These shared missions began to feel like chaotic, semi-cooperative scavenger hunts from summer camp. Our group leader plowed into a side quest with no notice, adding its goals to a list encompassing the other quest I was tracking, a nearby event and advice to go find my dropped junk where I had been killed earlier. Playing Fallout 76, with others, I was continually distracted: Someone found something, someone was shooting at something. On my own, a world without NPCs seems starved for human contact - and that’s the whole point of the first multiplayer Fallout. The largest problem I found isn’t that the quest givers are now robots, recordings or other narrative workarounds it’s who is in charge of the story’s progress, and what the trade-off is for each. Here, I was playing with others in a three-hour preview event organized by publisher Bethesda Softworks, the whole point of which was to show how the game’s world works with other people in it. Granted, that option will be available to me throughout the entirety of Fallout 76. But it also meant that barely five minutes into this new world, I wanted my teammates to go the hell away.įallout 76: everything we know No NPCs in Fallout 76: It’s weird, but still workable How Fallout 76 handles combat with VATS In fact, piecing together my goals and purposes from the notes and recordings of others reinforces the kind of solitude that made Fallout 3, 4 and New Vegas so engrossing. Another great example is the well-known absence of human non-player characters in Fallout 76.īy itself, that’s not a problem for me - and I’ve put hundreds of hours into this game’s siblings.
That first encounter draws out the fact that even an aspiration as simple and reasonable as Fallout 76’s - play a great role-playing game, just with friends - inherently poses some conflict to the staple experiences the series is expected to serve. What exactly it was, I couldn’t tell, because the holotape she’d left behind, and all the others I would find this day, was drowned out by the multiplayer chat of my three squadmates. She’d gone out ahead of us on some important mission.
Shortly after bounding into the world of Fallout 76, I came upon a campsite put down by the overseer of the game’s namesake vault.
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