Fallout 76

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  1. jessespalding
    Sep 9, 2023
    7
    Great game. What I love most about it is that it plays almost identically to the Fallout series, and its almost a continuation from Fallout 4.

    Not only that, you play online with other players! The best part about this is that you do not need to participate with them or don't have to worry about being player killed. The story is pretty interesting and deep, yet you aren't forced to    Great game. What I love most about it is that it plays almost identically to the Fallout series, and its almost a continuation from Fallout 4.

    Not only that, you play online with other players! The best part about this is that you do not need to participate with them or don't have to worry about being player killed.

    The story is pretty interesting and deep, yet you aren't forced to listen to NPCs drag on about things for hours on end. Usually a holotape gets you on your way, which is cool if you don't want to stop the pacing. Another great feature is the C.A.M.P. You can store your items in this totally customize-able area in your stash, build a home or cabin and defend it from outside enemies. You can also open it to the players or lock your doors if you wish.

    Fallout 76 is also amazingly beautiful. For all the extra space they put into this game, I enjoy the vistas between event locations love to build my C.A.M.P. around the wilderness. Though sometimes the trips can be a little long, I think its worth it and makes the game feel a lot more realistic. There are some locations on the map that are done so well, it almost feels like you're there. The White Springs Resort (aka the Grianbrier in WV) is an absolute gem and full of fun times.

    I enjoy the crafting, though sometimes the stash gets too full and you have to unload items once and a while. Usually I opt for scrapping weapons and armor for crafting skills and extra parts.

    There are many other things I'd like to mention in Fallout 76 to praise, but I'd just urge you to play it before reading any more reviews.    … Expand
  2. garethvk
    Feb 13, 2019
    7
    The Fallout series has made the leap online with Fallout 76 and it is an ambitious attempt to take the franchise in a new direction. Set as a resident of Vault 76; players will craft a character and be amongst the first to venture into the Post-Apocalyptic world set in the Virginia wilderness as they attempt to help rebuild a new society.

    Along the way players will encounter all manner    The Fallout series has made the leap online with Fallout 76 and it is an ambitious attempt to take the franchise in a new direction. Set as a resident of Vault 76; players will craft a character and be amongst the first to venture into the Post-Apocalyptic world set in the Virginia wilderness as they attempt to help rebuild a new society.

    Along the way players will encounter all manner of mutated creatures and threats that have zero qualms about tearing a player to pieces or bringing an arsenal of weapons to take down players.
    Anyone who has played any of the series will know that gathering, trading, and crafting is essential to survival as being able to buy, repair, and exchange weapons and armor is essential as they will break and need to be upgraded frequently.

    This is always a trick for some players such as myself as I never know what to fully prioritize when I encounter scrap and can quickly become overburdened. This makes for some very tough choices as player movement will be very restricted and players will be unable to Fast Travel to previously explored areas of the map.

    There is also the matter of needing to ensure that an adequate supply of food, beverages, and medicines are available to restore health as in a radiated area; even stopping for lunch can cause potential damage and mutations to happen.

    There are numerous weapons available to players from crude Pipe Guns to more advanced energy weapons and machine guns and knives. I have found that Melee weapons such as an Axe or a Sledgehammer can do wonders as they do pack a solid punch but are slow and unyielding.
    The map is extremely vast and filled with many areas to explore from old towns to hotels, shops, a mall, an airport, train stations, and pretty much anything else you would expect in a typical community.

    One of the biggest issues in the game is the numerous bugs which hampered the game at launch. Bethesda has worked to fix them through several patches but issues still remain as I write this so players will have to understand that this is part of the game and being addressed but they will likely encounter issues along the way.

    The game has taken a considerable amount of abuse for the state of the game at launch and while I freely admit there are issues; I have had a lot of fun playing the game and have logged a considerable amount of time in it. Despite the frustrations; I have been drawn back to the game time and again to play more. Players I have encountered have been generally helpful and friendly and the game has not become an open Free For All as the Bounty systems in place make it less appealing for players to pick off inexperienced players who are out minding their own business. Some higher-level players have been very generous in passing and have initiated trades to give me High-Level weapons even though I was not able to use them until I reached a higher level.

    There are various Pop-Up events that happen where players can get some nice rewards and slipping into your Power Armor to take down a pack of Scorchers is always a fun experience.

    In many ways this is one of the hardest reviews I have had to write as I can see how some people can be disappointed with the game and will take serious issues with the bugs and general direction. I also see the fun in the game and the progress being made with the updates and enjoy the game despite the issues. If you are patient and temper your expectations with the understanding that the game players have now is not the game they will have several months down the road, then Fallout 76 may be the escapist game you are looking for.

    3.5 stars out of 5.    … Expand
  3. NachtkindFX
    Nov 14, 2018
    7
    After the annoucement I was sceptic, but after seeing B.E.T.A. myself I was surprised. Fallout 76 is not empty, it's full of little stories and big quests, you just need to find them.

    The game is not perfect and currently I would say "just for fans", if Bethesda fixes the issues the community requested during B.E.T.A. (stash, dof) I'm pretty sure it will be able to find new fans.
  4. Vegor
    Nov 14, 2018
    7
    As expected, Fallout 76 gets all 0s and 10s on day 0 of its release. Both are equally ridiculous for this game.

    The negative bandwagon led by YouTubers and diehard Fallout fans have skewed perspective and opinions of this game for the most part. The game is flawed but far from the 'cash grab', 'dumpster fire' or 'unplayable mess' many make it out to be. Any offline Fallout title would    As expected, Fallout 76 gets all 0s and 10s on day 0 of its release. Both are equally ridiculous for this game.

    The negative bandwagon led by YouTubers and diehard Fallout fans have skewed perspective and opinions of this game for the most part. The game is flawed but far from the 'cash grab', 'dumpster fire' or 'unplayable mess' many make it out to be. Any offline Fallout title would be much less of a strategical risk for Bethesda as opposed to trying something completely new that can fail horrible, as it just might.

    Bethesda's biggest mistake in attempting an online multiplayer game of this scope might have been picking the universe of Fallout. The title implies this might be a Fallout story and dialogue driven RPG, yet it is anything but that. This is not a traditional Fallout game in any way or form. There are some NPCs in the form of robots but they are few and far between. There is no dialogue, no choices to be made and no consequence of action - all staples of all Fallout games before this one.

    That being said, the game behind the Fallout front it is actually quite enjoyable. Contrary to many stories the performance is pretty solid across the board and framerates are higher than Fallout 4 while offering much more detail in draw distance and small details. '

    Bugs have become a staple of any Bethesda game and I have to say it was a lot better than I expected. During the beta there were some glaring issues with the game speeding up on my 240hz screen but they fixed this before release - although they capped it to 60fps now, creating a whole new issue with disgruntled PC players. One bugged quest is the only real bug I encountered beyond that, though there are supposedly quite a few quests that cannot be completed at this time.

    There is a large amount of content to be found. The map is by far the largest in any modern Bethesda game (starting from Morrowind, that is) and the environmental storytelling - terminals, holotaps, notes, etc - is up to par with what we have seen from Bethesda in previous titles. There is a huge amount of stories to be found in this world. A lot of quests tie into this and though some of them feel like hollow fetch quests, there are plenty that actually immerse and interest the player in the underlying story.

    I do wonder what target audience Bethesda had with this game. Most traditional Fallout fans are definitely not among them, which is for a large part the cause of the public outcry against this game. The game at time leaves you wondering - 'What exactly is this'? - to quote Bethesda themselves. It is unique in its style - but maybe it's unique because hardly anyone actually wants this. By its marketing, it almost seems they wanted to target the Fortnite audience with this game but I can hardly see the average Fortnite player playing Falllout 76, which is pretty slow-paced and non-competitive in comparison.

    Personally, I had a lot of fun with the many beta hours and the first day of gameplay. It plays a lot like Fallout 4 in terms of combat and building and the multiplayer side of the game can be mostly ignored if you want. The added benefit of strolling the wastes with a friend or partner is great but the events and PvP hardly add anything solid to the game.

    I would recommend this game to players who have no great affinity with storiytelling in games and like to play casual shooters or building games with friends. For any Fallout fan who wants dialogue, story, and consequence of action - this game is not for them. But the many 0 reviews on this page will say enough about that.    … Expand
  5. Frisbiek
    Nov 17, 2018
    7
    When Bethesda brought elder scrolls to the online world, I didn't care for it- it was too MMO and not enough elder scrolls. That was my worry with fallout 76- fortunately, the gameplay is reminiscent of fallout 4, and it is a blast. I'm not even a huge survival game fan, but the world bethesda has created is just so fun.

    Unfortunately, it is plagued with bugs, particularly Vsync/gsync    When Bethesda brought elder scrolls to the online world, I didn't care for it- it was too MMO and not enough elder scrolls. That was my worry with fallout 76- fortunately, the gameplay is reminiscent of fallout 4, and it is a blast. I'm not even a huge survival game fan, but the world bethesda has created is just so fun.

    Unfortunately, it is plagued with bugs, particularly Vsync/gsync issues, crashes, and other nonsense. It really breaks you from the experience, which is a shame. The good news is, this game could run on a potato, using the same engine as skyrim and it shows. The bad news is the graphics for the most part are just blah. The in game settings are minimal and changing the display to borderless to full screen requires a restart of the game. Annoying, because you might have to adjust that to fix vsync issues.

    My only other minor complaint is that since this is all online, you can never pause. When you are crafting or in your pip boy, magically enemies will appear out of nowhere and you'll take damage. It's very annoying. Also, the carrying/weight needs to be balanced. Carrying too much? No problem! Store it in your stash. But you can't fast travel there since you are overweight! Ok then, set up your camp where you are. Great! But that has a limit on storage, too. Sigh.

    This game is very rough around the edges, and needs some work. If you are on the fence to check it out, I would wait a month or so. It's still worth playing if you enjoy the fallout series.    … Expand
  6. alienbaby
    Nov 26, 2018
    7
    The core idea is good, I'm finding it a fun game to play when it works well. And that's the kicker; there are a large number of if not game breaking, then super annoying bugs. There are known exploits for leveling up that haven't been patched and that's really a big turn off in a multiplayer online game. Other than the bugs and exploits however, it's great. It feels like a fallout world,The core idea is good, I'm finding it a fun game to play when it works well. And that's the kicker; there are a large number of if not game breaking, then super annoying bugs. There are known exploits for leveling up that haven't been patched and that's really a big turn off in a multiplayer online game. Other than the bugs and exploits however, it's great. It feels like a fallout world, exploring and discovering new areas and piecing together the little stories is cool and interesting. The choice to use holotapes and notes to tell the story rather than characters isn't as terrible as I originally thought it would be, though the story does feel more like you are following just behind a protagonist rather than being the protagonist - you're always finding out what happened rather than being instrumental in those happenings. The Enemy AI seems fairly simplistic and isn't helped by a laggy server experience. Having other players around is a great addition to the fallout world, and grouping up and running about is entertaining. End game feels a bit lacklustre - launching nukes and farming the resulting high level mobs is great the first few times, but then once you have a few cool high level legendary weapons, what to do next?

    Base building is unfortunatley completely broken. The idea you can pick up your base as a blueprint and then plonk it down somewhere else would be great .. if it worked. It's a bit of a crapshoo as to wether all your base pieces will still exist, and it can be very difficult to get the game to let you actually place your base down again without complaining about the terrain or some other issue.

    Balance is another problem. Weapon balance is completely jumbled up for both PvE and PvP content.

    Overall, I'm having fun __but. It desperately needs bugfixes (sooo many bugs, like unbelievable numbers of mechanics bugs - not gamebreaking, but still...) and balance changes.    … Expand
  7. TenchuuKhan
    Nov 16, 2018
    7
    Fallout 76 is really hard to review as it's an entirely new type of game that unfortunately can't appeal to the primitive minds that give it bad reviews for all the wrong reasons.

    If you are looking for your regular Fallout/Elder Scrolls quest grind - don't buy this game, at all. Though it has Fallout in the title and the mechanics are pretty much the same as Fallout 3 onwards, you    Fallout 76 is really hard to review as it's an entirely new type of game that unfortunately can't appeal to the primitive minds that give it bad reviews for all the wrong reasons.

    If you are looking for your regular Fallout/Elder Scrolls quest grind - don't buy this game, at all.
    Though it has Fallout in the title and the mechanics are pretty much the same as Fallout 3 onwards, you simply won't get the same experience as you are used to.

    What the game can offer however is handing you a massive world to explore with the classic Fallout charm and humour surrounding it.
    Now let that sink in and I'll give you a glimpse on what's good, what's bad, and what's really ugly about Fallout 76.

    QUESTS
    Though it really falls short on meaningful quests at first glance, taking your time getting to know people's stories in quests, notes and holotapes is very rewarding.
    The main quest starts rather simple with: hey, go there and find person X - which is dead already. You find some note, move on to the next person along the trail which is also dead, and everyone is dead. Bottom line - the only humans still alive are you and the other dwellers from Vault 76.
    So there's no human NPCs - period.

    The main quest is a rather well written introduction into the mechanics and as it progresses you will get some side missions along the way and eventually learn more about what happened in the past few years.
    Until you reach a point where you get another main quest that forces you to run across the map for really dumb objectives before it gets interesting again. Awful time flller - afaic there's absolutely no excuse for it other than wasting people's time.
    I'm still stuck with that mission so I can't tell if it gets way better from there but I instead went for some exploration on my own.

    I ran around A LOT so far and though you get hints that something happens here and there there's simply no quest yet to follow.
    For instance - I ran into a camp that is shaking with a holotape about a customer complaint from when before the bombs fell. I hear a scream in the distance - I can't find anything when I try to follow the source of the scream.
    You'll get that a lot as you explore at your own pace. The more you see, the more you will feel like the map is an empty shell that may or may not be filled later on.

    And that's all I can say about that.

    BASE BUILDING
    Now if you are interested in that part I hate to tell you that it suffers from some really horrible compromises that need to be there for it to function, but it absolutely kills the potential.
    On one hand you aren't always on the same "realm" - so your base persists only as long as it can be built again where you had it and nobody else built their base there now. Unlikely to happen - unless you found a site that gives "free" aluminium.

    The amount of structures you can build is ridiculously limited.

    The versatility and ease of just moving your C.A.M.P makes you forget about your base and you just move the base module somewhere else for a hand full of caps to drop your junk or to cook instead of finding a proper station on the map.

    Bottom line - that feature can't deliver, especially when knowing something like an Epoch mod in ARMA or ARK's building capabilities. It makes sense for what Fallout 76 is but it's... meh - I wouldn't know how to fix it though.

    FOOD, WATER, SURVIVAL
    I like that part - though you need some 20 litres per day instead of 2 - it's quite nice and you can see yourself getting better at it compared to from the struggles you may have had at the start.
    Occasionally it may be annoying but never enough to actually be an issue.

    Will lack of water/food kill you? No - you just suffer AP penalties.
    Good compromise imo and as good as you can make it.

    DEATH
    Has like 0 consequences... all you lose is scrap - I haven't reached a point yet where I had such good scrap that losing it may be annoying. And even if that were the case, when you die you can just run back to your point of death and pick it up again.

    PVP
    I only read about it and I'd say it's absolutely useless. There's no base locations to be really fought over as they don't persist, all you can loot is scrap.... useless

    EVENTS
    More annoying than useful - as soon as you are in an Event area the quest for it gets activated and sometimes the event itself - even though you didn't sign up for it. You just happen to be there for another quest and suddenly you get swarmed by mobs. Idiotic implementation.
    And - no serverwide chat or group finder to actually do a shoutout and say: hey guys, wanna do that event? At least to my avail.

    BOTTOM LINE Don't buy this game if you expect a regular Fallout experience. Read up on it, watch videos, check if it's something for you. I for myself enjoy it as I like to just run around exploring and having some content is a welcome change compared to other titles in that genre.    … Expand
  8. bjl26
    Dec 3, 2018
    7
    Honestly not a bad game. Yes there are bugs, alot of them, but the game play is still enjoyable. Lack of NPCs due to this being one of the first vaults opening and lack of a main story due to dailys and multiplayer.
    Pros -
    C.A.M.P placement and customizing is fun Perk System works well Multiplayer makes the game more fun Lots of story if you want to read and listen to holotapes.    Honestly not a bad game. Yes there are bugs, alot of them, but the game play is still enjoyable. Lack of NPCs due to this being one of the first vaults opening and lack of a main story due to dailys and multiplayer.
    Pros -
    C.A.M.P placement and customizing is fun
    Perk System works well
    Multiplayer makes the game more fun
    Lots of story if you want to read and listen to holotapes.

    Cons -
    Bugs... in every part of the game (shooting, armor, enemies, loading, server, items, storage, etc)
    Poor optimization in performance.. It's hard to keep a steady 60 fps on 1080 with any gpu or setting.
    Lack of initial content... Main story is lacking along with side quests. (Future dlc is free).

    The game has potential and with free dlc, this game will be wayy better as time goes on. Would not pay $60 for this though.    … Expand
  9. Cioby
    Nov 21, 2018
    7
    Game is not as bad as some retards are saying. It has a lot of bugs, lacks more storage, but nothing game breaking. It's actually pretty fun.
    I hate that it's a console port and therefore you even have fps drops. Yet I still played since beta for over 5 days in total gametime. It's pretty great, gives you a feeling of fallout, like you're actually alone and gets me depressed almost. I    Game is not as bad as some retards are saying. It has a lot of bugs, lacks more storage, but nothing game breaking. It's actually pretty fun.
    I hate that it's a console port and therefore you even have fps drops. Yet I still played since beta for over 5 days in total gametime. It's pretty great, gives you a feeling of fallout, like you're actually alone and gets me depressed almost. I would prefer playing with a friend, but it's fun still. And the difficulty? Those are kids that barely have level 20, I had power armor and found the game really easy, until I got Ultracite lvl 45 power armor and now I'm dying to some enemies.
    I think the game will get better. Hopefully more stuff will be added too, for free. Until then a 7 is a balanced grade. Considering people pay 60$ for games that you play for 10 hours max, you'd be a hypocrite to complain.    … Expand
  10. RuMan
    Nov 20, 2018
    7
    It's a chill game. Nothing to pressure you. Just a Fallout 4 online. It's ok. Nothing special or extraordinary. You don't have to like it. I happen to ejoy it. It's not for single player fans.
  11. isidore12
    Oct 7, 2022
    7
    Bethesda released Fallout 76 full of bugs as money grabs, and damage so much their reputation that they stopped investing in Fallout franchise.
    Nonetheless Fallout 76 is worth playing as solo player. It reminds of Fallout 4 but with a significant bigger map.
    Many bugs and patches, left the game terribly unbalanced to play with others. I'll skip the MMO part.
  12. lordzzz
    Nov 14, 2018
    7
    This trend of all of u QQs giving games "0" is not funny, or even fair.
    I am not saying this games deserves 10, but rentless bashing all the time, on all games u didnt like is just pathetic.

    Sure this game is half-assed, and maybe never will get rid of the bugs, but will spend some time with it either way. Just stop whyning.
  13. IonutRO
    Nov 28, 2018
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The game is fun to play but the quests are just you being talked at by a recording while doing errands back and forth. You don't really get a sense of progression because you already know the NPCs related to that quest are dead and that your efforts won't affect the world.

    Hopefully they will add some interactive NPCs in the future, even it's just robots that you can actually talk to (as opposed to just being talked at by). They promised future gameplay modes, so maybe they can add a co-op story-mode expansion (a sort of mix between Borderlands and Fallout 4) that takes us to another region of America, such as Pennsylvania, where we can encounter human NPCs that were out of reach of the Scorched plague.

    Everyone's complaining about the bugs and the graphics, but personally I've not encountered any bugs except for the odd crash, as for the graphics, they're fine, people need to stop being such snobs about graphics in games.    … Expand
  14. ShadowBro
    Nov 29, 2018
    7
    Not 10/10, but truerly 6.7/10
    The game has problems with optimization. And with the wrong positioning of the target audience.

    In my country it costs $ 18, so this is a reasonable price ...
  15. Thorongil83
    May 10, 2019
    7
    As the fallout 76 isnt a perfect game in any matter, there is nothing that could justify such a backlash from the community. Game, even with all its technical problems, is more than enjoyable. Lore wasn't butchered, as some would say - everything that found its place in the game have its reasonable and clear explaining.
    I could easily give it even higher note, yet technical problems and    As the fallout 76 isnt a perfect game in any matter, there is nothing that could justify such a backlash from the community. Game, even with all its technical problems, is more than enjoyable. Lore wasn't butchered, as some would say - everything that found its place in the game have its reasonable and clear explaining.
    I could easily give it even higher note, yet technical problems and the fact that game was released in this state is what truly deserve a backlash (not the lore, not the fact that this ins't an rpg). Bugs, glitches, sometimes very frustrating, could make angry even a saint and some other problems and weirdnesses (building system was butchered, and pvp system makes no sens) makes me believe that not everything was thought through as it should be.
    What bethesda did excellent in f76 is enviromental storytelling at it best... similiar to what we could find in f4 but on a bigger scale.
    Saying all that, i hope they will fix the game and not abandon it because of all those angry kids all over the internet - since f76 deserve a better state than what it is now. Hoping for updates, and some sense among people overall. What could be fixed also is the price, because game is not worth in its current state as much as it cost.
    6/10 (ev. 7/10 if fixed)    … Expand
  16. CesarOrdazV
    Apr 26, 2019
    7
    En el lanzamiento el rendimiento era horrible. A seis meses del lanzamiento ha mejorado mucho en rendimiento, pero aún sigue manteniendo algunos problemas. Es muy exigente con los recursos y se nota que arrastra los problemas de viejas entregas de Fallout. algunas misiones son repetitivas pero otro más son bastante disfrutables. Siguen añadiendo contenido. Recomiendo su compra a precioEn el lanzamiento el rendimiento era horrible. A seis meses del lanzamiento ha mejorado mucho en rendimiento, pero aún sigue manteniendo algunos problemas. Es muy exigente con los recursos y se nota que arrastra los problemas de viejas entregas de Fallout. algunas misiones son repetitivas pero otro más son bastante disfrutables. Siguen añadiendo contenido. Recomiendo su compra a precio reducido.… Expand
  17. lekterdead
    Nov 14, 2018
    7
    It's kinda fun, but i think it will wear off the fun very fast, i wish they would make it coop only and not online multiplayer. TBH this seems like a game only for fans...
  18. tintelfruit
    Nov 19, 2018
    7
    Let's get some things clear first: This game is buggy, buggy as hell BUT it's also the most fun experience I've had on my own and with my friends in the last 5 years of gaming.

    It might not be the perfect game people want it to be but it has a lot of potential!
  19. Astalid
    Nov 15, 2018
    7
    World size is better than Fallout 4, but quests are fair and i feel no "fallout". There is no friendly NPCs, so world looks empty. World activities (events) are strange and looks like "fifth dog leg". I still hope that DLC and patches will change situation
  20. EpicSurvivor
    Feb 23, 2019
    7
    First time playing a Fallout game. I got this game for $25 and really have being enjoying the open world exploration. The graphics aren't amazing but they do look pretty good. I would rate it a solid 7/10 no less specially for the $25 Price Tag I paid for it. Runs pretty good on my RTX 2060 but it does have stuttering every once in a while, but nothing major. If you can get it for theFirst time playing a Fallout game. I got this game for $25 and really have being enjoying the open world exploration. The graphics aren't amazing but they do look pretty good. I would rate it a solid 7/10 no less specially for the $25 Price Tag I paid for it. Runs pretty good on my RTX 2060 but it does have stuttering every once in a while, but nothing major. If you can get it for the price I paid I wouldn't hesitate getting it.… Expand
  21. Stayinthelight
    Nov 19, 2018
    7
    Fallout 76 my thoughts:

    Fallout 76 is a great concept I love the Fallout world it is something so unique. One thing I want to touch on before I do some quick hits pros & cons. The lack of NPCs. First off this is nothing we already didn't know. Second Vault 76 is one of the first Vaults opened, so we as the player are some of the first people surfacing after the Great War this is why    Fallout 76 my thoughts:

    Fallout 76 is a great concept I love the Fallout world it is something so unique. One thing I want to touch on before I do some quick hits pros & cons. The lack of NPCs. First off this is nothing we already didn't know. Second Vault 76 is one of the first Vaults opened, so we as the player are some of the first people surfacing after the Great War this is why there are no NPC b/c there are is no one else out yet. We are meant to find out what has happened in the aftermath of the Great War. Now I would love to see NPCs added into the game and I think this could be done with little effort. Think what if a new Vault opened up and you had to help the people of that Vault create a settlement which will turn into a social hub, think the tower in Desinty.

    Quick hits:

    Pros:
    The world - Fallout 76 has a huge world with something new around every corner
    Base building
    The loot - the loot is great I love the blueprints
    Crafting
    Level / Perks - This is a perfect system for this style of game. They just need to make to so you have re-roll your S.P.E.C.A.I and maybe add on endgame leveling system, think ESO online maybe???
    Multiplayer
    Enemies - a good divers raid on enemy types.
    Nukes - it's a cool way to create a harder zone

    Cons:
    This game needed an upgraded / new engine
    Lunch bugs - this feels like an earlier access game.
    Quests need to be better
    Gunplay needs to be updated.    … Expand
  22. new4or
    Nov 16, 2018
    7
    Yes the game is buggy and yes, its using old engine. But remember NW and Skyrim, you could tell the same bout those games. FO76 is an online experience for the first time in the series, just let it grow and mature. & of 10 just for now
  23. CowboySimulator
    Jun 13, 2019
    7
    Bethesda has done a good job of picking up after themselves, and fixing this game. They tried something new, and it didn't go over so well with the fans of the Fallout franchise. It still managed to gain a following, and developed one of the most amazing communities I have ever seen, on any game. Now this game does have problems, and at times can be boring by yourself, but with the newBethesda has done a good job of picking up after themselves, and fixing this game. They tried something new, and it didn't go over so well with the fans of the Fallout franchise. It still managed to gain a following, and developed one of the most amazing communities I have ever seen, on any game. Now this game does have problems, and at times can be boring by yourself, but with the new DLCs, there is always something to do. With Wastelanders DLC coming later this year I think it was a bright future.… Expand
  24. WerewolfMoms
    Nov 14, 2018
    7
    Despite a few bugs (haven't encountered anything game breaking), this game manages to provide a bitter, bleak look into life after the bombs, with a whole new apocalypse to be wrangled into holding back. Grab a friend and your trusty hunting rifle as you explore a massive West Virginia landscape and uncover the mysteries Appalachia has to give.
  25. L_Circe
    Nov 14, 2018
    7
    Graphics: Running off a graphics card that is just barely within the minimum limits, I'd put the graphics at between Fallout: New Vegas and Fallout 4. Again, that's graphics at the minimum level, pushed down as simple as they can go. Not breathtaking, but not horrible by any means, and, let's face it, you aren't going to be buying this game so that you can watch the leaves fall from theGraphics: Running off a graphics card that is just barely within the minimum limits, I'd put the graphics at between Fallout: New Vegas and Fallout 4. Again, that's graphics at the minimum level, pushed down as simple as they can go. Not breathtaking, but not horrible by any means, and, let's face it, you aren't going to be buying this game so that you can watch the leaves fall from the trees.

    Story: The story so far has been bare-bones. Yes, the world feels very empty, unlike previous Fallout games, where you have a bunch of settlers and raiders all over the place. That isn't necessarily a bad thing. The world we are seeing is the direct aftermath of the Great War, rather than a world that has had 200 years to build anew. At the same time, there have been numerous minor story-lines I've run across that flesh out the world of people who were alive not two decades before I was there. People that my character was likely contemporaries with. It can be immersive if you aren't expecting to be spoon-fed entertainment.

    Multiplayer: So far, this has not been a major issue with me. I had people help me out as I was leaving the vault, and I've turned around and done the same. I've cooperated to help clear missions, and I've wandered off on my own, avoiding anyone for fairly long stretches. As severs get more crowded, that may get more difficult, but this is not your typical MMO at the moment, where you have to deal with a dozen other players behind every corner. It is entirely possible to have a single player experience without interacting with other players. The one drawback is how many Challenge Missions require group participation, but that is only if you care about collecting Atoms. It isn't required for the main story.

    Stash Limit: The big complaint everyone's heads are exploding about. Which... is not actually an issue. Yes, you can only hold a limited amount in your stash at a time. People claim that this penalizes looting, but it really doesn't. Heck, I can run faster while over-encumbered in this game than I could in any previous Fallout Game, without any special perks helping me do so, and I can do it for far longer than I'd expect otherwise. Even when slowed down to just walking, I still move at a good speed, and at worst, I can just spend a bit to summon my Camp to my location and end up looting to my heart's content. No, what is penalized in this game is hording. Stockpiling up a bunch of resources for a rainy day and not using them. People complain about not being able to build, when really the issue is that they can't horde supplies until they can build a mega-fortress. You are encouraged to use your supplies, because you will have to end up getting more, but that isn't overly difficult or impossible.

    There are flaws, definitely. I've had bugs when going into menus and I ended up getting hit with several server drops and game freezes, which is why this is a mixed review rather than a positive one, but this is very much not a 0-star game. And I think it would be very telling to see which reviewers have actually bought and played the game, and which are basing their review off of let's play videos and other second-hand sources.    … Expand
  26. datskar
    Nov 15, 2018
    7
    fo76 is a fairly decent bethsoft game, granted the graphics haven't been updated from fo4 which weren't the worst but also not the best. fo76 is pretty much fo4 in all aspects the story is still good even though there are no npc's but the npc's don't make the story they are just a piece of it you still get the same bugs that are in every fallout / elder scrolls game that have been plaguingfo76 is a fairly decent bethsoft game, granted the graphics haven't been updated from fo4 which weren't the worst but also not the best. fo76 is pretty much fo4 in all aspects the story is still good even though there are no npc's but the npc's don't make the story they are just a piece of it you still get the same bugs that are in every fallout / elder scrolls game that have been plaguing bethesda since the dawn of time and there are a few things which bethesda do plan on fixing in a later update as for the multiplayer aspect it feels no different from when you play solo I've played almost all the betas and launch and rarely ran into other players and when i did it wasn't toxic most of the time we would exchange a few emotes then move on and wander the wastes all in all i give it an 7/10 just for the few small bugs there are still a great bethsoft title and worth a try… Expand
  27. jointVW
    Nov 15, 2018
    7
    This game is not as bad as most claim. Don't expect a super good game no it is not. It has its flaws and to be honest we are talking about Bethesda games it always has flaws. Fallout 3 and 4 would not have scored above and 7 for me either.

    But surprisingly i got my entertainment out of this game. It is pretty funny to play even when playing alone. But from what i get playing with more    This game is not as bad as most claim. Don't expect a super good game no it is not. It has its flaws and to be honest we are talking about Bethesda games it always has flaws. Fallout 3 and 4 would not have scored above and 7 for me either.

    But surprisingly i got my entertainment out of this game. It is pretty funny to play even when playing alone. But from what i get playing with more people has a better feeling to the game.

    The lack of human npc can sometimes be strange but i do not think it is something that is that bad. Even in other games the best stories told are the ones told through the environment and notes.

    In short this game deserves better than the reviews it is getting but it is definitely not a good game. It is ok and it is in general nice to play.    … Expand
  28. Tadeus72
    Nov 17, 2018
    7
    I play a lot of online/MMO games and have played all the Fallouts (the last ones heavy modded for survival).

    After playing F76 for some time: + Due to the small player count and small, far away spawns It feels very immersive for an online game (I'm a roleplayer). + Was pretty stable for a new online title (one crash in 10+ hours on PC) + I like that it is an MMO and not a CO-OP. I    I play a lot of online/MMO games and have played all the Fallouts (the last ones heavy modded for survival).

    After playing F76 for some time:
    + Due to the small player count and small, far away spawns It feels very immersive for an online game (I'm a roleplayer).
    + Was pretty stable for a new online title (one crash in 10+ hours on PC)
    + I like that it is an MMO and not a CO-OP. I like pick-up random groups and the chance to meet other random scavengers in ruins.
    + I like the open world base building. Have build some useful and fun things for new players close to the starter area.
    + If the shop will really only be for cosmetics and the DLC will really be free like they have promised, it will become good value for money in time.
    + The group area events are some of the most fun and original ones I have seen in MMOs.
    + I think they have found the perfect balance of survival elements. It's not a chore, but you have to keep it in mind and it might be punishing if you forget about it.
    + I'm not sure if like the perk card system, but it seems smart for on online game. It would be a bad idea in a single player game, but most online games introduce the option to respec your character, so a more flexible system build up from ground up seems sensible.

    - - The game is optimized poorly
    - - The AI is simply horrible. I would be happy with the poor AI from Fallout 4, but they obviously had to change something. And it's very buggy.
    - - No text chat, and the emotes are horrible.
    - Too much reused assets. I've played F4 for like 500+ hours and am really fed up with using the same pipe guns and revolvers.
    - It's the same with monsters. Yes, there are a lot of new ones, but it feels low effort , as I'm still bashing the same ghouls, molerats, and mutt dogs.
    - I hate the UI (like in 90% games that are developed for both consoles and PC)
    - The system for tracking quests in a team is a mess.
    - It feels like the gear progression is wrong for an online game. Games like this are supposed to keep people playing for hundreds of hours and players in F76 already have the high grade power armors with enough fusion cores to run them for a long long time.

    +/- If Bethesda isn't lying, they will try to introduce "private" moddable servers in a year after sorting out all the core issues. This might change the game a lot (or it might be a useless mess).

    All in all... I don't want it to change, I like most of the unique core concepts. I just want it to get much better at what it tries to do. And a better game overall in all the technical areas it fails now.    … Expand
  29. zhruut
    Nov 18, 2018
    7
    I agree with a lot of the criticisms, I consider Fallout 76 fair to good, and I rate it 6/10 to 7/10 (I rounded up) — but that's coming from a player whose absolute favorite games are Fallout 3, NV & 4. For me to be saying "fair" to "good" or be rating it a 6/10 to 7/10 is the equivalent of a less franchise-loyal gamer rating it 3/10 or 4/10.

    I have played something like 6 to 8 hours so    I agree with a lot of the criticisms, I consider Fallout 76 fair to good, and I rate it 6/10 to 7/10 (I rounded up) — but that's coming from a player whose absolute favorite games are Fallout 3, NV & 4. For me to be saying "fair" to "good" or be rating it a 6/10 to 7/10 is the equivalent of a less franchise-loyal gamer rating it 3/10 or 4/10.

    I have played something like 6 to 8 hours so far and just reached level 10. I was concerned I was truly going to find myself bored, but I've been managing to enjoy myself reasonably well. The moment I discovered the first robot to trade with, I was able to earn enough caps by selling loot to use the fast travel and base camp relocation abilities, which are key to making exploration and questing less of a slog. I have felt the tingle of excitement upon encountering a new area, getting quests — especially if there's a voiced robotic NPC quest giver, which is honestly just as good as a voiced human NPC quest giver in my opinion — and hunting down the various enemies while trying to achieve my goals. While the absence of raiders and mercs is quite noticeable, what's really missing are the neutral to friendly NPC communities. Take a place like Covenant in Fallout 4. You meet them, they test you, they tentatively accept you and you suspect there's something amiss with the town. There is a number of ways to proceed, and the choices you make result in significant differences as to how this side-story plays out. So far, it seems Fallout 76 will not and cannot offer players experiences like that.

    The bottom line for me is that Fallout 76 feels like a stand-alone DLC with a simple premise: Bethesda will set you up with a very large play area as a sandbox to play in, 80%-90% legacy world lore from the other games in the franchise, player survival mechanics and enough basic, repeatable quests to motivate you to continue. As a committed lone player, it does in fact get quite lonely and spare, but if I were paying $20-$25 for this privilege, rather than the $60 I paid, I would say it is definitely worth the experience.    … Expand
  30. theexhippy
    Nov 18, 2018
    7
    The biggest problem and the saving grace of this game is that it's a Fallout game. Because of this people have ridiculously high expectations but some are willing to forgive it its flaws.

    Taken on its own, the game is not bad. It could be better, there are bugs but they're pretty minor. The lack of NPC humans, both friendly and not, is a glaring omission and makes the game feel a little    The biggest problem and the saving grace of this game is that it's a Fallout game. Because of this people have ridiculously high expectations but some are willing to forgive it its flaws.

    Taken on its own, the game is not bad. It could be better, there are bugs but they're pretty minor. The lack of NPC humans, both friendly and not, is a glaring omission and makes the game feel a little lifeless. Some of the mechanisms you liked from the Fallout 3, 4 and New Vegas are missing due to the MMO aspect.

    However...

    It captures the Fallout feel, the gameplay is close to identical and rewards careful play rather than run and gun. Yes, combat is clunky but then again it always has been. It doesn't make it bad, just different. You have to be more careful and cautious which some may find dull in comparison to pure FPS like COD but then maybe this game isn't for them.

    All in all, F76 is best viewed as a cutdown version of Fallout 4 that can be played with a group of your friends. If you're playing it solo then you will be disappointed. As a group it doesn't exactly shine but it's a solid co-op experience and I'm enjoying it. I think this is one to be worked on and to improve rather than be dumped.    … Expand
  31. davystuart
    Nov 18, 2018
    7
    The good news is that it's more of Fallout. Quirky quests, looting, radio stations, open world exploration.

    The bad news is it could have been so much better with a large world of players interacting and building and fighting. How cool if this had been Player's Unknown meets Fallout rather than Fallout with a multiplayer function that doesn't really matter.
  32. CDante
    Nov 19, 2018
    7
    I registered to metacritic cause I found it ridiculous that masses of players give this game either a 0 or a 10 rating when they clearly know that this game is neither a 0 or a 10. it's laughable how people use this site just to upvote or downvote a game instead of giving their proper opinions. I personally don't love this game, but I enjoy my time in it. sometimes I like to explore alone,I registered to metacritic cause I found it ridiculous that masses of players give this game either a 0 or a 10 rating when they clearly know that this game is neither a 0 or a 10. it's laughable how people use this site just to upvote or downvote a game instead of giving their proper opinions. I personally don't love this game, but I enjoy my time in it. sometimes I like to explore alone, read terminals and listen to holotapes without any distractions, level up, find new gear, unlock new plans for my CAMP proper single player style. and then other times, when I play with friends I enjoy showing off my new stuff, then just go with the flow, follow them to unexpected adventures and situations without much pre-planning, just play in a completely different pace, proper multiplayer style.
    when I love a game, and give it a 10/10 that's a game like The Witcher 3 or the new XCOM games. I don't love Fallout 76, but I don't hate it either. I can enjoy it for what it is, and I can be frustrated by it. mainly because of some of its design decisions, and sometimes because of some of its bugs. but overall, definitely not 0/10. and definitely not 10/10.    … Expand
  33. TalonSilverHawk
    Nov 20, 2018
    7
    If you come into the game expecting Fallout 5 you will be disappointed, this game is definitely something different from classical Fallout.
    But once you understand that, the game can be very fun (alone or with friends), there is a story (not a great one but it does the job), there is a lot of things to do: Questing, events, building, exploring ... And the exploration is just amazing this    If you come into the game expecting Fallout 5 you will be disappointed, this game is definitely something different from classical Fallout.
    But once you understand that, the game can be very fun (alone or with friends), there is a story (not a great one but it does the job), there is a lot of things to do: Questing, events, building, exploring ... And the exploration is just amazing this is one of the best open world Bethesda ever made, there are a lot of life, different monster and crazy contextual stories.
    The game is a lot of fun with friends and alone (I play both), but the main issue after 25 hours of game are the bugs and mediocre PC port. It does not really impact the game but it can be a pain.
    If the bugs are corrected (which they are doing) and the future DLCs complete the experience with new quest and things to do this could be a great game. For now it is fun and enjoyable but could have been better especially technically speaking.    … Expand
  34. CastCapo
    Nov 20, 2018
    7
    Fallout 76 is Bethesda Game Studios first attempt at an online multiplayer game. After sinking sixty something hours into the game, I can say it’s a good first attempt at an online multiplayer game. Yes, it still uses the Creation Engine but not the same one used for Fallout 4 or Skyrim due to the engine improvements such as all new rendering lighting and landscaping technology; thatFallout 76 is Bethesda Game Studios first attempt at an online multiplayer game. After sinking sixty something hours into the game, I can say it’s a good first attempt at an online multiplayer game. Yes, it still uses the Creation Engine but not the same one used for Fallout 4 or Skyrim due to the engine improvements such as all new rendering lighting and landscaping technology; that allows for sixteen times the detail, and yes you can visually see the difference between Fallout 76 and Fallout 4. Such as the glossiness on the golden strips on the Vault Suit that was not present in Fallout 4.

    Now Fallout 76 isn’t the prettiest game released this year or this decade, but it is by far the prettiest Bethesda Game Studios Game released today.

    Leveling Up in this game has been refined from Fallout 4’s perk chart, I especially like the fact that I can switch out my perk cards when I’m playing with my friends to allow for greater team play, however, I’m not so much of fan of the fact that your special stops increasing after reaching Level 50 but there are adding the ability allowing you to respec your characters special in latter update
    sometime after launch.

    The Appalachia Wasteland is truly the biggest most diverse wasteland we’ve seen to date allowing players to capture some truly amazing screenshots. Yet due to the immense scale of the Appalachia Wasteland and lack of human NPC populating hubs, towns the world seems oddly empty but not completely empty due to the questing give robots found throughout the world such as Rose or the
    other players exploring the world along with you.

    The microtransactions in Fallout 76 aren’t an issue due to them literally throwing Atoms at you for playing the game and completing challenges. So what do buy with these microtransactions well it’s all cosmetic items that offer no gameplay advantages at all to the players of the game. These microtransactions are also paying for all the DLC the game will have post-launch allowing Bethesda Softworks to make all DLC free not splitting up the player base.

    I myself haven’t participated in any PVP in Fallout 76 as of yet but have had some of my loot stolen.

    The story isn’t the best story featured in a Bethesda Studio Game, but it isn’t too bad either. The endgame isn’t the worst nor the best but launching them nukes is pretty fun and challenging. When one is launched players have two minutes to leave the blast area, but one is fired most players come over to the edge of the blast radius to watch the nuke detonate. Don’t worry about players firing nukes every twenty minutes as Bethesda have thought about this every Tuesday the launch codes reset and need to be decrypted once again from a new word and different numbers, and players aren’t allowed to nuke the starting area.

    Crafting has been reworked in Fallout 76 where players now need to find plans that allow players to build new gear giving you an edge over enemies that are just above your current level. Not only do you need to find plans you also need to find the resources to craft this new gear once you’ve learnt the plan, however, the stash limit is currently restricting my crafting progression slightly, but this issue is being addressed with an update sometime this month.

    So all in all Fallout 76 isn’t a great Fallout game but is a good action-adventure game on your own but is a great action-adventure game when playing with friends.    … Expand
  35. Mpsai
    Nov 20, 2018
    7
    I've been having a blast with the game so far. Whether I'm playing with friends or exploring alone I'm getting the kind of emergent gameplay experience I love from Fallout. Granted, I've always prioritized exploration and looting over lore in this series. Even so, little touches in some audio logs and notes paint a haunting picture at times, in between all the retro future camp. SpeakingI've been having a blast with the game so far. Whether I'm playing with friends or exploring alone I'm getting the kind of emergent gameplay experience I love from Fallout. Granted, I've always prioritized exploration and looting over lore in this series. Even so, little touches in some audio logs and notes paint a haunting picture at times, in between all the retro future camp. Speaking of camps the C.A.M.P system is flawed but fun with room to grow, letting you save several iterations of bases to plop down on most parts of the world with plans to find to unlock more items.

    I also really like the trading card Perk system. Being able to swap cards in and out as needed and building a character based on what you have on hand is a pretty fresh mechanic.

    The world boasts some unique places that are, in my view, a step up from Fallout 4 in terms of variety. Fleeing the new scorched enemies only to find myself on a nearly pristine green golf course guarded by military robots that provided me cover fire was one such memorable area.

    I rated a 7 because, in the end, it still has the usual Bethesda bugs and engine limitations. But personally I'm getting my money's worth.    … Expand
  36. jazzman04
    Nov 20, 2018
    7
    Fallout 76 in many ways appeals to me, but there are just so many issues that bethesda has left unchecked that lowers my final score. The game is built on a decade old engine with little support for almost mandatory game features like an FOV slider and support for 144Hz screens. Other than the technical stuff I found the game enjoyable. Conquoring workshops, building armor, exploring newFallout 76 in many ways appeals to me, but there are just so many issues that bethesda has left unchecked that lowers my final score. The game is built on a decade old engine with little support for almost mandatory game features like an FOV slider and support for 144Hz screens. Other than the technical stuff I found the game enjoyable. Conquoring workshops, building armor, exploring new locations is appealing to me. And the experience of meeting people and shooting lower players to fight was fun.… Expand
  37. InfamousNews
    Nov 21, 2018
    7
    After playing Fallout 76 for several hours,it’s hard to believe that the game is a zero. In my opinion Fallout 76 is a 7/10.

    The game is indeed fun to play and in no way “empty”. Aside from the no human NPC to interact with, Fallout 76 plays exactly like previous titles. You follow a quest,explore the wasteland for loot/past stories,and try to survive while fighting enemies. If    After playing Fallout 76 for several hours,it’s hard to believe that the game is a zero. In my opinion Fallout 76 is a 7/10.

    The game is indeed fun to play and in no way “empty”. Aside from the no human NPC to interact with, Fallout 76 plays exactly like previous titles. You follow a quest,explore the wasteland for loot/past stories,and try to survive while fighting enemies. If you’re not a fan of listening/reading notes or don’t like exploring the environment in a game,then I guess Fallout 76 isn’t for you. Graphics is decent. The game is somewhat buggy and PVP needs work. Otherwise the game could be a 8/10 later,depending on future DLC. Would differently recommend to people to try it, at least wait for a sale if you think $60 is too much.    … Expand
  38. d1g1tal
    Nov 22, 2018
    7
    Is fallout 76 worth the £50 - £60 price tag? In this review im going to go into as much detail i can about this game in the limited amount of characters i can use. Ohhh this is a good one!

    Gameplay: Lets start with the fundemental's of the game the gameplay, The game essentially feels like fallout 4 although there are some fundemental changes to the game as it is online but most    Is fallout 76 worth the £50 - £60 price tag? In this review im going to go into as much detail i can about this game in the limited amount of characters i can use. Ohhh this is a good one!

    Gameplay: Lets start with the fundemental's of the game the gameplay, The game essentially feels like fallout 4 although there are some fundemental changes to the game as it is online but most animations and i would say 75% of weapons are just carried over from fallout 4, Some even keeping the bugs they had in fallout 4 (Ill get to that **** in a minute) But it is stable enough to be able to enjoy the game.

    Quests/Story: Sooooo the quest line specifically the main one, feels like it was just slapped together after bethesda "finished" the game world and machanics. there is alot of back tracking in the main quest and the problem with this is not the idea of backtracking itself, its that fact that fast traveling costs caps depending on how far away you are from the target location. Now this would not be an issue but hardly any of the main quest does not give you many caps and the caps it does give you cant be spent on anything worth while from a vendor because they end up getting spent almost instantly, Now i will say the quest for the enclave (what i have played of it so far) has a decent story thats easy to follow and the backtracking is nowhere near as bad and all the quest reward you with something worth it such as a legendary tripple barrel missile launcher that has lock on abillitys. or even the ability to be able to access missile silo's too launch a nuke at any location on the map.

    World: The world is MASSIVE. So big that in the over 35+ hours that ive played of the game i have yet to even venture into the far left side of the map as all these other areas keep me wanting to explore, although the exploration is a little hindered by the lack of NPC'S. While yes you can find robots and gaoul's etc most are hostile and take away from the wit and charm of the older games. and it does not help that in the game the only live humans you find are only players so you go into a town for example and any mystory as too what you will find and who you will find is taken away as in your head you know every other human that is not a player is dead. The graphical style of the world uses much more colour then even 4 does, includeing more yellows and greens with a touch of blue here and there and is a nice pleasent change to the dull looking worlds of fallout 3 and 4. Fallout 76 has alot of towns and caves and building to explore its just such a shame the design choice to remove all NPC'S from the map hinder the exploration of this big and carefullly created world.

    Heres the good stuff:
    Earlier i mentioned how some of the bugs from fallout 4 carry over into 76 Well heres a long paragraph of why i think its both bad and why it happens.
    The game is based of the fallout 4 engine which is known as the creation engine although as some players like myself and others in the fallout community have discovered this actually hinders the game in alot of ways, for example the game has many of the same bugs fallout 4 has, for example yesterday I found a lever action rifle, which is also a gun in fallout 4's far harbour DLC and the reload bug is in this game, for those not aware this bug is a bug that when you shoot one bullet of this gun and reload you actually do the animation for loading all 5 bullets even though you only shot one, Please keep in mind this bug was in fallout 4 and never patched....... except it was by a modder... yeah thats right a modder fixed a bug in fallout 4 bethesda didnt even fix in there next game. As "gamers" fans of fallout need to stop giving bethesda a pass when the bring out these games that have bugs left and right.    … Expand
  39. Proudwell
    Nov 23, 2018
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. There is a lot of backlash to Fallout 76 that is not unwarranted. The game is visually very similar to Fallout 4, utilizing the same exact models from the game frequently. Many have regarded this game as being like a multiplayer mod of Fallout 4. Others have also remarked about how the game does not feel like Fallout, and this is something I agree with, to a point.

    Fallout 76 is a bright, colorful, and (somewhat) visually diverse game set in West Virginia. It is entirely online, with no options for offline play, and servers are capped at 24 players each. It brings back a core feature that had been present in Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas, that being item durability. Fallout 4's settlement building also makes a return with changes, as does Fallout 4's survival mode (albeit considerably less difficult).

    Previous Fallout titles, such as Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game, are dark, barren (stylistically so), and bleak. This continues through all games until Fallout 76, where it comes to a screeching halt. The terminals and holotapes found in Fallout 76 differ considerably from earlier titles, where people living in the areas before the bombs were revealed to be unhinged. Instead, one reads and hears many stories of people working together, making things appear generally more positive than any of the other Fallout titles. That, combined with a more colorful setup, has made people feel disconnected from Fallout 76- it simply is unlike any of the other titles.

    I sincerely believe that this is not a bad thing, though. Fallout 76 has proven to still hold many of the same story elements as earlier Fallout games, sometimes to its detriment, other times to its benefit. I will begin detailing the benefit:

    Players will be able to leave Vault 76 into a very large world in ruin. Throughout West Virginia, people will find the ruins of towns and structures typically filled with hostile life. Areas without hostile life are usually inhabited by robots which seem almost oblivious to the end of the world. These robots give MANY insights into pre-war America that were not always very apparent to players when going through earlier titles.

    The story elements that act against Fallout 76 are quite simply the ones that it cannot seem to escape. The Enclave and the Brotherhood of Steel have a presence in this game, despite it making absolutely no sense for them to have one. They are simply there because they are names that /must/ be in a Fallout title, or else it will not seem like Fallout to people. This comes at the cost of consistency to the story. There have been many times where I've poked through terminals, and someone mentions the Brotherhood of Steel, and all I can think is, "Huh?" Essentially, Bethesda is falling victim to the same thing that Star Wars has- they cannot go beyond what they have already established.

    With luck, Bethesda can be encouraged to put greater effort into Fallout 76, which does have fantastic potential and really entertaining experiences and discoveries with other players. Until then, the game is okay. It is not terrible, nor is it particularly outstanding, but it can be so much more either way- I would vastly prefer the latter.    … Expand
  40. Litisun
    Nov 23, 2018
    7
    I have not encountered many of the bugs featured in the negative reviews. I enjoy the game, but in its current state it is not what many would expect of a Fallout game with multiplayer capability.
    The 0 ratings are as absurd as the 10 ratings, but it truly seems to be a love it or hate it situation. I am 37 hours in and enjoy the game. I hope that Bethesda listens to the constructive    I have not encountered many of the bugs featured in the negative reviews. I enjoy the game, but in its current state it is not what many would expect of a Fallout game with multiplayer capability.
    The 0 ratings are as absurd as the 10 ratings, but it truly seems to be a love it or hate it situation. I am 37 hours in and enjoy the game. I hope that Bethesda listens to the constructive criticism that has been posted in reviews and reacts to remedy those issues without either completely drop the title or overreacting to some of the more absurd demands. The game is flawed, but I enjoy it.

    In the end the greatest fault lies with the lack of proper communication and poor judgement shown by Bethesda throughout the last 6 months. I hope a lesson is learned not only by Bethesda but also by their competitors that if you do not clearly communicate the end result will be a backlash. The lack of a clear vision resulted in multiple visions and high expectations that were not met.    … Expand
  41. StBlaize
    Nov 24, 2018
    7
    You know, it is actually rather fun when you're playing with friends. Get a buddy, explore and craft together, and you might find yourself having fun.

    Note: Causes my gf to get motion sickness.
  42. cdaroque
    Nov 25, 2018
    7
    Good game, not great.

    -Lack of NPCs, the story is telled by notes and terminals, but it's hard to read those when playing coop. -PVP got to nerfed -Buidying is very limited by the weight limit on your stash and camp size, it would be great to build a large town with some houses and vendors to sell my stuf or buy stuff for me. -Locking players on a server would be great by the reason    Good game, not great.

    -Lack of NPCs, the story is telled by notes and terminals, but it's hard to read those when playing coop.
    -PVP got to nerfed
    -Buidying is very limited by the weight limit on your stash and camp size, it would be great to build a large town with some houses and vendors to sell my stuf or buy stuff for me.
    -Locking players on a server would be great by the reason above or for the worshops on the map that the people instead of negociating or fighting with you, people justo switch servers to get.
    -AI is too dumb, please make the game more dificult by increasing the inteligence os the AI not just the enemy levels.

    So far, i've playied for 36 hours, a level 17 caracter, played some coop, but most part solo, i'ts a fun game, worth buying, i'm having a lot of fun with the daily/event quests, but i miss the NPS and some settlers.    … Expand
  43. Nightporter
    Nov 25, 2018
    7
    The game is flawed technically but the issues are being addressed. Don’t play on a **** PC and you should be fine. Be honest now... is your pc up to snuff? I know you THINK your PC is good... but is it? If you can get over the bugs and are happy with the knowedge that the game will be fixed, there is a lot of fun to be had. Roleplayers and immersion junkies will love this game.
  44. sakenyi
    Nov 27, 2018
    7
    It's definitely not the best game. As with every Bethesda game, it's riddled with bugs and "features". and as with any Bethesda game, I'm willing to forgive those due to the track record of Bethesda being that they do improve their product after release (let's for a moment think about how much negativity Fallout 4 received by its players on release).

    A lot of people are talking nothing    It's definitely not the best game. As with every Bethesda game, it's riddled with bugs and "features". and as with any Bethesda game, I'm willing to forgive those due to the track record of Bethesda being that they do improve their product after release (let's for a moment think about how much negativity Fallout 4 received by its players on release).

    A lot of people are talking nothing but bad about this game. Some of this is down to hate bandwagoning while others have legitimate criticism that I cannot in good conscience dismiss. This game is not perfect and will need (like literally every Bethesda title released on PC) work and love from Bethesda (or the modding community in the long run) to make it into a game that would make it past the incredibly high standards of modern gamers.

    However, I admire it as a experiment and in the end, reviews are entirely subjective. Everyone has their own opinion. My advice would be to just try it out or watch some gameplay to judge for yourself and form your own opinion instead of reading all these (both positive and negative) and basing your opinion on that.

    That being said, i've enjoyed it for what it is during my playtime. It's definitely played better with friends (as intended, most likely) and can use a good amount of polish. A decent addition to the Fallout series.    … Expand
  45. Pyrofreak
    Nov 28, 2018
    7
    All scores 4 and below are **** Ignore them. Game is bugged to hell and has many Qol issues. With that being said, the story told via environment is well done and is compelling. Perk system is robust and flexible. Endgame is limited currently but more is on the way. Fun with friends or alone. Currently sits at 6-7 for me, but once some issues are fixed this is easily an 8+ game.
  46. viusing
    Nov 29, 2018
    7
    Huge fan of Fallout 3 and 4, and I went into Fallout 76 expecting it to be Fallout 4 co-op with no NPCs to talk to.

    I got Fallout 4 co-op with no NPCs to talk to, nothing more or less. I wish there was more to this game, but it is what I paid for.
  47. elefantboy
    Dec 1, 2018
    7
    Although the game is not perfect, and really does have a lot of work to be done to improve it, there is definitely a hate band wagon that is affecting this game more than it should. In many ways the game is still in beta, and probably should've been a free beta rather than a preorder beta so that everyone knew what they were getting into. There is a long road ahead to making Fallout 76 theAlthough the game is not perfect, and really does have a lot of work to be done to improve it, there is definitely a hate band wagon that is affecting this game more than it should. In many ways the game is still in beta, and probably should've been a free beta rather than a preorder beta so that everyone knew what they were getting into. There is a long road ahead to making Fallout 76 the game the fans want, however I have had tons of fun playing with my friends and exploring this world together. My recommendations would be to add NPCs and improve quests in all the future patches and DLCs for this game. Quests currently feel empty and unfulfilling, and quests really are the selling point of the Fallout games.
    If you don't know whether or not you want this game yet, I would say unless you have some friends to play with or you are a hard core Fallout fan that wants to experience the prequel lore in this game, you should probably wait for Bethesda to make some fixes. I'm having fun, but not like I have on Fallout 3, NV and 4. In its current state, this game is not for everyone.    … Expand
  48. DreamGary
    Dec 1, 2018
    7
    I would not listen to 0's or 10's, even 4 is pretty harsh. Fun game, the environments are very good, enemies are interesting, best voice acting (from holotapes) in a Bethesda game period. It is very different from the other Bethesda titles, but I don't think that's such a bad thing. It is a spinoff, after all. Also, the bugs in this game are spectacular and it does not run very well.I would not listen to 0's or 10's, even 4 is pretty harsh. Fun game, the environments are very good, enemies are interesting, best voice acting (from holotapes) in a Bethesda game period. It is very different from the other Bethesda titles, but I don't think that's such a bad thing. It is a spinoff, after all. Also, the bugs in this game are spectacular and it does not run very well. Although I do enjoy the game, it is messy in its current state - hopefully Bethesda works to improve the game.… Expand
  49. MarySae
    Dec 3, 2018
    7
    Fallout 76 is an okay game. By far not as good as the sp games and it has a lot of even game breaking bugs, but it's not that bad. It won't be my favourite game ever, but I like it. It can be fun while playing with friends.
    But they really have to fix those annoying bugs and should really get some PR people that don't screw it up much more...
  50. Zrocker04
    Dec 3, 2018
    7
    If you are a fan of fallout games, love exploring, taking down big boss enemies, and crafting then you will enjoy the game. I haven't had many bad run ins with other players, and it's fun to team up for end game content. The best part is the atmosphere, it is desolate, dangerous, and scary. It feels like I felt playing fallout 3 for the first time. Scrounging for ammo and fights actuallyIf you are a fan of fallout games, love exploring, taking down big boss enemies, and crafting then you will enjoy the game. I haven't had many bad run ins with other players, and it's fun to team up for end game content. The best part is the atmosphere, it is desolate, dangerous, and scary. It feels like I felt playing fallout 3 for the first time. Scrounging for ammo and fights actually felt dangerous. In New Vegas and Fallout 4 that feeling was definitely missing.

    There are quite a few downsides that most people are probably aware of. The engine is old, so it can strain your PC or console. Bugs are apparent everywhere. Servers are unstable. And the worst part is the weight limit. You can max out in a single room or from 3 enemies, and your "home base" stash limit is only 400 lbs, not even twice your own carry limit. For any packrats, this is a big issue. However, I've found the game much more fun with a weight limit "glitch" so you don't have to worry about that, I just enjoy exploring the game and pick up whatever I can.

    TL:DR: Exploring, atmosphere, and feelings of real danger are great. Rest of the game, ehh.    … Expand
  51. cerkala
    Dec 7, 2018
    7
    Despite all the hate this game receives, it's surprisingly good. I want to be clear: if this was any other game, it would be called "early access". But - if you have a friend (or two) to play it with, it's real blast. It looks a bit better than Fallout 4, crafting and survival system has improved dramatically.

    Does it feel empty? No. It's full of creatures, ghouls and things you might    Despite all the hate this game receives, it's surprisingly good. I want to be clear: if this was any other game, it would be called "early access". But - if you have a friend (or two) to play it with, it's real blast. It looks a bit better than Fallout 4, crafting and survival system has improved dramatically.

    Does it feel empty? No. It's full of creatures, ghouls and things you might expect in nuked US we came to love over the years. There's also plenty of Fallout goofiness that F4 lacked. If you take time, wander around, explore, there is always something new to find.

    There's also no such story driven coop game like this. Even if you don't like fallout, this might be worth checking out.

    I'm giving it 7 out of 10. And that's low only cause of all the bugs.    … Expand
  52. X-NER
    Dec 17, 2018
    7
    Moin,

    in the big and small anticipation of Fallout 76, it is not nearly as bad as I feared. With the last patches it works well on the PC (my middel PC). it could have been more conntent, but that will come soon. the game alone has reached 70% in the current version. Maybe more in the future. To the marketing of Bethesda they never promised more with the E3, but on the whole the    Moin,

    in the big and small anticipation of Fallout 76, it is not nearly as bad as I feared.
    With the last patches it works well on the PC (my middel PC). it could have been more conntent, but that will come soon. the game alone has reached 70% in the current version. Maybe more in the future.

    To the marketing of Bethesda they never promised more with the E3, but on the whole the price of the title was a bit high. at the start it was closer to an early access game unfortunately. it is the biggest experiment of bethesda i hope they will not give up, then most hater would be silent.

    ((German )
    Moin,

    im großen und kleinen Erwartung auf Fallout 76, ist es lange nicht so schlimm wie ich befürchtet hatte.
    Mit den letzten patches läuft es gut auf den PC( my middel PC). es hätte mehr Content sein, doch kommt das bald. das spiel alleine hat in der aktuellen Version 70% knapp ereicht. In der Zukunft vieleicht mehr.

    Zum dem Marketing von Bethesda sie haben nie mehr versprochen bei der E3, doch im ganzen war der Preis des Titel etwas hoch. beim Start war es neher an einem early access game leider. es ist das größte experiment von bethesda ich hoffe sie geben nicht auf, dann würde meisten hater schweigen.    … Expand
  53. palarky
    Feb 4, 2020
    7
    Bought to laugh. Now I play and play .. :)
    The game has quite serious problems, which do not give a rating higher than 7.
    But this is a very special game that has no analogues.
  54. Dragonejo
    Dec 29, 2018
    7
    Scoring this game with a 0 or a 10 is not a real analysis. I have spent many hours in this game and i can say its a decent game, mostly since the last patches. A lot of hate from people wich played 2 hours or maybe not even played the game. A lot of fun with friends or even solo, lot of things to do and a decen history (if u know how to read...). On the other hand, the game has a lot ofScoring this game with a 0 or a 10 is not a real analysis. I have spent many hours in this game and i can say its a decent game, mostly since the last patches. A lot of hate from people wich played 2 hours or maybe not even played the game. A lot of fun with friends or even solo, lot of things to do and a decen history (if u know how to read...). On the other hand, the game has a lot of travel to improve, lost of bugs need to be patched, and some content need to ve improved like the money in the shops or the loot from the bosses. I f you have time and you are not a hater you need to check the game for yourself.… Expand
  55. WielkiWaclaw
    Jan 2, 2019
    7
    Grafika zasługuje na co najwyżej 5/10. Lepiej ma się udźwiękowienie 7/10. Gamplay zależy od tego czy gramy z ekipą znajomych czy nie- jeśli nie to właściwie gra nie ma sensu- jest sporo do posłuchania i poczytania i jakąś to historie maluje, ale totalnie bez polotu. Natomiast jeśli macie z kim grać to tytuł ten jest dość przyzwoity- oczywiście dziś, 3 miesiące po premierze... wcześniej...Grafika zasługuje na co najwyżej 5/10. Lepiej ma się udźwiękowienie 7/10. Gamplay zależy od tego czy gramy z ekipą znajomych czy nie- jeśli nie to właściwie gra nie ma sensu- jest sporo do posłuchania i poczytania i jakąś to historie maluje, ale totalnie bez polotu. Natomiast jeśli macie z kim grać to tytuł ten jest dość przyzwoity- oczywiście dziś, 3 miesiące po premierze... wcześniej... dramat. Optymalizacja to absolutne dno, a silnik gry pamięta czasy formowania kontynentów.
    Właściwie jak masz ekipę do grania to inni gracze totalnie nie przeszkadzają, pvp totalnie opcjonalne, budowanie bazy... opcjonalne i na razie raczej bym się tym nie zajmował.
    Już parę godzin przegrane i nawet jakieś łatki się pojawiają na razie 7/10 z czego jeden za to że to setting jednej z fajniejszych serii gier.    … Expand
  56. JuanCudz
    Jan 4, 2019
    7
    Sick of the review bombs for what is actually an OK game. You were told by Bethesda that they were trying something new, wouldn't be Fallout5, was to be a online MMO, and you are all so surprised? Don't like the new flavour fine, but it's not worth spending 5 mins of your life to register to give it a zero.
  57. wakimani
    Jan 14, 2019
    7
    Ok the business model for this game is just wrong. But I don't get people complaining about the lack of story/gameplay. Back in Fallout4 the story was boring and fetchy. I loved the game for scavenging stuff, weapons modding, crafting and building. All of these things are here in 76, so from my point of view it is a fun, fresh experience. It really comes down to what you play Fallout for.Ok the business model for this game is just wrong. But I don't get people complaining about the lack of story/gameplay. Back in Fallout4 the story was boring and fetchy. I loved the game for scavenging stuff, weapons modding, crafting and building. All of these things are here in 76, so from my point of view it is a fun, fresh experience. It really comes down to what you play Fallout for. I do it for the sense of loneliness, the crafting, the weird monsters, and such. If you play this with your friends, it's a gem. If you were looking for a story-driven 1.0 Fallout experience you will surely get disappointed.
    Moreover, Bethesda confirmed support for the game throughout 2019 so it'll just get better and deeper. Just give it a chance!    … Expand
  58. dubtoshi
    May 8, 2021
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Fallout 76 is a game that came out late 2018.
    Ok so, i'm just gonna rate the game based on it's questlines.
    Also spoilers for Fallout 76's Main Questline, Wastelanders and Steel Dawn.

    Fallout 76's main questline:
    Utter Garbage, 90% of the questline is boring, only interesting part is the enclave part where you get to launch a nuke (aka, near the end of the questline). If you think you can just skip to other questlines, too bad, after a certain part, both questlines force you to be level 20. And the easiest way to get those levels is by playing the main questline.

    4/10

    Wastelanders:
    Oh my god this questline is so much more interesting. To give you an example: When you enter The Wayward (a new bar that came with Wastelanders), you immediately get into a stressful interaction between a batter and Trudy. Then you get 5 different options to interact with the Batter, you can attack him, you can use your luck and say that there's something in his gun's barrel or you can use your charisma to at least try to talk it out with him or you can try to get help from Morty (who is hiding behind some boxes) OR you can just ask what is going on. 5 different options, 3 of them require some "SPECIAL" abilities, one of them is straight up entering combat and the last one is asking.
    AND THIS IS JUST THE FIRST QUEST, THIS FIRST QUEST IS WAY MORE INTERESTING AND VARIED THAN 90% OF FALLOUT 76'S MAIN QUESTLINE!

    And this isn't just all, as you progress through out the questline, you have to make a choice between which faction to get help from for raiding Vault 94. You can team up with raiders to EXPLODE the vault door (even though it doesn't make sense) or you can team up with settlers to mine your way into vault 94.

    Overall, this questline is amazing. It still has it's fetch quest-ish times but overall, it's so good, ya all have to play Fallout 76 again JUST FOR WASTELANDERS. 9/10

    Steel Dawn:
    Most stuff i said for Wastelanders can be applied to Steel Dawn, it's way more interesting than Fallout 76's Main Questline. And it has a big twist at the end of the questline! However, unlike Wastelanders, this questline is... kinda short, it's about 4-6 hours, This is because Bethesda decided to split BoS questline into 2, an interesting choice. Questline also leaves it on a cliffhanger... lame.
    But it makes it up with an action packed questline, you raid an enclave base in one of the quests. And then a big twist happens, turns out that Rahmani has done something wrong before BoS came to Appalachia. Oh yeah, did i mention there was a community event just for Steel Dawn, community (of course) succesfully completed all of the tasks that were needed, i wonder how it would turn out if we couldn't complete at least few of them.

    Overall, Steel Dawn is a great questline, it kinda sucks that it's a bit short but it's a good questline, and that's all we want as Fallout fans. 7/10

    Long story short, Fallout 76's main questline sucks. Wastelanders is awesome and is totally worth returning Fallout 76 just for that. Steel Dawn is great, though i do recommend starting Steel Dawn when Steel Reign (Part 2 of Steel Dawn) is released this summer (2021), so you dont have to wait for a month or two while waiting for Steel Reign to arrive.

    Oh yeah, there's barely any end game content, you can stay away from those.
    Fallout 76's 2021 Roadmap if you are interested: https://bethesda.net/en/article/5XyzcQiBzFCYI4hMris1L3/fallout-76-inside-the-vault-2021-roadmap-and-ama    … Expand
  59. FIGHTforJESUS
    May 9, 2019
    7
    i just started playing this game after i upgraded my laptop. There were a bunch of difficulties even getting this game to load. They should have some type of 'wizard' to help you with the install. Only reason i didn't abandon the game was because i tried to load it through my geforce options and to my surprise it actually worked. Since then I can say I really am enjoying the game and havei just started playing this game after i upgraded my laptop. There were a bunch of difficulties even getting this game to load. They should have some type of 'wizard' to help you with the install. Only reason i didn't abandon the game was because i tried to load it through my geforce options and to my surprise it actually worked. Since then I can say I really am enjoying the game and have switched to fallout 76 over cs go as my go to for gaming on pc.

    In the communicty I have gotten help from several stronger players by adding friends and fast traveling to these random people and asking questions and or for help with certain things like how to eat drink and get ammo.

    I saw one guy destroying another players camp for resources but overall have found the community to be really caring, even more so than in the real world.

    I think bethesda's vision of a bunch of survivors trying to make it after the fallout really succeeded.

    I do wish there was a way they could do maintenance and server stuff on only a portion of the servers at a time so it would not have outages in the game, because as of now I am writing this review while waiting for them to finish server maintenance so i can play again.

    For what it's worth I would give it a 7 mainly because of all the problems trying to get into the game, but once it's loaded due to the help of the community, i feel i can get strong enough to give back and be a blessing to others while enjoying this current fallout game.

    God bless you,

    FIGHTforJESUS    … Expand
  60. magiclatte42
    May 17, 2019
    7
    Fallout 76 is exactly what it said it would be. A multiplayer fallout experience without human NPCs.

    I have played for 300 hours, with friends and solo. If you are looking to play this game at this point here is my take on this game: I felt like the majority of people writing overly negative reviews haven't actually played the game, and instead review bombed it because it's not the    Fallout 76 is exactly what it said it would be. A multiplayer fallout experience without human NPCs.

    I have played for 300 hours, with friends and solo. If you are looking to play this game at this point here is my take on this game:

    I felt like the majority of people writing overly negative reviews haven't actually played the game, and instead review bombed it because it's not the next single player RPG experience. It's a Fallout Universe map to explore with stories and content. It was released as a complete story with a story arc you follow throughout your game play, if you follow main stories. There is plenty to do and explore with friends as you complete the story to make the content of this game fully complete in a multiplayer context. The lack of NPCs is part of the story ARC and one of the first things you have to rectify so that you can keep existing in Appalachia. I actually really enjoy the real time implementation of VATS.

    The bad:
    - It's buggy, but I've never had a Bethesda game not be released with bugs TBH.
    - If you want this game for PVP, don't. Play a game meant for PVP and developed with PVP as a basis for the game. PVP in Fallout 76 is mostly an afterthought and player builds can be min/maxed to be nearly invulnerable to casual players. It's just not fun.
    - You need to suspend disbelief to enjoy the story. After finding a note left on a desk of a broken house that didn't blow away in 20 years I laughed. I mean holo tapes left all around on underground desks or workstations, ok. A note on a house in the open?
    - There were glaring bugs that led me to believe that the game was not thoroughly tested or played by the development team themselves.

    Overall I enjoyed my time. Realistically I'd rate my experience as an 8 out of 10 because I had a good group to play with but the actual game is more like a 7 so I will put that as my review. If you enjoy exploring the Fallout Universe like I do, you'll likely still enjoy this game. In the end, all quests in Fallout have always been [choose to complete quest, or ignore] regardless of how many stat check options you were given.    … Expand
  61. Nenoeil
    May 23, 2019
    7
    This Fallout doesn't deserve all the hatred on it. Most of the biggest bugs of the beginnings are patched and the dlc Wild Appalachia brings a lot of missing content and features.
    Sure it's not the best Fallout, a bit boring if you play a lot, but if you take it for what it is : a survival and exploration game in the Fallout universe u will be satisfied.
    Fallout fans : The price is so    This Fallout doesn't deserve all the hatred on it. Most of the biggest bugs of the beginnings are patched and the dlc Wild Appalachia brings a lot of missing content and features.
    Sure it's not the best Fallout, a bit boring if you play a lot, but if you take it for what it is : a survival and exploration game in the Fallout universe u will be satisfied.
    Fallout fans : The price is so cheap now, try it u don't take a big risk.    … Expand
  62. Taz_USA
    Jun 22, 2019
    7
    This is my first post here and I just wanted to offer a few thoughts on the current state of the game.
    I have been playing for about 5 months for usually multiple hours per day several times per week, and really enjoying my time in Appalachia. The game has improved substantially, and is finally about what it should have been at launch. I would have given it a 8 out of 10 but it still    This is my first post here and I just wanted to offer a few thoughts on the current state of the game.
    I have been playing for about 5 months for usually multiple hours per day several times per week, and really enjoying my time in Appalachia. The game has improved substantially, and is finally about what it should have been at launch. I would have given it a 8 out of 10 but it still has issues with network latency sensitivity and is prone to server disconnects during times of server stress.
    Others have already summarized what the game is about, so I’ll just a few of my thoughts here:
    Stories are told through holotape and notes, not your typical NPC interactions of previous series titles. Some of the robots have interesting personalities, but it you crave humanoid NPC interactions this may not be the game for you. Bethesda has announced NPCs are coming with a future Wastelanders update.

    It’s open world, learn as you go. No handholding, only basic tutorial quests.
    The community is generally positive.
    Since the games has changed for the better since launch, I would ignore any reviews posted prior to about 3 months ago.

    I typically pick up a game and play only it for a time before moving on, so I cannot compare it to other RPG MMOs except Elder Scrolls Online. I’m a big fan of ESO and played it exclusively for three years prior to picking up this game. ESO also has significantly improved since launch and hopefully Fallout 76 will continue to get better and better.

    TLDR better than it was, still has bugs, pick it up cheap or wait for free weekend to try it out.    … Expand
  63. andrey_ufo
    Jun 21, 2019
    7
    Отличная игра. Очень жду рейды в убежища и NPC. Есть баги и проблемы со стабильностью серверов, но тем не менее это хорошая игра.
  64. SilverRust12
    Jun 21, 2019
    7
    Buggy as hell and often frustrating, but when you work your way around it, you have yourself one of the most feature-filled survival game of the year
  65. uapcent
    Jun 21, 2019
    7
    Still has a lot of bugs, but i's a very enjoyable game going in the right direction.
  66. Draco901
    Nov 15, 2019
    7
    The game's certainly improved over time. It had a rough launch to say the least, but there's actually a decent amount of content now with MUCH fewer issues. It certainly pulls off the RPG aspects better than Fallout 4 since it actually promotes making an actual build instead of an op character that does everything perfectly. That's not to say it's without flaws however. Certain systems inThe game's certainly improved over time. It had a rough launch to say the least, but there's actually a decent amount of content now with MUCH fewer issues. It certainly pulls off the RPG aspects better than Fallout 4 since it actually promotes making an actual build instead of an op character that does everything perfectly. That's not to say it's without flaws however. Certain systems in the game can feel a bit sluggish, hindering gameplay every now and again. Not perfect, but not nearly as bad as people make it out to be.… Expand
  67. kirukiru
    Apr 15, 2020
    7
    This game is OK. Not so great as previous, many bugs, poor optimization, grindy, but it's OK. I bought it for 15$ and regret nothing.
  68. hoanns
    Jan 14, 2022
    7
    It's fun. Definitely got much better since launch. The story isn't as good as single player fallout, but it is workable and there is lots of stuff to grind and do.
  69. Sitheral
    Jan 16, 2022
    7
    It's actually fun game with a pretty good map and neat character development system. The basic gameplay loop is satisfying enough, the problem is, they want you to pay for it like for an mmo, but offer nowhere near enough new content, the endgame is basically just grinding weapons and stuff for your house, if you are into building you can easly read this review as 8 instead, just keep inIt's actually fun game with a pretty good map and neat character development system. The basic gameplay loop is satisfying enough, the problem is, they want you to pay for it like for an mmo, but offer nowhere near enough new content, the endgame is basically just grinding weapons and stuff for your house, if you are into building you can easly read this review as 8 instead, just keep in mind, a lot of the good stuff is in atom shop and sooner or later you will want to pay.… Expand
  70. obamagayming
    Dec 4, 2020
    7
    The Map is awesome. I really enjoy the atmosphere of the game and it feels really good playing. But well yeah its a mess of bugs the storry sucks there is no text chat, PVP is the worst and micro transactions. Worth buying? If you have friends to play yes, if not no
  71. figaropalong
    Jul 16, 2021
    7
    In 2021, the title is very playable. The storyline itself is not thrilling (even though this series stood out the most by the storyline), but the depicted world makes up for it. Imo way better then F4
  72. Nick7000
    Mar 9, 2023
    7
    Кряхтит, пердит, задыхается, но все же отдает любимым фолычем. 76 - как друг дебил, кривой, косой, но ты уже к нему привык.
  73. 0235
    Nov 23, 2018
    6
    Too many bugs to give it any higher. its more of a 5.5 than a 6 right now. without bugs it would be a 6.0 - 7.5

    The gameplay, world and survival elements are solid. the missions, quests and story are reasonably OK. but the bugs both game-breaking bugs and nuisance bugs are far too persistent. we are talking about fallout new Vegas level of bugs on release.
  74. Skarwind
    Nov 24, 2018
    6
    The game just isn't fun. It's not without it's moments but they are few and far between. Requiring friends just to find some semblance of fun doesn't make it any better. The world is lifeless (yes I do understand it goes with the story they are trying to present with the Scorched and the survivors trying to live in a world after the bombs fall). There is no purpose to anything you do asThe game just isn't fun. It's not without it's moments but they are few and far between. Requiring friends just to find some semblance of fun doesn't make it any better. The world is lifeless (yes I do understand it goes with the story they are trying to present with the Scorched and the survivors trying to live in a world after the bombs fall). There is no purpose to anything you do as the player. Move from area to area and just pick up junk. Craft some things to move to another area. Progress in levels to get more perks that don't make the game feel like you're actually getting much stronger. Some of the enemies are pretty well designed but their AI makes them boring to fight. The lack of any meaningful story makes the journey just as meaningless.

    If you want to find lore then there is plenty of it. Holotapes and text logs are plentiful but you are experiencing a story that has already happened. You're a trespasser in someone else's journey. We could have lived in a world where the responders were dealing with the Brotherhood of Steel or the Enclave dealing with MODUS. Instead we are left with the husk that is the aftermath. Personally, I would have rathered had a full fledged story experience that I could have played with friends or solo and then also have the world we were given. In the same vein as ESO presents it's non changing world, we could have just lived in a static world that doesn't change with any major action we do but still have a story presented to the audience while dealing with the repercussions that an online only world has to deal with.

    The game isn't a 0 or a 1 but it's definitely a game that the Fallout fans did not want. I'll still play it because some of my friends are having fun and I can create my own moments with them but it's not something I will be playing in the months to come.    … Expand
  75. zaphod6502
    Nov 14, 2018
    6
    This isn't a bad game. It has an interesting open world to explore and the crafting system is worth delving into.

    The negatives:
    - A badly outdated graphics engine that features muddy low detail graphics
    - A non-consensual PvP system that is more annoying than useful
    - A jerky combat system that has plagued all Bethesda games
    - A horrible user interface
    - No decent tutorial
  76. akarnokd
    Dec 9, 2018
    6
    A glorious mess. Audiovisually enternaining with the intrigue of exploration contrasted by bugs, bad design decisions and constant nerfing. As if the design goal was to prevent players from getting strong, powerful, rich and well equipped.

    I didn't miss NPCs and their life story and liked the terminal/robot/holo way of getting to the point and issuing the next quest. Discovering    A glorious mess. Audiovisually enternaining with the intrigue of exploration contrasted by bugs, bad design decisions and constant nerfing. As if the design goal was to prevent players from getting strong, powerful, rich and well equipped.

    I didn't miss NPCs and their life story and liked the terminal/robot/holo way of getting to the point and issuing the next quest. Discovering locations is exciting but there is no "cleared" marker and practically one is expected to return for more scavenge.

    Ballistic weapons felt underpowered, not a decent sniper rifle like my all-time favorite New Vegas Anti-Materiel rifle. Melee on the other hands feels very effective: even without building for one, using a legendary super sledge wrecks most enemies pretty quickly. Perk cards are okay but I liked Fallout 4's approach where I could have all the perks I wanted at level 80: hoarding, damage improvements, defenses, crafting, etc. at once. Instead, limited points and card swapping.

    Camps and workshops make little sense. Camps despawn and likely won't respawn upon login due to location conflicts. Workshops provide so little resources (just nerfed) that you have to take pick them up periodically or they stop producing.

    It's too easy to get overencumbered and thus kissing goodbye to fast-travel. Living like that for weeks makes you appreciate the landscape and hate the middle section of the map as there are very few ramps leading up to it. This comes very annoying when there is a quest stage sending you between the regions or a timed event you won't be able to reach in time on foot.

    PvP doesn't seem to be worth it and should have been a separate mode entirely, maybe after one completes the main story and is at least level 50 (the max level for weapons also) so there everybody has an equal start and build/skill is the dominant factor.

    There are several dozen major bugs (too much damage bug, stats and cards not working properly bug, uncompletable quests, etc.) so in order to avoid the frustration the early birds have suffered through, I recommend waiting for 6 months and far more impactful patches at least.    … Expand
  77. jas_on
    Jan 13, 2020
    6
    I'm had a lot of fun playing Fallout 76 in the first few months. It was a different kind of fun than that found in exclusively single-player Fallout experiences, but fun nonetheless. I teamed up with friends and worked on big quests and area events together, AND I'd retire to my C.A.M.P. and work on things alone at my own pace. People calling this a cash grab clearly didn't see the loveI'm had a lot of fun playing Fallout 76 in the first few months. It was a different kind of fun than that found in exclusively single-player Fallout experiences, but fun nonetheless. I teamed up with friends and worked on big quests and area events together, AND I'd retire to my C.A.M.P. and work on things alone at my own pace. People calling this a cash grab clearly didn't see the love and attention that's went into this game. It's far from perfect, but it was a good start.

    All that said, I no longer play. My free time is too valuable and the game world doesn't hold my attention despite the things I have left to do. Fallout 76 wasn't a disaster, but it requires a level of forgiveness and patience I found it too hard to maintain.    … Expand
  78. Astrono
    Feb 15, 2022
    6
    Not very bad in 2022, but with silly bugs. It’s can be funny if you play with friends. I completed the main scenario for a week and I an satisfied! Good luck, citizens of Wastelands!
  79. DeanG
    Nov 14, 2018
    6
    Leaving all the bugs and issues aside, it's just not much fun to play. I was on the beta, started again with a new character, so have not got past level 8 yet, so maybe it gets better. But so far it is just a lot of micromanagement of inventory, and searching around for locations to scrap junk. Very slow progression like ESO, but just not a lot of interesting stuff to do.
  80. wolfaust
    Jul 14, 2021
    6
    First, don't even consider purchasing Fallout 76. It's been two years since the release, but there are tons of bugs in the game; even these bugs prevent you go through main quests. I'm still playing the game. Because I'm playing knowing that I wasted my money and wasting my time. After more than 40 hours, I will not delete the game until I finish the main quest.

    There is an unnecessary    First, don't even consider purchasing Fallout 76. It's been two years since the release, but there are tons of bugs in the game; even these bugs prevent you go through main quests. I'm still playing the game. Because I'm playing knowing that I wasted my money and wasting my time. After more than 40 hours, I will not delete the game until I finish the main quest.

    There is an unnecessary and aimless difficulty in the game. Fallout 2 is easier than Fallout 76. For example, your level is 15 and you go to the main mission. You don't know what will you face wherever you go, but then suddenly you come across creatures over 35 levels and even legendary bosses! Even if your level is 35, you have a hard time killing legendary creatures, which 5-10 levels more than your level.

    There is an annoying bug; when you are not under attack, your armour or even your weapon can be broken due to bugs. Also, sometimes, the durability of weapons decreases in 4-5 magazines.

    When you do fast travel to a place, you fall into unexpected places. It might even be a cliff edge. Also, the game starts when you are falling from some height and your health decreases.

    Some main quests and side quests cause time loss. I cannot say that there are no good sides; with your friends, you can hunt down legendary creatures of "unbalanced levels and powers".

    Still, don't buy it! They need 2 or more years to fix the game.

    And, the graphics are like watching a low-quality video.    … Expand
  81. Dynako
    Nov 14, 2018
    6
    Buggy, Laggy, Boring... How on earth Bethesda thought this game was ready for release is beyond me.. Save your money.
  82. Chiaro22
    Dec 16, 2018
    6
    Fallout 76 is more an online first person shooter than it is a role playing game. Gone are branching quest lines and player expression through dialogue or choices. Instead the game relies mostly on how players interact in the game world, for good or bad.

    Bethesda’s Appalachia is beautifully crafted world, and despite bugs and flaws its a game with a lot of potential, but one that needs    Fallout 76 is more an online first person shooter than it is a role playing game. Gone are branching quest lines and player expression through dialogue or choices. Instead the game relies mostly on how players interact in the game world, for good or bad.

    Bethesda’s Appalachia is beautifully crafted world, and despite bugs and flaws its a game with a lot of potential, but one that needs excessive tweaking to reach its’ potential. For now Fallout 76 tries to be so many things at once, and ironically becomes a bit over-encumbered with ambition itself.

    Fallout 76 consists of multiple paradoxes that does not glue all that well together. It is a Fallout game, but you’re very limited in what you can pick up, keep or sell. It’s a survival game, but there’s power armors and stockpiles of ammo around every corner. It’s a post apocalyptic irradiated place, but you can hardly kill a ghoul without getting a rad-x.

    It’s an open world game where solo exploration is encouraged, but you’ll unintentionally set off group events that makes players flock to your location. You can trade with strangers, but they can one-shot you with an overpowered weapon. You can stay away from other players and play it solo, but over time it might make you feel lonely or even slightly paranoid.

    Bethesda’s Appalachia is perhaps the most impressive game world Bethesda has crafted to date, like a mix of Fallout 4 and Skyrim, only bigger. The addition of different regions makes the world a lot more interesting than earlier Fallouts to explore, and although many Fallout 4 assets are re-used, there’s a lot of new assets and lightings added. You can see valleys and vistas far into the horizon, you can watch rain clouds drift towards you, or nuke clouds rise above you.

    The downside to it, and one that gets more evident the more you play, is that the locations are spread out a lot more than in previous Bethesda games, and that the wilderness itself is largely devoid of animals and points of interest.

    Bethesda games have always been about exploring and looting, but hoarding items has previously been unproblematic when there’s not limited weight and “stash”. Fallout 76 on the other hand introduces both limited inventory weight, stash weight and a lot of other “survival” elements, like food and water needs.

    As you level up you’ll find you need a lot of “convenience” perks to remedy thirst, hunger, food spoilage and low inventory weight, and then there’s also radiation and diseases to account for. This makes leveling up more of a chore than what it has used to be, it’s just not as fun to pick 10 weight and food perks and 2-3 that are unique to your character, just to be able to play the game without going half crazy because your character is thirsty, hungry or over-encumbered all the time.

    There’s an inherent contradiction in the attempted combination of the Bethesda style of open world games, where the player becomes God Allmighty with a all the loose items in the world in a drawer, and a survival setting where the player is supposedly trying to scrape by on tin cans and irradiated flowers.

    We are wading in an endlessly re-spawning junk pile, where all the loot is randomly thrown upon us like bling bling in a casino, but we can’t keep much of it, we can’t stash it, and because vendors have low and limited amounts of caps we can’t easily sell it, at least not without doing the rounds between faction vendors and waiting 24 hours for vendor inventories to reset.

    Another problem with Fallout 76 is that it relies a little too much on leveled lists and randomization. You can find recipes at different locations in the world, but if you want a certain recipe for a certain food item, you just need to be lucky and stumble upon it in-game. The same goes for plans for crafting weapons or armor. At its worst playing Fallout 76 feels more like playing a slot machine than a rpg.

    Luckily Bethesda have said they will improve on the game in the future. Let's hope they pick the right perks to level up their game.    … Expand
  83. AlexeiGorbo
    Nov 30, 2018
    6
    While the lack of humanoid NPCs in the game hurts the storytelling, narrative, and overall depth of the quests in Fallout 76, the game still manages to intrigue to a decent extent.

    To start, the environmental storytelling might be the franchise at its best, but most of the actual quests given by non-human NPCs, terminals, holotapes, letters, exc. begin to feel same in execution, despite    While the lack of humanoid NPCs in the game hurts the storytelling, narrative, and overall depth of the quests in Fallout 76, the game still manages to intrigue to a decent extent.

    To start, the environmental storytelling might be the franchise at its best, but most of the actual quests given by non-human NPCs, terminals, holotapes, letters, exc. begin to feel same in execution, despite having genuinely interesting and compelling story arcs. The amount of quests is heavy, more than any previous game, but they're very often repetitive and require more reading and listening than actual reacting and participating; to be fair, the stories told as I've previously mentioned are good, sometimes amazing, but a lot remains to be desired due to lack of variation.

    The impromptu events are often quite fun, but often also require real teamwork and communication to accomplish; there is where Fallout 76 either thrives outright or falls flat, depending solely on the experience you have with over players in the game. With teamwork and cooperation, these encounters and missions are often thrilling and extremely rewarding, but with a incompetent passive squad, they feel un-engaging and tedious. The experience depends solely on how you work with others.

    As for PvP, well it's really just a broken, pointless, more so annoying mechanics that serves almost no purpose in the game other than claiming that it's a thing. It's shallow, unfun, boring, and offers no thrill and virtually no reward.

    That being said teaming up with friends and co-oping is the best part of this game outside of environmental storytelling, and this is where Fallout 76 separates itself from the pack. It's quite invigorating to complete quests and events as a squad, as well as discovering new places, their hidden secrets, and defeating West Virginia's mythological creatures together. Genuinely, I believe this would have better off as a co-op experience solely with no PvP elements.

    Mechanically it plays like a refined Fallout 4; imagine Fallout 4, but far better. Performance can be hit or miss, and suffers greatly on consoles, but visually this is the best looking Fallout game, and the best looking game on Bethesda's aging Creation Engine. Some of the textures can appear muddy or bland, but the color pallet is vibrant, and the lighting effects are top notch.

    The final thing is the crafting and survival mechanics, which aren't extremely engaging, but at the same time not that much of a nuance; it's a mechanic in the game, it makes things slightly more interesting and raises the stakes a bit higher, but overall it just gives you a reason to explore your environment thoroughly and keep you a little bit more occupied.

    The map is over 4 times the size of Fallout 4's commonwealth, and the locations are varied and interesting. The world is a highlight of this overall mediocre, what what you want out of it game.

    Fallout 76 isn't bad, it's just made some bad directional decisions. It contains elements of the franchise at both its absolute best and absolute worst. Overall, it's just kind of okay, but definitely worth playing with friends if you're big into Fallout.    … Expand
  84. BigBragg
    Nov 22, 2018
    6
    Good draft, needs some polish and fine tuning. I enjoy many of the games concepts and approaches, not all executions are handled well. Then there are bugs, not just radroaches.
  85. c300g97
    Jul 20, 2020
    6
    Being a huge fallout fan, i've bought this almost on launch.
    Being now 2 years later, i no longer need to give this game a plain 0.
    But it's still too little, too late.
    Now it feels like a mere DLC to fallout 4, with some more crafting here and there plus a decent storyline with true RPG quests.
  86. Lonewanderer08
    Nov 14, 2018
    6
    Not a bad game, but honestly, no NPCs and the repetetive "go find X" even though you know it will just be another corpse, combined with no shared XP or Loot when a teammate kills and enemy you havent hit and the horrendous Stash limit basically kills the game... Its **** sad, because i really wanted to like it, but i just cant enjoy it if my chest is always full and i still cant reallyNot a bad game, but honestly, no NPCs and the repetetive "go find X" even though you know it will just be another corpse, combined with no shared XP or Loot when a teammate kills and enemy you havent hit and the horrendous Stash limit basically kills the game... Its **** sad, because i really wanted to like it, but i just cant enjoy it if my chest is always full and i still cant really build or craft much before its empty again, it just sucks the fun out of crafting and looting and if that isnt fun, what is the point?… Expand
  87. Nightiscold
    Nov 21, 2018
    6
    Lv. 30 and played on 4k ultra settings (45-60 FPS, GTX 1080). Game engine was mostly stable with the exception of many server crashes.

    World design: 95. Graphics: 80. Sound: 85. Story: 35. Multiplayer: 25. Enemy AI: 15. General concept of the game: 30. The release was rushed to fast without a working concept. However, i still enjoyed the exploration and atmosphere. I especially    Lv. 30 and played on 4k ultra settings (45-60 FPS, GTX 1080). Game engine was mostly stable with the exception of many server crashes.

    World design: 95.
    Graphics: 80.
    Sound: 85.
    Story: 35.
    Multiplayer: 25.
    Enemy AI: 15.
    General concept of the game: 30.

    The release was rushed to fast without a working concept. However, i still enjoyed the exploration and atmosphere. I especially like that the buildings are dark at night. Without question it is the poorest Fallout game till date and i would not expect something this bad from such a large publisher.    … Expand
  88. anime_bill
    Nov 14, 2018
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Gonna preface my review by saying there is a genuine hate campaign going on against this game that is in no way justified. While the game has flaws a plenty, there's nothing massively out of the ordinary for Bethesda games (or in some cases, many other games.) A lot of these reviews come from people who have VERY CLEARLY not played the game. A lot of criticisms are based off of straight up lies and fake news.
    Additionally, this is NOT a "main series" Fallout title. This is not a singleplayer RPG but instead an open world multiplayer loot'n'shoot survival game. This is a spinoff game. This is a game that is a similar genre to Fallout 4, but not the SAME genre.
    So keeping this in mind, I'm going to review the game under the following criteria: Open World, Multiplayer, Loot'n'shoot, Survival, and "Game".

    Open World:
    One thing Bethesda does that no other studio seems to be quite as capable of is making a genuinely OPEN world filled to the brim with details and exploration. There's junk and clutter around every turn that manages to breathe life in to an otherwise dead world. There's always something on the horizon, and there will be content you simply wont see even after hundreds of hours of gametime. The mantra of go anywhere, do anything definitely shines through in this aspect.
    The story is also told through the open world, each significant area seems to have a piece of lore attached to it that can be learned through recordings, notes, and diaries on computer terminals. Reading through these pieces of information not only lets you experience the story, but also gives you gameplay hints and clues that can help you discover any secrets in the surrounding area.

    The game has a main story, but it takes something of a backseat this time around. A lot of people are critical of that, and I can understand why. However, I don't find that it impacts me much to begin with. The main story provided by Fallout 3/4 are incredibly shallow, and can be completed very quickly by just bee-lining it towards the next quest marker.

    The lack of NPCs and NPC dialog is a bit eh.

    Multiplayer:
    As far as the multiplayer aspect of the game goes, it works quite well. I'm able to get in to a game no problem, and it runs very smoothly. I'm able to play with my friends from around the world with almost no noticable lag. The core game works well too, I enjoyed exploring and fighting alongside my friends, and building camps was definitely rewarding.

    The PvP is a bit dumb however. Easily exploitable. There is a purpose for PvP however. Random fighting in the wasteland is meaningless, where the real PvP comes in to play is over controlling territory in the form of Workshops. Owning a Workshop allows you to harvest valuable materials for your benefit, but someone can come along and try to claim that workshop for themselves. Unfortuantely, there's nothing stopping them from constantly retrying, meaning that if they have the patience, they can force you to keep defending your property.

    Also always on microphones and no text chat... the fact that they thought that was a good idea is a massive yikes from me. Very bad decision, clearly they're out of touch with games.

    Loot'n'shoot:
    A system that basically defines Bethesda's Fallout now. There have been a lot of positive changes to this system. Crafting is much more in depth, breaking down materials and weapons is meaningful, weapon degredation is back and works well with the system they made in Fallout 4...

    The killer, however, is the god damn piece of crap STASH. Why is there a 400lb limit? Even being careful with how you sort your loot, it just ruins the game entirely since you eventually come to a wall where you have to make room in your STASH or don't pick up any more items. This completely breaks the game loop.

    Survival:
    It's basically the survival mode from Fallout 4 except toned down a bit to be less of an annoyance. Keeping yourself unfed isn't a series of increasing debuffs, but a singular large debuff that gets applied when you drop to 25% of your hunger/thirst bars. Keeping them above 75% provides buffs as an incentive to maintain them. Additionally, there's even more benefits to preparing your own food over eating random junk food you find on your journeys.

    Diseases are back, and so long as you aren't getting bitten by rabbid animals or rolling around in dirt, you'll stay healthy. Makes sense to me, so it's a cool touch.

    Game:
    Simply put, the Gamebryo engine just CHUGS in this game. It's at the end of its lifespan. The game runs horrendously by default, and you have to do some SERIOUS gutting to make it playable. It doesn't look bad, but for how it runs it should be looking better.

    FOV isn't locked contrary to popular belief, but an FOV slider would have been nice. The 63 FPS cap is a dumb compromise.

    Ran out of characters.    … Expand
  89. BethObsBio
    Nov 14, 2018
    6
    As a fan of Fallout and Bethesda's open-world games in general, I had hoped at the very least that the environmental storytelling and exploration that the game hadn't been stripped of would at the very least make it worth buying and playing.

    Unfortunately, I only got a couple hours into the game before giving up. The motivation to explore the world compared to the past Fallout games    As a fan of Fallout and Bethesda's open-world games in general, I had hoped at the very least that the environmental storytelling and exploration that the game hadn't been stripped of would at the very least make it worth buying and playing.

    Unfortunately, I only got a couple hours into the game before giving up. The motivation to explore the world compared to the past Fallout games just isn't there. Without human NPCs to talk to, the game felt very incomplete and empty. The side quests are by far the weakest point of the game, which consist of asking you to go to location X and finding a holotape, or killing X amount of enemies. This is the kind of quest structure you expect from an MMO.

    The whole time I was playing the game, I just wondered why I shouldn't just replay Fallout 4 instead? The gunplay and graphics would be the same, but it would have everything else that 76 was stripped of.

    This is a great game for people who come from MMOs and are used to the type of repetitive content those games have (albeit SWTOR is the exception) or people who only care about gameplay.

    I'd give it a 6/10. If it didn't have the exploration and environmental storytelling that these games are known for, it'd get much worse. What a pity. The setting would have made a good traditional Fallout game.    … Expand
  90. Derelique
    Nov 14, 2018
    6
    This game doesn't deserve a 0-1 but it's not an 8-10 either. It should have been marketed as an xpac for FO4, because that's what it is, FO4 online (but not massively) and multiplayer. It heartily maintains BGS's nickname, 'BUGthesda' because it's riddled with them. Some onerous and absurd to have made it to launch, others more forgivable. Some decisions are trying new things withoutThis game doesn't deserve a 0-1 but it's not an 8-10 either. It should have been marketed as an xpac for FO4, because that's what it is, FO4 online (but not massively) and multiplayer. It heartily maintains BGS's nickname, 'BUGthesda' because it's riddled with them. Some onerous and absurd to have made it to launch, others more forgivable. Some decisions are trying new things without listening to what your players actually want and here's the backlash. People really wanted COOP in Fallout, not a faux MMO, that's not massive multi but is permissive and odd pvp but without either fully in or out options pvp? wtf? Too many new things tried here, that really doesn't work. But fun can happen in spite of all of that & the bugs anyway if you let it and don't rage over the issues.
    Will be a much better game a year from now with private servers and mods. But really, not a $60 triple AAA standalone title. Should have been marketed and sold as what it is, a FO4 expac and thing to occupy your time while FO5 is built, preferably on a new engine. It's really, REALLY, time to retire this engine BGS.    … Expand
  91. Saltwaifu
    Nov 16, 2018
    6
    A very average game in comparison to many triple A titles released within the last 2 years. Its game-world is nowhere as polished or interesting as Breath of the Wild, Horizon:Zero Dawn or RDR2. Its technical aspects are half a decade behind most $30 games.
    The game looks, feels and plays poorly. Frame stutters, capped framerate, no FOV slider, no push to talk, janky sounds, weapons feel    A very average game in comparison to many triple A titles released within the last 2 years. Its game-world is nowhere as polished or interesting as Breath of the Wild, Horizon:Zero Dawn or RDR2. Its technical aspects are half a decade behind most $30 games.
    The game looks, feels and plays poorly. Frame stutters, capped framerate, no FOV slider, no push to talk, janky sounds, weapons feel like they have little next to no impact in both audio and visual compared to good FPS, of which there have been plenty since 2017.

    There is a majority of environmental storytelling, if you enjoyed this in other Fallout titles, you will enjoy it here. But there is a significant lack of cohesive main- and sub-plot storytelling. Every location has its own story but you barely ever feel like you're part of a significant storyline with an means to an end. There are also no surprises in storytelling; pretty much every human NPC is dead, you will always return to a terminal or a robot and never be surprised or caught off-guard once.
    The leveling and weapon system are normalized so higher level players don't carry a great advantage over lower level players, making level 20s able to compete with 40s. This artificial balance in turn makes the PvE a complete joke, with the mobs suffering from the typical Bethesda AI flaws since Morrowind (getting stuck, getting confused, standing still. If you shoot a big monster from a position it has hard time reaching, you win).
    As such, there is no real sense of progression either. Hour 3 will feel like hour 30 will feel like hour 300, except you're wearing Power Armor in the end and have an even greater overabundance of Stimpacks to spam and cheese out the already ridiculously easy content.
    The gunplay is incredibly shallow, from bad audio to bad animations and visuals to little impact felt from guns. There is no realism in this shooting, from the way the guns sway to recoil to damage.
    A majority of base movement and combat animations have been recycled from Fallout 3 and Skyrim. You still have swing left, swing right, power attack and block, clunky run animations, clunky wielding animations, pretty much everything that modders worked hard to change for FO4.
    Finally, the character customization is horrible. The most downloaded mods on Nexus for FO4 (and Skyrim) are to improve character customization, visuals, textures and clothes. None of that is in Fallout 76, your character will go through the exact same creation menu as Fallout 4 with barely any improvements made to it, the textures will be bad, the customization will be bad.
    Many clothes just 'hide' your equipped armor pieces, and the majority of armor you find is re-used assets from 4, without even getting a texture upgrade. Customization is one of the most imporant aspects for many people in an RPG and Fallout 76 offers very rudimentary, ugly customization that won't make you feel unique or like a virtual avatar of yourself, just an ugly blob of very dated textures.

    All in all, this game is worse than many early access titles currently, not worth $60 for any of its key aspect: There are many superior multi- and single-player games out on the market. There are games with better storytelling on the market. There are games with better visuals and technology on the market that still offer more interesting gameplay than F76.

    I gave it a 55/100, rounded up to a 6/10 on here. It is an 'okay' game but it's not great. It has fun potential, but not more than other games. Games media will likely give it a deluded high 70 to low 80, but what else is new. Just in terms of graphics, stability and features you'd objectively have to deduct a vast sum of %, but everyone knows they won't.
    Still, it's not a 0/10 like all the bombed reviews claim, but its definitely not a 10/10 with vibrant AI as some of the other reviews claim. The truth is somewhere in the middle.

    Only buy this if you have an abundance of income and don't feel bad for supporting the practice of unfinished, recycled games as a service, or if you enjoy environmental storytelling as the main aspect of a game.
    Fallout 76 is an avatar of mediocrity, and as long as gamers don't start voting with their wallets to force Game Studios to shape up, this will be the standard for many games moving forward.    … Expand
  92. cooldan613
    Nov 15, 2018
    6
    Here just a few thoughts that I see about the game so far but the cons may change due possible bug fixes and patches if they come anytime that is reasonable and hopefully solid.

    The Pros- `There have a decent improvement on some A.I. for enemies* `There are a decent amount of quests to do so far that are great but some are too repetitive `Is great when playing on a team, can be    Here just a few thoughts that I see about the game so far but the cons may change due possible bug fixes and patches if they come anytime that is reasonable and hopefully solid.

    The Pros-
    `There have a decent improvement on some A.I. for enemies*
    `There are a decent amount of quests to do so far that are great but some are too repetitive
    `Is great when playing on a team, can be boring when not?
    `Sometimes you find funny animation glitches on NPC?

    Cons-
    `Graphics and slowdowns that are not smooth for many
    `HUGE Bug when you have power armor on and you have more weight than normally allowed to safe travel without power armor leads to upon death, not being able to respond and just idle, only way to fix this is going to the main menu and loosing all your junk.
    `many people have open mic on and it can be annoying, no push to talk
    `fps lock and POV slider but this i feel won't be fixed till who knows when and Can Be a deal breaker for some.    … Expand
  93. PavelStepanov
    Nov 25, 2018
    6
    Fallout 76 is like Fallout 4, but with a huge map, various locations and other players, but without the NPC and dialogs.
    Like a spinoff, a game is good if you like to explore the world and build and if you are ready to put up with poor optimization and the price of aaa project.

    ps Thanks, Todd, now my huts with turrets will be seen by someone else besides me)
  94. Gehrione
    Nov 16, 2018
    6
    Makes me sad too see all those bad reviews, I cant understand this hate, im having much fun with the game and the humour and storyline is as good as in the prequels from what i played now.
    for me its a great atmospheric singleplayer game with online features.
  95. Samdt75
    Nov 16, 2018
    6
    I think a 6.5 is more accurate, lets start with the good, Fallout 76 definitely is a different fallout game. But if you enjoy base building it really is great. This game focuses around building and upgrading either your camp or your personal character. and since everything needs to be upgraded it really makes finding basic junk rewarding. Also a nice feature for Camps and workshops is theI think a 6.5 is more accurate, lets start with the good, Fallout 76 definitely is a different fallout game. But if you enjoy base building it really is great. This game focuses around building and upgrading either your camp or your personal character. and since everything needs to be upgraded it really makes finding basic junk rewarding. Also a nice feature for Camps and workshops is the ability to have materials that can be mined I think thats a pretty cool addition in 76.

    I will say for the story missions are lacking *Spoilers Kinda*...................... Everyone is dead, so story missions follow something like this, find a object find the holotape find the dead person repeat, Sometimes you get to kill some enemies along the way but for the most part thats how the story or most quests go. As for quality of quests I mean its average nothing crazy, And the quests didnt glitch out for me ever, at the time of writing this I am level 30 with about 24 hours in if you include the beta.

    The reason I put the game at a 6 or 6.5 is for the following, the servers, in all my time of playing the servers disconnected me about ten times in the normal game (I never got disconnected in the beta) and ive had this game hard crash twice for me on my rig. For reference I have a intel i7 7700 k GTX 1060 6 GB and 32 GB ddr4. I will also say when you disconnect from the server it tells you way late. I have been disconnected while running to a part of the map only to realize I disconnected and I now have to re walk all the land I just covered, supper annoying. Another reason for the low score is for the power armor glitch, Ive had to reset my game twice for power armor glitches so far, how this happens is you enter the power armor at a bad angle and get stuck.. definitely not fun. so over all for the game being out for two days ish ive crashed 2 times disconnected 10 times and had to restart the game 2 times for the power armor glitch.

    * (side note) Servers can be very lag prone and has bad hit detection this has only happened once to me forcing me to log out and back in again in order to get a better server. It was so bad to the point of me hitting a enemy then that enemy would hit me twice and then just roll over dead mid attack.

    I will also say that this game needs to have some quality of life fixes 400 lbs max stash size is crap That needs to be raised or weight levels need to be decreased. Also No push to talk is annoying as well. I have also noticed even if you turn off the voice chat sometimes the launcher likes to turn it back on again, only happened to me once in the full release and once in the beta so be aware.

    I will also say this game needs a trader hub, most vendors like at a resort in fallout 76 share the caps inventory and I find that very annoying, I suppose a way to combat that is to server hop but it should still be fixed or have something to offset this. It almost feels like you need to be able to post your goods for sale for other players to see, something like a guild store like from ESO (Elder Scrolls Online) A quick spot to put extra amo up for sale or a great place to get cheap goods. Now when I say feel I mean to say selling items is very empty and not satisfying, since vendor hubs share most caps you feel like there is no point to selling you should just scrap it. It just feels like there was supposed to be a trading store but it never really got put in.

    Also A side note that I have is with repairing weapons if i need to use a gear to repair a weapon when I scrap the weapon type in question I should get gear... makes sense right? Wrong! only wood and steel, It just kind of bothers me. But after all of that I will say one more good thing to end on. Huge map! I very rarely come across players and each area is very different from the starting area in the woods to the swamp to the nuclear waste land its all unique and each spot feels very different.    … Expand
  96. Krystalin3
    Nov 17, 2018
    6
    I have sunk many hours into Fallout 76 since the day of it's launch and the amount of fun I've had is astonishing. I've heard a lot of bad things about this game and while I love playing it, whether it be on my own or with friends, I have to agree with some of these points. As much as I expected it the number of bugs and performance problems in this game is disappointing. Getting frameI have sunk many hours into Fallout 76 since the day of it's launch and the amount of fun I've had is astonishing. I've heard a lot of bad things about this game and while I love playing it, whether it be on my own or with friends, I have to agree with some of these points. As much as I expected it the number of bugs and performance problems in this game is disappointing. Getting frame drops in areas that aren't populated by more than 5 or 6 enemies isn't acceptable. While I love this game to death, it is only fair to review it based on the technical aspects.… Expand
  97. LegendarySlayer
    Nov 18, 2018
    6
    Fallout 76 ein großer Hype aber es wirkt eher als wäre es eine Mod zu Fallout 4...
    Da ich Fallout 4 gespielt habe, mit allen DLC´s und es echt gut fand und Stunden damit verbrachte habe tut mir Fallout 76 echt weh.
    Es ist kein generell schlechtes Spiel, aber es setzt nichts so wirklich zu 100% um. Die Performance ist katastrophal...selbst Fallout 4 lief flüssiger...warum hat es einen    Fallout 76 ein großer Hype aber es wirkt eher als wäre es eine Mod zu Fallout 4...
    Da ich Fallout 4 gespielt habe, mit allen DLC´s und es echt gut fand und Stunden damit verbrachte habe tut mir Fallout 76 echt weh.

    Es ist kein generell schlechtes Spiel, aber es setzt nichts so wirklich zu 100% um. Die Performance ist katastrophal...selbst Fallout 4 lief flüssiger...warum hat es einen 60 FPS Lock? Ich habe Framedrops immer wieder mal geht es runter auf ca. 35 Fps und das mit einem Ryzen 2700x und einer GTX 1080 in FHD, das sollte selbst auf ultra settings nicht passieren.

    Survival...naja das man Essen und Trinken muss und seine Waffen reparieren zu müssen...das kann man nicht wirklich Survival nennen.

    Online Multiplayer...entweder man spielt mit Freunden im Team oder man sieht außer den Pünktchen auf der Karte stundenlang keinen Spieler. Wenn man doch mal einen sieht will er entweder PvP oder eben ein Team eröffnen für seine Quests leichter zu gestalten...wow super. Unterhalten kann man sich mit fast niemandem, die meisten wollen es nicht und wenn dann können die "Mitspieler" kein Englisch...
    Zudem es mir so vorkommt als würden die NPC plötzlich stärker nur weil ein hoher Spieler in der Nähe ist...hatte es mehrmals das Supermutanten im gleichen Gebäude erst Lvl 5 (anfangs mein Level) und dann plötzlich Level 14 waren (es war eine andere Gruppe im selben Questgebiet) und ich dann nichts mehr tun konnte außer weg laufen.

    Camp bauen...ist eigentlich großteils alles wie bei Fallout 4...nur das die Materialien teils seltener sind.

    Wenn man es mit Freunden spielen kann macht es schon Spaß, selbst alleine kann man eigentlich alles erledigen, aber es ist recht eintönig alleine...

    Fazit: Ein neues Fallout mit einem Koop für bis 4 Spieler hätte meines Erachtens völlig ausgereicht, denn gerade das was an Online Survival Spielen interessant ist fehlt hier oder ist eingegrenzt.

    60€ ist es nicht wert, da gibt es rein mechanisch kostenfreie Titel die es besser machen.    … Expand
  98. spiderjournal
    Nov 18, 2018
    6
    If you loved Fallout 4, particularly Survival Mode, this is basically that on a new map. It has plenty of content to keep a hardcore fan busy but very little of the social science (ethics and consequences) or strong characters that made previous Fallout games so memorable.

    The good: -Big world to explore. Can be atmospheric and beautiful. Fun locations. Good options for varied    If you loved Fallout 4, particularly Survival Mode, this is basically that on a new map. It has plenty of content to keep a hardcore fan busy but very little of the social science (ethics and consequences) or strong characters that made previous Fallout games so memorable.

    The good:
    -Big world to explore. Can be atmospheric and beautiful. Fun locations. Good options for varied difficulty levels (after leaving the facile starting areas)
    -Translates some of Fallout 4 Survival Mode features into a more reasonable difficulty. Interesting environmental pressures at the best of times.
    -Decent graphics with some shining visual moments. Excellent sound and music. Good acting on voice logs and humanoid monsters.
    -Coop can be super fun.

    The Bad:
    -Fabulously tedious interface that gets worse the longer you play. Inventory menus were slow and unintuitive in every previous title, but two were turn based and the realtime games at least paused when you went to inventory! The system is archaic and nearly unworkable when monsters spawn around you in real time. Building and crafting menus are one step forward, two steps back from Fallout 4. The menus in general are an unholy marriage of PC complexity and Console button saving. All of the unfun housekeeping and inventory repacking takes waaaaaaay longer than it should because of these issues.
    -Graphics are uneven. Some glitches. Some ugly areas.
    -Shallow quests. Few NPCs. No player dialogue.
    -Combat is clunky and repetitive. Enemies are glitchy and dumb.
    -PVP is uncommon, pointless, unbalanced, and a huge immersion break. PvP usually starts by accident and neither side has a clear win condition. When a member of my party accidentally murdered another player, I was able to kick him from the party, execute him for the bounty, and then he rejoined the party a few seconds later. What is the point? I'd prefer separate PVP and PVE servers as opposed to the hybrid system presented here.

    TL;DR: this is and feels like a really big Fallout 4 mod. If that appeals to you, you'll have many hours of fun. If you're on the fence, wait a year and see what direction this game takes with updates and DLC. With a few shake-ups, it could be memorable. Right now, it's a rough-around-the-edges niche product pretending to be a general audience action game.    … Expand
  99. Calif
    Nov 18, 2018
    6
    En soit, je ne trouve pas que Fallout 76 soit " un mauvais jeu ". Certe il a énormément de défauts mais il ne faut pas oublié qu'il est multijoueurs et que d'autres mises a jours arriverons par la suite. Certaines personnes ce plaignent de l'absence de PNJ(s) mais je trouve pas que cela soit un problème bien au contraire ! A mon avis 25ans après la chute de bombes atomiques il n'y auraiEn soit, je ne trouve pas que Fallout 76 soit " un mauvais jeu ". Certe il a énormément de défauts mais il ne faut pas oublié qu'il est multijoueurs et que d'autres mises a jours arriverons par la suite. Certaines personnes ce plaignent de l'absence de PNJ(s) mais je trouve pas que cela soit un problème bien au contraire ! A mon avis 25ans après la chute de bombes atomiques il n'y aurai pas grand monde. Celon moi cela rajoute une atmosphère froide au jeu que j'apprécie beaucoup. L'impression de ce sentir seul au monde après qu'une monde ai décimé tout le monde. Le coté vide dont tout le monde ce plaint et pour moi proche de ce que cela serai en réalité. De plus les PNJ(s) sont quand même présent par l'intermédiaire de Robots avec leurs propres dialogues. Alors pourquoi ne mettre que 6 au final si je n'en pas pas vraiment de mal ? Tout simplement car je suis mitigé. Je suis rassuré sur certains points mais un peu inquiet sur d'autres. En effet j'avais très peur a cause du multijoueur que le jeu ce transforme en vulgaires GTA ONLINE avec des joueurs " Cancers " voulant a tout prix vous tuer pour looter votre stuff. Heureusement rien de tout ca. Le Pvp jugé médiocre pour certains et parfait pour un joueur comme moi. Dommage que le jeu soit en soit assez répétitif. Aller chercher un mission, entrer dans un batiment remplis de " Calcinées " ou de " Goules " prendre un objet et ressortir chercher une autre mission. Encore heureux que les quelques évenements apparaissant aux 4 coins de la map sont là pour donner un peu de peps. Sans oublier les HitsBoxs un peu foireuses et l'argents très compliqué a avoir en jeu !… Expand
  100. tsaarts
    Nov 18, 2018
    6
    Played about 20 hours now. One bad thing today is the performance and some minor bugs, but Bethesda promised to update and fix the issues. For me it is not the big of the deal. Graphics is a little bit better than it was in Fallout 4.

    If you like PvP, better play some other games today, but Bethesda promised to execute some kind of faction system and this might be interesting. Some    Played about 20 hours now. One bad thing today is the performance and some minor bugs, but Bethesda promised to update and fix the issues. For me it is not the big of the deal. Graphics is a little bit better than it was in Fallout 4.

    If you like PvP, better play some other games today, but Bethesda promised to execute some kind of faction system and this might be interesting.

    Some people say there is now story - there is story, lots of it. If you start playing this game without sniffing around and just skip everything you game will tell you - you would not understand anything there. There are many lore parts which explain almost everything happening there, why are there these kind of creatures, what faction tried to make life better in there etc. IT does feel a little bit different than FL4 because without NPC-s you do not have different choices for answering. Quest are linear but not bad. If you played FL4 with looking under every peace and rock, did every single side quest, then you will like this game. If you just go from point to point without paying attention much of the story - it is not for you.

    Game is released a little bit early. I think after few months game bugs will be fixed. Bethesda will add more content there and today it is impossible to know will they introduce NPC-s or not. But as a story goes, there are factions and it is possible to add NPC-s without mismatching the lore.    … Expand
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 46 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 46
  2. Mixed: 29 out of 46
  3. Negative: 13 out of 46
  1. PLAY! Zine
    Mar 5, 2019
    35
    Fallout 76 represents a big disappointment and the lowest point of the series so far. Riddled with bugs, repetitive and dull gameplay, nonexistent story and outdated graphics, it fails as a both multiplayer and singleplayer experience for fans and newcomers alike.
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  2. CD-Action
    Feb 6, 2019
    55
    Miracles do happen once in a while and No Man’s Sky proved that sometimes it is possible to get back on your feet even after a terrible failure. Right now though Fallout 76 is botched spectacularly on so many levels that even talking about this game is a waste of time. [01/2019, p.46]
  3. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Jan 10, 2019
    40
    An unfinished game with bifurcated identity and in an almost dysfunctional state. It's hard to build on a bad base, that will never change. Like the war. [Issue#292]
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