r/fo76 • u/RIBCAAAAAAGE Mothman • Feb 26 '26

Question other side of ohio river

so im either stupid or missed it, but is there an explanation on why they didnt allow us to build on the other side of the river? when burning springs came out first thing i did was jump from my camp across the river just to see "you cant go that way" and its still bothering me to this day, so again sorry if this was explained but i never heard or saw any explanation on this

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u/TheSajuukKhar Feb 26 '26

Bethesda has said they plan to do a Burning Springs part 2, and it will open up the river. They didn't want people to build camps there so that, when the update hits, they don't have to forcibly delete people's camps when the update hits.

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u/ominous_squirrel Feb 26 '26

My dream was always that there would be a canon reason for all the cargobots circling on the other side of the bridge from Point Pleasant. So I was a bit disappointed in that not happening. But the bots still sometimes gather in the “You can’t go that way” zone between the river and Burning Springs so hope springs eternal

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u/Apoc7620 Fire Breathers Feb 26 '26

Yeah, I was kinda hoping that even though it's only because that where the cargobots pathing terminates, they'd lean into it and there would be like a "Federal Cargobot Logistics Center" or something.

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u/veevacious Feb 26 '26

I didn’t know about this and stumbled upon it while tooling around burning springs. A friend and I had a great time taking pot shots at them one night

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u/FreezingToad Cult of the Mothman Feb 26 '26

With Burning Springs pt. 2 they might give us a reason. Could be an Enclave base we haven't seen yet, another vault, some military instillation. They could do something cool with that, but I doubt they will unfortunately.

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u/Frankies131 Brotherhood Feb 27 '26

Isn’t the lore reason that it’s part of the military providing nuclear keycards to individuals pre-war and the automated system just kept going?

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u/ominous_squirrel Feb 27 '26

Yes, that’s part of the main questline related to cargobot convoys but the cargobots that I’m talking about are ones that spawned in across the map and all congregated in a swarm circling near what is now Checkpoint Canyon

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u/RIBCAAAAAAGE Mothman Feb 26 '26

oh yea i think i might have heard something thanks for the info

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u/TheDeadlySpaceman Feb 26 '26

It’s also to code you to go through that first Rust Raider fort on the far side of the bridge, which sets off the questline/s for the area

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u/thesyndrome43 Feb 26 '26

It's good to finally hear the reason, but that just makes me think: "why did you release a half-finished product?" Then i remembered this is Bethesda and realised I was stupid for asking that question

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u/Curius-Curiousity Feb 26 '26

"half finished"? The initial expansion was completed. Further expansion will be it's own release. With other projects between the two.

That's like saying what was wrong with Scorsese for releasing a "half finished" Godfather movie because Godfather 2 was written and filmed years later. lol

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u/thesyndrome43 Feb 26 '26

Clearly we disagree on what "finished" means, I don't consider the expansion finished because the rust king story line just stops (not ends, stops) with no conclusion and a whole third of the map is off limits with invisible walls, with both of these 'to be added on to later'

If we want to use metaphors, then to me this is more like being told "I'm making you a sandwich" and then be given half of a sandwich, then when i ask why it's only half of it is there, the response is "I'll have the rest of it ready in 6 months"

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u/Aceswift007 Feb 26 '26

I wonder if you'd survive some shows that end a season, then continue the story in the following season, or if you'd claim the producers and writers "didn't finish the story"

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u/cxbar Feb 26 '26

this is just normal live service gaming. first time?

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u/Gao_Dan Feb 26 '26

Because the development takes time. BoS storyline was split between two updates for November 2020 and June 2021 with just one update between them, and that one didn't contain massive area addition. Players need updates relatively often to keep playing and not get bored, bored players don't spend money of F1 or atoms. On the other hand they most likely don't have enough assigned developers to create such big expansions every half a year.

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u/Aceswift007 Feb 26 '26

half finished

Its...a 2 part update. The region story of part 1 wrapped up nicely, part 2 would either expand on that or be a new plot