Fallout 76 Smashes Steam Player Record Amid Fallout TV Show Success

Its had steep discounts since launch.

A price drop alone wouldn't boost player counts without some additional interest at the same time.

Didn't they recently have a free weekend too?

You can also get it free from prime gaming right now.

Meaning they will give you a free copy to keep, not just during a promo event.

For reference Fallout4 is at 471,955

Fallout: London, which is a large mod for Fallout 4, has a fan-made Fallout game set in the UK, just released three weeks ago. My guess is that a lot of people are playing Fallout 4 modded with it.

https://fallout4london.com/

EDIT: No, I take it back. It was scheduled for three weeks ago, but it looks like they're holding off until after an upcoming Fallout 4 update to make sure that it doesn't break anything.

Has it got any better?

Yes. But it's still not Fallout 5, if that's what you're after.

Can I play in a private world with just friends or do I have to be subjected to the ill treatment of other players?

Private worlds only come with a subscription, though I've never had anyone interact with me in public worlds on the PC outside of doing the multiplayer events.

I mean, you occasionally see someone running by at a city.

I thought that I wouldn't like having to interact with other people, but that hasn't been an issue. What is that it's a multiplayer game, so the traditional style of the game, where you're kind of the center of the story and can change the world, doesn't really happen. You never forget that you're in a multiplayer world -- things like event notifications and nukes going off and such kind of reduce my sense of immersion.

People in the reviews say it’s gotten much better since release but it’s still an average game at best. Private servers are only available if you pay a subscription.

I checked it couple months ago and it felt like a regular fallout game with npcs and story missions. Wasn't a great coop though, since game didnt handle progress for each player.

It's fun for what it is. It has a very positive community. Lower level players are always gifted high level armor and weapons from vets when they see them. If you do decide to play, you can do most of the game and quests solo. That's how I did it and it felt more or less like a regular fallout game. You should do the events even though you're not prepared for them. High level players will make it so you pretty much don't have to do anything and that's where you'll get your highest level rewards.

The card perk system is different and overwhelming at first. Basically good some good builds and pick one or two that fit your play style. Then you'll know what to focus on.

My buddy for me into it a few years ago. It was fun for what it was, but it's not GOTY or anything.

Other players in FO76 are actually very nice. If your low level, high level people will just go up to you and give you things. PVP is optional and I never turned it on. You're incentivised to join teams with many perks. You can just follow a team mate around and help them, and I've done that many times. Teams are temporary and small (max 4 players) so people are very open to you joining a team.

Ill treatment? This is the most friendly game I ever played.

I mean sometimes I do go around leaving bags of poop on people's beds so...

Tried it last month on PS5 and gave up. Frequent crashes, disconnections breaking ongoing quests; you log in and your camp is removed because someone else build theirs in that spot; shallow, linear, often annoying quests; overall feels empty, discouraging exploring; seems like all better items are earned for killing something and all you find looting surroundings is junk; very limited carrying capacity; repeatable enemies; constant push to pay for subscribtion; cosmetics breaking immersion like pride flags, xmas hats etc.; disappointing graphics.

Overall I'd rate it avarage - 6,5/10.

In plus: Fallout world and lore (the Fallout 4-esque one, not the classic 1 & 2), friendly community happy to show off their camps. Except that one high-level asshole who one-shot my noob character when I was browsing a stash box :D

I ended up getting Starfield on release day for about $30 off through some deal, and I still felt ripped off. Honestly cannot be bothered to care about the next Elder Scrolls or whatever at this point.

I still like Skyrim, it's a great "Run around, steal stuff and stab people" simulator. But the Bethesda Fallouts have never really clicked with me. Three was okay-ish, NV was in the "good-ish once you get used to the jank" range and 4 felt like a grab bag of half finished ideas. Since 76 seems to to be mainly drawing from the FO4 well, I never bothered playing it.

I really liked new vegas bavk in the day. But didn't really care for Bethesda themselves. I never looked at anything fallout 4 before it was released, because i didn't care. On launch day i had an injury and was bored, so i blindly bought fallout 4. This was the weirdest experience i ever had. I relaunched the game like 3 times because i thought i bought the wrong fallout or some rip off, because the game looks disgusting. Or pretty good for Bethesda standards. I had no idea what was going on because some quests were broken and a lot of things didn't work, texures missing and all that good stuff. But according to fans this was a 9.5/10 game. I don't know what's up with these people.

While the engine doesn't help, I feel that Bethesda games have fallen into a trap of being bigger and bigger with every release which has resulted in the games being less and less focused. While the level of detail in a Fallout or Elder Scrolls game is amazing, I personally find I reach a saturation point and just stop caring about the game. With Skyrim, the only way I managed to complete the main quest line was by forcing myself to just speed-run it to the exclusion of doing nearly anything else. If I let myself wander off and start exploring or doing side quests, I just run out of steam at some point and never finish.

I was ready to pounce on you for F076 but you are absolutely right for disliking it.

There's a few quests that have a satisfying conclusion. But a lot of it is just go in a direction, pick up side quests and see what happens. I have a lot of fun just wandering, looting, then returning to my giant house full of all my loot.

I saw that the next-gen update for 4 is coming out next week, so I went ahead and bought the PS4 version for $5 in preparation for the free upgrade. I already have all the DLC from back when it came out, but I had the disc and traded it in years ago.

I got 76 cheap on Steam a few years ago (because I refuse to pay to play online), but didn't get very far. About what I expected, but I wanted to at least try it out.

For anyone wanting to play 76, just play literally any other fallout.

Want to hijack your comment to tell people that might not know about the tale of two wastelands mod which combines 3 and nv into one fun game and does so really well. You need to own a copy of both.

I've been playing through it, just about finished up in fo3 and about to head over to nv.

I hope you enjoy it! It's such a good game

I'm fine with that. As long as they do at least a decent job of adapting it.

The all-time peak sits, as of writing, at ~41k and was set less than 24 hours ago.

The peak when the game first launched was ~33k, a record it broke last Sunday, some three days ago.

SteamDB chart

No, it is redeemed as a Microsoft Store/Xbox Store game.

Best you can do is add it as a non-Steam game to your library after installing it with the Xbox app.

Use Tale of Two Wastelands! Much better experience.

I got it through Humble Choice. Never played it though.

It’s mediocre at best. Lots of fetch quests and a pretty hollow storyline.

If you want I have a Fallout 76 Windows and also Xbox code I can give you. Just send me a PM for which platform you want it for, since code will go to waste if nobody uses it. I think works for NA.

Gave away the PC version. Have the **Xbox **version left for anyone who wants it.

It's pretty decent, I'd say it's worth a try at least for the main Wastelanders story.