History VideoGame / Fallout76

On March 26, 2024 ''America's Playground'', the second half of the Atlantic City expansion was released, which added a third expedition to Atlantic City, "The Human Condition", as well as adding open exploration of Atlantic City proper, with three new main quests and two new sidequests set within it, as well a third new sidequest set in Appalachia. In addition, a third expedition to the Pitt will later be introduced, called "Poke the Beehive" (set within a large skyscraper known as the Bastion). Bethesda also announced on December 19, 2023 that an expansion of the main Appalachia map would be added to the game later in 2024, into the Shenandoah National Park in neighboring Virginia.

March 2024 will see the release of the second half of the Atlantic City expansion, ''America's Playground'', which will add a third expedition to Atlantic City, "The Human Condition", as well as adding open exploration of Atlantic City proper, with three new main quests and two new sidequests set within it; in addition, a third expedition to the Pitt will be introduced, called "Poke the Beehive" (set within Pittsburgh's underground train tunnels). Bethesda also announced on December 19, 2023 that an expansion of the main Appalachia map would be added to the game later in 2024, into Shenandoah in neighboring Virginia.

** Any crafting bench (minus cooking) allows you to scrap the junk you're carrying into their base components, saving weight. However, certain items needed as is for crafting, like baseballs for baseball grenades or beer bottles for Molotov cocktails, won't get auto-scrapped.

** Hilariously [[InvertedTrope inverted]] by one of the quotes of the Lumberjack Protectron found near Gilman Lumber Mill:

** In regards to legendary crafting, the most vital components that you're likely going to need a lot of are modules, which can only be acquired by trading in unused Legendary gear for scrips, and then using said scrips to purchase the modules from Purveyor Murmrgh. The problem is then many-fold, as each module costs 50 scrips to buy, there's a hard cap of 500 (formerly 300, originally 150) every 20 hours that can be gotten from feeding Legendaries to the grinder, and rolling traits on equipment often cost between three and four modules each out of the six you can afford with this amount. Due to the random nature of Legendary crafting, there's no guaranteeing that you can roll the desirable traits with just your daily income. While seasonal scoreboards can give a lot of both resources, and there are the occasional double scrip weekends, they're far from being reliable methods of farming them.
** Gold bullions are also a pain in the neck to obtain. While it's not "hard" per se to acquire them, since unlike scrips, Treasury Notes can be farmed to your heart's content by participating in every public event that crops up, one can only exchange up to 40 of them for 400 bullions every day, and most of the valuable items that have to be bought with that currency typically cost in the neighborhood of ''thousands''. It used to be even more frustrating, since prior to ''Steel Dawn'', there was also a hard weekly cap of 1,700 bullions per player.

** The FEV vat room within the West Tek Research Center is almost the spitting image of the ones found in The Master's lair (seen during the "dipping" ending) in the first ''[[VideoGame/Fallout1 Fallout]]''. Fortunately, the virus culture is inert and won't turn you into a super mutant if you fall into it, and can even be collected and drunk like normal water, though it doesn't serve any practical purpose other than giving you a lot of radiation.

** When the residents of the dying town of Helvetia were warned of a planned raider attack by a fleeing trader, they abandoned the town and relocated to the nearby outpost of Horizon's Rest. Sadly, the move eventually backfired on them when Horizon's Rest was attacked and massacred by super mutants.

* LargeAndInCharge: The 3-star legendary level 95 Scorchbeast Queen is significantly larger than other scorchbeasts. She's the ultimate boss of the game's main story, spawned when a nuke is dropped on Fissure Site Prime. When she does her shockwave attack, it can potentially summon dozens of Scorched and Scorched-infected creatures to draw attention away from her, ranging from weak mongrels and rad-rats to deadly mirelurk kings and queens.

* TheMothman: The mutant fauna of the West Virginia wilderness includes mothmen as enormous, upright moths taller than a grown human. Their enormous, glowing eyes are a sign of their owners' temperament -- mothmen with purple eyes are passive, mothmen with yellow eyes are friendly, and mothmen with {{red eyes|take warning}} are hostile and aggressive.
* MundaneUtility: Nukes are meant to seal Scorchbeat hives for the good of Appalachia. From a meta perspective, they are useful for creating an irradiated hellhole that produces lots of high-level creatures for grinding, as well as supplies of flux to craft into some of the game's most powerful items. Whitespring is an especially popular target, since it's already infested with ghouls.

* AscendedFanon: The Captain Cosmos power armor from ''Fallout 4'''s Creation Club, made by modders [=SovereignWalrus=] and fadingsignal was added to the game as a power armor skin.

''Fallout 76'' is the ninth game in the ''Franchise/{{Fallout}}'' series; a {{spinoff}} serving as the first official multiplayer game in the series. It was developed by [[Creator/{{Bethesda}} Bethesda Game Studios]] for UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, UsefulNotes/XboxOne and PC, and released on November 14th, 2018.

In March 2022, the ''Invaders from Beyond'' update was released, re-introducing Zetan aliens to the world of ''Fallout 76''. September 2022 saw the addition of "Expeditions" (repeatable randomized missions in areas outside the main West Virginia map) to the game. The first of these ''Expeditions'' expansions, ''The Pitt'', sends players to the ruins of Pittsburgh previously featured in ''VideoGame/Fallout3''. In December 2022, the ''Nuka-World on Tour'' update was released, introducing a Nuka-World traveling roadshow in the Ash Heap region.

At the end of February 2023, the ''Mutation Invasion'' update was released, bringing mutated enemies previously only found in Daily Ops into public events at the top of every hour. June 2023 saw the release of the ''Once in a Blue Moon'' update, introducing two new cryptids to the game (the Blue Devil and the Ogua) as well as a new quest line for the Blue Ridge Caravan Company. The Xbox Games Showcase that same month also teased the future release of a new ''Expeditions'' expansion, ''Atlantic City'', which Bethesda later announced at the Tokyo Games Show would be released in two parts, with the first Atlantic City expansion, ''Boardwalk Paradise'', releasing in early December 2023.

* AscendedFanon: The Captain Cosmos power armor from Fallout 4's Creation Club, made by modders [=SovereignWalrus=] and fadingsignal was added to the game as a power armor skin.

* TitleDrop: An announcement to the dwellers of Vault 76 intones "When the fighting has stopped, and the '''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}''' has settled, you must rebuild."

* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: The Black powder "rifles" found in the game are actually traditional muskets, which have no rifling. While contemporary [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rifled_musket rifled muskets]] did exist, these used conical bullets (e.g. Minié ball) instead of the common ball ammo found in the game. As the cherry on top, the specific model[[note]]Harpers Ferry Model 1842/1850[[/note]] of the Black powder rifle according to the engravings on the textures was specifically smoothbore, and the in-game version uses the wrong ammo size[[note]].50 instead of the proper .69[[/note]].

* {{Prequel}}: The base game takes place in 2102, 25 years after the Great War and 59 years before the original ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}''. The ''Wastelanders'' and ''Steel Dawn'' expansions take place in 2103, and ''Steel Reign'' and ''Expeditions: The Pitt'' take place in 2104.

''Fallout 76'' is the ninth game in the ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' series; a {{spinoff}} serving as the first official multiplayer game in the series. It was developed by [[Creator/{{Bethesda}} Bethesda Game Studios]] for UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, UsefulNotes/XboxOne and PC, and released on November 14th, 2018.

''Fallout 76'' is a SpinOff game in the ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' series (and the ninth game in the franchise) from [[Creator/{{Bethesda}} Bethesda Game Studios]] for UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, UsefulNotes/XboxOne and PC. It was released on November 14th, 2018.

* {{Feelies}}:
** The special edition pre-order of the game comes with a full-sized wearable T-51b Power Armor helmet, complete with working headlamp and voice modulator.
** Ordering through some retailers allows you to get a kit to build your own Pip-Boy 2000 MK VI.

At the end of February 2023, the ''Mutation Invasion'' update was released, bringing mutated enemies previously only found in Daily Ops into public events at the top of every hour. June 2023 saw the release of the ''Once in a Blue Moon'' update, introducing two new cryptids to the game (the Blue Devil and the Ogua) as well as a new quest line for the Blue Ridge Caravan Company. The Xbox Games Showcase that same month also teased the future release of a new ''Expeditions'' expansion, ''Atlantic City''.

*** Mutations and their effects on the player's stats can also be seen as a reference to how one's attributes could be permanently altered when exposed to too much radiation in the first two games.
*** The Scorched are a likely reference to how Feral Ghouls acted in the first two games before they were [[{{Rewrite}} Rewritten]] as {{Technically Living Zombie}}s in the later games -- The Ferals were still hostile to virtually everyone else, but could also utilize weapons and armor.

[[caption-width-right:350:''[[Music/JohnDenver Almost heaven, West Virginia...]]'']]

** There's also the issue of a the building system being so obnoxiously hard to use that it's far easier to make a structure that defies the laws of physics than it is to build one that obeys them.