Fallout 76: Everything We Know
- Expansive, open-world game – very different from others that have been made by Bethesda since 2008
- Fallout 76 launched on Nov. 14, 2018 on PS4, Windows PC, and Xbox One. It is not available on the Stream store, only on Bethesda’s launcher.
- The Fallout universe is primarily concerned with survival in an alternate reality after a devastating nuclear war. Players emerge from a “Vault” in underground West Virginia 25 years after a nuclear strike.
- The players are tasked with restoring civilization. Fallout 76 is a multiplayer game with survival elements. Players outfit, customize, and improve a base (a CAMP)
- The map, which is 4 times bigger than Fallout 4, makes this the largest Fallout game ever.
- Players can both pursue their individual goals as well as go through missions and side missions. Crafting (making weapons, armor, consumables, and other items) will play a major role.
- Players can opt in and out of player-versus-player (PvP) and player-versus-environment modes as they choose.
- A bounty system levies prices on the heads of players who behave aggressively.
- Being killed never results in progression loss for a character. Players killed in action can choose a respawn point and rejoin the game.
- There are four different nuclear missile sites on the map. Players can arm and launch a nuke, which requires all the missile keys for a site. Nuking a site creates rare and valuable resources at a location, as well as powerful monsters.