Fallout 76

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2.8

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 4921 Ratings

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  1. Matthewvania
    Nov 23, 2018
    4
    While its not like the game has NOTHING going for it, I cant help but be just disappointed. The game objectively isn't good, and subjectivity is hardly pliable. The game is shallow. That's the fact. Bethesda is a shell of who they once were and we need to stop giving them a free pass. I dont know the last time I genuinely enjoyed a Bethesda Game. I have little faith I will again, and thatWhile its not like the game has NOTHING going for it, I cant help but be just disappointed. The game objectively isn't good, and subjectivity is hardly pliable. The game is shallow. That's the fact. Bethesda is a shell of who they once were and we need to stop giving them a free pass. I dont know the last time I genuinely enjoyed a Bethesda Game. I have little faith I will again, and that hurts because I used to hold the company in very high regards. Skyrim? Vanilla bland version of Oblivion. Fallout 4? Fallout for dummies and little to no world design. Doom 2016? Instead of a fast paced fps run and gun you have lots of meaningless, boring, tedious acrobatics, and a game that in general just overstays its welcome.
    Im getting off topic though, back to 76.
    Now with 76 we have... Nothing. A decent co-op time for sure, but no NPC's, no reason to explore, no uniqueness left in the game whatsoever. The enemy designs are among the best the series has ever had-- I'll give it that. Thats the most I can say, though. Its fallout 4 but with even LESS to do, less content, a larger, more barren map, and a restricted highly limited building system compared to 4's.
    This would also be a good time to mention I have ~70 hours in 76, I have played the game extensively since launch. And I understand all the hate. Look at a game like Fallout 3, over a decade old, and holds up better than Fallout 4 or 76 ever will. The game had an actual WORLD. Vivid and practically alive locations and residents, each person was an actual individual, there was something to do at every location and town. 76 is so lifeless its embarrassing Bethesda even /thought/ of this game.

    Fallout 76 has next to nothing to offer outside of some fun co-op moments with friends. The entire game is a bland, lifeless experience, and is hardly worth playing. Bethesda is a ghost of who they once were and I doubt they'll ever be back to their golden days. Each game they pump out s just mediocrity after mediocrity. Bethesda is dead.    … Expand
  2. xInFerN0
    Nov 24, 2018
    4
    I like Fallout but the game is kinda repetitive. You start a mission, go to the location, kill everything, go on a terminal, defend or repair something, done. The "Events" are just either defending or killing something it gets boring real fast. Since no NPC's are in this game your talking to robots the entire game and the story gets told through terminals, I'd rather have an NPC tell meI like Fallout but the game is kinda repetitive. You start a mission, go to the location, kill everything, go on a terminal, defend or repair something, done. The "Events" are just either defending or killing something it gets boring real fast. Since no NPC's are in this game your talking to robots the entire game and the story gets told through terminals, I'd rather have an NPC tell me the story then having to read it. I never thought these words would come out of my mouth... Bethesda... You really F$%ked up.… Expand
  3. LeSpink
    Nov 30, 2018
    4
    4/10 for the sole fact the game is unfinished. I run around in desperate hope to find easter eggs or hidden quests to prolong any fun I can find but I just can't. Everything seems like a dead end. I finished all of the main, side and misc quests before hitting level 50, firing a nuke is too easy (I set my first one off two days after release) - I hoped this would be difficult and rare4/10 for the sole fact the game is unfinished. I run around in desperate hope to find easter eggs or hidden quests to prolong any fun I can find but I just can't. Everything seems like a dead end. I finished all of the main, side and misc quests before hitting level 50, firing a nuke is too easy (I set my first one off two days after release) - I hoped this would be difficult and rare since it's more of an "end game" thing and even going into a blast zone is a flop as it's just pure radiated wasteland and/or repetitive enemies that you see in a normal zone, hitting a regular fissure site I saw absolutely nothing, I saw more enemies in a random part of the map blast! Then hitting a prime fissure, you get the "scorched earth" event which seems impossible on PS4 because the frame rate pretty much drops to 1 FPS.

    I'm currently playing the game to get a platinum trophy as I'm a big trophy hunter and some of the easy trophies are bugged and will not pop. The game has endless bugs and feels like an alpha rather than a beta.
    Very unrewarding experience to say the least.

    This game is definitely not suitable for hardcore gamers, if you're a casual then you might enjoy it because the content will drag out but if you're a grinder like myself then you'll have done everything in a week.    … Expand
  4. natDread
    Jun 20, 2019
    4
    Great game loads of content, keeps on getting better and better, can be unstable at times but that's because of all the magic.
  5. DaMy
    Oct 27, 2019
    4
    The game is not worth its price, and 100$ membership for 'singleplayer' mode is just a joke; but not only this, the main game is still seriously bugged, sometimes even unplayable, and now pay-to-win micro transactions. Just better spend money on The Outer Worlds.
  6. Axomarine
    Aug 25, 2021
    4
    While this game still has some irritating bugs, Fallout 76 has improved a lot since its disastrous release back in 2018.
  7. Deiradinn
    Nov 20, 2018
    3
    Some points

    -A game made by Bugthesda -No story driven gameplay. -Deceptive title name, this is Fallout Online folks. -Live Service cash cow to get that financial flow endlessly from microtransactions. -Built on an ancient game engine that showed its age a long time ago. -No where close to being made for it's longtime fans. -It's an okay junk collector simulator. Am I being    Some points

    -A game made by Bugthesda
    -No story driven gameplay.
    -Deceptive title name, this is Fallout Online folks.
    -Live Service cash cow to get that financial flow endlessly from microtransactions.
    -Built on an ancient game engine that showed its age a long time ago.
    -No where close to being made for it's longtime fans.
    -It's an okay junk collector simulator.

    Am I being crass, yes, unfair.... no.    … Expand
  8. disbroc
    Dec 2, 2018
    3
    A lonely game that feels like a departure from the traditional fallout experience. Not enough features to make it a true mmo, or single player game; it ends up being mediocre at both. This is nothing more than a generic survival mmo with a fallout theme.
  9. SaintJames012
    Nov 19, 2018
    3
    On the most fundamental level, the game simply does not work. The very concept of exploring the vast world and creating your own settlements is cut down by the fact that the world offers little if anything in the way of exploration, and no NPCs in combination with the limited number of players makes settling a camp a tedious task with nothing to really propel motivation forward. PlayerOn the most fundamental level, the game simply does not work. The very concept of exploring the vast world and creating your own settlements is cut down by the fact that the world offers little if anything in the way of exploration, and no NPCs in combination with the limited number of players makes settling a camp a tedious task with nothing to really propel motivation forward. Player interactions for the most part are surprisingly friendly, but exploring an empty world with a companion is only slightly better than exploring the void alone. Bethesda has never been known for their exceptional or even competent gunplay mechanics, and the idea for covering up that flaw in past games, V.A.T.S., is a complete mess within Fallout 76. overall it is a mess and skippable with no real reason for playing other than to experience the trainwreck occur, and the remnants to burn with a confident, albeit melancholic "I told you so"… Expand
  10. GamergodsFail
    Nov 30, 2018
    3
    Fallout 76 not only fails miserably at being a Fallout game, it's simply not a good game in any particular way, shape or form. It fails at storytelling. It fails at having an immersive open world. It fails at being a solid MMO. The game's servers are horrendously unstable, as it suffers severely from frequent framerate drops and constant crashing.

    Fallout 76 is not Fallout. It's hardly    Fallout 76 not only fails miserably at being a Fallout game, it's simply not a good game in any particular way, shape or form. It fails at storytelling. It fails at having an immersive open world. It fails at being a solid MMO. The game's servers are horrendously unstable, as it suffers severely from frequent framerate drops and constant crashing.

    Fallout 76 is not Fallout. It's hardly even functional. Perhaps it'd be acceptable as a free-to-play down the line. As a paid for product however, this is the worst game of 2018 by a "AAA" studio. As long as Todd Howard and Bethesda continue this dishonest behavior of hyping up garbage, stop supporting them and stop buying their unfinished broken products.    … Expand
  11. root_san
    Nov 17, 2018
    3
    Wow, that's actually incredibly bad. To be completely frank it's like Fallout 4 with different textues all over the NPC's and some of the weapons but with Mesozoic level graphics, a whole bunch of bugs, s h I T - like VATS system due to the fact this is online game and mobs with the intellgence of autist under the both speeds and barbiturates at the same time, that went through aWow, that's actually incredibly bad. To be completely frank it's like Fallout 4 with different textues all over the NPC's and some of the weapons but with Mesozoic level graphics, a whole bunch of bugs, s h I T - like VATS system due to the fact this is online game and mobs with the intellgence of autist under the both speeds and barbiturates at the same time, that went through a lobotomy. Btw the story and lore are still good and that's why it's 3 and not a 0.… Expand
  12. Quink666
    Nov 14, 2018
    3
    Fallout 76 is not a game for the fans it's a game for the wallet of investors.
    Fallout fans will be extremely disappointed in this game while new players might find some fun in it.
    Everything that was Fallout have been removed and you are left with a almost empty shell of a game. Building is very disappointing and fairly buggy. PVP is useless and there is no incentive to PVP unless    Fallout 76 is not a game for the fans it's a game for the wallet of investors.
    Fallout fans will be extremely disappointed in this game while new players might find some fun in it.

    Everything that was Fallout have been removed and you are left with a almost empty shell of a game.

    Building is very disappointing and fairly buggy.
    PVP is useless and there is no incentive to PVP unless you want to grief people by removing the floor beneath them.
    Weapon modification has less then half the options in Fallout 4.
    Gear drop is stupid since the good gear has level requirements way above your current level.
    There is very little story and about 40% of it you have to read the rest is from holotapes.
    There are NPC's but none are memorable or have anything to offer dialogue wise.
    The world feel really lifeless, way to lifeless even for a post apocalyptic world. Teaming up with randoms is almost impossible.

    There are bugs, but i have not encountered anything game breaking so far. Mostly animation issues and the occasional flying body. Your camp can get reset between log outs if someone else build their camp near yours.
    The game is far to easy. You can kill a level 12 mob at level 4 with ease.
    Microtransactions are there but can be ignored. But it would be better if they weren't there at all.

    But with all that said the game is certainly not a 0/10. With friends you can have a good time but i would be surprised if anyone plays this to max level.

    It's not worth the full 60 bucks so you are better of waiting for a sale and get it when it is below 25 bucks.

    Maybe Fallout 76 will become like No Mans Sky and actually get good after 1 year of updates, but as it currently stands it's a soulless game made with no passion.    … Expand
  13. finnonfire
    Nov 18, 2018
    3
    The endgame content is grinding. The bugs and glitches are game breaking (game freezes and crashes). Roleplaying is nonexistant. No one plays the pvp. Building is locked by perk cards making it late game content for most people. Stash is too small
  14. illegalmonkey
    Nov 15, 2018
    3
    "We wanted to add a multiplayer aspect to Fallout 4. We ended up adding more stuff to it and decided to release it as a separate game... Fallout 76!"

    Bethesda's explanation of how this "game" came to be should be evidence enough of how bad Fallout 76 is. It is the laziest of efforts and feels more like a shameless cash grab. I've played every Fallout since the days of 56k modems. Yes    "We wanted to add a multiplayer aspect to Fallout 4. We ended up adding more stuff to it and decided to release it as a separate game... Fallout 76!"

    Bethesda's explanation of how this "game" came to be should be evidence enough of how bad Fallout 76 is. It is the laziest of efforts and feels more like a shameless cash grab. I've played every Fallout since the days of 56k modems. Yes they have gotten a bit "worse" over the years as they strayed further and further from the "your choice matters" kind of narrative but I still enjoyed them. You know why? Fantastic story telling and immersion via INTERESTING NPC PERSONALITIES.

    I'm just floored that they thought completely removing any NPC interaction would be a good idea. I played the beta and was completely bored within an hour. My wife, who loved watching me play Fallout 4, fell asleep in less than an hour watching me play FO76. It becomes extremely repetitive as soon as you leave the vault. Walk here, find some junk, kill some enemies, loot their junk, find a workbench, scrap your junk... rinse and repeat. The quests don't even serve any real purpose other than helping you find other places to loot some junk. Any quest that asks you to "find where so-n-so went" fall 100% flat since EVERYBODY IS DEAD so you already know you will never find anyone. You end up running from computer to computer, or note to note, until you discover what happened.

    I had made a choice to play this rather than RDR2 because I like sci-fi and I'm not really into westerns. After the beta I immediately bought RDR2 and have been loving it. You know why? Fleshed out, totally immersive NPC INTERACTIONS! Bethesda has failed horrendously with this game. I'm giving it a 3 because I like picking up loot a lot, but that only stays fun if I have an immersive story and characters to keep dragging me along.    … Expand
  15. celeban
    Nov 16, 2018
    3
    Attractive graphics and a large play map are not enough to carry this insult to the Fallout franchise. You have gutted the very soul of Fallout with this abomination through forced player interaction (which doesn't usually happen), nickel-&-dime'ing cash grab transactions, etc.
    (Sad. I did enjoy all the other titles - even Fallout 4.)
    You should be ashamed - and your "big idea"    Attractive graphics and a large play map are not enough to carry this insult to the Fallout franchise. You have gutted the very soul of Fallout with this abomination through forced player interaction (which doesn't usually happen), nickel-&-dime'ing cash grab transactions, etc.
    (Sad. I did enjoy all the other titles - even Fallout 4.)

    You should be ashamed - and your "big idea" decision-makers tossed to the curb. 3/10    … Expand
  16. masseffectabc
    Nov 21, 2018
    3
    First of all let me say that i`m a huge fan of Bethesda. I have been playing their games even before the company was founded !!!!
    That been said i have to be brutally honest about Fallout 76.
    First, you can`t launch a broken/unfinished game anymore. It is unacceptable. Second, you can`t launch a game when you don`t even support your own server infrastructure. and finally, you can`t    First of all let me say that i`m a huge fan of Bethesda. I have been playing their games even before the company was founded !!!!
    That been said i have to be brutally honest about Fallout 76.
    First, you can`t launch a broken/unfinished game anymore. It is unacceptable.
    Second, you can`t launch a game when you don`t even support your own server infrastructure.
    and finally, you can`t launch a game so shallow and empty like this. Sure the map of west virginia es huge.....but there is nothing in it.
    I`ll give you a 3 out of 10, only because the game has the word Fallout on it.    … Expand
  17. OldSkoolGamerz
    Nov 16, 2018
    3
    Any fun to be had from exploring and scavenging will quickly evaporate into frustration due to technical problems at a fundamental level. Core quest design is also heavily hamstrung by not having any NPCs - the lack of consequences or social positive reinforcement for your time and effort makes your adventure seem purposeless.
  18. bxgdvn
    Jul 30, 2019
    3
    WTF Todd, are you okay? Maybe you need some help? Running a major league company and lacking marketing skillet to predict such obvious flop? I don’t believe in that. It’s more like some personality disorder or a deeply messed up perspective of objectivity.
  19. Martinp123
    Nov 14, 2018
    3
    The game while impressive in size and scope has lost what has made it a "Fallout" game. The audio logs are good but they are not a reasonable substitute for a traditional single player Fallout story. The Pvp doesnt seem very balanced and it comes with all the usual jank and bugs that are a given with a BGS game. With friends i can see this game being fun (if not very easy as the AI forThe game while impressive in size and scope has lost what has made it a "Fallout" game. The audio logs are good but they are not a reasonable substitute for a traditional single player Fallout story. The Pvp doesnt seem very balanced and it comes with all the usual jank and bugs that are a given with a BGS game. With friends i can see this game being fun (if not very easy as the AI for most enemies seems braindead), but if you are wanting to play solo, unless you are into pretty dull fetch quests everywhere interlaced into some interesting locations this is for you. Honestly it seems like an ideal Podcast game to just zone out playing but honestly there are better games out there that do this type of game better. Fallout 4 being one of them. It has potential but at the moment it feels bad to play.… Expand
  20. VagueShape
    Nov 24, 2018
    3
    I see a lot of phony reviews both positive and negative, so I'm gonna give my best shot at a fair objective review.

    Lets start with the limited positives: - Huge map (this probably the only impressive part of the game) - decent survival mechanics They won't amaze you, but they are fairly deep while not being too obnoxious - Group Objectives are fairly well done Perhaps the only    I see a lot of phony reviews both positive and negative, so I'm gonna give my best shot at a fair objective review.

    Lets start with the limited positives:
    - Huge map (this probably the only impressive part of the game)
    - decent survival mechanics
    They won't amaze you, but they are fairly deep while not being too obnoxious
    - Group Objectives are fairly well done
    Perhaps the only actual content worth playing, sadly they are usually fairly tough to complete solo meaning solo players completely miss out on the only content worth playing.
    - Nice environments
    A few places on the map are really nice.

    Negatives:
    - No reason to do anything (really, there is just no point)
    - Holotapes, Holotapes, and did I mention...Holotapes
    Whoever thought tape recordings were an adequate replacement for NPCs should be fired. Its soulless and tiresome. It defeats the point in tracking down Suzie when you know all that is gonna be there is her corpse with a tape next to it.
    - Servers have very few players on them
    For a game that focuses on multiplayer there are very few multiplayer interactions. Largely because there are only like 3-5 players on a server at the same time and often their levels aren't even close so they have no reason to play together
    - Slow progression
    And I mean painfully slow, It definitely feels slower than single player Fallouts. Its clear that rather than give us actual content, Bethesda decided to drag what little content there is out as much as possible. But its not fun, and It makes it nearly impossible to catch up to your higher level friends; which kills the multiplayer angle. Either they are stuck in low level areas not having fun, or you get dragged into high level areas where you still don't level very fast and struggle constantly.
    - Laggy servers
    - Tons of bugs
    - Frame rate drops constantly, and often for no reason; sometimes down to an absolute crawl.
    I think you get better frame rates watching a flipbook set in motion than this game.
    - V.A.T.S
    Idk why they bothered trying to keep it, might as well have just removed it for this installment. Its ultimately fairly useless in anything except pvp.
    -PvP
    Should be a positive, but its executed so poorly its relegated to the negatives. For those that don't know, both players have to to consent to pvp via shooting each other once but the player who fires first is at an extreme disadvantage. From what I can tell, nobody even bothers trying to pvp because there are no rewards or incentives and its not even competitively fair. Aside from that one guy who is level 40 trying to goad level 5s into pvping with him.

    Conclusion:
    Fallout 76 does a couple of things right and a whole lot of things wrong. While there are certainly some nice environments and moments you can enjoy; most of the time they are ruined by lag, bugs, or the overwhelming feelings of pointlessness. Its a multiplayer game that you spend most of your time alone and lonely in without any writing or story driven narrative to follow to motivate you to progress. I'm honestly not sure who enjoys this game, but I'm guessing not many people do. Its not a good single player experience, its not a good co-op experience, its not a good pvp experience. Its just a game that tries to do everything and excels at nothing.

    I am giving it a 3/10 because it does have a few things that can be appreciated and I feel somewhat generous at that score.    … Expand
  21. EDU_4804
    Nov 14, 2018
    3
    all that we wanted was a new Fallout more RPG, nobody asked for a multiplayer Fallout this game just doesn't work with creation engine, and really Bethesda ? a Fallout with no plot ? you're killing yourself like Interplay did. #SavePlayer1
  22. OnlyWaterH3O
    Nov 21, 2018
    3
    Opinion from the Russian player. Хоть мы и в России очень любим всё ядерное и катастрофическое, Fallout 76 не вызывает желания ринуться в магазин и бросить в кассира деньги со словами - "Мне 10 копий игры Фоллаут, пожалуйста".

    1. Пару слов о технической составляющей: периодически тени в игре ведут себя очень странно, прорисовываясь прям перед лицом и шанс, что они порисуются корректно    Opinion from the Russian player. Хоть мы и в России очень любим всё ядерное и катастрофическое, Fallout 76 не вызывает желания ринуться в магазин и бросить в кассира деньги со словами - "Мне 10 копий игры Фоллаут, пожалуйста".

    1. Пару слов о технической составляющей: периодически тени в игре ведут себя очень странно, прорисовываясь прям перед лицом и шанс, что они порисуются корректно крайне мал, зачастую в в водоёмах и реках не прорисовывается такая мелочь, как сама ВОДА, открытый мир, в котором нам предлагается подзагрузка при входе в закрытые помещения, частенько возникает такое ощущение, что игра "играется"с динамическим разрешением, что заставляет течь кровь из мох глаз ещё сильнее. В общем и целом - игра поломанная.
    P.S. Я кстати был одним из тех, кому Bethesda Launcher удалил игру с компьютера.

    2. Визуальная составляющая. Из-за или благодаря устаревшему движку, который особо то и не предназначен для сетевых проектов, картинка в игре не особо то и радует то, что осталось от глаз. Прошло 3 года с релиза Fallout 4, но такое ощущение, что разница между ними - пару месяцев. Посредственно.

    3. Геймплей особо далеко не ушёл, практически полная копия 4ой части, за исключение, разумеется, режима ВАТС, который подразумевает собой обычный аимбот, и система SPECIAL, которая с трудом, но подстроилась под сетевой режим. Опять же - посредственно.

    4. Сюжет. Знаете, если не задумываться, что все кто тебе дают квесты умерли, за исключением роботов, то мотивация возможно и присутствует. Большинство квестов направлено на - убей, принеси, правда иногда встречаются интересные и необычные задания, но это исключение, поэтому зачастую вы будете убивать и нести.

    Подводя итоги, хочется отметить, что кооперативных игр не там много, и поэтому, это идёт в плюс к игре, но учитывая всё выше сказанное, выглядит игра как халтура и я не советую её никому покупать, чтобы Тод сделал выводы и не думал, раз в названии стоит Fallout, то можно особо и не запариваться.    … Expand
  23. mike4156
    Nov 16, 2018
    3
    glitchy as hell, cant shoot people infront of you, framerate is trash nuff said!
  24. JayCeeDenton
    Nov 15, 2018
    3
    After a good chunk of time playing the game, I already feel like I've seen everything there is to see. And for a Bethesda game that prides itself on hours upon hours of content, that's a death sentence. If this was a released as a lower priced spin off, it would be worth full price. In it's current state? It's fun for a couple of hours, but nothing like the time you could sink into earlierAfter a good chunk of time playing the game, I already feel like I've seen everything there is to see. And for a Bethesda game that prides itself on hours upon hours of content, that's a death sentence. If this was a released as a lower priced spin off, it would be worth full price. In it's current state? It's fun for a couple of hours, but nothing like the time you could sink into earlier titles. It can also be fun with friends, but what isn't?… Expand
  25. Kernyx21
    Nov 25, 2018
    3
    Here's my understanding of the rating system:
    10: (almost) perfect
    9: outstanding 8: very good 7: good 6: okay 5: average/mediocre/playable 4: bad 3: very bad 2: terrible 1: unacceptable/unplayable 0: malware Stability/Bugs: Fallout 76 is full of bugs that affect your gameplay. Enemies just spawn around you, teleport around, move at ridiculous speeds, ... Players are being    Here's my understanding of the rating system:
    10: (almost) perfect
    9: outstanding
    8: very good
    7: good
    6: okay
    5: average/mediocre/playable
    4: bad
    3: very bad
    2: terrible
    1: unacceptable/unplayable
    0: malware

    Stability/Bugs:
    Fallout 76 is full of bugs that affect your gameplay.
    Enemies just spawn around you, teleport around, move at ridiculous speeds, ...
    Players are being severely punished for unstable servers.
    The game's networking system allegedly opens the floodgates for cheaters and hackers and is therefore potentially harming.

    The Story:
    There is no proper story, human NPCs are completely missing without explanation.
    The story contradicts the plot.
    The start of the game is uninspired and has no logic at all.
    The most common enemy, the scorched, have a very contradictory backstory.

    Gameplay Design:
    When starting the game, it sometimes spawns you in the middle of a nuclear explosion, surrounded by enemies, in the middle of an irradiated river or in other problematic positions.
    It also very often just removes your house from the game, apparently because "something" was in the same spot on that particular server.
    You can't place buildings where they were before, because placement by building parts and placement by blueprint have different placement constraints.
    In certain areas enemies just respawn within seconds.
    Sometimes enemies' corpses just disappear within seconds before anyone can loot them, despite the game having a mechanic that preserves corpses for looting.
    Playing together (which is the base idea of the game) is made difficult when player's levels differ.
    If you have 2 lvl20 players in your party and 1 lvl40 player, the game will spawn tons of lvl40 enemies on events and quests, which lvl20 players will have a hard time fighting against and won't be rewarded appropriately either.
    PvP is made hard to pull off, puts attackers on a disadvantage, serves no purpose and raises the question if it would even benefit the game if it was patched to actually work.
    Except for a bunch of voice recordings and a variety of mostly very common MMO quests, the world has no substantial reason to be visited.
    The leveling system, espcially the perk cards, is very bad:
    Through the franchise it went from "design a very special/specific person, and then keep them alive as they develop as a character" to "shuffle cards to find out what you're able to do" with a severe disconnect between the character's abilities from who they are - since the player character themselves has no personality.

    Level/Map Design:
    The world map was clearly rushed out, since there are quite a lot of random objects floating high in the sky which were probably not cleaned up properly (which usually happens when the creator is in a hurry).

    Graphics:
    Alpha-textures flicker for a while occasionally.
    Godrays sometimes come out of the ground.
    Shadows sometimes follow the player's point of view, instead of actual light sources.
    Depth of field can't be turned off, sometimes causes unsharpness to occur in the middle of the screen and occasionally misses out a mode-switch which causes you to see the world in the blurry DoF, that you see at the borders of your scope, while not using your scope.
    The game sometimes destabilizes and loads low-LOD objects instead of high-LOD objects.

    Recommendation:
    I highly recommend to put this game into re-development.
    It is riddled with bugs, has a contradicting uninteresting story and suffers from very poor gameplay design decisions. Comparing this game with the rest of the installments of the franchise a purely Co-Op based Online functionality would have been better to bring players together. PvP could still happen through a separate optional system (such as signing up for it at an arena). The start of the game could have been staged as a dire struggle for survival of the (actually alive and mostly computer controlled) population of Vault 76 as they open the doors (together!) for the first time with story/quest initiators like missile silos or the nuclear power plants Co-Op players could for example take control over an NPC they created themselves, who is one of the vault dwellers. Knowing that this game is probably too big of a failure and the old storytelling method is just that: old, I recommend a reboot with said changes, that puts effort into proper dramaturgy.    … Expand
  26. Theocrates
    Nov 14, 2018
    3
    What a disaster. Why Bethesda thought a multiplayer Fallout game would work is beyond me. For starters, the game is painfully boring. All "quests" are given by a robot or a holotape. The world is empty and astonishingly ugly (this is probably not helped by the archaic xbone system). GTA V Next Gen from 2014 (yes 4 years ago) was miles ahead of this. Hell, Skyrim remastered wasWhat a disaster. Why Bethesda thought a multiplayer Fallout game would work is beyond me. For starters, the game is painfully boring. All "quests" are given by a robot or a holotape. The world is empty and astonishingly ugly (this is probably not helped by the archaic xbone system). GTA V Next Gen from 2014 (yes 4 years ago) was miles ahead of this. Hell, Skyrim remastered was significantly better looking than this. The gunplay is serviceable, typical Bethesda rpg fare we've seen hundreds of times before, but it's wasted even more by the abysmal pvp system/policy. Most of us saw this coming from the beta. Stop supporting this laziness by Bethesda. Avoid this game.… Expand
  27. M4nU
    Dec 12, 2018
    3
    I played almost all the previous Fallout games; the 3rd stil remains the best for me and the 4 well, I enjoyed it btw. But...this one...honestly, I can't give more than 3 out of ten...potentially it might have been a good game, but...it is probably one of the worst Fallout ever "made"; sorry, maybe the correct word is "arranged"...'cause this game is simply embarrassing.
  28. waddon1
    Mar 25, 2022
    3
    Fallout 76 is a disappointment in every possible way. All you do is walk around and pick up items and kill stuff. There is an almost non-existent story told through audio logs. This just goes against everything the Fallout Franchise stands for. If Bethesda really wanted to make an online Fallout game they could have just added optional coop to a Fallout. Also don't get me started with the bugs.
  29. BrettSiebenhaar
    Jan 12, 2019
    3
    Ok, I will be admit that the game is not perfect, but wow, it doesn't deserve the low scores that it is getting. It is still a Fallout game, it looks like a Fallout game, and it plays like one. I have put about 10 hours in the game so far and I have had fun. I have ran into many other players and they have not attacked me, that is a PLUS! There are no human NPC's. We all know this.Ok, I will be admit that the game is not perfect, but wow, it doesn't deserve the low scores that it is getting. It is still a Fallout game, it looks like a Fallout game, and it plays like one. I have put about 10 hours in the game so far and I have had fun. I have ran into many other players and they have not attacked me, that is a PLUS! There are no human NPC's. We all know this. We are the NPC's for later games. That is the point. You do get most of your missions from holograms or computers, but that is fine. The game world is great. The map is huge. I want to explore, but I am a level 10, I will wait a little while for that. YOU DO NOT NEED TO PLAY MULTIPLAYER! You can go at is solo. That's what I am doing. Please ignore all the low scores. Everyone knew exactly what they were getting into with this game, it was no secret. Nothing will ever beat New Vegas, this game isn't even close. If you liked Fallout 4 for the most part, you will like this game. If you are a Fallout fan in general, you should play this game JUST BECAUSE! Solid 7 so far.

    UPDATE!!!!!!!!! 15 Nov 2018 5 p.m.

    Ok, so there i was just minding my own business and two idiots decide to follow me around forever all the while shooting me. You do take damage after every shot. I was under the impression, if they fire at you and you don't fire back, you only take that first bit of damage, but no, you will continue to lose health. It isn't much health, but still! I don't mind other players running around in the world, but Bethesda really should make an option where if you want to interact or not. If you don't, you should still see the people, but not interact with them.. That's what I think. When I am trying to complete a mission, being attacked by ghouls, that is enough, but no, you have to worry about other people attacking you. Its dumb...DUMB DUMB DUMB. Weren't we all supposed to be from the same vault rebuilding the world? Why would we kill each other? I will leave the score the same. I am still enjoying this game, but I hope Bethesda changes certain parts of the "online" experience.

    UPDATE!!!! 16 Nov 2018 1 p.m.

    Back again with another update. I am really really trying to like this game. I keep telling myself that it is Fallout, I LOVE FALLOUT, but after a while, it doesn't feel like Fallout anymore. A major gripe that I have is using melee weapons. I get swarmed by level 1 ghouls, I am a level 15. I swing the golf club, the ghoul moves. It takes forever to set up again and swing again, the ghoul moves again while I am being attacked by 5, 6, 7 more ghouls. I know, I can use guns, but these are level 1 ghouls! The melee combat sucks. its worse than any other Fallout game. The most annoying part is when you are being swarmed and then the frame rate freezes, then it catches back up and you are no longer facing the way that you were and now the ghouls are behind you. Its annoying. And another thing, since when did the rad moles or mole rats, whatever they are become such a problem. HOLY SH*T! For issues like I have been running into, the score is being lowered from a 7 to a 6.

    UPDATE!!! 22 Nov 18

    Ok, so my mind hasn't changed much regarding this game, but I have something new to gripe about. When you go to an area and there happens to be another real player there and this player is very much above your current level, all the enemies in that area will be around that players level. Top of the World, most enemies are not above level 10, I am currently level 20. I left the area and came back a bit later and there was a level 48 person there, all the enemies were level 45. This kind of takes the fun out of the game. Bethesda should never ever try online ever again. they should stick to what they do best, make memorable single player games! I am still enjoying the game for the most part and for what it is i guess, but this game actually makes me miss Fallout 4, and I didn't like that game that much.

    UPDATE: 26 Dec 2018

    The game sucks, score lowered to a 3. I am pretty sure I don't need to give an explanation as to why my score lowered. Go to youtube and watch people talk about the game. Everything they say is absolutely true! Terrible. I am scared about Rage 2 and the next Fallout. I am scared about TES6!    … Expand
  30. BreakzJ
    Jan 25, 2019
    3
    Garbage. This should be a free-to-play. So disappointing.Why Bethesda would release a game with so many problems is beyond me. This makes me worried for future installments and for games like Starfield.
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 43 Critic Reviews

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  1. Positive: 2 out of 43
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  1. Cubed3
    Jan 22, 2019
    40
    So utterly disappointing and flawed in every possible way… The first few hours, most of it can be ignored, and occasionally the flaws can be forgotten, but only briefly before they come storming back to the forefront. An awful, boring, empty, pointless experience. There is, however, a glimmer of hope. It's worth mentioning that there has already been a Bethesda title that was equally as unimpressive: The Elder Scrolls Online - but looking at it now, it has transformed into one of the best MMOs out there. There's always the hope the Fallout 76 develops the same way and becomes something special, but for now, that seems impossible. It's a world away from that.
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  2. Vgames
    Dec 25, 2018
    50
    Fallout 76 isn't your typical fallout experience. You don't have NPCs or dialogue, but instead get real players that should fill this void - that ultimately fails to do so. It does some things right, but as of now I cannot recommend getting this game as long as it stays a broken and boring mess that it is right now.
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  3. MMORPG.com
    Dec 19, 2018
    70
    Fallout 76 is the series’ Freshman introduction into the world of online, multiplayer games. As a result, we are experiencing all of the awkwardness and clumsiness associated with that season of life. It is imperfect and a bit uncomfortable, but I see opportunity for Fallout 76 to be more than it presently it - to be a truly great, rich Fallout experience.
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