Country roads, take me home
the vault I belong…
It all started at the end of 1997 in a friend’s garage, on a warm summer afternoon I saw a demo for the first time that would be the beginning of one of the longest relationships I’ve had with a video game. One that continued, with ups and downs, uninterrupted for more than 24 years and that today continues with the same strength in its 76th version… perhaps the most hated and adored of all.
Fallout 76 It didn’t start in the best way, that’s nothing new. A risky bet (an RPG without NPCs?) and an engine already in years added to the common technical problems in online games and the great expectation generated made this title the target of harsh criticism during its first period, reaching anger many fans who angrily repeated, and still repeat incessantly, the mantra “This is not a fallout”. Even today they can still be seen on platforms like Steam, hot discussions between detractors and sycophants, I personally am closer to the latter and, beyond criticism, Fallout 76 is, today, far superior to its two previous installments and one of the most played of the entire saga, and that the best is yet to come.
But how did this title, with so many teething problems, come to be the great game it is today? (Even becoming one of the most played online games on Xbox today). The answer is simple, a commitment from the developers to bet on the continuous improvement of their product with constant updates, something that all developers do, but also listening to the claims and proposals of the community of players who are the ones who spend the most time in the wastelands and those who know more about the game… and mainly adding NPCs to the world!
my story with him Fallot 76 it starts late, since for reasons of force majeure, or rather due to lack of updated hardware, I was not in a position to test it until the release of the last major update, and the one that changed everything: Wastelanders. This is why when I started playing it, luckily for me, the West Virginia badlands already had large communities of NPCs and even an Iron Brotherhood headquarters.
The game starts in the year 2102, which places it at the beginning of the saga (the fallout original starts in the year 2160), it’s Reclamation Day and the inhabitants of Vault 76 leave the safety of their underground bunker for dangerous post-nuclear West Virginia.
It is not the intention of this article to carry out an exhaustive analysis of the Fallout 76 but it does list all the characteristics that, in my personal opinion, make this title one of the best in the genre, and the first of these characteristics is the enormous size of its map, far superior to any installment in the saga, plagued with extensive and varied territories to explore or install our den. The construction of our camp follows the same line as the Fallout 4 but with notable improvements and a huge number of ornamental objects that are constantly being updated.
Like most games of this style, we also find public events and the ability to form teams to carry them out faster and thus, in some cases, obtain better rewards, the most popular being the so-called Daily Operations of the Brotherhood of Steel through which, if we are lucky, we will get exclusive equipment from the most popular faction of the saga. Another of the most entertaining and sought-after joint missions by players is the hunt for the Scorched Queen, which usually attracts all the players who are on the server at that time, making this event the most entertaining battlefield in the game. .
In addition to the cooperative events, the game has multiple plot threads that in many cases will require several missions to reveal them, some of them being considerably extensive and with a great plot load that will be defined through records on the consoles, dialogues with NPCs and notes scattered throughout the territory. Of these plot lines, the main ones are that of the settlers and the raiders, two opposing sides where we will be forced to take sides with one of them, and that of the Brotherhood of Steel where we will have to earn our place in the institution starting from the ranks lower.
And this is not all Fallout 76 offers the player in terms of activities, a thematic game board with missions and rewards is presented from time to time as a season and there is also an extensive series of challenges to complete, some of which will allow us to obtain essential objects to improve gameplay . And there is still more… but we leave that for you to discover for yourselves.
For all these things, and so many others that were left out, is why we recommend, to all those who have ever traveled through the badlands of North America, to join this entertaining adventure that is also constantly updated. , constantly expanding and correcting, and that in the next few days it will release some of its most important updates in recent times; Without a doubt, an excellent time to begin this great post-nuclear journey.
