Wastelanders comes into effect the moment you start a new game. I imagine doing that here would break the multiplayer aspects quite severely, and so it’s a decent compromise since the presence of other humans in Fallout 76 is downright transformative. In previous Fallout games, I made a habit of buying things off traders before shortly murdering them to steal both my money and their entire inventory. You can’t kill them though, which is a bit of a shame and a definite immersion breaker. The player can now interact with them to trade and take on quests. It brings with it a laundry list of worthwhile features and improvements, but the most groundbreaking is the addition of non-playable characters that are now situated across the region of West Virginia.
FALLOUT 76 REVIEW UPDATE
Wastelanders is the third major expansion for Fallout 76 and is available as a free update for all existing players. But it’s fun and engrossing – half the battle for anything as grand as Fallout 76. An obvious sense of passion has been put into course-correcting the disastrous origins of Bethesda’s multiplayer experiment, even if the initial cracks are still blindingly obvious at times.
Wastelanders hopes to change this seemingly irreparable reputation, introducing NPCs and a deeper, more nuanced storyline to the world of Fallout 76.Īfter spending plenty of time with Wastelanders, it’s clear a distinct improvement has been made. It’s languished in mediocrity ever since, receiving an insufficient amount of content updates and failing to shake off the lack of polish that continues to hold it back even several years later. It was buggy, inconsistent and soulless as it abandoned much of what made Fallout so beloved in the first place. The concept itself sounded incredibly appealing, yet was shoehorned into an engine and gameplay formula which felt fundamentally hostile towards any form of cohesive multiplayer. Bethesda hoped to translate its sprawling RPG vision into a world occupied by other players who could interact, fight and work alongside one another towards a common goal. When it first launched back in 2018, Fallout 76 was scorned for its clumsy execution of a fairly ambitious concept.
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