#Fallout 76 review upgrade#
#Fallout 76 review series#

I imagine most players won’t have the wherewithal to venture all the way down to the bottom-right corner of the map, but Fallout 76’s most sprawling metropolitan area is tucked away down there, and it’s a visual treat for anyone who bothers to explore thoroughly. There’s a sense of geography to its depiction of West Virginia, from the dried-up lakes in the north to the smoky mines down south. Bethesda at least has the resources to render massive worlds without reusing the same handful of store-bought assets over and over. It would be unfair, of course, to suggest that Fallout 76 is exactly on par with the awfulness of titles like DayZ or Ark.

#Fallout 76 review upgrade#

Fallout 4‘s crafting system returns, herein used to upgrade and repair equipment with materials collected about the post-nuclear wasteland, and players are expected to sate the usual hunger and thirst meters, all while avoiding diseases and radiation poisoning.

#Fallout 76 review series#

The narrative thrust and quest structure of the series has been cranked down several notches, as Bethesda hopes that multiplayer encounters and randomly-spawning events make for an environment in which players can set out to find their own amusement. Out of curiosity, though, why is this blatantly unfinished game being sold on store shelves for the same price as Red Dead Redemption 2?įallout 76 takes this traditionally single-player franchise and attempts to rework it to fit the multiplayer survival model of hits like Rust and Ark: Survival Evolved. So we’re playtesters and this is an alpha? Cool.

One might guess that a triple-A studio could succeed where so many indies have failed, but it seems highly unlikely that Bethesda – a company notorious for shipping broken games – might be the one to succeed at this challenge.įallout 76 being a disaster is a conclusion so foregone that Bethesda itself issued a statement a month ago warning of “spectacular issues” and asked prospective players for their help in tracking down the countless bugs, balance issues, and performance problems.

Multiplayer survival games have long dominated the Steam charts, but it’s telling that so few have ever managed to make it out of Early Access.

WTF Charging $60 for what feels like alpha access. LOW Combat in the Creation Engine, without V.A.T.S., and with constant stuttering and lag.