Fallout 76 - online Fallout spinoff from Bethesda - now on Steam with Wastelanders NPC expansion

[Squid]

Anyone mention the board game in the trailer yet? It was a board game box that was more visible than the others that says something like up to 5 players. Could be something.

 

[Cael]

cautious optimism from the fans

Who said consoletards can't learn?

 

[Kyl Von Kull]

Setting it 25 years after the bombs is the one thing about this that makes sense. It’s been very clear that Bethesda wanted to make a game set right on the heels of the war since they stole the franchise. Much of Fallout 3’s plot and setting would be (more) logical if it were only taking place a generation after the bombs dropped. I’m sure they’lol retcon a ton of shit, but this might be the first BGS Fallout where the setting isn’t totally retarded.

Now if only Bethesda had the desire or ability to make RPGs or even just write a compelling narrative.

 

[Blaine]

I heard Country Road from 3 different sources yesterday: once from Bethesda to warn of the coming decline, once from the supermarket to rub it in my face, then later in the evening on a commercial. I haven't heard the song in forever then it appears 3 times in a single day. Todd Howard is the antichrist.

Yeah, that shit happens to me all the fucking time.

A month or so ago, it happened with Big Mouth Billy Bass, which was a joke gift that was popular for about a year around the turn of the century. I first saw it while re-watching The Sopranos, then I saw it mentioned or depicted online in an unrelated context, and then I saw it a third time right here on the Codex, all within the span of less than a week.

I am absolutely, positively, 100%, completely and totally sure I hadn't thought about Big Mouth Billy Bass for years until that week.

 

[Drax]

I heard Country Road from 3 different sources yesterday: once from Bethesda to warn of the coming decline, once from the supermarket to rub it in my face, then later in the evening on a commercial. I haven't heard the song in forever then it appears 3 times in a single day. Todd Howard is the antichrist.

Yeah, that shit happens to me all the fucking time.

A month or so ago, it happened with Big Mouth Billy Bass, which was a joke gift that was popular for about a year around the turn of the century. I first saw it while re-watching The Sopranos, then I saw it mentioned or depicted online in an unrelated context, and then I saw it a third time right here on the Codex, all within the span of less than a week.

I am absolutely, positively, 100%, completely and totally sure I hadn't thought about Big Mouth Billy Bass for years until that week.

Fuck off you WITCH

I just saw that shit on a YT video or smth

 

[Dawkinsfan69]

*Follows 'story' of MC in vault 76, first vault to open after the war
*Focus is building settlements, co-op supported
*Hardcore/realism mode features 'needs' such as drinking water, sleeping, relaxing
*One method of relaxing is building a PC if you have the 'technical' perk
*Can purchase skyrim special edition in F76 PC and watch MC relax and play
*Mods not supported outside creation club

 

[Turjan]

I heard Country Road from 3 different sources yesterday: once from Bethesda to warn of the coming decline, once from the supermarket to rub it in my face, then later in the evening on a commercial. I haven't heard the song in forever then it appears 3 times in a single day. Todd Howard is the antichrist.

Yeah, that shit happens to me all the fucking time.

A month or so ago, it happened with Big Mouth Billy Bass, which was a joke gift that was popular for about a year around the turn of the century. I first saw it while re-watching The Sopranos, then I saw it mentioned or depicted online in an unrelated context, and then I saw it a third time right here on the Codex, all within the span of less than a week.

I am absolutely, positively, 100%, completely and totally sure I hadn't thought about Big Mouth Billy Bass for years until that week.

Fuck off you WITCH

I just saw that shit on a YT video or smth

I was looking for "Country Road" on YouTube on the day this teaser released because one of the just released Cities: Skylines DLC's is called "Country Road Radio", and the song stuck in my head anyway. It's in the air.

 

[unfairlight]

Setting it 25 years after the bombs is the one thing about this that makes sense. It’s been very clear that Bethesda wanted to make a game set right on the heels of the war since they stole the franchise. Much of Fallout 3’s plot and setting would be (more) logical if it were only taking place a generation after the bombs dropped. I’m sure they’lol retcon a ton of shit, but this might be the first BGS Fallout where the setting isn’t totally retarded.

To give Bethesda a bit of a break on how the world in FO3 is so destroyed, it would only make sense that the east coast would be far more bombed than the west coast for the most part, especially a place like Washington DC, although you would still expect it to be more rebuilt and Bethesda still didn't understand the concept of Fallout too well.

 

[Wunderbar]

Setting it 25 years after the bombs is the one thing about this that makes sense.

an RPG where you play as Vault's Overseer have a great potential.
You can feed people with soy food til they die from scurvy. You can put your kids on a payroll. You can sent some lone schmuck to get spare parts, and then banish him after he returns. Water chip engineer Eric hates his boss lead engineer Gonsales? You can fire Gonsales and promote Eric, or you can fire Eric, or you can pass a difficult speech check and keep both.

Nothing of this will be in the final game though.

 

[TT1]

 

[The Wall]

an RPG where you play as Vault's Overseer have a great potential.
You can feed people with soy food til they die from scurvy. You can put your kids on a payroll. You can sent some lone schmuck to get spare parts, and then banish him after he returns. Water chip engineer Eric hates his boss lead engineer Gonsales? You can fire Gonsales and promote Eric, or you can fire Eric, or you can pass a difficult speech check and keep both.

Nothing of this will be in the final game though.

All you need to experience this is to get a job at Obsidian vault or be born by a mother with last name Urquhart and she names you Feargus, me thinks...

 

[RNGsus]

The creation club only part is true to form.

 

[Moink]

Makes sense to only have Creation Club in an online game, since that way everyone has the needed mods downloaded.

 

[RNGsus]

Like horse armor.

 

[Moink]

CC sells pipboy skins for 99p each, horse armour is baby tier compared to it.

 

[The Wall]

Decline was conceived through rape of Inclinia and new Golden age of twisted, demonic popamole 'RPGs' was born

RAPE NEVER STOPS! 20 PAGES DEEP ALREADY AND STILL GOING HARD & STRONG!
NO END IN SIGHT!

Gutzex, whacha gonna do about it but find comfy place, watch and enjoy with anger on your face?
Whacha gonna do, go berserk and start search for Inclinia's lost mind in distant Realms Beyond?
Whacha gonna do, hmmm?

 

[Jarmaro]

There's nothing to write about until Bethesda E3 presentation, find something better to do than posting here.

 

[The Wall]

There's nothing to write about until Bethesda E3 presentation, find something better to do than posting here.

Yeah, the only meaningful posts when we officially know nothing how much it will suck and cuck Fallout legacy are shitposts.

 

[Quillon]

There's nothing to write about until Bethesda E3 presentation, find something better to do than posting here.

Let's do some research then, care to share some hot pornstar names?

 

[Citizen]

There's nothing to write about until Bethesda E3 presentation, find something better to do than posting here.

Let's do some research then, care to share some hot pornstar names?

How do you know if the name is hot or not?

 

[Quillon]

There's nothing to write about until Bethesda E3 presentation, find something better to do than posting here.

Let's do some research then, care to share some hot pornstar names?

How do you know if the name is hot or not?

Pornstars handpick their hot names.

 

[Citizen]

There's nothing to write about until Bethesda E3 presentation, find something better to do than posting here.

Let's do some research then, care to share some hot pornstar names?

How do you know if the name is hot or not?

Pornstars handpick their hot names.

Found a list of 'hottest girl names' on the first page of google search results, all of them sound like a porn star pseudonyms. Imagine having a name like this - every time someone mentions you, people would go 'Is that some porn star joke I'm missing?'. Still can't understand how can the name be hot, though.

 

[Xeon]

Kotaku's Jason Schreier posted on the Fallout subreddit.

Hi. I'm Jason Schreier, from Kotaku. I had forgotten how... passionate the Fallout community can get. After I reported on Fallout 4's existence in 2013, people here first spent two years calling me a liar, and then when it was confirmed, they just yelled at me for "spoiling the surprise." But hey, I'm also a big fan of the series, and in fact may or may not have just started replaying Fallout 4 on my PC in the wake of this week's news.

I've seen a lot of rage and confusion (and denial) on this subreddit so I just wanted to chime in to say a couple of things. One is that, after publishing my story, I heard from a few other sources (in addition to the three mentioned in the article) corroborating that Fallout 76 is an online game. If you're really still in denial, I guess you can wait until June 10, but hey, don't say I didn't tell you.

The second thing is that I'm very optimistic about this game. The buzz I'm hearing (both first- and second-hand) is that it's really cool, interesting, and just as story-focused as any other Bethesda Game Studios game. It might have multiplayer and base-building, but hey, it's still a Fallout game. I don't want to drive hype for a game I haven't seen or played, but I also don't want people to be so closed-minded that they spend the next nine days freaking out every day on Reddit because this game isn't going to be like the last three.

I mean, how many of you remember when hardcore Fallout fans flipped a shit because Bethesda was making a first-person shooter?

I think that in retrospect I shouldn't have tweeted that anyone expecting a traditional single-player Fallout will be "very disappointed" -- really, I should have said that they'll be very surprised. I wanted (and still want) to make sure people's expectations are calibrated accordingly.

Short version: Yes, Fallout 76 is going to be a multiplayer RPG. No, that's not automatically a bad thing. Just like all of you, I'm stoked to see the game on June 10, and I'm optimistic that it's going to be really cool.

(PS - Special shoutout to those of you who AREN'T sending me nasty and antisemitic messages on Twitter!)

 

[Icewater]

Spoiler

 

[jf8350143]

Kotaku's Jason Schreier posted on the Fallout subreddit.

Hi. I'm Jason Schreier, from Kotaku. I had forgotten how... passionate the Fallout community can get. After I reported on Fallout 4's existence in 2013, people here first spent two years calling me a liar, and then when it was confirmed, they just yelled at me for "spoiling the surprise." But hey, I'm also a big fan of the series, and in fact may or may not have just started replaying Fallout 4 on my PC in the wake of this week's news.

I've seen a lot of rage and confusion (and denial) on this subreddit so I just wanted to chime in to say a couple of things. One is that, after publishing my story, I heard from a few other sources (in addition to the three mentioned in the article) corroborating that Fallout 76 is an online game. If you're really still in denial, I guess you can wait until June 10, but hey, don't say I didn't tell you.

The second thing is that I'm very optimistic about this game. The buzz I'm hearing (both first- and second-hand) is that it's really cool, interesting, and just as story-focused as any other Bethesda Game Studios game. It might have multiplayer and base-building, but hey, it's still a Fallout game. I don't want to drive hype for a game I haven't seen or played, but I also don't want people to be so closed-minded that they spend the next nine days freaking out every day on Reddit because this game isn't going to be like the last three.

I mean, how many of you remember when hardcore Fallout fans flipped a shit because Bethesda was making a first-person shooter?

I think that in retrospect I shouldn't have tweeted that anyone expecting a traditional single-player Fallout will be "very disappointed" -- really, I should have said that they'll be very surprised. I wanted (and still want) to make sure people's expectations are calibrated accordingly.

Short version: Yes, Fallout 76 is going to be a multiplayer RPG. No, that's not automatically a bad thing. Just like all of you, I'm stoked to see the game on June 10, and I'm optimistic that it's going to be really cool.

(PS - Special shoutout to those of you who AREN'T sending me nasty and antisemitic messages on Twitter!)

People asking him "I really just want to be able to play this by myself without anyone in the world, do you know if that is possible?", and his reply was "I do not know." Yet he boldly called the game an "online survival game".

Wonder how much money he makes by saying something he has no proof of and causing this huge shitstorm.