So far my experience with Fallout 76 is this naked guy following me everywhere /0TzhiTVMJ6- Patricia Hernandez November 14, 2018īut even so, these shenanigans didn’t ruin the experience. Sure, there was some unexpected weirdness: Mostly, people seemed interested in grouping up to take on new challenges.
Last night, tons of new players on my server were clustered around the opening areas, and not once did someone try to shoot me. While there are definitely people out there who want nothing more but to cause trouble, overall, my Fallout 76 experience has been a friendly one. Other Fallout veterans, like Reddit user omnipsycho, are welcoming new players by building communities where people can meet and group up.
Last night, I was going around offering free beers to players around me. Many A True Nerd is not alone in this sort of generosity. This, on its own, isn’t difficult to find in the overworld or even make yourself, but Many A True Nerd went further than that: anyone who walks by his camp gets offered free bespoke weapons, armor, and even free ammo. You have all of the basic necessities there: a purified water pump, a cooking station, and various workbenches to craft supplies. So Many A True Nerd decided to build a camp specifically for newbies. Players leaving the vault for the first time, on the other hand, barely have anything to their name. So by the time Fallout 76 went online, Many A True Nerd was already well-leveled and stocked. The game officially launched last night, but before that, there was a beta that allowed players to carry their progress into the main game. In Fallout 76, he’s picked up a new schtick: welcoming new players. Perhaps the most high-profile documentation comes from veteran Fallout player Many A True Nerd, a YouTuber who has made a name for himself by doing things like beating the games without ever healing himself. Wouldn’t griefers be inevitable? Do you really want random jerks doing strange things in your game? Now that Fallout 76 is out, however, the most common player behavior seems to prove that Bethesda knew exactly what it was doing.
When Fallout 76 was announced, fans of the open-world role-playing series worried that making the traditionally solitary franchise into a multiplayer game would ruin the experience somehow.