![]() The final tally was in the high millions. Halloween and Christmas events were soon to follow.ĭuring the Summer and into the Autumn of 2019, the game hosted a contest for players to attempt to reach a milestone of Scorched enemies slain across all worlds. Meat Week became a popular event during the summer, in which players came together to host a wild barbecue party. Seasonal events were introduced, the first being Fasnacht, an actual holiday hosted Fallout style. Several quest updates were added, including a questline to unlock a hidden speakeasy and ability for players to brew and ferment their own alcohol, and the hunt for the deadly Sheepsquatch. In early 2019 the developers released a roadmap of content, starting with their Wild Appalachia updates, which included a new system involving following in the steps of a boy scout troop to earn merit badges for extremely useful equipment like the Backpack. The game is still being tended to and updated enthusiastically by the developers, their progress and doings communicated in their regular “Inside the Vault” newsletters hosted on Bethesda’s website, which details various changes to the game and features being added. How often are the developers improving the game? This would mean if there is an estimated 30,000 players online, that is over 1,000 game worlds at play on any given day. They cannot be silenced.ĭoing the math, each World in Fallout 76 can host a total of 30 players. The subreddit is notoriously more vocal about issues and concerns in the game. The r/fo76 subreddit hosts 207k members at the time of this writing and sees daily, if not hourly activity. There are multiple subreddits dedicated to the Fallout, and Fallout 76. While there is no listing of the number of posts made to the forums, I can safely tell you.The Fallout boards are jumping. The official forums on Bethesda’s community website are highly active, with hundreds of posts and responses listed daily. ![]() Current state of activityĪt the time of this writing, the player count for Fallout 76 is an estimated 22,000 to 34,388 players online for the PC version of the game, with console users for XBOX One and PS4 ranging at an estimated total of 400k users across all platforms, showing a decline from the 1.4 million copies sold at launch. None of this stopped the game from achieving a following of dedicated players. Overall reception painted Fallout 76, during its first year, as not so much a successor to the previous entries of the Fallout RPG franchise, but as a spinoff survival simulator with roleplaying game features. The Guardian referred to it as a “pointless walk in the post-apocalypse”.įans uttered their concerns that there was not much to do in the game with its lack of NPC’s and overall lackluster narrative presenting an experience in which the player was in control of their own story as it were. The game was received harshly by critics and players alike after it’s seemingly “bad launch”. When the game was launchedĪt the time of the game's launch, Fallout 76 sold an estimated 1.4 million copies on PC In favor of the new Nuclear Winter mode which debuted in the Summer of 2019, the Survival Mode was removed on October 1, 2019. The Survival Mode existed in beta on March 26, 2019. Nuclear Winter was added later in the game’s first year as a Battle Royale mode in which large groups of players in teams contend against each other in an ever decreasing battle arena, in a ranking competition for the title of Overseer of Vault 51. Survival Mode released in beta later and offered a more intense player versus player experience versus Adventure Modes invite-only PVP. It started with Adventure Mode as standard player experience. The game features two modes when previously there were three. ![]() Players must trade with each other or with scattered vending robots for supplies and equipment. Players must rely on their own fortitude and that of their fellow Vault Dwellers, as every human in West Virginia has either mutated into a feral abomination or died. When not trying to survive the Wasteland, players explore pre-war locations and the mysteries found within. Gameplay revolves around scavenging of materials necessary to craft, repair and to also keep yourself fed and hydrated in your adventures. Fallout 76 is the technical if not spiritual prequel to the Fallout series by Bethesda Softworks, revolving around the survival in a world devastated by a Nuclear War twenty fives years prior, in which the player takes on the role of a Vault Dweller tasked with bringing civilization back to the Wasteland by any means necessary.
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