When at the end of Bethesda's E3 show, the message was clear: we're working on the game but it's a very long way away. We saw a very brief trailer of a mountainous, coastal environment, and then a logo, and that was it. But what were we seeing? Was this the setting of the new game or a kind of red herring - a generic Elder Scrollsian scene made for the trailer? Has Bethesda Game Studios even settled on the region we'll play in yet? I thought we'd wait yonks for an answer but as luck would have it I got one from Todd Howard at Spanish conference Gamelab this week.
As we all know by now, Fallout 76 is going full multiplayer, which leaves a whole bunch of questions in the air about how servers are going to work. Bethesda’s kept a lot of the nitty gritty details vague, and it seems that’s partly because they haven’t decided how it’s all going to work - and that includes, for the moment, parts of how server synchronization will work.
Todd Howard says that players will see synchronization at the server level, with players seeing the same conditions at the same time. But the team hasn’t decided how far that will go across that server’s digital West Virginia, as there are “benefits” in not having the entire server synced.
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That info comes to us via , with a machine-translated version of an interview conducted by Italian outlet - hence why the detail is a bit fuzzy, on top of Howard’s reticence to provide more.
Some of those details will be ironed out in the upcoming beta, but this vagueness may be by design. Bethesda wants the online experience to be largely seamless, without server browsers to look at, and with simple migrations of your camp to new instances whenever you log in. Of course, those of you who are more particular about your multiplayer experience will be waiting a bit longer for fo.
The is coming up fast, and it appears there’s plenty of details left to finalize before that day comes.
Fallout 76 will be the first online-only main Fallout game, and fans have been curious—and somewhat fearful—about how it's all going to work. Thankfully, Bethesda's Todd Howard has answered a few more of our questions. Speaking in an interview with Italian site Multiplayer.it (translated by fans over on Reddit), Todd Howard revealed a lot of ...]
Update, July 3: Another restriction on Fallout 76 griefers has been revealed - a protection for low-level players.
You won’t have to worry about getting griefed when you’re making your exploratory steps in Fallout 76, because you’re safe from other players up until level five. That’s one of many precautions against griefing Todd Howard mentions in a new interview.
The rule against killing low level players may change, Howard says, but Bethesda’s aware that everyone’s worried about aggressive players ruining the experience for everyone. With those precautions in place, the team wants to allow players the freedom to either engage in PvP or avoid fights if that’s their preference.
Perhaps Fallout 76 will make it into our list of the on PC.
There’s little detail on how the level restriction works beyond that, and we are working through the oddities of Google Translate - the original interview comes through Italian outlet , as brought to attention on . Even with the limitations of machine translation in mind, the gist of the answer is clear enough.
As mentioned in on the making of Fallout 76, aggressive players will be given a wanted level. Another griefing protection is that the game's PvP system is more like a challenge system than an all-out brawl.
According to a tweet from Bethesda's senior vice president Pete Hines, "PvP is kinda like issuing a challenge [sic] to someone." You can check that tweet out below:
It’s a problem seen in any survival game as the strong prey on the weak, but it’s a problem that Bethesda wants to nip in the bud for Fallout 76. Speaking to Multiplayer.It, Bethesda’s Todd Howard explained that in terms of PvP, players under level 5 would be safe from death at the hands of more experienced Vault Dwellers.
Bethesda Softworks shocked the games industry with a surprise announcement of Fallout 76. As a spin off from the traditional numbered series, Fallout 76 will play host to the series' first online multiplayer experience; but does that mean single player fans should be weary of Bethesda's upcoming title?
The Fallout 76 release date has been announced at E3 2018. The new Bethesda game will be out this year. We also have the latest trailer and gameplay details.
The next entry in the famous retro-futuristic post-apocalyptic series has been revealed. Bethesda shared a surprising amount of information about the next Fallout game in the reveal and E3 2018 trailers. As the game title and trailer suggest, Fallout 76 will revolve around Vault 76, which is a vault that already exists within the Fallout Universe and stands apart in that it was set to open much, much earlier than most of the other Vault-Tec shelters.
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In the meantime however, we have a couple of trailers to crawl through for details, and reams of background information from other games in the series to pore over for potential gameplay, setting, and story details. Join us as we dig through everything we know about the Fallout 76 reveal to find out how it connects to the other games in the Fallout series. Here’s everything we know about Fallout 76.
Fallout 76 release date
Bethesda has provided a Fallout 76 release date: November 14, 2018. This was announced at Bethesda's E3 2018 showcase, debunking a previously leaked July release date.
Fallout 76 gameplay
During its presentation, Starfield has been revealed as a next-gen RPG, which let many of us wondering which platforms it could be aiming for. In an interview, Bethesda’s Todd Howard provided a new statement to clarify on that.
Fallout 76 release date
