



Kotaku's Jason Schreier has also mentioned in passing that he's heard that Fallout 76 isn't a traditional single-player RPG, instead relying on some online aspects.īoth rumors would dovetail together nicely and fit with the fictional established above. That would make it a survival game where you have to build fortifications and find food out in the Wasteland. There are unsourced reports that Fallout 76 is a Fallout-themed Rust clone. "In recognition of the canned mystery meat experiment you volunteered to eat when nobody else would we are proud of you, and are glad you are not dead," says another. Sacrificing many so some can live," says one plaque. "In appreciation for your commitment and dedication to our isolation program. It looks like food might've become scarce and the dwellers had to resort to some cannibalism. The camera pans over a series of plaques that point to things not going completely as planned within the Vault. "When the fighting has stopped, and the fallout has settled, you must rebuild," says a politician on a television in the teaser. It looks cleaner than most Vaults, but something has gone wrong here. These are the folks who were supposed to rebuild the world. Its dwellers were all chosen, without any of the any problems that touched the vaults in previous games. It's a control vault, meaning it wasn't supposed to go through any of the social experiments that affected many of the other vaults. Vault 76 was previously mentioned Fallout 3 and Fallout 4, in terminal entries. So the game takes place before some of the familiar Fallout staples are really established.Ī poster on the wall refers to Vault 76 being the "official vault of the tricentennial". So there are mutants, but Super Mutants aren't created by the Master until the next year. The virus made him into the mutant-controlling Master, the primary antagonist of the first game. The first Fallout begins in 2160 according to the in-game timeline, while Fallout 2, Fallout 3, and Fallout 4 start in 2241, 2277, and 2287.Ģ102 is the year that Richard Moreau was exposed to the Forced Evolutionary Virus (FEV). This puts Fallout 76 significantly before any other title in the Fallout universe. The camera pans out to show a radio, highlighting the date as October 27, 2102. Given the lyrics to that song, this likely places the setting in West Virginia. The trailer kicks off with a cover version of Take Me Home, Country Roads by John Denver, sticking with Fallout's love of classic tunes.
