Latest Fallout 76 News

Bethesda has released a fun and informative new video "presented by Vault-Tec", a kitchy 50s look at how survivors of a nuclear war will be able to reestablish a functioning society.

Quakecon had a lot of information for fans. Fallout 76 was on the radar and part of their panel talked a lot about the PvP system. This is an immensely important part of the game because Fallout in all of its glory had never really gone multi-player, let alone host PvP. With the market dominated by competitive games right now, Fallout known for its solo adventures and strong narratives, will finally take the leap. Here are five take-ways from Todd Howard's comments.

During today's Fallout 76 panel, fans got a firsthand look at how the game plays. In addition, developers took time to answer a number of questions from the audience.

Bethesda has revealed that it will be ditching Steam for the PC launch of Fallout 76 and will bring the keenly anticipated title to its own launcher instead. The news came out through the update FO76 FAQ when it stated "the B.E.T.A. and the game will be available on XBox One, PlayStation 4 and on PC (via Bethesda.net only)". Later, the company confirmed that Steam is not an option.

The Fallout 76 forum has been updated with a brief post about the start of the first round of closed beta testing. According to the post, the first round of beta testers will be selected beginning in October. Anyone who pre-orders the game will be eligible for selection and, while the first event will be a small scale beta, the plan is to ramp up the number of players as FO76 heads to launch.

Initially, my feelings on Fallout 76 could be best described as cautiously optimistic. The basic premise of the game appealed to me and I didn't find too many issues with the E3 announcement or what I learned from the Noclip documentary, but since then, things have gotten a bit more complicated. The messaging has been kind of all over the place from Bethesda and the more time I have to think about things, the more I wonder how it will all pan out.

When Bethesda introduced Fallout 76 to the world at this year's E3, the trailer featured a cover of John Denver's 1971 hit, "Take Me Home, Country Roads". Bethesda is now offering the song to fans via iTunes for $1 with 100% of proceeds going to Habitat for Humanity.

According to Bethesda's Todd Howard, the company would love to feature true cross platform gameplay in Fallout 76. "You cannot do crossplay in 76. We'd really love that (crossplay) but right now we can't. Sony is not as helpful as everyone would like." Howard told German site GameStar.de.

Bethesda has released a brand spankin' new (sorta) gameplay trailer from Fallout 76 that was shown during E3. This time, the focus falls on both the gameplay itself and how "all-new graphics, lighting and landscape technology brings to life six different distinct West Virginia regions".

Fallout 76 stole a lot of the "show" at E3 last week. How could an always online multiplayer Fallout not do that? Still, there's a lot about this upcoming game we don't know, despite the interviews and previews coming out of the big reveal. We know it'll have PVP, we know it'll have PVE, and we know that'll be very much a Fallout game, just in an always online and persistent world. Here then are five things I want from Fallout 76 to make it worth playing.