Adventure awaits in The Wastelands of Fallout 76
Adventure awaits in The Wastelands of Fallout 76
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Double Eleven announces that they've recently begun working with Bethesda on Fallout 76 and plans expanding their team to develop more content
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I haven't played FO76, but this seems like great news to me that it's been going on for a while. Content they have been working on throughout 2021 and into 2022, perhaps as helpers for The Pitt expansion? Outsourcing content for a live service game like FO76 seems wise, especially if resources within BGS are shifted to Starfield. I think that's why they had conversations in 2020 about onboarding an external company, to account for the production timeline of the marquee title.
Yeah this wouldn't surprise me, no way Microsoft wants Bethesda to sit on an IP like Fallout for too long.
My running-on-three-hours-of-sleep brain read that as Seven Eleven and I was really fucking confused for a moment.
On-topic: cool to see this game still getting support years after release. I'm not really a fan of BGS-style gameplay, and the survival elements in this game don't do much for me, but I occasionally get the itch to go back to this and just explore some more.
On-topic: cool to see this game still getting support years after release. I'm not really a fan of BGS-style gameplay, and the survival elements in this game don't do much for me, but I occasionally get the itch to go back to this and just explore some more.
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This must be a somewhat significant amount of outsourcing to be worth negotiating over for a year and a half. But this is awesome! Two of the titles on their website they've most recently worked on are Minecraft Dungeons and Crackdown 3, so it seems like this team is really building a niche as a contract studio for Xbox.
Negotiations don't seem to be going on for a year and a half, they started in late 2020 and were probably on boarded by 2021 and simply have been working on said content since then. It's just being announced now.
If it means pace of content improves, I'm all for it. Things have slowed down in the past year considerably and folks were concerned they were preparing to sunset the game.
Folks for a while have been guessing that there wasn't much left of the 76 team. Most have already been pulled off for other projects and their content pipeline in the last year has been really slow, and they keep delaying and cancelling plans for content. Stuff announced just keeps going away with no word of it ever happening.
There has been some job posting a while ago for an unannounced project at Bethesda Austin and I wonder if they're working on Starfield Online or a DLC along those lines that'll release after the single-player game.
For a hot second, I thought this was the This War of Mine folks (which turned out to be 11 bit studios), which woulda been wild.
It sounds like they might have been doing work already for them a while, wonder if this means they are getting even bigger role if they are just now announcing this?
Native next gen version please. The game is vastly more playable at 60fps, but the resolution is very low on Series X.
I love the base building in this game and would love to come back. Would have to start again though, as I have migrated from PS4 to Series X. Cross save would also be a life saver, I have over 1k hours on PS4!
I love the base building in this game and would love to come back. Would have to start again though, as I have migrated from PS4 to Series X. Cross save would also be a life saver, I have over 1k hours on PS4!
There's only so much that can be done, because a new Fallout in any hands is going to be enormous, and I'm not sure the Fallout 76 team alone would be enough to make a true Fallout 5.
If I had to make a guess, their unannounced project is a remake of fallout 3 or fallout New Vegas in CE2. Theyre absolutely not going to be trusted with a full original fallout game without having done a full project themselves first (they did the online part of 76 while the main studio did all the world stuff).
Its kind of like how when bethesda acquired the studio that became BGS montreal, they had them port Skyrim to the fallout 4 engine to get them used to all the tools and everything.
Whatever happens though, no way theyre making fallout 5. That wont be handled by anyone but the main studio.
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They will surely get a bigger role as the Fallout team is hiring.
My prediction: by looking at their recent games and their presentation on their website, they're the ones working on the next-gen upgrade (even though it was said last month to be a "long-term plan" so it's may not be coming anytime soon). It's quite a big studio.
In July 2021 Gardiner said that people were going to be able to help them with this so I would guess it's not done in-house:
Seems like they're also handling the Nuka-World update (from someone on Reddit):
Makes sense since they said late 2022, around Nuka-World update time
