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Fallout 76: Wastelanders
In Fallout 76: Wastelanders, people are now coming back to West Virginia. Two vying factions are struggling to gain the upper hand as the secrets of West Virginia are revealed. The Settlers have come to find a new home, and the Raiders have come to exploit them. Embark on a new quest for the Overseer, forge alliances with competing factions, and un...
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- Released
- April 13, 2020
- Developer
- Bethesda Game Studios
- Genres
- Shooter · Role-playing (RPG)
- Publisher
- Bethesda Softworks
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Fallout 76: Wastelanders Reviews
Professional reviews from gaming critics
For me, Fallout has always been at its best not just exploring what comes after the nuclear apocalypse, but what people make of it.
On it's own Fallout 76: Wastelanders is an excellent expansion, but it doesn't completely amend the problems that plague Fallout 76, or subvert the controversy that surrounds it. What it does do is provide a path forward that may eventually lead to Fallout 76 becoming a genuinely good game.
With the Wastelanders update, Fallout 76 has taken a solid step in the right direction after its dire launch. New human NPCs bring a healthy dose of personality and interaction to the world and the new storyline is far more engaging because of them. There are still those signature Fallout bugs, NPCs don’t feel like they’re fully part of this world at times, and the inability to progress quests as a team is baffling, but now the good parts edge out the bad to create a game worth recommending to Fallout fans who are interested in multiplayer, albeit with significant caveats. While it still may n...
A year and a half ago when reviewing Fallout 76 I noted that the Doomsday Clock was set at two minutes to midnight. It's currently at 100 seconds to midnight, the heightened risk from a xenophobic merkin-wearing pumpkin actively raising the risk of nuclear war combined with a global pandemic causing increased geopolitical tensions as well as the threat of global warming and other human stupidity, we have a world primed to resemble that of Fallout 76: Wastelanders.
Despite the addition of NPCs and a load of new content, Fallout 76: Wastelanders is still just a painfully average Fallout game. That's not to say that things aren't better for the update, because the game at least feels like it's moving in the right direction, but it's building on top of the still rickety foundations of the original release. Ironically, things might be simpler if they simply nuked the game and started again, but you've got to respect the hussle.