E3 2018: Fallout 76 is online-only

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 06/11/2018 08:56 AM | source: | 24 comment(s)

Bethesda Game Studios director Todd Howard took the stage at Bethesda’s annual E3 press conference and relayed the message that Fallout 76 is going to be an online-only survival RPG, that's right .. online multiplayer only thus Fallout 76 hasn't got a singleplayer mode.

Fallout 76 takes place before all other Fallout games. Set in the hills of West Virginia, it casts you as one of the best and brightest selected to repopulate the Earth. You’re also one of the first to emerge from a vault after the post-apocalyptic dust settles. You’ve spent 25 years underground preparing for what’s called Reclamation Day, when you’ll step out into the world above and begin to rebuild America.

You’ll play on servers, with each only holding a few dozen players at a time. You can join your friends at any time, and all your current progression is taken with you when you do. Very disappointing news. Fallout 76 will be released on November 14th.

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#5555718 Posted on: 06/11/2018 08:43 AM

And for one brief moment i thought were were going to get Borderlands style coop mechanics in a new fallout game, but alas.

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#5555729 Posted on: 06/11/2018 09:00 AM

in before fallout battle royal.

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#5555739 Posted on: 06/11/2018 09:23 AM

If you have the option to play on a private server and only invite people that you want to play with it could be all right. Depending on game mechanics, how it scales with fewer people on a server, performance issues, etc... I could see it potentially being fun. It's early, but so far I'm thinking of it as a separate game that is set in the Fallout universe, not as a full on 100% Fallout title.

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#5555747 Posted on: 06/11/2018 10:09 AM

I thought he said you can play it by yourself?

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#5555756 Posted on: 06/11/2018 10:48 AM

Elder Scrolls Online... Online Single Player game with a Lot of Bystanders.

Or maybe they fixed that thing with players not being able to help/play quests with others if they already finished them. And are shown only as some Light clouds in quest areas.

I would not mind ARK like sandbox from Fallout environment. It would actually be great. But I have bad feeling about Fallout Online being just ESO skin.

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