What we know about Fallout 76

At the E3 press conference, Bethesda finally showed off some big information about Fallout 76, the next game in the Fallout series that the publisher has been shipping since May. These include the release date, the game genre, and some details about the game world and what players can do in it.

Release date

At E3, Bethesda announced the official release date of November 14, 2018. However, it is interesting that there will be a beta version for Fallout 76, available to those who pre-order the game. The beta start date is currently unknown.

Fallout 76 is an online multiplayer survival game

As was previously rumored, Fallout 76 is an online multiplayer survival game following the trend of DayZ or Rust. This is a big change from the traditional singleplayer nature of the series, although Bethesda insists that Fallout 76 will still have the same story and missions as previous singleplayer RPG games.

Unlike other online survival games, your game world has only a handful of players, not thousands per server, but only a few dozen. And based on the vast map of Fallout 76, chances are you won’t be afraid to run into other players anytime, anywhere. When you die, your progress won’t be lost either.

“It’s not in the MMO or battle royale genre,” says Bethesda’s Pete Hines. “It feels like you just left the bunker.”

The title will include base-building systems similar to Fallout 4’s building and defense features. These bases, as seen in the gameplay trailer, can be attacked and destroyed. by the enemy. According to Todd Howard of Bethesda, you can build your settlement anywhere on the map you want, and you can also move it elsewhere.

Bethesda intends to support mods, but not when the game is released

Mods have always been a big element of RPG games from Bethesda, delivering tons of new content, tweaks, patches, and hundreds of hours of fresh gameplay through user-generated content. But the fact that this game is only playable online has made people wonder if the game can be modded or not.

“We love mods, and we’re 100% committed to doing so in Fallout 76,” Todd Howard told Geoff Keighley at E3. “We won’t be able to do that when the game is first released, though. Our goal at the time was to have a good, powerful, and smooth service, we’re still in the design process of what that should look like, and some time after that, you’ll have There can be a whole world of its own that you can mod it however you like.”

This statement isn’t very clear, and it sounds like Bethesda still doesn’t know exactly how mod content will work. But other online survival games like Ark: Survial Evolved and Rust both have mod support, so there’s definitely a way to make mods work online without affecting the game. It’s just that there isn’t a way yet.

Background of Fallout 76

Fallout 76 will take place in West Virginia. It is also the prequel to all other Fallout games: the protagonist is one of the first inhabitants to leave the vault and explore the world in 2102.

Based on computer logs found in Fallout 3 and mentioned by a radio announcer early in the game Fallout 4, Vault 76 (Vault 76) is one of 17 “controllable” vaults, designed to hold 500 inhabitants. and is scheduled to open automatically 20 years after the war. By forcing people to return to the outside world, their success or failure can be studied and compared with other vaults that are still locked.

Players can still play solo, but not fully PvP

For singleplayer gamers, the biggest concern may be: Will we be able to play Fallout 76 alone? And according to Bethesda, yes.

“Of course you can play solo,” says Todd Howard. “You can do whatever you want, explore an open world while on quests, experience the story and level up.”

However, based on the gameplay, it is hard to believe that you can survive in this world on your own. Fighting not only mutants, monsters, and robots, but also other players, sounds like quite a bit of a challenge. However, as we’ve seen in other survival games, it’s likely that dedicated servers will be used to support PvE-only environments, not just PvP. We hope to hear more about this in the future.

There are no NPCs

The only people you meet in Fallout 76 are other players, and even though there are quests from Fallout 4, they won’t come from NPCs, as there are no NPCs in the game.

“One of the big differentiators we base it on is that every human being, every character you see in the game is going to be a real person,” Howard said. “But there will still be robots, terminals and holotape.”

The map is 4 times larger than Fallout 4

Fallout 76 boasts an incredibly large world, four times the size of Fallout 4, says Bethesda. This world is also built with new technology. “We always start with the game world first, and this time it’s built with new landscape and light imaging technology,” Todd Howard said at E3.

The world of Fallout 76 will consist of 6 different large regions, each with its own distinct flora and fauna.

Types of Enemies in Fallout 76

Some of the enemies you’ll encounter are based on the myths of West Virginia, such as Wendigo (pictured) and Mothman, with it flapping its giant wings in the trailer.

You can launch nuclear weapons to wipe out entire areas on the map

What’s a couple of nukes between neighbors? pic.twitter.com/tltGmYMkkL

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The land of West Virginia in Fallout 76 is not only home to mutants and monsters (and players), but also rocket launchers. A video at Bethesda’s E3 press conference describes how players can earn rocket launch codes. They are scattered all over the world, and by defeating the enemies you can get a piece of code.

When combined with the rest of the same code (which you may need to cooperate with other players to get), it will be combined into a complete set of codes and can be used to launch arrows. fire. It seems that you can launch rockets at any target on the map, create an explosion, giant mushroom-shaped smoke and completely destroy the area. If you want to reduce wiping other players’ bases to dust like Megaton in Fallout 3, you absolutely can, then go in and loot.

At present we do not know how long the effect of this nuclear weapon will last. But you certainly don’t want to be in the middle of an explosion.

Fallout 76 gameplay at E3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPlpOIfFbWI

Todd Howard from Bethesda took to the stage to explain how Fallout 76 will work, why they want to make it a multiplayer game, and more. Here, you can see the longest Fallout 76 gameplay video to date, and admire the sharper graphics technology applied to the game.

Fallout 76 will have a VAT feature

VAT, the Fallout series’ aiming method will return in Fallout 76, but it won’t be the same. Now you will have to use it in real time. “It won’t slow down time anymore,” Todd Howard said. “But it will still allow you to aim and select parts to shoot just like before, but this time in real time. It still works great.”

This game is based on abandoned plans for Fallout 4 multiplayer

“Fallout 76 is the multiplayer design from Fallout4,” Todd Howard said in a documentary about the game’s creation. “While developing Fallout 4, Bethesda wondered, “Hey! Should we do multiplayer? ‘Probably not.’ How will it be? ‘OK, it will look like this.’ Let’s discuss it already. ‘OK, it looks pretty cool.’

Although the multiplayer element ultimately didn’t appear in Fallout 4, Bethesda still nurtured this idea, which it originated in 2013. In the end, they decided to make a game of their own around the idea of ​​playing online games with aided by Battlecry Studios, a subsidiary of Bethesda’s parent company, Zenimax (Battlecry was recently changed to Bethesda Game Studios Austin).

Source: PC Gamer