Fallout 76 - Roadmap For 2019

[dex3108]

We've just passed 100 days since the launch of Fallout 76!

There's nothing like the start of something new - for you and for us, and having millions of you join us on this new adventure is humbling for our studio. Thank you for sticking with us as we figure this online experience out together, and we do mean "together."

Thanks to your continuous feedback, we have been able to fix many of the top issues and have made numerous improvements to the game. We also make scores of changes under the hood that aren't as visible. These include changes to improve performance, detect new exploits, and make the experience smoother for everyone. There's still work to do, but we're happy to report that game and server stability has increased over 300% since launch. We're thrilled by how much everyone is playing, with an average time of 4 hours a day.

However, we know the game had a difficult launch, and we've made mistakes along the way. We share in your frustrations when we do. We'll probably make a few more, and when we do, we will work to correct them as quickly as possible. Know that we're fully dedicated to making this game the best it can be - and even more so, a platform for endless Fallout adventures for years to come.

To that end, we're excited to announce some of the new free content we've been working on for Fallout 76 in 2019.

Thanks again for sticking with us. It's a privilege to have such passionate and caring fans. We have big plans for 2019 and we'd love to hear your continued feedback on everything we're doing. We hope you'll keep sharing your thoughts with us on the forums, Reddit, in videos, and streams. Your voices push us to do better and your support has meant everything to us. We'll do our best to earn it.

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WILD APPALACHIA

RELEASE: SPRING 2019

A mythical beast, a lost generation of scouts, and the strongest brew this side of the wasteland. Welcome to Wild Appalachia – a series of new quests, features, events, crafting systems and more starting on March 12 and appearing over several weeks. Wild Appalachia includes:

• New Quests: Shear Terror! – Uncover the 'encryptid' secrets of Appalachia in a new series of quests and encounters to separate monsters from myths.
• New Quests: Ever Upwards – Journey to the deepest reaches of the woods with new stories for the legendary Pioneer Scouts. Earn merit badges, climb the ranks, and earn a customizable backpack for increased utility.
• New Features: Legendary Vendor and Scrapping – Locate the mysterious Purveyor to exchange and scrap your unwanted legendary items for new legendary gear. For every star rating on a legendary item you scrap, increase your chances to get the legendary weapon or armor of your dreams.
• New Features: C.A.M.P. Decorating, Player Vending, Functional Camera – Use items from your stash to decorate your C.A.M.P. Build vending machines and flag items for sale. Simply set your prices and walk away to continue your adventures in Appalachia, being sure to capture all your favorite memories using the new functional camera. The vending machines do all the work, you just need to count the caps.
• New Features: Brewing and Distilling – Go on a new quest to discover the secrets of the forbidden brew Nukashine and bring the party back to your C.A.M.P with new brewing and distilling systems and recipes.
• New Seasonal Event: Fasnacht Parade – Chase away Old Man Winter and quicken the coming of spring with the ancient festival of Fasnacht! Join the celebration and complete this new limited-time event to earn unique rewards in the form of festive Fasnacht Masks.
• New Game Mode: Survival – This all-new game mode brings a higher-stakes PvP experience with fewer restrictions, increased rewards, and new challenges plus all the original content of Adventure Mode.

NUCLEAR WINTER
RELEASE: SUMMER 2019

Summer will bring another series of major updates to Fallout 76, including Nuclear Winter - an entirely new way to play that changes the rules of the wasteland.

• New Game Mode: Nuclear Winter – An entirely new way to play Fallout 76, completely changing the rules of the Wasteland.
• New Vault Raids: Vaults 96 and 94 Opening – For our most seasoned players, test your strength in all new high-level group Vault Raids.
• New Feature: Legendary Players – An all-new prestige system will allow players above level 50 to become Legendary, resetting their characters with all new more powerful abilities.

WASTELANDERS
RELEASE: FALL 2019

Embark on a tale with true choice and consequences in Wastelanders – our biggest and most ambitious update for 76. Wastelanders will include a new main questline, new factions, new events, new features and even more surprises.

https://fallout.bethesda.net/en/art...Zgwn/fallout-76-inside-the-vault-our-roadmaps

 

[Jessie]

Kudos to them for getting this out, and in such high detail.

 

[Lant_War]

Damn, that's a good roadmap right there. I wish every GAAS did them like this.

 

[MosquitoSmasher]

I'm almost done with Nukaworld and that means I'm completely done with Fallout 4. I'll jump into this then. I still wish this had been a singleplayer game like the other Fallout games with NPCs, interesting quests and especially.....VATS.

 

[BarrBarr]

Anyone else have a suspecion/hope that the wastelanders expansion introduces NPC's?

 

[DeaDPooL_jlp]

I applaud them actually trying to salvage the abysmal launch they had. Honestly if this game has a Final Fantasy 14 style turnaround I would jump in.

 

[Paul]

Maybe one day it will be worth playing to me, oldschool Fallout fan. Maybe.

 

[Fart Master]

Kudos to them for getting this out, and in such high detail.

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Is this a sarcastic post? I legit can't tell.

 

[Paul]

Anyone else have a suspension/hope that the wastelanders expansion introduces NPC's?

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We can only hope. Also pls hire Chris Avellone to write them thx.

 

[Varixio]

Might end up getting it later on after these all release if it's in a good place

 

[ezekial45]

Wow, all that sounds pretty great.

 

[Jessie]

Anyone else have a suspecion/hope that the wastelanders expansion introduces NPC's?

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It kind of sounds like it, doesn't it? They call it a new main quest, so it sounds like a soft reboot from the crappy Marco Polo game the previous main quest was.

 

[Fart Master]

We can only hope. Also pls hire Chris Avellone to write them thx.

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Isn't he working on Dying Light 2?

 

[SuikerBrood]

Good that they keep supporting the game. Hope it turns out well.

 

[Craymond]

I'm glad Beth isn't bailing on this game. Time will fell but this looks promising.

 

[ZangBa]

This roadmap is legitimately great for those of us still playing. A lot of great additions here that we've been wanting, it actually seems like they are listening to feedback.

 

[kadotsu]

I can't believe some here are getting fooled again and all it took was a nice infographic and some flavor text.

 

[MillionIII]

Not bad, thought about getting for cheap since I liked FO4.

 

[Thrill_house]

Looks like I lucked out! Local rental place had a fire sale, was selling all copies for 5 bucks. Picked one up just in case. Wonder if they will get this game workways with patches

 

[carlsojo]

Pretty solid roadmap. I appreciate that they provided dates and specifics for the Spring section.

Division 2 released its endgame trailer and details yesterday.

Destiny 2 Forsaken bundle is on sale this weekend for 20 bucks at Gamestop.

Interesting timing lol

 

[The_R3medy]

Wow that's more of a road map and content than I'd expect.

Only way I'll be playing 76 at this point is if I snag an Xbox One X bundled with it, but this seems pretty cool. Kudos to them for sticking with it.

Still wouldn't be shocked to see it go F2P at some point this summer or Fall.

 

[CthulhuSars]

Great to see a detailed roadmap and I am glad that Bethesda is not shutting this down. There is fun to be had and a lot of potential there.

 

[Jessie]

Is this a sarcastic post? I legit can't tell.

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It's half sarcasm, half genuine. Up to now they've done the bare minimum to make this game look like it has a future, and I'm genuinely impressed that they aren't winging it with a skeleton crew

 

[Agent 47]

I can't believe some here are getting fooled again and all it took was a nice infographic and some flavor text.

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Yeh, the majority of this won't live up to promises and it'll be riddled with bugs.

 

[GenericBadGuy]

So late Fall seems like a good time to try the game again, based on the roadmap alone. Gives things time to be delayed, release broken, and then possibly get fixed.

I do still poke into the subreddit from time to time, but until this it's pretty much just been all bad news.

 

[Trickster]

If nothing else, I'll give them props for actually giving specific dates and relatively detailed information on the different parts, unlike certain other games *cough*anthem*cough*

 

[Wolf of Yharnam]

Good roadmap. They could have bailed on this game, but they want to make things right. That's a good thing.

 

[Toni]

The roadmaps for Anthem, Fall out and Division 2 have been very well laid out with content and features despite their troubled releases.

They have to be commended for this.

 

[ChaosZeroX]

Surprised to see them even do something like this despite the shit the game has gotten.

 

[BernardoOne]

Looking good. It's so dirt cheap right now I would actually consider getting it.
But Bethesda Launcher makes that a no no

 

[CesareNorrez]

I really would like to play this someday. I enjoy exploring Bethesda worlds. Nice to see support continue.

 

[Kingpin Rogers]

Redemption time. By the end of 2019 peoples opinions on Fallout 76 will be the polar opposite to what they are now.

 

[EndlessNever]

A good first step in making the game better all around. It'll take a long ass time (potentially even longer than fall 2019), but this is a decent start if they can keep to their promises.

 

[Majora's Mask]

Sounds like fall 2019 will be a good time to jump into this game. Hope it is in a good state by then because I really wanted to try it but just couldn't with all the negative reviews.

 

[Deleted member 18742]

So I take it enough people are buying and playing the game to justify the support of it?

 

[HellofaMouse]

i dont, and will never care about 76.

but whoever that graphic designer is, he is wasting his talent in bethesda

 

[Edward]

Looks fantastic and i can't wait i still love playing FO76.

 

[GameShrink]

*Looks for offline mode or private servers...*

Heh. Nope.

 

[BernardoOne]

I can't believe some here are getting fooled again and all it took was a nice infographic and some flavor text.

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Fooled on what? Those are pretty clear dates and descriptions of what content will happen. Are you saying they are lying about those updates existing?

 

[RDreamer]

but whoever that graphic designer is, he is wasting his talent in bethesda

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As a graphic designer I love the work, too, but I disagree with you. There are plenty of worse places to do design than Bethesda. Most work doing mundane shit like toilet paper packaging or some awful sign for al local business that wants things a specific way and only gives 72ppi images to use.

 

[LuisGarcia]

The roadmaps for Anthem, Fall out and Division 2 have been very well laid out with content and features despite their troubled releases.

They have to be commended for this.

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Division 2 isn't even out yet. It's not looking like it's going to have a troubling release either.

 

[spam musubi]

It's nice that they have a solid roadmap but there's too much wrong with the fundamentals of the game that they should fix before adding more stuff, IMO

 

[iceblade]

Sounds like fall 2019 will be a good time to jump into this game. Hope it is in a good state by then because I really wanted to try it but just couldn't with all the negative reviews.

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Same here. Will make sure to keep an eye on it but hopefully they'll be able to make the game shine like how ESO and FF XIV managed to after their launches.

 

[Invisible Cities]

At some point I bet they'll introduce a single-player mode and I'll be there day one.

 

[Sloppyjoe_Gamer]

As someone who has avoided Fallout 76 since it's launch, this roadmap sounds pretty awesome to me!!

How stable is the PS4 version these days, and how is it for someone who would prefer to play it as single player?

 

[kadotsu]

Fooled on what? Those are pretty clear dates and descriptions of what content will happen. Are you saying they are lying about those updates existing?

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No. I'm just saying it's gonna be bad, because the core game is bad and more bad quests and modes that are glorified damage modifiers won't change that.

 

[Prolepro]

If they put in the work, Im willing to give it a second chance.

Every game deserves the opportunity to redeem itself. We've seen plenty of examples in the past.

 

[Skittles]

Summer for more raids? Jfc, that shoulda been the first thing they added

 

[Rental]

I can't believe some here are getting fooled again and all it took was a nice infographic and some flavor text.

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Being fooled? The game is active and has continuously had improvements. Having a roadmap isn't bad and most games using this model provide something. What are they supposed to do, not release a roadmap and stay silent?

People on here in all the joke threads should have known this game wasn't just going to die. Several games have had horrible launches and survived for years under these models. I think ESO had a bad launch and wasn't welcome by the community and found a bright future. R6 was in rough shape during the launch and barely worked from what I've heard.

Overall sales may be lower but It placed in two npd threads during a holiday period. It has players out there. All they need is people to log in every once in a while to steady and possibly increase player count during updates. Regardless of the sales the game had it's all about keeping players in the world for consistent revenue with in game items.

 

[alexbull_uk]

Solid roadmap. I hope they can turn it around.