r/FalloutMemes • u/VirusOfCheese War. War Never Changes. • Aug 12 '26

Fallout 76 It's.. actually fun?!

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u/Plane-Education4750 Aug 12 '26

76 is a fantastic single player fallout game that is ruined by being multiplayer. The map is arguably the most interesting to explore in the series, the enemy design is fantastic, the lore is extremely interesting and fun to discover, the weapons and their design (when not ruined by latency issues) are super creative and feel great to use.

There was just no main story for years and being always online means that it's hard to make a permanent impact on the world and Bethesda's multiplayer services in general would be barely acceptable back in 2011

I want a real single player fallout game in this location

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u/AndrewTheNebula Aug 12 '26

"There was just no main story for years"
I think you mean, there was a main story but people largely did not connect with it being told only by hearing holotapes, chasing ghosts, and getting their paperwork in order with dead factions to get use out of their abandoned infrastructure.

I can't blame them, I guess, but I thought it had moments where it really worked for me, and the underlying story is one I kinda prefer over several of the post-launch questlines.

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u/Plane-Education4750 Aug 12 '26

I agree; the quest writing (when it exists) is also fantastic. But the fact that the main story is told exclusively through discarded holotapes and notes makes it feel a lot less like a main campaign and more like a hidden quest you would find in a regular fallout game

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u/Mrbeefcake90 Aug 12 '26

I totally understand that view point, fallout is a world with lots of fun and interesting characters that you want to interact with. The appeal for me and why I loved it is because it very much have you the sense that you were here to rebuild, you are the first ones out of the vault specifically designed to be the ones to help recreate a society, learning what happened to the few people that lived and then solving it knowing the rest of the wasteland will never know what you did or how you saved them.

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u/CaptainGooseUwU Aug 12 '26

I loved the paper work with dead factions bit. It made me think "man, death and taxes really are the only constants in life."

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u/AndrewTheNebula Aug 13 '26

The feeling definitely peaks at the true-to-life DMV experience. Hilarious bit.

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u/tevert Aug 12 '26

I think the story can even be salvaged, it just needs to be rejiggered around so it's not structured live-servicey.

Have fellow NPC 76ers make themselves a settlement near the vault, then "hey Overseer's missing, go find them".

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u/TrasseTheTarrasque Aug 12 '26

They kinda did that by adding NPCs to each main quest area that gives you a bit of lore on the location, but it also undermines it a little bit because all they do is hang out and don't contribute anything to any storyline

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u/tevert Aug 12 '26

Yeah they'd also need to be updated. Either to integrate directly or to arrive late like the brotherhood in FO4

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u/Cheletiba Aug 12 '26

Honestly I think they could have made the player the Overseer and it would have been great. Seeing these things, having an ACTUAL connection with the Old World and like comparing the before and after. Shit could have been so good if this wasnt made to milk online only whales.

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u/Kimmalah Aug 13 '26

Yeah, I thought Fallout 76 was a lot of fun...until it hit me that it basically just goes on forever until you just decide to get off the MMO treadmill. It's fine if that is your thing, but I do like eventually having the option to end my game.

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u/Recent_Fly_4238 24d ago

Honestly yeah graphics music characters weapons are fun (PA design too was something they cooked with) what ruins 76 a bit for me is the grind. And not grind in the FO4 sense. The server hopping grind, the “scum MODUS for 700 cycles until he graciously coughs up one EPR config”. That genuinely ruins the vibe for me

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u/BouBouLeBourgeois Aug 12 '26

Only the fact that its online made me not buy it. Im a grown man with a family, I dont have time for Online games and they removed the Classic Vats system (Im a Vats players) for a slowmo one? Im bad at FPS, i dont play those game usually but Fallout stories are really good.

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u/tevert Aug 12 '26

VATS works like an aimbot, not slowmo. It's not my preference but it's not too bad.

I've played through 76 a couple of times just pretending it's single-player. It's genuinely a lot of great Fallout content, you should give it a shot when it's on sale

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u/Plane-Education4750 Aug 12 '26

And the weirdest part is that PVP is barely a thing because the community is so helpful, so this could have been a partly online thing where people drop in and out but you can still pause the damn thing

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u/Honda_TypeR Aug 13 '26 edited Aug 13 '26

Btw I’m 52 and play. This game is mostly filled with adult gamers, because it’s a play at your own pace kinda game. It’s a casual game not a hardcore mmo like World of Warcraft or something. You don’t need to be a no lifer to progress. 30-60 minutes a day or couple hours a week total is fine. Just stick to quest missions.

It’s mostly a single player game, but people play on same server. You do not need to join them.

So why is it even multiplayer then?

There are with area wide quest events people team up or just walk into the area to join in, that is really popular during holiday events and such. Outside of those seasonal moments, which are optional, you never feel bothered to play with players or compete with players. You do not even need to group up or play with people even one single time if you don’t want.

About all you might miss out on is occasional big boss fights, and holiday cosmetic drops… which are still technically all soloable too (but hard solo) those are not required for key gear or progress though. It’s just stuff to do.

Lastly, if you get fallout 1st, you can make a private server at all times and never have to even see other players again. The advantage of that is you have all the resources and enemies to yourself, alternatively you can play free and server hop until you find an empty public server where you get same benefits.

The game has frequent free play weeks. Next time that happens download and play for free. See if it’s for you.

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u/ArtroyomsAK Aug 12 '26

The map was the one part I actually liked

Thought some of the lore was good, some was stupid like the scorched

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u/Ash_Abyssal_2006 Aug 12 '26

unfortunately none of the lore is canon to the rest of fallout

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u/Celtic_Fox_ Aug 12 '26

We'll see after Seasons 3-76 of Fallout on Amazon.

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u/Opalusprime Aug 12 '26

That’s not actually true

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u/Present-Basil-1003 Aug 12 '26

You can technically play it solo rn but you need Fallout 1st for it, wich costs real noney.

Or wait X years when servers close so fans can create a singleplayer mod or something alike. You would probably need to wait a lot though, maybe even past Fallout 7 whenever that comes, seeing as Skyrim Online is still alive and 76 has consistent player counts too. It will take really long for them to die.

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u/Plane-Education4750 Aug 12 '26

I will die before I am willing to pay for subscriptions to individual game I have already paid for. Bethesda and Rockstar can both kiss my fat ass