PLAY FOR FREE!
If you haven’t had the chance to jump into Fallout 76 yet, now is the best time! From now through October 26, you’ll be able to experience the entire game for free. This includes the base game experience, plus Wastelanders and Nuclear Winter.
As you play through Fallout 76, you’ll also be able to take advantage of all of the new features introduced in our One Wasteland Update, including enemy level rebalancing, which will let you play with anyone, anywhere in the wasteland. There’s also a brand-new Daily Ops system, which rewards you just for playing and completing challenges. Learn more about everything the One Wasteland Update has to offer here.
And, if you decide to get Fallout 76 when the Free Play Week is over, not only will all your progress carry over, but the game and all available content bundles will be on sale!
IN-GAME EVENTS
It wouldn’t be a true celebration without in-game events, and there will be three in-game events running from October 22 - 26. Get Double S.C.O.R.E. and Double XP, and get 25% off Legendary weapons and armor from Purveyor Murmrgh at the Rusty Pick.
LIMITED FALLOUT 1ST PREVIEW
Finally, get a sample of a Fallout 1st membership with the free Fallout 1st Preview. In order to claim it, all you have to do is log in between October 20 and October 26, find the free Fallout 1st Limited Preview “item” in the Atomic Shop, and you’ll have access to some of the features offered with the membership.
This trial will allow you to use the Scrapbox (which will need to be claimed separately through the Fallout 1st section of the Atomic Shop in order to build it in your C.A.M.P.) and Survival Tent. Just like for full Fallout 1st members, the Scrapbox will give you unlimited storage for your crafting components, and the Survival Tent operates as a placeable fast travel point with a Stash, Sleeping Bag, Scrapbox, Instrument and Cooking Station. (The Survival Tent will be located in your Favorites wheel after you activate your preview.)
Prez wrote on Oct 22, 2020, 09:33:
I'm glad the game isn't shit now, but the bloom has come off the Bethesda rose for quite a while now. At least for me.
jacobvandy wrote on Oct 21, 2020, 18:16:Yeah, maybe I wasn't very clear.Acleacius wrote on Oct 21, 2020, 13:45:
Iirc, Fallout Shelter was the same, original series fans avoided it too. I play Fallout 4 all the time, such great mods.
The main reason I avoid 76 is we know from history starting with Horse Armor, bethesda will do anything to exploit online cash income.
Shelter is completely different gameplay, though, while 76 is like 90% the same as FO4. And what's it to you if other people want to buy horse armor? That allows for new actual content to be added for free, unlike in the single-player games where they charge for additional quests and locations...
Cutter wrote on Oct 21, 2020, 18:09:
Still, the most aggravating part of this game is the build and stash limits which are tiny. That's what I love about Conan Exiles, the sky's the limit. I'm playing on an official server now and it's incredible how much stuff people have built and where. Up by the Black Galleon someone built this enormously long skywalk cutting across the desert. Must have taken ages to build.
Acleacius wrote on Oct 21, 2020, 13:45:
Iirc, Fallout Shelter was the same, original series fans avoided it too. I play Fallout 4 all the time, such great mods.
The main reason I avoid 76 is we know from history starting with Horse Armor, bethesda will do anything to exploit online cash income.
jdreyer wrote on Oct 21, 2020, 15:20:
How does combat work in a multiplayer game? Turn-based? VATS still available?
JohnBirshire wrote on Oct 21, 2020, 16:00:jdreyer wrote on Oct 21, 2020, 15:20:
How does combat work in a multiplayer game? Turn-based? VATS still available?
Gameplay is in real time. VATS is still available, it just doesn't pause the action. I never used it personally but a fair number of people do, it seems they implemented it well.
jdreyer wrote on Oct 21, 2020, 15:20:
How does combat work in a multiplayer game? Turn-based? VATS still available?
JohnBirshire wrote on Oct 21, 2020, 14:24:
Been playing Fallout games since receiving a Fallout 1 demo disk with a PC Gamer subscription months before release.
This was to be avoided like the plague at release, but a couple years later and it's a solid game now. Would give it a "B", scratches the Fallout itch if it's been awhile since you've played one.