# Bethesda's Fallout 76 \[edited title\]
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bethesdas-fallout-76-edited-title/815125
**Category:** The Game Room
**Created:** [May 30, 2018, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bethesdas-fallout-76-edited-title/815125 "2018-05-30T12:56:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2018, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bethesdas-fallout-76-edited-title/815125/1 "2018-05-30T12:56:25Z")
[So they have something to announce today about Fallout.](https://www.gamespot.com/articles/bethesda-teases-fallout-news-with-a-livestream-and/1100-6459262/)
If it isn’t Fallout 5, I don’t think they should be teasing it this much. A tease like this should NOT end with “Happy 10th birthday, Fallout 3, we re-mastered you!”.
Any predictions?
Note: I’m hearing the announcement is today, can not be totally sure.
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### Author:  [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2018, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bethesdas-fallout-76-edited-title/815125/2 "2018-05-30T13:07:07Z")
I’m on board with whichever comes out next, a new Fallout, or a new GTA. If you hear the announcement, keep us posted, eh?
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### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2018, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bethesdas-fallout-76-edited-title/815125/3 "2018-05-30T13:13:38Z")
> [@bobot](#):
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> I’m on board with whichever comes out next, a new Fallout, or a new GTA. If you hear the announcement, keep us posted, eh?
I don’t think Bethesda makes GTA. They make Elder Scrolls and Fallout.
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### Author:  [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2018, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bethesdas-fallout-76-edited-title/815125/4 "2018-05-30T13:38:59Z")
Yeah, I was just talking about whichever game I was certain to pick up.
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### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2018, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bethesdas-fallout-76-edited-title/815125/5 "2018-05-30T14:22:14Z")
New game, called **Fallout 76**.
No idea what kind of game it is yet, though. A full new Fallout?
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2018, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bethesdas-fallout-76-edited-title/815125/6 "2018-05-30T14:32:34Z")
[Vault 76](http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Vault_76) is known to be a control vault, so no real clues there. It doesn’t have an established location, either.
Maybe it will be focused around the Minutemen (hence the '76) and the reestablishment of an actual government rather than a new story of factions battling for scraps of the wasteland.
Whatever they do, I hope they add a bit more life to the palette. I’m getting a little tired of the color drab.
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### Author:  [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2018, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bethesdas-fallout-76-edited-title/815125/7 "2018-05-30T14:41:57Z")
That reminds me - I can’t remember, did Fallout 1 and 2 have the silly idea of the human experiment vaults? I don’t think they did - you were trying to save your vaults in those games, no need for crazy nonsense on top of that. But I can’t remember if any of the other vaults were like that in those games. Was the idea of the experimental vaults invented by fallout 3?
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### Author:  [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2018, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bethesdas-fallout-76-edited-title/815125/8 "2018-05-30T14:50:21Z")
Nah, it’s Fallout in 1976.
Disco Lives Forever!
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2018, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bethesdas-fallout-76-edited-title/815125/9 "2018-05-30T14:59:55Z")
I’m pretty sure it was stated in the first games, though it’s been so long since I played them that I couldn’t tell you exactly where.
It was definitely a thing well before Fallout 3 came out - the very first [Fallout Bible](http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Fallout_Bible) talks about the experiments and refers to them as one of “three huge questions.”
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### Author:  [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2018, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bethesdas-fallout-76-edited-title/815125/10 "2018-05-30T15:31:36Z")
I watched the trailer which can also be seen at [fallout.com](http://fallout.com). “Country Roads” was playing, so perhaps a West Virginia setting? As mentioned above, no real information about it. There was mention of more info at the next GameCon or whatever the name is.
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### Author:  [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2018, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bethesdas-fallout-76-edited-title/815125/11 "2018-05-30T15:42:23Z")
> [@bobot](#):
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> I watched the trailer which can also be seen at [fallout.com](http://fallout.com). “Country Roads” was playing, so perhaps a West Virginia setting? As mentioned above, no real information about it. There was mention of more info at the next GameCon or whatever the name is.
A new Eastern seaboard (or inland) Fallout 4 DLC? Maybe a new game with the FO4 engine and setting, but geographically distant from the Commonwealth (a la New Vegas v. Capital Wasteland).
Actually, I’d be happy if they did the Capital Wasteland, since they [knifed the mod for that in the back](https://capitalwasteland.com/), but I’d also be disappointed because it wouldn’t be very novel. (“Been there, done that, got the Project Purity water purifier.”)
TBH, I’m skeptical it could be very much. No leaks, no hints? Anything as big as FO5 or even new DLC for FO4 would leak some development information.
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### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2018, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bethesdas-fallout-76-edited-title/815125/12 "2018-05-30T15:54:05Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#):
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> That reminds me - I can’t remember, did Fallout 1 and 2 have the silly idea of the human experiment vaults? I don’t think they did - you were trying to save your vaults in those games, no need for crazy nonsense on top of that. But I can’t remember if any of the other vaults were like that in those games. Was the idea of the experimental vaults invented by fallout 3?
Yes, they did. Or at the very least, they had detailed stories about what went wrong in them. You did go in other vaults and read their computers and learn the backstory.
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### Author:  [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2018, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bethesdas-fallout-76-edited-title/815125/13 "2018-05-30T16:09:43Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#):
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> Nah, it’s Fallout in 1976.
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> Disco Lives Forever!
I felt bad about setting off the nuke in Megaton, somehow,… I don’t think I’d feel that way about burning the Bay City Rollers. Quite the opposite in fact.
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### Author:  [@HookerChemical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HookerChemical)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2018, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bethesdas-fallout-76-edited-title/815125/14 "2018-05-30T16:21:13Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#):
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> That reminds me - I can’t remember, did Fallout 1 and 2 have the silly idea of the human experiment vaults? I don’t think they did - you were trying to save your vaults in those games, no need for crazy nonsense on top of that. But I can’t remember if any of the other vaults were like that in those games. Was the idea of the experimental vaults invented by fallout 3?
The vault experiments go all the way back to the original Fallout. The Necropolis was designed with faulty doors, which led to the high ghoul population.
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### Author:  [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2018, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bethesdas-fallout-76-edited-title/815125/15 "2018-05-30T16:45:18Z")
Temper your enthusiasm, one of the [editors at kotaku says](https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1001832458164285442)
“I think it’s really important to reiterate this: Anyone who spends the next two weeks expecting Fallout: 76 to be a new traditional single-player RPG will be VERY disappointed”
They’re being really vague about this. If it turns out to be Fallout Shelter 2 or something after people work themselves into a hype about a new full fallout game then there’s going to be … fallout from the PR fiasco.
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### Author:  [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2018, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bethesdas-fallout-76-edited-title/815125/16 "2018-05-30T17:03:55Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#):
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> They’re being really vague about this. If it turns out to be Fallout Shelter 2…
Yeah. This is the kind of thing I’m afraid of.
> [@](#):
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> then there’s going to be … fallout from the PR fiasco.
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YEEEEAAAHHH!
(quote split for comic effect, because SUNGLASSES)
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### Author:  [@dzeiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dzeiger)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2018, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bethesdas-fallout-76-edited-title/815125/17 "2018-05-30T19:19:43Z")
Some reports I’m hearing are claiming it’s going to be more Rust-style, taking the settlement building parts of FO4 and adding in multiplayer. Given that my internal word-association with “Rust-style” is “greifing,” I’m not sure that sounds like all that great an idea.
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### Author:  [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2018, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bethesdas-fallout-76-edited-title/815125/18 "2018-05-30T19:53:42Z")
> [@dzeiger](#):
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> Some reports I’m hearing are claiming it’s going to be more Rust-style, taking the settlement building parts of FO4 and adding in multiplayer. Given that my internal word-association with “Rust-style” is “greifing,” I’m not sure that sounds like all that great an idea.
I’m hearing people say that rumor is impossible because the engine couldn’t handle multiplayer in the first place.
There’s very little actual information and an awful lot of rumors; I’d take anything we hear with a huge grain of salt right now.
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### Author:  [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2018, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bethesdas-fallout-76-edited-title/815125/19 "2018-05-30T19:58:52Z")
> [@dzeiger](#):
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> Some reports I’m hearing are claiming it’s going to be more Rust-style, taking the settlement building parts of FO4 and adding in multiplayer. Given that my internal word-association with “Rust-style” is “greifing,” I’m not sure that sounds like all that great an idea.
If they announce a multiplayer battle royale I’ll puke.:dubious:
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### Author:  [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2018, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bethesdas-fallout-76-edited-title/815125/20 "2018-05-30T20:08:19Z")
Could it just be a big DLC for Fallout 4?
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