Well, there we go: Fallout 76 is the reply you had been searching for. Not Fallout 5, not Fallout Three remastered, however ‘Fallout 76′, what looks a whole lot like a sort of Fallout 4.5, much like New Vegas was to FO3. ’76’ refers, it appears, each to the variety of the Vault you’ll begin off on this time, and to the 12 months 2076 (that being the 12 months the bombs dropped within the Falloutverse. I’m hoping it additionally proves an excuse to make use of extra of a 70s than 50s aesthetic for this explicit tackle the tip of the world, which can be backed up by means of John Denver’s ’71 nation traditional, Take Me Home, Country Roads. That track’s reference to Virginia in all probability ain’t no coinky-dink both.
A trailer for you:
I can’t see a reference to a different studio being concerned – occurring each the video credit and this here Beth-o-tweet, it appears to be a Bethesda in-houser, busting hopes and expectations that Obsidian might be given it, as they had been with nu-Fallout collection excessive, New Vegas. But we just about already knew that.
Vault 76 has been mentioned before, in Fallout 3’s DLC, as one of many “control” Vaults providing as baseline for comparability with the weirder Vault experiments, and which was attributable to robotically open twenty years after the bombs fell. (It additionally received a nod in Fallout 4, so this has maybe been a very long time coming). That might imply this recreation is about 2096, in the meantime, which might place the occasions of this recreation round two centuries earlier than these of Fallout Three and 4 – although till Bethesda inform us, we’re solely guessing. Start your lore-speculation engines now, principally.
What else? Well, the video makes reference to a ‘reclamation day’ and ‘our future begins’, making me surprise if it’s about an entire host of people attempting to re-start life on the surface world, versus ye olde time-lost sole survivor deal.
However, over on Kotaku, Jason Schreier’s reporting he’s heard whispering that that is some method of on-line recreation, reasonably than essentially the subsequent main-line Fallout title. Given that, in real-world historical past, the 12 months 1776 was when American declared its independence – led as much as by the Virginia Declaration of Rights – placing two and two collectively to make 76, might that imply some type of battle for management of a nuclear world and its few remaining assets?
The entire 200 years beforehand factor additionally provides it loads of house to do no matter it desires with out upsetting the lore of Fallouts Three and 4. It might additionally imply rather less completely wrecked’n’ruined surroundings, relying on how shut Virginia (if that’s certainly the setting) was to an explosion epicentre.
Me, what I hope for many from a brand new Fallout is extra decision-making and fewer wanton killing. But we will see, and we will see at E3.
That tune’s a proper banger although, innit?
