![]() It is at that moment, high up a mountain with the wasteland spreading out vastly before you, that one feels tempered optimism. While it is rarely difficult to decipher what a game wants you to do, Fallout 76 puts minimal effort, if any at all, towards dressing it up at all to disguise it or make it feel natural within the game. The characters offer little of interest, and the intent of the writing is laid bare. Once outside of the vault the player is immediately pushed into dialogue with two NPCs, a recent addition to the game through its large Wastelanders update, who ask you some questions and tell you about the legend of a treasure that is captivating everyone in Appalachia. The player is then released into the world, your only motivation being hunting down the overseer of the vault to simply check-in and see what she is up to. ![]() #Nuclear winter aqua boy build downloadNot only is there a lot of information to download all at once, and with little context to help solidify it, but proceeding from stall to stall with personality vacuum robots saying nothing of importance is simply boring. To say the least, the introduction is clunky at best. The player is shepherded through a procession of small stands, each giving the player some starting equipment accompanied by short tutorials of game mechanics. After creating a character with a standard character creator, the player is freed to wander the vault as the last inhabitant to wander out to the wasteland. Like most Fallout games, 76 starts the player off inside the game’s namesake Vault 76, a plush nuclear bunker whose residents are tasked with recolonizing the barren Appalachia post-nuclear fallout wasteland. The newly added “Wastelanders” main quest just awkwardly thrusts itself on you. But, has Fallout 76 been able to save itself through those updates a la No Man’s Sky? To find out, I loaded up a brand new character and experienced the game right from the start, and will be breaking down the experience into three distinct stages to see if it is worth playing now in 2020. #Nuclear winter aqua boy build seriesRegardless of the end result, there is a lot of ambition in shifting a favorite series in such a new direction, and the constant flow of new content being released is commendable, even if it is expected of a “game as service” such as this. A fresh multiplayer take on the traditionally single-player RPG franchise, Fallout 76 aims to mix the series’ established post-apocalyptic universe with an FPS survival MMO. The game is surrounded by such a dense cloud of bad publicity missteps, sour reviews, stout defenders, and countless news stories that have been scattered all across the internet since the game’s tumultuous launch in November of 2018. ![]() It is a strange feeling to boot up Fallout 76 for the first time. ![]()
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