spray toxic goo. This is very deadly. Try to avoid this goo. If you can’t avoid it, keep applying Stimpaks until you can get out of the way.

It also has a sonic screech attack that can stagger you. Combine that with its head-bashing melee attack, and you will quickly see why this is the final boss. Once you and your team have taken a decent chunk of the Ultracite Terror’s health, its tail will pop up. Once its tail comes out, you’ll need to destroy it fast. The tail smashes the island and reduces its size. Shoot the tail non-stop until its health bar has been depleted.

After the tail is down, you can get back to shooting the Ultracite Terror. Unfortunately, the Ultracite Terror has more than one tail. So, you’ll need to keep an eye out for its tails and destroy them as fast as possible, all while trying to take down the body and head of the Ultracite Terror. Once you have done all of this, you’ll receive your main rewards for completing the raid.

Rewards For Completing Raids

Completing a raid will give you some pretty decent rewards. While the rewards will vary, there are lots of great items that you can obtain. You will get the standard reward items such as meds, junk, Scrip, Caps, and ammo. Each stage that you complete gives you a chance to receive a 4-star legendary item/mod, one of the new plans, and more.

You will also get a plan to craft a trophy for each section of the raid that you complete. You will only get this plan once. After you have learned the plan, you won’t get it again.

Out of the various plans you can receive for completing sections of a raid, the new Vulcan Power Armor parts are among the most sought-after. There are also new weapons, skins, backpack mods, and more. Earning every possible reward from the new raid mode will take a lot of grinding.