Fallout 76 - 5 More Years of Content Planned

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In an interview with Ausgamers it was revealed that there is planned five more years of Fallout 76 content.

With the 2022 Roadmap out in the wild, one look and you'll notice that the team is focusing on expanding and updating the concept of Public Events within Fallout 76. That is, instance-wide activities that players can join in on. The first of which is available now, deals with an alien invasion of the flying saucer kind. This year will also see the arrival of Expeditions, with the first location to house this new way to play being The Pitt. The fiery, dreary, and grim locale that served as the focus of one of Fallout 3's most memorable expansions.

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Switching things back to this year, the first big update has a new Public Event based on Aliens and UFOs. Things that have been a part of the weirder and more comical side of Fallout. How does that fit into Fallout 76 from a thematic point-of-view and as a new type of event?


The idea of the alien invasion has been one we've been talking about for a while. Even before launch it was an idea that was one of those things that we thought would be cool. But we wanted to do it right and we wanted to pick the right time. We also wanted to be very careful about how we handled aliens because there is this mystery and it sits a little more on the more lighthearted side of the Fallout franchise. And with that we realised that maybe it wasn't something that would be there all the time.



"The idea of the alien invasion has been one we've been talking about for a while. Even before launch it was an idea that was one of those things that we thought would be cool."


So we opted to create a Seasonal Event where it's time-limited but bigger than what we've done before. For many in the team it was a passion project and when you get people really excited about something, you tend to do some fun and wacky things. So we also have a bunch of different random encounters that are fun that you'll just kind of run across. And they'll shed some light on the things the aliens are up to.

We added new alien enemies too, we have the one from Fallout 4, we also reintroduce the drone that showed up in Fallout 3's Mothership Zeta DLC. The new alien, the Alien Invader is this little alien dude inside a mech suit and you can see his hands on the little joysticks. That was really fun to add. We wanted to have fun with it, and we wanted to make it like a full scale invasion. Other Public Events, instead of having normal enemies, will have aliens invading in them.
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[Arkadia7]

This is a damn tragedy, if ya ask me. The video above is well done... 5 more years of MMO crap, what a shame to the Fallout name!

 

[mat9813004]

Well, it could be an adequate platform for Bethesda to experiment with the IP. I'm hoping the companions eventually leave the camp and develop as a characters with improved responses to their environment. Oh and more music in the radio stations with the possibility of finding the DJ character. Of course I will be disappointed, but the experience Bethesda gain in running their MMO could be critical. They have done pretty well so far and I look forwards to their future narratives.

 

[Couchpotato]

Well Microsoft leaks already suggest another developer is making future games. So yeah Bethesda can keep fixing their MMO as long as we get another SP game as well.

 

[crpgnut]

I could see Obsidian getting Fallout and Bethesda cycling Starfield and TES.

 

[Carnifex]

I'm more concerned about the few people playing this travesty and thinking it's good. I'm all about the poor victims!

 

[JDR13]

I tried FO76 for a free weekend about 6 months after it was released, and it wasn't as bad as it could have been. That said, it was incredibly buggy.

Of all the directions they could have went for new content though, I think expanding on the alien theme is the worst. The Mothership Zeta DLC was, by far, the worst content in FO3.

Finding the crashed UFO easter egg in FO1 was cool, but actual aliens in a FO game is just…dumb.

 

[Stingray]

Finding the crashed UFO easter egg in FO1 was cool, but actual aliens in a FO game is just...dumb.

Definitely dumb, but we're talking about a game where players emerge from vaults and then start dropping nukes on each other for the lulz, and to spawn high level monsters and loot which miraculously appear instantly at the site of a nuclear blast :lol:

Bethesda has no clue about the setting they bought, it's become nothing but a parody of itself.

 

[Voqar]

5 more years of making fun of a bad idea and wishing greedy corporate slime that ruin games would retire and/or go away.