Fallout: 76 Catch-All

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Well we know what Bethesda had up their sleeve. They just announced a new Fallout game. Fallout 76.

Looks like we're leaving the urban sprawl again, this time heading out into what used to be the countryside. From the music choice, it sounds like we're looking at the Appalachian region of the country. It also sounds like from the trailer it's less of a survival game and more of a "rebuilding society" lean. Interestingly, according to RPS, 2076 "would place the events of this game around two centuries before those of Fallout 3 and 4."

Kotaku article here. Understandably not much right now.

RPS article, suggesting it may be an online game set in Virginia.

Polygon article, emphasizing the gameplay may deprioritize combat a bit.

What's the deal with Vault 76.

At first glance I imagined an Interstate '76 inspired Fallout game, but I see it's 2076. Looks like more of the same, but that's not a bad thing!

So, maybe more likely the "New Vegas" to Fallout 4 than a Fallout Online kind of thing then? I'd be happy with that, although apparently Obsidian has already come out and said that at the very least it's not them making the game.

And with regard to the 76 part, probably more meaningful than just the vault name, right? While it could possibly indicate that the setting is in or around Philadelphia, form the thematic elements in the teaser I'm going to guess maybe it's in reference to Route 76 and we'll be getting a rural Appalachian setting.

Eh it's an online thing pretty sure.

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Sorry to burst your bubbles guys

Ah, interesting. So, an early emergence scenario. I suppose that could work well for an online and/or survival style game.

(I bet it will also be set around Route 76, because why not double/triple down, right?)

Knowing Bethesda, I would be surprised but not shocked if they released it on July 4th as part of the '76 theme.

I can't wait for the inevitable Battle Royale mode!

Lots of speculation about where it is and when it is but not much about what it is. A new single player game, an online game, a mobile game, a world building sim? Could be about anything.

Bummer. Sounds like Fallout Rust Edition

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When did the nukes drop historically according to game lore?

Those Vault party scenes look like the space was just settled.

Aaron D. wrote:

When did the nukes drop historically according to game lore?

October 2077

Interesting.

So it's like right there on the eve of everything going dark.

It could be quite refreshing to do the 'ol Bethesda Studios sandbox exploration thing in a Fallout landscape that isn't littered with 200 years worth of piled up skeletons & decay.

There's a clock on the pipboy at the start of the trailer, just under the pipboy's screen. The date reads 27 (or maybe 21? I'm on my phone.) October, 2102. 0634.
Long before any of the other games, but still comfortably post-apocalypse.

I think it's going to have vehicles in some way. If it's online though won't that be very samey to Rage 2?

Edit: Also, considering all of the pre-disappointment why tease it? If it's something "new and different" just drop all the info at once already.

I wonder if it's an extended version of the beginning of Fallout 4, before the bombs dropped, and whether the story has something to do with people trying to get to the Vault.

I love the speculation part before realizing all our what ifs were completely and utterly wrong...

ruhk wrote:

There's a clock on the pipboy at the start of the trailer, just under the pipboy's screen. The date reads 27 (or maybe 21? I'm on my phone.) October, 2102. 0634.
Long before any of the other games, but still comfortably post-apocalypse.

You're right.

Fiddlesticks.

Now I got that song stuck in my head.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

ruhk wrote:
Aaron D. wrote:

When did the nukes drop historically according to game lore?

October 2077

I'm gobsmacked at this. I assumed that it was in 1960-something, just based on the set dressings, architecture music, and fashion.

Jonman wrote:
ruhk wrote:
Aaron D. wrote:

When did the nukes drop historically according to game lore?

October 2077

I'm gobsmacked at this. I assumed that it was in 1960-something, just based on the set dressings, architecture music, and fashion.

I think in the fiction the world never invented the micro-chip and really leaned to whole nuclear age world of power. The technology kind of slowed as did the culture.

Lore. Lore never changes.

On a side note, am I the only one who thought of Soldier: 76 from Overwatch when we saw the back of the vaultsuit during the trailer?

The 76 refers to the Vault Number not a date

Gumbie wrote:

Bummer. Sounds like Fallout Rust Edition

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Seeing as Fallout 4 was half base building game, this almost seems too obvious.

If it's Fallout MMORPG I will be intrigued, but will probably never play it.

PaladinTom wrote:
Jonman wrote:
ruhk wrote:
Aaron D. wrote:

When did the nukes drop historically according to game lore?

October 2077

I'm gobsmacked at this. I assumed that it was in 1960-something, just based on the set dressings, architecture music, and fashion.

I think in the fiction the world never invented the micro-chip and really leaned to whole nuclear age world of power. The technology kind of slowed as did the culture.

Yep, the world of Fallout is basically an alternate history where instead of miniaturization we focused on HARNESSING THE POWER OF THE ATOM. Of course that doesn't provide a rational explanation for why popular culture apparently ossified circa 1958 but we all know the real reason is A E S T H E T I C.

I never quite understood why they set the date for the bombs falling so late, actually. It would be at least somewhat plausible for that 50's winga-dinga style to endure until 1977, but 2077? Actually I think the first Fallout game I played when I saw documents or something referring to the war with dates ending in "77" I assumed it DID mean 1977.

Budo wrote:

Well we know what Bethesda had up their sleeve. They just announced a new Fallout game. Fallout 76.

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RPS article, suggesting it may be an online game set in Virginia.

They misheard or misunderstood the song. It’d be West Virginia.

Middcore wrote:

I never quite understood why they set the date for the bombs falling so late, actually. It would be at least somewhat plausible for that 50's winga-dinga style to endure until 1977, but 2077? Actually I think the first Fallout game I played when I saw documents or something referring to the war with dates ending in "77" I assumed it DID mean 1977.

I don't think they ever explained why art deco style lasted so long in the Fallout universe, just that it did. /shrug

TheGameguru wrote:

The 76 refers to the Vault Number not a date

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EverythingsTentative wrote:
Middcore wrote:

I never quite understood why they set the date for the bombs falling so late, actually. It would be at least somewhat plausible for that 50's winga-dinga style to endure until 1977, but 2077? Actually I think the first Fallout game I played when I saw documents or something referring to the war with dates ending in "77" I assumed it DID mean 1977.

I don't think they ever explained why art deco style lasted so long in the Fallout universe, just that it did. /shrug

The Fallout visual style isn't art deco. Art deco started just before WW1 and basically petered out by the end of the 30's. Bioshock comes closer to the art deco aesthetic than any other game, probably (despite the fact Rapture is supposed to have been built in the late 40's).

Middcore wrote:

The Fallout visual style isn't art deco. Art deco started just before WW1 and basically petered out by the end of the 30's. Bioshock comes closer to the art deco aesthetic than any other game, probably (despite the fact Rapture is supposed to have been built in the late 40's).

If not art deco, what would it be? Futurism?

Edit: Googie?

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